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will lie Reach the Pole?

Explorer PEARY is to renew his attempt
to reach the pole next spring. The
Navy Department has given him three
years leave and the Peary Arctic Club
is backing him with ample resources.
No adventurer ever faced the north with
seemingly better prospects than those
now before PEARY.
No one has doubted for some years
that the pole is attainable or that it will be
reached before long. 1t is believed that
every part Of the problem is well UNDER
stood. PEARY himself has done more
than any other man to settle the ques-
tions Of food, clothing, sledge equip
ment and ice travel. The essential pre-
lininary to success is to start for the
pole from base so far north that the
round trip over the sea ice may be made
between sunrise and the later summer,
when the conditions become unfavorable
for sIelgIng.
Capt. CAGNl Of the Italian expedition,
reached the highest north ever attained
just month and "A half after leaving his
ship, or base of supplies. NANsEN has
the second highest record. He attained
his northernmost point only twenty-four
days after leaving the ship.
The weak point III PEARY's last series
Of explorations was that with his limited
funds he was unable to provide IN ade-
quatc supporting party and ample sup
plies and pl0ro Them on the northern
coast Of Grant Land at the land base
nearest TO the pole, 70 succeed, lie should
have been able at sunrise, TO set out
poleward over the frozen sea. Handi-
capped by lack Of means TO establish his
blse al the threshold Of the unknown.
he was compelled to begin his journey
from a base $50 miles 10 the south and
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Pie Manners.

To THE EDITOR or THH sUN-N-: In the carving
Of pie. the question Of etiquette is secondary in
importance to possession. To the hostess belongs
the honor Of the execution; she knows It's anatomy,
for she framed IT,
In a well regulated family the participants are
supposed to assume an expression Of expcctancy
while the pie is being carved and served: the knife
and fork should be firmly clenched In either fs'
resting the same upon the table, with the weapons
vertical thereto. and the lips slightly parted. Asthc
carving proceeds the hostess turns the pie from
right TO left her mouth pursed and an anxious e1
preston coming 10 her face as approaches TO thr
last segment and Is found to lack one OF tslyfng
with the number Of guests present
During this procedure, II Is considered III -chosen
10 indulge In Irrelevant comment, or TO manifest
interest In any subject other than the pie.
When each rlortuary dividend is hnal!y at tn
mercy OF the guests a dexterous swoop OF M
knife held In the right hand deprves the wedge n
is principal offensive and defensive structure Che
point and completely disables H. After this II t.
largely matter OF individual preference as 10 N,
method 10 be pursued but most old time pie esters
cut the remainder In half, thus making two pisces
TO prolong the pleasure
ltsaNcw England superstition that a pie shout
not be carved for more than six pieces. and 3 de-
scendant Of the New England Pie Tribe VII NOT
accept a smaller fraction with good grace
MT. VERNON. n. Y Sept, 7. MOL
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Is There Hope for Turkey

The collective address which the Sultan
made to the representatives Of his Chris
tian subjects last Monday when they
called to congratulate him on the ami
versary Of his accession to the throne is
somewhat of new departure in Turkish
politics. Hitherto relations of the SOW
creign to the heads Of the Christian COM
munites have concerned the latter only
as individuals or solely in regard to
the affairs of their particular sect or
nationality. Changing circumstances it
would seem, have caused changed atti-
tudes on both sides, and the change Of
attitude may have important conse-
quences for the future of the Ottoman
Empire.
Bad as the general situation is, it is not
so desperate that recognition of the
rights of the Sultan's Christian subjects,
who are the financial props of his throne.
might give it greater stability. Among
the better educated Turks there has
been for some time conviction that,
even in military matters, it was time the
Christians should take their share in
personal service on an equal footing with
the Mussllmans. Leading Christians
have expressed the same opinion, point
ing out, as Il prominent Greek official at
the Turkish Foreign Office did during
the last war with Russia, that it was an
anomaly that relatives Of Ottoman
Greeks himself among others, should be
found in the ranks of the enemy fighting
against their own country.
The same was said by Armenians, who
pointed with both pride and regret to
the fact that among the most distin-
guished Generals of the Russian army
in Asia we're men like LoRIs MELIKoFF,
TERGUKAssoFF. the victor at the decisive
battle of Aladja Dagh, and LAzAREFF,
the captor of Erzeroum, with others.
The burden of empire is bearing too
heavily on the Mussulman population Of
Turkey to be carried much longer by
them alone, so far as its maintenance by
arms is concerned; and the Christian
population could not be expected, il
called on to take their share Of military
service in person, to submit any longer
in patience to the disabilities Of every
kind they now labor under
But the remedy does not rest with the
Turks or the Sultan alone. If they are TO
escape from one domination only to fall
under another, the Christian races OF the
Ottoman Empire will not have bettered
their condition by overthrowing the
Turks. What the occasion calls for is
unity among themselves in the first place.
They will find in the yielding DISPOSE
ton which existing circumstances can
hardly fail to produce at Constantinople
that the Sultan may serve their purpose
better than any outside intervention, no
matter whence it comes.
If the Sultan is sincere in the express
sions Of desire for the welfare Of his
Christian subjects, which he made last
Monday, the Christians cannot second
him more effectively than by standing
together.
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Foreign Notes Of Real Interest.

