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General Omcsr, Iinled in nattls.

From Hs Army and Nary Journal
From the archives OF the COniederacv on
deposit in the War Department the Military
Secretary, Maior-Gen Ainsworth has brought
10 light some interesting data concerning tho
commanders Of the Confederate forces In The
field in the fateful days OF is6i-o5.
Deductug eleven names OF officers who did
not qualify for one reason or another va
have in this list as Generals. and tho records
given show that Of these - were killed or NOR
tally wounded in action. OF IS per cent
This Is very striking showing when We
recall the almost entire immunity Of tho Rus
sian and japanese armies fighting IN Man
churia from fatal casualties 20 general on
Gers We recall but one who has been To.
ported killed in battle IN the Far East, aud
there are others they must be- very few WHERE
"a the percentaCe OF casualties among We
general officers Of the Confederacy are far IN
excess Of the percentage OF casualties among
the rank and fle Of the Russian and Japane-e
best OF facilities for learning the facts No
less than - general officers Of the CouiederaCy
were killed In battle during the eleven mohtLtt
OF campaigning and the eight month, ~
fighting comIsencng with Grants Battle OF
the Wilderness and ending with AppomalloA
Ten Brigadiet- Generals or the Union a'tD
were also killed during this CamralgH, Oe
sides n Colonies commanding bUgil',ito
Of them At Cold HarbOr alone. AZ fffhan"
7 Confederate Generals were KILLED. ana G l,ly
ing Shermgn's campaign s, the mon M8S
losing g. AZ Gettysburg Confederate eng
Union Generals were killed, 10 IN all. NesIass,
> Union Colonies commanding brlgal'1,. ~
Fredericksburg Union and ? Lon''1eIHS
Generals were killed. In oil. tho Union Atinl
lost in Killed or MORALLY wounded sd fehfIs,
Officers. % brevet BHgadicT. GeueraI' anu ~
Colonies commanding brigades. .,,,.,
Taking the proportion as one Fl'r0 'otY
wounded. this would indicate that 4u. o.i',,,
crate Generals were killed or wounded on, o .. q
total Of as. Probably, however thc feu,LW
oflcers were the selected victims Of mo 'LaIlt
shooter who shot 20 Kill in orc reg mem
Of the civil war suhieCted 20 tho or1.lal
casualties Of bat tie the First Minnesota AZ NtI.
tyEburR. - per cent Of those euEaf'l vi
killed and 50 per cent. we're killed ana va. lH|i
In - other re giments the perCentaE' or ~
in different battles was - or moro ~
ratio OF killed 20 wounded In ~ hn'Nrs ol .,e
civil war was I 10 - varying ''IN.,,
20 az williamsburg and 20 : 81 Nsstsa,
Post. The average among tho ReEII1t U"llJ
was to45a Tho MORALLY wounded ,-'t
90 per cont. OF those killed ouir'E, 1T -,
German army during the war with France ne
propOrt ion was 81 per cent.
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are said 10 find these intimate studies OF
social life nearly a. remote 10 them "a
they seem TO forelgneU. For what was
dramatic in the older sense Of the word
they have slight patience. They are In
terested only In the subtle analysis Of
the relations between the sexes, usually
complicated by the curious social condi-
tions that are most common In Partisan
plays and novels The trinity with two
Of it's members In wedlock and one Of
them outside Is the combination that
stin appeals most 10 the French play
wright and the Paris public. Occasion
ally a figure like RosTAND rises 80 far
above his compatriots that he can even
ignore the material they use. Then the
French theater acquires general Inter-
est which it does not possess when its
ordinary subjects are handled.
The general appeal Of RosTAND S plays
has carried them through the civilized
world, while the productions Of his con-
temporaries rarely cross the borders Of
France. It Is unfortunate that their
dramas are not more frequently acted
in this country. Their literary style and
the finish of their technique would make
them interesting In spite OF our lack Of
sympathy with their subjects. The com
mercial managers, anxious as they are for
new material, have not produced In re-
cent years many Of the French dramas,
Those plays that have been acted here
have not done much toward acquainting
The American public with the French
stage. They have been indiferently and
hurriedly translated and carelessly per-
formed in many cases. It was not posi-
bic from the plays seen here TO form an
estimate of the character Of the originals.
