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oliver Evans's Inventions.

To TIRE EDITOR OF THE SUS-tSir; Your CORE
spondent. John p. Casey OF Philadelphia, who in
Thursdays SUN gave the horseless carriage of
Pyott and Morse, exhibited at the Centennial In
1915. as the only authentic forerunner OF the modern
automobile. appears TO have quite overlooked
oliver Evans, born at or near Newport Del. in
1853. and a resident OF Philadelphia from his boy
hood until 1919. when he died.
Evans not only predicted the modern automo-
bile. but the railway as well. and in 1907. or about
that time. built for the Phila del phia Board OF Health
a horseless wagon, which ran upon the water as
well. It's object was to clear the water about the
docks in the Schuylkill River, This wagon was
exhibited In Central Squa re, the site Of the present
City Hall. for several days, a small fee being
charged to raise money 10 reimburse Fvans's me
chanlCs. who had contributed their labor In It's
construction. When the exhibition was over the
vehicle ran down to the ware, where 1t took TO
the water, and on Its trip down that stream, en- route
to the Schuylkill. II outstrpped In speed all the
vessels moving down the river.
II oliver Evans, who died poor and broken
hearted by disappointment could have convinced
the capitalists OF his time Of the merit of his In
~ventions, George Washington could have come TO
New York from the capital on a steam railway
train, and horseless wagons would have been run.
ming on every good road In the country a hundred
years before the present automobile honked It's
way across the land, W, j, J.,
NEW HoRK. March II.
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The West and Rate Regulation.

Viewing the political landscape o'e
for the purpose of forecasting the Con-
gress elections, the Boston Transcript
considers the effect Of railroad rate regu-
lation upon the West:
III the law is satisfactory 10 the West the West
Is likely 10 express Its approval OF the party in
majority at the time OF It's enactment. II, on the
other hand. the law Is one that disappolnts on
examination the anticipations OF shippers the
radical element may be REINFORCED In Western
communities. where the question has been a
burning one"
The matter of rebates is vital to ship
pers; but the question of rebates seems
to have been swallowed up, or almost so,
in the great controversy over the mag
MITIGATION of the powers Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Shippers have
never kept the commission busy. Neither
. their complaints nor their agitations have
beenthe loudest or most numerous. 1t is
possible that their anticipations are now
much less brilliant or nervous than those
of persons who never shipped anything
and never will, but are very fierce and
flaming about the wrongs of shippers.
AS practical business men the shippers
are perhaps not apt to expect too much
from any railroad regulation rate bill
certainly not from the further interjec-
ton of an essentially political body into
the railroad business.
The radical element in the West has
been burning or smoking since the
Granger times. Possibly the West is
now altogether too prosperous to be very
radical. At any rate, the Congress has
to make a rate regulation bill in con-
formity with the Constitution, whether
| the radical or any other element, West
or East, is disappointed or pleased
therebV
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Under the present tax laws "the prod
ucts of another State owned by a non
resident of this State and consigned to
his agent in this State for sale on conf
mission" are exempt from taxation here.
According to statistics compiled for the
Merchants Association, over $500, 0o0,-
GOO worth Of dry goods alone so owned
| are received and stored here annually,
| awaiting sale and distribution to all parts
of the earth. Such goods are held here
only temporarily, and in rents and stor-
age charges they bear their fair share of
the cost of government.
Counsel for the Merchants Association
and the Merchants Protective Associa-
ton have notified these organizations
that one effect of the SAKE amendments
to the tax laws, which have passed the
Legislature and are now before Gov
ernor HIGGINS, might be to repeal this
exemption and subject these goods to
taxation as personal property during the
period they are held here. Obviously
such taxation would injure the business
of commission merchants, warehouse
men, truckmen and the trades allied
with them throughout the State, OF
the amendments the officers of the two
associations say:
This would mean a great hardship, and would
drive large interests from the State. and would com
pei the holding OF thesegoods in other States"
Whatever the final decision of the
courts on this question might be, so long
as any doubt remained as to the effect
of the law business would be unsettled,
costly litigation would arise and serious
injury would result to important inter-
ests, not only in this city, but through
out the State. On this account alone
the amendments should be vetoed. Ii
is to be hoped the fact that business has
been able to survive the assaults made
on it by the Legislature in recent years
has not produced a desire at Albany
to see how much it can bear without
disaster,
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Indorslng Mr.. Taft.

