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4 Most Extraordinary Inquest.

'. An uncommoply. searching question
Was addressed Yesterday by Mr. HENRY
w. TAFT to the Parker Constitution
Club of this town.
ha are the specific acts OF Mr.. ROOSEVELT
which me members Of this club as idrvers believe
to he unconstitutional"
This question is suggested to Mr..
TAFT by the recent announcement OF
the clubs executive committee:
The club will make hasty assertions and
take no hasty action. 1t will investigate the full
records OF some OF President RoosEvELT's acts,
such as his adding sl20oo 900 to the pension rolls
by his executive order his real connection with
The Panama affair and other matters in mhieh ne has
orer, dden the Constitution. The club will be per
,fectly just to him. II will him Of what he
ought TO be accused OF and wtve him credit for the
g. things that he deserves credit for"
Here, as Mr.. TAFT gently intimates. is
a body of eminent jurisconsults decar-
ing in the same sentence that they have
already reached the conclusion that the
Constitution has been violated by Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT and that they propose
to proceed, not as partsans, but as law
yers and with absolute judicial impair
TALLY, to investigate his record to ascer-
tain whether that is So
Under these circumstances we think
that not only every lawyer, but every in
telligent citizen will await with unusual
interest the results of the investigation
by this self-constituted grand jury of
lawyers and constitutional experts which
begins proceedings by announcing the
guilt of the accused.
Without expressing any opinion in
advance on the merits of the case before
the club, we shall merely add to Mr..
TAFT's remarks one inexpugnable state
ment of fact:
If the Parker Constitution Club, as
lawyers, discover specific acts of Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT in violation of the
Constitution which he has sworn to obey
il will be their duty as lawyers to demand
not merely his defeat at the polls but his
Impeachment.
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kUROPATkIN,S DEFEAT.
His Present Position Compared TO That
Of wellington in Portugal.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUs-Sr. Severs
as has been General Kuropatkins defeat
at Liaoyang on ground OF his own selection
1t falls short OF the disaster that at one mo-
ment seemed imminent. Indeed. il may Inc
that the failure OF the Japanese commando
to secure the conclusive victory that an.
peared 10 be within his grasp will prove in
have been the saving OF the situation for
Russia. Although he has suffered heavy
losses in men and material aud been ONT.
nanPuvred the fact that he has been able
to oxtricate himself from a perlous position
in spite Of the almost superhumau efforts
OF the japanese is evidence both of the ability
Of General Kuropatkin and the quality of
his troops and these will be the more clearly
recognized when we come 10 learn the truth
aud full details Of the plans of tho Japaue,.
him. That these were as complete as could
be, and carried out with conspicuous deyo.
the tssrs 81 the no Ie0 Of
the latter days Of the fighting
Any stand that the Russians may make
purpose Of gaining time and DELAYING the
Japanese advance. whilo on the Japanese
side their progress must necessarily be slack
that will be required for another action Of
any consequence. and in order 10 give the
army much needed rest.
more favorable to the operations OF the Rus.
sian cavalry, of which we have heard very
little OF late and which is estimated 10 bc from
fifteen to eighteen Thousand strong
But the outcome Of the ,Liaoyane defeat
will remain the same whether the Japanesa
are checked or not in the remaining phase
OF the summers campaign; they are now in
control OF all southern Manchuria, with no
risk to their communications by sea or land.
and therefore able TO place every available
man in their front line. ready for the nett
forward movement.
For the present. the Russian operations
in Corea are not to be taken seriously there
being no men to spare for such distant enter.
prises, the objects Of which are really more
political than military since the Japanese
no longer depend upon Corea for supplies or
Every man that Gen. X uropatkin can muster
east Of Lake Baikal or receive from Europe
during the next two months will be needed
to maintain him well to the south Of Hsr.
bin. For this reason his next stand will have
to be made not too far TO the north Of Muk-
den, unless the losses and fatigue OF the Jap.
anese army afford him opportunities before
he reaches there His position generally
resembles that Of WELLINGTON when he was
falling back on Torres Vedras in his Porm.
guese campaign. F.
NEW YORK, Sept S.
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Where the Police Were; where
They We're Not.

