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. 0M B1 niMft fillJiifii svJ' HE3IH( rrwXKi TUESDAY, OCTOHKIt 8, 1912. Entered at the Pom omce At New York as Second Claas Unit Matter. Sibirrlptloru by Hall. Postpaid. DAILY, Per Month to ISO DAILY, Per Year a ih) 81'NnVY, Per Yesr a BO DAILY AND St'NDAY, Per Year H Sit DAILY AND. sr.VllAY. Prr Month .. . 53 Pottage to foreign countries added. All checks, money unlets, Ar to lie made ptiy able toTHKSU.v. Published ftnllv. Including Sunday, hy the Sun Printing anil Piibllhlnc Aurlalini at i;n.Vaui treet, In Hie lluroiiili of Manhattan, Now Vol I.. President and Treasuter, William . ItckK. IJO A'atsau street; Vlic-Prrstilcnt, lldwnrd P. Mitchell, 10 Nanau street; ftetrrtary, Chester S. Lord, 150 N(s.iu Miroi. Lonitnn n!TWe. t'ffinaltnm llmtt 1 A rnxtt,.! meet. Miami. pmi umrc, itue iic in Miriioiiifrr. utt Hue .in Quatre Septembrc. Washington olllre, Hlbbs ttultdlnr. Hrooldyu orncc, n0 Livingston Mreei. If our Irlenits tri3 furor tn vllh manucrtpl tot funtlcatlnn trltft to hart rrxtlri crlhnrnumn Ihtv mum in all rmej srntt stamps tor fiat purpost. Courtesy to tile Fleet. With the advent of (lie great naval fleet tho necessity for wlf-rcstraint on tlio part of the visitors becomes ap parent. It is iinloi innately the fact that too many people nvsiiriio the atti tude that I1M till v.'ll liilittQ nro tli.i tit-.iti.trt of the nation nnv citizen has (lie right to do pictty miicli as ho pleases on, board of one. This has been the historv I of visits to warships for miinv yeats. i Visitors ought to bear in mind llmt : while the vessel nrc public propertv. ! they oie entitled to the same protection and rare ns public pink. Furtliertnoic it hiiim be remembered that thc.o vc-rels are the comnulnorv homes of nfiYcrs mid men detailed for duty on board of them. The men of the forecai t'e do not enjoy seeing' strangers forcing their way into every thing, trying to m-o everything, even the clothing in tho ditty bags, lew people know how sensitive the sailor is, and his intelligence is lamentably under rated. Much consideration ought to be howii to him by nil visitors. The officers have no other privacy i than tha, which is afforded by their vouiim. hi u in uy no means unusual for visitors on wai ships to open the doors and stnre in even when some officer who has had a long hard tour of duty is trying to snatrhn short sleep. The wardroom orderlies are sometimes I driven to their wits' ends to explain to visitors that at a particular hour they cannot push their way into the only place which can be used for the dining room of the officers' mess. That breech mechanisms are not public toys the ships' companies will probably be able to convince visitors, but we beg for a general observance of the fact that the oflicers and crews live on the nhips and are entitled to a certain amount of privacy, even at a tirno liko this. They will readily sac rifice most of that which they enjoy at other times, but when requested not to enter any part of u ship the visitor should comply cheerfully. N'o such request will bo made, except with very good reason. Mr. Tnft's Vetoe. Nothing more impudent and dishonest has been heard in thiscampaignthnnthe Democratic attacks on President Taft in which his vetoes of bills that he could not approvo are described ns arbitrary, unwarranted and in viola tion of tho spirit of American institu tions. Tho fact is that in no veto has the President exceeded the powers of his office or failed in obedience to his oath of office. Tho measures Mr. T.ut disapproved were presented to him in tho regu lar course of legislation. Ho did not npprove them. He returned each to the House in which it originated, with his objections. It is not charged that lie refused to sign any bill which he approved. He did not go ono step beyond his duty. Ho did not usurp any power or author ity not distinctly nnd specifically con ferred on him by tho Constitution. Ho did not subordinate his judgment to apparent popularity or suspend tho functions and obligations of his oftico in favor of personal advantage. Were Mr. Takt more of a politician and less of a man he might, in spite of his disapproval, have signed bomo of the bills ho vetoed. Had ho dono that he would havo been guilty of a betraval of his country meriting impeachment and removal from office. Hut the eourso he followed was in exact com pliance with his oath of olllco and the Constitution of tho United States, a fact that not all tho mock heroics of politicians can obscure or alter. Intervention In the llalkau. Tho announcement from Paris that after preliminary exchanges of views the Great Powers havo determined to intervene in tho Balkans, making Russia and Austria their mandatories, doubt less removes every danger of war save ono. Deprived of all opportunity to obtain money or supplies, menaced by Austrian nnd Russian nrnn'es and fleets, Bulgaria, Servia and Greece aro hardly likely to insist upon war. It remains to be seen -whether Turkish statesmen will bo ablo to restrain the rising pas sions of tho Mohammedans. The terms which the Great Powers eem determined to impose upon Turkey aro in reality such as to constitute a virtual partition of Iho Ottoman Empire In Europe. Macedonia and Humelia and probably Albania also are to havo the right to namo their local and legislatlvu representatives and tho first two will have Christian Governors. Turkey will retain titular sovereignty and receive certain taxes, which will go to meet tho Turkish debt, but if reform is to mean anything it must mean that Turkish ! garrisons win bo withdrawn from all afciropean Turkey save the narrow dU- I trlet nhAlll rtnolonlliinnla T.l.