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MONDAY, MARCH 13. 1922.
Who Is a Mental Defective?
A measure recently introduced at
Albany by Senator Knight might
well be called the Who's Loony Now
lull. It would apply to the State in
general, but its character is most
quickly seen through a perusal of
the paragraph relating to this town
and its inhabitants:
"Whenever In the city or New
Tork an Information is laid before
a magistrate that a person la appar
ently a mental defective, the magis
trate must Issue a summons or war
rant to any marshal or policeman
of the city of New Tork, reciting the
?ubatance of the Information and
commanding the appearance of the
alleged mentally defective person be
fore the magistrate or his arre*t and
production before such magistrate."
After all that, it the magistrate
decides that the prisoner is "appar
ently a mental defective" he must
send him to Bellevue for examlna
tion.
What a joy the passage of this
bill would be for quarreling neigh
bors! Mrs. Doe afTronts Mrs. Roe.
who thereupon decides that such an
insolent person must be a mental
defective. She lays information
against Mrs. Doe with a magistrate,
who must (the clause is mandatory)
order the summons or arrest of Mrs.
Doe. Even if the magistrate is wise
enough to determine the exact state
of the prisoner's mentality, Mrs. Roe
has had her triumph. "She was
pinched once for being nutty' will
fol?w Mrs. Doe for the rest of her
life in that neighborhood.
Aside from the opportunities it
plves to the spiteful a law such as
Senator Knight has drafted would
be a dangerous thing. What is a
mentally deficient person? Accord
ing to the International Encyclo
pedia he is "one who by reason of
anatomical or pathological condi
tions occurring in the brain at or
before birth is unable to compete
successfully with his normal fellows
in play, study or work." That is as
wide as a church door. With the
Knight bill as a whip thousands of
persons could be driven through it
Into Bellevue; persons who will live
find die without harming anybody
or anything. The scientists class
among mental defectives those per
sons who, although they make a live
lihood, do so through guidance and
not independently. Under the Knight
bill they would have to serve their
time of observation in Bellevue and
their later fate might be worse.
Almost every normal child learns
before the age of 12 years who an 1
what Benedict Arnold was, and
never forgets. But Henr>" Ford,
?hen he was questioned about
Arnoi.d a . couple of years ago. did
not know who he was. If the Knight
measure and the Blnet-Simon tests
;.ad been applied to Mr. Ford in the
years when presumably he was "un
rble to compete with his normal fel
lows in study" he might have been
'lurried to the Bellevue of his town
and perhaps locked up permanently.
Yet It is the common judgment of
Mr. Ford's business competitors that
he Is about as mentally deficient as i
SOIOMON was.
Commissioner Coi.kr of the Depart-,
ment of Public Welfare very prop
erly opposes the Knight bill, its
passage, he truly says, would mean |
that any person could be haled be- |
fore a magistrate and perhaps Bent
nway for observation as insane.
The bill smells like another efTort
on the part of the League to Regu
late Everybody and Everything.
Mr. Townley's New Project.
The founder of the Non-Partisan
League, Arthtr C. Townijsy, Is out
of Jail and in the field of radical
political endeavor onre more. Prior
to his collision with the laws of Min
nesota which resulted in his confine
ment In the Jackson county prlBon
for three months Mr. Towni.f.t was
the big boss of the Nonpartisan
League. Under his administration
its unsound financial and economic
theories were so effectively applied In
North Dakota that more than forty
hanks were forced to close their
doors, the State's credit was 1m
jiiured and thousands of farmers
. ere reduced from a dream of wealth
to indebtedness which was a back
breaking reality.
Mr. rowNucy has abandoned the
league. When the organization's
* ortfl Dakota conference last year
gave him only eleven votes, and
v ir.UAM Lockk of Fargo took charge,
v-NLEY became convinced that the
organization had outlived its useful
ness. But Locke failed as Townley
had failed. By a referendum vote
the electors of North Dakota re
moved from office Attorney-General
Loc ke, Commissioner of Labor J. N.
Hag ax and Governor Lynx J. Fra
zikk, thus establishing for North
Dakota the distinction of being the
first State in the Union to oust a
Governor by the recall.
Recognizing that the League Is mori
bund, Mr. Townley now proposes po
domination by a firmly organ
zed bloc of convinced radicals and
believers In financial heresies. He
estimates that there are about 250 -
000 of these in Minnesota alone
From this reservoir he would draw
boards of inquisition before which
every candidate for office would be
arraigned for searching examination
as to his faith In State owned and
operated industries and all the other
dogmas of Townleyism pure and un
settled. Whether the candidate
passed a satisfactory examination or
whether he incurred sentence of po
litical death would not be immedi
ately revealed. He would be left In
suspense until the last moment. Just1
before election the decisions in all
cases would be published in the form
of orders to voters as to candidates
for whom to vote.
By this swinging of a compact,
powerful minority vote Mr. Tows
i.ey is confident he could enforce the J
entire program of Socialism as effec-j
tively aa though he still dominated
the Non-Partisan League.
France Cutting Interest.
France has just reduced the inter
est rate on her national defense
bonds from 5 per cent, to 4% per
cent. This move had two good pur
poses.
One of these made for a lower cost
for her money and a lower bank
rate for business. In line with this
action of the Government the Bank
of France on Saturday cut its dis
count rate to 5 per cent, from 5%
per cent., the rate which has been
in effect since July 28, 1921. Five
per cent, is the lowest discount rate
the Bank of France has fixed since
August 20, 1914.
The other was an offer of one-half
of 1 per cent, additional interest be-'
yond the fixed 4% per cent, interest;
of the new national defense bonds, I
or a straight 5 per cent, interest, on
such bonds as were purchased before |
March 11. This was good business1
and good psychology. There is nel
better way to insure a wide subscrip
tion to a bond issue than by giving
it a bargain flavor.
