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The Odell Negro District.

To the disinterested wisdom and po-
litical foresight of b. B. ODELL, Jr, OF
Newburgh, is ascribed another plan OF
aiding the Republican party in New
York" 1t is to be done by establishing
under the new apportionment an Assem-
bly, district having "a preponderating
number Of negro voters" This district
is to be carved-such is the conventional
expression from other districts, so that
whatever else may befall the Repup~
lican party, there will be at least one sure
Republican district, made so by the
shrewdness of ODELL in syndlcatlng' as
it were, the colored voters Of the city.
BY such cheap projects large fame
may be secured to a small politician, but
in ODELL's case their futility ought to be
obvious. There were, by the Federal
census, 3s,6l6 colored inhabitants of New
York county. They are generally dis
tributed throughout the city, some OF
them still residing in the old neighbour
hood Of which Thompson street is the
chief thoroughfare. Some in the upper
East Side territory, East Ninety-seventh
and Ninet y-eighth streets, known as
"Coon Hollow" some to the west OF Cen
| trail Park, in the San Juan" region and
others in Manhattanville, on l35th street,
| three miles further north. The number
| of inhabitants required for an Assembly
district under the new apportionment
will be 47,0O0. No ingenuity OF gerry
Wandering could get more than one-halt
! of the total colored population OF New
York within the boundaries of one As
sembly district.
If by straining the law and violating
the Constitution, which requires com
pact contiguous territory in every DIS
trict, as many as 10000 negro inhabI-
tants should be included in any New
York city district, this number would
be less than one-half of the quota re-
auired for an .Assemblyman
The establishment of a negro dis
trict" in New York, wen if possible
would be, from any political considera'
ton, inexpedient for Republicans, as IT
would revive race controversies, winch
it is the policy Of the Republican party
in every part Of the country to compose
or evade.
OpRLL has actually nothing to do witt
the new a]pportionment. 1t will be made
by the Republicans of the Legislature
in both branches of which Republican,
have a very large majority. The hes.
service which ODELL a do to the Re
publican party in New York is not in the
limo of establishing negro districts, bu
in retiring-before he is rctired-fro
his place Of former prominence and re
sponsibility.
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the TERN GENTLEMAN.
what an inquirer Learned by Consulting
the Dictionary.

To THE EptTor or The SUN-Sir; some
OF your correspondents seem to be exerclseu
over the question Of what manner OF man
may properly be termed n g%entlalnan. "hen
I an In doubt as to the proper use Of q Woru
have a habit OF consulting a dictionary an"
have found that course TO be n good one
The Standard Dictionary gives half a dozen
definitions, some of which relate 10 moral
character, to education and refinement; 10
occupation and to degree OF wealth, lhese
applY mostly to the use of the word IN 'he
United States. 4,
In England the word has n more restricted
use, and the STANDARD Dictionary has THESE
definitions: "A man of the higher class. OF
Of gentle extraction. In England: ~ any
man above the condition OF yeoman' W III
a narrower sense. n man of the upper miuuIe
class; one sprung from n land-owning family
one OF the landed Ecntry. or following one
the honorable professions. as arms. 'he
Church, or law: () in the old and strlct
sense. a man without a title Of nobility, VINO
is descended from frecnen, bears q Goa, ON
the Woman and the nobility. gentlemen
Ia defined to be one VINO peHIS
Goa! aT;aSST!:; he fsn sTHnt e R,, whiGn adds d fsnrli,tny
| taries, Book l., Chapter 10. pqge 400;
In ENGLAND the mora. qualities Of the man n
America they have much to do with il. A
founding. of whose lineage nothing Is kh2wn
may in America be u gentleman, pul " III
land he cannot be, for there the word has lor
centuries had a meaning that prccludes Y:
H. +. b." Of Denver. quotes franklln az
saying that a descent Of ten generations OF
ploughmen, smiths, carpenters, tahneIs,
weavers. timers and ehoemakers. who were
to descent from eeptlemch who did nothing
of value, but lived idly on the labor OF Others
and otherwise we're good for nothing,
Franklin merely argues that, an indus-
trious mechanic is a better mar, thana vagn-
bond nobleman. Nobody will dispute II,
but aid Franklin say. or will H. +. b.. con-
tend that descent from the landed gentry
OF England is less honorable than from me-
chanics? Is It a dispGragement to George
Washington that his ancestors were OF that
class, and would descent from timers, weay-
abled him to play a nobler part? When VIII
lam tho Norman conquered England ne par
titioned the lands among his military chiefs
and the landed gentry are largely, their de-
scendants. The serfs Of feudal times, VINO
swore fealty TO the landowner with. hs 1901
upon their necks, are the ancestors OF anotheI
class than the landed gentry, An American
who claims TO be proud OF his descent IRON
those in the lowly walks of life Is at least 40
normal. It is n suggestive fact. that BenJ9'
min Franklin did not follow his fathers trad
Of making candles. lie had ancestors OF the
landed class in England. for the name FRANK
lin means a freeholder. IL, II.
FRANKLIN. Pa, April IL.
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Mock Modesty and Golfng Manners

