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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW keeps on being

O r. BERNARD SHAW keeps on being
san amoosin' little cuss." He has lost
nothing of that sense Of hunor which made
his book aThe Perfect Wagnerite' a de-
light to all lovers of the music dramas Of
RICHARD WAGNER. In that little volume
he demonstrated with imperturbable grav-
ity that the Wagnerian dramas were moth
ing more or less than propaganda Of the
doctrine OF socialism. Those familiar with
the socialistic conditions prevailing in the
realm Of the henpeoked Wotdn got much
Measure from Mr.. SHAw's merry jest.
A day or two g the vegetarian dram
atist delivered himself in London Of an
Grafton on the horrors Of Pa%ckingtown.
It was a dire catalogue OF denunoiatory
asseverations, winding up with the sugges-
ton that the w~orkdngmen Ia the packing
establishments were In the habit Of poison
ing the meat in order to wreak vengeance
on their hard hearted employers.
A truly Shawful vision and theory.
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Mr.. Brick on the Ancient Egyptians.

The Hon. ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK,
who oonfesses that he lives sin the beau
tiful city Of South Bend, Ind, that gems
the glory Of the st. Joseph valley-the
lovelieet, happiest valley the sun in all
of it's ceaseless ~wanderings ever looked
down upon,' believes in protection and
represents the Thirteenth Indiana dis
trict in the House of Representatives.
OF the Hon. HENRY T. RAINEY Of Illinois
he has a low opinion, and says:
MT. RArsEr may vail against destiny. He may
tell you that we arc neither prosperous nor happy.
He may invite you 10 come with him and live among
the conditions that prevail IN foreign countries.
He may appeal with demagogic phrase to a Jealous
weakness and human dlscontent; but l believe he
underestimate the intelligence OF the American
people. l believe the american people will stop
long enough in the busy whih Of the most splendid
industrial condition Of the world 10 trim the lamp
OF honest, sincere thought, and when they do-when
they do they'll know that the same spirit which has
touched them all with Joy and hope in the past
and present will come nearer giving them what
they want In the future than any other power
under COPS providence"
There is a watch factory in the beau
tiful city that gems the glory Of the st.
Joseph valley, and lite proprietors deny
that the tariff enables them to exact
exorbitant prices for their wares in this
country while selling them at a profit
for considerably less abroad. Plain BUSH
ness this, and not to be compared with
Mr.. BRICKS orations in Congress. Az to
the ancient Egyptians, he remarks:
Prosperity 10 q fact. For over three thousand
years the world has forgotten all that the Egyptians
ever said or wrote upon the subject OF architecture
but over yonder on the desert sands OF Africa stand
the Immortal pyramids, giant facts, living eternal
testimony OF what the Egyptians could do in the
way OF architecture. There they stand, one OF the
eight wonders OF the world. yet as insignificant ss
an ordinary tombstone when compared with the
marvellous pyramid of American prosperity that
presses out the sky In the supremacy OF $4,000
people"
Mr.. BRICKS speech, delivered last
Tuesday, consisted Of a column Of origi-
nal matter, and three columns OF letters
and extracts from the American JeveUer.
The proportion should be reversed. Mr..
BRICK is a giant fact and should not so
repress himself, True, he should be
diluted somewhat, but not to the extent
he has been in this latest mixture.
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WHAT A MAN rs WORTH.
Court Decisions that Discredit Or. Holt's
Theory.


