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THE SUNDAY. OREGONIAN, PORTIAND, FEBRUARY 2, 1913. 11 The Blood of the Kmthrm, by Dr. G. Prank Lydaton. The Rlverton Press. Chicago. IlL Have you ever witnessed Ibson's re markable play. "Ghosts"? If so you will be better prepared for the thrilling- study on heredity and the crime problem, unfolded in this play of four acts. Dr. Lydston is a Chicago physician and a professor In the medi cal department of the University of Illinos. He is not afraid to speak out, and with conspicuous ability he por trays the terrible results of inherited degeneracy. His play at once moves and thrills, and the appeal is so power ful that the reader Is wondering? what Is to happen, next. The hero is Dr. Gilbert Allyn, an ambitious New York physician, who is a specialist in nervous and mental dis eases. One of his patients is Miss Helen Carringford, daughter of a wealthy, but retired Wall street broker. She Is the sensible type of woman with whom he ought to have fallen in love, but although a specialist in diseases, he was not a specialist in the study of women. Dr. Allyn has also under his professional care Miss Kathryn Duples sis, a self-willed, foolish young woman who is the incarnation of uncontrolled selfishness, and he falls promptly in love with her.' It Is a case where "love Is all In all, and reason flees." Dr. Allyn is called on to attend a burglar, George Maxwell, who had been fatally wounded by the police as he was at tempting to escape arrest, and Maxwell drives Allyn papers concerning the Maxwell family history. It Is established that Miss Duplessis Is only the adopted daughter of Gen eral and Mrs. Duplessis, and that her real father was Maxwell, burglar. It Is also shown that Miss Duplessis is tUe granddaughter of a drunkard and of a variety actress who "ran away Ith a nieger minstrel. In spite or all these warnings, however. Dr. Allyn 'decides that "love Is all," and he and Miss Duplessis are married. She turns out to be a shrew, and a thief, or more politely a kleptomaniac. "Now here we have a case of a typi cally unhappy marriage. What ought to be done with such a couple, who do not have one thought In common? Divorce won't do, as that only occurs in real life. Our author shows in genuity In lurid Italian opera style. Dr. Allyn has one devoted chum, Hartwell, a man of the world. Read this dialogue: Hartwell Society! A world In which a male biped with bad arteries and locomotor ataxia Is a gentleman and a lady is a female with a muddy complexion and a pain In her back. ... The difference between ns is largely a matter of illusions. IVe lost mine, that's all. I haven't any family idols or Ir. Allyn But your mother? Hartwell Oh, I had one, all right. Don't remember the evening we were introduced. The family doctor did It. I have her pic ture. Inscribed "From Mamma." I remem ber my foster mother best. Dr. A. Your foster mother! Hartwell Yes, my foster mother, Mrs. A Bottle, the only mother In New York so ciety who Isn't ashamed of nature, too busy to nurse tbe baby, afraid of spoiling her shape, or Dr. A. The world has failed to better Itself because It has never been thoroughly In earnest because it has tried to cure so cial ills Instead of preventing them by com bating the causes. I'm going to do what I can to help set matters rltrht. The time will come when the horrible results of human passions will be looked upon as evi dences of somlbarbarlsm of Ignorance and bad health. Bad nutrition, bad heredity, dirt and social Imbecility are the devils that underly crime. "Well-nourished, clean, happy and Intelligent human beings are in tinctlvely honest and peaceable. Hartwefl Yes, but what's bred In the bono . , Dr. A. That works both ways; and. be sides, every child has a right to be well bom. He can't select his own parents, hence we should do some selecting for him. It la for society to say whether the mar riage license shall be a ticket to hell for souls unborn. The sins of the fathers are visited only through the blood of the fath ers. Even the sinless bad blood of one generation may be the criminal bad blood of the next. Emphatically a book for those who are not yet married. It Is doubtful, however, if a love-stricken pair would have enough sense to heed the social warning this little book teaches. Baldy of Nome, by Esther Btrdsall Darling. Illustrated. $1. A. M. Robertson, San Francisco. "Baldy!" Is it the name of a man or a dog? Dog wins. Baldy is one of the most famous racing dogs in Alaska, and this in teresting little book of 76 pages tells the story of the most dramatic mo ments of his young life