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EARLY CHAMPION OF WOMEN
MRS. MILLER TO ATTEND THE
SIXTY YEAR ANNIVBRSARY.

C0aVentlOn Al seneca Fails 10 Commence
rate the First WOmenJ COnVentlOn Held
There IN laAS- building IN which That
Meeting Was Held 70 He on View
Elizabeth Smith Miller OF Geneva. who
helped TO organize the first Womans con-
vention in the history Of the word, will
be the unique figure in the celebration OF
the sixtieth anniversary OF the first gath
erins, which will be held in Seneca Falls
on Wednesday, May 27,
Mrs Miller, one Of the qualntest Of Quaker
characters. is a daughter Of Gerrit Smith,
the anti-slavery champion, and though
more than eighty years old is still as active
in her championship Of woman'S cause ~
she was sixty years ago
Al that time she was one OF Elizabeth
Cady Stanton's stanchest supporters.
In those historic days for any one to adj
vocate the political freedom OF women
meant ridicule; yet Mrs. Miller, once che
had become convinced that the suffrage
should belong 10 her sex, never faltered.
An interesting little story Is related by
Mrs Harriet Stanton Batch which she
heard her mother tell of Mrs. Miller's horror
at the suggestion Of having woman's
convention. She sympathized with the
cause, yet at that time hadn't become
fully used to the idea Of woman's taking
an active part In the affairs Of the world.
When Mrs Stanton came to her one day
with the scheme Of holding a convention
she exclaimed in amazement:
why, Lizzie. thee will make US ridlcu.
lous."
However, this shrinking on the part OF
the gentle litte Quaker was Of only temper
Ary duration, for Mrs. Stanton won her
over as she did Susan B. Anthony little
later on, for Miss Anthony was an uncon-
verted doubter at hrst. 1t was not. until
1851 in Geneva that she finally became an
enthusiastic convert.
While Mrs. Miller is the only survivor
Of those who helped organize the isls con-
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Glass Of Wine by Isis Own Fire.
Fg0m liz WgsInlinslrr GJ,1u,

Ff0W no WtWUliHBlCr UIffUC.
When Drury Lane Theatre was first de.
NJ Dyed by FIRE Yesterdays calamity Aas the
third Of like kind Sheridan. its owner was
occupied in the Commons with his Parlis-
mentary dutie and his sympathetic col
leagues Immediately voted the adjournment
Of the House and hurried on to see the con.
Migration, Sheridan himself opposed the
adjournment but being outvotei went and
watched the destruction Of his property
from a neighbornR house of refreshment
sharing a bottle OF port with Barry,
HE s0nlrent indiherenre nTon;ntod so,,,.
friends 10 eNpostulstq with him, whereupon
The author NJ The School for scandal" peIu.
lantly observed, 1T / hard wen a man
cannot drink glass Of vine by his own nre. =
This fire complete1 Sieridan's hnSncial down
fall and, fOrsaken by his friends. he dieI
soon after the new theatre began its checkered
career
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their debut In vaudeville IN Edwin Arden'i
romantio playlet. Captain Velvet Ida
Fuller. sister 20 Ia Loie, will Introduce
some novel dances, Jack Hazard. who
wrote that tender, plalntive ditty, "Ain't
II Awful, Mabel will be heard In a mono
logue. O'Brien Havei. assisted by Efiie
laTrenoe, have a singing and dancing act.
The Poll dialect team. FielCls and Ward,
VIII entertain with witticlsms. Valleoitas q
leOpards will please. The Swor and Deonzo
brothers complete the bill
The Rose Hill Company is the Easter
week attraction scheduled for the Murray
Hill Theatre. THE Sausage Trust is the
name Of the two act musical absurdity.
The comedy is in the hands OF George W.
Rice.
A two act musical oddity. entitled tom,
Dick and Harry will be presented by the
Avenue Bellies at the Dewey Theatre this
week
Two burlesques. an olio. scenic display
and a galaxy Of feminine beauties are
q few Of the attractions to be seen at the
Gotham Theatre when the NiRhtingales
HA'sAN Nhoh WV NuNiN Nllhb WONhs
Still further surprises are in order for
the eighth Of Gus EdWards's Sunday
Nights in Bohemia at the New Circle
Theatre. Marshall p. Wilder will act as
chairman this Sunday and the Twentieth
Century Club will be the guests Of honor
Many actors and actresses 1now in New
York will appear in the vaudeville bill OF
the Cafe Chantant which will be given in
the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom on Friday
for the benefit Of the Mary Fisher HoBe.
