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New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

But the most astonishing phase % ih"
lecture habit was revealed 70 me one sun
dav. when. passing the half-open door Of
small theatre. ! caught sight OF q stage and
footlights. and curiosity prompted me t. go
in and take my seat among the rest
There. with a background Of garsh
LANDSCAPE scene. an elderly lady was sing
ing a hymn of praise to piano accompani-
ment as / entered Presently woman oi
middle age in whit" embroidered "d'ml-
toilette" with some aspiration to fashion
stood up and read us the result OF few
reflections that she had jotted down on
some half sheets Of note paper When she
mad come TO the end Of her notes she pro
ceedcd to amplfy and explain her mean
Ing. She took her text from the New Tc'-
lament, and | am Obliged 10 admit that
was all | understood Of il. The cXtempOre
address meandered and wound in and out
Of certain phrases and catchwords with
long pauses Of contemplation and ecstasy.
Such phrases as mot tomorrow. but to-
day. actually now" fell upon my ear with
such frequent iteration that ! felt it was
indeed now or never that | must take my
departure at the risk Of disturbing her
rhapsodcs. The amazing part Of this ser
vice was that it was addressed. not TO
rough, simple working folk, but TO we'll
dressed men and women who listened in
earnest silence. in vain ] looked for
glcam Of humor or amusement IN the faces
Of the mon. They Gazed At the rather high
ly colorcd figure Of this woman as If she
had been a prophecies. Coming outside into
tho fresh. keen air Of the street. saw
that the sermon was under the dcnomina-
tion Of Modern Thought" II was the lect-
urc habit strong on Sunday as on week
day
Now. the reason for this ha bit may not
be far 20 seek. Here Is n nation grounded
on the firm, Puritanic faith Of those sim
pie, austcrc forefathcrs Of whom. the old
American inhabitants are 50 justly proud.
Which Of us would not look back with af-
fectonate respect to an ancestry that had
the courage and the grit TO seek Il new life
in strange country with the signal sue
cess which attended the efforts Of these
early settlers? Bul the wave Of activity,
Of consequent prosperity. with IT'S attendant
luxury and high living. has swept this peo-
PIE Oh lHfll l''l OUT OI lllt 'IIui'l'S anu
left them without that simple. austere faith
Of those forefdthers, bat with the old
yearning for something 10 hold fast 10.
Add to this the rush of aliens into the
country, the freethinking Germans. the
ultramontane Irish, the unbelieying Jews
and tumblng i'm over all tide OF wealth
whlch-eyen If arrested at short intervals
breaks over the country with hewildcring
suddenness and leaves a people struggling,
battling. hghting for something TO take the
place of those early ideas, something to
cling TO and live up TO. instead of those
simple creeds something to shape and turn
their minds from materialism and from the
contest for gold. What wonder, then. that
every interpreter Of a new creed should get
hearing? What wonder that every pre-
tender 10 n new religion should be listened
to as an apostle Of truth?-Gertrude Kings
ton, In The London Daily Mail.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
WORLDS LARGEST RUBY
Numbered Among Crown Jewels
Of England.
WEIGHS OVER 352 CARATS
It's Origin Lost in the Mists of
Indian History When 1t Was
Called Tribute of
the World. -

