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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-07

Paris, Sept. IN. Armand
Sully Pmdhomme, the noted French
writer, died here today. NJ. Prud .
homme was awarded one of the
Nobel prizes in 1901.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-07
EXPLORERS SAFE

A ANHtN1 'SFh1 X.
London, Sept. Captain Mikel-
son, Professor Lelfngwell and 9th
er members Of the Anglo-American
expedition sent out to look for an
Arctic continent north Of the
Mackenzie river, are safe, accord
ing TO private message received in
London today from Gibbon, Alaska.
No details are given.
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Honorable Amends to Mr.. Bowen.

TX THE EDITOR OF THE sUN-Sir: Refer
ring to the letter OF Mr.. Herbert W. Bowen
In THE Sun Of to-day. ] regret that in my
previous letter l should have misrepresented
his position In settling the Venezuelan claims
OF the non-blockading Powers. When IN
Caracas some lime ago I received that infor
nation from what / considered very excel
lent authority. but as Mr.. Bowen certainly
knows the facts I I'M quite willing to accept
his statement. No doubt the treachery of the
subordinate in the State Department. men
toned I'm Mr.. Bowen's letter. helped to con-
fuse the real situation.
However. my statement regarding Mr..
Bowen had nothing to do with the real points
at issue. which were:
1. That our State Department had refused
to abide by the decision OF an international
arbitrator In a case where an American COM
pany was awarded only 2 per cent. OF its
original claim.
2. That il this policy is permanently adopted
international arbitration can be considered
final only when the decision Is satisfactory TO
the stronger nation. PHILIP w. HENRY.
NEW YORK. August 2.
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The Compact.

I. BY proposing to the several States
the Fifth Amendment Of the COnstitu-
ton, and by accepting il after Its adop-
ton by the people Of the States. did not
the Congress and agree with
the people of each State that the Federal
Government would not without due
process Of law" deprive any railroad or
common carrier OF reasonable remhner-,
alton for services rendered?
2. By accepting and ratifying the Four
teenth Amendment OF the Constitution
did not North Carolina, like Alabama
and the rest. covenant and agree with
the United States and all the other
States and their people not to deprive.
without due process Of law, any railroad
or common carrier Of reasonable CONF
pensation for services rendered, nor to
deny to them the equal protection OF the
lawst
3. Is it not true that only the Federal
courts have jurisdiction to decide finally
whether this constitutional compact is
violated or not; that is, whether a con-
pensation or remuneration fixed by State
legislation in reasonable or not?
4. BY its debates and votes a year ago
last June on the amendment Of section
IS Of the original interstate commerce
act did not the Congress declare in effect,
and in opposition to President RoosE-
vELr's well known preference, that the
Federal Judiciary should have the right
and power &c suspend. modify and %enjoin
n unreasonable rate Of any railway or
common carrier, prescribed by Congress,
by a State Legislature, or by a commits
sion of either; and to prevent any person
from enforcing that rate until it should
be declared reasonable by a competent
Federal court?
These four questions are perhaps
worthy Of study by the candid and the
enlightened Of all ways OF thinking.
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Ar THE SODA WATER FOUNTAIN.
Danger ILurks In tho GLASS That ID R,nsed
In the unrepIenis he'd Tank

TO TBR EDITOR or TBE SCN-Sir: n
cleapliness is indeed next 10 godliness. as
John Wesley said in one Of his sermons. then
the soda water business In this city must be
AN ungodly trade. | like soda water. |
don't like nastiness. In New York IL is diff
cult TO get the first without the second.
At not one soda water fountain In u hum
dred are the glasses properly clrsnsed after
being used. The attendants at these foun-
tain. dip the glasses into cold water. give
them a twirl aud nh them up again for the
next customers. I have not the slightest
doubt that diseases are spread continually
In this way spread, In many Instances. by
drug store clerks who should know better.
In one big department store In sixth avenue
1 heard q lady ask the woman attendant at
the soda water fountain ~ please wash the
glass before serving her. Indeed, l. will
nOti' said the attendant. With a toss Of her
head. They never will. They have not
the facilities 20 do so.
There Ia a big profit in soda water; why
not use q tiny part Of II in providing proper
facilities for dispensing u deoently and In
On ordinarily clean way? Some Of the marble
soda water fountains cost many hundreds OF
dollars and look very beautiful. but behind
the counters or under them are nasty zinc
lined tanks Of water In which hundreds Of
glasses are dipped in a pretence Of rinsing
them. It 10 disgusting. and 10 II high time
that the all powerful Board of Health looked
into the matter and corrected the evil.
NEw YORK. August ?. &. G. =.
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Augustus saint Gaudens.

