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An Historic Southern Military school.

From the United Service Re-teG
The Louisiana state University aud Agricultural
and Mechanical College is known as the military
college OF the South 1t Is located at Baton Rouge
and numbers among Its graduates many men who
are now officers in the Regular army. Gen. W. T.
Sherman was the nrst president OF tho instltutoh
before the civil war. and, Notwithstanding his es-
pousal OF the Northern cause, his memory In Sill
reycred al this scene OF his former laboks and his
life size portrait In oils occupies prominent place
In the handsome assembly hall Of the college.
The site OF the university Is historic ground.
II was for many years a military post and the gar
rsons OF France. England spain and the United
States have all az different periods occupied II.
After It was abandoned for military purposes II
was turned to rho State OF Louisiana for pnr-
poses OF education. The original buildings. how
ever, still stand. and with the flag floating over
them, present stirling and beautiful appearance
Here In l77g Calves, the Spanish Governor
General OF Louisiana, after an engagement that
lasted for three days captured the BntSh garr
son. The Spaniards were In turn driven out In 1910
by party OF Americans, and this marked the pass
ing OF West Florida from the domain OF Spain. IN
1861 the Confederates captured the post ana VIC
next year Il desperate battle. involving both land
and sea forces was fought near by. and the Con.
feterate ram Arkansas was blown up in the view
of the land batteries.
Many distinguished officers served mere WhI'
II was still military post Among those Whose
names are associated with the place are NilllnSnn
and the hrst Wade Hampton, Winfield Srolt ana
Zachary TAILOR. & RAM and Lee and sion wall Ja'i
son. Mcclellan AID Joe Johnston, Bragg, Ro>''
cram Lougstrcct. IIamcy Thomas and Beah'e'
gard Forrest and Phil Sheridan, lardce and HOOD.
Hancock and Custer Admiral Porter and Bishop
General polii Among the great civilians we t'ct
the names of Abraham Lincoln, CLAY and Callo'1
and Jefferson DAVIS. There Is hardly place else
where in the South so rich In historic association"
"a, true tn lN
Of Louisiana are soldiers by inheritance, AID VII
they revere the cause for which their fathers fought
no Northcrn boys are to day more loyal 10 the my
which Is lowered at sunset every evening 10 ~
well known strains OF retreat, while the battalion
OF over three hundred cadets stands IN rNroH'
at attention Everything about the university =
conducted on military lines. The cadets I've ~
we'll ordered barracks. and by means OF frequent
inspections proper system Of discipline Is COL
s,antly main eaincd.
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The Three RS and Business.

The Northwestern Miller makes COM
plant that will fall on deaf ears. 1t
mourns the lost art Of writing, loss
which it attributes to the universal type
writer 1t pleads, as many newspapers
and men and some old-fashioned teach
ers have pleaded, for more attention to
the rudiments in the schools. But what
is the use? II the typewriter has had
much 10 do with the waning Of legible
handwriting, at least it should have in
creased the number Of good spoilers.
Yet spelling is departing, too.
Once boys and girls had to learn to
write and spell by means Of hard work.
The way to spell is to spell. The way
to write is to write. Such were the
mouldy theories OF our fathers and
grandfathers. Improved and scientific
methods of teaching have come. Differ
ent views Of the comparative value of
studies prevail. Our children learn, or
are supposed to learn, more things than
their unfortunate parents used to; learn
them in jig and quickstep, to music,
with many pretty trills and frills and
tlourshes; and those wretched three Rs
are openly derided
Business men, owing TO their want of
training in the modern fashion, kick
violently Many of them say that they
cant get boys from the public schools
who can write good, plain hand, spell
we'll or even count and reckon well.
" Carrying bundles is all most OF them
are fit for" we heard merchant say
the other day of these products of the
march OF Improvement.
Doubtless such an assertion ia a saw
age exaggeration. And business men
should not insist on their antiquated
notions. A boy may be weak in arith-
metic aud vet be able to sing a song or
have very earnest views about civics. .
Judge him by what no knows, not by
what he has not been taught 10 know.
Besides, machinery will supply the de-
ficiencies Of education. Mechanical .ad-
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Did the Hon. Robert Baker Reject q
sadetShIDc

