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New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
THE HEssIAN INCIDENT.

The impending visit to this country Of
a descendant ef that Landgrave Of HesSe
who hired troops to George III for use
against America in the Revolution recalls
an incident which has long been ancient
history and which may in this remote
perspective be viewed without q trace
OF the not unnatural nor unjust1fable
passion which it formerly and for long
time provoked.
1t is of interest-purely academic and
historic-to recall that the first applica-
ton for hired troops was made not to
Eesse but to Russia AS early as Au-
gust. 1915, long before even Americans
considered themselves anything more
than protesting but still loyal subjects
Of King George, request was made Of
Russia for the hiring Of twenty thousand
troops for service here, and it is not
impossible, if indeed improbable, that,
had it not been for the influence Of Fred
erick the Great upon GATHERINGS 1nor-
dinately vain minister, Panin, the re-
quest would have been granted. The
second application was made to Holland,
aid although at the court there was for
moment some talk of granting it by
sending hither the Scottish Brigade, the
States General. because Of the instructive
love Of liberty and the consequent In
c.pient sympathy with America which
were there cherished, promptly and en-
phaticalIy vetoed it. The third quest
for troops was then made among the
Detty urinceIinoS of Germany where
traces Of the decentralization Of the
Thirty Years War still fingered and
where mercenary soldering was COM
mon trade: and this time, in Hesse, It
was successful
If any reflective person were to doubt
that the world is growing better In mat
tiers pertaining to the government Of
states and to the keeping Of peace and
the waging of war, his doubts should
surely be promptly and finally dis
PEELED by contrasting the ways and
means of less than century and
half ago and those Of the present time.
The negotiations which were then COM
monplace among the foremost nations,
and the motives by which they were con-
trolled and the acts which they purposed
and, indeed. actually committed, would
be impossible in our day; or if they were
realized they would be regarded with
general reprobatfon. In that view the
Eessian incident Of our Revolution may
be profitably remembered as point from
which to measure the commendable and
grateful progress of mankind.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"tThe Baltimore American celebrated
Yesterday the one hundred and thrty-sev-
enth anniversary of its birth, and as d
souvenir published d facsimile of the first
issue of the four-page maryland Journal
and Baltimore Advertiser" from which it
sprang. An interesting feature of the little
sheet. dated August %, 1773. is an adver-
tisement by George Washington offering
for sale and lease twenty thousand acres
of land in Virginia.
who was BarabbaS, dad?"
"An umpire. re."-IIouiSville Courier-Journal
man with a decidedly foreign air, who
was accompanied by an elderly and a young
woman evidently his wife and daughter,
was seen by employe trying several
doors of a large apartment store yesterday
afternoon. The watchman approached the
group and explained that the store was
closed for the day. Yes, / see,'' said the
man, land SO are several others where We
wanted to do some shopping. What's the
matter-is this a holiday" He was told
that nearly all stores close their doors on
Saturday afternoon in the hot season This
answer seemed to surprise the man, who
said: "And they say the Americans are
graspng and business crazy This does not
look l1k6 II, ana some Oh our StOrekeSper5
in Europe might follow the example"
First Okiahoman-Howdy?
Second Oklahoman-Ffne. What's doin.?
First Oklahoman-Nothin' spashul. Whah
you goin'?
Second Oklahoman-Jes' aroun' tn corner
TO rob an Injun. Join me?
First Oklahoman-Shuahi-C evel a d
Plain Dealer.
A Carlsbad letter calls attention to z
remarkable concert which took place at
the Spa on August 6. 1872, programme OF
which is still preserved In the city archives
at that place The entertainment was
given for the benefit of the sufferers by the
fire which had laid waste Baden. and took
place at the Saechsischer Saal. The only
performers were Beethoven and Polledro.
who PLAYED their own compositions. There
were two pianoforte and two violin solos
and several numbers in which both took
part. says the writer. The account of the
entertainment also mentions the fact that
one Of the interested listeners was tall
elderly man, wearing = great blue oost.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
People and Soc1aI incidents

