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WAITING FOR Dan CUPID.
Views OF . Nutmeg Bachelor VINO Believes
In MARRIAGE.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: In this
mornings SUN appeared an inquiry from Mr..
Bliss concerning the alleged decrease Of
marriages. and revealing the fact that hP
was q bachelor. though not from choice.
too am a bachelor. but do not believe that
marriages are less popular than formerly.
Some Of my married friends think because 1
have been very successful in business. enjoy
robust health. am ''sCAuse my habits, TASTES,
&C. ARE good that nothing but selhshness keeps
me from entering the married state. 1t h In
vain that l tell them I must wait for Cupid.
Maria &c ID not purely a business proposition.
There is the spiritual as vel as the practical
side to be considered. do love beautiful
things, things that are fine and spiritual, and
1 can bee better ends than those that are only
% plssse' and r i do ! S sm S S,iE %s t RSrat'Ii %stinstiS SH
and practlcalness conflict. but Can-JsHist In
It Is, Of course. too bad that 80 mAny girls
are born to blush unseen and waste their
sweetness on the desert air. And the Door
bSSheiOrf; think What they are missing n
a happy Union. and that iS love thai inysteri,
Gus sonnet hins. the divine ,Game, which emily
S S:st ar fsA y q SsR. I f ke!SiOSS s.G Meds q h'f 4 IS =
fact that about On per cent, Of the marriages
Of the present day turn out happilyI IN the end.
are becoming wiser and more renned AZ TIE
Unmarried folks really knew what a world Of
expressed toward each other smonR hus-
% Senda BE- sn father SsTf more e. ca sS skr p tSsn less say y e ansy
the holy state OF wedlock:
This is all very true, but the question il.
Where are we to find our afnnities?
n the ranks Of the bachelors are 70 be re-
dnced TO any great extent, move that pan
S SSFRiia q The met Gs. t'i STs Sss TO take S. S 8! bS SS @ :
STAMFORD. Conn, S~eptemberl0.
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ORTHODOX JUDAISM.
IL II Declining Among the Younger Gene
ration In This Town

Il II Declining Among the H0unger Gene
ration In 1his TOWN.
To rHK EntroR % TIE suN-Str: one OF
the signs OF the times" a phrase current
among the Seventh Day Adventlsts. is the
decline Of faith in traditional Judaism among
the younger Jewish generation. Some OF the
Jewish business houses whose custom 1t has
been for a number Of years past 70 close up
their places Of business on the Hebrew New
Year, q day next In Importance 70 the sacred
Day Of Atonement, seem to have backshdde
or perhaps evolted, and kept their doors vide
open. even though at the risk OF being out
OF from amongst the people" in the Bible
year, September 20. through the principal bust
ness sections Of the Hebrew neighborhoods
leads me to make this assertion.
1t IL undoubtedly an incontrovertible fact
that the youns ger gen er alton, and particularly
in families Of the most pronounced orthodox
type. will not ~af1llate itself with the syna-
gogue. CONSERVATION, disappointment and
ieadsrs: So much 90 that IN initiation of the
Christian Endea vor Society 4 sim "a society
sSa. sSs2 G sccity' via aR0 tSe 90 s:I. me Sbi Esyif X
the folds Of the SynsGgEIei but in spitc Of Ai
of the ssH Zionist t%SSietiss With which the East
Side Is filed. h Young Mems Hebrew Assh-
S GStIssIs;S also S,s an i%i:%sa'1 aD q S rs T0 sHS. ISisrs
VII ENN1AA @b1 CsAN@A 49,
FOR what there is in Il" independent lodges
and aid societies a. well ae q few private In
dividuals VII are engaged In different occu-
pations during the rest Of the year will start
a BOOM advertise extensively the merits
Of a certain cantor" will hire halls and Chris
tian churches for "Jewiah Worship" and 4
great deal Of yelling will be going. on, but
the Initiated we'll know that the meaning of all
this bowling ls bush ess.
To-day. Al In the tIwe Of the great Hebrew
prophets Of Old. the Hebrew must once again
return to the principles Of Justice. mercy and
love. "Of what use, are all your sacrifices,
AL your prayers, all you devUtionif" ssys
t. ADM Dc i%' ss;srs 70 tho bSv fn %sT iSy; S end to walk in
As long "a doctrines which are In this
/ wentieth century looked upon as Babylonian
and pagan myths are preached IN the syna-
QoRue as the Word OF God : such for instance
az the New Years myth. the belief that this
fact science has conclusively proved that
we are living In . universe millions and mil
lions OF ares DID,, without a beginning and
without an End, 20 long will the intelligent
Hebrew, as also the thinking Christian, continue
to reject th eee superstitious myths a. unworthy
OF the belief OF twentieth century nrogress
and achievement. Louis BEROER.
NEW York. September q,
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Pine Guerra.

