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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
Armenia Once More?

While the attention of the world is
concentrated on what is passing in Mace
donia, events of even greater gravity are
occurring in Russian and Turkish Ar
menia. A few days ago IL was an
nounced that the Russian Government
had sequestrated the properties of the
Armenian Church in the Caucasus.
amounting altogether to some $4,000,
900 in value, and would in future control
the administration of the funds 80 az to
prevent their misuse in the promotion
of the national idea among Russian and
Turkish Armenians, and in succoring
refugees from Kurdish and other atrooi-
ties. This action of the Russian Govern
ment is an inestimable service to the
Sultan, and is not impossibly in pur-
slIance OF some bargain in connection
with the Armenian people
After the great massacres of 1898 many
thousands Of Armenians fed across the
border and took refuge among their
fellow countrymen in the Russian terri
tory, where they were maintained prin-
cipally at the expense of the ecclesiasti-
cal establishment at Etchmiadzin. the
seat Of the Catholics OF the Greporian
Church Early last year the Russian
Government caused large numbers OF
these people to return to Turkey, where
they are again the victims of persecution
and outrage at the hands of the Ottoman
authorities and the Kurds; while armed
bands Of revolutionists belonging to the
Huntchakist party are said to have
crossed over from Persian and Russian
territory. How these bands are MAIN
tanned is uncertain, but the step taken
by the Russian Government removes all
possibility of its being ont of therevenues
OF the national church.
The consequences cannot fail to be
disastrous to the Armenians, who are
now left between the knife OF the Kurd
and starvation, II they are even allowed
to take refuge in Russia: and to the
Sultan is tacitly given a free hand In
dealing with them. The only power
that, IA yet, has made some show Of inter-
7sntion on tkeir behaH is Great Britain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
TIL. Gent,emanly Proceedings at Sedan

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN--tSy: hope you will
pardon me for saying that II is an old and not new
story about Sedan" that Gen. Faverot tells, not
quite correctly.
TWAS old King william OF Prussia who exclaimed
"Ach die bravcn. brnvcn Leute!" toh. what brave
brave fellowsn He did so when he saw the cavalry
division OF Gen Marguerite charging Prussian In
fantry In an heroic effort to break through the Ger
man lines. Marguerite was killed, His two sons
by the way. are French poets and writer's OF note
Then Marquis de GalliNet took command and con
tlnucd the hopeless attack.
There was no exchange OF salutes or cheering on
either side but the story has often been told with
pen and brush 4 big painting in the Berlin Ma.
Lonal Picture Gallery commentaries the scene.
Germany's battle poet e. Won Wilderbruch. has
praised the hcroism Of his country's enemy In his
poem, Sedan and. last not least the monument
TO be erected near Sedan will bear ~ Inscription:
"AH LES BRAVES. BRAVES oENs
MOI du Rot Gugaume de- Prusse."
NEW YORK, Aug, n. ALFRED KERR
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
Judge GrOsscup on savings Banks
and Corporations.

In an address delivered before the
Lutheran Assembly at Dixon, ILL.,, last
week, the Hon. PETER STENGER GROSS
CUP, Judge Of the United States Court
Of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
brought a new accusation against mon
opolies. They force people to save their
money and put it in savings banks.
Judge GRossCUP views with alarm the
increased deposits made in these banks
in the last few years. If things were
rs they should be, il polite swindiers
and high-up rascals' had not broken the
laws and given stocks fictitious value
these millions Of deposits would not ne
living idle They would have been
invested. Apparently Judge GRosscuP
regards 81 or 4 per cent as inadequate
interest on money and regrets that the
"laboring classes" accept 80 pitiful re-
turns. The rascally monopolies have
,ctually forced people to make safe, in
stead of speculative. investments.
What is to be done to battle the mon
opolists and clean out the savings
banks? Judge GRosSCUP tells us:
Change the laws so that no set OF men can
organize corporation except strict legal basis
Then put II under such supervision As the national
banks are subject to- and believe that, little by
title. this Immense hoard In the savings banks OF
$4,000 900 900 will bc tricklns into ownership
again"
Judge GROSscUPs summary of the
history of corporations is interesting:
Il say nothing against the man who makes bis
ortune honestly. but when see the laws Of my
country. introduced 10 enable men TO consolidate
money for the public good, turned into the excuse
or swlndles that should land the promoters in the
pcritentiary, and when see that TO be the almost
Universal history Of corporations every drop Of my
blood bells with hate and revenge"
Clearly, Judge GRossCUP possesses
the judicial temperament in an unusual
degree.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
The Healthiest Man In the World.