There is a certain phase of modestv
that NAV unconsCiously become bad
and as a hint that the caviller
has no standing on the links the Wom-
ems Eastern Golf Association may with
good reason refuse the cups that have
been presented to it on the condition
that the anonymity of the donors he
kept %inviolate. 1t would be different II
the prizes were to be competed for only
by the women players of one course,
but the matter is II that concerns
the players of a wide area. These gifts
have been rendered to the organization
that is designed to coalesce and safeguard
the associate members, as the women
PLAYERS are usually designated, Of all the
golf clubs in the territory concerned. 1t
is intended to fill the place as an indie
pendent auxiliary Of the United States
Golf Association in the East which the
older league, the Women's Western Golf
Association, occupies beyond the ALLIE
ghanies,
The hitch ovcr the prizes was the only
ripple stirring the serenity OF the general
committee meeting last Wednesday, The
secretary had reported a membership
of sixty-one clubs, and it had been de-
. cided to hold the renewal of the tricIty
matches and the inaugural champion
shin at the Nassau Country Club, one
of six or eight clubs to tender ITS course
| for the tournament. Prizes were next
considered. Besides having a plethora
of cups and trophies suitable for the
minor contests TO acknowledge, there
were two offers demanding special con-
| sideration. A member Of the Essex
| County Country Club OF Orange, n. D.,
submitted the tender Of a fine trophy
to be the perpetual emblem of the
individual championship, the additional
| condition imposed being that his name
should not be mentioned, and from n
Boston golfer came q gift OF a handsome
CUP to be the trophy in the match to be
played during the women's national cham
pionship at the Brae Burn Country Cluh
between the Women's Western Golf Asso-
| citation and the Women's Eastern Golf
Association, provided his identity be kept
a secret.
In athletic sports, where the encour-
agement of contests or mere good fellow
ship is usually the motive actuating the
donors, and there is no sense of obliga-
ton on the part Of the-recipients, no good
reason exists for the effGcement of the
individual, Precedent in this matter is
all the other way.
1t was not made a ttate secret when
Queen VICTORIA presented the cup for
the race off Cowes that has since been
the inspiration for the greatest series Of
contests In the annals of international
sport, nor possibly would the trophy
won by the America have ever become
90 renowned il it had been inscribed
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, Plea ,or Natural Rates for Money.

