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Dee. Dotted Whit. V.encenne Net trimmed with lace $500
Rednso.e Of White French Linen having eooted eoa.
BAao, Coz. Suit. Of Cotton PopineHe, in white and
delicate shades %'|'vv
Separate Skirt. made from plated models
of,Whas Repn $3.50 OF White Linen. $3.50
-, Dep.nnen, on Second FDx) a.
DREssMAKlNC DEPARTMENT.
FIR the present. number Of style. Of Tailor Gowns md
Costumes for informal dres. wear, will be made to ods~.
from especially prepared models and in fashion,
able Spring and Summer fabrics at
the following low prices:
$780, $500, $500 or $1,000
In addition the remainder Of hi. Paris Gowns
offered at less than One-Haf the Original Pnees 800.
Department on Third Foa)
RUGS for Cottages and Country Houses
Ruo. suitable for Country Homes are shown IN e1tended
varieties. The most appropriate weaves and color 4
effects are amply represented, including Wilton.
Brussels and Smyrna Rugs in selected patterns,
Reversible Cotton and Wool AIT Squares.
Homespun and Washable Rugs and
Mazourk Veranda Mats
STORAGE. Rugs, Pordere. and Dapeies received for
Storage during the months with the usual for
TRIMMED HATS. !
On Monday May I'D, number Of the --latest Styles Of
Trimmed Hats, recently made up will be offered at
EXCEPTIONALLY LOW PRICES
Trimmed Sailors and Leshom Hats at .. $1,000
Department on Third Floor)
WOMENs SILK HOSIERY.
The following assortment Of Embroidered and Openwork
Hose have been marked at unusually low prices
Black Silk Embroidered Hose $3.50
Usually sold for $325 to $500 per pair.
Black Silk openwork Hose in embroidered Style. $3.50 and $50
Usually sold for $500 to $500 per pair.
woMENs SUITS
Smart designs are shown Street Suits and in Styles app,o-
pirate for visiting and other OCCASION. representing tn.
season. most fashionable fabncs and colorings
On TUESDAY, May I'D:
Bow. Coat Suit Of Black and Coloed Taaet with
walking length skirt 5000
Shirt Waie Dresses Of Black Coored and Checked
Tafeta Silk $500
E,on suan Black and Cooed Mohan. trimmed with braid
and having walking length skirt $500
Walking Skirts Of Black and Blue Panama Sitns 1900
Department Second Floor)
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%. Al1mt$1&t & On.

WoMENs SUMMER DRESSES.
Summer Dress for Women offered in imported models
and in Style. made up in the Establishment nc's'hns
an exceptionally interesting selection Of plain and
figured muslin batAe null, and cotton
net frock, and tailored garments OF
white and eolored linen
selection Of Dre..c. Of appropriate Summer fabrics vii
be offered as follows
g., CA WEDNESDAY: May 24h.
Dresses Of Dotted White Venennes Net trimmed with lace $500
Rednso.e Suit. White French Linen having eoted eolar
cufs and belt. $loOO
Bolzo, Coz. Suit. Of Cotton PopInete. in white and
d1c.e .b.des $500
Separate Skirts made from plated models
of,Whts Rep. $3.50 OF White Linen. $3.50
-, Department Seeoad FOo) -
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woMEN's SUITS

Blouse Coat sih Of Black and Colored Taaeta, with
walking length skirt $1,000
Shirt W.a Dresses Of Black. Coored and Checked
Ta6eta SILK. $Z5OO
E,on Suit q Black and Coo,ed Mohai. trimmed with braid
and having walking length skirt $500
Walking Skirts Of Black and Blue Panama Sutns 1900
(Deparnen on Second Floos)
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A wagner Correspondence.