The Hon. SAM JONES of Toledo,
GOLDEN RULE JONES, SUCKER ROD SAM
JONES, the leading friend of humanity
and foe of all monopolies but his own,
is as accomplished physically az he is
Intellectually. He can stand on his
head for thirty seconds, and often does
so for his own exercise and tho de-
location Of the public. He sleeps on
the roof of the house, for the sake of
purer air and a nearer communion with
the stars. Both politically and with his
feet he liz the best runner in Toledo. And
his appetite is supernormal, az this
curious fact, recorded by the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune, shows;
Mayor JOHNSON went to Toledo to swallow
Mayor JONES, but SAM JONES did tho swallowing"
SAM has got Tom down, but can he
keep Tom down? We tremble az we
think of that friend of humanity with
such an enormous dose of monopoly in
his midst
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

Leading wine producers Of the Rhine and
Moselle expect to make display OF their
products at the St. Louis Exposition. An
intelligent exhibit Of these famed wines will
be interesting and valuable. Rhine wines
are especially esteemed by Americans Of
German birth or descent, who claim for them
health-bringing qualities. in addition to deli
cacy Of flavor. The present annual impor-
tation Of 100000 gallons Of Rhine wine In
the wood and 5000 dozen bottles may be
increased without Interfering with the
market for Missouri and Ohio wines OF like
character or the California product, and
the exhibit at st. Louis ought to stimulate
interest in the commodity
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
what the Saratoga Monument Commemorate,

To THE EDITOR or THE SUE-str: In to-day's
SUN there Is dispatch from Saratoga saying that
Dewey had lust returned from visit 10 the Sara
toga Battle Monument
Now I wish, In the interest of historical sccu-
racy that you would allow me TO correct this. The
monument Is merely the Saratoga Monument
but H. any thing further Is required 70 designate II.
II should be- and is ofNcialy known as tho Saratoga
Surrender Monument" It's erection had nothing 10
do whatever with the battles OF Saratoga. which
took place nine miles south OF the present site Of the
monument In Schuylervllic. on the Hudson.
As say, the monument Is supposed 10 common
orats the surrender of BuVoyne's army 70 Gates.
which took place in the alluvia fats OF the Hudson
nearly at the foot of the bun on the top Of which
stands the monument.
am tired or correcting this mIsstatement yet the
d. A. r, OF Saratoga twho should know better,wiil
persist in calling II the Saratoga Battle Monument
WILLIAM L. STONE,
Secretary 10 the Saratoga Monument Association.
Mt VERNON. Aug. II.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
Tho Other Five Cutters.

TO THx EDITOR OF THE SUS-tsir: The Hon.
Leslie M Shaw Sec Rotary Of the Treasury. is quoted
az saying that In former Cup races the revenue cut
tiers have been loaded down to the gunwaleS. He
IN clearly mistaken. as the tickets were limited TO
two for each ofncer, and the guests could hardly
be seen
II seems rather small to crowd the Gresham and
the onondaga with personal friends OF the Score
tary and the Collector and not 20 allow the officers
OF the other Ave cutters 10 invite a few friends.
Goodness knows these gallant fellows have little
enough OF the time OF their swecthcArts and wivrsi
NEW YORK, Aug. is. OBSERVER.
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Complaint About Government Publication.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Str: For several
years have had occasion TO read with some care
tho Monthly Bulletin of the Bureau OF the American
Republics. This somi oilcial publication, Issued
from the Government Printing Once, II properly
managed, would have a very considerable value to
those Interested In Latin Amer ioan affairs But
II seems safe to say. II Is not properly managed
for no magazine IN managed properly when very
plainly the persons who prepare the COPY don I
know what they are writing about.
The amount OF sheer stupidity In the Bullefn Is
amazing: or do the editors assume that their read
ers are abnOrlnalIy peNpIcArious, Even so and
accepting tina compliment. we md II a rather dls
heartenine task to pick our way among pesos
bollvtanos. sOles. boiivars, sucres representing
silver gold, or deprecated paper hut Who knowssI
and all indicated merely by the ssixn
Thor, nr- other things that might be said about
the Monthly Bulletin OF the bureau OF the American
Republics. Can't something he done.
INV YORK, Aug, a. Ell T.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
SONGS OF THE DITCH.
The Channt Of the Enraged Merchan,

