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Published dally, including Sunday, by the Bun Printing and Publishing AaaecUtlon at ISO Nihh street. In the Horough i of Man hattan. Nw York. President, frank A. Muniir. 150 Nae.au utreet; Vice-President. ISrvtn Wardman. IM Nmu """Vi.Ef.0.; retary. It. H. Tltherlniton, IM Nmmu treat: Treaaurer. Wm. T. Dewart, 150 Nai. tin afreet. London office. 40.43 Kleet treet. Parle office, it Rue de la Mlchodlere, oft tie du Quatre Heplembre. Washington oftUe. Itlbba Building. Brooklyn office, 101 Livingston street. our trlt irfvo favor ut cit manu Krlptt and lllutratlon lor publication iritl to Saw rtlecttd artlctn rtturnrd thru muf M oil mere rd utampi tor that purpotr. Icaporti In Driblet! Now: Neit In AraUnchei. While the Central rowers of Eu rope urc lucked within n rlitR of steel Nhore nnd uflont, It takes n sub marine merchantman to deliver a million dollar rnrco of Oerman mer chandise at one of our ports. There may be dozens, there may be scores of these undersea voyagers to follow the Peutschlund's triumphant course nd lay down In our markets dye stuffs and other products of Oer nan enterprise and cenlus. Yet, at the best, what this submarine trans portation can put into our markets jrill be as a few drops of rain splll- log out of the clouds into the sea. But when the armies of the Old World hare laid down their arms, Jrben twenty million warriors are twenty million workmen again, when every blockade has been lifted from erery port, when the highways of the Seven Seas are as open and ns free as ever they were to all ships under U flags, of the great Towers and of the smnll Towers, of the victors nd of the vanquished, we shall not save mere submarine marvels seek ing our shores by stealthy and crooked voyages, with driblet car goes of S(M) tons. We shall have countless argosies coming from the Germans and the Austrian. ns fmm thP British and the French, as from every nation that trades In any craft that enn flout. They will lie romliig, from the peo ples who are now tit pence and from the peoples who are now at war, as they never came before. For with the markets of lielllcercnts restored to. the world, the nations that kept out of the war can Nnd there no rich and prosperous buyers, as I hey found them before August, 1!iU; Just us now they must seek them here. And the belligerents of to-day sending their soldiers back to work must ask of them, after all they have done on the fields of battle, to liiul, at whatever pains, their livings on the fields of Industry. All, as Indi viduals and as nations, will work In whatever way they must work, will do whutever things they must do, will suffer whatever pinch I hey must suf fer, to freight their fleets with prod ucts of the farm and the mine, of the mill and the factory, to get our goltl our gold which already Is piled high In our public nnd prlvnte vaults as never goltl was piled before, as perhaps never again It is to be In the blstory of the human race. That Is What is due when tiro peace clock 5 Strikes', beyond our present Imports. see what they are already. For the fiscal year ending with they were, In round numbers, 1,000,000. Hut since the begin- of the calendar year they have lug at tin.' rate of more than 1,000. For several weeks been rushing In at the rate than J'-VVmumio.ooo. war go on nnd this ralen- ft will surpass In Imports Let the war go on 1 year Just begun will of millions beyond f(eHeeC i Asd witts the submarine mer chantman Dentschland, bringing her eargo of predoBs dyestufrs, was feel lag her way Into the waters of Chesa peake Bay, the present control of the United States Congress was rejecting the Republican proposal to plnco on dyestuffs an Import duty which would save the' American industries established since the allied blockndo 'f the Central Powers, to provide rtlcles wkltm are essential to the industrial wtstMMs et this country. lir-ssssmsmV i onu-.-msssmmv ltVssssR L -run lHMta American Industry announced that it was scrapping Its munition plants tint) turning out of employment In thofec plants hundreds of workmen because the war order dream of fabu lous wealth and endless prnsiierlty Is already beginning to fade. So shall all our war order business collapse, not after the war, but even as the peace negotiations begin. So shall the cream of our present exports be come sour milk. So shall American wage earners troop out of the pay line nnd Into the bread line by the tens nnd hundreds of thousands. If while we lose the foreign war mar kets to the extent.of hundreds of mill Ions a year there are no peace Indus tries to which they may turn for their bread and butter because the fleets of ull the world will m pouring their cargoes Into our markets. Hut at Washington, In this ns In all other national dangers, there is noth ing but watchful waiting. The Flit-as the ringer. Our neighbor the Time thinks thnt "the opposition should have n clearly defined policy" concerning Mexico. It adds thnt "the Republicans woidd be stronger If Uiey would settle upon a coherent plan of action nnd stick to It." Continuing, it remarks: "At prsnt, all the country knows about the party's Mexican policy Is that It d Iff em from President Wilson's. The acceptance of Carransa'o friendly over tures, which commits our Government to no other course ttun continued sen- eroslty and fair treatment, such aa a stroruj nation should always observe In Its relations with a weak and sufferlnc nation, has led to much loose talk." It will occur to most people that the Administration, being In power. Is the quarter to which we should first look for a coherent