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Tn. rotro.pec,ive Poe, of the whale City.

From me NflD BeuTOTd sunday 4 Web'
The city Of New Bedford has each spring re-
newed the poetic license of Mr.. A. Clifford Hawes
without question, but 1t is a nero Formally. He
Is an established and immutable fact. During
our four years existence hers we have tried 70
grasp in slight degree the shadow OF the secret
OF the works OF Halves. For four, eleven. or forty
four years more we will keep on trying. But TO
attain that plane where Halves is Ineligible TO
the limitations OF human Intelligence is the task
OF future eons, not the present day.
Lest II be thought that we are prejudiced In his
favor because he lives In our town, we give. for the
| nrst time. publication TO the following unsolicited
testimonials:
Theodore Roosevelt can truthfully say that
the poetry OF Halves is unlike any other poetry
I have ever read.
Mark Twain feel when reading Halves that
there ia lust as much wisdom In any one limo as
there is In the entlre volume.
William Jennings Bryant would rather be Hawes
than be President.
Rudyard Kipling-Had ] known when ! was In
india that A. Clifford Halves was writing poetry
at the same time. | would have stopped.
John w. Gates-My wife says he Is the only poet
that ever gave Gates ajar.
DR.. Munyon-There Is hope.
Beatrice FairfaI-Much OF my Inspiration in
advising the lovelorn is drawn from the prccepts Of
Halves.
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r,c.,.,,e su,,ne., Zeal of Billiard Promoters.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS--Sir: The con-
temptlble graft dodge, sprung without warning.
OF doubling prices OF tickets for the last two billiard
games, was a Trick worthy only Of takers.
Never In the history OF billiards has there been
so liberal patronage Of the "~gentleman's game" as
during his season. The public turned out four
thousand strong. at high prices, to SIZE the Hoppe
Slosson 1871 match. and for the past two weeks
have crowded the tournament hall. afternoons and
evenings, no matter who played or whether the
contest scheduled bade fair TO be good, bad or
Indifferent. But after such generous appreciation,
when II happened that two games OF unusual inter
est were sin TO be played, this petty gougo trick
was worked as the puhllc's reward, showing plainly
that the promoters are the peers OF all other graft
ers, at least in spirit, and that they regard billiard
lovers as a lot OF ReubcncsQue suckers.
one irate patron ntly expressed his surprise and
disgust on being held up for double price by throw
ing back the tickets and saying: They can go TO
hell with them"
Next time the same OUTFIT projects a tournament
the public would do well to remember the slap II
got at this one. DIDN'T WoRKHK.
NEW YORK, April 81.
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changed several times, but not the

changed several times, but not the
system.
The boards Of commissioners have all
the powers usually possessed by Mayors,
common councils and boards Of alder
men. In Texas they are elected for two
years, and the terms Of all expire at the
same time, but Mr.. BURLEsoN believes
the system would be strengthened by
providing for overlapping terms and
the election of one commissioner at a
time. This would insure a majority Of
experienced men in service at all times.
Each commissioner manages the routine
of his own department or departments.
Important matters are decided by vote,
a majority ruling.
Representative DRIsCoLL, who served
on the commission that drafted the uni
form charter for second class cities in
this State, pointed out hat by that
law the powers of Mayors were much
extended, and each Mayor was held
responsible for results. Mr.. DBIscoLL
expressed the opinion that with COM
missioners anxious for reelection there
would be a tendency to shirk o. shift
responsibility for doing things which,
although right, may ut the time be I'M
popular with the masses OF the voters. y
He also remarked that under the present
New York State charters for cities of the
second class, good Mayors had given
good administrations, and inefficient or
dishonest Mayors had given exactly the
reverse.
The excellent results that have come
from commission government in Texas
cities appear, after all, to have been
the fruit Of the Capitalization Of author
ity and responsibility. BY our city char
ter this theory is carried out logically by
giving absolute power Of appointment
and removal to the Mayor, whose ap-
pointees need no confirmation by any
body. The Mayors responsibility for the
acts Of his s~ubordinates Ia complete and
absolute. OF the neutrality-suspicious. and
independent bodies once so numerous,
few remain. The Board of Education
outlives the Mayor who names a ma
jority of its members; the ridiculous
Bipartisan" Aqueduct Commission still
exists; the Board of Rapid Transit Com
missioners, self-perpetuating and COM
pletely independent, one of the most curl
Gus agencies of government to be found
anywhere, is beyond the Mayors power;
the new Water Board is singularly at
odds with the most satisfactory theory
Of municipal control; but over most Of
the departments the Mayor has auto
cratic power. Thus the good effects
Of the commission system are obtained
here under the old forms. 1t is to be
doubted that the commission plan will
make such progress as Mr.. BURLEsoN
believes, but the tendency in municipal
government is unquestionably to make
n officer responsible, to give sufficient
power to him, and to hold him to a rigid
accountability of his stewardship.
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Why the President Declined With
Thanks.

