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TO SUCCEED DRYDEN.
Mr. Scudder Of the Newark Evening
News" Mentioned as Available.

To THE EDITOR OF TIL SuN--Sir: IL seems
strange to me that there should not ha We como
20 the front a ca ndidate who would be able
TO defeat Mr.. Dryden for the United States
Senstorship in New Jersey in one. two. three
order. I know OF a man who would be too
modest TO make the canvass for himself. but
who is in every way ft for the place, ut to
make the hght. but who would probably have
to be urged to accept the honor, and urged
not at all because he would not appreciate
the greatness OF the honor.
The man ! allude to Is Wallace VI. Scudder,
the proprietor OF the Newdrk Evsnin1 NeWs.
Through bis paper he has fou sht every evil
that has bobbed up in his State, and that
without saying by your leave to any Of the
bosses In the State. He urged and succeeded
in having the racetrack ring killed. and
throu Oh that action bringing the Repu blioan
party into power In his State. He fought
Bryan and everything that Bryan stands for.
He has fou ght Dryden and the various inter-
este that, through the McCarters. Dryden
has been interested in.
Mr.. Scudder has always stood for a clean
State. and although he has not blazoned his
name. Hearst fashion, in this fight. he has done
the very best Of work for New Jersey. and
has always refused to consider any o1er OF
reward. He is a gentleman. His father was
a Justice Of the State Supreme Court. he be-
longs 10 several ways to the best families Of
the State, and IL elected 10 the Senate | know
that he would be a whole hearted represen-
tative OF It's best interests in every wsy.
Why should there be any opposition to Mr..
Scudder2 He was a Democrat, but he has
opposed all the rainbow chasing that that
party has been engaged in for the last ten
years. His paper has stood for a clean State.
for a clean party. and has never been allied
10 any party. The motto Of his paper has
been: State first and party never. Whatever
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To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-7Slr: On my occa.
slonal visits to New York there Gomez an hour when
my work Is done apd | am free 10 take 9 glass of
beer and drive away all thoughts Of business.
Very often as ! stand at the bar a Salvation Army
woman enters, passes her box and In a minute IL
gone, some dimes richsI than when she entered.
Usually I contribute.
So far ss ] know this mode OF begging has been
confined to the members Of tho Salvation Army.
This week, however. ] encountered a full dressed
Sister Of Charity begging In a sixth avenue saloon.
and I confess to some annoyance because OF her
presence. The point Is this: We tip the barber.
am now wondering how long II will be before we
will md r. necessary TO tip the churches before we
can get a glass Of beer. Personally. the Salvation
Army has got the last dime out OF DIsoUsTEp.
BUTLER. N. j.. November ~.
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Lines Of Automobile Omnibuse, In Paris.


FvOm Ho OCtsUuVtf ANsrcd1.
The nrst OF the automobile omnibus lines com.
menced running IN Paris not long ago. Expert.
ments had been made for a long time past, and the
public became accustomed to seeing the omnlbuses
pass along the streets, but the system was not put
In actual operation until the nrst week In June,
when the line known as the Montmartro-St. Ger,
main des Pres was started. and the eleven automo.
OIIes were used 70 replace eighteen OF the old form
OF omnibuses requiring iat horses In all. The time
which u needed TO make the trip across town, which
was about forty -nve minutes, Is now reduced %
twenty -nve minutes.
The Omnibus Company OF Paris has nov ordered
as many as ninety new cars, which are 20 be used
upon six lines In the city to replace the horse vehi.
cles. These lines will be put 10 service from month
to month, so that they will all be In operation at the
end OF this year. Il Is proposed to start IN soon
the second line. running from the city hall to the
Neullly gate. All the cars are built after the gen
omnibus.
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lines, ran over and killed seventy-1ve,
apd a horse car one.
In all, street vehicles are held respon-
sible for eighty-three deaths, Of which
but eleven were due to hOrseless car
riases of all descriptions. This does not
justify an indictment Of the whole tribe
of motorists as assassins. Rather it
shows that they are no less careful than
those who use other means of conveyance
in the street. and it proves that the indig-
nation so often harbored against them
y the outcome of illegal and dangerous
reoklessness on the part Of a compare
lively small number Of automobilists.
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a BRoxEN PLEDGE NO LIE.
Nor. Under Some Circumstances. IN n
wicked Co Disregard q Promise.

