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WCONVENIENT CONTRASTS.
That ls of course an appalllng exhl
bltlon whlch Governor Wilson's sup
porters are making in thelr Chamber
of Horrors of the contrast between tbe
prices of ceruiin things ln England and
in Ameriea. "The price comparison." de
clares Mr. Klkus. "is instructlve be
Myond our expectatlon. It proves that
Vthe high tariff slniply means extortlon
"ate prices to the American consumer
"all along the line." Wlth all due def
erence and humillty, however, it may be
submltted that the exhlhition would be
more complete if lt included, along
wlth raousetxaps, wltch hazel soap.
glace gloves and other necessaries of
llfe, that comraodtty which is after all
the moat important and unlversal in
the worid, to wlt human labor.
Here ls u portentous table of con
trasts, which shows that a mousetrap
ln London costs only two cents while
ln New York it costs three. But
while we are shudderlng at such hld
coub tarlff extortlon, why not have a
remlndcr that the inason, whose wife
mav w_nt the mousetrap ln her kitcben,
gets ln Lmndon only 21 cents an hour,
while ln New York he gets GO cents?
lt is indeed instructlve to gaze upon a
hammer which costs BO cents ln Lon?
don and *'.6 cents ln New York. But
wh.it shall we say about the carpentcr
who wiefcLs the hammer, and who gets
OUb '_'l cents an hour in London agalnst
68 cents tn New York? A man's sult
| itlics costs only $5 82 in London
|12 ln New York. But how about
the brlcklayer who w<-ars it and who
gets only 21 CbTktM an hour ln London,
against 66 cents in New York? Break
Cast food of ?>ome kinds may cost only
12 cents in London and be laden with
Um extortionate cost of IR cents in New
"*! .ik; but the blncksmith who eats lt
only IS cents an hour^n London.
while ln New York he gets 88 cents.
lt is tmtMbBBMB of OtMTAA, to think
that while we could get cold cream in
London for 4 cents we have to spend
10 cents for it in New York; but then,
tba poor plasterer who purehases lt
may console himself with the knowl
4-dK'e that he would get only 22 cents
nn hour in London, while he gets 68
eaata here. While we are showing off
the cheapness of gloves and perfurues
and split bamboo fishrods in Ixindon,
why not fomplete tlie exhibit aud in
form thls public that in London the
pay of policemeu ranges from $t> 7". to
110 50 ? week, and that the average
wages of railroad englneers, conduc
tors and guards in England are $<: tO,
in Kcotland $5 84 and iu Ireland $5 a
week? While we are comparing or
contrasting prlces, let us contrust the
ji-ice of labor as well as of other
thlngs. And if the cost of living is
taken Into account let us not omit such
ltems as this, tbat while the average
man ln England can aflfor-l, or nt le-ast
consumes, only 110 pounds of meats in
a year, bte Amerlcan cousln gets 1S7
pounds.
We have an ldea that auch complete
jirice comparisons would, as Mr. Elkns
tajs of the inoomplete and partiai
Bhow, be instructlve beyond expecta?
tlon. But lt mijrht not be convenlent
to the deft jugglers of the Chamber of
Horrors.
AlfOTHER OUTRAGE.
Of "ourse lt is an "outrage" thnt
the Bull Moose ls not to have the last
column on the offlcial ballot, next the
blauk epace! For that matter, it ought
|0 have had the first, so that the rule
<>f the people night be enforced with
tlie lc-ast trouble feo the people. But ua
n boss-raade law happens to give the
first column to the Democrats, tho
party in power in the state, the Bull
Moose wanted the rlpht of the line.
But the Socialist Labor party wickedly
and l'Honiously filed its nominatlons
rabagfvaat to the fiiing of the Ball
Mdosc's, and the Secretary of State
pandrta in followlng his established
rule of putting the lndependent caudi
datcs in chronological order of llllng
after the reguiar partleg. That btmmA
to lie a logleal and impartlal arrange
lucrt. but he ought to know that law
gnd i ustom ar** wrong when they ln
terfsft with the rule bt the peopl >.
Wbo ara tha BodaUal Labor foiKs, that
they should prsrama ta stand ln the
of Bu!) Mooae bmetet
\ -t |ba Proi-ressivc'B ought to be
abon Joekeyin.* for a place on tha bal?
lot where lt would be easier for the
lgnorant or eareless voter to put I
toarfe under thelr emblern. 'l'hey are
advocstes of ballot refonw. They
Witild abollsh the party column and
mix the candldates all up with their
opponents under the nntiu-s gf the of
llr-t-s to be fllled, and leave the voter
to plck out his favorites one by one.
They commend that plan ln their plat?
form. If that ls good for other foDta
why should they seek the factitious
advantage of an "end seat" on the bal?
lot? It cannot bo that their appeal ls
to ignoran<-e and thnt the boats of
Armageddon are so stupid or so indiffer
rnt that they will go wrong if thelr j
rotlng Instructlons nre not of tbe slm-1
pieat -ta words of ono ijllabte, po to
speak! Is "next tO tlu- laat I'olumn"
too eompHcnteol ns n dlraetJonl Muat
lt ba "last column" if thoy are not to
go astray? (?r WM tba plan tO fai for
the Bull llooae a large ootnber of
votes ii"t intemied for lt. bai murkcd
at randoa at tha emi of tho i?.ill?*tv
Thal plan would ba quite In barmonj
with the coiirse nf the PlOgregBiVCg in
tba Weat, wbo havo tbera aonght to
nrrange the ballot so tbat Repuhlieans
WOtdd ho fooh-d or forcad into VOtlng
thoir tlcket._
"ASTOUNDED."