just before he won the all-Alaska sweepstakes and the Solomon Derby. All lovers of man kind and dogs will love this book, for it makes them acquainted with a humble hero In real life worth know ing, and the man who doesn't love a dog, but only loves money or himself, is to be pitied. The book is also so much of an object lesson that it ought to have a large sale, on this pleaalono. Baldy's boss is "Scotty" Allen, one of the best dog-men In the Far North. As the observant reader will surmise, Allen is a Scotchman. On page 1 Baldy Is introduced as a young dog who has his way to make, in the face of such experienced racing veterans "of the frozen trail as Tom. Dick, Harry, Spot, Queen, Jack, Kid, Mego. Barney, Mike, Priest, Irish. Dubby and others. The characteristics of the different dogs are described. "Scotty" was known as Si man who was kind to dogs, but also as a strict disciplinarian. The dogs be owned knew him instinctively to be their friend. Baldy was "Just dog" that is, there was no romance about him or his an cestors. Baldy was known for his sim ple sincerity, amiability and lion-hearted bravery. A dog murders another one. In the big kennel, and for a while Baldy Is suspected as being the murderer. The author shows great ana. lytical skill in describing, at this junc ture. Baldy's wounded feelings when' he knew all along that Tom was the murderer. Had not all the Inhabitants of the kennel seen the tragedy? Dubby Is introduced as the faithful old dog which (I had nearly writen who) guarded the kennel meat, and which boldly, every afternoon took out Texas, the Allen cat, for a stroll in defiance of the other dogs, which want ed to make cat pie out of the afore said Texas. A brilliant lawyer In Nome, when he met Dubby always took off his hat, as a greeting from one keen Intellect to another. Th great day of the 400-mile dog team race of the All-Alaska Sweep stake draws nigh, and to his unspeak able and wondering delight Baldy is promoted to be leader of "Scotty's" team. The race Is thrlllingly described. What if Baldy's feet bled from cease less contact with the frozen snow? Did he and his team not win the race of 40S miles, in 83 hours, 2 minutes and 41 seconds? In the Solomon Derby race for dog teams "Scotty" Allen falls from the sleigh unconscious, and it is Baldy which stops and helps to bring back his boss to consciousness and also wins this race. The little book is dedicated to "My mother, whose unfailing kindness to all i niroais is one oi my earnest ana nap I jpest memories." President-elect of the United Statea, Il lustrated. i Harper & Brothers, New York City. It does not require much argument to show that this handsome looking vol ume will win a larger audience with It author as President-elect of the 'The JtivimZy; Of ' tfncalcuatixf cfacfifiee i ii' ! - ;- f'V -J.if .--,"' I . i ' , I ' t" I I i ' ' 1 '. United States than If he had remained President Wilson, of Princeton Uni versity. "George Washington" was originally Issued about 17 years ago and is so calm, dispassionate and altogether ad mirable a study of the subject that it has reached the dignity of an Amer ican biographical classic The high office to which Woodrow Wilson was recently elected to be our chief mag istrate has prompted the publishers to issue this reprint of an already fa vorite book. It is dedicated thus: "To E. A. W., without whose sympa thy and counsel literary work would lack inspiration." It is finely printed and copiously Illustrated and is a first class book In every respect, emphati cally one for the reading tables of all American families. The pages are 333 ' and there is a convenient and voluminous Index. There are ten chapters: "In Wash ington's day," "A Virginia Breeding," "Colonel Washington," "Mount Vernon Days," "The Heat of Politics." "Pilot ing a -Revolution," "General Washing ton," "The Stress of Victory," "First S.M ACM ANUS, IRISHMAN, SPEAKS HERE FEB. 1718 SEUMAS M'MANUS, the Irish writer and lecturer, who is to lecture at two branch libraries in this city, Febru ary 17 and 18, tells the story, in inter esting fashion, how he first "struck oil" in America. As a mountain schoolmaster of a lit tle school among his native hills of Donegal though still a boy Mac Manus one day turned the key In his school crammed a pile of manuscripts into a bag sailed for America lit the steerage of an Atlantic liner and, landing in America, stuffed his pockets with manuscripts, asked someone whom he met to give him the name and ad dress of our leading American maga zine, and then walked, straight as ne could find his way, to the office of Harper's. Presenting