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(ST F American Law Schools. One Field in Which Englishmen Admit Onr Accomplishments. jj^J' By Pres. Winterbotham of tlie Law Society. F?!? Russell 1b biB admirable address on legal education dellv1 T ered in Llnooln's Inn Hall in 1895 mentions that in 1894 there if ' 1 were in the United States seventy-two law schools, attended Lmmm by 7,600 law students, taught by some 500 professors. The HarlinQMI yard law school is probably the best known of these. CES590 It is possible that I am addressing some who do not know the nature otf the teaching at these American law schools. If ao> may I commend to their perusal Professor Dicey's captivating article on "The Teaching of English Law at 'Harvard," which appeared in the Contemporary Review of November, 1899, and which has since been reprinted In pamphlet form? No one after reading that article can fail to recognize how far we are behind the United States in this matter. Professor Dicey says: "The professors of Harvard have throughout America finally dispelled the inveterate delusion that law is a handicraft to be practised by rule of thumb and learned only by apprenticeship in chambers or offices. They have convinced the leaders of the bar that the common law of England is a science, that it rests on valid grounds of reason, which can be so explained by men who havo mastered us principles as to oe tnorougniy understood by students wnose aim Is suocess in the practice of law." Professor Dicey goes on to point out that the legal education at Harvard law school is not only scientific but exceedingly practical. "It is the dence of the practical character of the legal education at Harvard is that Socratlc method applied to law, and is infinitely stimulating." The best evithose who take the best places in the Harvard law school are recognized as the most desirable men for radical work and as a rule a ecu re positions in offices from the first sgr * American Women. By Marcel Prevost. American woman's Intellectual characteristic is curiosity. One ^ feels she would like to have ten pairs of eyes so as to see everyM thing, ten pairs of ears so as to hear everything. . . . When hm I sit down at table beside an American woman of Paris, she immediately asks me: Have you seen such and such a play? 0 Have you been to such and such an art exhibition? What do you think of this novel or of that philosophical or historical book .*ecently published? . . . And I am forced to admit that I have not seen l.foct >1... .1 4 t ? 1 4 4 ? 4 *VlO w piaj, uiat iui uiuic luaii itru ytrurs 1 utive nut s??i ui) iwi luaiw annual salons, that 1 read slowly and carefully, and am therefore forced to read hut ?erw (books. And I know my American neighbor feels great disdain for my inculture. . . . Still 1 hare infinite sympathy for .her charming and universal Intellectual curiosity; only long experience has taught me that man's head cannot contain too many ideas at once. There is consequently an abyss between the way most American women I have met conceive intellectual culture and my own way. Far from me to pretend that I am right! And I give thanks to Heaven, which sends us, in the American women of Paris, the most wonderful public for books or theatres or lactures. But if I had the honor of being professor of French to young American girls I would begin with the following truthful anecdote; A compatriot of theirs, speaking to the poet Francois Coppee, asked. ? Do you speak English, Monsieur? IAnd Coppee .answered, modestly, Non, Madame. I am still learni ig French.?Harper's Bazar. m On the Future Life. By Henry James. CONFESS at the outset that I think it the most interesting qnesIJnrl T I tlon in the world, once it takes on all the intensity of which it ixft A, I iB capable. It does that, insidiously but inevitably, as we live BBhpl longer and longer?does it at least for many persons: I myself, K>fljpi In any case. And It increasingly assert its power to attach and, VSESSSr if I may we the .word so unjustly compromised by trivial applications, to amipe. I say assert its power so to occupy us. because 1 mean to express only its most general effect. Thai on our ^tlrlt is mostly either one of two forms; the effect of making us desire death, and for reasons, absolutely as welcome extinction and termination; or the effect of making us desire it as a renewal of the interest, the appreciation. the passion, the large and consecrated consciousness, in a word, of which we have had so splendid a sample in this world. Either