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~valueless at greater range, they can
render the whole channel impossible
by ear Of contact or floating mines
and they can employ ~torpedoes
launched or fred from the shore.
The need Of strong assistance to
the feet from landing forces thus
became evident. Troops from Aus
tralia and New Zealand have already
displayed marvellous dash and eff
cheney in this irregular warfare. But
the difficulties confronting them were
enormous. for here again natural con-
ditions favored the Turks. There
were no good harbors available for
their use and they disembarked under
Il CALLING fire from effective guns
which they were unable to silence.
Almost the whole Of the Gallipoli
peninsula IL covered with hills that
rise to the height Of about 1000 feet
and which run not In well defined
direction but arrange themselves in
groups or series Of groups. The area.
too, is practically rOadless and thick
with prickly scrub. Each vantage
point must thus he both seized and
defended by itself In the face Of an
enemy favored by natural conditions
in the placing Of their rlfiemen.
sharpshooters and light artillery.
Ignorance OF the strength OF the
natural defences was. no doubt, re.
spOnsible for much OF the optimism
early in the campaign. 1t is the
awakening to them that has caused
a feeling OF uneasiness, that finds
expression in a doubt II the attacks
will be successful or II they are worth
the losses they must entail.
In fact. despite this recently re.
ported victory II appears that the
Dardanelles campaign has been more
or less Of n blunder. Whether the
mistake vas in the attempt itself or
In the manner In which 1t has been
made the future will show. That the
campaign had both a military and
political purpose appears evident.
The opening up Of the Black Sea
would have been a severe blow to
Ottoman power and to the German
Influence In the East. but an equally
great factor in deciding the final out.
come " the war would have been
the alignment of the Balkans on the
side Of the Allies. After Ave months
Of hard fighting the Allies have
scarcely more than forced the en-.
trance OF the strait. while none of the
Balkan States have Joined them in
the war, and thus the campaign has
served neither Its apparent military
nor political purpose.
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American ship owners are In some
thing like a stampede to escape ruin
by getting out from under the Amer.
lean colors and scurrying for safety
to the cover Of foreign flags and for
eign ports Of entry.
II. as Mr.. MANN suggests. a special
session Ii advisable to clear the decks
for legislation Of the future. let the
good work begin by first of all throw
ing overheard neck and crop that In
Toilette legislation Of the past which
has already wrought such havoc and
has such fatal promise Of more and
continuous havoc yet to come. There
could he no good lead for Legislative
work" quite 50 good as this, nothing
which President WILSON could ~ con-
fidently plead II he needed an urgent
reason for calling Congress together
in extra session.
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ture will no longer be the opposition
Of the laborer to the employer. but of
the consumer to the producer.
To supplement the laws against
combinations in restraint Of trade and
remedy alleged existing conditions
Congress has now passed the Federal
Trade Commission act. Is this a step
in the direction Of what the Progress
sives are after? 1t adopts the CONT
mental idea. of unfair competition, or
as it Is termed In France, concur
renee de loyal" II has power to COM
pei any corporation to "readjust' its
business, whatever his means. The
precedent and analogy for this law is
the interstate commerce law and COM
mission. But can the affairs Of other
business corporations be as easily d.
rected by a commission as those of q
railroad corporation?
The sum and substance OF II all IL
hat American business is ~floundering
in a legal bog. IL does not know what
II can do, and no one can tell II. We
must fall back upon the old statement
that Nothing is good law which is not
good reason And what In good rea-
SON will depend upon the state Of
mind Of the community at a given
time. The opinion Of wise men will be
that Alexander Hamilton was right
when he tried to provide a Constitu-
tion and system Of government which
would be, as far as possible. immune
to temporary changes of popular opin-
ion. LAWRENCE GoDKfN.
NEW YORK. June 2S.
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Tufts, 1850.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. You
are entirely correct In your estimate OF
the date of the writing of the Immortal
ballad" The Lone F%ishbail." ! was
graduated at Tufts College in the ella 50
OF 1860, and when | left that institution
l had with me and still have a folio
volume OF college Songs" published
In Boston in 1860 by Russell & Tolmar,
29l Washington street.
II contains the SONGS OF Harvard.
Yale. Williams and Dartmouth, compiled
and arranged by g. Wister Stevens,
whose preface has date Of October !.
1859. Under the Harvard songs, pages
, and :, appears The Lone FIshhall.'
words and music. With some slight
and unlmportant verbal difference the
words are a. given IN your recent issue,
No authority ~ given, but II is hardly
possible that the words could have been
written in Philadelphia and have Sc
cured "a place under Harvard songs IN
ls5s-60. very clearly remember that
through my entire course OF four years
The Lone Fishball' was one of the
sonRs popular with the students, and
It's having been put in this collection
under the Harvard title IL very strong
evidence that its author was Professor
Lane, and not Eugene II, Mundy,
GEORGE q. WALDO.
Editor Bridgeport STANDARD.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn,, June 80.
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When Thief Meets Thief.