1t is too much to expect common sense,
apparently, when people write of musicians
they admire, but we could wish that Mr..
William Ashton Ellis in approaching Richard
Wagner would not creep along the floor
and bump his forehead on the pavement
Tha, intensity Of the Wagner cult was more
common twenty years ago than it is now.
In Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesen-
donck" Imported by Charles Scribners
Sons) Mr.. Ellis offers correspondence con.
tanning many letters by Wagner and few
by the lady, written at an important period
in the composers musical life
Beyond the fact that the two were init
mate friends and deeply interested in the
same subject. we imagine that it is no bodys
business what their relat ions were. Mr..
Ellis finds it necessary in an incoherent
preface to prove that he believes that Wag-
ner's affection for Mrs. We-endonck was
purely platonic and INDUCES in much abuse
of the unfortunate woman who was Wae-
ner's first wife. His defense makes matters
much worse than they probably were, both
for Wagner and his unluokv correspondent.
What title tatte of this kind las to do
with the composition Of Tristan and the
Ring musical experts can tell
What the reader has right to know in .
preface Mr. Ellis does not tell, namely,
how his translation of the letters came
about. We cannot make out whether they
came to him directly or whether his book
is merely translation of that published in
German by Dr. Wofgang Gcl,her, as he
implies at the end. The omission of trivial
notes and the excelsior Of unimportant
matter in the letters would have improved
the book, but to the true Wagnerian, of
course. not a scrap of the composers writ
ings can seem unimportant. The book
has great value as documentary oyidon >
about Wagner's life.
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MAD" Dog, I'm the Streets.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SuS-.Sfr. That was
disgraccful exhibition Of human brutality and
oNclal Ignorance on Thursday evening in the
vicinity OF Beckman and Nassau streets. when a
harmless mongrcl dog that the heat had affected
was chased from pillar TO post by a thoughiIess
mob and shot 10 death after being laid low By
blow from the ever ready policemans club. As
far as could be learned, the animal had done no
harm 10 any living soul, and there was not the
slightest evidence that any one In the neghborhood
was in an danger from his fangs.
But as soon the senseless cry OF Mad dog"
was raised the crowd turned upon tho sick cur and
instantly his doom was dccreed. He ran into Thea
tire alley and he might have escaped the fury OF his
pursucrs had not the ncwsboys there driven him
back to their tender merclcs The chase af,erward
led into and out OF St Paul schurchyard the police
man who headed 1t tearing up and down over the
graves In his eager cndeAVor to get fair sho, at
the oh Jcct OF tho pursuit,
There is no good reason why sick dog should
not he treated with as much consideration and
kindness as a Sick man or a sick horse The
anc 81 universal dread OF rabies has Its iprcpuon
in the popular belief that every dog that froths at
the mouth or gets overhcated Is mad. when as n
matter Of fact In ninety nine cases out OF hundred
the animal is not at all dangerous and needs bu,
ordinary treatment 10 restore him to his normal
condition
In any event, ih& barharous and cruel custom
OF hunting down dogs thus afilcted In the streets
and clubbing and shooting them to death should
no longer be tolerated by the officials OF the Police
Department. II is time enough for the revolver
and the club when the animal shows signs of actual
madness, II there be such thing In dogs All other
cases should be referred TO the Society for the Pre-.
ycntion of Cruelty 10 Animals for nal disposition
NEW YORK, June 10. NJ
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or whether both of these clements af-