In the last year the French Gov
ernment has taken steps to end the
inflation evil, and a reduction of
2,000,000,000 francs has been accom
plished in the paper money circula
tion of the Bank of France. This de
flation policy In French finance was
inaugurated before M. de Lasteyrie,
the present Minister of Finance"
took office, but he is carrying on the I
good work.
A Recruit to Archaeology.
The Island of Corfu, off the Greek
coaat and alirost opposite the boot
hcel of the Italian peninsula, has
long been a hunting ground for pro
fessional and amateur archa?ologlsts.
Learned men have dug there many
years for antiques and the peasant
farmer tenderly handles the soil his
hoe turns over in th? hope of Ending
an ancient bronze 01 marble which
will pay him better than the crops
he might raise.
In the ranks of these del vers
was the former German Emperor.
Wiixiam II., who, according to Infor
mation from Holland, Is about to
publish a book treating ot his exca
vations on the Island in 1911. The
treatise was necessarily delayed, but
| as the site which he uncovered dates
back about 2.500 years the postpone
ment of a few years in publication
may lie immaterial.
Corfu is rich in history and tra
dition. Had there been no Corfu, or
Corcyra. as the ancient Greeks called
it, there would have been one less
phase of the Peloponneslan war to
puzzle the youthful student of Greek.
There might have been too one less
incident in the "Odyssey," for a pile
of rocks on the coast is, according to
tradition, the ship In which Ulysses
sailed to Ithaca turned to stone, and
a sandy beach near by Is the place
where the hero was cast, ashore and
met the Princess Nausicaa.
The former Emperor spent a
month or two every year on the
island from 1907, when he bought
the Villa Achilleion, the favorite
home of the Austrian Empress
Elizabeth, until the outbreak of the
world war. He wished to go Into ex
ile there rather than to remain in
Holland, a plan of which the Allies
did not approve. He said that there
he forgot affairs of state and gave
himself up to study and meditation.
In his book he treats of the exca
vation of a temple of the sixth cen
tury before the Christian era. This
was evidently near the tomb of
Mkmx ratkh, who Imagined himself
Jupiter and who was ready at any
moment to hurl the thunderbolts of
Olympus, an ancient worthy who must
have appealed strongly to Wjt,i,iam
in those days.
As an excavator of antiquities the
former Kaiser appears In a new rrtle
The general belief was that he de
voter) rot ? 1HIV of his t-nie on
Corfu to modern art, especially to
the Temple of Heine and Louis
H.asski.hiss's statue of the poet, a me
morial which the Empress Elizabeth
had erected on the grounds of the
Achillelon. To the Empress Heinbioh
Heine was tho most beloved of poets,
to the Hohenzollerns his very name
wj - anathema.
William let the temple fall into
ruins and he toppled the statue off
it? base. So fir as h,-> was coacerned
it would never have been excavated
to find a resting place elsewhere. In
his "Souvenirs of Corfu" he might
give a touch of modernity to his nar
rative by explaining this incident.!
Since then Germany's opinion of,
Heine has greatly changed as well
as its opinion of the HohenzoJerns 1
Discontent in the Mandate Isles.
All is not lovely in the sprinkled'
Mandate Islands; "lily 0D lily that I
o'erlace the Pacific sea," as Mr. Lodoe '
so charmingly painted them at the'
Washington conference. There are
white shadows in tho South Seas !
other than those described by the
South Seas school cf fiction, or at
least there is one shadow, and its
name is Prohibition.
There Js discontent in that part of
Samoa where New Zealand rules,
and the agitation has gone so far
that a petition has been prepared for
King George, requesting that the af
fairs of Samoa be left to the edmin
istratlon of the native chiefs, with
the help and guidance of a few of
the older residents. New Zealand
sent her Minister for External Af
faire, the Hon E. P. Lee, to examine
into the causes of discontent, and on
his arrival in Apia there was placed
in his hands a bill of complaint in the
form of a letier signed by traders,
planters and other residents declar
ing that "New Zealand's control of
Samoa has beoo a hopelecB tailure."
However, the signers refused to meet
him In person or to discuss their
grievances in^conference.
Minister Lee's investigation dis
closed that of the 131 signers of the
complaint?the total population is
about 33,000?sixty-six were British
half castes and the others were Ger
man, Chinese, American, Danish,
French, Portuguese, Swiss, Norwe
gian, Belgian, Russian and, he adds
casually, ''other" nationals and half
castes. Minister Lek's reply was po
litely phrased, but he went to the
root of the matter by saying "My own
observations confirm me in the con
viction that prohibition is the cause
of most of the discontent." What
can New Zealand do, since prohibition
is expressly imposed under the terms
of the mandate?
There is now pending before the
New Zealand Parliament a bill drawn
by Sir John Saxmond, who was a del- j
egate to the Washington conference, i
for the government of West Samoa.
It provides for a legislative council,
trial by judge, with assessors, pro
hibition of intermarriage of natives
and Chinese, prohibition of importa
tion and consumption of alcoholic
liquors and education in native
schools. It is the ambition of the
New Zealand Government to do for
the natives of Samoa what it has
done for the Maoris. It is safe to say
that if the prohibition law is en
forced the beachcombers of the fu
ture and the lotus eaters of our effete
civilization in their flight from the
responsibilities of life will give
Samoa and the other Mandate Islands
a wide berth.
The natives of the Mandate Islands
may yet live to bless the mandate un
less a thriving bootlegging business
Is set up on nearby shores where the
mandate doesn't work.
Passing of a Great Magician.