himself in his Donegal homespuns, with the smell of peat still upon them, to the genial and amiable Mr. Alden, the editor of Har per's, he unfolded his personal story, and Intimated that he had In his pocket several Irish tales, the fruits of his boyhood's experiences among his own hill people. Mr. Alden, who was very interestedly looking at and listening- to the boy in the homespuns and the Irish brogue, said that if the stories In his pocket were anything like as interest ing as the story he had just told him, he was eager to see them. The young Irish schoolmaster instantly surprised Mr. Alden by producing no less than seven stories from various hiding places. Mr. Alden said that instead of giving these into the hands of a reader, he would put them in his bag, take them home with him. and read them himself without delay. "This Is Wednesday," said Mr. Alden. "and I think that If you will drop in here on Friday morning. I will be able to give you an opinion on these at least, some criticism and advice that may be help ful to you, a stranger in a strange land." Seumas MacManus says he camped outside Harper's Friday morning, wait ing for it to open. When he got audi ence of Mr. Alden, that genial old gentleman leant back in his chair, lit his cigar, contemplated him with a smile, and remarked, "Well, I believe that six of these seven stories you gave me will suit Harper's." The Irish i 1 .-t y,aA hia breath taken Bi;u wkiuoo - away momentarily. "Perhaps," said Mr. Alden, "you a tiae to gei paio. wr om of them right away." Seumas MacManus did not dissent from a suggestion that was doubly gratifying because of the fact that he bad to walk 77 blocks that morning to save carfare a fact which, however, he did not tell Mr. Alden. The editor K III in Peace" and "The First President of the United States." The illustrations are 46 and are unusually attractive and valuable. One charm aboot the book is the In timate picture It gives of George Washington the man. There is noth ing of the usual dry-as-dust biography about it and the descriptive matter has the liveliness of a novel. Its wealth of information is great. Take tile opening paragraph: George Washington was bred a gentleman and a man of honor In tbe free school of Virginian society, with the generation that first learned what It meant to maintain English communities In America, In safety and a self-respecting independence. He was bora In a season of quiet peace, when the plot of colonial history was thickening noiselessly and almost without observation. He came to his first manhood upon the stir of revolutionary events; caught in their movement, he served a rough apprentice ship in arms at the thick of the French ana Indian war; the Revolution found him a leader and veteran In affairs at 44; every turn of fortune confirmed him in his exec utive habit of foresight and mastery; death spared him, stalwart and commanding, un til, his rising career rounded and complete, no man doubted him the first character of Seumas MacMuai, Who Will 4 Lecture lm This City February 17 and 18. of Harper's, picking- up one of the stories, "Alii e Cannon's First and Last Duel" (afterwards the first of Mac Manus stories to be published in Har per's) said: "Well, suppose I pay you for this one today. How much shall I make out a check; for?" The mountain schoolmas'ter, his mind harking; back to the payment of $2.50 for three years' work, hadn't enough courage to sug gest to the editor that it might be worth 910 to him. He feared the edi tor might instantly turn him back all his work on the ground that he tried to be extortionate. So he wisely replied to Mr. Alden: "You know its value bet ter than 1." Said Mr. Alden: "As your name and work is yet unknown, how would $100 strike you for this story?" MacManus says it struck him dumb! And he adds that the moment he got out of Mr. Alden's office with the check, he left no grass grow through his toes till he had turned it into cash, fearing lest the Harper Brothers might get wind of. their editor's tem porary aberration, and stop payment by telephone. Within two months after, almost ev ery leading magazine editor in New York and Boston had given him pleas ing proof that Mr. Alden's temporary insanity had touched them ail. A. f ? nis ace. "Virginia yavs nv y iuiioui man," and with him a compiW i race of statesmen and masters la affairs. It was her natural gift, the times and her char acter beinng what they were; and Washing ton's lite showed the whole process of breeding by which she conceived so great a generosity In manliness and public spirit. Into the Light, by Edward Robeson