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Nnices Of Snrinr.

The New Yorker who opens his win
dows to absorb the first breath Of these
spring days and nights is likely to let In
something else that may not be nearly
80 welcome. That citizen Of The Bronx
who heard the lonely call of the police
man through the night and complained
to Commissioner MCADOo is not the only
man to suffer from the sounds that are
carried to him upon the vernal breezes
Probably he has less cause for complaint
than jewellers in more urban quarters.
To them come on the wings Of the
spring air which they delightedly let
into apartments long closed against the
rigors Of winter, sounds more compli-
GATED and disturbing than the simple
report the night guardian Of the Dor
oughs deserted avenues telephones 10
his chief in the station house. They
hear in all seasons, when the weather
permits, the rattle Of the elevated roads
and the irregular clang Of the trolley bell.
Against this background of sound the
activities Of city life embroider harassing
and tortuous arabesques Of noise.
There is the shril and agonized warn
ing Of the postman's whistle, which seems
70 pierce the morning air with as much
labor as IL il we're blown with that off,
calls expiring breath. Only It's repeti-
ton further down the block proves
he did not die in that first effort. The
whistled welcome 10 the daylight which
begins when the grocery boys pass
through the street on their way 10 work
Is not less disturbing and the milkmans
call strikes the ear at an hour too early
TO rise but already too late TO sleep.
The CHEEKY greetings Of the icemen
from one sidewalk TO another are no
more soothing to the sleeper because
they are borne 20 him on the soft air Of
spring that blows through the open
shutters.
When early morning has passed, there
are yet noises for every part Of the day.
The barrel organs find any time season.
able, and fearful have they become in
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WORKERS for Tammany.

Most important Of all the men who are
working for the success OF the Tammany
Hall ticket in the municipal campaign
Of 1905 is GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN. whose
farsighted and capable administration
Of the affairs Of New York city is attract
ing TO the political organization with
which he is affiliated men and influences
that have never hitherto been otherwise
than antagonstic 10 it. II Tammany
wins this year the greater share Of
credit for the victory must go TO Mayor
MCCLELLAN. But there are other men
who to-day are working enthusiastically
for Tammany success this fall. --
Among them are the Republican
politicians in all parts Of the State who
are seeking TO burden New York city
with an unjust and inequitable share
Of the expenses OF the State govern
ment. Such are the promoters Of the
Stock Transfer and Mortgage Tax bills,
the men who seek to inhict an odious
espionage on the residents Of the Metro
politan Election District, the legislators
who endeavor to hamper and bind the
authorities Of New York city in their
work OF government The Republican
statesmen who refuse 10 allow New York
20 extend her water supply unless they
are allowed 20 spend her taxpayers
money have their shoulders TO the Tam
many wheel and lend their aid 70 bring
about Tammany victory in the fall.
Mighty are their efforts and great will
be their reward.
Mayor GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN is doing
his utmost, with intelligence, honesty
and trained skill, TO insure the success
OF his party at the polls on Nov. 7, 1905
Certain others in New York State are
lending a hand TO advance his projects;
but what a difference there is in the in
struments they are using in aiding him!
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Arsenic In Dyes.

