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Turkey Fortifying

The news that the Sultan has issued
an trade directing the Notifications of
Adrianople, Chataldja, the Bosphorus
and Erzeroum to be put in order is of
particular interest at this juncture. 1t
may be only bluff on his part; it may
also be way of notifying those whom it
may concern that any intervention in the
affairs of Macedonia or other matters
will be resisted.
The localities named indicate in gen.
eral way from what quarter trouble is
expected Bulgaria and Russia. Adrian
ope, at the confluence Of the Tundja
and Martha and on the railway from the
Bulgarian frontier to COnstantinople,
would have to be taken or masked to
allow Of Bulgarian advance toward
the capital or before a Bulgarian force
from the north or a Russian army landed
at Tniada or Midia on the Black Sea could
reach the lines of BLlnr east of Gallipoli,
mt the head of the Dardaneles Cha
taldja, on the railway line twenty-five
miles west of ConstantlnopIe is the pivot
of the advanced line of defences Of the
capital that stretches from Terkos on
the Black Sea 10 Boyuk- Ichekmedje on
short distnnce from the outer walls Of
COnsiantinOple, with the famoIl, redouht
Of Dauoud pacha M the key
The trimming up Of The works at tho
n,t,,n,a a tia. Rn.Tlh1Ti. ii. nI,NI,u,.lIs -,
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Improved Modern Children

The progress Of Progress makes the
old, and even the medieval, feel ashamed
of themselves. They are not worthy Of
their children; they ought to be at school
while those grave youngsters run the
world. Prof. KIRK, Assistant Superin-
tendent of the public schools Of the South
Division Of Chicago, has the honor to re-
port that only 10 per cent. OF the school
children of that district we're 30 rapt in
thought by a circus parade the other
morning as to be late at school. Only 10
per cent. No bunch OF statistics, how
ever encouraging, no learned paper of
sociologist or psychologist, no crafty
ing report made by Superintendent of
Schools or of Education could carry 80
many tons of conviction. There is no
reason to suppose that the school chill
dren Of the South Division of Chicago
are different from other school children.
1t is justitiable to hold that, after long
struggle, Learning has conquered the
Circus.
In days not remote the contest had a
different ending. Perhaps the happier
and wiser scholars Of to-day have a
fuller-orbed cultivation than their prede-
cessors, more ample means of amuse-
ment, more discrimination and disIl-
sion. Perhaps the twentieth-century
Grand Consolidated Gigantic Aggrega =
tons of Unparalleled Mammoth Marvels
and Greatest Living Panoramas of Ami
mated Nature, Beauty, Equestrian and
Gyrnnastc Talent are 50 big that they
weary young eyes.
II was not always 50. What was school
TO the bow Or Girl who stood on The side
walk and watched the majestic Indian
sIouching walk Of the elephants and ga ped
At the lions and tigers gazing insolently
from their palac' vans, the dfome inries,
the camels the bears ard the rest Of that
la'uraI history on legs or wheels We're
they not worth watching, those strange
gilded chsriots, those mysterious and
beautiful ladies, Mile. izABEL DE CHI
CAGUH, the worlds greatest bareback
rider, Nine AMpLnT M.zFpPA MUa-
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Tho Lifeboat Question.

The plan for launching lifeboats from
the beach described by Mr.. ANDREW
COATS in yesterdays Sun has some
features of excellence. The feasibility
of warping boats off by means Of an
anchor or buoy outside the surf has
frequently been discussed, but so far as
we know no experiment has been made to
test the matter. Such an experiment
would be watched with no little interest.
We are inclined to think that on the New
Jersey coast the plan would not succeed
in very heavy weather, especially at low
water.
There is usually bar which extends
some distance outward from the beach,
and on the outer edge of this, where the
first descent into deep water is made,
the sea breaks with great violence. The
surf not infrequently runs as high as ten
feet just outside of this bar and then piles
in across the bar itself in huge, swrling
masses Of seething foam. The difficulty
would be, first, to acquire power enough
- haul the boat OF against these oppos-
ing masses of water and, secondly, to get
her through the line where the breakers
fall just outside the bar without having
the men swept out fher.