one or the other of these opposed states of feeling is bound finally to declare itself, we jndge, in persons of a fine sensibility and whose innermost spirit experience has set vibrating at all; for the condition of indifference and of knowing either is the condition of living altogether so much below the human privilege as to have little right to pass for unjustly excluded or neglected in this business of the speculative reckoning.?Harper's Bazar. & m S? A Nation of Bridge-builders. By Krarrlc W. Skinner. U9PENSION bridges, although not so rigid as cantilevers, can be I I built longer, and, although their own weight and all the loads I ^ I tliey carry are supporxeu wuuny oy me great caoies, mey require heavy trusses to stiffen the floor. The three suspension bridges -."I across the Blast River in New York are by far the longest and lS^SaaJ heaviest in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge, with its beautiful stone towers and graceful sweeping curves, h?? a span of 1,595 ^ nd carrieg two raHroad and two trolley tracks, two roadways, and a wid4 nromenade The Williamsburg Bridge, built a few years ago, has steel feet high with a 1,600-foot span, supporting six tracks, two roadways and two sidewalks on its double decks. It weighs about 16,000,000 ^unds, exclusive of its long steel approaches, which brought up the cost to fi^The^llm^t^of present resources have not yet been reached in the length and height of greet spans. Few important structures are likely to be required in locations involving greater heights than those already encountered, but longer spans may be Justified, although the cost increases out of all proportion to the length Cantilevers, suspension bridges, and ordinary spans can be made possibly a quarter or a half longer than the present maximum, at a nrice and even these wide limits may be exceeded, if a satisfactory metal or allor' can be manufactured of greatly increased lightness and strength to renlace the structural steel now used. At present the limits are practically -xed bv the maximum dimensions of members that can be shipped from the idge shops through bridges and tunnels.?Harper a Weekly. **' WESTMINSTER. himself was wont frequently to de scrtbe the north tr&nscent when he How Exrsns-s of Restoring ths inspected It as presenting almost Abbey Have Been Met. th* appearance of a quarry. It was time for extreme measures, The work of keeping Westminster and that the situation was saved at Abbey in repair Is a very onerous ajj wa8 ^ the vigor and the 1 and delicate one and tne long line business acumen of the late dean. At of aunrejora of the fabric la a dls- w#St #i,bey had to pay a fear* tiagulshed one Indeed. During the f?i price. A loan of 1125,000 was last seventy years this matchless made to the dean and chapter by the church has been In the hands of Mr. ecclesiastical commissioners. This Blore, Sir Gilbert Scott, Mr, Pearson, enabled the authorities to get level Mr. Mlchaelthfwaite and now Prof. wRh the worst of these structural LMhaby. defects. On the other hand, they These have been times in the his- were compelled to suspend the sixth lory of the abbey when its very ex- caaonry the Income derivable from tstenee has been la jeopardy. The which has been employed for many flrst of these occurred about the end years past In gradually paying off the ; of the seventeenth century. 81r Immense loan.?Church- Family NewsChristopher Wren was called in and paper. the wort of restoration waa carried . oat with the utmost seal and thor- All notes or legal papers executed oughnees. though in many of Its de- in Mexico must bear revenue stamps, tails its taste was open to much ques- and all papers executed In the Unit* tioo. ed States or other countries roust When the late Dean Bradley ar- bear these stamps before legal sorived upon the eoeoe In the year 1882 tion can be commenced In (Mexico. he found an Income derived largely from agricultural estates steadily A consular report calls attention to j dwindling In value, while the condl* the fact that the exports of can- ' tloa of many of the great flying hot- arles from Germany to the United ' Willi as well as the north transept States were valued at $130,000 la waa Indescribable. The late dean lMt, aa against $130,000 la 1007. V ; r\ " irr .