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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-11-30
CHAPTER NNXIII.
UNEXPECTED CONDITIONS.


Next morning Hamilton Degraw read
these words in the social column of
one of New York's leading dailies:
Miss Rogers has returned from
Newport There is but one Miss Rogers
in New York these days., and is now
to he seen by her frienGs at her own
house at - Fifth avenue"
1t was n happy moment for him. for
the three months allotted to their sep
aration had passed, and by this return
to the city she at least showed that
she did not seek to avoid meeting.
In his joy he tore the veil from her
picture, and surveyed her loveliness
with burning eyes, then realizing that
this was poor preparation for the
hours of waiting which lay before him
he covered it up again and set himself
to work only to drop palette and brush
in his impatience and take up his hat
and go out.
He walked in the direction of her
house. 1t was no new walk for him.
Though she had been absent from its
walls all summer he had passed it by
many times during these months Of
waiting, and though 1t was not pre-
tentious dwelling, and was only hers
while she leased it, he had conceived
an affection for it's every stone, and
could have given you each detail Of
its exterior as we'll as if it had been a
house of his own.
10 a
soul, and he found himself intimi
dated rs he approached it, and really
went no further than the corner. But
Il sight of the pavement her feet had
so lately crossed was comfort to him,
and he went back to his studio in a
hopeful mood to await with more or
less patience a suitable hour in which
to call upon her.
He chose the afternoon, first, be-
cause he had not the endurance to wait
till evening, and secondly because he
felt that evening would bring other
lovers to her side, whose presence
would be unbearanbe to him in his
present uncertain position. At five
O'Clock he stood at her door, and did
not know whether to resign his pre-
tensions or not when he found that
before his ring at the bell had been
answered two carriages beside his
own had been driven up in front, ana
that two ladies and one gentleman
We're awaiting with him the somewhat
tardy response to his eager summons.
The opening of the door decided the
question. He handed in his card to the
neat maid who confronted him, and
saw or thought he saw on her bright
and clever face certain look that as
sured him that his visit was particu-
larly welcome, though she merely
waved him toward the same parlor
into which the ladies had already
stepped.
The other gentleman merely left a
note and bouquet both of which
Mr.. Degraw would like to have ami
hilated.
The room into which he passed was
surprise to him. Somehow he had
expected to find this new-made heiress
shrined in great splendor. Though the
outside of the house was plain. almost
! to baroness, ne had looked for a gor.
\geous interior suitable to her wealth
pd the glowing character of her
kltr. But instead of this the walls
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-11-30
Married seventy-Fivs wears Ago.

Diamond weddings pale before that
recently celebrated at Varjux, Saone,
France. M. Farion is century old.
His wife. whom he married seventy
five years ago, Is ninety-two. The
wedding procession" consisted OF oc'
togenarians. The groomsman, the
nephew of the groom, was eighty-six.
the chief bridesmaid eighty-seven. All
the other guests were about the same
age, the youngest being mere lad
of eighty.
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Value of Surrender.

Only in proportion as our own will is
surrendered, are we able to discern the
splendors az Gods will.-Presbyterlan.
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wh.r. Va, tho Oyster Ps,tve