F.x-Judge Parker says that he was
"Hstounded" t4> learn that Mr. Thomaa
F. Ryan had contributed 9400,000 to
the expenses of tbe r.trker Pavls ontn
palgn. Though the bencticlary of that
penerous gift, Mr. Parker never had an
opportuulty to reeord it on bla tableta
of gratitude. Its magnitiide over
whelnis him now, and he will make a
hHated entry of thanksgivliig and ap
preclatlon. The inoident only shows
how little a Presidentlnl candidate may
know of the secrets of his own canvass.
It ls the famlHar story of a great man
niarooned in his own household.
Mi*. Parker professed to know n
great deal in 1004 about the cninpnlirn
eontributions being made to the treas
ury of his chlef rival. He got out on
the Rtnmp and tnlked about them, say
ing a good deal more than he could
substantiate when called to account by
Colonel Roosevelt. He has slnce ex
plained that a frlend of his in Wall
Street toid him about the fnnds beiiur
raised there for the use of the Repub?
lican National Ooimuitto. How did lt
happen that that trusted observer
failed to note nnd report the ai tivities
of promlnent Wall Street personulitlcs
who were pouring money Ltito the Dem?
ocratk commlttee's treasury? Mr.
Parker's scout service was exeeedlngly
reralss in not furnUdilng hlm with ln
formatlon about the re<*eipts of his own
ngents. His posltlon ns a thrower of
fdonos would be more tenable to -day if
he had only dlseovered what kind of a
glass house he was himself living in.
It eertalnly is nstonlshlng that Mr.
Ryon's proclivity for eontrfbuting was
not more of an open secret lo Demo?
cratic coundls. If Mr. Parker was
"nsfotinded" by the nnnouncement of I
gift of $4.*V>(fiO0 ln 1904 merely to keep
the national campaign from collapslni
the Champ Clark mnnngers must have
been equally "astounded" when toM by
Mr. Ryan himseJf of his wlllingness lo
eoatribota to the Speaker's pro-conven*
tion campaign fund. There Is no evi
denee that they foiight sliy of Mr.
Rynn's aaalBtance. a fatal Ignorance
of the latter's hablts and friendly tein
perament must alone hnve stood be*
tween the Intpovertahid Clark treeenry
nnd n Ryan certiflcnte of depoatt Thej
failed to smite the treely fnahlng rock,
anil now they nre probably alao Bgbast
at their own hmptitndo nnd la.^k of
touch with vital realities. With bow
little kDQwiedge some atateameo man*
age to do business in the world of
politics!
FORTUNATE.
What a blessed thing lt la thal Bena*
tor Penrose did not respmi'l favorably
to the overtures to J?iin the third term
movement last January! If he had. tbe
world mlght have missed one of it<
most tonchlng examplao of altrniain.
Mr. Nugeut who wns WOTklng for Mr.
Roosevelt before Mr. Boooovell dlOOOT*
ered he was a candidate. tells the
Glapp committee tbal be was invited
on January 3 by the colonel to vlsit
him in New York, that being about
six weeks before "the seven (Jovi-rn
ors" met ln Chicago, ami tliat Mr.
Roosevelt sent hlm to consult with
Mr. Richard Quay, who ln turn
brought him in eontgi t wlth Wllllam
L. Ward. Out of theae conferenceB
came the deeision to seek the philan
thropic aid of Mr. Willlam Pllnn for
the purificatlon of politics. One af Mr.
Flinn's methods of purifylng politics
was to eliminate from the inannge
ment of affairs Mr. Nugent, who now
says: "I felt that if Penrose had |OM
"along wlth the Rooaevall people ?
"mun by the name r,f William Pllnn
"would never hnve bBBB heard of."
This is probably rrue, for it is clear
that a movement in which Mr. Penrose
had a part would never havp appealed
to a mau wlth such a delii ate sense
of honor ns Mr. Fllnn. If Mr. Penrose,
after thinking Mr. Ward's lnvitation
over for the ten days allowed him,
had helped te let the people rule,
doubtless Mr. Fllnn, ln order to keep
himself unspotted from the world,
would hnve l>een forced to remain iu
active. Thus he could not have be?
come. with Mr. Perkins, one of the
underwriters of the revolutlon whlcb
Oovernor Johnson predlcts, but would
have l?een forced to let his chlldren
grow up in an unreformed old world.
Hls $144,000 would never have gone
to ralse a monument to his devotlon.
He would not huve had a place among
the "angels.''_
THE WAFiT
News of the Balkan war must be re?
celved with judlcions allowance for er
rors and exaggeration, af which we
now know that some have already ap
peared. But even then we must cou
clude that the lnltial advantages are
on the slde of the allied assailants aud
that the defenders of the Turkish Em?
plre have suffered considerable loss.
Armles of oll four powera have invad
ed Turkey and captured certain places,
and Adrianopie, from a nillitary point
of rlew tiie jBOOnd city of the emplre,
is nt the point of investment by be
slegers.
All this was, however. to be expected.
It would hnve Ixen astonlshlug if it
had not happened so. For tho four
allied poWBOB were fully prepared for
war. while Turkey was notably unpre
pared for it in that quartir. They
hail been gettlng ready for scveral
years to tflke their old tOO hy surpii.a*'
or when slie waa occupied else where,
and they sueoeedwl in S4> doing. They
struck at a tlme when on account of
her Italian war Turkey had actually
withdrawn her troops from the Bul?
garian and Servian borders to Asia
Minor or to the .T'gean coast. It would
be mlraculous for the defence in such
eondltiOnf tO be as prompt and effec
ti\4- as the attack.
That does not mean, however, that
the advantages of the allles and* the
disconifiture of the Turks wlll continue.
There is, no doubt, in the Turkish
Itatsmcnt that tha allies nre being
drawn on to i battleleld of tba Turks'
own cbooaiag ? reminJeeenee of Kuro
patkln'i unhappy "tartng on" af ibe
Japanese ln Ifaneburia. Bnl thara is
ona radteal diffaranoa between tha two
caaea The Bngatana nlghl btn fought
the Japanese about as well at one
point as at another, but it wlll obvions
ly be fhr better for the Turks lo 8ght
their foea on Turkish than on forelgn
ground and in a region iuhabitrd large?
ly by Turks tlian in one whose popula?
tlon is altogetber nootfle.