The man and artist in AUGUSTUS SAINT
GAuDENs were so admirably welded that
the too frequent dissonance- an astound-
ing paradox TO laymen- between the art
aud the human who fashions it
once sounded during his lifetime, crowded
with felicity and works. Not even the
mingled blood of Irish and French will
account for this unusual fact. Not that
artists are usually wicked persons. Not
that artists in private life are mediocre
persons. But the harmonious combina-
ton that was observed In the case Of
SAINT GAUDRNs Is rare. He was a great
sculptor aud he was n normal nan His
virility led him into no extravagant or
exotic experimentings with his art. Sane
and essentially noble, this art was the
outcome of u sane and essentially noble
nature. OF SAINT GAUDENs We may say
that the art IL the a
Born in Dublin nearly threescore
years ago. his mother Irish, his father
hailing from the south of France, il
needs no wire edged, psychology to see
in him the Latin love of form and Celtic
imagination. But he was al American.
No native born sculptor has ever caught
up with such sympathetic vision and
plastic power of presentation the types
of American character. Character above
all was the object Of SAINT GAUDENs's
| untiring pursuit. Whether in the sailor
admiral that was FARRAGUT, the patriot
| that was LINCOLN, the soldier SHERMAN,
| or the philanthropist COOPER. this sculp-
tor envisaged them all and with the
unerring strokes of his chisel set them
or bronze, but the very q~uintessence
Of their widely dissimilar souls. He
achieved In his productions hat miracle
the evocation by means of form Of the
body and spirit of his subject. The monu-
mental grandeur Of tho Sherman statue,
the magnificent horse, its rider mas
teTfully controlling its fierce forward
! thrusts. are but the externals Of a man
Of penetrating observation and plastic
genius: it ia rather the profounder
! spiritual meanings Of his conception that
set SAINT GAUDENs apart from his con-
t.mporaries. The man he portrayed
had said that war il hell; he Is the
warrior astride "A warlik brute; no
belching batteries could quail his oour-
age. VERRoCHIo's Colleone at Venice
shows ia a %panoplied knight ahorse; the
Gattamelata Of DoNATELLO at Padua IL
still the matchless equestrian statue.
Yet our American sculptor has infused
a subtle spirit into this sherman that il
would be vain To look for elsewhere,
War and Peace. and. again, Peace, are
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A Prophet Of "My Policies"

In an article entitled The Presidents
Policies" in the current number Of the
North American Reriec Mr.. GEORGE
GRIswOLD HILL. a Washington corre-
spondent, assumes to speak FOR MIR.
ROOSEVELT in regard to his future activi-
ties while President, and particularly in
regard to the subjects he will treat in his
message 10 Congress In December.
If Mr.. HILL is not inspired, and II Mr..
ROOSEVELT has not read the proofs OF
his article, he is taking a wanton liberty
with the Administration aud IL rushing
headlOng in where u Riis would fear to
tread. Does the country care to know
what Mr.. ROOSEVELT intends to make
"one of the chief issues Of the next ses-
sion of Congress-? If so. it can learn
from Mr.. HILL that overcapitalization. OF
the railroads ia that issue, and that the
President will deal with it "in his next
annual message" IL is also intimated
that between now and December he will
prepare the people in u series OF public
addresses for the legislation which he
desires to have placed upon the d
statute book. Other great ISSUES which
the President will take up are the income
tax and a graduated inheritance tax,
concerning which Mr.. Hill is,nost spe-
ciic, rs follows:
a discussion VI these forms OF taxation, coupled
with an earnest recommendation Of legislative
action. will constitute one OF the striking aud force
full features Of the Presidents neAt annual mes
sage"
Concerning tariff revision, another
great issue. Mr.. HILL explains that the
President il widely misunderstood, "
and but for the determined opposition
Of the Speaker of the House, the Hon.
JOSEPH G. CANNON. he would have taken
u determined stand himself ere this.
The message will be silent as TO his
issue, but revisionists may take courage,
for Mr.. ROOSEVELT will exert his intiu-
encc to commit irrevocably the Repub-
lican party in its next national platform
70 the programme Of summoning Con-
vress In special session to revise the
tariff Immediately after March 4, 1909"
Will Mr.. ROOSEVELT himself call Con-
gress in extra session after March 4, 1909?
Mr.. Hill. for him that under
no circumstances will he succeed him
SELF" and reports him "a dismissing
! with vehemence' the conviction OF his
! friends that lie will be renominated
unanimously and will have to accept.
Far from thinking of it he is even deter
mined not to name his successor, but will
exert his influence TO prevent the nomi-
nation Of any Presidential candidate
untitled by sympathy and conviction TO
carry on the work where he leaves Of
There is such an air Of authority about
, these forecasts and assurances, such u
cocksure way of putting them, that il
they we're not inspired and authorized
and conned and approved in the proof
sheets there has been some misunder-
standing between the President and the
daring prophet. and We tremble for the
summer calm Of Oyster Bay.
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CHURCH AMI STATE.

