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Section Of the Din9ley act as do the
Kasson treaties, 40 called. The Cuban
treaty has nothing to do with that sec
ton. II has been negotiated and it will
be ratified, il at all. under the general
treaty-making power. AZ a measure
affecting the revenues it will require con-
current legislation before it can become
operative. 1t needs the same amend
ment that Mr. CULLOM's committee
recommends in the case of the Kasson
treaties.
SO far, therefore, rs concerns actual
reciprocity with Cuba, the ratification of
the pending treaty is merely preliminary
to the regular process Of legislative en-
actment. The question of the proposed
twenty per cent. reduction will have to
be discussed by the House also.
But the treaty "a it stands requires
that reciprocity shall become operative
ten days after the exchange Of ratifica-
tons. And yet, rs the Senate Com
mttee on Foreign Relations now clearly
declares, it cannot become operative in
ten days, or a hundred days, unless the
treaty has meanwhile been approved
by Congress that is to say unless a
Cuban reciprocity act has meanwhile
been passed by the House and the Senate
and signed by the President
Can this be accomplished within ten
days after ratification?
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STREET GROW Us.
An Omen Letter 10 Mayor Low.

Now that YOU have exploited yourself by
your letters to the presidents OF the Elevated
and Metropolitan roads on the crowded
condition OF their cars. ! should be exceed
ingly Obliged II you would bring your power
full r.ind to bear on the matter of the over
crowded condition of Tinany's. Huylcr's
the department stores. theatres. restaurant :
and other places OF resort In town and par
ticularly to the fearful longest ion in certain
streets
The manner In which upper Broadway,
Sixth avenue. Fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets. and Bayard. Hester. Ludlow and
Catherine, on the lower East Side, are
crowded, Is absolutely shameful and IL not
conducive either to good morals or comfort
The situation calls for reform, and maybe.
IL YOU will write u letter to each of the pro
prietors of the great shops mentioned, the
theatres, restaurants and other places OF
resort, perhaps the proprietors may be able
TO contrivc some plan. for keeping out the
I am somewhat puzzled to know to whom
YOU shall write about the congestion in the
streets. unless as "A private citizen YOU should
write letter OF conpla int to yourself as
Mayor and then quietly compose yourself
and wait and ace what the Mayor can do
As a native-born New Yorker of some
sixty odd summers and winters, I. for one,
do not see that he can do anything particu-
larly except. perhaps. he might inaugurote
New York That might suit some people In
this. busting, busy city. but It would not APP
peal to toNsTiTt ENT
NEW YoEH Dec -
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among IS; the EpisoopaNans, among Is;
the Methodists, among ~; the Baptists.
among II. or the LISA Jews, 1877 are
described as sheep without a shep-
herd"
These statistics explain the great diff
ference in the relative strength Of Prot
estant churches Their people are not
accustomed to support parishes within
the boundaries of which they live, but
tend toward churches. often far away.
to which they are attracted by particular
preachers, by social desires or by other
influences. Thus. there are few strong
and crowded churches and many only
feebly supported. Roman Catholics go
to the churches Of their parishes.
The consequence is that Protestants
are more likely to fall away altogether
from church attendance and. eventually.
to become indifferent to religion, al ia
demonstrated in the case of nearly a
half of those in this district. The diff
Guilty of getting to a favorite church at a
distance affords a pretext for staying
away from church occasionally. and,
finally, habitually.
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What Kills Trade.
From The .Ner York Adrisor.

From me NsE YORK AdrsOf.
Several years ago the large bicycle companies
OF the United States formed a combination or
trust-and all the leading cycle companies were
brought under a single management.
One OF the nrst apparent results was the cessa-
tion OF the large Individual advertising campaigns
which marked tn progress OF the Individual com
pani,s The trust used very little advertising
and merely -ndeavored to popularize the names
OF Its leading machines.
Some time ago this great concern. the American
Bicycle Company. went into the hands OF receiver.
Col. 4. 4. Pope. who was the pioneer advertiser
ia the cycle field md whose Columbia wheels were
for years the standard OF perfection In bicycle pro
duoton. was recently asked about the outlook for
the compar, In the future.
After saying that the Columbia factory at Hart
ford would soon resume operations he ado ed;
"Thr cessation OF advertising killed the bicycle
business and the way to revive Il Is to resume
tha, sane important matter. You can see how
feel In the matter when tell you that spent 1870.
900 In one year In that sort OF publicity and that
Il Is my idea for the futurc--to advertise"
When the trust was organized the wlscacrcs sald
We are spending our earnings for adverti; g
If We combine all the leading companies we need
only do as much advertising for all as one compar y
is now doing"
This policy was followed and the result has been
a decline In what has been called the bicycle fad
the trust Is in the hands OF a receiver and the
Industry paralyzcd
The acker Trust. the Tobacco Trust and OF hers
have been notable successes-thc Bicycle T:ust a
notable failure.
Tic nrst have been iberal-nsy. prodlgal. ad
vertiscrs They have been constantly placing new
names before the public and almost without ex
ccpt,on achieving individual successes. The bi
cycle people endeavored to acv 'rtisc half dozen
or more wheels In general way there was not hing
specific In the announcements with failure as the
nna result,
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Engia nd In l'ga nda Eyes.

