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The sun., 1907-11-03

The much advertised equestrian test OF
military ability bids fair to end, as was
pvedicted long ago by certain observant
persons, in widely diffused merriment.
Humorous and cynical comment envel-
Oped its cradle at the outset. Unbridled
jest has kept step with its development.
The pOstulate that the army marching
must be directed by centaurs at top speed
and that strategy and administration find
their most intellectual expOnents among
the rough riders and the hurdle jumpers
was entertained with hesitation in many
thoughtful quarters. Now that We have
the upshOt laid before us and find that
q number Of officers Of long experience,
faithful service and particularly valuable
training are slated" for the retiring
board the virtue of the expedient is
stripped Of all its mystery.
Fortunately one may go before retir-
ing board without receiving his dismissal
from activity and usefulness. The coun-
try need not lose the services Of accom-
plished specialists in engineering, artil-
lery, ordnance, medicine, quartermaster
and Commissary work simply because
they are not physically able TO compete
with jockeys, cowboys and circus riders.
What Mr.. BARNUM would have described
on his show bills as the Emperor of
EquitatiOn" would not necessarily have
made "A Give or a Napoleon. We seri-
ously doubt whether the President him
self, should the country become involved
in perilous hostilities, would send to
Dakota or Arizona for Cherokee PETE
or Rattlesnake CHARLEY to take com
mand of our armies. Our military work
is not all done on horseback at a full
gallop. During the affair with Spain
nine years ago, which we are pleased to
speak of as war" there was no lack
of courage, dash, enthusiasm, brilliant
horsemanship. The American citizen
can always be counted on for all these
qualities and more. But the very air
was loaded with complaints and outcries
in respect OF inadequate departmental
administration. Anathemas were hurled
at laggard medicine chests and futile
commissariats. Our boys, regular and
volunteer alike, scaled heights, braved
storms OF bullets, hung to their sodden'
bivouacs and shivered patiently through
dangerous and mournful nights. They
did not pray for Bedouin displays. how
ever. What they looked to was the
brains, the skill, the sure experience of
the department specialists who could
clothe and feed and shelter them. In
that hour of trial and extremity the
goutiest old bureaucrat who knew the
trick of orderly and timely distribution
would have counted for a thousand
cirCuses.
IC is quite safe to predict that the
retiring boards will not relegste TO pri-
vate life any competent and valuable
officer simply on the score of his unfitness
for the roundup and the steeplechase.
The sun., 1907-11-03
RIDING CATS.
A westerner's Account or Local western
Varieties.

To THE EDrroR op THE SUE-Str: Your corre-
spondent "westerueT' In TEE SUN Of October
70 makes q statement Htte TOO broad: "Ths
pIaInsnaU would never consider tho tTot 90 .
saddle gait"
The west" is q pretty large spot on the map
and this question is not simple as appears ss
nrst glance. Having In mind the cowmsn Gas no
doubt "WesteYner" had when he wrote) his asser-
ton that the Iope Is the preferred gait Is true But
II In also truo that In northwestern Montana to-day
the trot Is much used q saddle gait, and yet this
country Is the last stand Of the cow puncher and
It's foothills the lands end" OF the open range.
There are local causes that may have snscted
the preferential gait" The Indians and breeds
almost all ride at trot. Their fathers moved
long distances on bunting trips. into the
valleys that yielded them the camash root, the wild
onion and potato. or Visits 60 their friends and
relatives, occasionally 70 "lift" . few horses
from those not counted among their friends. They
carried their teepeehold goods by travOis. Now.
trOt along very nicely upon horse dragging
. travels upon which the contents OF your nat arc
dashed. but looping under the circumstances would
be likely to cause q miAup.
This country Is still fun OF red blood" Not the
kind that the best sellers appeal 20 so clamor-
ousy but the kind that shed so CopiOusly IN the
thrice dear literature Of my youth. Tho Blsckfoot
reservation is but ten miles sway and Piegan and
Cree bands fairly numerous outside OF Its boun-
daYieS. Hero and there are few -Old timer"
sauaw men. who In earlier days, having made q
number OF full bIOods good" proceeded 20 even
things up ny raising sorne pretty bad half bloOds.
The white man, through association with tho
trottInE Indian or breed. and from riding horses
purchased mayhsp stolen from the red BROTHER.
might well have got into tho trot habit. Again.
OF late years the native horse has been much
crossed with Eastern carriage and drauxht stock
In the effort 20 raise animals OF value the farm
for the csyuse OF Che country Is OF little use for
that purpose. This has undoubtedly Increased tho
number OF animals whose natural gait is tho tros.
Tho running walk. the easiest and best gait for
The sun., 1907-11-03

