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Warren sheaf., 1903-10-01

The influence Of a good sire In the
breeding Of horses will be felt for q
period of twenty-five years in the COM
munity- where he is owned. We recall
q case where thirty years ago q model
horse was owned for a period Of ten
years in certain locality, and today
the best horses there are the descend
ants of this horse. This proposition is
just as true when it Is inverted.
Warren sheaf., 1903-10-01

We dislike to see, as we did few
days since, an invitation in a local pa
per for the people of the community
to turn out on a certain day and make
a bee to cut the big weeds in the ceme-
tery. OF course it is better to pay
this much respect to our dead than to
let the weeds remain standing through
the winter, but it is a sorry state of
affairs where the people of civilized
community do not provide some better
way Of caring for spot which should
command their highest respect and
generation. If your cemetery is in
this fix get few good women inter-
ested and have them organize a wom-
ems cemetery association, and we will
absolutely guarantee that they will
get enough plunks out Of the pockets
of the Indifferent men Of the COM
munity so that the cemetery will be
kept presentable and attractive all the
time, and no bee will be needed to
NOV weeds in September,
Warren sheaf., 1903-10-01

It Is not often that timothy and clo-
yer meadows will give a second crop
of hay. Glover alone will do it, but
where it is cut the second time it Is
usually cut for the seed and not put up
as hay. In the year 1902 an unusually
heavy second growth was produced,
which was mostly cured as hay. In
feeding the hay Of this second crop last
winter we noticed it's great inferiority
In nutritive value as compared with
the first cutting, and, while it was ex-
ceedingly palatable and the stock rel
ished it, there seemed to be no limit to
the amount which they would eat. The
money value of such hay is not much
over one-half that of the first crop.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
The Cincinnati HOusemai Club.

The Rev. DR.. CHARLES FREDERIC
Goss, who accomplished The Redemp-
ton Of David Corson, has taken up
much harder job, the redemption of
domestic service. From his point of
view as he writes in the chicago Record
Herald. those who pursue this really
noble avocation form a low estimate of
Themselves" This is q surprising theory
or shall we say brilliant paradox Few
Of us have ever seen any domestic servants
who had low estimate of themselves
Their position in life," continues DIR.
Goss, seems degraded and they lose
sef-respect.
This is n strange position for re-
former Of the domestic service to begin
his reform with, but evidently DIR. Goss
is the pastor who recently made an
experiment /" in n Cincinnati church,
an experiment which he describes. This
pastor formed Housemaids Club, an
institution which arose in Chicago, We
believe Here is a part of his address
10 the assembled housemaids;
You young women occupy. next to wives and
mothers the most influential position In the social
system. To degree impossible of eXaggerStion,
almost. you have the dcstnlcs OF the household In
your hands. You can turn the home into a heaven
or a hell You can drive mothers TO distraction,
fathers 10 drink and little children 10 crime, A
position so influential MS this must bc OF grave
Importance AMI great rrspet liability. You Iooh
down on yourselves and you permit others to look
down on YOU"
Perhaps tho housemaids of Cincinnati
are different from those OF other towns;
like 10 he patronized and to be told
that thcy look down on themselves, .
For some Of them accepted the pastors
invitation IN use the conveniences Of
mcdcl ,u.,c "r church parlors and nm
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
Rising OF the AurOral Senator.