From me London Dafiy Maj
The following IL a Translation OF letter sent by
the Prime Minister Of Uganda II the King and
Regents OF that country describing his reception
Uganda Nosfs:
"Ih' King Daadi. the Rs0cRis. &C.
How are you. my friends' To-day we have
seen King Edward. We got up at 7 4. NJ, and
Capt Hobart called for us and took US int, the
Kings house. There Lord Lansdowne met us.
and took us before the King. who shook hands With
me and tod me t. sit In The chair that looked as II
IL were his own. covered with pure gold.
AZ frst felt afraid. but I sat down and offered
for sending us the Government oficers I, protec 1
us and our country from war, and he gracIously
accept Ted me.
Then he wanted - show me over the hous.
and We saw one room, but they would not allow
him on account OF his illness.
But what saw in that house was all Of gold
every pillar was covered with gold, and the cciling
too.
The King was most kind - greet me as he did,
as II ! were great man Ike one Of his friends
Now. my friends, is not that a wonderful thing,
And - seat me In his own chair Is not tia, won
derfui, too
Now. my friends. II was as I have told you And
the King asked me whethcr ours was nice coun try
and l said II was. And t1-morrow VIC shall see
him again AT his coronation. In appearance he is
like Sensalire. but Sens allre Is t,ler.
And the servants who wait on him In his hous.
put white dye on their hsir and look like old men
and when you sec them you think they are old
men. They ais, have coats Of gold Ham and /
went alone; Mr.. Mlar did not 60.
To-day ! am going 10 call on The Archbishop
OF Canterbury - take tea with him Good nv
God bless you. ] am.
Apolo KAowA KAr,xrRo.-
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How to Cure IusO mia.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrN--.sir. After thirty
years In the harness Of my profession fell Victim
to this horrible disease Night after night the toll
Ing Of the hour bells would be listened to until ex
haustion closed my burning eyes In restless sleep.
Continued duty caused this trouble. With disease
and duty aggravated the cause. Prompted By a
humane act only. write this article hoping that Il
may reach the eye: 81 some poor creature afTicied
In the same manner, who will take warning and fol
low = few doses prescribe and return him back TO
manhood new made man and citizen, Certainly
the m crobes OF my ethical brethren cannot accuse
me OF unprofcssonal conduct by writing thts~ lines
for a public paper. I am idle and q free lance and
feel sincere pleasure to commune with the paper
that has been my companion since boyhood. Doc
tors did all for me that science could do and failed
Happy In my work and family iella Victim TO dc
spondency and despair. All lief, for me Was the
grave. Now suicide was cowardly, and could not
Keep me from death by my own hand" Mcian
choly with all It's tor,urcs was my constant com
panlop.
Ny nrst dose or advice Il To quit your business
and change to something else. ! save up a large
practice and became farmer. Ny hrst lesson was
ploughing. After several trials I fell exhausted
Time after time tried again, with satisfactory re
suits, My food diet was completely changed to that
OF the farmland. Exhausted BY the days work
fatigue would ovcrtake me and sleep came as peace
fully as TO q new born babe. After my manual
lahors, horseback riding was INDUCED In from four
IN siK hours day, Only three months Of this life
restored me 10 my normal weight and health.
BRookLrs, Dec. "a r. Z, CoRRioAs. N, ID.
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The Elevated Railroad.