A service OF carrier pigeons is being
installed in the French Congo. The Minis
tries OF War and the Colonies and the Paris
Geographical Society are all interested in
tho experiment and have appropriated the
funds necessary TO establish four pigeon
houses at a distance Of 100 miles from one
another. making a line Of communications
800 miles long. One of these houses was
built at Brazzaville on the Upper Congo in
1908 and stocked with pigeons brought from
France. The experiment has been so Sue
oessful that il is now intended to Introduce
the service at a number Of stations.
The idea is 10 supplement the telegraphic
service. which has not been wholly salts
factory. though the French are still EXTEND
ing il between some Of the most important
stations. Interruptions in this service Of a
most annoying character frequently occur.
The natives occasionally steal stretch OF
the wire. but the meddling Of elephants is
more persistent and troublesome. One OF
their favorite amusements seems to be to
pull up telegraph poles. The cost Of re-
establishing the service is considerable. to
say nothing Of the inevitable suspension of
communications for weeks at time.
The French have proved to their satis-
faction that the imported pigeons thrive
and lose nothing of their instinct for regain
ing the homes from which they have been
removed. They appear to have nothing to
fear from birds Of prey and their young do
well. Il is found OH the Congo that these
pigeons. taken 40 miles from their home.
will regain them in about two and half
hours. Not a letter has been lost when
sent in duplicate by two birds released at
the same time. Il is not intended to test
them with fights OF more than l2O miles.
but it is expected that letter transferred
from one station to another will be carried
about 600 or 700 miles in the daylight hours
Of one day.
The sun., 1907-11-03
REKNCARNATRNN,


TO TEE EDTroR or THR SuS--stv: Many
OF che most impartial and industrious stu
dents OF the ancient faiths and modern DM-
lOsophy in this country and abroad will
entirely dissent from tho views entertained
by Sir Oliver Lodge as expressed In the special
cable despatch to THR SUN Of October 20 In re-
latiOn to the theory OF reinoarnatlon. This
was . cardinal doctrine Of the Buddhlsts
i've hundred years before the dawn Of ehs
Christian era. and 10 to-day accepted BY
fully half q million Of tho devoted adhsrentS
OF that magnificent religious syBbem a. one
or the essential truths promulgated by che
founder OF the Buddhist order.
The statement that Sir Oliver Lodge adduces
A. a we'll settled fact. that Christianity
-emphasizes the material aspect Of religion"
is true 80 far as IL recognizes the corporaal
existence OF man: but all the teachings OF the
early founders Of the Christian Church and
the cultured theOlogians OF to-day agree that
the divine mind or entity iB immortal and
therefore absolutely indestructible.
To my mind reincarnation In a rational
solution OF the most dif1cult problem OF
human existence. because II provides for
adjustment OF the inequalities and unTavOrabls
circumstances Of varied conditions.
The departed spirit does not become .
homeless wanderer. hut is reborn as 1t passes
out OF the mortal body and lives anew In
another form, Death is only the open door
through which we pass into life again. This
fact is demonstrated by all the changes which
occur in the natural world. Just as the leaves
that fall during the autumn season by one
of natures mysteries return in other forms
when spring reappears:
The fruitful seed beneath the sod
In Infant bud and bloom may RISE
But by the eternal laws OF God
It is not qulckcned Till Il dies.
Strangely. Sir oliver reaffirms a long ac
cepted fact Of science. that material substances
only chan ges its form and cannot be destroyed:
but he fails to comprehend fully that tbp
infinite mind OF man will survive all forms ot
corporeal existence. and as the Buddhists
believe when the ultimate condition OF su.
preme happiness is reached in the heaven OF
the Christian as in the Nirvana of the Buddhist
there will be a state of rest in which the
immortal mind will recover memory's lost
supremacy and looking down the long vista
of forgotten years will recall all the Circum-
stances. conditions and experiences Of pre-
viOus lives. ID. b. q.
NEW YORK. November 1.
The sun., 1907-11-03

