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6orti. pda SIDE s.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

hrming all previous tTJa.es which was necO-
tated and signed by sne late Sir Robert Morie-
as British envoy az Lisbon. in 1879. 1t did rot
receive at the time the ratification of the Port
usuese Cortes. and when & year afIerward the.
Lisbon government secured the legislative ma
jority necessary to pass il the British govern
ment of the day, which Liberal admins
tration. turned a deaf ear TO Sir Roberts en-
treaties and gave him to understand that il
not worth while botherins any more about
the matter
Fortunately. the late Lord Salisbury repaired
the neglect. carried the project of Sir Robert
Morier, and completed the instrument in 1898
Its provisions comprise undertaking on the
part OF England 10 safeguard ;he Portuguese
throne from attacks. not only from without but
also from within. and 10 protect the kingdom
and its dependencies from all foreign aggression.
In return England received the right TO embark
and disembark troops. stores and munitions az
any point Portuguese territory. or else to
convey them across Portuguese territory to any
point that she might fit irrespective OF the
question as TO whether she at war with any
third power II this that enabled the Eng
lish government in the early part OF 1890 10 land
General Sir Frederick Carinston and his army
at Bera. on the east coast OF Africa for ths
purpose OF occupying the northern frontiers Of
the Transvaal thus cutting OF any Boer stack
from that direction. EX-ATTAcHA
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

capSzeS in the al the aUkwardness Of
tyro in the Of ski running, and joining in
the general merriment
Take an electric car for Homenkollen some Sun
day morning. You must wait your turn in the long
queue. roped TO restrain the overimpetuous. but
with patience you will get your chance. You hang
your kjseIke in the rack. on the side of the
and take your place within. There is no crowding.
for people may not stand in the passage. few
may be accommodated the platform only.
Arrived at Hoimenkollen, you hire horse and
man TO pull you up to FrognersPter where you will
take light luncheon the log built hosiery; If
have patience to wait your turn, for there is
veritabe army be fed. the forest OF skis stick
ing up in the snow announces Here all is anima-
tion and gayety, with young rosy faces and bright
woOllen costumes, not few of which, you are glad
to observe. of the national peasant type. All
tie world is out for good time in the snow; you
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
A MEERscHAUM MINE.

'MeersChaUm IS mined like coal" said a pipe
dealer Some people tell you il is the foam OF
the That. OF course. IS nonsense MesrScnaurn
is a soft. oapIike stone. in Asia Minor
mining is important business.
The mines resemble coal mines. only, OF course.
they a sOod deal paer. In their making pits
are first dug. and as a vein or EeerschauIn
is struck horizontal galleries laid out These
galleries are often very long They vary in deplh
from twenty-five to one hundred aEi fifty feet
The crude IleerScEaUTn is called han-tash. It
is yellowish white IN color. AMI red clay
VelOpeS II. The blocks. they come forth. are
sold on the spot They from Sc5 500 cart
load. according to their quality. They are soft
enough to with knife.
These blocks. before their expectation. must bs
dried In the summer they dried by direct
exposure 10 the sun. in five SIX dayS In wiz
ter heated room is necessary. and Jhe drying
process then takes twice long
Finally the meereC haUnl blocks are sorted frto
twelve gtades. called best fine good fair
average and down They are wrapped n
cotton then and packed in cases with the greatest
care.
There thc best piDeHnakers the world i've
Louisville COUrier-JOurnaI
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

tiania, in Norway. covered with people young
and old. enjoying the winter sports. Some may
practising jumping. simply sliding down the
mountain paths. Here may be party of young
people with light packs on their backs starting
for three days march country Sixty miles
day vii, be none too much for them
Perhaps the nights may be spent in some log hut
they have built in the forest where they will cook
their meals and enjoy good wholesome camp life.
Yonder is paterfamas, with wife and children,
coasting down Hill his kjselke a long pole trail
ing behind with which to steer. Every who
does not run skis coasts the kjse1e. large
frame sled of the country. excelently constructed
b. the way. In the mana cement of the kjsplker the
Norwegians expert they upon their
skis. Down the roads they go Ike the wind. guild
ing their sIeds with their poles in and out between
the horses and the people climbing to coast
down again racing along skis Everybo is
in good humor in the bright crisp air, laughing
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
THE JEW PHYSICALLY.

