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New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
HIDDEN VEGETABLES.

tences on the board and has told him that
he may 60 as soon as he has found the
names Of the FIVE vegetables hidden in
them. See II you can do the same. There
is one In each sentence.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

Tie score or more OF certiorari proceed
irSS brought by taxpayers against the city
Of New Rochelle for a review Of their as
sessments. which they said were excessive
have all been amicably settled and hnal
orders approving ihe settlements have been
signed BY Justice Keogh. The total amount
Of assessments involved was 10000. and
the compromise settlement reduces It sl5o'-
cG. The assessments covered two years
and the city authorities in bringing about
an adjustment saved the expense of having
referees appointed to hear testimony ana
the costs Of the different actions, whicn
would have been about $40 90.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

Last week Justice Mills denied q motion
for a peremDtOry writ Of mandamus made
by the American Pipe and Construction
Company directed against County Treasur-
r George s. Burling, which, if sustained
would have directed the County Treasurer
10 honor Grsft made by the Bronx Valley
Sewer Commissioners to the Mack Paving
and construction Company and by them
assigned TO the pipe company.
The Sewer Commissioners gave draft
io the Mack company TO apply on their
contract with the understanding that the
draft was 10 he good only II hOnored by the
County Treasurer. Justice Mills hell that
the commissioners have revoked the draft
which formed the basis Of the realtors
claim 70 the writ and that there is Ques-
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

WORD SQUAHE
small creature that begins ~ THIS
time Of the year to produce Considcra bic
anxiety in the minds OF careful houSckocp-
ers.
on human beings -
:. The general name Of tho plants that
make the greater part OF the beauty oi
woods and parks
1 The hinder part Of tho foot or Of any
covering for the foot
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

NV |. 10. s. 9 is an excavation made under
ground for the purpose of obtaining some
mineral substance; by @ ., rs. is partly
open: my IA, 4, 20. 2l is n large stone, my
* II. 9S' q, 15 80 is 10 be sorry for. or TO
lament; my ls, IS, 7, % is an action; my p,
most intelligent and affectionatc Of do
nestle animals; my lS. ~, - is something
often used I'm summer 10 make ltue
breeze when nature provides none; my 10, -
II. IA is not artificial, and my whole, which
ga snelled with thirty letters, !s the name OF
prominent officer in the United states
army. who was buried last Friday with
highest honorg
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
Things to Think About

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New-York tribune., 1912-04-28
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and find the names Of SIX cities IN Ne"
York state.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

pe,orts from the Pajaro Valley say chat
49,. N.vtovn pippin apple crop this season
promises to be the largest On 'eeo'e'
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

The last claim for $4,000. against the es-
.ot. n, the old millionaire. Lucky Bald
win, having been COMPROMISED Tor slS'o'
,ha estate Is now ready for distribution.
New-York tribune., 1912-04-28

Brigadier General Ardolph l.. Kline cX-
colonel of the nth Regiment and vice-presi-
dent Of the Board Of Aldermen, will review
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
Germany on the Sea.

American Review of Reviews for July.
The strength OF German sea power and
the solid achievements OF German ship
building were demonstrated last month
in an impressive way to the American
people by the visit of the German squad
ron to the United States and the
launching at Hamburg of the Imperator
Of the Hamburg-American Line, the
largest steamship in the world.
Three German warships, the Moltke,
the Bremen, and the Stettin, came, by
command of the Kaiser, to return the
visit OF the American warships to Ger
man waters last summer. Their recep-
ton in Hampton Roads and New York
Harbor was made the occasion Of an ex-
change Of international courtesies, pleas
antly expressing the friendship between
the two countries. The Moltke is a bat
tieship cruiser, a speedy vessel, capable
of making more than % knots an hour
The German claim that she is the fast
est war vessel of her size afioat
Her commander, Rear Admiral Rebeur-
Paschwitz, the first of German seamen
of his rank to visit this country. is an
important official in the fighting section
OF the German navy. The fleet staff of
officers includes two princes and two
barons. On May g. Germany won one
OF the coveted blue ribbons of the sea
when the largest steamship ever built.
the Hamburg American liner Imperator
OF 5000 tons, was launched from the
Vulcan Yards at Hamburg, and chris
tened by the Kaiser himself.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.