1t is possible that the buoy might be
also an oil tank and caused to distribute
sufficient oil to moderate the roughness
OF the sea; but no amount Of oil will pre-
vent an eight or ten-foot roller from
topping over and breaking when it goes
aground. On steep shore where the
breakers fall right upon the beach life
boat can be launched by means Of a
marine railway. This Is the method
employed on some parts Of the British
coast, and 1t works e1cellently. Such
a plan might be used on some parts Of
the Long Island shores, either on the
Sound or on the sea, for there are places
which are comparatively bold.
The life-savers on the New Jersey
shore are hardy and brave. They would
go out with their boats if they could.
But they are not an especially inventive
set, and they have faced this problem for
years without approaching a solution.
The way out OF the difficulty will have to
come from other sources. Mr.. COATS s
suggestion is worthy of consideration.
Now let us have some others.
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! the one on the Asiatio side Of the entrance.
1t is considered faulty in construction
and position.
Coming to the fortress of Erzeroum,
the cause of the putting the works de-
Tending that place in order would be the
apprehension Of Russian invasion Of
Armenia. In the event Of such invasion
il would be the first objective Of the
Russian Army advancing from kars
, either by Sarikamysh and levin or
I by Meshipgerd. The conditions for a
Russian advance have been greatly I'M
proved since 1873. Kars the base, being in
direct communication with Tiflis by rail,
The ultimate objective Of Russian in
vasion of Turkish Armenia, however,
would be Erzindjian the headquarters OF
the Fourth Army Corps and the centre OF
the military organization of all north
eastern Asia Minor.
In the event of the Russian feet main
tanning the Black Sea inviolate, the Turk
sh army in Armenia would be practically
isolated, and the comparatively good
Frzeroum, and between those two places,
would serve the Russians rather than the
Turks in the end. The original defences
Of Erzeroum were faulty, and were
turned by Gen. LAzAREFF in the war Of
1871. The works that have been since
added have made it more defensible, bu
the probabilities are that it would be
masked and push made for Erzindjian
for combined military and political
reasons.
The Notifications of Uskub in Mace
donia are respectable and are intended
to oppose the advance Of an enemy COM
ing from Servia or from Bosnia through
No~i Bazaar and Kossovo. In the event,
however, Of Austrian troops taking part
in an intervention, portion of them
would probably be sent to Salonica by
sea; and an occupation Of some point on
the railway line between there and Ded-
eaghatch on the .Egean would cut off the
Turkish Army in Macedonia from all
communication with Constantinople and
would end Turkish rule in the western
Balkans.
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4 Letter to PcarN

Commander PEARY SAYS he may name
the vessel that will take him back to
North Greenland the Charles II Darling
IN nonor of the Acting Secretary who
had so much to do with securing for the
explorer n new leave Of absence to com
pIate his Arctic work. This would be a
graceful recognition of Mr. DARLING
assistance; but there is another phase
uI The Acting Secretary Of the Navy :
cooperation that j. Of considerable public
interest
IN granting the leave Of absence h.
wrote letter 10 PtARN that IL almost
unique among official communications
Goyernments have not lost THEN interest
in efforts TO extend geographical knowI-
edge, ~ IL shown by the fact that the
British Government contributed about
one half Of the expenses Of the Discovery
expedition and is bearing the entire cost
oi the relief party, and that the German
Government appropriated 5000 ooo, or
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three -fourths the cost of the Gauss ex-
petition, and the Reichstag voted sl2S, ooc
to send out a relief ship only few days
before news was received that the Gauss
was on her way home
But since the days of the expeditions
in search Of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN few
letters expressing unqualified commen-
dalton and confidence have reached eN-
plorers from high official sources such as
that which Mr. DARLING wrote To PEARf.
