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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-04

In the latest edition OF B~aedeker's
United States, a guide book not less inter
esting 10 Americans than to those so I'M
fortunate as not to enjoy the blessings of
our citizenship, the generally excellent
sketch entitled Constitution and Govern
ment Of the United States il from the
pen Of the Hon. JAMES BRYCE. who
is described therein as the author OF
The American Commonwealth In the
sketch this paragraph has a place:
These legislative bodies the State IA legislature
are not greatly respected, nor Is a seat in them
greatly desired By the better class Of citizens
In q few States, such as New York. Pennsylvania
and Louisiana, there is a pretty large proportion
OF corrupt members"
The startling effect OF this severe
criticism on our State lawmakers, coming
from the Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Of Great Britain, is con-
siderably modified, however, when il is
discovered that the Baedeker article was
written before Mr.. BRYCE entered the
diplomatic service Of his country. 1t was
JAMES Bryce. literary man and student
Of government. not the tactful and cau-
tious Ambassador BRYCE, d%iplomatist, who
uttered these sentiments.
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The Black Fireman In the Engine
Cab.

We had been cherishing the delusion
that the South possessed no better
friend than THE SUN. The Augusta
Herald informs us, to our immeasur-
able establishment, that we belong to
"the rabid, narrow Northern press, 3"
that we are "at work again slandering
the South" and that we are now en-
gagged in the gentle task of saying mean
and untrue things about Georgia and
her people"
This refers, we suppose, to whatever
we have said or may be saying about
the attitude Of HoKE SMITHS Admins
tration toward the movement Of the
labor unionists to exclude the colored
firemen from the locomotives.
We shall understand better wherein
we have offended when our esteemed
contemporary has explained onething.
1t disposes Of the negro fireman and
his chance at a livelihood in this sum-
mary manner:
You cant run q railroad roughshod over the
interests or the prejudlces or the traditions OF an
entire people"
What We ask is simply this: Who is it
that has been running the railroads of
Georgia roughshod over the interests,
prejudices and traditions Of an entire
people, in the matter Of negro firemen,
for the last forty or fifty years?
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THE YOUNG GRANDMOTHER.
various Advice. Ending With q Grand
sweet Nasal song.

To THE EDITOR OF TIL US-Sir With polite
consideration for Widow" who seeks advice In
her predicament OF youthful grsndmotherhood,
might not the situation be gracefully covered
with leave 10 the second generation TO observe
only her Christian nsr,c as a mode Of address,
Thus the illusion would probably be rendered
complete. Where, however, Is the compan'
bility between Representatives, OF the sor'
Indicated and the consciousness OF such happy
attainment: BAcHEtoR.
NEW YORK, June5
To TIE EDITOR OF II SuN-sir. Respond.
ing 10 the appeal OF a grandmother OF 20 In your
columns let me tell her that once knew a grand
mother Of 50 years In Warwick county, Indiana.
the home OF former Senator Hemenway. rs
the grandchlld was too young to talk, the veneer
able parent once removed WAS moi called grand
ma" Her daughter called her Nom"
In my present circle OF friends ] know an
extremely youthful looking Grandmother OF %
whose oldest grandchild calls her Aunt Grano.
ma" which Is a tactful compromise. | know
another youthful looking grandmother. past -.
whose secondary daughter OF 4 has been tauen'
to cali her Miss Mollie"-sonewhat OF a South
ern touch. Molie being the lady's Christian
name by pet abbrevlation. II ! were 70 and .
grsndmother-,wo things. alas ! have no hope
OF ever becoming, I should teach the young
hopeful to cali me Aunt Mamma which woula
be delicstely compiImentary-an and hold the real
mamma In proper subsection. ROB koi'
LOUISVILLE, NY, June l..
To THE EDITOR or THE srS-S'r' You ssK
VIVA, should be done for this fair young sfsn.
dame" OF 4ot Well, as the lady signs nerseh
widow" the natural suggestion would be %
marry her OF again. HoRATics'
PHILADELPHIA, June ..
To THE EDITOR or TIE uS-Sr
In the famous Paris Salong
Is a smartly painted "Nanong,
Gazing upward al q ballong,
= FORK. June CYAN"
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DR.. Aked's Structures on the Emmanu 81
oyeme