Taylor. flJio. Sherman, French & Co., Boston. Seventy high-class poems, polished and fashioned with the heart and soul of a true poet. Mr. Taylor was for merly Mayor of San Francisco, and is also well known in literary and edu cational circles. It is a rare privilege to read such tender, thoughtful poems, of many moods and kinds, but all ex cellent. The longest and mot impor tant poem of all is "Into the Light," which runs to 83 verses, and describes the many beauties of nature. The first two verses are: The sovran Sun afar his glory flings And Morn exultant preens her dewy wings While every air, with fragrancy imbued. Awakes to joy some life all living things. His lances pierce the tanners of the haste. And nil the forest with their golden rays. Where dream beguiled In sllentness we wend Along the woodland's needle -cove red ways One of the poems that will win warm, popular approval is that on "Burns and several of the verses are: Thou wastv of truest flesh and blood. Thy veins Van hot with passion's flood. Thou knewest the stars and miry mud Bat all sincerely; And so the world, and so it should. Loves thee most dearly. All nature's kin were kin of thine. The earth for thee was all divine; Nor didst thou need from Heaven a sign To love thy brothe'rs. Nor wouldst thou measure with thy line The faults of thers. , 'Tls true thy satire's lash did smite The tender spot of many a wight; But though thy blow was never light. It meant no evil: Indeed, thou didst not do despite E'en to the devil. Thou Scotia's best beloved son, In vain the critic eye shall run Around the years in search of one To match thy glory. Our hearts cry out, like thee there's none In lettered story. Thank God for every year of thine; We shed no tears o'er thee, nor pine That fate so soon the heart divine From life did sever Tls naught when Love with Heaven's own sign Crowns thee forever! JOSEPH M. QUENTIN. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED. . The Ivory Snuff Box, bT Arnold Freder icks; The Portal of Dreams, by Charles Nev ille Buck, and The Red paper, by C. C HotchkiBS, each $1.20 three stirring, splen did novels of adventure, wpmen and love (W. J. Watt & Co., N. T.). The Call of Brotherhood, and other poems, by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 60 high- class, serious poems, the kind of poems one meets with in the best magazines, tne most notable of the verses being suggested by the boss of the Titanic, $1.25 (Scrib aers). Intimations of Immorality in the Sonnets of Shakespeare, by George Herbert Palmer, 75 cents; the Ingeraoll lecture for 1912 de livered at Harvard University, the chief belief in this eloquent presentation being that faith in individual Immortality is one of "the mighty hopes that make us men." (Houghton-Mifflin. Boston). A Man In the Making, by Harry Wagen seller Jones,. $1.35, a healthy story of healthy boyhood, something like the en joyable story of Twain's "Tom Sawyer," set in Illinois, and rich in rural scenes and humor Crane & Co., Topeka, Kan.). A Single-Tax Handbook, by C. B. Fllle brown, 20 cents (C. B. Fillebrown, Boston). King Errant, by Annie Steel. $1.30, a stir, ring, splendid novel of India of the 15th and 16th centuries, the hero being one of the Mogul Emperors (Stokes). Memory and the Executive Mind, by Ar thur Raymond Robinson, 208 pages, $1.50, one of the best books ever published on how to get a good memory and the wise and profitable exercise of it (M. A. Donahue & Co., Chicago). The Browns, by J. E. Buckrose, a smart English novel about newly found riches, and the humor that came with them, $1.25; and The Motto of Mrs. McLane, by Shirley Carson, $1, about the doings of Mrs. McLane, natural philosopher. Western farm life and. children, a well-told, healthy story (George H. Doran Co., N. Y-). Three Visions, by John A. Johnson, $1, abjut 60 poems, most of them with relig ious flavor, and finely fashioned (Stewart St Kidd Co., Cincinnati). - Smuggling in the American Colonies, by Witliam S. McClellan. with Introduction by David T. Clark, professor of economics, Williams College, a prize essay, showing wide research and possessing much histori cal Information about a subject which is not often discussed, 1 (Moffat, Yard & Co., N. Y-). The Port of Dreams, by Miriam Alexan der, a stirring novel of Jacobite days in Great Britain, fiction so well constructed that it harks back to the magic art of Sir Walter Scott or R. L. Stevenson; and Who Laughs Last, by Ashton HilHers, an Eng lish novel, bright and entertaining, each novel $1,35 (Putnams, N. Y-). The Growth of Freedom, by H. W. Nev inson, 20 cents, 04 pages, a valuable