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6 Amusements. .ACADEMY OF MUPir— S— JallM Cicur. A X.H A MBKA— Z— «— Vaudeville. APTOR — 6 :3a — Th»> Daughter? of Men. BEI.ASCO— S:I&J-Th» Hose of the Ranch*. BUm - Mr* Wilson-Andrews. CARNEGIE HAU.-3--PI»no Recital. CASINO— Tho Blu Moon. COLONlAl,— «— Vaudeville. CRITERION— »:IB— The Little. Cherub. PAI/T'S— — The Sprint Thicken. EPEN lfl'SEE — Th« World In Wax. EMPIRE 13 Ills House In Order. 6:19 — Madam Butterfly. GARRICK— ?>:2*— Clarice. GRAND— B:l.*>— Mam«elle Psllie. nACKETT— Th* Clioru* I*<H. JtAMMKRSTEIN'* VICTORIA— 3— S:I.V- Vaudeville. HERALD PQCARE S — Th** Great IV>cld9 «rd About Town. HUDSON— r — The Hvr^.rrlte,, 3RVING PT.V'F. - c :2n— lMe Katnkomt'en. KNICKERBOCKER « Tt.e Rri Mill. UPEKTV-''- v .r-ii; tn Search of a HuiOvina and A Tenement Traeedy. • LINCOLN BQfAHE- 8 IB The Ixve Rou*e. LTCEUM— S:i:i-s»The Lion ana the BIooM. I/TRIC— «:I.%— Th' New Tot* Idea. MAPIPON SOtTAHK— «:IS— The Three of U*. MAJESTIC— 3— PIrr* Pa«*« B. IB— Th« Tourti»«. MANHATTAN— ?. IS— CIrthe*. ■METROPOLITAN — *— iv-r-:» «nd Juliette. NEW AMSTERDAM— <:I.W Ca««ar and Cleopatra. j.'EW — 6:15— Forty-five Minutes from Broadway. PRINCESS -V2O -Th« Gr^at Divide PAVOY B:l» — Sir Anthony. . , WAI>I-ACK'B— S:ls— The Rich Mr. H««r««r>t-.e!nTr. ■WEBER'S— S:2O— Twiddle Twaddle and the Equaw Han • Girl of the Golden Weft. ■WEST END— S— The Four Mortons. Index to Advertisements. PareOl ! c C 0l o Amusement* 12 7-B| Help Wanted... •• • »♦ Autumn ne«orts 11 oiHot*l9 and Reatau- Backers ar.d Brokers. 10 li rant* ■» ° Bn»n". and Rooms... 8 1 1 Instruction 11 " Br'klyn Property for Uoat ... • • "«•• ■ ■•••,? .2 Sals :..... 11 flJMarrlacessr.d Death*. 12 IMJ Buslr.e«s Chanoes » I Musical •» D QuT*t Cleaning 9 : ! Ocean Fteamers 0 J Cltatl 11 5 PiiWlc Notices 1- §-» CJty Hotels 11 • * Hnilroa'is" •••.? •"? Coueut Property for IV. I »tat« Wanted.. ll 5 Kale 11 ft Restaurants 11 3 I>e«k» mii! Office. Fur- Ift »Btn boat 3 & J nlt-.ire 8 1 i Surroeates' Notices. ..ll *-5 Dividend Notices 10 1 1 To I^t for Business Tom. Sits. Wanted.. • «- 0 Purposes 11 » rr»samaJdn*r and Mil- Tllban« Sub. P.ntes..l2 »•-« llnery 9 2 Tru«t Companies' Re- Emploj-m't AF«aci«s. © 1! ports ■ H • Excursions 11 « Trust I'-rrranlo* 11 8-4 Fl-ajielßj 11 Hi Unfurnished Apart- For Bale. 9 I 1I 1 merits in T>et 11 C Fur. Apartments to I Winter Resorts 11 6 L«t 11 t! Work Wanted » 3-4 Tur. Rooms to Let... 6 l! IV^^iTTkDmlr) Saitoh MONDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 190fi. THE WBWB THIS }lORM\G. FOREIGN— The agreement between France and Spain, providing for the landing of three thousand troops in Morocco if necespa"-. was made public in Paris. ■■ ■■■ . Th« Vatican au thorities felt hurt by the attitude of King George of Gre«we. who had not decided whether or not he would visit the Pope. ..- ■— The Rus sian government decided to carry no more money in the registered mails, the losses througn robbery by revolutionists being so heavy as Ferlously to embarrass it. — — - Lieutenant General Arthur Henry Papet was selected for commander in chief of the forces in Ireland. =i=r: Emperor Francis Joseph addressed the Acstro-Hungsman delegations on the opening of the sittings in Budapest. -■- A Vienna paper published a Setter from "Carmen Sylva." Queen of Rumania, telling of the long illness of King Charles. u=r— The Archbl6bop of Posen, in Prussian Poland, was found dead In his study from heart disease. DOMESTlC— Preparations were completed In "Washington for the opening to-day of the Na tional Galleries of Art in connection with the Smithsonian Ir.stituton. ■--■■ A message re ceived in Washington by wireless from the battleship Louisiana showed that it was 500 miles off Cape Kerry on Saturday night- It ■was reported that the Louisiana would be off The Virginia Capes this rooming. rr^= A tablet in memory of General "v^'i'-mon W. Blackmar, who was commander-in-chJef of the Grand Army of the Republic, was unveiled at the Second Church, in Eoaton. -.■ : A woman was killed and several persons injured In a trolley car accident at Pittsg^ld, Mass. ===== The Rev. Dr. Algernon B. Oraps^y, in a letter to Bishop Walk er of Western Nev.- York, made public at Roch ester, asked for h'.s deposition from the priest hood of the Protestant Episcopal Church. :: ■ ■ Two young men of well known families were drowned while --anoeing on Lake Ontario. : CITY.— It was learned that eight Russian | rocJaUets were b^lng detained at Ellis Island ' find that mysterious influences were at work ; to prevent their deportation, ■i- -, Dr. Felix ■ Adler speaking on the Negro problem, declared j that a "terrible mistake" wag made 1n giving ; thorn the ballot, = — = One woman was killed i sad a b ore of v reors were hurt in the collapse j of a floor In a Newark assembly hall. == One : loan v.: = killed and '.'.verity persons were injured In a panic when a controller box on a Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company car in East i New York burst and the car ran wild down j n hill .-. . - Nikola Tesla expressed the opin- ; ion that he was one of the greatest men ■ of the age. t,r. r Counsel for Albert T. Patrick , paid they had received no Intimation that Gov- j ernor Higgins would interfere in the case, rr, — :—: : The ocean Bt earn ships Philadelphia and Caror'a ' snived. after tempestuous voyage?. ■— An effort to have the Central Federated Union aid In closing thf-atres on Sundays failed, rr- — - Two men, the crew of an oyster schooner, were dis covered ln their berths unconscious from char- ; cr>sl fumes. — — rz A ticket speculator was > fined for violating the conditions under which 1 his llcnF" wae Issued. " = Booker T. Wash* f ington told a congreratlnn at the Church of the Divine Paternity that Andrew Carnegie r-ought sh-vs at Tuskesjee. •- Three Italians In Mount Vernon were accused of attempting 10 kill another Italian. THE "WEATHER .— lndications for to-day: Partly cloudy. The temperature yesterday: Hißh^pt. R.i degrees; lowest. 