brilliant that has taken place Aers "a.
season Tho dinner. at which there v.-s
fifty or more guests. was served On tsa
terrace by moon and candle light. ubn.
the villa and grounds were elaborateiy "a.
Grated with electric lights. A large nur,.
Der Of guests came IN for the dancing arr
cotillon. which was led by Lord Rocksav~
age, Of England.
Other dinner parties were numerous fss,
evening and all Of the guests aftervars
went to Mrs. Goelets dance. Included y
the entertainers were Mr.. and Mrs. 81
ward j. Berwind. who had as their zrlss.
Of honor the Secretary Of the Navy; ur,
Joseph r. DiIworth. Mrs Harry 8 I1s-
and Mrs Joseph Hartman.
Henry Walters returned to-day from Ns-
York on the steam yacht Narada-
Harry OelrfchS IS a guest OF his sisrs-
Mrs Leonard NJ Thomas.
Charles De Loosely Oelrtchs has return.d
from New York VISIT
Lloyd Warren, OF New York. is a gr,s,,
of his sister, Mrs. william Starr MUs-
Mrs. Benjamin Thaw arrived On SATURDAY.
to make an inspection OF her estate here
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence l. Berger. OF Ne,
York, are making a short stay here
REGISTERED AT Lle C6SInO To-Day HarS
Richard B. Leake, jr.. and Mrs. Richars
B. Leake, OF Albany. guests OF Mr. and
Mrs James Grtswold Wents; Aiezauds-
Keogh, visiting A Gordon Norrta; Ros
ert D. Wrenn and Kenneth P. Budd, q,
New York. guests Of j. Gordon Douglass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. Peters, Ella
Postlethwaite. Of New York, who Is visit
ing 2. c. Havemeyer; Clinton Gray. a
guest Of his sister, Mrs Reynolds HIt,.
Miss Burrough, Lydig Hoyt. Norman De z
Whitehouse, Mr.. and Mrs. William Adams
Delano, of New York, guests OF Mrs Ed
ward T. Potter; John H Perkins, J. z
Mason. Charles Havemeyer Jackson and
R. NJ Parker, Of New York, who are bAiu.
entertained by II. o. Havemeyer, IL; Fred.
erick Winthrop. of Hamilton, Mass, a
guest OF P l. Agassiz; P. Douglass, Ph.l,o
Wadsworth. OF Boston, a guest OF Amor
Hollingsworth; W Graham Bowdoin Of
Baltimore, who is visiting DR.. Henry Bar
ton Jacobs, and Mr.. and Mrs. Sidnsy
Breese, Of Southampton, Long Island
The first 1911 rental was announced TO-
day. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hartman have
again leased Edward J. Berwind's co,rags
in Bellevue Court
Colonel John Jacob AstOr with party o.
guests sailed to-day on the steam yacht
Mona for a cruise 70 Bar Harbor.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
4 TEXAS CONVICT E4RM.