II these works are worth bringing here
at all they should be seen in form
that shows their greatest merits. They
should be translated or adapted In a way
that reproduces the spirit when not the
letter Of the original. They should be
carefully prepared for performance by
persons capable Of understanding them
and the meaning Of their authors. Then
the actors must be moro suited 70 their
work than some Of those seen recently
IN French plays In New York.
All these desirable elements viii be
present in the plays the new association
presents. They will have every favora-
bic circumstance TO success. Produced
as the new association promises 70 pro-
duoe them, the French drama will be an
interesting contribution 10 next years
amusements in this city. And there is no
better stimulus for the native drama
than new plays by men Of talent, from
whatever country they may come.
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FARMHANDs NEEDED.

With immigration larger than over be-
fore, the great need OF our Eastern farms
Is still unsupplied. The cry from rural
New York IL that farm labor Is scarce and
dear: deficient in both quantity and quality,
for much Of Il h Unframed and unreliable.
Many foreign farmhands and small farmers
are still coming here, but AZ for many years
past they remain In the cities or pass through
the East 10 the West, and our farmers bene-
ht little by their advent.
The New York State Department Of
Agriculture Is now planning to attract
desirable immigrants TO our farming dis
triots Commissioner Wieting, empow-
ered by recent legislation. Is preparing lists
OF questions concerning the dAirying, fruit,
pasture, hay and other agricultural inter-
ests OF every part OF the State. These
questions will be sent 10 the town Super
yisors, and under the Law II is their duty
TO fill the blanks and return them to Albany
within thirty days. This information,
showing the advantages OF the State for
the small farmer and the agricultural
laborer, is to be widely distributed where
It is likely to do the most good.
A turning point has been reached, and
Eastern farmers have every reason to eK-
poet that the rewards OF their occupation
will again DO more commensurate with
their natural advantages, The supply OF
Uncle Sans free homes.eads In the West
Is practically exhausted. Free pasturage
IN the West Ia also greatly declining. The
time is approaching when the farmers OF
the North Atlantic States will reclaim their
own.
They lost the primacy In stock raising
not because the West can make as good
hay or produce as good grass as the North
Atlantic States, TO, It cannot do so; but
because grass could be had in the West
for next TO nothing That day has now
gone by.
The Mississippi Valley will retain It's
primacy in the production Of cereals, but
practically all our agricultural leaders, like
Prof. Bailey OF Cornell are predicting that
the East is TO become far more important in
the production Of live stock, dairy stufs
and fruit. With the greatest markets
near at hand and the present tendency to
adapt more perfectly the kind OF farm prod
uots to the soil and climate, the Eastern
farmers have their decided and peculiar
advantages, and they will be fully utilized.
These conditions have 10 do with the
fact that our New York farmers are max
ing more money to-day than was possible
q few years ago. What Ia needed now IL
to attract plenty Of good labor TO the farms
as long as the supply is not equal to the
growing demand; and the least that can
be done in this direction is to enHghten the
world as 10 the greatness Of the agricul-
tural resources and opportunities Of the
Empire Stata
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ArorthsominE Epic Announced.

IF0f7 me lOrk tT1fHc.
one thing may come out OF tho Russo Japanese
war an epic poem such as has not appeared for
centuries Conditions are right In either Of the
warning nations 70 produce a masterpiece that viii
compare favorably with the IliAd. the Jerusalem or
the Hneld. But Japan will furnish forth the poet.
The japanese Imagination Is said 70 be thing
that knows no bounds-as free as nature herself.
japan will not have 20 borrow from tho mythology
OF antauity-clAssioAl Anuquty-her models Of
gods and heroes She is well supplied with both,
Her religion Is an eNhaustless storehouso from
which tbs poet can draw al the fanciiul material
This war will furnish the scene and the few neces
sary facts The Japanese language Is an ample
vehicle to carry an Immortal song.
The poet will come from the lower classes. His
home will be far from th1sc japanese cities wherein
enlightenment has spread. he will be very or
dinary individual IN thn estimation Of his country
men locAlly recognized As a minstrel OF some merit.
All the poets Of clvlr1'd nations We are told. are
cold and heariless rmcsters. Imagination Is In
It's zenith IN half cvinz'd lands Civilization pro-
duces critics. Homers aud TAsspt grow out OF the
vfids Alfred Austin Ia renned 10 a nnish. the
product OF the highest civilization ever known.
