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That Authors Club Monument to the
Author OF ben bolt"

To TINE EDITOR GF THE SUv-Sir: Your
correspondent &C. b. c. contributes Ia your
olumns a letter that begins with this sem
tence: The monument recently raised by
the Authors Club to Thomas Dunn English
Is a fitting and graceful tribute to a true
poet" have no fault TO find with the spnti-
ment contained therein. but I am puzzled 10
know where &C. H.. C." obtained his informa-
ton. l have been a member OF the Authors
Club since 1894. and am familiar with all its
transactions. and TO my certain knowledge
IL never has raised a monument 10 anybody
sense and apply i to the hanging OF a portrait
on the wall OF the meeting room. DR.. Eng
lish, was once an, honored member Of the
meetings: but he lived so far away that he
found It difficult to attend in his old age, and
80 dropped his membership.
As 10 monuments In general to authors, II
has always seemed to me that an ordinary
maidstone with an inscription as plain and
be enough. The superserviceable character
OF anything more than this never was set
forth better than in the will OF Charles Dick;
ems; II direct, that my name be inscribed
in plain English letters on my tomb, without
the addition of Mr. or Esq / c~onJure my
ject Of any monument. memorial or testl-
moniai whatever. l rest my claims TO the
T~smm sd Of my country upon my pub.
friends upon their experience OF me" This
reminds one OF the lines Of a scottish poet
Gle pillared pomp 20 common men:
Nae need o. cairns for ane like thee.
There Ia a fine monument to Burns on the
banks OF the Doom: but what was the need
OF that when his songs are in every house
hold? On the other hand. Byron visited the
last resting place OF Charles Churchill and
wrote a pathetic poem on. that neglected
him the glory and the nothing of a name
But the fact that every line written by Church
i'll has long since disappeared from our liiero-
ture shows that anything more than a outer
stone would have been a solecism.
so long ~ Ben Bolt" Is remembered and
Jung IL Ia a more effective monument 10 nr.
English than any statnary or stonecutter can
produce. RossITER JoHNSON.
Treasurer of the Authors Club.
NEW Tor idly IL.
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appear also to have been discovered.
Many other facts relating to this small
part Of the island are adduced in sup
port Of the new theory, together with a
great amount Of data collected in other
parts of Leucas and the neighboring
mainland.
Captain Won MAREEs regards the proof
as conclusive. He says that the pres
ent appearance and conditions of the
island Of Leucas prove that it must have
been the topographic background which
was in view when the Odyssey was con-
posed. The landscape and other descrip-
tions Of HOMER agree so perfectly with
the present aspects of the island that
the Kaiser's representative entertains no
doubt that Leucas is the Homeric Ithaca
and that the poet of the Odyssey knew
that island well.
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Rocket Lif. Lines for City Fires.

To TIKI EDITOR or TEE UN-St Fires are OF
frequent occurrence In this town and others, where
people lose their lives because means OF escape
arc shut OF. Either ladders can't reach them or
they get there too late. Has II ever occurred to
any nre authorities 70 perfect rocket life saving
lines whereby light but strong rope ladders could
be shot up TO the roofs or high windows Of build
ings and thus furnish means for people In peril
to get away a Are life saving corps with their
light apparatus on an sutocsr could get to q nre
very quickly. and II their services we're needed they
could get In their work some time In advance of the
heavy ladder companies A. they nov exist. In
many Instances life lines could be nrcd from the
buildings across the street and the people carried
over as persons are carried over from wrecked ships
to the shore. Has the life line ever had a fair trial
at nrcs' II not, why mott SUFFERER.
NEW YORK, July 10.
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Poverty Lane.


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Tn. sp.n,sb Facade Of A. csnerie w,re..
Tn. Roman Inud.s of Hor.uus Bnrrn
VI "u'. -seu'
nv n,c,r,. and men h., been dovb,v imnr....d
On v.,e,s,a, nun v.Iov. hous.bo.,s ,.Io,.
w.. n.n.r. ana article. scor, upon ..o,.
u wneie. Wv Ns"' "uo ." saw" u" urear
Faeaae II real
WIN IL e'e~p'' y ~ 'oo' paw
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The Fall of the United states.

