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WHO DON'T KNOW"
The ignorance OF which sar. err OF tho
Rapid Transit Commission Speaks.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-.Sir: There
in Saturdays SUN which should not DO
overlooked In your account of discus
sion about building the subway ditch in
Brooklyn, Mr.. Orr, speaking for the Rapid
Transit Commission. is reported to have
said: ~They 1.-THE residentsl don't know
what the Inconvenience are they cannot
tell how small or how great they are going
to be-.
We all rensmber-0r at least none OF
us should forHst-the Park avenue ex-
perience-how, in the privacy of their
hole in the ground, the engineers and con-
tractors shifted the tunnel thirty feet
bringing it close to the building line of the
unconscious residents on the east side Of
the avenue, who began to know how great
the Inconvenience were going to be when
they espied their stoops and front walls
sliding down into the pit. Court after
court has pronounced that change of loca-
ton to be wholly illegal and an outrageous
trespass, yet inquiry showed that it was
not until after the catastrophe that the
members of the Rapid Transit Commits
sion knew what was being done under their
authority.
Mr.. Orr speaks an an expert in nescience,
for certainly, if one may judge by past
experience, the persons who most con-
spicuously "don't know how small or how
great the Inconvenience are to be. would
seem to be himself and his associates.
1t is not wonderful that, instructed by
past events, the residents whose property
and business interests are now menaced
are not willing to trust the Judgment or
the watchfulness Of gentlemen under whose
auspices 30 wanton a trespass has been
once committed, and that an Anti Rapid
Transit Commission Defence Association
should commend itself to all citizens
independent Of location, for the way In
which the work has been done up to date
is disgrace to the whole community which
tolerates it. 1t would seem as II we were
lacking in brains, or in sand or In sorne-
thing which other communities, not az
big and boastful, seem to possess. IL.
New YORK. Aug. "a.
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Foreigners Not Entitled to a Vote.

To TIFF EDITOR OF THE SUN-sir; Why,
let me ask. should n foreigner be allowed
to vote in this country at alp lie. for the
most part. neither knows the spirit OF our
institutions nor cares about It. Heis here TO
get better living. but in five years time he Is
the equ al of the intelligent native born citizen
who has built up home and business
under the protection OF a law and Of institu-
lions for which the f0rei gner has little IL any,
regard Why would It be- any great hard
ship for the foreigner. who gets the benefits
OF an asylum in America. to let the voting
power wait until his children can grow up
with an intelligence born of the public schools
and OF touch with the people and an ability to
vote with UNDERSTANDING This would be
only fairness to the native born and to many
men il seems that this Ia only right
Politicians wanting votes, whether lawful
or not. are the only directors, with possibl
a few theoretical people who know practically
nothing about public affairs
Let Mr.. Regan and those who agree with
him think OF these things. Then he will bet
ter understand why the act OF Judge Gregory.
in refusing to natural I've men so ignorant that
they could not tell what they wanted or what
was expected OF them az citizens, has met
with such general commentator all over
our country. Verify. the spirit OF the old
Know-Nothing may not be wholly lost to the
nation yet. JOHN HALE.
HUDSON. Aug. Is.
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Abraham and Abdul Hamid III.

The ruins OF Mugheir, in southern
Babylonia, on the right bank of the Flu
pirates, are supposed to be on the site
of Cr of the Chaldees, whence ABRAHAM
started on his trek to Canaan.
In the summer of 1900 application was
made, on the part of an American COM
mttee, to the Turkish Government for an
trade to excavate Mugheir and the adj
joining ruins of Nawawis.
The request has not been granted,
although it was made in accordance with
legal forms The Americans were con-
tinually put off with delays and subter-
fuges. They were Inundated by seeing
similar requests Of citizens of other
countries granted without obstacle. They
have now given up the proposed ex-
petition, from which brilliant archeo-
logical results were hoped.
The matter may be said to lie within
the discretion Of the Turkish Govern
ment. But American citizens in Turkey
are entitled to the same privileges rs
other foreigners. Does ABDUL HAND
ii. discriminate against ABRAHAM for
being Jew or against the Americans
who wanted to dig up Ur? Besides, Ur
was a shrine of Il moon goddess, and
therefore should appeal to a follower
of the Crescent.
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imperious one, Frau CosIMA, and all
the Wagner family will have nothing
to do with the Berlin show; and the
Bavarian royal family, which is sour
against the Berlin court, sides with
the royal Wagnerian house. Business
comes to the aid OF personal feeling.
The Bavarians hold that not Berlin, but
Munich, should be the Wagner head
quarters, or assistant headquarters, if
Bayreuth be considered the Wagnerian
capital
These disoords around the monument
Of tho great composer, these wranges
among rulers of Germany, Bavaria
and Wagneria, should be laid. Fort
unately the means Of arbitration is at
hand. Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE has ac-
cepted an invitation to be present at the
unwilling; and it is expected that the
war lord will command that the steel
lord be presented to him. As a sovereign
in his own right, as builder of music
halls, as friend Of arbitration, he has
unmatched advantages for settling this
nseemly dispute. No doubt it will
be referred to him.
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The Turkish Trouble Growing
ScrfnMg.