To rnI EDITOR OF THE suN-.Sh: Where In the
city Of New York. during the latter part OF the
seventeenth century. was the location Of q fortl-
ncation called Oyster Pasty, and why was II so
calledf
In tho Registers Once find recorded . deed Of
rift. dstsd April 20, 1895, made by Daniel CofYo
conveying 10 his daughter In Law. Katherine
Lloyd, and her children, Timothy, Thomas and
Elizabeth Lloyd. his grandchildren, . piece of
ground with the house thereon, lying and being
In certain street or passage which ieadeth to
fertilization called Oyster Pasty within the city
OF New York aforesaid"
md another deed dated March 20. l0s5. which
would seem 70 90 Of premises adjoining and east
OF the above, In which Isaac Deschamp (allas Savat
Bronssard) and Maria. his wife, convey 10 Peter
Dai6 OF this city clerk piece or parcel Of ground
"by the passage orane that goes 70 the Halle Moone"
The deed indicates that this property was west
OF Broadway. Both OF them bounded on
the south by land OF Peter King. Peter Dalile
was the minister OF the French Protestant Church
In those esrly times,
Yves tho fertilization called Oyster Pasty In one
desd the landmark referred to In the other 40
Aaife Aoonei 10 anything known OF Its historyf
NEW yQex. Aug. u. J.D.Y.
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Tho Modern Librarian Criticized.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: Tho
present II witnessing the passing Of the
librarian-the librarian who knows books
and the State library school at Albany is
primarily responsible for this condition
This school appears to be successful only in
turning out large number OF clerks who
can index and catalogue to perfection. re-
arrange volumes on the shelves and keep
patrons supplied with the latest in fiction.
1t Is my belief. resultant upon experience in
several cities throughout the State that the
genuine librarian has been replaced by q
corps Of young men and women who know
but little Of literature.
For instance. had occasion. recently to
visit a library not one hundred miles from
Troy, In search of information that could
be obtained in a volume that ls known by
title to. every librarian who is not inoculated
with the department store system OF ths
librarians appealed to knew Of this reference
work. although they had been in charge OF
the institution for nearly year. In despair
| was forced to appeal TO the person who
held the position OF librarian before the entry
on the stage of letters OF the graduates OF
the State Institution. This person was a
librarian and Is a true bookman. | was put
on the scent the clerks at the library found
the book and gained the Information sought.
My experience in this instance Ia not singu-
lar neither Is 4 ttnsd e any partGTlf.
the same: Incompetence and "the system.
are rapidly setting aside the real librarians
and Transforming our public Libraries INTO
shops desi ened for the sole benefit OF readers
OF fiction, good. bad and indifferent.
TROY, n. Y, Aug. IL. NJ b. LoNo.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
Crab Tree Cows.

Some time ago in our explorations
through the unbounded continents Of
sociology we came across the Crab Tree
Dairy, established by lady Of the
fashionable East Side Of Lake Forest,
Ill. The lady was and Is an author
and leading society woman, but the
Grab Tree Dairy was to be more useful
than authorship and at least as clean
and beautiful Us society. Mrs. SCOTT
DURAND-why should we not adorn
our page with the name Of an estimable
and an original woman?-Mrs. DURAND
determined to establish an absolutely
pure dairy and sell the product to her
own advantage and for the good Ct
Lake Forest. She bought or leased
forty acres Of land and forty laureate
COWS, the pridt of Guernsey, Holstein,
Jersey. Her ,dows were groomed as
carefully as human or even as equine
swells. Her milkers, in immaculate
white duck, &washed and disinfected
every time they a much = hooked ct Q
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population Of this country century
hence, and II may fall several millions
short Of that figure
Even II the two races should continue
to increase at the rate between 1880 and
1000 there would be in the South In the
year 2oOo only about s3,OOO,0oO negroes
to l55,O00,O0O whites, and the negro
population would have fallen from 32.A
per cent. of the whole in 1900 to l7.6 per
'ent. in 1000. But both estimates OF
population at the end Of the century
Prof WILCOX dismisses as doubtless
much too largo"
After very elaborate study OF social
and industrial conditions at the South
Prof. WILCOX comes generally, to the
conclusion that "the negro as a race is
losing ground, is being confined more
and more to the inferior and less ren1u-
nerative occupations, and is not sharing
proportionately to his numbers In the
prosperity Of the country as a whole
or Of the section in which he mainly
liyea
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STRIKING BAKERS.
SCooperation Recommended ~ the Cure
for Their Troubles.

cooperation Recommended ~ the Cure
for Their Troubles.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE sUN-st,: do myself
the honor 70 solicit the hospitality OF your columns
ancnt the striking bakers.
How foolish for them 70 strike! Why not com
b,ne, They complain OF long hours unsanitsry
bakehouses, poor pay. The public doesnt seorn
to be interested In these things. though each and
ali. the hyr,en,c reasons especially, are tending
10 the destruction OF themselves and their children
Now for all this riot and tumult the bakerv. and the
public too. have the simplest and most effective
remedy In the world. and WILL strange TO say.
cost them not cent.
cooperate! Over thirty year, ago the bakers
OF Glasgow were In . similar condition. They
struck, but could obtain NO redress Being practi'
e,l men and seeing the wonderful cnecu Of CO.
oneratlon among the working clsssos, they sub.
scr,bed Is each and got a. many OF tho outside
public 70 join them As possble.. They started
bakehouses To day they possoss the hness bakery
buildings In the world. Bakers and public arc
copartners. Since then there has been no bakers
strike In Glasgow. The profits for the INST quarter
Inundated the subscribed capital.
Let the bakers In New York do likewise. Instead
of sympathetic strikes let the bakers who are most
Interested give two days pay and start the shares,
form their committee, elect their president and
secretary Any bank will act a. treasurer. When
they have 5000 they can get real estate 70 put up
their bakeries, credit 70 get their machinery and
-four They have a constant supply Of daily cash,
and nothing prevents them from succeeding II tAey
only capitalize their faith and their honesty.
say, then, be practical. avoid tumult and obtain
the sympathy and assistance Of the public.
MELRosH. Mass, Aug. IL. T. COMMON.
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THE PEACE or VIE WORLD.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuH Sir! Your
leading article in yesterdays issue on tho
dcsirabiiity Of n CLOSE understanding between
the United States. France and England IA
deserving OF being printed in letters of gold
and hung up In the working sanctum OF every
American. French and English statesman
and politician.
Why, oh why. cannot your scnslbe, honor
able suggestion be carried out and tina, im-
medlatelyf
All honor to you for your advocacy OF such
an alliance, which would inevitably impose
peace on the rest Of the world. Every good
wish to you and yours.
JAMES PARKINSON.
HAzELRoIpE. Liverpool Road. Brkdale.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
A Journalistic Alliance.
From lie Matin Of Auo.4