1t is interesting to observe the manner
in which the peace officers of this COM
munity are distributed by their superior
officers for the purpose of depressing
lawlessness, protecting the law abiders
and enforcing generally the criminal
statutes. Early on Sunday morning
three policemen, suspecting that the
law against liquor selling was disobeyed
in resort on West Forty-second street
entered it and obtained evidence which
seemed to justify the arrest of two en-
ployees of the establishment. While the
officers we're collecting evidence two
women entered the room in which they
sat
1t is not alleged that these women
committed any criminal act within the
knowledge OF the policemen. Notwith-
standing this the policemen arrested
them, although they must have known,
as the outcome of their activities proved,
that the courts would not hold the i'm
properly accused persons.
Eighteen hours later, in one of the most
densely populated quarters of the city,
two men endeavored TO take a young
woman away from her escort. The
young woman ran, and the escort at
tempted to punish her assailants for the
insult they had put upon her. While
the three men we're struggling upon the
sidewalk two men drove up to the scene
of the encounter in a buggy. One of the
men in the buggy carried revolver,
with which he shot two of the fighters on
the sidewalk. This being done, the occu-
pants Of the buggy drove away, nor have
they since been seen by the police.
While this peculiar incident was pro-
ceeding TO a conclusion no policeman
was at hand. The news reports declare
that after the shooting had been done
the wounded men lay for half an hour
where they had fallen before any guar
dian of the peace reached the scene of
the disturbance. Not unnaturally, the
police haven't an idea as to the identity
of the men in the buggy, or Us to the
motive that prompted them to take part
in the scrimmage.
These incidents from the days news
point to a weakness in the police system
Of New York that should be remedied.
Three men employed in detecting the
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ured prose. His hand, rather the Nov
ing Finger Of Inspiration, jots down II
few lines, when, 10! the miracle.

ured prose. His hand, rather the Nov
ing Finger Of Inspiration, jots down Il
few lines, when, 10! the miracle:
After few hundred words had been set down.
In an almost automatic manner. the writing began
to take shape as heroic verse which at once proved
to he an easier and more sustaining mode OF cx.
preston than prose-far easier and more helpful
to the mind than the prose am now writing"
1t is not heroic verse, but blank verse
that wrote itself for the Professor. So
industrious WAS the automatic machine
that, with practically no real toll the
Professor turned you out five plays,
each with full set of five acts. Twenty
five acts Of automatic verse The ma
chine writes lyrics, too. In fact, ANY
old kind of verse is manufactured by
Prof SHALER's automaton with the
greatest of ease. There is good reason
to hope that Prof. SMALLER, whose poetry
is much admired in Cambridge, will yet
put out at least five specimens of every
known variety of verse.
We don't know whether Prof. SHALER
has had himself patented or not, At any
rate, he is a friend of learning and in
genuous youth. Mr.. DoBBs and all other
sincere inquirers will hear something to
their advantage by applying to the
Professor
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Our Increasing Export OF Manufact-
ured Goods,

The statistics of our export trade in
manufactured goods show a gratifying
and an encouraging increase during re-
cent months. Maintaining their pres
ent rate, our exports Of such goods for
the current fiscal year promise to reach,
if not to exceed, a total of $500, 900, 900.
For the fiscal we ar 1895 the amount was
SlS3, sos, 743.
The submitted figures of the mme-
date time are not given in sufficient
detail to make possible an analysis of
the causes OF this interesting increase.
1T is doubtless due in some measure to
unsolicited orders for appliances, tools
and implements with which users in
other lands have become more or less
acquainted through various channels
and the superiority Of which they have
come to recognize. This is illustrated
in such lines as agricultural implements,
electrical supplies, scientific instru-
ments and other devices which are sold
to considerable extent because of de-
mand for them rather than as a result
of an active and aggressive solicitation
of trade.
There is a matter of more important
interest in the question Of how far this
increase is attributable to American
aggressive trade activity in foreign
markets. The facts at least suggest
the possibility that We are now really
beginning to spell Commerce with a
capital C. They also suggest that ere
long it may be impossible to describe
us as we were recently pictured by the
correspondent of the London Times,
who said:
SO far as foreign trade In manufactured prod
ucts Is concerned, the truth Is that
foreign trade In any systematic way is now beyond
the knowledge Of this people was almost tempted
to that 1t was beyond their desires or intentions
That, In an indefinite way. they would like to have
a foreign trade Is perhaps true; but the reason
that they have been accustomed for so long time
TO look TO the home market makes II impossible
for them 10 take the steps that would give them
any considerable share OF the foreign markets.
