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Enlixhtenins Gen. sherman.

From NE Columbus Dispatch.
when Gen. Sherman WAS his march from
Atlanta to the sea-" said Col. Bschteil. assistant
engineer Of the State Board OF Public Works. yes
terday, ne had with him the Eighth Missouri.
noted for Its foragng propensltles. Nothing was
safe from Its men One day the Generals foragers
brought In some ine chickens. and TO make sure
that The Missouri men did not get them they were
placed in corn crib only few rods from the beat
OF sentry. But In . few days the whole bunch
had disappeared. The Eighth was suspected.
but could not be convicted. Years after the war.
at reunion al Cincinnati. Gen Sherman met the
Major Of the Eighth. and Immediately amer greet
ings said all would be forgiven II the Major would
tell how those chickens were taken. That's easy.
said the Major. The first very dark night We
sent squad OF our best foragers with the smallest
fellow In the regiment. Removing one slat from
the crib made an aperture large enough TO admit
him. A cloth. soaked with chloroioru,. which our
hospital supplied. applied 10 the head OF chicken.
soon caused - TO toppe over and II was passed
out for the bag In this way the birds were In a
few minutes transferred to our camp under the
cover Of darkness. absolutely without noise. The
sentry was not hrlbcd.'
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Mr.. Henry james and His Iiter.r, style.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sir: I am
not what is called an admirer of Henry James.
think that his present writing style is de-
plora BILE and chiefly valuable as furnishing
topics for conversation at afternoon teas be-
tween people who never read him and people
who never understand him when they do
read him.
This morning read in your literary notes
that in his lecture on Bslzac. which he is read
ing TO the chosen few who sit adoringly at the
feet Of this apostle Of the complex, his sem
fences are mot designed TO be understood"
and are not constructed to be parsed"
May | be allowed 10 differ?
Having curiosity to see and hear the man
who has irrtated and interested me 80 many
times during the last twenty-five years.
went over TO Brooklyn to attend his lecture
on Balzac.
have an ordinary Intelligence. which was
not unouly taxed. for Mr., James gave W.
series OF long but perfectly parsahle SEN
not in the slightest degree reminiscent Of tn"
manner he uses when constructing his in.
Seen called Evarssa ssi n length Sb but nh"
hs t o SaH IF eesS would
sessed Of dry. shrewd humor land this hu'no,r
piierGes The fog Of bis books at tines although
too intense to recognize unlabeied humorl,
His written style lends itself most de.
liRhtfully to parody. but his speech is that of
a sincere man with something TO say. and he
saws IL delightfully."-.
Were / TO try to read The Ambassadors
again. I would again plunge into a London
fog, not absolutely npenetrable md lighted
here and there by flashes Of wi, and humor.
but full OF paths leading nowhere literary
cnis do sac. James is wilfully obscure and
like those other humorists, George Bernard
Shaw and Henrik Ibscn he laughs in his
sleeve at his devotees.
But when IL comes to his talk on Balzac
why It's an interesting lecture about a won
derrnl man by a brilliant American Nho, by
the way. has scarcely trace of English ac-
cent, despite the feet that he was born in
New York and has lived twenty years or more
in England.
Let us be fair and discriminate.
CHARLES BATTElL LOOMS.
F,SwooD, y. j.. May II.
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Senator JAMES A. HEMENwAy of In
diana, who before his election 10 his
present Office was chairman of the House
Committee on Appropriations. declares
that the proper remedy to apply for the
benefit of the deficit burdened Treasury
is not more import or internal taxes,
but policy Of Governmental economy.
Mr.. HEMENwAY knows better than most
men the details of the appropriation
measures that Congress is called on to
pass, Many OF the items carried in
them he declares to be useless and ex-
travagant
Government buildings that cost S., 900
a year to maintain are erected in COM
munities where for $500 annual rent
oommodious quarters for all Government
Offices might be hired. Such extrava-
gance Mr.. HEMRNwAY calls "a colossal
abuse He would stop the erection
Of Federal buildings except where they
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A park and a ParkMAN.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SrN Sir. The letter
OF Mr.. Ernest FlaRe In your paper OF May 10
indicates so clearly the Interpretation by
intelligent men Of the functions Of a public
park as to Justify a modest trespass on your
space by way Of explanation. A park is pri.
marily a playground for the people. place
where those who do not live in the best kind
Of private residences" may 60 with their chill
dren to breathe and to get into closer touch
with nature than is possible among the tene.
ments, or even on the Champs Eiysees.
No one would deny the beauty Of the great
Paris avenue-one. mi CHIT wish that such
parkway existed in our city but to com.
pare it with Central Park along the same lines
il to do Justice to neither as we'll compare
q horse with a garden. Paris has the Champs
Elyseee its parkway. and the Bots do Bou-
logne, it's park. New York. unfortunately.
has only its park. The proposed parkway
ca no more take its place than four-track
railway can he substituted for the Yosemite
Valley: not that the railway is not good, but
that it is different from the valley, and can
not All its place. however excellent its own
functions,
Those OF US whose minds do not run above
the cry OF keeping the park precisely as it 10
as If it were something sacred, do m oecauk"
beauty ia sacred to us. San Marco. in
Venice, MAJ not meet all the requirements OF
a modern church. but one is satisfied 10 leave
her precisely a. she IL. We Nv NV i"S
that the park was made for the people. On
the contrary, il is ever in our minds, and wa
know that no parkway. however arandtose.
can give the people what the park is giving
them to-day. If Mr.. FlagR will walk through
the park on a Saturday morning in May he
will realize what it is to the people. 1t may
recall to his memory the Bots de Boulosne on
A Sunday afternoon. but scarcely the Champs
Eiysees at any time.
The fact simply is that no park way can taxa
the place of park park Of park
/ accept Mr.. FlaRg's invitation to choose
which Of the two plans is preferable and un-
hesitatin ely choose the park "A choice which
I believe will be sustained by so strong an
expression of popular Sustained by scienuh''
opinion as to preserve above all th'nes the
great park. even il parkway must be tenn
porarily postponed.
". BAYARp CrTrINd.
NEW YORK, May II.
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Ownership of Chlcago's Streets.