London. Sept 9.-Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes" t"
has decided TO use his rare gift of ana
lytical deduction and become a real de-
tective in the interest of Oscar Slater.
the German peddling jeweler. arrested
in New York three years ago. and con-
victed in Edinburgh, Scotland. OF the
murder Of Miss Marion Gilchrfst eighty
two years old. who had $1,000 worth of
precious stones in her possession Slater
is serving a, life sentence in Peterhead
Prison, unconscious. perhaps, OF the
fact that one OF the greatest criminolo-
gists in theory is about to devote his
detective talents in reality for the pur-
pose of inducing the courts to reopen
the famous case.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
JAPANSE POTATO KING.
George Shima Cultivntes His Cali
fornfn Acres scientifically.

From the Stockton Inderendent.
II present indications do not fail, George
Shima, the japanese potato grower OF
the delta section west of Stockton, Cal.
will realize about $1,000 net from 1000
acres this season
Many other seasons during the past
dozen years have ended with Mr.. Shima
many thousands Of dollars ahead for his
few months of activity. When II is re-
membered that only a few years ago
this JapaEese grower of to-day was
Iaborer working in the spud fields. the
worth of the present grower, who Is
frequently heralded as the potato king
and accredited with having a corner on
the market, will be more readily recog-
nized.
Shima is not a speculator-he is a pro-
ducer. He has good business sense and
sells when the market is high, rather
than when glutted and low. He takes
advantage OF the season by storing his
yields when prices are poor and hasten
ing them to market when quotations are
in his favor.
He chooses good lands cultivates them
scientifically. and uses brains and in
dustry in everything that he does. Be-
tween his potato crops he gets more out
of the land than others, because with in
teIligent efforts. he plants beans, onions.
and other rotating crops. and so con-
ducts his vast acreage that every min
ute of the year il is income property; {;
and while he is getting all out of the
soil that It will produce by scientific
methods Of cultivation he at no time
IL.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
Autumn Politics.

Officially autumn has begun now that
Labor Day is past. We are not sorry.
We were ready for it. The kind OF
weather that "Old Prob" has meted
out TO the United States in general.
and to us here in particular-and which
seems to stick to us, despite the cal
endar-is not very well adapted for the
national business at hand, which ought
to settle everything politically while it
does the reverse by unsettling every
thing.
As a matter of fact the autumn kind
of politics are preferable to the sum-
mer brand. 1t is more serious because
closer to action and nearer to decision,
they are more sensible, too, though not
always better tempered. 1t may be
more explosive, but less disquieting.
because We have arrived at a clearer
understanding of what it is all about.
And, above all, new issues cannot be
started any more to disturb the judg-
ment. The weather is steadier in au-
tumn and the autumn days are strength
ening. 1t is the season of resolve and
determination
Yes; we are glad autumn is near,
even if only officially; and We are still
more glad that the great strife is end
ed well along in autumn. Men ought
to be at their best in that season, stead
led by the invigorating air that takes
the place of the enervating days of SUM-
baked summer
We are all getting to be more hope
full of the results to come and we feel
that, after all, we are not going to
make such mess of our affairs, as has
been predicted by radicals, reformers,
progressives, Socialists. and the only
Volks Tribun," and that our great
country is not going to the demnition
bowwows.
In short, we rejoice that our big
campaigns end with the first frost.
when the cooler atmosphere tends to
put its damper on radicalism or on re-
action that has been too heated, un-
necessarily disquieting, and unsettling
Our minds.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10

