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The) Mayor on the? Subway Situation.
Throughout the perplexing and r.ot
infrequently vexatious negotiations that
have resulted in the present situation
with respect of the transportation prob
lem of New York Mayor Gatnor has
persistently refused to allow himself to
be diverted from the principal object to
be attained. So many interests have
been involved in the consideration of the
subject, so many important collateral
issues have required treatment, that to
have kept constantly to the main ques
tion is in the nature of an intellectual
feat. What the exact terms of the offer
now before the authorities aro any citi
zen is at liberty to find out by reading
the documents, and possibly a few score
New Yorkers have done this. Most of
us, however, havo neither the time nor
the inclination for 6uch original re
search, and for that reason the inter
view with Mayor G.VYNOU printed in
The Sun of yesterday was a most help
ful and illuminating document. It tells
, the whole story from beginning to end
with a clarity that reduces all technicali-
ties to intelligible language. It puts
before the public a plain exposition of
exactly what is now being done. Morc-
( over, it carries conviction as to the sin-
i cerity and intelligence exhibited by the
public officers who have borne the
burden of a difficult and temporarily
thankless task.
New York is greatly indebted to Mayor
Gatnor for this utterance.
Twin Infamies.
We do not believe that peimanent
prosperity will come through or by dis
honesty, and in the next place we be
lieve that this country cannot afToui to
accept proiperity as the price of dis
honesty and corruption such as w have
seen in the last few days at Cambridge.
Mass. On Saturday we published the
infamy of Harvard College, an under
graduate primary of which showed the
crooks cheating the public out of their
right to an honest vote:
"Tan, 7f J, HoosiTtLT, ! "
Thus by every species of fraud imag
inable the men who had Mr. Tapt's
interests at Harvard Collsge in their
keeping achieved a result that in no
shape or way represents the Republican
voters of Harvard Colleen
The vote of a so-called prima rv of
Harvard Collepe and th Harvard Law
School stirs the country fvn more
deeply and is an infamy unmatched
even by the kindred infinv.es perpe
trated on behalf of Mr Tait in New
York, Indianapolis, and Denver and in
behalf of Mr. La Fou.ette in North
Dakota.
"Tatt. l.US ItCOSETELT. 70
AH these developments are part, of
the same movement, the combination
of crooked polities and crooked edtica
t on. e may aaa mat ne ronoun oi
nonArc rfVi Iain rairiAftfii tnia InfotrtAiie;
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jugglery is, if possible, jut a trifle
worse than that of the perpetrators of
- the fraud. ,
; Dr. Abbott Lawfeno: Lowkia
should, and in an honest primary would,
be recalled. If fraud prevents the v. ill
of the people from carrying Colonel
ROOSEVELT to the White House, there
is an overpowering public demand that
he take charge of Harvard University
- and drive the crooks into the Chat lea.
' The call is the more urgent (as the pres
" ent infamy is all the blacken because
Veritas, the motto of the university, is
original with the Colonel, his own pr.r.
sons! device.
Th Treaties With the Central Amer
ican Republic.
After many months of fighting Ze
LATA was driven out of Nicaragua and
cheerful 6ouls hoped and believed that a
new day had dawned in that unhappy
country. The date of Mr. Zelaya'r
resignation was December in, ioi,
Since that time President has suc
ceeded President with confusing rapid
ity and Nicaragua is to-day in a condi
tion of political and economic paralysis
Why? Mainly because certain member!,
of the Senate of tho United Stntt-s ko
At to block the passage of a treaty that
would make possible the estahlihlnnent
of stable government, tho restoration
of industry aud the creation of condi-
lions that, would lift Nicaragua to n
higher plane.
The letter from our special rorre
spondent with Secretary Knox, pub
lished in THE Sun of March 31, i an
enlightening contribution. It ilopicth
the economio and political demoraliza
tion now existing, a deplorable condi
tion attributable to the refusal thiif far
of a few United States Senator?) to per
mit this country to extend to its unfor
tunate neighbor the help so grriitly
needed. On .limn (I, 1011, Secretary
Knox and Minister Castmmj nllhcd
their signatures to a simple convent inn
by which Nicaragua ottlcially nsbures
the proper protection ami discharge of
n proposed loan for the refunding of its
debts, the adjustment and settlement
of rhiinis, the establishment of It
finnncw on n sound and stable basis,
and for such provision ns is possible,
for the development of its natural and
economic resources.
The convention was promptly sent to
the Sennte for its approval, and it re
main with that body to-day, hung up
by a few men who give no good reason
for their opposition to its approval and
passage. Resolutions approving the
convention have been passed and 6ent
to the Senato by numerous organiza
tions in this country, including among
others the New York Chamber of Com
meice, the Produce Exchange of New
York, the New York Board of Trade
and Transportation, the Chicago Asso
ciation of Commerce and the National
Board of Trade.
The proposed convention docs not
establish even a shadow of American
suzerainty in Nicaragua, From our
point of view it effectively reduces the
possibility of intervention for the pro-:
tection of aliens resident in that country. !
By its terms this country is even less!
directly involved than it is in Santo
Domingo. In fact it has been responsi
bly urged that the treaty "contains so
little of a conventional character bind
ing on the United States that it seems
almost unnecessary that its provisions
should have been incorporated in a
solemn treaty." Practically all to which
this country binds itself is to take due
note of all the provisions of the said
(loanl contract when made." and to
"consult, in case of any difficulties,
with a view to the faithful execution
of the provisions of said contract, in
order that nil the benefits to Nicaragua
and the security of the loan may at the
same time bo assured." The provision
of Article II. of the treaty doe6 seem to
mako such an instrument necessary.