The Channt Of the Enraged Merchant.
With patience utterly worn.
And tired OF their vain regrets
A merchant sat. In terrible rage,
Plying his epithets!
Ditch, Ditch! Ditch!
All dirt. and rime and dust.
And still with voice OF hopeless pitch
He cussed. and cussed. and cussed,
Ditch, Ditchl Ditch,
The customers hold aioof.
And Ditchl Ditch! Ditch!
or finish there isn't proof
IT'S ohl - be slave
Along with the rest OF the crowd.
But this ditch will assuredly be my grave.
And microbes furnish my shroud.
"D,tch' Ditch! Ditch!
TIL the brain begins 10 swim.
Ditch! Ditch! Ditch!
TIL all chances OF trade grow dim
Blast. and hammer. and pick.
Pick. and hammer and blast.
TIL hear them nightly In my dreams.
And wonder how long they will last,
pitch! Ditchl Ditch!
From weary chime to chime
Ditchl DitchI Uttchl
TIL II really amounts to a crime.
Pick. and hammer, and blast.
Blast. and hammer. and pick.
TIL the head Is sore. and the brain benumbcd.
And the heart Is very Sick
OH for long respite.
A respite We should have got,
No blessed let up for love or gold.
Though they promised an awful lot
From Harlem TO the Battery
They're herc-and here to stay.
For they win not stop. they're going TO try
To open up Broadway"
With patience utterly worn.
And tirpd Of their vain regrets,
A merchant sat. In terrible rage,
Plying his cpithotsl
Ditch. Ditchl Ditchi
All dirt and Crime. and dust.
And stu with voice Of hopeless pitch.
For from their position they will not switohD
He cussed. and cussed. and cussedi
La TOUoAE HANCOCK.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
An Ichthyolosist Highly Honored.
From Bulletin I.ooa OF ths Unied Satss Frsn @

From BufIfhn |. o02 OF INA Urited Sntsg Ftsh C0rs
mission.
During tho summer Of 1898 while collecting lArr'
quantities OF Psvctna capyodes In Ttppecanoe Lake
q single large specimen OF arter was taken which
could not DO identified with any described Species
I thought thon and since. until recently. that II
might DO Q hybrid between Percfna caprodes and
Hadroptsrus aspro because Of evident innrme
diate characters. After holding the specimen TO;
SIX years with the hope that other specimens nigh
no taken. published a note In the -Prcoerdings OF
the Indiana Academy under the title An AberranL
Etheos,oma." This new species Is among The
most beautiful and largest Of the darten. n gfv~s
me the greatest pleasure to name the species for
Or. Barton Warren Evermsnn. fchthyoiogisA Of
the United States Fish Commission.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
LOst--A Hurricane.