plan of ac tion, nnd reasonable adherence to that plan. If our neighbor will turn bnck to the strong and true Indictment of Carranka's Government contained In Mr. Lansing's already forgotten note composed so recently ns June 20. It will find what we stipos to be it striking exsisltlon of that whlcli we Imagine would be Ilepuhllcnn policy under the circumstances. That was the fist Now, of course, comes the finger, nfter only three weeks; the gentle, iedngoglc, moni tory, frlend-of-bumnnlty finger oscil lated on Monday at Detroit. The occasion Illustrates perfectly whnt Et.mr Hoot had in mind when he described the Invariable tapering off. the tadpole quality, of Mr. Wil son's exhibitions of energy. It explains likewise at least one of Colonel HoosBvraT'K rensnns for pa triotic concern about the state of the nation. No fist clinched unnecessarily ; no finger needlessly vibrant: hut if In the course of events fist and finger must go Into commission, let the fin ger precede the fist Instead of follow ing It, ns has almost Invariably been the sequence In Mr. Wilson's verbal demonstrations. Colonels of the 8txtynlnth. The removal of Ions Daniki. Con i.ky from the command of the Sixty ninth Iteglment adds another name to the rather short list of those who have won the coveted colonelcy and. after glory or turmoil, have stepped, or leen put, aside. Some Colonels of the Sixty-ninth nre Immortal, some merely familiar, but nil have seen fighting, whether in front of the regi ment's bayonets or In front of the regiment's ballots. Little Is remembered of Jamks B. Hyan. who was Colonel In the first four years (18."-18.'0) of the regi ment's actual life. He made way for one of the immortals, Corcoran, whose fight with the Governor of New York over the question of parad ing the Sixty-ninth before the I'rlnco of Wai.ks laniled him lu Ludlow Street Jail ; and in Jail he was when he ordered his regiment to rally to the Union cause. Corcoran was tem porarily lost to the Sixty-ninth through his capture at his first real engagement, after a henrty fight. He spent a year in a Confederate prison nnd returned, only to be killed by his horse ut Fairfax Court House. IIorkrt NroKNT was the comman der upon the reorganization of the regiment Inte In the summer of 1801. It was this new regiment, with the Sixty-third anil the Eighty-eighth and two batteries of light artillery, that made up Meagher's Irish Brigade. After Chancellorsvllle, when Nuhk.nt was not permitted to return to New York to recruit for the gaps In his ranks, he resigned and his men went Into the com m nnd of Colonel Patrick Kf.li.t of the Eighty-eighth. But Kei.i.y was to fall nt Petersburg and Ni fiBNT to recover the colonelcy of his old troops, swelled once more to regimental slxe, although James Bao ley was ut the regiment's head when It left New York In 1802. After the war the fighting Major of the Irish Brigade, James Cava nacii, held the colonelcy until 1803, when he resigned after the efficiency of the Sixty-ninth was criticised by State mllltln officers. The regiment had thrived In the red shower of the South, but peace was blight to It. There was no Colonel after Cava NAtiii until the eve of the Spanish war, when In an election which shook the nrmory Edwabb 'Ditty was chosen. He had been In the regiment since 1807, when he was 21. Once the war was over, the internnl rows liegan, charges being made against r' ' i : "h p. ,.f i r .. tains. But he weathered these nnd, considering nil the ambitions that boiled altout him, did well with the regiment In his eleven years. A year without n Colonel nnd then, In 1010, the Sixty-ninth chose Coni.ey by a plurality of one vote over the huge guiirdsmnn and former Tam many district lender, Tercival E. Naole. Since then charges nnd coun ter charges have rustled In the ar mory nnd In Albany. And now Con i.ey goes, mustered out willy nllly. It will he only human In Colonel Coni.ey to feel hurt. Every other Colonel of the Sixty-ninth since 18TS0 has had the pleasure of battling pgnlnst a foe of the United States, either ns the regimental commander or in some lesser capacity. A Memorial (6 Galllsrd of C'ulebrs. The Third United States Volunteer Engineers rmve Just published "A Memorial to Colonel David Du Host: Daillarp," their regimental comman der In the Spanish war. This memo rial, published three years uftcr his death by men whose confidence and respect he had won In war, Is a fitting tribute; It reveals that rare quality which Gaili.ard possessed of holding the admiration nnd loyalty of those who worked or served with him. (iaii.irii was one of Uu triumvi rate, OoETItAI.N, CoHnAn. Gaillakii, that made n master dream of engi neering a reullty. When the Tannma Canal wns being built every one knew of the Culebra, but few knew of the man who was digging that treacherous cut. This Is not unfair to (lAll.LARn. for self-effncement was the characteristic of his devotion to his country. He was chosen for the work because years of study had pre pared hi in for the task, ivrhaps the most difficult on the canal. He went ut It with enthusiasm. There were days of labor under an equatorial sun nnd nights over plans, long hours of toil nnd short rntlons of rest. He saw the slides checked. Hut the effort cost him his life. Body mid brain broke under the unceasing struggle. While the country was cele brating the completion of the great work he died. Oaillard never knew that praise was lavUhed iion him for his efficiency and loyalty, or that he had become as great a hern as If he had led and won a desierate charge In battle. He had never dreamed that Con gress would pass n bill