The mystery e~nveloping Pho GUERRA,
the field commander of the Cubans in
rebellion, is not dispelled by an article
dictated and signed by him which ap-
pears in the current number Of the North
American RepieW. The name at the foot
of the article, which deals with the causes
of the ~insurrection, is FAUsT1No GUERRA
PUENTE. 1t contains no reference to his
military record and no explanation of the
circumstances that led to his selection
to lead an army which sprang, armed
and equipped, out Of the ground.
PINo GUERRA contributes nothing
lucid to our imperfect information about
the origin Of the. revolt against President
PALMA's authority. He but repeats
what has been said rel and yer again;
that the Liberals retired from the
Presidential election because the Gov
eminent had thrown their leaders into
prison and organized victory by illegal
and oppressive methods, and that the
Moderates in Office are enriching them
selves by graft. He does indeed prefer
a charge which is grave if true: that the
sum of yer $I,OO0,0O0 appropriated for
public improvements in Vuelta Abajo
he's been used to enlist and arm "the
same guerrillas who fought the Cubans
during the war of independence" If the
charge could be substantiated it would
be ominous indeed, for the Spanish
guerrillss have always been execrated
in Cuba and their employment by the
republican Government would be a
suicidal act; but how could il be cited
as one Of the causes Of the movement
of which PHO GUERRA is the military
leader?
As a soldier obeying the orders Of
the central committee" Pho GUERRA
pleads that he al give no information
about it's policy or its intentions. Do
the insurgents desire Intervention? He
does not know; ask the executive COM
mittee at headquarters. Nor will he
hazard an opinion about the protection
of property owned by foreigners. Per-
sonally he hopes that their property will
not be destroyed. Pho GUERRA has
no Cdnuludle lOT TIebLucHJ. IL
PALMA should be elected by a fair vote
Il would give him my whole support, "
says the rebel commander.
The impression one gets from this
signed statement of a man who was not
known to fame before this surprising
but none the less powerful revolt began
is that GUERRA is not a leader in the
sense that MARTI Of MAKING GOMEZ
Or ANTONIO MACEo was a leader, but
that he is the product Of conditions as
elusive, as his own capacity for military
command. He does not seem to have
grown into leadership, but to have been
designated from the background as an
available man in an emergency which
might not involve a test of his soldierly
qualities. An unsatisfactory authority
upon the causes of the instruction, PINo
GUERRA retains his cloak of mystery.
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The Persian Custom Of .RAst."

" bt AUAtpCUACNVs
In Persia there iS the strange cpstcm known rs
~bAst.- II simply means that any enc having .
grievance by taking refuge on the premises OF a
nObleman may demand that tho nobleman take
up his cause a. though the bastec were enc of his
own household. There seems TO be no limit 10 tho
custom, for the petty criminal often takes refuge.
or bast, In a mosque. where he Is safe. II his friends
are allowed to feed him. Nthe police want him they
must stArve him out. There was a man who sat
for eight years IN one OF the legations here pa
tiently awaiting q settlement OF q small Claim that
he had asalns, the Persian Government. Minis
tiers came and went, but he stayed on. At last his
claim was paid, and he died celebrating hh6 vIctoIyi
Few legations here would have the courage 10 put
a man out. as II would bring down no small
amount OF opprobrlum upon them.
Tho other day every shop in the great baxaar
IN Teheran closed. and between Ave and sx
thousand men. merchants. artisans and some
priests, went into the English legation and
informed the acting Minister that they were
there "a remain until the English Govern rnent
took up their case with the Persian Government.
Fortunately The grounds are large, but, at best
great damage must be done 10 the beautiful
gardens by the nve Thousand snd more men cannp.
ing on them. A short time ago these people would
have gone TO the Russian LEGATION, but TO day IL
Is passed by and forgotten. while the streets sur.
rounding the British legation arc nlled with crowds
who do nos hesitate 20 shy that England can hsy
the country II shc wants Il. The whole city scema
10 be on a strike. Only the malls. butcher an bake ?
have not been lnterfefed with. HSItA ton OF bread
daily 10 required 70 feed those within the legation
com All day long the Koran Is read and
Allah IL appealed to for help.
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Brown can sell his labor where he pleases
and work a. long and a. hard as he
thinks proper, while JONES must take
the schedule provided for him by CON-
.PERs and curtail his earnings at the
caprice OF the walking delegater And
what are the special privileges which
30 longest the gorge in Mr.. BRYAN's
ample midriff and lash him to unshirted
vehemence2 Are they the privilege,
claimed by certain wicked persons, OF
managing their own affairs to suit them
selves, or are they the privilege claimed
by GoMPERs, MITCHELL and Company
Of discriminating every ~workingman who
undertakes to earn q livelihood without
their sanction and certilioate1
Mr.. BRIAN could most advantageousiy
unbosOm himself in respect to these
popular conundrums. He is now en-
gagged In exploiting the country with q
view to 1903. We know already that he
is bent on national ownership for trunk
railways and State ownership for local
lines. To that engaging prospect we
are giving the prayerful guesswork it
deserves. But the American people are
entitled to a full and heartfelt exposition
Of Mr.. BRYAN's oracle touching on and
a~ppertaining to equal rights for all and
special privileges to none.' II he in
tends by that high sounding utterance
to do more than throw TO US an amorous
flower Of speech, this reverent nation
ought to be furnished with a translation
and a diagram.
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The independent Movement.

