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"a Churl Upon q Gestlsmsn. ("

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-str. recent
correspondent Of TIE SUN puts this query: which
OF Thackeray's characters WAS II who objected 70
taking ale after claret on tho ground that he
would not put a churl above gentleman"
Another correspondent. "Pendennis." though
reasonably familiar" as he admits. but stultlfying
himself In the same breath. utterly falls to recall
the expression.
Perhaps 3D. and "the amiahle snob" Who signs
himself "Pendennis" may be interested TO learn
that the phrase in question may be found In that
one OF Mr.. Thsckeray's lectures on the English
Humo1sts" devoted TO Dick Steele. II occurs in
a description Of q dinner Of persons Of fashion In
London early In the eighteenth century.
"The great tankard was passed from hand TO hand
and mouth to mouth. but when pressed by the
noble host upon the gallant Tom Ncverout, he
said NO. faith. my lord: like your wine and
won't put chuh upon gentleman. Your honor's
claret Is good enough for me-
In the Biographical Edition" this may be found
volume VII, page SIC, and In II description Of
dinner In which ale and wine were served with in
discrimination and soup was the middle course
Of a prolonged feast. G. n. FAIRBANKS.
BROOKLYN, July 81.
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Was franklin q Heather I?

A certain surprise, mingled with q
suspicion Of praiseworthy resentment,
born Of admiration for one OF the great
eat Of Americans, breathes from this
letter:
ITO TIE EDITOR OF TEE suN-St,: Would not
the dignity OF your editorial on BENJAMIN FRANK-
LIN in to-day's paper have been better sustained.
the effect and influence upon your readers I'M
proved and the truth moro accurately presented
II the word heather had been omitted and the
word gentle man substituted
what u the Justification for She use Of the for
mer word. and would you employ II II writing the
article Anewf FRIHND.
.NHw YoRK, July 81
There arc plenty Of gentlemen in tho
world, but there has been but one
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Any phrase, al
most any series OF comprehensive phrases
will give but q partial view Of his many
faceted activities and achievements,
OF his multilateral service to his coun-
try and mankind. Speaking Of what
We conceive to be his habitual temper,
his attitude toward his fellow mon and
the scheme Of things, we called him 'the
tranquil and genial heather, charac-
terization which was repeated and
amended in our description Of him a.
IAN antique-and also a Characteristic
eighteenth century philosopher This
picture of him may be incorrect, but it
Is a. We meant to make it.
Has heather dsreputable oonnota-
ton In the mind Of our "Friend'9 He is
to see in the word no image Of the incult
man OF the aheath,' the rude pagan
Of the back districts. Ep1cTETUs, MAR
Gus AuREL1us, SOCRATES, PLATo-it
would take q week to make a catalogue
Of "hcathen' not to be sneezed at by the
most virtuous or celebrated moderns.
FRANKLIN had kind Of homely gnomic
wisdom, prudent counsel and philosophy,
tolerance, that remind us OF certain
heather his predecessors. And his style
is plain Attic. We're it worth while,
we could compare him reasonably with
divers heather, with HEsIoD, minus
the poetry; with LYcURaUs, SCION, tho
Seven Sages. In his private life, at
one time and another, and perhaps
generally, he may be said to have been
one Of the drove Of EP1cuRUs.
Finally. in a strict theological sense,
at least according to the theologies Of
his time, he can hardly be described as
q Christian Nowadays he is called
"a liberal Christian To our mind he
was essentially In his habit Of life and
thought an antique philosopher; also q
philosophe, and very lovable and use
full @heathen'
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Study and Sport in Our Colleges.


The Harvard rank list for the aoa-
demio year Of l9O4-5 contains the names
Of a large number Of undergraduates
who are prominent representatives of
the university on the athletic field, yet
who have won high standing and honors
in their studies. The leading branches
of intercollegiate sport are represented
in the list-track, football, baseball and
rowing. golf, hockey and lacrosse. gun
club and tennis ranking In the order in
which they are here mentioned.
II like statistics Of the students in all
our colleges who are in athletics should
be obtained, probably the result would
not make q different showing.
The rule prohibiting dropped or con-
ditioned students from representing the
college on any Of its teams ID salutary
corrective OF the 'loafing' tendency
which In the non athletic undergraduate
Is checked only by his zeal for study and
his independent desire to maintain .
good standing. The general college rule
Is that a student may remain with his
class II he u not conditioned in moro
than half Of his last terms work, willis
q single condition Is sufficient to debar
him from the university teams.
Undoubtedly the seeker for pure
scholarship In our universities must 60
to the Postgraduate and professional
schools to hnd It. The undergraduate
community THINKS ess Of scholarship
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The Greatest Campm sstins Ground.

