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FAITH IN MORAL IDEAS.
Life Rule Of One who Finds Orth odox
ReIiGion Unsatlsfyink

To THE EDIToR OF THE sUN-SG: Old
Bible chronicles OF my family which re-
Gently had occasion to consult yielded
among other things Tract No. os, Poor
Joseph, an Authentic Narrative. published
by the American Tract Society, without
date. The date OF the Bible wsslSo2.
have no means at hand Of ascertainina
the date at which the American Tract So.
cety published Tract No. es. but It must
have been a long. long time ago. In the in
fancy, perhaps the incubation, OF what at
that time was regarded as, and maynap
still is. an excellent and a praiseworthy
organization.
The alleged story of Poor Joseph" ia
oharacteriatically false and obviously In
ane. like the stories of the temperance
lecturer. Having read the tract I grew
profoundly sad to think that religion must
take such gulse to convince. compel or con-
found Then came the illumination. No.
es was the precursor OF perhaps es. 900 900
leaflets which have been issued by the
American Tract Society. and each OF all those
millions of tracts has made it's sppeal-where
reason. wisdom. knowledge. truth might
have appealed In vain. What is the answer?
The capacity Of the average human soul
for fath-faith In something. faith In any
thing. adequately proclaimed and con-
sistently maintained.
Herein I seem to discover a solution OF
the relation OF fanaticism to progress. and
perhaps the unconscious thought back OF
the splendid mind Of Professor Goodwin
Smith. 1t was Napoleon who observed
IF had not found a religion In France
should have invented one.
The Hon. William E. Chandler sees his
ultimate destiny made possible and COM
prehensible in an adjacent planet. On
the other hand. Mr.. H. G. Wells observes
poignantly that the thought OF Immortality
is at once perplexing and disturbing.
We have. then, to consider only working
hypothesis for this life and not any other.
Who can read the words Of Victor Hugo
over the grave of Balzac. at his funeral in
Pere la Chaise. without sympathy, without
ardent desire to believe that what he says
Of the Immortality OF this magnificent
genius may be true2 But We have yet to
hear one definite note Of authority.
The analysis In THE Sun Of Move mber ~
OF the situation in india. which recognized
the incoherence Of the some seventy relig-
ions under the @gis Of the British Govern
spirit of any possible revolution essentially
must be religious.
Hence. then. give US all faith AS no
longer we can have faith In the supernatural
or in ecclesiastical fctions. let us have faith
In moral ideals. Let us discover. detelmine
and prescribe those ideals. The last ahaly-
sis Of gentleman Is that he shall live up
to his own standards. however mistaken.
Cannot the white race discover and main
tain standards adequate to it's own con-
tinuance and self-respect?
EDWIN A1wELL.
NEW YORK. November "a.
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A Comparison.

The Tenement House Department is
charged with the sanitary inspection
Of all tenement houses. The charter
requires that every tenement house
in which the average monthly rental
of apartments is under S25 shall be in
spected at least once in each month.
AS TO other tenement houses the fire.
quency Of inspection is left to the dis
cretion of the Commissioner This
sanitary supervision prescribed by the
Charter has not heretofore been exer-
cised. However, beginning is now
to be made, as the budget for next year
appropri-:tes $4,000 for semi-annual
inspection of tenement houses The
object of the appropriation is to prevent
disease.
The Fire Department is charged with
The prevention of fires. 1t has bureau
of violations and auxiliary fire appli-
ances which Is authorized TO inspect
all buildings and to enforcs whatever
precautionary measures may be needed,
including the installation OF standpipes
and automatic sprinklers. The Man
haitian staff Of the bureau, as described
by the New York Board Of Fire Under
writers last spring, consisted OF bat
TALON chief, FIVE lieutenants, three first
grade firemen and stenographer.
The Fire Commissioner urged a sub
stantial appropriation for the bureau
in next years budget, asserting that,
given sufficient facilities, the bureau
OF violations and auxiliary fire appl-
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commentary this upon masculine mental
superiority II one woman (even such
remarkable creature as Cosima) could
upset the stanchest convictions OF these
three men. And convictions. asserted
Nietzsche, are prieons. He oontrived TO
escape from many intellectual prisons.
Perhaps Cosima had proved the one H.,
flexible jailer. "We live alone. we die
alone" sorrowfully wrote the greatest
religious foroe OF the past century. CF.rdl-
nal Newman. Eioszsohe was the lcnsEest
of poets. He lived on the heights and
paid the penalty like other exalted search.
ers after the Vanished vase of the ideal.
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A Partisan Chsra cter.