A party platform In a pleasing piece OF
fiction designed for light summer read
ing, and is a best seller in Presidential
years-at least, It sells the greatest num-
Der of people.
A party platform onsists Of eoilee-
ton of earnest promises bound together
by sonorous words, and issued BY a
resolutions committee as a prescription
for disinterested people. II IL also an
article OF faith-the faith Of the party
in the credulity OF the resdsrs- IL u.
moreover, a text for the great campaign
sermon which begins when the platform
is finished and lasts until election. As
long as a campaign orator can preach
from the platform Of his party he Is
perfectly safe. II In only when he be-
gins to answer questions about the last
platform that he gets red in the face
and has to refresh himself by waving
the American nag.
Each promise in a platform is called
a plank. Lumber has been getting poorer
and poorer in this country, until now
adays a plank bends under a candidate
and breaks like a Iath under an Office
holder.
The party platform does a general
transportation business in campaign
years and conducts thousands of candi-
dates into Office. Nothing is as safe as a
strong platform for a candidate. But
too many candidates look on a platform
as if II were a street car and get on of
it when they have arrived at their
destination.
platform, moreover is not a common
carrier. When the public climbs on a
platform and requests IL to convey said
public. it is astounding TO see how Still
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10

which he has given so many proof.
during his public career as well as Z
private American citizen, he has be,
come mot only the darling of the deni-
zens of New Yorks East Side, but he
won the admiration of the great hnan-
eiers and merchant princes of the down
town district. no matter of what re-
ligious persuasion.
Mr.. Straus was not candidate, bui
no sooner had his name been men,
toned when the convention stampeded
no one else had ghost of chance,
once that name had been suggested.
But not only are the Democrats
worried and "put on their mettie" by
their standard bearer, but this result
of the Syracuse convention enforces
upon the Republican party the need OF
selecting in New York State strong
ticket, for the character and ability OF
Mr.. Straus are such that many other
wise independent voters will turn to
him; not to speak of the entire mer-
camille class who rejoices that for once
they will be enabled to vote for one
of their kind
Whether premeditated or not, the
nomination of Mr.. Straus was ten
strike for the Bull Moosers.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
New Orleans Experiment.

New Orleans municipal affairs will
be watched from now on with more
than the usual interest by economists
and good government advocates. 1t is
the largest city in the United States
which has adopted commission form
of administration. The busy Crescent
City has been beset by more serious
problems than good many other mu-
inequalities, and her citizens have shown
energy and rare ability in facing and
solving important issues.
Her peculiar situation below the level
of the Mississippi made the problem
of drainage very difficult one, but
New Orleans solved it by installing
two separate systems, one of which
takes care of the surface water by pump
ing it into Lake Ponchartrain, while
another disposes of the sewage via the
great river. The city also owns its
own wharves, thus controlling the
river front. And it is still fresh in all
of our memories with what vigor New
Orleans some years ago stamped out
the yellow fever epidemic.
On the other hand, some of its pub
lie men have been a disgrace to the
city. We are told that its open, bare
faced immortality surpasses anything of
the sort in the entire country.
Therefore it rght to be quite plain
that the result of the new programme
depends altogether upon those who are
to represent the commission form of
government. Is it to be the better ele-
ment of the citizenry or worse?
Should the men who have done the
big and praiseworthy things of reform
control the commission we may expect
conclusive answer as to the suffi-
cheney of this form of government for
our largest cities even.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
INTERESTING GOSSIP FROM
THE COURTS OF EUROPE

George Of Russia. who has her two
daughters with her, is occupying the
same house on thes Stray she had last
year. The American Ambassador and
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. who were at Castle
Ashby with Lord Northampton for the
weekend. are installed at Park House,
Harrogate, for a month. and Lord and
Lady Charles Beresford arrived for. a
hotels OF which the spa can boast. The
Duke and Duchess of Wellington, Lord
Londonderry. Lord and Lady Holden.
Lady Alexander Paget, Lord st. Andries.
LADY Crossley. and Sir West Ridgeway
have all been taking the waters. and
Mrs. Charles van Raalte and her daugh-
ter are now established there for the
''kur."
The villa San Marino. which. with all
its contents. is for sale. should attract
keen competition among American mil
lionaire collectors Of art treasures. 1t
was erected under the personal super
vision of Napoleon soon, after he was
sent to Elba, and has remained prac-
ticaiiy unchanged ever since. The prin-
cipal room. the Sale des Pyramides,"
still displays the motto which Napoleon
chose in a spirit of bravado, "Ubicunque
Felix Napoleon" The villa is filled with
relics of the great Corsican gathered by
Signor del Buono, a worthy Elbanese.
who spent vast sums on the collection.
FLANEUR.
tCopyrisht. 1872, BY Court Gossip syndicatel
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
THE PEOPLES FORUM
TIMES, INDEED,
HAVE CHANGED
Private Dalzell Resents T. RS Per-
sonal Attacks on Leading
Republicans.