or whether both Of these elements af-
fected their determination.
! The defense was, briefly, that the
services thus performed re incidental
| to the duties owed by wife to husband
| in the course of the marital relationship,
and therefore that the right to cempensa-
ton existed solely with the husband.
This defense prevailed in the Supreme
Court and the Appellate Division, but is
now overruled by Judge BARTLETT and
his colleagues, who acknowledge the sur
vival Of the common law right OF the
husband to the services of the wife, but
, decide that the present case falls clearly
outside Of that category and within the
enabling acts Of this State relative to mar
ricd women. Judge BARTLETT says:
we have here the situation where vile for
period OF SIX years or more engaged openly
In a separate occupation without protest or Inter
ference from her husband the record disclosing
tina, he was entirely willing that she should recover
for her services. This Is sufficient election on
the par, Of the wife to embark in outside under
taking whereby she may earn wages on her own
account no complaint being made that she was
common experience that wives 60 out TO service In
various domestic calIinss-,ho washerwoman. the
seams,rcss. the nurse and other cangs to which
reference has already been made. The fact that a
married woman enters upon such independent EN-
ploymcnt Is a Circumstance showing that She In
tended to avail herself OF the privilege conferred
by the enabling statutes. The plaintiff
was under obllg alton so far as her husband was
concerned. TO enter into any contract. express or
implied. to serve person outside OF his house. and
to whom he was under no obligation: she having
done so. the statute permits her to collec, and
retain her earnings in such employment"
The Court then proceeds to take up the
various Court Of Appeals decisions cited
by the defendant to show their respective
differences from the case at bar. In
ROBINSON rs. REYNOLDS {64 N. Y. 593),
for example, the wife rendered the SER
vices of nurse temporarily to boarder
in the house; in PORTER u.s. DUNN (131
n Y. 3l4. the wife cooperated with her
husband and had no distinct employ
ment.
Judge BARTLETT in conclusion states
that a recent statute, Chapter 2s9, Laws
of 1902, raising presumption that in
certain specific cases the wife is alone
entitled to contract for her services in
no way removes any presumption in
the husbands favor existing at common
law. but is evidently designed ia mako
perfectly clear that principle which is to
be found in many of the decisions con-
STRUNG the enabling statutes in the in
terest of married women
The general effect Of the decision
would seem, however, to enlarge or at
least TO strengthen the right Of wife TO
contract.
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are therefore easily discoverable. But
an English tailor and bootmaker might
be patronized before attempting to force
an entrance into "the best Society
The value Of an English mentor such
as our correspondent processes to be
would therefore be apparent, if he pointed
out their deficiencies to socially ambi-
tious Americans visiting England and
taught them how to de-Amerlcanize
themselves sufficiently to satisfy the re-
quirements of the best Society," After
all, however, might not the pupil be re-
jected from "the best Society because
of general rather than specific untitness?
He might get rid of the American ac-
cent" and substitute English for Ameri-
can clothes, yet not be wholly desir-
able associate.
We thank our English correspondent
for his expressions of good will regard
ing our countrymcn, but we cannot give
him that assistance in his project for
which he asks; for we are convinced that
the only decent way of getting into the
best Society," or any society, is to wait
for an invitation to enter it, sent freely
and not in return for the intriguing ola
paid intermediary II people do not
want to know you, you had better go
without knowing them.
Besides, what is -the best Society,"?
1t certainly cannot be the Society into
which an advertising agent can lug any
body who chooses to pay him for doing
the Job.
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The Presidents Shield.

In recent years the Democrats OF
Massachusetts have succeeded only twice
in elccting the Governor Of the State.
The men were WILLIAM E. RUSSELL
and WILLIAM l.. DOUGLAS. They were
at least as respectable and as able as
the men whom the Republicans have
elected to the same Office, and it is not
recorded that the Old Bay States repu-
taton for patriotism and honor suffered
because of their occupancy of the Gov
ernor's chair. However, it appears,
on the authority of an eminent son Of
Massachusetts, that if the interests of
the Commonwealth do not demand
imperatively the election of Repub-
lican as Governor the interests of the
nation do This distinguished parsonage
declared in speech in East Boston
Wednesday,:
Let US choose with sober judgmcn, and. having
chosen. let US to 1t tina, Massachusetts stands
with knife for the back, bu, with shield for the
breast Of the President who has made our country
the envy and the model OF the nations of the earth
SO Massachusetts holds to-day knife
for the Presidents back grave con-
dition of affairs. We knew that Cover
nor DOUGLAS stood for reciprocity with
Canada, and therefore. in the opinion of
the Hon. HENRY CABOT LODGE, was
guilty of high treason. But his designs
on the Presidents back have remained
hidden so far until laid bare by this
orator in East Boston.
1t is only fair to add that the gentle
man who made public Governor DouG-
LASS true attitude toward THEODORE
Jr., and that he is not only willing but
also eager to hold the shield before the
breast Of the Chief Executive.
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Republican Non-Partizanship.