To TIE EDITOR OF TIE suN-SIs: I bar
leave to offer an answer to the question
whether q man who promises not to run for
q second term In IN ONCE and afterwArd
does so Is thereby mad Q liar. shall
leave untouched the further question raised.
whether a mar who ever told q lie. which
Citizen In his letter to TIE Sun gives US ~
understand he never did. can thereafter be =
gentleman.
A lie is an assertion known to be false bv
the one who makes IL. To stand for election
to an once involves In ITSELF no other asSer-
ton than that the candidate will serve =
elected; and n he will there can be no lie N
that act. because IN act. not Involving an
assertion cannot be a lie. II there were anv
lie in the case supposed. IL must have been
in the candidates sayinG he would not run
again. But II when he said It he thought Il
was true. there was no lie In that either.
In short. villainous as it sometimes Is To
break a promise. IL is not the particular spe-
cies OF wiokedness properly denominated =
lie Not all promises are binding: and =
citizen lately arrived at mans estate would
do we'll TO consult q treatise on ethics beior.
he fings about such words as liar Il =
peculiarly needful thai promises should bs
Judged from the point Of view Of common
sense. Did the promisor gain any lmpor-
tant advantage In consideration OF his prom
ise7 Was the promisee led to risk any con
siderable value upon the expectation OF tn.
promise being kept: and II so. had be a good
right to such expectation
A man has no right to be . fool: and IL %
foolish to make any promise that one NAV
Just as well not make. especially promises
that one may ind one has no right to keer
Still. there 10 not necessarily a very deep SHADE
OF guilt In doing so.
Take our ma s~niicent President. for exam
pie. Nobody who knows men and knows
him will say that he IL not a man OF probity
and integrity, frank, ope and single hearted
That he has embarked upon many an III
considered enterprise, and uttered many 80
unwise word. few will deny. Yet IL is a quite
unparalleled aud entirely undeserved piece OF
good luck that we. the people OF the United
States. should ever have come 20 get as faith
as We have in him. Let us han God for that
mercy, With all the wrong things he has
done in the way Of rashness. I am quite sure
he has never vet. in the public eye. som
mitted any sin at once SO black and 30 petty
as the one I fear be may now be In DANCES
Of committing that of allowing q post
election promise without consideration. .
break Of which would put nobody 60 neon
venience but Mr.. Bryan or Citizen Fairbanks.
to become a bar to the accomplishment Of
the hearts desire Of a great people. OF q good.
honest 100000 Of people who do not want
any ordinary politician at their head. Let
us down his scruples in our importunate. In
sistent call.
Come. young citizen. and join your lustier
voice to that OF A C~oUNTRYNAN.
MILFORD. Pa, November -.
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Fatalities.

The report ofthe Department of Health
for the second quarter cFthe year, printed
yesterday, with the date of its transmits
sion to the Mayor carefully omitted,
discloees the fact that out Of 96S deaths
charged to accident and negligence in
April, May and June, only eleven are
laid to automobiles. In the same months
fifty persons were run over and killed
by wagons, trucks and other horse drawn
vehicles, and eighteen died from injuries
received by falls from horse drawn
vehicles. Only ten persons were killed
by beisg run over by nf~or cars, and one
person was killed by being thrown from
an automobile.
Whether the number Of fatalities due
TO motor vehicles is disproportionate to
the number Of automobiles in Use in the
city cannot be learned from these figures,
and no record exists of the cars that ere
operate, in the city streets in these or
any other months. Likewise, there Is no
record Of the number of horse drawn
vehicles in $ in the city. The figures
show only that the vast majority Of auto
mobile owners are not reckless and that
the number Of deaths caused by motor
cars is less than is popularity supposed.
In the same months nineteen persons
died from the effects OF falls on the city
oarriageways and sidewalks, ten as the
result Of falls OF floors inside dwell
ings, Offices, DC; the electric roads, not
including the subway and the elevated
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Who Was the Authority Referred TO by
General DagEetl?