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-.Sr! 1t is
only proper that THE SUN should know Of
another instance Of the spirit of independence
to be found in the makeup OF Representative
Robert Baker of Brooklyn, attention to which
has already been called by his spirited and
widely advertised refusal of pass proffered
him by an attorney of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company,
Mr. Baker. as have been informed on good
authority. soon after his term of office be-
gan, received letter from the Secretary OF
the Navy informing him that cadetship
at Annapolis, which it was his right to all.
was vacant. and requesting him to send in
the name of a candidate.
Mr. Baker very pro mptly wrote back TO the
Secretary Of the Navy that he did not have
any candidate for the cadetship. that he
would not have any candidate in the future.
and that the maintenance Of an institution
such az the United States Naval Academy
was not consistent with his views as citizen
and did not meet with his approval.
NEW YORK. Aug. 3, l.. II.
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A Common shame.

The pursuit by the Police Department
of the fallen women of this city is n shame
to the whole community. The treatment
TO which these unfortunates have now
long been subjected is an infamy and a
disgrace TO the manhood and to the hui
mainly of New York. The whole city
should rise in indignant and violent pro-
test against it and overwhelm those who
are responsible for it beneath the repro
baton of every honest and self-respecting
man.
Are these women harried and driven
and scourged in the cause OF morality
Not a bit of it 1t is mainly for politics,
and incidentally il is for money 1t Is for
politics, because base and sordld ambl-
ton has conceived it as spectacle to
make votes; because man defective
himself in morals and intellectually I'M
sound believes that he can walk into pre-
ferment over the outraged victims OF an
inexorable social condition, 1t is incl
dentally for money, because this ambition
of his gives to the police the occasions OF
reimbursement and deprivation which
have made that body as demoralized and
as low as it is to-day become.
1t is not the enforcement Of the law
that we deplore, but the method of it, tho
object of it, and the consequences OF it,
Let lis have our laws administered by an
adult who is sane, by man who is man
in mind as well as in body who respects
himself and respects the community
which calls him to serve it. and who if he
have ambitions has only those that are
decent and that can be fulfilled by hon
orable means.
Better man who would protect the out
cast in her calling of shame rather than
convert her wretchedness and disgrace
to his own advantage, and deliver her
bound hand and foot to his chartered
thieves and blackmalers.
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REASON IN SOFT COAL CASES,
Justice Mayer Says It IN Necessary to 'on.
slider Business Interests.


William Devlin, who was chief engincpr
OF the New York Edison Companys power
house in First avenue, between Thirty
eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, was ar
rested on May % because Of complaints
about the Use of soft coal.
When the case came up yesterday John
w. Lieb assistant manager, said that the
company had spent much money in trying
to remedy the evil, and that many changes
were now under way. On the advice of
an expert, he said, the company had dis
posed Of $500 tons Of bituminous coal Mt
a heavy loss, and that the coal the com
pany had been burning was more than
two-thrds anthracite
This is commercial community" said
Justice Mayer ave have driven too
many business interests outside Of the
city. We are compelled in the construc-
ton of the ordinance TO find this defendar..
guilty and we do find him so. As to the
punishment, we realize that this il the
situation:
"On the one hand are the residents of
the neighborhood, and their personal COM
fort must be considered. On the other
nanu we nave lnis concern, winch IL oil
great value to the community Even
those who are suffering discomforts from
this plant are also receiving benefits
therefrom.
I'VE are sa, sfed that this company h
doing all in its power to relieve this trouble,
and as long as they show good faith we
are not here to impose severe punishment 4"
The case was then adjourned 10 Aug. 81,
with the understanding that the sentence
should be suspended if the nuisance com
planned of had been abated by that time
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why House Cats Love Fish.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN Sir The question
why house cats love ilsh Is an interesting ono IL
was discussed by Darwin. ! have searched 'or NV
explanation in one OF his books, but unsucrc>S'nn'
The explanation is this: Tho Original haNl'at O.
the house cat IL the ncighborhood Of the Caspian
Sea There the ancestors of the cat learned 10 luN
10 eat nsh and their descendants, though bonn NV"
bred away from the sea have not forgotten u ,,,
What a wonderful theme for III" poet sNo.,
bc the development of the human control OI veg
table and animal NE. How many ages ~ nv
combined with peace must have been consH',,
In the tanning OF the horse and the 60" az"
making OF them Subscrvtcnt IA man hhtnC,,
Then the acCllmatl2ng Of the long list ~ t'Erii
When Europeans came. 10 America they iohhu w
the Inhabitants had tanned the turkey ma NV
opCd maize, the potato and tobacco. =. .,,
How grandly do these fcats stand out m Iu'
pariSOn with those OF lhe COnQuCrorS ~ VIC W,.I
have sometimes Thought mat INC c0hSclI"u"'
ORION CcphcuS, NndrLmrda and the rest Nrrt
named To lmmortallIc the lahOrS OF those men W.
made life. To say nothing OF CIVILIZATION. p"Nsp's
this planet. The tamlng Of the hnuar cav was ,
small matter &xHI compared with NE rest ,,,,,,
OSPREY, Fla. Aug, 1 JOHN o. WEN"
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FROM KING or PORTtGtL.
Telegram Tells or Drinking Presidents
Health on Board Brooklyn.