To THs EpIToR OF TEE SuE-!Sfr' The recent
attack OF Or. Aked on the Emmanuel movement
as reported In your columns IS, TO say the least
Of It. slnEularly mislnformed and confusing. ]
understand that DR.. Aked. like myself. Is an Eng
shmsn Now I must confess that the English
mind moves slowly and rtsenis the Introduction
Of an unfamiliar idea. I have. however. lived
| long enough In America to have this tendency
In my own case somewhat modified. Neverthe-
less ] retain sympathy with my compatrots who
s,il labor under our racial weakness. II Is IN
this spiri, OF sympathy that ] venture to contra.
dict the charges which Or. Aked brings against
the Emmanuel movement. After familiarizins
! myself at nrst hand with II ] assert the foliowink
propositions. which I earnestly request DR.. Aked
TO ponder before he again discusses the subject:
The Emmanuel ministers do not substitute
their work for tina, of the physicians, Not sub.
s~tiiu,ion but cooperation Is their watchword.
The Emmanuel movement Is not a healing cult
II Is an EFFORT to do In . scientific manner what
many ministers do In a slipshod and slovenly
manner.
The object Of the Emmanuel movement Il not
TO make people comfortable. but TO take from
them bad habits, such as the desire for alcohol
and 10 restore TO them lost self. control.
Hypnotlsm Is not used except In rare oases. and
then by medical advice and under medical su.
perV1sion- ERSIsI JAcosY.
BOSTON, june
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time were garrulous and reminiscent
but meretricious. We see it all at last
Director BARRETT's editorial in the
Bulletin, apropos OF Mr.. JOHN BARRETT's
banquet, admonishes us that "the un-
mistakable voice of all present was
that the ties binding together the re-
publics of America should be made
stronger by continued proofs Of friend
ship and by practical efforts to make
commerce more direct and more ex-
peditious."
More banquets, more screens, more
strains, more entrees, and above all
more publication, and affection will
come to roost upon our caves, while
commerce, once so shy and timid. will
eat out Of our hands and purr and
rub against u %conquering, compliment
legs.
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Shakespeare Not q Lawyer.

To THE EDITOR OF n Sun Sir. ad-
mire the humor OF Mark Twain. subscribe
to editions Of his books and collect irst edi :
TONS, and IL seems TO me that ] ought to
have some cause OF action against him for
his serious writings. Perhaps a word from
you might stop him. The latest Is that
some silly lawyers have made him believe
that Shakespeare was q fine lawyer who
never made a mistake in the use Of law
terms. He has written a book. us Shake
speare Desd?" Of which the argument is
that a layman Is certain to betray himself
by using some expressions which a lawyer
would never employ. Thus. Mr.. Sidney
Lee Ia no lawyer. for he says Shakespeare
obtained judgment from q jury" Shake.
speare must have been a practising lawyer
for he never made such a mistake.
The dictum that there is not in Shake.
speare any legal error or any error e1ua
to the alleged error OF Sidney Lee in no,
saying verdict instead OF Judgment casts
ominous conjecture on the whole exploit
OF these lawyers ever having read Shake.
speare.
The course Of instruction in the law. with
Shakespeare as teacher. runs as follows;
IL a man borrow money. upon condition,
he Civ s his single bond" II he owe money
he may be" arrested on the case and without
pTOCcst. IL ne nav u u p'uih'l y
declaration is a plea" and his answer is
q replication" tas IL you should say that
the defendant complains to the plaintiffs
answer.
When sued upon a bond containing an
illegal condition. judgment will be given
against him, but II Is the duty OF the plain
tin and not OF the court and Sheriff to en-