FROM me Lancer.
Wehave frequently referred in these columns
to the possibility OF contamination OF dress
fabrics with arsenic owing to the use OF that
poison in the preparation OF many dyes.
We hold that II Is just as important that our
clothing, and especially that which Ia worn
next the skin, should be as free from arsenical
compounds as our food. Arsenic Is readily abb
sorbed by the skin and symptoms OF arsenical
poisoning may easily arise from the presence
Of the metal In a garment. Precipitation, too.
has the property OF dissolving many metallic
substances which would be otherwise I'M
touched.
We object strongly 20 the present practice
OF loading dress materials with mineral sub
stances. We have found quite a large num-
Der OF the metallic oxides known TO chemistry
present In woollen garments and silk goods,
and we suppose that there are very few Of
the silk ties worn chiefly by men which do
not contain a very large proportion Of mineral
substances. These substances. oil. course, give
considerable weight TO the material. Thus
compounds OF zinc, tin. and aluminium are
used which dissolved In perspiration would.
we have little doubt. form corrosive salts.
The presence Of arsenic IN dress material Ia,
however, generally accidental. the poison
being introduced through the dye.
1t has been stated that hosiery IL very liable
TO such contamination. With a view OF in
Piles Of cheap hosiery have recently been
bought and tested. The results OF the tests
show that at least nifty per cent. OF the cheaper
forms OF hosiery contain very distinct guam
titles Of arsenic, the amount rising In some
cases TO as much as half n grain per pair OF
stockings. Although not highly soluble,
this arsenic can be extracted by water and
slightly sCid solutions, and there is, therefore,
a possibility, II not likelihood. OF its being
gradually absorbed by the system. This
arsenic Is due TO ~ the use OF materials for
finishing and dyeing which are themselves
contaminated, and ~ the "stovinR" OF the
yarns with impure forms OF sulphur.
Among the chemicals used In the finishing
and dyeng operations the most likely source
OF arsenical contamination il sulphurio acid.
great many dyes are used in acid baths,
and commercial sulphurlC acid may contain
as much as a NTH OF a grain OF arsenic per
pound ArsenCal coptamlnation can be
avoided BY using only birthstone acid. The
greater part Of the arsenic found in woollen
goods is, however. probably derived from
the process OF SLOWING" being followed by
insufficient washing. II lsa common practice
To expose woollen yarns 70 the action OF sui
phur dioXide. which IL usually obtained from
burnt sulphur or pyrites. sulphur obtained
from the latter source will always be highly
charged with arsenious oxide. The quantity
Of arEenious oxide found IN these slowed
warns is some lines extremely large In one
case a recent analysis showed the presence
OF one-twelfth Of a grain OF arsenious acid
per pound Of material
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A Roman Triumph.