By that provision the customs revenues
of Nicaragua are made the security for
the proposed loan and the Government
of that country "agrees not to alter the
import or export customs duties, or
other charges aftccting the entry, exit
or transit of goods, during the existence
of tho loan under the said contract,
without constitution and agreement
with tho Government of the United
fetates.
The Nicaraguan Government could
doubtless borrow in Europe the money
needed and could borrow it without the
formality of a treaty. It prefers to
borrow here, and American bankers in
open competition with others have
agreed to lend at a price satisfactory to
the borrowers, but the loan depends
upon the execution of the treaty safe
guarding its security. While the Sen
ate deliberates and dallies Nicaragua
suffers directly and the interests of the
Inited btates suffer indirectly. The
injury to American interests is of course
inconsiderable, but it is not to the credit
of a big and presumably friendly neigh
bor that it stands inactive while a small
and seemincly helpless country lies, as
its President said to Secretary Knox,
"almost utterly exhausted."
There is also pending a similar treaty
with Honduras, executed for a similar
purpose and promising similar results.
Srott In the Antarctic.
The message brought from Captain
RoDEr.T F. Scott by the Terra Nova is
definite enough; " am remaining in
the Antarctic another winter in order
to continue and complete my work."
The Antarctic winter is evidently meant.
It bepiii3 in the end of April, when the
hiin disappears, and until the return of
th sun nbotit four months elape.
Amcndsen lelates that the renl sprin?
in lflll bejran October :o, when he made
his f-econd start for fli south pole.
His fust tm occurred on Sepuni)er S,
th sun havinc ben visible for fifteen
davs. He was eager to Uave his winter
qiitMters ns soon as the weather per
mitted, for the attainment of the pole
before Scott rould reach it wai the
pat amount object of the Norwegian ex
pedition, and scientific discoveries were
of minor importance.
Both rxploreis established their win
lor qillinw j the Antarctic summer of
.... . . . .
uun-n, AMUNDSEN at tne uav oi vtha es
and Scott at Cape Evans: and while
sledging was practicable and the sun
was above the horizon they laid out
several depots in the direction of their
goal. When Scott set out from his
winter quarters toward the end of inn
is.i matter of conjecture, Shackleto.V
made his start in 100S on October 10. It
is to Iim noted that, according to infor
mation brought on March 27, 1911, to
Chriftehurch, New Zealand, by the
Terra Nova, on her first voyage from
MrMurdo Sound to report progress,
Scoit did not know that Amundsen
had established wjnter quarters in the
Bav of Whales There Lieutenant Pen
NELL of the Terra Nova found the Fram
on February 4, 101 1 . The Norwegians
had built their house for the long sun
less season. They had 118 Greenland
dogs for the "hike" and final dash to
tho pole Scott must have learned be
fore leaving New Zealand that he had a
rival in Amundsen, and perhaps he held
the Norwegian light At any rate Scott
could only guess that Amundsen was
somewhere to the et of him. Thoy
would both have to go into winter quarter.-,
and neither toiild begin the expe
dition south until soino time after tho
sun returned in the end of August.
The intelligence rubied from Akaroa.
near Chribtchurrh, where the Terra
Nova put in yesterday, that Scott had
reached a point 150 miles from the
fcouth polo on January 3 and was still
advancing indicates that lie made his
nit from tho winter base much
later than Amundsen, or that, he rn-
ountcrtd unexpected mishaps and
difficulties. But why should this havo
been tho case? According to Amund-
srN the weather conditions were un
usually favorable never was thrrn a
better fiiimmer for Antarctic exploration.
Tho Norwegians met with no real hard
ships. Near tho south pole there were
honio blinding snowstorms, but not
worse than they hud been used to at
home. Twenty days after Amundpen
reached the pole on December H Scott
is still l&o miles from it, or at least
ten days journey in good weather.
Sitackleton reached his furthest south
on January 0, 1000, when ho was ninety
seven miles from tho tiole, but he was
"Mazing" n new route among the glaciers
and the season was not a good one for
Antarctic exploration certainly not of
tho halcyon kind which Amcndsen
reports.
It is not astonishing that. Scott was
still 150 miles from his goal on January
3 if he did not, intend to make a race with
his rival, about whose plans he knew
nothing definite. Scott was perhaps
at a disadvantage in relying mainly
upon ponies for transport; Amundsen
with his well trained and well handled
dogs had such splendid success that
their superiority over ponies seems to
be settled. From the Norwegian's re
cital, moreover, it is plain that his ap
proach was easier than that of Scott;
the latter took Shackleton's route,
which in places was tremendously dif
ficult. The attainment of tho pole by
Scott may be assumed on the strength
of Amcndben'b testimony to the pro
pitious season. It now becomes a ques
tion what the scientific results of the
British expedition will be. They ought
to transcend the data gathered by
Amundsen for obvious reasons. With
another winter in the Antarctic Scott
should bring home a mass of interesting
material, and science will be able to ap
plaud him, although tho winning of the
south pole as a sporting event disap
pointed England.
Verdict Against a Christian Science
Healer. I
The conviction and fine of a Christian
Science healer and the ruling of the
court against the defendant's claim that
he was "practising the tenets of hisj
religion" when he treated patients for
various diseases for pecuniary gain are i
of tru utmost importance not only tol
to the regular practitioners, who claim
that their field of practice and emolu
ment is encroached upon by the former.
This proceeding in Judgo Seabubt'b
court will doubtless bring the i&sue to 1
adjudication by the higher courts. j
The followers of the lato Mrs. MRT '
Baker Eddy. on the one hand, feel that
they are entitled to the protection of
the law according to tho Constitution
of the State of New York, which ex
empts their healers from the necessity
of obtaining a license to practise and
therefore gives them the privilege of
pursuing their avocation of "removing j
sin and disease" by following the doc-1
trines and teachings of their religion.