From the London Ecenfn9 Standard.
The revolutionary Lbertad has died In Paris
hospital from kick which he had received dur
Ing a stormy meeting last week. Lbertad was
one Of the most curious figures In contemporary
Paris. He wore no hat, hut long tangled hair
and long beard. Over bis scarlet sh frt he wore
a black blouse. and he -;as never seen wlttoai
'crutch and an enormous cane. HIS language
was terrific, and he rarely attended any public
meeting without calling for blood. The ran
was complete mystery. His most intimate
disciples knew nothing OF his history, On his
death bed he begged his friends not 10 arrange
funeral for him. as he had left his body by will
10 the Paris School OF Medicine.
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LABOR UNIONS.
work Done Under Their Control INFERIOR
to That of Former Days.

to That Of Former Days.
To THE EDITOR OF THE. .iSUS-Sir; Per-
haps some OF the defenders Of the labor
unions who express their views In your
columns may be able to answer to my salts
faction a few questions.
Why is it that the workmen Of to-day.
with oil their opportunities for rest. recrea-
ton and education" are SO very inferior
In their work and so much less honest In
1t than their predecessors
1 will speak particularly Of the men em-
ployed in the building trades. Where can
we find house built to-day which will
compare in stability. honesty OF work
and finish with those built fifty years be-
fore the unions entered the trades?
Moving from one Of the old houses, as
sound and solid to-day as when 1t was built,
into a new house. find 1t full OF defects,
the work slighted, III Joined, badly finished
in every particular. I ask the reason Of
this, and am told that It is the fault Of the
labor unions, which compel the employment
Of worthless. lazy and dishonest workmen
on the same terms as those who are competent
and conscientious. | am told that the ten
dency OF the unions is to bring all to the
standard of the slowest and poorest work.
man. as he Is TO receive the same pay as the
best I am told that to dismiss these idle
and incompetent men is to raise a row.
with the union and delay all work and entail
great loss upon the builders. I am told
these things by an old workman who be-
longs himself to q union as he could not get
work otherwise. but who laments over the
work done by the man who had O pride in It
and q satisfaction in doing his best.
1 am the owner OF a house to-day. built
more than nifty years ago. yes, sixty
years ago. for my grandfather; and when
1t has been looked over by builders for
some alterations needed / have been told
that such work could not be done to-day
for any money. Can the advocates Of the
unions explain this? JusTlTIA.
SRw YORK. November %.
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Mr.. Newberry and the Navy.

We are not at all sure that Marine
Engineer, whose letter was printed
In The Sun Of November 81, is not
unjust to acting Secretary of the Navy
NEwBEBRY. At the same time we have
no fixed convictions in the other direc-
ton. marine. Engineer is of opin-
ion that Mr.. NEwBERRY is dominated
by Admiral" CAPPs, and we, knowing
nothing of Importance in respect of that
thrilling matter, are unable to deny it..
For all we can say it may be entirely
true. The Admiral possesses many
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pr,y.t. Encroachmsnts Upon the Streets.

To THE EDITOR or THH SuS-,Sir. In my
humble opinion Mr.. Ernest Flagg. the archltect,
has struck the keynote OF the situation when he
suggests that the old fashioned stoop and area
Mn es he entirely eliminated. There Is no reason
whv owners Of buildings should be allowed to
eneroach upon the streets owned by the city, but
thI, evil has been allowed TO grow to large pro /.
nort ions. az d trip through Broadway and some
~ the narrow downtown streets like Nassau, Cort-
t.ndt and Fulton will prove. Special privileges
hny been granted for the erection OF large posts
on the curb lines. These cases OF special privl-
leges may be seen all over the city. Why are they
permitted OBSERVER
Nvv yoRE November n.
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An Electric Pun kah.