With the death of Harry Kellar
at Lob Angeles there passed one of
the last of a group of entertainers
who a quarter of a century or more
ago puzzled and delighted theater
goers by stage magic. Here in New
York they were generally magicians,
in the South conjurers and in the
precise Boston of that day presti
digitators. They were comparatively
few In number: Ket.i.ar, De Kolta,
Wtuiui E. Romssnx, H. T. Sartetj,,
Hkrrmantt the Great and his wife,
Mme. Herrmann, were perhaps the
best known in America. Hkrrmann,
who was KF.u.Am's most formidable
stage rival, died in 1896.
These performers came of a long
professional line if we are to believe
that the priests of ancient Greece
and Egypt were In reality only deal-!
ers In made and that the mystic
words of the oracles of Ephesus, of J
Delphi, and the Sphinx were merely1
tricks. Then there came troops of
1 magic workers of the Middle Ages
i who entert|ined the lords of the cas
; ties and their retatners by the per
j formance of mystifying tricks, and
who were frequently not slow to at
tribute their strange and vaunted!
powers to the ovil himself or to
some other force beyond the under
standing of humanity. The rascally
Caouostro, who professed to be
something of a magician, did not
scorn to confess that he worked with
evil spirits when the good spirits
, failed him.
The magician's calling Improved
with ' time. Tts leading exponents
In recent years laid no claim to
superhuman hHp; they were prouder
to attribute success to their own
I skillful manipulations or their own
Ingenious devices than to black art.
i Kcm.ar made considerable outlays
for his tours; his levltatton trick
cost him ?1,n00 alone, his trick can
non for shooting a man from the
stage into the auditorium $1,800.
His outfit e?fh year cost about ?75,
000. Hcrhmakiv spent as large an;
amount in keying It's displays In
I I
perfect condition and 125,000 In de
veloping new tricks.
Herrmann invented most of his
! stage deceptions. To him la credited
one of the most mystifying and at
the same time the most perilous of
tll tricks, that of catching upon a
' plate bullets fired at the magician
from different parts of the audito
rium. To the profession it was
known as the "trick with the trail
ot blood." In attempting its per
formance on the stage of a London
theater William E. Robinson, or, as
he was better known, Chuno Lung
Soo, met his death. Another victim
was an Irish conjuror, who dropped
dead, struck by six bullets, on a
Dublin stage; others were a son of
the famous French magician Edmond
de Grisy. the wife of the German
prestidigitator Dk Linsky and the
well known "Black Wizard of the
West" who was killed on a Dead
wood', South Dakota, stage. It la
said too that H. T. Sartell perverted
the trick to the use of deliberate
suicide in a Lynn, Massachusetts,
theater.
New York has several times at
tempted to have a theater entirely
devoted to the art of legerdemain,
but has failed. London, though, for
years had a home of magic in old i
St. George's Hall, formerly located
in the Egyptian Hall, and it was
there entertained by Kellar, Hero- j
MaNN, DE KOLTA, BLITZ, JOHN NEVIL
Mabkelyne and John Henry Ander
son. In Paris J. E. Robert-Houoin
attracted the attention of Europe by
his "soirees fantastlques" in his Tem
ple of Magic In the middle of the
last century.
The disappearance of the conjurcr
from the stage except as a vaude
ville performer is perhaps as difilcu
to explain as the passing of the
negro minstrel. Modern Invention
may have a part in relegating the
magician to the past; the working
of electricity is more marvelous than
any of his light tricks, the motion
picture more wonderful than the
visions his magic could conjure up.
The world knows all about his
wooden cabinets, and it can no
longer be deceived by his basket
trick and the vanishing lady, Still
we cannot but miss him, and we
would not regret his coming back.
At his best he was ever entertaining,
and besides he always gave a clean
Why the Bobbed Hair?
The Newark bank that has laid
down rules concerning the personal
appearance of its young women em
ployees has been severe except in
one particular, and that particular
is the one about which young men
are much concerned?the bobbing of
hair.
The girls may not wear dresses
cut low at the neck or showing the
arm above the elbow. They may
not wear their skirts higher than
twelve inches from the ground. 1 he
color of their gowns must be black,
blue or brown. Short skirts, low
necks, haro arms and bright colors,
say the grave bankers, have cut
deeply into office efficiency.
Yet bobbed hair, the most defiant
badge of feminine revolt against the
ancient bondage, is not ruled out.
perhaps the bankers, with their pas
sion for efficiency, are wise in this.
Bobbed hair is not a lure for roan.
The crowning glory which looks as
If it had been hit with an ax at
tracts no rugh of beaux.
Besides, when a girl returns to |
long skirts, high necks, long Bleeves j
and sober colors will she not also
go back to old fashions In hair?
Commissioner Corki.axd of the De
portment of Health is looking for a
lob for a man who arrived here Fri
day with his wife and two-year-old
baby girl after having walked from
San Francisco, starting on Christmas.
This superlative athlete should have
no trouble setting a berth as an in
structor in sprinting.
and wholesome show.
General Emilio Aouinaldo haa sug
gested that gummed photographs of
aspirant? for office be furnlshod to
illiterate voters, who are to paste on
their ballots the pictures of th? candi
dates of their choice. For a good
looking vote seeker this might do very
well, but what of the homely man who
depends on the music of his tongue to
lure the electorate? Should phono
graph records be submitted with por
traits?
Bad hooch kills 100 In a month.?
Newspaper headline.
Bad hooch Is In a fair way to be as
destructive as were the beverages of
another day.
President Hardino has Issued an
executive order at the request of the
Secretary of Agriculture revoking an
order of 1909 by which the Yukon
delta bird reservation of 8.000.000
acres of swamp lands in Alaska was
created. The Biological Survey, ad
ministrator of bird refuge.', found the
land too swampy for white men to do
much damage to birds in It, and dis
covered It was impossible to prevent
the Ksklmos from seeking food within
Its confines. As a matter of fact the
feathered Inhabitants of this tundra
are pretty well protoctod by their
natural surroundings from market
hunters, and the Government has
done well to recognize that fact.