From lie Mdh or Aug T.
We have made with the most important Of
American newspapers, THE NEW YORK SrN.
an agreement which will enable us to publish
at the same time. at the same hour that 1t
does, all the news II receives, foreg en-. political.
parliamentary. financial sport. theat rical: in
q word, all news Of a character that may
interest the French public.
Thus Is completed one OF the most powerful
and extensive telegraphid equipments of the
modern press.
We have turned to THE Sun. in preference
to all other great American newspapers
because-and In this there should he seen
no sill ht on other journals Of the New World
THE Sun 10 the most strictly honest newspaper
beyond the Atlantic. 1t publishes under
tho name OF dispatches only the kilograms
that 1t receives. 1t adds nothing to them:
changes neither dates nor place of origin.
When II publishes a despatch you are per-
feotly sure. In the first place. that it Is des-
patch. and next that 1t left the place indicated
at the date given. For us that is the first and
greatest Of qualities: the one that counts
above all others. There 10 in it q guarantee
OF respect for the public which is the best
guarantee OF the desire one has Of serving it
and informing 1t.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
LANDSCAPES IN FICTION.
Acute and Accomplished Criticism by .
Lunar Henry james.

To THE EDITOR OF THH SuN-sfr: The Man IN
the Moon received some complaints In their day
that the Tennessee Mountain stories Of Charles
Eebert Craddock" were overloaded with landscape
and local color Of too pronounced . physiogr phic
strain. Their solar excelsior serenity will hrst
rightly apprehend this Of all things misdircctod
crtique the Man In the Noon OF all oesnio bodies
inorganic severely. To him In his lunar ohasms,
respectively chilled Stag meteofio ahyssi gorees.
the rock bottom below and primal space above
arc his accustomed and satisfying. II not. from
our organic humaniIed standpoint. quite salts.
factory environment: his eteTnally sun1cient AZ.
mosphere." In the hyperbolic sense Of ether. So
he tabled tho "Craddock' structures under the In
operative dark edges OF spectral auAlytios: com +.
hitting his answer by wireless moonshins 70 n.
Jules Verne.
-Ar Craddock's" excess. II positive excess II be,
Is then left In the neither surface cir of tastes which
differ. Certainly to this observer tot the Weather
Bureaus voluntary side limo force) that very trait
In the Tennessee Mountain stories which soma
against "Craddook" oppose. Il what reveals the
whole palpabe heart OF those Tennessee Mountains
themselves. Tho thicker the better. for me u
least, who be also of creations people, when you
lay on" tho natural colors the place comports
Guy Mannerlng lost on the moor brings the "soene"
OF II close any houespun webs OF ones everyday
native heather and II there 70 occasional extrava
gancc in repetitous Dickens he Il Art throug hou,
In the sensible effects of BLEAK House" east winds
and the Lincolnshire wet spell; WELCOME kindred
glooms. congcnial horrors hall" twhere was another
great natural artist VINO laid II on thick" like
clarifying RubensG
In mctconc relation. for that matter. parenthet,c
though II be, to Thomsons Seasons" one has
reviewed them several times over together with
Wordsworth's much plodding Excursion" fol
precisely those intimate sure homesoil touches OF
British air and skies which seemed In modern
English writers to be dropping out Of favor, They
occur. Of course. and with his felictous master
hand. In the landscape and weather" passages
of A. Conan Doyle; Irving and Hawthorne caught
them as Americans best could: ono Is unqualified
to speak OF the rarencd Milky Way haIes Of Mr.
Henry James.
Give us, in sum. n not fastdousy, the Keat.
qulntcsscnce or. entirely beyond ordinary com
pariSon. the Shakespcarlan elective affinitieS oil
wind and weather In "Cymbelinc. Hamlet.
Macbeth" king Lear" then al least the full
psychic c.icl mstential influences OF the place
depleted; ring the mountain 10 Mahomet. al
sofsddock" doris with true born magic w.P.
La1sroaT. Pa, Aug. IL
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Panama Canal Bonds?