to raise his military rank, or Imagined that his alma mater would honor him with a tablet among Its Illustrious gradu ates, that hN native State would plan a monument to his memory, or that his flame would le preserved In the work for which he gave his life. He was one of those patient tollers who without pretence or nrrngnnce give their bet unselfishly. For what he m.roiiipllsheil, for his record as a soldier, his career ns a cltlr.en nnd n gentleman, his memory Is well worth treasnrlng. Argentina's Centennial. Like the English colonies which became our United States, the "United Trovlmvs of the Hlo de la Plata." declaring their Independence on Julv 0, IHltt. had lo make good their as sertions by a long war. The Argen tine struggle lusted from 1817 to 1824. It was not until 1S42 that Snaln con ceded to Argentina her freedom. Having achieved liberty by their arms the Plata provinces fell nnart and were not brought together until 1831, when Hueiios Ayres, Entre Bins, Corrlenles ami Santa Fe agreed upon n union which they invited the other provinces lo enter. Anarchy was ihe answer. There was no stable government until some time after the adoption of it Constitution In lS..:t. for Bnenos Ayres reMatetlly refused to accept the document. Argentina's present prosieroiis estate Is the work or tne last liny years. Her growth may be snld to him1 paralleled ours since we emerged friini Ihe wastage of our civil war. How great that growth has been Is better Indicated by trilling details than by Impresshe statistics. In Buenos Ayres scrubwomen get S3 a day. The fee for membership In a well known club Is $1,500. The mem bership Is not small either. Travel lers leaving Buenos Ayres sometimes Journey a whole day on nu express train without once losing sight of enormous herds of grazing cattle. In La Prenm the country hns a news. paper with eorresiMindents In all parts of the world, from whom It receives. at the cost of heavy cable tolls, des- patches that till three pages dally. The Argentinian has replaced the North American as the personification of unlimited riches In European eyes. Ills Is the country of magnificent earnings and of equally magnificent prices ns well. How vexed the old Spanish con qulstiidores would be were they alive to-day nt the pastoral wealth they overlooked here. In their vlow iho only wealth wns solid silver and gold : they exulted In the dross of Peru nnd left the region of Ihe La Plata to shift fop Itself, having found that the Tn rami and Paraguay rivers hid none of the silver that the early ex plorers had dreamed of finding. Hut this very neglect wns Argentina's good fortune. Her colonists were left to develop the country for them- selves; when the wars of the Libera tion came they found few sentimental ties to hind I hem to Spain, und they possessed already the spirit of self help necessary to Insure Ihe future of their comitry. OlIKllt llllt the TrtMNIlrv IVmrlm.n, at once to equip collectors of the portti wiin uiviiik buuh.' The House .In 1' ir, Cotnmltle-'H that Congress cannot be despaired of in all particulars. President Wilson's expressed ad miration for the average man recalls the fact that the election is only a few months off. Mexico may hnve doubts about us, but our list of kilted, wounded nnd missing leaves us no room for doubt about Mexico. Villa Intimates to our troops on the border that he Is tlielr de facto enemy. It was a generous concession for the Administration to make to the effect that the United States has the right to defend Its border. . There still remains some slight curiosity at Oyster Uay as Jo what William Uahnbs Is raising. Jersey bathers would like to know the Government's position regarding the exact status of submarine sharks. The theorv that the Deutuchlnnd is a notentlal wurMhlti Is nt rnni nu nmin,! as Mr. Uhyan's theory that we have a potential army of a million men. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Let His Memory Be Metered on the Anniversary of Ills Death. To THE IIlJlTOH 01 THE Sl'N SfC.' Oil the twelfth day of July, one hundred and twelve years nso, one of the brlxlitest stars on the American horizon vanished Into darkness by the murderous design of nn unscrupulous adwnturer. It should be to our people a fountain of pride, of cnuraue and of fervent re solve to perpetuate the achievements of Alexander Hamilton. We are smarting under an Adminis tration of vacillation nnd hpocrly sup plied by a party barely fit to nmnar parochial nfTalrs, slvlni? to the world ruch an awful example of Ineptitude mid Incompetence. The time Is near at hand when p shall revert again to more glorious times, and In anticipation thereof we revere the memory of that sreat adopted on of New Tork whose epitaph In Trinity Churchyard truly commemorates : The Patriot nt Im-orruptlhle Integrlt) The Soldier of Approved Valour The Stateeman of Comummate Wl.ioiu Whote Talentu and Virtues will be admired by (irateful 1'otterlty lKn after thl mirbl monument ehall hae mouldered Into Duat To-day, when dangers to our national life and dearly bought. free Institutions beset us on all sldrs. It more than ever behooves us to remember the national heroes of our great past and to glory In the po!eiislon of a history on every page of which In written the self-sacrl-flee and love for country of her Illus trious sons. Wtckoft, N J July It. A. N". THE RIGHTS OF FELIS DO MESTICA. Should fats Knjoy the Protection Dogs Now Hare? To thk Kmtok or The SrN Sir; On the first pate of a Saturday evening newspaper appeared a picture of a Ut t lo girl fondling a stray cut. Ileneath was the legend "How Infantile Paralysis Is