Mary Fisher herself is u years old and
must soon retire from the personal care
Of the home. Mrs George Finok. Mrs.
Al HAyman and the other ladies' who com
pose the Mary Fisher Home Associati tion
are trying to raise a fund TO perpetuate
and enlarge the institution, which now
shelters a number OF ged ltt6rateurs and
professionals. The vaudeville bill on Fri
day, for which they have secured a long
list Of talent, 10 one Of the means they
adopt. This vaudeville show will begin
at p. NJ, and last until p. NJ, twill
be resumed at and will continue until / 1.
after which there will be dancing until ~.
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NTRIn FOR MITS.
How the Nhcat Il Planted AMI Gamrrrd
Bleachlng the stalks.

FInW me 'tiuiH HnNptiuJ.
Few people know where the straw Tor max
ng summer hats comes from \ great part
OF it Is grown IN ltuly. 10 make suitable
STRAW the whsa, T. spwu as thicIiy ~ possible
In order that the growth OF the plant may be
Impoverished ~ well as 10 produce a thin
stalk having toward the end from the last
Lnot the lighesl aud longest straw.
The wheat blooms al the beginning Or
June. aud is pullsd up by he roots by hand
when me grain is half developed II allowed
10 remain in the ground longer tine rhr
straw would become brittle.
hbout hvC dozen uprootcd branches, the
size of the compiss 0j two hands. are firmly
tied together into little shraycs and slowed
away IN barns Then the straw Is again
sprcad ont tn catch the heavy summer dew +
and TO bleach IN the sun. After additional
bleaching The straw Is put into small bundles
and classified
Finally II is cut close above the FIRST joint
from tho topHud again tied ~ iu small bundles
Containing oboJ, snly stalks zach,
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In BrOOklyn Houses.

Marrying Mary the smart musical
/ play in which Marie Cahill has been starring
for two seasons, will be seen for the last
! times at the Montauk Theatre this week,
beginning Monday night The coincidence
will give six night performances and a
matinee Saturday and will end her season
with Saturday nights performance. Brook
/ lyn was chosen az the place to terminate
Miss CahilPs season because she was born
and reared In that borough and Il was there
that she first appeared on the stage. Marry
ing Mary in the past two seasons has been
presented in every city Of theatrical in-
portance in the United States and Canada.
In the cast is Eugene Cowles, the hasso,
Ielie de Lussan tue Metropolitan grand
opera singer, will be the star at Percy G.
Williams's 0rpheum Faster week She
will be heard in special selections. Eugene
Jepson and company have a vehicle in
George Ade sketch. Irene Franklin,
assisted by Bert Green, will sing. Shean
and Warren are comedians in upside Down
Quo Vadis.' MFR. and Mrs Jimmie Barry,
Harry Gilfoil In limitations, Hill and Syl-
yani in a bicycle act Keefe and Pearl and
Those Four Girls complete the bill.
Mr.. Keeney has arranged for the week
az the topline feature Trixie Friganza, late
oostar with Eddie Foy In THE Orchid
The extra attraction will introduce vaude-
ville's latest singing and dancing novelty
the Merry Grass Widow Septette. AM
other act is Joseph Callahan, presenting a
protean novelty. The remainder of the
bill includes Alice Davenport and Edgar
Allen in Pipe Dreams, Belle Hathaway's
comedy bicyolists. Lawrence and Harvey.
a Western pair; Hill and Hill, colored enter
tainers, and the Keeneyscope in new views
Amateur night every Thursday.
Arizona Augustus Thomass play Of
the Southwest. will be the attraction at
the Folly Theatre this week
merry entertainment is,promsed at
the Star Theatre this week by the Troca-
dero Burlesquers. There are two musical
comedies, Down on the Panama based
on the visit OF President Roosevelt to the
Canal Zone and In which some OF the hap
peninRs that befell the Chief Executive
are portrayed in a comic way, and "Col-
lege Boys.
At the Gayety Theatre this week there
will be some interesting athletic features
in addition to the hurleScue and vaudeville
programme which will be provided by the
Golden Crook Extravaganza company John
l.. Sullivan will appear with his old time
rival Jake Kilrain, in boxing exhibitions,
and hid Cutler will meet all comers I'm
wrestling contests Sullivan will deliver
his monologue also
The Bijou Theatre this week will have
a play new to Brooklyn. Montana" is its
title, and Harry d. Carey who is the author
enacts the leading role.
The Bon Ton Burlesquers, who will pro-
vide the entertainment at Hyde 4 Behman's
Olympic Theatre this week, have a pro-
gramme in which vaudeville and musical
comedy. is proportioned. There are six
speoialties,
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Belgium. ElsaSsts4 Orchards.


