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CAPTURED CIVIL WAR FLAGS.
A Proposal That In states Deposit Them
In Q National Museum.

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sr: The
suggestion was made some time ago that II
would be a m agnanimous act or che part NJ
the various States to return the battle fiags
captured by the Union and Confederate sol
diers during the course OF the civil war.
One may have an earnest desire to see the
end Of sectional feeling and still bject to the
surrender of the tags TO the respective States
OF either the North or South But IL the fags
were given in charge of the national Govern
ment and placed in a beautiful building
erected for the purpose. say in the national
cemetery at Arlington, the building TO eX-
press within the limits of architecture the
unity OF our great REPUBLIC. the idea would
appeal strongly to all who lon for the abso'
Lutte obliteration OF sectionalism.
The day on which the Tags were TO be trans
ferred to the building could be made an occa-
sion to emphasize the unity OF our country.
| believe the ceremony would create a living
bond OF sympathy bet ween the sections which
we're separated for a brief period. And with.
out desiring TO introduce anything OF q. par
tisan nature. l might add that the assembling
of the fla 81 could be appropriately done dur
ing the term Of Office OF President Roosevelt.
because he is linked by blood to the South,
trust that this proposal may come under
the eve Of some one OF national prominence
who may be inspired TO take immediate steps
10 carry out my idea, at least in its essential
features. EDMUND j.. PENDLBrON.
MOUNT VERNON. n. Y, August 9.
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A Case of Diplomatic Immunity.

The arrest by a London policeman of
Captain CLoMAN's chauffeur a day or
two ago is interesting. The imposition
of a fine Of $50 by the local magistrate
upon the offender is both interesting and
significant. Captain CLoMAN's invoca-
ton of diplomatic immunity" is regret
table. Taken altogether, however, the
central incident and its circumstances
furnish food for mighty timely thought.
Captain CLoMAN. it appears, is the Mill
tary Attache of the United States En-
bassy at the British court. As such he
is entitled to certain courtesies and fav-
ors and indulgences highly priced by their
benefciaries and greatly envied by out
siders. BY the same token he is under
peculiar and most imperative obligations,
not only in his private capacity as a
gentleman but in his official capacity as
a representative of the United States, TO
exhibit the most punctilious difference
to the laws and customs Of the nation to
which he is accredited.
Governments accord these privileges IN
a strictly poetic understanding. Just az
the management Of high priced grand
opera sets out banquets of papier mache
fowls and roasts for the dukes, prin-
cesses, villains, fairies and 80 forth Of
the cast, with SIS a week Ganymedes
handing around property nectar to the
tuneful company. so do the Chancel-
leries Of Europe and America bestow
free pratique" upon the ENJOYS and
attaches of foreign nations, never i'm
agining for a moment that even the
most foolish and inexperienced will
take the layout" seriously. The idea
is a survival Of the Middle Ages; the
forms belong to the burlesque; the verbal
assurances and interchanges are mere
fucons de pdrler. At bottom the under
standing is that we all offer privileges
which nobody expects any else to
utilize and that every one with intelli-
gence enough TO get into the comedy will
imbibe its spirit without waiting for a
nudge from the constabulary.
If it be true. as the reports indicate,
that Captain CLoMAN's chauffeur was
violating the local laws. our Military
Attache should have been the last man
in the world to plead" diplomatic immu-
nifty On the contrary, he had every
reason to be thankful for 30 easy an issue
from such a discreditable complication.
1t seems to US, in fact, that the United
States, which, owing to certain more or
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Kaiser and King.

The conference of Emperor WILLIAM
II. and of the Car NICHOLAS III. at
Swinemiinde came to an end on August 8,
and is TO be quickly followed by an inter-
view of King EDWARD VII. with the
Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH. All reports
concur in confirming the conjecture
that the former meeting would be con-
cerned principally with the purport of
the Anglo Russian Treaty, and the Rus
sian sovereign is said to have assured
his German kinsman that although the
agreement contained a clause relating
10 Persia and the requirement by Russia
Of a port on the Persian Gulf it was en-
,irely reconcilable with Germany's de-
sire TO construct a railway through the
Euphrates Valley to Bagdad. We are
also told that NICHOLAS III. expressed a
wish to obtain a loan Of s62, 500, 600 from
German bankers and consented TO stipu-
late that the whole of the sum should be
expended on warships to be built in Ger
many. 1t is not so easy to forecast the
purpose and the outcome of the approach
ing colloquy between King EDWARD and
the Hapsburg Kaiser, but here again, by
excluding questions which il would be
useless TO moot, we may be able to indi-
cate the only possible subject Of discus
sion.
There have been two surmises "a to
the aims of'the interview, but neither is
admissible. Those who believe hat the
one object of King EDwlRD's foreign
policy has been for the last two years ,
and is now, the isolation Of Germany
have suggested that he may wish to
detach Austria-H Hungary from the Triple
Alliance. or at least 10 bring about a
half hearted compliance on her part
with the conditions of that compact
If the treaty with Germany we're about
- expire il 10 possible that one OF TIE
raAies would listen to criticism Of it,
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From m, Washtnoton Post.