Spread." Having myself been a fnrmei victim of the disease without any feline Intermediary, I war Interested. It Is of course expedient, even Im perative, to consider carefully the prej udices of the public. Hut as an abstract question I humbly nilmilt. If cats spread the disease, why not does? It seems tn me that the nn.sner .Is that. If either, both animals nre equally culpable, hut not equally popular. While there has been much agitation for the protection and benefit of the dog, It would appear that the cat has leeti Isnored, except us an occasional and conenU-nt scapegoat. As bnth animals share the questionable Hdxnutau'es of a ilose relitliui to urban humanity, would It not seem re-tsnnnble that the cat should enjoy the same rights as the dog, this being k fiee country, to what ever alleviation their deplorable lot may allow? Sinckjiki.t Iloui.ti. Kahtiiamfton, July in. Vox's "llumpt -Damply." To the i:niinR or Tun Hiw Sir: In an article entitled 'Theatrical History Made on the Old llow.r. Stage" In The SfN of July 'i it Is said that (I. I.. Fox, the great clown, opened his "Humpty Pumpty" at the Old lluwery, but that Is Incorrect, It was produced first at the Olympic, SIS Ilroadway, Laura Keene's old theatre. In h(,' or SM, under the management of !eorge Taylor, and i! ran for 600 nights or more, until Fox went crazy. Fox originally appeared at the "ld Chatham or National Theatre, then with J. W. Llngard was lessee of the old Ilowery. They afterward managed the New Ilowery. Fox appeared In pantomime In all the theatres above mentioned. He was a great comedian as well as pantomimic. Auburn, July it. :. The Flag on the Submarine Dentsch land. To the KniTott or The Sun .sir: If the statu of the Uerman submarine Deutschland Is that of a privately owned merchantman and not connected with the Herman Admiralty, then why Is It that the photographs taken of this cr.tft In (Jennany previous tn Its departure for America and published In to-day's newspapers reveal her flying the tJer mini naval ensign Instead of the Uerman merchant marine flag? Spencer Wheeler. SpiiiNoriEui, Mass., July 10. Vlalnna Thai Illaturh sing King. from tlie Star ol opr. A cltlien had a nlfftitmiire the other night coriMlMtnc of iMrn, Judge, hiindi'ufTa and pawn lli-kets. Sportsman Kten la the Kdge uf Mnlrlmony. Trim-Ill aHkrd John Alden why he didn't apeak for lilmeelf, "I don't talk when I fish," he annwerrd. The Submarine llriltsehland. Prale the old ea pluck of you. I'rale the old ne.i luik of you; llravery Is bone of you, Coward blow unknown of you, DeiilnrhUndl Hall Ilia freight th.it lies In you, llall the nirgo of dyes In yuu, Na'er a hloody blot In you. Stain of lOianie la not In you, Lieutechlandl lere- a rousing rh-er for mi, May the way b clear for you, Fair and (porting odds for ou From Ihe water gods for you, pi lllx'llltll I' THE VICTIMS OF MR. W1L SON'S MEXICAN POLICY. A Perplexed Klector Sets Forth Ills Doubts to His Choice This Fall. To the Kditor or The bi:n fl(r: I huvc been greatly amused with the dis cussion of the mental hygiene of Presi dent Wilson by Dr. Itockwell, and still more with Its editorial commendation. It Is amusing because Dr. Itockwell does not teem to realize tho extent to which his profession has been discredited In Its views of pschologic aberrations. Murder trials and proceedings In re gard to the sanity of those who make wills have made alienists a byword and I shown that any view of a mental condi tion can be supported by a physician's , theories. Possibly Dr. Itockwell wrote In Irony and Is now laughing In his sleee. If there were any truth In his theory, the time may come when, like Lincoln nnd Grant's Intemperance, we may long for a President with similar mental processes. Hut I am also dissatisfied with the few arguments given In behalf of Mr. Hughes, for I with a great many others nm hot yet convinced that change for tho sake of change Is desirable. It Is gen erally recognized that both President I Wilson and Justice Hughes are upright, I Intelligent mid earnest men. If I vote i for XIr. Hughes I must do so because I think It likely he will net more wisely 'than Mr. Wilson has done. As ct I J see no reason for such an opinion. I Despite the attacks of the critics, I be lieve Mr. Wilson's com so In general hns been wise, patilotic mid for the good of 'our country. The ery fact that both parties to the lluropcnn controcrsy ie 'gard him ns favoiable to their foes Is a wonderful testimony to his splendid I piloting of the ship of state. As re jgards Mexico, I have yet to hear or see n clear statement by nn Intelligent innd Impartial man ns tn what better 'course could have been followed In rela tion to a country without a recognized head, it permanent government and a people twcle-tlftcenth of whom can neither read nor write. That Mr. Wilson has been able to re s'st populat clamor nnd so largely pre ent war Is very significant nt this time when the Government While Hook and General Stewart L. Woodford's declara tion concerning the attitude of Spain show that President McKlnley's lack of backbone, which could not resist popular clamor, plunged this country Into the war with Spain. And here let me state that In my opinion the assrtlc,n In your editorial article of July S that "during the past three jears the number of American" who have fallen victims to Ihe weakness and vacillation of the pres ent Administration runs Into the thou sands" Is unfounded, disingenuous mid unworthy of The Si s It Is sheer dem- nigoglsm and I do not look for that In the columns of THE Su.v. Looking about for other arguments favorable to the candidacy