All over the country the feeling OF
political independence, the disgust with
bosses, the intolerance of cut and dried
politics, stirs and grows. 1t is seen even
in the Southern States, where new men,
fresh from the people, are driving out
the old holders Of the seats Of honor.
In the West it Is almost universal. In
New England IL Is seen in the great
Democratic vote in Republican Maine,
in the Clement movement in Vermont, in
WINSTON CHURCRILL's all but triumphant
onslaught on the Republican machine
OF New Hampshire. Massachusetts,, the
Governorship OF which was won by the
independents in 1904 in the face Of Mr..
RoosEvEIT's transcendent popularity,
has a great company Of independent
Republicans who will have tariff reform
OIL bolt. In the pocket borough OF Rhode
Island resentment against the rule OF its
masters is sharp. Even in Connecticut
the Hartford lords of Republicanism are
not secure. d." .
Aside from causes of complaint aris-
ing from unjust. State Constitutions, as
in the case of, Connecticut and Rhode
Island, New York has more reason to
desire a new political dispensaton,. and
she has a deeper hatred Of bosshood and
foul bargain and sale politics than any
other State. Here both parties have
been slaves of the same sinister and
degrading system. Republican bosses,
Democratic bosses: and the people are
automatic machines to register the
bosses good pleasure. ,
Many years ago RUFUS CHoATE said
in effect: We shall come to the worship
Of cats and rats and things veTmiGulate.
Well, New York has HEARST, MURPHY
and 0DELL.
The people Of New York are sick
beyond expression of the reign OF these
miserable little tyrants and pretenders.
They want to rule themselves once more.
Give them as their candidate for Gov
ernor a man who incarnates hatred OF
boss sovereignty, and the restoration of
government by the people Of the State
OF New York is sure to be achieved.
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ENLISTED MEN.
"A q ciam Tnsy Are me neral Equals Of
other Americans.


To rrr EpfroR or TIE euN-Sir; ] have
before me the -visws Of Q superior Person
M represented by Martin L. Comberwen ana
published In your paper. Perhaps IL wouio
be better % leave such q scurrtlous Article
unnoticed, written az II must be by q person
utterly u~nacQualnted with and ignorant OF the
class Of which he WRITES. But self-respect
aud respect for the great oody % honorable
men that wear the uniform moves me TO say
A word. have the honor to rave worn the
uniform OF the United States for the past
fifteen years and still wear II. and so from
what must evidently be an extensive ac-
auaintAnce with the meR Of the service 1
Oan at least claim to know whereof l SPEAK:
A 4 body they are. In honesty. morahty anu
sobriety, the peers OF their fellow citizens IN
any walk OF inc. ana i feel perfectly sale IN
saying that could Martin l.. Comoerwen taNs
at hazard a thousand men Of the service AND
an suual number Of civilians. he would nnd
the percentage Of moral worth equally high.
II not higher. among the men who wear Vncie
SANS uniform.
II Mr.. Combs well would interest himself
sufaciently TO Aeduailt himself with his sub
ject he would nnd that previous record not
only physical. but moral, IL an important
factor in the acceptance Of an applicant Tor
any branch Of the military service OF the
United States. That there IL q small, very
small, percentage Of men among the thou
sands comprising the service that are q dis
grace 10 both the uniform they wear and
their fellows Is unfortunately true. but In
what profession or walk OF life Is this not sof
One man In uniform being drunk on the street
is 90 Noticeable and he is so conspicuous that
his conduct II by some small minded persons
TAX en- AZ h sample OF the whole service and
accepted ss q reflection on all other wearers
OF the same Uniform, yet there may be ten
civilians equally drunk on the same street
at the sam time. and II they are noticed at
all Il 10 by only q passing glance.
Because q few members OF the professions.
lawyers, doctors and even clergymen, are
from time 10 time exploited In the daily
papers as black guards, II 10 not accepted as
d reflection on all the other mem or these
honorable professions. why. then. should
the exception prove the rule In the case OF
those equally honorable men whose profess
sion is the defence Of their country and their
faRf The great body OF men who serve
their country In the uniform Of either the
navy, army or marine corps respect them
selves only after their God. their country and
their flag. Mr.. Comber wells article suggests
10 the thinking person the Individual who has
neither the courage to defend the flag that
protects him nor the decency to respect those
who have, OF elee he has an over vhelming
desire for a little cheap notoriety.
ARTHUR ID. TURNER.
MANCHESTER, N. H., September n.
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Mr.. Bryan on Equal Rights ana
Special PrivIIeg es.