What to do with the convict in order
that he may be employed yet not inter
fere with the activities of workmen on
the outside is still an unsettled problem.
The labor unions are offended when the
state enters INTO competition with them
through its prisoners, overlooking the
righteousness of. the assumption tha t
so small a proportion of the working
popula ton of the country as may be
found in penal institutions could, under
the most favorable conditions, manu-
facture a sufficient quantity Of goods to
make much difference TO them. IN many
institutions, however, no effort is made
to keep the prisoners employed on any
form of labor much more competitive
than breaking stone, a trade which up
to the present has not become highly
organized.
The State Of Minnesota has solved the
problem to the satisfaction of the farm
ers, at least, by keeping many of the
convicts engaged in the manufacture Of
binding twine, with the result that that
particular commodity is unquestionably
lower in price in Minnesota. Just in
what manner peace has been made by
the state authorities with the labor
unions is not divulged. but the probabfli-
ties are that agriculture is so over
whelmfngly predominant in the state as
to make the good will Of the farmers
more TO be desired than that Of any
other class. Binding twine, too, is a
product that IS by the farmers believed
to be especially subject to the will of
the trusts. and this may have its infiu-
ence in making the states policy In the
matter possible.
In the South the tendency toward the
abolition Of convict leases makes neces-
sary the discovery of some other method
of employment for the inmates of the in
stitutions. both for economic reasons and
because the refinement of cruelty Incl
dent to unemployed confinement Is a
relic of barbarism. A new Dill signed by
the Governor of Texas provides Tor the
abolition of the leasing of state convicts
to contractors and for their employ
ment on farms owned by the state.
AS a result some thirty thousand acres
OF land win he added to the twenty-six
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
IN THE sERKSHIaES.
rBy Telegraph 70 The Tribunal I


Lenox. Aug. 2o--Miss Clementina E'usnis,
has arrived in New York on the Adrtars
and will reach Edgecomb on Monday
Henry T. Stetson, Of New York, has reg
istered at the Red Lion Inn
DIR. and Mrs. G. Henderson and the
Misses Henderson are motoring II the
Berkshires.
George a. Heyl. Miss HeyI aid Mr. and
Mrs John ]. Jackson are az the Curtis
Hotel
Horace W. Robbins. Of New York; Mr
and Mrs WoIcott P. Robbins. OF Pelham
Manor. and Mr.. and Mrs George Cook and
John Cook, OF New York, have arrived al
the Curtis Hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. Zenas Crane. Mr. and Mrs
Samuel Colt, Miss Carmen. E VI. Martinez
Miss May Weatherbee, Charles Crane and
Thomas PIunkett are making a motor run
into Vermont.
Mr.. and Mrs John Shepard, OF Boston.
are motoring in the Berkshires-
Miss Constance Folsom has gone TO New
port
Mr.. and Mrs. Bashford Dean, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas W Waldbridge. Mr.. and Nrs
John Haydock, Jr, of New York Mr. and
Mrs. l. GerstIey and Miss Ruth Gerstsy.
of Philadelphia; T. A. Moore and William
B. Jennings, Of L.archmont, are at the Ho-
tel Aspinwall-
Mr.. and Mrs. William Nelson Cromwell,
with Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Hopkins and Mrs
". C. Berlin, arrived at the Curtis Hotel
this morning on the way 70 Waterbury
Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steers, motoring with
IT, -F
Nsco, are at the Curtis Hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. ". J. Wells and NJ c
Hewitt. of New York, are az the Maple
wood, in Pittsfield-
Miss Harriet X Welles returned 20 the
Curtis Hotel to-day from Newport.
Mr. and Mrs George Winthrop Folsom
gave q picnic 1T Lake GIahksenaC to-day
the occa being Mr.. Folsoms birthday
and also the anniversary OF the narr1ass
OF MI and Mrs. Clark G voorhees,, tn'
son n-in-Iav and daughter Of dr- and AS
Folsom. Tonight Mrs Churchill Satterss
and Mr. and Mrs. Folsom gave dinnsl
at Sunnybank.
EIr and Mrs. Gtr4ud Foster entsrta-ne'
at luncheon at Bellefontaine to-day.
Mr. and Mrs John Z. Parsons ATTENDED
the entertainment at IntsrIazen last n-s1I
given by the fresh air children a. =
Fieien's Home. which Mr. Parsons maintains
as q memorial TO a daUghter
Mrs. Charles NcBurney has returned %
Stockbridce from Islesboro, Ne Dr. NC
Eurney is deep sea fishing Of Bu-1ards
Bay.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H De!zAe-d as
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Y. Folscn'
Paul Tuckerman has arrived IN. Stec~
bridge
Mr and Mrs. Frederick :. DeIahsld has
returned from Nantucket
The Assistant Secretary q the Navy sr1
Mrs Beekman Winthrop arrived to-nlsn'
to visit Mrs Robert Vyfuthrop, Mr., Nlo'
throp's mother
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
BADNESS.

