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MR.. BARRIE IN THE CHAIR.
How lie served NJ Chairman Of n
Burns Celebration.

There is only one recorded ins,ans
OF Sir J. VI. Barrie's acting a. char.
man of a public meeting. In the Cca.
fuy Magazine John II. Williams nt,
recently told the story to the American
public. 1t MAS on the occasion o. o.
Burns celebration.
officer and then kept to II firmly
Throughout the entire proceeding, 70
did not utter a single word hu, ..
manned As If glued to the horribly .on.
spicuous chair. bathing his predi,t.
ment. but iuwardly amused at 20.
expressions on the faces Of all all nj,
him, which made dismally clear The 800,
that he was a failure as q presiding
officer.
when the meeting was aluIos, ll,
finished barrie took advantage al D..
laxative group i'm front II INN irl
quietly stole away before any one at1 ,
chance to miss him. But tho neat pres
= well known Saturday review printed a
the CHAIR" The thing va, snn'y
whitening in its ironical accom-. o' e
dumb presiding officer WHO eventually
fiei. leaving a meeting a. preside ovr'
Itsclt. The greatest regret waS ua.I.
rally expressed 10y thO>" who bad r"r.
suidcd Barrie To- come to va, BI-rs
celebration, and moi his friends 'r-
meudous Indignation Was !r' l0l
vented. But some day they Snow.
IL they have not already fouri o.. at
the article was written by Barr Inn.
self
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Ill.