WASHINGTON. Aug. "A despatch ~
ceived at the Navy Department late Satur-
day evening from Rear Admiral Cotton at
Lisbon says
The King and the royal Princes have Just
visited and inspected the Brooklyn. The
King expressed himself pleased with the
visit and proposed the health of the Presi-
dent. On Monday give breakfast Of thirty
covers to the Minister Of Marine. Cabinet
Ministers and navy and army officers OF high
rank
The State Department made public this
morning the following messages:
LISBON. Aug. !, 1908
President Roosereli, Washington:
had in this moment the pleasure OF drink
ing your health and the prosperity OF Ameri-
can Navy on board the Brooklyn.
KING OF PoRrUGAL.
WASHINGTON, Aug, l, 1908.
His Majesty, the King Of Por tu0ai. Lisbon:
] most cordially reCiprOcate your Majesty 8
greeting, seeing in the friendly occasion
which prompts 1t a renewed proof OF the good
will which untes the two countries and
peoples. THEODORE RoosEvRLr.
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Ny grandiathrrS clock
Was not worn on his sock
Us SO many OF the clocks are worn To day
But II stood against the wall
And was cumbersome and tall
As II licked the sad aud iOYOus hours away.
Il struck quitting un".
but he didn't care a dime
For our grandpa nadu tJon"d the union then;
He lust worked unit! done
Or until the setting sun
Made MIN wait until the morn TO work again.
Chorus Ninety years AZ u laborer
Twas stick. stick, stick
Not boycotted nelghbor or
kick, Kick. kick.
But he stopped, short, never to work again
when the walking delegate sauutcrcd along and
told him what an uncomfortable fool he was
for working such hours At such wages when
So and SOS men got Ave cents more on tho
hour AMI didn't have hall a. hard ~ On
grsndpaA
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A bsences Of the Presidents From
Washington.

Some of our esteemed contemporaries
cut up frisky, as it seems to US, when
commenting on the absence OF the Pres
dent from the seat of Government at
Washington, inasmuoh as the real point
now to be considered is not SO much
the place in which the laws are faith
fully executed as the question whether
the execution OF our Federal laws can
anywhere be faithfully supervised by any
one man, so vast is now their number,
and especially since the acquisition Of
the new islands with their present pecu-
liar relations to the President.
The real inquiry needs to be into the
expedient possibility Of diminishing,
instead Of increasing, the work Of the
Washington Government.
During many months now past good
men have, for example, been 50 unhappy
over the capitalization Of corporations
that, under the President lead, they
demanded new department, or bureau,
at Washington to regulate State corpora
tons and the general management
Of private capital. The reason assigned
was that overcapitalization Of corpora
tons enhanced prices and that the laws
oftrade, Of buying and selling, would not,
in due time, regulate the evil. Such
supervision Of private investments, il
faithfully done by the President, would,
OF course, enormously increase his work.
The country has, however, recently
seen that the stock exchanges can in
a few days squeeze enough water
out OF overcapitalization to irrgate
a great deal of arid Western land, and
more than the new Department of Com
merce could extract by years of effort.
II is not easy TO put ones finger, or
pen, on the power IN our Government
which can prescribe place in which
the President shall execute the laws.
Public opinion may ohastise the Presi-
dent for doing it outside of Washington,
but can Congress or the Supreme Court
compel him.
All Presidents have been more or
less absent from the seat of Government,
and among them Presidents possessing
and exhibiting the highest order OF
personal and political virtue.
Twenty-seven years ago the country
was 80 dissatisfied with President
GRANT absences from Washington that
the House rent to him, on April 3, 1878,
resolution OF inquiry whether any
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King Arthur had established the Round Tab'a
just to have the knights take pot luck with me.
he explained glibly.
Later however. Guineverc was disturbed by ind
ing some red white and blue chips IN the royal
pocket
William TEL had lust shot the apple from hts son s
head
ut was green" he explained ncrvouSly, "aud !
had TO do something quick before the boy ate lH
subsequently a more artistic version was given
to the newspapers but Truth crushed 10 earth, VIII
rise again.
Il. Washington was encAmpCd at Valley Forge
The Forge Is all right" said the faithful soldiers
hut where Is the blacksmith"
Don't you know" exclaimed the irate Genera
that he Is under the spreading chestnut trcot
PercelvIng that they had sagaclous leader she5
resumed hammaring the British
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A Theme for September 20.