*wT SPttCH RETURNS. Senator Tillman's Condition is Improved Say Physicians. HIS AFFLICTION REGRETTED. For the Past 16 Tears He Has Been a Dominant Figure in National Life. Washington, D. C., Special.?The condition of Benjamin Ryan Tillman from South Carolina, who was taken suddenly ill here last Thursday with paralysis and aphasia, is a little more encouraeging. says Drs. Babcock and Pickford, his attending physicians Saturday. His case is extremely grave, but chances for recovery is better than ever. It will be several days before the crisis is passed through, though. He may recover from the paralysis and regain the use of limb, but, it ;s said, aphasia will likely leave him tlinh A/l,1nut lnL-a.i nf Itic T t ^ almost impossible for him to articulate at the present time ami it is feared that the power of speech may never fully return. If this bo the case, his forceful tongue will never again find its echo in the halls of Congress. The Senator is surrounded by his entire immediate family. Henry* C. and Sallie May Tillman, his son and daughter, reached the bedside of their father early Saturday from Greenwood, S. C. His wife, their eldest son, Benjamin R. Tillman, Jr., and two daughters. Lona and Sophia, have been with him since the inception of his illness. Messages of sympathy continue to pour in upon his family and since the seriousness of his condition became generally known, his apartments have been besieged by inquiries, delivered in person, by telegram and by telephone, denoting the ad miration and high regard in which the ill Senator is popularly held. Sunday his physicians stated that the symptoms which caused partial paralysis had disappeared and improvement has commenced. The Senator spoke to one of his physicians. The heavy affliction that has befallen Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, is cuse for grief throughout the South and for sincere regret all over the nation. For the past fifteen : *-urs Senator Tllmaii has been a dominant and picturesque figure in ofir national life. Few men have ever matched such powerful impulses with such a keen and accurate intellect. It is this rare blend of temperament that has distinguished him. Senator Tillman spent the first thirty-nine years of his life on the farm, with the exception of a brief month or so in 'sixty-four, whe he joined the Confederate army as a boy of seventeen and was forced through a critical illness to retire. At a time of life when most political leaders are nearing their zenith, he was just beginning his public career. In South Carolina, as governor, he opened a new chapter in the history of that State. When he first entered the United States Senate, there wa*? a rather general expectation that he would prove disappointing. But swiftly and steadily he won the respect of his colleages. He proved himself more than a match for those who met him in debate and, more than this, he proved himself a statesman rich in constructive thought and purpose. Food Trust Must Answer. New York, Special.?The grand jury of Hudson county, New Jersey, Friday of last week, instructed Prosecutor Garvin to indict the National Packing Co. and its directors. Produets have been kept in cold storage for several years in some instance, says the grand jury. Must Line-Up Congressmen. T? /' o ;-i ?. .oumiiiuii, w. \ ., npeciai.? President Charles S. Barrett, of the Farmers' Union, who lias been here for several weeks, lias issued an open letter to all State divisions of the association of Southern planters, celling npon them to get in behind Congress in behalf of specified legislation which the union is working for before Congress. He asks that each member write their Congressmen and representatives a letter at once concerning the legislative needs. A Fearful Deed. Birmingham, Ala., Special. -Geo. I Stephens, aged .'18, engineer on the L. A N. Railroad, last Saturday, while in a fit of insanity, shot his baby 1 through the brain, then killed two other of bis children; also shot an old negro nurse, then blew his brains 4Ut. The death of his wife several months ago affected his mind. He left a note saying: the blame ! for it el' " It 1 g|j|k V STREET CARJEN STRIKET Serious Disorder Follow tat Philadelphia Saturday and Sunday. Philadelphia, Pa., Special.?Suddenly Saturday a strike was declared in this city on the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company lines by the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, which resulted in serious disorder among the striking carmen and police and firemen. Two cars were burned, and a score more attacked. The crews manning the cars were forced to abandon them. Except in the central part of the city, cars were at a standstill, those running were heavily protected. The car company dismissed about 200 of the