From te Bench and Bdr.
In his table showing the value OF individuals
Of the American laboring class DR.. Holt s,atts
that at 10 years Of age a boy IL worth "
Ooi 90. at Is years OF age he Is worth SA.soS'ooi
at rs he is worth IS, 4ss. 03. From mat t'mo
on his value decreases. 1t 10 declared, until
at 10 he Is worth but tho tribe or Si7.lS' ana
at 80 years Of age his value 10 represented py
minus eS72. "a.
1t will not be dinloult to demonstrate that
the hardy son OF labor, taking him limb by
limb. Is worth at his maximum corsideraoly
more than DR.. Hollis e5,48s.o3. I all events,
the honest wage Garner costs more IMAM 'hlS
In the aggregate to the rich and soulless COT"
porations that pay tho bills, when the Ameri.
can jury have exercised their prerogatiVe Oh
audit.
Who're DR.. Holt flies of 10 In his proies-
slonal mans quotation. At Is. says thls
authority, the professional man has an eco
homie value of S25, sos. e4. Wa the doctor
talking about lawyers when he wrote down
all these numerals? There are Mt least Two
or three 25-year-olds we could put our
hands on. In both law and medicine VINO
would be more than pleased to incorporate
and capitalize themselves at Just a round
s25. 900, give Holt. NJ. D., the Ss9s.94 as a HUE
Commission" on the side. and still oner a
controlling stock interest to the distinguished
oLit u HIo phbiohb u ,
siderably less than par. We believe thls
applies to young parsons too.
To get back to the worklngman; the fol-
lowing table is compiled from judicial de-
oislons OF the courts Of last resort OF TINS
country and England: One eye. 5000 S32
s. W; Rep. slsl: one leg, Sle.o0 US wash
$40, 900 $50 Wis, 2S7 one hand. o,ooo-Slo 200
rs Tex, l5l-l0 Kan, 493) one finger, Sl,5oo
l94 Iowa, $500; permanent disability s2S,ooo-
$50, 900 us Ill. App, AIS e. z. D.. (Eng'
2sol..
II Is easy from the above to compute with
approximate accuracy the. cost. II not the
value, OF a whole man. and when it Is, seen
at q glance that a single eye. leg and arm
totals $50, 900, many times DR.. Hollis pest
price for the assembled members complete
with the trunk thrown in. 1t makes US fee,l
as though this medical man had overlooked
some items, or had erred In his addition.
Referring to the damage value Of legs again
we have 1t on the authority Of the Utah Su-
promo Court that this member 10 worth more
to a woman than a man: Thus, N holdlnR
SO, 500 not excessive for the loss OF a foot TO
q female child, It was said In Chapman vs..
Union Pacific Railroad Company. II Utah. ,ss:
IF the plaintiff we're a male, the verdict
would not be excessive, and the loss OF a limb
to a female Is infinitely greater
That the scientific estimates made must
be marked up some for the workingman,
with about 40 per cent. of, re should say,
for the professions, seems entirely clear to
our mind at this writing.
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RUSKIN
Gratifying Success Of Oxford'S Institution
for Artisans.
From the wsstminster Review.

for Artisans.
From ths Wsstmirstcr Review.
ooiiea" 10 o19ord Nv ~e ,ho ed"ro, ioo ~ the
pon1eo ~ w o 'ho W.
S ars. me o'a ao,,s 70 American mt" cam. yi', nc b.,0 from 9 rs sno
Dental one, but the order OF living Is, Of
sens"a LII. StT..a" 80. ~. 80 a,hor and
COURSE au,te dlhereht rom that OF otner anu
are unable to devote the time or money to
residence can study the subjects taught at
the coiese oy pecom'hs men''etS use
correspondence SCHOOL For the u'nins sum
OF one shilling as entrance fee and one shil-
the a,biects dealt with nv tho faculty can do
= = ~. 49, seaH Wv ~ nnro live md az
so,, oy nome ,ba% r ~ ~ i snuo , d ma "u b Va
correspondence school when we mention
that 1000 students nave already a'a''eu
themselves OF this privilege. -.
The students of the correspondence school
iisb oonstitu.iorai nd ]noi;tIc.I HE orv, Eng
liz, ah IOan.4.,sI haa wv ~ iod,striai raxnin-
iisa Industrial history; the industrial inss ah se ,ahor
tive movsmsn tuI local soysrnment tEnsland
and Wales,, political economy, the tariff
problem, ethics. sociology. the principles OF
politics. English literature and psychology.
Following subjects. which are whohy ana
personally dealt with by members OF the
faculty: Sociology, evolution, logic, psy-
chology, English grammar and analysis,
political economy, industrial history, history
OF social movements, political and social
problems, class for speaking and public work,
constitutional history. practical phonetics. and
local government.
confined 70 90 any Class ciHps'I or any my country, and
as, proving the universal character Of the
scheme. we have only to mention that already
students from every part OF Great Britain,
Norway, Denmark and Germany have been In
residence, while the correspondence school
numbers It's students In South Africa, India,
Australia and New Zealand. They have all
been eager to take advantage of the courses
scholars OF mark In the great city OF learning.
All the essays sent In BY members of the
correspondence school are read and corrected
by one member of the faculty, That the
students have been generously appreoiatlve
may be ind rad nv tha leftera recefved from
the meohanIos. most nen. miners. shopmen.
farm laborers and others who have bene,
flied by the courses of study
Tho visitor however who entera RuskIn
College viii perhaps Re more Interested in the
students and the conditions Of life there.
munai character There are n fewest nossi-
Bic restriotIops' and the entire domestic ar.
ran ernants are In ~ ho nds o, tbn etudants
themselvas Each student tstes he sbare
~ res nonsib;iitv In bousaboid : M see1a ant
Everv Uaer n bouae noeatIno L. ihiH snd fbe,
atnSsnts anno . 1SS e e1,n 6e1 . retu az adu asnS
takee bio tnrn IN sbs ring the varioma nosta
FOR honsehold diity' No female seryantss are
kept except a cook. and in the work o wash.
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Good News for Text Book Sellers.