Homer was a blind child Of the wilderness poor.
homeless vagabond, occupying smaller station
In the world OF his time than Is held by an Italian
organ grinder OF 10 day. But he leit MS treasure
which man viii worship forever. Alfred will leave
US some sheets OF pspcr with which we may make
kites or wAi a shotgun.
Macaulay predicted that In the year twenty
eight hundred and something a Japanese would
produce an epic on the battle OF Waterloo. But the
japanese now has battles OF his own. lie will at
tend 10 his home markets INST.
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O, Sweet Sam Bowles!

High noon, Thursday. A gracious
figure in a dark purple songcoat, a red
Tam o. Shanter, and sneakers in whose
polished surface the dandelions could
sec how bilious they looked. The apple
blossoms shook themselves over it. The
red COWS lowed long and tenderly at il,
Phalaris, Sol GRIFFINs black and tan
bull, with the hay on his horn, charged
at IL playflTy. Maybirds sang around
it. The well known Boston terrier Bolo
Bill capered and barksd at IT, The
grass whispered TO It. The cocks crowed
at IT, The remnants Of every family
washing still visible on the lines along
the line Of walk gave the Chautauqua
salute. The poetry season in Agawam
was opened, Sweet SAM BowLEs fills
himself with the May wine Of song:
Now Oolumbns in is gypsy beauty dances on
the rocks like as In the pantomime when hGrle.
quln waves bis wand. The harlequin Is none other
than the vvAclous spring, and his magic II re.
sponded 10 BY the violets and snemOnes in myTiHds
while trilllums and the snowy orehis answer; and
In the swamps the Eoldthread sends IL starry
greeting 70 the STAN which shine upon Il down
through the light lsAvcd trees and the budding
hGetmstSoks. and around the swamp In the green
ing sphSTnum the esssAndra and GndromsdA Ere
sWayinE their graceful Bells
In the beautiful words Of ZENAs Muo
TIDD, the BOwLEs Of Toad Hill
heard the trtlllums trliumlng. the trlls and tn,
thrills that shock
saw In the mash Whsrs the bunfrou pash the
CLEAN Of the Eoldthrsad's OoOG
In the rreeninG sphagnun
opened a mAgnun,
o. trinI o. tnlllums, o. Boeki"
But back to the melody Of those bells,
the graceful bells, the bells Of the old
brown mare in the hulled corn cart. A
moody and solitary race, the drivers Of
hulled corn carts; but this one weeps
happy tears as the heavenly music is
pumped out
The robins are calling. and the orols dsshss
It's splendid color beneath the apple bouThs. hum
ming with bees; and SonEspGrrow sings from the
fence post and the swsyinE POI lAr and the wGrbss
nIt from tree 70 tree and bush 10 bush, In lively
delight IN song
hODln anu OIlolef eonBSpdIIOH anu
songbowles. warblers all. Bolo Bill
dashes his splendid color at Phalaris.
The brook gurgles. So does fat squat
black object, apparently Of glass, in the
hands Of the hulled corn cart man. He
huns, MARBLES, sways. The old black
mare. having had her fill Of roadside
grass, joys on. From the meads OF
Agawam comes the mystic warning
As to the eusp OF the moon
We leave the poet just as he Is hanging
his sneakers" on the cusped moon. o,
Sweet SAM BowLEs!
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To TIE Enron or TIE SuN-Sir, invite your
attention land that Of any who may be interested,
onciAlly or otherwiss TO the deplorable condition
OF one Of our principal thorouEnfares, used per.
hAps a. extensively and traversed nv ~ many
people ~ any In the city, and rs condition would
disgrace a country village.
! refer 70 the walk connecting Broadway With the
PARK row station, VIA the city Han Park, on a llBa
formed by continuance OF Warren street Every
time Il rains this piece OF walk Abounds In pools Of
water. anywhere from one 70 three or four Inches
deep. through which thousands OF pedestrians
must splash and wade, 10 get TO aud from the PARK
row station and the subway terminals. IL Is In
wretehed shape dry or wet, but particularly wet
II would be a matter Of no very great e1pcnss
70 lay a good walk graded 30 that the water would
run OF a. either side. and the walk be comparatively
dry and smooth AZ all times. WIN not somebody
DO something about ~ VOC.
