New-York tribune., 1908-04-05
N FOR THE BUSY MAN.

Gate by June Is. and the spending of the Fourth
OF July Honolulu. in order TO 10 New
York by the latter part OF February. 1909.
Senator JEFF Davis, Of Arkansas. has not added
10 the dignity of his office by engaging In
fight in the streets of the capital OF his
state in which he pummeed and then hned
in a police court for carrying deadly weapons Both
he and Senator Bailey profess to be in fear OF
assault. Chester Gillette. whose trial for the
murder OF Grace ('Billy'D Brown aroused so much
interest last year, especially when the girls pa
thetc letters were made public. paid the extreme
penalty OF the law for his crime. The death or
Joseph Howard jr.. removed notable figure IN
the newspaper world. who began his long career
by the merest chance after he had been trained
for the profession OF an engineer.
One OF the leading literary figures in the Eng
lsh reading world, Mrs Humphry Ward, 81
above the horizon in this country. and her
public addresses have renewed interest IN
her works OF fiction of the past and especially in
her current serial, The Testing OF Diana Mai
lory.' 1t not until she startled the religious
public with her Robert Elsmere that Mrs. WARD
gained any literary fame. although she had pub
shed before novel. Miss Bretherton. in which
the leading character supposed to be drawn
from Mary Anderson. The succeeding works OF
the author have given her wider and wider fame'
until there is better known woman writer.
She is the granddaughter OF Mr.. Arnold. of Rugby
and q niece of Matthew Arnold. but born in
Tasmania. Her list OF works includes tWelVe
novels. play and many magazine articles
THE sessions OF the Methodist conferences,
which include not only the pastor of the churches
in greater New York. but also in the adjacent
country regions in the southern part of this state
Western Connecticut and Long Island, have
brought TO the city several hundred men engaged
for the of the year in uplifting the connuhl-
ties in which they live and benefting humanity in
every possible way. The two great assemblages IN
session daily for a week in North Manhattan and
In Brooklyn consider many matters which have
direct bearing the progress Of the world. Inc
system by which each pastor is assigned to MS
church for year by the presiding bishop gives the
latter great power This year the conferences have
elected delegates 10 the Quadrennial general con-
ference to meet next month in Baltimore. and
there was much spirited rivalry in regard to choice
At the same time that the New York and the New
York East conferences are meeting in this city the
Newark Conference is in session in Plainfeld. y. j.
The newed advocacy of the absurd theory that
the interior Of the earth instead OF being molten
mass or solid only by reason the pressure of the
enormous weight Of the circumscribing matter. is
hollow and habitabe, to exploit which corpora
ton has been formed Albany recalls the ridicuie
which was excited by Symmes's Hole in the carrier
part Of the last century. John Cleves Symmes was
tie originator and promoter of the theory of con-
centric spheres for planetary bodies, and he IaboTed
with Congress at successive sessions to secure an
appropriation for the purpose of sending an expe-
irion to test the truth of fantasy But he died
without securing the attention he sought for his
ideas and his son. TO whom he gave the patriotic
name Of Americus also endeavored to carry for
ward his fathers ideas. but without any more sue
cess Now with a succeeding generation. the same
conception has the front once more.
Nearly two score lives were lost by the sinking of
an English submarine cut in two by cruiser in
nav val maneuvres.'