To THP EDIToR or THE SCN-Str' There
is a great deal of nonsense being talked re-
garding the i~niquity Of recent high call rates
for money. Probably most of the specula-
tors who are responsible for II are also aware
the kind we could not expect 10 attract any
supnly Of c0pi.al from interior points or gold
from abroad. Their feelings on this matter
have so far gotten the best OF their sober
iudgmcn, that II is said they would subscribe
to the hotation of an orTou bank to rcgu-
lato rates. Is ii possible that this would
have the desired effect when there is n strong
demand for every available dollar;
our present banking Institutions exert,
We think, varying speculative influences on
our market, and yet they probably do il with
some Judgment and GCknowlcd gment Of the
needs of the community, one can hardly
feel that the system is perfect as II exists,
but any attempt to control tho rates for money
in the interests of speculation, for that is
what the matter boils down to, Is not only
unwisc but would make confusion worse
COMPOUNDED in the end. Such rates as we
have seen are n salutary check on over
speculation, and il tho overspeCulation is in
country real estate rather than in Wall Street,
tho latter is the place where liquidation can
most easily occur. If there is any reason for
liuuidation anywhere.
Let us. therefore. allow natural laws to
orerate in money rs we'll as in other COM
modities. and not attempt any regulation or
corner. The settling day would only he so
much the worse. BHokER.
kPw YORK. April Il.
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Characteristic OF Those Who Are Entitled
TO the Name.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sfr' lhere
Ia one dehnltion of n gentleman good In all
anas ond In oil lands complete and perfect
atee Nv IA an 80 49, prosidont had
ley of Yale has it and recited 1t in an ADDRESS
some few Years ago. Here it is: "A gentle
- II. 49, ~ oooonts Golf ipnosed obliga-
d ~ oH ~ Nv ~. III. t., .hamght war tho
lions, Inc more TINS is thouent ovti II
more apparent is its perfection, 1t is the one
and only formula which can embrace and rec
onciio OH tho conaictinr ruIes of gentleman
oncie al ne " ~ - ,ast tmbo
Illness, IL Is tEe true IoucHsIone Vi lVos ~
and it can be applied TO gentlemen in the
Chor,nno gnc or Chesterfield. or to the pres
liz 'ri'asn' "
ent day. ana II never efrs'
For a gentleman, mind YOU, must accept
and respect obligations. His conduct must
~ ron,Irto II n,ust conform to n standard
oe Feeul~teu' 'nu'' w sos.s. T..
No man deserves the tue whose cohducV ID
wholly unreGulated. whose appetites or pas
aions sway him without the least resistance.
wtLor. INV narsistent sttempt on his part
to conquer thcn. 30 refer the 'rea'' ho"-
ever great" in many respects, was not a
gentleman, nor ever thought to be. Neither
was NAPOLEON.
The ob!igat ions, also. which q gentleman
accepts must be self-imposed, II his conduct
simply conforms to a standard imposed, or
enforced by others. and not by himself, then
his obedience does not entitle him to either
the credit or the name. He may, indeed.
in such case be prominently a good man.
being n mere slave or a villain, and though he
something else than a. gentleman, Hence
We find gentlemen in all ages OF the world
conforming to standards Other than those
contemporanCously recognized, AZ good,
They disregard the law, too, and always nave
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simply as the gift of"A Lady OF Eng
land" To revert solely to presidents
in our golf, it is not hidden that the ate
THEODORE A. HAvEMEYER, first prcsl-
dent of the United States Golf Assocla-
ton, was the donor of the amateur cham
pionship cup;that the cups for the men q
and the women's tricity matches have
been respectively tho gifts of the PhIla-
delphians ROBERT W. LESLEY and Cl.EM-
ENT A. GRISCOM, nor that ROPhRf OK
Member of Parliament from Edinburgh,
presented the women's national Goll
championship cup There are other
names that might be added tothis goihnG
roll of fame, and as the two cups OF the
Women's Eastern Golf Association VIII
probably become as prominent as any
the donors should not be permitted to
remain anonymous.
The committee, after n debate IN
which the desire Of anonymity did not
seem to be understood, voted tenta-
lively to accept the cuAs. 1t is not too
late to insist that the donors OF these
cups shall respect the traditions OF the
links. To play a championship or the
great West and East match for a trophy
presented in an anonymous way would
not befft the dignity and consequence at
tanned by womcn's golf in this country
and Great Britain; it is too suggestive OF
the period when the women were admit
ted only TO the outskirts Of the links and
were not recognized as serious players
Of the game.
There is no light on the identity of the
shrinking New Jersey beneficiary, but it
is authoritativeIy said that the back
ward Eostonian is an cx-president OF the
United States Golf Association. The cap
then, must fit either LAURENCE CURTIS
WAsHINGToN b. THOMAS or G. HERBERl
WINDRLGR.
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Propricty and Amateur Revolutionists'

Our amateur revolutionists, who only
Yesterday were so keen for the over
throw Of the Russian political system
and so enthusiastic in their laudation OF
MAXIM GoRKY, the literary leader OF
one faction Of the Cars people, seem
to have cooled considerably in their
devotion to him since the announcement
was made that his female companion in
his visit % this country is not his legally
welded wife. The fact that there IL a
real Mrs. GoRKY, from whom no divorce
has been obtained, who remains behind
in Russia, while her husband, comforted
and sustained in defiance Of our con-
ventionalities by a charming and gifted
woman, pursues his mission in free
America, has had a most unpropitIous
effect on the Gorky propaganda.
At the sudden cooling of enthusiasm
about him GoRKY is probably amazed
His sole purpose is to overthrow certain
existing conditions. the downfall of
which must inevitably involve serious
social disturbances. He mean to wipe
out many conventions. Now, to find his
success threatened by the mere non
observance of one convention cannot but
have a disturbing effect on his mind.
To learn that his new found disciples are
eager to follow his programme of blood
and violence, but balk at his domestic
arrangements, is enough TO set the head
of any revolutionist in n whirl. Not a few
now dead and canoniZed patriots of every
race and nation would grin if they might
see the strict line the Russians American
supporters are drawing between his
political beliefs and his personal and
domestic practices.
Must revolution, to have the support
Of American amateurs hereafter, clothe
itself in immaculate and conventional
responsibility and observe rigidly the
tcnets of morality and conduct set W
in the land to which it appeals for aid
and sympathy?
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A. DISGRACE TO THE CITY.
Urgent Need of Making the Police station
Houses Hnbitable and Decent.