The transaction by which the United
States Government came into possession
of the Panama Canal was completed on
NAV Fl, 1904. On that date all the pay
ments had been made, all the titles and
deeds had been handed over by the
French company and the transfer was
In every respect accomplished.
The Canal act Of 1902 appropriated in
advance not only the $4,000 900 which
went to the New Panama Canal Company
for it's franchises and property and the
amount paid directly to the Republic OF
Panama as Colombia's successor in ter
ritorial ownership, but also sl0,ooo'oOo
as a first instalment Of the American
construction money.
For the further expenses of canal
building the same law authorizes the
Secretary Of the Urea sury to sell bonds,
from time to time, up to the sum Of $780,
100000.
Is the time for the appearance OF the
first batch Of canal bonds approaching?
Has the entire appropriation OF $4,000
900 available for actual work on the canal
been exhausted during the last fifteen
months in preliminary expenditures,
establishment of plant, pur chase OF sup
plies and so forth?
The plain truth is that the rate Of
progress on the Isthmus during the last
year and three months by no means
satisfies the expectations Of the people
or realizes that ideal Of efficient energy
which was in vogue at the time the en-
terprise was undertaken.
This is q statement of fact and not
criticism. Everybody understands that
Mr.. RoosEvELT's Administration has
been doing its best to set the work a-going
speedily. Everybody knows now that
the initial difficulties, and perhaps the
magnitude of the whole job, have been
greatly underestimated, and that this
is no light task, to be achieved offhand
and jauntily during the performance
OF other national duties. The collection
Of material. the experiments in santa
ton, the study of conditions, the elimi-
nation Of faulty methods, and above all
the discovery OF the Man for the Canal,
the fortunate person who was born to
win immortal fame as the constructor
OF the interoceanic waterway, are as
necessary to success as the direct activ-
tiles Of the digging machines. 49,
1t is not fair to measure the progress
of the last fifteen months. even il it has
cost every dollar Of the preliminary So
900, 900. by the number Of cubic yards
excavated during that time in the Guile
bra cut and elsewhere.
Nevertheless, the call for subscriptions
to the first issue of Panama Canal bonds
when it occurs under the provisions Of
Section ofthe Act Of June 2s, 1902, will
denote the previous expenditure of q
very considerable amount of the nations
money, and it will inevitably set people
to thinking of the relation between
outlay and actual achievement.
That will be no misfortune. The
chronology of the enterprise up to date
emphasizes the need of the speedy adop-
ton of what the Government thus far
lacks, a definite canal policy, promising
that sort of canal which shall provide
the greatest possible advantages with
the least possible expenditure of time
and money.
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Our Population in 1000 A. d.

The probable increase of the negro
race in the United States during the
present century is the subject of very
elaborate and interesting paper by Prof.
WALTER FRANCIS WILCOX in the current
number of the Quarterly journal Of
Economies. MIR. WILCOX is professor
of political economy and statistics at
Cornell University and is statistician
OF distinguished reputation and varied
experience in connection with the United
s ates census.
About twenty years ago Prof. E. w.
GILLIAN published an estimate that the
negro population Of the Southern States
alone in 1850 would be 192, 900, 900, and
there would be about eight million more
in the whole of the United States. His
estimate OF the white population Of
the country in 1885 was 338, 100000. In
other words, he predicted that before
the end Of the present century the negro
race would amount to about three
eighths of the total. In 1904 Mr.. THOMAS
NELSON PAGE Of Virginia reduced Prof.
GILLIAM's estimate to between sixty
and eighty millions before the end
Of the century"
Prof WILCOX presents statistics
showing that since 1920, measured by
twenty year periods, the rate of,increase
Of the negroes has been steadily dimin-
ishing, and if the future is to be judged
by the past that decline will continue.
Prof. WILCOX gives no attention to
Prof. G1LLIAM's extravagant prediction,
but examines critically Mr.. PAGES
estimate, as based on the rate OF in
crease between 1860 and 1880. I'm
doubtedly IL that rate persisted through
out the century there would be $4,000 900
negroes in the United States in the year
2OOO but if the rate for the twenty years
from 1880 to 1900 should persist the num-
Der would be only 100000
Prof. WILCOX contends, however that
the history of this country in the nine
teenth century testifes that even this
last rate of negro increase is likely to
dwindle. On that assumption and after
detailed statistical calculations and con-
siderations, social and other, he comes
to the conclusion that 25.Oo0.00O is the
maximum limit Of the probable negro
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Ireland's Representation in Parlia-
ment.