He assured the explorer that he had
proved himself possessed OF the requisite
courage, forrituie. physique and eXpe-
renee to extend our knowledge of the
Arctic area all the way to the Pole The
man Of the world To the Pole should be
completed in our generation and by our
countrymen This Department expects
that you will accomplish Your purpose
and brlag further distinction to Il service
Of illustriO,ie traditions, II" added that
the President svmpathzes with PEARY $
plan and approves his enterprise,
If anything could add to pEARY's en-
thnsiastic deviation to his project and help
him to Guido himself it would be this
letter from the acting head Of the Navy
Department; and in writing it, 1t is be-
iieved that Mr.. DARLING merely ex-
pressed the opinion and sentiment of
all Americans who have followed intelli-
gently the details of PEARY's work.
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Tho Danger Of "Streuuosity. :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sr, Your editort'
OF the 9Th inst headed Hopeful Prudence In n
President struck chord In every patriotic either
and in handling the subject as you did you are
be comm ended.
Taking the same line Of thought as therein pur
sued. what have you 10 say regarding the DANCE
surrounding our President while In the wool,
West" during the early part Of the present yea
Was he not at that time exposing himself to IN
necessary danger To my mind, the risk attond
Ing his hunting trip was much greater than the
merr passing through Manhattan, and he should
respect his ONCE, his people and his country more
than 10 plunge hcadiong into such danger The a.
counts ot his recklessness portrayed by the press
OF the country may have been e4ag geratc, but the
fact remains that his life was far more Insecure
during that trp than II had been at his post ~
Washington or at his home az Oyster Bay
In gratifying his desire TO lead a strenuous life
he has aroused feeling OF unrest within the bre1 T.
Of the more quiet but patriotic citizens on III
whole. don't you think he OF any other Prosher
could serve his country better than by gunnnI
for big game In the Western country
JERSEY CRY, Sept II. : y. HAMILTON
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GrNsR. who will positively appear in her
feat of riding simultaneously on six wild
horses of the Ukraine. jumping through
six hoops. each smaller than the other,
and turning twelve double fiipRape alter
nately under and over her nntamed
chargers. Mile, MoNTGoLFlER, the HUI
man Balloon, who walks on wire at a
giddy height and finally ascebds, in her
grand deviation Act, in full view of the
spectators! The bands with more brass
and clang to them than any other bands
that ever snapped wind for music; the
clowns, actually visible for nothing in
the light of common day; the horde of
circus men Of whose ferocity with tent
stakes such black tales are believed; the
whole new world of sights and sounds
nnregenerate sort would not prefer an
hour Of those delights TO cycle Of
school? Why, the teachers themselves
Will be late and it is notorious that the
school committee unblushinglv regard
ing the show, has tried to have the man
ayers put it OF until after school hours,
for the benefit of the teachers. Well,
many enthusiasts came in late; some
extremists frankly made their choice
between School and Circus, followed the
latter and accepted stoically the maternal
hairbrush and pedagogic ruler. Children
were licked in those days. They don't
have to be nowadays. They are good.
Almost too good. Why, suppose there
was a meeting of the National Educa-
tional Association in Madison Square
Garden at II this morning and a circus
parade was to 60 by there at 1l:l5. How
many folks would be inside?
But the truly good little children OF
19Os-at least in Chicago. s. D.-know
that School is more Improving than the
Circus. Modern Progress is sprinter.
The tailors in the South Division Of Chi
cago must be keeping ascension robes in
stock.
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French Capital Looking to South America

.
A Chilean correspondent sends some inter
esting details of visit recen tly made BY the
representative OF French company to Chile.
with the object Of studying it's industrial pos
sibilities. He says:
M. Delaunay. a distin guished French en-
gineer sent out to Chile by the Creusot COM
many to examine the condition Of the courtrv
and the possibility Of starting some great
industry, has just returned from an extended
tour in the south. On his arrival he com
municated his objects to the Government
furnished him with all the impedinenta neces;
sary for his trip. paying his expenses and
acing the national warship PilComayo at
his disposal. About month and hall was
spent on the journey and most OF the forest
regions as we'll as the Pllena River, we're care
fully explored The intention Is to es ns III n
ore being brought from the north In the com;
panys own steamers, NJ. ,Delaunay found
everything SO satisfactory that on his return
to Valparaiso he cabled to France adyising 2
the Immediate formation OF the syndicate
that is to undertake the work. The subscribed
capital Is to be 81, 500, 600
1T is confidently expected that the Chilean
Government will aid in the promotion OF the
enterprise by forest grants and other conces
siops. ms tho country in the south is quit"
undeveloped and hardly explores. There -
known to be great mineral wealth hidden IL
enormous extent The first thing required
Is the construction Of roads into the territory
to bo opened up. and these will be undertaken
"a soon az the ARRANGEMENTS between the
Chilean Government and the French company
are completed"
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A patrioriC Young woman OF boston.