From ths TourTfaek Nscs.
Tho Methodist Elder Stokes held the nrst camp.
meeting In Ocean Grove. N. j.. thirty-sx years
ago Despite the building OF hotel and cottage.
It still retains Its ttls of "campmeeting." and
rightly for with the coming Of the Juno days =
part Of the plateau on which II stands becomes
a tented neld. where 10000 or more dwell under
canvas until the chill winds Of autumn c.uss them
TO seek their inland homes
Here Is a city whose Mayor Is q Bishop. whose
councilmen are ministers and deacons, not ono
of whom receives dollar for his services. II has
no public debt. no ward heelers. no elections.
There was a time whom the locks clicked In Its
gates at dusk on Saturday. and no one could pass
In or out until Monday morning. People other than
Methodsts were tolerated-not welcomed. Every
one was expected to be At "meetin'." But when tho
gates were thrown open on the Sabbath q on
week days. other bars were let down. There Is
no drinking In public. yet any one can have his
glass Of wine or beer At homo with his family. Al
night you can take your partner for euchre game
or dance II guest a one OF the hotels.
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has entered with so much bounce ana
swagger and from which he hos emerged
80 abject and besmirched But yester-
day tho Russian sovereign might have
boon said to hold the world at bay; now,
temporarily, at all events, he has sunk
80 low that not even the Turk will do
him reverence. Inasmuch az, for the
moment at least, the greatness OF
Russia is invisible to the naked eye, and
as, for her, eighteen months Of war have
recorded an unbroken tale Of humilia-
ton and reproach, it Is hard to SEQ what
terms OF peace should be repudiated as
unworthy
NJ. WITTE, In the interview published
in the London Telegraph, Is somewhat
more explicit than his master. He as
serts that the side of Russian reverses
appears to be turning back and adds
that in the negotiations at Portsmouth
he will decline to entertain any demands
"based on expected military success in
tho future We are at loss to con-
ceive what proofs OF turning OF the
tide the Russian plenipotentiary pro-
fesses himself able to discern. Not q
single transient success has been re-
ported on the part Of the army under
Gen. LINIEvI. Oh, nor has single raid
been attributed to the Russian cruisers
that have found a refuge at Vladivostok.
Since the belligerents agreed upon q
peace conference Japan has conquered
the island Of Sakhalin; has disembarked
troops at the mouth Of the Amur, evil
IDENTIFY with design Of sending an ex-
petition up that river; she has blockaded
vladivostok; has landed soldiers to the
north of that naval fortress, and Is on
the eve of investing it with an army
moving northward from Corea. Appar-
emily, far from turning. the tide is still
short OF the food. While such for Rus
STA is the dismal aspect OF things in the
Far East, nobody knows so well as M.
WITTE the hopeless plight Of her treas
ury, and her financial impotence to
continue the war. He learned in Paris
what he might have learned in Berlin,
and what he may be sure would be con-
firmed in London and New York, that
while all the money needed to effect a
peace will be forthcoming, Russia could
not secure a penny for the further
prosecution OF a senseless war except
on ruinous and disgraceiul terms.
As for the claim OF NJ. WITTE that he
cannot be expected to recognize de-
mands based on expected military sue
cesses In the future, this plainly is in
consistent with Russia's known wish
for an armistice. What THEIRS and
JULES FAvRE had to recognize when
they discussed peace with BISMARCK
was the indisputable fact that unless
they quickly came to terms every square
foot OF French soil would be trodden
under a German heel. II NJ. WIrTE
adheres to his intractable attitude he
will simply force the Toxic Government
to refuse truce, and to order Marshal
OYAMA to advance upon Gen. LIME
WITCH and convert confidently ex-
pected into an accomplished victory.
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A Great Comm ercial Anniversary.