An address of President Eliot not long ago ne-
fore the club of Jewish Harvard students III "ich
ne advised them. account OF their snort s'a<'-e
and defective physique to encourage among ihen-
selves the athletic and even the military spirit
brought forth storm of protest from the 'e"ish
pulpits The discussion really turns upon tne dei-
milton of "a good physique Does II mean 'he
ability TO perform certain feats OF muscular am
bodily effort with certain degree OF Vieor o'
endurance or does it mean the ability TO hsht the
battle Of life under modern conditions WITH sue
cess and unirnpaired Vitality
The Jewish race as a race, is shorter in stature
feebIer in muscular development and less tnciihed
toward the energetic and adyenturesofhe
pursuits such as railroad;ng. numbering. minias.
range riding and war than the majority OF the
races which surround it, On the other nanc u
has higher birth rate. lower death rate
higher average longevity and smaller suscepH-
bility to disease than any Gentle competitor
The one great disease Of the slum and OF the
Ghetto Is now and has been for at least thousand
years tuberculosis. In the lower wards OF Ne"
York the mortality among the Jewish residents
from this disease is barely l56 TO the 1000" 'iving;
that of their Gentle neghbors in the same WARDS
and even I'm the same tenements is from 40 10 sSo
to the iaeeoo living. A nearly similar preponder-
ance in favor of the Jew will be found in the
death fate OF the infectious diseases The only
diseases to which he appears to have developed
greater degree OF susceptibility than his Gentle
neighbors are diabetes and two rare eye diseases
prowess half so deficient is usually supposed
In spite Of their contempt for brute force Jews
have achieved distinction in almost every depart
rr,ent of athletics even in such an unlikely Held
as that of prizefghtng; the celebrated Bendlso
for instance, and the present featherweisht cham
pion of the United States both being generally ac-
counted Jews.
We have much to learn from our Jewish breth-
rem and they have much to learn from us Neither
race really worships money, except as money
brings power. The wealthiest Jewish banker rev.
erenees the threadbare scholar and dreamer as
genuinely millionaire in his heart respects
the soldier. the statesman and the poet one OF
the most interesting facts in America to-day Is
the extraordinary Improvement in stature IN
muscular vigor. in physical beauty and IN cour-
age and cheerfulness shown in the first and sec
ond generations of children born of jewish par
ents upon American soil Anthropolosists gener-
ally are inclined look forward with satisfaction
to the breaking down of the religious and caste
barriers between the TWO races, and TO regard the
rIlingling not merely OF ideals but of bioods as
likely to be of benefit. There is perhaps no more
valuable .outcross,' the breeders term IT, 1or
The Blond Beast of NietzSche than the Dreamer
of the Ghetto.-Collier's Weekly
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

whom her mother-in-law and all those around
her attributed the responsibility and should
have insisted his resignation. But by in
trusting the reins Of government to his foes,
who likewise the adversares OF her hus-
band. she has rendered useless the sacrifice OF
the life of Dom Carlos and has by one stroke
of the pen undcne all the work which he for
the last eighteen months had so courageously
endea vored to accomplish foa the good of his
country ttft,is
AS pointed out in several of previous let
ters dealing with Portuguese affairs. the late
King. about eighteen months ago. finding Portu-
gal face to face with ruin and in the most
desperate straits, her credit destroyed both
abroad and horne. her commerce and in
dustry at q standstill and famine and pestilence
stalking through the land-conditions brought
about by the almost incredible dishonesty and
corruption of the two political machines the
Regenadores or Conservatives and the Pro-
gressstas, Liberals who aternated with
another in power and played into each
others hands for the perpetuation of abuses
determined to call a halt.
On the resignation Of the Conservative Cab
net. In 1906 he therefore intrusted the forna-
ton of administration to man Of his own
choice-namely, Senior Joao Franco who had
broken away from the machine organization in
order to form a party Of his with the
watchword OF economic reform. Franco had
no difficulty in forming ministry. but he found
Il Impossible to secure a working majority IN
Parliament, and accordingly, with his SOW
ereigns consent dismissed the Legislature and
has been ruling ever since without it, He had
plenty of precedent for his action. William
Pitt had done 1t. with the support Of George
III in England at the close of the eighteenth
century and Bismarck in similar way with
the answering backing OF old Emperor Will
lam had worked out the greatness of Germany
during the COS In defiance Of the opposition
of the Prussan Diet.
scrupulousiy honest. irnbued with the most
ardent patriotism. loyalty supported by DoiA
Carlos Franco has made use of the last etgh-
teen months of his dictatorship-that is to say.
of his administration of the government with
out legislative sanction-to reform abuses on
every side and to stop and punish corruption.
People and concerns We're forced to pay taxes
who had never in their lives been asked to pay
taxes before The officials intrusted with she
collection of imposts were no longer allowed to
squander 20 per cent OF their gross receipts in
the alleged expenses OF collection. The daugh
tiers Of former Cabinet minister and high dig
nitary at court were deprived of the salaries of
5000 year which each received baggage
searchers in the custom house, which they had
never detsnsc - enter. while in another in
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
FRANCO STOPPED GRAFT.