Tho physicians, on the other hand, feel
that they are entitled to the protection
of the law. which not only demands of
them a liberal preparatory education
and the study of all tho branches of
medicine in college and hospital but
also exacts a rigorous examination by
a board appointed by the State.
The contention of the former that
thev are within the law when they
receive compensation for drugloss and
prayerful ministrations met by the
latter with the claim that any one who
ministers to the sick in any manner is
competing with them; and the fact that
this is done without trouble or expense
while they are forced to spend many
years to fit themselves for the work
intensifies their sense of injustice.
The issue is now squarely before the
courts. Being in the hands of nn advo
cate who is an earnest and conscientious
adherent of Christian Science and aided
by a shrewd and resourceful lawyer,
it will be interesting to observe the out
come of these trials in the higher courts.
Doubtless both sides will abide by the
decision. The Christian Scientist, who
ii guided by the teachings nf CnniST
in all thines. will obey the Mater. who
said: "Bemler unto Cv&ab the thgs
that are Cesar's." And the doctrs
will doubtless obliterate their doctrinal
differences and as law abiding citizens
will cease to agitate the subject .
A friend of Mr. Brtan's declares that
the Nebraskan would not holt even if
both Mr Tatt and Mr. Hafimon wre
nominated for President, "although Mr.
Bbyan might withhold his active sup
port " The prenpect ought not to dib
ttub Governor JUhmon when he reflects
that Mr. Bryan actively supported Judgo
Parker, with the result that the Demo
cratic vote fell off in the country n round
million
He. may not flinch, but he is fouling all
the ime; nnd fouling his own leptitation.
The Modrat Manhattan Phllntopher,
To trot Entron or Tnr Prx -.sir- I thank
"Ycirr.nc verv much for falling to mv
picture, 1 doubly thank Th 3in for Icdoritr.g
ihla with, ml ahall b tt" glad to tblnk th
matter over but theoretically I am oppofed to
a'jcb action aa a rule
I am afraid It would pr'iK tne ireu if your
reader who UVn me aaw my plrtur. and I lik-
to leave roonething to tceir imajinauon. to kep
them guMstng." as It "fr
it la tremendoualy Wn1 ft am- on- 'o d;lr
to 4-e my Picture, and I arpreclite th eomrll-
mcnt more than I ahoull Itkr to aay
I am not an Apollo or an Adonla. and t kno v
ome writers in lome nf th rewipapra In thlt
city whoa pictures give me the blind atiggera
every time I ace tbm and detract Aery much
from tb' pleaaure I wouia oii!"riae nave In
reading their erv Intereatlnj artlcla.
Ntw York. April I. K. H. J.
A. Sajlng nf Dr. Itentle.r.
To tbk Editos or Tnr Srv -rtr. Stnre Tng
Sr.v la usually 'and unusually) well Informed
I btg leave to correct the natemeni In to-ilav'a
ftrat editorial tbat Dr. Johnaon aald "No man
was ever written down except by hlmaelf."
It you will look at Macsulay'a article on Bishop
Atterbury In the Rucyclopicdla Hrltannlca ou
v.111 see that thla was a aaslng at Dr Hentlny, the
grest clahslea.1 scholar. I'etMt IUtlk,
Baltimore, sisrcn
The Mggsrd In Love.
From Catholic Mandard ami Tlmt.,
O' filuaeppe da. barber eca craay we eth arreeng!
lie's no good een da daytlniei for noln' a tliteng
put to the,nk of da nlghl an d tune he wren
Alia tnvn:'fn som' customer gt een heea chair
lie' ao alow Mrelh rt hhae and weeiti cultln' da
nt he'cs'tioss aln'l do notheeng but grumble an
tueur
But filute ppe no care
For wan bless blame theeng
Hut to play mandolin
Writ to sum' algnoilna
Weell listen at night In da late anag he tecng.
Com' tilusepp" d barber Mit nlghta loo iste
To On houe ft (In lima an' atan by du gate,
An' be wrng like 11 tialto flat cry for heaa mate
fioocha playnu love mulc, aooch cooln', anocn
Snorha koiinda from d heart an' sooch look
Wen he lre.fl heea face up an' a tare ecnto my eyea
Lonkln' down from ilea wall!
All! (iluacppe. your oil
Should rm narta more earla
Kor catena my glrla,
For w'en da apreen l's here I no worlds' at all!
T, A. DALT,
sevex srtonr STUDIES IX
PSYCHOLOGY.
Ulsconatn.
From nn Arffiatttee .Vnfffiel,
Colonel Roosevelt em st last to hare
fallen under a complete) obsession of Jeal
ous hatred of Tatt, the apeetaela of whose
popularity has apparently been corrodlns
hli soul with the mordant of one of the
meaneat pactions that poison human na
ture. MUtonrl.
From We St. Levis Clobt-Dtmaeral.
He knows he Is beaten, and he knows the
rules of the same. If he ahould go into the
Chicago convention nnlr to bolt It he will
be the sreateat faker of them all. And he
has already faked enough to make us sure
that If ho should say he was going to bolt
he wouldn't do It.
Pennsylvania.
From Oil PMnltlphtt Inijulrtr.
What la the matter with the man? Can't
he see that ho has fallen from his high prace?
Doesn't he realize that he no longer stands
for the "(q'lare deal," hut that In the mind
of count lead former admirers he ha proved
untrue to htmtelf, to honor, to common
political decency: I a traitor to friendship
and, appealing to persona,! ambition, ha
be-ome a menace to the Institution of pop
ular government under the Constitution?
Matwachatett.
From th Sprintflelt HeptiMttsn.
He thows a disregard for common decency
In bl treatment of the Taft Administration
which would be difficult to characterlre
were It not that he ha obvioualy again been
so carried away with his emotions t to be
blind to the fact.
Indiana.
From Me Indianapolis .Vetra.