To-day and tomorrow sault sainte
Marie, Mich, will commemorate the fl
tieth anniversary of the opening OF the
St. Mary's ship canal. Michigan has
appropriated $4,000 for the festivities,
the United States contribute $4,000 and
the Lake steamship men have raised as
much more. There will be feasting and
fireworks and much talk, and the Fed
eral Government, various State Govern
ments and the Canadian Government
will be represented.
This canal, connecting Lake Huron
with Lake Superior, and thus escaping
the falls in st. Mary's River or Strait,
the outlet of the latter, was begun in
1853 and completed in 1855. Michigan
managed 1t until 1881. when it was handed
over to the Federal Government, which
built in 1881 the 80 called Weitzel lock,
Sis feet by 80, with depth Of 16 feet, at
a cost OF some 81, 300, 900; and in 1885 con-
structed for $4,000, 900 the Poe lock, 800
by 100 by 81. Finally, in 1895, the Cana
diana began to run canal, with lock
1000 by 80. The three locks take all the
traffic that comes along, without money
and without price.
The United States got good value for
tho sums they have spent on st. Mary's
Canal. 1t is an economic necessity, not
branch Of politics and channel OF graft.
In 1910, twenty years or so after LEWIS
G. ss, Governor of the Territory OF Michi-
gan, got possession Of the Sault Sainte
Marie lands by treaty with the Indians,
the commerce of Lake Superior con-
sisted Of Cleveland fishing schooner,
dragged around the falls, and Of the
American Fur Company's brig John
Jacob Aston.
In 1904 there passed through the canal
moro than 1900 vessels, carrying more
than 100000 tons Of freight, Of an
estimated value of $34o,0O0,O00 Also
$1,000 passengers. The iron, the grain,
the "copper" mighty commerce from
the western harbors Of Lake Superior
il carried through this canal, to which
also lie due the opening Of the resources
Of upper Michigan.
A great waterway and most useful,
the celebration whereof Is well worth
celebration.
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BATTLESHIPS SAIL AWAY,
Led by the Maine, for Maine, to Chorus
Of Harbor Salutes.


The battleship squadron Of the North
Atlantic feet, consisting Of the Maine, Mis-
souri,, Kentucky. Kearsarge, Alabama,
illinois, Iowa and Massachusetts,, left an;
ohorage in the North River at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning and headed for the sea.
The Maine, flagship Of Rear Admiral
Evans, struck up "The Star Spangled Ban
ner' az she swung into place at the head OF
the column, and spectators on tugs, ex-
cursion steamboats,, pier heads and on
small craft set up cheer. The Missouri
followed the Maine, playing 'In the Good
Old Summer Time Rear Admiral Daviss
flagship, the Alabama, caught the Celts
in the multitude with THE Wearing Of the
Green All down the, river. everything
ahoat that had Q whistle let 1t scream to
its limit, and craft that couldn't toot dipped
their flags.
Il was said that less than twenty blue
Jackets failed to show up, and that most OF
them doubtless would report at the navy
yard In Brooklyn and be sent to rejoin
their ships.
The squadron is bound for Frenchmans
Bay, Maine. The trip will take three days.
two Of which will be spent in eyolutions
and target practise. There will be no
speed tests until the middle Of the month.
The squadron will return to anchorage
here just before the arrival Of the British
squadron under command Of Prince Louis
Of Battenberg.
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According to an Englishman who writes
from Berlin In the London Times, the Press
Bureau Of tho German Foreign Once
10 wasing systematic campaign all over
the world for the purpose Of creating
prejudice against England, and 'in no
country II Germany trying with greater
persistency to poison the wells Of public
opinion against England than In the United
States AZ an instance Of this poisoning
no quotes an interview with Prof. SCHlIB-
MANN which was autographed to Chicago
paper. The German professor said, for
example: -We want America not to DO
misled by the self-nshteous British press.
but to remain clear on this point-that
the danger Of . Franco-German war 10
conferred to far greater degree In London
than In either Paris or Berlin On the
strength Of this the London Spectator warns
us to beware Of the German campaign OF
mischief. It Is an unnecessary warning,
however. The Chicago papers interview
with Prof. soHL1RMANN Is only an illus
tration Of tho -nose for news In that
busting town. The German population Of
Chicag o rs large. So also Ia the German pop
ulation Of this country generally large, and
naturally Its sympathy is with Germany.
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Joining any movement and decline 10 oner any
contributions toward any fund unless II brings
thcm personal amusement and qualification. II
Is terrible thing tina, this state OF affairs shoud
exist"
Why, then, should Jews complain that
Christians step In to do what they them
selves refuse to do2
Moreover, Ia this christian prosely-
tism" 80 bitterly inveighed against by
the correspondents Of that paper &C
oompllshing tenth part as much In
withdrawing Jews from their religious
traditions as Is effected by tho growth
OF spirit OF religious skeptioism among
the young Jews Of the Ghetto, in spite
Of their rigidly orthodox training9 DR..
IsIpoR SINoRR has written to US fro
quently OF this transformation and has
pointed out It's portentousness. Perhaps
1t explains the inability Of Mr.. LUCAS to
stir up the Ghetto jews to contribute
money to preserve their ancestral faith
in that crowded district.
A striking example Of the inconsistency
Of which We have spoken Is furnished
In letter in the same paper which
pleads 1for good fellowship between
Jews and Christians In the Catskils.
Jew and GENTLE 1t argues, "oan wor-
ship together in the same mountain
cathedral and worship the same Lord
who Is the Maker Of us ALL
The true way for Jews who resent
Christian efforts in the Ghetto is TO
make those unnecessary. Let them do
the good works themselves so thoroughly
that there will be no suffering left to re-
lieve. There Is no monopoly Of charity
and good deeds. The field Is open for
every benevolent SOUL Jew or Christian.
There Is no race or religious distinction
in desirable goodness.
Intelligent and broadminded Jews
cannot look with favor on such dis
position as these correspondents dis
play to force on public attention g phase
Of the Semitic question provocative
of 30 much Ill feeling. Let Christians
and Jews rather vie with each other
In exemplifying the beneficial effects Of
religion on their conduct and characters.
II they live up to their religion they
will both be vastly better than they are.
Jews, no less than Christians, must
accept the truth Of the saying Of JESUS,
LET your light so shine before men that
they may see your good works and glorify
your Father which ia in heaven
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x.n..eky water and Kentucky whisky.

