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The Sentative X

To THE EDITOR OF TIE sUS-Sr; Many
years ago at the old Boston Latin School
one Of the teachers used 10 tell a story OF a
man who said: Il was kicked out Of the house,
30 l tool the hint. and went out Of the yard. y
/ always supposed the point OF the story TO be
In the idea that any one should need 20 forci-
BILE a hint before he would 20. II seems TO
me now that the man In the story was q
supersensitive person compared with the Hon.
William Jennings Bryan.
Metaphor ically Bryan has been twice kicked
clear of Of the White House premises. but
he still assumes that he lie the peoples idol,
/ voted for him once very reluctantly, but I
think he has sadly deteriorated since then.
His whole stock In trade is an insatiable desire
TO hear himself talk and a readiness TO prom
lee that 40 far as he can he will be a worse
President than Roosevelt.
have never yet voted for a Republican
President: but / would cheerfully vote for
Mr.. Hughes or mot 20 cheerfully, because OF
his chief baokerl for Judge Taft as against
Bryan.
II II comes to a choice between Roosevelt
and ~Bryan-God save the United States OF
America UNBEATABLE PEBsoH.
BosToN, June 81.
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II the Kaiser Were President.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sfr! Here are q
few things that Wilhelm II. would CONNIE
were he TO become the next President OF the United
States;
That With q view OF developing home Industries
the Constitution OF the United States be no amended
As 70 admit Of an export tar being put on ell Amer.
can raw products not Intended for consumption In
countries TO which they are exported.
That the present tartG schedules be increased on
all articles Manufactured abroad from raw prod +.
ucts having their origin In the United States.
That a merchant marine be subsidized TO the
extent Of the interest on fiIB 1000 spent annually
by Americans for ocean passages and freightafe,
which go into the Golfers Of foreign thipyaTds and
steamship owners, and incidentally 10 atsitt in tus-
tanning standing armies and navtes OF Europe.
That with a view Of minimizing the expenses In
eidenttl 10 operating an American merchant ma.
rine an arrangement be entered into with all rail
roads In this country having ocean terpini. whereby
only thipS Tying the American nag would receive
allowances for hdrhor llghterlEe-concesslon. in
import rates OF freight-whtIfAge and warehouse
facilities tnow granted 20 foreign steamship com.
paniesl, all OF which ere equivalent 10 a subeloy
and TO a reduction In the present tariff schedules.
That q TAI 10 the extent OF the interest on tlb0.
100000, spent annually by ANA ricans abroad, be In.
posed on the oompleIions OF all Americans RETURNING
from foreign heshh ~resortt, 10 be applied 10 the
development OF national parks and health resorts
In the United States.
An amendment 70 the Constitution whereby An
export tax be levied on the dowries Of title seeking
Americans.
The reensctment OF the navigation lava which
were abroGated In 1898.
That engrossed copies OF the Monroe Doctrine
and the plans OF the Panama Canal and proposed
railroad to connect the North and South American
republics be placed In conspicuous places in the
ofhcet OF all American Ambassadors.
That a treaty be made with the Republic Of Cuhs
10 the effect that no foreign derelici ships be pu,
under her nag.
That The nsr,, ~ ,h. ari, n, u.
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Employers Liability.
From ne Norfolk Landmark.