of Mr. Hughes I note thnt the accession and favorable opinion of Mr. Roosevelt, Hoss rilun ind olheis are applauded. But some of us have memories thnt reach back over a few ears. and we recall, even 111 Itepubllcan newspapers, crltl- eims of the character of these gentle men, whli ii suggest not much honor In ! their support, and call for seven times ' wnshlug 'n the Itlver Jordan If they are i to lie clean. It Is true politics m.ike strange bedfel I Ions, but It must be a very uncomfort able bed l!i which side hy side lie Mr. ' Taft. who was done to death by his for j mer friend, and Mr. Roosevelt, whose In Cleaning aim has Ixen egotism and self lehntss and the policy of iule or ruin. Is It an algument for Mr. Hughes that (William Fllnn Is eating the fatted calf i provided b Penrose, llrumbatigh nnd Magic, and mad" a rresldentl.il elector by the IVnns.v IvanU ring" Ought 1 to jVfite for him, slmplj to reptore to power and influence thee Progressives who j defeated the Republican party? I'eilups jou will si. vote for Mr. J Hughes so ns to icturn the Republican party to power Well, I have a very I poor opl.ilnit of ihe Democratic party, land one of m reisons for thinking well of Mr Wilson Is that, like Cleveland, 'he las controlled, mastered and forced .tlieni to do the better things On the other hand when me reviews the course 'nnd result of the Republican party when In power recently one finds little occa sion for congratulation or applause Take tl:e course of the more (imminent ! Republican Senators, study their votes I and ask If they have In the past been more lonivrncil foi the gimd of the country than the Democratic. I So I am prrplcr.ed And nil the luht 1 can get l from would-be Jesters who I ridicule President Wilson's persistence, ..... ... t.lU II, ... .,,,,.- ,i, , t ,,,r (,tl- nty stjle and use of words. Shall I fly fmm evils known, It, there are any, to those unknown and quite prohahtn lu view of the hunger for the political i trough" DloiiENES. I'ittsm no, Jul.v 1" Thk St n sees nu reason in withdraw Its statement Hint the victims of the weakness nm! vacillation of Mr. Wil son's course rim Into the thousands, nor do we concede It to lo "sheer" or nny other kind of "iletnagoKlsm." Mr, Wilson has encouraged everything ex cept stability and law observance In Mexico; ihe victims of his policy are lo le counted In the thousands of Americans on both sides of the border to whom that pulley has meant loss of employment, expulsion from their ijliomes, destruction of property, (siv- erty, imprisonment, assiult and even death, The statement our correspond ent characterizes so rudely Is temper ate and Justified by the record Mr. Wilson has made. The President and Mexico, To tiii: Hnivoit or Tin: Si a Sir; In view of the perslstcni; with which the Administration's frit litis ask Its ciltlcs tha question "What would you have done In .Mexico?" the following Is sub mitted . Mexico Is a country Inhabited by 111, OOO.Oimi Indians, 2,000,n0n half breeds and less than half a million white na tives. The Indians have been npprscil fmm time lniniciiinrl.il, under successive dictatorships. I'nder Diaz the eleinen t.ir inndltlons of civilization were maintained, but thi exploitation of the people, paitlculatty by the gieat land owners, who held the major part of the Mexican terrltoiy, was such that It was clearly foreseen that the mat-sea would rise nnd destroy the system, even though unable to devise any other ss tern to take Its place. Thus history repeated Itself under Ma llei o, who made our Intervention sooner or latir inevitable, It might have taken place, when his elimination vvua achieved In the usual Mexican fashion, in suoh a way un lo bring iibout, In the Interest of Mexico no less than In ours and that of peace, those igrmlati reforms needed to emancipate the peon from his con dition of virtual slaw-iy Only with our support could such reforms be achieved, and the machinery lo put them In effect ex -d. such a way as to bring about the utter destruction of that machinery, and with It the obliteration of nearly all vestiges of civilization Inland between the Itlo Grande und Mexico city, such as crops, cattle, railroads, bridges, stores, Ac. When he was through "driving- out Huerta" through the agencies of Car ranza and Villa, he had driven out not only Huerta, the tinlamented, but the very elements of human progress, the tools of civilization, and only oliaos re mained. Concerning the effect of the piocess on Americans In Mexico, their wives and children, the Administration's friends are referred to the Piesldeiit's own note sent recently to Carranza defending the continued presence of our troops within the borders of Mexico. Hut since It Is the President's habit to Invoke the sa cred name of mankind In justification of his nebs and omissions. It la fair to state thnt the wrong lay not only In the consequences of the Wilson methods to Americans, but In their consequences to all mankind In Mexico. He has kept us out of war, they say, Verily, he made a wilderness and called it peace. Lawyer. Nwv York, July tl. BELGIANS IN ENGLAND. Report of a Change In the British At tltude Toward Itefuicees, To THK KniTOR or Tue 8t!N Sir; It may Interest some of your readers to learn of an article hy A. de l.avaux In inlepcminiicr Beljc, under the title "Nous Protectons," dealing with the at titude of the Kngllsh toward the Hel glnns. Shortly lifter the beginning of the wnr It was so fashionable to show hospltnllo to llelgliins in Kiiglniid that It resulted In the French song "Qui n'a pas son petit Relge." The nrtlcle In tlil.s Ilelglan paper published In