In one respect the stmtefle advan
tage is nnturally wlth the Turks. They
ire on the defensive, lnalde the clrcie.
while the allies are attacklng from tbe
outside, Obviously a sinaller force
wlthln i< eipial in ellicieney io a lnrger
force wiihout. since the former can be
maaaed at any one point far more
retdlly and expedlfiously than Ihe lat*
ler. And the Turks never fight so well
as when they are at bay, flghting for
lifi>. Memorles of Plevna may remind
na of whal may OCCUT "at Adrlanopie,
thouch with DO assuraiice of (he same
result.
UNDER SULZERS HAT.
Sulzer's speeches are a dellgbt At
Olena Falls on Monday be said:
I ylcld to nonc ln my adherenr-e to
Democratic prlnclplea, but, tnougli he
waa of tbe opposlte politleal falth, I
say to you that Charles E. Hughes
did m_jrni*lcently as Covernor of thia
Htutr-. And I also say th.it John A.
I?ix dld magnlflcently as Covernor. I
say to-rlay that when Mr. Dix became
OoTernor the treaaury of thla state
was nearly hnnkrupt, and that lt
would have been worse than bankrupt
now had lt not been for the manly
attitudr* of this same John A. Dix.
Magnificent Hujrhes! He brought tbe
stnfe to the verpe of bniikrupfcy. Mag?
nlfleent Dix! lie saved the state from
bankruptcy. liggnldeeot everybody!
MairniuYent Croker. "that great states
man, Hichard Croker," who sugpested
all the wonderfui leglalatlon paaaed
under the wonderfui Hpi-akor, Sulzer!
Magnlfleent Murphy, who wlll "h4*!p
"me brlng the government back to th"
"people"! Magnificent Tammany Hall,
which is the Democratic party In this
state, according to its candidate, and ls
the grandaat polltical organlaatlon tne
liuinan mind ever COncetred of. and
has magnlfleent workara, who, accord*
injr to the aame avtborlty, deaerre to
get ali tiie itate offlcei In pureuance
of that magnlflcenl doctrlne, "to the
? Ictora belong the apolla"I
Above all, magnlfleent Bulaer! "I
don't like tO talk gbbot inyself." aayi
the candidate. But he oarercomeo the
averslon. He is tbe only orlginal con
?erratJon man. the only orlgiti"! puiier
of the Bnaaian beer's tn il. Insi Ired tbe
poem "Adamzad, the beer tbal walki
like n man,-' tbe "peepul'a" only
frlend "1 trnel the "peopur and they
trust me"?and Btttbor of tbose stlrrin.;!
lmes:
I am for the eauae that lacks asslflt
Agalnat wronfrs that need reslstance,
For 'he future !n tbe dbtanr-e
And the good that I can do.
Ererybody wiii be glad that be li
for the future in tbe dlatance. lt
would be Joyleei without blfl ropport
Tbe enaplcion exlsta that he is for
Murphy, ioo, 'in tbe dlstance." But
no, uya the candldate; under his bat
ls hls only boog. [anl if good to know
there ls somethine und4>r bla bat?
ORATOR PUFF IN PITTSBTJRGH.
Our Orator ruff i- reatlng ln Prince
ton, but the alr ls atlll fllled wlth
the ecboea of bla two roicee, On ii's
recent trlp to Plttaburgh, wbere Tarif
Chambera of Horrora are nol popular.
he exhibit.?(] ln a more strikin? ll?lit
than ever lii> eitr.me versatility gfl I
vnte?huntins* eoODOmlat Di.l be '"1!
Pittabnrgb, aa be has told New York.
that protection la In Itoelf an Injnry to
labor and industry and ihat protectivc
duties of any SOTt work oppiQOfllon und
injiistlce to every man, woman and
chlld ln tbe Unlted Btateal N<>t al all
Orator Pntf knows his busjne>s. and In
proteoted PtttSbOfgb he appatred ii"'
ns the deetroyer bul slmply as tbe
rntloiuillzer of B bodljr BdjUStod tariff
system. Nobody could have guusbfd
from ("ovornor Wll-ou'e remaiks in
the Ri-eat centre of industry at the
Junction of the Alleirheny nnd Monon
gahels rivers that he was not in real
ity ns sincere n well-wlaber a- the
protect Ire system has ever had.
Here is the {-ist of his nier-sa^e to
plttaburgb workIngmen and nmnu
facturers:
They [the present OChedules] do not
eonstltuts s ojrstem of well eonsidered
protection. On tlie contrary, they ern
body innumerablc cinnlngly devlaed
and carefully concealed special fe~ore,
and partlcular uroups of oapltallsts
nnd msaufacturors have taken advan
tagO of these special favors to bulld
Bonopoly np ln a way that ls thrc-at
cnlnjri and darifjerous to every new aa l
Independent eaterprlee. Our fleld <'t
Industry ls llke an Utttondod frarden.
Boone of the plantB have bo ovcrshad
aared the rest nn to glve them no
chance of ilKht or alr. Their roota,
moreover, bave n.ono|Millz<d tlu- soil,
and new growths are all but impoB
slble. If we woiilo" bave stable pros
jn-rltv ore must ar-imit lipht anrl alr
nnd freeden Into tin- whole proosso of
our Industrial llfe, anrl it ls wlth that
object that the Democrats wlll ap
I roacb tho revtaiOtl of the tariff. Their
desire ls not to cheek, but to ald, not
to siiibaiiaaa. but to qulcken.