The eminent philosophers who COM
pose the Republican County Committee
Of New York have new and exclusive
conception Of the meaning of mon
partizanship. To them this word is
synonymous with Republican. Let
the Democratic organization into an
alliance for good government? Tush,
tush That would not be non-partizan-
ship, cry these great men.
Six months ago the thoughtful Repub-
lican managers were all for a straight
ticket" The Legislature was to put
MCCLELLAN in a hole There was to
be a tremendous revival of Republican
enthusiasm. Non-partizanship was not
much thought of then Following this
came a period of inactivity, No one
dared to speak or even to think, for the
master was away Now he has re-
turned and -partizanship" is sud
denly at the fore again,
In the vocabulary of the Republican
County Committee, mon partzanship"
spells RcpublicaniSm, and to the dis
credit of the party it must be admitted
that to-day in this town that once hon
orable name means nothing but Odellism.
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A Wife's Right OF Contract

The Court of Appeals of this State, by
the close vote of 4 to 8. has just decided,
in the case of CATHERINE STEVENS, ap-
pellant, against PATRICK CUNNINGHAM,
as administrator of the estate of BRIDGET
WALSH, deceased, respondent, that n
married woman who, while living with
her husband and with his consent and
approval, goes outside of her own family
and pc forms services as nurse and
attendant for another, may maintain an
action in her own name to recover for the
value of such services. The opinion of the
majority is written by Judge BARTLETT
and supported by Judges HAIGHT, VANN
and WERNER. Chief Judge CULLEN,
however, and Judges GRAY and O'BR1EN
dissent without stating the grounds of
their dissent. 1t is impossible, therefore,
to determine whether their intention
was to limit the freedom of married
woman to enter into legal contract of
this character, or whether the facts of
the case, in their judgment, failed to
sustain the contention Of the plaintiff,
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MILK MEMS SAD PLIGHT.
Liberal to the Farmers, They Darcy Exc
Out an Existence on Their Fronts.

| To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir. June
| You printed letter from McAfse Valley.
Sussex county. n. j., under date of June 5.
! signed L., quoting the price paid to farmers
| for milk for the month Of June BY receivers
| in Greater New York ard stating that said
price was Il. cents quart net to farmers.
| a. considered this unjust to the farmer
| from tho fact that the receivers were selling
the milk at cents quart TO the consumer
| in New York.
The Inference to be drawn from the state
ment OF L" would be that the receiver first
robbed the farmer and then skinned the CON
sumer The facts are very different from
thHss mpied For va ia SS9Ht 9e
is bottled. the balance. or 81 per cent. OF the
milk coming to this market, Is what Is known
psr asn About % per cent ui
from wa CONS TO the consumer at TO cents
quart retail: The balance. or SO per cent, Of
receiver TO the grocers' shops delcatessen
stores. and bakers at from sl.?o 10 sl4o per
can OF fT T Gnqp,s or fr9 5 to 81 cents
are reta ling il 10 their customers at cents
per single quart. or two quarts for cents.
The receiver barely covers expenses at the
The amount OF milk sold in bottles is so
small and the extra cost for hottns, loss OF
bottles by hreakagc. md handling is so great
that i would he unfair TO give the price OBJ
tanned for bottled milk as basis of what
whNn ali hs AND an S'e
renses are added TO the first cost Of the milk
the net profit on bottled milk does not exceed
one-half cent a quart.
Again; there are number Of people who
are hotling milk who pay the farmer for his
product. first. according to the percentage
OF butter fat second. for G cleanliness and care
in, handling. The writer knows OF instances
where the receivers. who are bottlers Of milk.
are paving at the present time from TO
cents 2 quart. according TO tho percerta GO
Of butter fat. for their milk in the country,
and the same pcouls IN some instances paw ~
high as cents for their milk n the winter
season,
The creanerias where butter only is r'nie
are paving tn farmers for the month Of Juno
for milk containing not less than -, Der cent.
Il a tri'e over l., cents per quart Thus IL
will no seen that the milk receivers Of Greater
New York are paving more 10 the farmers for
their milk than any one else car aHord to,
NEW NnEk. lllnn L. \ nAlEYMi&
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Police and Women.