-b "'I" is on obvious and considerable ro- "notion of resources ond empire, I he rnrdnmi principle of the present policy of the Knropean Powers is based upon the preservation of the titular In tcgrity of Turkey. In other words, litilgariu, Servla and Oreeco linvinp; demanded llmt there bo reforms in Turkish provinces whoso Inhabitants nro raciully related to these nations, Ilurope has Intervened and undertakes to Kiiurantce reforms, btit In etiaran teeing them also declares against any subsequent partition of the provinces umoiiK ttie Balkan States. The reason for this Kiinrnntoe is plain .Austria expects some dav to ro to Sa- lonicii. Any reform now which by in- rreusuiK the territories of the Italkan Slates would place nil or any of them across her pathway would necessarily bo rejected. Hence tho present for mula, which leaves the Balkans in statu UUO so far ns Imtindnrlea nin ram. ...... I i ... " eiiieti nun inns maintains tne "open ,"' haionica, is tho only one that Austria can accept. In tho situation Austria, backed by Germany, holds the strategic position, and hor wish must be law for the new Concert of Kuropc It would be idle to regard the present arrangement, however vigorously en forced, as more than a makeshift. But. if Turkey accepts it, it will serve to keep peace. lo-morrow tho httlo nations which have temporarily coordinated their policies will perhaps relapse into their chronic state of mutual jealousy, and then contlitions will Iks radically 'l,l,nKed to the advantage of Austria. 1 lu' tMr Cistern question can be 'y when by war or bargain tho ,l,t,'r'f,txl nations, which aro Austria, '"'b' and Hussia, with their allies reach " lK,mt r "Rreemcnt. Not being able to reach such an agreement now, the two rival camps, tho Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, havo fallen back upon tho familiar substitute of a modus Vivendi, but liko every other Balkan moilul Vivendi tho present plan settles nollm,K aml postpones everything; and what arrangement bv European concert t o which Austria is a party can bo viewed as u fluidity after her enterprise In Bos nia and Herzegovina? PraUe for a Good Man. Here are words of gold for Charles c,.M..Fn'o mi. JJJ J son, whom wo venerate paper maker but have to deplore at a speech maker: "To the Kmion or The BrsSir: The chnnn of Thk Hcn of the past twentr-fiTe yrar was that it would have tta laugh and ll jrlhei whcthur It Invented a character to poke fufa at. or took a figure In actual life to drape it humor on. The remilt haa been that readers have learned your editorial page wtM replete with good nature, and If at times It was apparently too captious and critical of public men. It was evident good natured raillery was the only Indiscretion of which Tnr JJrs could bo charged. "The Sen of to-day Is much The Sn.v of old. except It seems to me that It has lost a deal of Its tiood nature. The name 'Roosr. vr.t.T' Is too much of a nightmare with you, and for that reason perhaps you are a little unjust to the Progressive candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. You do not know Mr. Bird. Jf you did you would treat him illiferently Charles Scmncii Bino is an exceptional man In many respects. He Is independently wealthy. Is a money maker as a paper maker, who in hU early years worked twelve) hours a day In his father' mills, and then and there learned that the cooiratlon of labor with capital was not properly appreciated by the latter. When he became manager of the mills he alio!' Ished twelve hours as a day's work, ran the mills twentj-four hours each day, placing three shifts of men at work, and placing each man on an eight hour day. for which he paid him twelve hour pay. He found by experience that three shifts of men, each on an eight hour basis, were better for the men and better for the business. It was economically and humanely correct. That Is the rule of his employment to-day, and heioT controls four mills. "Aealn, when a man dies, having served rnantrs Scmkkr Hihd as an employee, and It appears that there is a dependent widow with orphans, the salary of the dead man continues on the payroll and la charged up against the maintenance charges of the business No better epitaph can be written of any capitalist than the relatively recent words of Mr Bmp. addressing a widowed mother of a small famllv: 'As long as you ate Dan Costkixo's widow you will draw I)n Cosi kilo's pay.' That statement illuminates (.'iiam.ks Scmner Bird, In whose mills there uever has leen a strike or even a serious dlsousslon of labor prob lems. "Another feature of this kind of employer, whom i nr. hex would have us see through Its funny glanses. When an old employee becomes superannuated and Is retired he goes out of the mills, but his name continues on the payroll as long as he lives. 'An hon est business should be honest to the men who have given tho be.it they had In life to Its service,' says Mr. Bum, "'1 his Is the Progressive candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Ua believes In conservation of property, Industry and the home, Just oa Thk Hvs does, but he be lieves In the conservation of men, women and children first. You and he do not differ fundamentally, only In those particulars where he reads out of the 'Book of Ufo1 a solemn boimden obligation as a neighbor which some of our later day captains of In dustry have apparently overlooked. It us laugh with Tnr. Hcn. We Bos- tnnlans love It for Its sparkling brightness: we laugh with it at times, and again, at other times we laugh at It. Your Itoosevelt discussions are far from discouraging. Ten years hence they will be positively humor ous. Nevertheless, Thk Hvs Is a light of good nature well worth keeping In view. It certainly cannot be charged with agree ing with Its readers for the