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Dekeneracy7-Questions From Across the
DOrder.

To II EDITOR OF TaB SuN-Sir, A
preacher gives public utterance to opinions
at variance with the doctrines OF his Church,
Why is 1t that thereupon he is invested
with the halo Of a hero? He is proclaimed
as one true to his convictions.
Is 1t impossible or inconceivable that the
thousand and one preachers who maintain
the integrity of their Church's doctrines may
not be equally true to their convictions?
Or are we to accept the plain implication
that these are hypocrites. or that they are
controlled and governed solely by self
INTEREST,"
Why does such a revolt against authority
strike so sympathetic a chord2 And espe-
cially of an authority not imposed but freely
and voluntarily accepted.
Again. a young woman elopes with the
man Of her choice. Public sentiment. as
voiced by the press, Immediately makes q
heroine of her. investing her with rare beauty.
singular talents, DC. Does she establish a
la wful claim to sound sympathy by flying in
the face Of respect for parental authority
II her own parents are not her best friends
and advisers, who are?
II sequels prove anything they prove that
In many cases these clipping hcroines must
have been the deluded victims Of very bad
advisers. II the notable frequency with which
such parties figure In the divorce courts indi-
Gates anything.
Is 1t a sign Of degeneracy that every revolt.
whether against Church authority. parental
authority or any old authority, strikes 80
sympathetic q chord?
Finally. Is 1t a sign Of degeneracy that the
hysterioal trash of yellow journals finds 30
large q part Of the public responsive TO Its
debasing efforts to amuse md entertain?
Or are these things s.,lp!y signs of per.
verified judgment and depraved faster
And is there any connection between such
judgment and taste, and degeneracy2
MONTREAL, June 20. J. +. L.
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AT THE lei FAIR.
A New YORK er's Delightful Holiday just
Out of Phlladelnhia.

To THE EDITOR or TnE SUN-Sir! II Ia
not given to every mortal who has workeu
twenty years without a vacation TO nave inc
monotony broken In so pleasant q manner
az happened to me yesterday. went 70
what was called the Beekeepers' Field Day az
Ienkintown. Pa. There were about q thou.
sand men and women enthusiasts there. ana
they talked bee, ate bee, slept bee. drank bee
from the time they got there TIL the dis
persal OF the meeting. The atmosphere was
full Of bees, but the crowd never minoed
them. We we're told not to strike q bee, put
II he "it onto we. just TO keep still tillhis or It's
curiosity was satisfied and he would go away
| waited forty-nve seconds for this curiosity
TO come to an end In the case OF a bee that
landed Just below my left eye. 1t seemed
forty-fve hours, and ! ina glned the girls
laughed at me.
One OF the most interesting performances
was the taking of the bees from a hive to
find the queen ION time" A vigorous man
OF SO took the bees out. handling the
frames. full Of bees of course. barehanded.
and found the queen In two and three
fourths minutes. A younger man made
rather better time. Tn an came q fellow who
let a lot OF bees puncture his hide Just to
show that II was really fun. There was a
swarm OF stinRless bees brought from 100
miles up the orinooo River. Thew don't
sting. but they get In your nose and ears and
bite: but this seems to be less painful than
the sting Of the others. Instead Of individual
cells they make huge cups Of wax. and M
they insert the opposite extremity OF their
s sns 10 sny a app1os sessX eldE DANGER have an eye
After putting In . few hours, lodging these
insects took Q trolley and made my first visit
70 Philadelphia. ten and a half miles distant
the roadway the whole distance Is a jungle
OF, weeds from the street to the back fence
went a pretty good Til for Pf,RitiiEadelphdis. and
we finally reached the long lines OF houses,
all alike. Gee. how monotonousl There is
OF, them are dingy red they all have some
trimmings of white marble, and II they, can't
find the matole they paint the iron shades
upon the whole Prices are cheaper than here,
for / found that 100 wooden clothespins could
they cost nine. The, women don't wear
all brim and no crown or all crown and no
brim-each trimmed with ribbon, no birds
feathers. They. don't call EN- hose over
there. but use the good old phrase stock
In New. York.
I noticed on the trip to the city that there
were signs all along saying SLOW. THIS
probably accounts for the appearanee Of the
store you willsee the boss sitting in the easiest
chair he can find, and a lot more furniture,
all In front Of the store. He has a snap as
only lean against the door posts, The girls
for oil" or "sawr" for "sa W." which we in
New York regard as well esta blished usage.
v. Tes' i, for y 2 Rig Yor stin' adi Hiss day 1 sftf u ' PsIls.
New YORK., June rs.
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TWICE AS COLD AS FIVE ABOVE.
Absolute Zero to lie considered as n Factor
In the Problem.