men, and this seems to be the cause for the strike. Sunday rioting in every section of the city followed the attempt to run cars. Passengers and crews were drove from the cars and cars burned by strike sympathizers. Finally all cars were withdrawn. The mayor of the city will enforce the riot act. LIFE IN SOUTHERN MILLS. Winslow, of South Carolina Answers Attack of Northern Press. Columbia, S. O., Special.?A. S. Winslow, a well known mill superintendent of this State speaking before the Southern Textile Association last Saturday scored the writers on child labor conditions who attempt to draw unreal pictures 01 conditions in tne Southern Textile plants. The subject of this paper -was "Benefits and Opportunities of Southern Mill Life." The speaker drew strong comparisons between life on a small farm and life in a modern cotton mill. He dealt fully with the lack of the modern conveniences educational factilities in the past and those of the present. He also discussed at length the financial improvement which the people had secured by going to work in the cotton mills. The paper was the strongest paper ever read on Southern mill life. Over 300 delegates from all sections of the South attended the sessions and it was agreed that the next session of the association would be held in Augusta, Ga., in July. W. P. Hamrick, superintendent of the Olympia mills of Columbia, is the first vice president of the association. the other officers being as follows: C. F. McCall, president,1 Greenville; J. H. Bagwell, Charlotte, second vice president; W. J. McI l^n.l J If ? " * - i/u.iniu, iuuuroe, ua., inircl vice president; V. P. Bogan, Spartanburg:, fourth vice president; E. E. Brown. Rockingham, N. C., secretary; G. E. Escott. Charlotte, assistant secretary; David Clark, Charlotte, treasurer. The hoard of governors is composed of the following: T. M. McTntvre, Gastonia. N. C.; H. H. Bovd, Charlotte, N. C.; A. M. Hamilton, Spartanburg; Z. B. Mangum. Gibsonville, N. C.; J. M. Davis. Newberry; N. T. Brown, Raleigh; W. W. Becknell, Florence, Ala.; M. G. Stone, Spartanburg; T. F. Cuddy. Clio; J. S. Osteen, Greenville; J. S. Drake, Lancaster; B. J. Dobbins, Caroleen, N. C. NEW PROGRAM. President Taft Demand Only Four Measures at This Congress. Washington, Special.?The announcement from the White House Saturday that President Tuft had by his own motion cut down to four the number of administration measures he would demand at the present session of Congress is received by leaders with unmixed feeling of relief. A schedule, including only the bills to amend the interstate commerce laws, provide for the regulation of the issuance of injunctions, start Arizona and New Mexico on the road to Statehood, and to validate the withdrawels of publie lands for conservation purposes, is regarded as quite possible of attainment. Most of these measures, it is believed, can be put through the 6enate. To Be a Goal Center. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.?The | Clinchfield Coal Corporation is to establish general offices here March 1st. This means that this city will be made the distributing point for this big fuel eompany in the future for the large territory it embraces, Twelve families or more will move from Charlotte, N. C., and Roanoke, Va., on 'account of the ohange. The Charlotte and Atlanta office^ will be closed. Charleston will be the exporting port, while Spartanbnrg will sell the entire product of the mines. The Delaware Delivered. The battleship Delaware, the first of the American type of Dreadnoughts to be completed, was formally delivered to the Government upon her arrival at the ' Norfolk Navy Yard last week from the vsrds of her builders, the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydoek Company. Following mv?or alterations to be mgde to the ship the Deleware will be placed in eovamiasion at Norfolk in the early storing. ttkUUfiki K 4 arm Just now Arizona and New Mexico are knocking loudly for admission into the Union and they will, in all probability, be the last applicants to seek such admission. From the best information obtainable there is probably a population of 400,000 in the Territory of New Mexico at this time. It is 260 milef north and south, by 346 miles east and west and contins 122,580 square miles, within its borders. It is estimated that an actual valuation of property within the Territory* would represent more than $300,000,000. In addition to this there are many homesteads undei cultivation ami many mining claims where patents h|ive not yet been issued