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Bankruptcy Orders.

In the bankruptcy matter 81 Harry
~. Humes, ~ WeiisburR. an order Of
discharge was entered yesterday BY
Judge Dayton Boz the United States
federal court
An order ~ reference 20 Referee
Henry \. Nolte was received ia tbs
Dankrup'cy matter o. ". J. Bradley,
90 Wheeling
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street to have the entire omc.ai body
of fln r.ff and county present. spe.
r.ai Invitations. accompanI by com
pimeniary tickets having been
mailed fo all ofraIs
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THE MAKING
OF The CITY
sUBJEcT or zUFBLtN LECTURE
At HlGH SCHOOL.
lecturer Guest % Blue Pencil CLUB
~ Windsor Motel After
Lecture

one ~ the most Interesting % the
series o. lectures hy Charles Z1ebuu.
editor 90 fhe American warar-e
vas that last night or thc HIrb school
auditorium. when te ts-d'.i fhe cub.
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CHrist~ss-we1s a-s Bsys Sweat.
sr Goats, 4se. sse. sfss. see
MeFAoDEN's.
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Crristnss-cfU ard Boys' Cue,
Scots. $50, SIS. $3.50. s2ss
NcFADDENs
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Advance Notice!

This store Hill * open evenings one week only
December 18Th - 2}i. inclusive Saturday
evening" rs usual
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hove lived .I mF aefise IIfa .n
Wet virginia T have the Greatest
part ~ mF savings Invested .r this
F'fto have aIrays voted here
have aIaaFs faser an arree .r.a-asf
'r f.e Development of fra STATE and D
Intend f0 continue Char .nfa-es .foaf
NJ intend -1 make .f rr re-sorsI
business. ir so fsr as ono man can.
'' re ore fr.a STATE next .ear f1 .l.
ranks o.. ftr Republican party
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Furn'shsrs. i57t25 Nsrket ST
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
he WAS UP IN ARMS.

"As many vile strategems nave ire-
auensiy been tried by an interested COM
pctitor TO mislead the public respecting
the new system OF writing an invention
which has cost me many years Of anxious
study and cXperiment-I have determined
TO republish the following affidsyits In
order that the public may not be deceived
by those imitators who endeavOr 10 divert
public patronage from the proper channel
Although / feel the necessity of adopting
this mode OF securing my property from
the rapacious grasp Of on ungrateful i'm
poster. | would rather invite direct and
personal examination OF the merits Of my
system. a. l aim al no other preference
than that which / may be really founu 10
deserve
The first affidavit is Lewis's own. lie
svore that the genuine system Of improv-
ing writing. which practically and scien-
if6caiIv combines the various motions and
cperations a. the hand and arm IN perfect
unison with each other. is wholly and alto
eether mv invention. and is the basis Of
the Lewisian system" The affidavit con-
Dnues. That I Furthermore believe and
eoIemnly declare that the person named
Joseph Carstairs is not the inventor o.
any principles of penmanship, bat that he
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

ior." This book was printed al Phlladel-
nina i'm l7B by B. Franklin and d. Han
AZ the New Printing Ofce, in Market
street" Among other things, 1t tells no"
10 write Variety Of Hands and con
tains the Practical Gauger made easy
the Art OF DiaIling and how 10 erect Dials'
with Instructions for Dying isicl Colour
ing and making Colours" II has also the
Poor Planters Physician, with Instructions
how to Pickle and Preserve, 10 make divers
sorts OF Wines and many excellent Pas
ters and Medicines necessary in all ram
lilies"
Another book. The Art Of Writing,
written By a John Jenkins and published
AZ Cambridge. Mass, I'm ISIS, declares IN
script printed with many fourishes; 10
write with ease and elegance is a most
useful. polite and necessary accomplishment
for ali young gentlemen and ladies'. u
pr5claims the only slightly encouraging
motto. BY diligence and care your writing
will be- fair" on the tide page there Is a
picture OF on anemic young woman writ
ing al a table Around the picture are the
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
A pgNMAN's DRAWING OF The, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