When l see the deserted shrines Of
your forefathers," Count ToLsToI is re-
ported as saying to a visitor to whom
he predicted the downfall Of the United
States, Il think it will come more swiftly
than the fall of Rome
Perhaps it is unnecessary to point out to
Count ToLsToI that one great difference
between Rome before it's fall and the
United States of to-day is that Rome had
been cursed with several crazy Caesars,
notably CALtGULA and NERO, together
with an ignorant and violent populace.
This combination accelerated the destruo-
Hon Of the empire.
In the case of the United States the
populace consists of some ninety millions
of sovereiCns, mostly sane, mostly right
sooner or later in their political judg-
ments, and representing the highest aver-
age the world ever knew of conservative
thought, intellectual energy and patriotic
obedience to law.
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TROUBLE IN THE ARMY.
Four Reasons for Dissatisfaction OF OnicerI
and Men.

To TaK EDITOR OF TAE SUN-Sir: Your
recent article on What's the Matter With
the ArmyP" il good rs far AZ II goes. I'm
questionably there 10 something wrong. or
why the spirit Of great discomfort. r~estlsrs-
ness and dissatisfaction now so prevalent
and observable by all oficialdom. except
perhaps that part OF IL that is already suf-
hciently cared for?
This spirit. perhaps not new to the army
but certainly more prevalent than ever before.
sufficiently no to be very injurious TO milf
tary efficiency, II not actually destructive OF
II. IL due In my opinion to the following prime
GAUGES;
Unfair promotion. the cause assigned nv
you and your correspondent. IL il difficult
TO overestimate the injury to the army at
large that has been wrought by the per.
nicious selection that has obtained since the
Spanish war.
Absurdly inadequate pay. especially appli-
cable to the enlisted men and Junior officers.
With a pay scale adjusted to the economic
and military administrative conditions OF
1873, when the purchasing power OF a dollar
was about twice what IL is now. and when
an oficer was seldom or never called an 10
move more than once In seven or eight years.
we find II dificult to survive at all In these
prosperous and strenuous" days.
An absurdly inadequate army for the ser
vice IL is at present called on to perform.
This applies especially to the infantry. the
officers Of which branch find that since 1898
they have spent about 90 per cent. OF their
time In the tropics, are spending half Of Il
there now, and with Cuba and other proba-
BILE contingencies hanging over us that there
Ia no prospect Of a let up. The officers Of
this same hardworkinG. overworked branch
with less pay than their more favored bre'h-
rem have never had their share Of fancy de-
tails, for they have been too busy" In the
field. and too busy" incidentally TO attend
to their own Affairs in Washington. This
branch. the blood, bone and Drawn NJ any
army. has had tits own" good and plenty,
The undue preponderance OF the stan,
The stan in proper military administration
should be an adjunct or a means Never
so with us. With its extra pay, its influential
position. It's extra grades. its opportunities
OF self-advancement. IL is. ! think. the whole
dog. or II IL be an sppendage at all It Is the
tail that ways the dog
CAPrA AIN OF THE LINE.
WKsT POINT. y. Y. July ~.
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The London Olympic Games.