NV YoHW, NAV IL
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4 RADIOLOGY CONGRESS.
INT ernatlOnaI MeetlnG Arranged BY Bel
CLAN yeFnment-American 70 Attend

International MeetInG Arranged by Bel
CLAN yenment-Amerlcans 70 Attend
A letter has Just been received by MI
LOOMS. the Acting Secretary Of state, from
the Bel Rlan Minister. with tho information
that tho first International congress for the
study Of radioloRy and ionlzatlon will be held
at Ii6Re. from Sept. ~ TO ~ OF this year I'M
der the patronage OF tho Belgian Govern
ment. The state Department Is authorized
TO Issue certificates OF appointment 20 any
persons nominated by the Secretary OF the
Department OF Commerce and labor as dele
gates from tho United States suoh persons
however, must attend AZ their own expense
and without compensation from this Gov
eminent.
The committee In charge. which II re-
cruited from the faculties Of the four uni
Versites Of Belgium and the Military Acad-
envy, has framed the following program:
/. Physlco chemical sectoni tO properties OF
the elec1rons and accompanying radlAuons' N-Fays.
Cathode rays, loniEaton: 10, radio activity and
oorrespo nding transformations: tcl meteorological
and terrestrial phenomena connected With lonlHa-
ton and radio activity: tdl Mays.
2. Biological section: physiological properties
and medical applications Of the various radAuons
and Of radio activity,
Among the subjects which will receive
prominent attention will be the recent e1-
perimentaton with radum as a cure for
cancer
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The Thenter for French Plar,.

The plan to open in New York a theater
devoted to the performance in the YER
nacular OF the most successful plays by
French authors will add interest TO the
next dramatic season, and the success Of
the scheme will be gratifying TO all those
who find that New York's dramatic pro-
grams might be more interesting than
they have been during recent years
The French dramatic authors are more
active than their colleagues in any other
country but Germany. Their plays are
literary TO a degree approached in the
work OF English speaking dramRtists
only by PINERo. Unlike the plays Of
American dramatists, these works are
submitted TO the ordeal Of publication
when they are acted; and that il a test
by which most OF our American compost
tons would be found wanting
The men who supply the theater with
its literature are in France literary in
their methods to an extent unknown
here. To write effective stage plays is
the height Of the average American
dramatist's ambition. He thinks Of the
run that his work may have, without
looking over 70 such ultimate event a. its
place in the letters Of lie time. Some Of
the most successful Of the French dra-
matte writers are known In other branches
Of writing Several are successful novel
lists and critics All show in their plays a
standard which makes them a part Of
the literature Of the day.
The Frenchmen have concerned them
selves only with the problems Of their
own civilization during recent Year,.
II might almost he said that they have
become only Partisan, 90 subtle and ex-
elusive are their studies Of life. Even
Fronchmen from other parts Of France
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oueerness Of Indiana.

Picking stonily and superiority over
the Boston Pale at a barbarian world
the Boston Herald stares and wonders
at those happy Hoosiers and remarks;
Indiana L. a queer STATE
We have forgotten whether Boston
Is crazier than Springfield or Springfield
crazier than Boston. Indeed, statistics
show that each is crazier than the other
and both are crazier than all others.
Massachusetts is the only State, but
Kansas, where they have sane asylums.
Yet Indiana looks queer TO those Boston
eyes in a fine frenzy rolling. Don't
mind him; he's crazy as a bedbug,'
SAYS the gentleman who believes himself
20 be NRBUCHADNRzZAR, as he glares at
his keeper.
By "crazy'we mean, Of course, 'stung
by the gadhy,' full Of sacred madness,
"divinely dippy.'
Boston contemplating pragmatically
the rest Of the universe and finding it
bad is a familiar but joyous sight to most
Of US. Bitten by patriotism. however,
the Indianapolis Ne,ps cries that at
would be interesting TO know in what
ways Indiana Ia a queer State
Peace, perturbed spirit! To be dis
tinguished, TO be different from the rest,
is to be labeled queer or crank. >
Indiana is queer in more ways than
we have time and ink TO write them down.
For example, she has:
l. More and sweeter poets 70 the
square inch than any other State and
all other States.
?. More novelists TO the square inch.
3. More politicians TO the square inch.
4. More woman's clubs 10 the square
inch.