In Chicago the courts are busy with
applications for injunctions to restrain
men from committing various crimes,
and much evidence of more than local
interest has been brought out
Master in Chancery SHERMAN had be-
fore him witness who produced a copy
OF an immunity order" issued by the
officers OF the teamsters' union, per-
hitting certain wagons to move UNI
molested through the streets. The order
read thus:
This will certify that the holder Is our driver
and is all right. J. MCCARTHY.
Business agent for the Truck Drivers Union"
Protected by such an order, teamster
is at liberty to make his living. Without
it, he will be set upon by thugs hired by
the union, be dragged from his wagon
and punished for his audacity in trying
to work at his trade.
This is in Chicago. where the voters
have decided in favor Of the immediate
public ownership" of the street car
lines.
The Hon. EDWARD F. DUNE, the Mayor
of Chicago. is the man on whom the
voters rely to carry out their wishes
in regard to the street car lines His
task at its easiest would be hard. Under
the conditions now existing in Chicago
it's difficulty is increased tremendously.
He has not only to acquire the franchises
and plants of the street railway COM
panies, but he must also redeem to the
city the highways. To-day these are
controlled by small organization which
restricts their use to its own members.
The streets are not public thorough
fares. They are private ways, from
the benefits of which large numbers of
the citizens are excluded
Before municipal street cars can be
operated in Chicago it will be necessary
for the city to obtain the control and
management of the highways. Mayor
DUNE has his hands full
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Peace Day.