money that It ma'itis Jaiiki I'. MinrNis. '.Iohio.v, October 5." Our friend, if ho will permit us so to call him, Mr. Macienih seems to us a tritle mistaken. Everybody speaks well of Mr. BmD. Wo knew him ages ago, in t hu good old days of tho Hon. Fiianoih W. Bino, his father, a Mugwump before the race was born, an originnl indepen dent , a man of spirit and spine, when not to lie a regular and Grant Republican was to b.nr tiio outlaw's mark. There was a Bu d Club dining at Parker's forty odd years ago; but as there was a Banks Club too Massachusetts should not bo too proud; nor is the habit of "dining" at 2 P.M. to bo entirely praised by the judicious. Twelve noon Is another mat ter, and marks tho surviving nnd ma jority habit of Amoricans. Mr. Bird never had u strike in his factories. He Is kind to his employees. Good for a "good capitalist; tho Stand ard Oil crowd,w still awaiting from tho Colonel that returnable unrelurnlng $100,000, can say the same thing of them selves. Tho Hon. Charles Si'mnkr Bird, an Ilia godfather's godson, must have all the non-human virlues that make virtue' bo popular among tho cynical; and he has a thousand good human qualities in spite of his godfatherly name. He follows tho hounds fearlessly; he playH a very good game of polo, we hear; he Is a good judge of dogs, but of candi dates and principles some of tm may think him a less infallible Judge. For example, he finds it "Intolerable that Iab pasied by both branches of the Legislature and approved by the Governor should be nullified by the courts." Wo don't like to hear even tho best of paper makers talking that way. (Setting What Ynu llii.v. Underlying tho new rules governing tho making of weights nnd quantities of a number of commodities, mado public this week by tho Board of Regu lation and Tolerances, is the simple idea that the buyer is entitled to know what he is getting for his money. The grosser frauds, perpetrated by hanging hooks on the scales, attaching putty to the pans, and selling the butcher's thumb. aro all adequately provided against now nnd strict enforcement of tho law is all that is necessary to insure the cus tomer getting sixteen ounces when ho buys a pound of goods. There has. long been n considerable abuse in goods put up in cartons, and this tho new enact ments aro intended to curb. Many of tho advertised and popular cereals, which seem to have driven bulk goods out of tho market, am sold now without any statement of quantity, and an illuminating example of one cont ribu- tory cause of the high cost of living was exposed recently, when the progressive shrinkage in the sizes of the containers of ono food was exhibited in this town. When the new rules nro in operation each package must loar in legible char acters a statement of the weight of its contents. Bread, now generally sold by the loaf, must bo sold by the pound, with tho weight marked on each loaf. Candy, in buying which the public hns long paid at the rate of SI a pound for waxed paper and cardboard, tinder the new dispensation will come so labelled as to advertise how niuch of sweets and how much of wrapper the thoughtful husband carries home. So with other commodities: the purchaser is to know what is delivered to him. All these things are excellent and will undoubtedly contribute to the happi ness nnd welfare of the community. tot they will not relievo the consumer from the necessity for vigilance. En lightened rules can do something, hut tho really effective protection against fraud in weights and measures, as well as against substitutions, is an alert and suspicious intelligence on the part of , . ... 1 . . the shopper, without which no inter- vention by the Stnto can accomplish important results for his benefit. The Hrlttsh Ambassador's New Distinction. Hitherto mountain climbing and an gling havo been tho favorite recreations of the Right Hon. James Brycr, his Majesty' Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to tho United States; flying will now bo added no doubt, for Mr. Brtce after coursing through tho nir for twenty-fivo minutes on tho Massachusetts coast with Mr. W. Btgrlino Buroehs last Saturday said that ho was delighted with the experience. It is now thirty-fivo years since Mr. Brtce tolled up to tho ico capped dome of Ararat. He has told the story in his book 'Transcaucasin and Ararat." At 13,000 feet tho last of his Cossack guides deserted" him, nnd ho wont on and up alone, as might havo beon expected from tho indomitable Scotch-Irish blood in him. Only fifteen persons, if Noah bo counted, hnvo set foot on1 the pinnaclo of Ararat, so that to achiovo it is to bo one of a select company. Pre viously Mr. Brtce had climbed tho Shrockhorn, in tho Alps, nnd tradition says, the Pio do Nethou, in the Mala detta group in tho Pyrenees. His ex ploits aa a mountaineer won him the presidency of tho Alpine Club in 1800. At tho ago of seventy-four cutting ico steps on glacial peaks is denied the most wiry and energetic of men, that Is to say, the Right Hon. James Brytk, but there Is left. him the scat of honor in an aero plane, from which ho can survey tho world from any altitude, even an alt i tudo higher than Ararat, for M, Eeoao .neux has recorded himself ut 17,881 feet. Mr. Brvck of course has no in tention of attaining, such a height, for it is possible only to younger mon of nbnormal vitality, but ho has pointed tho way aerially to retired mountain climbers-tho whole blue dome is theirs If they will follow his example Probably Mr. Brtce will not be repri manded by his sovereign, for tho Eng lish are a sporting people nnd lovo ad venture for its own sake. If Mr. Brvci; is to be taken to task at all it will be by his American friends, who know that nono of his predecessors understood this country, its virtues and its failings as well as ho, and that a rupture of amicanio relutlons with England is not to bo feared so long as a man of euoh learning, wisdom, fact and self-control occupies tho British Embassy at Wash ington. Bymany people Mr, William A Psrrmt was not supposed to he alive when his death at (Irenola, Kan., was reported yesterday; yet no man in tho country wns hotter known from 1801 to imi7, when, ns n Populist, he represented KanMiiH In the United States Senate. He rose to fame in that dismal year for the Republican party when it elected only eighty-eight members of the'House'bf Representatives. .