The BeEisns border their roadsides With Arn'
aud pear trees OF the cider and perry varieties
aud they draw a profitable revenue from th'
elongated planisuonS Tbus the sooo00 roads7'
trees Of Reglum bring In an annual income o
riSOOo that ls a little over A. per tire. bic ar7
nue. while they cost. including contributions IN
. GTspsntlnT sinking fund III hs over I'D per tree
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Good Ereus, In OkI,hom,.

From ne Chietoha EE1reH
"Mtn rush In where angels fear 10 tread" r,.
marked the Rev. A. !. Butler. yesterday as be re .
Qucslcd the ladies TO remove helr hats on.
old brother told me that ne hadn't been 10 church
nsycar Just because he couldn't sec over the hats
said the minister Nearly all The ladies compiled
V3th Ihe request
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The Bon Ton Burlesquers, who will pro-
vide the entertainment at Hyde 4 Behman's
Olympic Theatre this week have a pro.
gramme in which vaudeville and musical
comedy is proportioned, There are six
speoialties,
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After having scored in London, Marie
Dressler returns 10 play an enga cement
at the Colonial this week, repeating the
act which scored such success abroad.
BLou Fernandez end ". l.. Abingdon make
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The Bijou Theatre this week will have
a play new to Brooklyn. Montana" is its
title and Harry ID. Carey, who is the author
enacts the leading role.
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Miss Mariana Thurber assisted by
NJ. Ernest Perrin, will give special O'Clock
matinee at the Garden Theatre next Tues
day afternoon. Miss Thurber will render
programme OF Breton, French and Spanish
songs. Mr. Perrin, formerly Of the Theatre
des Varieties Of Paris, win present three
mOnoloUles and number Of limitations.
He will initiate Coqueln Cadet, Mounet
Sully and Paul Monnet.
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-Cap'n Kidd" musical comedy telling
Of the sad adventures Of pirate when he
meets modern Captain Of Industry, will
he sung 10y students Of the New York Uni'
versity at Carnegie Lyceum next Friday
night and twice Saturday. William lie
Baron. Cj, wrote the book. and ID. Taylor,
&C. the music Some Of the lyrics have
been played and sung in advance and
promise we'll; one Of them indeed is comic
gem
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Al the Eden Musee this week new his
torical Indian group hss been placed on eK-
hibition in the American gallery on the third
floor. 1t depicts one Of the most exciting
incidents Of the early history Of this coun-
try when the red men we're dominant and the
white few in numbers
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]. N., Philadelphia. Pa.--Klndly inform me what
Is lle velue OF the Sc, Gsudens so gold piece ~
1867 II Is specimen OF the onglnal Issue.
4 81, Gaudens so piece brought Sz5 bt one o.
the Eder sales In this city the other day.
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FRITZ Scheif, in her sparkling operetta
Mile. Modiste' comes to the Academy
tomorrow. Nothing new needs TO be
said about this play which shows Blossom
the lbrettist. and Victor Herbert, the COM
poser AT their Rayest
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FIRST AID FOR THE DROWNING.

Two Gases OF Resuscitatt0n After Ions
Time ~ the water.
The following directions for resusdtadng
q seemingly drowned person are published
In the current Launch:
First-Loosen the clothing. place the face
downward with the forehead resting on one
Of the wrists. and the face turned to one side.
Opcn the mouth: seize the tongue between
the fingers. covered with q handkerchief or
piece Of cloth. and draw It forward between
the teeth clear tho mouth and throat from
mucus by passing the forehnger. covered
with a handkerchief or piece OF cloth. far
back into the mouth, thus opening o free
passage to the windpipe.
Second-Turn the body face upward.
shoulders resting on folded coat or pillow:
keep tongue drawn forward: raise the arm
head; this expands the chest and allows the
air to enter the lungs. Then slowly move
them downward. bending them 30 that the
elbows VIII como to the sides and the hands
cross on the pit Of the stomach. and press
them gently but strongly against the sides
ond chest. This forces the air out OF the
lungs. Continue these two movements.
which produce artificial breathing. very de-
liberately about ten or twelve times IN
minute. and without oeasins until the patient
breathes naturally. or untfl satisfied that life
b extinct.
Third-whfle this is being done a little
friction on the chest may be produced BY
rubbing gently with warm flannel. and the
body may be stripped and then wrapped In
dry blankets.
After natural breathing begins continue
very gently for few minutes the two move
ments which produce artificial breathing.