4AANSS SA "a &-O N-thA =.
Franco likewise removed from the pay list Of
the Department of Foreign Affairs the name OF
a statesman who on several occasions had held
Cabinet Office at Lisbon. but who for nearly Il
score of years had been drawing the liberal
stipend and handsome allowances OF Portuguese
Minister Plenipotentary at Pekin. without ever
having SET foot IN China or having left Portugal
further than to visit Paris or some thermal re-
sort in Germany Austria Thanks to these
sweeping reforms. which. of course won him
many enemies and excited the utmost indigna-
ton against him among those whose pecula-
tons he had arrested, Franco had been able to
effect economies in the budget to the extent of
some S1J.000,0O0
He admitted that there was still much TO be
done in the way of reform, declared that not a
day passed without discovery of some hitherto
unsuspected abuse nest Of corruption and
that he expected before he had completed his
task to add many millions more to TIE national
revenue without increasing by iota the tax
alton, which he hoped. indeed, to be able To
diminish The King lost no opportunity pub
licly to demonstrate his complete confidence in
Franco and his approval of every move
that he made, and to show his good will con-
sented TO still further reduction of the ex-
penses of the royal family ard of the court
abandoning to the state several parcels of real
estate al Lisbon and also his fine steam yacht
the Amehe.
So satisfied were King and Premier with the
showing made tina: they had actually issued the
summons for general election to take place
In the first week of April convinced that when
the people realized what the ministry had ac-
complished it would receive large majority at
the polls. So assured. indeed, were the King
and his Premier Of victory, so satisfied were
they with the outlook that Dom Carlos had ar
ranged to sail in May for Rio, where he was to
have been received the guest of the Brazil
Ian nation with magnificent honors on the one
hundredth anniversary of the day on which his
ancestor King John opened the ports OF Brazil to
the commerce OF the world. That is how matters
stood when the monarch was laid low a week
ago by the bullets of his assa ssins
And now in the place OF Franco there has
come into office administration composed OF
the leaders of the Conservative and the Liberal
machine-that is to say, the very authors of the
abuses which King Carlos and Franco fought
SO bravely TO reform-and the portfolio OF Min
lister Of Justice has actually been intrusted to
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09