force the Judgment, and he cannot elect to
take less. dc.
He may make a deed OF all his after &C
quired property. Hemay demise" dignities
and honors. make a Testament" "a to his
real estate, or may entail all his property
TO a mar and his heirs" forever upon con-
dtion subsequent.
The perplexed Law student will be pleased
to learn from the last instance that Shake
speare did not know the rule in Shelly's
Case. Once for my sins | was compelled
to study Lord Bacon's work upon the statute
OF uses. and therefore know that this great
lawyer would nave fallen in a At IL any one
had told him that ne had undertaken to
entail lands to a man and his heirs.
or this subject it may be said, in the words
Of Lord Coke: Herein the dilisent student
may disport himself for a ime." But lei
one more example suffice, Giouc ester says
In the ouarto: "A murderer or foul felonious
I tortured above the rate Of common
lau." This is an error like a mountain.
Al COMMON law torture Is odious and has
no rate or tolerance. He might as well
have said he murdered above the rate Of
common law. Some kline friend seems to
have pointed II out to Shakespeare, and in
the folio the error Is corrected.
The errors in the use of technical legal
terms in Shakespeare exceed In Importance
their correct use. JOHN b. GLEASON.
New YORK, June 3.
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Human and Horse Races.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-FStr; The Gov.
ernor In his address TO Brown University studen's
has again dipped into the classics, and IN snah.
doninr Epictetus for Plato admits that 'PeoNe
are lust the same 10. day as In the days OF Plato
Then all the great reform crusades OF the la'
three years have been In vain. Is reform .
mighty maze. without aim or end
Let me remind The Governor OF Just one ohsnse
that has come over this sin Hidden world since 'he
DAYS OF Plato. In his time II was the pracnNe Of
Socrates to adjourn his philosophical discussions
In order that be and his pupils Nigh! a'tena .po
horse races and Socrates did not have TO drink
h.mlock for II either. Dare the Hughes WORK
ers- adjourn one OF their reform meetings Tor inc
purpose OF attending 9 horse race: E'S
SIw YORK June 4.
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TEE QUAKE IN ENGLAND,
The Cudgels for Germany Taken Up by
Discerning Readers or History.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suy-s;,. y,
-.sn,rsa % ~. Ia,,.r -, NJ. ot.,Si ~
s9sp"o ~ y 'o'Ie. oi mI. oteoolngs OF
snort HIS N. d.. beg leave to say that
! have not Smiled at British fears" hav-
ing only restated three IA cts as ubIish al
In TIE suN. The statement ~ Far, pnhI
erts about the army. Admiral Beresford's
request to tho colonies for free Dread.
nouRhts, rumors about a phantom airsbir
In rs.ord to tha lila ,an,n " Isnnl,
,.aa iIosaiu y .ne guy panic IN hondoh 10
1858, ] merely referred 70 a historic In
stance Of what the craze OF fear provoked
by false alarms can accomplish.
Tho. ,ha noas, $50 ", tbn NJ, ,.
,o s,.ta ~ Ia t'~ m % enc Nor.n Atlan-
TIC states during the standardization
war were panic stricken is a statement
contrary to facts. In every CITY OF The
coost aop. r.oitoIs nd ,oro.r u
Ts 'ons .ee.,u.s Gnu oohoeIes "sre given
almost hi8nt aiter night, where the most
prominent ladies OF these cities entertained
the public with a loyeliness of enthusiasm
ana notriotio fort;t,,aa not s,rnassna ~
snnuu pstinp ~ io.rituue ho' surpassed oy
'iba new constr,ct;or =, a.. rs
pr,ss;an var in ,synlga . ~ TANGO
III nn.d ~, " Mr.
9tep wnn IN ne ncn ,}Hmasts Z slgn5 correctiSn.
could therefnre nnt hava haen af, Hhe
nenni No 'Thoroo nn y, Nn Ialsnt
n na LIE Na mere Was sn no Sisndestine descent
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TIE MIssIssIpPps RECORD.
Faster Than tho Ruth, tho Battleship
VIII Get Her Horns OF Victory.

