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FOREIGN. — L-arpe forces of troops i patrolled th« streets of San Sebastian. i «nd no serious disorder was report ed: the government beßewea that the proposed demonstration was intend ed* to mask a rising of the Carlists. ■ six of the eight aeroplanes which started from Essy for Troyes on the' first lap of th. 188-mile 'cross-coun try contest reached their destination: ; good time was made, despite head •winds. == Persian governmen< forces stormed a position of the National- ■ ists in Teheran after an action lasting «n afternoon, in which many persons were killed or wounded. === Th- Ital- j lan royal family, according to a report from Rom-. has withdrawn objections to I the marriage of the Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Elkins. - A young Welsh- j man. u.-:i.e a machine of his own cor struction, flew from Cardiff to London by night, a trip of 160 miles. = Ad vices from Cuba say that trouble is feared at the coming elections in No vember; there is much distress among the poor in the island, the national lot tery betas blamed for th. conditions. -^ Dr. Crippen attended mass at the prison chapel at Quebec: Miss l^neve refused to leave her room. DOMESTlC— President Taft expects to have conferences during the week at Beverly with Secretary Knox, Poet master General Hitchcock and Secretary MacVeaefa of the Treasury. == Th 2 United States Immigration Commission j report? that conditions in the. bitumi- i nous coal fields of Western Pennsylvania j icaard the assimilation of foreigners ■ and are not conducive to stable family life. ===== From Washington it is an nounced that under the Payne tariff law there were more goods imported into this ; uuUHliji during the last eleven months than for any corresponding period in the history of the country. ===== The battle ship Delaware left Newport Harbor to make her final trials and tests of equip ment for acceptance by the government. , ClTY.— Many prominent men attended th«* funeral of I Edward Simmons. "■ Six thousand coat tailors joined the fif teen thousand who went on strike last weak, and it was said that the number wcAild be increased to forty-five thou sand in a few days. === The police V.tgiin to bar one-piece swimming suits at Coney Island, and made seven arrests <jf alleged objectionable bathers. - One arrest followed the robbery of a Japanese in Chinatown. == The prep arations for the- contest of the will of J. Q. A. Ward, the sculptor, brought forth from a member of the family a number of demaJe of recent statements. ■; - Aviator? protested against hold ing the international meet at Belmont Park. = An Italian was shot in broad \ daylight in an uptown East Side street I and his assailant escaped. := Two boys caught entering an apartment •bouse from ■ fire escape told of a plan to rob the house in order to get money to Fee the sights at Coney Island. i THE WEATHER.— lndications for to day: Showers. The temperature yester f!sy: Highest. Sti . agrees; lowest, 63. LATIO\ accepted. How completely the policy of regula tion has come to be accepted by the rail- Tmri- is shown by the recent "peace con ference" at Portsmouth. N. H.. which counsel of the. rail roads of the country have just held*. According to the state ment made by Mr. Ddgar J. Rich, coun t-r-i of the Boston A: Maine Railroad, the c.l ject of the conference was to agree cpo'n what the law meant, in order to obey it fully, not only in letter, but in s-plrit. There was no desire manifested to "(get around" the law or to defeat its jMin»oses by legal subterfuges. The in tention of the railroads was to co-oper ate with the Interstate Commerce Com 'rnlssion, not to treat that body as the UCtural enemy of the railroads. Perhaps nothing illustrates better how Jar the railroads Lave gone in accepting regulation and hi developing ■ spirit of conciliation and co-operation than the cumplete absence of any plan on the part of the Mmfetvees to test the constitution ality of the Mann-Eikins law. Only the constitutionality- of one provision was discussed, and uj»on this subject Mr. Blefa says: There has been much discussion as to whether the provision in the act which r*-quires th- railroads to make no great er charges for intermediate pofnta than for r< raote points without the consent of the commission is constitutional, on th* ground that this is a delegation of legislative power and that Congress cannot deleg to an administrative btx2y the power of determining broad lines of public policy. It would set m as If J.he commission in the exercise of this po\v*-r •' Mild ba.v« the rij?ht to determine ■whether or not competitive points which have been built up and have prospered fey reason of competition shall be de prived of those advantages. There is, h< \'. ever, a marked Kind • on the part «••: counsel '•: Mi^e- st testing this ques tion. This reluctance is doubtless due to' "- desire not to antagonize public opinion It has been predicted by some, hoVever. that the public will be the first to demand the test of this vital question. How ; different ? is thai attitude from the one ire ate familiar with hi the tirst kfMjM of the regulation of all public ser vice corporations! The custom has usu ally ?,(H»i! u}>"u ti'- p:tss:ig<' of ■ regula tive fftaiiue. ;is for example the SO-cent j;- Saw hi tlii* -!.'i<- '•' engage the most a ■{■,'.> ♦•_•. minds ■■■ the country upon a guest -jf .!Ji Jilt* po«sib!r- joints for as v-4|ij. ■_' ii^ , .- Mti.='i;iiii\ . then to pro cure mm Injunction tying up the enforce ii;*!,. of • tie statute until after the Su \.i("..■■' Court hnd spoken.! !n this Ports jr.outli conference the Supreme Court was naaanded ?is entering into the subject only re:!.oi«:\ . :<-.<r\ then probably only :i» ■ re irv-H ■«? actions brought by others than tl c rjiilro.