It would be both interesting and val
liable to know exactly what each par
ticular statesman who discourses on the
subject means when he eulogizes the
noble workingman and bares a proud
and swelling bosom to the blast in his
defence. Nearly every volcano in the
country is now abandoned to violent
eruption, and boiling language scalds
once happy surfaces beyond the help OF
ointment or cold cream. Nevertheless
It is a fact surcharged with pain that
the average citizen in nine cases out
OF ten doesn't know for certain what
special brand OF noble workingman
the statesman Of the moment Q to
canonize. .
OF course, there can be'no doubt in
the case Of the laborous and reverber-
atinr GOMPRRs. We all know that in
his complacent and serene philosophy
there is only one honest laborer on the
surface OF the earth, and that is tho
laborer who contributes to his treasury
and lends an humble nudge to his polit-
ical aspirations. No mystery about: the
frugal and far seeing SAMUEL. His vas
Gals are the chosen few. All others wear
the brand Of "scab" and are anathema.
But we should like to know, wen APP
pro1imately, what the Peerless, the Boy
Orator Of the Platte. regards as a work.
ineman. That is really important, Mr..
BRYAN has adopted as his chief shrek:
Equal rights for all; special privileges
for mont" 8. q.
Il sounds like a message from the
skies, borne upon the blast Of some
supernal trumpet. We do not seem to
follow Hr. BRYAN, however; that is, not
altogether. What does he mean by
equal rights and what by special
privileges In the next breath we have
him clamoring for the eight hour law,
which is a fragrant assault upon the
liberty Of the individual. and denounc-
ing government by Injunction, which
Is the only challenge to those special
privileges" which GoMPERs, MITCHELL
and Company are striving to establish.
Here is an opportunity for Mr.. BRYAN
to work this fountain Of conversation
TO the best advantage. Ia the dispense
ton Of equal rights really C IL
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Upton and the CUP.

Sir THOMAS LIPToN IL crossing the
Atlantic. He has done so on several
previous occasions and has been vel
coined with great cordially, but It is q
foregone conclusion that this time he
will meet with refrigerated air In the
quarter where the Americas Cup is kept
In cold storage. It has been denied and
also asserted that the persistent knight
is coming on Cup business. 1t Is safe to
say that he will have q conference with
the powers Of the New York Yacht Club,
and those powers ought to put their cars
to the ground.
The public is deeply interested in the
marine championship. In its mind tho
Americas Cup has assumed a value prob
ably greater than that Of any other
international trophy. The public, too.
dearly loves a good sportsman, and that
even the most hostile must admit Sir
THOMAS Luton has proved himself to
be. He has been bitterly disappointed
by designers, tricked by i'll luck, and in
one case defeated by the narrowest Of
margins. but he has always declared
that he was fairly beaten and that he
had no ground for complaint.
The New York Yacht Club has on its
hands at the present time two trouble
some possessions, a new rule of rating
for racing yachts and the cup defender
Reliance. This yacht was built to meet
the conditions of the former racing rule,
which encouraged a model radically
different from that Of the Queen and
the Effort, developed under the present
method of rating. The men who have
furnished the money and done the work
in defending the Americas Cup in recent
years are tired OF the game. They do
not wish to finance and learn the whims
Of a ninety foot sloop designed under
the new rule.
But Sir THOMAS Upton is most de-
sirous Of racing under the new conditions,
and he hes said that he would challenge
at once could he be assured that a chal-
lenge to race under the present rule
would be accepted. He has been in
formed that the club would not announce
before receiving a challenge under what
conditions it would be acceptable, and
there the matter for the present rests.
Meanwhile it is an open secret that an
influential party in the New York Yacht
Club is firmly opposed to racing under
the present system Of rating, because it
would make the Reliance unavailable and
require the building ofanew defender.
The New York Yacht Club is, OF course,
a private organization. Nevertheless,
the struggle for the Americas Cup has
forced the club into a position Of national
responsibility which it cannot and prob
ably has no desire to evade. 1t is plain,
therefore, that if Sir THOMAS LIPToN's
wish to challenge under a new rule Of
racing which has been in successful
operation for two seasons is thwarted
by the opposition party the public will
properly expect a pretty clear account
Of the reason why. Since the Cup was
brought here by the victorious America
races for it have always been under the
contemporaneous rule of the club. Why
should an exception be made now?
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The siege Of MuIIIEan's Fort.
From me London paly MAI.