Ktchlng and Pastel.
In outline clear, and sharp, and fine,
The bare trees stand against the sky,
With never hint that ohce they swung
Kslr colored draperies on high.
Ho thin they seem ; so spare; so frail
To hold such wealth of covering,
And far too stiff and gaunt of frame
To bond and sway with graceful swing.
But when relentless Winter's hand
l^ts go Its hold and then gives way
To tender palm of gentle Spring
No more black outlines harsh portray
The framework much too evident
It softens surely by degrees,
And color faintly steals throughout
The once more graceful springtime
trees.
Rt.Affrwc Kr.tfASrrw WapI.
Drains on Our Wealth.
Fffect of Frozen Credits on Our
Foreign Commerce.
To Thb New York Herald: The
swiftly developing International crises of
the last few days call for analytical
examination.
It Is claimed by some that the eco
nomic rehabilitation of Ru?aia 1? the
key to the restoration of normal condl*
tlons In Kurope. And the Illusion cen?
tlnues that this country Is in a state of
unquestioned financial strength. As *
matter of fact close students of the for
eign exchange situation will tell you
that doubtless within a year the pound
sterling will be above par, the flow of
gold eastward from the United States
will have commenced and this nation
will again be a borrower, so fast Is the
gigantic Increment of the invisible trans
action running In the favor of Great
Britain.
The past frozen credits give no sign
of relinquishing their mortmain upon
American commercc and export trade.
Nations supposedly unrehabllltatod finan
cially, as Germany, are trading on long
term credits with South America and
their private wealth is enormously ac
cruing. What will be the situation of
America when the Ice gorge bursts from
Europe and the Far East?
Passively inactive on the Continent
and entering upon a new armed neu
trality in the Far East, cut off by the
rigor of an economic situation favoring
always the peoples of other nations, It
la certainly Incumbent upon us to go
beneath the apparent surface In these
things, bring new foreign relations Into
new accord with sound economic prin
ciples, and stop the enormous drain upon
national wealth and the public security
upellod by the words "lost ocean
freights" and other Invisible transac
tions. Joseph Whiti^. Stinson.
New York, March 11.
Taxes in New Jersey.
Appropriations for Institutions and a
Proposed New Levy.
To The New York Herald: As I un
derstand it the New Jersey Legislature
proposes to Impose an Inheritance tax
of 8 per cent, to raise money to be
expended by the Commission on Insti
tutions and Agencies In lieu of a bond
Issue of several millions, whloh was
voted down by the people of New Jersey
last fall.
The general appropriation bill of 1921
shows appropriations for this commis
sion of $204,847.80 for administration;
for the Colony for Feeble Minded
Males, $188,138 ; Commission for the
Blind, $81,430 ; county support of pa
tients In lunatic asylums, $590,993;
county tuberculous hospitals, $341,256;
Home for Feeble Minded Women, $150,
000; Home for Disabled Soldiers at
Kearny, $183,116; Home for Disabled
Soldiers at Vineland, $220,995; Re
formatory, $306,890; Reformatory for
Women, $131,610.30; Sanatorium for
Tuberculous Disease* $338,289 ; Stale |
Board of Children's Guardians, $110,
805, State Home for Boys, $376,456 ;
State Home for Girls, $300,950.54 ; State
Hospital, Morris Plains, $918,208.63:
State Hospital, Trenton, $889,882.92;
State Institution for Feeble Minded,
$476,625 ; State Prison, $590,489 ; Village
for Epileptics, $247,696 ; Woodbine Col
ony for Feeble Minded Males, $57,000.
Some one remarked the other day that
he thought he would beat some of these
new tax laws by giving away his prop
erty before he died. He will find that
such a plan will not work, as the slick
politicians who drafted these laws an
ticipated just such a move and make
such gifts made prior to death taxable.
To attempt to beat a tax law in that
manner Is the coward's way of meeting
the situation. A red blooded man's way
of meeting the situation is to beat the
politicians who pass these laws.
There is an old saying that there are
a great many commissions created and
a great many offices created, that few
of these office holders die, that none
resign and no offices are abolished; so
that every year there is a constantly
Increasing crowd of office holders fepd
ing out of the taxpayers' trough. And
ultimately the public has got to meet
the situation, for there is not money
enough In creation to satisfy the greed
of the politicians. Alston Bwckman.
Red Bank, N. J., March 11.
A Bequest to a Club.
Form of Memorial Suggested by the
I,ale Lonls Keller's Will.
To Thb New York Herald: I wan Im
pressed by an unusrual bequest contained
In the will of the late Louis Keller, that
of a number of bonds to the Calumet
Club. And then It occurred to me as
strange that such a gift should be un
usual.
Men leave money for multitudes of
charities, for foundations, for monu
ments and for memorials, and what
more fitting memorial can any man
have than the gratitude of many warm
personal friends for a generous gift to
an institution of which he and they were
devoted members? Qiikoarious.
Nbw York, March 11.
Why He Stops.
Regrettable Effect of the Pnbllc's
Hunger for Information.
To Thb Nbw York Hbrai.d : le feel
obliged too desist from sending the nue
york herold nni moer communications
for publication as ie am In constant
reeseet uv batches uv letrs uv Inquiring
about labor, money, monopoly, spelling,
hllng system and rules uv helth soe
that it takes mlo hoel tlem too ansr
them. And it is not satisfactory too
leev them unanswered, for a stamp for
reeplle accompanies neerll evrt wun.