It must have appeared to the least thought
ful how the man ha degenerated In .the
small time since he began by saying that
he would accept a nomination If asked by
the Chicago convention. Now he I making
a vehement canvas for that nomination.
Virginia.
From Uit Richmond Tlmes-Dltpttdi.
There Is no subterfuge, no trick, no deceit
too low for him: each day brings him out
more pitilessly as the most contemptible
political trickster in American annals.
If he cannot be invited Into the house he
will enter it from the second story or he will
dynamite It.
California.
rri Me San Francisco CHronlclt.
Hated by all who are so unfortunate as
to, meet him otherwise than a a follower,
monumental as an egotist, dominated by
unworthy ambitions and consumed with
envy, he ha repaid the loyal friendship
and devotion of "President Taft by the most
dastardly ingratitude and treachery and
now seek in furtherance of hi own miser
able ambitions to deprive that good Presi
dent of the verdict of approval which he
has so nobly earned.
A POET OF THE SEA.
lohn Maaeneld. Sometime or a Sixth
Acnae Saloon.
To mt KDtroB or The 8cn Sir; Tht.
Susof Sunday throws light on a little known
and moat interesting phase of John Mase-
fleld's career, his sojourn In this town a
decade ago when he served as general
roustabout In a Sixth avenue saloon. There
are ioni gaps, however, that for the sake
of hi literal r reputation I shall take pleas
tire In rilling
HI first book appeared earlier than loa,
the date noted by The Sun writer In loot)
Macrmllam published his "A Sailor's (iar
land," .i most excellent anthology ranging
from "Sir Audte-v Uarton" to Kipling's
The Lat t lnnte The book has a val
unble cimv on verse and also a brief
not on chanti Th" reader is informed
on tb fljlesf tht th writer Is responsible
lor two earlier v nrk. sea Life In Nelson's
Time," and fin th Spanish Main." There
i promt" cln of a prose "Sailor's Our
Imd fill', 1 bellp, has n?ver been fill
flll'd Hh.re are nmllon. dowbtle- for
copyright raon", hut for these the editor
mak apoloc . and though the volume
contain not a line from Swinburne nr
Ld'ln .1 Brady, the Austral singer of sea
ballads. It la a fine body of robustious
rhyme of sea fighters
In his "Ballads and Poems," published
in London two years ago, Masefleld did for
the sea In poetry what Joseph Conrad did
in prose. It Is indeed unfortunate that he
f-hould i.e f,t to busy himself with socio-
logical problems, for when socialism knocks
at the Moor srt surely file out the window
One line of "fipanlah Waters" or "Posted as
Missing" is worth reams of such dreary
stuff as The widow In the Bye Street
The latter may he good realism, but poetry
it certainly ts not There should be an
endowment fund for real poet so they
wculd not have to pen forty-seven pages of
:olaesiiue verse for a living. A proof of
what Masefleld can do I quote hla "Sea
Fever
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely
a and the sky.
! And all I ask la a tall (hip and a star to steer her br:
I And the wner kick and the wind's ong and the
white all ahaklng.
An 1 a gray mlMon th" rea'f face, and a graydawn
br'slilng.
I rauit go down to tb aeas again, fer the call of
the running tide
Is a ld call and a clear call that may not be,
denied,
And all I ask la windy day with the white clouds
f'lng.
And th flung spray end the blown spume and the
seagull rrjlng.
I must go down to th as again, to the vagrant
1 gypsy life.
i To tbe gull's way and the whale's way where the
wlnd'a like a whetted knife,
And sll I ask Is a merry arn from a laughing
fallow roer.
And quiet sl'ep and a sweet dream when th long
trick ner.
New Yors, April t. P. O, Howrs,
The N'tne Hat?
! To tut. Kntron or Tas Srv Sir:
1 question has been asked me which I eon
I not dnaver and so 1 Anneal tn vOu.
ild
j Is the hat which Mr. Roosevelt recently
I .,. ... " ... . ..V ,'.. ..,.'
around when Mr. Harriman put $:o,ooo
in it r.. i-. IIATW ARD,
pABApr.NA. Cal March 37.
The Amateur.
The man upon the high trapege
1 Can stay up in the air with ease:
When Johnny trie It from the barn
Ttio papern print a mournful yarn.
iThe clown with hi outlandish guile
'Can make the gravest visage smile;
Vhn Johnny fain the same would try
The folk unanimously cry.
Tho daring bareback rider troupe
Can .lump right through the paper hoops
when Johnny trlH from Dobriln'a back
Tho family nearly goea In black
A word we'd whisper In the ear .
Of politicians, far and near;
Tho moral will be plain at once;
Don't Imitate the circus stunts.
McLaKDacRQB Wilson.
SEX IX POLITICS.
An Issne Which Rome of the PutTraslsti
Hate Been Trttn to Force.
To tbf. F.niTon or The fit's Sir: There
are two points In Mra. HJorkman's letter of
March 3 to which It seems desirable to
reply. The reat of her communication la
the usual list of assertions to which the
suffragists always turn In debate and that
Ingenious and apeclntis twisting of defini
tion bo characteristic of their ijrgumentd.
The two statements to which I refer nre,
first, Speaking of the Parliament of Finland:
Three women he given Mrth to children with
no more aerloua Interruption than a few weeka
abaenre from the alttlnga. a matter which moat
men legislator would not regard aa militating
aerloualy agalnat their cauaea.
if Mrs. BJorkman will reread my letter
she will see that I am apprehensive of dan
ger not to "causes" but to mothers, and by
her own Ingenuous showing these Finnish
mother legislators leave their babies to
be reared In other neat while they folios
the new way; My own conviction Is that
motherhood begin with the birth of a child:
not that It ends there.