Yesterday the public schools Of Massa-
chusetts and Ohio celebrated the sixth
anniversary of the Hague Conference
as Peace Day. Our irenical contempt
rary the Boston Transcript is proud and
happy thereat, and because the Secretary
Of the Massachusetts Board OF Educa-
ton as in the pedagogic trend in seizing
upon this method of instilling virtues.
We are sorry to see anybody fall into a
pedagogic trend, and we advise him to
get out at once; and there are 80 many
high days" in the school year and peace
is 80 monotonousl
Exercises, the peacemaker goes on
to say, sin which children take part
grip them Yes? BILL STUBS and jim
MILLIKEN after taking part in the Peace
Day exercises don't fight it out after
school, do they? Fathers, even anti
imperialist fathers, don't take a not
always secret delight in the prowees Of
their sons at fsticuffs, do they? Boys
all over the country are not playing war
games now and initiating the Japanese
Russian war. are they?
The gentleman "in the pedagogic
trend ought to cut out Of the school
histories what children are most apt to
remember. The invention of the cotton
gin or Of the electric telegraph doesn't
stir the boyish imagination, but Concord
and Lexington, Antietam and Gettys-
burg do. just now boys are interested
in PAUL JONES. These fighting fellows
ought not to be allowed in the school
books
Athletics is war Cut it out. What
are many Peace Days to one crowded
hour of football? Peace Day for young
gentlemen who played hockey last win
ter, and have decided views and sound
information az to every prizefight!
Just now. when a great war is on the
boards and the German Emperor 10 leap
ing into the air and emitting war cry
every five minutes, Peace Day looks a
little queer. The feeling of nationality
and the competition between nations
have never been more intense. BY a
kind of paradox commerce and industry,
the pursuits Of peace breed war.
The more reason for Peace Day, per-
haps. Well, we don't see that Governor
DOUGLAS and Mayor COLLINS walked
down School street arm in arm, or that
Senator FORAKER and Senator DICK
kissed each other. Seniores priores' The
old folks should set the example of
peace.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-19

For several years the Post Office Depart
ment, with the contributory assistance of the
Board on Geographic Names, has exercised
a summary jurisdiction over place names. at
least 30 far as they appear on post office
signs. One Of their cardinal principles has
been the excision OF the apostrophe and
other signs OF the possessive case, whereby
we acquire such unfamiliar forms as Rouse
Point and Sacket Harbor. Another prin-
cipe of this macadamized uniformity Is to
unity most two word names into single
words, regardless of the appearance Of the
result Against this group of rulings the
good people of California have just sue
ceeded in making effective protest lodged
by the most important citizens and all the
learned societies Of the Golden State. The
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General has
within few days issued the edict of restora-
ton; FL Cajon and La Honda and their like
will now be officially permissible, Ventura
becomes once more San Buena Ventura and
the San Juan of multitude is to be particu-
larized as San Juan Bautista. Now II only
the Eastern excursionists will cease naming
San Franchises landmark Mount San Diablo
all may yet be we'll. As for the other sections
of the country, the States and Territories
whore public spirit has not risen to the point
Of protest, the individual writer OF letters
may rest assured that the postal authorities
will deliver his correspondence even if he
should fail to address his communications
to Oldglory, Ariz, or Westpoint, \. y, as
provided in that invaluable authority the
Postal Guide.
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The Real Work for the Manufac.
turers' Association.

The gathering of the National Asso-
citation Of Manufacturers would be worth
while if nothing more were done than
to meet mer,l; Tor the purpose of max
ing personal acquaintance. The body
is this week holding its tenth annual
convention in the city OF Atlanta.
These gentlemen represent the most
important branch OF our industrial
economy. Our agriculturists produce
merchandise having a value Of S., coo, 0OO,-
900 year The manufacturers produce
$4,000 600, 900 worth. Compared with
this the products OF the mine, the for
est and the fisheries, important though
they are, seem almost trivial. They are
counted only in millions. The manu-
facturers pay more than $4,000 ,0OO, 900 a
year in wages, and buy more than S.
600, 900 900 worth Of raw material. They
buy the products of the mine and the
timber of the forest. Their 5000, 900
employees, with their families, consume
large part of the products Of the farm
and the fisheries. One-half of all our
imports, including both free and duti-
able goods, goes to our manufacturers
for conversion into finished forms.
But it can be regarded only as a mat
ter of regret that no wider interest is
shown in the national organization.
Propretors and members Of firms en-
gagged in manufacturing number several
hundred thousands. Only about three
thousand belong to the national asso-
citation, and of these only about three
hundred are in attendance at the con-
vention. This is perhaps due, in part
at least to the fact that the object of
the meeting is not sufficiently specific.
At the first meeting of the present
session, on May 10, large part of the
time was occupied by President D. NJ.
PARRY in reading long and elaborate
presentation Of his views on industrial
evils, indivdualism, socialism, reciproc-
ity and kindred topics. Mr.. LUDWIG
NIssEN dealt deliberately with the oues-
ton of Government ownership Of public
utilities.
Such questions as these are undoubt-
edly important. But it seems to us that
the association, or its management, is at
fault in this respect. 1t is not semi
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Questions for the Critics OF Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft.