Every schoolboy knows that the cee-
hrated diamond known as the Kohinoor
Mountain Of Light has formed part of the
British rcgalia since 1850 but the general
public has been unaware that the gem
known I'm the days ot the Mogul Empire
as the Nhiraj--Alam Tribute Of the
WorldD and to European experts as the
Timur Ruby. has been included among the
crown Jewels OF England FOR nearly as
MANY years Some experts. indeed. have
supposed that 1t had hcon lost II is IN"
largest spnc ruby known. Weighing just
over So ,arats. uncut hut polished. and
was prohabl, discovered i'm one of the old
ruby mines Of Radakshan.
The romantic history ~ th" jewel has
been recently investigated in connection
with tho imperial tour I'm India. The
earliest historical records show that II Was
seized along with many other precious
stones hy the Amccr Timur commonly
called Tamorlauc 10y European historians,
when ne pluudercd Delhi in l3?S. Tho great
Tartar conqucror STAYED In India for little
over = wear and returned 10 Samarkaud.
taking all hts booty with him ON his death
the ruby descended To his son. Mir shah
RuI<h. and I'm due time To his son and sue
ccssor Mira Ulugh Beg. BY this time the
Tartar Empire was on the wanc. and In
the general dislocation during one OF the
wars between the Tartars and Persians the
ruby came into the possession OF the kings
Of Iran. Shah Abbas |. the greatest or the
SafaU Kings OF Persia. who in conJunc-
lion with the British forces took the island
h..
a constant friend and ally OF the Mogul
Emperor Jehaugir and presented the ruby
to him I'm 1912. At that time the gem was
inscribed with the names or Timur son
and grandson and OF Shah Abbas himself.
These inscriptions no longer exist, and II
IL uncertain whether they have been OBJ
liberated I'm the course OF time or were
actually removed by the order OF JehanSir
himself At any rate, the Emperor at once
had the names OF himself and his father.
Akbar the Great engraved upon It,
Authentic records show that when Jehan-
gir's favorte WIFE Nur Jehan, remon-
strated with him for spelling the gem by
this Inscription, he replied: This jewel
will more certainly hand down my name
IN posteritv than any written history. The
House OF Timur may fall but as long as
there is "A king this jewel Will be his -
meaning, of course that the possession OF
so valuable a stone would always remain
with the Suzerain OF Htndustan. 1t Is IN
,eresting to reflect that throughout All the
vicissitudes Of Indian history this predic-
,ion has been fulfilled 10 our own day
The ruby next passed 10 shah Jchan, who
also had his name inscribed upon IT, and
finally had IL placed in The famous Yea
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
THE LECTURE HABIT
EnuIishWoman Sees 1t Rampant
in New York.
ETHICS AND SOCIOLOGY
Cropping After Some Ground TO
Replace Lost Faith of the
Puritans.
r,or. o-o good habits and bad habits

There are gOOC DdDlts anu bdu h"pA'o
1t is not often that habit can be n'th
good and bad yet such IS the lecture hdDlt
in America. Elsewhere, in the shhaIIer
cities and townships where life does not
move al such passionate pace as III Ne"
York. this custom Of listening TO speakers
OF greater or less intellectual pretenslons
NAV hc more readily understood. but here
In the color and variety OF metropolitan
existence II is not easy 10 believe that
there arc daily. hourly readings. addresses
and celebrations. botr private and public
visited hv attentive audiences in their hun
6rAds and thousands.
N9rv. and indeed, ] think am right IN
saving most. Of thesc lectures arc on cihi-
cal or sociological subjects. They DO not
doal nth any one particular technical mat
,or. the, are not delivered hy an expert
who reads q carefully prepared paper fun
of irron,ro,ertihlc data or facts, but APP
rcar 10 be- for tho most part eXtemporc
speeches dealing with tho moral conduct or
with tho philosophy Of lie: with the m\S-
to. tho cosmos, or the ego.
At Il o'clock ono morning ! visited large
theatre i'm order 20 hear popular speaker,
and found the large auditorium packed
from floor to balcony with an audience
that consisted mostly OF women Of all
ages and Of a few elderly men. The SUD
icct dealt with the best way In which 10 do
the lifes work or something kindred, ana
the lecturer spoke with an experienced hd-
ency which / confess Disconnected me 10
some extent. II was. / am sure. a spon-
taneous flow Of words on i text to which
no doubt he had given much thought. but
the very glibness of it, even the complete
absence OF self-consciOusness. was some
what staggering TO the unaccustomed Eng
nshwoman. In the aGdress that / heard
there was nothin, doctrinal or dogmatic;
indeed, ] think it inclined toward the ideal
ism of the non-sectarian, but the listeners
to me by far the most interesting part Of
that mornings experience-were riveted on
the lips Of the speaker as he stood in front
Of an III lit and rather melancholy painted
scene set haphaZard as a background to
the stage.
A few days later was allowed to pene-
trate into a more private society banded to-
gether for the purpose Of hearing well
known preacher deliver series OF lectures
on modern English poets. IL Is perhaps
personal idiosyncrasy that ! should feel
more interested in such lectures as have a
definite object Of instruction and informa-
lion on some specific point but the discus
sions that took place afterward among
some members Of these selected devotees Of
culture showed the deep and keen apprecia-
ton OF literature and betrayed-with quite
un.English frankness-the vital place that
poetry actually occupies In the cultivated
eErdsn of the mil over here.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