The particularly vicious slaughter by
automobile On Pelham Parkway the
other night lad been preceded by in
Vulnerable similar incidents, though
probably none more fragrant and revolt
ing in cynical criminality, and has al
ready been followed by several more oc-
currences of a tragic nature. Two men
killed and three badly injured was the
record OF a single automobile smash-up
on Friday night in the outskirts Of this
city. the result of law-breaking speed,
ahile yesterday several men were Sc
riously hurt and narrowly escaped death
in their efforts TO break the speed rec
ord on a motor racetrack. Other acci-
dents TO automobiles. all induced by
reckless speeding. dot the days news.
Also the list Of aeroplane tragedies
lengthens daily, these largely being the
result Of attempts to break records or
10 stunts" In midair.
There may be those who regard these
things as the regrettable but inevitable
price Of invention and progress. They
are not. They are the penalty Of mad
ness. OF the hundreds OF lives which
are yearly sacrificed in automobile
speeding not / per cent can be placed in
the former category. The perpetrators
or victims Of the tragedies have con-
tributed nothing to science or to me-
chanics or TO progress in the use Of self
propelled vehicles. They are not I'm
proving the breed" Of automobiles, but
are simply abusing and discrediting a
most interesting and serviceable device.
We may not say that in the case of
aeronauts. at least not SO generally, for
among these some Of the most useful ex-
perimenters and inventors have come to
grief. But in many If not most cases
accidents have occurred not in the scien-
tific experimentation which is still the
supreme need Of the new art Of aviation.
but in mere popular exhibitions Of a
more or less daredevil kind
We repeat that these things are mani
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
LoNewoRTH's STAND

1
Sir: Every weIl-wisher Of the Republi-
can party, and every one who desires TO see
Il succeed and in the ascendant in the next
Congress, must be greatly pleased at the
position of Mr.. Longworth- Mr. Cannon
has done great service to his party and to
his country during the many years he has
served in Congress He has been honored
by his fellow members to an extent almost
beyond that Of any Of his predecessors.
He must know, perhaps better than any
one else, how serious and widespread the op-
position is to his candidacy for the speak
ership of the next Congress. He now has
made his candidacy the principal issue in
every Congress district throughout the
length and breadth of this country.
Many good man will go down to defeat
simply because he will hesitate to frankly
state his convictions and position, as has
Mr.. Longworth. In justice TO these good
men who have been so loyal and true to
him in the past, he should not require this
sacrifice.
Let Mr.. Cannon say, as he has, that he
desires to return to Congress If his con-
stituents desire it, but that in view of the
manifest opposition, the position of danger
In which 1t places many of his friends and
the fear of a possible Democratic Congress-
he fully realizing all this, and also in the
the knowledge that he has arrived at the
age when a fight is not to his liking, now
states fully and explicitly that under no
circumstances will he be a candidate for
Speaker of the next House. A statement
like this can be made, and the political at
mosphere would be cleared Of the clouds
that now overcast it. And 1t would give
every member Of Congress who is now seek
ing denomination and election d good
chance of success. And more, it would
place the grand old man back In the hearts
and affections of the whole people.
CHARLES S STOCKTON
arL, A,1n
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

thousand now owned by the state, ana
as the contracts Of the two thousand
convicts expire the men will DO set to
work at agriculture It is hardly prob
able that ths farmers viii file such
protest as would probably result II the
men were employed in some labor the
workers in which were largely union
lied, and 1t would be difficult to imagine
any occupation more likely to prove
beneficial to the men themselves. II
Texas finds happy solution Of the con-
yict labor problem it will have set
valuable example
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
rHE POLITICAL REFEREE SYSTEM