Soe now yoo noe the reesn hwie le
stop, yoori trooll
?dor DAETTf RRINOKBROF.
east oranob, n. j., march 11.
Where Reform Might Begin.
To Thb Nbw York Herald: If the
olty administration 1a In earnest about
preventing crowding on public con
veyances, and Is not merely pursuing
the rapid transit companies for political
effect, wfcy does It not put an end to
the passenger congestion on Its own bus
lines? Chambers Street,
Nbw York, Mnrch 11.
Regnlntlng Epidemic In Wtse?n<ln.
From the Or?*n Hay Promt OoMitU.
Nelner Bad, Racine, thought to be an
Assyrian, was fined $l?i and rests when
arraigned before J mine Thomas Hewlett In
pollrn court on Friday charted with stealing
without a license.
No DUnrmsmont In Kansas Homes.
From tha tndtpendtnc* Rrport"-.
Fred Moxle announces he has .'On rolling
pins to be gtven women who attend (lie roUB
,iy store which ci?en* here to-fBr>rrow iilulit.
Demonstration for Peruvian Singer
Mme. d*Alvarez, at Soloist, Is Center of Interest at
Symphony Concert.
W. J. HENDERSON. j
!n the concert of the Symphony So
ciety In Aeolian Hall yesterday after
noon there was nothing demanding pro
found <onaidwatlon. The orchestral
numbers were the music by Mozart from
the ballet '\L*es Petlts Rlens," Glazounov's
L flat symphony, No. 4, and Mozkowski's
"Moto Perpetuo." The entertalhment
was diversified by the singing of Mmo
Marguerite J'Alvarez, who contributed
first Gluck's "IMvlnltes du Styx" and
afterward *n<chalkowsky's "Ye Who
Have Yearned Alone," an "Agnus Bel"
by Bizet and the eeguldllla from "Car
men."
Without much doubt the Interest of
the audience centered In the doings of
the Peruvian Blnger. When Atme.
d'Alvarez had finished strewing the stage
with the shattered fragments of Cluck's
grand aria the enthusiasm was great
The hall rang with applause and tho con
tralto was recalled twice. The demon
stration aroused wonder as to what
might have happened If the soloist had
sung the nunl t r in the lofty style In
which it was conceived. In her later
numbers the distinguished contralto gave
added pleasure by singing somewhat off
the pitch. Tills is now very popular.
The ballet music of Mozart wai< per
formed apathetically, but It* simplicity
appealed to tho audience. The melodious
and richly colored symphony of Gla
founov had evidently been carefully re
hearsed. It was well received
PHILHARMONIC'S CONCERT.
Erneat Schellln* at Piano When
Own Work la Played.
The Philharmonic Society, under Mr.
Mengelberg's leadership, gave a pro
gram of much variety and Interest yes
terday afternoon In Carnegie Hall. The
compositions consisted of Beethoven's
"Loonoro" overture No. 1, Ernest
Schelling's "Impressions Prom an Ar
tist's Life" In form of variations on
an original theme for orchestra and
pianoforte, with the composer at the
piano; Grieg's "Peer Gynt." suite No. 1?
Berlioz's arrangement of the "InvltaZ
tlon to the Dance" of Weber, and
Johann Strauss's "Wiener Blut" waltz.
Mr. Schelling's variations came al
most as a novelty. The work was
played here on January 6, 1916, by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. The score,
which Is dedicated to Mr. Schelling's
wife, remained In manuscript while the
composer servod his country during tho
war in Europe, and. according to the
program notes. It Is still In manuscript.
There are twenty-two variations in all,
but the number was slightly shortened
for yesterday's performance. Built !
upon a beautiful theme, which Is given J
by the violins, violas and Che piano in I
an ornamental commentary, the varla- '
On the Lorlda Road.
I fared to-day along the ribbon of road
That leads to Lorlda. The sunlight
glowed
Like Itfculd amber on the hills around.
And from the ground
There welled a sibilant and seeping
sound.
The stir of reawakening, and I heard
The silver virginal fluting of a bird?
A clear matutinal call, something elate
The warbler would communicate
Unto Its silent mate,
Love news or nest news of that which
should be
In the selected tree.
And though I could not see
The kindling of the rathe marsh marl
gold,
I sensed Its slumbering flame beneath
the mould.
And though I could not bind
One fine .?'Kollnn harp note of the wind,
Ifs vernal Joyanee lingered In my mind.
And suddenly I was poignantly aware
Of wishing you to share
The hinted ecstasy of earth and air.
For any rapture but the greater grows
If love be present?love that feels and
knows.
So I w?nt on, and In a little wood
Where the tree bolea like shapely amtues
stood
Some Immaterial magic framed your
face;
You had come out of space
At my heart's call to fill my yearning
need;
Beholding you?your sweetness and
your grace?
I was uplifted. It was spring indeed.
Clinton Scollard.
Horses Also Scream.
Incident* of the Passing of a Mighty
Herd of Bnffnloes.
To This Nbw York Hicham) : Aa to
the scream of the mountain lion, per
haps the doubting results from the com
parative Infrequency of the utterance.
Although I lived for years in a moun
tain lion country, and personally have
seen about twenty shot mountain lions
and the comparatively fresh great tracks
of about half a doten others, I have
seen but three mountain Hons at large
In the daytime and havo heard the
mountain lion scream only on two oc
casions, once In the summer of 18*4 tn
the Const Range mountains of California
and again In the summer of 1911 In the
Sierra Nevada, both times from four to
six successive shrieks at night, in wild,
dark eaflon sections, apart 600 mll^s In
distance and twenty-seven years In time.
How many people, how many veteran
range horsemen have ever heard a horse
scream? Or how many have heard a
horse whinny loudly and constantly for
a half hour at a stretch?