34. UVWA v TEL » VAyDALISU. The threatened disfigurement of the noblest features of the Hudson Highlands for com mercial purposes Is unfortunately only too typi cal of the readiness of mauy Americans to sac rifice anything for the sake of pecuniary profit end also of the heedlessly wasteful methods rrhlcb some employ. The destruction of our forests has been effected largely through a reckless attempt to got the largest and quick est gains regardless of results. So, Instead c.f cutting discreetly rod cttfUvatlrijj the remain der, vaf-n have plashed down all the finest trees and let the rest be wasted by fire or drouth. Fo, when the Palisades were being ravaged, Instead of quarrying economically, in places ■where little barm would be done to ill'- scenery, men deliberately struck at the finest point*. as If intent upon so marring th" great wall that no part of it would be considered worth further preservation. Again, neglecting other source^ of supply, they propose to strike* at th < uiost conspicuous points in the Highlands, •■•■■> if to do Just as much barm as possible It would seem Incredible that, they should do fo. if sad experience and shocked observation did not teach the fact Already some of }]•» noblest natural monuments, not only along tbr? Hudson, but elsewhere, hare been Irreparably marred. v. •• know of none that :ir<» safe, >r that would lie safe without Incessant vigilance and frequ* strife for their protection. Then* is bo other civil .<•! land in which would h-5 permitted buc!) oewiless vandalism as has often been perpol li^re — if. Indeed, men would attempt ii elsewhere. We speak of needless randaliKiu, for that Is Just what most of it 'a. If. for example, trap rock were necessary tn tbe sreifare ol the race and could be obtained onjy from tbe !;;<•• c? tbe Palisades, it would r>e permissllde to destroy that face. Rut it 1 elsewhere, and If it perhaps costs •■ trifle more elsewhere it will be worth littl •■■■■.! '•..•• t'i have the Palisad* - Attractive M-euery has a real and l>y no means Inconsiderable value, reckoned in pe cuniary terms, ss nil asset of the state or of tin- community, Some of these great laud marks on the Hudson are worth more as tbej Hand than they would bo if they were con: l»l<-tily levelled and used' up Jn our industrial arts. Nor must we iseglect to "respect the fut ure." We are the trustees of posterity. The wonders of nature are In a sense a universal and i perpetual birthright of mankind. Wo have no right to say that since we nave seen them oorselres we may destroy them. There is a certain luoral duty to preserve these things tot Hit; U' ii^iu of future a^t-s, and Uio per / ~~* " funn.'niee of that duty, with discretion, will prove directly profitable rather thnn onerous to tlio present generatiou. BRIDGE TERMINALS. By its action last week the Board of Esti mate definitely committed the city to a rather antiquated policy In regard to Its bridges. Such co-operation between two of those structures as would tend to distribute traffic and avert con gestion nt terminal stations has been precluded, and hereafter each bridge must take care of its own patrons. For the benefit of those who make use of the older one, it is proposed to run loops for both trolley tracks and elevated trains out over Park How and Centre street, the neces sary space for them being secured by the pur chase of the site of the Staa.ts-Zeit.ung build ing and adjacent property. To hold that this plan will give no relief whatsoever would be foolish, f<>r it will cer tainly promote the dKpnt-ij of trains at more frequent Intervals than is now possible, it" it does not render feasible the addition of another car or two to every train. Whether it will serve the public as well ns would an elevated road connecting the Brooklyn nnd WiHlamsbursj bridges is another question. The Tribune has been disposed to believe that the latter project gave a better promise of safety, comfort nnd speed, and we are not yet convinced that we have been in error. The supposition that the ' Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company wants a loop which would connect the bridges has been used as an argument for not providing one. but it may be urged with equal or greater force In advocacy of the scheme. The interests of a cor poration and those of Its patrons are not al ways antagonistic In any case, the municipal authorities assume a grave responsibility In de- { termining to treat each bridge ns an independent ' highway. If their anticipations .ire not realized they will undoubtedly hear In due time from j thoso who are chiefly interested In the matter — | the tens of thousands who have occasion dnlly to use the Brooklyn Bridge. it may be taken for granted that the loops for trolley cars will emerge from the station at such a level that they will clear the existing tracks in Park Row and Centre street. Accord ingly, it would seoin to be necessary for passen gers to embark and disembark Inside the sta tion, us they do now. If this surmise proves to be correct, a more thorough separation of ln coming and outgoing traffic will doubtless b<* effected than is practicable at present. Perhaps, too. It will be feasible to ran a larger number of trolley cars than now enter and leave the station. Iv these two possibilities lies the only justification for making any ne.w arrangement for surface cars. The appropriation ruade the other day for terminal stations for the Manhattan Bridge aims only at the execution of plans which were adopted n year or more ago, and is not likely to provoke criticism. That structure Is de signed to carry four sets of tracks — two for trolley cars, one for trains from eh-vated roads and one connecting with subways in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The provision of a large assem bly room in the station on this side of the river betrays en expectation that passeagers will ac cumulate there, and It must be considered a wlso precaution. If there be no consolidation of traction interests In the mean time, the facilities for trolley traffic will probably duplicate those now afforded by the Willlamsburg Bridge. Cer tain lines of cars