the total amount OF his dishonest dealings
reached S1o0000. Horses were his only weak
ness
From the police of Paris in August 1895 there
flashed an alarm to the New York Central Office
TO be on the lookout for a 'sBaron de Gavray"
who fed from Havre in private steam yacht.
The baron was none other than a dishonest
oank clerk, who received 5000 year salary and
had wife and two children to support Under
the name OF De Gavray he masqueraded as
wealthy bachelor whose gay career and high
play were the talk of the boulevards and
tracks BY system all his this clerk took
altogether 100000 francs led riotous life in
the gay French capital and sailed away with
music hall singer like a bucaneer of old to the
Spanish main. The yacht Catharine was seized
IN Bahia. Brazil and the embezzer taken back
10 France for punishment.
During the summer season from twenty thou
sand to forty thousand persons daily attend the
racetracks adjacent to the city of New York
and throughout the state wherever races are
held great crowds are attracted. Several times
interests opposed TO racetrack gambling in New
York have attempted to abolish it by legisa-
ton, and each time have failed. This year the
nght is on more aggressiyely than ever before
WIN the Governor, a doughty champion of the
forces aTrayed against it. Business men have
joined in the movement, and their influence has
brought over heretofore disinterested men OF
affairs. o.1iceholde.s and representatives in the
Legislature. One OF the stanchest friends of the
refor1ners is ex-Sherin Martin J. FIaherty of
Brooklyn.
No section Of the state offers so many start
ling examples of the evils created by gambling"
said the ex-Sherif yesterday, las does the
greater city OF New York. In Kings County
alone there are three of the largest tracks in the
country, and a chaplain of the county Jail SAYS
that one-half of the gambling men whose ca
reers he has Investigated began their downward
course through race.rack gamb mbling Just as
significant is the assertion OF a large employer
OF labor in Brooklyn that with the opening of
the racing season he is compelled 10 weed out
many who. while skiful workmen are unde-
sira bic associates for their fellow workers whom
they distract and allure by constant discussion
OF racing matters.
one company, am told paws its empIoyes in
the middle OF the week in answer to petitjons
of wives whose husbands generally return pen-
niiess after a Saturday at the race,rack But
this craze runs not only among the men AL
though excluded from the betting ring women
are provided with means Of placing wagers
through the agency of betting commissioners
Wives are known 10 have secretly withdrawn
the savings deposited in their names by conf1d
ing husbands and gambled them all away Re-
Gently a police officer brought to book for
beating his wife who had dissipated her hus-
bands earnings of eight years through being
b1ncoed by sure thing Let the ha bit of
playing the races become fixed, and il is as sure
to hold as either whiskey opium"
SNOW SPORT IN NORWAY.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
KINGS FOES IN POWER.

The clergy and the religious orders
likewise strongly antagonistic to Joao Franco
who had incurred their wrath by Insisting upon
their compliance with the fiscal and civil laws
from which they had previously considered
themselves exempt, while the arstocracy-that
is to say, the class from among whom the dig
nitaries OF the court and the members of the
royal encourage recruted-were all of them
aroused against Franco, owing to his wholesale
abolition Of their costly sinecures and uuwar-
ranted favors which had weighed heavily
upon the national treasury and were largely
responsible for its difficulties 1t
der therefore, that in the midst of such influ-
ences Queen Marie Anelie should have been
all along prejudiced against Joao Franco.
Singuarly happy in her married life and de-
voted 10 her sunny tempered husband. her only
differences with him were on the subject OF
Francois administration. 1t was therefore per-
pectly natural that when she the King
and the Crown Prince shot down by her SIDE
her second son wounded and herself literally
drenched with the blood of those whom she
loved SO dearly she should have placed the
blame for the tragedy upon the one man to
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
THE ROLE OF ENGLAND.

One word in CONCLUSION with regard TO the
role of England in the event of any further
trouble in Portugal. word which may be time
ly In view of the apparent uncertainty which
has been expressed in print during the last week
about the precise relations existing between the
two governments They are bound together by
treaties which constitute something very much
akin to English protectorate over the realm
Of King Manuel II. They eight in number
some Of them dating back TO the beginning OF
the eighteenth century.
One OF the best known is that negotiated in
1903 by the Right Hon. Sir John Methuen, an
cestor Of General Lord Methuen. now British
commander in chief in South Africa; but the
one which is Of the greatest importance in the
present situation Ii that supplementing and con-
New-York tribune., 1908-02-09
iNGENIouS INOIGENCY.

My hey" says the hrst wayfarer I've kit co
a scheme that guarantees a square meal anf
possibly some clothes ag any house I care TO
strike"
What DO you dOr' asks the second .vayfarer
YEARLY biting i-tO a cold meat sandwich.
Il throw away nay har. through a CcEpIe
Of bushes TO get my clcthFs TIUSssd up. then SO
UP TO the front door and tell the lady Of the ANuse
I'm racing baiioonist that has Just descended in
the woods. Success.