To THE EpIToR or The SuN-Sir' Mr..
Albert Oallatin In u~nquestionably right in
holding that religious belief has done much
10 sustain the existing order OF society.
Even where the belief was neither very
definite nor habitually present 10 tho mind.
II has kept up a general impression that the
existing order was p~rovidentiul and that
there. would he a ~recofnpense hereafter
for those who suffered here. lf IL departs.
the demonstrations OF political economy
will hardly supply it's room. On the other
hand, II IN impossible 10 assent To Mr.. Albert
Galatians apparent suggestion that the
State should intervene in support OF re-
ligious belief. though the Japanese Gov
ernment seems to have entertained som
project OF the kind when It sent abroad for
specimens of religion. Napoleon said that
France wanted a religion and he gave II
one; with what result we see.
Physical science. having burst it's ~fetters.
has made vast advances, and almost an
crossed our faith, while spiritual inquiry
has been manacled by traditional dogma
and Church tests. Enforced belief in the
miraculous and In Athanasian theosophy
have perhaps been less injurious than dogma
which conficted with ethical fact. such as
the doctrine OF the fall OF man. In perfect
freedom Of reverent inquiry IL our hope.
GOODWIN SMITH.
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there: Victory, that aerial messenger with
ecstatic gaze and carrying tho palms, is
not treated M a conventional symbol.
She IL the ieit MOTH Of a composition that
has few equals In structural grandeur.
The Farragut statue its low relief
figures in the base surely allegOry has
been seldom embodied with such an
exquisite touch-shows the same infai-
lible mastery Of character. Whether Il
be the Shaw memorial In Boston or the
Lincoln statue In Chicago, SAINT GAu-
DEN never fails Ia disengage the heart
of his theme. LINCOLN for a sculptor
IN most ~unpromising. Consider how no
IN handled by this artist. No attempt Is
made to alternate the LONELINESS OF the
man; nor Ia he posed ~ a melodramatic
martyr. Dignity is the keynote. dignity
and u yelled power. It Is indeed the
Father OF his times and country, an indi-
vidual and u type. .
individuality is the essence OF SAINT
GAUDESs. A student ut Paris, after q
laborious apprenticeship in New York
as a cutter The came to America
when-a child. a pupil Of JoUFrRoY n
an associate of MERCIE. FALGUIERE mt
SAINT MARcEAU, he imbibed the lessons
Of classic French s~culptursl art; avoiding
the attempts at academic r~ecrudescence
Of the Greek, SAINT GAUDENs's art stems
from the Renaissance. He il nearer in
spirit to DoNATELLo than PHIDIAs. He
first searches for character and he 10
versatile in its portrayment. The larger
simplicity and poignant emotion OF
Grief, that mQvtuary statue in the Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, betray the
modern artist; the grief imprinted upon
the woman's c~ountenance is immitigable;
II Is not classic woe. nor is 1t paroxysmal.
1t holds the horror of hopelessness in
every lineament, and in every fold Of the
garb there il despair. You involuntariiy
recall Beethoven the Beethoven Of the
Funeral March.
The diverse Of SAINT GAUDENs's gift
was serene and sunny. His low relief
portraits Of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
Of the Butler children, are as charming
a. DoNATELLO. A master in suggestion
he was in this extremely difficult depart
ment Of sculpture. SO beloved by the
artists of the Renaissance. The Steven
son head, with its delicate contours, the
familiar pose, cigarette between two lean
artistic fingers, are indicated with a sur
prising verisimilitude. Those marvellous
and almost microscopic indentations,
those tender infections OF the metal,
surfaces so airily dwelt upon, reveal
the extraordinary and sensitive skill Of
SAINT GAUDENs. A miniaturist and a
builder of the mighty a~rchitectonics Of
the Sherman, a sculptor and a ~psycholo-
gist--who has resumed, as he has in his
Deacon Chaplin, all New ~England?-he
ranks with the noblest practitioners Of
his art there emanstes from his marbles
magnetism that proclaims him genius.
Let US add, an American genius, in the
widest sense of the phrase.
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ing wounds and missry In all It's Protean.
forms?
We live, however, In an exceptional
time. All rules have been called In, and
precedent sits silent and neglected with
a dropping head. Though WILLIAM JIM
NINGs BRYAN should demand another
banquet Of disasters IL does not follow
that THEODORE ROOSEVELT will clamor
for a p~rolongation Of his present splen-
dor. Likewise or OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ing 10 the taste and fancy OF the indi-
vidual nothing that BRYAN or any other
person, thing or animal may do need
throw the very faintest light upon the
probabilities Of ROOSEVELT.
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For the American Composer.