The swindle known as wiretapping
prospers because most men believe,
In the words Of Judge MALONE, that
between the rascals who practise 1t
and the victims they fleece there Ia
little to choose In point OF morals or
social ~deceney." The man who is
robbed by wiretappers is no better
than the man who patronizes dealers
In green goods. Each tries to rob
somebody else: each finds his pocket
cleaned out In the process; and no
honest man is sorry when the bitter
finds himself bitten.
The dealers in counterfeit money"
practically enjoyed complete lmmun-
ity from prosecution for years because
the men who patronized them were
afraid to complain. These interesting
geniuses planned to issue false notes
among their neighbors, to their own
profit. When on their return from
clandestine shopping they opened the
neat packages Of sawdust or news
paper clippings that filled their hand.
bags. they could not, without ac-
k~nowledglng their own shame, move
to punish the scoundrels who had
done them up. So they kept quiet
tongues in their heads. 1t Is the
same with the purchasers OF gold
bricks. In most cases they believe
they are buying stolen property.
When the base metal they have ac-
quired Is disclosed. they have a lame
story to tell In court, and almost al.
ways seek to avoid revealing 1t.
The gull Of the wiretappers he.
lieves that he can cheat the pool.
rooms. He wants to get money dis.
honestly. He meets more than half
way those who are seeking to pluck
him. He delivers himself into their
hands, unlocks his strong box, and
helps them to empty it. When they
make away with his cash he screams
with pain: but nobody feels sorry
for him, because all recognize the fact
that he is a crook.
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The Dardanelles Victory.

The fighting along the Dardanelles,
which the British official report say
resulted in the most important vic
tory 80 far for the Allies on the Gal.
llpoli peninsula, shows clearly the
progress that they have made in this
most arduous campaign. Positions In
the neighborhOod Of Krithia were cap
tured, but the main objective, Atchi
Bahia. on the strait, was not achieved.
As krithia Is only the first of
the strong strategic points on the
peninsula and but a few miles from
It's southwestern tip, there Is not
much consolation in this success for
the optimists who expected to see the
allied forces through the Dardanelles
within Il month from the time that
their b~attleships began hammerlng at
its entrance.
The progress made 50 far In this
campaign has proved the dificulty
OF the undertaking. The narrowness
of the channel and the swiftness OF
the current in themselves form
strong means Of defence against war
ships. Large vessels cannot ma
nTuvre, nor can the great guns OF
ships he used 10 the fullest advan
tagc. On the other hand, the Turk
can utilize weapons that would b
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Overlooked BY Mr.. Mann.

The Hon. JAMES X. MANN, Repub-
lican leader in the House OF Repre-
sentatives, Is Of the opinion that Con-
} gress will he called in special session
early in the fall. He thinks the ses-
sion will be necessary to consider the
revenue question and also TO get a
good lead in legislative work. so that
an early adjournment next year may
be possible.
Consideration of the revenue ques-
ton may or may not be so impera-
tive that 1t cannot be deferred until
the regular session. Getting n good
lead in legislative work to the avoid
ance OF a prolonged sitting of Con
gress Is also a proposition for which
perhaps something may be said. But
the one great reason which might
be advanced as justifying a special
session Mr.. MANN wholly overlooks
n reason so urgent, so vital In Its I'M
pOrtance that 1t overshadows and OBJ
scures all other matters demanding
speedy legislative action.
Absolutely nothing is just now SO
imperative to the commercial inter
ests OF the country AS the repeal OF
the disastrous La Toilette seamen's
act. With every passing day that
d%eplorably III conceived, Ill sanctioned
cas- Is stripping the American
nag from American ships, utterly
paralyzing American marine develop
ment at precisely the time when as
perhaps never before In the cOuntry's
history the winds OF foreign trade
are blowing favorably for the
filling Of American sails. II is al
most as though the economic forces
Of the whole world were in n con
sDiracy to bring to us n realization
of that dream of II mercantile marine
worthy Of the country's present and
it's brilliant past, II dream which has
been so long and so all but hopelessly
cherished.
And 1t Is at just this critical mo
ment in the tide Of u affairs ST
insistently demanding that ii III
taken at the food that we find our
selves dashed hand and foot to leg
islation 50 Overwhelmingly intricate II
its maze Of stupidities that the shcc'
astOnishment Of our marine c0mpeti
tors seems even greater than thei
amusement AT our pitlfully rldiculou
plight. Just when the stars AM
stripes should be breaking out owe,
American decks on all the seven sea
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THE DRUG LAW.
Opinions Of a Druggist on the Re-
strictiOp Enactments.