London charges the Kngllsh with having com menced a campaign against the Ilctglnns living In a friendly country, a campaign Intended to take nway their livelihood. It was maintained that there were now lu Knglatid 2nn,noo Relzlau allies of military age, that papers bringing lUch sensational statements would cre ate a hostile spirit and thereby endan ger the situation. A census had shown that altogether, counting women and children, only I.IO.nOO Belgians had fled to Kugl.ind. The article continues; Shon'.d the military service Isw foree th Kngllsh to go to the front, they will by no mean. 1"- exposed to the same danger as the HelgiMMs mere. We lan state It quite Mrong'.v th At Ihe nation of those heroli flghtere who battled at Liege and at the Veer 'waiting for l.nitll"h and French support. " and ho were mowed down In thousands by Uerman machine guns, are neither quitters nor cowards. These ilel gtans had everthlng to loss In their struggle against Herman)' They did not have to defend the leadership In the world's trade, nor d.d the have lo get rid of an extremely dangerout competitor. They did not need o crush or to be crushed tn these battles the tlelrlans have lost eerythlng. for they have been foreed to flee and they are now in a strange country "without a red cent," a bur len to charity Ves. these heroes now ;lve fro-ti ontrlbutloni which It Is every day attempted to cut down. And these Ile'glsns lit urr that the Itritbih soldleri who go to the front are doing something pruritiiliiy, but that the married Ilelglans who hve -o serve III the army eonttuntly have tn worry If their familbe do not d! of hunger on account of the miserable al lowanie Ihey receive, This talk seems quite plain and the language will probably be understood In Knslaml, all the more as In the same number It Is stated that the English Government hns found ways and means to eliminate the tlelglan living In Eng land ami tr.vlng to get n share of the supply business for the IMglan army, for the Kngllsh Government has for bidden the Ilelglan Government tn use an Intermediaries in their purehasn 111 Kngl.mil. As theie are no Ilelglan factories In England, these Jlelglans have Ixen deprived of their bread and butter, and this, with the connivance of Celr own Government The Secretary of War, who Is also President of the Cabinet, Ms- de l!riK-iurtdlle, has ac cepted tlie.-ie conditions of his Kngllsh friend", nnd also Mr. Hymans, the Ilel glan Ambassador In London, leader of the Helglim Liberals. H. Lamottk. New Yoek, July 11, MR. OELRICHSS REWARD. Hid He Refuse to Test Ills Theory of Northern Sharks? i To thk Kihtor or Tin: Sun sir: lu ldt or 1 S Ti n shark bit a llslierniaii off the Pavilion Hotel at Long 'itranch. then kept by Samuel C. Morris, uncle of ex-.M.ryor llenjamln P. Morris. He was ptetty badly bitten, but soon rc cuveied. Since then 1 do not know uf iui.v shark accident on the Jersey coast. Hermann Oelrlch, who lived at the Octagon Hotel, Sc, .bright, every sum mer, with hie friend Fr.uik Ellison would take enormous long distance swims. Mr. oelrlchs did have an Idea that nun eating sharks never came north of Cape Hattirns, ai d did offer $r,nn iewar.1 for proof to the contrary. At the time he offered this reward I knew from the Pavilion Hotel Incident that mall eating sharks did come north of Hatteras. At that time I wan gen eral Inspector of the Department of Public Parks, Neiw Vork city, having oharge of buildings and property Frank Ellison asked me if J would give him permission to use the Aquarium, a park building In New Vork, to titu the thine out, llelng on Intimate terms with Hum both, I made I let maim Oelrlchs the offer seriously, which upon retlectlo-i he thought he would lint accept , thus evidently he did not have much faith in his wager. Claiienck Diikni:v. North Lonij llitvscn, N .1 , July II, The Impropriety of Some FIcaMim Things. To thk Kiirron or The Si-n .Sir.- I think I know why the beautiful maiden "after profound reflection" said "la nuts" to "G, o'D." when he spuing upon her his aphorism that every tiling pleasant Is either expensive, Indigestible or wrong. She hail evldiiitty rend Mrs. Haskell's "Cranford," written In lSf,3, lu the fourth chapter of which "G, o'D." may read the naive ols-ervatlon uf Matty . "It Is very pleasant dining with a bachelor," said Miss Matty softl. "1 only hope It Is not Improper i so many pleasant things nre!" A bidy of older vintage tnlaht have said "Chestnuts," and "G, O'D." would have understood, CiiiuaToi'iint J, Tm: HiioKx, July II. Does Currency Spread Kplileinlc',' To THK F.lUToit or The Si's Sir: Has It occurred to any one that the circula tion of tllthy money may Is- one cause of Ihe phenomenal spread of Infantile paralysis? N, J:nsi:r Cirv, N. J July 11. Crude Rh.ilt.lng lint sound I'olllli s; There's a iniiu I knuu. Ills name Is Ted .Ilium, An I I It I i cll-ie ' I'l 'Sill sole TO HIM WHO WAITS. Kverythlnf Comes, lint Comes High, to the Pyramlder of To-morrows. To the Editor or The Hun Sir: One of tha prize fallacies of life Is Hint everything comes to him who walls. This is one of those Inflated theories which nre puncturable by any one of fifty farts. The posture, a lelaxed graceful dis position In an atavistic armchair lined with the petrified plush of habit. Is ap parently a most easy and satisfactory one; but It doesn't develop muscle In the calf. Those who stand and wait would seem to lack finesse; they might as well be hedonists and secure at least comfort. For that physical edification of the tissues Is all the securing they will ever secure This nphorlsm hns scoied more ship wrecks, furthered