To THE EpIToR OF THE Sun Sit: In an
editorial article In The Sun OF May 80 upon
the run Of the battleship Mississippi from
Nntchez to New Orleans In fourteen hours
II is conjectured that the Confederate tug
w. H. Webb made better time during the civil
war from the mouth Of the Red River TO
New Orleans.
/ am something Of an authority on steam
boat records In Western waters. having
been familiar with them since the civil
war. As for tho Webb's run down stream.
made just before my time. ! have heard
II discussed; but the Webb left no certt-
fed record.
On June ~, 1897, the steamboat Ruth. a
regular two week round trip packet running
between st. Louis and New Orleans. tolled
ner departing bell at the Natche2 wharf,
at 1850 A. NJ. and landed at the New
Orleans wharf. foot OF Bienvllle street. at
sos p. NJ. on the same day. pilot house time.
On May ~, 1909. 1t 10 said. the battleship
Mississippi covered 1.-The same distance
practically. but landing at jackson street.
New Orleans. wharf. about two miles further
up. a less distance. in say fourteen hours.
probably not corrected time.
Now In concentrating the fast run OF
the Ruth from Natchez to New Orleans. IN
fifteen hours four minutes. a pair OF gold
leafed horns was presented to her by her
admirers. many river men then thinking
that she was the speediest boat ahoat.
She holds the record even to-day for fast
time from New Orleans to Donsldsonville.
seventy-eight miles in four hours twenty
seven minutes. The prize horns for this
Iun. were 2 fixture on the boat until sh Eb, was
twelve miles above VicksburR, in 1893.
My deceased father. Captain John A.
Du6le: was In command nn q ths b Npn nh iop
she made the fast runs mentioned. ne
once brought her through on q business trip
from New Orleans to st. Louis IN four days
but that time was beaten IL three instances
three hours. In 1884,: by the. first Robert =.
Natchez, three days eighteen, hours and
thirty-six minutes. and by the Natchez ais
While the Robert F. Lee holds the record
sixteen hours thirty-seyen minut made
four minutes. made in ise1. This time
serve. and no one ever calred'ior the special
They are ali that's left as trophies Of the
fleet and Of the magnificent Ruth, a cham
picf In her day.
beautiful horns to the battleship Mississippi
for her recent aehiev ement They are nov
being regilded with VIRGIN American goid
solid American silver shield, s~urmounted
by the American Eagle with ribbons. and
in miniature a chased figure Of the battle
underneath In miniature the outlines OF the
Ruth and her time; beneath all this the
inscription; Beat his time and take the
horns"
Thu Sun editorial wells the glamour Of the
Mississippi's victory. and II she has not
fairly earned the horns in my possession
Grating the event Httingly. 1 personally
know that the Mississippi earned them in
covering the 2ss miles OF the river down
claimed them. while the battleship can
do So. {. G, DCBLE.
NEW ORLEASs. May 81.
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know compare the college they know
with the college as it appears in Mr.
LowELI's imagination:
"Gniverslt,es stand for the eternal worth o.
thought. for TIE prominence OF the prophet Ano
the seer"
Read "the prominence of the athlete
and the business man." That sweet
city with her dreaming spires" is be-
come Broadway, Wall Street. Now,
there is no reason why n business maj
shouldn't be a sound scholar. Mr..
GRoTE, banker and non-university man,
made what is still the standard history
of Greece. There are hotels kept by
college lei Among the curious pro-
f~essions of the members of a recent
Harvard class we remember that OF
hotel steward" No a why a
hotel proprietor or steward shouldn't
daily with Icelandic or put Mr., TAFT's
speeches into Attic prose, but he would
hardly get the training for that sort OF
thing at college. The atmosphere is
lacking. There are many men study
ing. poor men with scholarships be-
cause they have to, and. to their honor,
some rich ones who are not ashamed
of knowledge, There are somewhere
about them professors and assistant
professors, and candidates for Phi. ID.
and other marks of alteration, who
work hard and fr%uitfully at a census Of
the rough breathings in LYCoPHRoN or
The Social Position of Dragons in the
Anglo-Saxon Epic Poetry.
There are the mighty men on team and
crew and in the societies. noble hnrnns
who weep like a Greek hero when they
happen to be beaten in a race or a match
There are the amiable though somewhat
Enthusiastically dressed young savages
who howl horrible mechanical yells
and cheers at the games where the
champions perform; young savages so
courteous, we hear, as to make a joy
full noise at the errors OF the enemy.
The amiable savages have dailies,
weeklies, magazines, settlement work,
amateur theatricals, glee and other
musical clubs, a hundred side shows and
diversions. Their life is a little more
diversified than, but substantially on
the same plane us that, let us say, of the
bank clerks of Worcester, Mass, or the
Canoe and Mandolin Club Of West
Hurley, n. Y. Harmless, innocent,
savage only in their collective public
manners and lack of cultivation, de-
voted to athletics by proxy, a source of
pride and expense to parents and guar
dians, often almost as ignorant as them
selves, these Young men are as happy
as artless. We beg Mr.. LOWELL, for
givable still since he was swift as to
his feet in youth, not to lay his hand
with horror winged upon that comfort
able, that idyllic commonwealth. the
college, and try to introduce this in
fernal nonsense Of intellectual COM
petition. We Americans are a long
suffering people, but We don't want
brains in our colleges or our rulers.
II, however, Mr.. LOWELL persists
in his wrongheadedness, perhaps some
day he may come across an eccentric
Fairy Godfather who will say TO him:
How much does your college get in
term fees? will capitalize that income.
How many 10 are graduated from
your college every year? Is it 400 or
600 odd or what? Well, let 'em 60
to the devili Turn ont twenty. turn
out two, but let EN- know something;
let 'em be scholars" Would that help
Mr.. IOwELL's plan or dream?
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The Sugar Of Our Youth.