wv WI I'iN w. -
President R~oosevelt's speeches at the
jamestown exposition have In the main re-
ceived the approval OF his immediate audi
tors and Of the country. but an utterance
which cannot be passed without protest il
that which relates to the liability Of employers
for accidents to employees. The reasonable
liability Of employers all men should recoR-
nize. IL IL quite another thing, however, TO
say that an employee should be In no way
responsible for negligence on bic own part.
Fairness revolts at the idea that an employee
who Ia injured through absolute negligence
or indiTerence-and it is astonishing how
many injuries are sustained In Just that way
should nave the same consideration from his
employer as the employee who Ia injured with
out negligence or indifference. Mr., Roosevelt
goes far aheld when he commits himself to
that remarkable proposition.
Another surprising statement the President
made Is that in which he questions the right
OF the railroads to test in the courts the con-
stitutionality Of such an employers liability
law as he advocates. The railroads, like any
other corporations and like all private citizens.
have the right TO appeal TO the courts for a
test Of any law. This is quite a different mat.
ter from the delay OF Justice by interminable
technicalities. The last named trouble calls
for reform In our judicial procedure.
Yet the personality OF the President is so
winning that he can without perceptible loss
Of prestige take positions and make asser-
lions that would kill any other public man.
1t lie hard for anybody to look al him or list en-
to him without being infected by his won
derful earnestness and enthusiasm He likes
people in the mass. and people in the mass
like hirl-irrespective OF his relations with
people In particular.
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tempt this year to change the existing
education law, Under the circumstances
even a Government ostensibly 80 strong
Is that Of which Sir HENRY 10 the chief
may by some mischance be overthrow.
Such an accident befell Mr.. GLADSTONE
in 1885. although in 1880 he had returned
10 power with a majority of a hundred
over Conservatives and Nationalist COM
bined.
1t is undoubtedly a serious thing to
Sir H. j. CAMPBEL-BANNERMAN that
hereafter at any critical conjuncture
there may be an addition Of some eighty
Nationalist votes to the Opposition.
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me GNaaA Of Tient,in.

To THE EDITOR OF TRH SuN--s': The kindly
feeling engendered by the suggestion OF your noble
President that teo,ooo 900 be returned 10 my august
sovereign prompts me 10 send you one Of our nature
stories:
q sportsrnan Of nentsin. having SHARED a Wild
goose. was followed 70 his home by the gandet
which few around and around hin In great distress,
and only went away At niGhtfAll. NeIt day when
the sportsman went out there was the bird again.
and at length II alirhted quite close 10 his feet. He
was on the point Of seiEing Il WHEN suddenly II
stretched out Ito neck and disgorred a piece o.
pure Golo. whereupon the sportsman. understand
Ing what the bird meant, cried out: 4 see, this
lie 70 ransom your mate. ehi' Accordingly be 81
once released the goose. and the two birds few
away with many expressions OF their mutual Joy,
leaving 20 the sportsman nearly three ounces OF
pure gold,
Can, then, mere birds have such feelings as these
OF all sorrows there Ia no sorrow like separation
from Oh ose we love; and II seems that the same
holds rood even Of dumb snimais.-
NHw YoRK, June Il. LLuN Dat.
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A HnmnmndA Roof Garden.

,.,,.,
~ - sssn'H. peat G,sS.n -
IN ei.ef. -" N'
Now that IL a thing that I'd like TO possess-a roof
garden fashioned like that.
rTvouid keep me AZ homo on these hot summer
nights when life seems 90 dresry and fat.
When supper is over, instead OF a trip TO Flammer
STEMS Arbor 90 hifh
ia hustle upstairs through my own airehsn. TO my
garden Just under the sky.
And oh. whats profranme we'd have every night,
each one OF us doing q turn,
Ny son, who's a student az college. could show how
much a young fteGhie can learn.
In place Of the horse that plays poker and drinks,
and multlpIIes seven by sir,
He'd thow us the freshrs an who does the same tiinrs,
with numerous other queer tricks.
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The saharan Caravan Trade Dead.