After all, Americans are the most conservative
people In all the world far outside conditions
are concerned, and so. where these are concerned
they content to 60 doing foreign trade that
10 merely Complementary of the home trade II
Count GoLUcHowsEI and some OF the German
Russian and French dreamers could only recogn lze
tine real truth about this people. they would have
little reason to concern themselves with their new
boyle the American Industrial peril"
While this description does not en-
tirely correspond with the prevalent
American opinion of American trade
energy, it is, in general way, both fair
and accurate. Yet, should our present
pace continue, it is possible that in the
course of another ten years Count Co
LUcHowsKI and his colleagues may have
something besides a @bogie" on which
to rest their approximations.
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THE PORTO RICO CIGAR.
One Americana Experience in Tobacco
Culture in the Island.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Su' In Sep
TENDER. 1901. my partner went TO the island
OF Porto Rico with the idea Of investigating
as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of buying plantation
for the purpose Of raising cacao. which We
both thought would be a profitable invest.
ment. After travelling over the island for
two months he returned and we decided to
start in a very small way. and while we have
not given up the idea OF raising oacao, and
are now planting trees. which will come into
bearing in five or six years. we have been
obliged in q measure to allow this idea 10
become secondary.
At the time Of our taking over the planta-
ton, there was some tobacco left over from
the previous crop. This tobacco was made
into cigars, and sent North. No one could
have been more prejudiced against Porto
Rican cigars than / was | had tried some OF
the product Of the island and had found them
bitter, strong, and musty These cigars
were tossed aside without much thought,
but later they came to my attention. and
ttynS 9ee not bsd a Sad bee1
scented. Taking them to one, OF our best
tobacconists, was very much surprised to
have been daily increasing our output, until
now the demand is 80 great that we are hardly
We have increased our plantation by buy
to6a seo. and attend entirely 70 its curing
This year with careful cultivation our per-
centage OF wrappers was over sixty. while
the native tobacco, unoultivated and infer
tilted, does not Weld more than forty per
cent. .
We are now employing the same methods
in caring for our crops and in curing our
tobacco as are used in Cuba. and while this is
more expensive than the old Porto hican
way. we have been more than rewarded BY
the tobacco and the large increase OF our
crop, Each shipment OF cigars seems better tie,
in quality And EGrkmanship than tne iss
cigar which. while not eanalling , the CUBAN ban
proves conclusively that a good cigar can No
made froln the despised Porto Rican tobacco.
a cigar which is mild in favor, and agreeable
in quality.
My belief is strong in the future q Porto
Rico Her great resources are still lying
undeveloped. waiting for American capital.
WHICH is sure to come. and which VIII taks
to the high state of excellence which will
place her In the position in the world which
Is hers by right. u.
PosTON, Sept ..
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Eastern mind, when her role of protector

Eastern mind, when her role of protector
ia renowned.
NJ. CoMBEs, for his part, takes bust
ness view of the protectorate. There
was some sense, he says, in the discharge
by France of tutelary attitude towards
the votaries of the Catholic faith the
world over, when she still deserved the
title of "the eldest daughter of the
Church" 1t was natural that the eldest
daughter should protect her younger
sisters should aid and defend them
whenever they we're in need or danger
There is no propriety, he thinks. in the
retention Of the role by the French Re-
public, which has long ceased to think of
itself as affiliated by conviction or senti-
ment to the Catholic Church. More
over, the younger sisters are full grown,
and resent the presumption that their
children require assistance which their
own parent is unable to render them
According to NJ. CoMBEs, each nation
should look after its own citizens, what
ever creed they may profess. Austria
Hungary, Spain or Italy is, in his opin-
ion, quite competent to protect Aus
trian, Spanish or Italian subjects, with
out support from France. M. CoMBEs
seems to be not at all worried by the re-
port that the Vatican, if the Concordat
is abolished, may transfer the protec-
torate of Catholic Christians in the East
from France to Austria Hungary. He
is too true friend, he says, to the Vienna
Government, to wish to see it undertake
an onerous and thankless task; if it
chose to do so, France would look on, not
with jealousy, but with sympathy.