To THE EDITOR or TUE S~UN-Sir: With
regard to the dismissal OF the battalion Of the
Twenty-hfth Infantry from the service. the
official order directed that the men should be
discharged without honor" and disqualified
the courts would hold the term without
honor" as equivalent to "dishOn orable" may
be a question, but ! think they would.
also have wondered whom General Dag
gett referred to in his book America in the
China Relief Expedition" where he says he
heard a person say that the moment a sol
der felt like closing in on his comrade he was
worthless and had better not have enlisted. "
heard MIR. Roosevelt utter similar words at
West Point in June. 1901. know the Twenty
fifth Infantry, and know that some OF those
TO bs DISCHARGED are noble. deserving men.
NEW YORK., November 10. SQUARE DEAL.
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THE fAx.
what Was It's Part In the Virtual Defest
OF New York Republicans?

To THE EDITOR OF The suN-Sy! be.
lieve the Republican party owes it's defeat
for proba bic defeat) In the State of New Yort
20 the mortgage tax.
An association called The Allied Real Es-
tate Interest protested against this tax. and
sent a deputation to Governor Higgins. As
a landowner in Brooklyn I was requested by
that association to write a letter 10 the Gov.
ernor. Before doing so I made a very careful
canvass Of large district In Brooklyn where
the rents avera ged from $40 to $50 a month.
and l found that In consequences Of the mort
gage tax rents had advanced % q month
Money could not DO obtained under So per
cent. in this State. while loans could be got
in New Jersey at * per cent. The wage
earners felt the pressupe. for rents went up
when money loan became scarce.
have just pad $500 for mortgage tai. and
] am raising my rents o. a month. In mr.
letter 20 Governor Higgins I warned him or
the probable defeat Of his party, and the
result has been seen.
The average man does not regard the Re-
publican government as a government In the
interests OF the people. The wage Garner
looks TO his rent bills. his gas. his coal and
the necessaries Of life. and he IL getting rest
less. He determined to do something that
will change the present condition Of things.
Mr.. Hughes must take warning.
PROPERTY OWNER.
BROOKLYN, November Il.
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THE CHAMPION APPLE PICKER.
Joe Best or Medina and His Record or
50 Barrels q Day.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Str. ] read IN A
recent sun OF a Kansas man who In q spasni OF
speed picked sixty barrels OF apples In one Jav.
There we're sluggish blOoded Ksnsans Who doubted
the story.
That may be lightning apple picking IN Kansas.
hut TO my knowledge there Is al least one man In
New York state who would regard IL a. little morr
than n rood half days work. Joe Best OF Medina.
Orleans county, I'm his palmy days was tho fastest
apple picker In the western part OF the State, 4 few
years AGO, when the apple crop was a bumper.
Best made a wager OF $40 that he could pick seventy
nve barrels In one day and PICK the trees clean.
lie won his bet before the day was over, but kent
on picking until the stipulated time was up and
added nine barrels more to hts recuri, maxim.
eighty -four barrels for the dav.
That may make the apple plckers of Kansas gasp.
but Joe Best didn't gasp and he Sill lives.
W. G. S.
PHILADELPHIA. NJ. V, November Y.
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Beauty accommodated
Prom De London COB,

FROM me London G'1bf,
There vas 10 be witnessed in every parish church
or the city Of Murcia yesterday = scene med syaI
enough TO recall Scotts Pair Maid OF Perth and
the scene between the Glee maiden and the frlar.
There Is. nappears, In Spain Il lady variety artist
whose beauty Is supposed to DC suficient 10 ron
stitutc an exhibition Ia Itself. This lady. stnI fur
Their TO aoceutuatc the old world nature Of the Incl.
dent. billed herself as the Bella rOrnarfna." pre-
sumably after Raphsel's famous picture. sad n
state, the lady's notions OF professional decorum
have not been as beautiful as her features. and
wherever she has appeared there have been grave
o ~i'ctiOns tO her bearing on the stage. On her
appearing at Murcia they soon became clamorou,
and yesterday the climax was w be reached bv
the reading in every parish church Of a sentence OF
accommodation launched by the Bishop against
La Bella Fornarina."
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A new element enters into the calculations
Of m. students Of football form: the
o, rnsive and defensive value uf prayer.
the new factor made it's appearance last
gaturday ut a game between two Western
high schools. Con bless you. my boy;
play hard; ] will pray II tho telegraph
message from tho Rev. H.S s. RosLEE, pdter.
Of 81. Joseph, Mich. that greeted and in
spired RoBLEE. ILLUS. rs he took his place
in the scrimmage. Unable TO see the game
with the organs of mundane vision. the
father was present in spirit: and the spec
tatora bear witness that the lad. a star
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The Tax on Personal Property.