The Hon. ALBERT J. HOPKINS of Au-
rora, Senator in Congress from Illinois,
will not consent to be mute and inglorious
until the Senate meets. He rises, de-
termined to catch the country's eve.
At a meeting in Belleville the other night
he made this important contribution
to the study Of the negro question:
In my eighteen years Of service in Congress II
has been my pleasure to remark the ability of a
score OF negro Cong ressmen who represented at
one time the states OF Mississippi. Alabama and
Louisiana II Is shame and a dsg race TO these
States that there are longer OF color In their
Cong essional delegations. II is shame to the
nation that the hewcrs Of wood and the drawers OF
water In these States are not represented by men
OF their own class. and until public sentiment has
been aroused and these States return negroes to
Congress II will continue to be disgrace to the
people OF the United States"
Apparently Mr.. HOPKINS believes in
class government, in Congress
that represents the different classes !"
and coors Negroes must be repre-
scented by negroes, hewers of wood and
drawers of water by hewers OF wood and
drawers of water: redhaired men by
red haired men.
1t is probable that the people OF the
United States will be able to stand indefi-
nitely the absence of colored members
of Congress. Such is the moral apathy
of this generation to shame and
disgrace that saddens the soul of the
Aurora Senator. But why doesn't he
seek to remove the shame and disgrace
from his own State? In 1900 there were
IS, O7s persons of color in Illinois. They
are not represented in Congress by
man of their own class Doubtless
there are "a able politicians among them
as can be found in the Southern States.
Why doesn't Illinois begin the noble task
of rcbuking the South and doing justice
to her own coored hewers Of wood and
drawers Of water?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
MORRIS CANAL A FAILURE.
Owners Want to Abandon Navigation
Can't Compete With Railways.

The day OF the canal is gone by and tho
Morris Canal and Banking Company, which
owns the Morris Canal in New Jersey, has
filed with the State commission appointed
to cons ider it's abandonment statement
which shows the usefulness Of that artificial
waterway to be gone. The Morris Canal
was built in 1924 and up to the time fore-
closure proceedings were brought against
it, in 1871, it had cost the State S3.4O0,OOO.
about half the original cost Of the Erie
Canal The canal has not paid operating
expenses since 1878. Its owners, who
want to abandon it, say it cannot compete
with the railroads and that every ton OF
coal carried across 1t is carried at loss.
Their statement says:
The policy of the company was to encoura 10
the public to bring its boats to the canal:
and yet every boat not owned by the com
pany disappeared from the canal many
years ago, and all those that remain. seventy
Nothing could better illustrate the Judgment
OF the public as TO the commercial worth
of the canal Valuable MS II once was, its
day has completely passed by and il has
been superseded by better and cheaper means
Of TRANSPORTATION. IL the canal COM
pany should allow boats to pass through
without any tolls whatever, it seems quite
clear that owners of boats could not afford
TO navigate the canal in competition with
railroad transportation.
Yet it is proposed that New York shall
dump SOL 10000 more on the 1923 ,000, 900
1t has put into the ditch.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
MARE, or PNEUMATIC TIREp
Some Remarks on tho Significance oi
Trottang Records since Maud Y.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Str: THE
SUN OF July contain an editorial reference
TO a recent trotting performance to wagon
In 2O4H, at Cleveland: and. recalling Nancy
Hankss reduction of Maud s. a record to 2:o4.
the question Is asked: Did the mare or the
pneumatic tire on the sulky do it?" In turn
Alix dethroned Nancy Hanks by trotting to
bicycle sulky In 2O3H The owner OF AK
declared that he would put her In special
training to high-whcel sulky to also beat
Maud s, 3 high-wheel record Of 2Os&. After
due preparation. and when she was thought
to be "ft," Alix had her trial and. much
to the surprise Of her owner, failed lamentably.
her best effort being something like IN or II
seconds slower than her record to bike, :"
or about 2;t4 and perhaps n fraction over
Some Of the newspapers Of the day men
toned the failure, but in general a very omi-
nous silence ensued and 81 seems to prevail
and cannot recall any further attempts in
that direction
When the bike" sulky first appeared the
trainers quite generally agreed that II made
"any old skate into ahghost Alix was
very far from being n skate" vet she could
trot many seconds faster to bike" than to
high wheels. and ever since her day and
failure as mentioned l have pondered this
question; II Alix, certainly not above second
class to high wheels. could be queen Of trot.
sulky. what record would Maud s.. the cham
pion trotter to high wheels. have attained
had she enjoyed the opportunity OF trotting
to bike? Would she also have trotted 10 or II
i:57X or 1882 IL Maud S could be the
world's champion trOtter under the retard,
ing influence OF high wheels. wherein would
she have lacked the caRpaGlty
trotting with no drawback whatever9
As to pneumatic-tire wagon records 1t
should not be forgotten that in September.
1900. at Hartford. Conn. The Abbot made
worked" mile in public to wagon in 2;osN.
timed by many spectators. and this perform
ancc was duly set forth in numerous news
papers. As The Abbot's sulky record Was
also 203T, his trial to wagon In precisely the
same time led to considerable controversy
AZ to whether the bike-wheel wagon was not
as little drawback to horse as the bike
With these facts before us does II not APP
pear reasonable to assume that the trotter
has made no progress since Maud other,,
wise would not some owner have discovered
the superiority OF his horse and have made
IL manifest TO the world by beating 2Qsa TO
high wheels on a regulation track, tires OF
narrow steel and no ball-bearing axles?
Now We are without landmarks TO measure
enterprising track manager find fame ana
profit in Offering a purse TO any trotter beat
ing 2Os& under the conditions suggested2
deed be time to formulate a new standard
for improving the breed OF owners rather
than trotters.
I dislike to believe that owners have been
Cowed by the failure OF one
ton to be the better part OF valor Unless
something Is soon done. will it not be clear
that the bike wheel 10 a deluson and q
s SesE t8 a1a dTa'ny useful I" R''Bs hs
NEW YORK, July 3
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
RESCUE or ERIC VTKINGSSON,
DIR something like That, by the Gallana
TithinS Marines.