The long-threatened instruction OF the
Bulgarians of Macedonia and Thrace
appears at last to have begun.
In that part of the vilayet Of Adriano-
pie which lies to the north of the railway
line between the city of Adrianople and
Constantinople the revolt is active, but
the most Of the fighting seems to be
going on in the billy districts near the
Bulgarian frontier and the coast Of the
Black Sea, though the insurgents are
said to be attacking the important town
of Kirk-Kilisseh, once, as its name i'm
plies, place of forty churches, only
thirty miles from Adrianople. This is
evidence that the rising is spreading
southwark and nearing the international
railway That railway the Turks will
have to keep open at all hazards, and
the task will demand a large contingent Of
troops, as it is the principal line of COM
munication between the capital and the
army on the Eastern Roumelia frontier,
the other being by sea to Rodosto, on
the Marmora, or Dedeagatch, on the
Egean, and thence by rail north.
1t is not unnatural to associate the sud-
den outburst of insurgent activity in
this particular part of Turkey with the
appearance of the Russian squadron
at Iniada, but it does not follow that
there was any combination. The policy
of Russia is the maintenance of the status
quo, for the present at all events. The
Bulgarian revolutionary committee, on
the contrary, desires to upset that status
and bring on early intervention, and,
no doubt it will, for its own purposes,
represent the short visit of the Russian
ships as an encouragement to go on.
In whatever light the action of Russia
is regarded the fact that the nsurrection
is spreading to the walls of Constanti-
nople is ominous and disturbing for the
peace of that city. A serious outbreak
there might easily be solution of the
troubles all over the rest of European
Turkey.
Meanwhile the fighting in Macedonia
continues, the insurgents apparently
gaining in strength, and cruelty is re-
ported from both sides. The scene of the
struggle seems to be principally in the
Pindus Mountains and the range Of hill
country about Monastir and to the south
Of it, where the bulk of the population
is certainly not Bulgarian. This lends
a certain unreality to the assigned mo-
tiyes for the rising in this part of the
country. They read as if they might
have been dictated by Gen. IGNATIEFF,
the craftsman Of the Treaty of San
Stefano in 1878. 1t will also explain
why the population Of Greeks, Koutzo-
Wallachs, Servians and Albanians are
showing 80 little sympathy with the Bull
garian Comitatjis, as the Turks call the
revolutionary committeeman. They dis
Germ an ambition Of Bulgarian domina-
ton quite as much as a revolt for de-
liverance from Ottoman misrule. Hence
the presence OF two Greeks and an Al
bantam with four Turks on the special
court sitting at Monastir for the trial
of captured insurgents.
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We give prominent place to-day TO
discussion of the question Of need Of
reforming our naturalization laws. 1t is
provoked, of course, by the great immi-
grafton now coming in. Fifty years ago
know-Nothingism grew out OF like in
pouring Of foreigners, and for a time it
seemed to be of serious political Importance;
but suddenly 1t died out and left no trace.
Now it revives. with tho old cry that the
period of naturalization should bc extended
to twenty-one years As practical ques-
ton Of politics it is not likely to come
to the front at any early day, but the dis
o,lssion of it is interesting as showing n
present drift of opinion
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Four Rulers and a Musician.