-3OCKI0HB- .jkrhy Simpson also camo In on tho tidal Wave. Mortgages In tho hard times or tstw were as thick in Kansas as jsckrabblta. The Populist platforms bristlod with radical remedies for tho stole of tho nation. Senator Pepprr was the daddy of tho new party of that day, a man angular, sallow, hoarded to the waist, and a tire less talking machine. His peculiarities mado him a fascinating subject for the cartoonists. No man's featurea wero known bettor, no man waa more ridiculed. But PsFrra was honest and courageous, and he never Kinohed from his convic tions. Ho nerved Kansas diligently and made a better Senator than some or his successors. Ho was retired when pros Krlty relumed and the forme; began to pay off their mortgagee. Mr. Brtan hus complained that Colonel Rooskvklt stole some or Ills Ideas; It is' just as true tiiat Mr Bryan appropriated some of WtLLtAM Atrnrn Pwrpen's. I Was there a touch of symbolism 'In tho Mayor's decorations? From ur office windows they havo sUKttested oh attempt to glvo City Hall Park the semblance of Vineyard Haven In honor of the visiting sailors, As for politics, they come after the fleet and ball games this week and a long way after. I.a I'oM.r.TTE spent fffl.MI. Urailinr. Fortunately it was not his own money, to that he could afford it. Greeks war on bltf hats. lltadlint. Ono Balkan outbreak thateven the Great Powers can't prevent. THE "POVVLAR" COXCEHT. VI here Are the Oood Hngllsh llallaih of ! the Antr.Poljnlot Era? To thk CntTon or Tiik Sus .Sir? When ake.1 on Sunday morning what .I Intended to do In the afternoon I promptly replied: "Sleep!" but It was not to le. A musical friend drugged me to what 1 believe to hava Iwen n Franco-Portuguese, German-Austrian, or maybe ttnlkan-Turklsh tlf at pres ent that were possible) popular concert. I had no programme, but It doesn't much matter what It was, for one can never under stand the words of n soni? as given by most modem vo-allst. The scene of action wai one of the most dismal I have ever looked nu. It ugeat?d suicide, the only relief on the stage being a piano with the maker's iiumn on It In large lettors. A young lady appeared nnd played rharmlngly what rav rriend s.ild was a IWorle Varlee. Ills imagination was so extremely vivid, ns he decrlled the various supposed Inci dents, when he said that the shepherds nnd sltepherdenaes were nil golni: to sleep. I fol lowed their example. But he awoke me for further Joys. A full Hedged lady, who might well enough have been I.nty Marbeth or Diana Vernon, attacked several songs most ag Rro.ively I know she sang one love ditty liv her actions, but there was no hilling or ooliiB about it. Bhe loved her sweetheart with an ardor he would have had some diffi culty In icstrsinlng. The Inevitable encore rame, and I'll swear the words of the song were In Fsiwranto. Then jppnared a gen tleman nho looked like to me all tee world, a magazine editor with a lbaso profound Miriott. I could sen him rjse on his rubber heels and cast away manuscript in the vate paper basket In a' sarcastic fury. Lastly the young pianist obliged again, hor right hand frequently crossing her left, as If to pick up some notes.the latter had for cotten, white the lelt hand did the samo f.ivor for the rlchl. And that was the poly glot popular concert. May one ask if we are eer to have any good Knglish ballads again? Why does every young la.lv on being asked to sing or play bl.ion forth with fireworks? Are there no songs like "WhenHparrows Billld." "Twlckenlnm Ferry." "Sweethearts," "Only once More, ,c.i Are, there no more An ;,'1'''','"'l"7,mo",lBr,,errlnB"J I In m youth I ns-d to co miles every week 1 1 hear an hnll"h ballad concert, and now I I ni getting on In years I would even go to the exiienso of a taxicab for the same pur pose, and tiiare arc many others like me. Brooklyn-. October 7. Peter Piper. Imagination In the Kitchen. To thk Epitor or TnK Hvn-Sir: If ynu will turn to early spring you will see why gastronomic art Is no more. For you then permitted philosophical condemnations of poets to pervade our editorial page, even allowing "K, II. ,1." to make such heart rending Intimations as that, poets were of less importance than bricklayers. Ac Now In a recent editorial nrtlcle, "Ten Cents for What? "TiikHcn wuils In woful lamen tation against Its successful extermination of poetic cooking. Many at that time wanted you against tho consequences of unholy nnron poets, but without avail. Nevertheless, cooks were poets, then, are now nndeverwlllbe No one tint's philoso pher wouUlsaythatawellrookeddlsh is not a poem and the rook who made It not a poet, the most Important person In the world. But the oooks properly took Thk Sun at Its v.ord, drank their tears and nte their own cooking and followed Tiik Hi'.n's philosopher nnd substituted philosophical trappings for gastronomic poems, and now the tottaiir'anta are filled with philosophers who are so full of common seiiHo that tley have no appreciation of gastronomic, cre.i tlons .Some flay, imagination will ho again respected, Then gaudy furniture, glaring draperies, shrieks called muelo and butter (who, when dining, uses butter?) will pass away and life will be full of joy, Jam eh I), Dkwell, ,lr, New Hatbn'. Conn,. October 7. Makers at Wraith. To THR KPtTon or Tint HVK-.ltr: Thduih It be not possible, at "U, P. (.'