The crew of the revenue cutter Hudson
did some rescue work on their way home
from their boarding duties last evening, The
rescued were party on a naphtha launch
which was built, owned and bossed by Louis
Erickson, who IL a fireman on the city's
fireboat Seth Low, who Is said to be
defendant of Left Erikson, the viking.
whose last serious misadventure on the
water was when he was shipwreoked on
the Malay Islands in his cabin boyhood.
Erickson, according to his oft-told story,
became a Malay chief, but at last becams
convinced that he'd rather shovel coal in
"a New York fireboat. However, that's
neither here nor there.
Erickson TOOK Mrs. Erickson and party
of friends, including Robert Church and
his wife and three children and Thomas
Broderick. out for trip on the water yes
terday The launch's machinery went
wrong of Ellis Island. Then the launch
drifted for two or three hours.
Pilot jim Bradley Of the Hudson saw
that the craft was helpless and after con-
sulting with Engineer Kotzschner and
Boarding Officer Henry Steinert went over
20 her and threw line to her skipper.
The Hudson towed the helpless craft
to the Erie Basin and then steamed back
posthaste to the ship news Office at the
Battery to reserve space in the morning
newspapers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
The DRYDEN Trophy.

The Hon John + Dryden, United States
Senator from New Jersey. has given trophy
to be called the Dryden trophy" and to be
competed for annually under the auspices
of the New Jersey State Rife Association.
The trophy is 20 cost "a 900. and. in addition.
Senator Dryden gives $3.50 year in money
prizes to the two leading teams
The contest Is open to teams OF eight men
from the army, the navy. the Marine Corps
and the National Guard Of the States and
Territ cries,
The distances are somewhat novel for a
match OF this kind, being 900 yards on hand
and 500 and 900 yards prone; each man
shoots ten shots at each distance
Senator Dryden's reason for Offering this
trophy IL to encourage team contests ut Sea
Girt The Hilton trophy and the Soldier OF
Marathon, which have been contested Tor
annually during the past quarter OF cen,
fury. now become features Of the national
match authorized by Congress Senator
Dryden adds new team prize under new
and particularly attractive conditions
Tolhe Sena tors belief in the value OF COM
petitive craftsmanship is due, in great meas,
ure, the success Of the national trophy ana
national match. as II Ia owing to his Efforts that
the appr opration for the national trophy.
which had failed in the House Of Representa-
tiyes, was added to the Army Appropriation
bill in the Senate His efforts were not re-
la xed until the Army Appropriation bill was
finally Concurred in by both houses
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
Worse Than an Ass or knaye.