That is Ju^t the poiicy of every
hi.nest bellever in tbe economic efli
cacy of protection. What Mr. Wilson
said could have been snld by Carfield,
or McKlnley or Taft by any one who
undorstands the true purpose of pro?
tection nnd wnnts to s?-e the system
do its work in the most satlsfartory
manner. Monopoly, or any approm-h
to monopoly, defonts the primary aim
of protection. which is to creale a
healthy coiiipetition behind the tariff
wall. If no such eompetltlon resnlts
tbe ratlonal protectionlst would be the
tirst to remove the wall; so there is
nothlng in <"ovornor Wiison's argu
ment whlch would n?>t be indorsed by
any competent proteetionist authority.
But how far Ihis mlld professlon of
I desire to lmprove the protective sys?
tem is from the ruthless Chamber of
Horrors denunclntion of all iirotectlon
as not only prolitless but as posltively
inliirloiis! Orator Puflf is eager to
catch them tBmihtg and golng. He la
wllllng tO be a wolf with tlie ruven
ing antt-tarlrT wolves of I'nlon Square.
but out in Plttaburgh be puts on a
sult of up-to-date eheep's clothing.
Pntil Klectlon Hay he will hunt wlth
the wotveg and run wlth the sheep.
After that?but after that alwnys
takes care of itself with note-of-hand
makers of the Orator Puff variety.
Now wlll any three-year-olrl charges
leap to llght againat police wltnesses
who teatlfled for Becker?
-B
Mr. Ryan makes them all look like
"pikers."
a
Mr. Rulzer toid the peopb- of Platts
biirg that he was a heart and soul con
servationist long before Glfford Pinchot
was ever heard of. He forgot to tell
them that he was also a champlon of
rivil Service reform long before George
Willlam Curtls got interested ln it.
*
The negro can plead before the
Unltad States Supreme Court even lf he
rannot be a Southern delepate ln a
Progressive convention. But everybody
knows the Supreme Court ls reac
tlonary and a bar to soclal Justlce.
?
The blg whltewood or tullp trec at
Inwood, Wblcb ls reikoned tj he more
than two centuries old, amply deserves
the attention whlch will be paid to It
to-day as a flne spccimen of one of the
nohlcst races of our natlve forest
trees. The whltewood has not received
the artistic and literary recognition
that has been given to the oak, the
elm. the plne, tho Mreb and other
iri-.-s, though Bryant BBOg or clmnted
of lt and Poe lmmortalized it ln hls
hest known tale. But for simplo
beauty, for tho service of grateful
shade, and for the practlcal utility of
lumber, lt has few superlors In all the
aristoc-racy of the forest.
?
The interesting statement ls made
that ln the local customs genlce some
of the salarles have been cut "upproxl
matlng 100 per cent." Sure that none
have been cut mure than 100 per cent?
a
The United States has twlce exer
elsed a sort of morul supervlsion over
Panaman eleotlOM, wlth happy results.
Now it is intlmated that Nlcaragua
and f'uba may want It to do the same
(OT them; In whlch ca.se we mlght ex?
pect to flnd others also asklng lt. But
really the L'nlted States ought not to
le axpected to serve as Judge of elcc
tions in ordlnary to all Its nelghbors.
a
\\ Ires Hls Optlmlsm -fciventng
Sun beadllne.
I.lke champngnc. its cork has to bo
fasttned down to avold nn exploslon.
*
It |a to be hoped thal the ei-onomlral
Governor Plx's $-47 Bheeta are at least
long enough to ba tucked la arell at tba
foot and turned over al the bead. Bet?
ter to have paid M&00 aptoOl for them
than to have them sklmpjr!
a
There Is a BOTOearhal gNWaoOM sug?
gestlon to the announcemenl that tho
Pomaka of llhedopa bave laken tbe
tu-id as Irregttlar adjnncta t" lha Turk?
lah army. ThOM tTW lUenl Bttd fanatl
cal mountalneera ara Bulgaiiana la
bnl MOOkOM ln re
llglOB. In4lced. tney are of purer
blood than the Chrlatlan Bulgarlana,
itnoe theb adoptloo of llabomatanlara
protacted tbam Ifl l irlea from
the more or less forclble Intermlxtttre
(.f Ottoman blood Whlcb thelr kln.snv-n
suffered., But they have the f.m itl al
real whlch often ebaracterlaea apos
tates, and thelr hatrcd cf the chnstlan
Bulgaiiana la poaltlvaly fero4 lous. it
wa-. , hlefly they who commltted the
"Bulgarlan atrodtlaa" which lad to th..
war of 1877, and lf they let th-mselves
\,*>ht In guerllla warfare at thls tlme
v,f may SSPeet to hear 84ime unpleas
ant tidlngs from the Turklsh-H'dga
rlan bordertand.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
TRaTTLL FIVD HIM OUT.
A man oic e went to Princeton.
The*f thought hlm WOBdrOUB wlse,
Hut after he had stuyed a whlle
There ean.e a sad surpr! I
l-'or without doubt
They found hlm out.
Thla aame man wt-nt to Trenton,
Hlm they all admlred
I'ntll they Baw hla strango ml*takeB
Ar.! than they felt quite tlre.l.
Kor without doubt
They found hlm out.
And now he marehes on ahead.
To Wafhtngton be gOOi ;
And see ths pf>or things ho*- they amlle
THI he treads upon thalr toes.
Kor without rloubt
They'll flnd hlm oUL
ANNE H. KI88AM.
"Why are you looklng so vlrtuous nnd
hlgh mlnde.I lately''''
"I've decided to cut out th* muslcal
comeily for one we, k and attand that
performance of Bhaktapaare I see hllled."
? Watihlngton Herald.
"ldd you ever hear of the vlllage Obcr
HaUhrunn ln Qermany?" writes a corre*
Bpeadettt from DrOBdea to "Dle BUhne."