fore the senate committee in Washington
Roxhall also testified that Captain smith
was on the bridge when the Titanic struck
the iceberg. p. A. s. Franklin. Nice-presl-
dent Of the International Mercantile Ma
rine Company. said that the White star
Line gave out reassurng reports on the
Titanic because il believed the snip un-
sinkable This was in spite OF a message
from the Olympic, received soon after noon
on Monday. which said: Partisan reports
Carpathia in attendance. Picked up twenty
boats with passengers. and Baltic return
ing Five messages from J. Bruce lsma!'
telling Franklin to hold the Cedric for
Isnav and the crew Of the Titanic were
read by Franklin. After the crew OF the
Titanic has been heard many OF the pas
senrers viii hc witnesses before the Senate
committee 1t is understood that Mrs. j. J.
Astor and Mrs J. B. Thayer are among
those who have been asked to testify.
"A wireless MESSAGE from the caole shIo
Mackav- Bennett said that 2o5 bodies from
the Titanic had been recovered, inciudlnS
those OF Messrs. Astor Straus and VIDE
nor MANY Of them were buried at sea.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
TORPEDO STRIKES THE MARYLAND

"The United States cruiser Mary land was
struck by "A torpedo during torpedo practice
of the California coast. The torp'do
pierced one of the plates, flooding com
partment. During the practice, IN Whlch
the torpedo notlla and submarines hred
torpedoes at the Maryland, torpedoes with
collapsible heads were supposed to be used
and il il thought that one with soma
head was fired by mistake
"a costly collision between III" Mallory
liner Denver and the New York Morgan
Line freightcr FL sud occurred in a dense
fog fifteen miles off Galveston. Tex Both
boats reached Galveston under their own
steam. and passengers were safely dls-
charged
Mine persons were robbed by three
masked men, who went through a sleeper
of the Rock Island wosthound Golden state
Limited at Sheffield, Ill.
after having driven an automobile faster
than any one else ever did i'm this city,
Battalion chief John Rush lost his life In a
collision between his rig and truck stand
inc at the curb i'm Hudson street, near
Christopher street The crash hurled the
chief violently to the pavement II" was
taken to St Niuccuts Hospital where hc
died without rcEaniug CONSCIOUSNESS.
Mrs Pasqualiua Lctizla threw some
kerosene ON the smouldcrine hrc In the
Kitchen range at her home I'm this city An
explosion followed which resulted TN the
almost immediate death OF her thrcc-y'ar-
old daughter Jennie. ana caused Injuries
from which the mother and her infant SON
Giovanni eight months old, died few
later
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

preliminary to the report OF tn. s,..
steel investigation committee, r. W W
ley, employed as a special inyes,,,..'
made public in Washington q statensn, y,
tending TO show that the United s,,. "'
Steel Corporation or its directors 49,.
dominating influence over the prIro..
railroads. industrial corporations h.
and insurance companies in the r.l.'s
States. These directors are declar.d
have a powerful voice in the control y. -
more than $1,000, 10000 OF capital. VI
Confirmation Of the report that III. =,
thracite coal miners and operation. h..
reached an agreement in settlement OF ,bo.
dispute as to wages and hours OF labor ~.
had. The report that an agreement ~
been reached and that 1t includes a 70 ~.
cent increase in wages was received uI,,
satisfaction in all parts of the antbr,c,.
regions, although the miners asked .,
per cent increase"
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