GO0o news TOT IeXt book ScllcTs'
Elated as the Simpliied Spoilers must
be over the adoption of their forms for
800 words by the New York public school
authorities, their joy is gloom compared
to that of the printers and sellers of
text books, reference works and the like.
Changed spelling for 300 words in COM
mon use means the discarding Of the
books now in the hands of half a million
boys and girls. and the purchase Of new
ones, arranged to fit the altered condi-
tons. 1t cannot be done for nothing,
and the suppliers Of text books have not
been accused Of doing solely business
for the benefit Of their health.
Naturally, if the simplifed spellings
are approved after trial further changes
will be introduced, necessitating more
new books. On the other hand, il the
authorities decide the present spelling
to be preferable the new books will be
pitched out and a fresh set Of the old
met purchased. Either way the book
publishers win. The gentle taxpayer,
who contributes s25 100000 a year to the
cause Of education, has the pleasure Of
knowing that there are always avenues
for the expenditure of more money.
In the meantime it is not unlikely that
the pupils in public schools will continue
to spell words according to their own
taste and judgment, without regard to
Simpliied Spoilers.
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KIND WORDS FOR DIR. WALLACE.
Defence OF q Condemned OniciaI by q
RubOrlInate.

To THE EDITOR or TIE SUN-Sfr: Permit
me to say that DR.. John G.. Wallace. Assist
ant General superintendent Of the street
Cleaning Department, who has been recon-
mended for dismissal by MIR. Wins and two
Aldermen. has been In the department ever
since 1904. He Ia a veterinary surgeon by
profession. and first served as an assistant
foreman In one OF the stables. In Col. War
ing's administration he was made a stable
foreman. and subsequently was promoted
to be superintendent OF stables, and then
successfully passed the civil service examl-
nation for Assistant General Superintendent
Col. Warlng always held him In the highest
esteem. and was quick to recognize HIS faith
full and energetic services. n commended
him for his active and intelligent supervision
Of the stable force. His thorough knowledge
Of the proper care and treatment Of horses Is
well known.
DR.. Wallace Is a plain. brusque, outspoken
man, with no sanity fringes at all such as
perhaps characterize Messrs. WINS. Grifen-
h h sgen and ID B 81 but sto6 he has ss 2 S ETA f.,l Sls
somewhat emphatic In Ms Language all who
k hsR the htm de %slI haye E s smpiey eesns Wat lSt thsy
think OF him and their. answer will be. H Is
our friend every time" 1t Is only when they
department. untrue and unfalthful. that he Is
rigid and uncompromlslng In the ENFORCE
ment OF discipline,
The wins report that fear Is a controlling
motive with the men In the. performance OF
their work, illustrated especially in the case
OF DR.. Wallace. ID all nonsense, and the state
ment that there Ia "a complete spirit OF dis
satisfaction and disorganization throughout
the stable force" Is absolutely false. Mr..
WINS and his two Aldermanio coadjutors
must have been terribly imposed upon by
the stories of some disafIected employees,
who, 1t may be, are out Of. the department
now by reason Of resignation or dismissal
for Just cause. =.
The calling Of DR.. Wallace by Twins and
company "a drunkard and a gambler" be-
cause he loosely said, during their inQuisition
of him, that sometimes be bet on horse races
and occasionally drank a little too freely, Is
simply scandalous and outra geous.. This
defamation of an honest, faithful public SER
want and good citizen is on a par with their
whole report.
Their Wholesale denunclation OF. Commits
sioner Woodbury. and vicious condemnation
OF the entire workings Of the Street Cleaning
Department. without a single word OF APP