essay on growth of government, dealing mostly with British Questions (Dodge Pub. Co., N. Y.). Aus Vergangener Zeit, selected and edited by Arnold Werner Spanhoofd, 50 cents, in German, a collection of 30 sketches on Ger. man subjects (American Book Co., N. Y.). The Youth Replies, by Louis How, $1.45, high-class poems of magazine verse; Leaves from the City Beautiful, by Amelia M. and Jacob F. Starkweather, $1.23, 135 poems, of fine, religious tone; Here and There a Leaf, by Louise Heywood, $1.20, practical dis courses on the application of Christianity to daily living; The Spirit Prospero, by Frederick Brooks Llndsey, $1, 55 poems of mnv moods, many of them exceedingly well done; Christmas Praises and Other Poems, by George E. Ackerman, oo poems for all the year, written by a clergy man who gives intimate touches to all he Interprets; Idylls Beside the Strand, by Franklin F. Phillips, $1, nearly 60 poems, breathln tlno inspirations ; and Horizon Songs, by Grace Duffteld Goodwin, 11.25, nearly 130 poems, mostly on the beauties of nature, poems that have already been print ed In such magazines as Century, Scrlb ner's, etc (Sherman, French & Co., Bos ton). Bernhardt' s letters on Life to American Women (CONTINUED FROM PAGE. 6.) ment well and celebrated, for she had great talent and was both pretty and graceful. Another example: A Tery pretty Parisian actress, known for her slim ness and grace of form, began visibly to Increase in size and it was with re gret that we saw the deformation of her beautiful body. A friend suggest ed the idea to her that she had. per haps, a fibrome. Terrified, she went to see the great surgeon, Pozzi. After an examination he told her that he thought the operation not only necessary, but urgent, for, according to his diagnosis, she had not only a fibrome. but something besides, which he could not define. Bravely she asked to be operated upon as soon as possi ble. She was gay and well and went to the operating-room singing. The operation lasted an hour and 35 min utes, because beside the fibrome, the surgeon found a cluster of rystes fol liculaires. Now Prettier Than Ever. ; Today the pretty actress is prettier than ever, tall and slight in her satin drapery and, too, she is extremely healthy. It is quite comprehensible that it is easier for a surgeon to make a cure than it is for a physician. Medi cine operates beyond the reach of the eye. One only can guess its effects. But the surgeon opens the door be hind which the disease is hidden. He sees at once what must be done and he can take away forever the hidden evil which ruins the health of the pa tient. Believe me, dear reader, opera tions are -a passport to long life. In my own case, I have gone under two operations, both serious, and my health has never been more flourishing than at present. , PRINCE PETER, RUSSIAN NIHILIST IN LONDON REFUGE, SERIOUSLY ILL Goethals May Govern Canal Zone Editor Mentioned for Cabinet Seat Conway Suggested as Attorney-General Burleigh Gets Maine Toga Gotham Sheriff Would Be Congressman, eg I r - : I ' - I f -1 71 7 Zosz ""zy NEW YORK, Feb. 1. (Special.) It is reported from London that Prince Peter Kropotkin is serious ly ill. He is the most distinguished Nihilist In the woild. Born of an aris tocratic family, he began the study of social conditions, and soon found him self at odds wiih the governing class. He openly preached revolution In Rus sia, and for this was sent to the Peter Paul dungeon in St. Petersburg. Thence he escaped and went to Switzerland. But that country did not like his revo lutionary ideas, and at the request of Russia expelled him. Then he went to France and was arrested with Louis Michel and others and sentenced to prison. After serving for three years he went to London, where at last he found a refuge. In the scientific world he is known as a geographer. He has always remained a Nihilist. Cabinet speculation is now again taking in the name of Pleasant A. Stovall, president and editor of the Savannah Press, as possible Secretary GOTHAM AGAIN WRESTLING WITH PROBLEM OF NORTH RIVER BRIDGE Giant Span Would Cost $75,000,000 Church Advertises for Pastor Abandonment of School Ship Urged Loan Sharks Hit Hudson Open Chinatown Passing. BY LLOYD P. LONERQAN. NEW YORK. Feb. L ( Special.) The project of bridging the North River at Fifty-seventh street is again before the public, and a conference relative to the plan was recently held between Dr. Gustav Lin denthal, president of the North River Bridge Company, President Samuel Rea of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mayor Gaynor and other city officials. Although