Seven years ago the tax levied on per-
sonal property in the Borough of Man
haitian was sll ,S45, POT. This year it is
So, 1900, 58s. How much OF the amount
levied In 1890 was collected the annual
report of the Department Of Taxes and
Assessments does not tell.
In 1899 the tax levy on real estate in
the borough was $50, 969, AS. This year
it is $50, 7l3, 1891. 1t appears. therefore,
that while the burden on real estate has
increased by about one-sixth in seven
years that on personal property has
decreased by nearly one-hali. 1t will not
be conceived that the value Of personal
property in the borough has decreased
in this period. On the contrary, no one
doubts that it has increased tremen-
dously.
The reduced levy on personal property
Is due in large part to the impossibility
of making proper assessments. The
valuation Of personal property is en-
tirely a matter OF guesswork. A very
large proportion Of those who should
pay taxes on this class Of property escape
assessment. The taxation OF personal
property is little more than a farce. The
assessors guess at what a person owns,
and trust to him to pay in a fair amount.
This trust is frequently misplaced. The
special commission which Is now study
ing the tax laws of the State will find in
the inability Of the authorities to dis
cover a successful method of getting
personal property on the tax books a
situation worthy Of its closest study.
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accomplish his alleged ambition and
become Chief OF the Bureau Of Yards
and Docks, with the title-at the hands
Of the society reporters-of Admiral.
But the North Pole is undiscovered, and
the dash still testifieS. through its
failures and disasters, to the feasibility
of HowGATE's theory.
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Police Drrft Toward Monarchy.

To TUE EDITOR or TIE SUN-ESr: We are told
that when the King OF Portugal goes s-hunting
court etiquette requires that he be attended ny a
numerous retinue of lords in waiting. huntsmen,
&c. Everything being prepared for a shot. a lord
In. waiting receives a gun properly loaded from the
hunisman and hands Il TO the King. who, having
discharged II in the prescribed manner. passes II
back to the lord in waiting. and he returns II to the
huntsman 70 be reloaded. On no account must
there be any direct communication between his
Majesty and the ~plebelan huntsmsn.
some time ago ! had occasion 10 prefer a com
plant az Q police station In this city. The desk OF
the oriciA In charge. a sergeant l presume. was
protected from the public by a highly ornamental
iron railing, which obscructed the sight, but whose
Interstices afforded the principal means OF com
munlcatiOn with the occupant OF the desk. Having
spoken my piece into the gloomy space the sergeant
addressed an Official standing near: "Of1cer, tell
me what he says AftcrwaTd. the sergeant lssu.
ing Instructions for my conduct, which making
their way through the Aforesaid distractions I
failed 10 clearly comprehend. nc again commanded.
"Onncer, tell MIN what I sayi'
In his book on the Intellectual development OF
Europe, DIR. Draper remarks with some severity,
Il must be admitted) that by the conquest OF Mexico
and Peru the SpaniaTdS destroyed Civilizations
superior 10 their own. The object of the remark
was however. not 80 much To censure the conduc.
OF the Spaniards as TO emphasize the fact that sim.
liar ideas and similar uSages make their appear
ance spontaneously In the progress OF civilization
OF different countries. remote aud Isolated ms they
may lr. The civilizations referred to had hitherto
been unknown TO the Old World. and from all the
evidence we have II would appear that they werc
unknown TO each other they had therefore arisen
independently.
In view Of tho striking similarity In the two forms
Of etiquette above quoted. II would 30 an Interesting
speculation for a philosophic miSd TO Diet rmi 9
whether under the cAigencies OF the situation tho
police court form used by the sergeant was evolved
from his own inner consciousness In obedience TO tho
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II would be a happiness TO see the immor-
tai WILLIAMS made chairman Of the Massa-
chusetts Democratic State COMMITTEES; but
IL Massachusetts we're forty times the size
oY Texas, would she DO big enough TO hold
two such boiling geysers. two such earth
auakes. two such wordspouts. two such tidal
waves Of motion and emotion as MORAN
and WuIIAMs' Either is too much. Both
knock gravity of its centre and iii the
world with outlaws.
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player anyway. did on this occasion deport
himself exceeding well. insomuch that
the opposing line parted before him as Of
old the Red Sea parted. Like the children
OF Israel. young RoBLEE went through"
His tackles were deadly" and laid out
the star halfback Of the other side-who
probably wasn't prayed for. The praying
and playing combination was effective. for
the team scored 30 points; but there was a
weak spot somewhere. for opponents"
acorcd 4 .r
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TO THE EDITOR OF IHE DJN-SUs DOce tHC us
honorable discharge OF the battalion OF the Twenty
NTH Infantry by the President carry with II for
fixture OF the right of ~sunrage7 J. B. ADAMS.
WEST POINT. n. Y. November II.
No. The right to vote is not involved. It
is secure from Presidential action in this case.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary says that the right
TO vote comes to the citizens OF the United
States when they possess it at all under State
laws But no State can deny or abridge the
right ION account OF race, color or previous
condition Of servitude" Fifteenth Amend
mentD. In several Of the states soldiers are
among those excluded from the suffrage. but
after leaving the service they can become
citizens of a State, and upon obtaining a
domicile for the time required by the election
laws they can vote for State and Federal
officers. provided they are not excluded from
the suffrage on account OF disaualihcatiOns
such as certain Of the Southern States impose
in spite Of the Fifteenth Amendment. A pri-
vate OF the Twenty-hfth Infantry discharged
under the President 3 order at FL Reno would
have the same right to vote in a Northern
State as a white man,
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Hurried Amid 400 Grave, n. Dug