-'ils. rJ"!:?r J"!:? r<*w Commerce Court Was pasiiTii mv't tith little considera ii..., Tin* r:iiir<»:u!s exfiect to deal, not ait!: fltc courts, but with the > rsts > te «-V»;:;i? r c»' • i UHdoit, of which Mr. iiivh ?••-. ■ • - •■-•■ ■• •■■■•■ v.as expressed ••(bat the Interstate Commerce Coiumip ">iun will proceed conservatively and not "make rulings which will seriously dis •turb existing * ondiiions." That confl «ien<-e is doubtless justified. ' •/•/■; V V Y-WIRE" CENSURE. We took issue the other day with "The World's" criticism of President Taft as ■ "penny -wise" economist. Be cause Mr. Tuft is making 'extensive plans for retrenchment in the depart ments, saving a hundred thousand dol lars here and a hundred thousand dol lars there, our neighbor sneers at him for counting the dimes and the dollars, instead of dealing in the millions and hundreds of millions. It says with something liKe contempt: For the next few months all the ener gies of the administration, under Mr. Taft's personal supervision, are to be devoted to studying small economies, how to save money on typewriter rib bons, stamping: machines and other office appliances. Such a slur is unfair and undeserved. No other President in our time has dove as orach as Mr. Taft has to reform badge! making methods nnd to enforce ecosMsay in governmental expenditure. Nor are the savings which he has ef fected ;)s petty as -The World " seems t. think they are. In t9B©-'W the Post <>nVe I>epartmont"s demit was reduced by about (11*098,400 by careful manage ment. The expenditures of the Treas ury J>epartnient will be cut at least $2,000,090 by the reorganization on which Secretary IfacVeagh is now en naged. When the retrenchment policy is carried iuto effect in all the depart ments the anuual saving will probably run as hisrh as (25,000,060 or (30,000,000 annually. That is a good sized sum to be pur to the credit of a "petty econ omist." "The World" also tries to show that Congress failed to reduce appropria tions at the last session, thus thwart ing and flouting Mr. Taft's programme of retrenchment. It follows the disin genuous method of Mr. Livingston, of Georgia, and count* future authoriza tions as appropriations in order to figure up a total of expenditure at The last session of 51 .098.847.444. That total, it says, '"breaks all records." But our neighbor ignores the fact that authori zations are not properly chargeable as expenditure until the money to make them effective is actually voted by Con gress. The appropriation acts of 1909 "10 carry many items of expenditure au thorized years ago. A battleship, for instance, is ordered and is paid for piecemeal, through a series of years, while it is under construction. It would involve a confusing* duplication of ac counts to charge the entire cost of the two. Dreadnought* authorized last win ter to the year 1909-*lO, and then to charge the same cost in instalments to the years 1010-'ll. 1011-12 ar . 191 2-' l3. as the money is paid out to complete and equip the battleships. The only fair comparison of one year with another is that of money actually appropriated. At the last se>«lon of the GOth Congress the total of appropria tions was 51.044.000.000. But the cen sus act of that session was vetoed by President Roosevelt, and a new one had to be passed at the extraordinary ses sion of the 61st Congress. It carried $11,000/900. chargeable against the year ifXWIO. The total for 1009-'3O was, I therefore, Increased to (1,065,000,600. The appropriations made at the second | session of the Gist Congress for 19KK11 j were $1,027,901,000. There was an act i ual reduction of .$28,000,000. ;is. The Tribune has repeatedly shown, and only a bookkeeping distortion can make it appear that an important step toward ■ retrenchment in national expenditure : has not been taken in response to Presi dent Taft's urgent recommendations. The most gratifying feature of the work of the last session was the reduc i tion of about $20,000,000 made in mili- I tary and pension charges, a reduction ; which will probably become permanent. : There was an apparent increase of $20, 000.000 on one count because Congress advanced that sum as a loan to com plete reclamation projects. The money is to be returned to the Treasury later. There was another nominal Increase of ?9,214XKK) in the postal appropriation ; act which will entail no corresponding : charge on the Treasury. A river and harbo: act was passed at the last ses sion. None will be passed at the next session, so that the appropriations for 1911-TJ will probably fall considerably short of those for 1010-'ll. The Presi dent's retrenchment plans promise am : pi*- results. It is shortsighted as well : as ungenerous to deny him credit as an earnest and successful economist. .4 cAPTiori? rßirrr. There ar<* certain Republican Insur gents who have so much at stake polit ically that irritation on their part when as convincing a showing of the merits of •! c Payne tariff bill Is made as was pre sented recently in The Tribune's Wash ii gton dispatches is not surprising, but it ;s; s (egg easy tn understand why our neigh bor, "The Evening Post." should evince fi eh captiousness. After citing the facts presented by The Tribune — that under the Payne law the free list is bigger than ( -ver. that the average rate of duty on dutiable goods is lower than ever, that the average rate of duty on all imports is lower than ever and that the average ?;d vaJorems are l per cent lower than tho«e of the Wilson bill and 4*' 2 per cent lower than those of the Dingley bill — "The Evening Post" disingenuously in atdres, "How can you. by pointing to the i v «.r:;^f> rates on goods imported, answer "the 'Tit:<-isnis made against the I'ayne "AJdrfen tariff? Is it any answer t<» the ' "•■\;><isures of the iniquities of ihe cotton "tariff nnd thr wool tariff and the rub ' I er tnriff to ]>oinl to an average that •■t(-l]K nothing about the character of the "lav. ■?" If our contemporary will turn to some of the most notable criticisms of the Payne bin it will find gro.ss misrepre sentation of the very points which The Tribune made clear. The Manufactur • re* Association, for instant, has been insisting that the average ad valorem* are higher than those of the Dingley !;\\. and do insurgent in good and regu lar standing, such .