The famoiis Indian fighter General
Mnus, who lost an eye In border skir
mishes with renegades and received the
Congressional Medal of Honor for gal
lantry In an Apache campaign, told me
about seventeen years ago of a dramatlo
Incident In which he participated In the
middle '70s. As a young Lieutenant
with an orderly and two Indian scouts
he was trailing the great Nes Perc?
Chief .Toseph in his flight from Oregon
to Canada.
The American scouting party came
Into an open prairie country In Idaho.
They paused on a tiny hillock, scanning
llie horizon. The Indians dropped, ears
to ground. They signaled. Presently
all with ears down heard It distinctly,
the hump, hump, hump of rhythmic "heat,
and far off. of a mighty host marching.
Buffalo I
They came In view; they approached.
General Ma us described the great spread
of that quadruped army, at least Ave
miles wide each way, making a ten
mile front. The scouts fired their car
bines to deflect the avalanche so that
tho leaders would turn aside and not
coma directly over the hillock. One
horse early renred, broke away, fled and
was engulfed In the herd. Two of the
other hor.v*s uttered queer, loud, whin
t it; quenjs and all of them frembNd in
tlona are a series of sketches In which
Mr. Schelllng traces the "note" In t!he
personalities of friends, landscape pic
tures or the spirit of national patriot
ism.
Some of the episodes are marked as
"B. S. O."?wood choir of the Boston
orchestra; "H. P."?Hans Pfltzner, Ger
i man composer and one time teacher
to Mr. Schelllng; one In 'full orchestra
Is for William Mengelberg and others
are to Fritz Krelsler, Paderewskl, "Au
gust, 1914?The Call to Arms."
The variations as a whole are com
posed with much musical beauty, splen
dor of conception and grandeur of style,
us, for Instance, in the "August, 1914."
where the war In all Its fierce Intensity
Is portrayed through rhythms, trum
pets. drums and tonal effects from tho
entire orchestra. Ibe work was bril
liantly performed, and at the closo there
was a long continued ovation of ap
plause which the composer shared with
Mr. Mengelberg and the orchestra.
FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERT.
Alexander Schmuller, Soloist, Flays
Moiart Violin Conoerto Laudably.
The ninth concert of the Society of
the Friends of Music took place yester
day afternoon In Town Hall. The pro
gram consisted of Haydn's O major
symphony, known as "The Oxford
Mozart's D major violin concerto (No.
218 In the Koechel catalogue) and VI
tezslav Novak's "Slovak Suite." The
solo violinist wag Alexander Schmuller.
Artur Bodanzky and an orchestra from
the Metropolitan Opera House were the
other forces engaged In the concert.
The Mozart concerto is no stranger to
local music lovers, who find In it many
things to Interest them. Not the least
of these are certain foreshadowing* of
ideas employed In "Le Nozze dl Figaro."
But possibly what signifies most of all
Is the delightful sontanelty of the com
position and Its perfect suitability to
the Instrument for which It was writ
ten. Mozart studied violin at the feet
of his father, who was a performer and
teacher of fine accomplishments, and at
one time he was ambitious himself to
be a great violinist.
Mr. Schmuller played the concerto
very laudably. His tone was lacking
in limpidity and sonority, but his style
was excellent. There Is always a temp
tation to spoil Mozart by dramatizing
him, even when he is uttering his sim
plest thoughts. Mr. Schmuller was not
led astray. He played the concerto un
affectedly, with care and evidently with
direction.
The orchestral numbers proceeded
rather haltingly. There wi>- irround for
suspicion that not many renoarsals had
been given to the works. They should
not, indeed, call for many, but they
plainly needed more than they had. An
audience of fair size delivered an en
couraging amount of applause.
abject terror with yielding knees and
reared repeatedly.
For four solid hours that herd kept
coming on and passing. We figured the
possible numbers, with the progress at
about ten miles an hour and the herd
closely massed. It went Into millions.
General Maus related It as the most
amazing experience he ever had wit
nessed. He had described It to Frederic
Remington and had offered to guide him
to the spot and describe minutely the
details and the military costumes, but
Remington seemed not sufficiently In
terested In that buffalo stampede as an
eplo In American life that long since
has vanished.
In the summer of 1894, while I was
camping in Yosemlte Valley with Her
bert Hoover and three other college
companions, I heard, while reading In
camp one day, the Insistent and loud
whinnying of a horse, evidently from one
spot and continued probably for more
than half an hour. Familiar with horses
from smallest boyhood and knowing
that horses usually whinny loud when
calling to a missing mate, but generally
while rushing distractedly hither and
yon, I sought the cause of this station^
ary calling.
There, up to Its neck In the frigid
snow waters of the Merced River, was
one of our own horses, its body held from
downstream sweep in the rapids by a
tree that had fallen Into the river, and
the caved In bank Indicating where the
horse, while grazing, had fallen over a
sheer brink. I lassoed the head, but
was unable to pull the weakened animal
In or up the bank, the surface of which
won higher th%n the horse's head. Sound
ing an alarm, soon other campers came
running, and finally by digging down the
bank to an Incline we got the half frozen
horse out and up into the sunshine.
It stood like a croquet wicket, its
four feet together and its whole body
quivering with cold. By rubbing and
sunning, and Anally walking It slowly
and then more briskly for an hour, it
was restored to normal condition. But
I have heard no other horse whinny that
WAy, so plaintively or so long.
Perhaps, as some surmise, the scream
of the mountain lion is uttered only
when the animal is first searching for
a mate that has been shot.
Archie Rice.
New York, March 11.
Eldorado's March to Cnlture.