and which are still exempt from taxation. There are probablj 400 miles of railroad recently constructed and exempt from taxatior for six years. It is estimated thai there are nine billion tons of coa in the Territory. The value of thes< resources, not yet subject to taxatior and of undeveloped resources, i: probably not less than $500,000,000. The school census taken in 1901 showed 93,894 children of school age the school buildings alone being esti mated to be worth $1,000,000. Re ligious denominations show an en rollment of more than 0,000 pupils. In New Mexico agriculture i: mainly conducted by irrigation alom the river valleys of the San Juan Rio Grande, the Mimbres, the Can adian, the Cimerron, the Gila, th< Pecos and their tributaries. Commercially, the Territory show! about 3.000 miles of railroad ii operation, ten daily newspapers anc one hundred weekly papers. Then are forty-one national banks and nil merous Territorial and saving! banks. Arizona was a part of the tcrri torv that was acquired from Mexic< by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidlgo February 2, 1848. and by the Gads den purchase of 1853, and was a pari of the Territory of New Mexico from which it was separated and or ganized into a Territory. It is 378 miles long by 339 miles wide and contains 112,920 squart miles, and it is believed that wher the census of the present year ii taken it will show a population o1 alxnit 200.000. It has grown rapid ly since the census of 1900, as indi cated by the receipts at various postoffices in the Territory. The population of Arizona is al most wholly that of Americans 6! per cent being of that nationality, II per cent Mexicans, 11 per cent In dinnc, and 6 per cent foreign nation alities. Both of the great political parties in the last campaign pledged them selves to the admission into ths Union of New Mexico and Arizona. May Save Big Stun. There may be a complete reorgani zation of the Treasury Department It is expected that by an expendi ture of $100,000 the Treasury wil save at least $1,000,000 a year, nn< probably a great deal more in operat ing expenses. The work of the var ious bureaus is to be gone over care fully and various economies now ii contemplation effected. All this ii contingent, however, upon the appro priation of the $100,000 which A9 sistant Secretary Norton, of thi Treasury, has asked the House Ap propriations Committee to include ii the legislative, executive, and judicia appropriation bill for the fiscal yea 1911. For Southern Bazaar. The Confederate Memorial Asso ciation, composed of many of th< prominent Southern people of Wash ington, will hold a bazar at the ol( Masonic Temple February 28 t< March 5. The proceeds will go t< pay for its home. Martin Wants Investigation. Representative Martin (Dem.) o1 Colorado, last Monday introduced ? resolution declaring the recent salt of 55,000 acres of friar land in th< Philippines which he alleges to hav< been made to "a representative oi the Havemeyer sugar interests," t< be a violation of law, denouncing th< department of justice for upholdinf it, and demanding an investigation $155,674,000 For Pensions. The pension bill, carrying $105, 674,000, was reported to the Houst last week from the Committee or Appropriations. It represents a cul from the estimate* of the department of only about $175,0C0. The appro priation is about $5,000,000 less thai last year. Wireless Station For Wilmington. Senator Overman, of North Csro lina, has been laboring with th< Navy Department to get an order foi a wireless station at Wilmington, am last Monday he got it, the station t< be located on Frying Pan shoals. Taft's Speech to be Circulated. President Taft's Lincoln daj speech in New York will be printec as a government document and cir culated throughout the country ai campaign literature on motion ol Senator Hill. Quit Printing For Business Firms. The government will possibly dis continue the practice of printini stamped envelopes with the addrea i of business firms in the corner. Ml DOME. The fnct that Thomas Jefferson, then President, declined to appear in court and produce certain papers in ' the tra) of Aaron Burr for treason, takenJm connection with the . of tiJQSenate and House on dapgs of Judge Wright to theJo!w,? Uoiptaittee on Printing in Congress i tgAippear in the Supreme Court of ; tne District of Columbia last week, s aroused interesting comment among some of the officials of the Depart ment of Justice who were looking - over the court records bearing on i the case. Mr. Jefferson was