a fancy drawing room chair and IS writing
with a quill pen at a delicately carved
table In Europe. even as late as the davs
when we Americans were fighting for our
independence, penmanship as an accom-
plishment. was not encouraged among
working people OF course a shOpkeeper
had to know how 10 write in order to
carry on his business. but the laboring
man. the farm hand. the helper in The
blacksmith shop. the hostler, the uriver
Of the stage coach and people of that sort
were not expected to know how TO write.
In the collection there is a hornbook, an
instrument of education which dates hack
10 Shakcspeare's and Ben Jonson's time.
Children for many generations were taught
the alphabet by means of hornbook.
This was originally piec, cf parchment
with the alphabet and sometimes some re-
Iigious matter printed on it. Later paper
was used instead OF parchment. The
parchment was tackled 70 q wooden back
and piece Of transparent horn was fast
ened over fl to preserve it. The frame had
a wooden handle and often was fastened
10 child's girdle or belt, although some
times one hornbook had 20 suffice for a
whole class.
This particular hornbook is different from
the old style. as it is made Of ivory. with
wooden holders al top and bottom. ard
has no horn over it. The hornbook is 81
inches long and 4 inches vide. on one
side Of it there are capital print letters
from a to and the numerals from ] TO
10. The other side has three alphabet
one in small print letters. one in capital
SCRIPT and one in small script on seeing
this neat hornbook the visitor might have
been seized with the desire to learn his
letters all over again did he not remem-
Der what a hard time he had learning
: them the first time.
The English specimens Gre chiefly OF the
eighteenth and the early 9art of the nine
teenth centuries There are a number OF
eighteenth century books with plates en-
graved by George Bickham. one Of them
is The Universal Penman.' IL was print
ed al London. and the title page states
that IL is printed for the author, AID
will be sent 10 the subscriber if living
within the Bills OF Mortality The bills OF
| mortality. IL seems. were the lists Of births
and deaths in a municipal district These
records were introduced in London about
the time OF the great plague and the term
bills OF mortality" gradually came TO
/ mean the citv's limits.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

Ms Jessie Marshall soprano. gave an m
teresting song recital. assisted hy the
Pianoforte Ensemble Circle. on the even
ing OF February q Miss Gertrude Savage
gave pianoforte recital OF works by
Robert Schumaru. assisted by Miss Mar
iorie Mott. contraIto. The series is 10 con-
tinae through March and April MI Rus
sell also announces a course OF lectures on
.The Simplifying Of English Diction for
Singers"
Miss Wasner's children's orchestra
rlared twice AT the Child Welfare ex-
bibit. including the last night, on which
occasion Governor Dix attended. Miss
Warner has received letter from one oI
the executive committee thanking her and
saying she helped make the exhibition
popular success.
Ellen Learned. coutra.to and teacher
singing. sang on February p Al rece'-
ton given by Frank Damrosch al the
Women's Cosmopolitan CLUB. Her mum
rers included quartets by Brahms. Op. "
with Mrs. Gould. William Wheeler and :.
4 rahn. and duets with Mrs. Gould. In th'
a-diouce we're many professionals, "nc
nrononnced the performance artistic.
\ sonata recital by Miss Beatrice tner
hard. violiuist. assisted by Carl Nceikner
pianist. will be given az the Waldorf-As
.oria next Friday evening at $50 O'Clock
ON the programme appears Rogers Suite IN
Alton styIc. Op e3. which Miss Beatric,
EbcrEard VIII play ON this occasion an'
which she takes credit Tor having hrough
out Two Years ago. when she played 10 io
the Tonkuns;ler Society
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
Here May You Study Oogaphy Papyru Scroll Horn Book

first obtained his knowledge thereof by
lessons which he received from n person
named James Mowat. writing master
formerly of Edinburgh"
The affidavit makes the charge that car
stairs became pupil of Lewis himself ana
that he told Lewis his name vas Robert
Drury. Lewis claimed that Carstairs had
paid him e. los. but that after the fifth les
son he had discovered who Carstairs was
and that Carstairs had offered him go II ne
would keep the matter a secret. The sec
ond affidavit is that OF the writing teacher'
and the third one is from iewson clarke,
OF Emanuel College, Cambridge who de-
clared that he was hired by Carstairs 10
write his book In spite OF this indict-
ment. Carstairs seems 10 have continued
to be srccessful for in 1896 he published
the seventh edition Of his book with an
Authorized dedication to the Duchess OF
Kent
Among the American books there is one
bv George fisher. entitled THE American
Instructor, or Young Mans Best Compan-
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

There is a story told OF an Englishman
named Joseph Csrstairs. who wrote a book
named The Art Of Writing In the early
part Of the nineteenth century. 1t is said
ne once secured a position with London
counting house He received trial. but
was soon informed that his handwriting
was too crude and lsbored Much cha
grined. he went into retirement At the
end of three months he emerged in tri-
umph, bringing with him what he claimed
was an original system Of bold and free
writing performed without lifting the pen.
The Carstarian system had great popular
ity. Carstairs's book was translated into
French and German. while in America
copybooks known as Wooley's Carstarian
system Of Penmanship we're published In
Philadelphia as late as 1861.
Carstairs was not permitted TO pursue
hIs prosperous way in peace. Another
Engllshman. James Henry Lewis, accused
him OF stealing his system. In 1916, in the
seventh edition OF his Lectures on the
Art of Writing. which he had dedicated
10 Sir Walter Scott, Lewis printed three
afidavits. His reasons for publishing them
were a. fellows.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
ITS ACCURACY IN QUESTION.

