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Byblos: a stirring tale Of adventure by

Byblos; stirring tale Of adventure by
land and by sea. important because it
shows us Philistine community at its
best and bravest.
The sum Of this new discovery Is
that the Philistines are Cretans.
product Of the Mnoan culture which we
are just beginning to gaze upon and
to try tn interpret. This was q civili-
zation as far anterior to that Of My
cenR as the latter was anterior to the
Athens of Pericles. Professor MAcAL-
lister shows how this Philistine race
spread over the adjacent coast Of Asia
Minor with strong settlement In the
Troad. 1t is interesting to find the
name of AcHIsH. whom DAVID he
trdyed. equated with that Of ANcHTsEs,
old pater ANCHIsEs.
The Hebrew record has preserved to
MS but single word Of Philistine
speech. "seren." which In the English
version Is translated as lord. In the
terra Gotta disk unearrhed NJ the Cretan
palace of Phgstos, of the period known
as Middle Mnoan III. and correspond
ing TO about 1900 Il. c.. we have a
series of sixty-one words made up Of
forty-five characters as n probable syl-
labary. Not one word as yet are we
able to read but the frequent repeti.
ton Of the head with the plumed he'll
met which we recognize as the dstin-
gushing mark of the Philistine identi-
fies this piece Of terra Gotta as verl-
table imminent of that race which the
Hebrews SO feared and whom they were
not able to overthrow until the reign
OF DAVID
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THE INVESTIGATING MANIA.
Plain Remarks on the Postponement Of
Prosperity 20 the Greek kaIents.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir. The
condition Of business is far from salts
factory, and many people wonder why
with all our great resources this condition
prevails The reasons are not far aheld
We have an Interstate Commerce Com
mission crazy drunk with power. whose
wings a nerveless Congress dare not clip.
We have a lot OF dollar hating NUTS in
Congress with their mania for investigat-
Ing who are treating the country to a con-
tinuous performance. We have an apotheo-
sis of labor with its possible meddlng
tyranny. We have drastic compensation
laws, and incidentally the Mexican i'm
broslio enjoying its grape Juice bath.
The reforners and idealists hail these
measures as advance agents of that mil
lennium the date OF whose arrival Is ever
subject to change without notice"
With all these forces at work, either
individually or collectively, II can be read
lily understood why men OF affairs hesl-
tate about speeding up existing enter
prises. and why they decline to CO mmt
themselves to new ventures. II imposes
no great task upon the memory 20 recall
the Mckinley good times" before reform
had become a disease and Investigation
a mania. That Government Is the best
which governs least is now. OF course, a
discarded and heretical doctrine, but there
are a few people who have a vague inn
preston that our country is suffering
from overdoses OF government adminis-
tered by a lot Of enthusiastic panacea
pedlers X.
NoRwALK, Conn. July 10.
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A Methodist Minister.

