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THENEW ORLEANS EXPERIMENT.
The Theory OF Mosquito Transmission Of
Yellow Fever Under Crucial Trial.

FROM the VI GQtcdt record.
The mosquito theory Of yellow fever trans
mission Is on trial. and upon the result Of the
efforts now being made by the sanitary off,
cials In New Orleans to stem the epidemic
by attacking the mosquito depends the pres
ent acceptance or rejection OF this theory a.
q practical working basis in the warfare
against yellow fever The New Orleans
authorities have adopted the theory frankly
and are working along the lines II indicates
In their endeavors to arrest the spread Of
the disease. Mayor Behrman on Saturday
last Issued Q statement In which he said:
-The mosquito theory is accepted by our
physicians and laymen alike. and there Is
nothing remaining to be done but to fight
the mosquitoes. which Is being done by oil
ing the cutters and screening and ohins
the cisterns. We have the situation
30 thoroughly in hand that we believe we will
shortly convince the outside world that by
working on the mosquito theory yellow
fever will be entirely robbed OF all It's perils.
This Ii . fight wholly against the
Sssoomtfo fasciata mosquito
This was . bold statement TO be made al
. time whom tho number Of cases was in
oreaslng and now foci OF infection were being
discovered daily. but We believe II will be
justified by the result. The truth OF the
theory. It Is generally believed by the medi-
cal world. was demonstrated experimentally
and practically In Havana: and. in the face
Of the mighty sanitary revolution there ef.
fected, objections based upon the unexplained
facts Of old time epldenics in Philadelphia
and other Northern cities. where the Steoom-
Wa mosquito does not habitually flourish.
have but little force. 1t Is moro reasonable
to explain these epidemics on the supposition
of an importation Of the fever-bearing in.
sect than 1t IL to explain the fact Of HavanaS
radiance on any but the mosquito theory
If New Orleans should succeed In arrestins
the progress OF the epidemic before the adj
vent Of cool weather. BY oiling her drains.
screening her olsterns and barring NOS
quitoes from the sick. the lesson would be .
grand one and It's teaching would be well
worth. In view OF future good. the loss Of life
and property which 1t cost There would.
OF course. still be skeptlcs. the fear-shaken
Governor Of Mississippi might even then
continue his embargo on hardware from
infected districts. but men Of intelligence .
little above this grade. with minds sufflciently
broad to recognize facts. would be forced
to ad nit the fnallty Of the denomination.
Thereafter the health officers OF any Southern
city in which yellow fever should gain pnorp
than q temporary foothold would Be Judged
incompetent or neRlectful Of . plain duty.
The task calling for accomplishment by
the New Orleans authorities Il q tremendous
one but 90 much the greater will be their
triumph II they succeed In II and thereby
prove to the world that Il Is possible to re-
move once for all from all civilized communal.
ties the menace Of the yellow peril.
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The Cet-Ahead Quality.

To THE EDITOR OF THR SUN-S'r: What rels.
ton has meanness 70 business success. From
MANI year. observation a conc islnn has coma
that there Is q certain relation between the two In
large proportion OF instances II may be clothed
with tho softer expressions "coldblooded." "se-
yere,- hard" or careful" but after all Isn't II
Just low mesnness'
Get the best Of the other fellow and make him
feel satisfied II you can. but In any event set all
there 10 In It for yourself.
So many times kind and considerable men have
been done by sharp practices that the question
naturally comes Does II pay 70 be careful Of
others interests In fear Of doing an injustice'
NEW YoRK, Aug. g. AoTHAoH.
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CANADA.s .sEr.RloH.oUIox

MONTREAL, Aug. Sat q point ioa miles
north OF North Bay, on the line OF the Tennis.
kamine and Northern Ontario Railway. and
only $50 miles from Toronto, there is to-day
n town where last November there was
only an uninhabited Wilderness, From the
railway station OF tho new town OF Cobalt
there Is now being shipped, In carload lots|
silver ore yielding from $500 to 5000 per
ton.
The Cobalt silver mines were first dis
covered In November, 1908, when cut was
being made for the construction OF the
railway. No very active attention was
paid TO II until May Of this year Then the
people got excited and the place got busy.