The statement put forth in behalf of
the elevated railroad by Nice-Presi-
dent SKITT concerning its efforts to
serve the public well now and to serve
them better in the future was strong as
defence and encouraging as a prom
Use. II was also startling in its informa-
ton that on Monday of last week the
railroad carried nearly hundred thou
sand more passengers than were car
ried on the biggest day of the Dewey
celebration, when the town was swollen
with visitors. These figures indicate
that New York has grown more rapidly
than even the greatest optmist has hoped
for. But both the elevated railroad and
the public are now paying for folly.
Some one in the management Of the
railroad made fearful blunder not long
ago which was the seed of more than
one kind of trouble. We refer to the
expert or experts responsible for the
electric rail that can be put out of action
by every snowstorm. We have before
us no design of a rail protected from the
snow and rain and hence not likely to
have its power stolen by the elements, or
to become unable TO deliver it properly
to the cars. But common sense assures
us that such rail is possible and argues
stoutly that it was stupidity highly i'm
pregnated with parsimony that pre-
vented its designing and installation.
The pitiable interruptions of the elevated
road recently have made such an ex-
posture Of incapacity in its management
as to cast suspicion on all protests that
the service is as good as it is possible
to make ia suspicion that inevitably
overf1ows upon the surface lines
On the other hand, for many. many
years now the public has stolidly refused
permission to the elevated road to i'm
prove itself, particularly in the matter
Of third track for express service.
For illustration, the third track on the
Third avenue line stops at Fifty-ninth
street, whereas il might easily come to
Ninth street All efforts in behalf of the
railroad have been rcbuffed with the
childish reply that the company was
grabbing for something that would in
crease its revenue. We also fear that
the Rapid Transit Commission pledged
to the construction of subway, has not
been guiltless of standing in the ele-
vated's way.
And now the public pays.
Let us all reform, and we shall before
long travel more easily and proftably.
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Why the Hindoo Starves.


Prof. Morrison OF the Aiyghur College fame had
taken INFINITE trouble I, collect facts for his lecture
which he delivered before the British ASS alton
I, prove the ins liability OF prices In India bcfor,
1891 The table con tain ed the prices OF grains for
tAe last sixty years In Barcilly and Allyghur and
he wanted - prove by this table that the Indians
were not growing poorer. But Mr.. Digby dcduced
conclusions quite different from the data sun
piled by the professor Here are Mr. Digbys con.
illusions:
Hira Ganga Singh. a man Of 50 years OF age
living In Bareli has - pay for his daily food and for
the food OF his family II II be WHEAT
Fifty per cent more than his father paid;
One hundred and nifty per cent moro than his
grandfather paid:
One hundred and seventy per cent more than
his great GRANDPA ,her paid
II his food be barley he has 70 nay:
Seventy hve per cent. more than hi, father
paid:
-Four hundred and nifty per cent more than hi,
grandfather paid.
Five hundred per cent more than hts great Grand.
father paid.
II his food be bajra. he has 70 pay:
Ten per cent more than his father paid
Three hundred and twenty -nve per cent mora
than his grandfather paid
Three hundred and seventy -nve per cent more
than his great-grandfather paid.
In this profoundly dlsauietng fact Is 10 be found
the reason why, In india, during the ten years
1891 - 1900
pHvauon and consequent disease, who ought now
- be living.
That Is I, say. 100000 British subject, m ,,s
average, ncediessly died. famine year and Ia,
called, non famine year. during the last deca.io
Of the past cen fury.
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The Temptation OF Christ .

To THE EDITOR or THE SrN-Sir: ! sub
NIT. very respectfully, that Or. Savage ought
to know the temptation OF Christ was simply
a triai-test: ~ you test IA bridge to know
whet her It will bear the weight OF train. or az
you test an elevator to know whether II will
bear the load OF humanity seeking TO 60
higher" The First Man was tested by the
Devil went under. and we have all gone down
with him The Second Man was tested by the
Devil and came on, victorious. Because He
without sin. :" because. in short, lie proved to
be an infinite success, therefore we are en-
coura ged to cast our confidence on Him His
temptation proved that He was more than
MAMIE wasGod as well; and just because he
Is God We can logically. as men. put our I'M
falt ering faith Ia Him. kno wing that our God
on yonder throne u n Man who understa nd =
u.s. and that our Man on yonder throne is a
God who will deliver US.
j NJ HALpFMAN
Pastor First Baptist Church.
NEW YORK, Dec -.
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TIE BALDWIN WORKS.
Correction OF False Charge Made Against
Them n the lIvic Federation Meeting.