Secondly. It Is unfortunate that aottia,
not all I think and believe, of the suffragists
have already attempted to put "sex Into
politics." Mr. Workman compare poli
tic to religion and education, but they are
not analogous. Mrs. Belmont and ethers .
hare been quoted In the press as calling
upon women to refuse marriage with any .
man opposed to or not In .favor of woman
411 fTr o m until Itiav h4 a t ft I 4 .Urn frnn. '
suffrage until they have Attained the fran
chlse, and a letter from another woman,
who la an ardent, even violent. s'lfTrsglBt,
declare that the way to coerce men Into
obedience to woman made laws Is "to refuse
the sex privilege." Can degraded folly go
further, and does she not see that "to refuse
as a means of coercion Implies yielding a a
measure of Inducement? Long ago Francis
Parkman In his essay on woman suffrage
said that woman must not forger that there I
was something beside her vote he would i
be asked to sellber honor.
I have waited soma days before answer
ing Mr. Itjorkman's letter because it Is
unpleasant to write the above facta, and I ,
would not be understood for a moment to 1
Imply that the foregoing Is s principle of !
the woman suffragist or that perhaps a
large majority would not be as disgusted
as I at the contemplation of such a condl-
tlon of private mind and public morals.
However, It I as well for men to understand
that some women at least are already con
templating the question of "sex In politics"
as I have Indicated. Lucv I'. Scot r.
Nr.w York, April I.
,4 WIFE'S WAGES.
Marriage I Alwa Practically
Business Dasls.
To thr Editor or The Sun Sir:
At-!
though In sympathy with most of the equal
suffrage Ideas, I quite agree with Julia T.
waterman In to-day s sun that a law pro
vlrllnff thftt n man ftlmll HIvI.Ia hla InnnniB
qually with hi wife Is unnecessary, for tho
reason that I believe It Is already common
among the "laboring classes" for the wife
to receive anU disburse practically all the I
1,,,. ,... 1 mi. .nmHk tt,."mM 4i
husband s Income, while among the middle
ana upper ciaseen snn has tue laving- om
of the greater part of it. Nevertheless, It
is hardly Justice to call what she receives
remuneration "for being a wife." The
money that she expend for the running of
a home and the bringing up and education
of children can scarcely be regarded as
salary, since In ninety-nine caecs out ofs
hundred only a very small part of it Is spent
on the wife's personal needs, and most
in .,.,in ih... .,j, -., tr ,.
wives will sacrifice those needs first if any
unusual econorrv become necessary.
As for the woman who gets 15,000 a year
salary for "being w Ife" alone, where is she?
i mm uui, i.ruinri uor. iuo
spin" Is so rare enmpsred to the vast army
of women who are struggling to administer
small Incomes lo the best advantage that
she Is negligible as an argument
Most men would not consider n salary
of f j.000 too Urge for the duties required
of a wifo and mother who Is also house
keeper, employer, bookkeeper, educator
and disbursing agent, with unlimited work
ing hours. If they realized l.ow arduous
those duties are. Seertlieleti the enor
muiislv large majority of women perform
these duties, and onen aaoen ons. ror in
finitely less, for tne simple reason tlia.l SI.OOO I
a year i u iar Miiutr uir u.craxe iiiuumo
iniii im i ruiuion iunc,
as lor inner. iiiraiHii'iimuur women ior
their duties, it Is a fact that It does so much
!.. limn In the case of men. Hv acute tils.
eass such as typhoid lever, pneumonia
tuberculosis or cancer, men and women nr
euuallv dlsshled. In the lesser aches ami
pains to which omen are more subject thev
can st'll direct their households nd he good
n Ires sort mothers. In fact, chion c Invalids
are often most excellent houcekcepct nnd
wis mothers
Julia I Waterman claims that under
the new regime men will "exact certain
stipulated domestic srvios as thir shar
of th partnrship " Is there anything new
in that' Men certainly exact these things
now, as the divorce court reports will tea.
tlfy In fact, marriage Is very much on a
business basis now. if we would but see It.'
If a man is vaiunnie to mi. employer n
raises his salary. If a wire is satisfactory to
her husband and administers his affair to
suit him, he fives h"r all the monev he
can. If she doesn't h gets a divorce or
spends t on some other woman There are
a lew wives who are too hiahly paid, hut
there are legion o( vhnm the reverse is
trn T. t Clark
Oranoe. N J March
,. .,., niM, .
far Mileage Kponomj Tilth a Vengeance
on the New Hat en.
To thf. Knima or Tnr. htw-.SiV it
probably works to tho Immeasurable ad
vantage of some one In the operatlne de-
partment of the New York. New Haven and
rinrtiora rtauroaa to nave sucn relatively
low car mileage reports as the head of that
srsfem must b prltlleged tn Inspect, but
it Is a matter of considerable doubt aa to
whether or not tho oftliers of that road are
aware of the hardship this mean to many
of its passengers, due to th zeal of" con
ductors and train masters In keeping the
length of trains down to the minimum
As a frequent trtellr I have heen pain-
fully wre on several occasions of this
teemingly inordinate desire for s low- car
mileage to compare with earnlnts It h.a
also ben a matter of some surprise to ob
serve how few of the sufferers are coura
geous enough to assert their rights In th
matter Were tho rule of no seat no fare
Invoked more generally, there Is little reason
to doubt that the conditions which are the
subject of so much criticism to-day would
improve
it is ine prasuce 01 me .itw uaven road
Only, I believe, to wait until n car has practi
cally every at occupied before opening
another car when making up trains at a
terminal Frequently Its train leave the
Grand Central with etery seat taken and nn
provision made for passengers getting on at
mth street, the result being that many
hat e to stand until Mount Vernon Is reached,
a ride of thirty minutes. Running Into
New York the conditions are the unit,
traveller getting on at Mount Vernon
often finding that they hate to stand,
In view of the persistence of this evil It la
hrd to ee why more passengers obliged
to stand do not refuse to surrender their
ticket without a seat, Tho request can
always be made to the conductor though it
occasionally result In a display of bad
manners. Tho conductor Is obliged In such
case to take tho name of the person I ef us
ing to pay and presumably this I forwarded
to headquarters.