Another picture shows Samson carrying
or the doors Of the temple. While it is not
known that Samson ever did this. he was
certainly strong enough TO do it. There is
an elaborate drawing of the Duke OF Marl-
borough on horseback, and there are draw
1gs OF other noble gentlemen also on
horseback
Two small pieces ~ The parTus. one
rolel ard the other fat are very interest
M The Egyptian papyrus was the popu-
lar paper before yellum and parchment
cane into general use. The papyrus was
lurrsa and erew along the banks cf
tie Nile 10 was prepared by cutting ne
central r,h of tle reed into longitudinal
strips which were laid side by side An
otter LAYER of strips was placed SO as 10
cross the first layer at right angles Tile
tTo layers were soaked IN water. pressed
together to make them stick. and dried.
Tae sheets were formed into long roll
b. ccmenuag the ends together.
in answer 10 question about the MOD
OH papyrus. Professor David Eugene
Smith Of Teachers College. said: The
Pepgrls uo longer grows in Egypt. except
h the upper part around Khartoum. ln
fyIsclse. Sicily. the natives grow little
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
THIS is SOMEWHAT ANCIENT.

There is a Rabylonian seal cylinder which
is supposed 20 date back 10 somewhere be-
tween 25OO and 2000 g. {. IT is covered with
archaic writing which no one can read ana
aside from its antiquity is extraordinarily
uninteresting. Even a grown-up person IL
he saw IL lying on the sidewalk would
probably kick il. There is good reason
WHY one can only guess within five hundred
wears Of its age. From 3. G. ~ down
ward Babylonian chronology was hNed py
astronomy. For long time before that'
nossiblv a thousand years, dates were de-
termiped bv the reign of kings ana the
duration of dynasties.
al an earlier period, says an anu
1uarian. in legal documents deeds are not
dated by the regnal years of the SoVereish
hut bv such occurrences as a war, the de-
str,,ction of canal or the capture OF
cit," II is evident that when historian
gets hack 10 such remote period as tha'
guessing has TO be his strong suit
There are many foreign books and manu-
eorints on penmanship in the coiIecuoh'
5ating from the sixteenth to the latter par
30 t,e eighteenth century. Some are writ
Ton &, French. others are in German liai-
ian snanisb. Portuguese or Dutch. A Nehe-
fian work. WnlcN dppfoItN III -'
sigismund De Fants, is supposed 10 nave
been the first European book published on
handwriting. II contains quaint dta"i"s
of the shoulders. body and arms Of man
who is writing on piece Of parchment
French manuscript on arIthmeuc'
.,.ri,.en near the year 1900. has an arith-
rratic table which is decorated in a peculiar
fashiop. The table is written out IN the
middle of the page. ON each side oil " j.
a nillar. There is French gentleman III
,igblv colored clothing playing bagpipe
or he TOP of each pillar. II seemed 10 be
tho Intention OF the illustrator that the
obiiJ should learn the arithmetic table 10
Tho commandment Of imaginary music
A. a stimulus TO the imagination. me 'de"
was no doubt effective.
The most brilliant Of the foreign spe'l-
mons are two eighteenth century German
r,or,scripts written and illuminated on
,..,l.,D, bv man named Hieronymu Us
| Tochtermann. II is not surprising mat a
rerson with such an imposing name was
1 h, his particular field. an artist of the hrs'
/ ranl, With such name how could ne
/ escane being somebody .---
! Another German work, printed IN 4'''
h.e Mate which shows gentleman
wearing a powdered wig lie is seated II
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

words. If you would win pin OF Eold'
learn first Of all your Pen TO hold. An
other sentiment popular with jenkins ana
the other writing teachers was this;
Tbree things hear mighty sway with mon.
The sword the Sccptre and the Pen.
And he who can the least Of these command
In the first rank Of Fame he Is sure 20 s'a"''
There is a frontispiece to JenSins's book
which bears his portrait. He had hrm
mouth. and was generally thrifty looking
Encircling the portrait were the words
public Patronage il the Parent OK Genius
Besides the textbooks and myriads OF
copybooks. there are some American "doog-
ers" or throw aways.'
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