with assets uncertain consisting mostly OF
Porcupine stocks and some mining claims.
The National Commercial Conference
met in the New Willard Hotel AZ WASH
incton. NJ the call Of President TAFT. and
listened 10 addresses By the President and
the Secretary OF Commerce and Labor.
About 30 delegates. representing 30 COM
mercial bodies throughout the United
States. as well as organizations In Hawaii,
Porto Rico. Alaska and the Philippines.
were present The object OF the conference
il the organization Of a National Chamber
Of Commerce. which will afford a medium
for effective cooperation between local
bodles. and Will give 10 the United states A
sys,orn which can he a vital factor I'm the
dcyelopnlcnt of commerce and industry.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

after a long Illness. from paralysis sew
enty-four years old. Bran Stoksr died IN
London at the age NJ SiXtyfOur he was
most widely known as manager of Sr
Henry Irving. but was also the author u
wildly melodramatic and adventurous
novels
Thomas Turner Barr. former preside,
OF the Nassau National Bank. died from
general debility at his home In Brooklyn
Dr. :. Oakley Wander PoeI. senior mcd!,4l
director Of the New York life lnsursnc'
Company and formerly Health Officer y
the Port Of New York died Al his home IN
this city. Henry Carlton Hubert. for nam
years one OF the leading paper merchants
Of the city died NJ his home in BrooslE
He was in his cighty-second year
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
BEACH BACK TO FACE CHARGE.

Mr. and Mrs Frederick O. Beach re-
turned from Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm
H. and while the snip WAS coming UP th"
Bay from Quarantine Mr.. Beach said he
would fight to the bitter end the charges
Of the Aiken authorities that he had mad"
n murdcrous attack ON his wife in Aiken
last winter.
"a spirit message from W. r. stead. Of
London. who went down with the Titanic.
was given TO the nth annual convention OF
the Pennsylvania State Spiriuaiists' Asso-
citation. at Pittsburgh Nj Stead was TO
have addressed the convention. Tn" sup
posed message was given by delegate
Mrs. Mary L. Fcldmau, Of Carr.ck. VINO
said Mr. Stead directed her to inform the"
Pittsburgh meeting that he was happy
and preparing TO te with You.
"A number Of Cornell students have"
taken w the task OF forming new re-
Uc!on. Twelve Of them met I'm Ithaca and
organized the Robert Iu-crsou club. TO
study. inyost.patc and ,rIt.r.sc th" existing
religions and crcods # to-day, with View
OF rcconstructine religious thought and set
ting It upon d basis Of fac, and truth IN
stead Of needless faith and traditional SUI
perstitlou.'
The transfer tax appraisal Of tH" estate
Of william VI. Ia0au. who 1T tie time Of
his death. ON November l'. lf", Was the
owner Of The sun was filed ia the Surro-
gates office by Walter :. Fraser. b'pHN
state Controller Tho report placed a'
,l.74s.gsl the ne, value OF NJ Laians r"r-
sonal and real estate
william j. Couu.rs. 'N-cha.fmau ~ the
Democrats state Committee. was badly in-
jurcd ty a fall in ta" basement ~ Dol. home
in Buffalo. Ills I.f' shoulder was d.s,'.
Gated and t- left .es WAS spra'n'o or
possibly broken at the ankle.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

were overturned.
Fires doubtless Of lncehdlaIy oiIeh
broke out all over Waterbury, CONN., anu
put the city I'm a state Of terror. In thirty
minutes there were no fewer than ten ircs'
and the crowds. policemen and FIRE appa-
ratus rushed wildly from one spot 70 an
other. while many false alarms added TO
the excitement. The City Hall, ST. Fat-
rick's Parish Building and Pythian han
were all destroyed. Numbers OF false
alarms increased the panic and mlitlameh
were called out to patrol the streets ana
drive the crowds home. The police are con-
WINGED that there was a plot to destroy thc
city. All Of the fires started in Easements
and in many instances oil soaked rags were
found.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
MAY AVERT ENGINEERS STRIKE.