To rHR EDITOR OF TIE SUS-!Sr: The question
proposed by Non Pop" as to how cold twice as
cold as 8 degrees above zero Is. Is puzzline TO those
who have not thought upon the subject Of tenn.
p~erature, the essentially relative nature of Its ele-
ments and the crudely unscientifc methods en-
ployed in giving expression to different deg rees OF
heat by means OF scales as found on thermometers
in common use. | think the problem may be best
explained to the unlnitlated as follows:
The mind can place no limit TO the possible TEN
perature OF a body. but as a mental abstraction It
can conceive Of there being no temperature at all;
this point is called absolute zero. and the curve of
actual temperature is asymptotic, that 10 10 say,
the material universe never has and never can
contain O particle of matter which has no heat:
but II may be shown by mathematics that such a
point exists. and II may be expressed In terms Of
any OF the scales In use.
In discussing this problem II viii not be necessary
to enter into the questions OF specific heat, intrinsic
energy and the difference between heat and tenn
perature. which latter Is alone measured by the
warm Is a body which is half as warm as q body
which Is at q temperature OF 5 degrees above zeroI
Plainly It's temperature will be the number Of de-
Rrces from absolute Zero Expressed In any scale)
plus 8 divided by ., I hope TO have shown the
relative nature of the elements involved. and that
twice as cold as s degrees above Zero Is the number
Of DEGREES from absolute Zero to the Zero Of the
scale employed. plus 8 divided by 2.
incidentally. this shows the necessity for a scale
constructed on q rational basis beginning at the
absolute s6ro and doing away with the relative
and misleading Zero points at present EN- ployed:
II Is this equivocation which makes possible such
problems as the one proposed.
NHw YORK. June q. ALBrEr r, ahlLATM.
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ENGLAND mi PERSIA.
A Disposition TO Admit the Bagdad Rail-
way to KOweIt on the Gulf.

To EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Accord
ing to a London correspondent the tn rko-
Egyptian boundary dispute Is to be followed
by one between Turkey and Persia in which
the British Government will intervene.
On the last occasion when the frontier line
between those two countries was the cause OF
trouble an attempt was made by the Russian
and British Governments to bring about a
definite settlement. This was shortly after
the Russo-Turkish war of 1877. A com-
mission composed of Gen. Hanley of the
British Army and Col. Zelenoy Of the Russian
Army of the Caucasus was appointed to
regulate the matter. Al the first meeting
OF the commissioners with the Persian and
Turkish delegates IL was found that neither
had any instructions and still less any idea
Of where the frontier line should run. The
Persian commissioner was so ignorant of
the meaning of technical terms that In his
opening statement Of his Governments
claims he repeatedly used the term stdm quo
as meaning the watershed, which he proposed
should form the boundary at a certain part Of
tho frontier. After much f~ruitless discus
sion an arrangement was patched up. but with
characteristic apathy neither Constantinople
nor Teheran did anything to end the dispute
by appointing a commission to make a per.
the present trouble. which, it is stated. has
resulted In the Persian Government. under
the provisions OF the Treaty of 1871, calling
for Intervention by the Government OF India,
which In It's turn has referred the request to
London. The matter has now been before
Sir Edward Grey for several weeks. and q
decision Is looked for shortly.
Closely connected with this Turko- Persian
frontier question is the changed attitude of
Bagdad railway enterprise. The Berlin
written by a person In close touch with the
German Foreign once. states that British
hnanciers had at different times expressed
willingness to invest money in>the railway
but had met with unfavorable esponses from
Germany, Now. the article asserts. Great
Britain desires the Bagdad Railway to run
into Koweit, on the Persian Gulf, the very
port from which the British Government
brou ght about its exclusion three years ago
by refusing to acknowledge the Turkish
sovereignty and placing il under the Sheikh
OF Koweit, who was taken under British pro-
lection. The article goes on to point out that
as Germany is now certainly entering an
Asiatic sphere OF interest, but In a. purely
economic, not a political capacity. Great
Britain should enter into early NEGOTIATIONS
with Germany. as the matter does not, admit
Of long delay on account of work TO be done at
the sea terminus Of the line, wherever II may
be stu sted. Dealing with the general re-
lations between Germany and England, the
writer says that sentimental references TO
Goethe and Shakespeare will count very little,
but that If Germans build an efficient feet,
now that they have the most efficient army
and the strongest and best educated force of
workmen, then John Bull will hnSten. not to
make war on Germany, but to shake hands
NEW YORK, June %. PFRA.
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THE REGENTS RELENT.
Students May Graduate From High Sehool
without Taking the Examinations.