wo shall soc presently convene In Sc.
Petersburg. There viii bO less said and
more done In IL. It's composition IL. on
the whole, n triumph for Premier STOLH-
PINj who should find IL incOmparably
castor 10 work with than was the pre-
coding chamber. The new Dunna, in
fact, will present a parallel TO what the
House of Commons was In tho eighteenth
century from a representative point
OF view. The core Of IL viii consist Of
the landed gentry, intsrspersed with a
few men OF enlightenment and learning
Ike BURKE and GIBBoN, and a few dema-
gogues like JOHN WILKES. There will
be few Deputies who do not possess
what used to be called "a stake in the
country" The progressiveness OF such
men is not OF q vertiginous kind, but,
considered as indorsers Of Government
loan. they will be looked upon with COM
pla0enGy by Paris bankers. To Russian
reformers the third Duma will doubtless
seem a poor substitute for the first, yet
they win scarcely deny that it is better
than nothing.
the new chamber is the outcome was
modelled on that which prevails in the
kingdom of Prussia, the primary voters
being distribnted. in classes, according
to tho amount Of income tax they pay.
SO that ono class, comprising perhaps
tens Of thousands OF primary voters, is
authorized to choose no more secondary
voters than are allotted to another
class which may contain only half a
dozen capitalists. The. advantage OF
this scheme in tho eyes OF Premier SToLY-
PIN was that it would tend irresistibly
TO weaken tho proletarist and the
peasantry, His aim has certainly been
attained.
The sun., 1907-11-03
The Outcome Of Russia's Elections.

The long and complicated process OF
choosing members of the third Duma
came TO an end ON October. 80, and al
though some second ballotings will be
needed the composition Of that assembly
is now definitely ascertaipeds Unlike its
two predecessors, the new chamber will
contain no avOwed Social Revolutionists.
The parties represented will be--named
from left to right-Social Democrats,
the Group of Toll, Constitutional Demo-
Gratis Cadets, Octobrists, Conservatives
and Reactionists. OF these six factions
the first three, corresponding respectively
20 the urban proletariat, to the peasantIy
and to the so-C3iled Intellectuals, are
greatly reduced in numerical strength :
and even II united would constitute only
a weak minority. Exactly what the
numerical relation Of the Octobrists or
Moderates is to the Conservatives has
not yet been made known. but the in
dications are that the two bodies will
combine against the Reactionlsts on the
Right and the Radicals on the Left, but
mean to treat the Cadets in a conciliatory
way. IL is said to be already settled that
n Constitutional Democrat will be made
vice-President, but the Presidency. or
Speakership, viii fall to a Conservative,
Mr.. RoDz1ANKo, who presided over the
Zemstvo congress at Moscow last June.
It is already evident that the third
Duma will be dominated by the large
landowners, who have been exasperated
by the attempts made in the two pre-
ceding assemblies TO bring about forci-
BILE appropriation OF their estates. But
while it Is certain that the chamber
lust elected viii set It's face stiffly against
an agrarian revolution, 1t Ia by no means
sure that the landowners, as taxpayers,
will easily be persuaded 70 fndorse the
fiscal plans OF the Government. In
the direction also Of popular educa-
ton and Of decentralization they are
more likely TO be influenced by the ar
guments OF the spokesmen of the in
tellectual classes than by those OF the
bureaucracy. Patriotic, however, and
Slavophil they may be trusted to show
themselves. They would cheerfully
assent to large pecuniary sacrifices
II they could be convinced that the
money extracted from them would be
used to replenish the army and recon
struct the navy. Especially would they
hail with enthusiasm a resumption Of
the old programme OF expansion soasn-
ward al The expense Of Turkey.
Il 10 likely pD be a relatively sober,
businOsslike. 6ignifed legislature that
The sun., 1907-11-03