'Au>tHlng Of interest developed IN the
business world inquired Busy Man
u. G.. Stuart, chairman OF the conference
committee II managers and spokcsman FOR
the railroads II the ;pros'nt dispute with
IN. brotherhood OF Locomptr" Engineers.
said after coming >oIt Of Tho managers
conference with Jud-'. KNAPP and Commits
~.oucr N,Il. who's" offer OF mediation had
been accepted. that ,h" railroads had not
t.,,d.d from their previous position that
tho, could not afford to grant NOR" pay 10
rg. engineers HIS fiat and apparently al
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
NOT A BIT OFFENDED

Football guide. sir?' said l"e surry
vender TO the burly man VINO was
ing 10 the match.
No" replied the latter. .. ars
"All the news. photos OF players
mo. tell YER
Past records, fixtures, ana
Get outr'
Information worth quid .,a ~
out shot the burly ones foo', n ID
next moment the youth was Sly. hs
gutter. Slowly he rose. smlieu - - 80
up a football guide. and conunu'N ,nIsts
but putin all jokin' o one e, nj.
dyer want football guide7 -"
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
DEATH LIST OF THE WEEK.

What we'll known persons have pas..s
away in the course Of the week." a,s.s
Busy Man.
Ross Revillon Winans. millionaire cam.
talst and member OF the widely know,
Winans family. died in Baltimore. Jur,,
Mccarthy. novelist and historian, and ~.
many years a member OF Parliament. died
at Folkestone, England St!lson Hutchn.
a wealthy philanthropist and retired iovr.
nalist, died at his home at Washingto,
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
A BOOM ERANG.

Flightly-I played an April fool joke on
the ManyUinter sisters.
Knightly-What was II?
Fhghtly--I proposed to both OF them the
same day.
knightly-I don't see much Joke in that
Fhghtly-N Neither do l. They both accept
ed me.-Judge.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

What other news is in your mental
storehouse?" asked Busy Man.
Nearly a hundred lives were lost and
heavy damage to property was inflicted by
storms which swept sections OF the South
and Middle West. Illinois and Indiana were
the greatest sufferers. In those states q
persons are dead. 200 injured and nearly 100
families destitute. More than one hundred
homes were destroyed and the loss 10
property will aggregate several hundred
thousand dollars. Many dramatic incl
dents. Involving deaths and thrilling c.
capes occurred. The town OF Bush, H., ls
in ruins The cyclone also hit Wisconsin.
the damage being confined principals to
livestock and farm buildings
"Twenty-n.ne persons were injured. on"
of them. James Davis, perhaps fatally,
when a windstorm struck a Union Pacihc
passenger train mile west OF North Loup
Neh. The entire train, the engine excepted,
was blown from the track, and all the cars
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
RETRleUTioN.

Lady" said Plodding Pete .ou esii
any more Of dat mince pie dat
use yourself?' =, ArsT
YES Here's nearly half OF IL 9"
going 10 cat II all? ,,eful; y
No. lady hate to he re'e%, %a,.ocdts'
ds, dog Of YOURS has An ugly ".,hluCa
I'm going TO feed 1t to him
Star.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