In Brooklyn will carry pafisen» gers to the Manhattan terminal, and certain lines now operating in Manhattan will take their passengers to the Brooklyn terminal. Pre cisely what use will be made of the bridge by the companies controlling the elevated roads ou each side of the river remains to be Been. Pos- Bibly they will not avail themselves at all of th© opportunity offered to them. However, since the bridge ends at the Bowery, it should be feasible to effect a .1 unction with the Third avenue road, In case the Interborough considers such a step desirable The utility of the tracks for subway trains, of course, depends on the consummation of projects which have not yet been undertaken. Still, the Board of Estimate merely takes a long look ahead In this matter, recognizing the probability that the Manhattan Bridge will not be completed for two or thre« years to come. TIIE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. It would be Idle to speculate upon the compo sition of the new Russian Douina, which is pres ently to be elected, but there can be little hope that, however It may be composed, that body will command the confidence of the Russian na tion jjiid restore tranquillity to that sorely vexed land. That Is because of the action of the gov- and tho Senate in changing the election laws aud disfranchising a large part of tbe pop ulation and making inHigibl« for election many of the leaders of the people. For example, nearly two hundred members of the former Douma are charged with having par ticipated in the Viborj: manifesto, and are to be tried for treason. They will not be tried until long after the new Douma Is elected, and many of them were certainly not at Viborg at all. let they nave all been, in advanco of conviction or even trial, deprived of the franchise and ex cluded from office That Is a simple method of assuring the non-return to the Douma of those whom the government does not wish to see in that body. But its effect upon the constituents of the proscribed men will not be favorable. Again, there have been sweeping restrictions of the franchise. Thus the one hundred and fifty thousand railroad employes of the empire will have no votes. No man can vote whose fam ily occupies only a single room or a part of a hou^e. House porters, foresters and other hum ble classes of working people axe also disfran chised. All Cossacks are disfranchised and iuad» ineligible for election unless living in the Cossack country. Moreover, it is forbidden to publish election announcements, on placards or otherwise, In Polish, Jewish or huy other lan guage than Russian. The inevitable result of .-ill this will l>»>— In deed, it already is — to discredit the elections nnd the I)ou:n:i In advance. Multitudes of those who are still permitted to vote fire declaring that they will not do so, since t!i<' election is manifestly not to 1>" free nn.l fair, and they wish to have no part In It. When the Douma Is elected nnd mopts it will he widely regarded aa n packed body of puppets, choFen t:» do the will of the bureaucracy. Such condemnation of it may not ho just, but It will be natural, imd there is reason to fear it will Ik- effective in moving a larc? parr of the nation to abandon hope of constitutional reform and to t urn again to liiens urcs of vi«r|<':it revolution. BARKIXO l /• II /,'o\/; TREEti. So-iii. curious errors if, indeed, they are in genuous errors and no? wilful attempts to play upon tbe nipponod ignorance of the public have been made bj commentators upon tbe President's visit io I'anama, In their apparent '"ffurts to minimize the Imiwrtance and Inter est of it and to create tii.- Impression that be has not had a fair chance to observe the real state of affaii s or to make himself known to tbe i i ople of the Isthniiflji republic. Thus "Tbe Xew tork Evening Post" advanced the cocksure proposition that the President's irip. "as a means of making him tbe Infallible "authority who lias 'seen it with his own eyes.' "In wholly Inept," and In iupporl thereof said: "At Panama one of the toughest elements to "reckon with Is tbe torrential rainfall, but Mr. 'Boosevelt will i>.' there trtien the season rules •'that nut Of bis vision altogether." Tbe fact Is, of course, sa the proverbial schoolboy ought to know, that tbe President visited Panama «t tbe very height, (.'Umax and culmination of tbe rainy season, when there was every reason to expect two days In everj three t-, be marked wiiii th< "torrential rainfall" which The Evening Post" pretend* would Lv "out of Us visluu altogether." NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBrXE, MONDAY. NOVEMBER 26. 1006. If he had deliberately planned to go there at the very wettest season, just to see how hard it could rain, he could have selected no better tlmo than he did. Again, we find in "The Newark Evening News" the partly amazing and partly amusing observa tion that "those Panama audiences didn't under stand a word the President, said, of course." Of course, they did understand every word he said. From a linguistic point of view those Panamau Officials are better educated than we Very Su perior People. The members of the government whom the President addressed, nnd also the pro fessional and business men. understand English about as well as they do Spanish, and most of them add one or two other languages to their repertory, while among the masses of the people a working knowledge of English is vastly more common than knowledge of any foreign language Is In this country. The fact is, the President lias visited Panama vt just about the best possible time to secure for himself the authority of one who has "seen It with his own eyes," and especially who has seen the seamy side and th<> obstacles and diffi culties, and he has doubtless been received and listened to by the Panamans with more intelli- gent appreciation than has l»een given t<> his journey by some in his own land. AS OTHER NATIONS. The slight controversies between Japan anl America over the depredations of poachers at the So.nl Islands and over tho lo>'al administra tion of Californian schools nave given son\o Russian newspapers opportunity t<» remark — though with litile judgment or justice that these two close friends nre already quarrelling and nre ueariiifr an open nnd fata] breach. At the same time there nre reports that China i> much dissatisfied with the conduct of Japan in Manchuria and that a Chinese boycott of Jap anese commerce is imminent. The two incidents are entirely disconnected, but they nre alike suggestive of n single fact, namely, thai nil tho nations of the earth nre pretty much alike In poni" of their traits and motives. The Iden that Japan and America were so closely united that no controversy could ever arise between them wa.