from me washington Posi-.
we found many curious things while dredging
In the Potomac said Captain Charles Vivian, who
had charge OF the dredging work in the Potomac
when the channel between the arsenal and the
Potomac nats was deepened. but perhaps the
most interesting that was brought up by the big
machine was q box about two feet square. Il was
securely sealed and was water tight. When We
opened IL We found a dozen or more three inch shells,
and upon drawing the cap OF one of them we found
the powder as dry as the day 10 was placed there.
Just TO see n II was sim In good condition We tried
one. and the shell exploded with as much force as
Il would have ne day after II was made.
After examining the shells closely We dlscoy-
cred that they were ammunition evidently dis
carded during the civil war. Captain Lawson took
the whole lot ous into the open and set them OF.
and every one was still able TO do a lot Of DAMAGE
had II been aimed In the right direction. We pulled
up. many other Interesting relics OF the war-old
bugies. rines. swords. &C. ! have several Of them
at home now.
Il don't know what would have happened had our
big dredging machine struck the box OF shells In
such a manner that they would have been exploded.
and l trcmoie sometimes TO think OF what might
have been the consequences. rhe bottom OF the
Potomac. no doubt. 10 full OF Just such things"
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TEE O ALPHABET.
Alfred Vail Ia said 10 Have Becn the "
VentOr OF the dot ana Dash System.