." justly observes, to determine even approximately the contribu tion of esvh worker to the wealth he labored In conjunction with other factors to produce, neerthcls that Is what has to be determined somehow, slnre there 3 no "Idesl" society, If the determination ran be made neither mathematicslly nor approximately, we are con demned to make It ss best we can la this practical but Imperfect world. And he w,ho In any way helps to make that determination so nearly exact asjiuman circumstances will allow Is so far forth a benefactor of his klqd, According to the cur rent economic doctrine of supply and demand, the "market" determines the amount every wage earner receives for his hire. It Is the unease arising from the shortcomings et this system that makes the worker a ready and eager listener to every liarx who has a remedy to offer. That a remedy Is needed can hardly be denied, What It Is to be or where It Is to come from Is the question. Whoever Invents or brings lt)to pats will be the workman's friend. Socialism has not yet done to, and some be lieve that It ran never do so by the way It pres ently handles the business. Whether the Slate ss now constituted could by legislative Inter fereme bring about a fairer division of the com mon product is one or the great questions in Told. j, a. U, Ciistii, October a, Forever, Men may no longer past the lie, With opltheta they may not vie; The little man at laat may count, The cost of living cease to mount. We each may have a Jewel cook, New York may catch each nifty crook: Kach lover's ouarrel may be patched, And every apoute'a sample matched, Tho janitors may all grow meek, The porter turn the other cheek, The crops may always bump the bumps, And storks may always Jump the Jumps, The country may be always sjved, All nlrslilp lllghlB be safely braved. We'll have, though other woes are nil, The "Trouble la the Balkans" still. ' McliAKDionuB Wilson. J K1SO KltAKttl OX THE STAXD. a I (tract Ion In layal Circles Over the Arhletrmrnt oMhe Perfect Tlltnrts. Alt the loyal subjects agreed that his Majesty had made a most perfect witness when he appeared before the Senate ex cavators. Had ho not regarded the wit ness chair as a revolving throne from which ho had the opportunity of a life time to issue proclamations on the essence of virtue? Had he not been flippant, a royal prerogative that tho cowboys admire? Had he not sung the praises of physical prowess in his encomium on Battling Nelson and John Ii. Sullivan, the "hundred por cent, males," worshipped, by the great mass of huskv voters, and by the more timid of the Moosettes? Had he not held himself In control almost as woll as did his draco the Duke of Dixon? "Manners," said an authority, "were invented to keep fools at a dis tance." King Khakhi uruLrthe Duke did not propose to allow themselves to be heckled by fools; they kept thorn at their proper distance. However, the chief characteristic, ad mired by every follower of Mohammed lie Moose, was his direct unswer to every question. When he was ger mane, It was an nrtistlo rebuff. Heth Bullock says that the theory of the otd school of travelling salesmen used to be this: If you want to sell a man a suit of clothes, begin by talking about a watch, and merely mention that you happen to know where a suit of clothes might be purchased at a bargain. It disarms sus piclon. And so with King Khakhi; when he was asked about Harriman a gold watch ho talked about Penrose's dirty suit of clothes, It is a poor cat that can't climb the hedgo backward. Let us quote the record verbatim: "When I was Police Commissioner of New York city, if a member of tho police force had dono In connection with the enforcement of the laws against liquor selling what Mr. Penrose says he did in this case I would have thrown him off the force." A mild switch from the year in question, 1904, back to "when I was Police Commis sioner." And speaking of my knowledge of campaign contributions, that reminds me of boozy cops. Now I tako it I have answered the query to tho satisfaction of every one. Let ua proceed with the in vestigation. The investigation had to do with evi dence; but when tho evidenco was con trary to the acute moral sense of Theodore nighteous, It wan to bo damned as "hear say evidence," When, however, the evi dence was in support of the spotless mem ory of Truthful Moosevelt, "hearsay evi denco" was the best obtainable. Lay tho deadly parallel answers side by aide: "Now in regard to the Harriman fund, " began Senator t'lapp. "There is no testimony against me ex cept hearsay evidence," interrupted the Colonel, "hearsay statements of men that aro dead. Mr. Archbold and Mr. Penrose purport to give statements of what Mr. Bllsa had to say; Mr. Bile is dead." But two minutes later, long enough for the plain peopln to forget, behold Handy Andy use the same verbiage in his favor: "Have you believed all theao years that tho Standard Oil contribution was not made?" asked Senator Paynter. "Cortelyou told me that; and Mr. Bliss told Mr. Loeb that; and only the other day Mr. Cortelyou told me that he had been informed by Mr. Blias that no con tribution had been made by the Standard Oil Company." And now to recapitulate: Mri Archbold and Mr. Penrose purport to give state ments of a man who is dead, and they should be punished. Mr. Loeb and Mr. Cortelyou purport to give statements of the same dead man, and should be placed on high with the angels. Beth had been working on his pocket edition of