-i once put for ward, but was foolish; and equally foolish is the uotion that h controversy between them In dicates an end of such friendship ns has ex isted. The two nations are rinse friends. They have long been such, and wo trust they will always be. But tbelr relations nre subject to the same minor vicissitudes of fortune aa thoso of other nations. It Is the same with China and Japan. Some have been Insisting that there was an impreg nable solidarity between them which consti tuted a "yellow peril" to all the rest of the world. Japan was going to take the lead of China, and the two -would act as one nation. But now we see that China is as ready to boy cott Japan as she was to boycott America, and that the relations between them are no closer, despite their racial affinity, than between ona of them and some other nation. The fact is, ns we have said, that iv soma respects all options are alike. Each seeks its own interest, though none is Incapable of re garding and. cherishing the interests of others. Japan and America are warm friends, but that does not mean that one will permit citizens of the other to transgress Its laws or to Infringe Its rights. Japan and China are friends, and blood relations, but that will not prevent one of them from seeking even closer ties with some other uation. if its interests dictate such n courst-. That Is the principle which should al ways be borne In mind whenever there is talk about reliances, antagonisms or yellow or other perils. XOISE The silencing of the steam whistles along the river front Is a vindication of the public's right to its nerves. Some British scientists are try ing in a learned way to standardize noise — to contrive some delicate Instrument which will tell us when there is nu unreasonable degree of clangor In our sonorous cities, as the ther mometer tells us when there Is excessive heat and danger of summer prostrations. Why not make the man with nerves the standard? lie is a delicate instrument, and may be depended upon to dete<t the slightest painful excess. He gains a right to public respect through the de cision of the authorities that the man who can sleep with a steam piren exploding within a hundred yards of his bed chamber is not our standard man. The man with nerves 1b no longer a Joke; he is a stern reality. How contemptuously must the hearty sailor men who go down to the sea in their egotistical craft with the dimensions of a rowboat and the voice of a hattleshlp regard the landsman with his nerves ! They can sleep within Inches of the prodigious din of their whistles; the lands man must be n degenerate and a weakling to bnve his distant slumbers disturbed by the same noise. This conimon attitude makes noise the most Irrepressible of modern nuisances. Every body feels that bis OTvn noise is a. slight thins: against which only a (Tank should protest. Noise seems to be regarded aa an Inalienable right, the abridgement < t which in tbe Interests of society is ri revolutionary procedure. In ,i thousand forms it assails humanity, and except for this stopping <>»' the steam whistles little hns ever been done to relieve throbbing ours. Physicians assert that at nighl 11 keepn us on the troubled borderland of sleep, barring us from entering Into the undisturbed rest where nature repairs tbe damage of tbe day. They warn us that the*«;ick die from it; thai human efficiency is lessened by it ; that it shortens •■nr days; that the bacilli which haunt the njr arc not worse enemies than tbe sound waves that quiver iv the air and beat in upon our brain?. There are benign bacilli, bul there are no b<- nign noises. Perhaps when tbe srlentista have invented an instrument which will tell us just what degree of noise humanity can endure un harmed and what degree n city like New York Is suffering from, we shall t<> worU wisely nn<l systematically to suppress unnecessary and noxious - latter. We are forced by many observations to th*» conclusion thai noieu? is not :i nuisance to tho majority, but on the contrary .■! delight. Phe love of noise is an inherent vice of the race. like the love of strong drink. The natural mm testifies to his happiness by the noise he makes. Nations <'\hiliit their general j y by :i great noise. The young like noise. A baby's second test of the utility of any object grasped in its lin ids (the first, of course, is edibility) Is how much noise it will make. There you have Hi" unguided jippetencies of human nature. We testify cur lasting appreciation of noise in thi» metaphor summarizing human Riubition. as an aspiration "to make :i uolse 111 the world." The average man acknowledges the Joy of living by means of a phonograph with a ten-foot megn phone attached — no whispered testimonial for him! The scissors grinder brings the glad tid- Ings of great joy that he is ready to grind your cutlery by bliists upon a raucous corner nboni lnaiily blown. The street render roars t!i> bounties of nature through the streets. Your love of your neighbor. Scripturally enjoiijeil, must in- extended to include tin- midnight bark of your neighbor's dog. The horn of plenty*, that ancient symbol of human prosperity, is converted to new uses in mi effort megaphoni eally to reach the car, oiitdiniilng the general din. It has become the horn of plenty of noise. The tugboat men, lately suppressed, made love to their Joans with amorous toots of their Pteatn si feus. The