An Z. r. stevens, at Portsmouth on
December ~. lS23. announced that ne hdo
removed to a room adjoining Mr. Lang !
office. over the Rockingham Bank, ana
soIicited .the patronage Of generous
public" His terms were s. for twenty
lessons of two hours each. He guaran-
teed as did other writing teachers, that
he would take no fee unless a scholar was
satisfied with his improvement Another
teacher named 5. Dunton opened writing
school in 1872. His charges were Gentlemen
30 and Ladies LOO" The circular Informed
the public that the pupils were expected
ITO furnish their own lights
The collection contains thousands Ohey
seem like thousands of copybooks. one
Of the least uninteresting Of these memo
ries of childhoods days is a specimen or
what IS said 20 be the first cOpybook or the
modern STYLE II has a MODEL at the top or
the page ana lines underneath for the stu
dent TO write in This copybook was pub
Usbed at BrattleborO in 1876 by Holbrooh
4 Fessenden Before that time copyuooks
simply had the model writing. and the stu
dent wrote on a separate sheet OF paper.
There is also Ellsworths slate copybook'
in which the child wrote with slate PEN
cu The copyb0ok system Is HIustia'eu
down to the present time. including the
Payson, Dunton and Scribner, and also the
Spencerian cOpybooks
Finally. there Is a wooden double desk
nafnted yellow. which was used In the hrSt
school founded 10y Horace Mann. II stlll
has four legs and seems 10 be generally
sound II has two lids and two compart-
ments. and when it was used there Weie
TWO boys with but a single inkwelL Inc
one nkwel in the middle Of tile desk must
have caused quarrels in the good old DAY >
Perhaps there were no quarrels' however
as the desk appears 90 nave been up near
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
STOOD TEST OF TIME.

Notwithstanding the fact that the an
cient papyrus was disagreeable TO write
upon, the OLD papyrus manuscripts had one
great advantage over the twentieth ce1-
. tury books and magazines. They lad du-
rability. Wood pulp and the china-clay
glaze finish are not used in the msnufact-
ure of books because it is thought they
can withstand we'll the ravages OF time.
Books nowadays are like the razors he
razor dealer sold so cheap. They are made
20 sell.
Cyril Davenport. in THE Book, Its His
tory and Development" SAYS that wood
pulp has no lasting quality. "for the fbres
OF the wood are invariably brittle and they
also darken rapidly under the influence Il
: light" OF the china-clay he says THE
clay has a certain affinity for damp. and
books printed on clay paper IL left fJr
any time in a really damp place become
solid bricks Of white mud quite impossible
10 repair" At the close Of his chapter on
paper Mr. Davenport says: There is 10
doubt that the large majority of our mod
ern books will not he in a readable con
dition in about a hundred years time
from the da,e Of their publishing.
There are a handful-or, TO be more eX-
act. two handfuls-of ancient Oriental disks,
tablets. rolls and scarabs. They were lent
: by DR. William Hayes Ward. editor OF The
independent" one Of them. a Babylonian
tablet of the later Persian denomination, a
stone 80. inches long and -. inches vide
bears an inscription of a will in which a
man provides for his wife, mother and
son. one wonders how he could have
crowded a whole will into such small
space until one discovers that ne had filled
the under side with hierog!yphics and had
even run over on the sides. So one ends by
feeling that perhaps he left fair sized
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
The Visitor May Discover What Mediocre Penman
Napoleon the Third Was He May Delight HH
Eve With Charming Examples of Illumination
and Many Another Object of Interest

the teachers desk for there are no initials
cut all over IT with a jackknife.
Fortunately for the poor Donflan. since
1879 the typewriter has come TO his rescue
The typewriter is the surest preventive Of
writer's cramp. But pcnmanship Is still
necessary accomplishment. At the present
day the popular handwriting Is the plain,
legible rapid style. This is very different
from the old manner Of writing For hun
dreds of years penmen cultivated an ornate
and graceful style. aiming at a kind OF Del
sartean movement. with many curves anc
fourishes. This development from the old
styIe of writing to the new is not the least
interesting feature Of this most unusual
exhibition.
CHARLES s. RATHBUN.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

