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rEuroNlc NERVOUSNESS,
How n. De LaHtole Bought q Nickel's
Worth for the Allies.

To THE EDITOR or THE suN-Sir: There
Ia no doubt that all the Harlem ave-
nues, streets m particularly yards are
slowly but surely invaded by German
bands. Still I differ of "a. w. r."
when suggesting In your columns that
Mayor Mitchell should take a hand In II
by suppressing the permits of these
bands. You never know what the Boobies
could do in retaliation. They may get
mad. build trenches and then, because
I dc not believe for a minute the all
New York police could drive them
away, II would be much worse because
of the possibility OF the Harlem sleep,
already so much disturbed by cats, being
under the strains OF Die Wacht am
Rhein'' or some other Teutonic melodi-
BUSINESS of the sort.
Besides, at least for tho present, the
artists" are very tame, in fact. only
businesslike. II the German Govern
ment had Just edicted that as much as
ten years Of prison should be the pun
ishment for every n Of Its citizens
guilty of making ammunition for the
Allies, he so far has taken no decision
in regard OF the pieces OF music to be
selected by the bandmasters OF his
country.
To tell the truth, they play submissi-
bly, what asked by b~ystanders. re-
Gently got a 'Tipperary" addition free
Of charge and the "Marseillaise' for a
nickel, It's only cgret being OF not
spending a second one. and even a full
quarter. for the pleasure OF the Kaiser
being there. HENRI Oh LAFIToLE.
NEW YORK, July 20.
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A Six Inch Howitzer. and We Have
Only Five Of Them.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str: Ask
the next United States army officer you
meet II he knows the size OF the largest
field hOwitzer we have. The answer
is six inches, hut the odds are 100 to /
that he will not be able to tell you the
answer. And II will further surprise
hin to learn that there are just Ave
OF these pieces In the whole country and
its possessions to-day. BY contrast the
As centimeter gums being used in Eu-
rope approximate fourteen inches. We
have IA inch guns, but they are liked
coast defence guns. not field howitzers.
The cadet corps at West Point has seen
one of these howitzers. and that Is all.
They have received no instruction In
its workings. INC whatever information
they were able to get was the result
OF observation.
Did you ever hear Of that regular
army on the Mexican border
that consisted OF a Captain. First Lieu
tenant. Second Lieutenant, extra Second
Lieutenant, four eergeants. and a squad
and a half OF men. OF whom two were
c~orporals? There are eight men In a
squad.
II looks as u we were about TO get
away from the comic opera methods
that have made a Joke of the sincerity
and patriotism OF our army and navy
officers and a fools paradise Of this rich
and beautiful land. CIT.
NEWARK. n. j., August 8.
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The British People In Ar ms.

The report that the British Cabi-
net has declared for compulsory mill,
tary service is not confirmed, but
England has been methOdically pre-
pared for consumption, to give the
system its Continental name. A first
step was taken when the national
registration bill was introduced IN
Parliament. 1t was a feeler. Lord
LANsDowNE in moving the second
reading Of the bill in the House of
Lords on July IL intimated that vol
untary service, with its anomalies
and injustices, would not be tolerated
very much longer by the country, and
he even admitted that registration to
determine how many men were able
to bear arms foreshadowed compul-
sorry service.
This was plain talk. and 1t was not
resented, because a few days before
Lord KITCHENER, in making an appeal
at a Guildhall meeting for more re-
cfUltS, mtlmated mat England would
need very able bodied man before
the end. Significant was his perora.
ton, which was loudly cheered:
ut has been we'll said that In every
mans life there Is ono supreme hou,
toward which all earlier experience
moves and from which all future result.
may be reckoned. For every individual
Briton. as we'll as for our national OK,
istcnce. that solemn hour Ia now strik
ing. Let us take heed to the great on
portunity II offers and which most as,
suredly we must grasp now and at once
or never. Let each man OF us sec tina
we spare nothing. sh!rk nothing. shrinl
from nothing. II only We may lend sul
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full weight 20 the impetus which shall
carry to victory the cause Of our honrr
and Of our freedom"
In a previous passage he quoted
NAPoLEoN's three things necessary
for a successful war;" money, money,
money, and said: To-day we vary
that phrase and say. Men, material
and money" Money England was
providing, the Ministry Of Munitions
was solving the problem Of material,
land there still remains" said Lord
KITCHENER, "the vital need for men
to fill the ranks Of our armies" So
England, mirabile dictu, is face to
face with CONSUMPTION and in the tenn
per to accept 1t. There will doubtless
be no difficulty about the necessary
legislation. 1t has been known for
some time that several members Of
the Coalition Cabinet were in favor
Of compulsory service. One Of them
declared in a public meeting not long
ago that he would resign IL 1t were
TO be ruled out
Looking back 1t can now be seen
that England would have to come to
universal service some time or other.
1t was not entirely that events were
proving the great Field Marshal to
be right when he predicted the war
would last for three years. There
was a contributing influence that
touched British pride: when all the
Colonies we're giving the flower Of
their youth to save the liberties Of
the mother country and when the
colonials were seen to be fighting
with a magnificent disdain for death.
regiments going into battle with a
full complement and but a corporal's
guard coming out of the hell Of high
explosives, how could the mother
country keep her last son at home in
the grand ordeal?
1t Will be welcome news to the allies
Of the empire when the report is Off
cially confirmed. The cry will ruiz
and ring along the French intrench-
ments from Calais to Verdun: AT
last England is awake and ready to
match us man for man; the shattered
Russians retiring doggedly to renew
the conflict will know that their sacri-
fees have not been in vain. The Is
sue of the great war will still be in
doubt, but 1t is an impressive thought.
as England prepares for universal SER
vice. that NELSON'S Invocation to the
men Of his fleet at Trafalgar is to be
answered by the whole nation in the
supreme crisis Of the empire a hun.
dred years and more later.
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The Last Of the Middle West Gangs,