"Probably not. Gcrhart llauptmunn was
born there, but even that f.n t OOUM m>t
hava mu.de tho name of the place well
known. It rebted wlth tha llttlo local gov
ammeat to brlng tiie name of the place
to notlce and now It wlll alwaya bo re
bbm?herad. fVhea Hauptamna celebrated
hla ftltleth blrthday aome of the cttlzens
w.it,t,-i tlw- vlllage to preaent to Its dls
ttagulabed son a blrthday gift Put th*
jiroposltlon, although lt lnvolved a rldlcu
lously small sum, waa VOtod dOWB ani
Obersalzhrunn has hei om o famous. What
tho ('obbler Volart dld for K^jienh.-k tha
thrtfty vlllaxe fathers dld for Haupt
mann's home."
He?I nev.-r dl?jnite wlth nn old man.
Bhe?How about an old woman7
ll, Oh. I never dlsputS wlth a woman
of any uge.?Boston Transcrlpt.
I'nder the headllno "A Crlmlnal Rus
cuer." the "IU-i!tn<r TagabUtt" tells thls
story: "A man who had probably bi.-come
weary of the battle of llfe endeavored to
end lt all hy hanglng himself. He ehQBB
for the aoene Of hls exlt a f4?rest, and had
auccer-,1, 1 Iti BBBOeitdlng hlmself by the
Beeh arhea ? youth passlng that way r-ame
ui" a thi grearaoaaa Boane- Re ettt the
man down, who In falling Injured hls
head. Next day the y.,uth waa arrested
for causlng bodtly Injury to the would-be
Mildde, and in defence could say only
that he dld not usually carry a cuahlon
on wtdch hanRlng men could drop. He
promtsed never agaln to Interfero ln slmt
lar eaaefl and was dlscharged."
" Taln I de tlme he loBes goin' flshln',"
said Uncle Eben, "dat counts up as much
as de tlme he was'es tellln' ahout It af
terward."?Washlngton Star.
The young man was Just up from Ala
bama. and was spendlng a few days see
lng New York. Being an obssrvant per
son, he glanced up to look at the trolley
wlre as a 29th street car passed him
There waa no trolley wlre. Krom the
sidewalk he could see no cable. so he
stepped out into the street and examlned
the tracks. His search was vain. Ho
BtOOd and walted for another car to
pass, but his scrutiny failed to dlscover
the secret, so he went a block further
down the street and surveyed the alr
ard the tracks agaln Then he gave lt
up and walked off sadly, shaklng hls
head wlth the expresslon of one who is
saylng, "I'vs got 'em agaln.'* New
I Yorkers know that the 28th and 29th
street lines are operated by storage bat
terles, one of Mr. Edison's latest achieve
roenia
Fond Mother (who has allowed a whole
week of the new term to elap.sc hctoro
runnlng down to see her boy)?And how
has my darllng been gettlng on?
Master-Very well. very well. Sufferlng
B little from nostalxia perhaps.
Kond Mother?Nostalgla! and the denttst
flssureri me he wouldn't have any more
trouble wlth lt!?Dundee Advertlser.
PISSIPATING TECHNICALTTIES
Mr. Allen Elucidates Some of Age
Rating Tangles of Schools.
To the Edltor of the Tribune.
Sir: Wlll you permlt a comment on
your editorlal of thls morning, headed
"Age Ratlng ln Schools"?
Instead of being too technlcal for public
undr rstandlng, thls over ago matter ls
one of the plainest of all school ques
ttons. No subject on whlch the school
inqulry wlll report Is less technlcal. If
the public cannot thlnk this out, lt will
be helpless wlth other reports. And
Onleea the public does think lt out,
there ls Uttle rhanco of help for needy
school chlldren, for the school offlclals
hav,- been toid the facts over and over
apaln for years.
Klrst-Take first the purpose of over age
ftgures. The school offlclals say lt ls
to rompare New York wlth other cltles,
and to show whether New York ls hetter
thls year than last. Mr. Bachman says
the chlef purpose Is to locate the chlldren
who are In need of speclal attention.
whether hecauso of prevlous fallures or
late entrance, ete Is thls lssue, ao
squan-ly raised, too technlcal for any
r.-wder of Tho Trtbune?
Second?Mr. Bachman says that all. not
a part. of over age chlldren ahould be
Included ln the count, L e., that RM
chlldren ln speclal class for over aK?
chlldren should not bo excluded. and that
tens of tltOOaanda who drop out before
the 1,-ist day ef school should not he ex
doded Is thls too technlcal for any
Trthune r'-ader"
Third-Ages and grades should be taken
of the same day, and not ntres for year
precedlng and grades for n^xt year, as
New Vork had .lon". Thli ls anoth.r earj
Bon-teehntcal propusai of Mr. Bachman'
Does "ny Trlbuna reader dlsagraa.
Fourth Where promotlons are BBBda
rarlea a ><ar. ever ag<- Bgurea ahould give
fa.t.s for half y.-arn and BOt for whol
years, thereby catchlnK half year fallurea.
Surrly thi* la not too technlcal.
Flfth- In order to flnd the ch'.'.d who
r.e-'ds speclal attefltlOB ln tlme to help
Mm K't H. over age flgures should bo
t.ik.'n at tha baglBfllag of tho year, not on
the lKBt day of achool. Poes any Tribune
reader iliiagiael
Sixth If New York use* a flfteen-year
ropper iimtt a* tt* meaaure, it shoui.i ettck
to that me.-iMir.-. and not depart from It
hy InelUdlng any cfllld in hla flfteenth
yaar It Baraly lr BO! over technlcal to
aay that whataver raethml la uaed should
be conalstently us-d. Mr. Bs.ehman
Bhowa poBltlvely that such haa not been
done In New York
May I give an lllustratlon? Klve hnys
were ln school ln 1811, tho last year noted
by tho school Iniulry report. One aged
flfteen, Jur.e SO, gradttated; one aired
flfteen, the day heforo June **, was pro
moted to the aeveatb grade; one ap-<t flf?
teen, Juna 80, who had failed ten tlmes,
was tn a Ipeda] class wlth chlldren of
tafl ar,d nlne; another who was aged flf?
teen, June 30, left school June 20, fmm
the fourth grade. Is there anythlng te. h
ntcnl ahout thls? Yet not one of these
boya WOUld appcar tn New Vork's total
,,f ever ajred chOdraa!