Paris Eincl Tower will stand for only q Nv
years longer A commission appointed 10 do-ids
on the uses TO which the Champ de Mars shan BE-
put has ordered that the tower he torn down at The
end Of the concession, which expires In 1910.
An authentic ceutenAran, ViscouBtess Client
worth died recently In England aged 100 years and
8 months. She was married seventy seven yeaf'
ago TO the grandson Of the Earl OF Lime rick an
celebrated her golden wedding with her seConj
husband In 1897
In the twenty years between 1880 and 1900 shave
speaTe "Otheilo" was performed 2 ono times In pn
many. Hamlet" was given !, 1873 times, The Tam
ing OF the Shrew" 83s times and Romeo ami
Juliet" i.b+O times.
George CruikshankS drawings for the Pilgrim :
Progress. never before published, are 10 Uustra
a rev edition published by the oxford Tnyerslr
Press Some OF the woOdcuts were made aa1s'
the artists directions.
a steamer. tbr Justitis has Just ascsndod 'h'
Rhine from StTasburg TO Basel and will contI1r
on the route The TIP had not been IN ado BY =
steamboat In sixty years SO that THE arrival Of w
Justi,ia aroused much enthusiasm In basel ~
tnp from London " tho head Of navigation 90 u r
Rhinr can now De- made all thr way by water
one mystery seems 10 have been removed iron
Tsdium Sir Michael Huggihs. the gres tast ."
thorty living on the spertrosr0pe, with tie sif "
his wife has disco, cred that the lines AJhbuta1 :"
hsllon IN the TSdium spac rin really ~ bssr ~
aitTogsn.
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by the time he and his two or three COM
rades reached the new ice region to be
crossed the season WAS far advanced.
In spite OF this disadvantage PRARY
sledged over the sea ice TO the highest
point, by sixty-fve miles. ever attained
in the American Arctic.
His purpose now 10 to do what he
wished TO do before: that is, to make his
camp on the shore Of the frozen ocean
and set northward at the first light Of
day His ia the sensible programme for
the next attempt to reach the pole. That
it promises the fullest success ia indicated
by the fact that the distance he covered
on several OF his sledge expeditions would
have been sufficient to carry him to the
pole and back, If he had started from
the northern shore Of Grant Land, in
stead of from a southern base
While the pole is the prize which PEARY
is after, his journey from Grant Land
will be almost wholly revelation of the
unknown. All Americans will be glad to
hear that this brilliant and intrepid ex-
plorer is to have another opportunity.
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School Savings Banks.