NJ CoMBEs insists that it is not the
civil power, but the Church, which by
its conduct has rendered separation
necessary. Although, under the Con-
cordat, Bishops were to be nominated by
the French Government, but appointed
by the Pope, it has become he says, a
matter Of principle with the Vatican to
reject all the candidates proposed by
the present Premier so that there are
now in France no fewer than eight
empty Bishoprics. Moreover, public
opinion will no longer permit the civil
power to punish refractory Bishops as
the first NAPOLEON punished them, to-
wit, by Imprisonment. The only re-
naming way Of enforcing compliance
with the wishes of the civil administra-
ton is to stop the payment of salaries.
1t is well known that under the Con-
cordat, the stipends of Bishops and
priests in France are paid by the Govern
ment.
The French Premier processes to con-
cur with some members Of the Catholic
hierarchy in thinking the Bishops and
priests would benefit signally by an
abolition of the Concordat. The sti-
ponds hitherto received from the civil
power would, he predicts, be exceeded
tenfold by the voluntary contributions
of parishioners. Those who are CONVEX
SAINT with the penurious habits of French
peasants take less optimistic view of
the prospects of the French clergy.
There seems, however, to be but lite
doubt that the experiment will be t. I'd,
and that, through the reputation of the
Concordat, Catholic Bishops and Catholic
priests will find themselves in France on
precisely the footing which they occupy
in the United States.
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opinion whatever. None visited him ex-
cept specialists In that particular line, 1t
was not possible to distinguish between
those who would hereafter buy because OF
what they had seen at the exposition ana
those who would buy anyway because they
wanted that special line and make. But
he referred TO the visit OF Japanese TO
whom he had given samples few days be-
fore, and said that the possible orders from
those samples might good deal more than
cover the amount spent on the exhibit.
Here and there an exhibitor states that
sales or orders have already covered the
outlay, though perhaps large majority
are doubtful about the immediate returns
from sales or orders and rest their hopes
on the point Of general advertising.
Some Of the foreign exhibitors have al
ready made considerable sales. Others are
quite Disguised and regret having come here
The truth OF the matter is that while some
exhibitors, both domestic and foreign
have done fair amount OF business, the
majority have done little or none, either
because they are not seeking sales or or
ders OF because people do not want what
they have to sell. 1t is generally admitted
that the visitors thus far have not been
buying crowd The majority do not come
with the idea Of buying anything, with the
possible exception OF some little souvenir.
cheap and useless. but a souvenir. The
majority OF those who are here, and OF those
who have been here. are from that class
which Abraham Lincoln called the common
people" Their means are limited and their
needs and wants are supplied from the local
store in their own vicinity. Now and again
a mechanic or a small manufacturer sees
some tool or appliance which he can use In
his business, but, on the whole, the fair
is not so much market az a circus and
university
Before the fair closes, the aggregate OF
direct sales and of orders taken will doubt
less reach a very respectable figure. How
large the sum will be must depend on the
attendance during the last third Of the
exposition. All are hoping. some are be-
lieving and many are trying to convince
themselves that September, October and
November will bring food OF people with
taste to appreciate wares and with money
to buy them; that it will bring merchants
and manufacturers from the North and the
East who will place orders for goods OF
many kinds and for machines, tools and
appliances Of many sorts. 1t is hoped that
ST. Louis will repeat the experience OF
Chicago and see the greatest prosperity
of its exposition during the closing days.
when the fear of discomfort from heat
will have ceased to be deterrent
Such investigation as 1t has been posi-
BILE to make thus far indicates that the
practical benefits OF the fair have been in
the line of general education rather than in
the direction Of trade and commerce. But
the fair is only half over yet and there is a
possibility that before it closes it may prove
a trade maker
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Tn. "septsrlaus" Of West virginia,

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-.Sir: Some West
VIrginans have been palned to see your continued
reference 10 the age OF Mr. Gassaway Davis. !
enclose newspaper clipping which certainly should
convince you that age In the highlands OF West Vir
plnia In which are the towns OF Durbin and Elklns
has not the terrors ihat has in the lowlands
OF New York In fact, am credibly Informed that
many men 60 years OF age can be seen In each
autumn playing football In that high and rarched
air where the head springs OF the Potomac.