without Taking the Examinations.
ALBANY, June 28.-Hereafter a student
may be promoted from class to class and be
graduated from a high school or an acad-
envy without passing the Regents examina-
tions. Action to this effect was taken to-
day by the State Board Of Regents because
Of complaints received from various parts
of the State that the Regents examina.
tons were too rigid and because this or that
locality had threatened to throw the ex-
aminations out of their schools.
The Regents decided that hereafter The
examinations in each subject In the second
airy school shall be prepared by a COM
mittee OF three, to comprise 4 member of the
State Department at Albany, an instructor
in the secondary schools and an instructor
in the colleges. There will be fifteen OF
these committees to prepare the question
papers for the different subjects. These
examinations need be taken only by stu
dents In the last two years of the academic
course.
The practical effect Of this will be that n
Regents certificate will be the highest honor
accorded In a secondary SCHOOL, although
a student may graduate without IL. There
are over 900 secondary schools in che State,
and those In New York city, Rochester and
Auburn have been getting their share Of The
States academic fund withou ut their stu
dents submitting to the Regents examine
atoms. Hereafter all Of these schools must
submit to the Regents examinations for
the last two years of the academic course
If they wish to participate In this fund.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
school riot in the Judengasse. O hearty tumult
that awaited to derange that almost solemn
fixture, the hour when school lets out, a COM
motion not altogether easy to resolve with
the resources of an educated and orderly
community. Is a picture taken bodily from
the medieval chronicles. Now. as In all the
backward ages. 1t arises from suspicion OF
religious intolerance. the hysteria Of faith.
In the olden da VS. 1t was the Christian COM
munity that was filed with panic suspicion
of its barely tolerated Hebrew inclusion
now the Ghetto. densely ignorant Of the great
city that surrounds IL and bowers II with
peace and order and the benefit Of free edu-
cation. feels itself strong enough to suspect
the Krisht and the goyim. In the Middle
Ages the Christian mobbed the jew in the
popular belief that Christian children were
stolen for the Paschal feast. 1t Is just within
this tweI tieth century that slaughter was
done In Hungary in a riot arising from this
delusion. In the history OF our own people
a mob. infamed by the traditional story Of
child murder. contributed TO the calendar at
least one saint. Hugh Of Lincoln. and added
to our literature n ballad not yet wholly pa sed
from the minds OF men.
While one must deplore hysteria OF any
type, there arises a certain pity for the frenzy
Of mothers timorous in deep Ignorance yet
frantic In their bravery to rescue each her
own BARN. It Is indeed a marvel that the
medieval bantling ever grew UP. what with
the zymotic dangers, which were real and all
unknown. and these dangers all unreal and
altogether known. With the wicked fairies
ever watchful to foist upo the cradle the
horrid changeling. with the risk Of sacrihcial
child murder. with the kidnapping Bohemian
skulking about the nursery. there Is some
excuse for the anxious mother, even when
her terrors prove too much for the policeman
on the beat and 1t lie necessary to cafl ont the
reserves. -,
Nrw yopR luna %
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SOME RELIEF or BRIDGE CRUSH.
Five Car Trains, Put On Mt Departments
Instance, Work We'll.