After natural breathing il fully restored
give the patient teaspoonful Of brandy
hot sling or tea two or three times minute
until the beating Of the pulse can " felt at
the wrist.
Rub the arms and legs upward and the feet
and hands with warm or dry flannel.
Apply hot cloths to the body. legs and arms
and bottles ofhot water to the feet.
Do not be discouraged II animation does
not return In q few minutes. The paesnt
sometimes recovsrs after hours Of labes.
Do not allow the tongue TO fall back and
close the windpipe while the arms ere being
worked.
Do not rub the legs and arms until natural
breathing is restored.
Do not put any liquid In the mouth until
natural breathing n fully restored.
Do not roll the body or handle II roughly.
Do not allow the head TO hang down.
There have been two recent and striking
illustration Of the fact that the rcsuscta-
tion Of the apparently drowned is to an
and perseverance,.
The New York life saving service reports
the case Of Q man who was revived after be
bad been under water tweuty-three minutes,
the work Of resasdtation taking over day.
At Atlantic City q man waa revived after
he bad been In the water ten minutes. He
wac worked ovcr tor "a hour OF moro.
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land; the second Lord Haroourt and the
frst Lord Bessborough. Horace Walpoie
in one of his letters says of the Dilettanti
that the nominal qualification for member
ship was having been In Italy. while the
real one was being drunk. There seems TO
be no doubt that the earlier meetings OF she
society wero characterized by great deal
Of hilsrity. II is certain that In later years
the Dilettanti Society has performed very
great services to the cause OF art. Upon
these, however, Sir Spencer Walpole does
not enter at any length. the purpose OF his
essay being to trace the history and CON
stitution OF five dining societies which
are eminent for the names OF those who have
belonged to them or for the abilities and
social oharms Of their present members.
NJ. w. ii.
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As q singularly oompanionahle and
popular man. Sir Spencer Walpole was
peculiarly qualified to write the essay in
this volume on '1he Dining Societies OF
London Az everybody knows, one may
BE- q member Of London club for half
lifetime and yet have NJ aociai intercourse.
nor even a speaking acquaintance, with
most Of his fellow members. Hence the
desirabilty OF dining societies in which at
stated intervals mer OF like interests and
tastes fnay meet. Sir Spencer points out
IN the paper now under our eve that the
social conditions which sixty years ago en-
abled Lord ard Lady Holland continually
TO welcome at Holland House such coed
takers as Syiney smith and Luttrell,
Moore and Rogers. Macaulay and jeffrey,
lord Melbourne and lord John Russell and
many others no longer prevailed. Those
who read the stories OF those dinners and
contrast them with eome OF those at which
they themselves have been present are
tempted sometimes to conclude that Lon.
don society a. 1t has grvwn more complex
has become little dull. Sir Spencer VAL
pole. howevsr. testinea that brilliant talk
err stm exist in modern London. and are
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Tho mstrioal tales Of George Crabbe are
DOW seldom read on this side OF the Atlantic
bu. In an essay devoted to the subject
East Auglian poet had a mastery over
the English language and capacity to
move the heart which few OF England's
great writer's have excelled. As exam
Piles Of Crabbe's merit he reproduoes a
passage which Tennyson quoted to Fitz-
gerald. and also another which pleased
Scott and Fox on their deathbeds. Sir
Spencer indeed insists that unlees we are
prepared to exclude the whole OF Words
worth's narrative poetry from the poetical
arena, In which case we must cancel a
third OF the poems which Matthew Arnold
thought worth preserving. We have no
right to deny Crabbe the place which our
forefsthers assigned him. Sir Spencer
indeed did not deny that Crabbe in his
later poems could descend to nursery
rhymes or that on other occasions he had
tricks Of style which lent themselves to
parody, Jeffrey thought that the parody
on Crabbe was the best in the whole ool-
lection OF the -Rejeoted Addresses" The
author Of these essays recalls the lines:
John Richard william Alexander Dwyer
Was footmsn to JustihiAn stubbs Esquire:
But. when John Dwyer listed in the Blues
Rmsnuel Jennings polished stubbs's shoes,
and points on: how close these are to
Crabbe's original:
Grave Jonas Kindred sybil Kindreds sire
Was ak feet high and looked six inches higher.
