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No Refuge for Thaw in the
Dominion of Canada
A Foreign Flag Is Not Necessarily a FRIENDLY Flag in Such a
Case as His.
However clever were Harry K. Thaw’s friends in piloting
him through the lines of hopeful sheriffs in Connecticut and New
Hampshire, after lightning work between Matteawan and the
New York State line, they were assuredly ill-advised to let him
get into Canada.
Of all countries in the world, Canada offers the least secur
ity to strangers with unpleasant chapters in their histories. The
Dominion has a cold way of looking at these things, that, to a
inspect, must appear exceedingly inhospitable.
In the first place, the Canadian courts have absorbed from
the present British tradition an appalling contempt for techni
calities.
Anyone who has ever watched criminal trials of the present
day in England must have been impressed with the brusque at
titude of judges to phrase-juggling or efforts to translate words
into some meaning other than what might be called their “horse
sense.”
Barristers even hesitate to chance the snub of “his ludship”
by advancing a technical objection, unless it be unusually clever
and subtle, in which case the court may, after a few brief, keen
witted sallies, leave it to the jury, with a shrug, as much as to
say: “You gentlemen of common sense are, of course, not going
to take such mental gymnastics into consideration.”
This reaction from a too technical period, when a misspelled
name or word by an ill-fed engrosser could almost upset an in
dictment, has had its effect on Canadian practice.
We recall the cases of Greene and Gaynor after the Captain
Carter-Savannah harbor scandal. In these the defendants, refu
gees intrenched with unlimited money in a luxurious hotel in
Quebec, fought with the aid of the most astute legal talent for
months, right through all the Canadian courts to the Judicial
Committee of the Imperial Privy Council in London, only to be
landed back ignominiously in the United States for trial and
sentence.
Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
O TTR wax with Mexico wu
officially closed by the rati
fication of tho Treaty of
Guadeloupe Hidalgo S5 years ago.
The great Pascal declared one
day: “Justice Is what Is estab
lished." He also said: "Justice
Is subject to dispute, force 1s very
recognisable, and without dis
pute." In the Mexican war the
"force" was on our side, and In
the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidal
go It was “established" that such
and such things should be "Jus
tice.”
As things go In the "corrupted
currents of this world," setting
aside, for the time being, all
thoughts of the "above,” the re
sults of the Mexican war were
fine. The most progressive coun
try on earth acquired from one
the least progressive a terri-
flt. for the habitation and de
cent of the white man, of
square miles; an empire
-s
more than three times the else of
the French Republic or the Ger
man Empire, and more than five
times larger than the United
Kingdom, the State of California
alone being larger than the Jap
anese Empire with all Its posses
sions. Corea excepted.
The territory acquired from
Mexico by the Treaty of Guada-
loupe Hidalgo Is to-day occupied
by a thoroughly up-to-date, pro
gressive people, who number close
on to 4,000,000; a population
greater than that of the whole
nation when the Constitution went
Into efTect with Washington's in
auguration, and which is growing
rapidly. With the help of scien
tific agriculture, the “desert"
places are being changed Into
gardens of loveliness, and it is
the clearest of "manifest destiny”
that the vast region is by and by
to throb with every sort of civiliz
ing energy.
Apart from this, Thaw was ill-advised to cross the Dominion
frontier, for the reason that Canada has an immigration law un
der which its Department of Immigration can deport him almost
at will.
“Undesirable citizens” can not enter Canada as a place of
refuge or residence. Jack Johnson, the pugilist, only escaped
the clutches of this law by having in his possession a through
ticket from Chicago to Havre, France, which had been actually
purchased in Chicago and was convincing evidence of his bona
fide intention to seek neither refuge nor residence in Canada.
The criminal offense of which he had been convicted in Illinois
was not an extraditable offense, the Mann White Slave Act hav
ing been passed long after the extradition treaty had been ne
gotiated. ,
Even at that, the Canadian immigration authorities never
lost sight of him until he left the country on a steamship. Nor
did he then take a chance on landing at any British port.
So broad is the scope of the Canadian immigration law that
the officers of the Department may be said to have the power
to deport almost without reason, just as in old days in the West
there were sheriffs who would order “tin horns” beyond what
they ambitiously called the “city limits” because they had taken
a sudden dislike to the color of their eyes.
Thaw, so far as is known, had no through ticket to prove
that he sought neither refuge nor residence in Canada, and it
looks as if his only chance may be to be put across the line into
the State of New Hampshire, whence he came, rather than into
the State of New York.
It seems hardly conceivable that the Canadian immigration
officers will allow him to continue his journey to a port, even if
they should thereby insure his promptly leaving the country.
In any event, he has to face another perplexing and costly fight,
and this time with a very unemotional foe.
Harry Thaw would have been better off had he stayed in
New England or fled to Pennsylvania, than in Canada.
A foreign flag is not necessarily a friendly flag In such a
case as his.
From all accounts, too he might now have been well off to
Paris or Peru or the unrecognized Mexico had he only kept his
mouth shut at a critical moment in his six-cylinder career.