For the President = address at the Col
lege Of the City of New York in Sep
TENDER there could be no subject more
appropriate than that which was pro-
pounded by his distinguished prede-
cessor, the Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND, in
his very first annual message to the Con-
gress, that of Dec. 3, 1885.
Mr.. CLEVELAND then said to the Senate
and House of Representatives,:
The fathers of our families are the best citizens
of our republic, Wife and children the sources
of patriotism. and conjugal and parental affection
bcget devotion TO the country"
This sentiment of Mr. CLEvELAND's
then himself an unmarried citizen is
notable because it was perhaps the
earliest presentation in State paper by
any President of the United States of
the general theme which has held re-
Gently so prominent place in Mr. RoosE-
vELTs thoughts and utterances.
The circumstance that Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND enunciated this principle nearly
twenty years ago, when he was Presi-
dent, has been generally overlooked
1t detracts nothing, however, from the
originality or the merit of Mr.. RoosE-
vELTs own discussion of the same ques-
ton later.
Mr.. CLEVELAND, also, is expected to be
present and to speak at the Inauguration
of President FINLEY Of the City College
1t would be particularly graceful act
on the part of President ROOSEVELT to
recognize on that occasion his prede
cessor's earlier interest in the great sub
ject of the relation of matrimony to
patriotism and civic virtue.
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executive Offices, acts or duties mad
within the them last seven years been
performed elsewhere than at the seat
of Government. He denied any au-
thority in the House to require Of him
such an account OF his discharge OF his
purely executive duties. II the inquiry
was made to get evidence for impeach-
ment. the House could not, he pleaded,
require the President to be a witness
against himself. He refused to answer
in detail, but confessed that he had been
in the habit of absentine himself from
Washington and discharging elsewhere
his executive duties. The point OF tine
inquiry was not so much mere absence
as doing executive acts when absent.
Probably the position taken by Presi-
dent GRANT in defiance of the House,
and in defence Of his Constitutional
prerogative was sound; yet, while the
President of the United States has rights
to be firmly held by him, he also has
duties to be performed in u manner
convenient for the other officers of the
Government. If President GRANT had
insisted that his physical health or
safety required him to remain at Long
Branch all the year, perhaps Congress
and the country would have been with
out remedy He might have said that
in his opinion he could there discharge
his executive functions by post or tele-
graph, as we'll as in Washington by oral
conferences The Constitution OF The
United States has not, in expressed words,
provided for such a case, excepting by
it's provision for seat of Government.
The example set by the late illustrious
Pontiff, who has so recently laid down,
on the summons of the Master he served,
the executive functions so bravely,
efficiently and constantly fulfilled by him
at the Vatican--functions as vast, both
in legislative and executive sense.
as those exercised by any ruler in Europe,
Asia or America-has lesson Of SELF
sacrifice that is too obvious to require
explanatory comment.
While refusing details regarding him.
self, GRANT sent to the House MEM
orandum, prepared in the State Depart
ment, of daily absences OF Presidents
down to LINCOLN. The executive acts
done during such absences were specified.
These were the Presidents and their days
of absence:
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The Pennington School.