-
10 THE EDITOR OF IHE suN-n": fer-
mt me as u uruss'st 10 answer youi
eul.oriaI article On tne ria,rreon "a
cotic Jaw why 40 YOU iee' sor'y W.
tne poor doctor because Oh tne NAM
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ia - ~, ~. ,.u. 49," ~ 80.
1900 ,.a, ~. T ~ ,oa.5 ~. 800,
.a.n nmaa.s .....a, 80.
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WEST POINT INDIANS.
Captain Parker u Full BlOOded In.
dian Of Grants stan.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-ST. The
other day THE U printed a letter from
some one in Alabama asking II the
statement that the recent appointment OF
a full blooded Indian to the United
States Military Academy by President
Wilson was the first of its kind was not
erroneous. And he mentioned that there
had been IA Parker, Of General Grant s
STAFF, who, he thought. was OF the
academy.
He IS correct as to Captain Parker
having been on Grant's stan otherwise
he Is in error. Parker was a full
blooded Indian, an able engineer, and
General Grant tried very hard In the
zenith Of his power to have him APP
pointed into the corps Of engineers, the
highest branch of the army and Gem
eral Grant (and President n the United
States) failed for the simple reason
that Parker was not a graduate OF
West Point. nor, for that matter, had
he been a cadet.
And thus was preserved the esprit de
corps Of that branch OF service and l
mention the fact TO you for personal
Information with pride the same pride
l had In knowing the fact that there
was one branch OF service intact one
that had its methods. its traditions.
A CIVIL WAR VETERAN or RELIC.
WEST POINT. June 80.
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WHAT'S TIME TO POSIES?
And Hence: Why Should Woman
Mark Its C~easeless Progress?

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS-Str: The
limitations OF mans mind n his pa
thetic lack OF Imagination are all too
painfully revealed in the letter OF "A
Recent Sufferer"
This person complains because woman
has no idea of time and keeps him walt
ing. although she is idle n he IL busy
IL i, ever needed any proof that Of all
stupid people the busy ones TAXI the
prizes. here II 10.
Like most men. this man Is too busy
with his buxfuziness to appreciate or
even family grasp the beauty OF life.
His worship OF time withholds from him
the night OF fancy that battles the brow
with the evanescent dew OF the higher
life as II fades time into a forgotten
circumstance"
An. but woman knows that time is OF
beauty a thing part, and AZ she sees her
face, revealed in the crystal page
growing at each glance more beautifui
under her artistic touches. she finally
energies into the open air empearled
with a nacreous complexion through
which faint, modest pink bushes sort
Of culver and she meets her man.
The flowers care not for time. They
blossom when and as they please. II Sc
should and will woman.
JAMES II. DEwrLL, Jr.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. June 80
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THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
Thoughts on the Best Way 10 Re
strict Gambling.