In Berlin, Oct. 1, our all-accomplished
friend, the German Emperor, will unveil
monument to RICHARD WAGNER.
Frau CosIMA and other members OF
the Wagner family will not be there.
Neither will Prince Regent LUITpoLD
OF Bavaria nor any other scion OF the
Bavarian royal house.
A musical congress is to be part OF
the Berlin festival Frau CosIMA,
through her son-in-law, prepared and
submitted to WILHELM II. musical
programme, which that music lord
felt obliged to decline. He said that it
would take performances of fourteen
days in both the Royal Opera House
and the Royal Theatre to get through
with that bill. 1t was too much OF a
good thing.
Result: one sovereign, and a very
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WANT POLISH BISHOPS.
Catholics OF That Race Present Their
Application to tho New Pope.

n,o,,r,a,+. ~soe,va,, IN New York ves.sr.
Docu ,,,,,,,s n Cr,la -,
day from Wnnan 81 ~ oroNe' prlVa's
chamberlain to Pope Plus T.. announce
snr r tbe polisb nonnla.ion in the United State
iof .ne ro,lsa po 90 ,he;r n.tiona,itv tn
representation Oh lheir naeio'y NJ
the American hierarchy. inns ACTON opens
again the. controversy which caused SO
much friction in 1900 concerning tne Italian,
Slovak, Lithuanian and Bohemian repre-
sentation.
Chamberlain Croke.says that the presence
in Rome OF the Rev. Wencesians hruszsa'
rector or ~. Wenoeslans 8, npoh, Wis,
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RUSSIA FROWNS ON ZIONrSM.
Cable Says That Minister DE Plehvo Has
Declared Against IT.

According to despatch received by the
Jerish Daily Neus from the Zionist Con-
gress, Basel. Switzerland. the Russian
Minister of the Interior. De PlefIve. has
come out with statement that the Rus
sian Government does not approve OF Zion
ism in Russia.
DR.. Richard Gottheil recently wrote
to the Russian Government asking for
documentary proof Of DR.. Herzls state,
ment that the Russian Government had
given assurances that hereafter Russia
would favor Zionism and in replying to
Prof Gottheil's letter Minister de Plehve
saws, among other things:
so long as Zionism consisted In the
desire to create an independent State IN
Palestine, and promised to organize emigra-
tion in Russia Of q certain number Of ia
Jewish subjects, the Russian Govern
ment could very well afford it., But from
the moment that this principal object OF
Zionsm Is abandoned in order to be replaced
by simple propaganda OF the national Z. 81
concentration Of tho Jews in Russia 10 Is
natural that the Government cannot In any
case tolerate this new departure In zionism'
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has any better yachts than has Mr..
ROOSEVELT, and they are none too good
for him. If yachts are an indispensable
appanage of tho Presidency, let him
have all he wants of them and let there
be no smallness or parsimony about it.
But above all else let the thing be legal
lied and established as to form. No one
will then be able to point to it as an I'M
seemly abuse of trust or gross misuse
Of authority, certain If unchecked, to
lead to vicious and prejudicial conse-
quences.
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Nothing Doing"

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-.Sr: Your CORE
spondcnt, "Mr. Toots," asks II tho expression,
nothing doing" originated In Dickens's Dom
hey and Son" l nnd the expression In much
earlier work by DO Quincy.
In the concluding remarks OF his lecture on
Murder as a Fine Art, where tho connection
caused by the Thurtrll murder case IL described
De Quincy writes; "old bedridden connolss Gu ~,
who had got into pecvish way OF sncerlnr and
complaining that there was nothing doing now
hobbed down to our cnbroom. &c
Murder as a Fine Art" appeared in 1927; Dom
hey and Son" in 1913, IL may bo Judged that tho
phrase was in fairly general uso In the nrst hal,
OF the past century. The hucncy with which II
Ia employed In recent years Is mere rocrud
ola very old phrase EA SprrzKA NJ %,
NEW YORK. Aug. ~
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The "Parsifal" Excitement