prevail or commentator. as reorganized by
Col, Waring and carried along. honestly, In
diligently and efficiently. precisely or. the
same lines. with warranted changes and i'm
provements, under Major W~oodbury's ad.
ministra ton, plainly shows the spirit Of
prejudice. injustice and animosity that began
with the WINS minority investigating COM
mittee and ended In their voluminous rancorous
report. No wonder that three Of the COM
mlttee refused to sign 1t and spurned most
OF it's recommendations. WHITE VINO.
NEW YoRK, June 20.
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departure from the course pursued by
Great Britain for forty years with regard
to Latin American republics when she
consented to take part with Germany
and Italy in the blockade OF La Guayra.
1t should be noted that even then the
step was not taken until Che assent OF
the State Department had been requested
and received. We have several times
set forth reasons for thinking that on
that occasion the assent Of our Govern
ment to the coercion OF Venezuela was
somewhat too hastily yielded and that
1t threatened to open a Pandora's box OF
troubles.
We have to deal with facts, however;
and though we may not like them, we
must make the best Of them. That Is
what Mr.. RoosEvELT and Secretary
Roof have tried to do with the unfortu-
nate Venezuela precedent. Having once
acquiesced in the enforcement Of con-
tractual obligations on Venezuela, the
State Department can hardly at this
time Of day accept the Calvo doctrine.
It can minimize, however, the practical
objection to the opposite principle, and
shield an American debtor State from
the fate Of Egypt, by offering itself to
stand as a buffer between creditor and
debtor and discharge the function which
Is performed by the receiver Of an in
solvent railway. Why should a Latin
American republic, which honestly de-
sires to pay its just debts, resent such an
Interpolation, especially when the United
States, in the capacity Of receiver, an
nounce that no debt will be paid until the
equity thereof il established in a court
Of justicep Would it not be better in the
long run for the credit Of Latin American
countries, as well as for their inviolabil-
ity, that Mr.. RoosEvELT's solution Of a
problem seriously complicated by the
Venezuelan precedent should be gener-
ally even il reluctantly accepted?
There is this to be said about Mr..
RoosEvELT's proposed method of pro-
tecting the feeble Dominican Republic
from the indefinite occupation Of its
seaports in the interest of European
creditors, a method which for some time
has practically been carried out under
an inchoate agreement with the Ameri-
can Government: if the Senate keeps its
hands Of long enough, the money needed
to pay the foreign creditors of Santo
Domingo will have been collected and
distributed, and no ratification of a
treaty will be necessary.
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$l,34o.90
woman,s Inhumanity to woman.

To THE EDITOR OF THE VS. I to day see
a complaint in your paper by a letter from "E. c."
concerning Little Woman Beats Big Woman. I"
From observation ! will say that woman has for
ever been dlscourteous TO her own sex while at tho
same time demanding great courtesy from the
opposite sex.
Woman can never prove her independence I'm
less she acts her own part as a woman should, OK
tending courtesy and receiving courtesy when
properly given and not demanding It In the bold
manner which ]. a business woman. observe in
banks, tax ofhces, elevated railroad stations. &c.
myself have frequently stood In line at a bust
ness bank awaiting my turn, when in would rush
another woman. get at the head OF the line and
make her deposit. using no consideration or judy
ment or courtesy. FANNY SHAPIRO.
NEW YORK, June 2S.
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MIR. w. Churchill's Latest,