If more travellers took n firm stand in
the matter no doubt the number of theso
reports would causo tho oiieratlng officials
to wake up. Vnfortunately the commute)
cannot resort to uch measures a their
ticket book expire on a fixed date and
withholding a ticket thereforo doe thorn
no good. But tho full fnro passengor cer
tainly have It within their power to bring
about a change that would he welcomed by
all. COUML'TKR,
Nkw Yong, April I.
Definitely Fixed.
; From the l.actincthura Puss.
Tbuisday was astronomically and almanacally
tbe Oral day ot spring.
THE EUltASIAXS.
An Appeal From an American Homsn In
India for a Neglected Claas.
To -run Kditor or Tnc St;s sir.- I Ap
peal on behalf of the mot frlendlce and
neglected of nil the rlaaacs In India who
need help. T feel sure that I shall not do
so In vain. I am an American woman and
I naturally make my appeal to my own
countrymen first First let me tell you
something about the Eurasians, or the Domi
ciled, as they are called now In connection
with the poor whites. The r.tirnslans form
a very large part ef the population of our
hlg cities. They outnumber the KnslUh
by double their number, and It I only n
small percentage who are In anything liSs
comfortnrto circumstance. Their social
position l peculiarly sad.for.alllcd to both
the Indian nnd English races, they aro by
both disdained, noilected and Shunned
The Calcutta JEtenfno Vlnpnteh says:
The future nf the Domiciled and Antlo-Indlan
communities In India la one that la fraught with
graxe torebedlnga. Little by little the preaaure
ot economic clrcumatancea muat InetltaMy tend
to lower the atandard of life of these eommunltlee.
while the preaaure exerted by the competition of
other claaaea adda to the Influercea that adveraely
affect their condition. It la of the utmoal Im
portance thai extract cus help should be fenh
coming. tn the ahape of lncr'aed educational
fartmiea fer the young to balance the condltlona
whl(,h h, prc hni Mllfufi income are
,urf )0 rre(Suc,, Tnfrr t, A (t and untold
-moun. ofmleerv and wantealatent In this coun-
trl. mong the pcor of tneae clea. of which the
r. i ...... I ... .l.tl...k..lnr uhrt
European and American philanthropists who
subscribe to Indian charities know next to nothing.
Were an effort made to enlighten charitable
opinion on thla head, the resulting gain to the
cause of Anglo-Indian education In India would
be Incalculable.
Of late there has been a strong Impulse
toward providing better educational facltl
tie for the Domiciled all over India, and the
work of the Anglo-Indian Association has
been nf the greatest value, but the cause Is
an exceedingly difficult one to raise funds
for. The wealth of the country lls mostly
In the hands of the Indians nnd the Govern
ment Indians have calls enough upon their
nurses, ther have their depref ed classes
and their own ambitions: and their schools
and universities, helped by their rich rajahs,
are booming ahead. Government also
considers itself pledged to help Its Indian
suhjects before any other, and spoke It
mind on the subject very clearly at n con
ference of the asftortatlon held at Calcutta
last winter, when its representative told the
association that, while sympathizing very
greatly with their alms, Government was
not prepared to help thorn to the extent
desired, nnd that they must look to public
charitv for support. I re,d In the Times
of Inaia to-doy that of the .1 lacs granted
bv Government on the occasion of the
i King's recent durbar nt Delhi, for educntlon
in India, only three lacs la lac Is 100,000
1 runeed! i.re to be clven to tho Anirlo-lndlan
schools: the re.U goes to Indian institutions.
imnv incs nave ueen given 10 prrmary
schools for Indian boys, five for Indian
rcmalo education, i ror maian nostcis. two
for technical education, and the Government
is holding fivo In reserve. You will s&y that
L " , ""if"" ilul";" ?"u
rorso than useless: they lite' but to po
"home." nnd they do not feel bound to
uPPort a people wljh whom they do not
assocltto, nnd who they do not WHnt to r.o
enterini? the service with themselves. The
rich merchants of Calcutta nnd Hombav
are not renownd for their charities. .Sir
Kobert Lnldlaw la the only one who Is taking
an active and generous Interct in the
Luruslan problem.
Now with legard to the schools. Of the
several maintained by Government for
1 Anglo-Indian children the filshun Cotton
GohnU 1,, Olml T t. :n ,1 In nn.l
Bangalore aro among the test governed and
equipts.), the boys' schools arc. that is
TESj?;.
to bring the sister cchooN un to the same
standard of efficiency, nud thete I nor h
elngl girls' school anywhere in India that
can be said to re anything like 'What it ought
"L' " BirJ ,?.cn' " S3!' art:
con d have many more f It was alile tn
accommodate them: and It is for this school
that I am asking for subscriptions to enable
It to carry on its work Hangalore has nn
ideal clliuato. cool and frcnh all the venr
round, and parents are only ton glad to
end their children away from the Hon
heat and enervating cfiVets of summer on
tho plains lo the schools in the hills The
boys' high school under tho excellent man
agement nf the 8 P, G teaching brother
hood (PrOteitantsl ha been doing splendid
work ever since it was tnken over by the
society five years ngo It brought the roll
of scholars from n round dozen up to i:."
at the close of last term. Rlxty-four of this
number ure boarders, ond the cadet corns
now nutntiers s enty-four and hat three
' otocers anion?
inc tho masters
The staff Is comnosed of n flno limit' of
men entirely devoted to their work, nnd
this school, nndor th able head mastership
of the Ifcv tl Pakenham Walsh, needs no
Immediate aid, although It would lie glad
Indeed to extend Its sphere of usefulness.