Please do not make lt hard for New
York to beneflt from the school Inqulry
by joining thoss who perannlally try to
eonfuae the public by calllng every school
quentlon too technlcal for laymen to
underatand. Slncerely yours,
WII.LIAM H. ALLEN. Dlrector.
Bureau of Munlelpal Kesearch, New
Tork, Oct. 14. HU
SEES BEAUTY IN BRLDGE
Artist Finds Inspiration in Stmcture
That Others Have Oalled Ugly.
To the K.litor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: Wlll you permlt a remark ln con
BBetlOB wlth ths editorlal reference In
your paper of to-day, to the Poughkeep
itie brldge as "ugly"?
F4,r many years I havo rldden up and
down the Bhorea of the Hudsun and to mv
eve thls hrldge has always heen a pleasant
and ln many llghts and atmosphereis a
lieautlful slght. Often I havo been In
BglrBd to try to sus-gest something of Ita
beauty ln u pt-ture, and have at dlfferent
tlmes made cBjBUBI m.-moranda and color
notes to thls end. Kfipeclally fraai the
BTest shot.-. -tay on a hazy morning, Ita
towerlng construction-atrong, rlghl, yet
llght us hne. Boarlng up Into tho sky?
and Its nille-long, alry pcrspectlvc. >-In)r.ll
fled by alr and dlstanco Into merely a
tracery of blue-gray on blue-aray. Thla
to me ls Jiu-t the opposlto of ugly.
And from the same slde, In the blue
of wlnfer's early twlllght, when the clty
has llghted Its long rOWB of lamps and
the glgantli- hrlilge lonms -well, you Just
look, Mr. Edltor, yourself, r.ext tlme, and
If you brlng to lt what we palnters i-all
"a fresh eve," you are almost sura to
dlscover something far fi4>m "ugly."
BOLTON BBOWK.
New York. Oct. 19, 1912.
IS THIS HYPOCRISY?
To tho K.dltor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some two weeks ago ln thelr pere
trrinatlons Woodrow Wilson and President
Taft met at New Haven. eordlally greet?
ing each other. Mr. Wilson remarked
that he had always been fond of Presi?
dent Taft. At that tlme he was abuslng
Colonel Rooaevelt; now ln his speeches he
is pralslng Roosevelt, whlle hltterly BasaU*
Ing President Taft. Such a hypo.rltlcal
spirit Ib not often evlnced by public men.
but Woodrow Wilson seema to bo capable
4,f displaylng lt on many oocaslons.
New York, Oct. 18, 1912. A. A.
A HINT TO VOTER9.
To the Edltor of The Tribune.
Sir: A vote for Taft meana dlscretlon.
A vote for Rooaevelt means dlstruat.
A vote for Dehs means dlflturbancs.
A vote for Wilson means dtsaster.
? YEARS A REPUBLICAN.
New Tork. Oct. 22, 1912.
A8K MURPHY.
From Tha f-harleaton Nawa and Couiior.
Ju*t out of curloaltr. we ahould llk* to know
what th? pollc* forca of la'aw York haa cgn
trlbuted to th* campaign fund.
People and_S
NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Mlss Mlldred Page Johnson, daughter
by a former marrlage of Mrs. Charlea U.
Bayne. wlll be married to-day ln Grace
Church Chantry. to Augustus W. Kelley.
Jr. Mrs. Edward N. Townsejid, Jr., wlll
bo the matron of honor, and Mlss Helen
Johnson. a slster of the bride, wlll be Ue
mald of honor. The brldeamalds wlll In
clude Mlaa Cornelia Cllfford Brown, Mlaa
Yvonne Gourd, Mlsa Chrtstlne Kelley and
Mlss Ruth Adama. Sydney Kelley wlll
act as hls brother's best man, and the
ushers wlll be Edward Kane, Donald
Moore and Alfred Mackay. The ceremony
wlll be followed by a small receptlon at
the residence of the brl'le's mother, No.
54 West Ilth Btreet.
Owlng to the contlnued 111-health of
Mrs Belmont Tlffany, the marrlage of
her slster, Miss Catherine K. Cameron,
to Judah H. Sears, wlll take place to
morrow at the residence of Mra. Tlffany.
No. 63 West 9th Btreet, lnstead of at Clif
ton Berley, the Cameron place at Rose
bank. Staten Island. as orlginally ln
tended. Mrs. Tiffany'a condition ts not
eerlous, but lier recovery haa been bIow,
and she would be unable to go to Rope
bank for the wedding. All the lnvita
tions to the weddlng. except thoBe aent
to the tnemberb of the two famlllea and
a few close frlends, were re<*alled on
Monday. The ceremony wlll be per
formed by the Rev. Dr. Lelghton Parks
and the Rev. Dr. K. A. Dodds. The
brlde's only attendant wlll be her nlece,
Mlss Mary Cameron, daughter of Dun
can Cameron. Zenas Sears, Jr., will act
as hls brother's best man.
Mlss Agnes Le Roy Edgar, daughter or
Mr. and Mrs. N.wbold Edgar, wlll be
married to Stewart Edmund Davis, on
Thurpday afternoon, October 31, at the
home of the brlde'B parents, No. 28 East
39th etreet. Or.ly relatlves and a few ln
tlrnate frlends wlll be preaent at the cere?
mony There wlll bO no receptlon. Mlss
Eleanor I>* Roy Lawrence, daughter of
Mra. James G. K. lawrence. wlll be the
mald of honor and only attendant of the
brlde. John D. Peabody. Bon of Charles
A. Peabody, wlll act aa best man. Dean
Groavcnor of the Cathec*ral of St. John
the Dlvlne will offlclate. Mr. Davls anl
hls brlde wlll sall for Kurope at the end
of November to sper.d slx months abroad.