From tht ffldorado (Kan.) Times,
When the "canap# of Russian caviar" was
served at a local dinner the other evening
half of the guests poked unenthusiastically
at it with a fork while the other half
boldly took It up In their fingers and In
serted It Into their faces. And neither half
enjoyed It a darn bit. Seem* as If the
etiquette sharps would evolve a special tool
for this dainty In order to save plain, plug
folks a hit of embarrassment. Then a
young man carefully saved one of the two
knives laid at his plate by the thoughtful
waitresses. In order to have It when the
pie came around. And?oh, bitter luck
no pte was served.
Te Rerlbe Issues m Warning.
Tyler correspondence In Orand Prairie (Ark.)
Herald.
We write these Item* as they are told to
us and the editor prints them as wo write
them. If you don't go where you said you
were going that Is your hard luck. It pays
to be careful how you talk before a news
paper correspondent.
Old Fashioned Customs Survive.
Route Biz forreirp'intleni ?? in the H'nuseon
Demorrattn R- potitor.
Edd Yoders entertained Indies at a Quilt
ing Wednesday.
Faith.
Pushed a seed by faith alone
Through the dark to the unknown,
Came at last through winter's gloom
On a mountain top to bloom.
Shook the dirt from off Its neck,
Oroomed Itself without a fleck,
Raised Its head and at the sky
Cocked a blue untroubled eye.
Quoth the mountain, "It is well
Deeper down it did not dwell;
Faith like that another place
Might have moved me from my bsss."
MrT>A nobi; now Wii.son.
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.
Kor Eastern New York?Fair to-day ;
to-morrow Increasing cloudtnesa. not
much change in temperature; moderate
variable winds, becoming cas; and
southeast.
For New Jersey?Fair to-day; to-morrow
Increasing cloudiness. probably followed by
rain by to-morrow night; not much dhange
in temperature: moderate variable winds, be
coming cast and southeast.
I'or Northern New Ktiglund?Fair to-day;
to-morrow increasing cloudiness: not much
change In temperature; moderate variable
wind*, becoming east and southeast.
ror Southern New England?Fair to-day;
to-morrow Increasing cloudiness; uot much
change in temperature; m<xli-r?te variable
winds, becoming etust and southeast.
For Western New York-Fair and warmer
to-day; to-morrow rain; moderate variable
winds, becoming east and southeast.
WASHINGTON, March 12.?The. disturb
ance that wan centered south of Cane Cod
yesterday has moved east northeast w?uu.
^ C(TltPr wn? south of Newfoundland
to-night. U was followed by a decided i.
crcasu in pressure over eastern Canada an >
the Eastern States.
Tho disturbance over the far Southwest
has moved east southeastward to southwei
nnd Preaaure was abnormally low
to-night over the Canadian northwest. Fair
weather has prevailed during the last twenty
four hours, except that there were rains in
southern California, southern Arizona and in
the northern Pacific States. Snow in north
ern Arizona and southern Utah and light
rain along the southern New Kngland count,
the temperaturo was above normal to-night
almost generally east of the Rocky Moun
tains, except along the southern Atlantic
coast, anil It was considerably below normn!
in the plateau region and California
Generally fair weather will prevail to
morrow In tho States east of tho Mississippi
River, except that local rains are probable
In the cast Gulf States. Tho weather will
become unsettled, however, Tuesday and
rain to probable by Tuesday night almnet
generally cast of the Mississippi River, ex
,?Pt the north Atlantic States nml south
ern Florida. Tho temperature changes will
not bo Important during the next two days.
Observations at United States Weather
Bure?u stations, taken at 8 P. M. yesterday
?eevonty-flfth meridian time:
Temperature. Rainfall
la?t 24 hrs. Baro- last 24
btatlona. High. Low. meter, hrs. Weather.
Abilene 32 78 2!).70 ... Clear
Albany 4? 32 30^4, Cl?ar
Atlantic City.. 4d r,4 30.41 ... Clear
Baltimore Ml 88 30.44 ... Clear
Bismarck 41 38 29.78 ... Clear
r.0 34 30 40 ... Clear
"uff*'o 44 30 30.42 ... Clear
Cincinnati 54 02 30.30 ... Clear
Charleston 03 60 30.34 ... Clear
Chicago 44 3d 30.1 fl ... Pt.Cl'dy
Cleveland BO 82 30.34 ... Clear
?*rve,r 48 32 29.84 ... Cloudy
r>?tr?>lt B0 82 30.34 ... Clear
Gaveeton (HI 50 29! in ... Cloudy
Helena 48 42 20.02 ... Clear
Jacksonville... 72 B4 30.24 .. rt Cl'dv
Kansas City... B6 88 29.02 ... Clear
Ixm Anglos... 00 B8 80.12 ... Clear
Milwaukee.... 44 34 30.14 ... Cloudy
New Orleans.. 08 54 80 12 .. Rain
Oklahoma 73 f,fi 20.80 ... pt.Cl'ftr
Philadelphia... B4 80 30.42 ... Clear
Pittsburgh S8 34 30.30 ... Clear
Portland, Me.. 46 80 80.40 ... Clear
Portland, Ore. 40 42 29.84 . 22 Rain
Salt Lake City 80 34 30.12 ... Cloar
San Antonio... 78 .. 29.SO ... Pt.Cl'dy
fan IDIego BO B4 30.12 ... Clear
Snn Francisco. B0 B2 80.10 ... Clear
Seattle 4(1 44 29.74 ... Pt.ClMy
S!* liou 3 rA 88 30.10 ... Clear
?.V ?iuL* 48 40 29.80 ... Clotuly
Washington... B6 34 30.44 ... Clear
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.