To the Editor: I can scarcely believe
my eyes when read the reports OF
Roosevelts venomous personalities. 1t
sets me thinking back. old man fashion.
how things have changed since the days
of Jackson, Clay. Benton, Ben Wade,
Gov. Wise, and Ben Butler and the old
school of statesmen whom no man dared
assail with any personalities rejecting in
the least on their courage, truth. or hon
esty. Imagine. If you can. what would
have happened on the spot If an ex-
President. as a guest at a banquet, had
attacked Butler. Wade, WISE Morton, or
Tillman, also present as a guest.
Something would have been doing right
away! One Of those old Governors would
not have sat still, turned pale, and looked
away, but would have sprung rather TO
bis feet, and interrupted the calumniator
in a manner easier imagined than de-
scribed,
banquet, church meeting. or a funeral.
even. ever dared TO hurl vile epithets at
one of these men.
You bet not.
Recall that when Wise was Governor
Of Virginia. ex-Presidents Pierce and
Fillmore, then alive. but retired from
the great office. would not have ven
in volley of abusive and scurrilous cpl
thets against him.
He would have risen to the occasion"
so 10 speak. When Morton was Gov
ernor of Indiana, and ex-President Bu-
chanan yet in full life; when Butler was
Governor OF Massachusetts,, and ex-
President Hayes still survived: when
Tillman was Governor of South Carolina
and ex-President Cleveland yet in the
Hae ralyA
nation and a more graphic pen than
possess to picture the scenes that would
have ensued if one of these ex-Presi-
dents had dared to open all the foul
walls OF slander and vituperation, and
poured them on the head of one Of
these Governors, in his own capital,
among his old friends, or to his face.
and followed It up with grimace and
scowl. and a fist shaken under his nose.
When 1 recall all this. for remember
the old times vividly in contrast with
these piping times OF peace" when
thief" ''robber." ''pickpocket." 'shigh-
wayman,' are among the mildest epi-
thets used by an ex-President in any
presence. anywhere. against Governors.
Senators. Members of Congress, Cabinet
officers. and even the President himself.
1 say. when I recall this and see how
times nave changed. and with them the
tS'APeI anu lohsuc OF even an ex-freSl-
dent. / am filled with wonder and admir-
alton of the splendid moderation and
self-control recently manifested by such
men as Mr.. Bartholdt. Gov. Eberhart,
and others, who instead of responding in
similarly brutal and blackguard style
to these false and foul aspersions Of
their motives and conduct, close their
lips. make no reply. but leave II TO the
sober judgment of American citizens to
decide, at the last, who is the gentleman
and who the foul-mourhed blackguard.
PRIVATE DALZELL
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
A Useful Invention.

From Youths Companion.
4 Yorkshire farmer was paid by check
for some cattle he had sold. 1t was the
first time it had ever. happened.
What's this?' he said.
Why money for the beasts" said the
cattle dealer.
The farmer stared and had to be as
sured that IL he took it to the bank
they would give him gold for it.
We'll" said he. "Aw'll try, but II it's
a wrong 'un thou'll hear about it."
The check was cashed. OF course, and
the farmer went home happy. but he
could not sleep. He had seen wonder
full thing and IL had excited him. AS
soon as day broke he made for the cattle
dealers home and woke the dealer.
It's me-" he said. where's tha got
thin bits Of paper from? Aw cud do WI
half a dozen myself"'
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
Roosevelt and the Profession.