-is Cummins or Dolli vrr or T..t Poliette or Brlstow, has been willing to concede the points made in The Tribune's dispatch. Hence th*» ne cessity of emphasizing those very facts. Nor can it be denied that the average rate of duty imposed by any tariff law is : pretty fair Indication of whether it is i< vision upward or revision downward. As for the wool schedule^ it in not nec essary for the critics of the bill to turn to a less authority than President Taft himself, who has declared that it is "in defensible." The existence oi indefensi ble schedules, however, simply makes manifest fie force of president "Tail's contention that adequate arid accurate it-vision was Impossible with existing machinery, wherefore lie proceeded to NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, AUGUST 8, 1910. secure the creation of machinery to take the question of the rates of the several schedules out of the realm of academic discussion and make possible a more per fect adjustment of the duties to the dif ference in the cost of production at home and "abroad. President Tuft remarked .bat the Payne tariff bill was the best the Republican party .had ever passed, hut it is manifestly, unfair to assume that in making that statement he had in mind only the rates imposed,^especially. ■•after his characterisation of the wool sched ule. From Mr. Taft's point of view, it is , the best bill because it affords some reductions in rates, but even more so because it provides the machinery essen tial to the reduction of all unwarranted rates, and because, by virtue of the cor poral lon tax provision, it furnishes a means for testing the accuracy of the testimony presented >by protected indus tries to quide — or mislead— those com mittees of Congress which make" the tariff. THE ANTI-OPIUM CAMPAIGN. The announcement of an anti-opium conference of the nations at The Hague a few weeks hence recalls grateful at tention to what we may regard as in a large degree a by-product of our acquisi tion of the Philippines. It was our oc cupation and administration of those islands which forced upon official atten tion the need of taking effective meas ures for the suppression of a pernicious habit of wide prevalence; not perhaps altogether, if even chiefly, as a private moral reform, but for the sake of public sanitation aud of eliminating a fruit ful source of both great and petty crim inality. The inclination not only to pri vate vices birt also to public crimes which is commonly induced by indul gence iv the opium habit is sufficiently well known to warrant governmental in terference with the practice. Thus it was that the United States took the lead in convoking the recent, auti-opium conference at Shanghai, and that it is again leading toward another such meeting at The Hague. For this initiative there is no occasion for this country to claim any particular credit. We are no more moral or scrupulous than others fnsucb matters. But eirvum stanres unsought though inevitable have given us an exceptionally great practi cal interest in the case as one of the two Western nations which have the largest numbers of opium users under their ju risdiction and which are the largest traffickers in the drug. The other natiou. Great Britain, is even more interested than we. and it is gratifying to observe the readiness with which it is moving for practical abatement of the evil. These two nations, indeed, are the only countries which place any restric tion upon the opium trade with other lands. The British Empire, in India. Is one of the chief producers of opium, being second oniy to China, if. indeed, it i.« not first since China'? extensive sup pression of poppy growing; but it uses the bulk of Ihe drng at home and per- j mits exportation of it at only two ports, and there under strict supervision. America does not export any and per mits imports of it r>nly for medicinal purposes and at only certain specified ports: though there is doubtless a con siderable amount of it smuggled in. and much which comes in ostensibly for medicine is illegitimately used. It will undoubtedly promote both pri vate and pablk- morals and law keeping for these two nations to be still more strict in dealing with th-> traffic and for other i!ati"ns. especially those which have a direct trade with the Far East, to adopt measures similar to those of Great Britain and America. Uniformity of regulations and concert of action should do much for the repression of an International scourge. DILETTANTI AND PROFESSIONALS. The amusement managers of Germany have concluded that the time has come to protect professional actors, singers and musicians against The competition oi amateurs who have the means and are willing to pay for an opportunity to appear before the public, and who thns rob professionals of a chance to earn their daily bread. The plan proposed by the German managers contemplates a board of examiners and the establish ment of a minimum test for talent and technique. Amateurs who pass will be allowed ro enter rhe ranks of the profes sional artists ; the dilettanti who fail will rind their money of no avail as a lever for their ambition. The measure looks simple enough, but artistic and material conditions too familiar to require enu meration here are likely to defeat it. The problem's practical importance concerns chiefly the interpretative arts, acting, singing