From he Eltefnea Rsrier.
One OF the Indispensable Of torrid India is the
punkah. or large fan. which is operated by . col
orcd servant TO secure a draught OF air and keep
Insects from disturbing the sleeper. The native
Is not always reliable being apt 10 doze. and for
this reason Efforts have been made 10 devise a
mechanically driven punkah. These efforts have
failed owing TO the dinheulty OF duplica ting the
action OF the hand worked punkah. the special
value OF which consists In the sudden jerk given
the fan by the native at each turn. Recently an
electrically driven punkth has been devised In
which this jerking motion Is perfectly Initiated
by 'lath shaped spring" covered with leather
which slaps the fan 10 and fro.
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A Tn0nInAl Akirt.

From ne Charity Organization Rsriep.
A missionary who labored In a tropical island
desired 70 wean his fock to his own Ideas OF cloth
ing, He appealed to their vanity, and gave to
the talrest Of her tribe several yards OF cloth
,yb esewlth TO make skirt. She was TO appear
In the garment at the next mission meeting She
ala 40. But the mlssionary's pleased expectancy
vas turned TO CONSERVATION when the untutorod
savage appeared with the whole of his gift wound
unon her head In the form OF a towering turban..
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ances can in time give us almost a fire.
proof city The appropriation was not
made and the bureau will consist in 1909,
as heretofore, OF a few men detailed
from the uniformed force. II will
probably have at its disposal about
ai2. 600.
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We haven't time to respond to all the
questions In the catechism sent us and the
rest Of the country by the Commission on
Country Life, but to help the good work
along we reply oheerfuly to this inquiry:
Have the farmers In your rneighborhood salts.
factory facilities for doing their business In bank
Ing, credit, Insurance. &c.!"
Thev have thank vou
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There was really no danger that West
Point and Annapolis would not play their
annual game Of football because they had
failed to agree upon an umpire. II no one
else had been available the Commander In
Chief would have volunteered.
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should be the classical place, the. most
dagrant example of this reversal. The
Hon. HENRY CABOT LODGE has been long
and justly famous as the father-in-law
OF tbe Hon. AUGUSTUS PEABODY GARD
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Mr. GARDINER In son In law of Senator HENRY
CLBoT LoDoE.-Washindton despatch.
At great pains to teachers and expense
OF parents studious youth learns what
shysteron proteron' 10, and feels pride
in knowing 20 noble a synonym for 'the
cart before the horse! And here 10 what
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THB NEW YORK SUN also appears to have been
formally assigned q front sest In the Ananlas
Club.-Boston Herald
Yes. And by the familiar process OF cor
roboration incident to violent denial.
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She Was.

Mrs. oldbiood--Are you familiar with the
Almanach de Gothat
MIS-. Newbiood-Yes, Josiah relies on Il en-,
tirely for his weather predictions.
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nnrn,,r Need of a Kan ,As Town.

From che EHporid Gazette.
Next TO street sweeper the thing most needed
In Hmporia Is GOOD variety OF horse radish.
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N our fsispdS ,uho fdror nS uaH nianuscrfpfs for
btbiedfioH bish 10 hoes rejected articles returned
fheF mgH IN etfases setid Stamps for that purpo'c.
The sun., 1908-11-29