To economic ignorance the adherents
Of indirect taxation at Albany have
Joined political madness Regardless
of the counsels of the New York city
Republicans they jummed through the
Senate the Stock Transfer and Mortgage
Tax bills Monday evening, fearful that
II there was delay even The holy bond
Of caucus could not keep the legislators
from a lapse into intelligence, On the
Republican leaders who follow the Gro
Gerry rests the responsibility for passing
acts designed TO drive business from
the State, increase interest charges TO
borrowers and raise the rent OF every
tenant and lessee.
From SAKE, from PAGE, from ELsBERG,
these the assailants of business and
commerce heard denunciations of their
plans. For the sake Of the State, for
the sake Of the city, even for the sake
Of the Republican party, they refused
to stay their course. The Grocery had
ordered, and the Grocery was obeyed.
What are the interests Of the State. Of
the city, or Of the Republican party to
tne GrOCery!
Senator MARTIN SAKE declared that
in voting for the bills the New York
city Senators voted TO commit hah-kiri.
Senator ELsBERG warned his colleagues
that they were voting 70 destroy the
Republican organization in four counties.
With such cheering support the indirect
takers went forward TO work their ends.
IL was a night Of high craftsmanship
and worthy accomplishment in the Sem
ate chamber OF Albany.
In Rome the chief of the Grocery gang
read yesterday Of the progress Of his
campaign. He had succeeded in alienat-
ing from the Republican party thousands
Of voters, in striking a blow at the bust
ness interests of his State, in tightening
the pocket Of every borrower and rent
payer in New York.
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their present estate, when they are
dragged from house to house by horses
and have their powers for evil proper
tionately increased beyond the strength
Of the mere man who formerly controlled
them. The whlg of the motor car
shoots intermittently across the sense
of hearing, punctuated with the toot
Of the horn OF safety. Then the rhyth-
mical attack Of the man beating rugs
in the adjoining back yard comes toward
the close Of day TO complete the record
Of sounds waited to New Workers on
the winds Of spring.
Suoh is the daily list to which nearly
every New Yorker must accustom him
self after the annual opening Of the win
dows. Yet an impatient citizen OF The
Bronx invoked police aid against the
hourly call Of the coppers number.
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To THE EDITION OF THE SUE-Sfr' Iwould like ~
know whether the correspondent who recently wrote
on the predesunatlon puzzle IN THB Sun ia under the
impression that he gains free will By eliminating the
Deity. II will occur 70 some people that there IA no
point Of view, from which the career Of humanity
looks Inevitable In is preordinAton a. from that
which attributes II TO matter and force acting Sc-
oordlnE TO natural laws.
The notion OF Deity 90 least leaves Us the refuer
Of inscrutable religious mystery. Granting q God
free will IL no harder TO understand mo easier also
admit than any Of the other puEzlos OF time
space the Constitution OF matter and the like which
Herbert Spencer arrays In his discussion Of "ths
unknowahle.-
BY assuming God. u Is true We gain nothing IN
knowiedge but We gain everything Ia the way Of
possibility By eliminating God, We reduce the
universe 10 mere paradox.
BELrEvEA IN PROVIDENCE.
Mr. YoHE. March Al
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While Hoboken was celebrating a flftieth
anniversary, Hohokus, another New Jersey
settlement Of historic record, was threat
ened with effacement from the railroad
map and the Erie time table. Hohokus owes
most Of It's fictitious prominence 0or il il
a small settlement In Bergen county, 10
its name, and II is but one OF the New Jer-
sey towns which retain designations lat
are the delight Of the comic paragTapher
and the despair OF the land agent There
are Communipaw, Singoc, Wiokatunk. Gin
naminson, Wawayand. Parsippany, Wee
hawken, Papakating, Matawan, Fish House,
Peapack, Mammalian. Kinderhamack.
Dutch Neck, Hackensaok. Batsto and Al
lamuohy.
The early settlers Of New Jersey were
not particular in the names which they
gave 70 hamlets. some OF which have since
grown to be cities. Their SUCCESSORS did
not, for many years. resent the popular
imputation that New Jersey was a foreign
country, and 70 that humorous fiction some
Of the peculiar names retained lent some
color Of support. Hohokus has sturdily
maintained it's identity as a town for more
than a century and 20 be now threatened
With extinction on a railroad time table as
a stopping place justifies the resentment
Of its oldest inhAbitants. Of whom it has
for many years had an inordinate supply.
And Hoboken Is booming and Greater
Hoboken' is projected.
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corporation can, by the choice Of direo-
tors, control lie management.
II the Senator referred TO such organ
lied capital, why should there be and
how can there be encroachment upon
the rights Of the people unless a ma
jority Of tho shareowners wish IL? II
there is such encroaohment, and Mr..
WARNER, az a shareowner, cannot get
other directors chosen who viii stop the
encroachment, or il he cannot stop II by
appealing TO the courts, he can sell his
shares and relieve himself Of response
bility. We infer. however, that he will
prefer to remain and fight for law and
order inside the corporation.
There is probably no corporation in
Missouri or elsewhere encroaching ION
the rights Of the people" in which a Wig
orous minority composed OF resolute
men like Mr.. WARNER will not in the end
prevail, even against one or two large
owners who are plutoorats. The courts
will always be open The encroachers
will. on Mr. WARMERS hypothesis, be
always breakers Of the law, and there
fore easily stampeded. What, then, have
the people to fear, unless a majority Of
the shareowners, who are Of the people, "
intend TO encroach on other people? 1t
will then be people against people.
But to whom does Senator WARNER
refer by the people whose rights are
encroached upon by the shareowners Of
corporations? Is he quite certain that
we'll nigh a quarter Of the voters in our
land do not own a share, or more, Of
some corporation or other? Surely a
quarter and more are owners Of deposit
in a savings bank whose funds are in-
vested in securities OF corporations.
Few Of our oountrymen have no interest
whatever in the prosperity and fair
profit Of organized capital Would the
Senator have Missouri forbid them 70 put
their savings in any corporation because
it may encroach on the people?
II is TO DO hoped that the new Senator
will not be discouraged regarding the
patriotism and devotion to law Of men
and women owning, like himself, shares
in corporations, but will appeal TO them
20 obey the laws and not encroach on the
people. He should try that before he
stirs up State Legislatures and Congress
TO make war on all corporation share
owners including possibly himself, When
he shall have demonstrated that selfish,
lawbreaking and bad men and women,
unlike himself, own a majority of the
shares in corporations, and will, unlike
him, vote for lawless arbitrary. despotic
and altogether unfit directors, then will
be the time for Mr.. WARNER and voters
in the States creating such corporations
TO take them in hand
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A Rurninr Qncstion. Indeed I