and instrumental play hig. In the creative arts the rich dilet tante** competition is rarely felt. In painting and sculpture he is effectively barred by boards of examiners called hanging committees and juries, which may periodically become too academic and provoke secession, but which, at least, have well defined rules against in competence. There is, however, nothing to prevent the dilettante of means from hiring a gallery and having an exhibi tion of his own. Iv beO^t-lettres the rich dilettante's work must fulfil the re quirements of the trained advisers of the large publishing houses, but he can buy the imprint of an obscure one and issue his book at his own expense. The iHlettante dramatist can produce his play at bis own expense, but that comes high, find higher prill is the price demanded of the dilettante composer who would stagft his own opera. He. however, like the author, can publish his music at modest expense. But to all the regular approaches to publicity are harred by professional tests, which money cannot i -hange. Occasionally a dilettante of the crea tive jiris who has faith in his work and ihe courage <-f his mean? wins popular Boceess, in spite perhaps because, of the atrocious artistic quality of his work. An artistic goose may turn out to be a popular swan, and onoe in a while, only very rarely, a genuine swan is mistaken lor i goose by the cogmotoemti. But gen erally the rich dilettante forces his york into publicity only to see it die. His money buys him nothing but expe rience, and nui always even tluit. rin\\s HOARDED WEALTH. !t<-|i',rt n:i> repeatedly been made of • 'binese opposition, particularly in two or three notably patriotic provinces, to the making of further foreign loans 'or railroad building or •►tiier purposes. This opposition sf.-uis t<> persist and to threaten to become ■ formidable fac tor in Imperial politics nnd economies. Us origin and Inspiration are not diffi cult to divlnr- ami ( understand, nor are they devoiM <>f claims upon our sym pathy or "l" ii|'l> f> ;»!s to re;)><>ii: though upi>n analysis ji j s found to imply an obligatSoa wliich those wbu cultivate it are not apparently ready •to assume or to discharge. ... .'V*. Foreign loans mean foreign influence. That is the fact which these Chinese patriots rightly and clearly discern. It is an inexorable and inevitable' law, the force of which Is ominous in > proportion to the diplomatic .weakness of the land in which it operates. In some of the weaker countries, such as Egypt and Turkey, alien indebtedness has led to alien control; in .the former case to something approximating conquest. There is little extravagance in Chinese apprehensions that the unlimited incur rence of foreign obligations and (he un limited investment of foreign capital might lead to similar results in that empire. r . •.' China needs, however, the investment of groat sums of capital for the devel opment of her resources and of her legitimate power. The chief reason for her unwelcome position of inferiority in the diplomacy of the world is her in feriority in the developments of civil ization. It is not alone through consti tutions and decrees signed with the vermilion pencil that fhe is to sttain nn equal rank among the great powers, lmt aIRO — as in the case o' Japan through the building of railroadß. the opening of mines, the creation of manufactures. These things require capital, and if China herself does not possess that capital or is unwilling to use it she must get It from other lands. If sne does not want to borrow it abroad she must provide it at home. This idea is strongly presented in some Chinese publications, which are vigorously ui-jring the Chinese gentry jind merchants who oppose foreign loans to bring forward their own hoarded wealth and substitute domestic for foreign loans. Whether they can «nd will do so is an interesting problem. Little is realty known of the actual available wealth f>f China, but there have been reports of its enormous mag nitude, and it certainly seems that it should in the aggregate be very large. If great wealth exists, it is surely bad policy to hoard it and to look for for eign loans; just as it ier to hoard nat ural resources against profitable devel opment. MONEY A\D BUSINESS. Sentiment in Wall Street circles Is more cheerful over the outlook for new business in the securities market, owing to the idea that forced liquidation has run its course and that prices are low enough to attract speculative and in vestment buying. A moderately heavy amount of stock has been taken by cash buyers in recent weeks, but evidence is lacking of a widespread Investment in quiry for either stocks or bonds not withstanding accumulating bank re serves and the satisfactory income that may be obtained on our best class of railroad and industrial issues. Forces that have been active in depressing prices for many months, particularly In the market for railway mortgage se curities, apparently have largely spent themselves, and in the leading banking houses it is believed that from now on bear factors will exert a lessening hold upon quotations, though the possibility of somewhat lower figures is admit ted. It would seem, however, that only the development of some positive ad verse influence could bring about a re sumption of panicky liquidation. Rail road bonds, as a rule, are cheap a,t pre vailing levels, and It is likely that prices in this department of the market will present sustained improvement well in advance of any similar movement in stocks. Solid bonds are down from 5 to 10 points from their high points of 1909. while railroad shares show losses of from 20 to GO points, with the average for the leading rails at about 110. against the high of 1.54 last year, and that of the chief industrials at 78, a decline of 21 points from 1909. In last week's