Paris office. 32 Iuc Louis le Grand. The daily
and SuEde editions are on sale at KIosaue IL, near
4hs Grand Hotel: KiosQuc n, Bouletard des Cap.
uelnes, tkfner Place de FOptra. and Kiosaue TO-
Boulevard dcs ltaiens corner Rue Louis le Grand
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London oface. Eflngham House. Arundel
ttfeet. strand The daily and Sunday SUS Is on
sale In London at MurrAy's Exchange, Trafalgar
Buildings Northumberland avenue; Pail Mall
American and Colonial Exchange. Carlton street
Regent street, and DAVIS Steamship Agency II
Green street Leicester SQUARE
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The Present Fashioas
stella-isnt It all you can do TO dance In your
new gowpl
Bslla-Yes, but us toe tight TO cit down la.
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published By the Sun Printing and Publishing
Association at 100 Nassau street, In the Borough
ef Manhattan. New York. President and Treas.
hrsr OF the Association. William NJ. larsn. l7o
Nassau street; Secretary OF the Association,
ffankIta tbattlett, S Nassau street,
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According to a hymn composed In
honor OF the Thane of Skibo
'Tis not a nation but the world
To him should grateful be"
II you seek his monument. look at your
tax bills.
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They have. thank you.
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der he wrote: @The desert grows; woe to
him who hides deserts; woman un-
learns the fear Of man; 'Thou goest to
women! Remember thy whip always
this resounding motive Of cruelty.) "Thy
soul will be dead even sooner than thy
body; -Once spirit became God; then it
became man; and now it is becoming
mob; sAnd many a one who went into
the desert and suffered thirst with the
oamels. merely cared not to sit around
the cistern with dirty camel drivers"
Here is the aristocratio radical.
1t Ii weakness. admitted Goethe. not to
possess the capacity for noble indignation:
but Nietzsche was obsessed by his indie-
nations, His voice, that golden poets
voice, becomes too often shrill. cracked
and falsetto. Voltaire has remarked that
the first man who compared a woman to
q rose was poet, the second a fool. In
his attitude toward women Nietzsche was
neither fool nor poet; but he never called
one a rose. Nor was he a cynio; he sav
too clearly for that, and he had suffered
uffering should have been bond, though:
despite his cruel utterances he en-
joyed several ideal friendships with Gull
tivated women. He might have remem-
bered Mr.. Howells's wisdom; There Is no
happy life for woman-the advantage
that the world offers her is her choice
in self-saorihoe.' Gossip has whispered
that he was hopelessly in love with Cosima
Wagner. A charming theme for psy-
Geological novel. 30 was Won Bulow,
onos-until he married her; 30. Anton
Both abused Wagner's mu-
sic; Won B1low after he became an advc-
cate OF Brahms; Rubinstein always.
NietzSche. just before 1875. experienced
the panEs Of the reactionary. A pretty
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mill and in some way his head was
caught between the cap and beam
and terribly crushed, killing him In
stantly. The accident occurred al
John McHenrys, near Knox HiIL
d. Hughes has force OF carpenters
at work building an additional farm
house ON his farm in Messy Bend
j. E. West is having an additional
room added to his store on Railroad
street, which is made necessary by MS
increasing trade
Mercer Sapp, prominent attorney
OF Vernon, Fla, was in Town on Sun
day last
Several of our citizens attended
preaching at Red Bay on Saturday
and Sunday last.
ID. A. ellis, of DeFuniak Springs
and j. NJ Brownell, prominent
farmer of Prosperity. Fla. were on
our streets on Saturday last.
j. t. Bird, of Mona, district deputy
of the w. o. W., was in town on Mon
day. A special meeting of Camp No
46 of this place having been called for
Monday night for comforting the Morn
Ing degree
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PENSACOLA FLORIDA WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 1908

is worse than anything we have get
said about that young man, but we
hope that it may do him good. He is
too warlike for this country, His neck
is clothed with thunder, he paweth
the earth. his nostriIs emitteth flame
and he scents the battle afar off," If
the peace of the world is to be pre-
served Mr. Hobson must either be
suppressed or subjected to some cool
ing process that viii reduce his tenn.
perature
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CLOTHING To
BE GIVEN AWAY
Salvation Army to Dispose
of Large Stock This
Morning at $50.