with a French name but an American
heart, devoted many hours and between
one and two hundred thousand stitches
Of her needle to the construction and
adornment ~ a beautiful silk flag. She
sent her masterpiece TO the President OF
the United States at Oyster Bay, The
flag was promptly returned to Miss
MARIE CosTRAU by express, and by mail
she received the following note from
Mr. ROOSEVELT private secretary:
beg to STATE that while the President greatly
appreciates your courtesy in sending h'm the on
closure which you forwarded, he has felt obliged
TO ADOPT rule which precIudcs him from accepting
presents from any one
The PRONUNCIATION Of this new self
IMPOSED rule is matter of great public
interest.
1t is a self-imposed rule, because there
is nothing in the Constitution or statutes
which prevents the President from re-
ceivng gifts, except from King, Prince
or foreign State.
1t must be new rule, because only
a few weeks ago Mr.. ROOSEVELT ac-
copied, without hesitation and with every
appearance of personal satisfaction, a
saddle horse for his private use. The
name of the gift horse is Wyoming.
Other instances OF unhesitating recep-
tivity in the recent past will, no doubt,
occur to the mind.
The natural disappointment OF Miss
CosTEAU at the return of her silk flag,
so patiently, aborously and patriotic
ally wrought with the expectation Of
pleasing the President, will be mitigated
when she reflects that Mr.. ROOSEVELT
is not discriminating against her and
her beautiful handiwork. He has chosen
this particular gift, one of the most de-
sirable that could come to him or to any
other patriot, as the occasion for the
announcement of revised ideas OF official
propriety and new rule of personal
conduct
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Lesson From the French.

The city OF Paris is being tunneled
in every direction for underground rail-
roads. The lines in most cases are to
be laid near the surface of the street, as
in the case OF the New York subway.
The plans for the roads call for a system
more like that which is under construc
ton here than any in Europe, and
the opportunities open to the French
builders to inconvenience the public and
ruin the unfortunatcs in whose neigh
borhood they we're to work were fully
as good as have been those OF our own
ditch engineers and diggers.
Travelling Americans, going from the
torn, scored, disrupted city Of New York,
reach Paris to find it wearing the usual
face of a great and civilized community.
DR.. Milo r. MALTBlE, one OF the secre-
taries of the New York Municipal Art
Commission, was in Paris this summer
As a victim of the New York bitches, he
investigated the system of shallow
tunnel or subway construction in Paris.
Speaking to Tribune reporter, MIR.
MALTB1E said Of the work in Paris:
The scheme lot tunnesl Is so comprehensive
that the streets are being tunnelled in many d.
rections at the same time.
Yet the man in the street is hardly aware of this
great activity beneath the surface Instead of
opening street It's entire length, or even for a
considerable distance. few shafts arc sunk at
widely separated places and from these few open =
inss the excavation Is pushed In both directions
and tho dirt removed largely during the night
with little Inconvenience to the public
The usual sight Is that Of small enclosure with
a hirh board fence, but during the busy hours Of
the day one seldom any material removed or
structural material being brought 10 the subway
Al Of this wo-. is done when the trafac Is light and
few persons are upon tho streets. As a result,
street rrac Is not obstructed except so far as the
lew openl ngs make II absolutely necessary. The
strse,s arc not Uttered With construction material
nor the dir, dropped from overnlled wagons ono
hears consequently practically no complaint re-
gardrg the present construction Of the subway. It
is being carried on with 50 little Inconvenience that
an opening has been located Immediately In front
of the Grand Opera House With no objection even
on the part OF the property owners or OF those at
tending the grand opera, which has been conducted
during most nf the summer.