market the railroad shares closed 5 points above the low range of July and the industrials 4 points. Currency continues to move to New York from the interior, the gain in the last six business days amounting to almost $8,- OOAOOO, but the course of domestic ex change suggests the probability of a turn in the tf&e at no distant time owing to the coming: needs of Western and Southern banks in connection with the financing of harvest requirements. Am a matter of fart, most of the currency received by the local institutions in re cent weeks represents shipments from nearby points, chiefly from the vaca tion resorts, where there appears to be no contraction in individual expendi tures and no indication of depressed business conditions. While the outgo of currency from New York doubtless will be heavy in the autumn, bankers are not looking forward to disturbance in the local money market owing to the wise precautions they have taken to strengthen reserves at this centre and to the recent development of greater conservatism in the West, which earlier in the summer showed a bank position of extreme weakness, due to tremen dous speculative activities, involving a heavy overexpansion of loans in that I art of the country. Money rates are higher at interior cities than they are in New York, and the fall In exchange In Chicago, St. Louis and St. Paul from a. premium to a discount accentuates the probability ot heavy demands upon our financial in stitutions. Discounts in London are firmer and the Bank of England's per centage of reserve to liability Is lower than reported a week ago, a reflection of which is found in higher sterling quo tations in this market, which is now at a level that does not make gold Imports profitable. Ease in money here Is more of an Indication of the liquidation that has taken place in the stock market -md the absence of a new speculative Inquiry for loans than of general business con ditions. Our industries continue to show an irregular tendency, but reports from trade centres do not bear out the Idea that tremendous shrinkage in business operations is developing. Retail trade at present is confined in large part to clear ance sales of summer goods ut price con cessions, while the jobbing demand shows some improvement, chiefly in the West. Conservatism appears to be the keynote in the business world, which Is Kolng through a period of healthy read justment. Bank clearings for July, as compared with the figures for the same month last year, shon small declines in New York. Boston and Chicago. Elsewhere, as a rule, gains are reported, the chief excep tion at minor points being supplied by Fall River, where a loss of IK pf-r cent reflectH the decreased volume of trann a«tlonh in tin- cotton goods trade It is worth noting, however, that Improve ment in demand is under we, In the market tor cotton goods and lhat au tiiuriiiri. bolit-'ve prices on uli clauses ot goods will move to a higher level In the near future. An advance already has been made on print cloths. Merchants' needs are becoming more upparcnt. Sup plies of old cotton are limited, while the current condition of the cotton crop docs not point to a harvest of large, propor tions, owing to the deterioration that has taken place In the la^t month, amount ing to more than ."» points. A short crop this year following the poor yield in 19W. with little old cotton lert at the opening of the new cotton season and light supplies of cotton goods on hand, will mean a continuance of high quota tions for the raw material and higher costs to the consumers of goods, unless the spinners are wlllfng to conduct their operations at a loss. The outlook is fav orable for a large corn harvest, which, with the bountiful winter wheat yield, wiii go a long way toward offsetting the loss in spring wheat. Receipts of wheat at primary points are heavy, cash wheat values are lower and the millers show a greater disposition to sell their flour at concessions. Contraction in the iron trade is shown by blast furnace figures as of August L the July production of anthracite iron and coke presenting a reduction from the preceding month of 123,036 tons, with the heaviest falling off at the fur naces of the big steel concerns. Prices for iron and certain finished steel prod ucts are being shaded, and in the case of pig iron quotations are lower than at any time since 1904. Steel rail prices will not be reduced. In some lines the demand shows a notable increase, par ticularly for tin plate, wire products and structural materials, but no marked expansion in the general market is looked for before September, as consum ers are not disposed to do much beyond a hand-to-mouth business pending the outcome of the years harvests. The railroads are not active factors in the steel industry at present, though their expense accounts continue to increase at a rate that nullifies in most instances marked improvement in gross receipts. Copper is stronger. Buyers are more active in the market, and for the first time in many weeks substantial com mitments for future requirements are reported. The Qulncy < 111."