Il is a long time since the Legislature
Of Missouri has chosen Senator Of the
State at Washington who did not ac-
knowledge allegiance to the DEMOCRATIC
organization. That fact is Of itself
enough to fasten public attention on
utterances by the new Republican Sena-
tor. who has been reported as saying:
The burning issue OF the day IS that OF setting
proper metes and bounds TO corporate power and
the suppression ofths unlawful sncroachmeut upon
The rights OF the people by organized capital
Senator-elcct WARMER used a phrase
made illustrious by DIsRAEL thirty
years ago, when, abiding in the House
OF Commons TO the new question then
engaging a constitutional Minister Of
the Crown, he mentioned "the functions
Of corporations. the free disposal and
even the existence OF any kind of prop
erty." He added that the principles
which had made England great and
famous ARE now impugned, and in due
time will become great and burning
questions. In the report OF his speech
he put the word in quotation marks, be-
cause, as has been said, Mr.. MALL was
the author Of the phrase; but however
that may be, Senator-elect WARNER has,
after an interval Of thirty-two years,
used the term in much the same relation
as did Mr.. DIsRARLI.
IL may be regretted that Missouri's
new Senator did not define the organ
lied capital and the people whose
antagonism is to be so eventful. By
capital he probably meant the accumu-
lated savings Of labor and its profits,
and by organized capital the context
indicates that he referred 20 incorporated
capital and not TO that used by an indi-
vidual or a partnership. He docs not
mention organized labor, or the conflict
between the open shop" and the closed
shop" which so many look upon "a the
great conflict of the future. The flnc-
ton Of corporations" seems 70 be his
theme, as il was, so long ago, that Of the
late Lord BEACoNsFIELD.
. Corporations are now quite universal,
and created by State laws. Missouri has
them by the thousands. Divisible into
shares Of small sums, their stock is ao-
cessible TO everybody and can be pur-
chased by everybody who has saved a
few dollars. They compete with savings
banks How many millions Of such
shares and th.ir owners there are in
our country iInknown. Probably MIR.
WARNER is an owner OF a great many
shares. Am'iority Of the shqres in each
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GuneH and All Eyes.

Four Judges Of the Superior Court are
to be elected in Pennsylvania this year,
No citizen can vote for moro than three
candidates. So one Democratic Judge
will be elected.
The Philadelphia PTess says that AL
eyes are turned toward Col. GUFFEY, who
will really make the nomination. All
eyes are turned inevitably toward Col.
GUFFEY. Such ia the compelling attrac-
ton Of beauty. But can 1t be that the
Octopus il suffered to make Democratic
nomination? Is the Pennsylvania Democ-
racy in the throes Of the tentacles, so to
speak?
Where Is Col. BRYAN in this awful
hour?
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Imprisonment for Debt.