Considering the fact that DR.. Ly
man Abbott, the editor and publisher
of the Outlook, is a minister of thu
Gospel, it is not easy to understand
that he indorses the moral validity OF
the claim of men who have been nomi-
mated as Republicans for Presidential
electors before the Republican conven-
ton to have the right to support an
other party's candidate.
We have repeatedly discussed the
subject and have pointed out the
anomalous position of these men and
the political crinlinality of their claim,
Some among us will recollect, in this
connection, the case of James Russell
Lowell, Republican elector from Mas
sachusetts, in 1876, who was urged to
vote and who tried to make him.
self believe that he had the right to
vote, for Tilden instead of Hayes.
The case is historic and now the Hart
ford Courant has looked up Lowells
words in repudiating such a request.
They were:
q was nominated and elected by my
fellow-citizens of the Republican party
to give effect to their political wishes
as expressed at the polls, and not to
express my own personal views. l am
a delegate carrying a definite message,
a trustee to carry out definite instruc-
tons; / am not free agent to act upon
my own volition; in accepting a place
on the Republican ticket | accepted all
its limitations and moral obligations.
My individual sympathies and
preferences are beside the matter: to
refuse to comply with the mandate l
received when | accepted my partys
nomination would be treacherous, dis
honorable, and immoral"
That is what that eminent publicist
and poet. known to despise all double
dealing, thought. of the course which
DR.. Lyman Abbott defined to please
and in support of his contributing
editor" The reverend gentleman tries
to make the legal point that electors
are chosen by States and not by the
country at large. We do not believe
that this argument is valid, for no Pro-
gressive can have the legal right to
call himself a Republican on an official
ballot. But even if he had such a
right, would that absolve him from
the moral obligation, which he as
sumed when he accepted a Republican
nomination? BY the same token a law
yer might say that he has the right to
desert his client and to go over to the
other side and at the same time keep
his original retainer!
All but those who believe in the new
Bull Moose ethics will agree with
Lowell. Despite all quibbling men who
would accept or retain the nominations
of one party in order to vote for the
candidate of another party would be
acting, as Lowell put it, "treacherous,
dishonorable, immoral"
1t was also Lowell who left to pos
terity this version of the older code
of political ethics.
In vain call old notions fudge,
And suit our morals TO our dealing;
The Ten Commandments will not budge
And stealing will continue stealing!
This we recommend to such follow
ers of the third termer who continue
to believe in Rooseveltism.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
IN OUR LARGE CITIES.
Foreign Born in the Majority in
New York, Chicago, and Boston.

~A>.eOf e@.-~.
From tho Philadelphia Tines
Philadelphia, Baltimore. and New Or
leans. among the big cities of the
country, still show a large proportion
of inhabitants of native parentage as
compared with the foreign-born white
population; but in Boston. Chicago. and
New York this showing Is decisively
reversed. The latest bulletin of the
Census Bureau. dealing with cities of
more than $4,000 inhabitants indicates
how strongly the immigration streams
have been running toward the princi-
pal cities in the northeastern section
of the Union.
In New Orleans and Baltimore the
percentage of foreign-bo whites Is
comparatively small. In Philadelphia
1t is not much over half as high as
that of pure native-born Inhabitants.
But in Boston. New York. and Chicago.
according to the returns made two
years ago and now ready for publics-
tion. the foreign born whites outnum-
Der the native percentage about 2 to /.
In the case of New York the proper
ton is little over 2 to l. The metrop-
oils stands unique in that respect, at
least among the prominent cities.
The Washington herald., 1912-09-10
Oscar Straus,

We are safe to say that were it moi
for the fact that Oscar Straus believed
he owes Mr.. Roosevelt acknowledg.
ment for having made him Ambas.
sador to Turkey and later his Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor, he would
not have accepted the third party nom-
ination for Governor of New York. I,
was the conviction that his duty to-
ward his longtime friend demanded
his taking this prominent lead in the
new party which prompted him to make
the sacrifice For, after all, such it is
for a man of his vast affairs.
The nomination itself was an excel
lent piece of diplomacy; so pregnant
with possibilities in fact that no less
a person than the Democratic Presi-
dental candidate, upon being told of
it, remarked: "This nomination puts us
on our mettle." A fine compliment paid
to Mr.. Suaus' worth as a citizen and
candidate.
What Mr.. Wilson fears, plainly, is
that Mr.. Straus will be influential
enough to curtail the Democratic vote
in the Empire State, and his fears
seems to be well grounded. Mr..
Straus, being a Jew, and greatly ad-
mired by his Acknowledgements, may
poll in New York City alone more than
enough votes to elect him. By reason
of his unimpeachable integrity, his
kindly disposition and generosity, of