For a week past the Bridge Department
trains on the Brooklyn Bridge in rush hours.
Between $3.50 and $50 O'Clock on Wednes-
day night sixty-four trains passed through
the terminal, of which thirty were five car
trains, the remainder being made up Of
four cars. That meant that thirty addi-
tional cars were loaded, with a carrying
capacity OF about $50 each, or Of $500 pas
sengerS an hour. The operation Of the
largertrains turned out so satisfactorily that
it is the intention in future to run five car
trains entirely in the busy hours. In Q
report to Bridge Commissioner Steven
son, Chief Engineer Ingcrsoll says:
With the full complement of five car bridge
locals | estimate that VIC can carry 90 extra
cars an hour with a carrying capacity OF $50
per car bridge carl, making an increased
carrying capacity of something like 1000 per
hour. This Is, of course, an estimate. and In
actual working this would probably be re-
duced 1000 or more.
do not think that as yet the public realizes
the facilities have been increased, and as soon
as this is done it may be found that trains
will carry too many for the stairway space
on the Brooklyn end, and we have arranged
with Mr.. Calderwood of the B, R. T. for four
additional stairways. which, he informs me
by telephone this morning, he will tax up
and put in right away.
Both the b.. R. T.. and this department are
watching this matter very closely In order
to rectify anything that may stand in the way
of eventually operating Ave car trains. At
present the outlook is very favorable.
If it is found that this system is going to
work the b. r. T. will take out seats and oper-
ate the side doors on the elevated trains that
are used as bridge locals.
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Joseph G. Cannon.

Compliments for the Speaker are al
WAYS in order in the closing days OF a
session of Congress, but there is nothing
p~erfunctory about the tributes paid 10
the ] on. JOSEPH G.. CANNON.
There has been no presiding officer
better liked in our time, and Mr.. CANNON
il admired and esteemed in spite OF the
fact that his policy has raised up a large
body of insurgents in his W partyra
in spite of periodical d%enunciation as an
iron handed despot by an unterrlfied
but helpless minority.
How can the language OF amiable
hyperbole used by Representative TOWN
SEND in speaking Of Mr.. CANNON in the
House be accounted for? LIS the Speaker
"devotedly loved by every MEMBER Is
he, to quote Mr.. TOWNSEND, younger
than the youngest and stronger than
the strongest, the noblest Roman OF us
all"
A we'll preserved and remarkable mar
ia Uncle JOE, but a partisan withal, and
a good hater as well as a stanch friend.
He would be the last man in Congress
to wear q halo, and he has no Illusions
about his greatness. The secret OF his
popularity in the House is composite. He
is always n Of the boys his heart
being on the floor with them, although
he sits in the exalted chair OF Speaker
and rules them grimly for their own and
the country's good; they know hin as a
Thoroughly trained and sapient legisla-
tor who never loses his head; his human
nature is all embracing and equal to
every emergency; he is so good an Amer
lean that he might pass for Uncle SAM
himself.
Other Speakers have been looked up
to and even feared, and many have en-
loved the esteem Of their associates; but
Mr.. CANNON has won and retained their
personal affection while commanding
their respect under the most trying
circumstances.
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The Written Law.

Those who have a notion that the case
of the murderer of STANFORD WHITE
ought to be tried under what they are
accustomed to call the unwritten law,
or determined, on any pretext, by the
provisions of any unwrltten code, have
drifted far from the foundations OF
common sense and COMMON safety.
7 The written law is adequate for the
protection of society and of all individ-
uals composing society. Whenever the
contrary is assumed, anarchy comes into
sight. Whenever a man, impelled by
no matter how great and how just a
sense Of grievance, resorts to unwritten
law and makes himself its tribunal and
exsoutioner, he likewise makes himself
responsible to the written law, and is
the proper subject for the exercise OF
its most rigorous processes.
The final vengeance belongs to the
law that is written.
II this community is healthy and right
minded there can be but one view Of this
crime. It was cowardly in it's attendant
circumstances; and it was accompanied
by that elaboration and premeditation
which constitute murder in the first de-
gree. The indictment which was pre-
sented yesterday must be followed in due
course by a trial before a just Judge and
a fair jury, and money must be as pow
erless as the unwritten law to save a
murderer from the electric chair. In
this way only can the deterrent force
. of capital punishment be Of lasting
influence in our city.
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Mr.. Foraker's Distinction.