The Rev. DR.. RICHARD BEVERLY PAL
MORE of ST. Louis. editor Of the St
Louis Christian Advocate, died in his
seventy.frst year in Richmond last
Sunday. As a Methodist divine. a lee
turer, traveller. the founder Of col
leges named after him in Mexico and
Japan. and a person of various capaci.
ties and distinctions, he Is recorded and
described in the contemporary house OF
fame Who's Who" We get the man
character Of unusual flavor and ex-
perience, in the memorial sermon
preached by the Rev. DR.. JAMES w LEE.
He was born in a Tennessee log cabin.
His father died when the boy was six
weeks old. He bad TO earn his own
living ever since he could remember.
He ploughed all day with grown men
when he was TO-" At II he was in
MARMADUKE's cavalry. In which he
served through the war, His blanket
and overoat his tent and the saddle
his pillow. After the peace he got an
education, was ordained did much for
the world and must have enjoyed him
self much In It. He travelled all over
the world, but his first attempt to cross
the Atlantic was his most noteworthy
voyage
He cut a lifeboat down with his pocket
knife and without bread or water. chart
or compass. fed In this lifeboat from his
sinking ship. and was picked up by an
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separation. They contradict the gen
orally accepted notion that She made
no effort to win him back from Lady
HAMILTON. The first thanks him for
the generosity of the allowance he
made her and ends: "GoD bless my
dear husband" In July she writes:
II cannot be silent in the general Joy
throughout the kingdom" Apparently
she has reference to the battle of Co
penhagen. She thanks Con for spar.
ing his life and goes on:
Let me beg nay entreat you 70 be-
lieve no wife ever felt greater affection
for a husband than do"
There is much pitiful pleading for
the return Of his love. and In the last
letter Of all December 49, she assures
him that she has but one wish in the
world: to please him. These are three
heartbreaking letters.
One Of the most Curious and inter.
esting features Of NELSON'S own let
ters Is the strange change of his hand
writing due to the loss of his hand
In fac-simile the sale prospectus shows
three phases Of his script. The early
natural writing Is small. light. deli.
cate, more like woman's hand than
that Of seaman and n warrior. Then
comes the first attempt with the left
hand. an almost undecipherable scrawl.
But inside year the left hand has
grown firm and bold. 1t writes in we'll
formed letters Of the usual "backhand"
slope. but strong and virile, just such
manuscript as one would look for from
the hero Of The Nile and Trafalgar
These letters passed at Lady NIL
SONS death to her cousin. Mrs. FRANcK-
LYN. and from her to her son. ALFxAN-
DER ALLAN WIBBr. Some use Of the
material in them as respects NELSON'S
public career has been made by his
biographers. but the light they shed
on his private life and character has
never before been revealed. II seems
as II the strange and varied story
would presently have to he revised and
rewritten.
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A Lonely and Bilious Nutmes,an.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Sir:
wish to inform YOU OF the kind OF women
in this part OF the country. They are
the kind you can't get on speaking terms
with, have a valuable idea of themselves.
want nothing but money, must falue their
lives at large sum Of money.
man can speak to another man, even
II they are strangers, and II is thought
natural. but these unspeakable women
who never want TO speak TO you even II
they board a-the same house or II they
have seen you again and again, that Is
the kind we have in this part of the coun-
try. The women of this city make YOU
sick TO look at them they have such fools
brains about men. They ought 10 learn
some business that would learn them how
TO argue. They are not good for any
thing but fght, Such fools that don't
want to know people, they ought 10 be
kidnapped. the good for nothing fools.
FRED GROW.
PUTNAM COUNT, Conn. July Q.
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An Injury to Esprit de Corps In the
American Navy.

We have not the slightest doubt that
the ARM aud Nary Journal will have
the gratitude of, the rank and file Of the
navy for saying that. far from approx
ing of the school exercises imposed upon
them by Mr.. DANIELS, they want TO
feel that they are part and parcel of the
great, throbbing. glorious institution
that has produced PAUL JONES, STE
YHES DECATUR. DAVID FARRAeUT. GEORGE
DEWEY and others whose names glorify
American history" This does not mean
that officers and men want war and are
filled with the lust of battle: II means
that they entered the service from An
napolis and from the public schools
not TO teach and be taught grammar.
geography. the rule OF three, and Tex
tfas," but 10 undergo rigorous. prac-
deal training to fight the battles OF
their country II the call comes.
No man enlists TO continue the school
Ing that the State gave him up 10
certain age. or TO prepare himself 10
earn better living when he leaves
the navy: he enllstS because ne wants
to be trained for active service under
the flag, and he covets or Mt least does
not wish TO miss. the opportunity to
distinguish himself. II Is a spirit that
may not be deemed righteous by the
present Administration. but II animates
every man who wears the uniform.
1t has been well said that 1t takes
three years to make a man-of.war's
man, and no time in the period Of
training is really wasted. Granted
that the Daniels curriculum can be
squeezed in, the fact remains that It
- unwelcome and irksome TO both off,
GERS and men. and does not add to but
detracts from the esprit de corps Of
the service. which Is a bad thing The
navy does not offer civilian education
to recruits, and they do not ask for It
OF desire II. Such being the case. II
win never be popular and must repel
rather than attract. Therefore the
sooner the Wilson-Daniels hobby is
discarded the better It will be for the
lavy and the country.
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The representatives of Governor CAR
RAMA and General VILLA al the Torreon
conference having voted that no mill
tary leader shall become provisional
President OF Mexico. II Is said this
would eliminate CARRANzA." Technically
II would. for the Governor has been
calling himself in official documents
First Chief of the Constitutionalist
Army" but as matter of fact the
Governor is not regarded by the brigade
comma nders as a military man. except
by courtesy However, II will make for
harmony in the ranks II the old gentle
man is eliminated as a candidate
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BLINDNESS BY ACCIDENTS.
Many PreventabIe Causes OF impairment
OF vision.