.beeu started at the Church Of the Divine
Paternity. Central Park West and 'tih
street. for Thursday afternoons az
o'clock They began on March . and end
ON April q. j. Warren Andrews. the organ
ist of the church. assisted by well known
artists. will render an appropriate pro-
eranme on each occasion. The public is
cordially invited 10 attend these recitals.
Henry Iin and his orchestra gave an in
teresting programme 81 the home Of Mrs.
Stuvvesant Fish on Thursday evening last.
Yesterday afternoon the same orchestra
was heard at the Hotel Astor for the New
York Mozart Society.
Hans Merx the German lieder singer.
sang recently in Terrace Garden. Mr..
Nerx's renditions are said 10 be 50 fun Of
feeling that although one may not under
stand German the meaning is compara-
lively plain.
owing TO illness Florence Mulf'rd was
unable to sing a week ago al the vesper
service usually held ON the last SUNDAY OF
the month in St. Paurs Methodist Epsco-
nal Church. Newark. y j. The musical
service will be held this afternoon instead
with Nine. Mulford as soloist
Miss Alberta Lauer pianist formerly Of
Berlin and Leipsic; Frau von Grebon. So
prano. of Vienna. and Miss BendecAe' of
Prague and Brussels, gave an afternoon
musical in Tarrytown last Tuesday before
a large audience.
A. the Peoples institute meeting held
last Sunday In Cooper Union the fouowinS
rendered the musical programme: Char-
lorte Guernzey. soprano. john Finnesan.
tenor. Maurice kaufman. violin; j. Ber-
tram Fox. accompanst, and Walter l.. Bo-
gert. musical director
recital Of works by Chri tiaan kricns
will be given under the auspices OF the
National Society OF P!anoforte Teachers
and Players at the Virgil School Of Music,
/ No. AZ East 22d street next Friday even
| inc at sI5. The assisting artists VIII be
Mrs. Eleanor Foster-Kr.ens piano; Miss
/ Mary Lansing. contrato. Miss B. Margare'
/ Hoberg. piano and George Barrere. hute.
Last Sunday afternoon piano and pipe
organ recital was given az the Labor Tenn
pie by Ernest Bayne Manning. pianist ana
c. Scott Hunter organisl assisted Joy
/ Nine. Estelle Buens-Roure. soprano. IN
excellent programme was rendered WIN
good effect Mr. Manning and Nine Kourf
are members Of the faculty Of the Ma
tional Academy OF Musical Art
! Louis Arthur Russell 80 giving special
series of recitals In one Of the assembly
rooms Of Carnegie Han The soloists beng
from his professional classes OF the nor
nal Institute of Music Friday evening
New-York tribune., 1911-03-05

,, vino looks al the coiiec-
A Of handwriting teXtooohs'
"a .,hooks and specimens OF "rl'-
exhibition until Mercn 4" - :" ~
iaE 9,,,nal Museum Of Teacheis O0,Ies. a,
ho.'@, - ovay a wiser and a sauueI p.u y.as
TiH - A.. viii remember his neglected.
man. IS lie will recall those un-
OPT .-,.,o 'u'.i hours when he wrote care
comic -, ,,is copvbook. Honesty is the oest
lessS ..s,eecb is silver. silence Is so'oen
policy ,,ell-worn saws of the POOR
and I-,,arac variety. But before ne
h.- sa can console himself oy sa1i''s 'Is..., :,
sO'' ~ the handwriting oil N"po.vo,, '''''',
. p'7 Tss Youthful Napoleon hao h'ie1
III ~ paper with the sentence
8 ~ hion" CI will write wen =
a.el,. for the Third Napoleon rep
. FOi'-. sor veracity he put the vero III l''e
u'"'..'' ,o,se AT the bottom OF the paee
u -, ,sacher has justly ana tempe 49,
hs .,ed "Mal ecrit" CBadly written
0.Se., .Ss., remarkable collection OF penmahs'''p
I''s ,l5 and new. was lent by George
,,',,,,rton OF New York. among the
a -, sboO-n is a fragment OF the
s.',....c,,cb !. in the Samaritan Whlch Is Ids
fs'.4,, -, II makes a person feel Ike COM
0'''.'. language Of his own. IL looks so
-, pal.-isst as though some North Amer =
ST. indian had studied the shape OF ms
'l- -, and the tracks Of the wild olrus
W., finals and then made it up
sno ors also some beautiful examples
',,'..,,,,ation. A seventeenth century
o. 4, Persian. is particularly brilliant
le'' AO''r' -,o5iFyal period does not seem TO oe
i.' ..l,red bv any illumination in colofs'
There are some legal documents ,,. no~es g /, 4.
80 some examples Of the handwriting Oh