close TO a dozen speeches, many of them
extended, the rest only a few words IN
length. In all of them he made 1t clear
that he was unalterably opposed 10 MI.
Roosevelt; that he saw disaster In thlrd
term in the White House for any man, ana
that he did not believe Colonel Roosevelt
had given him a square deal
"Merciless denunciaton OF President Taft
was Colonel Roosevelts reply, made at
Worcester. to the Presidents attack on
him. Some Of Colonel Rooscyelts asser-
tions were: That President Taft had not
given the people of the country square
deal but that. owing To quality OF feeble
ness me had yielded to the bosses and the
great privileged interests; that one part
Of the Presidents attack Oh him was the
crookedest kind of a deal and deliberate
Misrepresentation; that the President had
not merely I'm thought. word and deed been
dslOyal 10 their past friendship. but had
been disloyal to every canon of ordinary
decency and fair dealing. such as should
obtain even I'm dealing with a mans bitter
est opponents; that the PRESIDENTS state
mcnt rcgard ding the influence Of federal Of
nccholders in the campaign was not only
an Untruth. but an absurd untruth; that
Mr. Taft convicted himself of insincerity
when he signed the Payne-Aldrich tariff
bill: that m speaking of Colonel Roose-
volts position in regard to the trust prob
lem President Taft was himself guilty of
crooked deal
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
MAYORS FUND MOUNTS RAPIDLY.

The fund that is being collected by
Mayor Gaynor for the relief of the I!tanc
sufferers passed the $4,000 mark. vincent
Astor gave $1,000 \ baseball game be-
tween the New York Americans and TIE
New York Giants several theatrical per-
formances and a whirlwind newspaper sell
ing campaign, in which George VI. conan
the comedian. covered the city from the
Battery TO The Bronx, nctted nearly S-o'"''
TO be used in relieving the needs or the
survivors Of the Titanic disaster. \ croWd
estimated at forty thousand. gathered 10
attend a lecture on lsdOr StrduS, VINO
went down with Mrs Straus on the IL
tanic. swirlod and plunged outside the doors
of the Educational Alliance, where 'he
meeting was to he held For fear the moo
would rush in through the doors ana some
one would be injured. the police had 10
order the meeting abandoned.
considerable satisfaction has been 'auSed
I'm London by the announcement that Loro
Nersev is 10 conduct the British inquiry
into the wreck Of the Titanic As former
leading practitioner at the bar In maritime
cases and later AS president OF the AdiiH-
raItv Division Of the High Court OF JUS
t'ce. Lord Mersey is unsurpassed III Id
,,uiaritv with this branch of law.
when the White Star liner olympic
sister ship OF the Titanic was ready 70 san
from Southampton for New YORK lhr'e
hundred frcmcn and engine room "orK'rS
c,i, the vessel. declaring that the coilapSi-
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

The names Of thirty-two policemen VINO
died in the performance OF their duty VIII
be placed on a roll of honor on two tablets.
one on either side of the main entrance OF
Police Headquarters. in this city. The tap
lets are built into the wall, the roll OF hohor
being suggested by General Bingham wheh
Police Commissioner"
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
AMERICANS SUFFER IN MEXICO.

"Whate the leading news from oth'r
lands" asked Busy Man.
although advices from Mexico descrlpeu
conditions as worse i'm Puebla Guerrero
Norelos and Sinaloa, the Department OF
state stoutly denies the remotest possl-
bilitv of any intervention by the tnlted
States. The State Department was advised
that Americans at Quimichis were attacked
by bandits and that the Pan-Amerlcah
Railway has been interrupted by the JuchI-
tecos Indians below Reforma. Forty-slX
citizens of the United States who arrived
at Galveston from Vera Cruz tell or al
legged torture and assassination OF Amer-
cans in the republic All the refugees lett
their lands. homes, furniture and every
thing they possessed except enough money
for passage and the clothes on their backs
Deputy United States marshalS seized
two machine guns. thirty rifles and 'oVV
rounds Of ammunition shipped from III
Paso TO the Mexican federal garrison Al
Otlnaga. Ojlnaga is the only federal post
i'm the State Of Chihuahua still holding out
against the rebels, and it Is through that
place that the MadcrO government has been
supplying its forces north Of the capital
with ammunition and guns
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
HURRICANES KILL A HUNDRED.

bic boats on the Olympic We're unsea-
worthy"