To THE EDITOR OF The Sun Sir: For tes
information OF one Of your recent correspOp-
dents beg to state that the Cardinals are
now only ifty-eight in number. and Of these
only twenty-one are Romans. AZ this time
there is neither a Jesuit nor a Dominican IN
the Sacred College. Two at least Of these
have lived for years in the United States.
These are Cardinals SaColli and Martinelh.
The Cardinals are the electors OF the Bishop
Of Rome who is by divine right and the canon
law head OF the Catholic Church. They are
also consultOrs Of the Pope but not his only
cOnsultors Every Bishop in the Catholic
Church is usually consultOr of the Pope. and
frequently he cOnsults priests and even lay
men. Nothing is done by the Pope In any
diocese or country except after consultation
with the local authorities and with all those
clerical and lay. who can throw light on the
subject. The ChEistian Church Is not limited
by national boundaries or Dreiudices.
FABIANO I. LALLI
NEW YORK. NOVembeI I.
The sun., 1907-11-03
The Legitimate Ballet.

English balIets from the Alhambra and
Empire theatres in London are 10 be
produced here. An English @maitresse
de ballet" will take charge. Fifty cory
phees will be imported. An esteemed
contemporary adds:
ITO bring the ballet up N thc necessary number
American dancers VIII bs trsined. In England. II
seems. two TO three hundred persons appear In each
ballet. and a complete story Is told
II is pleasing TO hear that local talent
will have a chance and also that the
institution Is to be not only adopted but
adapted Some of the London master
pieces will be faithfully initiated, but
originality is not to bo excluded:
Based upon the English idea OF telling a story
In paneomlme style a typIcally American ballet Is
being devised which will tell the story Of Amer.
Ica's birth and development Is will consist OF
dances representing CoLUMsUss expedition Of
i4o.. the stirring scenes Of Continental days from
Bunker's Hill to Yorktown. &C.. and also present
day progress
A delicate soul enamored Of the pure
bas relief poetry of motion might per-
chance shrink back from the Develop
ment Of ballet here indicated as from
something coarse, barbaric, hideously
huge and demonstrative. But it must
be owned, though regretfuIly, that these
so-called English ballets about to invade
us are in fact the most genuine linesl
descendants of the one and only true
genre extant in these degenerate days.
The history of the ballet, properly so
called, is comparatively short and pa
thetic. it really goes back no further
than 1776, when NovERRE, the great
master, produced his ~Medee ct Jason.
In little more than half century the
art lapsed from brilliant zenith, if not
into desuetude into inexpressiveness and
sorry curtailment. To the present gen.
GRAFTON the ballet in its most talented
manifestation is little more than a
gymnastic interlude obtrlided with no
justification except as a noiseless rest or
entalbreathing space into the melOdious
clamOr Of grand opera.
The reign of LOUIS XIV. has sometimes
been called -the golden age of the ballet"
This in one of those reckless epigrams OF
which historians who write cOngestedIy
for encyclopedias are perhaps excusably
prolific. The ballet proper did not come
into existence until long after the Grand
Monarque had ceased even to remember
gracing a cOurtly stage with his own red
heels and Spangled toes. LOUIS had
been dead and buried well nigh a CEN
tury before tho art came into its own.
It is true that many marvellous per-
formances named bGiIcts dc COlT or
corpsdie bGlIets were given in his time in
Paris or Versailles with music by LULII
and words by BENsERADE or MoLIERE.
Some even Of MoIERE's best known
plays-as lie Malade Imaginaire' and
-Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, were orig
inaliy out tho kernels Of dancing spec
tacls. But in the very excellence Of their
books lay the. very 'tiegradatfor of
these shows as ballets proper. These
The sun., 1907-11-03