In the State Of New York to-day It Is
possible for one man to put another in
fail and keep him there for no other
offence than inability to pay a debt.
When Sheriff ERLANGER went into office
he found Ludlow Street Jail filed with
poor debtors, men guilty Of no crime, but
still deprived Of their liberty and treated
az felons. Many OF these prisoners were
men with families dependent on their labor
for support, which, deprived Of their ao-
customed incomes, were thrown into pow
erty by the operation Of the law.
Mr. ERLAEGER at once began a crusade
in behalf Of such unjustly incarcerated
men, and to-day hearing will be held by
the Judiciary committees Of the Legislat-
ure in Albany on a bill advocated by him
under the terms Of which imprisonment
in all civil cases, except for contempt
Of court, would be abolished unless the
plaintiff paid 81 so a day for the support
Of the defendant in jail. The bill is so
drawn that no person deserving i'm
prisonment would escape under its pro-
visions. II enacted its effect would be
to prevent many abuses OF the law
which now amount to little less than
legalized blackmal.
The Erlanger bill is a wise measure to
accomplish a needed reform. The Leg
islature should pass it and the Governor
should sign ii. The conditions made
possible to-day by the laws of New York
State are unworthy Of the fame Of a
great and progressive State.
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JIu-Jitsu vs.Hooksy.

II you want 70 rear . nation
TO be ~ for future scraps
cut away this initiation
That YOU'RE taking from the Jspt
You can never win your battles
With these monkey springs and souAts
To the Highlands and play hockey win the Scotsl
'Hoot mani Hoou- says big Macdonald.
And MHcWullAms Answeu -Hooti-
As he smGshes Angus Campbell
on the apex OF bis snoot
While the polished door Il ff6oRied
ny score Of crimson spots
All you're busy When you hockey With the Sootsl
Hear Aaephersons tmothervd curses
AZ his bosom swells With pride,
And the homes on the hearsos
Paw the atmosphere outside, y
With The coronef and undertaken
waiting business on the spot
On you'r strenuous when you booker with Scott
CT WAHh1N.
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scranton Defend. Our subway.

To Tm Enron or TIRE SUN-.sir; The letter
In THE Sun Of April signed His Brother" and
finding fault with the subway should not have
been dated March 81. but Aprli 1, and then II
could properly have been considered a Joke.
But n MS Brother means 10 be taken ser-
Iousiy he has put himself beyond the pale Of par
lIAmentaTy language and deserves 10 be called
by the plain but vulgar form OF condemned pre-
varicAtor.@
The faults be complains OF either do not eIlsi
or In an unavoidable and small degree. The last
chapter Of Revelations with It's denuaclAtiou OF he
that mAketh and lovoth lie Ia respectfully brought
70 the notice OF His Brother"
SCRANTON, Pa, April ;. GBohdE n. WATSON.
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TIE MORTGAGE TAX.
An open Letter Showing How II Imposes
a Double Burden on Real Estate.

An open Letter Showing How II Imposes
Double Burden on Real Estate.
DEAR SIR: In reference 70 the bill now be-
fore the Legislature for the taxation OF mort
cages on real estate. IL WILL IL passed he taxing
the real estate the second time. For here are
facts mot theory that prove II. lam large
borrower OF money on real estate, having only
one piece FREQ and clear: the rest OF my real
estate n mortRaRed from so 20 80 per cent.
Of its value, II this bill becomes a law so per
cent Of these mort eHgos become due and
payable thirty days after. Such a clause IL
IN the present mOrtgnges. IL will cost me s
per cent. for searches and fees to get new
mortgages. provided can get them.
II ! am not able to get new mortgages 1 will
lose the property. What relief does your bill
with the mortRa gees 10 pay this tax OF one
half Of per cent. II this bin becomes law
/ can AFFORD 20 pay IL for ten years for what Il
Will cost me 20 set new MORTGAGES
Your bill says that ! can't do this How
long, pray, has IL been since the IeRislature
has taken the power 70 prevent two or more
persons OF sound mind from doing business
Seivesy This Is a fool bin. The remedy is 70
get back 20 direct taxation. I am willing 10
pay my share Of taxation. but / don't want TO
property oonhscated by being unable 10 get
new loans. II you will remove all taxes on
mortgages. real estate values Will Increase
10 per cent Tax this 10 per cent, and you will
DO sS%sfa hoS worth dSPs t SGS get large
BSooELtS. April 5. JoHs n. PEREr.
Hon. s. Fred Nixon. Assembly Chamber.
Albany y. Y.