When Judge CHARLES B. WILSON
OF the Oklahoma court sentenced
HENRY STARR to twenty-five years 10
the State penitentiary he put an end
to the last Of the notorious gangs OF
the middle West that came into ex-
istence just after the civil war and
which for more than fifty years State
and Federal Governments have fought
to suppress.
The Starr gang has gone the way
Of the James, the Younger and other
less notorious ~brOtherhOods who
would rob a bank, a town or hold up
a stage or train and ride away on
their fleet horses TO safety before pur-
suit could be organized. They be-
lOnged to the period when the first
railways were crossing the plains,
when cattle came in druyes over the
trails from Texas, when the cowboys
Jumped their ponies off the long
bridge at Wichita into the Arkansa 5
Just to show that they could, and
when Dodge and Abilene had Il half
score of men to bury every morning
with their boots on.
How many State or Territorial Off.
GERS or United States deputy mar
shals fell I'm battles with these out
laws only the records would show,
But 1t was not these peace officers
alone that finally conquered; 1t was
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To Utica with EN-!

The editor Of Good Words. the
newspaper published by the inmates
OF the Federal penitentiary at At.
lanta, complains bitterly that his lit.
erary property, the product Of the
immured intelligence and originality
Of his contributors, is persistently ap-
propriated and published without
credit by at least three Of his es.
tcemed penal contemporaries. Good
Words declares that these thieves OF
brains. now operating in other insti,
tutions, are unworthy to he in q
United States prison.
The editors indignation is warrant.
cd by the enormity Of the offence
The scoundrels should be transferred
on life sentences to the Office Of the
Herald-Despdtch Of Utica, New York
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Mohammed the Farmer, and the
Market Mountain.

Lean starvation is better, because
it adds no insult to the injury. than
choking to death on the fat Of a too
fat land, the fate that seems to
threaten the farmers Of the rich warm
south Of the Jerseys. From Burling-
ton, Gloucester, Salem and other fer
tile shlres along the Delaware come
this year as In other years gloomy
reports Of fruit and farm truck rot
ting In the fields, legumes turned un-
der because they are worth more as
fertilizer than as food at obtainable
prices, potatoes costing more to raise
and market than they can be sold
for. A summer without these delight
fully l~ugubrious yarns would be no
summer at all.
The State spends money ungrudg-
ingly, perhaps lavishly is the word,
not sparing even the creation OF new
and lucrative jobs, in giving courses
Of instruction in the latest approved
methods Of tickling the teeming earth.
But what Is the use of learning how
to grow crops that you cannot sell?
Is a man to grip the handles Of a
plough from morn to noon, from noon
to dewy We. out Of altruism or love
Of nature and the outdoor life?
For our own part, we do u farm
ing on paper. the pleasantest and
least expensive way. We shall not
dwell upon the magnificent faulty
and futility Of Jersey farmers who
pay premiums to two sets Of middle
men and transportation two ways on
harvests that travel to Trenton or
Camden or Philadelphia and back 70
within easy sight Of the place OF
their production. a system Of less ad-
vantage, except to the mystical. myth
zeal middleman, than the good old
way Of barter. Our attention Is held
by the chapter on the cabbage, sold
on the farm at four cents for ten full
heads, and retailed in city markets
at fifteen to twenty cents a head,
though hucksters are satisfied to get
five cents n head a round profit.
The simplicity Of genius Is much
| spoken Of. Would 1t not be a work
Of ingenious simplicity for Agricola
to load his truck on a wagon. drive
into town, and peddle? This would
not solve the social economic problem,
but enterprislng individuals might
make fortunes. But where in the or
bis terrarum is there sc utterly un.
reasonable a creature as the farmer?
He loves to live on the fat Of the
land, and he pltied.
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History Repeats Itself.