In 1885 a school savings bank system was
inaugurated in this country. It's object was
to train school children to thrift Since then
the movement has been remarkably success
full, as the eighteenth annual report Of the
system shows.
The plan requires but word Of e1pl ana
ton. as its operation is exceedingly simple.
school board desiring to introduce the
system has only to secure the cooperation
Of local savings bank to handle the weekly
deposits. These are handed to the teacher
at a fixed time each week and tho deposit
credited to the pupil on his card.
The latest report shows total Of 1877 schools
at present using this system, distributed
through eighty-nve cities in twenty-one
States. In the eighteen years Of its history
a sum Of S2.l3s.747.b7 has been saved. OF
this there has been withdrawn sl.ele.So;
leaving 1921 $40 subject to call next January,
The largest total deposit is that Of New York,
sss4.lH. Long Island City, where the or
ganization originated. has Sl5i.+S1 on its
record; Pottstown. Pa, S1l4.1sO.
The systematic organization Is due to Mr..
J. H. Thirty Of Long Island City, who issuss
this eighteenth annual report.
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immigration which is made up Of farm
ers' for with cotton at 10 cents
pound and above, and with increasing
factory populations making cash mar
kets for perishable farm products, 'he
South offers "a very attractive PROPOSE
ton" to the agricultural foreigners who
are coming to this country TO benefit Their
condition"
This North Carolina suggestion Ne de-
serving of a consideration which cannot
be given 20 the Chinese coolie proposal.
The removal of the ban put Oh Chinese
immigration is far beyond the range of
probability if not possibility, at TINS
period, when the further restriction OF
immigration generally is beginning to be
seriously advocated, by the labor unions
more specifically. Moreover, to INTRO
duce coolie labor into the South would
be to impose on II problem likely
TO prove even more distressful than is
the negro problem. The importation OF
Chinese coolie labor for the Southern
plantations is not feasible proposal,
and it is not worth serious discussion.
At the very time when these complaints
of the scarcity Of agricultural labor come
from the Southern States, and after the
fallacy of the reasoning that the negro is
necessary in the production of cotton has
been demonstrated, there is coming in
the greatest immigration in the history
of this country. 1t is an immigration,
too, which is composed largely of the
very sort of labor of which the South is
so much in need; yet practically none of
it is going to the cotton States, and only
a trihing part of the immigration of
twenty millions which has come to us
since the middle of the last century has
gone to those States.
Look at this table, compiled from the
census of 1900, showing the foreign-born
population of five Southern States:
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American Colleges in Turkey.

From The Boston Ercning Trnnscript
Owing to the widespread interest regarding
the imperilled American Christian colleges for
young men in Turkey. the American Board OF
commissioners for Foreign Missions is about
to issue a report on the sub ect. translated
from the Turkish. II comes from Aintab, Gen.
trail Turkey. and contains the following
These colleges. according to the order OF
their dates Of establishment are Robert Col
le1e, at ConstantinOple; Syrian Protestant
College at Beirut; Central Turkey Cole ge at
Aintab; Euphrates College, at Harpoot: Ana
tola College at Marsovan and st Paul's Insti-
inte at Tarsus. Beirut College, in the growth
of it's courses Of study. variety of branches,
accommodation Of its buildings and CONN etc
ness OF its equipments and apparatus has been
making very rapid progress. so that the value
Of it's present property IL not esq than 100. 900
liras, nearly slGO.000 The number OF its teach
ers in various branches is more than 40, ten of
whom are professors There are now 1. 4so
students in the colleges, III Of whom are
Armenians
There is one point in which none OF the
OF hers can be- compared with Robert College
The latter holds the greatest number OF the
officers in governmental departments II
Is able to show among its graduates Lieuten-
ants. Generals, Commanders. Judges Mayors.
Governors. Ambassadors and even Cabinet
Members and Prim" Ministers and these
one-fonrth Of it, graduates have attained
one or the other Of these high positions This
standard Of education, and largely to its
important geographical situation in IA cen.
,ral point between ASH nd Europe Many
nople, also ,well-kn0wn merchants, physi-
clans and editors, are graduates OF robert
College The Elphrates College has suffered
In lis vicinity TO leave the country has been
so strong thni, besides the number of The
students being diminished. many hopeful
graduates and even teachers OF the COLLEGE
have left the country for foreign lands
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From ne London GLObf
As 1t was In the boot trade above all Others That
the Americans were supposed TO be driving the
English manufacturers from the market, It Is not
little Satisfactory to that the latter have reused
themselves from their apathy and are now pro
dhcing what are known as American" boots II
they will only copy the American boot maker IN
his careful adaptation 10 the ana tomica cha racter
OF the foot and In his multiplicity Of sizes, they will
have very little 10 fear, provided their vorkmen
do not prevent them from employing those labor
saving machines which have done much for the
American trade. English materials and English
workmanship welded TO American adAptabilliy
would prove Irresistible IN any trade
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ercept receipts from customs, under such

ercept receipts from customs. under such
regulations as he may prescribe.
II is now proposed IN certain quarters
10 repeal the exception of 1854 and modify
the Sub-Treasury law of 1916. so az TO go
back. in effect. 10 the law of 1919, winch
permitted all.Go, rnment money to he
Deposited IN banks. or loaned to banks,
under such conditions as Congress may
prescribe
That which in party lingo sixty-tour
years ago was labelled divorce OF the
Government from banking is to be an
nulled, and the new relation between
the Government and the national banks,
begun in 1884, is to be perfected,
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A Circle Of Opinion.