Now that the British Olympic Council
has issued its programme, as sanctioned
by the International Olympic Council,
for the fourth modern Olympiad, some
idea may be formed Of the size of what
will undoubtedly be the most gigantic
athletic contest ever held.
The stadium is to seat 5000 specta-
tors. The original Greek Olympic games
at their zenith-to compare ancient
things with modern-never drew more
than 10000. The events" on the Lon
don programme, keeping to the general
classes, number twenty-eight, and the
subdivisions of the classes amount to
close on ninety, which is probably more
than four times as many as figured in
the ancient programmes. In 1908 there
will be no chariot races or competitions
for herald trumpeters, but with these
exceptions all the ancient contests will
be duplicated and many new classes
added, as for archery, cycling, fencing,
football, flying machines, motor boats,
automobiles. golf, hockey, lacrosse, lawn
tennis, court tennis, polo, racquets,
shooting, rowing, skating, yachting and
swimming.
In the number of competitors the in
crease will be still greater. We do not
know exactly how many entered for the
several events In the ancient Olympiads,
but we may conjecture a good deal from
the facts that the games lasted only five
days, that only four ran in a heat, and
that there were seldom more than four
preliminary heats before the Olym-
pionice OF final. In the London games
the average limlttor entries in each event
is twelve competitors from each coun-
try. If three countries OH the average
participate in each, the entries will be
more than double those of antiquity for
the same number OF events; and since
the latter are to be four times as numer-
Gus, the London stadium should see at
least eight times as many competitors
AZ appeared in that OF Greece.
This is not the only respect, OF course,
in which the modern games will differ
from the ancient. Women we're not per-
mitted To be even spectators in Greece,
and after one woman had been caught
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The Transit or the Soul.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: The
remarks OF the learned rector OF Trinity
Church. Princeton. In his letter in THE Sun ~
July s. on the theory Of reincarnation. have
added much 20 the consideration of the sub
ject, and l would like to say that while Il
may seem somewhat strange that we both
believe that the theory can be reconciled
with Christian teaching. IL Is perhaps not
generally known that reincarnation is ac-
cepted by the two prominently. Christian
poets of America and England. As for
example, Longfellow:
Thus the seer. with vision clear.
Sees forms appear and disappear
In the perpetual round of strange
Mysterious change.
From birth to death, from death to birth.
From earth to Heaven. from earth to earth.
And also Tennyson:
Or II through lower lives I came,
Though all experience past became
Consolidate In mind and frame.
| might forget my weaker lot;
For Is not our first year forgot
The haunts Of memory echo not.
Although I knew not in what time or place.
Methought that l had often met with you.
And each had lived In others mind and speech.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti undoubtedly ex-
presses a belief in reincarnation when he
says.
You have been mine before.
How long ago ! may not know:
But just when at the swallows soar
Your neck turns SO.
Some veil did fall:
knew II all OF yore.
. Students of divinity are familiar with the
first chapter of Bishop Buffers Analogy Of
Religion" In this chapter the learned Bishop
does not hesitate to say that all presumption
Of death being the destruction of living
beings must 20 upon supposition that they
are compounded. and so discerptible. But
in the year 1905, just thirty years before the
Analogy was published. DIR; Samuel Clarke
asserted that il the conscious subject is
indivisible IL il also ndestructible and i'm
mortal. And Dugald Stewart intimates that
il this IL logical IL proves that the soul cannot
have been created. but must be eternal in pre-
existence as well as eternal in future eNist-
ence. DR.. Joseph Angus In his edition II
the Analogy says that this question Of inn
mortality OF animals has for a long time per-
picked the early defenders Of the immor-
tality of the soul.
II the theory of incarnation is accepted,
then Bishop Buffers arguments on a future
life are conclusive, but not otherwise. Read
In the light of the theory OF Karma, or cause
and effect. and also In the light OF reincarna-
ton. or metempsychosis. this first chapter Of
Buffers Analogy becomes not only clear hut
conclusive. ID. d., Ill. y.
B~HOOkLYS. July II.
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Our Managers and the New Theatre.

o-
One of the New York managers has
undertaken to defend himself and his
colleagues for their failure to be recog-
nized by the directors Of the New Thea
ire, who have confined their choice to the
impresarios of Europe. So far no local
theatre manager has been considered
for the post. The New Theatre is TO be
the most beautiful in this country, and
its purpose is academic rather than COM
mercial.
Mr.. FRoHMAN explains that the Ameri-
can managers could not administer such
a theatre since their business traditions
qualify them only to judge the value of
a play that will draw large audiences
and thus make money. To arrange for
the New Theatre a repertory which shall
keep the artistic rather than the financial
end in view is, in MIR. FRoHMAN's opinion,
beyond the ability Of any American
manager.
II that is really so it is perhaps useless
to deplore the action of the directors of
the New Theatre in passing over u
managers. The regrettable feature Of
the situation seems TO lie in their %justifi-
cation. The managers admit that they
are not qualified by training to do more
than gauge the public taste accurately
enough TO pick out plays that make
money. Under the direction Of such
managers the New Theatre could never
hope for the accomplishment Of its high
artistic purpose.
Once more the indifference of rich
Americans toward the art OF the theatre
is emphasized. None of them has ever
offered money to endow an American
theatre. At least one has refused to give
any money for TINT purpose. although he
is willing to scatter IL Literally in other
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Tho Law Relating to Private Por-
traits.