To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-s,r: II
Is well understood among workers for the
blind. and TO a certain extent among
managers OF industries, that bursting
water gauges on boilers not infrequently
cause injury 10 the eyes. but have been
astonished to observe bS press clippings
that during the last thirty days four
persons in the State have had their eye
sight wholly or partially destroyed in
this manner. In common with many
other matters of daily occurrence. an
accident of this kind is inexcusable.
There are manufactured to-day several
types Of safety water gauges. all OF
which are on exhibit at the American
Museum OF Safety. and | trust owners OF
plants will soon recognize the absolute
necessity of procuring a proper attachment
of this sort for their boilers.
Other recent accidents resulting in n
serious impairment of vision which have
come to my attention and which are in
many instances preventable are injury to
the eyes from Quicklme. explosion of
TASKS containing caustic. a blow from a
stick explosion OF gas. shot with an air
gun, explosion OF dynamite cap, burned by
chemicals delayed blast in quarrying,
automobile accident, injury from wood
silver. thrown stone. and a part OF
machine thrown of by centrifugal force.
Fortunately the almost certain results
OF death or blindness from drinking wood
alcohol or inhaling the fumes within a
closed space are becoming increa singly
recognized. as the public prints OF the
day contain accounts of unfortunate per-
sons who, knowingly or otherwise, have
used this poisonous fluid
The New York State Commission for
the Blind is charged In part with the
prevention OF blindness. and IL has grea,
interest In this feature OF It's work, which
will 30 largely determine the amount OF
constructive effort in the State which is
Necessary for its sightless persons.
| CLARENCE NJ. ABBOTT,
Secretary. State Commission.
NEW YORK, July 10.
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THE BIG THREE.
various Lists OF the Most important
Problems.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr. A
correspondent OF THE Sun, Mr.. Joseph
II. Lyons Of New Brighton, has proposed
for discussion the question, What are the
three most important problems now be-
fore the American natjon7
The query IL at once interesting and
serious, but so extensive that Il may be
incapable OF definite answering AZ condi-
lions In America now are many 'impor-
tant problems' occupy our time In dis
oussion and the space in our newspapers
for instance, the Mexican situation, the
Colombian treaty. Progressivisn, the In
dependence Of the Philippines. the tariff,
the currency plan. &C.
II has been my purpose to separate the
greater from the lesser problems, and I
submit my answer: Mexico. capital and
labor, and woman suffrage.
u. J. ScoLEs
Lone ISLAND CITY, July TO-
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From Serbners Magazine

From Scribners Magazine,
Exiles, they tread their narrow bounds
Behind the iron bars,
Where'er they turn tho hand OF man
Their straining vision mars.
Save only when at night they gaze
Upon the friendly stars
Seei There a golden eagle broods
with glazed, unseeing eyes
That never more viii sweep the shows
Where blue Sierras rise.
And there, sick for his native hills,
sullsn panther lies
What dreams OF silent polar nights
Disturb the white bears sleep
Roams he once more unfettered where
Eternal lee foes sweep
What memories Of the Jungle's ways
Does that gaunt tiger keep
Such wistful eyes the hartebeest turn
Beyond their cramped domain.
They seem to see the following leagues
OF wind swept veldt again:
And look. a springbok lifts his head
As. though he smelled tho plain.
Exiles, they tread their narrow bounds
Behind tho iron bars,
For thus the ruthless hand 81 man
Each God made creature mars.
But oh. what hungry eyes they raise
Up to the friendly stars
GEORGE T MARSH
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The severe penalties melted. out 10
CHARLES F. BANTER. recently resident
physician in the workhouse on Black
wells Island, suggest that there is no
real difficulty in stopping the sale Of
drugs in penal institutions II the fight
against them is taken up in an earnest
spirit. The State Prison Commission
is taking somewhat deliberate steps to
end the abuses in Sing Sing tardily
revealed by ex-Warden CLANCY. A
study of the BAXTER case would be an
excellent mental and moral tonic Il
taken as a preliminary 10 the con-
templated reform wave.
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ONE MASTER MIND,
Reflections Of Ephraim Stats on the
Present Monarchy