Congress has twice created a United
States Bank-onoe in 1898, and once in
1915. The sixteenth section Of the last
enactment declared that "the deposits
of the money of the United States shall
be made in said bank unless the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury shall, at any time.
otherwise order and direct, in which
case he was required to inform Congress
of the reason.
in the middle of September, 1888.
President JACKSON read to his Cabinet
an elaborate paper setting forth the rea
SONS which had constrained him to decide
to order the Secretary of the Treasury
to withdraw, during the next month, all
Government money from the bank and
employ State banks instead in the COL
lection and disbursement of the public
revenue In his next and fifth annual
message he told Congress what had been
done, and, as the Secretary Of the Treas
ury did in his report, he explained the
reasons therefor. Less than ten mill
ions were in existence to be removed
They were placed in less than fifty Sc
lected State banks but, owing to large
sums obtained from sales of public lands
and the extinction Of the national debt,
the amount Of surplus on deposit with
those banks grew, within three wears,
to be nearly Sal 100000, or about the
same sum as the present Secretary of the
Treasury has recently announced that he
has in the Treasury from the internal
revenue. and is permitted by law to
deposit in national banks whenever he
shall deem the removal required by the
conditions of the money market.
None of the State banks in which the
Government deposits were then made
were under the law supervised by the
State creating them, or by the nation.
In 1895 Congress ordered between
81, 900, 600 and S3S, 900 600 of the surplus
all in excess Of 5000, OOO-to be de-
posted. in four equal instalments, with
the several States, in proportion to their
Presidential electors till called for by
the Secretary of the Treasury 1t was
call loan" without interest, and was
method Of expelling the surplus. Only
a few States refused their share The
call TO repay was never made.
An upheaval and then depression came
of demanding Of State banks that more
than S37, 900, 900 he by them paid over 10
the States. Congress thereupOn en-
acted that no State bank could be "A de-
pnsit bnnk IL IL had rnfHsnI In roIaa,,
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PEARY'S ARCTIC VESSEL.
He May Name It in Honor OF Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy Darling.

WASHINGTON, Sept. t. Commander
Peary Of the navy. who, on Saturday. was
granted three years leave of absence in
order TO enable him to make another at
tempt to reach the North Pole, said this
morning that while he had not decided
on a name for the ship that will carry his
expedition to the Arctic. he was inclined
to name the vessel the Charles Fl. Darling,
in honor Of the Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy, to whose interest and active assist
anoe Mr.. Peary attributes the prompt
granting Of his application for leave.
Mrs. Peary will not accompany her NUS
band to the polar regions on the expedi-
ton. which he is to undertake next year.
A new baby arrived at the Peary home
last week and the mother must, Of necessity.
stay behind to care for him. One OF the
Peary children was born in the Arctics.
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TIE OLD CAFE DE- Ia REGENCE.
Story o. Psris's Home for chess. seen 20
he Wiped Out