more outpeterlnvs of rich potentialities, patched up, veneered and glossed over more failures than any phrase of Its apparent surface Innocence In all the argot of guilt. The reason for this negation of a noble thought Is a wrench of emphasis. The purport of the phrase, Its true nnd contrlhutlve burden, bus ln-en lost to the sight of those who catch It up defiantly to cover their own nnkedness. "Everything comes tn him who waits" Is a blanket mortgage on the asets of the man who capitalizes "To-morrow's mother day." Everything comes no more than to morrow comes. Everything comes hlsh The price paid for dependence on tht apothegm Is a dishevelled and crepitat ing will power. Everything comes, nnl'tn him whose moments are waiting palfreys In the stable, but to him whose moments are thoroughbreds to he seized Instnnter and put to a gallop. Scout this phrnse, then. He Im patient, fret' Don't pyramid your to morrows. Cut them off; they're the body of many a man's disaster. Don't btiltd Seize ! And your cumulative seizings shall be your castle 1 have a friend, an excellent fellow, who preaches this false ethic although he by no means lives It. Ills platform for life lias n suave and pleasant fluid ity "Make of yourself an sEntlan harp, over the passive strings of which Ood's music shall sweep. He attuned for the divine Virtuoso!" This Is poetry. If you like; hut Is it life? Does God flow through loose strings? Can even He re animate rust' "Nonsense." snorted an old merchant who was Irrltateilly lis tening to this chant, "tho Lord helps thoe who hel themselves." And the .Italian harp was stricken suddenly mute. Stani.et K. Wilson. Swarthmom:, Pa., July 11. WHAT ITALY HAS DONE. Another Version of Her Contribution to the War. To the Editor or The Sun Sir: If the Austrian, as he appears to be hy his name, Michael Dlnlch, wants to know what Italy has done In the pres ent European war let him read the In terview given In the Tress of Satur day. July 1, by Mr. Page, the American Ambassador to Italy. As for the Austrian offensive In tho Tyrol. It took 500,000 men and :.00n cannon over two weeks (and not four days) to gain a few aquare. miles of territory (and not the several gained In the whole year of war). Then they were effectively stopped and forced back as soon as the great Russian offensive besan, and arc on the run yet. with hardly any prospect to get a rest. England, France and Russia, Instead of lelng disappointed, are very well pleased with Italy's work, according to their statesmen, and of course when the time reslderc ratlonem comes, her bill, In accord with her alllci-, will be so as to take nil steam out of the Central Pow ers fur the time to come. F, S. Taccaiiino. Tottenvh.le, July 1 1 Proposal and Specifications for a New Herman Republic. To the KniTon or Tin: Su.v Sir: In the .'rrir ifr-j )riu- .Mandra of June )." Is an article entitled "L'Aveu Allemand," It cunslsts mainly of extraits from let ters found on the dead and Imprisoned Girmnns killed or captured last winter and this spring. The extracts are from letters from home to the German soldiers nt the front and from German soldiers at the front to their relatives and friends at home The extracts Indicate that the German Jig l about up The letters fmm home tell of the suffering at home from lack of food, and the let ters from the front tell of the starva tion and butihery that the German soldiers are being subjected to. An extinct fmm one letter dated at Cased, February l.'i, is significant. It says: "May the good God brltu It about that tie war shall soon mil. Other wise theie will be a revolution like that of 1MV" It was the revolution of llt that sent to us Carl Schurz and other good Germans, The honest Herman people should now rise against the Kaiser and his precious son, the Crown Prince, and the various Junkers and Vons nnd Treltschkes, nnd other German professors who have brought upon humanity the cuise of this war. The German people should establish a German Republic, ns the French es tablished a French Republic after their experience with Napoleon III. Dr. I.lebknechl would be a good Presi dent for the new German Republic, for he has showil that he not only has physical courage hut that rarer quality, the moral courage to denounce this Kaiser's war. LvwnKNCK Godwin. New VonK, July II. Something Mysterious About Ihe Woody Tiger. To I nr. Knnos or TlIK Srs Mr- Mi. l-nhli's suggestion of subst It lltlllg a Woolly liuiti for Woody Tlxer seems ijulle nn. neees-nry. Ilefore me on the Boor I have a Vond Tiger He Is backed up In a corner iih far as he ean go, and the e. presslon on his face Indicate that there Is a ins "t'rlous something approaching which makes him wish thai the wiill was not there so that he lould Kei p on backing What iriutd be more appropriate ' I'l l I'llllll Tl S1N. Si ui.Mcunv, July II The I'rlekli Tear al lata! I'rines It, l(lht tn HiM. 