All the routes that trade has followed
for ages across the larger part Of the
Sahara controlled by France are now
open to the traveller, who may go on his
way with a feeling Of security, for he
knows he will not be molested by bandits.
The paths from well to we'll are abso-
lutely secure. Within the last two
years two French professors, GAUrIER
and CHUDEAU, each without weapons
and each accompanied only by q guide
and a servant, have crossed the desert
along different routes from Algeria to
the Sudan without an accident or a
menace. On all the routes pushing
northward through the wastes to Algeria
and Tunis millions of dollars worth OF
| commodities have passed to and fro.
But the trade il dead. Not a caravan
is now using these routes. There are
two good reasons for the remarkable
Transformation.
NJ. GAUTIER met a large number of the
nomad Ifora-Tuaregs, but he did not see a
caravan on his way. A while ago Captain
FLY SArSTE-MARIE led a party across
the wide Erg Igidi, west Of the Tuat
GASES. Several Of the a routes
from the Mediterranean TO the Sudan are
his map he shows six OF them through
the Erg all Of which were once largely
used and all converged on Taodeni,
formerly the great salt and slave market
in the heart-of the western Sudan. Here
are the oases, uninhabited, but rich in
water and grass, where the aravan
used to feed and rest their pack animals.
There are five OF these green places
in the desert, and FLY SAINTE-MARIE
visited them all. He found old traces
Of the camps where thousands Of camels
had been pastured. He found one new
trace, about two weeks old, the track
Of two camels and only n man travel
ling northward. This was the only evil
dence Of human activity he saw. In
seventy-one days OF travel, during which
he covered $500 kilometres, he saw no
other sign Of human life.
Tinduf, a little further west, has almost
completely disappeared. LEM found it
In the eighties the most iourishing town
he saw in the Sahara, the great collecting
place Of the trade between Morocco and
the Sudan, the largest slave mart in the
desert. Here the negroes OF the Sudan
we're herded, a part Of them to 60 on to
Morocco and the remainder TO be sent
further east TO be traded for salt at
Taodeni and then scattered far and wide
among the GASES. Both these places are
now mostly in ruins and have no COM
mercial significance. The transSaharAn
trafac has been wiped out, and II has
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AEFoaf oN NIL AcADEMY.
Beard % VIEeeFs I-Reoourmends q Revision
af ne COnFHe Of Study.

WASHINGTON. June 21.-Secretary Of the
Navy Metcalf to-day made public the report
| Of the board Of visitors 10 the Naval Acad-
envy. The board commends generally the
condition Of affairs which II found at An
napolis, the proficiency Of the midshipmen,
the admirable discipline, maintained and
the competency Of the teaching force. The
report points out some temporary defects
In the building construction. but ~withholds
criticism In the belief that when the build.
ings are completed these defects will be
cured. Provision should be made, how.
ever, for sick quarters. the report says.
On three points the board expresses EN-.
phatio opinion-that no portion Of future
Glasses should be graduated under full four
years course, that under no circumstances
should the standard OF instruction be low
cred and that suoh revision should be made
Of the course OF study and methods OF CON-
Quoting and marking examinations as will
bring out the best all around ability Of the
midshipmen. Changes in the curriculum,
the report says should be In the direction
OF making the course Of instruction less
theoretical and more practical.
The report makes these recommendations:
That q new department be created for the
study of electricity: that legislation should
be enacted which viii permit the gradua-
ton Of midshipmen as enslgns.
That annual appropriations for the Naval
Academy be provided apart from the Naval
Appropriation bin. on the same principle
that appropriations are made separately
for the Military Academy.
That for admission to the academy a GER
tlicate OF proficiency In courses OF study
| approved by the Secretary Of the Navy and
issued by such institutions OF learning as
--- hy hIpo NAV kn a1-n1,.l
in place OF the mental examinations now
prescribed.
That the board Of visitors should be au.
tborlZed to visit the academy during the
regular period Of instruction, and that the
board be divided into classes, at least one
third being continued and made members
Of the board the following year, with power
to visit the academy at least once between
annual sessions.
That the detail Of all officers at the academy
should be for three years, and not more than
one-third Of the staff to be detached in any
one year.
That civilian professors should be accorded
additional privileges and an Increase Of pay
commensurate with their length Of service.
That authority be given to enlist the Naval
Academy band and such changes made as
TO put IL upon the same basis as the Military
Academy band.
d That the equipment Of the steamship de.
partment be increased by the addition Of
three single screw steam tugs.
That four additional stenographers be
employed.
That mldshipmen be relieved Of the neces-
sity of purchasing so many text books or be
given the right to sell such books to under
classmen.
The board requests the Secretary OF the
Navy to transmit the report to the President
and to Congress.
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A Puzzle for the Board of Estimate,