DR.. HANS RICHTBR, the eminent Wag-
merriam conductor, has quite lost his
temper over Mr.. CoNRGED's forthcoming
production of "Parsifal' in this country.
He calls it the scandal of the century
and advocates an artistic German boy
colt against this country, whose laws
permit such robbery. AZ faith, boat
swain, these be bitter words, and they
will go far to cement the lifelong friend
ship between DR.. RICHTER and that other
eminent interpreter of the Bayreuth
music drama, young SIEGFRIED WAGNER.
The whole squabble over the perform
ances of Parsifal" in America is undig-
nifed, and shows these various ARTISTS
in a very unfavorable light. Talk as
they all may, the whole matter is ques-
ton of money. Frau WAGNER does
not wish TO run tho risk of losing the
substantial profit reaped from Americans
who go to Bayreuth. The singers who
have made such ridiculous and insincere
protestations will surely sing their roles
to earn the large salaries paid in New
York, and Mr.. CONRIED naturally ex-
poets to make much money by bringing
the sacred music drama to our doors.
If producing the work here be robbery,
what kind of holy art is it that monop-
olizes for a single theatre and a single
manager what is admitted to be one of
the most important and characteristic
works of the last century? The method
by which Parsifal" is wrested from its
greedy possessors is neither defensible
nor inspiring but it is the death knell of
monopoly quite as unbeautiful and
undesirable.
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"yOHNNY CAKE" FOR FRANCE.
Oatmeal, Peanuts and Sweet Potatoes.
Too. Needed, Says Consul jackson.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug. 25.-The intro
,iuction OF Johnny Cake" to the people OF
France would prove profitable enter
prise, in the opinion of George II. jackson.
United States Consul at La Rochelle. Corn
meal Is almost unknown to the French. he
says.
Consul Jackson says an effort should
also be made by American exporters to
introduce oatmeal, peanuts and sweet
potatoes in France.
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Purity.
From tho Syracuse RsrStA

From tho Syracuse HsrIA
There's a strange man &C tho door. HksD III
nouncrd the new servant from BOSTON,
what docs he want" asked tho master OF 'n'
house. lmpatiently.
Begging your pardon. sir replied tho scTsn.'
q shade OF dLsapprovsl manifest In his voice no
wants bath. buswhss he V asking "for 10 ssnssn'n'
70 s%k-
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Fnbecoming British Peroxide.

From the London World
Tho present fashionable shade OF hair Is ono OF
che worst We have seen for some time; It IL quite
unnatural, and more like a shade OF brass than
anything else. suppose originally tho tendency
was for straw -oolored hair, but now IL Ia a shade
or two lighter. very lnartistio and constituting q
most ,singularly aging and unbeooming frame 70
almost any face.
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Palestine a Tight FIT for the Jews.

To THE EDITOR OF The SuN-,Str: Possibly the
following statistics and comparisons may interest
your readers In general and Zonists in particular:
Palestine lies between 81 i6 and 9O' 20 north
latitude Jour States OF Mississippi and Louisiana
include these) and between So 80 and 80 80 east
longitude. Its extreme length Is about I4S miles,
and It's extreme width about As miles. Its area
equals 5000 square niles The four smallest OF
our States arc:
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he four smalles. European countries are


Waving every other question, ana even assum-
Ing every square foot OF Palestine to be overlooking
with milk and honey. would there not still remain
food for reflection for Zlonisss whether 5000 square
miles could be made to support population as largo
as that OF the Netherlands
May not the infant have long outgrown It's crsdlei
ApoLPH 0PPENHEIMER.
NEW YORK, Aug, "a.
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Naturalization Reform Demanded.

From the journal Of Commerce.
While the sitting or altering OF tho current
of immigration Is difficult matter. the max
Ing OF ftizens OF tho United States is oom-
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Readers of THE SUN leaving the city can have tho
Daily and Sunday editions mailed to their addresses
(which may be changed when necessary tor I"
cents a month. Order through your ncwsdealer
or THE SUN 40 Nassau street.
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An Opinion From the North.

From tbs F1ictsr,aG Flicker
Texas rcvivallst warns US that hell has a tenn
perature OF as degrees Fahrenheit. There's no
place like homo, after all.
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From the 3. OF l. r.