Mr. and Mra. Willlam Earl Dodge left
town yesterday for Hot Sprlngs, Va., to
remaln until the end of the month.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harper Poor are at the
Plaza for a short stay.
Mr. and Mrs. Rlchard Stevens are at
the St. Regla for a few dayg.
The Amerlcan Ambassador to the Court
of Ht. James's aml Mrs. Whltelaw R?M
H.T.lled ihis morning on the Mauretanla.
Mrs William K. Vanderbllt, who waa
at the St. Regts for a few days. r- irned
yesterday to her place on ?ong IsLmd.
Mr. and MrB. J. Frederlc Kernochan
have returned to the city from Southamp?
ton. Ix>ng Island, and are at the Plaza
for a brlef stay.
Mr. and Mth. Hi th Lorton hav* re?
turned from Hot Sprlngs. Va, and are at
thelr country place, Matoa. near Garden
? Ity. I>,ng Island. for the remalnder of
the full.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Renjamln have
returned to the 4-lty from Newport and
are at their house, No. 10 West Ilth etreet.
Mre. John E Alexandra and Miss Alcx
andre are at the Hotel Belmont for a
short stay.
Mr and Mrs. Dulany Howland arrlved
ln the city from Red Bank. N. J.. and are
at the Hotel Gotham for a few days be?
fore openlng thelr house. ln East 67th
street, for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Ollver Gould Jennlngs j
ocial Incidents
have arrlved ln town from their country
place at Falrfleld, Conn., and are at th?
St. Regls for a few daya.
Mrs. Lewia B. Atterbury wlll return te
the city on Saturday from Scarboro, N. T.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Ledyard Biair wlll clo**
thelr country place at Peapack. N. j.t
the mlddle of next month. and wlll return
to the city. Thoy wlll be at the Rltv
Carlton for the wlnter.
a
AT NEWPORT.
'By Telegraph to The Tribune]
Newport, Oct. 22.?Mrs. Ogden Goelet la
preparlng to cloae her aeason and will go
to New York for the wlnter.
Mrs. James J. Brown took a party qI
guests to Provldence to-day by ?*?
Mr and Mrs. Stuart Duncan ti??e cun,.
pleted plans for tho erectlon of a ??
summer home on thelr Harrlson """Viua
property. The buiiding wlll be ot 'tona
and wlll be 250 feet long and H feet wtUe,
Floyd E. Baker, of New York, has pur
chased from Mrs. Loulsa Van Rensselaer
three acres of land in Mlddletown, in the
Coddington Point district, for a summer
home.
Registered at the Caslno to-day wera
Mi. and Mrs. Willlam E. Shepherd and
Iflfll Shepherd, R. W. Stevenj. Jr?
BenJamln Klmball and Grlscomb Bettle,
of New York.
Mra. John J. Wysong returned to New
York to-day for the wlnter.
Llspenard Stewart went to New York
this evening for a short stay.
Miss Loui?e Waid McAllister wlll bo
a luncheon cntertalner to-morrow.
liestsr Phlllp Rhlnelander ls reeover
Ing from an lliness at the Newport
Hospltal.
IN THE BERKSHIRE3.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Lenox, Oct. 22.?Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Llvlngston Lee cloaed the Curtls cottaga
to-day and returned to New York Mra.
J. Lawrence Lee ls at the Curtls Hotel
for the remalnder of October.
Mrs. Francla C. Baxlow wlll close Sunny
Bank thlB week and return to Boaton.
Miss Ann I. Melgs and Mlsa Edtth Bld
dle, who have been vlslting Miss Emily
W. Blddle, have returned to Philadelphia
Mrs. Rlchard T. Auchmuty wlll return
to N'-w York Saturday after a season la
Lenox. Her brother, K. Augustus Scher
merhorn, who haa bden her guest, haa
returned to town.
Mlffl A. C. Warren has gone to Stock
brldge to vlslt Mlsa Emlly E Beebe.
Mr. and Mrs. E H. Bartlett, Jr., have
returned to New York.
Mrs. Robert S. Stockton and Mrs. Wlll.
lani L. Dayton have returned to Trenton,
N. J.. after paasing the autumn here.
Alfred Maclay. Mr. and Mrs. H. P.
Robblna, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Larsen,
Joseph Thomson and Mlss Thomson, of
New York; Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Tappan
and Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Wh'.tuey, of
BostOB, and BflSO ?'. L. White and Miaa
A. C Wllliama. of Brooklyn, have ar?
rlved at the (' ;rtis Hotel.
Mrs. James McMlllan and he.- guest,
Baroneas Von Ketteler, are trave'llng ln
the Berkshirea.
Mr and Mra. Allen Barr, of Philadel?
phia, ui.d the Misaea Latlmer. of Brook*
Iyn, are at tl.e Maplewood. Plttsrteld
Mr and Mrs. Henry W. Bishop wlll re?
turn to New Vork gatorday after the
? SSOfl ln Plttsfield.
Mr. and Mrs lOgMl R. Ifartlnea an!
Miss Carmen E. M. Martln*.'-*. who have
been at the Maplewood. Plttsfleld, stnoe
June, wlll return to New York next Mon?
day.
Halloween at the Century Club of
PlttsfleM wlll bo celebrated wlth a county
falr. There also wlll be a bonflre, a dance
and an Jllumlnacmi
Mr. and Mrs. OooegO B. de Gersdorft
have rett'rned to New York from Stock
brldge. where they vlsited Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph H. Choate.
CHEW'S UBRARY SOLD
H. E. Huntington Secures Col
lection Rich in First Editions.
The sale of the Ubrary of Be\erly CbC~
tu Henry E Huntington, made public yea?
terday. adds between throe and four thou
?and roluaaoa to Mr. Huntlagton'o collec?
tlon.