-
The New York Cahill Telharmonic
| Company, which is incorporated ito
generate and distribute music electri-
cally, " has made application to the Board
| of Estimate and Apportionment for a
franchise allowing il to lay or string
wires in the streets to connect its plant
at Broadway and Thirty-ninth street,
where Il maintains las dynamos and one
keyboard, with the homes and places Of
business Of its subscribers. At present
the company supplies ten or twelve
persons with electric music over wires
leased from the New York Telephone
Company, but in a report on it's business
HARRY P. NICHOLS, the Board of Esti-
mates engineer in charge, says:
The company states there are q number Of in
convenienees involved In this arrangem ent. II Is
proposed by the company, should 1t get the fran
chise. 10 lay its own wires in the streets, which may
be connected TO subscribers houses or places Of
business. Each subscriber will be provided with
one or more outlets which may be Governed by him
as to the kind Of music and volume OF the same.
He will be furnished With a switch by which he can
regulate the music either soft or loud. Another
switch will govern the class OF music. that lie. he
may, by turning the switch In one direction, get
the eject produced by the piano, or by turning
the switch in another direction be may get the
effect produced by an orchestra, &c"
Naturally, the application raises many
new points for the board TO consider.
The telephone is a necessity, but tel
harmonic music has not yet become
essential to comfort and happiness. Mr.,
NICHOLS declares that II is hard now to
imagine that it will ever be Of CONNER
cial value TO its subscribers, and he asks:
How far should the city 60 in imposing
conditions which will govern rates TO be
charged, the rapidity OF construction and
efficiency OF service, dc, Of a company
operating a purely amusement enterprise
and requiring the use OF the streets
under a franchise for such operation
For the present at least he advises
that the city refrain from telharmonio
rate regulation:
greatest masters OF music. The cost of such seT.
vices ara undetermined, and for that reason II Ia
dinieult 70 state In advance what charge should be
made 10 the subscriber 70 compensate the COM
pany for such service. ! believe there IL good
foundtiiol for the claims Of the company In regard
70 ntsG md / would suGGsst. therefore, that no
maximum rates be nIsd In the franchise, but that
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SHOE MACHINERY co. 4 TRUSrf
n Department Of Justice TO Make a Rigid
Investigation and Suit May he Filed.

The Department Of Justice TO Make a Rigid
Investigation and Suit May he Filed.
WASHINGTON. June 2l.-Attorney-Gen-
eral Bonaparte this afternoon authorized
the statement that a rigid investigation will
be made OF the United Shoe Machinery
Company and indicated that a suit would
probably be filed against the company under
one Of the anti trust laws. The officers OF
the Department Of Justice are inclined
to believe from an inspection OF the CON-
plant, the fling Of which was announced
yesterday. that the machinery company lie
a trust and is plainly a combination in re-
straint OF trade.
If a more extended examination into the
facts bears out the evidence already sub
mitted TO the Department in the informal
complaint the matter will be put in legal
shape and a bill filed in the United States
Court in Massachusetts,. The Department
is informed that the shoe machine company.
which does not sell but leases it's machines
TO shoe manufacturers, controls virtually
all the patents which enter into the manu-
facture OF shoes.
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been done by the French while they were
making It's routes secure. There viii
still be an active and q growing trade
between the GASES and the. fertile regions
north and south Of the desert, but the
French say themselves that there il no
prospect OF the revival OF the through
commercial routes across the Sahara.
The two agencies that have brought
about this great change are the complete
suppression Of the slave trade and the
multiplication Of steam routes OF COM
m~unications in the Sudan. There is no
further use for camel caravans between
the western Sudan and the western
Mediterranean States. The transporta-
ton of slaves was a large and very
profitable feature OF that trade, but this
commerce has been wholly wiped out.
The legitimate trade Is following the
line Of least resistance opened by the
progress of material civilization.
The u upper Niger now floats light draught
steamers that carry freight past Tim
buktu hundreds Of miles to the railroad
that passes IL on to the Senegal, where
other steamers carry it to the Atlantic.
1t is the longer way to the Mediterranean
and to Europe, but it Is far cheaper
than camel caravans across. the Sahara,
Some day, doubtless, the Sahara will be
spanned by railways, but until that time
the western half Of the desert will have
practically no part in the trade move-
ment between the Sudan and north
Africa.
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ABE ListI."