That a practice resorted to by the
desperate and foe enveloped South
ern Confederacy should be repeated
in the history Of n vigorous and re-
sourceful nation like Germany would
have seemed incredible n few months
ago. The recent appeal Of the Ger
man Minister Of the Interior to the
apothecaries Of the realm urging the
gathering Of medicinal plants as
substitutes for important drugs that
had become or were likely to become
inaccessible brings wildly to the men,
DRY Of those who lived in the South
during the civil wal groups of women
and children gathering yellow jessa-
mine, green hellebore, ~sassafras, oak
and dogwood bark.
To-day the German arothecaries
are following their example by order
Of the Government to collect digltalls
and belladonna leaves, arnica and
camomile flowers and other plants
designated by the Minister OF the In
terror, to be laid away in proper man.
ner against the day of dire need that
may come from the isolation of Ger
many by the Allies.
That the methodical system and
foresight Of the Germans in the
piping time Of peace are matched in
their activities In war Is evidenced
by their not waiting FOR the day OF
need but preparing in advance OF Its
possible approach. Herein our peo-
pie may learn a valuable lesson in an
apparently small matter.
One may as reasonably anticipate
illness from the storing mp Of poison.
drugs for Its treatment as to in
sist that the gathering Of munitions
Of war and the training Of our citi.
zens for the prevention OF possible
war will hasten wars coming.
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CHARGES $4,000
LOSS TO M'ANENY
William Bullock Says Alder.
manic President Alone Signed
Snow Contract.
POINTS TO A LOWER BID

George McAneny's defence W IN.
Board Of Aldermen against tho clorrs
that It has abused it's trust In lciup,
s1,130,500 worth Of contracts hon,
public bidding does not satisfy William
Bullock. director of the Bureau Of CIV
Inquiry.
Returning to the attack YESTERDAY with
a letter to Mr.. MoAneny, Mr.. Bullock
accuses the Aldermanic President OF Al.
tempting to shift TO ex-Comptro'er
Metz responsibility for the present non.
competitive purchase OF motor vehicles.
Mr.. Bullock points out that the Fir.
Department has made its purchases
through competition for several yeara
and he says other departments could
do the same. Mr.. Bullock's letter con.
tlnuesi
"You make the plea that economy
has been the single aim Of the Board
that $4,000 was saved by letting a
contract for slip ana pier work with.
out bids. Would the opening of thl.
tbillIdNl W 'piip''iA''h heN' lA''
the favored contractor from bidding az
low? Would 1t not possibly have forced
him to bid still lower?
IN abusing its power TO exempt con-
tracts from open bidding the Board OF
Aldermen has followed an example set
by yourself. which caused the city a
loss of approximately $4,000.
"For the snow removal OF l9l3-1<
the Soraci Contracting Company. which
had successfully removed snow in The
Bronx, bid 46 cents a cubic yard for
one-third OF Manhattan.
"You alone signed the report Of the
snow committee of the Board az Es,l.
mate on which the contract was awarded
to the Belmont Trucking Company az
Sc cents "A cubic yard, an Increase Of
10 cents a yard over the previous year
This action, corresponding to that %
the Board of Aldermen at present, was
taken under charter provisions giving
power to reject low bids.
There were 1880 900 cubic yards OF
snow removed in Manhattan III l1l5-
a.. As an outcome of FOUR action
the city lost 1G cents a yard on one
third the total yardage.
You defend the Board OF Aldermen
now by general denials and by dssum'
ing superior virtue. / point only 10 the
Official city records"
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More About Street Bands and Hurdy
Gurdies.