the conference was sur rounded in secrecy, it was learned that itB purpose was to bring the promoters of the North River Bridge Company and the city officials together and en list the city's co-operation with pri vate capital, if possible, in the project that has been hanging fire for 20 years or more. Central Frelgkt Yard Urged. Dr. Lindenthal says that the erec tion of the bridge would help to solve the water-front problem of the city. He advocates a great central freight yard in the Jersey meadows, tributary to the proposed bridge and connecting directly with the water-front elevated railroad, which is. favored by the dock commissioner as a means of clearing congestion along the pier lines. As a freight-handling project the bridge, costing even the -75,000,000 estimated by Dr. Lindenthal, would have, he says, its advantages over cheaper tunnels under the river. The contention of the Interstate Bridge Commission has been that pri vate capital never could build the bridge and that only the two states (N'ew York and New Jersey), co-operating, ever would erect the giant span. uAd" for Pastor Unusual. A recent advertisement In the New York papers attracted considerable at tention. It explained that an assistant pastor was wanted "at once in a flour ishing Presbyterian church on Manhat tan Island. New York CMy, . salary about 1800." Applicants were told to address Thomas F. Braham at-the gen eral postoffice. Investigation devel oped that Mr. Braham was a letter carrier and had been designated to re ceive the replies, so that the identity of the church and its officials may be concealed. Mr Braham declined to give any In formation regarding the church or those who are back of the ad, but said. "The new method is one where all the world can compete for the position. A minister willing to come to New York at this salary need only answer the advertisement if he wishes his name considered. He can possibly in time win promotion to pastor. I am informed that ministers without friends in New York who may be car ing for flocks in. unpromising fields have the golden opportunity of their careers." School Ship Not Wanted. The Board of Education, which for 40 years has had a school ship, as an adjunct to Its system, is desirous of abandoning it. It is impossible to do away -with this branch of education, however, nnless the Legislature con sents and a formal application request ing permission has been forwarded . Albany. A long report tf the executive com mittee, summarized, shows that the school' ship costs too much and does not give sufficient returns. In 1906 the annual outlay was 4B,000, but it has been advancing steadily and last year Col. jreesfia-fe of the Interior. It was reported as far back as the middle of December that Mr. Stovall had the refusal of the post. Mr. Stovall is one of the best-known newspaper men of the South and was an active supporter of Mr. Wilson for the nomination. His name was urged on the President-elect for a Cabinet po sition by a delegation of Georgia Con gressmen. Governor Wilson had a long and im portant conference with Colonel George W. Goethals, in charge of the Panama Canal work recently. The talk with Colonel Goethals, which lasted three-quarters of an hour, was not on the subject of the work of digging the canal,' but on the question of Canal government, and it was en tirely evident that Governor-Wilson, who has had Colonel Goethals in mind for the governorship of the Canal zone, had invited him down chiefly for the purpose of getting the Colonel's views on administration and, so to speak, sizing him up. He did not offer him the expense was J60.000. At the same time . the number of pupils has been falling off and In 1912 there were only 60. It is also explained that even the youngsters who graduate do not care for the mercantile marine life for which they were designed. Since the establishing of the school in 187S there have 769 boys graduated, but of this number only 134 followed the sea for a living. Loan sharks of New York State, who have received many severe blows of late, are suffering fresh agony because of a recent decision of the Court of Appeals. Large Fee Charged. Corporations organized under the banking law are permitted to charge 2 per cent a month interest on personal property loans and an examination fee of J2. All others are prohibited from charging more than S per cent inter est The loan sharks have got around this section, however, by exacting ex orbitant fees through their attorneys. In the case under review a woman who borrowed $65. on personal property was forced to pay $10 to the attorneys for the company