Monongahela, Grcenbrler. Elk. Gauley and James
rivers. Surely now you must admit that Uncle
Gassaway is only In the prime OF his manhood
MONTANA SKMPRR LIBHR,.
CBARLEsToS W. Va Sept. 4.
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VIII Odell Follow Hill ?
From the Boston Daily Advertise

FrOnl The BOSTON TdNV Idrerfsfr
The solemn promise of ID. b. Hill to get
out of politics with the gladstone New Year
brings square issue before Governor Odell
Of the same State. Odel sees the Spartan
f1rmness with which the unlucky Hill has
effaced himself. And surely the question
must haunt odell night and day; What
about me?" Is there anything that Hill has
been to his party that Odell has not been to
his? II Hill has lost the Democrats many
votes, are they more than those lost by Odell
to his party? II Hill is willing TO immediate
himself upon his party's altar. will Odell
refuse to climb the ghaut? Mr. Odel has
been willing to sacrifice many other noted
Republicans in his varioloid political career.
Hill did the same. with great neatness and
despatch. But now Hill offers himself And
the meek but anxious eyes OF several millions
OF New Workers. are turning TO Governor
Odell in touching inquiry.
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Prof. Shaler's Automatic Verse;
Writer.

WTltcT.
Here is q man who wants music in his
feet and he wants it at once:
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--.sir: | am an
advertisement writer. doing fairly well. No COM
plant coming about my ordinary work, but quito
. big neld which cannot cover as yet. There u
a fair and increasing demand for advertisements
In rhyme, bits OF verse. &c. want this kind OF
business. Have read no verse. except a few hymns
when was boy. Forgotten most OF them.
must learn 10 write poetry. What do you advise
me to read ard study for this purpose, / want
the very shortest cut and best method.
ST LOUIS sept. g. II. DosBs"
The leading case in Poetry Without a
Master in Few Easy Lessons is that
of Prof. NATHANIEL SoUTHGATR SHALER,
the eminent geologist, paleontologst,
zoologist and Observation-Disclosures of Har-
ward University. Prof. SHALER has
given many years to the cultivation of
many sciences. In boyhood he dabbled
at verse making, but from eighteen
to sixty odd he stuck to nature study
At length he found that he was bored
by SHAKEsPEARE's plays, Of which he
had once been fond. The similar ex-
perience of CHARLES DARWIN, the Eng
lish SHALER, was familiar to the Pro-
lessor. Mr.. DARWIN, in his youth
lover of poetry and the drama, confessed
that his long, exclusive devotion to
scientific pursuits "had not only de-
stroyed his enjoyment Of literature, but
had made dramatic works, even those Of
the highest order positively distasteful
to him.
Mr.. DARWIN never got back that lost
delight. Prof. SMALLER, as he tells the
world, resolved TO find by experiment
if scientific work inevitably leads to
loss of imaginative power His
imagination apparently gone, his en-
ioyment of imaginative literature para
lyzed, himself unable to build the lofty
rhyme or to enjoy the buildings of other
makers, he set to work. He selected
the spacious times of great ELIZABETH.
He knew little or nothing about that
period What he had read about it he
had forgotten. But he was bold, and
his friends, one almost suspects, were
little facetious with him. They seem to
have suggested to him that an Eliza
bethan' drama would be the best test
of his powers. We needn't remind Mr..
DoBBs that an Elizabethan drama is
longer, and probably harder to write,
than any advertisement which his stu
dio is likely to be called on to furnish.
Bravely, but to no purpose, Prof.
SMALLER began the great task. Or rather,
he couldn't begin it. The labor was re-
pugnant to him. The numbers wouldn't
flow. The lines would not be laid out.
For some time it looked as if the Virgin
Queen was not to be sung or said by
not the least extraordinary of her vo-
tarics.
Keep a sharp lookout now, MIR. DORIS!
There lies the paper, virgin as the Queen.
Here sits or walks the Professor, signing
and sweating, yanking out handfuls of
his ambrosial hair and tugging at the
Homeric beard, shot through with Grim
son stras Us. He is thinking Of meas