Probably there is no American who
does not believe firmly that his coun-
trv's engineers are better than those OF
any other nation. but it must be admitted
that the Paris tunnel builders are far
mora competent than those who have
hoen& m, .rif icing New York city to their
aulIalatcd and obsolete methods
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Sir THOMAS LIpToN Is now enjoying The
fruits Of defeat. He is being generously as
well as generally entertained fed on The
fat Of the land and cheered with the wine
Of the country while choice after-dinner
oratory informs him in rhetorical phrase
that he IL kres dtoue rotundus, spectacu-
larry absorbing and personally delectable
Doubtless he gets fair measure OF COM
fort ont Of 1t all for II IL good to have one s
fellow men speak well of one; yet Sir THOMAS
in the secrecy Of his soul no doubt thinks
that. while rho Cup IL silver and not his
silence would he golden II wns, there
fore, with a singularly keen appreciation
Of the exigencins Of the occasion that when
the New FORK Yacht Club gave him dinner
on Thursday night the only trophy II placed
on q, hbitiOn was the Americas Cup The
delicate, almost airy, sympathy With Sir
THoMAs's feelings shown by this attention
must have moved him greatly,
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Prosperity at the South.

| Mr. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, the Atlanta
editor who recently advocated, at Chi
cago, the removal of the negroes from
the South and their transportation to
some Territory or insular possession OF
! the United States, Is severely rebuked for
his folly and for his Misrepresentation of
the southern industrial situation. The
rebuke, too, comes from Southerner
and man who is far better informed on
the subject-Mr. RICHARD Fl. EDMoNDs,
the editor of the Manufacturers Record
at Baltimore.
To the lamentations of Mr.. GRAVES
over the halted development" of the
South, Mr.. EDMoNDs responds by pre-
senting statistics to show that actually
there have been amazing progress and
"a redemption from the poverty follow
ing the wreck and ruin of the war un-
paralleled in history Nor is there any
exaggeration in the words. The negro
problem said Mr.. GRAVES, "halts our
growth largely deters capital from
investment" makes standard OF
labor that prejudices all our Southern
poor against mental but honorable SER
vice." "depresses agriculture and "the
free movement of men and money is
hindered toward the inviting field of
opportunity.
Now, what are the fSets? A conserva-
tive estimate by Mr. EDMoNDs of the
value Of this years cotton crop is $780,
100000, and the average for the last
three years has been about $500 900, 900.
OF this cotton, the South will consume
in its own mills over 1000, 600 bales, and
thus add about 5000 900, 900 to the value
of the raw staple, and the value of
the various cottonseed products will be
$lOO, OOO, 600.
That is, "the South will this year have
poured into it, entirely from other sec
tons and other countries, for cotton
products alone about 5000, oOO,0O and
it's other agricultural products will be
worth 5000, 600 900 more.
Do these statistics afford any evidence
of the "halted development Mr. GRAVES
UdlhS dDoul.
1t is true that only very trifling part
of the great foreign immigration since
1880 has gone to the South; yet its
population increased from 18,5l8, 56S in
| 1880 to "a, 523, 527 in 1900 At the period
Of the civil war its population was only
II 1873, Sel. But the percentage Of in
crease in the value of it's agricultural
products has exceeded that in the popu-
lation nearly three times. Since 1880,
too, it has developed the value Of its
manufactured and mineral products from
S474 600 900 to about 81, 700 900 900.
A region which has made such marvel
} lous progress in less than quarter of
a century cannot be described as disas-
trously "halted" in its growth by the
shadow of an unsolved problem In
many respects, the labor problem at the
South is less disturbing and is less retard-
ing to development than it is in any other
part of the Union, II not Of the civilized
world yet Mr.. GRAVES would get rid Of
the ne groes who furnish the vast bulk of
Southern labor!
The truth is that the South is now on
a soldier basis of prosperity than ever
before in its history, and in no other part
of the Union is it's good fortune exoelled,
even if it is equalled, relatively.