Albert Callatin was such a man as
his Swiss sntecedcnts, birth and early
nurture. together with his American
transportation and utilization, would
indicate. A friend of freedom, his
adopted country gave him the best
chance in she world to enjoy il and
propagate It, He loved the solitudes
of the undcveloped backwoods OF
America but Vas perfectly comfort
able in the courts and capitals of Eu-
rope. He was firm, but sweet of tenn
per. lie was the peacemaker born
it showed even in his domestic me-
mage. He was the true diplomat
amenable to the conventions. not, like
some of his associates, rebellious
against form and convention. He
was not crafty. hut he was nobody's
fool. He knew how To use polite man
ners as means to the attainment OF
political ends. Some OF his colleagues
knew no way OF fighting hut the
pitched battle: he could skirmish, and
that is no small part of the art Of war
in council chamber as in the field
lie was a sound man of business, had
money and the skill to use il as bait
w II u ~ hAii' 'hN ~ WIN nv li'Ni'
tate to make very real sacrifices ir
behalf of the nation to which he haC
allegiance, the land to which
he belonged, not by the accident oi
birth, but by deliberate choice.
lie was partisan enough to assai
member If the opposing party IL
their administration of the Fedora
fortunes, and won the hearty hatreo
of Fcdera'ists, He opposed the wal
uf ls12; according to the point o
view, he may he said tn have reduced
hcncfcially, the taxes, oil to have de
priVed tho country Of internal rove
nue., lie believed in revenue from
import duties only; the var cut of
those dutics-and Mr.. G~allatin hclpe'
end the war, economic as well as mill
tary. 1t is not fair to emphasize, n
has been done, the defects which ar
hut natural concomitants of create
virtues; the man was human, HI
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turned so exactly that an error =,
more han ne f~ve-thousandth ~ "
inch spoils the screw. one intcrcsrnn
process is tho "truing' Of the -
tubes. They are first formed as r,,ri,
as may be of the right size and ,l,',|
ness then they are pulled by r,..,
ful machine over "A steel rod sci i,
hole ia u steel plate. The svaoo
iween the rim OF III" hole and tho -
determines the thickness of the mn.
which Is heightened and hardened nv ,bo
operation, and made straight and ur'
form in thickness. "
The making o. he lenses is still, ,,o..
important. The glass. which 4, tho vc,.
best OF lead flint" IL received INN -.
glass works in small slabs and br,.,
The workmeu split he slabs into u'.,,,
Of any required size by Il small ,i-c,i..
saw that has diamond dust hammer
into it's edge for teeth Next ,b, ma,
clip the detached piece into a cir.nl,.
tS-n with shears. and hold "a. i,r,
block on "A horizontal griuistnuo mi
1t is worn down 20 u smooth disk ~ ,,o
proper size and thickness.
After that Il must be ground % , o,..
tain degree OF either convcXlty or .o,.
cavity. according to the servic. il =, "a
perform. That the men do by pressin,
1t on a rounded grinder 81 e. 1. ,n n,
c%onCavc. or within a cup SHAPED ono r.
1t IL to hc a onvcX lens. tn, grIud..
revolvc horizontally at hish speed Lar,
lenses are held in the fingers. hu, .,,,
mes are held IN convenient ho,l,r.
something's in clusters. The Vorkm.
ascertains that the proper curvatur, bts
been reached by measurements. rad doc.
his work so exactly thai very few lense,
fail to pass the first test.
The right form having been obtained
the lens must next he polished On bu,
wheels until II is transparent and h,-s
the strictest attention and skill are -.
quired. A high power lens Is usolo,,
unless IL brings the rays OF light 'b.,
pass through II 10 an absolute flr,s
Any i~rresullrlty in the curvatur, of Inc
lens will interfere with tina. hcr,u,
the rays of light viii bend at = d.Te-cr,
angle there than elsewhere, and blur ~.
image OF the object before ,hc 's-s
How delicate this part OF Nh, pfo,o..
you can Judge from the fact .ld; a b-
lens. such as is used In dl obs. -ya.o
telescope. can he spoiled IL ID man dag
his thumb roughly across Is surface
Finally the lenses are tested ana tho.
mounted In the microscope. For tie
complete instrument you must 90 some
eases pay 81 .000-almost ,i,,gr her ',-
labor and skill. for the material, ~ the
apparatus cost very little.
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strong cigars a day. Sat to Mr.. David
for portrait, as Cupid-nude; the
Psyche posed separately. John Jacob
Aston dined here, and ate his ice cream
and peas with a knife. The French
King gave Mamma" a fine engraving
of himself, in token of respect for her
courage in standing by her principles
when she refused to attend a court
function on Sunday. MY newly ac-
quired pigeons wings were much APP
plauded.' Nine. Bernadotte. Queen Of
Sweden. commonplace, loud, coarse
Beau Brummell. the mad King Of
England and the dumping story: but
with blackbirds in a pasty. Dinners.
dances, balls. II always carry a lady's
handkerchief with me. as ] have found
1t such a help in making %acquaint-
ances." You drop the handkerchief,
pick it up. after the lady:
Madame. ] think this must be yours?"
Fling heated coins to beggars under
the window: watch the poor devils
scramble. and suck scorched fingers.
Wellington. Pozzo di Borgo. Lady
Westmorcland. Carnival: Celestinc,
the poppy. spanked by fat woman.
Nine. de Stael. Mrs. Robert Fulton
alias the Duchessc de l..
Assassination of the Due de Berri.
Some very disagreeable communica-
tons from Mr.. Adams: | really think
he. being now Secretary of State, is
paying father up for imaginary
wrongs when at Ghent.' Napoleon
dead: La mort de Napoleon a st
Helena. Deux sous" The irony of
newsboys. Father. although he
eve admits 1t. ] am certain feels
| very deeply the gross injustice and
Presidency TO him simply because he
! was NOT born in America" tSaye grea,
! fathers from too light tongued sons
Although he tries to disguise 1t. he
has a strong belief in the superiority
| OF European intellect. The Americans
have great intellect and brains, but
they are unframed" Ice creams al
T~ortoni's. IL could have had an avcn-
ture galantc. but Il is too hot Nisi,
| from Lafayette: His baggage con.
sisted Of "A large roll of green canvas
tied with a thick cord. He is very
funny"
Back to America: New York streets
"flthy." the heat horrible Balti.
more a friendly town. Engaged tc
| Mile. Pascault. She is a Catholic, anc
that is one thing father is adaman'
about" Father Pascault Is moro lib
eral; the ceremony shall he Protestant
An angry archbisnip and an eXcom
municated but unperturbed father-in
law. No decent schools In the South. \
thousand guests AT Friendship Hill I,
honpr Lafayette; dine al freSco al
relays" England again: 1T is eN'
~traordinary how unsafe London is a
night Crockiord's gambling hell
opened. Duke Of York dead: The,
0y he never recovered from the shocl
II The Duchess Of Rutland's death-hi
MISTRESS Vivian Grey now turn.
,ut to be by "a quite unknown you'll
allied Disraeh. a Jew" The King
Canning is a damned old woman.
Commercial convention Of 1915 con
lrmed by treaty.
Father Is serenely content and bc
icves there will he peace for man!
years between Great Britain and tn
-niied States"
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Y