It is betraying no confidence to an
nounce that the Hon. CHARLES WARREN
FAIRBANKS of Indiana is heartily in favor
of the appointment Of the Hon. WILLIAM
H. TAFT of Ohio tothe Supreme Court OF
the United States. Mr.. FAIRBANKS is
convinced of the preeminent fitness OF
Mr.. TAFT for high judicial Office.
Likewise, the Hon, LESLIE MoRTIER
SHAW of Iowa, after careful investiga-
ton and elaboration, has formed the
opinion that Mr.. TAFT's true sphere OF
usefulness is in the judicial department
of the Government. Mr.. TAFT will
make no effort to prevent the Presi-
dent Of the United States from naming
Mr.. TAFT to fill the vacancy caused by
the retirement OF Mr.. Justice BROWN.
So, also, numerous other eminent
Republicans from all the States in the
Union feel that Mr.. TAFT is entitled to
the high honor of a place on the bench
of the highest judicial tribunal OF the
nation; and many tin whistle politicians
share the feeling, too,
1t is extremely improbable that any
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States will be nominated for
President in 1908,
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toral campaign now begun, the outcome
Of which Is more doubtful than was the
case four years ago, owing to the bitter
opposition evinced in many parts OF
France to the taking Of inventories of
Church property, including articles which
are invested in Christian eyes with pecul-
lar sanctity. 1t remains to be seen to what
extent the peasant vote, which has played
no important part at the ballot boxsince
the %Boulanger crisis, can be marshalled
against the Radical SOCIALIST combina-
ton. We should bear" in mind, however,
that the peasants, though irritated by
some recent incidents, do not yet feel,
and are unlikely to feel, the pinch OF
the abolition of the Concordat during
the lifetime of a large majority of the
present Bishops and priests, for these
are all still pensioned by the Government.
II is only their successors whom the
Catholic faithful will have to support.
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HENRIK ARCTowsKI of the Belgica
expedition was the first to suggest
that automobiles might be valuable
adjuncts to ice travel. He gave the
reasons for his faith in 1908. He told Of
long stretches of sea ice, glaciers and
ice cap that are deep under TO- and
present a practically smooth surface.
Near the coast, both on land and sea, the
ice is likely to be so hummocky that an
automobile would be out of the question;
but there are vast expanses of sea ice,
like that of Ross Sea, which are COM
paratively smooth; and so is the inland
ice of Greenland and that Of the great
Antarctic land over which SCOTT sledged.
Some of the glaciers also afford q
very good road to expanses Of CONT
mental ice cap such as those which PEARY
saw stretching away like a level plain
i'm the interior of Greenland.
ARCTowsKI believes that IL land ex-
tends to the south pole it may surely
be reached by automobile, because all
experience thus far shows that the ice is
smooth in the interior of the land masses
and becomes rough and broken only
near the edges of the ice cap. The ma
chine he asks for is n that can be
taken apart easily for transportation
over the rough places.
Polar travellers have taken very kindly
to the suggestion. A number of the
officers of the Discovery expedition have
said since their return from Victoria
Land that if they had the work to do
over again they would like to use auto
mobiles on the inland ice or across Ross
| Sea, which ARMITAGE and others are
| disposed to think will afford the best
| road to the south pole. Or. MILL also.
in his latest book. says that light motor
cars might be used successfully. Even
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The Presidents appointment of Colonel
BUBB to the vacant Brigadiership is most
commendable, 1t is distinctly a step in the
right direction. Colonel BUBB entered the
Regular army as a private in September,
1881, serving as private, sergeant and first
sergeant until April, 1895. He then OBJ
tanned a commission as Second Lieutenant
and reached the rank Of Major just before
the beginning OF the Spanish war. In the
meantime he had seen much active service
on the plains and had made a good record as
an Indian fighter. His associates regard him
as one of the best men in the army.
His promotion will cause none OF that
disappointment and disheartenment which
would have followed the execution of the
original intention to jump a junior officer
over the heads of hundreds Of his seniors,
The army is helped by the promotion OF
Colonel BUBB.