Shakespeare, and ho said that ho heard tell of college professors wasting a lot of time figuring upon Just what years such and such a play was written, but that he thought It was more sensible to figure what year each play was written for. And that after hearing King Khakhi testify, he was sure that "Lear" was composed for 1912. And if any one doubted him let him read over King Khakhi's versions of good and bad hear say evidence and then turn to where the mud king said: Get thee class eyet: And. like a scurvy politician, teem To tee the things thou dost not. SUXFf.01TER MATHEMATICS. . Peers niipustlon r the Figure r the Kansai Drys. TO TK1 i:orroa or TBg SVH-SIr: Arithmetic It a tubtle science and percentage Is worse. When the Attorney-tleneralof Kantss recently Informed the Prohibitionists of Tennessee that drlnklnir an m uau eneris nta aecrea'eci :,oooper cent, among the .Sunflowers under prohibition rule. It was accepted as a great and glorious proof of the power of prohibition, Nobody eveY thought to stop a minute ana calculate, any more than did Attorney-General Dawson when he looked at tne ngures and dug out the per rent, Kven tome of the newtpapera of New York, where per rent. It a vital matter, didn't stop to iuiui, anu announced in neaaunea this 2.0110 per cent, reduction. Sadder still, several New York ers to whose attention I called this amaxtng rriiucuon iook u xor rraniea. and vh,n i I plained, I'm a goat if they didn't Insist that there could be a reduction to that exteot and still something be left over for prohibition to work on. Only once In my experience have I known of a reduction exceeding 100 per cent, and that was In the cate of a buMneas friend of mine. He had gone half and halt with another man and In a year or so the firm went Hat broke, I saw him shortly aftsrward and asked htm about It. He said he bad lost 700 per rent, on the Investment. "Hut you couldn't," I said, with a mild grin at bit faulty arithmetic, "Just the tame I did," he Insisted. "How could your said 1, "One hundred per cent, was all you had In It." "Trut enough," he sighed, "but I had to pay the other if now s part as wen as my own. Can It be possible the Kansai prohibitionists are furnishing t.too per cent, of the terrible ex amples they are weeding out of their State? NEW Yog, October 0. w, J, L. Aatl So We Ckaaged Us Babject. "Ut ut have i Parcels Pott," said the Average allien. "We must and we will have a Paresis Post," thundered the Honorable from Congress. "Ily all means," assented the Postmsiter-Gen eral. "And at oncer emphasised the President with a nst thump on the table. t "Aw. left not," drawled t'he Kiprest Comptntet . Orphans' Day, O dreadful news! O fatal day! .Such awful carnare Deuce to pay I nr In Ualkaus? Greeks all slain? Gore In Turkey? .Vo guest again. Japs In tlaughter? china disrupt? Italian massacre? No-glve It up! Well-cling tight now Hold your breath; lor 'Us a tad, sad - Toll of death, Weep for Ihe orphanl This Is Ihe day Uhen 4U,ooo giandtnat Pats Awayl UotUy office bora. t. W. Low. MR. ROOSEVELT AS A W1TXESS. A tmestlon About III Testimony Before the Clapp Committer. To tb Kditor or Thk Bvssin Kx President Itoosevelt knew Mr. Harriman to he "a practical, man": at least he told hi in that they wero "both practical men," Now, why. Instead of spending five hours In ver bose anil tnrirld denunciation. In giving masked advice to his superiors and In solf laudatorv stumu apeechea for political effect In his camnalgn for a third term, since he aara It was Harriman who naked pecu niary aid of him and not he who askedjt of Harriman, why does he not give the peo ple some cause to believe him by telling ua what reason existed for Mr. Harriman taking any personal Interest In the election of Mr. Hlgglns aa (lovernor of tho State of New York? Mr. Harriman was not seeklrc nfflb-. .Mr. Harriman u net pelltlcian, as Mr. Itoosevelt Is and always has been. Mr. llarrlmati's alma were all personal, ns no one knew better than did Mr. itoosevelt. Mr. Harriman took no Interest In State poli tics ecept ns they affected the 1'ederal polity and aa they affected Mr. Itoosevelt: that Is why Itoosevelt classed Harriman with himself aa "practical," What inducement had Harriman to ask aid of Roosevelt for lllgglns, except to nld the pair of them, Itoosevelt nnd Harriman, tho "practical men"? Why did not Mr. Itoosevelt give us some light on this subject? What does he take the people for when ho puts up to them such silly palaver? Jloahl He "crams his words Into our vara against the stomach of our sense." P. W. O. IlsooiLT.v, October 5. The Rooseveltian answer to tho fore going would be that Mr. Horriman's in terest in Governor Higgins grew out or his personal relations with Mr. Odell. Tom Jones en the ("amrmla-n. To mK Kditor or Thk Hits Sir: One hundred and alxty-three years ago a very wise man, Henry Fielding, wrote a very wise book, "The History of Tom Jones." So wise was It that mankind Insisted that no womankind should read. Kor his own sake also Theodoro Itooaevelt should Insist that no man should read It to-day, because among other things It says, "The worst of men generally have tho words 'rogue' and 'villain' most In their mouths." ThlnTheo- dore Itoosevelt thought the world did not know. Was Henry Fielding Indulging In prophecy when lie wrote, "Predominant vanity Is, I am afraid, too much concerned here"? were theae other words also in anticipa tion of Theodoro Roosevelt's appearance Iwfore tho Senate committee? "Kor let a man he never eo honest, the account of his own conduct will, In spite of himself, bo so very rnvorable that his vices will come purified through his lips, and, like foul liquors well strained, will leave all their foulness behind." "In