Curiously enough, at the very time
when the Balfour Government has with
drawn the Redistribution bill, by which
1t would have deprived Ireland of twenty
two seats in the House of Commons,
Mr.. EDWARD PoRRITT, known to many
American readers by his History Of
the UNIFORMED House Of Commons,
contributes to the August number Of
the North American Rerie,D an article
in which he denies the existence of any
evidence that either PITT, then Prime
Minister, or CAsTLEREAGH, then Irish
Secretary, imagined in 1799-lsOO that in
the Act Of Union between Great Britain
and Ireland they were making COM
pact which should be regarded as sacred
that they were determining for all
time that the number OF Ireland's repre-
sentatives at Westminster should never,
under any conditions, fall below one
hundred. Mr.. PoRRITT asserts that,
il it was no breach Of the Act of Union
of l7O7 between England and Scotland
to interfere with the Parliamentary
IcpicbShtdtiOh VI ocOtiuhu III loJ<, ~
surely cannot be q breach Of the Act of
Union of 1900 to alter the Parliamentary
representation OF ireland in 1905. He
even maintains that it would be much
less a breach to, deal; with Ireland
representation than it was to change
the electoral system of Scotland, az
was done in 1882, because the union OF
l707 was a compact between two nations,
each DESTROYS Of coaiescence; .-wlnle
the union Of 1900 was just a vulgar deal
between CAsTLEREAGH and the borough
owners OF Ireland.
1t may be worth while TO see what
these assertions amount to, because the
redistribution question is likely to be
brought up again if the BaIfour Govern.
ment remains in Office. 1t may be re-
membered that CAsTLEREAGH, who IA
vored 126, was obliged to content him.
self with giving TO ireland only 1oC
seats in the House of Commons at West.
minister, to Offset the 800 seats in hi
lower house of the Dublin Parliament
II IL an inGisputable fact, recently ad.
mitted by Mr.. BALFouR. that: ireland
by virtue OF her population, compared
with that Of Great Britain. was entitled
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An Amsrlo.n woma n on Race Prejudice.

To TIE EDITOR OF The SUN,str: May l say a
few words Of protest 70 r. 7. Van Derwents letter
published In your paper on Aug. i2f In referring
TO the cissses who. In his opinion. should Do De
ported. he includes the Jews"
II seems TO the writer that there Is no excuse
for such injustice and lack Of appreciation. The
Jews arc rnaniYestiy . race Of distinction. talent
and merit. Any other estimate Displays lack OF
knowledge and great ignorance ~ 70 the facts
OF race precsde0ce.
History shows whore the Jsws stand, and r. T.
Van perwent should resd and Inform himself.
The wItse Of this V not Jew. but has large knowi
edge and appreciation Of Ne Jswtss Dsop,s. @.
NEW Yonk, Ang. a.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-14
subway Heat and Motors.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir' In discussing
SUBWAY Heat" has anything been said OF TIE
particular motors that produce that heat tN
ders,and that the motor used on the subway Tn. 5
has temperature rise OF about s5 degrees INV
is. after a run Of say. nve hours inc temper"
NJ the motor will be 05 degrees higher than the
surrounding air.
I venture 10 say that It does not require run W.
any such time to bring tho temperature nn !" wv,
for there is no way 10 dssipa,c the accum"'.
heat Other nrst class motors are not cSN''.r !
70 20 above 10 degrees. and 1t Is more o'lrh '''
case that the temperature rise is rs degrees
Eliminate the principal GAUGE and the pun.
viii not have to be told that the subway Is c"''.'
they will know It, sVff'N'"'
BoSToN Aug. -.