James Gallatin. the diarist. who
later succeeded his father in the
presidency of the bank thai hears
the family NAME. was but a lad Of
l6 when he began his record. He
was clever, not at all deep: smart"
enough to take minutes Of his ad-
mirablc progenitor's diplomatic neeo-
tiations, TO absorb something Of the
nature Of the weighty matters in
volved and some appreciation OF the
motives. methods and character of
the negotiators. A horn gossip. his
babble is toned by familiar as,ocia-
ton with people and affairs Of i'm.
portance. In a word, riding into the
political arena on his fathers broad
and able back. he was keen and GU
rious enough to reel OF a dashing
human Interest story. His part of
the two books i~nterleaved In this
volume is the tittlc-tattle OF a young
blood" Of the earlier nineteenth con-
tury, with American ties but an in
heritance of European esprit. cutting
loose on h Continent, flirting, hav-
ing affairs with married ladies, sf-
| fairs of which the delightful risks
WIRE nlIs-lentHS imaginary. re JOS
down very freely the male and female
mobiles and notahles of London and
Paris, Sometimes his manner and
vocabulary are s%tartlingly twentieth
century; but youth and slang are the
most unchanging, conservative Of al
human institutions, Peck q kernel a,
the y~"nrrst"r's grain here and tho-c:
Mr.. Adams is civil but has a dis,
agreeable manner, a Yankee" Eng,
lishwomen are not pretty: dress badly
have no taste. Mr.. Adams is a fire,
brand, Car Alexander is "a great
good, sensible, noble minded mnn.
sincere friend Of the cause OF liberty
Received at court: wore suit of Chi.
ncsc %nankeen, white silk stockings
high white choker." with breastplr
of sccd pearls, Messrs. Clay, Bayart
and Russell ''lct Mr.. Adams plainI,
know that, though no might he thel
nominal mouthpiece, 0allatin VA
their leader" Father smo!sce eaevcI
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In her language Nancy Ail'- 49,
inclined 10 be- what her brother t.'.
gushing" one SummcE SHE '.''
automobile trip through Ncn lHe t'
on her. return. says thc iu.fH ''.
PAXTON, she Was giving an r"'
description of fine Old '."t 90 .''
family
"I' was perfectly ch1-w.nr' N"'
wonderful Old d~~lrWaHs and 'ht j.1
est Old inn She paused, 'r-'.- ''
a word. at w~a~-untGu.
Brother Ned had been I.s''r.'t --''''
~ to the rhapsody.
"Unlnuc.' he said pu,ctlF t'
a fine word. Let's see. i'.+. "'
'EqnIS, horse. con" horse town
Cool
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'.Drcary Stun,'' said Gi>siug.

. r. Burgiu in the BOOK HIp 'H' -
u'"s a personal r"coll"r'In. 3d. 'i'.'c
iissinc, whom he net m,l, H,,r- t-1
at a garden party IN -. JOHN N.'i
"Hc WAS ~curious.y. and ! should 'Hrk
unconsc.ously, picturesque Mites N-
Burgin. his looso. 'ts, s'''l'- ~
slouch hat seeming = pdr' az hs aP'
personality NOR" than q s'gi". i.Se
and looking rather at Va-.t'.c ~. '-
smart get up oi tie l.' i0H '-o'f
which Allied tn" little garden 'lr %,
conversation Giss.uE alluded g. '.. 70
;hat many authors Nro.' So. .,-s t'
facility, hut, he added. 81 - 'I 'I'
with infinite pain ANd labor When
Mr. BurSin limited hat most or f- "'.
terial was Saddcrine YES. .r sri
thoughtfully, its dr'rry stuff '~
stun -
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MAKING OF A MICROSCOPE.
GrindinH. Polishing aud Tc,tinu
the Lenses.

the microscope has grown from a
slmpl" magnitNiug glass into a connie
OF lenses and means Of adjustment That
has enabled trained eve, To dIs,uv,r
a world of inhuitcsimal things I'M
dreamed OF before the instrument was
perfected So extensively is the COM
pound microscope now used that one of
the manufacturers IN Germany ,ccoutlv
made his one hundred and iifty thou
sandth Instrument.
There is nothing remarkable about tho
stand on which the lenses are nouutrd.
except the extreme accuracy that tie
sixty "r seventy parts demand, SAYS the
foufh's Companion. hence the finishing
OF it must be lone by hand. Nearly
one hundred screws are used in Tho
stand alone, and some OF them must be
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SOME NEW BOOKS.
Albert GaI1atfn.

"A diary is. in rerum natura. two
books. one the impress of a person.
atty and the other a report of the
personalities surroundings. Some
times one Of the two elements, sub
.icctive or objective, gobbles and fairly
assimilates the other; the personality
may be itself historical, or the en-
vironment rare and Of dominant in
terest. In A Great Peace Maker:
The Diary OF James Gdndtin. Secrc-
fary to Albert Goiidtin, 1st3-1s27,
edited by the secretary dlarist's grand
son ~(Scribner's), 1t would bother the
habitual practitioner of literary
supererogation to say which is the
<eari and which the mother 'nacre:
me chapter in war of 1912 history
or the mildly s~candalous chronicle of
a young blood" of the early nine
teenth century let loose in the high
aocietee Of European capitals.
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] L..