To THH EDITOR or THE suN-stE DO you know
Of n noted musical composer named ABE LlstE"'
on the printed announcement cards prominently
displayed al the entertainment on the New York
Roof Garden or Jardin de Pans appear the wordt
ABE Lis,E," Before each representation Of cele.
brated composers by a Nj. Waterman . card shows
the same mysterious phrase, Abe Lttz."
To the piAudits OF the spectators Mr.. WATERMAN
then appears with long flowing white locks and
oostumed as a priest: and the orchestra plays.
under the direction OF his trembling hand and baton,
a familiar composition by the fhmous Abe Lists.
But vino 10 ABE Lbtt"! INQUIRER.
NTW YORJ, June q.
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Paris once, q, Rue Louisle Grand. The daily and
Sunday editions arc on sale at KioSque u. near the
Grand Hotel; Mosques IL and n. Boulevard des
Capueihes, and Kiosque 10. Boulevard des Italieus.
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Polfcei

To TEE EDITOR OF TEE SuT-St; Why 10 the
greatest living naturalist like q prairie dogi
Because when he gets the worst of IL he retreats
10 his Burroughs. r, S. v. p.
BOSTON, June 81.
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Mn hnieksf-Wbere viii you spend the Iumunerf
MIRA Bocker-lt depends on Whethsr ~ pTs.t.
dents neat speech 10 on railroads OF nature tsfsr.
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Published by The Sun Printing and Publishing
Association at 40 Nassau street. In the Borough Of
Manhattan. New York.
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Johnny-M, grandmother died and len me ton,
money.
Tommy-Huh Mine died md let m, 20 70 Q
ball game.
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n oar friends uho fdpor Us Vih manuscripts for
publication ufsh 10 hare rejected articles returned they
must N an cases send StompS for fhaf purpose.
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A Asarehinr onattion.

sblA-huEh. and the wond laugh, with YOU
weep, and YOU weep alont.
BenI-pid you ever try 70 ind q place 70 cry Ia
pnV1Nt
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President ROCKWELL has taken up my policies
The Hon. WILLIAM SULzBR,
This amply accounts for the Presidents
popularity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-19
VERMONT NEWS BRIEFS.

Fire broke out Tuesday morning in the
card room of II. +. Bradford &, Co.'S big
knitting mill in Bennington The auto
matte sprinklers put out the flames but
a large stock of goods was badly damaged
and II will be a month before the mill
which employs 300 hands, will be run
ming again. The loss is several thousand
dollars.
The post Office in Wilder was robbed of
$50 in stamps and $50 in cash Monday
night by three men who blew open the
safe. Samuel Adams, station agent. and
A. h. Palmer heard the noise of the ex-
plosion and fired several shots at the men
as they ran away. This was the second
break In the Wilder office within a short
time.
Barricaded in his house Joel Wilkins.
an insane man, resisted officers in Mont
gomery Centre Tuesday and was not cap
tured until he had been wounded Will
kins had been under the delusion a year
that his neighbors entered his barns at
night and beat his cattle. It is charged
that he shot at Louis Touchette recently
as he was passing in the road. Papers
were made out for the examination of
wilkins as to his sanity, but when
Deputy Sheriffs II. NJ Martin, L. p. Mar
TIM Roy Kingsley and c. ]. Benway went
TO his house and asked admittance Will
kins barricaded the doors. The officers,
on forcing an entrance, found Wilkins
waiting for them on the stairs with a
loaded revolver in his hand. He ordered
them out, but they pursued him to a room
on the second story. He closed the door
to protect himself and opened fire. The
officers returned the fire and wounded
Wilkins in the side, although not serious
ly After this he offered no resistance
and was taken in custody. His wounds
were dressed and he was locked up. Will
kins is about so years old and has lived
as a hermit.