feminine heart was found peculiar ly susceptible to those mighty messages of affec tion. To "make a joyful noise" Ii an ancient prescription to man, and, we must conclude, to most of his race any noise is a joyful noise; the more noise, the more joy. lint tko nolso lovers have their antitype In to© noise haters. The Intter possess not the rosy gills of the former. They go through life with raw edged nerves, feeling every pinprick of ex istence. They are 'the Inventors of the 'strain of modern life," nml they Illustrate it In their owu persons. Sleep does not come to them as Inevitably as the axial revolution of the earth Noises ninict them unto wakefulness. Mankind is doing much to make their lot easier. For them breakfast foods were Invented. For them the pharmacopeia has been many times multi plied. They live the artificial life; 'tis that or none with them. They perhaps break with nature at the outset, and are sustained to the end by the physician's artifices. Their career is, briefly, bottle-fed, bottle-bred and bottle dead. They are the "men with nerves," to whom no noise Is a 'joyful noise." and who, we are assured, grow Increasingly numerous in modern titles, perhaps because of modern city noises. When we standardize noises, especially night noises, to their delicate sensibilities the world v. ill b« a healthier if less exuberant world. The repression of sten.m whistles is the first recognition of a man's right to have nerves. UOXEY AND BUSINESS. Speculative' operations continued heavy, d* spite high money rates and few developments in connection with the ninny rumors of big divi dends and dpals. The only definite announce ment pertained to th? Gr^at Northern ore prop erty, and it was much too conservative for the general Wall Street mind, as shown by the im mediate loss of about $12 a share in the quota tion. Holders of the stock outside of the specu lative circle will not complain at the addition of 8 or 4 per cent to their Interest from that In vestment, and It will probably prove tn this case, as In many preceding Instances, that Mr. Hill's arrangements look further into the future than the more sensational doings of some other prominont officials. The market is still largely professional, although London has shown more interest of late; but the American public Is re luctant to buy at present high prices. Demoral ization In Standard Oil stock continued, and there was less inflation in the prices of mining shares on the curb, which is a good sign so far as it goes. Despite a sharp reaction on Satur day, the average of the sixty most active railway shares is still within about $3 a share of the highest point on record, which was $120 99 on January 22. There Is still little evidence of ease In. the money market, although the week opened with a somewhat better feeling because the asso ciated banks once more held a slight surplus of. cash above tha minimum percentage to de posits fixed by law. There Is no evidence as yet of any considerable movement of money from the interior, but some transfers were made, especially in association with loans In this mar ket through local correspondents of interior banks. Yet it seems almost Impossible to bring about any Improvement In the local situation by curtailment of accommodation in speculative channels. Little change appears In the European situation, which 13 so closely connected with tho New York money market just now, although Paris has helped London out sufficiently to offset the gold withdrawn by Brazil. It was also reported that Paris loaned a little money In this market, but the general position of the foreign exchange market Indicates that cotton bills are not coming forward any more rapidly than Is necessary to settle maturing foreign loans. It is not wise to give undue significance in this regard to the favorable foreign trade balance officially re ported for the month of October, because the adverse balance on «pecie account and other well known items, such as freight. Insurance, inter est, etc., probably left only about $50,000,000 to be applied to settlement of finance bills. Aside -from the temporary influence of foreign lending, the figures of foreign commerce for Oc tober were most gratifying. Not only were all previous monthly records far surpassed by the phenomenal aggregate of exports, with an in crease of fl2.(JM>,ooo over December. 1903. which was the former high-water mark, but the Improvement in character of exports was even more noteworthy. In all earlier month* al heavy exports the incrtase occurred mainly In farm staples whereas there was an equally big gain in shipments of manufactured products last month. The decline in value- of Imports to the smallest monthly total since August. 1905, was less satisfactory, but comparison is made with phenomenally heavy figures In preceding months this year, and even in comparison with the high record established in March the de crease was only about $15,500,000, Domestic trade is making as good progress as could be expected in the face of unseasonable weather at most leading cities, -which tends to restrict th« retail demand for winter wearing apparel and other staples that should bo moving more freely at this time. Recent variation's In the cotton market have been sufficiently erratic to satisfy the specula tive contingent, hut more stability would be re garded favorably by the spinning and exporting interests. In anticipation of very large ginning returns there was much liquidation of option holdings, and a considerable short account de veloped. This brought about a loss of many points in the option market, which were quickly regained when the Census Bureau announced that 8.531.486 bales had been ginned up to No vember 14. As about TO per cent of the total crop is usually covered by this statement, it In dicated a total yield of nearly 12,000,000 bales, which would not have warranted a price of over 11 cents in normal years. Evidently the trade looked for much larger .figures, although th^re was an increase of about a million bales over the quantity ginned up to the corresponding