A few DAYS before the disaster at San
Francisco President ROOSEVELT received
o delegation Of German veterans at the
White House and welcomed them in an
address which the Cologne Gazette pro-
nounced "a noble appreciation of Ger
many as a nation" 1t now happens to
Mr.. ROOSEVELT to be misunderstood
because he declined the gift Of a German
steamship company for the beneht OF
the sufferers at San Francisco.
In discharging so delicate a duty the
President must have satisfied the donors
that his motive was not unfriendly, but
proceeded from strong conviction that
foreign aid would not be needed, so
liberal were the contributions OF the
American people. The sum Of s15, 000, 900
has already been voted by legislative
bodies and given by companies and indi-
viduals in the United States. In antici-
patton Of so generous a response to the
call for contributions Mr.. ROOSEVELT
asked that disbursements be made
through the American Red Cross; and
an auditor is TO be sent to San Francisco
In order that the expenditure may be
accounted for to the last dollar. 1t may
be doubted whether so vast an amount
has ever been raised for the relief OF a
distressed community.
The judgment Of the President that
foreign aid might prove an embarrass-
ment was vindicated within a very few
hours OF declining the handsome gift
of the German company. From every
part of the world came offers of as
sistance; but when it was understood
that there would be enough, and to
spare possibly, the offers were coupled
with a desire to be Informed whether
the assistance would be needed. Such
was the course Of the New Zealand Gov
eminent after the Presidents declina-
ton with thanks had been published.
The subscriptions Of American colonies
in the European cities stood upon a
different footing, corresponding TO funds
collected in the United States.
1t is difficult to understand why a ma
ton should not be as frank in declining
help, generously meant but not needed,
as an individual. By this time it must
be clear to our good friends abroad
that the President saw clearly what they
could not conceive when they extended
full hands across the sea; ard they will
not be slow to admit that he was equal
in a courageous way to a very difficult
emergency.
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Emile Chinese Gambling House Raids,

When a poolroom or gambling house
f~reouented by whites is raided by the
police, with or without warrant, the
practice is to arrest only the supposed
proprietor and the officials OF the place.
The names of all other persons found
in it are taken as witnesses and then
they are allowed to go.
When a gambling house raid is made
in Chinatown, however, every person
found in the place is hustled around to
the police station and locked up for the
night. The reason Of the discrimina-
ton is not very obvious, for il it serve
to swell the record of arrests and thus
enhance the appearance of activity on
the part of the police, it also swells the
tally Of failures to convict and tends to
increase the growing disgust felt at the
frequency with which futile arrests are
made.
1t has been the custom Of the police in
the past to grab all the glory in such cases
by throwing the blame for the lame and
impotent conclusion Of the proceedings
on the committing Magistrates. The
latter, however, seem to be tired of being
made scapegoats for the police, and
Magistrate FINN, sitting in the Tombs
court on Monday placed several police
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men in a very unpleasant position by COM
polling them to testify under oath in
open court that they had no evidence
whatever against sixty-fve Cinnamon
whom they had arrested on charges Of
gambling on Sunday night, and that
they had no reason whatever for making
the raids which resulted in the arrests.
These utterly useless, unnecessary and
futile arrests have been a feature Of
Chinatown Sunday nights for months,
1t is time the police abandoned them
in favor of something out of which the
public may derive some benefit.
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Subject to Discount.