Undoubtedly Crabbe at times pushed
simplicity to puerility and could descend
to bathos with On ehse that few writer's
have surpassed. Nevertheless. as Sir Spen-
Ger Walpole insists. we must not summarily
decide that Crabbs was not poet because
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cations which he began on the electro
dynamic qualities OF metals. the elastic
properties Of substances. the thermal and
electric oonducttvities Of metals and 1t q
later date IN the electric and magnetic re-
searches which he undertook a. q member
Of the British Association Committee on
Electrical Standards. Thomson always
held that his commission included ths
subject Of physical astronomy. and. though
his lectures on that topic were as q rule
confined to q statement Of Kepler's laws
and Newton's deductions from them, ho
took caro- that the written and oral OK
aminations included astronomical ques-
tions for which the students were enjoined
to prepare by reading sHersohsll's Out
lines or some similar text book. Thomson
stated his views as to examinations and
lectures In an address delivered q rood
many years later At Bangor. THE object
OF university he said. 'is teaching. not
testing. In respect Of the teaching OF a
university tho object OF examination Ia to
promote the teaching. The examination
should be. in the FIRST place. daily. No
professor should meet his class without
talking to them. The French call q lecture
q conference. and I admire that idea.
Every lecture should be q conference OF
teachers and studsnts.'
We may here mention that soon after
taking his b. A. degree at Cambridge, In
1Bi5. Thomson had been elected q fellow
Of st. Peters College. In 1852 he vacated
his fellowship on his marriage to Miss Mar
garet Crum, daughter Of Mr.. Walter Crum
Of Thornliebank. near Glasgow, but was
In 1874, and remained thereafter
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discourage in any degree traffao 80 bone
fetal to the British nation. and finally
Newton. the evangelist, who at one time
was the captain Of q slave ship, said that
he never knew 'sweeter or more frequent
hours OF divine communion" than on his
last two voyages to Guinea.
Nor does what We have here reproduced
represent the limit Of Sir Spencer's candid
concessions He admits with equal free
dom that while IN England Statesmen
and religious men were warmly defending
slavery and the slave trade public opinion
in America was already doubling the
morality. the economy and the o1pedIency
Of slave labor. Franklin, as wise as he
was humane. boldly argued that Slaves
rathor weakened than strengthened the
State; and Vermont. Pennsylvania. Massa-
chusetts and other States abolished slavery.
In fine. at the end OF the eighteenth century
.,,-,e seemed every prospect that slavery
might cease throughout tho United States
in consequence Of growing sense OF the
irhntility OF slave labor. While. however.
public opinion in America was slowly gravi-
taiing in the direction OF emancipation,
the invention OF the cotton gin by Whitney
in 1893 effected revolution il thought in
the Southern States. By the old processes
a slave could clean only five or six pounds
"f cotton day. and consequently the
cotton plant could be cultivated with sue
cess only In those Oriental countries where
labor was procurable at much lower cost
than was required for the support and super
V's'on OF slave. After Whitney's inven-
ton. On the other hand, came into use a
siave could clean a thousand pounds of
cotton In days work The process OF
cleaning the fibre formed thenoeforward
comparatively insignificant item in the
cost OF production, and the culture OF oot-
t"n naturally moved 10 such Of the Southern
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contains perhaps the men Of greater emil
nence. but the Literary Society comprises
more regular diners. The former Ia the
moro venerable; the latter the more lively.
The Club. a. the elder institution. showed
throughout the nineteenth century o dis
position TO eleot the men who had previ-
ously displayed their social qualifications
at the table ed the Htsrsry sooisty. Since
Judges havs bSsn elected tn The Club,
while during the ssms period the judicial
bench contributed fifteen Judges 10 the
Literary Society. We may also mention
that since 1850 one Archbishop. two Bishops
and one dean hsve become nsembers Of
The rlub. while three Arohbishops, two
Bishops and four deans have beeu elected
IN the Literary sodsty. Sir Spencer WAL
polo says that It would be difficult to de-
sorfbe the brillianoy OF the conversation
which may occasionally be heard at the
table of either OF these associations.
The D1ettanti Society has a longer his
tory than any Of the gatherings thus far
tvelt upon. Early In the eighteenth oen-
.ury some gentlemen who had travelled In
Italy formed themselves into society under
the name Of the Dilettanti, and regular
minutes Of their proceedings have been
kept since l7se. Foremost among the orig
inal members, II not the actual founder Of
the society. was Sir Francis De shwood. the
man who soandsliaed not very fastidious
generation sby his performances as high
priest Of the blasphemous and indecent
orgies at Medmenham Abbey Associated
with him both In the sooiety'a and at Medmen-
ham was the fourth Earl OF Sandwich Very
different in his character and reputation
Duke of Bedford. Among other well known
men who seern TO have been original mem-
bers Of the SssooiAtion were Lord Middle
sex, afterwArd Duke Of Dorset; Sir Hugh
7miiAsens aftsfwari DUKE Of Northumbs-