The National tribune., 1910-06-16

There is an atmosphere of great ac-
tivity about the New York Custom
House, and things are happening right
along. The extra keenness to detect
any attempt at smuggling, which is be-
ing manifested at present, has led to a
few mistakes, but not many. The other
day Col. and Mrs. Henry Stuart, of Vir-
ginia, landed with 25 pieces of baggage.
The Colonel is a nephew of the cele-
brated Confederate cavalry leader, ].
E. B. Stuart, who had things pretty
much his own way during the civil war
until he met up with" a not particu-
larly formidable-looking person by the
name of Sheridan, when change came
over the spirit of his dreams, so to
speak. However, all that is obiter die
tum, as the lawyers say. The Stuarts
arrived. and as the Colonel's declara-
ton did not seem to fit the amount of
baggage exactly, eight of Mrs. Stuarts
trunks were seized This lady stood on
the dock while her trunks were opened
and watched her beautiful gowns, so
carefully packed with quantities of It's
sue paper stuffed in here and there, to
keep them from wrinkling, handled
with no gentle touch by the stony
hearted inspectors. 1t was a most pain
full experience. The Colonel was very
claimed he had declared all of Mrs.
Stuart's things except those she had
purchased two years ago, which, under
Sec. 7O9 of the tariff act of 1909, were
not dutiable. 1t seems, under this act
American citizens living abroad for two
years or more could claim to be non
residents of this country and their eff
fects were therefore not subject to duty
upon re-entering it. But this is where
the gallant Colonel slipped up. This
regulation has been changed recently,
tho Col Stuart insisted that the Ameri-
can Consulate in Paris had given him
no hint of any such change. The Vir-
ginia gentleman signified his willing
ness to pay full duty on his wife's
things. and the trunks were released,
the inspectors convinced that the whole
affair was the result of a misunder-
standing on the part of the Colonel.
The case of Mrs. Chesebrough has been
decided. Mrs. Chesebrough is the
wealthy Boston woman who tried to
smuggle in the valuable pearl necklace.
She spirited the necklace off to Canada,
If the writer of this is correct, and for
years the Custom House people tried
to get track of 1t. Finally they did, and
now the lady has been fined $1,000. The
latest event in this connection is the
arrest of well-known importing firm
In New York, suspected of defrauding
by differentiation of their importations
All their books, invoices. foreign bills,
etc, enough to fill an express wagon,
have been seized, and the prisoners
held in $4,000 bail each. Two of the
members of the firm were arrested, the
third being now in Europe, where it is
he will lie very low for the
present.
Generally speaking il is certainly |
time elaborately thrown away" as Ed |
ward Young remarked a great many i
years ago, to spend any in commenting |
upon the affairs, matrimonial or other
wise, of many of the members of the |
theatrical profession, but occasionally |
something like the hard common sense |
displayed by the present Mrs. Nat Good
win arrests the attention and seems to |
call for word. Mrs. Goodwin, who |
was the beautiful actress, Edna Good |
rich. is the genial Mats fourth venture
In the troubled sea of matrimony.
Neither beauty Zone of his wives was
the exquisitely lovely Maxine Elliott)
nor talent has apparently been able to
hold his tickle affection long. When il
seemed to Nat that Edna Goodrich was
his souls true affinity, for which he
ong had sought in vain, and proposed /
that she should share his fame and
fortune and incidentally his name. this
stantial assurance that he would stick"
before deciding. Thereupon Nat offered |
10 put up all his money, some $250,000,
so his lawyer says, into a trust fund, Il
and to sign an agreement that they
should both share the income equally
while they lived, no matter what hap
pened, which most generous proposition !
Edna Goodrich could not resist. and
,orthwith became Mrs. Nat Goodwin
Il now appears that the Goodwins are
ABOUT TO separate, incompatability of .
temper being the reason given, but il is
that Nat has his eye on a fifth
affinity-spouse. Be that as It may,
sharp. shrewd little Edna Goodrich
Goodwin Is sure of her fat income from ,
the trust fund, whether Nat marries
again or not, while Nathan is probably
calling himself all kinds of fool for
MS mistaken infatuation and its disas-
rous effect on his finances Mrs. Good
wine experience may possibly spur 9TH
er women similarly situated to similar
action; but what about the poor trust
ng man, with the one-wife idea, who
narries woman with the divorce hab-
I? What practical assurance can he
get from her that she will Stick" or
equivalent If she doesn't?
Another life, rich in useful and bril-
liant service to mankind, has just gone
out. Prof. Goldwin Smith, the ceIe-
orated English educator and writer. has
recently died in Toronto, Canada, at
The ripe age of 81. A young man of
great promise, intellectually, he became
early in his career the instructor of the
ate King Edward, then Prince of
Wales. and afterward professor of mod
ern history at oxford, his alma mater.
His exceptionally brilliant public lee
lures on this subject focused the eyes
of all scholars upon him, many of whom
made special visits to the historic old
town to hear him. DR.. Smith was held
N particular admiration and respect by
Americans. When the smoldering fires
Of decade burst forth in the flames of
civil war he boldly championed the
cause of the North, while England held
aloof, blowing now hot, now cold, on
the tantaliZed, quivering nerves of the
Secessionists. In 1864 DR.. Smith visit
ed this country, and received the en-
thusiastic reception his courage and de-
votion to the cause Of right and liberty
deserved. Upon his return to England
he wrote a history of that war, and
later again crossed the Atlantic to ac-
cept a professOrship in Cornell Univer-
sity, which position he held for three
years, removing thence to Toronto, /
where he resided till his death. DIR. /,
Smith continued his literary work until
the last. Many of his articles have ap-
peared In the leading reviews and in
other publications. He has been called
the last of the great agnostics and re-
Gently series of letters on the subject
peared in the New York sun and at
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