In q letter which occupies seven columns
Of tho Toronto Globe, special correspondent
OF that paper reports that up to July moro
than q 900 900 worth Of ore had been shipped
while mine owners report, with the CORE
spondent's personal verifcation, manymii'
lions Of dollars actually in sight.
Eighty-one veins, varying In width from
ono to twelve inches, have already been dis.
covered. They carry silver, cobalt and
arsenic. As they are covered by only few
feet OF earth they may be called surface
veins. Shafts have been sunk to various
depths up to 100 feet, and drifts Of consid-
cradle length have been cut. and all are
reported az showing silver In abundance
The extent Of the argentiferous area is un'
known. Miners with experience in Colorado
and elsewhere declare that the territory
is rich beyond anything they have ever
seen or heard Of.
1t is, however, OF no use for silver seekers
to rush into the territory. Every foot OF
the available area has already been staked
out and claimed. and a large crop of lawsuits
has already developed. The surrounding
area is covered by timber limits, and until
the timber has been taken OIL the limits
are closed to prospectors. While 1t Is prob
able that some Of the stories are largely
overdrawn, there appears to be sufficient
foundation to the report from Cobalt to
make the discovery noteworthy.
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The Cracker Venus.

Tho Hon. HOKE SMITH, formerly OF
the Atlanta journal, Is a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Governor
OF Georgia next year. From the per-
severing ferceness with which Mr..
SMITH transgressions have been spread
upon the record we infer that he must
be in the lead and that the other candi-
dates find the Smith boom wearing on
their nerves.
We wish to think we'll OF Mr.. SMITH,
but how can we resist the flood Of tesu-
mony as to his misdeeds? He knows
railroad presidents, an outlawed class.
As a lawyer he consents to be retained
by and to take fees from railroads.
What Is worse, If anything can be worse,
he is part owner of an Atlanta hotel
which is guilty Of having gilded &C.
henna. Therefore, constructively and
by necessary implication, he is a rum
seller. He is poisoning youth and age.
What do the prohibition counties think
OF that?
Mr.. SMITH pleads in confession and
avoidance that he devotes his share Of
the barroom profits to charity What
II he does? Isn't the money Atainted'p
But that is a question for the Cracker
Democrats to settle. In other days,
when -the fundamental principles Of
Democracy" were better understood,
the Cracker Democrats would have
asked: is SMITHS whisky good, the
real stuff that goes down straight,
smooth and slick; that warns but doesn't
burn: that gladdens, kindles, cheers?"
Even now there is what the sociolo gists
call decided trend toward that hotel
bar 1t pains us to notice that many
journalists are crowding up, possibly
with a view TO qualifying as experts.
OF these the Hon. THOMAS LoYLEss of
the Augusta Chronicle bewrays himself
unconsciously:
1T Is said they really do sell q good article Of
whisky there at two drinks for q quarter-and It Is
generally admitted to be the handsonest bar In
the State. with marble fountain. so we are told,
In the center. surmounted by a figure OF Venus
wearing wreath OF Malaga grapes"
If wagers were not sinful we would
bet glass of soda, sarsaparilla, ginger
ale or lemonade that tho words 1T is
said" and $50 we are told" were added
to the proof Mr.. LoYLEss shows no
second hand information and enthusi-
asm. The Atlantic Constitution quotes
another expert, the Hon. SAM SMALL,
as denying the Venus and the Malaga
grapes. He swears that she is Full
ton county Bacchante and her wreath
is made OF Georgia mus cadines.'
Thus issue is joined on question Of
art. Is HoKE SMITHS Venus with the
Malaga grapes Fulton county Bac-
chante with garland of muscadines?
Heated language, charges, the whole
mean and bitter lingo Of politics should
be retired. For the next year this fas-
cinating problem Of sculpture will keep
Georgia busy.
But how the charity account will grow
as, in their laudable desire for culture
the Georgia folks gather by the marble
fountain.
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agreements now existing between the
companies and their men coincide in
the time of their expiration and In the
fact that all news reports point to prep
aration on the part of the unions in both
fields for a possible struggle for new
terms on April /, 1905. We made no pre-
diotion OF strike in either or in both
districts. The matter is not yet suffi-
GENTLY developed for anything OF that
sort. There may be strike in neither
region. There may be strike in one
and not in the other. The bitumnous
men did not go out when the anthracite
men struck in 1902. They remained ut
work and contributed large sums OF
money to the anthracite strike fund.