realltv." says Henry Fielding further. "I know but of one solid objection to abso lute monnrchy, the only defect In which excellent constitution seems to be the difficulty of finding any man adequate to the ofllr of an absolute monarch. To conclude, as the examples of all acca show us that mankind In general desire power only to do hsrm, and when they obtain It. use It for no other purpose. It Is not consonant with even the least degree of prudence to hazard an alterna tive when our hopes are poorly Kent in countenance by only two or three excep tions out or a tnntisand instances to n arm our fears. In this case It will be much wiser to submit to a few Inconveniences arising from the dispassionate deafness of laws than to remedy them by applying to the passionate open ears of n tyrant." init ineoaore itooeeve t must lmv thought the world had forgotteu. Himikric 8. Dickson-. PntLADKi.riiu, October 7. Jance for the fioose and for the IJsnrirr. IO THE l.nr.Oft OP THR HVS Sir: Hin editorial article appearing In Tut! Spn of uctoDer 3 - I he Sleazy Syracuse Platform" was evidently designed, aa perhaps Is per- tccuy appropriate, for the entertainment of those readers who happen to agree with' the sentiments expressed rather than ns an unbiassed summary of the Democratic plat form, out ror the sako of those readers nho may not happen to agree with tho general sentiments expressed, would not an edi torial article somewhat on this order lie equally appropriate? nut what shall he said of the earer rilMlt'Hr. of the catchall adoptej recently by the Republi can State convention? AVe believe In equal Justice for all men with. out regard to race or color." We believe In the great educational advantaire. of the New York State fairs. YVrlielletr an agricultural survey of Ihe State should be mane or tne Department of Agriculture." We recognise the Importance of fctmnilfvlno legal procedure, both civil and criminal." "we favor a further advance In lezlslntlon and the passage of such laws as may be necessary ror tne protection or the lives, heallh safety and welfare of employees." Which of the two platforms do von enn. elder atatea more plainly and falrli- l.i ing that a platform's purpose Is to convey ita message to the minds of all classes of voters, tnoae wno may perhaps not appre ciate the technicalities of n constitutional amendment or parse sentences, as well ns the intellectual) Its attitude on the question of "woman mTrage"? V M. .M.hko. Burrixo, October . Our Buffalo correspondent will find upon investigation of the flies that Tiik Son's opinion of tho Republican State platform was set forth with sufficient clearness at the time of its adoption. The Tariff and the Cleveland Panle. To thk Editok or The Hus Sir? There eema to be aomo confusion ss to the rela tion of the Wilson bill ami tho panlo that occurred during the first part of Cleveland's second administration. The fact is that the panlo began In the latter part of the Harrison administration and Cleveland Inherited It. The Wilson bill had nothing to do with It. When President Cleveland left the wi.it Houso at the close of his first administra tion there wus a surplus in the T rensti ri ot more than :wo,ooo,ooo. When ho entered the White House at the beginning of l.i. second administration he was confronted with an empty Treasury and overdue obllga tlona amounting to many mllllona. He really had to Issue bonds to keep the wheole of governmout ninulng. Tha nsnin .. business depression. Harrison l,nn0ii,,i him started In Kurope and waa felt more acutely there than In this country. in ineiaai nan oi Cleveland's aernnrt .,i. ministration business hnd begun to revive and hla successor got the benefit of it And the Wilson 1,111 In Ik. I..i . -. - ... ..v ui its existence raised more revonne nn .... previous tariff bill, even with the Income lax provision stricken out, Brooklyn, October 7. a. B. S. A Wet Celebration Proposed. TO Til FIDITOa or THK Sex-Mr- Snni.ihl.. should be done this year to commemorate the glorious deedt of nu. done 100 years ago. Could not tome contest be arranged between the rival teamen of the great Engllth speaking nations? A friendly drinking bout between th. riv.i navies would be most desirable. If the American navy hat not lost Ita emclencr the Covtrnmeul might onoe again hear an Inspiring mcsiage, "We have met the enemy and they are touted. One i" uemijonn, twelve magnumt and Nk Yokk, October 5. The Extra Charge. Weary WUIIe-But I iput nou.n nood for a mcai, mum, lira. Knlcker-You'll have to split an eiira log for the bread and butter. A riutocrat, Rnlcker Did ke speak from a cart tall? Becker No; from aa extra Urt. 1 AiiHM'Jean .Murium Issues siale. incut. Itpgnnling Its Kv pptlli ion's Discoveries. EXPLOKKR also talks Tiilereslinj: Collodion of i)hsj nml I'tonsils Put on Exiiibltion. In rt-f illation of certain rriik-Nuie ituiil in Kuiopo and rumors in America con cerning tho discovery of blonde Ksklino In the Arctic rcglonsby Villi jalninr.Stt fain son, tho following statement was issti-d yesterday by Dr. Frederick A, I.iicoh, director of the American MtiMMim of Natural History: The Btefnnsson-Amleron expedition to Arctlu America wns orgnnietl in inns. nnd sent out under the nu:ilccs of the American Museum of Natural History. The expedition ws charire of Vllhjnlniar .Stefnnsson nnd Dr. H. M. Anderson, boili graduates of the University of lown. Mr. Stt'fnnsson devoted his attention to the anthropological work of the expedition, while Dr. Anderson wns occupied with the zoological work for (be musi-iim. Iletewen Alitv l.i, II0, when he first came In contact with tho Ksklmosof CnpeHexley. nnd Mav IH, Hilt, when ho left the I'rlnr Albert Sound people to return to his bm; near Cape Perry, Mr. Htefunsson saw about n thousand person", roughly speaking. He took ccphnllo measurements of :o of these. It appeared both to Mr. Rtefansson and to the Alasknnnnd .Mackenzie HI ver Eaklmoi who accompanied liini that the people visited differed considerably from ens' Eskimos they had seen before. I'erhspl the most striklnt; feature was that beard were not only morn common and mor abundant Hum among the men of the et ern Eskimo but nlo of colors varying fioin black to a very light brown tending to red. The blond tendencies aie most prominent In Kouthweslcrn Victoria l.