" y" @gHNAt -AAe NNF
"MuIliEanS Fort" ARA, County Csvan, hrs
fallen after a siege lasting since June, Then me
landlord obtained a decree for POSSESSION o' ma
premises OF Mr.. MuiIlEAn. who lmuedlately hNri'
caded the house. built a wall along the bark Of mo
premists topped with baTbed wire, heavily shut
tered the windows and reenforced them vita sand
bags and put In extra doors.
The fort was garrIsonod with relays NJ men. gho
Al nrss numbered about nifty, and th'se keGi =
sIArp lookout for the police and DalliEs. me rs
play OF force WIS Apparently TOO much for me ai'
tnorltisS, who made no atteinpt to storm the citadel.
A few weeks ago Mt, Mulllgan ohtaircd aro'her
house. and f1nds for the defence having run low
the garrison was Withdrawn and the Tort vs.
shut VI.
Yesterday morning 8 snecIal train arrived AZ
LegHaEinny Crossing, near armagh. with ? ''F
strong force OF police and bliifs The m'A
reached Arva before the Inhabitants were hs'r
and when they rose they found the tort In poses
sion Of the enemy without a blow being struck.
rhe landlord. who arrived In Gavin dl1n0 the d'y'
WIS., unable TO obtain a convcy lncc to taAc MN
To ARA.
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been well established; but recent re-
searches have supplied much evidence
that many Of the ruins were inhabited
by tribes OF whom the Indians now in
those regions are not descendants. We
also know that the distribution Of these
tribes was determined by the four great
drainage systems OF the Southwest.
All available data have been collected
fot some localities, but are still very
f~ragmentary for many others. Much
careful exploration is still and
It would not be creditable to permit the
spoliation Of these ruins to 90 on, 90 long
as they are needed to complete scientific
collections and to throw light upon pre-
historic man on our continent.
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Undcr Us.
From Mount Tom.

From Mount Tom.
They stay rot In their hold
TheSr Btokers,
STOPPING 10 hell
To feed q ship.
Below the ocean floors.
Re fore their awful doors
IA tined In name,
hear their human lives,
D~Tip-dup.
Through the lonins aisIss o. COR ada
In and out Of sleep,
Troops OF faces,
To and fro OF happy feet.
They haunt my eyca
Their murgy fRccs beckon me
From the spaceA Of the oolne Of tho srn:
Their nthIl bodies sway against the salts.
o GOd-Ake Thou their years.
Huheers and hopes and shameS
While they cast them
One ~ one.
with The burning Dust they've lived
Into nameaI
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Dress or ChIness Girl Students.

FfoNt The A0uh ChIn1 P0Nt.
Chin zee girl students are no lon ger to be allowed
70 dress a. they please, So the PoSrd Of Education
has decreod. Such an announcement suggests an
opening In China for . ratbona dress League. Little
-inies" accustomed TO bose "pantS- long jacket and
wabbly shoes are now, by order OF that august body
the Board Of EducAtioh. to don d physical exercise
costume, after which they will appear In the class
room in suitable attIte for ordinary school wear.
The new rule may raise Q Smihe. but Along with the
Abtl -Hootbindtng cruaede. which now resolves ON =
cial support, Il points to the dawn Of . new era for
the beniEhted women bf CatnAy.