asked to bring, among other papers, a letter from ? a general who was believed tdttkve - knowledge of Burr's alleged t^HCmt able designs upon the Southwest but r, the President contended that as the -! executive officer of the Government 1 I he was exempt from the process of t j the court. The documents do not 1 i disclose just how the incident ended, ? I but an nflicial and it was his recoli . lection from rending this history of s the trial that the President's atti| tnde was upheld by the courts. Burr }; was tried at Richmond, Va., in 1807 l , I and was acquitted. -! The papers, now more than 100 -! years old. were loaned bv Judsre Ed mund Waddill .of the United District Court at Richmond, to Chief s Clerk Field, of the Department of ^ ; Justice, to form a part of the exhibit JF , at the Alaska-Youkon-Pacific Exposi- JT - tion at Seattle last year. They were I g returned safe and sound some t^-n * apo. s Attorney-General Wickersliam Ij i ed that they be kept here a wYl 1 i as he was anxious to look over t^ j! carefully. He has now finished wl^ -1 the papers, and thev will be returnnL ; to Richmond. While the ink on som^ji of them has faded considerably, yet . most are readable with the naked M ) eye. and the indictment itself, in scribed in a clear, distinct hand, is . easily deciphered. t * ' America a Thirsty Nation. Americans must be a thirsty nan tion judging from the imports of > drinkables as set forth in a statei ment just issued by the bureau of ? statistics of the department of comf inerce and labor. The United States - drank the essence of more than a - billion pounds of coffee in 1909, vals ued at $85,000,0fThat was about a dollar's worth of coffee fcr every - person in the United States, -^fea is } not such a favorite. Only a little 1 more than a hundred million pounds, - valued at about $16,000,000. came in?" - But in spirits, wines and malt liquors the nation touched it6 highest record s for importation in 1909 and consum. ed foreign products of that kind to e the value of more than $26,000,000, more than twice as much as was imported in 1899. South American supplied most of the coffee, Asia most of the tea and Europe most of the wines and liquors. The United i States is the world's largest coffee A j drinker and Great Britain is the Jc I world's greatest consumers of tea. Every person in the United States j used on the average of 11 pounds of A coffee during 1909, but the use of tea I " aemained about unchanged from the I previous year. I - Proposes Canal Celebration. JEsj ? T ''' Washington as the scene of a grea* .1 1 world exposition to mark the rov j pletion of the Panama Canal in lfjV^ 5 r was proposed by Representative V Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia^* a dinner in his honor at the oB mercial Club last week. He declat ed the south side of Pennsvlvan^k - avenue "an eyesore to every visitor'^ t? | and should be cleared of huildings^t-~> - , and made the site of the national ex1 J position. The Pennsylvanian advod : cated making: at least one building 3 j of the exposition a permanent monoI ment to a new commercial epoch. i j Teachers Are Very Scarce. ^ P j The Civil Service Commission is ?| having difficulty in meeting the dei mand for teachers in the Indian Sers vice. While female teachers in the i boarding schools are needed, the P greatest demand is for married male ) teachers to take charge of the day ; schools. The lattar are usually paid f $fi a month for ten months of the . school year, which V ns Sept. 1st. Cotton States Want li. \ , A resolution asking': ^Secretary s of State to inform the K^use whether II the 12 cotton-growing States have 11 representation in the diplomatic and t consular service in the countries that - purchase American cotton, partieui larly England, France and Germany, was introduced last week by Representative Hull, of Tennessee. . Francis is Vice-President. ^ t Former Gov. David R. Frincis of r Miseouri wm last week elected first 1 vice president of the Southern Comi mercial congress at a meeting of the executive committee of organisation. Working For More Appropriations. t Senator Simmons, of North Caro1 Una, has introduced three proposed - amendments to the rivers and harbor ^ # bill, one increasing the amount ap- I f preprinted for the upper Cape Fear from $10,000 to $615,000, a second adding $27,676 for a canal of ten feet from the inland waterway, now - being constructed, to the town of I Beaufort, and a third for $19,000 for s a canal of ten feet from the inland waterway to Morshoad City.