FRANZ KALTENBoRN, conductor Of
certain s~hmmernights orchestral con-
certs, is striving TO deserve well Of his
composer opportunities to be heard.
For such opportunities the native writer
of music is continually clamoring, but
there is abundant room for. doubt that
they accomplish much for him. The
fact is that we have moi yet q musical
public of sufficient independence and
knowledge to pass verdicts upon musi-
cal compositions which must dispense
with the aid Of the foreign trade mark
or the interpretative charm of some
famous artist and stand on their own
merits.
The American composer discerns this
! condition. but he il naturally ut a loss to
know how il can be bettered. Perhaps
| the solution of the problem may come
with the establishment of the New Thea
! tire. This house 10 to be devoted 10 the
, production Of artistic dramas and operas
| without consideration Of their money
making powers. II il promised that the
cultured minority will there be able TO
witness performances of classics which
the amusement loving majority will
not pay for. Therefore il CLICK and
MoLIERE are TO have hearings, why not
the wandering and homeless American
composer?
In Germany any musician may write
an opera with a reasonable hope Of get
ting II performed, and if it chances to
please the connoisseurs OF that country
| the composers reputation is made and
his subsequent productions, operate or
otherwise, are sure Of hearings. In this
self to instrumental music or songs. and
in either case his work is heard only by
the limited circle Of serious music lovers.
The stage is the gateway to the attention
of the general public, but what American
composer can gSt an opera produced ut
either OF the New York opera housesg
But in the New Theatres plans there
| should be provision for the performance
of such works. There they should be
brought forward in the ordinary routine
of the house without special procla-
/ nation and equally without apology.
Whether few or many people would 60
TO hear them would not signify. The
value Of the productions would lie in the
opportunities they would give for the
exercise of native talent and for the
encouragement they would afford to
artistic workers who now have to seek
openings in the theatres OF Europe,
Doubtless many dull and depressing
works would be brought forward, but
that is the case in Europe now. We sit
calmly at home and let Europe do our
w~innowing for us. Until we are ready
to do it for ourselves, to exercise our
own independent taste and judgment,
we shall not be an artistic world power
and our creative artists will languish
for want of home sympathy and under
standing. II the New Theatre should in
the course of its first five years disclose
"A single American work OF solid merit il
would more then justify its existence.
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Bryan and Another.