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New York and Sister Cities.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Str: Few things are
frnnier than a so called New Yorker visiting another
city. So lofty. superior. supercllious he is. Usually
your New Yorker Is a Jay" with the hayseed
still thick in his locks. The shorter time he has
been in New York the more insistent and loud
mouthed he is in asserting his and Its magnificent
prominence.
Men OF the world. from New York or anywhere
else. don't talk or feel as these vulgar and fam
boyant persons do. As a matter of fact, New
York and New Workers are the dertsion Of the rest
OF the country for their ignorance, their conceit
and their pretcnsons. In Philadelphia. Washing
ton. Baltimore. Boston and In almost every Ame1.
can city the tone OF public manners Is far higher
than In New York.
As to whiskey and bsrkeepers, they too are
worst In New York: that is, II you Judge from the
splendid and pretentious places. There YOU get
bad drinks, badly mixed drinks. and the barkeeper
is too busy talking horses or prizehghts 70 care a
copper about you. II you are not pleased. what
does he care1 There are plenty OF others,
II would be q good Idea II New Workers wert
sent in detachmentst to other cities to see and Learn
a little something. METROPOLITAN.
WARRINGTON, March 10.
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Making and Destroying Echoes.

From The ST. Louis Giobe-Democrdt,
1T is possible to make echoes" said an
architect. 1T Is. indeed. easier to make
than to destroy them.
In the past men built their great temples
and cathedrals with no thought of acoustics.
Hence. when the preacher preached echoes
rolled freely amid the groining s Of the roof,
down the rows Of sculptured columns and
round and round the nave.
With wires strung here and with tapestries
spread there many Of the echoes OF the Old
World buildin gs have been obliterated. There
are echo ex~perts-builders acquainted. with
the science Of acoustics. VIII ose specially is
echo destruction. Sometimes their tasks
To-day an architect takes thought OF
the echo. His building is constructed so
as to exclude the intruder. And knowing
it also. l have frequently in landscape
work put up summer houses and arrang ed
rocks so as TO create an echo there"
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ON SONGS.
Specimens Of the Political Lyrics Of the
Past,

tn THE Enron OF The SUN-Sir: A. w.
March o, thinks he has unearthed something
ancient as TO the songs OF 1855. can go oeck
further than that. The first political meeting
I ever attended was on September 10, 1870.
when not quite ~ years old. II was a Whig
Gathering. though my sympsthies we're Demo-
cratic. There were three speakers. all inter-
esting. but the star Of the occasion was the
singer Joseph Hoxie Of New York Tin l84S
a Congressman. One OF his songs began as
follows;
A farmer that lived at North Bend,
Esteemed by his nelghbors and many a friend.
And you'll sec in course OF time II you follow my
dItty.
How he takes a short walk up TO Washington City.
When the farmer" arrives there he gives
the White House knooker a tremendous rap
whereupon Van Buren, shoutst to his Cabinet;
Run. John and run. Levi. run, Joel and Jim,
But leave Amos. I cannot spare him..
There's only one living burst make such ado'
That sturdy old fellow called Tippecanoe.
Another song began in this way:
Away In the West the fair river beside
That waters North Bend in Its beauty and pride
And shows in It's mirror the summer sky olue'
oh, there dwells the farmer OF Tippecanoe.
Hoxle was a splendid singer. and though his
audience was made up mostly OF plegmatic
German-descent farmers he reused them 10
real enthusiasm.
In 1874 a Clay song began in this wise;
As does the sun that sweetly shines %foretella brill
So do the bright, suspicious signs all point to Henry
Then lot is with the lark u%psphns. nor falter when
But with united e forts cling around that same Old
Cooni"
Another foretold some astonishing events
to happen at Folks election:
O Jimmy Polki o Jimmy polkl
when you shall win this hght,
The cows win ali come home to roost,
Wen milk the hens at night
The sta rs will fry like 81 Ssengers,
The sun will melt away,
All nature turn a somerset
When you beat Harry Clay.
But in spite ofthe bright sun and the frying
"sassengers, Harry Clay was beaten ana the
COWS and hens follow their old time habit. ,
Some fragments Of a Democratic Gong Of
It was partly sung and partly spoken, as
follows:
They're In a hne predicament,
Them Locos fort President.
They've ten good HOSES In de pasture.