'iii I'nitcd Stattk t'ommtrre Itrprirtt The utilization of the prickly peur In the production of feeding cakes for cattle ts reported by the llrlilnh and South African llvport il'itrttr. Fur this purpose It Is said to have food v ilui-s nf iKi quiPty, lis value a ilenuuistl lied during a le. i ent drotulit when mi l lo lis u-e'ivcre the farmers abb lo k tit, Ir cutt.e, sheep, coats ana ii-i rn lies all - I The Teacher ami Ihe i aim hi IKmil.M Tai tea lieis ineul n de el.led what to ill wtth lie ilp1 O, ".11 , i . , , I THE PLUMBER AT THE PLAY. A Critics! Survey by a Comnelenl i. thorlty of Ihe Decadent Urartu Which To-day Hohs the Thentrlrnl Student of Ills Mental lllrthrlrhu "I haven't seen h good show in Ion time," complained the playg, , s. plumber, "I mean the kind of dmni" that lias n human anneal and take, a in. ill's mind off tils business "Venrs ngo there was a great s w that 'An American Citizen' which N,ii Goodwin played In. It had u bath tuh off stage and you could hear the hen splashing In it and you sort of knew that It was the genuine porcelain klr.l and not Jut enamelled Iron. "A few years later there was ''b .i., Some,' which hnd a training quirteM scene with a regular shower and lift -or a hundred gallons of water n,,p. ping around. "Two years ago 1 went almost err week to see 'A Pair of Silk Stocking.' The door of the bathroom that tli.v locked Ihe burglar In wns Ihe nlft.esi iKlthl'oom door I ever u.nv v .... couldn't see the bnthrooin fillings, hut J Kiiess iney wrren't much beerniss It wns an English play and England s twitity yenrs behind America when t comen to high clas plumbing, and if you don't believe It I'll show you the catalogues. "In 'Fair and Warmer' theie was big scene where Ihe heroine hides n the bathroom. Von could see the liltlinblnc .mil It was first cl USA .tn. done In n workmanlike manner, a. the contracts read. 'I never ipilte understood ws. 'She's In Ai.'iiln' didn't last l,mr...s That show had a bath tub scene thr was n nig hit. or course the curtain felt on it in nlsviit four secinil. t.n.t the audience didn't look much at th hath tub Itself. I couldn't tell i. myself whether It was first qualitv or not. I c-ucsvi the nl.'iv would ho- lasted longer If the scene had lasts I longer ''Ves, the drama l a great fhlns fo il tired man. It tnkes his mind off bis business: at least It dnt j mine," THE ARTFUL NURSERYMAN. Something has come over the nur seryman. His spiritual change Is re fleeted In a catalogue, of eighty pages printed on the finest paper and ll!n tinted, with the exception of lertan illngtnms. entirely by photographs. In several Instances full advantage has been taken of the resources of eoW photography. As for the diagrams, they Join with the text to complete, the tale of the book's seductions On the cover is a handsome mnpe shading the lawn before a new conn try house. "This Is otio of the tre that save ten years." says the line he ueath the picture. "Sep page twelve I'.ige twelve offers Norway maples from slx'teen to twenty-five years obi Successful transplantation is pr tn Ised: If the tree doesn't bear moving satisfactorily It will be replaced, Th story of the maple's life since the f.i! of a seed In IsS." is Illustrated. V u see the root pruning and the siicci s. slve transplantations. Vou see tin tree attaining Its majority In UK Pi a grove with Its fellows, settled i twenty foot Intervals from each other Now turn to the pages at the end ' the catalogue and admire the In photographs of tree moving. A steel mechanism lifts trees seventy fee high and with a fifty foot spread T text tells how the old method of tr,m planting large trees fulled lieciuse far too small a ball of earth was taken and the himdreds of small fci-dtn? roots were sacrificed. The descriptions of shrubs and flow, ers nre equally interesting and per suasive. Vou learn with Interest thr a sheltered lilt of moist ground tna well become a magnolia garden tKi oaks will beat poplars on dry grour" and will grow In ojien woodland where chestnuts have died, that yuttr Inn I K s.iy, terminal tnnnilne or outwa' plain, that a forty-year-old hem! k hedge can be bought outright and w' rival n fine English nimpait of ve- Whole schemes of landscape plum n; are diagrammed and the tctnpuV of a fifty foot bonier, brilliant w,t flowers from early spring till late f.i and offered complete for Is so' Pslwr strong. Ili-re It Is- 'Hard flower border. Foxgloves camp., mi las, sweet William, hellanthtis. .men one. Vou love flowers, plant them, d not wait for grading and plan, niv year you can rearrange them " A page or two Inter you com' up"" this: The possibilities of n.l eu tu-e se little developed as any u of th- e - ' surface The MT.ill.ible Minw.edg" ef r culture In the Northeastern Mites wr .Hunt, and oti ean contribute a -hir experlnu n.Ing 1'or llterituse -et a to if t'ldled states Department of k '' ' Washington. I ' Join the s.-'-fi ut ijrowers Association W l e se. retary. lieoraetow n ' '"in Snt.-'r ' i the .4 liiricun .Vuf Journal Hoi lu-.te' S A man can't be blamed if be fe -thnt his duty ns h citizen requires t-'" he obey a sudden Inclination to pin a few walnuts and pecans, nnd mavv a hickory or two. The nurseryman s no lonrer t slave uf the season. In midwinter N sends out enticing forecasts for sprint In midsummer he vows It Is not to Inte tn have fruit, shade and !! -we" this very fall. Ills old, dull . a a - Is out of print forever lusted Ksuph a work of ait find e' pienc which makes buyers and er'erultn everybody. Saturate,! Manias. The air Is ooze And oone, glue v e shun the bo..j And 0ter slew .So one can snooe VII men erv she-.' 1'rny let us i--This heinous h i mldlty lolj's .lack of All trade.. iCenus eu!e t V minstrel first lel'ilie Ibidef illy tin li.iss.-i ll Sound' morning inshi n1 essn Ah with exli.ul l'--Thou M.ilideren Pilot unlli eii.ed, v oil I'leave sw 'ft the ether h i sending the c.'d . bl! 'h I's, (unklnc 'neaih th strain As ou vo. plane An Hln orkimn i1ft Met tic 1 1 nu .tre lirri(t i tf r.R.U It'im. fk an 1 lft. lihii''. til". hUt'. ly )uu ill w mi p'.r fnvn titgi..ii,t pr' mi cumi1 "1th Kari.fti ton' Hi.- Mi.ttlo ii ihl niU t he t riilM U I ti t !,fsnuttithlp 'iiitlKn ll .11 II I ll tlM- t I. it .i 'r t l nu nnf It 'Kit nf i.untif nt (otiicut, Mint: ) but u'f uhrtufg Mr ' hn U Pmth th ft J i 1 uiiart1 I 1 " 'it if V-.