In the Movies
In Real Life
The Nose as an Indicator of Character
Physician Invents Apparatus Which Perfects Telephonic Speech by
Utilizing Nasal Sounds.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
N APOLEON preferred big-nosed
men for his army leaders,
and the correctness of his
Intuition concerning the signifi
cance of the nose as an Indicator
of character seems to have been
vindicated by bis experience at
Waterloo, for tbe Duke of Welling
ton had one of the biggest noses of
his day, and anchored, as It were,
by the Iron Duke’s nose the Eng
lish army remained Immovable un
til both night and Blucher arrived.
Lavater, the physiognomist, laid
great stress upon a large nose as
a token of a sturdy, energetic na
ture, and this feature has generally
been regarded In that light.
‘Nasal Voice’ Due to Nose
Performing Functions
Improperly.
Science has discovered no rear
son why the nose should possess
this kind of significance, but it has
recently been found out that th*
nose plays a far more Important
part than had been suspected In
the utterance of speech. The dis
agreeable sounds of what we call
a “nasal voice” are due to the fact
that the nose does not properly
perform Its functions. When tt is
well shaped within and unob
structed, the nose perfects the
voice, and without its aid syllables
containing the consonants "m” and
"n" can not be clearly uttered.
Dr. Glover, of the Conservatory
of Paris, has given special study
to the functions of the nose In
speech, and he points out that the
chief trouble with the ordinary tele
phone Is due to the fact that it does
not transmit the sounds as these
mouth sounds are transmitted to
the vibrating membrane, the conse
quence being that many words are
heard obscurely, the nasal sounds
which would complete their utter
ance being absent.
Accordingly he has Invented a
special form of telephone trans
mitter, furnished with an extra
tube, which gathers and transmits
the sounds coming from the nose.
The results have fully corresponded
with his expectations, for when
one speaks through a telephone of
this kind the words are trans
mitted In their Integrity, the “m”
and "n” sounds are distinctly
blended with the others, and those
peculiar to the nose. Only the
reproduction of the speaker’s voice
Is perfect.
The speaker himself, It is
claimed, finds It easier to use this
form of telephone, for It requires
less exertion of the voice. It Is not
necessary to speak loudly In order
to be well heard. Dr. Glover has
also found that Interposition of a
very thin paper between the mouth
and nose of the speaker and the
vibratory apparatus does not in
the least diminish the distinctness
of the sounds, while It serves to
prevent possible contamination.
He calls his new apparatus the
"physiological telephone,” not
merely because of the precaution
to prevent contamination, but more
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
H E left the place where strange men dwell
In hideous harmony;
He left a ghastly, babbling hell
And now men call him free—
For him who walks with a ghost that talks
There is no liberty.
He is not free whose mind retains
The memory of a shot
That made an evil soul take wings,
And left a form to rot.
He knows but pain who shares with Cain
The murderer’s awful lot.
He is not free who can not dream
Of rivers and the sky,
Who asks no favor of his God
Except the wish to die—
For Dead Sea ashes wet with tears
Make soul-destroying lye.
especially because with its aid, for
the first time, the full physiological
value of the voice Is utilized in
telephonic transmission. The voice
of the speaker Is, at the same time,
rendered clearer to the hearer and
its timbre is completely trans
mitted, so that it sounds more nat
ural. as If the speaker were ac
tually present
For those who are curious about
such things It may he Interesting
to remark that this function of the
nose In speech may possibly have
some connection with the observa
tion of the physiognomists that
the nose Is a significant feature In
revealing the mental character of
its possessor: Every part of the
body that Is employed by the mind
for expressing Itself Inevitably ac
quires tell-tale marks which enable
a shrewd observer to discern some
thing of the mental make-up. It Is
notably so with the mouth, not be
cause it Is employed In eating but
because It Is an instrument for he
expression of thought through the
medium of speech.
Mental Characteristics Im
print Themselves on
One’s Features.
Since the nose also takes part In
the verbal utterance of thought,
why should It not, too, exhibit simi
lar Indications of character? It is
not alone upon the size of the nose
that the physiognomist bases his
conclusions, but upon peculiarities
of shape and appearance which are
gradually developed and empha-
sized as the individual grows older
and hts mental characteristics be
gin to imprint themselves on his
features.
IF I WERE A MAN, A YOUNG
MAN
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
(Copyright, 1913.)
I F I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day,
I would look in the eyes of Life undaunted
By any Fate that might threaten me.
I would give to the world what the world most wanted—
Manhood that knows It can do and be;
Courage that dares, and faith that can see
Clear Into the depths of the human soul,
And find God there, and the ultimate goal,
If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day.
If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day,
\
I would think of myself as the masterful creature
Of all the Masterful plan;
The Formless Cause, with form and feature;
The Power that heeds not limit or ban;
Man, wonderful man.