date last year. The grain markets have less un certainty regarding the year's production, and speculative operations ar of a more profes si"-.ial nature. Western manipulators have given the wheat market support, although exports have fallen off somewhat this month. Manufacturing returns continue more uni formly satisfactory than any other reports of tho business ritual ion unless it be the wonder ful line in railway earnings. Shoe shops arc receiving :i fair amount of now business, but already have pring orders assuring activity of machinery far into the new year, and travellers are starting on route* for next fall and winter trade, although supplementary sprhs~ contracts v.i'l not If refused. N«v-v England producers have shipped somewhat less freely in recent weeks, reducing the total for the ear to within about ten thousand cases of tho nexi highest record, and it is no longer certain that the high water mark of lyiKi will be surpassed this ] esu . Leather is firm, but not active, except as to belting butts, which hava developed unusual strength. In the hide market there is the cus tomary effort to secure all the good quality fkins that ere salted before long hair reduce 1 tho quality, and packers port light stocks on hand. Textile mills arc well employed, and the • i. ■:-•••.-.! li> per cent advance in wages «as granted at Pall Kivr. There is no indication that high prices for pig iron have restricted the demand, and reports from th< furnaces Indicate thai a new high record output may be expected foi the month of November. Senatoi elect "Jen!" Davis, of Arkansas, threat ens, with ih» aid of Governor Yardatnan, to .shake up the United Mates Senate, it Is sje "i of lilm to make his intentions known bo lonp in advanoe. The Benats baa had much experience with ambitious men who aspired te make it over, it win be ready for Benator Davis when hs comes aiong. Eve was excluded several thousand years ago from the Garden of Eden, and now one Id «x eluded from th? Charlton T.ihrary. pf Worcester, Mass. That Is px post farto with a vengeance. "Sororities" and "fraternities" among the echool children are worrying Chicago. Here is a list of "stunts" In a "sorority" Initiation: Bend 100 times. Break epg on her head. Search for coign in mollasses. Search for coign in flour. Eat unpleasant things. Pour water down sleeve. Take poison. Walk on corn or walk in molasses. Let candlegreaso drip on her hand. Brand her tongue. Brand her hands with India Ink. The spelling Is that of a high school girL As hazers the girls are evidently Just about as clever as the boys. The Chinese anti-opium edict is a sweeping measure, which, If enforced, will be of inesti mable benefit to China physically and morally. Seeing, however, that probably a majority of those who will be charged with its enforcement are themselves opium users, there may be soma emphasis placed upon ti: * "if." They pay that when a man is short of pocket money in The Bronx he plants Ms Ivuse wher>» the borough officials design to open a strr -t. When tlio street is op« ned th~ city buys t'.ie house but obligingly return? it for a small co:i sMeratJon to its former owner, who sets it ur> again where another stisol is to be opened, anl repeats the process. It is an Improved style off municipal ownership. If the Harvard footbal! ■ißßS#a.fa had only been able to dictate tho make-up of the Yale eleven as well as the choice of offl. lala for the game on Saturday. Harvard might possibly have won. Perhaps her representatives will deliver such nn ultimatum another y>ar. PERSONAL. The newly elected Mayor of Hull. England. Henry Friedman, J. P . Is the first Jew to occupy that place. He was born In Hull flfty years ago, an«l lias held many »-ltjr offices, besides the presi dency of the larK« J*-v.is!i congregation of that I'lace. A prominent leader in the British Parliament. R. W. Perks, said recently that in order to test the efficacy of foreign mission work he placed a report of twenty years ago side by side with one of th« present time and compared the figures. A3 a result of his study he increased his annual gift for this work from $30 to $2,500. James T. McDermntt. Democrat, who will repre sent Packingtown. 111., in the next Congress, began life as a messenger boy, picked up telegraphy and left the city to begin the campaign which won for him a seat In the national House of Representa tives. He is thirty-four years c!d. The new Minister of War of Austria. General Franz Schoenich. is sixty-two years old. and has worn th* uniform of his country since ha became a cadet in the military school at Hamburg. He saw active service for the first time when he was eighteen- years old, In the Sehleswig-Holsteln cam paign, and two years later took part in the battle of KCnlggratz. The new Secretary of State. Alois Lexa yon Aehrethal, Is fifty-two years old. Ho comes of an ell Bohemian family. He was educated in the universities of Prague and Bonn and began his diplomatic career in 1877 as a sub stitute attache of the Austrian Legation at Paris. After filling: many responsible positions In the diplo matic service he was Bent as Ambassador to St. Petersburg and remained there from ISM until he was recalled to take the State portfolio. Ex-Pc.stmaßt«r General and Mrs. James A. Gary have issued Invitations for a reception on Novem ber 27. the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding, at their home. No. 1200 Linden avenue. Baltimore. An Interesting featur* of the occasion will be th» presence of their seven daughters in their wedding gowns. Mrs. Gary's sister, Mrs. Teresa Wilson, who was maid of honor at the wedding half a cen tury ago, and who is the only surviving member of the original wedding party, except Mr. and Mrs. Gary, will also be present. Mary Anderson de ICavarro, who recently issued her memoirs, has sent a copy of th« book to the Commercial Club, of Louisville, Ky., with the fol lowing note: "For the Commercial Club, of Loula vllle, with the best wishes of Mary Anderson da Navarro. a loyal lover of Kentucky." At ths last meeting of the Academic