When Mr.. Gallatin went over the
water with the commission that
treated for peace with England a
round century ago the alien birth that
seems to rave caused some hard feel
ing on the part of his distinguished
colleagues, a. it had made trouble for
him in Congress. gave him the dual
advantage of sympathetic knowledge
of the code of European diplomacy
and a correlative command of the
respectful consideration Of the British
neeotiators. Making all due allowances
for the natural flial bias Of this rec
ord. the fact remains. fully attested by
some interesting hitherto unpublished
correspondence. that the foreign born
representative of Uncle Sam was not
the most d~lspensable member of the
commission.
The war had not much moro than
got under way when Car Alexander
offered the services of Russia as a
mediator qualified by neutrality. The
tender was satisfactory TO the United
States and Gallatin and Bayard were
sent to represent IL, with John Quincy
Adams, Minister at ST. Petersburg, in
h negotiations. England rejected the
Russian offer; the rejection Is ex-
planned in letters to Mr.. G~allatin from
Alexander Barring, first Lord Ashbur-
ton, he of the boundary treaty of 1912,
which. and not the peace or truce
treaty signed at Client in 1914, brought
to an end the disputes that caused the
a Mr.. Barring did not see how
America could consistently have re-
fused the offer of mediation. rendered
without solicitatiOn; but neither could
he see how such mediation could be
OF practical benefit. The matters at
issue were Of purely domestic interest
to each party; could a third party ad-
judge them satisfactorily to either
OF the disputants? Such Intervention
carried threat of new complications.
England's position in European pCli-
tics exposed her to such complications,
and America could not afford to run
h risk of being made a tool of Eu-
ropean politicians. "Refore this
reaches YOU you will have been in
formed that this negotiation has been
refused. with expressions of our de-
sire to treat separately and directly
here IIOndon or II NOR" agreeable
to you, at GOttenburg.'
Rejection Of external mediation was
not to he viewed, he said, as ndica
tive of any unwillinGness to come to
cair terms; his Maiesty's Government
sught only to make settlement more
-urely satisfactory and enduring, The
ignorance Of many of our leading
characters OF the true state of An
glo-American relations would prob
ably surprise the American commits,
sioners. Hut Governments desire foi
peace was not 10 nc doubted: wv,
ran tease and weaken zach other
without II practical result anC
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The elder Galiatin is decidedly a
noteworthy figure in our early ma
tional history. more perhaps because
Of what he was than for what he
did. To have held high Office and
to have served the new nation we'll
there is plenty Of personal credit. but
nothing extraordinary In that: Gov
eminent had to be run, and the selec-
ton as agents Of the few from the
multitude is In democracies no less
chan IN monarchies matter OF fate al
most as much as OF character. But
IN the early days Of our Government,
Ven rs ever since, IL was character
ist3c of the public service that for
eign born naturallzed citizens held
posts of high influence in a proper
ton vastly greater han would be
tolerated anywhere else. Court created
citizenship has served the United
States loyalty and with distinction.
Nj. Gallatin was sufficiently partisan
and sufficiently fearless to accuse
washington and Jay of ~pusillanimity
in dealing with England after the
Revolution: and was bitterly hated
by those who resented hotly the med
ding by a foreigner And yet when
the Constitution of the United States
was adopted so many leading men
were not native citizens that the
clause fixing Presidential eligibility
requirements was made to read: "A
natural born citizen or a citizen of the
United States al the time of the adop-
ton Of the Constitution"
Alhorf caIlattn conoN-an arictpNva \
early orphaned. was brought up by a
stern and naughty grandmother. The
old lady got him a Lieutenant Colonel's
commission in the army of Frederick.
Iandgrave of Hesse-Cassel. 81 will
not serve a tyrant.' declared the
youngster, and straightway betook
himself in flight to the Land of the
Free. Others, fearless on the floor
and famed in the annals of patriot
ism, have shown no less of resolution
in firing the word heard round the
world; Albert backed his declaration
of independence with deeds of equal
daring and greater cost. Americans
have nothing to be ashamed of in
this aliens qualities of vertebrate
manhood. whatever they may think
retrospectively of his politics. When
the farmers of Lexington and Concord
stood embattled he was only in his
second teen He was 10 when he
came over" just in time for a brief
term of very modest military service
in the Revolution as a volunteer in
Maine. He taught French for a year
to the boys at Harvard College; cam,
of age and into his patrimony. ~settlct
in Pennsylvania: made money il
West Virginia land; ran "A country
store, II is said; vas naturalized In
1876, was prominently instrumental
in the suppression Of the "Whiskey
Instruction went into Congress. he
came a party leader in the days wher
party leadership had at least as much
sincere concern in legislation as II
the electoral mathematics of constitu,
encies; demonstrated skill in finance
and under jefferson and Madison wa,
Secretary Of the Treasury. The lane
OF his adoption did much for him. and
he served her faithfully and well.
hspplest. no doubt and without dis.
credit. when that service carried hin
abroad.
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the American Indian Out Of
Politics."