To THE EpIroR OF THE SUN-Sir; Tho
Women's Prison Association is glad to So"
that you indorse Commissioners Bingham :
efforts TO secure improvements in the static!
houses of the city. We fail to understan
why every Commissioner who attempts u
reform in this direction Immediately beComes
a target for ridicule and unjust criticism II
would be an excellent plan for these s%colers
to make personal Investigation and discover,
for themselves the degrading and unsanItar",
conditions which prevail in n large majority.
Of the places where patrolmen and pollca
matrons are housed and our prisoners con-
fined.
1t is a very recent thing for any Of the DOR
mitories connected with the police stations
in the Borough of Manhattan TO be heated,
Many Of the %patrolmen have been forced 70
spend their nights sitting in chairs In tho
assembly room because Of the freezing atmo'-
phcre Of their own quarters. Commission
McAdoo did what the means afforded hil
would permit, but even now not all these
rooms are heated. In many stat ion houses
the ceilings are calling, the WALL, arc hlacf
with the accumulated smoke and srlr!c 81
years. there is no water above ne hrsl Ionr.
for bathing consist only OF a long s!n" III ''e
Through this sitting room the women nri4-
oners are dragged and the matrons obliged
to pass or their tours of duty, IN son" ~ ,''
dormitories the beds are so close together
UNIV II IN lIllIluNNllht " IhASN .'iNt'' - 'g
and the head of one bed touches tho foot ~
another. Is this treatment ClloulaI '1. "a
foster ambition and self-respcct in the mtuds
of patrolmen, and is il just to critics. ne
Commissioners who manifcSts n desire, 10
make tho station houses OF the city nat 'h'5
should be?
The, condition Of many of the prisons con
nected with tho station houses hcgEaTs De-
scription. In several the men and women arA
too close together. In n few the accominoda
tions for women are so inadequate tha' "len
more than four are received in y night they
hA We to he placed in cells designed for men. =,
In five station houses IN the Borough 81
Manhattan to which mntTons are gttaCGel
there are no toilet accommodations PROVIDED
for them, except such as may be found IN re
cells of the prisoners or those used ~ the
patroimen.
An experience gained through many years
has perhaps given liz. a better .knoHlcdSe q
existing conditions than could he acquired
by occasional visits. Many more particu,-
lars might be given, but our object Is simplY
TO make clear the fact that when Colnmls-
sioner bingham asks for an appropriation
to be used in connection with the station
houses of this city. he is doinR exactly what
he ought 10 do. and his request should he
sustained by every one who has at heart the
good OF his fellow men and women and the
fair fame of the city in which he lives,
SARAH H.. EMERSON.
NEW YORK, April 10. First Director.
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Thomas Jererson's Reply to Theodore
Roosevelt.

The worthy whose birth and life VIII
he celebrated tonight by our esteemed
friends Of the New York Democratic Tub
wrote so much and talked so much that
he may almost be said to have recorded
a distinct opinion IN every possible SUD-
ject of political or economic interest
Our contribution to the day from the
writings of THOMAS JEFFERSON is what
he said in answer to the latest doctrine
of his successor in the office of President
of the United States, twenty-second in
line after him.
On Saturday President ROOSEVELT
declared his conviction that we shall
ultimately have to consider the adoption
of a progressive Federal tax on all for
tunes given away or bequeathed at death
to any individual, such taxation to be
"aimed mainly at the inheritance or
transmission in their entirety Of those
fortunes swollen beyond healthy limits.
Ninety years ago Mr.. JEFFERSON wrote
as follows on the margin of a page in a
treatise on political economy:
II the overgrown wealth OF an individual be
deemed dangerous to the State, the best corrective
is the law OF equal inheritance TO all In equal degree
and tho better. as this e%ntorces q law OF nature
while extra taxation violates H."
There is a wide difference here. JET
PERSONS corrective is distribution among
persons having a natural claim to enjoy
! the unhealthy swollen fortune of the
individual. RoosEvELT's corrective is
c~onfiscation to the State, thinly disguised
under the powers Of the Federal Gov
eminent to tax for revenue.
Is either right? If either is right, is it
ROOSEVELT or JEFFERSON? Which pro-
posal is the more conservative Of Ameri-
can principles, the less radical, the less
eocialiatic9
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Plain and qualified Gentlemen.