* "Whig" inquires why a legislature including in its member ship over sixty lawyers passes so many unconstitutional measures. How does "The Whig" imagine the lawyers would make a living if it were not for uncon stitutional laws? It is to be hoped that no half-nickel pieces will be coined. Think how they would promote the smoking of "two fer" cigars. Senator Gore appears to think he was befriending the Indians when he told his friend and ally. Senator La Follette. that the McMurray contract should not be approved. Can this be the same Senator La Follette who was so anxious to secure attorney's fees from the Ind ians for his friend and political lieuten ant. A. W. Sanborn. that he assured the Senate that a bill awarding counsel fees to Sanborn would not effect the ratifica tion of Sanborn's contract with thr Ind ians without further action by Congress, whereae investigation showed that tt would have done so? Chicago is actually urging its claims to the National Brewers' Congress on the ground that its torn up streets will "promote the hop industry." Spain is not so far behind the times. It can get more front page advertising out of a miniature riot than New York can secure from a Sugar Trust strike with numerous casualties. The Cape-to-Cairo railroad is making rapid progress at both ends. At the south it has been pushed far up into the lake country above the Zambesi, and at the north it is penetrating the equa torial provinces iinere Mahdism had its strongholds. The hundred-mile stretch from Khartoum to Wady Medani has now been in operation for seven months, and has already developed a large and profitable traffic. In the first month the receipts were more than ?r>f>.ooo. One heavily laden freight train is run daily, whilp the fourth claps native pas senger traffic Is so large as almost to pay the entire working costs of the line. Building is now proceeding at the rate of more than half a mile a day. and the country' which is being penetrated is in creasingly populated and fertile, so that progress will probably be more and more rapid and the operations of the line more and more profitable. It seems probable that at about the time when ships begin to prss from ocean to ocean at Panama trains will begin to run from the shore of the Mediterranean to Table Bay, and there will be no more talk of the "Dark Continent" save as a memory. THE TALK OF THE DAY. That a Connecticut man .should be ar rested for grinding up old cigar hoxes and selling th< product for pepper should not provoke surprise on the part of those who remember the stories told about the bass wood hams and wooden nutmegs of olden days. Connecticut is famous as "the land of steady habits." Four hundred acres of land near Middle port, Conn., will produce JOO.ijOu baskets of peaches this year." By the time these bac kets get to the ultimate consumer they will be worth about $100,000. How much will the grower get out of It? L«t the first class in arithmetic answer -Syracuse Post-Stand ard 9;.eakinsr of the cost of living, it Is noted fry 'The Hartford Courant" that not so many years ago it was difficult to sell a swordnsh outside of the Boston market This season it Is difficult to get enough to meet the demand. It Is said that the supply Is less than usual. One reason assigned for this alleged scarcity is that the submarine belt* have frightened the big fish off their accustomed grounds, which grounds, by the way, are water. It appears now that within a couple of days a swordftsh weighing 550 pounds was brought into Boston and • sold at 23 cents a pound right off th«: boat, the retailer to get his profit later. "You are sure Jhat prizefight was on the level?" • '.'Absolutely,'.' replied the politician. "When the referee counted ten the. de feated candidate for the championship was too much exhausted even to demand a recount."— Washington Star. It hap been suggested that if Dr. Cook Us planning another Arctic expedition, with a view to reaching the North Pole ami re covering the brass tube he alleges be left there two years ago. he can prove that he has been there by bringing home the flag that Commander' Peary left. A Canton (Ohio) judße has sentenced a man to spei.d every- Sunday in jail until further notice. He gives the prisoner the privilege of working all the week in order that he may support bis family. I'"' he rniißt report Bl the jail every " Saturday night The Sunday "boose" is thus cut out. —Rochester L'*i!<>n and Advertiser. There is much to be read between the lines. of a Portland (Ore) item suggesting that uiio>» turn' their win to the yroduc tion of a "secret pocket in the trousers that defies connubial acumen." One never fully realizes his own limita tions unUI he read ß "Who's ™><> m n A t m | r r ; ica" and learns how many great men tiiei. an all arouml him. that lie never heard of before-Parkersburjc (W. Va.) Tribune. WORK FOR A MODERN MO£ES A Few of the Tasks Which Await His Discovery. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: During the la«t year I have made special inquiry among all classes of people as to the cause or causes of discontent and distress in our country, where neither the corn nor wine nor oil has failed. The conditions are partly due to recent reve lations of graft and bribery an.l corrup tion. Then, too. while the country Is growing In population and wealth there are thou sands of honest Industrious people who are Just barely keeping the wolf, from the door. How the poor people live with the Fky-hiKh prices I cannot understand. Many are giving up a meat diet almost alto gether. Some interpreters of our straitened con ditions have blamed the production of gold in Alaska; others, our extravagance; others still overpopulation and the short age of crops. There Is doubtless some truth In all of these: but the principal cause is the illegal operation of trusts and the combination of capital to destroy the law of supply and demand and to force the prices to suit their greed. . Now, the remedy for these conditions is not in Socialism. Neither will it be found In a change of the national administra tion. The party of liberty and progress, the party of Lincoln and McKlnley ami Roosevelt, must meet this emergency as It has met others before. This country is not going to the dogs. Truth and justice and the square deal will come out ahead. What is needed to bring back a healthy prosperity is to drive the peanut politi cians out of the political temple and fill it with statesmen, honest and true (and the sun never shone upon so many honest men as to-day), who will care for the wel fare of all the people. Perhaps Providence has hi<l away some Moses who will come forth for our deliverance. L. C. FLOYD. Blnghamton, N. V-, Aug. 5. 