The anthracite men have not gone out
in sympathy with the bituminous strike
in Alabama, which has now lasted for
about a year.
1t is evident that there is unrest and
uncertainty in both the Pittsburg and
the Scranton regions, and the coincident
expiration of the working agreements
introduces an unusual factor. 1t ID pre-
sumable that the operators in the Pitts
burg district will act In entire independ-
ence Of the operators in the Scranton
district, and vice versa. But from the
conditions as they have been thus far
reported it is also presumable that the
United Mine Workers may act in har-
mony and precipitate strike In both
areas. Mr.. WILCOX, who speaks so
clearly for the anthracite operators, does
not speak for the bituminous operators.
SO far as we know their attitude has not
been declared, and little is known con-
corning it beyond the allegations Of
some of Mr. MITcHELL's official asso-'
| ciates.
Our position in the matter is simply
one of hope that right and reason may
prevail and that an already outraged
public may not again be made the victim
of the folly and the greed of either the
unions or their employers, The fire.
quent disturbances in our widespread
bituminous areas have already severely
taxed the patience of their victims, and
the anthracite strike of 1902 is by no
means forgotten. Both sides, in both
branches of the industry, now hold before
the public position quite different from
that in which they have appeared in
earlier conflicts. The American people
are at last awakening to an understand
ing of the fact that in all great industrial
disturbances it is they that suffer and
that pay.
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ACCIDENTS nv NAvIEs.
Returns OF Casualties In the British Navy
Cited by an American Navy Omcer.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN--Sn: After
reading your recent editorial In regard 70
accidents In the United States navy. TOOK
the trouble to look up the latest available
returns OF casualties In the British navy uor
the years 1909 and l013). and i send them 70
you herewith. That few navies equal aho
no navy exoels the British navy In general
efficiency <is hardly doubtful. and the fact
that In the British navy there occur annually
so many accidents OF all sorts should mako one
hesitate before ascriblng to ignorance or
carclessnoss similar accidents In the United
States navy.
A return OF casualties to ships OF the Brltiah
navy during the year ending Dec. 81. leOs'
was recently issued as Parliamentary paper
FROM this return II appears that during the
period mentioned 81 casualties occurred
and 80 inquiries were held. with the result
that In 10 cases the officer OF other person
otherwise punished, while In the remaining
81 cases no blame was attributable.
Out Of IS accidents. % were cases OF COL
lision and we're wrecks. the latter being
boat DESTROYER: ths Cobra. toIHedo y. Loaf .
sss s4d tsnd t?s 'Hs ssEs ne ASs
Of boiler in tie Daring. torpedo boat dss.
Fss see sy g. g. ssFsdtns hiis
the loss Of the Cobra. torpedo boat destroyer;
3 by accidents to a boat OF the Forth: o
by gun accident on board the Royal Sover-
eign: 20 by the wreck Of the Active. and 6y
the collision between the Salmon. torpedo
boat destroyer. and the steamship Cam
bridge.
The annual return for 1908 showing casual
ss ad ss ae F sna he the . o.
paper. In ALL during the year under con
sultins in, personal lnjyry IN twentyI fSo
pereentaSe Of deaths Sss INCREASED by tn, the
the fore part sinking during night ma
neuvers on Corfu. This was the, most seI,
Gus accident Of the twelve months In every
respect. and the repairs to the destroyer
occupied ten months, which ID longer than
the time required by any OF the other vessels
damaged during 1903.
The total OF accidents was made up as fol
lows: Battleships. 8: armored cruisers. 8;
protected cruisers. IL: torpedo boat destroy
ers. 2s; torpedo boats. 10: SUI bmarines. 2;
miscellaneous craft Including torpedo GMn-
boats and special service vesselsl -. The
main causes OF accidents were collision and
grounding. the former accounting for 81
caseS and the latter for II. Mishaps In the
engine room accounted for four more. and
OF gun and boiler explosions there were three.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
ANNAPOLIS, Aug. I.
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ThinRS ,yapauese.