For more than thirty years WARREN
X. MooREHEAD. author OF The Amcri-
can Indian IN the United States, 1850
1914 (the Andover Press, Andover.
Mase.), has studied Indian archaeology
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succeeded in obtaining a unanimous Judg
,.aaA AL nraA

succeeded In obtaining a unanimous judg-
ment. Lavie wrote:
Twas no mean workman that devised
A speech Of such electric force.
Successfully he carhonized
The thread Of his discourse.
Logic and fact so close were packed
That Webster to his purpose bent
Even a Cotton nlament.
In a chapter on People | Have
known Gladstone projects. About
1890 he was member Of a breakfast club
where topics were presented for dis
c~ussion. Bees came up; Sir John
Lubbock's book was Just out Glad
stone took prominent part In the
talk for an hour. 81 suppose you have
been reading Sir John Lubbock's
book" said Morley afterward. NO
said Gladstone. 81 have not seen 1t.
1t was the Georges from which ]
got my information" Equally credit
able to the British statesman and to
the Latin poet.
~ suppose, Mr.. Gladstone" said
Miner on another occasion. you say
with the old Greek hat the half Is
sometimes greater than the whole?'
Gladstone protested that no old Greek
ever said IT,. Miner quoted Hesiod,
and exhibited the text: "Pleon
hemisu pantos." Gladstone looked
at IL and said calmly: AN undoubted
Interpolation" He could no spell
defeat"
Sir Robert Herbert told of Mr.. Glad
stones interest in the Caucasus:
I had a friend. Capt. ", who had re-
Gently come home from that district.
! gave him a letter of introduc-
ton to Mr.. Gladstone. met Mr..
Gladstone in Parliament street. IL
stopped me and said. oh, Sir Robert,
I am most grateful to you for the delight.
ful treat you have given me. Your friend
Capt. y. knows more about the Caucasus
than any man ! have ever met" 4 few
minutes afterward I met Capt. y. | said
TO him well. you have made q great
impression on Mr.. Gladstone" Have t.
"Yee. lie Gays YOU know moro about tho
Caucasus than any man he ever met
Well" said Cap. *, that ~ very
strange, FOR though | was with him foi
threc-quar,crs of an hour. | only MAD.
three observations
The ex-Lord chief Justice has lie,
himself go" in this book. II j. NJ the
least useful achievement in a long and
useful career.
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maps CoTrtCter agent. q nedrt not WITH
patriotism. Tho passive heroism OF
the Russian soldier could not res. s,
the active mercy of the Japanese
fighting man The JAPANESE leaders
eXcclled the Russian Generals in
knrwlcdGc. energy and sense of duty
because they were sons IL the revolu-
ton of 1868" the others were used to
breathe the heavy atmosphere of des-
pouSm." Tho Japanese fought fm
something close at hand and oompre-
hensible"; the Observation-Disclosures not
10 reason why; theirs but to do and
die" The wal bankruptcd rhe bu-
reatEracy. THE ancient mirage fad, d
like smoke, and Russian society began
with incredible celebrity. to DIS ard the
old values. The mind OF the people
a awake. and a now IDEAL arose
But the revolution ran on reserve
strength, and could not last long. I'll,
first and second Dumas were assem-
BLEED. strangled end dispersed. the
third, "a purely Government organ
one Of it's countless bureaucratic dc.
vices" found the people "comphtcl,
indifferent" ~ its existence. After thu
war, the revolution. after the revolu
tiun, the reaction Of fatigue. But i,
1911 Gorky heraldcd chat wave
which Will sweep us away anew" Tn,
epidemic of suicide passed. The ppoc,
css OF moral and intellectual dccom,
p 81 ion was stayed. The intellectual
mlddle class turned haci; frum it.
lapse into mysticism and immorallt,
to sober consideration Of social, polit
lcal and economic matters. The dealt
of TNlstUy, preacher Of non resist
ance to evil,' stimulated resistance.
What will Russia he in 1920?
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-28
DAVE Says
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