Suppose the Administration refuses 10
nav more in Panama for an American
product than the American sellers
charge abroad for that same American
product; more than they would have
demanded in Panama Of another GUS
toner than the United States Govern
ment, the French New Panama Canal
Company, for example.
How would the principle of protection
TO American industries be overthrown
or shaken by the purchase OF American
wares at the prices which American
producers find it profitable to sell to
other customers than the United States
Government, outside of our tariff wall?
What special requirement of the gen.
eral policy of protection is violated by
insisting on the export price for Amerl-
can goods that are to be used abroad,
rather than the domestic price?
How can an American industry be
said to suffer if it receives from the
United States Government for material
to be used at Panama the prices which
it would be glad to obtain from French
or German or English contractors doing
the same work at the same place?
Why should the United States Govern
ment be expected to pay any American
manufacturer more than his own mar
ket price for the commodity in which
he deals?
tn-the absence of legislation authoriz-
ing the payment of a bonus on American
goods to be used on the canal, what right
has the Executive to grant such a bonus
out OF the Treasury?
II there is to be any bonus on foreign
sales, ought it not in common decency
to 20 to the Government from the manu-
facturer, so amply protected in his home
market, rather than to the manufacturer
from the Government?
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The Cars Concessions to Poland,

Although, owing to the continued as
tendency Of the war party at st. Peters,
burg and the eclipse of the influence
formerly exerted by NJ, DE WITTE, many
onlookers are inclined to regard any con-
cessions made just now to liberal senti-
ment as illusory, it must be acknowl-
edged that the rescript issued on May IS
by the Emperor NICHOLAS II. apparently
confers boon of great importance upon
Poland. The decree is applicable to nine
Of the western governments of Russia.
including the Baltic provinces. as we'll as
those composing the so called Kingdom
Of Poland, which was awarded to the
Gar ALEXANDER I. by the Congress of
Vienna, The name, by the way, III ing
dom of Poland did not disappear until
after 1863. The roscript grants to the
Poles and Lithuaniens privileges which
are plainly indispensable to the main
tenance OF their nationality. but of which
they have been for some time deprived.
the right Of teaching their native Ian
guages in primary and secondary schools
and the right of acquiring agricultural
lands and industrial premises bv DIR
chase, which hitherto could only be Sc
cured by an abjuration of the Catholic
religion 1t is further alleged in tele-
gram from st. Petersburg that these
measures are to be followed by an ex-
tension OF the zemstvo system to Rus
sian Poland, whereby the old local assem-
oiies Of the Polish mobiles will be reestab-
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The Toethpick in indianapolis.
From the !ndfanapoI. Ners.


Indianapolis women have the toothpck habit
bad said an observing visitor. u went to one place
where hundreds Of them cat at noon. and you could
track them by the 'oothpicks on the pavements.
while the halls OF the building were literally
soved with toothplcks, Most OF the women
you nee, coming nwry from the place are chew.
ing too, npicks. Al the public cafs and private
boarding houses most women STOP and take tooth
picks the same as the men, I rode down town In
car which passes through a residence street every
morning the week was In Indianapolis. and in
one OF the most beautiful homes AT a daintny
dressed elderly woman In the front window using
her toothpick. To live up 10 the Indianapolis
reputation for culture rs will have to give
IN the toothpick habit"
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Cuba's New City.