The Toyo Kisen Kaisha or Eastern Steamship Com
pany has contracted with the Mtsu Bishi Dock
ward and Engine Works Of Naeasak for two sister
passenger steamers OF $1,000 gross tons each. one
to be delivered In thirty months and the other In
three years. They will be built 10 Iloyd's 100 I
srecncaors and In accordance with the rules OF the
Japanese epartment as well as the American passen.
ger hoat regulations, The speed win be 1914 knots.
Japan occupied Formosa In 1900 By 1908 the
islands exports rose from Tbooooo In 1907 to
slo2soooo and tho imports from Ssosi!o 900 to
sio4Ooooo
japan has secured the opening Of the Corean
port of Yoneampho, few miles from Seoul. to
foreign trade. Japans UNFOLDING Of the open
door" Ia a nxed principle OF her policy
Japanese publications are full OF American arti-
Giles on all kinds OF subjects.
The japanese have bought 81 steam turbines
with electric generators. all Of which were made
or are being made In Schenectady. Tho ma
chimes represent $500 horse power. The frst ship
ment did not reach Japan till July 20 I804-just q
year ago. Already II Of the 81 are In successful
operation for street railways. lighting and power
purposes Some Of the turbines will be used for
operating electrically the Mike coal mines on the
island OF Kyushu.
Tho Osaka Electric Llgk. Company Of Osaka,
japan. city OF 10000 people. is equipped entirely
with American electrical apparatus. including six
turbines. also made In Schenectady. This com
pany has paid up capital OF s.noo,o0o. and Ia so
progressive that II 10 on par with some Of the best
American electric lighting companies.
The Toxic Street Railway Company serves .
population OF i.5o0,0O0. In Japan II 10 known a.
the Toxic Shgal Tedsudo It's capital IL ~ 800 0o0.
After 1852 the city OF Toxic has the right 10 buy
the property at Its then value. Perhaps Chicago
will yet take lesson in municipal railway owner.
ship from Toxic.
Japan has 77,iss public schools In which Bos4 go
children tabout one ninth Of Japans entire popu-
lation) are taught by ioe.So0 teachers. says the
Japanese ofncial white Book" This Ia MS per
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Hard Coal and Soft Coal.

A correspondent in Baltimore, writing
in reference to our recent comments on
the situation in the coal regions, says
ITO tn. EDITOR OF TIE sus-str: Your edi-
toriai More Testimony on the Coal Question
appears TO confuse the soft coal situation In the
Pttsburg district with that Of the anthracite dis
,riot, of which Mr.. DAVID WILCOX writes
BALr1MoRs, Nd. Aug.a. II Ill.,
We fail to see any necessity for the
alleged confusion. 1t il true that we
quoted Mr.. WILCOX, who Is interested in
the anthracite fields, and that we also re-
ferred to Messs. LEWIS and DoLAN, who
represent the bituminous coal miners.
But the United Mine Workers, OF which
organization Mr.. JOHN MITCHELL is the
official head, embraces both the anthra-
cite and the bituminous miners. The
latest available retur0s give this body a
membership Of nearly 10000. 1t is also
true that Mr. MITcHELL's special interest
is in the anthracite workers, the field to
which Mr.. WILCOX confined himself
in the article from which we quoted.
Our comment, in its general bearing.
dealt with the conditions in the anthra-
cite region. For that reason we placed
the general attitude OF Mr.. MITCHELL in
contrast with that of Mr.. WILCOX, who,
we assume, presented in his article the
view and opinion Of the anthracite ope-
rators generally.
While there is neither compulsory nor
inevitable harmony Of action between
either operators or miners in the bitumi-
nous and the anthracite areas, similar
condition prevails In both in that the
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England's Cotton Business.