The negotlatlonB for the purchase of
the booka from Be-erly Ch.-w began more
than ?ix montha ago. The Ubrary was tho
result of forty years' labor. and It was
not ur.tll a few duys ago that Mr. Chew
consentci to part with It.
Among the volumes are said to be some
of the rarest editions in thls country.
They represent almost entlrely the 4>arly
odlUoni ol! the work* of the maBters of
BngUsta literature, liu-ludlng tirst editions
? ?!* Sh.ik. speare and most of the other
Elizabethun poets and dramatlsts.
There are also flrst editions of Chaucer,
Spenstr. Bacon. Milton. Drydi-n, Swlft,
Popo aml Addlson. The < ollr-t. tion 00B<
tains Dryden's copy of "Parndlse Ix>*t."
liorace Walpole's copy of "Kecreatlons
wlth the Muses," by the Karl of Stlrllng,
hearlng Walpole's book plate, and a flrst
edltlon of Chapman'B "Pompey and
CaMiar," whlch bclonged to James Rumii 11
l.owell, wlth Lowell'a autograph and
numerotis correctlons made by him.
"The Mirror for MagLstrates," publlshed
ln 1655, |n the orlginal vellum, Is the only
copy ln Ameriea.
XIMENES MODIFIES DANTE
Hopes Art Commission Will Ap
prove Monument Now.
Havlng made modlflcatlons ln the Danto
monument whlch he hopes wlll meet wlth
the approval of the Munlcipal Art Oei
mlssioii, Eltore Xlmenes, the sculptor
who isslgned the work. now awaita the
second verdlct of the commtaslon On the
ilrst submlsslon lt failed of approval.
Mr. Del Papa, one of the lea4llng Ital
ians Interested ln the erectlon of the
monument, aald yesterday that Mr.
TflmonOO had placed the matter In tha
hands of Park CoininlBsioner Stover, who
aald he would Bubmlt lt without delay to
the commission.
"The Park I'ommlssloner aald he would
recomnund that the moiiuiuent be placed
ln Mornlngsldo Park,'* said Mr. Del
I'apa. "Tho slte ta at the north end of
tlm park."
The Momlngslde slte was orlglnally
proposed ua a posalble one, und the Com?
missioner named one ln Colonial Park
and another ln St. Nicholaa Park.
"We feel that Mornlngslde ls a much
better place than the two other parka,"
aald Mr. Del I'apa
Mr. Xlmenea waa ln a ruah to get home
because of work that awalted him, Mr.
Del Papa contlnued, and, lf posBible, tha
sculptor hoped to depart from these
ahorea by October Sl.
The monument ls sttll ln a pler ehed ln
Hoboken, where lt haa atood for many
montha.
In dlaapprovlng the monument the flrat
time the commission inalated that any
resubmlssion muiit dlscloae tha Inscrlp
tlon to be placed on the pedeatal.
PASSING OF MEN TEACHERS
Appointments To-day Exhaust
the Eligible List.
The public schools of the clty are to-day
face to face with ono of the results of
the equal pay law, whlch secures llke
salariea for men and women teachers.
Thls afternoon the Board of Educatlon
wlll appolnt as teachers ln the elemer.tary
schools, *~* women and 22 men, ar.d wlth
these appointments tho ellglb'.o list for
men ls exhausted. It ls Improbable that
any more .men teachers wlll bc appolnted
for many years, for the waitlng 11st showa
(j&i women and no men, and lt ls polnted
out tho reductlon ln men's salarles haa
made lt extremely dlfficult for men tc
BBdertake the work unless they havo ln*
dtpendent meana
Two years ago men's salarles were mora
than a third gn?ater than they are to-day.
Before tl.e equal pay law went Into effect
a man teacher started at *>"J and went to
$2,1.'?) ln twelve years; now ho starta at
1720 and may hope to reach i.,b00 after
flfteen years.
Wlth the wlthdrawal of the mer. "ro.r.
teachlng lt seems probablo that a few
y?ars more wlll see the decllne of tha
Public Schools' Athletlc League, unless a
thousand or more womer. come forward
as coaches of baseball, basketball and
track athletlcs.
LIOHTNING SPLIT SUN DIAL
Injury to Big Sphere at Columbia
University Just Discovered.
An examlnatlon yesterday of tha ne***
fiianlte sun dlal erected about th* centra
of the lliith atreet border of South Kleld.
I'oiumbla University, ahowed. to tha
amazement of Profeasv r Harold Jacoby.
of the department of a>tronomy, that |B*
great seven-foot s; here had recelved s
Jagged cut on one slde from top to bot
tom.
Dr. Jacoby thlnks the electric atorm of
a ahort tlme ago ls responslble, as no
injury other than llghtnlng <xmld produc*
auch a split on the dlal. The split couiJ
be easily traced wlth a penknlfe, but
as the granlte ls almost black, the Injury
ls not rvadily perceptlbk-. At present tha
board fence covers up the cra.k.
The sun dlal was the gift of the ClaM
of '&.,, presented to the university in W10
REBUKE CHURCH FLIPPANOY
State Baptists Toid They Are Drift
ing from Spirit of Religion.
Utlca, Oct. 21?At tho stata convention
of Baptlats In thls clty to-d*y sevaral
speakers uttered warnlags against tha
fllppancy and love for toausemont thal
appoarod to be porvadlng tha churchea
It was declared that ln many inataneas
the churches were drlftlng away from tbe
real aplrit of religion and BurronderingJP
levlty. The convention wlll laat thr**
daya. About elght hundred delegates ara
present.
. b '
HE OUClHT TO.
From The Boiton Olob?.
Th* third claaa ron at th* Aflnapoll*_**|?*J
Academy who waa eaufht h
whom ho mad* itand oa hia
flnd out how lt fe?l* to do
tha A~napolls l*_?f
ha*ln? a 'V*_*U
ils haad. I* SOlfJ W
It metaphorlcaJlT'