I would do good deeds, and forget them straightway;
I would weave my woes Into ropes and climb
tip to the heights of the helper’s gateway;
And Life should serve me, and Time,
And I would sail out, and out, and find
The treasures that He in the deep sea. Mind.
I would dream, and think, and act;
I would work, and love, and pray.
"nil each dream and vision grew Into a fact,
If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day.
If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day,
I would guard my passions as Kings guard treasures,
And keep them high and clean.
fFor the will of a man, with his passions, measures;
It Is strong as they are keen.)
I would think of each woman as some one’s mother;
I would think of each man as my own brother,
And speed him along on his way.
And the glory of life In this wonderful hour
Should fill me and thrill me with Conscious power,
If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-da#.
Some of Nature's AbstruseLaws
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
H OW many of those who may
read this note are able to
repeat one, two, five or even
ten of the now known laws that
govern the universe? Perhaps
there are as many as 500 demon
strated laws In the entire range
of the mathematical physical
sciences. The entire sidereal uni
verse and all that it contains Is
managed by rigid and set laws.
Every law of motion of bodies In
space, as suns, planets, moons,
comets and meteors, Is known to
very high mathematicians with a
minute degree of accuracy.
Rates and rates of variation of
all motions of oil cosmlcal bodies
are watched with mlcro-telescop-
lc care; and then placed In the
clutch of the most powerful en
gine, by far, now In possession of
man—the Infinitesimal calculus.
This has such enormous analyt
ical power that all else human
dwindles In Its majestic pres
ence.
But how many readers of to
day’s Georgian can stop reading
and repeat mentally or orally e-’en
a few of nature’s supremely mag
nificent laws? A professional
novel reader oan not do it, nor
can one whose entire career on
earth Is centered on one all-ab
sorbing work of piling up gold.
As a matter of curiosity, two or
three standard laws are her*
given:
Some Standard Laws.
First—“Th© quantity of heat
set free in any chemical reac
tion Is a measure of the work
done in the reaction.”
Second—“The squares of the
times of revolution of all the
planets around the sun are as the
cubes of their mean distances
from the sun’s center.”
Third—“The intensity of all
forms of radiant-energy, such as
light and heat, varies inversely
as the squares of distances from
the radiating center."
Fourth—“The sum of the prod
ucts of resistance and current-
strength in each of several con
ductors arranged in series equals
the sum of the electromotive
forces in the circuit.”
Fifth, and a mighty law—"The
differential of the product of two
variables is the differential of the
first into the second, plus the dif
ferential of the second into the
first.”
Sixth, so valuable that all dia
monds and gold in existence are
as dross in comparison—“From
expressions containing the sum
or difference of finites and infi
nites, the finites may be dropped
without affecting the ratio.”
Sublime Glories.
These supremal laws and hun
dreds more equal In transcendant
beauty and loveliness are so much
higher than all other things hu
man that they can not even be
compared—they are in a realm
supreme—a world all by them
selves. And the diggers end 50-
hour workers are constantly add
ing to these glories sublime.
They of the Master Mind.
Here are the mentologlcal
facts: One living in this beauti
ful world fifty, sixty, seventy,
eighty years without being con
versant with these and the hun
dreds of other fixed laws has
scarcely glimpsed anything. Th*
case Is comparable to that of a
person passing hurriedly through
a gallery of fine paintings, look
ing at the floor, or of going to a
theater where all words spoken
by the actors were In. to him, an
unknown language. Or equiva
lent to the wearing of dark
glasses from youth until the clos
ing scene.
What One Misses.
Here Is a pathetic mentologlcal
fact: One not knowing a law of
nature, not even one, mtssea at
least three-fourths of the satis
faction and genuine, not Imagin
ary. happiness that he Is entitled
to In this “vale of tears." One
not knowing a law of astronomy
Journeys from birth to death and
If he looks at the stars shoot alk
he Is able to say Is:
“Twinkle, twinkle, little »tat\
Bow l wonder what yon are."
An he can can do is to simply
wonder. The stupendous modern,
sciences are as sealed doors; thus;
the simply amazing truths re
vealed by spectroscopy are In a
dead language. The endless won
ders of the science of electricity
are unknown to one who knows
nothing of the laws supreme,
sublime. Likewise the unspeak
able beauties of chemical combi
nations, reactions and disintegra
tions. But these wane in the In
effable presence of the calculus, the
most exquisite poem, the very
poetry of motion and of all har
monics, ever within the mind of
man. Three-fourths of the beau
ties of all things In front of th#
human eye, of all things within
the vision of man, are Invisible to
those not familiar with calculus—
the magnificent.
Triangl
es
By MINNA IRVING.
T T THEN as a boy he went to school,
y Y And later on to college,
He hated mathematics most
Of any kind of knowledge.
He tried to shirk the knotty points
And problematic tangles,
And could not see the use of cube*
Or circles or triangles.
But now at operas and teas
In fashion’s van he presses,
Where ladies gather to display
Their charms in V-cut dresses;
And where you see a row of backs,
All dimples or all angles,
You’re sure to find him there intent
On studying triangles*