AT the recent meeting Of the Civic Fedora
ton in this city there was considerable
discussion regarding the condition OF the
lnhorprs In the shops Of the Baldwin Loco
motive Works in Philadelphia. James
OConnor Of the International Association
of Machinists was responsible for the state
ments that the works Of the company wer"
unsanitary and operated upon plan UNFAIR
to the workmen. Mr.. Barnes. an English
engineer, also said that the system OF pay
ing the employees at the Baldwin works
was equivalent to a sweatshop system. be.
cause small contractors took the jobs OF
producing the separate parts OF loocofno-
tives at a contract price and squeezed the
laborers under them.
American Academy. Mr.. John W. Converse
Of Philadelphia presents review OF the Ia
Dor conditions at the Baldwin works which
reaches conclusions very different from
those uttered by Mr.. O'Connor and Mr..
Barnes.
Mr.. O'Connor says that the workmen in
the Baldwin shops are all paid by the hour
and that they receive from IL To 30 Genus
an hour. the average wage Tor skilled iapor
being 90 cents an hour. he says that the
so-caled contract system Il system by
which the foreuen on certain parts Of the
work, such. for instance as the part In which
the water tanks are built are paid according
to the number Of parts they complete ana
not by time. Thus the foreman OF the tank
department H. paid 80 Inich per com
pleted tank. He cannot hasten his job or
increase his own wages in any way by cur
failing the wages Of any man under him.
The men under him are paid directly by
the Baldwin establishment and not by
himself.
Mr.. Converse reiterates the assertions
made by Mr.. Alfred Mosely at the Civic
Federation conference that strikes are prac.
tically unknown AZ the Baldwin works and
that labor unions have no foothold there.
although there is no discrimination against
union machipists. He says that appren-
tices are taken under virying conditions
and are paid from to 70 cents an hour. He
does not speak of the sanitary condition OF
the works. but AYERS that the policy Of the
loyalty on the part of the employees and
has given them great pride in their en-
ploynent
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How to Waterproof boot. at Home.

From the Scientific American.
have fo< the last nve years used successfully q
dressing for leather boots and shoes. composed OF
oil and India rubber. keeping out moisture and
un,njurious to the leather applied. leaving same
soft and piiabc. To prepare same. heat In an iron
vessel either nsh oil, castor oil. tallow 70
about go degrees Fahrenheit. then add. cut into
small pieces. yucanized or raw India rubber. about
nfh Of the weight Of the oil. gradually stirring
same with a wooden spatula until the rubber Il
completely dissolved In the oil; lastly add TO give
II color a small amount OF printers ink Pour into
a suitable vessel and let cool. One or two April,
cations OF this are suflcent to thoroughly wat-r.
proof pair OF boots or shoes for season. Boots
shoes thus dressed will take common shoe black
ing with the greatest facility.
CHARLKs I. MILLHR.
KANSAS CITY Mo. Nov. o.
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The FIattcring Compliment to Mr.
Roosevelt.

This would seem to be the proper rule
for the Presidents answer to the invita-
ton to arbitrate the dispute between the
allies and Venezuela:
If all acknowledging ISSUES between
the peoples Of South America and Eu-
rope are to be settled hereafter by an
American judge, the President may well
accept.
II the Court of The Hague, however,
il 10 have the place in the affairs of the
world expected by the Powers which
established it, then the President should
refuse.
To declare the Hague Court out of
business at this early stage of its exist
ence would seem somewhat rougher
proceeding than is necessary.
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DIR. Parker. blast AGAINST Tobacco,

From the Wssminsisr Gassfte.
The late Dr. Parker regarding smoking: Il hate
smoking From one end to the other II Is a nuts
ance. II ends In cancer. apoplcSy, bad temper
bankruptcy, and almost In hy dTophoba. IL Is An
Invention OF the dev Its the dcvil II Is the pas
time OF perdtion. No dog smokes. No bird pines
for tobacco. No horse Is a member Of pipe club
No ntelgtn, person ever puts cigar In his mouth
The whole Idea and practice OF smoking mus, he
condemned as athetiticAl agnustlcal and innultrl,
detestable." Mr.. Spurseons Il smoke 10 the glory
OF God" forms an Interesting counterblss, TO Dr.
PaTker's diatribe.
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Twins Came Just In Time.