PENNINGTON, Conn, Aug. 3 The rumor
that the Pennington school for girls founded
by Miss Sarah Porter is to be changed in
nature. or even abandoned. il now said to
be wholly without foundation. The school
has been for Il few weeks without a principal,
but the trustees announce that Mrs, Robert
Porter Keep will assume the executive di-
rection until a permanent head can be secured.
Mrs Keep was specially designated by Miss
Porter IA one whom she desired TO act with
her trustees in the management of the school.
lines without change In character or aim
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An interesting question in political Ell
quette and sociological ethics will be pre-
scented to the voters in the Mississippi prima
ries to-day for the choice of a candidate for
Governor to be voted for in November.
This question does not relate TO the fitness
or qualifications Of the candidates, local
matter but to the circumstance that each
Of the three has different title One is a
Major, another is Judge and third s a
Senator. II the con test we're in Georgia. the
Judge or "Jedge' would have, unques-
tionably, the right of way politically 1.-THE
contest were In Texas, there Is little doubt
that the designation Of Major would carry
the possessor TO triumph at the primaries,
In neighboring Tennessee, where the for
mula -once a Senator always a Senator"
has had considerable historical acceptance,
the choice could be foretod. Mississippi,
which has Judges Majors and Senators in
abundance, has no established preference.
What preference will it record to-day?
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dition, subtraction, multiplication and
division are wonderfully exact. Spell
ing, like education, is being reformed.
Why force anybody to learn it while it
is in fluid or uncertain state? Writing
is already obsolete. Arithmetic may
be only a survival. Business men ex-
pect too much.
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AntlseptiC Money Wanted.

TO THE EDITOR OF The SrN--Tr' wish TO call
your attention to the unclean paper money now In
circulation. 1t seems strangely Inconsistent with
prevailing ideas OF cleanliness and antisepticlsm.
This is the Antiseptic Age-the era OF germ dis
covery and humiliation. The daily papers herald
the finding Of new bacillus as an event OF para
mount Importance. Chcckmating the microbe has
been the most important work Of modern medicine
and surgery,
AT last the advantages of cleanliness absolute
and uncompromlslng. have become apparent; for
the aim and object OF antscptcisn Is simply clean
Illness, and the Idea is brought 10 bear on most OF
tho affairs OF life.
Is II not strange. then, 10 see the surgeon that
high priest OF the anScptIc take for his fee. with
out murmur, paper currency which Is certainly
nlthy and probably an excellent cupure for disease
microbes OF every variety" 70 the woman
who carries cleanliness 20 the limits, clasp the
treasury note in her dainty hand. and, o, horror
sometimes hold II with her teeth
Would a bundle OF our bank notes. take them as
they run pass quarantine
WHY are we obliged 10 handle such money! In
France and England business Is done with crisp
clean bills and shining gold Why shouldn't We uSe
bills that we can handle without tongS'
BaooKLYN Aug O. JANIS q. SANFORD.
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Salaries OF Presbyterian Ministers.

From me ChurCh Economist
The Rev, Dr. W. II Roberts stated clerk OF The
General Assembly. furnishes the following eStl'
mate OF salaries OF ministers far as the PreSby
terian Church il concerned. one hundred minis
tiers receive a salary Of s. 900 or more 800 receive
from $500 TO a. 900 and 700 receive between 900
aud $500 In other words OF the 1900 ministers,
less than H., In 100 paid 5000 slightly over in
100 receive 49, 500 or nlorc and about II in 100
cclyc 60 OOO or more
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The Conclave's holding out through the
third day without making choice seems
to give a pretty effective answer to the
stories that were spread about the Sacred
College being packed. OF course the need
of two-thirds majority Of all the Cardinals
present makes the election more difficult.
But never, perhaps, was Papal election
more open
Reports Of what is going on within the
Conclave are the idlest of rumors Nothing
will be known till the new Pope is ANNOUNCED.
Then, as the lips of the participants will be
unsealed, the full details of the election will
be told.
Whoever he new Pope may be, he is sure
to be man OF excellent character and chosen
from a religious standpoint. Never in his
tory has the moral standard Of the Sacred
College been higher, and selfinterest, even,
has been imputed to remarkably few candi-
dates. The privation of temporal power,
too, for whole generation has removed
political influence in great part from the
election. The new Pope will be a religious
Pope for the whole Catholic Church.