To THE EDITOR or TIRE srN-Sr IN IuE
s sWSs Of A tSs T.ie SpDSSFf S.s s% a9'l ~"is sp' rr,!
,.ta.d sa, orrors hs, Tho ,,.r,,., =.
.a,neu = lem o ~, % To
Primarily Professor Morse's experiments In
telesra INV had been prosecuted not nj Spec,
we'll Mory,a,oxn ri but AZ the t'ni,s,s,
OF the CITY OF New YORK. at which he Wi'
professor Of painting. and from which 90
s~titution Alfred Vail was graduated In tlnr
go, Aitrad Vii rs,nrn.d 10 r. no NV
1881. hnIeu van Ie,uIhcu 70 lhs uniN'I''F
In september OF the same year Tor ih" r.'.
torv 10 entering the ministry.
shortly sfter bis return Vail hec,me into.
A. ~ ..hs.t,,ona 80 NJ wv
giving OF his crude wooden apparatus with q
degree OF success which to the mind ~,
Alfred Vail suSgeste ed a much larger rars.
TS.-..,, -. aa,~as
OF enort' ing result was Son'Iact entered
into by and between the Two men, whI,H
was signed September %. 1887.
- " s ~ .nm my VIZ
Alred 'ah' covenants 70 cohS'tu,' UNA
put into successini opera'ion: q, ne ON
proper COT ana expense. one OF me 'rle-
graphs 81 the plan ny lnVenVoh OF ,he par
OF the nrsL paIt Nio,se, I'D hnd hl.'
S Strse faithfully '1fVi to this Object Without oR"rsr
his remuneration TO be a part ownership no
the Letters patent ior winch ne was also 70
'"Mv father and Morse at once went 10 Nor
rietown, to which place Morse had not before
been. In the home OF my srapdfsthcr.
Judge stephen Vail. Morse was made wei
come as a guest. remaining there several
months. In gratitude for this courtesy
while Alfred Vail was producing the real
telegraph-that known as the dot and dasn
system. In which Morse had no, par what
ever, he painted the portraits OF my grand
father and grandmother, which ] regret 80
state can by no stretch OF the ina g~inaliou b,
termed works OF art.
Alfred Vail found Morse's original apparn
80 frhich 4. now IN eIhibition in ths IA
.Hs. N, WashingtonI ahsni,tcI,
,lol,a. -, ~ 4, nn,,iJ co,n,nwn,c,,
inteiiigence' hui i'm 40 laborious and slow n
1890 a. - he ~ lIttle more value thnn as a
t"v Morseis EFFORTS to Improve this method,
involving a vocabulary which had TO be trnus.
iated .mnon REGENT. was futile. An entirrly
new svstem and mechanism, the do, and
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Patching on Concrete WORK.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Str: A study oil
the causes underlying certain failures in reinforced
concrete structures makes II imperative Gin the
writer's estimation that q rule to the effect that no
patching be done on concrete work until the spots
needing II have been passed on by a duly authorized
inspector ought to be embodied in all municipal
building codes. Such a rule would be bound TO
result In better and more careful concrete work
and at the anne time eliminate a most fruitful
cause OF failure.
IL is customary 70 patch all defective spots In
concrete beams, girders. slabs. columns, &c, as
soon as the forms or moulds are removed. IN order
to cover up those defects, caused either by careless
workmen or by chance. which II seems almost i'm
possible to eliminate where exposed surfaces are
concerned and a very smooth nnish Is desired.
The common procedure when upon the removal OF
the forms the under side OF the beam shows spots
where the concrete falls to properly surround the
reinforcing rods Is 20 patch them Immediately
thus making Il impossible to tell just how bad the
defect is. as the exterior shows only the surface Of
the patched spot.
How a rule such as the one outlined would work
out In actual practice Is shown by our experience
since we adopted a similar one some years ago,
according to which absolutely no patching Ia al
lowed 20 be done on concrete work Immediately
after II 10 stripped OF It's forms until II has been
thoroughly examined and passed by our own In
spectsrs. The result has been that every one OF
our superintendents. foremcn and other workmen
realizes that the work done under their supervision
or by them 10 subject IN a minute scrutiny. and In con
sequence the character OF the work has risen con
sidorably above VIVA, IL was before the a'oremsn
toned rule was adopted. In concrete work as In
all other work the personal equation must be taken
into consideration. This Is a factor which 10 often
overlooked, particularly In building construction.
A consideration OF n and the taking OF certain
concomitsnt precautions will not fail to yield OK
cellent results.
The building contractor can least OF all AFFORD 10
take chances In his work. and a careful study OF the
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Police p.trou,nx Too Often Lo.sn.,

To rHs EDITION or The SuN-Siv: The Police
Commissioners are crying for men. At least 500
more are asked for. ana l think the demand reason
able. for the police force Of Greater New York ia
not large enough.
At the same time. why docs the department not
devise some plan TO make men on post perform
their duty What right have two or three police
men to stand on a corner for an hour chatting with
each other and neglecting their bestsG II d q com
mon sight in the auieter districts on the upper
West Side OF the city, where 40 many Dat robberies
have taken place and assaults on young girls have
been reported.
There II too much corner loahng in groups OF two
or three and ! am constantly q witness TO such.
NEW losK. August 5. TAxpAYr-
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The Palace or Unrest.