d« Medeclne Professor Polrler announced that Baron Henri de Rothschild had given 100,000 francs for the founda tion of a French Institution for the study of can cer. Since then more gifts have been received, do that the amount has no-.v reached 146.000 francs. It Intends to raise further sums by means of an "appeal to the reason, hearts and purses of French men and wom»a." THE TALK OF THE DAY. Farafflna wax models of all proposed British 'bat tleships are used by the Admiralty for tests before the keels of the ships are laid down, the miniatures being tested in a great tank. The models are from 12 to 24 feet long, the tank being .400 feet long: and 20 feet wide. Th? mode's are made of wax because it Is a material which does not absorb water or change its weight, so that alterations can be easily made, and the material can be melted up and used again. The American naval authorities also have models of all their hulls constructed, but these are much more elaborate than the British, being formed of white pine and fitted with rudders, false keels. propeller shafts and all et c<?teras. Colonel Chlnn (of Kentucky).— The newspaper business must be •:"in< to the devil nowadays. Newspaper Publisher - How so?- Colonel Chirm — Why. thsre were thirteen report ers up at the legislature yesterday, and not one of them would take a drink.— Somerville Journal. Investigation of the capacity of hens to lay eggs results in the discovery that the- esrsr production of liens decreases considerably after the a?e of four years. Thus, a Ken lays at the apre of one year about twenty ep::;*: at the age of two years, about 120; at the age of three years, about ISo; at the age of four years, about 115; at the age of five years, about eighty, and at the age of six years. about sixty. These figures so to show that hens should never be kept In the poultry yard more than four years, for after the lapse of this time they da not yield a proper return m the food they censume. Old Farmer — \"<\ I don't want any more of your labor-saving machines. I've tried enough on 'em. I.rok i: ■!•■. There's r% typewrit machine tho missus spent all her • -•■■ and butter money on to buy for me. "pause I ain't *•< over handy with the- I en. Just look .-it the swindle. Friend What's the matter with It? Old Farmer— Matter! Why, you can't even write yer name with the bloomin' thins unless ye know how tn play the planner, Tit Bits; Figures concerning the students matriculated at Cornell in the last twenty years .indicate* that 42 per cent I eve com« from private schools and 53 per cent from public schools. Of private school pupils IS wen dropped after th? first term ond 111 from public school?, and the percentage of failures among the public school graduates is much lower than those of private schools. Consequently, tin Cornel] faculty favors withdrawing the privilege of admission by certificate from private schools. '•Who is the tittle man talking to the political boss over there Vl ' **"""-"* "That's Justasgocd. the druggist" "What • '••• i he want?" '•!!<• wants to have a prohibition law passed by tlit> n.-xt Legislature. • " l: "' how can that benefit him?" '•i:i.! Didn't i lell you !:•■ was a dru^ist?'— Cleveland Plain Dealer. *-.•<•• - A year ago Mine. Duse offered a prize of 10 OCO lire for the beat Italian drama. Now tho Judges announce thnt among the throe hundred works sub r" Ut 'vc 'th V l! ' " rOt f ° lmd a S "' gU% ° ne worthy to iward, to you Mend to teal hi- saa* ' ' ' ■ •' '■ '■' l!>i laughs.- Puck. A well-to-do elderly gentleman living in one of the suburbs of Philadelphia; lys -Tho Record." is known In the ne! S hborhj»o\i as something of m miser and has made WnieW extremely unpopular with lorn i tradesmen by always pleadli . f . x measure and hi, , owne , 3 ,„ ettflhg bis b-.iu. Quite recently h« was feeling ill and consulted a Ph>-B«cian. who wrote bin ■ prescription, which he took to a dru^ store near his homo to have filled. He «ur« and let mo have good measure, wont you._ ' Mr. Blank?" said be, with his customary smirk, and a broad smlto came over the face of the druggist as be real , he prescription. "For ;i; i: '. 1 ' : - '"' :| "1- "I would be glad to do it it I elate,!, for if i put tll ono Kraln more tlum thl3 KSute "°-£ calls for you would be <I**d1 ** d In five minutes. ..ii , lull X * l ° way: ntn ttt * luWor ?>an h raliroad"- D t « 1 ; 11 . •>• fhllluu say! An* »'- :.■■; „';: .';■',:;;«' up - •"» Pass ile time er Jay Urtamiu- -boat do conUii' er de Chrls'must _ —Atlanta Constitution, GUELPH BRUNSWICK. Varied Themes from an Old Germ** Torcn. Brunswick. N- Ov , mb^ * In datinpr from th!» old Ouelph c* p , tw * closing number of a short series of litters fw! Germany. I have a free range of taesMa *? Regency question is uppermost here, sine* ft 75 " bern raised In an aggressive form b7 th s? tional Assembly of the duchy la an nltl~ *" to the Duke of Cumberland and hi his ova " respondence with the German Etnp*ror ana f^ Chancellor. He h«s an abstract bat Bhtda*! right to the lost Guelph kingdom of HaiK> which can be restored only by a canißaita^ volving the humiliation of Prussia and tlu versa! of Badowa and the war over the duchw and he also has an undisputed claim tat th***!' cession to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lttn-b^- He has offered to renounce for himself and i*. eldest son their rights to the duchy so th*t r±* succession can pass to the youngest son- k-» Ibis proposal has been rejected by th« Cha-a«f lor and the German Emperor for dM sftjalsa reason that Brunswick may become a baf»» station toward the re-establishment of the X'» dom of Har.ov^r. He Is now making a <*£*• appeal to foreign courts for moral support Hi has been visiting the Emperor Francis Jote^. he has been appealing to th» sympathies of -j^ Danish court, and as % a prince of Great Brttsia and Ireland, and so styled by the Genaaa Ja,. peror in the correspondence, he Is taking »jhl tlve measures to have hts case accurately sta^j and fully understood In England. Smp^ti the heir to the lest throne and estates of •- Guelphs