A bulletin recently issued by the
Bureau Of Statistics in reference to our
sales to the republic Of Panama seems
to us to be inaccurate and misleading.
1t has already been made the subject OF
statements which present this particular
trade interest in a widely mistaken man
ner. Our exports to Panama are re-
ported as now amounting to more than
one million dollars per month, y and as
likely to aggregate about twelve mill
ions for the present fiscal year" AS a
trade statement this is subject to a large
discount.
1t may be difficult and it may even be
impossible to separate on the manifest
of an outward bound vessel the mer-
chandise which may properly be included
In our export trade to Panama from
that which belongs to the operations on
the canal. The latter certainly does
not belong in any statement OF our ex-
port trade, and yet much the greater
part Of this reported twelve millions is
composed Of materials and supplies for
the canal. Steel rails, typewriters and
structural materials sent to the Canal
Zone for use in connection with an enter
prise Of the United States do not belong
in commercial statistics any more than
they would if they were used by the
Government at Guantanamo or in the
District Of Columbia.
The bureau makes adistinction between
canal material shipped on Government
vessels and that shipped on vessels en-
gagged in general transportation between
the United States and Panama 1t
seems to us that if a typewriter sent to
Governor MACON for use In his Office is a
legitimate item of export trade when sent
on a steamer Of the merchant marine, a
steam shovel sent to Mr.. STEVENS on a
transport is equally an item Of foreign
trade.
1t is very gratifying to see Ii export
sales pile up, but trade with Panama is
trade with Panama, and does not properly
include any Of the merchandise, however
forwarded, covered by Article XIII. of
the Hay-Varilla treaty. Our legitimate
sales are probably nearer 81, 900, 900 than
Sl2. 900 900.
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The Army's Dividend.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-,Sfr: Is not the
work done by the officers and men from General
TO high private. OF the regular army al san Fran
cisco worth all that we have paid In taxes for the
past forty years To support our standing army
Uncle Sans bodyguard has won Victories OF
neaoe as well as of war, and Gen. Funston's capture
of Agulnaldo fades into nothlngness beside the
heroic work he has done and Will do In San Fran
cisco. The one was a brilliant dash, the latter as
hard a fought campaign as any General ever
planned and executed. Let's give three cheers for
the United States army and thank Heaven that we
have a few well trained and thoroughly disciplined
men at hand ready TO night our battles in war or
lend a hand In peace. 1882.
NEW YORK, April rs.
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There is something wrong with the mech
anism of our administration of justice when
a man who shoots a couple OF burglars,
one OF whom was choking him In bed, has
to remaine eight days in Jail waiting for a
Coroner's jury to express in a verdict the
conclusions that the police and the Coroner
In charge Of the case freely expressed
within a couple Of hours after the shooting
took place. Nothing that can be called
a reason can be framed to explain why the
inquest In the case Of the e~x-trooper from
the Philippines who killed n invader of
his home and wounded another should not
have been held on the afternoon Of the
occurrence or the next day at the latest.
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A to the Intellectual trend Of tho metropolis. !"
as reelected by Its Journalism, II seems lately 10
consist principally Of the discussion OF such cues
lions as What constitute a gentleman" What
and why Is q bachelor" THE Sun has been
giving earnest assistance 10 this. dow Of serious
thought. and for Its further helpful consideration
might be suggested the question, VIVA, Is provin-
nee Journal.
We should say that n mark Of provin-
ciality in journalism was a certain solemn
reservoir the presence Of minor matters Of
human interest, arising from the uncom-
Portable but unnecessary feeling that to
touch such questions would be to injure the
nj w%spaper's dignity.
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The s,h,crintion EVIL I'm the Schools.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sir; Your article
Not a Good Plan" OF April 20 Is most opportune
and to the point.
II Is high time that subscriptions, great and
small, subscriptions OF all kinds and for all pur,
poses, be forbidden in the public schools.
ITO innlct unnecessary suffering" describes per
fcctly the condition OF teachers and pupils sine
the subscription habit has grown.
Within a few years teachers have been taxed fol
dinners for the man higher up" for anniversary
days OF principals. for presents to teachers, and
never yet has there been a school subscription tina
there has not been unnecessary suffering"
Time and again have teachers given when they
could III afford to do so. but realized 1t vas better
70 give than 10 suffer.
Time and again have they been up against sub
scnptlons for persons and objects that they knew
little or nothing OF and cared less, but considered
II wisdom TO subscribe.
All school subscriptions should be forbidden.
SARA ]. J. McCAPFBRY.
Principal Public School lie.
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Municipal Government by Commits
sion.