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str. Last
Sunday You printed a piece called "On-
Rarchy" by a Teller named Carman about
the political destinies of all the great ma
tons OF the world bein' controlled by less
than nifty master minds as he called IL.
by which I suppose he meant mon who
seem chance had scooped II to run
things as they thought they ought to be
run
Well. II this is so, what I'd like TO know
is how many OF these less than nifty mas
ter minds is runnin this here country Of
ourn? Looks TO me like we was about as
big bunch as any. but II looks too like
we was bound to be run by Just one
master mind, same as we was back at
school. And that don't somehow seem
right. specially when n teacher seems set
on runnn' the school board ana the folks
in the next town as well.
What's Congress got 10 say for itself?
Is II goin' TO be Ikea punk school board
afraid OF It's shadder? EPH Stats
FOUR CORNERS, July g.
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9sTH TRIP ON 9sTH BIRTHDAY.
| Mira. =. Prescott starts Another
Journey Across Atlantic.

Mrs. S. Prescott OF Pelham Manor
sailed Yesterday by the Fahre liner cam
ada on her ninety-eighth trip across ~
Atlantic. thus COMMUNICATING the n'neF'
eighth anniversary of her birth ~" -
accompanied by her daughter aS' wa
spend seven months in southern Europe.
She believes that her frequent VoJ SEE
have contributed to her health ana on
gevity. She walks, when she Is ashore,
several miles a dsy, and when on sh'p
uses the promenade deck daily
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In Simple Justice TO the Phiii.tines

Here Is tale which II were a pleas
ure to tell in Gath, any newspaper Of
general circulation would be glad to
publish II in the streets of Ashkelon.
Too long the symbol for all that Is I'M
couth, Bpouan, at war with art. the
Philistine is at last coming into his
own. His browning shame Is that
DELILAH trapped SAMSON 10 his blind
ing. yet now we know that the woman
Of the valley of Sorek was a daughter
Of Israel no better than she should be-
The downfall Of the Philistine might
ensued when DAVID slew the giant
GOLIATH with a smooth stone out Of
the brook. yet now we know that Go
LIATH was no Philistine at all but one
of the sons Of Anak.
This rehabilitation Of an ancient PEG.
pie is entertainingly and most con-
Hncingly set forth in the Schweich lee.
lures of the British Academy by Pro-
fessor r. A. STEWART MACALIsTER Of
Dublin. There is more in II than the
mere clearing up of an obscurity In the
history Of the Jews for Professor MAC
ALIsTER goes far 10 set forth the proof
that the Phllistines were among the
founders of European culture as dis
t,nct from Asian society. So far as
relates to the history Of the Jewish
nation he makes II absolutely clear
that the Philistines were the dominant
race of Palestine, for to this day we
celebrate in the name of Palestine the
glory Of the Phlistines in the only
name we possess for the terrain of the
two kingdoms Of Israel and Of Judah.
In this series Of lectures Professor
MAcALIsTER sums and interprets the
arid and asive record Of the Hebrew
historians To It he adds store of
information derived from the great
cuneiform libraries now available for
study. He collates exclusively rhe
Egyptian record of the Philstines ms
contained in the carvings Of Medinet
Habu and other shrnes, From the re-
Gently discovered Golensc heff papyrus
he translates the tale of the seafaring
Of wEN-AMoN after cedar Of Lebanon
IN the land of ZAKAR-BAAL, prince of
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native land"
Once at Petra some Arabian robbers
posing as guides skedaddled. impressed
by the ferociousness with which he
made "a plunge for imaginary arms as
II he were loaded with firearms" He
was booked for the Titanic. but had
the good bad fortune to he knocked
down and out by Paris cab. He was
worth more than 100000. but thrift
for the benefit Of others was always
his housekeeper:
Il do not suppose ne paid more than
SIS month for what he actually ate, not
that he wasn't able to go to a club and
pay from 81 TO 81 SO for every meal but
because he was economizing at every
point with reference to saving money
that he might educate poor girls. and that
he might add more to his estate, every
dollar of which he had resolved to give
to the church"
And now we come to his grand re-
nunciatlon. A fortune estimated at
$1O,OOO.0o0 was In his reach where
with he could have endowed and fur.
thered those works Of charity, educa.
tion, plety, which were dearest to his
heart. The story is too romantic to
be trusted save in sermon. SO Or.
LEE shall tell:
Long after the civil war, when the
/ boy had grown TO be a man. he found. TO
his ~ a., o., 49,.
a deed to 5,ss3 acres OF land. located in
what is known as West Virginia. This
deed was a great surprise TO all who saw
or heard OF II. Putting this deed In his
pocket. young PALMoRE. the only heir to
the property. made a trip TO West Viz
ginia to look over his vast estate. which
was far In the interior.
Starting from the city OF Charleston,
West Virginia. he drove in a buggy into
the region where his plantation was To-
Gated. He traced the boundaries OF his
property and found that hundreds Of
] families had settled on It without any
right to It. but were living as IL secure
| in the possession Of their separate little
patches of territory He found that be-
meath the surface OF this land there was
almost limitless wealth. but the multi
tudes who had built themselves humble
| homes on the surface did not know OF II.
| and had been living thus In undisturbed
| possession for a number Of years He
quietly walked about at night and looked
! through the windows at the parents and
| children living on his estate. Great law
yers were ready TO inaugurate legal pro-
| ceedngs that would have made him a
millionaire, and such legal proceedings
would doubtless have been instituted II
/ the heir in person had not visited the
scene OF his great estate. He began to
feel that instead OF such a fortune being
blessing, as he dreamed in the night
time about dispossessing such a multi
tude OF people OF their humble homes II
occurred to him that TO secure his estate
at such an expense would make II a bur
| den.
After earnest prayer and sleepiess
hours in the midst OF his vast acres he
member OF this multitude OF families
living on his property needed II more
than did the heir. and there and then he
made up his mind that he would leave
them in quiet possession OF his estate"
Naturally his friends told him he
was fool. Well. so in sense he was.
Is It Celtic or medinval or both. that
phrase which the "quixotic" course Of
PALMpRE brings up In the memory,
The Fool OF GoD"7
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The Flower OF TarheeIia ana the Weed
OF Sin.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sty: In
this age of the holier than thou reformer
has the use or abuse of tobacco been left
a matter OF individual selection?
How comes II that J. Daniels over
looked the suppression OF this filthy habit
in his moral upift order banishng rum
from the navy?
Why not a smokeless as well as rum
less navy?
II we are TO have national prohibition
OF alcoholic beverages. why not prohibit
the use Of tobacco as we'll?
It's bad habit, OF no moral, mental or
physical benefit. LOUIS J. SNYDER
NEW YORK, July II.
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Is This Tr,pIice possibje7