To TIE EDITOR OF The SUN-Str. In
THE SUN there was a complaint sent In
by a much disturbed gentleman stating
that he was constantly being annoyed
by a German street band of three or four
pieces playing Die Wacht am Rhein."
He also states that his occurs In the
neighborhood Of 125th street. II this
gentleman would go down town he would
heal the "Marseillaise' and "Tipperary'
played on hurdy gurdies, which he no
doubt would consider good music.
I fail to see why citizens OF the
United States favor the English. They
say, "Our English COUSINS" but so far
as I can see our English cousins"
proved ~treacherous to us way back in
the time OF the colonies. She was the
cause Of the revolution. Did she not
kidnap our seamen and force them into
her navy. thus causing the war OF 1912?
Did not England assist the South In
the time of the civil war. fitting II on,
with ships, money and munitions OF
war?
Who can state a case where Germany
was so treacherous to the United States?
BROOKLYN, July 20. A READER.
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II AM POLAND"
An Invocation.
From Free Poland for August

From Free Poland tor august ].
Behold me. o Mankind! Clothed In
robes Of white and crimson. letters
dragging at my withered limbs!
White, because / am innocent be-
fore the God of Peace and Justice OF
the awful fate hat has befallen me.
Crimson, because the wounds that
thrice nave pierced my heart a GEN.
fury ago. now bleed afresh and life's
last drop of blood is slowly ebbing.
The letters soon will fail. for there
is naught to hold!
I spoke of God! Oh. dreadful
thought I now begin to doubt that
God still Is. and all around me l be-
hold portents that Justify my fears.
Where'er / turn, contending armies
press upon me and in the front ranks
OF each Of them, oh. merciful
Heavens. I see my own. my children.
well beloved. my only hope and wish
for life. imYelled to slay each other
for a cause not theirs!
The aged. the mothers and the little
brood. hat promise Of the future. I'm
powerless to feed and shelter and pro-
tect! see them starve and die.
The very soil is battle SCARED;
deep trenches cross It everywhere;
and mighty forests barren stand.
stripped by the hand OF war;!
l love this land OF plains. O
Poland OF my heart! I love thee
more, because a hundred years thou
hast endured the sorrows Of Niobe
thousandf4id and noble courage has
sustained Thee!
I've hoped for thee and prayed.
Thy children I have gathered to my
heart and breathed the spirit Of a
valiant race into their souls.
But now I can no more! Behold
me. o Mankind, I've sunk upon the
blood drenched ground and faith and
hope have almost died within me.
Can 1t be writ upon the scroll OF
fate that this nation should be wiped
away while Mankind was engulfed in
war or in pursuit Of wealth and happi-
ness?
o God OF Justice and Of Peace!
The talents Thou hast given me ]
freely shared with others. while sor-
row has been mine alone!
The might which Thou vouchsafed
To me was V in oppression used
When Crescent threatened to supplant
the Cross my sons were the defenders
of Thy faith!
o God of Justice and OF Peace,
What recompense Is mine! Hast
Thou decreed that l should die? or
shall I pass through this travail to
life anew?
Inspire Thou Mankind to help.
Preserve me. Thou, o God Of Justice
and of Peace! CAsIMIR GoNsKI.
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q. W. PERKINS ELATED.
"Th~ ~RrcssiNe Party Is Going
tn GrOv," lie Dcclnrcs,