will command at courts where he asl his wife are closely related to reigning faml^ss but these overtures axe deeply resented already both In Berlin and Brunswick, and will probably hasten the election of another ruler by As General Assembly of the duchy. The <&ij>i rights are so Indisputable that he cannot be properly described as a pretender to tha Brass wick title; but the classes and masses are alias coldly Indifferent to. his claims and fortunes. H» stands for a tradition which has passed a^ar. and they are engrossed with the realities at German progress. The stranger Is not Interested In these shade-*! of the old Ouelph order— these dynastic Intriguaj in foreign courts. Hi 3 eyes are caught and fas. dnated by the antique architecture. Brunswick Is the Nuremberg of North Germany. la tha old town, encircled with gardens and promt nades where once were the defences and coati, there are scores of mediaeval houses in brick or timber, with narrow gables, high peaked tiled roofs and Renaissance facades with Italian na tives of ornamentation. These Impart a moss distinctive character to it than either the high towered Romanesque churches, half trassfsnssi Into Gothic, or the modern architecture, ssos> tlonally good as It la. These picturesque guild halls and merchants' houses did no: lose their essential German qualities even when tricked out with Italian richness of style. The panel ling may have found its way into moaev..-_j as examples of oldtlme craftsmanship and the an tique furniture may have been emptied out of the halls and drawing rooms Into curtoalty'shops, but the gables and roof lines are cj uncom promisingly native as the language of Luther's Bible. There Is the same jumble of styles that makes Nuremberg picturesque and (tollghtf,. In the marketplace axe the wings of the (Sethis Rathhaus, with open arcades, delicate stone tracery and richly carved beams; the Renais sance G&wandhaus. with Its nine tiers of ssab?t> ure and ornament, and the Romanesque basilic* of St. Martin's, In various stages of transition. In the rambling streets running out of the BBS> kllnt, the Kohlmarkt. and the Burg Plate the:» are pure Gothic structures like the Alta \fsap and timber Renaissance mansions, with the gables tilted at the ends so as to leave the lea,; side free for artistic embellishment with raised balconies, overlapping stories, carved balustrades and cornices, projecting windows and orna mental shells, fans, schemes of foliage and bur lesque relief. Happy Is the traveller with an for variety of form and fantastic ornament who is free to stroll among these brick guildhalls and timber houses, and to mark the contrasting ef fects of the mediaeval churches! It Is a mas querade of many styles without regularity of design or symmetry of treatment, and with all the ornamental motives borrowed from Italy there Is always the characteristic German structure. The new architecture blends so happily with th» old brick and timber houses that aae » reminded of Munich as well as of Nurauibaaf There are the Romanesque theatre, the ear'.y Gothic Townhouse, the Renaissance palace bH a quadriga above the portal and with the Ducal Museum, the Technical High School and many other modern Italian structures to match it- The old motives are repeated In the new archi tecture with fine variety, and one does not sasa to pass from one age to another tn going from one quarter of the town to another. Brunswick, with all its modern additions and outlytna? •■>• urbs, is a homogeneous city with a unity and dignity of its own. like Munich. Its architects under the Regency. Instead of laboring SSsi heavy hands, like those of Berlin and Hanovar, have been inspired by reminiscences of Ger man. Gothic and Italian Renaissance In tBS oil quarter and have displayed lightness of Mats in ornamenting the new structures designed by them. If there are fewer fountains than ts Nuremberg, and not so many museums ft."-* Renaissance facades as in Munich, thera ar* spacious promenades and parks ornamented with good statuary. iisid there Is an air of stately elegance and artistic refinement which justslSi the conclusion that Germany with Its highly or ganized system of education has become a ui«e cultured as well as a richer nation. One doe* not have the same Impression in other town* where a mob of mediocrities has apparently taken possession of the art and architecture ana driven out the Genius of Decoration. In Brass wick the new artists, like the old -raftsmen who worked on the vaulting of the Romaneses churches or among the gables of th« tlabef houses, have understood something of the poetry of their trade. s Here, at least, one Is prepared to accept wttn out unnecessary resistance the German boa* : that the Fatherland has the best system of tsch nlcal education In the world Evidence of thor ough training in handicrafts and the art ci. « sign tills th* eye at every turn: and when t- Technical High School Is found among «■ northern promenades It Justifies the «Dec:^ that Ike most advanced and adsoUas proce" of Education are systematically conducted her* With a more modern structure than th« « Ouelph palace, which has been converted into technical col'ese at Hanover, it la *^ equipped Institution, with over Otty ' ror^*l^ and teachers tn the divisions of archltacro^ civil engineering, me.-hanical9ngineerlng.nl* lurgy. chemistry, pharmacy, art and '•-;•»;); j there are tares collections for the lllustrauo practical sciences. With, about fiv« ns -T~j students, tt tj. the smallest of the nine n^ high schools, which are allowed to ccn-sr^ (Trees. Berlin standing at the top of the ii» * over 4,300 students and a teaching staff or *- . four hundred. These technical college* «•■«£ ■ plemented by hundred of auxiliary ' for special training In agriculture, M«^ brewing, mining, marine architecture. working, textile and ceramlo tauU *™ !fl neering. commerce, wood working, m ~ .vt every form of art industry. Every « » n« lovV an.l occupation is scientifically tans^ » r a cost as to be within the lON »'- tha c classes; and every decade since too mvm~—. 1