A great many influential Democrats
in various parts Of the South must have
been surprised by the apparently au-
thorized announcement of Mr.. BRYAN's
willingness to accept the party nomina-
ton should it be rendered TO him by
the party next year.
Those who fondly imagined them
selves to be in enjoyment Of the great
mans confidence have been telling all
'%inquiring persons during the past few
months that Mr.. BRYAN has pretty well
made up his mind to refuse the Demo-
cratic leadership unless it should appear
that his candidacy is indispensable to
harmony within the organization. They
have been careful to add that Of course
their hero would sacrifice himself once
more rather than see the Democracy
abandoned to discord. but that person.
ally he infinitely preferred the role Of
nentor and referee.
Now, finding that a great number Of
the Southern leaders are hostile to his
latest PHILOSOPHERS, especially that Of
Government ownership, and filed with
cheerful alacrity in the matter Of ac-
cepting his retirement, Mr.. BRYAN sud
denly authorizes some one else to recant
his previously published programmes
and cancel all Pickwickian designations.
Such are the ways Of greatness; such
the manifestations of Genius.
Leaving the Prophets disconnected
disciples to explain "a their respective
congregations as best they may, we take
two minutes TO consider the present
p~redicament of the Southern Democracy
and the possible effect of Mr.. BRYAS's
change of front upon another and still
more illustrious Superman. For the
Southern Democracy we have all the
respect Of our hopes and expectations.
They have not only the opportunity, but
the moral and intellectual equipment for
a brilliant patriotic demonstration. Cir
cumstance has thrown the ball straight
at them and they will grip or tumble it,
as may be. But If Mr.. BRYAN, who has
nothing to lot save failure and
humiliation, can get his own consent to
perish in the dust again, what may not
Temptation achieve with one for whom
remuneration means real sacrifice?
The Nebraska Prophet may like de-
feat. At least he is Injured Ia il, and We
must not forget that he personally has
grown rich upon it. We car imagine IA
temperament that prefers martyrdom
with Opulence ON the side to the spec
tacle Of anOther's eminence at the cost
of his own obscurity. The Sage OF Saga
more Hill. on the contrary. has long wal
lowed in the lap Of Fortune. Triumph,
Wisdom, Power, AutOcracy have come 10
be to him as the breath OF his nOstrils.
Is il not wonderful that he should value
these things less than BRYAN values gap
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A GREAT WORK or CHARITY.
How tho Society fer tho Prcvention OF Cru.
city to Children Serves tho Community.

city to Children Serves n Community.
To Tns EDITOR OF The sUN-Sir: In The
Sun Of August 8 reference In made to q state
ment by City Magistrate Butts that the So
ciety for the Prevention OF Cruelty to Chill
dren 10 operating under IN unconstitutional
statute. The answer to that allegation 10
found in numerous Supreme Court and Court
Of Appeals decisions. notably that Of the
Court OF Appeals In the case OF the People.
&c. ex rel. the State Board Of Charities W..
the New York Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children uei N. Y. ass: ie2 N. Y.
<2s). In which the court declared societies for
the prevention OF cruelty to children to be
-sub-sovernmental agencies. branches Of the
District Attorneys ONCE. the courts and
the Police Department"
Respecting the collection by the society
OF payments toward the support Of children
committed by the courts to institutions ss
public charges, orders SO to pay are made
by the committing justices on parents and
Bal. Code Of Criminal Procedure. A failure
section rs OF the Penal Code. These cOiisS.
q the ComDsroller Of the CITY, q New York.
s7s.7s. During the twenty-five years that
s eoils systfm w Ss' I sss9. 7 ~ .sS' ssoas sss parents
are improper guardians is no reason why they
should not pay toward the proper care OF
their children when the state undertakes
TO do a parental duty. In cases OF destitute
parents no such orders are made,
court under these conditions: The mother
was taken into custody by the police. charged
with vagrancy. after having been found sleep
ing in cellars with her two girls. one aged o
years. the other 9 years. The poor crea-
ture had no home, and did not strive TO make
one for herself. She informed the Court that
her husband and relatives would look after
her. Investigation, made at the request Of
and that she wa wholly an improper guar
dian. and not able indeed properly. 70 care
for herself A justice Of the Children's
Court placed the. children in an excellent
institution Of their own religious faith. be
lieving that they would be better OF under
such conditions than sleeping in cellars with
an Incorporate mother.
There were no .n~on-support" proceedings
instituted against Mrs. Mcguire, nor would
Indeed. the. society has heard nothing. Of
the woman since her discharge. The children
are being properly cared for, and the com
munity should be thankful that there IL y
sub-goverhmental agency whose quiet work
In the worst spots of the city results In the
annual rescue OF 10. 900 children. For the care
OF these. pending disposition by the courts.
the society receives no compensation what
ever.
It is due to the work OF the society thai
the subject be at least fairly presented 10
your readers. f. FELLOWS JENKINS.
Secretary and Superintendent OF the So
ciety for the Prevention OF Cruelty Ia
NEW YORK. August 3.