George w. Perkins seemed happy last
night when he returned from his trip 10
Buffalo and Albany In the interest of the
national organization OF the Progressive
party. He SAID there WAS no longer
fear that any considerable number OF
Prosrcssives would return to the Repub-
lican party. He accounted il a good
thing for the party that Chauncey j.
Hamlin, Theodore Douglas Robinson and
Frederick NJ Davenport had made their
fight thus early for reunion Of the voters
Of the two parties.
The Progressive party f. Kong 10
grow said Mr., Perkins, I'm Buffalo.
Rochester and Albany | found the s,nti-
ment for keeping right on overwhelm-
ing
Edmund Burke osborne. who was the
chairman of the New Jersey Progressive
executive committee IN the campaign OF
1912, announced Yesterday that he had
returned 70 the Republican party.
II believe" he said, THAT tho FRO
grossive party Is dead beyond none of
revival and that | can accomplish more
by working IN tho Republican party than
| could hone to accomplish by going
Into tho Democratic party"
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To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-Sir. Tired
OF INDUCING In tho rather monotonous
pastime OF riding the umpire, some To-
cal bail 'fans" have revived agitation to
have the ball games In this city begin
earlier. Those back OF the movement base
their argument on the fact that tho pres
emit starting time does not permit tn,
spectators to get to their homes In tim.
to enjoy n warm and rala,abls upper.
In fact, those who have n-glectful wives
insist they do not get supper at all unless
they go to n convenient restaurant,
The dlsgruntled ones desire to have the
starting time of the games brought forward
half an hour. or from $3.50 to 3 i. NJ. on
Saturdays they wish to have the games
begin at : or 2:3O T. NJ. At present the
games on Saturday start at 2 p. ". II
is obvious then that all the local manage
ments have TO do II to bring the starting
time forward thirty minutes to satisfy
those who seem to have more than an
ordinary amount OF spare time.
But what about the baseball devotecs
who find II impossible 20 get away from
their work before 3 f. NJ Aren't they
entitled to a say In the matter OF chang.
Ing the starting time Of the sames? They
have as much right to expect fair treat
ment from the owners of the local teams
as the other set have.
Only a few years ago similar agltati,n
was started TO have tho games begln
earlier, and the wishes OF those who do.
sired such a change were catered to when
the starting time was set forward hair an
hour. Now they are seeking to have ina
starting time made another half hnur
earlier Perhaps there are some person
who crave early suppers, but they should
not Insist on having the starting time
nlAchu At an hnnF Whtnh vFA,Na
scores OF other people would be compellsi
to remain away, why not ,nstu %aii,,,.
ginger into the players and make thar
play the games In less time than II take,
at present. E.x
NEW YoRK, Aueust q,
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when the Belligerents "Come 10
Them selves"

To III EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: Your
view Of the notes Thursday morning is
just right. 1t il the American view. I'm
fortunately. the English note has been
strengthened by the pro-English view
of tina faction here. just as Germany
has been encouraged to bclittle our in
fiuence because OF pro-German talk on
this side.
Simeon Ford once told Of an inmate
of an insane asylum who was so violent
that he first tore off his coat, then his
vest. next his shirt, and finally his ua-
dershirt. Then, said Ford. he came u
himself. That mad crowd IN Europe
still retain a few material things. In
two or three years II is quite probable
that they will nave destroyed all that
remains and will have come to them
selves.
When that time comes Uncle Sam has
some bills to present.
LAWRENCE A. ToKPP.
MippLETowN, August g..
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WILLS AND A~PPRAISALS.

On DUDLEY \. ALLEN, formerly =
Cleveland. ohio, who died on JlDHuy -
last at the WHldorf-Ns'urtt, ir'' en-
estate Of S23l,g2l in addition o. '...
able real cstate in Cleveland Ilo N..'!
his entire estate to h cleveland Trust
Company. of which he was a a.tr'n- 60
he distributed under "a trust ts.,.
1t is understood that the balls O.
property goes to his Wife. Mrs h.. .'.
Allen, who inherited moro tItl
900 from her father. Louis y, : |' 4"
of Cleveland, Al associate 10. ..
Rockefeller in the STANDARD 10.
pauy In. Allen had S2u5.2'i '.
rites, of which more than $500 .. NN'
IN standard oil issurs.
MRs lpA BIsFHNM, who dr'
. last, widow of Henry g. $3.50
more than $4,000. she $3.50
Metropolitan Museum Of Art t|
bands paintings except '..s
Nymphes' by Dia2. which
brother, Robert g. luwrDy,
t'ait OF "A Young GirI' 1l
which she gavo to a fr'"rd. 80
Ieers. She gave the r,sIdgtrE
sophie Wager Coolidge OF l''H
of Gen. Charles Austin Coo, -'.
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WIDOW GETS MILNE ESTATE
value of Iron and steel Mans
Property Not Given.

WHITE PLAINS. y. V. Aug { To.
Will of Alexander Milne ~ 50 SOL
Broadway, filed with Surrogate W.'.rr.
A. sawyer, leaves his entire estate =
widow. Mrs. Jessie Back M.lno. NJ.
Milne is also made eNecu'riN. I've
value of the estate is not given. the att
davit fled showing that there IS no .s,.
property and that the personal estate $
worth upwards of 10000
BESIDES Mrs, Milne there H. surN.y ID,
a daughter, Mrs. christolla Mlre s.
vers Of C~ranhury. y. j., and a sor. As.-
ander Milne, Jr,, of VANDERBILT. o.
No mention OF the son and daughter ID.
made in the will.
Mr.. Milne died here sunday. lie nts
the head OF the A Milne comnsny, 80
146 Washington street, Ma.hat'a", 'r-
and steel importers.