In the debate on the District Of Co.
lumbia Appropriation bill in the House
OF Representatives last week Mr.. BUR-
Lesson of Texas ~prophesied that within
twenty-five years the principal cities of
this country would adopt the system of
municipal government by commission,
which is now in operation in Galveston
and Houston, which will soon be applied
TO Dallas and which has been in opera
ton in Nashville. Tenn, for about twenty
years. The affairs of the District of
Columbia are administered by three
commissioners, in the selection OF whom
the residents of the District have no
voice. In the other cities the commits
sioners are elected by popular vote.
Certainly government by commission
has made great and rapid progress in
Texas since it vas introduced 20 meet
the emergency caused by the Galveston
disaster of 1900. To administer the
affairs OF the city and provide for its
rebuilding a highly centralized and
compact government seemed desirable.
Therefore the Texas Legislature enacted
a bill abolishing the municipal govern
ment and substituting for it a commits
sion Of three members, to be appointed
by the Governor, in whom all the powers
conferred on the city were concentrated.
1t was found that the clause providing
for appointive commissioners was I'M
constitutional, and the law was amended
to provide for their election by the
voters Of the city. The three men who
had been named by the Governor were
elected by the people, practically with
out opposition.
So satisfactorily did these commits
sioners perform the arduous tasks of
maintaining order, rebuilding the city
and meeting the unnumbered emer-
gencies that Galveston had to face that
the citizens of Houston voted to adopt
the same plan. In Houston five men,
bers constitute the commission. These
experiments were watched carefully by
Dallas, and on April 3, by a vote of four
TO one, that city decided to ask the Leg
islature for permission to try the new
plan.
Mr.. B%URLEsoN's opinion as to the
ultimate adoption Of the commission
plan is based on what has been accom-
plished in Galveston and Houston. In
these cities 1T has resulted in the COM
plete elimination Of graft, city taxation
has been reduced, the bonded indebted
ness has been lowered, and 1T has re-
suited in a more general improvement of
streets and other improvements than
was ever before known in the history of
either Of those cities" Representative
GAINES OF Tennessee testified that the
voters Of Nashville had approved gov
eminent by commission time and again, i
that he had never heard Of any graft
and that the city charter had been
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The Regular.

Those square s%houldered, outstanding
men in Khaki who have done so we'll the
tasks that fell to them in San Francisco
are no picked and selected specimens Of
Regular army men. They are blood
brothers to all those who wear the United
States uniform-as good as the best,
as bad as the worst. Faultless they are
not, but a callous indifference to human
suffering, a ghoulish delight in watching
women and children in pain, have not
been conspicuous among the character
istics they have exhibited since Wednes-
day, April IS.
Yet only two months have passed since
the mates of these men were pictured
before the nation as murderers of women
and children, wretched d~espoilers Of a
peaceful and virtuous band OF defence
less dwellers on the summit of Mount
Dajo. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS was TAX
ing vast credit to himself for blackguard-
ing the soldiers in the Moro country.
His zeal was so great that prose would
not express his thoughts, Nothing ex-
cept poetry would tell his contempt for
the man with the musket. Behind him
trooped the defamers, loud in their de-
nu~nciation OF the Regular army.
The men Of Mount Dajo were trained
In the same school as the men of San
Francisco. Wherein will a difference
between them be found? Why should
one regiment be most p~raiseworthy
in its conduct, another all that is bad?
The answer is difficult to find. Perhaps
Mr.. WILLIAMS may be able to supply it
in another set of doggerel verses.
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How 1t Appeared to Mr.. Wa.