To THR EDITOR or THE Sun Sir: Follow
ing your CORES pondents' letters in regard
to the term gentleman" | notice again the
confusion which always seems to arise when
this sort OF discussion occurs in not noting
the distinction between gentleman and true,
real or perfect gentleman. In the various
definitions | recognize again the two classes,
the one sometimes but not always inclusive
of the other. There are, Of course, also
shades of difference between the true, the real
and the perfect and other qualified gentle
men worth noting, sometimes dependent on
the person and manner of using them.
would suggest that the designation "one
of natures noblcmcn, sometimes used MS n
synonym of the qualified gentleman, Ia a
term less likely TO cause confusion.
WILLIAM r. EDMUNDs,
April IA.
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For Intsrrupting Soldiers.

From ne COrfFu DJfV MUS
During November last one VI Poong In, a ''s'H
in q country post ONCE, inflicted some injury Hp'a
a japanese who was sent 10 supervise HIN ana Was
accordingly arrested By Japanese Gendarmta'
Mr.. PAX Che Sun. the acting Prime Minister re-
Gently asked that the offender be handed over
70 the ooreAn Court for trial, but. In the WoTds Q
our translator. tho Residency- General has repAea
shat "tho man was Killed by this oflce hS ~
interrupted our soldiera.-
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the forbearance and s%elf-restraint with
which the Emperor WILLIAM submitted
to the adverse verdict rendered by a
majority Of the powers assembled at
Algeciras. Then and there he eXem-
plihed the ~self-conquest which, as we
are told, more exalteth a man than the
taking of a city.
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king aids injured man" was one head
line in Saturdays Sun, followed by a DIES
patch from Corfu telling how EDWARD of
England alighted from hi7 carriage 70 help
a drunken peasant who had fallen from his
WAGON. And in the same issue king
mixes with crowd" is the caption OF II
paragraph from Seville relating that AL
FoNso of Spain made his way on foot
through a swarm of plebeian shoppers.
Dow1E and the Kaiser seem to be the only
real naughty autocrats now left in the world,
for the headlines also report: "DowIEo opens
legal battle" and Kaiser is furious with
Italian ally"
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To T1Y TprroR or THE ~SUN-Sfr, N. trhwey
~ II - :, alt ;1bH"ro Juice between IA, pillars
r- tl~y l1sl b. . rpaSiicratc com pany is painting
to- p'ulra - ohlit"ra'e the evidences OF bad marks
man,aln. ANA not to make the signal lamps stand
out NOR, l!inly a. stated In your paper.
NKw YORK April Ia. W. S. II.
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Red Cross Flag of Alabama.

FROM fhc Dirnin9hnr7 Aoe-BtrdId,
over the historic capitol at Montgomery waves
not the national nag, but the Alabama nag. and
not one AlobamAn In a thousand would recognize
n n he saw II elsewhere than on the Capitol. Tho
nas In question has nn history woven into 1t. for 1t
was not adopted until 1893.
II presents a St. Andrews cross In crimson on
n white Gcli. Sn0N = cross Is shaped Ike n letter
X. am the books suggest tsat the apostle Andrew
died on n CROSS o. tlat design. Few II nny other
STAIRS indulge In nRrs nIi'oir own.
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Not So Bad as Reported.
From the Laurence Gazette.

. y" ~ NuLout'
Sam Elliott says the hard luck story published
last night Is all over. His children arc much better.
and he thinks he would have boon better OF II the
COW that died had done so long before. He has
another and better animal now, and saved the best
part Of the old-the hide,
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suhscrlntlons b, Wall. Postpaid.

Published by The sun Printing and Furnishing
Association at 10 Nassau street, In the Borough OF
Manhattan. New NOri..
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Uncle RAStus-who was dat man vhut saved
you from Hnchin'f
Deacon Johnsing-pe gsmmsn was oBos q base.
bal umpire.
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Parted.

Mother-Johnny, what became OF that jaraf
Johnny-I would advise you. Ma, TO read the
Presidents muck rake speech -