To rns EDITOR OF TIE SuN-str: Please say to
your thrsting Enquirer" as to whether 400 square
miles Of water In +o.A0o square miles Of Kentucky
isn't TOO much: Sure Il Ia; q drop would be too
much. Take your Kentucky straight. my boy
take Il straight. Sure cure for wrinkles Of face.
brain or soul Butch. virgin Kentucky. honeyed
pover--denlsd by even q moleoule of aqua vita
means poverty-poverty OF accomplishment, OF
eujoyment. Of appreciation.
Don't toss highballs with the cheap whisky crowd
lender threats. Take II straight Get stun
YOU can take straight. Hurrah for old. moon
ahmed Kentuck, Hurrsh for <0,400 moonlit, sun.
bathed square miles oft. D. LERrUM TRRMAINs.
BBooKLYN July 81.
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The SeaE0crs.

Aboard the White Star liner Teutonio.
which sails to-day for Queenstown and
Liverpool
r. L. Benson. Gait and Mrs. e. p. level.
q. W. Falrchild. William r. Harvey, MIRA.
Irene Harvey. lie GIaul G. (r.swl ID, Mrs..
". s. Stryker. the Rev: Ir: Charles II. II.
Wright, Mr. and Mrs. W. j. Maxwell And
Mr. and Mrs. @. H. Powell
Arrivals by the North German Lovd
steamship Bremen. from Bremen and
Southampton
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund lie B. 0ardin.y. W. n
FurneauX, Robert Fleming, John ", irwin
Frank 6. Partridge, g. Barclay Riyes, Cor:
Mrs. Charles II. Wilkens.
Aboard the Holland American liner
Potsdazn, h from Rotterdam and Bouime.
wore:
Walter BlAckburne, Gustav Kohler, Eugene
Lyon, william Frank McCombe, Or. III
Mont, Frederick w. Scott. T. Nelson Strother
and T. B. Turner.
Passengers by the Red Star liner Finland
from Antwerp and Dover:
Mrs. Townsend. wife Of the American
Minister TO Belgium: Miss Belle AppiesSte'
singer: George 4. BartoH,. Col. Wlilisn;;
Hester. j. Hunter Ewing. Edwin A. Fitch.
Henry Van Kleeck. The Rev. Dr. James b.
Ea.son. James 4. Wilcox and Herbert i.
0unnis0n. sgty ,,s - a $500 -
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than Of getting q full and enjoyable

than OF getting q full and enjoyable
experience. ...
In the life Of the university the student
who maintains q good average standing
In his class work makes the team and
Is liked and respected by his fellows
the one who maintains the fairest balance
between work and plsy-that man It Ia
who most truly represents the spirit Of
the American university.
The American college athlete is SO
fine and hearty fellow that his sport
should be strictly regulated and kept
clean by the college authorities.
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Does Russia Mean Business 4?