LUSU--A HuFFhC8Wo.
The West Indian hurricane which
wrought such havoc in Jamaica has
followed the course Of the vast majority
Of similar tropical disturbances. It
has vanished. Indeed, it is the rule, to
which there are few exceptions, that
when these storms break loose with such
terrific fury at the outset as did this one,
they are quickly dissipated. Occasion
ally with diminished force they reach
our Gulf coast. They very rarely visit
our Middle and North Atlantic seaboard
with anything more formidable than
heavy winds that are not an imminent
danger to prudent navigation.
1t is the storm that begins more
moderately in West Indian waters which
is the one most dangerous to our Allan
tic coast. 1t gains in strength and in
rapidity as it advances. This has been
the history of practically all the storms
which have been most disastrous along
the Atlantic shore. BY the process Of
induction from many instances covering
more than quarter Of a century, weather
observers who have the advantage Of
experience and some theoretical knowl-
edge Of meteorology have established
is almost an automatic proposition that
the West Indian hurricane most violent
in it's initiative is least threatening to the
United States. The Galveston storm. to
be sure, swept heavily, although with
diminishing force, inland across the
continent. But this storm was first
heard from in it's full destructive fury
after it reached our shores, when it
wrecked Galveston.
Perhaps it was the part Of prudence for
the Chief of the Weather Bureau TO lock
upshipping all the way from Maine TO and
around the Gulf when the Jamaica storm
went roaring off to sea. To be sure, it
would have been contrary to the general
rule had it reached our coast without
much diminished force. Yet it was well,
probably, to be on the safe side. But
why did the eminent prognosticator not
order his warning withdrawn when the
danger was past?
The weather map on Friday morning
showed the Gulf coast entirely clear
The hurricane was lost. There were
some reports of it down Yucatan way,
but even these were vague and indefinite.
1t was obvious by midnight on Thursday
that as threat to our coast the storm no
longer existed Yet the shipping mas
tiers were not notified They were still
left in uncertainty. Shipping remained
tied up, TO the great loss of the carrying
trade, to merchants and to the various
other interests involved.
The Weather Bureau had been wrong,
that was all. History has afforded in
stances Of its being wrong before.
Plain everyday errors in weather fore
casting are harmless enough. II is when
they threaten grave disaster and are
persisted in, causing property loss or
threatening calamitols panic, as in the
case of the recent hurricane and OF Mr..
MooRE's famboyant hot weather pro-
nunciamento several summers ago, that
they become serious. Then it is that q
combination of lack of knowledge and
lack Of common sense at the Weather
Bureaus headquarters becomes con-
spicuously Instantaneous
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
His Wash-anA Hers.

From the Ctnttnnan Cor,nsretoi TrbVrs
u wish" he said. you could make pios,
Like mother used to bake"
And l." said she. wish that you nAAs
Tho cash pa used 70 mAks'-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

II Mr.. JOSEPH PuLrTzER's liberal gift Of
81 900 900 for college Of journalism at
Columbia University results in the produce
ton Of one first-class newspaper man, 1t
will not have been made in vain.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
Tho Exact Variety.

Knicker--I understand the fellow Miss Many.
Deaux married was dark horse.
Bocker--No. he was blond donkey.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

Readers Of THE SUN leaving the city can have the
Daily and Sunday editions mailed 70 their addresses
which may be changed when necessary iof "
cents a month. Order through your newsdoaler
or THE SUN. 40 Nassau street
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
coua,nsed Guide to Political Opinios


From the 81. Joseph GoEtfe.
lfJoseph ". Folk Is nominated for Governor tn
pemoc ratio party will carry the State by nsjor1'
greater than has ever been known In the history o
Missouri.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

From The 81. louis GIobf -Dtnl0cTdt
The chairman OF the state Democratic Commit
tee OF Tennessee bias conducted canvass anon.
representative members OF his party in various
parts OF the State In which 800 persons favor Parsc
for the nomin alton In 1904 as compared with iS tc
Bryan u for German. 0 for Cleveland and TO-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

How History repeats Itself and hornas dapllcsau1
Harasus fought b hold The BztAga. aAA JsSsss I'd
Us uNAN
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

II Congressman Llttsuer found -vindicssion' II
SECRETARY Roots comments on hts Cave the charrs.
made by Mr.. Keck must come close to being halo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

n s>r Jyte-tdS who favor us w,th n'dnusry1pts Io'
publication psh TO haze rejected articles 'siur'sd thet
mus, In an cases send stamps for that purpose.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
From III, Hartford Courart.
From the Albany Eceniro Jour-

Leonard Wood Is very far from being tin vi
der but he Is probably better fitted 10 be hedIch
Director than q Major Gene raj.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