1910- WANTED— A NEW WORD. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: The infliction of capital punishment In this country is accomplished by means of strangulation or electrification. If the former means is employed we say that the criminal was executed, or that he was hanged. If the latter, we say that he was electrocuted. Now, if this last word is correct as ap plied to execution by electrification, why would it not be equally proper in the other case to say that the criminal was strangu locuted? In either case the part of the word "execute" that refers to the death or departure of the culprit is lost sight of. Cannot a better word be employed to de note execution by electrification-a word that includes the essential Idea sought to be conveyed? CONSISTENCY. Troy. N. V.. July 83. 1910. [True, if a specific word is needed, it should be something better than the etymologically abominable product of ignorance which "Consistency" so justly criticises. We do not see why "execute," which means to follow out — that is. in law. to carry into full effect a sentence, whether on the scaffold or in the elec tric chair — does not meet ordinary needs. Electrocute Is a linguistic bas tard. 'Cute" is merely a meaningless sliver of a Latin word which, tacked to a Greek prefix, has no significance what ever. .The monster should itself be strangled.— NOTED ASTRONOMER HERE Pniseux. of France, on Way to Los Angeles Meeting. In her first cabin Le Bretagne. of the French Line, which arrived yesterday from Havre, brought a noted astronomer and a companion, who is an amateur star gaze' of some prominence, and in her second cabin an addition to the population of Salem, Ore., of fourteen hearty Swiss. Pierre Puiseux, the noted astronomer, •who is an authority on astronomical pho tography, and Aymar de la Baume-Plu\i nel. bis pupil, will leave here in a few days for Los Angeles, where nn August 29 the convention of the International Union for Solar Research will be opened. The French scientists, who will go by wav of Canada, are the guests here of Profes sor Tlill. director of th^ observatory of tie Carnegie Institute. M. Puiseux said s;e had had poor luck wfth his pictures o^ Hailey"? comet, as the weather in France at the time was most unfavorable for as tronomical photography. Paul Fancy. Charles Da\ id Fancy and Augiiste Fancy. three brotiiers, with their wives and eight children, are the Swiss immigrants who will "arrow- up" wit' ?:i ]pm. They all '■ome from Jura. Switzer land Paul has two children — Atitfust". two years old. and Charles, four. Other passengers were Lieutenant Honey- Catt. of the sth Artillery, V. 9. A.; Bishop Haajer. John Gray, the banker, and Rem sen TChitehonse. PHYSICAL TEST PLANS Officers of Navy and Marine Corps May Have to Undergo Ordeal. Washington, Aug. 7. — Surgeon Genera.l Stokes will soon present to the Navy De partment a plan for physical tests for of ficers of the navy and marine corps which is expected to follow closely the physical order which Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, recently laid down for the land forces. MRS. P. C. KNOX AT WATER GAP. Delaware Water Gap, Aug. 7 — Mrs. P. C. Knox. wife of the Secretary of State, accompanied by Mr and Mrs P. C. Knox, jr., are at the Kittatinny Hotel here. NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS It is very strange, but no Wall Street brokers have come forward and confessed to stealing *4.000.d» by stamp frauds. The recent reforms are not as drastic as we had hoped — Philadelphia Inquirer There is some comment because a > api talis' sixty-four years old, who was in dicted in New York yesterday afternoon married hit- stenographer, nineteen years old. in the evening. But would the critics insist that the indictment should have come after the marriage instead of before it?— Troy Times. Trinity church. New York, is to be en larged to provide room for weddings and funerals there being plenty of room now for the devotions of Wall Street operator* — Chicago News. Taxicabs de luxe are soon to be seen in Manhattan. The bodies will be of bevel glass necessarily robust enough of com position to resist the pebb!« of enJv equipped with every hixurv that may bY jammed int.. bo limited a -We »n 1 i . scale of ra«e> „ M«lilhaT aMU^T. only inadvertently ,V S£Br? peu-ltlng the partinglor afoo " , m" money Philadelphia Ledger Xl an ' 1 hls York and sunk m^hTiUT*^ '" f^? W a mentioned about thZ >? nothing have been using &«?iJgSS?!S2R^ Who ures.-Phlladelphia Record " lf>as " sisV^uaL^wh^Thf inf. in * a an aged aunt ami tlCn inhabit with the remainder of "' r ' ?.h.? VT 8 llurln « certainly has a great \ ""'. ? ays - Shl> Houston Post * eat deal to learn.- A man In New York *i . to V .f his a burster' , . " lkl "- the ". the nfeht for a burglar \,' nf \ uin lh * not see hi* whole fool V,,r X ''''> h< * • 1 1 . t mm tor th« i«3SMLKnMB£ LONDON NOTES Tributes to Royalty— Memorials to Edward VII — New Reign. .l London. July 13. ■'■-- "The Quarterly Review's" eompanior.. piece for the famous article on Queen Victoria is disappointing. It Is a .iijji and uncritical article on the upbringing of her eldest son and his personal dig. tinction an'! fascinations as " I>e pioi Charmeur," as Lord Kosebery has styled him with more felicitous phrasing than the heralds or kJng-of-arms at the grave The writer is not named, but he ha* lacked both the secret material at Mr. Gosse's disposal and the brilliant' quali ties of style requisite for painting a sov ereign from life with outspoken realism; When the article on Queen Victoria was published the biographer was amazed by his own courage in setting aside thi fetich and revealing the woman