The National tribune., 1908-01-02

the last time being only five years ago.
Personally he was a man of generous,
noble nature, with many tastes one
would hardly expect TO find in man
of his remarkable mentality. He was
extravagantly fond of music, was some
thing of a musician himself, and was
at one time the president of musical
society. When i'at college he was an
enthusiastic athlete taking promi-
nent part in many of the boat races.
His was a master mind in the scientific
world, and his career, now closed, one
of great achievement for the race.
Along with Newton and the other great
scientists, he represents a value to the
world that can hardly be put into cold
words, and with them deserves a very
high, prominent niche IN the halls of
| fame.
Your mountain climber is the most
| enthusiastic of all faddists, and with
the aid of faithful alpenstock goes
from one dizzy hight to another, reck-
| lessly regardless or danger TO life or
limb. One mountain scaled but whets
the appetite for another still higher,
until finally no eminence with top is
beyond the ambition. One of the world
famous mountain climbers is an Amer
lean woman, Miss Annie Peck, and now
two other American women claim the
honor of being the first foreigners to
successfully climb Mexic0s highest
volcano, Popocatapetl Quite a party
started to make the ascent. but snow
storm coming on frightened off all but
the two women referred to, who pluck
lily kept on, reaching the summit with
out accident By this time the storm
had cleared away, and they were re-
warded for their pains by magnifi-
cent view of the Valley of Mexico. The
volcano is about 1900 feet high.
Whitelaw Reid, our ambassador to
Great Britain at present in this coun-
try, thinks that the English schools
turn out boys and girls better behaved,
more orderly and more respectful to
those set above them, better grounded
in the morals of Christian civilization,
and with more respect for law and the
authorities that represent it than our
own boys and girls. This he thinks is
largely due to the fact that all relig-
ious and moral training is kept out of
most of the schools in this country, in
consequence of which many girls and
boys pass into manhood and woman
hood without any such training at all.
Respect for the laws of a country must
have some sort of moral foundation
in the education of the young, and
while England may go too far in teach
ing creedS, her system of mental train
ing certainly secures unhesitating obe-
dience to the law. A policeman in Lon
don, he says, can control the biggest
and apgriest crowd by simply raising
his hand. big, angry crowd could
certainly not be so controlled in this
country.
A new marriage license law, which
will go into effect in New York City
Jan. l, is causing great excitement
among those contemplating matrimony
and especially those easygoing persons
who think any time in the dim, un-
certain future good enough for we'd
ding, the principal thing being to Sc
cure the girl. With the new licenses
viii be a lot of questions, most personal
and most embarrassing in many cases,
which must be satisfactorily answered
before the license can be secured. Con-
sequently everybody Is hurrying up,
trousseaus are disregarded, and the
ministers and all others invested with
authority to perform the solemn cere-
mony are kept busy day and night.
Usually there are from $50 10 200
couples married in New York every
day, but it is estimated that there are
now three times that. number. Divorced
people particularly object to the pub
licity of the new law, and many only
recently freed from unhappy ties con-
templating the forming of new ones
after decent season of waiting, arc
speeding to the ghymenial altar before
! the new law goes into effect. Jersey