Eversince u modest protestlast week
against the total o%ccultation of old fash.
toned sugar AS a logical sequence of the
modern tariff we have been hearing
from various sources complaints and
reproaches to the same effect.
1t does not astonish us at all to find
that thousands Of American citizens still
long for the familiar saccharine Of their
adolescence. There was a certain
charm about the old brown sugar and
the thick molasses-we say nothing OF
the cutie, the tafy, the syrup and the
sheedings." Neither shall we dwell
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An interesting detail in the direct nomi,

An interesting detail in the direct nomi-
nations fight is supplied by the Albany
Argus in the announcement that the Hon.
EPSON W. HAMN will not be a candidate
for denomination to tho Assembly. Mr..
HAMN was one OF the relatively few
Assemblymen to champion the Hughes
direct primaries. He also came from the
district where the Hon. JOHN RAISEs still
rules. Now he will not come any more,
says the Argus, which does not hesitate
to ascribe HAMN's direct nominations
attitude as the cause Of his retirement.
Evidently the opponents OF direct nomi-
nations are quite as ready as the Governor
to continue the fighting. and the first
blood is clearly theirs. The incident.
moreover, does not tend to confirm the
reports that all the upstate regions are
in a state OF revolt against the Governors
enemies.
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THE RATTLE OF THE LEVELS
A Bomb Proof Cana! Wanted.

To The EDITOR OF II SUS-Sir; The
point easiest understood by common peo-
pie Is; Any lock or water gate for a canal is
easily put out OF commission by a dynamit e
bomb.
The Panama Canals military signif-
canoe Is a large reason for our paying
the freight" Better 500. 900. 900 extra than
a canal that canno be justified as safe from
. military point OF view.
NEW YORK. June A. n FELLOWS.
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sociolosists in Vacation.

To THE EDITOR or THK SUN Sir: The editorial
In THs Sun of May 20, Summer and the
Sociological Worker, may be fairly accurate 10
It's description Of the East Sides attitude toward
professional upiif,ers. but | have read that edi-
toral two or three times and have thought about
II several times since, and have been unable 70
discover what I. Is that makes you think that this
IL a season OF intense activity" II practical,
will you not through your columns take q census
Of the sociological workers who are PLANNING 70
spend the summer far from the mssses On the
East Side' EAsr SIDHA.
East SIDE, June 2.
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rs re BECOME or HER.
BERT KNOX SMITH

the effect that the President has asked the
Hon. Herbert Knox Smith for a statement
showing, 1t may be presumed, the prog
ress he has made thus far and expects to
make within reasonable limits az to time
and expenditures regarded by wise
observers Of public events here as a har-
binger of precious import.
Nothing much has been heard Of the
Hon. Herbert Knox Smith for some time
past. Immersed in a respectful oontem-
plation OF his Owl importance and at
tended by about a hundred and fifty dark,
deep and cunning s!eu.hs entered Oh tho
pay rolls as Examiners 10 say nothing
Of a swarm Of clerical and other hirelings,
he has long remained torpid, or at least
fruitless; and so at last the President, q
practical and perhaps oaptious man, wants
to know what he is doing.
He is supposed to be pursuing, identify
ing and preparing to capture the wicked
corporations that 30 excited the wrath Of
his illustrious patron the Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt. He has been some three years
on the job, however, and as yet no soalps
Of serious Importance depend from his
august belt. Mr.. Roosevelt's Attorney
General took a ~jocular view OF the battue.
He was a fellow Of infinite wit, whose
advice to all was to flush the covey and
fire into 1t at random-anything fon the
gayety OF nations in general and the
amusement Of himself in particular. It
made no difference TO the Hon. Charles
Joseph Bonaparte whether the larks fell
to the bag Of the Hon. Herbert Knox
Smith or that Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission or that of the Department Of
Justice, over which he humorously pre-
sided-all Of them being engaged In the
same light hearted enterprise, with I'M
limited money on tap and free pratique
in everything.
Apparently Attorney-General Wicker
sham is Of another temper. He sees the
Interstate Commerce Commission and a
bureau Of the Department OF Commerce
and Labor repeating the worlrhe regards as
properly within his Jurisdiction. He sses
nothing but a confusion OF councils and
a desert OF achievement resulting from
this disjointed II expensive activity, and
he has begun to ask himself whether he
is conducting the judicial end Of the Gov
eminent or whether 1t has been farmed
out in eccentric instalments while he Is
left to concoct merry witticisms and blow
fantastic bubbles in the changing light.
II President Taft has really made this
overture it may be suspected that Attor.
ney General Wickersham has inspired it.
In that case the country may reasonably
expect to see the pursuit and prosecution
OF wicked corporations concentrated in
the Department OF Justice. where they
properly belong, and the functions OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission and
the bureau OF corporations Topped OF
until they make a neat At with the real
intention OF the laws. II 10 the course
OF this halcyon readjustment the Admin
istration could rid itself OF a pestifer-
Gus horde OF secret service men and an
equally peetiferous leak in the Urea u
the result would be welcome and ncour
aging to all concerned.