Not content with building railroads, Sir
WILLIAM VAN HORNE is now reported
as about to build city. A branch OF
the railway built in Cuba by Sir WILL
L1AM's tireless energy runs to Nipe Bay,
on the northeast coast of the island,
nearly due north from Santiago. The
opening of port city at this point was
a part Of Sir WILLIAMS original project,
and current rumor declares that he is
about to carry the scheme into effect.
1t may not be doubted that some day
there will be city at that point. The
harbor is one of the best on the Cuban
coast. In measured distance from New
York and other of our Atlantic ports
it has little, if any, advantage over Ha-
vana Its advantage over Santiago, as
a point of shipment to American ports,
is considerable. With a direct line of
steamers operating in conjunction with
the railway there is no doubt that Nipe
Bay would be the main outlet for the
eastern half of the island, and it is posi-
BILE that some trade would be drawn
from the Havana end.
ne area IN Tue immediate vicinity
Of the bay is richly fertile, and Americans
are already owners of some extensive
tracts in that n. neighborhood. The
United Fruit Company of Boston is
heavily interested in fruit and in sugar
at Banes, only few miles westward, and
the Chaparra Sugar Company of New
York has two or three million dollars
invested at Puerto Padre. not far dis
tant. Other Americans hold large areas
OF undeveloped land at nearby points.
But cities are not built in a day. Be-
fore there can be a new metropolis in
eastern Cuba there must be a large
influx of producers in the provinces of
Santiago and Puerto Principe Doubt
less city in the making would tend to
attract many who would make a country
around and behind it. Some day there
will be thrifty little city OF Npe Bay,
and the chances are that it will be largely
an American article, with American set
tiers in the vicinity sending their prod
ucts, fruit and sugar principally, to
America.
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j. g r..

To THE EDITOR OF THE sun Sir Your issue
OF TO day reports an inquiry by the Chdr,oh' Oh
'errrr concerning the word "scrowdGc" for crowd"
la "Th. Old Curiosity Shop" chapter XASlx, where
in Ki; gives theater party. that young gentleman
is reported 10 have hit man over tho head with
the handkerchief OF apples for 'scrowdgng' hts
parent with unnecessary violence" II Is well
recognized provincial word In both England and
America, and among other quotations In which It
may be found is one from The Bglow Papers;
And as the North has took to brustln
At being scroudged from % the roost."
Its ctymoogy is said to be unce rtain, but II Is
so sefeSplanaory that research In this line Is of
value only TO the etymoloeist. Z. f.. TRKYYRr
NEW YORK, May IL.
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are really needed, and where they would
H., economy NJ administration,

are really needed, and where they would
result in economy of administration.
Various executive departments are
engaged in enterprises OF scientific
nature which, in Mr.. HEMENwAY's
Judgment, seem to have no practical
value" Many of these could be discon-
tinued without 90 per cent. Of the people
knowing anything about it, he says,
but they cost the Treasury millions OF
dollars every year Mr., HEMENwAY
mentions specifically the annual en-
penditure Of $3.50 900 for cotton statistics.
He does not say it, but these statistics
seem to have for their principal effect
the stirring up of i'll feeling among those
whose personal estimates do not agree
with them. Mr.. HEMEEwAY's catalogue
OF useless Federal expenditures, incom-
plete as it is, contains other items:
THE states no longer maintain their own quar-
antne service. but all that Is sadded on the Gov
eminent. There Is one branch OF the Government
which ha, entered largely into the work Of making
surveys. Uncle SAM pays the cost and private
corporations. which are amply able to make their
own surveys. reap the dement's"
Senator HEMENwAYs plan to relieve
the Treasury is not picturesque or rev.
dictionary one He says:
THE remedy for our financial n1 is In reduction
Of expenditures"
This is simple and straightforward
suggestion. 1t would be no less popu-
lar a remedy than the imposition OF
tax on coffee or revival of the Spanish
war taxes 1t is eminently worthy of
the serious attention Of the nations
lawmakers when they meet to dispose
of the def cit
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Inasnuch as Germany adopted protection
rs policy In 1880 the constant increase since
then in our exports TO the empire, eliminating
in our 1904 exports being N67 900 900 greater
than our 1880 exports, liz somewhat surpris-
ing. even allowing for Gcrmany's great In.
dustral growth In the twenty-tour years
Surprising also Ia the I'll, OOO. 900 increase in
our yearly imports from Germany in the
same period, in the face Of our own high taritI
a tariff much higher than Gernany's pend.
ing enforcement of her new very highly pro.
tective tariff.
These results force the conclusion that
Germany needs certain Of our products. aud
we need certain Of Germanys products. and
that no tariff however high will keep out Of
Germany the American goods she needs. or
keep out OF the United States the German
goods We need. The great natural law Of
supply and demand is not to be set aside by
any human made obstacles Tariffs. like ths
dikes of Holland keep out the flood. though
something trickles In all the time.
In 1894 and 1904 our chief exports to Ger