Ex-senator Marion Butler, of North
Carolina, who aided Representative
John NJ. Morehead in his successful fight
20 Gust the Old ofiiceholders and office
seekers ring IN that state. said In Wash
ington the other day that one of the
chief objects of that fight was to abolish
the referee system in North Carolina
politics. That system was the outgrowth
Of peculiar conditions IN certain South
ern states. In Mississippi, South Caro-
lima Georgia Florida. Alabama and
Louisiana the Republican organization
Lad dwindled TO a skeleton. It was con
fEolled chiefly by men who sought to
capitalize the federal patronage for their
own benefit and whose political activi-
ties were aroused only when national
conventions were at hand and delegates
to those gatherings were 10 be elected
Scandals arose in the distribution of
patronage, and ineficiency in Office was
encouraged by the recognition Of the
leaders In the nominal organiza tons in
those states President Roosevelt tried
N improve conditions by disregarding
the opportunities OF the party leaders
and depending for recommendations on
referees-r1en Of good character not nee
essarfly engaged In politics.
Where an active responsible party or
ysnization cannot be maintained the
referee system produces good results.
But in Southern states where the party
is properly organized and growing in
numbers It is out OF place. North Caro-
tina is such q state. II cast Ia, ,SS1
votes for Taft electors Ia 150S-45 per
cent of the total vote-and three OF the
ten Congress districts were carried by
Republican candidates. II is manifestly
unfair TO class North Carolina with
ether Southern states in which the Re
publican vote IS only from 5 to Is per
cent of the total vote and where the
organizations exist chiefly for the pur-
pose OF eiecting delegates to national
conventions. In an address made at
Greensboro in 1906 Mr. Taft urged the
reorea nization of fhe party in North
Carolina on q notwithstanding and
of1ce-brokerage basis and the time now
seems ripe for the conversion which he
had IN view. The recent state conveIl-
-saoa put the organization into the hands
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
GOVERNOR OFF ON vACAfiO'
With Mrs. Hughes. He Goes t" ~
Adiroudacks for Two Weeks.

Albany, Aug ee.-Governor ana r,s
Hughes left here to-day for the IAh@ -.
Club. at Nowcomb. Essex County
Adirondacks. where they will spend Vass
ton of two weeks Major CFosSe'N Ia
Governors military secretary, aceoi''f ne
them as far as North Creek. the emu ,,,-s'
railroad line. Newcomb IS thfso
Journey by automobile from Nortn NiS'
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

performance, never looking anywhere but
at the stage This was Goethe" The
amount realized for the fund was about
5000 The letter ends with: Beethoven
at the plano for charity, and box receipts
s2oo-sS years ago.
"A word to the wise is sufficient"
quoted the Wise Guy. IT suppose that is
why a lawyer will talk to the Jury for half
q day added the Simple Mug.-Philadel-
phia Record
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
BISHOP OF LONDON AT MoNTaEaI

Halifax. Aug. "a. F. Winnins'VaIs as-ss,
gram. Bishop OF London. who VIII sas',;4ss
the Anglican Church Congress III r''-,-ssI
early in September. has arrived al ~
on the steamer Empress of Britain. !.
Another passenger on the Ehp.s-fs
Britain was MonsigROV Francis .t.
Archbishop of Westminster. VINO -.rssl
tend the Eucharistic Congress AZ A'A-
paxt month
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT

Ibv IeIegraoh 10 The Tribuna N
Newport, Aug. 0-Duke Francis Jossnb
of Bavaria had another husv dav in tba
summer colony here TODAY. This ,,orr-
ing he was present at the natIonaI ta,n,s
tournament; this afternoon be vie,tad th,
Newport Golf Club. and to-nfebt he 49,.
tile euee' VI honor at dinner and dance
given by Mrs Ogden Goelet. his hostess, al
her summer home. Ochre Court
Mrs' Gos!ets AFFAIR was ono OF the moss
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
THE ENGLISH STAGE AND gMZ-
GRAFTON