And every one he can run faster
dan dat old spawned nag vot de coons gwine 10
put on de course for de forty ELEVENTH time; w
You too late to come de suckie
over dis intelligent community, &C.
There was a good deal Of fun in the cam.
were dull in comparison. in 1855 there was
to a large extent a return OF enthusiasm, and
had it not been for the vote Of Pennsylvania
we might have escaped the civil war That
Buchanan beQueathed US. P.S.
PouGHKEEPsIE, March 10.
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The Fremont Campaign.

the communication OF III. a, w" relating to the
campaign songs OF 1854. the year Of the first Presi-
dental campaign of the Republican party. would
say that there was a glee club In this town. and In
addition to the two songs mentioned there was one
to the tune Of the "Marsenlaise." ! do not recall a
line OF the song except the refrain. which was;
Free soil. free speech, free men, Fremont and
victory" (vic.to-reel.
cannot recall a living member OF the club. II
was q Fremont and Jessie campaign, Day,ons
name hardly being mentioned. The Rev, Henry
Ward Beecher was on the stump and a good slice
OF his speech was devoted TO Jessie.
1t was a campaign fought for a principle, and
the voters were never more In earnest, ] was Just
old enough to vote. and though reared q Democrat
cast my first vote for Fremont. JUBILEE.
CHRsHIRE, Conn, March 10.
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Love Letter 200 Years Old.
From The Poll Mall Gazette.

TTUTF FFt 4 VI TUT "UftV''
While carrying on some excavations near
the foundations OF the old Church Of st. Peter
on top Of Montmartre. NJ. Sauvageot, a well
known French antiquary. has discovered a
love letter which is seven hundred years old.
1t was written by the knight Jean de Glsors
to his lady, Alice de Lisle, In his letter the
knight declares for all the world to know
from afar, that never had she given him any
right to declare his love. hut that her image
has been his guiding star for years, and that
now. on the eve of battle. he wishes to send
her a chaste farewell.
Apparently the damsel never got the letter
for the knight was slain the next day upon
the battiements. and buried In the trench,
whence his bones have been exhumed by the
casual pick of q modern antlquary.
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The districts named are probably all in Man
haitian. but ~unofhcial information is to the effect
that results were practically the same In all Dor
oughs. How well they agree with the valnglorious
ngures quoted In the superintendent report as
printed In THE SUN of March q And how wise Of
him 10 take one set OF papers of sixty years since
and one OF one year since. and generalize on them!
The fact OF the matter is that the three RS have
all but faded out OF view in our city schools In the
mad effort 10 be progressive" Nature study,
study periods. athletics. aesthetics clyics t hoe
genus ontne have ousted the essentials. Call pub
lIcly for full reports OF all the districts, andlet them
be published: and our bill for education. save the
mark, is $50. coo. 600 a year, JAMES \, SAUNDERS.
NEW YORK, March Ii.
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From the Nineteenth CGRtGry.
Football was played by the Chinese Eeveral cen
turtles before Julius Caesar landed In Britain. Its
invention has been ascnbed 10 the mythical Yellow
Emperor OF the third millennium b. @, Others
assign It's appearance TO the third and fourth cen
tuies B, O., when II formed part Of the military
curriculum OF the day and was a means Of training
soldiers and OF putting their powers TO a test. II
Is generally admitted TO have been originally a
military exercise, and a handbook on football, In
twenty-five chapters, is said 10 have been in eA
lstence under the Han dyna sly. say 1000 years ago,
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The Harlem Innocent.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-.Str; How does a
man feel when he is in lover For twenty Ave
years l have been working so hard that ! have not
had time to think about much else, but recently
| have met a lady about 30 years old and l feel
queer. l never had such a feeling before. | would
like 20 have a good wife. but Lord knows l don't
want to marry a woman that l didn't really and
truly love. | have read q good many novels and
the newspapers. bu, In none Of them have / read
a description that will Mt my present feelinss- A
business friend OF mine asked me the other day
what was the matter with me, and It made me 90
nervous I hardly knew what to say or do. Does
10 usually show on the suriactf BACHELOR
HAKIRM. March 10.
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Argument That They Should Not he Chased
rs Charities.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Ts
there not another view OF the suhioc' re-.
ferred to In DR.. Forst's letter. which vol
made the text Of an article in your Issue ~
February 1872 You say: IN n eArtnin an
very wide sense. education in this country.