Hut the girls' school, taken ovijr by th
same society only last year in a dvinv con
dition. Is having n hard fight for existent
1 As the building It occupied formerly w.k
1 perfectly innricaunte to carrv on n siices
fill school. Goternmen' mad a grant of
.w.ofin rurees, payable ht Instalments, to
enable the school to buy the Stafford house
and grounds, costing Ko.cfiO rupee, and the
transfer was made tact June It was b.
!ivd thnt th" reimltijnir ?o.'i0, n well as
the additional cost of th reconstruction
of the building from offices Into dormitories.
; u vines n'ui,i, voum nc oi
looted by private subscription, but owlu?
to the caut-es which I hftt e ennmeraf erl tlier.i
has been collected from all iiir c !. than
M oryi rupees, and the school l still w Ithout
'a library and a utmnaslum l would ap
peal to all w ho rejoice In the splendid school
hj stcm of America and t. splendid woman
hood to hlp, In however small n war this
i school, eager to show what it rati do with its
scholars ir onlr it is nronerlv emtltmert nnd
given a fair stall. It day scholar number
nearly one hundred 'I lie staff need- tn be
, tr(,ngilind and funds re needed to pro-
viii nettor slaris to secure properlv
qualified teacher 'Die salary of leachets
in the lower si hool is from 411 to An rupees a
montn. w t notit noinl ami odcinc. not
enough to nttract well tMitid teacher.
But the school Is nheolutolv unable tn ofler
more at prescm run.-ripiions should he
' sunt to the Rev II. Pokenham Walsh, the
I warden. Bishop Cotton Doys' High .School,
Bangalore. State of Mt sore S India
lllsl i I, l-Ylnnrs
Mt'ssooitlt!, India, February -.'t
Ills Ambition.
To THB F.PITOK or THE Si'N.Sir Only
yesterday a little llx-ye.ir-old utchin In reply
tn my nuery as to his grownup aspirations
vers promptly mid. "I am going to bo an
enemv "
Vow but you cm finish
Nkw vobk. April 1. Ambitious.
Many Fingered Fa ml I r.
Fram tht Fall Afoll dattlit.
In tn tlllue of Kothllovo iCirodno fiovern-
m'riti, Puatla thre ate ovrr fifty pent 11 it who
1 hv mere ihan the usual numb-r of flrtcra.
I Acrordlne to partlcultri nuhlUhea In th v,
, 1 ttmva, they aic all deaeendantf of apeaaant who
marrl'd In the first half of the last century and
who nau extra nneers on one of hl hand,
In the precnt feneration this abnormality
reproduced 10 the extm of two, three, four or
eten nte additional finger. Some rases simply
show a thumb duplicated from the drat loint.
Aa a result of Intermarriage the deformity is
aprradlne tn neighboring tlllatea. It dlap'ns'a
the joung men from military arrtlce, hoctcr
sound they may be constitutionally.
Trimming nay In a Kentorkv School,
from tht .Htp'itrtlsrillt .Vtcj,
Last Thuradsy was general ttlmmlng day at
the fiheplierrisvtll high school. On that day
I'rofcaaor Thompson knocked the dust oft twenty
nine pair of trnuaers. He broke all rrcotds or
whipping boys. He met all comers; big boj,
little boys, fat boya, lean boys, bright boys, green
bot s and other bat s were called un am) llheraiu-
treated to hickory oil. firtcralnf the joungstcrs!
had nreuru a rraiung nr nailing nr whaling for
aome time, and when twenty-seven were caught
oldlng and encouraclng a nglil I'rofcsaor Thnnip
sou Just called up the whole tcnly-nliie, Incliid
Ini lh tighter, and warmed thorn up In finu
fashion.
Norway' Water l'awer.
From fft flflfiilltc Amirl'an,
According to reitnt reports, the mount of
water power which la In tho way of preparation
In Norway Is Sno.ono hora power In addition to
the existing 4S0,uu horsepower. Many .large
projects tor hydraulic work upon the large streams
Hate been the subject of franchises granted
during the last few years, and such work la now
about fiiilblied, The .Mdnuillr work on U10 '
VI tfn Ik fiimnl!,..! anrl nnnlhrr i,,il-rii-l,-
r ,,,
mr iHimiMugcr unrnni ti toon 10 give ine city of
Bergen a large amount 01 electric current.
HARMON TALKS OF HIS
DAYS III WASHINGTON .
Reveries as He Sat In the Supremo
Court and Recalled Many
Tersonal Incidents.
REAL SERVICE TO COUNTRY
Significance) of Our Hlnhest Tribunal
and the Need of keeping: It
T'nlmpalred.
Washington, April 1, Gov. Harmon
of Ohio cave a talk this evening at ths
National Pre Club here which mad a
very favorable Impression. The Oov
ernor told with considerable feeling some
of the thoughts that came to him to-day
as ho fat In the United States Supreme
Court. He Mid:
As I eat there I thought of a good nunr
of those Interesting subjects which some of
you no doubt remember In those very trying
and momentou dav when I had a small
share tn the Government. Some of them
were humorous, like the time when that
great giant, Intellectually and phyMcallv,
In th very first cause I appeared in in that
court as Attorney-Qeneral got, the laugh
on me. I wa trying? mat most unique ce
of the fnlted State against. Tei, involvuit
the ownership or ?.oo square miles on the J
oanK 01 me itu avici. nuw.,w n ..rier
county, Tex , wht"h I now three or four
counties In Oklahoma, And I wo using a
map I had had the army engineers draw and
which I said gave a blrdseye view of the
situation. Whereupon Justice Oray leaned
over and said:
"But, Mr. Attorney, I haven't the eye of
a bird."