The oolloquial style adopted by Mr.. VIM
ston Churchill in his story of political life,
'Coniston' Macnilans), enables the reader
to read with some ease the $40 pages or
pretty close on 200 900 words employed
In tellingi 1t. 1t might seem c~aptious to sug-
gest that it would have been better art IL
the author had refrained from addressing
the reader directly or that the story would
have been much improved il only half as
many words had been used, and 1t would
matter little, for the summer reader LIKES
quantity and the book is sure to be read.
as 1t is one long glorifcation OF the New
England woman with a conscience.
Though we are led to infer that the reye-
lations of political intrigues in the past
are OF importance for the future of the
nation, and it is only with the neither side
OF politics that we are made acquainted
the political incidents serve merely as q
background, like the pretty and often re-
peated descriptions of Conist on villa &c.
and mountain and brook, for the story of
the love OF the rural autocrat, Jethro Bass:
for a woman in two editions.
That story is we'll told, but as 1t involves
a mother and daughter, it covers a great
many years. The story would not be
ended even now If Mr.. Churchill had dis
coursed as volubly about the whole period
as he has about the few episodes he has
selected. The earlier Cynthia is charming;
we admire her spunk and principle, and
cannot see why che did not marry Jethro.
II only for the sake Of making him walk
straight, which she certainly could have
done. We resent her drifting away and her
slaughter to suit the novelist's purpose.
This is to bring in her daughter and show
how che wins the old mans heart. II
ia don't very prettily and with no excess of
sentimentality. The second Cynthia ia n
very nioe girl indeed, and smart both as a
child and as a young woman, but she does
not come up to her mother; for that matter.
few girls ever do. She lives up to her con-
science when she is tested, but il is rather
amusing to notice her feminine disregard
for the means when it is a question OF putting
her own friends into office.
A whole lot Of people come into the story.
many Of them capital snapshots OF real
New Englanders, Mr.. Churchill has put
them down just as they are, with their
ideas and their tricks Of speech. Cnfor-
tunately, he can do no more with them.
They remain unchanged every time that
they appear, from beginning to end. We
fear that this applies even to his hero, Jethro,
who is very nearly the same man. except
for the authors explanations, at the end
that he is at the beginning.
Mr.. Churchill, like other amateur poll
ticians, likes to generalize from single in
stances. He gives q capital account OF how
his hero captures his first tow meeting by
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Southern Prosperity.

In 1885 the seven States Of Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Louisiana. Kentucky. Tennessee and Texas
had only Sill, 900. 900 capital invested in manufact.
urng; to day they have s572. 0oO, 900 so Invested, an
increase OF S465. 100000.
These seven States, with Mississippi added, in.
creased the value Of their farm property 81 ,s47,.
900. 900 in 1890 over 1880 and s706 900, 900 In 1900 over
1890. or by s. ,o5s. 10000 in 1900 over 1880 All kinds
OF crops are ~raised-cotton. fruit, poultry. hogs,
live stock. hominy, DC. The Southern poultry
brings 81. 0oo,o o a year and the eggs sell for fully
$50. 900. 900 a year, The butter production Of the
South is zoo. 1000 900 pounds a year. and the total
annual value OF the animal product is $3.50, 600. 900.
The annual value OF the total farm product Of tn se
eight States is nearly 1905. 100000.
Other Southern States are doing well. Twelve
billion dollars will not cover the entire South's
increase in only q score Of years In farm velues
bank deposits. products Of factories and farm
products.
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Soda for Conyicts.
From the Columbus d tspdtch.

soda water. FIVE cents!"
These words spoken In a whisper may be heard
In the halls OF the penitentiary in the evening now
adays. Warden Gould has given permission to
sell soda water behind the walls to the %convicts,
who eagerly look forward TO the evening when.
during hall permit. they are able 70 get this delicious
refreshment.
Old prisoners, who served behind the walls for
many years and know what II is to be held so strictly
to rules that they almost forgot how to talk. look
with wonder on the development Of tho elements
OF humanity.
The soda. however. is -the goods" with the con-
ytcts, and many q man who laughed at the person
who drank sodas on the outside likes his little Ice
cream now as we'll as he liked his whiskey before.