behind the sovereign, and he was not reassured until the rumor reached him that Kin< t Edward had read it and expressed the hope that his own character might some day be analyzed with equal subtlety aMJ candor. The task has been confided to a practised hand, but to a less discrimi nating mind, and there is an academic portrait without bold brushwork or pre cision of treatment of th*> evolution of character, or striking denotement of the real greatness of the subject. The author has had access to private papers in the royal archives at Windsor and to a series of letters from Sarah, Lady Lyttelton. which was privately printed thirty-seven years ago. and yet there are no revelations of intrinsic value. The story of the boyhood of Ed ward VII has been repeatedly told, and the effect of the Prince Consort's doc trinaire views of the education of a prince and of Queen Victoria's conscien tious and painstaking care hi ■ familiar theme. There are no novel details, and even the confidential memorandum for the guidance of gentlemen appointed "to attend on the Prince of Wales aaaj not reward curiosity. A youthful recoil against the high pressure of the father's system of educa tion Is h!nte<l at. and the human side or the sovereign, who served a protracted apprenticeship for the business of ":?n ing-, is brought out distinctly; and y« there are only meagre additions to th* common stock of knowledge about Kin? Edward' 3 character. His flexibility of method, his resources of attack and pa tience. hi 3 sterling common sense, hit dislike of the drudgery of correspondency and preference for personal int°rviewrj and conferences, his high-minded devo- Lion to duty and his natural love at bright talk and gayety are explained i» detail; but these are commonplace* which have been anticipated by hun dreds of pens. Little will be found la "The Quarterly" which ha? not been al ready divined by intelligent observers. "British sovereigns, in death as in life, are screened from critical observation and searching criticism. WTiile they liv» it Is "bad form" for smart people to talk about them unnecessarily, and newspa pers are content with reproducing th» court circular and never affect intimate knowledge of their lives and characters, and . when they die there is indiscrimi nate laudation in conversation > and ia print, with many indications of supersti tious idolatry. "We shall never IBM any more intelligent criticism of th« lives of our kings!" exclaimed a promi nent man of letters the other day. What he meant was that diarists like ?*?>'» and Greville no longer jot down confi dential details respecting great person ages at court, and that, books about roy alty written with a free hand and with out restraint of formal respect for char acter are rot wanted. One of the soundest judgments in Th* Quarterly Review's"' article aboit Kin? Edward is this: "Like Queen Victoria, he disliked backbiters and scandalmon gers, and never accepted rumor as a de cisive factor in estimating the character of others, but first required proof." That is the characteristic attitude of English men respecting member? of th,? roy^l family. They dislike irresponsible gos sip about kings and princes, know th.* r proof can never be supplied and arc not grateful when overzealous mtechiof mak ers like Mr. Stead have the Bad •-*'? to revive srandalous tattle and la con tradict It with strident vole*. While the conditions do not favor critical estimates of a great career U'ii9 King Edward's, the living sovereign is able to work to better advantage in con sequence of Mi exemption from vulrar curiosity and close observation. Eti quette and good manners protect hiu against thoughtless discussion. Wk privacy Is never invaded by impertinent newsmongers; the court circular con tains all that ought Is be known about his daily life, and there hi a Wise and discreet reticence in the press respect ing his relations to ministers and politi cal parties. Instead of being constantly gossiped about and misunderstood, as 1* the fate of an American President in tfc* dazzling glare of publicity, he is screened from captious continent and partisan discussion. He remains in the back ground as a force in reserve, and exerts a most important influence whenever a fresh initiative is opportune or the ■■• pension ot barren controversies : & urgently required. There has been a marked change since the reign of George 111. whs was virtu ally a party leader, bent upon p!a>in? off the Tories against the Whigs and en larginc: the prerogatives in the direction of absolutism. A wise and discreet monarch m now an arbiter between I -.riles and a champion of constitutional order. There is no trend to wan! a^" s.lutisin, and y.-t monarchy is steadily acquiring increased power and prestos* The sovereign does his work in sllencj and out of sight, ami his efficlencj si ■ constitutional ruler depends in no small degree upon Ma reticence, self-restraint and success in eluding public observa tion. Birmingham is taking the lead in the promotion of memorials of Kin? K 4 *" ward. a large fund has been raised anJ an influential committee has ret ortt J » satisfactory scheme for the erection of a ; «>rtrait statue in the main eitj svjuar? opposite th. statue of <.»■:• Vlcfrij» and the construction .- a new children^ hospital, with which his mum Will ** permanently associated. - The B*nSSBSI ham sculptor. Mr. Albert Toft, has be* o commissioned to design and execute a marble statue of moderate cost, and ttt* hospital will speedily be undertaKfß There will be memorial statues j;iul hos pitaJa in nearly all the large provincial cities, a i there can be no more appro priate method of rnsamrnii * h2 reign of a statesmanlike and rhlh* throplc ruler. & In London no steps have beta talc* 0 by the Lord Mayor to obtain subscri? tiana for a national memorial. TWg