-iml, but they are met with at least as fnr ent u a hundred, miles east of the mouth of Ihe Coppermine III ver. Coronation (Inlf, Although nn .ri cntiflc census was taken to determine ths exact degree of blondnef-s of every Individual seen, Mr. HtefanHson feels sale In salni that more than half the individuals seen have eyebrows lighter than blnek and ranging nil the nny lo n very light brown. The tendency to blnnrtni) sent" lei strong In Ihe women than In the tupn A few Individuals lmd curly hair and perhaps a dozen had eyes noticeably lighter than the ordinary Eskimo brown, ranging to blue or blue gray. T bese nnd other facts of a similar char acter were observed by Mr Ktefnnsou and will In due course bp published by ths museum. It I, too early lo settle definitely on nny theory explaining the fact. Of the various explanations that have o far been suggested it ieertis lo Mr. ptefanssnn that the one open lo the fenrst setious objections Is that of the admixture of a large amount of European blood at ome fairly remote period. In this connection Ihe disappearance In the fifteenth or M. teenth centuries of "the Norse colony front Greenland suggests ltelf ss n t'olble source of the Kuropennlike character. Many things militate against th" i-uppo-fcltion that they enn be derived from nny of the Franklin expeditions of the middle of the last century One of these Is that the only Eskimo of this dlMrid seen nt rlo quarters by Franklin himself is described by hint in terms which tit very well tho blond type found tv-ila)-. 'Iho purely biologic theories that might explain Ihe facts also seem to lm e serious draw back-. With tcfeienco to the discoveries of the extwxli'ion in Art'lie regions, Kxplour Slefonsson said yesterday, in icply to Ht.mu f his ciitlo: "I .nu i. (it iiuikinc any lecture tour for piofil and cannot nee vtlii.t my object would be to make htntenutits that cannot be proved. '"ho Held up north it- en omii one nml nny ono can pn there und m;o tho Eskimo tribes for them selves." Two bunds of mUisioudrit-e from abicml havo entered the Held recently, according to lottetK received hy tho explorer yes terday. Two mi&eiunaries reproent ilio Chutili of England and others the Human C'ntholic Ch ut eh. Mr. StefansM.il lenflirnied yetttenV.' that ho visited three tribes of I li ml Kskimr h who lliul previously r-ceu v.-hi men, bul said Hint eislu or ten otherlrilx s of tho r.Hl.iino living on (.'conation (in1), Dolphin and Union SI in lit., hi fat :ij known had never met while mui. Al)oiit ICpO Kpcclmeua t,f Aiclic curies gathered by the cxpdiiim were idiicd nn exhibition in the Natmal Ilisioiv Museum yebterduy. They include elab orate costumes worn by tho KokimcB if Coronation (lulf. for wme cf which fulm lotm prices weto puid: seal harpooiti-, the wood utilized fiom driftwood and ihe points inudo from caribou antlers; low-t and arrows of t.pruco with the cords f caribou sinews. Tho arrows can bo projected fur a hundred yards, easily, and aro nuiie as fatal as n-modern bullet. The I.hkmn uio not particularly good inaikhinen. An American Itoy enn hhoot with greater at curacy, says Mr. Stcfanwon. Tho Eskimos are good singeis mui tnkn up lentlily American hymns and (popular ragtime music. A (juaiiit musical instrument the rly ono (Uncovered by Mr. fitefuiiKson In tl"3 fnr North is a drum of ceaUkln, wi h a frame of spruce, Dr. It, M. Andeivjn, companion nf Mr. Slefansscu on the Aictlo expedition. ' now on route homeward bound on l n whaler. IMvedere, and is expected to arrive in San Francisco the first or wcciul week in November. RESTRICTED SALE OF MlUi. Ilonrtl of Health Pusses Itesoliitlniit Its Effect June 1, 1 1)1 It. Resolutions greatly strengthening th" safeguards surrounding tho sale of mm i quarts of dipped or looe milk n day i ' this city were passed by Ihe Hoard of Health at yesterday's meeting, Aftr June I, 191.1, it will be illegal to nell milk dipped from cans except in approved milk xtores under permits from the Hoard of Health, or in stores in which food stuffs other than milk products are sold In original packages only. In making publio tho resolutions Com missioner Ijederlo pointed out that many of tiio 11,000 places where dipped milk is Hold aro grocery stores, where many other commodities besides milk ure handled nnd sold in a manner which mu-'t necessarily cauau much (IuhL "The solution of the dipped milk prob lem," said the Commissioner yesterday, "has been one of the chief objects th" Department of Health bn bad under consideration in connection with the extensive programme for the improve ment of New York's milk sutiply wnich has been developed within the Wt two yeart The facilities for tho proper cleans ing of uteiibiU, for the protection ol milk front flies and for proper icing ni'n often very inadequato and in too many caws tho room where Die milk is sold com-mimics-en cirectly with living apart munte, CommiMdpnor Lederle nald that n enforcement (f tho ordinance would Kriotiuly affect ihu bin-incs of u i.reit number ef tnmll tsti:tcko?peis ampM time has been given for the adjustment of trade conditions to tho new require ment before it la rigidly enforced.