The report that the next Speaker of
the House of Representatives has been
pIedging members TO assist him in pre-
venting financial legislation for the i'm
provement Of currency conditions is
absurd on the face of.it.
Even if Mr.. CANNON himself is opposed
to any such legislation, why should no
attempt to secure from other Congress-
men promises of obstruction directly
contrary to his own promise or pledge,
voluntarily recorded by him in the Con-
gressional Record for Feb. 10, 1908 He
then said
Il do not desire by my vote to assist in denying
recognition for consideration OF this or any other
matter of real Importance"
And again, in the same speech on the
same day:
II am not willing ny my vote TO be put In the
position OF saying that II had the power would
deny consideration TO question OF Its importance
Therefore shall vote for the rule"
Mr.. CANNON was then, as now, an
aspirant for the honorable office Of
Speaker. 1t is to impute TO him very
poor quality of political responsibility
and personal sincerity to suppose that
he would assume an attitude of fairness
toward the question of financial legisla-
ton, and willingness to consider the
same in February, when collecting votes
for Speaker, and abandon that attitude
in June and July, when all the votes
needed had been practically secured.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, who interviewed Mr. CANNON at
nanville, ILL.,, on Saturday, reports him
as saying. with characteristic direct
ness of speech:
No man has the power TO prevent the majority
from working Its will Any one attempting the
exercise OF such power would write himself down
worse than an ass or kuave'
We infer from the addition of the word
knave to the word ass that Mr.. CANNON
has not forgotten his speech of Feb. 49,
1908, and that he is justly indignant at
recent publications concerning his al
legged intentions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
OUR EXPORTS TO CANADA.
A Larger Total the Past Year Than In Any
Preceding Year.

WASHINGTON, July 5,-Exports from the
United States to Canada in the fiscal year
just ended show a larger total than in any
preceding year. Figures jus, completed
by the Bureau OF Statistics Of the Depart
ment Of Commerce show that the increase
in exports TO British North America has
been 81, 100000 in the eleven months OF
1903. compared with the corresponding
months Of the preceding year.
The total exports 10 British North Amer
lea from the United States for the full
fiscal year seem likely to be about SI25-
COO 900, against sll2 10000 in 1902, slN,-
600 600 in 1901, and s97 900 900 in 1900
Not only has the growth in exports from
the United States to Canada been greater
in the year just ended than in any pre-
ceding year, with a single exception, bIs
that growth has been greater than 10 any
other country except Germany
The imports into the United States from
Canada havr grown, but not with equal
rapidity The totll imports for the year
Just ended will amount 10 about $50 .oo0 900,
against total OF $4s, 0OO, 900 imported from
British North America in the fiscal war 1901
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06

session. So far as previously evicted
tenants are concerned, Mr.. WILLIAM
O'BRlEN has strongly pleaded for some
arrangement in their behalf, and this is
one of the matters which Mr. WYNDHAM
has promised to consider later. As to
agricultural laborers, il is true that no
provision ia made for them by the bill,
but the hope has been expressed that the
new peasant proprietors, finding them
selves better off than they were when
paying rent, win be able to give some
what higher wages to the laborers whom
they employ
The objections here named, as well as
others that might be offered, amount
simply to an assertion that the Land Pur-
chase bill Is not an ideally perfect meas
ure. II is deemed by the Nationalist
eaders well worthy of acceptance as be-
ing a long step in the right direction.
Some Of the extremists take different
ground, and contend that the better the
bill is, the worse it will be for Ireland,
because it will put an end to the hopes of
the revolutionists. The authors of
manifesto recently circulated in Ireland
by opponents of the measure are evil
IDENTIFY convinced that the installments
of the purchase money borrowed from the
Government will be paid and will not be
looked upon as rent. 1t is this fact which,
In their minds, constitutes a fatal OBJ
lection to the bill. The manifesto asserts
that tenant combination will be hopeless
in the future If the Land Purchase bill
becomes q law. 1t will be impossible to
get the purchasers to join in strike. In
other words, Ireland would be drugged
into acquiescencei in the union with Great
Britain. The proposed anodyne, there
fore, must be rejected at all costs.
This manifesto seems to have had an
effect precisely contrary to that which
Its authors contemplated. 1t has gone
far to convince many Englshmen that
there is no foundation for their appre-
tensions that the British taxpayers would
lose the great sum Of money lent to Irish
tenants. The unwilling admission that
the punctual payment of the installments
of their debts by the new peasant pro-
prietors can be counted on should help
materially to assure the passage of the
amended bill in the House Of Lords,
where, otherwise il might have encoun-
tered serious opposition.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06
The Trun Americans.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN Sir An
American Woman" said in The SUS Of yes
terday: I'VE must have the Bible in our
schools the Jews and Irish are strangers in
our land and courtesy demands that they
submit TO our ways or 20 home, or else SEND
their children to Jewish and Catholic schools
As the Irish came here ms soon as the PHI
grim Fathers" how can they he called "stranF-
ers In our land?
send the Irish home n that had been
done We should have lost such men as Mad
Anthony" Wayne, JACK Barry, Arir"w Jacs'
son, Gems Shields, Meagher. Hooker, kelr.
ncy, Sheridan. William Mckinley and others
too numerous to mention
Now. what In an American? ] had fnndlr
dreamed that any, man admitted 70 CIV
2enship in this Republic, and obcylnc ts avs
was AZ much an "American" as II his proHent'
tors had landed with Columbus,
The Bible must be taught in the pubic
schools The Irish and Jews t"nch M.
children religion outside of the public sch "oS
Let others do likewise and keep our public
schools free from higotry and preyudle.
Let An American Woman" who must hays
the Bible teach it to her children at home 93r~
church the proper place for 10
HARTFORD, July .
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Ideal kitchen Their entertainment
and instruction" were provided as follows:

Ideal kitchen Their entertainment
and instruction were provided as follows:
a professional seamstrcss Instructed them 10
make stocks and shirt waists
a professional musician taught them to sing
tho old familiar songs.
"A professional physical culturist taught
them the most charming movements In callisthrn-
les
"A professional cook taught them the science
OF the culinary art
Besides such occupations they had leisure for
conversation and for pasting pictures In scrap
books for the children's hospital Sometimes they
were read to, Sometimes music was provided
by sympathetic friends"
The club met once week for year.
The members were grateful for help. v
The Chicago housemaids were not CRATE
full for help. They didn't want to be up
lifted. How would the housewives like
to have the housemaids form a house,
wives club for their benefit There
may be a more docile spirit in Cincinnati.
At any rate, the Cincinnati experiment
was conducted with the utmost con-
scientiousness and even with religious
zeal. The Housemaids' Club had a
special pledge, prayer, song. We quote
one stanza of the latter:
And though these homes are not our own.
Stl may we sock their happiness
Unseinshly. as II they were.
In never failing fai,hfulness"
What an opportunity writes DIR.
Goss, the multiplication Of such clubs,
under the conduct Of our most cult
waited women, would give them to do good
to others and to improve the conditions
of domestic service" Now, the economic
position OF domestic servants is high.
Their moral and religious condition will
compare favorably with that Of any
other portion Of the community Their
knowledge of domestic science depends
upon their ability and upon their am
bition to get higher wages, and to most
of them domestic service is not a voca-
ton, but, as Dr. Goss says, an avocation
They expect to have homes Of their own.
They are proud sensitive and high
spirited. Outside OF Cincinnati, they
would resent any effort however we'll
meaning, to improve them. They
would feel that the improvers showed
condescension and an assumption Of
superiority. In short, they prefer to
have people mind their own business
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-06

Something really new and truly up to
date in matrimonial ethics comes from
the staid old city Of Baltimore. In the
divorce term of one Of the Baltimore courts
last week wife made application for a
separation from her husband. the chief
ground Of objection by the wife being
his deliberate, unmistakable and extrava-
giant partiality for breakfast foods IA the
exclusive article of family fare. His in
sistence upon the wholeeomeness Of this
form of nourishmcnt he carried to the ex-
IRENE His requirement OF these prepare
tions of oats. rice, harley, maize and wheat
at every meal was imperative, The old
and familiar rhyme. which told of how
JACK SPRATT would eat no fat and his wife
was not partial to lean meat. was recalled
with slight variations az the Baltimore
trial II terminated in decree OF limited
divorce with $40 a month aimony.
The enormous increase in the sale OF
breakfast foods" has been frequently
observed and occasionally commented upon.
bur that tho same should figure in the