8 A.M. 8 P.M.
Barometer KR 44
Humidity 80.23 30.42
wind?direction N.E. N W
Wind?velocity 10 fl
Weather Clear Clear
11 "cipitatlon 44 .03
The temperature In this city yesterday, a-<
recorded by the official thermometer. Is
shown in the annexed table:
8 A.M.... 87 IP. M 40 8 P.M.... 40
0 A.M.... 39 2 P. M 49 7 P. M.... 48
10 A.M..., 41 8P.M.... B0 8P.M.... 48
11A.M.... 41 4 P. M B0 9 P.M..,. 47
12 M 4.1 BP. M..., 50 10 P. M 47
1922. 1921. 1922. 1921.
IV A. M 80 43 8 P.M.... 49 48
12 M 43 53 9 P. M 47 47
3 P. M B0 54 12 Mid 48 47
Highest temperature, 52, at 2:30 P. M.
Lowest temperature, 34, at 7 A. M.
Average temperature, 43.
EVENTS TO-DAY,
International Flower Show. Grand Central
Palace, opening day.
Major-Gen. John F. O'Ryan will revtaw
the Seventh Ileglment In commemoration of
the twenty-fifth nrmlversary of hie enlist
ment In the regiment, armory. Park avenue
and Sixty-sixth street, 8:30 P. M.
Henry D. Saver, State Industrial Commis
sioner, will speak on "Medical Aspects of
the Workmen's Compensation Law." before
the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, New
York Academy of Medicine, 17 West Forty
third street, 8:30 P. M.
Mast meeting of women, auspices of
women's clubs of the city, Town Hall, 128
West Forty-third street, 8:15 P. M.
Representatives Club, luncheon. Hotel Penn
sylvania, 12:30 P. M.
H. V. Kaltenborn will speak at a meeting
?f the Ohio Society, Waldorf-Astoria, 8
P. M.
Charlei Hanson Towne will give a poetry
rending, auspices of the Poets Guild, Chrlstr
dora House. 147 Avenue B, 8:80 P. M.
The Very Rev. Albert C. Larned will speak
on "How Shall W? Counteract the Pelaglan
Ism and Nestorianlsm of the Present Day?"
Church of the Transfiguration, 1 East Twen
ty-ninth street, 8 P. M.
New York Academy of Sciences, section of
biology, meeting, American Museum of Natu
ral History, 8eventy-?eventh street and Cen
tral Park West, 8 P. if.
Surrogate George M. S. Schull wffl speak
on "The Hope of the World," Star Demo
cratic Club, 037 Whltlock avenue. The Bronx,
8:30 P. M.
Alfred W. Martin will lecture on "Brown
ing as a Spiritual Force." Town Hall. 123
West Forty-third street, 11 A. M.
Alice T. Coseo will speak on "The Age of
Ivanhoe." for high school classes. Metro
politan Museum or Art, 4 P. M.
Society of Independent Artists, exhibition.
Waldorf-Astoria, all day.
New York nnd Brooklyn Meat Packers
Roard of Trade, meeting. Hotel Commodore,
2 P. M.
Congregational Club, dinner. Hotel McAlpln,
7 P. M.
United Real Estate Owners Association,
meeting, Hotel Astor, 8 P. M.
PUBLIC LECTURES TO-NTGHT.
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
"Trend of the Times," by Prof. Nelson P.
Mead, at Washington Irving H. 8., Irving
place and Sixteenth street
"Trend of the Times," by Prof. William
B. Otis, at Pilgrim Hall, Fifty-sixth street
and Broadway.
"Trend of the Times." by Arthur t>. Re?*.
at Morris H. 8., lflCth Ptreet and Boston
road. The Bronx.
"Books That Every One Should Know?
Dickens's "The Plckwlrk Papers' and 'Martin
Chur.slewlt.' " by Prof. J. G. Tarter Troop,
at P. 8. MM, 225 West 10.8th street.
"Six Cylinder I/ove," by Dr. Henry R.
Ro*r\ at. P. 8. 48. 1.11th etreet and St. Nicho
las nvenue. Illustrated.
"The lyrvo of God In Stone." by Arthur 3.
Weetermayr, at P. 8. fiO. 228 Kast Fifty
seventh street. Illustrated.
"Vacation Peril," by Dr. Edward A. Good
win. at P. 8. 1 r.7. St. Nicholas avenue and
127th street. Illustrated.
"Human Flight Through the Age?." hr
Adrian Van Muffling, at Labor Temp!*,
Fourteenth street ami Second avenue. Illus
trated.
"The Period of the Great War." by Father
Daniel C. Cunnlon, at at. Columba Hall, 3'3
West Twenty-fifth street.
??forest Life," bv Mr. Franklin Moon, a'
Bvander Chllds H. 8 . 184th street and Field
place, The rtronx. Illustrated.
BROOKLYN AND QUEENS^
"Trend of the Times," by Mis* Jennie M
Davis, at Tlushwlck H. 8? Irving avenue at .1
Madison street.
"Trend of the Times," by Dr. Pvdney V.
tTsslier, at Eastern District H. 8., Marry
avenue and Keap str. et.
"Trend of the Times," hy Prof. William
?. Guthrie, at r H. 80. Gleanc street and
lirltton avn ue, Klmhui *t, L. I.
"As You Uke It," dramatic rtadlrg, by
Mis* Moni Morgan, at Erasmus Hall H. P..
Flatbush avenue, near Church avenue.
"The Business Msn vs. the Theater." by
Rowland Tlf ll, at M-vnual Training H. 8 .
Seventh avenue and Fifth atreet.
"Serbian Rebulldlmr to Amori.aa Eduet.
tiro," by nr. Rosalie 8. Morten, at Brooklyn
public Library. Greenpolnt Brnr.ef>. Norman
avenue and Leonard street. Illustrates.
?The Duties of the Borough President," by
Mauri, e K. Connolly, at Richmond Hill H. P..
Plootl off and Jii.lsewood avenues. Richmond
Hill. L. 1.
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