Cn,r Harmed coptsmnorarv tho E~r.,;no
Post in an article relative N the nav
law reoulat;ng the ownersb;n in works
Of art or nbotoor.nb;c nortra;ta in Ger
rarv d.clor.s that o,,r stotutas-nra-
sumah,v ueanin tho sta,,,,es ~ the
state of Nav yorl-a;n NO wise nrob;bi,
the manufactured publication ~ N.
nortrsit NJ a living nerson . Tbs saoa
-jo,,yra, oo.s IN 70 s,.c.st that th.ro
ought IN he a Iac;slat;ve rem.dv for The
irvsa;on NJ ner.onol rights in this resn.c,
and nrocaeds.
49,, :. 80. :, .s,s s,a.a.S. ."e.Ne
N , vovr. wom., rno sr.d n.o.n.. :, - ,nno.
cen, use Of her picture for advertising purpos.,.
The lower courts held the contrary opinion. So
offensive have the m,suses of the instantaneous
camera become that some EFFORT to protect the pub
lie ought to be made by our jurists and legislators"
We respectfully beg leave TO call the
attention of the Evening Post to a statute
of the State of New York which il will
discover by consulting the first volume
Of tho Session Laws of 1903, where on
page 3Os will be found Chapter 1872 of the
laws Of that year, which is entitled AN
act to prevent the unauthorized Use of
the name or picture of any person for the
purposes Of trade"
This law provides that a person, firm
or corporation which uses for advertis-
ing purposes or for the purpose of trade
the name, portrait or picture of any liv-
ing person without having first obtained
the written consent of such person, or il
a minor of his or her parent or guardian,
is guilty Of q m~isdemeanor.
The same statute authorizes the per-
son whose portrait is so used without
the requisite written consent to main
tain a suit in equity in the Supreme
Court to restrain the use of his picture;
and the plaintiff in also expresslv em-
nowerad % ana and racou.r d.msr.s sor
- - A.---r, u
~
Pot"'' e Pnn u"as0'
euch uoo lao ooeh "ihuhy PeIsisoeu III
with knowledge tnat IL was forbldden.
This statute would seem to be a suffi-
cient compliance with the suggestion Of
our esteemed contemporary. It's en-
sctment was d,e IN a decision NV tho
Court of Appeals rendered in June. 1902
in which that court held that the right
Of privacy so far as the photograph Of a
Young woman was concerned was not
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wonderful Instinct, OF Nj. ou,,o.,.

To rHB EDITOR or TEE SuS-Str There seems
to be some doubt In the mind of the army woman
OF whose white stockings the SUN told recently as
to the reason for the mosquitoes avoiding white.
Instinct teaches the mosquito that when he alights
on a light coiorcd background he places himself
In a position 10 be readily seen before he Is felt.
SO he naturally chooses . place that will not make
him so conspicuous. This Ia q fact and should have
the Endorsement OF every ono who is not
new YORK. July n. NATURE FAKER.
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The labor OacatIon.

From me SOmerrhlS journal.
old Money Bags was striving
And thinking day and night.
COncoctlng plans. and schsminu
And making things 90 right
" daybresk he Was stirring,
~ midnight went to bed.
or eighteen hours daily
He laborcd with his head.
seven days q week he labored.
Win scanty time for slcep.
His mighty undertaking
In rhythmic swing to keen.
Ind while he thus " a tOilinr
In this inccssant way,
HIS worknen struck. demanding
or ham an eight hour day.
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To rHE EDITOR OF The SUN-sfr. met a Irc-
ary person from Chicago the other day .rho n
formed me that In his ciu' there was a movement
on foot among the true lovers OF the Bard OF A,ur
TO appeal TO the pork parkrrs to call one OF tnrir
leading products Shakespeare hams fnsteaa o.
Bacon hams a. now prevails. BARD.
NEW SoRk. July 10.
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Kansas M,aSur. Of p.nn,,...