About year ago England's special
tariff commission submitted it's report
on the iron and steel trades. There
has recently appeared Part !. OF the
report on the textile trades. 1t con-
tains statistical tables and many pages
Of . summary and analysis OF oral and
written evidence" Some study Is re-
S;;;scd to harmonic the various parts
Of the report. Individual testimony
-aometimes contradicts figures, and fig
ures seem sometimes to dispute the
conclusions" of the commission. Thus
In the summary Of conclusions there
appears the statement that "the industry
q a whole is however, practically
stationary Yet the report shows that
the number Of spinning spindles has
increased from 40,5oO, 900 in 1890 to an
estimated 47.OO0,OOo in 1904. We find
no definite statement of increase or
decrease in the amount of capital in
vested, but the indications point clearly
to q material increase. The gross value
OF the output also shows an important
increase. These figures are presume
bly, the average for the periods in
dicated:
Esl 100000
1So6-1oO0.. H7OOOoO
oi-N' sS'soV""
JbOe.... eSOOO,OUO
No figures of the value of the American
output for 1904 are available for COM
parison. but it is probable that the Eng
lish figures exceed the American by
about 20 per cent, in spite of the fact
that the United States supplies about
rs per cent. of all the raw cotton used
in England. As point for American
consideration, attention may be called
to the fact that Englands exports of
manufactured cotton every year some
what exceed the total production of
the United States Another point OF
interest appears in the fact that England's
domestic consumption per capita is, in
value, only about one-half that of the
United States.
For the sake Of presenting what the
report calls "a better index Of the state
OF the cotton industry" second table
b shown. This gives the net value
Of the annual output by leaving out the
value Of the raw material and reducing
the estimate of variation to basis OF
labor. fixed charges and supplementary
material. So estimated. and also esti-
mating from the total quantity Of raw
cotton imported, there Is justification
for the assertion that the industry is
practically stationary"
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The raxameter Cab for New York.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The tax
ameter cab OF Berlin seems better solution Of "the
question Of cab service" than that proposed by
Hanson" In your Issue Of July o. Tho tax
ametcr has all but supplanted In BeriA the style of
cab used In New York and has been introduced
into Paris recently. I understand. A dial facing
the passenger registers 80 pfr az cents, at the he-
ginning OF the trip. After $40 meters. or half a
mile, OF riding the indicator registers % pig and
thereafter registers 10 pfg more for every 400 me-
tiers travcrscd, or after minutes n Che cab waits
for the passenger at any point on the trip A
higher tarin is In force after midnight. In every
case the dial before the passenger indicates which
tarin Is being charged and the exact amount due
at any stage OF the trip. No dispute az to the
fare Is possible. With a higher tanR the Berlin
system would seem perfectly adapted to New
York. r. 8. A,
MAYyILLR, N. D., Aug, g.
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RACE CONFLICT IN HUNGARY.
Dog.in.the. Manager Attitude OF the Re.
fractOry Party Described.

To THE EDIToR Of The SuN-Sir: The new
attempts to conciate the Magyar majority
in the Hungarian Parliament have failed.
and the struggle has become a tug-of-war
between the Crown and the refractory party.
Certain propositions were made them by
which. If they yielded in the matter Of the
Language of command in the army. they
would be allowed tn do as they pleased with
the other nntionalities of Hungary. but this
did not satisfy the irreconoilabe section.
and was refused. passive resistance meantime
being initiated in the comitatS in which Mag
vars predominant or which they control.
Feeling is said to he running SO high in some
parts OF the country that Count Eugene Itchy.
lately n Liberal. declares the country to be
In r state Of revolution. Count Apponyi in
a long letter recently published in which all
rights of the non-MaEyar majority in the
country are ignored, repes the idea of treating
with an unconstitutional administration and
refuses to give way on the language of oOm-
mand. which. he says. is vital to united
Hungary. A concession to the Crown on
this point he regards rs an admission that
there exists right Of empire in the union
with Austria higher than the right of the
kingdom az an independent State.
Mr.. Francis Kossuth holds q more moderate
attitude. wisely saying nothing about ls4s.
later on. Neither he nor a certain number
Of his adherents desire to engage in war
to the knife WITH the 'roWn or 10 aggraVate
the con 1ict of natonalitles in Hungary.
ali its interests, A number of the Magyar
ARrarian party are also against the customs
separation Of Austria and Hungary, although
But what is generally believed is that the En-
peror hopes to gain time. and in this way
cilabie coalition majority.
The danger. however: is that public passions
may be so worked mp that the more unscrupu-
ious among the politicians would find II difficult
TO saorihce to their secret ambitions the pro-
gram they have accepted and 90 the tug-of-
var wy! 60 on unt IL ore stoe or me other inds
extraneous circumstances over which neither
has any control PERA.
NEW YORK. Aug. 5.