In our public schools, and in our colleges and
universities is a gratuity bestowed on all
the pupils, rich and poor"
With reference to all colleges and uni
versltles not supported by the State this "a
true, and in that sense the Metropolitan
Museum is also n charity, and the very wealthy
folk who occasionally go to look at its con
tents are the recipients of charity. But
are the State universities, supported nv
public funds, charitable Institutions And
are the public schools. supported by the
taxation OF all the people, a charity? Is a
public park a charity? Is anything main
tanned from the public funds and open 10
the whole public a charity?
1t is true large numbers Of people paw M
direct taxes. But does not every tenant
pay his portion Of his landlords taxes? Does
not every Door man pay indirect taxes with
every pipeful Of tobacco. and with every
object Of daily consumption on which a tariff
rests1 Is not the tarir an indirect tax which
end includes many articles in daily use By
who continues TO live at all who does not ray
te3es' and If their own taxes are used to pro
SSt e e, Their q o WI schools can those schools
Furthermore, you say that public school
education Is a benevolence bestowed as an
Investment from which ample return is made
In good citizenship: because our system OF
suffrage cannot afford to intruRt that func-
ton TO an illiterate and undisciplined electo-
rate: III that Ia the case, does not the state
establish the public schools as a species OF
self-proteotion akin to the police force? Are
the police and. fire departments charities,
or methods OF self-protection? Are not
compulsory education laws a confession that
the, public school system is regarded by
society as a protective agency Why COM
pei anybody to accept a charity? In the case
OF any actual charity. as the term Ia com
monty understood. Is not the constant effort
to prevent too many from taking advantage
OF IL. instead of driving them 70 II?
This letter is written, not from a desire fot
controversy; but because the writer, feels
that II, would be a very dangerous thing 10
promulgate In this country the feeling that
prevails In England toward the public or
board" schools. to which any English family
with any pretenslons to standing in the CON;
munity, would feel 1t q bitter disgrace 10 senSd
their children. They would no more think
OF doing II than any family Of property 10
America would think Of trying 10 get thelI
children into a public orphan asylum, ana
this not because the board schools are no,
excellent. but solely because this stigma OF
charity Is attached to them.
The spirit OF the American public schools
is entirely different, and ! hope II may never
be, changed. SALVATORE SCALABRrNo'
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If they should break down after a few
days work they would help explorers
to explore a much greater area than
could otherwise be examined.
1t may be hoped that wireless teleg-
raphy will give daily reports of the antics
Of the motor machines as soon as they
begin to disport themselves along the
highway to the pole.
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that donot want to hear them play. New
York will have heard nearly n hundred
symphonic concerts before the season
is finished. How many of these really
paid for themselves, and how many of
them drew audiences really anxious to
hear them? Guarantee funds that
merely enable conductors and orchestras
to make their living and offer the public
80 little seem an uncommonly poor in
YeStment.
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Our Best American Girl.

All hall
ALI hail TO Her,
A sweet, responsive human,
Halt girl. half angel.
Wholly woman.
No thing Of fashion, she,
But sweet simplicity
And womanly girlishness
Which only Is 20 bless.
The tender Hight Of kindly skies
CLOVIS In her eyes.
And sends It's rays
Along the ways
That lead us up TO her,
And bids US welcome.
Her hair Ia tangled grace
About her faoe,
That Is all beauty
Flesh and spirit.
She
IL humaniEed divinity.
Gadbooks.
II Dukes
And such come after her
Wen SUR
The nation UP to keep her hero.
The dear.
Delightful dream Of houu
OF music, moonlight, love and flowers
Come true,
In Her. ~
Gee whiH, ''-A~
What a really and truly
Good thing
Our best American gifl th
ON sspsssa
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To THR EDITOR or TIE SuS-Sr: I have an
Income of $4,000 a year. left to me by my parents,
and ! can marry a fashionable young woman who
manages TO maintain her position on s. 900 a year
left to her by her mother. Neither OF us will DO
further endowed, have no occupation. DO you
think II would be advisable to marry we are fairly
intelligent on most points. but seem 10 be very
ignorant on this. OF course. we could not live
in any other place than New York, and she says
we couldn't live too far from Fifth avenue.
NEw York, March II. I. 2. ".