A writer In a London dramatic paper
discusses the causes Of the dwindling
support Of travelling theatrical compa-
Eies In the English provinces. First among
them he places what he calls suburban
gardenitis"; in other words, the ever
Of the middle classes. which furnish the
bulk Of theatrical audiences the world
over. These dwellers in the suburbs Of
the English provincial towns cannot be
induced to bulge from home in the even
ing, he AYERS, unless the attraction Of
fered them be far above the average.
IN these towns themselves. he goes on,
the local music hall furnishes all the
entertainment the population appears to
require Moreover, cities like Liverpool
and Manchester have their own theatres
Of rank and standing and will welcome
only the greatest Of metropolitan stars
But far above all these causes Of the
dwindling support of English travelling
companies this writer places emigration.
He casts longing glance toward this
country, but suggests Canada as a profit
able field for English managers. Our
audiences have moved thither," he ex-
claims: '1et us follow them before the
New York managers go out to find then" q"
It is long way from London to Win
nipeg. and this writer is not altogether
correctly Informed regarding American
theatrical affairs or conditions In the
Canadian field. But his suggestion that
the effect Of emigration is felt by Eng
lish managers arrests attention. Opinion
OF Continental European managers on
this subject would also be interesting
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

Wisconsin is the latest state in which
the use Of public drinking cups on rail-
way trains has been prohibited. Their
abolition by the railroads, which takes
effect next month, is based on rule
of the State Board Of Health. After
little time, no doubt. their patrons will
become accustomed to the new practice,
as has been the case in other states, and
will provide their own cups when travel
ling-a highly sanitary practice, law Or
no law.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

Canada has not taken a census this
year, but her Census Bureau reckons that
her population last March was 1.4S9,7 ,7S1.
On that basis 1t remains, as it has con-
sistently been for the last century, con-
siderably less than that Of the single
state of New York. Still, 1t Is increas
ing more rapidly than for long before,
the growth In the last nine years having
been more than 2.11S,OOO, against only
a little more than $4,000 in the ten
years preceding and 5OSOOO in the ten
years before those. The greatest in
crease, relatively, in the history of the
country was from 1851 to 1861, when
the population rose from 1,S42, 900 to
3,O9O,OO0 That was the time of the
rush for gold and the development Of
British Columbia into all organized col
ony, as these last nine years have been
marked by the development Of the
wheat fields of the Northwest into great
agricultural states.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

Speaking of Senator Joseph W. Bailey
and his acclamation as candidate for the
Presidency in the recent Democratic
State Convention in Texas, THE Hous-
ton Post says:
The people have beheld him Colossus
in the Senate. His primacy In that august
forum is not questioned by any competent
authority. He is the most impressive fig
ure of virile craftsmanship in our national
legislature. and the jealous scrutiny of his
public acts by men who revs.s fails to re-
veal the slightest weakness in his armor
twenty years have been. studying Sen
ator Bailey at close range in Washing
ton will now have to revise their verdicts
or hide their diminished heads
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

From The Rochester Post Express.
Professor Heilprecht says that streetcars
were in in TIE year SEQ B. c. That's
nothing. Some OF the cars used on the
Rochester and Sodus Bay line are OF oven
greater antiquity.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

AS an instrument Of destruction the
automobile strenuously holds it's own
with the aeropIane. The tragedies of
the last week suggest that it has en-
tered into an ignohle competition with
the later invention.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
CALLED BY MAINE UNIvBRsIfY
Presidency offered TO Dr.. Robert }
Alev. of Indianapolis

Portland Ne. Aug. 2o.-The presldel'-y
of the University If Maine vas oHered =
Dr. Robert j. Alley. of Indianapolis s'-'s
Superintendent of Instruction, py vote :,
the trustees at special meeting II 70
city to-day. The resignation o. Prssiu7.-
George Emery Fellows. rendered last 'li-'
goes into effect on September T.