5. More dramatists and humorists to
the square inch
Q. More temperament, delight in
literary and other glory, and as much
or more State pride.
7. A Hoosier can pick out another
Hoosier among ten thousand or a mil
lion men. Why?
A mystery. Indiana is queer So
was Athens, in its most high and palmy
days II is the privilege Of genius to
do as it darn pleases.
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ATHENE CLUBWOMAN.
Col. POssy :. wilson sGturNtes Himself
With the DlOOmin' Tyre.

To TIE EDITOR or THE SUN--Sir, Bow
natural II ia to repent blunders Whom Mr.
Cleveland attacked the whole army OF club
women he repeated tho tactical error OF Don
QuiKote IN attacking the whole flock Of sheep.
Had the former sought out Pallas Athens,
the exponent, pattern and paradigm club
woman, and snatch,d her baldheaded ~ II
were. history would be more cheerful reading
Ere this, MIR. Cleveland has heard voices
in the garden. "the rosebud garden Of club
women and "is afraid" or he would have
rejoined. let him take down betimcs l.s
Homer. Sit under a tree on the campus and
read In Book VI how Hclenos Far best Of
augurs. lleCa be and the Trojan women
went TO the citadel and presented the god.
dess with a superb peplos. which Thesno
tho pTiestess, laid on DE knees Ct her stare,
praying her TO have mercy on the city and
The little children" SO spake she, prayirk
but PaIlas Athene denied the prayer.
She had 20 20 and tell the other OlyTpiSns
how to fight AthOs aud Fnceladus, end the
Demon Rum, or to attend meeting Of he
paratheraq, or Federation Of club, AnT-
wav children did not concern her She tried
10 set a good example herself by raising none.
Let Mr.. Cleveland show her up IN n sly sort
OF Oh uno disce otnHfs style, and be may break
up the women's clubs without u" ladies' sus-
pectirK what influence y as that oNeTcane
them like a Kansas cloud.
DENVER. May 10. PoSFY :. WILSON
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from two Of them. one on each side OF
the case, as generally representative OF
the whole.
10 is pertinent 10 remark, In calling At .
tention 70 these letters, that at the Epis-
copal Church Congress in Brooklyn, when
"The BibIo as a History" was the
theme for discussion, only one OF the
four clerical speakers, Bishop RAN
DoLPH Of conservative Virginia, came
10 the defense Of the old position az TO
the infalibility Of the Scriptures.
SWe have given up the old infalli-
bility, said the Rev. Mr. NASH, a pro-
fessor In the Episcopal theological school
at Cambridge we have frankly washed
our hands Of It,. The Rev. DR.. PETERS,
who has been prominently before the
public recently because Of his archeo-
logical and moral criticisms OF DR.. Hill
PREcHT of Philadelphia, expressed the
same view, even more decidedly; for
example; when the explorations OF
Babylon began, search was made for
proof Of the truth OF the Book Of Daniel
but the stories did not correspond 10 the
discoveries. He spoke of the Old
Testament as full Of myths and ira
ditions and ABRAHAM ISAAC and
JACOB as mot real people The Rev.
S. H. BISHOP described as courageous
the criticism which has declared sin
what respect and to what extent the
historical narratives Of the Old and the
New Testaments seem TO be incorrect
and contrary to the normal laws Of his
torioal development; though on those
narratives rests the whole structure Of
dogmatio Christianity.
OF course, all this IL now an old story.
It has been accepted by the great body
OF contemporary scholarship and Is
taught directly or inferentially In prac-
tically all the theological schools, unless
the Roman Catholic. We have merely
quoted the expressions Of opinion Of
those clergymen Is further evidence OF
the unquestionAble truth OF Mr.. GOLD
WIN SMITHS remark or suggestion that
criticism Of the very fundamentals OF
the old religious belief is now in the
minds OF the Christian clergy them
selves
II is true that in spite OF the critical
attitude Of these clerical speakers at the
Brooklyn Church Congress, they argued
for the necessity Of preserving the idea.
ism Of the Christian religion; but therein
Mr.. GOODWIN SMITH has expressed
agreement with them. As he said last
Sunday, Christianity, ceasing TO be
a revelation, does not cease to be moral
light; it has produced Christendom,
and Christendom, despite the unspeak-
able crimes Of kings and priests, has
been nearly identical with moral civil-
zation.'