At the time of the interview between
NICHOLAS II. and WILLIAM II. on the
latter's yacht, We suggested that the
purport Of the advice rendered by the
German Emperor would be quickly dis
closed by the acts or words of the Car
or his representatives. We also ex-
pressed the opinion that il the counsel
given was tinctured by the personal
interests of the counsellor 1t would
aim TO persuade Russia to insist upon
remaining Pacific Power, and thus
divert her from seeking access to the
Persian Gulf Since his return from
the interview, the Car has taken oc-
casion to indicate the kind Of peace that
he will sign, and NJ. WITTE, who had
ample opportunity Of learning the latest
revised intentions of his vacillating
master, has informed by wireless teleg-
raphy q London newspaper that he
eoes to Portsmouth with no sanguine
expectations of success in his mission.
According to a despatch from St.
Petersburg which we printed on July
d, tie censor has permitted the pub
hoation of the reply made by the Car
to petition Just received from the
clergy OF district in the Orenburg
Government. To the prayer that dis
honorable terms of peace might not be
accepted, the sovereign's response was:
~The Russian people may rely upon
me. Never will I conclude shameful
peace or one unworthy OF great Russia. y
The following questions at once arise:
What kind Of terms would be shame
fun under the circumstances? What
would be unworthy" Of a country whose
military and naval greatness, il tested
BY the events Of the last eighteen months,
Il by 40 means awe inspiring?
Would 1t b. possible for the acceptance
Of any terms that Japan is likely to
propose to discredit Russia more than
she ia already discredited by the conduct
for which the Gear himself, his kinsmen
and his Ministers were responsible, and
which provoked the present contest?
A frank recognition of accomplished
facts and meek submission to the con-
sequences of folly would disgrace Rus
STA and her sovereign less than they are
already disgraoed by the duplicity and
perfldy which evaded ritten promise
to evacrate Manchuria; by the greed
which encouraged palace favorites to
ravage the timber forests Of Corea;
or by the arrogance and insolence with
vhist. trs respectful protests Of Japan
were repealed. The talk about shame
strikes one as belated on the lips Of
NICHOLAS II. He should have thought
about the honor of his people and his
dynasty before he drove the Japanese
10 war n se,f-defense.
The pledge 10 make no peace unworthy
Of great Russia sounds magniloquent,
but proves on inspection to be as hollow
az drum. Since the Japanese probed
It the pretended greatness OF Rus
STA has collapsed. During the last
cSehteen months the Gear has suffered
et the hands Of foe whom he affected
10 tiespise a series Of defeats by sea
ind land unrelieved by single victory.
History affords no other spectacle Of
awar into which one Of the oombatanss
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WATER BOARD READY FOR WORK.
Chooses Consulting Engineers-win Move
to New Oaces To-day.

The Board Of Water Supply, which has
charge of the 7i0o 600 600 water supply
improvement, held it's last meeting In ito
temporary offices. 81 Pine street, yester-
day and made appointments oompl citing
the list Of officers exempt from the civil
service. It also installed j. Waldo Smith
as chief en- gineer, 30 that It will have a
full staff on it's removal to the Barclay
Building to-day.
Prof William II. Burr Of Columbia, win,
headed the Burr Herring Freeman commits.
sion which inspected the Hudson niver
watersheds for both the Low and McClellan
administrations, was made one Of the con-
sulting engineers to the chief engineer.
Tho other place was filled by the appoint
ment Of Prof. Frederic P. Stevens, chief
engineer OF the Metropolitan Water BoarI
Of Massachusetts,.
As consulting engineer to the board
John r. Freeman was selected. Thess
other places were filled:
Division engineer, A. D. Finn; secretary,
H. G. Murray; auditor Henry G. Buncke:
chief clerk, Joseph M. 8. Millitte.