From the Ar00ndW.
When the eminent WI Tng-fang was Chinese
Minister at Washington he was the guest Of honor
at one Of the leading clubs. where he made an ad-
dress, and was afterward entertained by some OF
the younger members, who thought Il would be
great fun 10 get the Oriental diplomat intoxicated.
They piled him with champagne, hlghbails and
beer until about 3 A. NJ, by which time most OF the
clubmen were maudlin. Cool as A cucumber, Mr.,
WI surveyed the crowd and said gravcly. in his
perfect English: ~ didn't know this club was
composed entirely OF gentlemen I should say that
you fellows were trying TO get me drunk" The
session adjourned very shortly thereafter.
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TN
when In creations early days
Pnmev8l man had birth,
HIS habltation was a rave,
His aims were Of the earth.
With aspiration, higher homes
Were builded by his hands
Until. the wonder OF the world.
The great skyscraper stands,
The solid earth may rock and reel.
The flames around IL nse.
Its beams OF steel are anchored fast.
Its head Is In the skies,
Type OF a world which better grows,
II nils Its mission thus:
Sc In mans newest temple see
The Chambered Nautilus.
McLANpBuRaR WILSON
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Turban On as Sign OF Respect.

Tho Moorish delegates visited the Alcazar, the
cathedral and the Cartuja. In the cathedral some
guides, rather impollte, told them they ought TO
take OF their turbans II they wished TO visit the
channels. Mohammed Torres, annoyed by the re-
marks. said: The greatest proof Of respect OF
which we are capable is by keeping our turbans
on our heads" And immediately the Moorish
delegates refrain ed from continuing their visit. and
left the building.
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The News From San Francisco.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Permit
me as a San Franciscan to express my great
appreciation for the efficient service rem
dered by THE Sun in the late catastrophe.
kilograms from dear ones to-day con
frmed me in the hope sustained in the face
Of wild rumor by its accurate reports. which.
moreover, have been characterized by true
sympathy. SAN FRANCISCAN.
NEW YORK. Aprll %.
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Negro Population OF Missouri.

From Che 81 Louis Globe Democrat.
The negro population OF Missouri is decreasing,
II Is less in proportion to the whit, population than
II has been al any previous time in the history OF
the State. Less than 5 per cent. OF the total popu-
lation OF Missouri arc OF negro blood. There arc
more negroes TO tho total population In the capital
city Of every State from Missouri 10 the Atlantic
than are TO be found in any Missouri city with the
single exception OF Kansas City, In many sections
OF Missouri tho negro population Is very small. In
two counties. Schuyler and Reynolds. there arc no
negroes.
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The People.


from nc WuAHBHpFoH Say,
II isn't the streets nor the buildings
That are reared heath prosperous skicS
Nor the domcs with their splendid gldings
That we truly revere and prize.
For houses may fall and their WRECKS may strew
The place meath misfortune's frown:
But a great voice cries we will build anew"
It's the people that make a town.
II isn't the plain nor the mountain,
Nor the ocean that rolls AfaT,
Nor the waving hcld nor the fountain
That makes us the men we arc,
When the shadows OF want and grief expand,
II Is then that VIC know the worth
or a gentle heart and stalwart hand;
Ia the people that make the earth
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Pearls From the Wabash.

Vineennss correspondence Indiana polls Neus.
yves" Pierson. who found a thirty two grain
pearl while fishing for mussels In the Wabash
within the city limits, sold the pearl for 1915. IL ia
said that the pearl will bring more than 1000 in
the East. George NJ. Paris cleared $3.50 In his pearl
hshing last week, having found three that were
worth faj ADlece.
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Satan's Gentility.

To THH EDITOR or THE SUS-Sir: ] think the
most concise and yet comprehensive dennitlon of
a gentleman l ever heard WAS given by d. L. Moody
In a sermon some twenty years ago, as follows:
The devil is a gentleman. He never stays where
he Is not wanted" ], G,
HrDsoN. April q.
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The CIty's Debt.

On March 81 the total gross funded debt OF
New York city was s6ls. 700. s37.o7 The
sinking funds amounted to sl7i pa. PA. ss.
The temporary debt t~revenue bonds issued
in Anticipation Of taxes) was S4s, 2s3 900. max
ing the net bonded debt 500. s35 .Os9. 10.