In a statement issued from the executive
Office at jackson Governor VARDAMAN has
this to say about the suppression Of crime
when committed by negroes:
In spite OF the provisions OF the Federal Con.
sututiOn. mrD who arc called upon TO deal with this
problem must do that which Is necessary to be done
even though II may have ~ times the appearance
Of going somewhat without law"
As Governor VARDAMAN has personally
interviewed on more than one occasion. by
chartering trains and rushing troops 10 a
danger zone. TO prevent lynchings. it is
clear that he has no intention of urging his
constituents to take the law into their own
hands. What in the name of STORY. then.
does lie meanD
The sun., 1907-11-03
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direction OF such changes.
However. Wa 40 not need 70 project our
u.lvos into the f,Ieuro 20 discover evidences
Of changing conditions. nor do Such chances
wait upon legislative enaCtments. The In
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.ni,d o.nsnrr ."r.ssr. az So- T~seSnO. tsnds to
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woman out Of the home but by securing TO
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hxity Of former times. when even the indus
tvsaI NvovIrsrn ouneh aona land IN another
,~.-. 80. .o hr..k ,,, tha Sawr;Iv
eiomono eenuhs " w eHo A@ns'
In this respecS We nave the testsmonv OF TO-
900 deserted wives in Chicago alone (i9O4l
tn beav Ua nut. A natural oonseuuence Of
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Cneso cnensIs 70 ono NNu,NS' ,S, es ="
divorces. pnonomonon Wnion WAh unuOuDt-
edly continue despite all hoTtatory admoni-
tiOns TO the contrary as long as It's economic
causes persist. These are some OF the changes
which have taken place In the last half CEN
tury solely under the pressure OF economic
The Socialist programme hs essentially
economic. Taxing advantage OF the same
evolutionary forces which are concentrating
the control OF our material resources in the
hands Of an ever smaller ciaes. they would
perfect social 0rKanizatio by lodging that
ownership in one cOntr0l-society--an Sc
cure to the workers brain and Drawn as
nearly as possible the full value OF their scr
vices by cutting out the prOht taking inter-
mediaries
What would be the effect OF such a pro-
Rramme on the status OF women and the
family? To this question there can be no
definite answer So far as such matters can
be affected by legislation. they would be as
The sun., 1907-11-03
Home New. for Yenker,.

TO rHs EDITOR ~ TEB SUN-ISiy: VIII you
kindly inform The New York papers TO refrain from
further publishing Yonkers news hereafterf We
have simple literary talent and ability, and abundant
press facilities for our vast periodical and political
publication.
We desire to have our important questions
handled and settled within our own boarders.
We understand fully the cndeavors Of tho surround :
Ing papers 20 meddle unceremoniousy with our
troubles and personal affairs.
We arc the People Of YOnkeTs. and az the People
or HOnkers. both individually and collectively do
not care TO have our citizens and public ofnclals
ioled" by the foreign press. especially tho Sunday
editions.
Hoping this will he sufnciene TO prevent any
further bursts OF domestic patbos. ED. T.
YoNkERs. November l.
The sun., 1907-11-03

From ne Columbia Herald.

FFOW Hs LOIuTnDIN HsT1Td.
Maston DOty lived In Cedar township forty years
ago Preachers we're scarce and tho demand for
preaching was great. Brother Doty was a member
OF the Primitive Baptist Church and often nIIed tho
several puIplts on Saturdays and sundays. He was
q fluent speaker and often grew eloquent In sOme
apneal for truth. lawyer who could not read
was Captain william Galloway. II has not been
more than quarter OF century since he practlsed
In the Justice OF the peace courts OF Cedar township
Ne was a politician well a lawyer His title
was acquired during the civil war, where he was
an Ofnccr In the Confederate army Mr.. Callaway
could not write or draw up any papers, but he was
wonderfully strong before jury of his neighbOrS.
He had remarkable memory. Ills daughter would
read him the Law until he could repeat II by heart
when In court afterward he has often been seen
with bis law book upside down reading the statuts
10 the jury verbatim. His argument was such as
20 be most convincing 70 the jurors especially 10 tho
jury were packed.