Detroit. Mich, May rs, 1902.
The Detroit Leather Speciality Co.
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no equal The new laced thumb
which you have adopted, in which
you have done away with the clums,
rivets and uncomfortable stitching. 81
commonly used. is all you claim for II
giving 1t a freedom of motion not
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{ have worn. l can heartily recon
mend you glove to anyone who wish
20 wear a good. substantial. stylish
4sbestos tan glove, that is made by a
irm using the Union Label.
Respectfully Yours,
A. LEO KENT. Sec. 60.
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SUM MONS

In the Fifth Judicial District Court
of the State of Nevada, in and for the
County of Humboldt.
Southern Pacific Company, Plaintiff.
VS.. W. w. Miller, John Doe, James
Doe and Richard Roe, Defendants.
Action brought in the Fifth Judicial
District Court of the State of Ne
vada, in and for the County OF
in the office of the Clerk Of said
Fifth Judicial District Court on the
18th day of July, A. D., 1903.
The State OF Nevada sends greeting
to w. w. Miller, John Doe, James doe
ana Richard Roe. Defendants.
You are hereby required to appear
in an action brought against you by
the above named Plaintiff. Southern
Pacific company, in the Fifth Judicial
District Court OF the State of Nevada,
in and for the County of Humboldt.
and to answer the complaint filed
therein with the Clerk OF said Court
within ten days exclusive OF the day
of seIvIceJ after the service on you OF
this summons, ii served within this
county; or il served out OF this county
out in this Judicial District, within
twenty days; otherwise within forty
days; or judgment by default will De
AIKEN against you, according to the
lpIayer Jf said complaint.
Said action is brought to COY
the possession of the following de-
scribed lands situated in Humboldt
county, Nevada, to wit: Beginning at
"a point on the northerly right of way
line of the Central Pacific railway,
said point being 200 feet Northwestern
|ly, measured at right angles from the
center line of main track on said rail-
way opposite Engineers Station
|5514 plus Gil; running thence at
right angles along said right Of way
line n~ortheasterly a distance OF So
feet to a point opposite Engineers
Station 5515 plus TAI; thence easterly
"a distance of lis plus feet to a point
distant at right angles 1902 feet north
westerly from center line of said rail-
way opposite Engineers Station 551G
plus 25.S; thence southwesterly a dis
lance of 134.7 feet to a point distant
at right angles 1902 feet northwesterly
from said railway center line and OPP
posite Engineers Station 5514 plus
ell; thence northwesterly a distance
of 99.S feet to the point of beginning:
together with the costs OF suit.
All of which will mor fully appear
by reference to said complaint, a GER
titled copy of which accompanies this
and is made a part hereof
And you are hereby notified that
III you fail to appear and answer
.said complaint as above required, said
Plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in the complaint
Given under my hand and the seal of
the Fifth Judicial District Court OF
the State Of Nevada, County OF Hum
boldt, this 18th day Of July, A. D.,
1908.
Tseal.1 ]. t. DUNN,
2s-Hws Clerk.
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NOTICE TO

IN THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DIS
trict court of the State of Nevada. in
and for the county of Humboldt.-In
the matter Of the estate of VIM. Far
.rell, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that on the
9TH day of September, 1908, the un-
designed was duly appointed and on
the 9Th day of September, 1908, was
qualified by the Fifth Judicial District
Court of the State of Nevada, in and
for the county of Humboldt, as ad-
mlnistrator of the estate of VIM. Far
.rell, deceased; hat all persons having
claims against the said estate are re-
.Quired to file the same, with the prop
er vouchers and statutory afidavits
attached. with the Clerk of the Court
within forty days from the first pub
location of this notice.
Dated September Z. 1903.
JOHN NJ. THOMPSON,
Administrator Of said Estate.
S29toO5.
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NOTICE TO

In the Fifth Judicial District Court OF
the State of Nevada in and for Hum
boldt County:
In the matter of the estate Of Juan
lie Cobeaga. deceased:
Notice is hereby given that Miguel
Antonio de Cobeaga, was on the Attn
lay of September, 1908, duly appoint,
ed by order of said court, admins
traitor of the estate of Juan de Cob
eaga, deceased, and that letters of ad-
ministration were duly issued herein
to said administrator on the 9Th day
September, 1903.
All persons having claims against
said estate are hereby directed and re-
Quired to file the same with the clerk
of said coulI within forty days from
the date of The first publication of
this notice.
Dated. Septe Der 7th, 1903.
MIGUEL ANTONIO COBEAGA.
Administrator Ct the estate of Juan
de Cobeaga. dureased. 9-S-40d