Senator TILLMAN read OF Monday
part Of a sentence from the Lodge pipe
line amendment to the rate regulation
bill, to the grammar Of which Senate
BACON took exception. Later, when the
whole sentence was read, 1t turned out
that Mr.. LODGES grammar was good
enough. as he said, by a little stretch. v
The question raised by Mr.. BACON caused
Mr.. TILLMAN to remark:
am helpless. l helped like all the balance Of
you did"
He was interrupted by Senator For
AKER, who did not support the bill and
voted against it. Said the Senator from
Ohio:
mo; 7 did not help. will have to be excused"
Then Mr.. TILLMAN gave this certificate
of innocence to Mr.. FORAKER:
The Senator is the one person who is absolutely
gulltless of any completely In this bill. although he
tried to get in several amendments and did not
succeed. He did not vote for the bill on It's passage.
and I therefore hope that he will enable us who are
more or less responsible for 1t to correct any little
Inaccuracies OF English and any slips of purpose
which may appear"
Thus was emphasized once more the
distinction Mr.. FORAKER has among the
Senators. If the rate regulation law
finally put on the Statute books reflects
credit and glory on its authors, he will
have none of it. If, on the other hand,
the law is a failure, produces NJ good
effects, or is disastrous in its results,
Mr.. FORAKER will have no blame or
criticism to bear. He will have to be
excused"
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DR.. ]. SPENCER KENNARp Of PHILADELPHIA;

DR.. j. SPENCER KENNARD Of Philadelphia,
now in Rome, n get at the King Of
Italy to hand him his degree from the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania as ar LII. D. VIC
TOR EMMANUEL is just as anxious to accept
the honor as the university is to bestow 1t,
and that is saying a great deal. 1t seems
that DR.. KENNARp, not approaching the
divinity that doth hedge a king, omitted
to got an introduction from the American
Ambassador. He thought a cable despatch
from Provost HARRISON would prove an
open sesame. But kings are not to be
made LII. DIS that way. They are coy
II complaisant. DR., yIcToH EMMANUEL
insists upon the regular order. American
colleges desiring to get into touch with
royalty should AVE passports sealed Gre
dentiels and the ribboned parchment all
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GOOD PRICES FOR HALF CENTS,
Coin Minted I'm 1910 Sells for $50 -SSS for
q jewish Shekei.

PHILADELPHIA, June 2s.-The auction sale
of rare coins belonging to Major William
b, Wetmore, U. S. A., of New York, was
continued here to-day. A large collection
OF United States half cents. minor coins
and pattern pieces were disposed of atigood
prices. Many rarities in American Colonial
and Continental notes, including originals
printed by Benjamin Franklin, and signed
by members Of the Continental Congress;
as well as a large collection of United States
fractional currency, were disposed Of.
Among the United States half cents 6 i7ss
brought sl0.6o; an 1910, t57; an 1871, SIC;
an ls4S, $40, and an 1889, s24.
Cents Of 1855 with a flying eagle brought
ISIS. An extremely rare cent Of the Con-
federate States of America, issued in 1891,
with liberty head &c, brought 3 8.25. Uncan.
celled postage stamps of the denominations
OF IL, "a and 80 cents, used for money during
the civil war, brought from Sic to sic apieoe.
A Jewish shekel of Simon Maccabeus,
b. c. l40, in choice condition, brought $3s.
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Washington sends forth the vlrtuous
decision of the Republican Congressional
campaign committee not to seek contri-
buttons from corporations this year.
The members OF the committee assert
positively" that this will not be a money
campaign" Their appeal will be to q
free and enlightened electorate by a
tion-the Federal Government-will be
allowed to contribute the Use Of it's print
ing plant and postal service without
compensation for the manufacture and
distribution of literature" All others
are barred. .
The attitude Of the committeeman
shows how deep reform has struck in.
With the meat packing companies, the
railroads, the industrial corporations OF
all classes enthusiastic owe the treat
ment they have received from Congress
and the Administration, clamorous to
fill the party war chest, the temptation
to accept their donations must have beer
very strong. With every corporation
engaged in business in New York pro-
hibited by law from giving Of its funds
for political purposes, the f~orbearance OF
the party managers is manifest. With
the voters representative to corporation
influence on public affairs, the decision
of the Republican statesmem takes on
the glory Of a martyrs fortitude.
The pioneers of a new political dispen-
sation who are to look wise this fall in
an upper Broadway skyscraper deserve
the hcro's laurel and the martyrs crown.
They.see the right and dare to do it.