From The NfT ORR TonIWercl0I
For some reason the pictorial reproductions
Of the plan for the new Palace Of Peace at
The Hague do not excite wild and enthusi-
astic commentators from the architects.
1t may be wrong to look a gift horse in the
mouth. yet one csnnot quite understand why
the design for this great peace palace should
fall so far short INTELLECTUALLY OF the rare
beauty and appropriateness Of many Of the
Carnegie libraries. As the gift OF one and
the same man IL might be supposed that
equal artistic taste would be displayed in the
two kinds Of structures. The elevation Of
the proposed structure has been likened to
that OF a railway terminal station. The
similarity is certainly striking. but We have
seen terminal stations that were architectu-
rally fully as attractive and ennobling in their
lines. We trust that the architectural censor
will get in his good work before the structure
Is realized in msterias Of permanence.
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From Oyster Bay comes a most enoourag-
ing report that the President Ia having a
bully vacation. No one goes TO Sycamore
Hill unless peremptorily summoned. The
warning that Mr.. ROOSEVELT needed rest
and seclusion il religiously needed. An
occasional sociologist wanders up to the
gates by special invitation and members
OF the ennis cabinet look in for a game.
but public business Is not allowed to trench
on the Presidential vacation. Riding. boat
ing. camping. punching the bag. contem-
plation and sound sleep arc doing wonders
for Mr.. ROOSEVELT. He has never enjoyed
a vacation 80 much. The meditative life
energies in the third week OF August TO
deliver an Grafton at Provincetown he will
be in prime physical condition.
A different report comes from Murray
Bay. Secretary TAFT's vacation Is all
work and no play. He went to his st. Law
renee retreat to play golf, fish and loaf in
preparation for an arduous political tour
Of the West and a voyage TO the Philippines
TO inaugurate the first National Assembly.
The Secretary arrived At Murray Bay with
IN armful Of despatch boxes, a typewriter
and a secretary. He was to be on the golf
inks At least half the day, sleep eight hours
at night and swing in a hammock all the
afternoon. By rising at six he hoped to do
SOME Department business and attend 10
his correspondence as - Presidential can
didate before breakfast. But Mr.. TAFT
is not having a bully time. like his chief
at Oyster Bay. The typewriter is clicking
far into the night. the Washington wire
is hot with Department queries, the Score
tary's mail is enormous. and rough drafts
Of the speeches in the West nave to be made.
Mr.. A has no time to bait a hook, and the
grass is growing a o N his golf course.
BY the middle of the month he must be of
for Columbus. where he il TO open his Presi-
dental canvas with a keynote speech.
The Secretary is a horse for work, but the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty TO
Presidential Candidates had better keep
an eye on him.
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Senator BACON Of Georgia has put the
Southern Democratic situation in a lew
words, but with perfect accuracy and
clearness. He SAYS that the Democrats
in his section will welcome and enthusi-
asticslly support a Presidential candi-
date taken from beyond Mason and Dix
on's line, but that in order to effect such
a nomination it will be necessary to pre-
sent the name Of some individual who
not only possesses the necessary quail
fications but is willing to declare himself
as an aspirant.
This is an exact and truthful state
ment of the facts. Our own inquiries,
enlightened by a capable Investigator
Of local sentiment and a careful study
Of the better class of Southern news
papers. have satisfied us that political
feeling throughout the South is strongly
averse 10 A repetition Of the blunders of
1896 and 1900. Intelligent men every
where are now convinced that the Democ-
racyIs only hope of success lies in a re-
pudiation Of the ~socialistic and incendiary
doctrines of the last twelve years and
a sharp and permanent divorce from the
alliances and affiliations which heretofore
have brought them mo- only defeat but
self-reproach. And o~persuaded, what is
more natural than the growing tendency
10 look for a candidate among their own
leaders, among men whom they know to
be strong, clean, worthy and courageous,
free of all those dangerous fallacies
which have led them so often and so far
astray?
What the Georgia Senator has said
will bear the sharpest criticism. 1t is
true that all thoughtful and influential
Southern Democrats would be glad to
find a standard bearer for 1908 among
their own number, 1t is equally true
that they cannot be expected to take
serious action without some assurance
that il will be affirmed by the object OF
their preference. To break the silence
of forty years, to throw of the yoke Of
a convention sanctioned by more than
a generation Of unquestioning observ-
ance, TO denounce a superstition none
the less binding because il was never
justified either in equity or morals these
are achievements virtually impossible in
the absence of some inspiring initiative.
Long Injured to subserviency. trained to
patient acceptance of the inferior posi-
ton, accustomed to sit below the salt
at meals and to fetch and carry in the
game, Southern Democrats have become
incapable OF fully understanding, much
less OF stoutly asserting, their title to
the higher part. And Senator BACON
speaks with sure knowledge when he
predicts that nothing less than a Homeric
demonstration will loosen these inglori-
Gus bonds.
Is such the ~predicament Of the South
ern Democrats? Possessing every quail
ity Of leadership, do they faintheartedly
refuse TO lead? Equipped with valor,
brains and steadfastness, are they yet
content to serve as common henchmen
under mountebanks and weaklings? They
have long since wearied fthe humiliating
servitude; have they no power of reject
ing il? Are they like men STEPPED in
some despairing lethargy and sentenced
b await a miracle for their emancipa-
ton?
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less vulgar adulation OF foreign diplo-
mats on the part Of the so-called smart
set, has come to be the chief sufferer
in this particular, should be especially
anxious to set up a standard Of self
respecting conduct. BY that ean our
Government will put itself In a position
to proceed with dignity at home.
Diplomatic immunity" has been
abused more impudently in this country
than elsewhere throughout the world.
We should welcome an opportunity to
declare ourselves upon the side Of
decencY.
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have been "~honorably mentioned by
Colonel ERASMUS M. WEAVER.
As a first step in the naturalization
Of the citizen soldiery the Dick law has
been 80 satisfactory that it may not be
necessary 10 give the Federal Govern
ment control Of IL, as Colonel WEAVER
has proposed. The opposition to such
a course would be i~nsurmountable in
time Of peace, and Judging from the
appreciation of the Massachusetts, troops
to which the Colonel has appended his
name, il may be supposed that the Dick
law has risen in his estimation.
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Prehibitive.