This Is a poor Time for veterans OF great doed'
It is too much given TO military thcstrioals an
shams.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

Mr.. Jacob A. Cantors early announcement tbs;
he Is going TO stop OF politics when his term Az
Borough President expires will he taken by not =
few 10 indicate a yeaniing 70 reach out for 10
f.oyeFnnrshin
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

Americans would be quite satisfied TO see Mr..
Root remain Secretary OF War aud Mr.. TAN 0nv-
emOr OF the Philippines.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

From the 81. Louis GLOBE Democrat

IfGen. Wood cads the papers he mustbc troubled
10 md hearty acqulescence In his rapid promotion
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

PARIS losuue No. II. near Grand Hosoi. AM
Kiosaue No. 10, Boulevard des Capucincs.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

ETOW E"s I10utSPHse EFeWtWV f'OSt'
The influences now controlling the DemocrssS
party OF Kentucky are 0ligarcnio and not demo
cratic.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

From the Florida Times linton.
Says Roosevelt to Durbin: Dear Governor. siur'
you have made ton strike, please divide the pTs
cceds with me-"
The Washington times., 1903-06-22
". A. & &c. ROAD ORDERED
TO REMOVE CAR SHED
Secretary Root Revokes License Given
Five Years Ago.

Secretary Root has revoked the license
issued 10 the Washington. Arlington and
Falls Church Railroad Company to locate
car shed on Government land at the
Virginia end OF the Aqueduct bridge,
and has notified that company that the
building must be removed within thirty
days. Colonel True, the depot quarter
master, has been directed 10 see that
the order OF the Secretary OF War is
complied with.
The license was issued in May. 1898.
and IL is alleged that as a result of the
permission then granted the company
erected a car shed and a freight Office
on the Government reservation at tho
intersection Of Chadwick and Canal
Streets, and that both structures ex-
tend so far into Chadwick Street as to
interfere with traffic
The matter Of ordering the company
10 remove the buildings has been pend
| ing for nearly two years but upon one
/ excuse and another action has been de
I feTred until the present time.
The Washington times., 1903-06-22
WATER, POISON FAIL,
SHE SWALLOWS TACKS
Mother, Fearing That She Would Kill
Children, Makes Three Sui
Cidal Attempts.

LEWISTOWN. Pa, June 22.-Having
been thwarted in two attempts 10 end
her life, Mrs. Mary Ettinger OF Burn
ham. near this city, swallowed q half
saucer Of carpet tacks. The last attempt
may cause her death
With her husband and five children,
Mrs. Ettinger. who Is n pretty woman
OF forty years. lives at Durham She
says she has felt insanity coming upOl
her for some time, and feared that she
would, while mentally unbalanced, STAY
her offspring. So. she says, she left
home last week. came here and drank
some laudanum. Physicians saved her
life, and she was incarcerated IN the
county jail 10 prevent a second attempt
Gradually she regained her mental
balance. and on Friday she was released
Scarcely had she left the Jail when she
ran 10 the Juniata River and was 5bout
to jump from the county bridge when
she was halted by pedestrian.
Then she returned home and. in Tx
| presence Of her seven-year-old dau2h-
/ ter, swallowed the tacks. The 0harI
| points lodged in her throat, causing eX
crueiating pains. Tonight she is in 1
/ serious condition.
The Washington times., 1903-06-22
PEASANTS GREET
,P0RTUGAL'S QUEEN
Return Leads to a Scene of Pathetic
Devotion.

LISBON. June 22.-The Queen OF Por-
tUeal. who has returned here from her
long voyage much benefited in health,
has had a very warm welcome home
At one OF the stations on her way 10
Lisbon the train stopped, an address
was read 70 her majesty, and the peas
ant women filling the station. all begged
to see their Queen AT close quarters
and kiss her hand Her majesty gra-
ciously acquiesced. and it was curious
sight 20 see the poor women advance in
aeoration as II 10 a saint. kissing the
hem OF her dress.
One OF the women knelt before the
carriage door. crying out: BLESS her;
how beautiful she isl"