Three cases have come to public at
tention within the week in which decent
women, guilty of no crime nor, so far
as the police can show, of anything ex-
cept the most exemplary conduct, have
been arrested One of these women
was fortunate enough to escape the cell
The others were locked up over night and
arraigned in court in the morning. Of
these one was discharged by the Macis-
trate, The other was fined on the vague
and unsatisfying charge of "disorderly
conduct" although the evidence seemed
to indicate that she was the victim of
the unsought attentions Of man.
One of the changes in police admins
tration recommended by the Committee
of Nine was that the regulation Of the
social evil" should be taken in charge
by a special bureau under the immediate
control of the Commissioner of Police,
and that the precinct police should be
relieved from all responsibility for such
matters A great benefit to be obtained
from such change would be the posi-
bility of fixing the blame on some one
person "Hcu Unjust dIIcStS were maze.
Under the present system the patrolman
who is guilty of an oppressive arrest is
practically sure to escape punishment,
and his superiors evade responsibility
by laying the blame for the error on
"ovcrzealousness" of an underling.
For the innocent woman who is ar
rested charged with what, to her, is the
most revolving of crimes, there is small
comfort in the assurance that her misery
was caused by mere "overzealousness.
And how can the authorities justify a
system that with unerring regularity
results periodically in subjectng nno-
cent women to the indecencies of po-
lice station cell? A night spent in cell
in one of the New York police stations
is awful punishment for an evildoer.
To an innocent person it's terros are
multiplied tenfold.
The system under which irresponsible,
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he required by means of photograph, al
instrument with frame like slate, covered
with parallel lines and holding a sheet Of
blackened paper under which was fastened
the white page. The writing was done
with stylus, which conveyed the i'm
preston, the wires guiding the writer's hand.
Obviously such an instrument allowed
of no erasures or corrections, hence the
necessity Of what Irving described as pre-
thinking" the determination not only of
the context but OF the actual form oil the
sentence before 1t was written As Pres
colt employe his photograph almost
altogether, seldom debating, he became
phenomenally proficient in this form Of
literary achieve ment. until he was able to
carry in his head the whole of the first and
second chapters of his Conquest of Peru
before committing them to paper Some
times he spent five days in mastering the
notes collected for single chapter, while
five or six moro would be employed in wri-
ting out the text Three years and half
were spent in this way before he wrote
the opening chapters of Ferdinand and
Isabella" and it was twelve years before
the book was given to the public.
Other interesting features Of the narra-
tive touch upon 1rving's fine courtesy in
giving up to Prescott the subject OF the
Mexican Conquest-a theme to the actual
composition Of which Irving had devoted
some months-and Prescott's visit TO Eng
land, where he was honored by men dstin-
guished in letters and prominent in affairs.
and was entertained by the Queen, Of
whom he wrote: "She has a good appe-
tite and laughs merrily. She has fine eyes
and teeth, but she is short.
The concluding chapters of the book are
devoted to criticism Of Prescott work
and a comparison Of its value with that OF
other historians of his time, from which
Mr.. Peck deduces the conclusion that while
Prescott never became philosophical his
torian and lacked the power Of generali-
cation, the penetration to grasp underly-
ing causes, the scientific thoroughness OF
his investigation, the historical exactness OF
his theses supported by the documentary
treasures Of his ample footnotes give his
work significant value. without the hui
NOR of Irving or the fire of Parkman or
the intimate touch of Motley. he is superior
to all three in poise and judgment and dis
tnction.' The book is published by Mac
milan
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The French Minister Of Education in his
report for 1905 gives figures for the enrol
ment in the Partisan and the provincial
universities. The grand total is 33,els, OF
whom LIZ are women. OF the men !, e1e
and Of the women IA are foreigners. In
Paris the figures are Men, IL 400, Of whom
l0l8 are foreigners; women 935, of wncm
54i are foreign. The figures for the various
faculties are Law. 5,l7o; medicine, 3,A5s;
science COS, arts, ,9i3, chemistry, l,237;
and theology Grotestant, Al. Or the
women students 453, or very nearly half,
are in the arts departments; 22s in medi-
cine. 1855 in science, 80 in chemistry and
Al in law. OF the provincial universities
Lyons is first in point of enrolment, with
ASST; Bordeaux second, with 2,433; Tou-
louise third, with 1858. These three are the
only ones with more than 1000 students;
between 1000 and 1900 there are six, and
six others carry less than 1000 names each
on their rolls.