He knows the art OF catching rsh
From A clear down to z:
He knows the lure for everything
Tina, ever swan the sea.
iou couldn't tell him OF q spot
From Maine 10 Mexico
Where fsh and ishers congregate
He don't already ssew,
He knows the time for every rsh
In every latitude.
He kno~s Jusunov to cock EN- right
Boiled. tried. brolled. baked or s,ewed.
He knows the proper stage OF tide
To nah In any spot
II flooding YOU would catch them,
II ebblng you would not.
His tackle 10 for anything
From sharks way down TO cells.
He has no end OF costly rods,
OF hooks and lines and reels.
To 60 9 fishing now and then
Would meet his dearest wish.
But he can't afford 10 buy the bait
And % he buys his Och.
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..T. r." In AuKust. 1907.

To THE EDITOR or The SrS-Sir: In the
1907 edition Of Prior's Poems published Just
200 years ago this month"; I come across the
following lines:
so practic'd Thief Oft taken ne'er afraid,
Forgeis the Sentence, and persues the Trade,
Tho yet he almost feels the Smoking Brand,
And sad T. r. stands fresh upon bis Hand.
This appears in A Satire in Imitation Of
theSeventh Satire Of Juvenal." Is il another
instance Of poetical prescienceS
New IoRK, August 7. B. r. ForR.
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A Dream Of the Palace Of Peace.

dreamed | met the architect
Who builds the palace grand
n asked him much, and asked him much
About the work on hand.
why do you nail the roof so tight
Upon the walls so neat"
TO keep II on, 10 keep II on.
When delegations meet"
why are the windows made 80 small,
In truth II seems a sin"
so love can't ny. so love can't ny
When poverty eomes In"
Why do you build the basement well
And inner than the rest
The Janitor, the ianitor
VIII have to have the best"
NnLASpBunaz wusox.
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Onions. 400 Bushels to the Acre.
From n, Sc. Louis Republic.

From u 50. Louis RtDubTIc.
The onion harvest on Missouri Point, across the
river from Alton, began In earnest yesterday and
viii be In progress several weeks.
Fifty or seventy-nve acres are planted 10 onions
and farmers say they have been offered : . q
bushel for their crop. The yield will be IN bushels
TO the acre.
II. J.. Mintert, who has the largest onion patch
on the Point, says that no farmer has more nan
seven or eight acres. because OF the lsbor maj
attaches 70 the cultivation OF onions, although
they are the best paying crop he can plant
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Professor +. E. JAFFA. after putting some
students OF Berkeley on a diet of peanuts,
reports that ten cents worth Of the COOLERS
more than twice the protein and
six times the amount of energy embraced
in a porterhouse steak. The essential ques-
ton arises whether the peanut bulk is TO be
m~astioated A la FLETCHER or to be gulped
according to WILEY.
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Crying eed.

knicker-ISo Jones is going to establish a ~ode'y
for the prevention OF cruelty to men
bocker-Yes. II 10 simply a shame the way me
horses come In late on them.
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" on, trends rho rGpor Us p1h manuscripts for
publication rush 10 hare rejected 1rttcies returned they
must IN M cases send stamps for maj purpose.
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Paris ONCE. 81 Rue Louis lie Grand. The daily and
Sunday editions are on sale At Klosque -. near the
Grand Hotel. Kiosque II. Boulevard DIES cspuciDes.
corner Place de ropero. and Kiosque 10. Boulevard
dee I,aliens. corner Rue Louis IL Grand.
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simple Method.

Knieker-po you water the plants while your wife
IL away
Bocker-Yes. I leave the windows open when IL
rama.
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Cautions

Did the Count propose
Bells-No. he said with the present inves"zauSp
craze he was afraid OF American securies
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Knieker-Hss Jones horse sense
Bocker-No. auto.