From the Cdldtreu Afroc1t,.
Most OF the farmers We have seen this week 'ooS
about ten bushels 70 the acre happier than they q !
A week ago.
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knlcker-Yes. Maria. the harm YOU women DO ~
Idle gossip Is past reckoning. Now. In regard -
the present hostllitlcs between America and japan.
what | would do is
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Knlcker-PlAnne

Knicker Planned your vacation
Booker don't know whether TO have a bad 'l~-
having a good time or a good time having a bad
time.
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Choice.

Stella-Who wil you accept.
Bella don't know whether 70 marry a title or
IN auto number.
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directions helpful TO tho artistic progress
Of the country. Others are willing 10 pro-
vide the capital for artistic enterprises
abroad, although they have expressed
their u~nwillingness TO contribute TO any
such experiments here. Two OF these
European undertakings were made pos
sible by Americans. One is q ssason Of
opera in Venice and the other an inter-
national theatre in Paris. Both have
been realized through the money given
by Americans who were never known
to contribute to theatrical enterprises In
their own country.
Is Mr.. FRoHMAN rightP
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
FAIRVIEW CHILD IS
 LOST WITH FATHER
The Man Believed to Have Been h. toxicated and the Mother Reports
 the Case to the Police.

Lost, somewhere in Jefferson county with his irresponsible father, is the pitt able condition of little Charley Williams, d 5-year- old lad. The mother is searching everywhere, and the whole community of Fairview Is aroused and aiding in the search
 It seems that Monday night al o'clock c. Williams left his home in Fairview, carrying the toddling boy, and boarded q car to Birmingham against the protest of the wife. Morning came and they did not appear, and now another day and night have slipped by without any sign of either.
 All that can be learned of the lost Is that they were seen twice in a pitiable condition Early Monday night pedes- trians on Twentieth street paused to see an intoxicated man came from a saloon leading A child. not more than years old. by the hand. The child was crying. Swinging back and forward the man led the boy along the street and disap- peared in another saIoon While it is not known positively, it Is believed the two parties are the same.
 Again, much later Monday night they were seen in the woods near F'airview. This was what alarmed the mother so deeply. She went through the woods her self, for she feared that her husband might do the child some violence. Night has closed again, and the wanderers have not appeared.
 At 12 o'clock yesterday the police were notified and a thorough search is being made Williams was about 3s years of age, weighed ITO pounds. and was clean shaved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
ONE SKYSCRAPBR
 GOES GLTMMERING
BARBOUR CORNER IS RENTED TO PARKER-SoME DOUBT ABOUT REALIZATION OF OTHER SKY. SCRAPER PROJECTS.

One of the Birmingham skyscraper cor ners will have to remain blank for at least another year, if as is understood he plans of MT Fairley of Anniston have not been given up entirely.
 It was announced several months ago that a ten-story building would be erected on the corner of Third avenue and Twen- tieth street, which is now occupied by Barbours drug store. The dream Is now a thing of the past
 Mir Farley has leased the corner to John L. Parker, the well known druggist who now conducts three drug stores in Birmingham. MT. Parker gets possession
 the first of October, and Barbour will move into his other branch store on Twenty fourth street and Second avenue.
 MT. Parker's plans have not yet been given out. He may fit up the store for drug store, an lee cream parlor. a moving picture show, or something of the kind. The terms of the lease ar not known and may be for one or more years.
 There is some doubt about the realiza- ton Of the other three steel frame build ings that have been rumored so repeated ly. At any rate, it seems that work will not begin on any of them this fall. Un- settled flnaecial and other conditions and the loan tax are said to be the cause.