Another time, when fighting a case whets
the Ice was a little thin because I expected
to gather momentum so as to tilde over
that one of the Justice leaned over and
said: "How about this point."
"I am coming to that, your Honor, later."
I replied.
He said: "Mr. Attorney, you are there
now."
All those thought ran over my mind
tn.dav. and yet the scrlou one was this'
That although that court had all changed
with the exception or ono most estimable
mnn in that brief span of time, that great
tribunal goes on, and I thought about th
saying that "men may come and men may
go." but our Institutions, we trust In God,
will run on forever ana mai me new icet
bring simply loyalty to the great funda
mental ideals upon which our government
in founded.
I thought of the Inspiration that that ought
to bring to every true American when he Is
called on In any capacity to loud a hand
to make our Institutlonaauccessful. He can
only bo there for a little time. Any nm
bltlon that ha may have dwindles into sU
nltlcance when It Is compared with th
Idcn that for the time being he I giving Ins
best efforts, his beet thought, devoting hltn
Sfflf to the Institution which Is pasting
through his hands, and the highest ambition '
of his life ought to be that his touch upoa
those institutions may bo a sustaining and au
improving one and that when h ge'
through he may not bo remembered as on
who in a perfunctory way held a public
position The consolation oughUo be thai.
If he can truly think, whllo he was thete h
upheld all the standards and passed the
Institution on to thoe who followed unim
paired in Its u.ofuliiess. That idea of re
uponsihlllty can never be separated from
my Idea of public service
And It has been a long time, as I said,
since I hate figured In the courts, not slnre
I90"i, when I tva b switched off, an to speak.
Into tho railroad business as an officer or
the court. It Is a real pleasure te) 'get back
there nnd to realize what the courts mean
to the citizen
Gov. Harmon then told or hi arguing
tho Transniistourl Freight Association
cnM. where, for the firt time the Govern
ment secured the enforcement of th
nnti-trust law in the Supreme Court of
tho United States, and in concluion aid:
Now I know you think I am getting old
because I am reminiscent, but I cannot
help It, and I know that you, even theyounr
cst of you, lot your minds wauder back to
the das thnt are gon The future is un-
(erlaln. but, thank Uod. what Is gone is
sale. It I safo in your memorlei It Is
Inst'lHiiir for a person to' think nf what Is
behind him I did that to-day
JOHX SHAItP WII.LLIMS CIIOSEX
To Deliver Blumenthal Political Lecture
at Columbia.
Senator John Sharp Williams cf Mis
sissippi was selected by th tiuitecs of
Columbia fnlterslty at their monthly
meeting s8terilay to lecture on politics
on th ilenree Blumenthal Foundatlcn
next year. The Blumenthal Foundation
Piot Ides for nn annual sr!s of public
lectures to b delivered by some man
actively enanced In the practice or study
of politic, i.'onsressmati Samuel A. Mc
fall and Wendrow Wilson are among
thote who have delivered tho lectures tn
former jearn.
The graduate courses In economics,
which have been taught by Trot E It.
A. HellRiunii. will be taught In his abjemo
next year by two Princeton professors.
W. M. Daniels, nt present, chairman or
Hie ,'ew ,li iiy Public Service uvn
mlttee and Piof. F, A. Fetter
A lfl of tano from the Adterll'ln
Men's I.eiBti of New Yoik was all
nmtneed. The money will b ued to csUD'
llsh n fellowship In th psycholtrv ot
advrtlslng. Th- hold'r of the fellow an P
will h expected tn take up adtertlslr.t a
a llfewnrk after graduation. Another fit
was Sl.oou fimii Alxander f-tnlth loch
tan of Ynnkers, to be used by the depig
ment of Oriental linguaee
vo katim for cim 40:.
Supreme Court Refuses Comprn'itlon
for Shore I.eate.
WaMllvc.rnv. Apill 1 - Ald' to th
Admiral of the navy are not entltl'd to
extra pav and commutations, th Supr"'
Court decided to-day In h suit brouiht by
Commander Spencer S Wend, I S
aide to Admiral deorpe pettey from f'
tn inns. Wood's dalm was for JS.w
Mra compensation for shot dutt. Ilk
th extra pay given tn army Colonels o"
Inched on spclnl duty.
Admiral Thomau rt. pelfrldg and h M
former ecok and housekeeper, Hactaet
Brown, were litigant before the Supreme
I'ouit I11 a Milt for malicious prescutt"ii
brought by the servant The court af
firmed n decree of the IMstrlct of CclunU'H
couits, dlMiii.ssIng tliii servant's danm
suits. Admlrul Sel'rtdgo cau&ed the vo
mnn' house tn be searched for ftoi'n
curlalna and the ennk demanded dama-
AF.no SHOW axo ii.icr.s.
Aero Club Plan Indoor and Outdoor
Meet forMny,
The Aero Club of America has arrAnwa
to conduct 11 n acroplano show, which. U
la said, will bo the first of the kind
ever given In this country. It will hi
given at the Grand central Palace from
May 0 to IS. A r.-.l line of air cm
traptlons will be shown, including mens
and biplane, dlilijlblea and hydroaei"
planes. One of the big features will lj
a historical exhibit of nil th kinds i.t
planes used by the Wilghtb In develop
ing (lying. t .
On May . the Saturday before the
opening of the show, a hydronernpun
meet will bo held on the Hudson off Bit
ci-Hlrie lirlve, Theio will l. a race tnun
Coney Island tn the Hudson and IH''J
kllA rirlv-t. I.,,. fh- ,vil.. mill i.ll tmnt
nipt,, VH III' quit'
them will be iiiilck et.tili.iK nmti "1
ami
bomb diopplng list
ana uiiuiiuuk
1 arltdng race.