Adjt Grimshaw of the Salvation
Army, announces that he mas a large
stock of clothing suitable for men,
women and children on hand. and
that, beginning at $3.50 O'Clock this
morning, disposition will be made of
tae same at the army quarters on
West Government street.
Any worthy case making applica-
ton will receive attention; it being
the wish of the adjutant to dispose
of the clothing on account of the fact
of it being sorely needed during the
present severe weather. Envoy Wat
son, who has recently arrived from
Louisville, KY, will remain during the
winter to assist the present corps. He
is an exceedingly capable man, and
his work will be of infinite value to
the plans of the army as represented
in Pensacola.
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The people OF Birmingham. Ala, in
mass meeting assembled have en-
dorsed the commission system of gov.
eminent for that city and denounced
their board OF aldermen without stint
as a set of incapables morally and
mentally unfit to govern the city. The
commission system seems to be in
creasing in popularity all over the
country 1t combines efficiency with
simplicity and economy, and minim-
ICES the opportunities for graft. Un-
doubtedly our modern methods of mul-
Fnicipal administration are too cum
brous to give the largest measure of
efficiency and there is strong ten
dency to get back to the simple life in
the government of our cities. Calves
ton, Texas, is a notable example of
the success of the commission as a
substitute for mayor and aldermen
and it seems probable that some of
these days not far off something SINH
lar to this commission will be substi-
tued in all of our cities for the pres
ent system. City government is a
matter which vitality concerns us all
and touches both our material and
moral interests as an all-pervasive in
1uence reaching into every home as
well as every place of business. 1t
should be as nearly divorced, as pos
sible, from the corrupting influence of
fractional politics, and the commission
plan is step in that direction.
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and shot ducks tin his gun was SO
hot ne could hardly hold il. while sew
eral others were doing the same.
For two or three men, 10 go fishing
in the evening and bring back twenty
or thirty big trout or about as many
fish as they can bring, IS no alarming
thing here.
This is as Ngood an orange-STowlng
section as it ever was. The cold that
killed the oranges here several years
ago, killed them in South Florida and
California also All who planted
groves Immediately after the freeze
have good groves now. Mr.. Sid Al
derman viii probably ship four or flye
thousand dollars worth Of oranges this
season. Many others have fac groves.
Mr. IsbieI is our bee king, and the
product from his bees is an income
that any man might justly be proud
of
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Cromwell Empowered.

Mr.. William Nelson Cromwell is
exclusively empowered under the
formal agreement with the board of
directors of the Compagnie Novelle du
Canal de Panama tNew Panama Ca
nal Company of France) to effect with
an American syndicate the American:
ization of the Panama canal company
on the following basis
THE basis on which Mr.. Cromwell
was exclusively empowered in this
contract was that an American Pana-
ma canal company, with a capitalize.
ton of $60,000,000 preferred and $40,
000. 900 common stock should be organ
lied TO take over the Panama canal
concessions and all other property be
longing to the new French Panama
canal company which had bought the
same from the old de LeSseps company
This company was incorporated in
New Jersey with dummy directors.
There was also incorporated in
New Jersey with dummy directors the
Inter-Oceanie Canal Company.
Senator Morgan uneaTthed a copy
of the S5,000,000 syndicate agreement
which provided that the subscribers
should contract with William Nelson
Cromwell to pay s5.000,000 in cash and
to take their several allotnents in the
enterprise.
Five million dollars was more than
ample TO buy the majority of the old
Panama canal stock. As the World
said on October %:
"'Mr. Cromwell applied to the canai
situation the methods OF American
high finance by which syndicate
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CALHOUN
COUNTY PARADISE
Mariana Times-courier.


Wewahitchka is now the word. 1t
sounds like q sneeZe. It is an Indian
word and means water eyes," 1t was
so named because of two beautiful
lakes i'm the town lying side by side
like great pair of CLASSY eyes. The
red savage that furnished the name
has long since abandoned this favored
hunting ground for his more favored
white brethren TO occupy. The beau.
tiful river and the famous Dead Lakes
where he procured his fish and other
game, are now the white mans sport
ing grounds and highways of COM
merce. The fields where the red man
grew his melons and meaize, and the
forest where he roamed at will and
procured his wild game. are now the
white mans farms, or lovely orange
groves blooming and bearing golden
fruit. Whatever may have been the
red mans rights to this country at law
or equity, no tribunal ever said With
ont regard for right or wrong the
white man removed him by the force
OF arms and appropriated the spoils
to himself. Ii goes without saying
that our red brother has gone to stay.
Upon his old hunting grounds live the
happy. intelligent, prosperous, and
hospitable people of Wewahitchka.
The panther's wild screams and the
VOLTS hideous howl have been re-
placed by the whistle of the steam
boat Those animals and other wild
game have moved to the swamps and
forest plains only a few miles away.
Many have heard of Wewahitchka,
but few know what nature has done
for this country. The soil is product
i've and timber abundant; land cheap
and water good; health unsurpassed
Nothing surpasses the famous Dead
Lakes Tor fine food fish. No big fish
talk that you may have heard OF this
country. can hardly be too big TO be
lieye. There are more ducks and
squirrels here than any place I ever
saw. Nothing strange for a man &c
| kill twenty or thirty squirrels in few
| hours. This scribe stood in one place