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Str: The
three great problems in America and else
where.
l. To mind ones business
2 To mind no business but ones own
g. To discourage. meddlers. reformers.
preachers. W. j. BIS. w WIS. J. D's. &c,
from minding your business or anything
but their own. j. O.
CORONA. l.. l.. July II.
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To Live or Not 90 Live?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Ssr. The
three problems Of most Importance a,
this time are:
l. How to Ave decently when the at
tention OF the community Is divided be-
tween eugenics and the tango
q How to live sanely under the present
psychological conditions
g. How TO live at all at prevailing
prices. DAVID A, CURTIS
New YORK, July 10
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One Of the two biggest batteships
OF the navy takes the name OF the least
populous State. Nevada. Some of the
largest States must be content TO know
that obsolete ships bear their names
However, handsome is that handsome
does, Nevada has a fine. swinging,
mouth filing. romantic sound
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To TIE EDITOR OF THE SuS--SU' l saw
a miserable sex play" last Saturday which
deals with marriage from the physical
standpoint entirely. One OF the principal
sentiments enunciated was that no man
should marry Till he was absolutely sure
he could be loyal to one woman physically,
morally and mentally II such a sentiment
were acted on marriages would cease, and
the human race would die out, though that
would not be much OF a calamity.
NEW YORK. July 10. F. II J
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He hangs on straps both night and day
In all his travellings.
Then for vacation seeks the surf
And TO the Ne line clings.
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Alarm in the Progressive ranks oven
the SULzER hogy looks very like a
crime bringing its own punishment.
The party of virtue opened its arms to
the discredited statesman and gave him
his frst lift in regaining a footing
from which to beguile and bamboozle
the voters
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Philosophy. Economics, Aviation.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-s,r. The
three great problems that confront the
nation to-day are: To be or not to be-"
poverty, and crossing the ocean by sea-
plane p L.
New YORK, July g.