From the ~. Louis Globe Democrat.
GUTHRIE. OKLA, Dec, ply an order of ,he
Federal Government all Kaw Indians who were
on the citizenship rolls by Dec L. 1907. were en-
uued 70 an equal allotment OF lands and money
belonging TO the kaw tribe. Albert TAYLOR IA A
full FLOODED kaw On Nov. rs. two days before
the rolls we're closed his wife presented him with
twin babies He enrolled them immediately. They
have lived, and 70 Taylor tney arc worth 81, 900 In
allotted. - '''- ~
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CyrNs's Wants.

From the Chicdoo Daay Ners
Hiam-fes. old Cyrus Kalc went to the town
pa,er and advertised for a cook laundr,s, ,esm
stress. woodcu'ter. mixer barnyard attendant.
soapmaker---
S,iss-S,op How In tarna,ion much SPACE did
all them advertise ments take up,
Hiram-rhere was only one adve rtsement, Old
Cy advertised In the personal column TO a wife
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continue. Where does Gen. MATos. for
instance. get his fundsi
II Venezuela should become 20 torn in
ternally a. TO be unable to deal respon-
sibly with foreign demands upon her re-
sources things would be more complicated
than they are now
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4 Dream Of Texas Sport In 1904.

T. Roosevelt b. Bryan. q, Cleveland, N. Ham,
and J Hosg have Just returned from shoo,lny hi,
wcevll In the BRACES bottom They rep,rt , .e.,.I,
o. the game due - The dcpreda lions Of mvrisa.'S
slrus', however the party baggcd about sc~sn.v
nve OF the insects ."oa' Se'ehV.
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Church Attendance In New York

In the Rev. DR.. RAINsFoRDs review
OF the remarkable progress Of the parish
Of st. Georges during his twenty years
rectorship, with which the voluminous
Year Book of that parish for the present
year opens, he refers to the unwilling
ness of those who have had long con-
nection with st. Georges to take up
membership in other Episcopal churches
Of the town. no matter how far they may
have removed from its neighborhood.
OF the $500 people who claim union
with this church" not one-half, as we
make out from the statistics of the rector,
are residents within the parish boun-
diaries. Tho rest are scattered through
out the town from the Battery to the
Bronx. Even in Brooklyn the number
is $40.
A religious census recently taken by
the Federation of Churches shows
how great and general is the Protestant
indispositiOn to attend churches in their
neighborhood, even to the extent of
staying away from church altogether.
In the part Of the Thirty-second Assem-
bly, district which stretches between
Ninety-second and 10th streets, from
Third avenue to the East River, s,2s5
families were found willing to give their
religious belief. or these, 1855 were
Roman Catholic, l,s48 Protestant and
LISA Hebrew. The Protestant. so far
AZ We find them tabulated, were thus
di vdad
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One Indian Family. Means.

From The Kansas CGv Journal.
Thirty -four OF the Choct,w Indian. ~.
AZ nrdmoIe from Meridian Miss. are OF one san,,,,
X. Gnmn 3. years old, was the father or rand
eeuvalsas Of IS 900 including sao acne em the
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Hts Special Lima.


From hc Washington Etsrtno Stor
Didn't you tell me da, dog you sold me vera .
hunt'n dog" " "'es
"Sho'."
He don want 10 do nufan' bu, look ,on . oor,-
Fable place TO lie down 10" ~ w" GUM
speciality. " sPoS MS
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The Police Mystery,

To rHs EDITOR ov TIM sun str; wonder II the
Mayor didn't think OF Capt. Piper because he was
too friendly with jerome. Whs, do you INK about
IT. WIIL I. DOMINO.
All 4tTH ST.
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In a country 80 grievonsly beset with
foreign foes as Venezuela Is. 1t seems queer,
no matter how Objectionable President
CASTRO may be, that the civil war should
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1t appears, therefore, that one-third
of the Protestant families had no specific
UNCONVENTIONAL attachment or belief.
OF those who professed particular re-
ligious association large part had no
church home: the Lutherans numbered
nearly third; the Episcopalians, more
than one-ffth; white Methodsts, one in
seven, and colored, more than one
quarter; the Baptists. nearly one-third !;
the Presbyterians, about two-thirds.
Altogether, 1926 Protestant families, or
nearly one-half. were affiliated with no
church. OF the 4,65s Roman Catholics,
however, barely one-tenth were unat-
tached, and of those who went to church.
all except SIS families were In churches
alone. The Protestants affiliated with
churches. about a thousand, all told, were
divided among many congregations Of
each faith: for instance, the Lutherans,