for examining the records to see if any claim had been filed against her. In his decision Chief Justice Cnllen writes: "I think that. the case fell directly within the terms of the statute, as a charge with the lender is prohibited to exact even In its own favor or in favor of anyone else. It is apparent that the statutory prohibition would be of lit tle value If, while the corporation is forbidden to charge more than tne spe cified sum, it was permitted to require the borrower to employ attorneys or conveyances to examine the title whose charges were subject to no reg ulation." Loan sharks declare that with the risk of their calling there Is no profit in 6 per cent, and a number of them are getting ready to retire from theii business. Bronx County In Doubt. ' Up In the Bronx tbe residents do not know whether they are residing in a county or not. The Legislature of 1912 provided that the Bronx could be a county if the residents thereor so de cided at the recent November election. The vote was in favor of countyhood, and, the general impression was that next November the county officials would be elected In that territory. There are plenty of applicants, and the political pot is boiling Jn that sec tion. Now the appellate division of the Supreme Court comes along and an nounces that there isn't any such place as Bronx County. The decision arose In the case of a murderer, who con tended that his conviction was illegal because one of his jurors was a resi dent of Bronx County and therefore not entitled to sit in a criminal case In New York County. The murderer gets no satisfaction out of the decision, and neither do the politicians of the Bronx, who see their hopes of office fading away. The case will be immediately taken to the Court of Appeals, and there may be a different verdict. ' Hadm River Not Frosen. For the first time on record the Hud son River has been open for naviga tion all Winter. There are official fig ures showing the conditions which have prevailed since 1810, and In every 1 I " it '- v I i 27. C .Sisr-fa- '(y- 5- - - the Governorship, but It Is considered almost a foregone conclusion that he will do so when the time comes. T. F. Conway has been suggested to Mr. Wilson as available for the post of Attorney-General in his Cabinet. Mr. Conway has Just finished a term as Lieutenant-Governor of New York un der Governor Dlx. , E. C. Burleigh has been elected Sena tor from Maine. He is a former mem ber of Congress and has been also Gov ernor of his state. Mr. Burleigh is a native of Maine and was educated in the common schools and at Haulton Academy. He lives at Kennebec where he edits a newspaper. J. Harburger is ambitious to succeed Tim Sullivan in Congress. Sullivan has been sent to a sanitarium suffering from an incurable mental disease. Har burger is now Sheriff of New York-.He is a strong Tammany man and Tam many will name the Democratic nomi nee when Sullivan's seat is vacated. year this Important body of water has , been frozen over for a longer or shorter period. Up to the present time boat traffic has continued effective, and there now seems little prospect that It will be tied up at all. Of course the ice men are waning, but they take satisfaction out of the fact that, while they are not cutting ice this Winter they will cut a lot of Ice next Summer. There always is an ice famine in hot weather, so the citi zens of New York will be no worse off than they have been, while the steamship owners have made more money than ever before. Chinatown BelnK Deserted. New York's Chinatown is rapidly be coming a deserted village. Gang feuds there stirred up the police, then de tectives of the custom service began opium raids, and there was so much excitement that poor Ah Sin was un able to smoke in comfort, shoot his little yellow brothers or play fantan. In some way the tip went out that Newark, N. J., Just across the river, would welcome Celestials. The result was that the local laundryman spend their spare time and change in Gov ernor Wilson's state, and the local re sorts, heretofore crowded, are suffer ing from hard times. There are just as many laundries In New York as ever. It is. only "the Great Yellow Way" that has left. Not to Be Followed. Judge. "Brownie, do you expect to keep on shaving people when you get to heaven?" asked a customer, as the towels were flirted off. 'Deed I dunno, boss. I 'specta, ef I does, I'll be obleeged to drum up a new bunch of customers." fcor full information regard.nj Any Book Old or New Write, Call ot PhsiY Meier & Frank's Basement BooK Store PrL Ex. 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