KlEorto correspondence -. LOus Globe -DernOcJat.
Marx McIfgue. for forty years sexton OF Crown
Point Cemetery. dIcI tn day. lie was the oldest
cemetery custodian IN Indiana. He dug the graves
for.aII The 500 int'rncrtS IN the graveyard. and
opcned the ccuittcry rates for 400 funeral PRO
rrsslonS. The venerable gravemakcr will he
buried In N. midst Of the thousands who preceded
him and were MAJ away by his own hands.
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Boom IN straw Hats.

From no Springfield REPUBLICAN.
straw hats are In such demand that the business
life Of Franklin has received great Impetus. One
Of the largest factories there has already doubled
the number Of It's employees, snd dozens who for
merIy worked there sre returning daily. Enough
orders are on hand now, said one OF the large manu-
facturcrs. to keep a much larger force Of help than
1. AT present employed busy until April, and heavier
orders are expected AZ the season advances. All
the straw goods manufacturers report d~inlculty IN
ohtaIuInQ sufficient help.
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Risk Of IN. Early Customer

From the London Chronicle.
A. a Bath inquest II was stated that there Were
signs Of lead poisoning In the system OF a man who
had been q heavy drlnrer. The doctor explained
that n was probably due 10 his having been an
early morning customer At public houses, az a con.
sequence Of which ne would be served With the beer
which had stood In Lead pipes ell nlghL.
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The eminent RAIsUrI has succeeded in
obtaining Office by not unknown in
this country He was against the organi-
zation' until he compelled the organization
TO make terms with him.
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I do not think that the recent election vss indie
ative OF any desire on the part OF tho people for
tariff revision. Senator BURRows.
The Senator is respectfully referred to
Representatives LACEY. McCLEARY and
Lands. who will not sit in thu Sixtieth
Congress.
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1 There was one great Issue they Ithe Republicans1
didn't make use of--the record OF the Republican
p8Tty.-ODELI.
The Democrats did; and Il elected most
Of their ticket.
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StnI Plenty OF Government Ian 4,

From tho BGIt' pore Sun.
Despite Uncle Sans prodigality IN the m.t,.r
oi giving away public lands. there are sun m,IIIo,.
OF acres awaiting spportionment apd settlenen,
NJ the close Of 1905. for example. the foTov1n-
tracts were stu held by The Gov eminent.
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Conductor-Full fare, please.
MOther-He II the same age as the Japnuesc
schoolboy. IN San Francisco.
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The NhnmOkln Thir.a SInlnr

TO TIVE EDITOR or THE SUN {Sr: otto Boos
who runs a thirst shaker IN Shsmokln. Pa. Ia knock
ing. Does he get in1 ". RDwArps
WHLIAMsPORT, Pa, November ~.
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Shakespeare WAS wrfAng Romeo and Juliet,
BE careful" We warned him that the balcony
doesn't encrosch on the Fifth avenue stoop line {"
This ID Why ths scene vac not laid IN New York.
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n our frtenas Dho fasor Us tcnh rrdH"sortpt' for
pub1leatson 1tsh % hare rejected driJss returned meV
ssuxs IN al eases send stamps roS that purpose