From ne LONDON SIdnoHrd
The Cafe de 10 R"sence. which has 40
long been the rendezvous 81 chess players.
! and az which some OF the most historical
chess matches have been played, ~ Older
than the Coincide Francaise opposite which
: tuat.d Ia fact II was es'ab ished
N Sss just one year before the Hotel oes
Come dcns du Roi' assumed the title which
N still bears u was only In the middle Of
the seventeenth century that conee wAs
introduced into Europe, In 1870 an Armenian
sold cups OF the beverage at the Fair Of 81,
GERMAN. and shops for It's sale were opened
r. ,cn1,, xns M, rho Ara, N hs created Il
s'h'' WIS nov INV nr'' 70 oe ''e.' ~,
was IA 1851 by f'f the most important OF
rors, and the tables were of marble, as they
mr.. still
"' So, 49,, , l. a..
centre of what WINS then the fashionable
quarter, II is. perhaps, not astonishing that
It's vogue should have been considerable
IRON .ne very outset no, soely on account w.
the aristocratc customers, but also because
Nine Lefevre. wife Of the proprietor.
great paragon of virtue. or course, the
name OF the Cafe de la Rtgence could not
Previous N thnt date II WAS called emf. d. la
naoa a. ~ n ,,,", uas. " "1s '% iati,,.
rsssor W. r" aar, a no. ooaro -, uhoss Site
q gentleman who freouented the establish
mcnt addressed a poem entitled -Brevet de
VIM. a,. 49,, 49, ....s. ~,
nus pou' Mauaihe i'er'erc' "a"re'se wv
Car de la gence. which would seem 10
I",s na. she no, s 'haa
49,. 49,. -, Ina,a $3.50 Wv. 49,.
,na. ANU, "o ,"nusu ivy, . ~"
house 10 NJ. Key, formerly of1Cer OF the
kitchen Of the Due d 'orleans. His name is
mentioned in the first puge of "I,e Neyeu de
Rnmea,i".
"Whsther it be fine or bad weather, I al
fo "ys stroll ne in the Paas Royal If the Weather
il Wet and cold. take refuge in the Cafe
de Ia r eenCe, There ! amuse myself by
watching the chess players. In the whole
the hest and in paris II is at the CAT de- Ia
X eence where il is PLAYED with the greatest
perfection Rey was still the proprietor
o. the house Us IN I'LL for the
ment is one Of the Oldest and most highly
rep,,tAd and rrenuented by the clAycrest
cbeas niavers ~ Wv
The Tafs de- In Rapence was alwav. favored
nv literary men Among them were Diderot'
H,liop,hart rhorfort nrn n Gr;,nn,'
lie Snue, franklin, and voIt.ire himself
raris, IN t:Io' " spits OF tne waIIhnt lssu 81
Eile MN aver .he pnnnc SaHo % tn ms
at the ca xhere his sevst1
but outside. lie Sage, in La Valise Trouv"e.
gives description OF the CATS de Ia Rfgense
chess players who gave the CAT" de Ia Regence
it's particular characteristic was the musician
Philidor. His bust still presides over. the
craving presented by Bis son. is hung on
the wall He has had MANY successors,
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There is a good deal OF injustice in some
Of the contemporary criticism Of the Hon.
ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK. The test Of his
efficiency is in process Of application, and the
process is not complete, 1t is premature to
express at this time any opinion as to his
worthiness or unworthiness. Not to speak
of greater scandals. he has scarcely had
time yet to look into the facts concerning
certain contracts for gloves and gaunts for
the red Indians.
Be fair and not overhasty in Judging the
Secretary Of the Interior.
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For the last two or three months, Mr.
BRYAN's Commoner has been enriched by
this advertisement OF the illustrated edition
Of one Of Mr. BRYAN's major works:
"I have purchased 81 the publisher all unsold
copies OF The First Battle. numbering $50 copies,
and offer them for sale at the low price Of 81 80 per
copy. sent postpaid on receipt Of price. Thcs.
copies are handsomely bound In Half Morocco.
printed on heavy paper from clear type. contain
over 8O0 pages. Orders will be filled In their turn
until the supply Is exhausted. When these copies
are sold the book will be out OF print. Address
M T. HowEY
"8ll South Eleventh street. Lincoln. Neb."
A correspondent sends us this bilious
commentary:
II an advertisement OF that size -four inches
friends. cannot sell $50 copies OF his book In three
months. the plain conclusion Is that his popularity
Is growing less from day to day. ! voted twice
for BRYAN but feel sure he Is now back number -"
Our correspondent forgets that Mr..
BRYAN's friends already possess copies of
this masterpiece. Besides. the $50 copies :"
may be an elastic phrase, like positively
farewell appearance" Or. the binding
may be Objectionable to the faithful Half
morocco smacks Of plutocracy
At any rate, there seems to be Just about
as much demand for the book as there is
for it's author.
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LABOR FAMINE IN MISSISSIPPI
Not Enough Negroes There IN Pick the
l'OttOn--Italians May he Employed.

New ORLEANS, Sept. Am acute labor
famine exists in Mississippi. although the
cotton picking season will not he in good
progress for nj least three weeks. Labor
agents are reported as active in trying TO
secure negroes, in spite Of the rigid statutes
against nticing labor away and the fact
that in some places the indignant citizens
do not bother themselves TO appeal TO the
law on this subject, but deal roughly with
those who persuade negroes to leave their
present employment.
The result Of the famine has been an adj
vance in the wages Of rough labor to HAS
a day with shorter hours of work. II Is
understood that some Of the large planters
Of the delta are preparing to send agents TO
the Northern cities to employ Italian la
borers, although, as a rule. they are not
successful cotton pickers.