70 THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: The
proposal to regulate ste K gambling by
compelling the New York Stock EN-
change to incorporate. and thus become
subject to official Interference, suggests
a few thoughts. Does the idea Of reg
ulation mean that stocks should not he
sold unless the transactions are CEN
sored?
What might prove effective to inter-
fere with stock gambling Is the placing
VI restrictions on the amount of the
loans made by the moneyed institutions.
IL they did not loan about IS per cent.
and even more. on the basis of stock
exchange quotations stock gambling
would most likely diminish materially,
IL not disappear.
At present a lamb" with 10 per cent.
or even . per cent. of the market value
of a speculative stock can trade" the
broker furnishing the residue by mean
of a loan nae by his bank.
If the bank were forbidden to lend
more than say 60 per cent. of the quo
tation the lamb would not be able to
take a chance.
Regulating the money lending insti-
tutions in the right way might solve
the stock gambling problem.
EDMUND r.. DODGE.
NEW YORK, July /.
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KUDLMUDL.
The Plight of the Allies Recalls 9
spanish War Experience.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: What
home returning Americans have to say
about the plight OF the Allies, particu-
larry OF the British. is enlightening.
one realizes that the lack OF munitions
IL after all Just the same trouble which
we had some few years & In our little
war with Spain, ] was a soldier then,
| remember how W. detrained at Chicka-
manga and marched to the park. a dis
lance OF about eight miles. to the place
where we were to pitch our camp.
When we arrived there was no water,
and We did not receive any until about
10 o'clock that night. Neither did we
have bread for about two weeks, and Il
was n month before our regular rations
arrived.
More han that. our camp was Sc
lected by officers in advance OF our COM
ing. and we took our position as d.
rected. II rained very hard for three
or four days after we pitched our camp,
and soon we had a foot and n half OF
water all over the ground selected for
the regiment by our thoroughly compe-
tent officers. The Germans have a very
good word for this sort OF thing. They
call 1t "Kudlmudl," w. +. GRAHAM.
New YORK, June 80.
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DOG DAY STUDIES.
Not From Kansas, but From the
Learned Pages Of Master GuiIlm.

To THE EptroR OF THE SuN-Str: The
doors Of the temples of wisdom in Tar
hella and other seats Of learning have
opened with a crash. and the paths OF
wisdom still lead straight to you Sane
tuary! Oh, the Joy OF reading In these
unreasonable days the astronomical and
meteorological Information, come Kan
a way. in which you have allowed
your admiring readers to revel. TIC help
bridge over somewhat intellectually and
pleasantly the time 'twixt to-day and
the days Of the Dog Star, may ] lay
before o scientific readers a brief
meteorological discussion. from Maistre
Guillim, to study whom Die Vernon's
uncle was wont to retire to his library,
as told by Scott In Rob Roy" Says
Guillim In "A Display Of Heraldrie
Manifesting a more easie accesse to the
knowledge thereof than hath beene
hitherto published by n through the
benefit Of method" London. 1882:
Thunder is an innamed Exhaiation. which
by his powerful force breaketh thorow
the Clouds violently, with great noise and
,errour The forcible power thereof ia
rather spprehended by the care. than sub
Jected to the sight.
Thunder Is supposed to be iusendered two
IHdHHtT VI dir Nihs' wv " NV
or drie vapour IL inclosed In a cold and
moist Cloud, and being unable to %contsine
It seife therein. by reason OF the con-
trsirety. 1t laboureth by all meanes to fnd'
= vent. and so striving by all meanes TO
Act passage. II maketh way with great
and horror OF sound: such as a
Glowing Gadd OF Iron, or any other fry mat
ter maketh. when water II infused there
upon in abundance. or hat 1t is therein
%drenched, II maketh a furious and muir
muring sound. Such II that weake and
feeble sort OF thunder; that seemeth 10
bee ingendered in some region OF the
Aire fare remote from us. yielding oneiy
for a small time) a kind OF turbulent
noise or murmuring.
or else It Is ingendered In a more vlo'
lent manner. to wit. when this Enclosed
drie and combus,ible matter, being In
fiamed In the Clouds Of contrary qualities,
doth breake out with vehem-ncy: then
doth II yeeld a terrible and forcibls
sound. not unlike a great peece OF Ord
nance when II Is overchsrged And this
sound thus ingendered is called Thunder.
Lightning Is a vehement eruption Of
an infamed exhalation. proceeding from
Thunder. which though II Is In time after
the Thunder, yet II Is first represented 10
our senses. by reason that our sight Ia
fare more subtill and apprehensive than
Is our hearing.
This is possibly as new to some of
your readers as the Kansas theories,
but then we In New York have such a
~confoundedly ancient habit OF craving
things new. az did the Athenians In the
days Of Paul. eve II we do not often
believe. as is the habit elsewhere. that
because something is new II Ia neces-
sarily good. true or practical.
Please watch your Office cat. Cats
get cross in dog days, as we'll as
CANNES. and he might stop some of the
scientific news that IL surely coming
along. A STUDENT OF HISTORY
NEW YORK, July l.
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THE LONE
A Version Not Guaranteed by Mr..
Norton, but by 'YOurs Truly, Oil
YER DitsOn."


To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sir: Mr..
Hayden Carruth's version OF THE Lone
Ffshball." taken from the Bibeiot and
said TO be guaranteed by Charles Eliot
Norton, Is interesting, but does not agree
with the version which. as a boy, |
often heard gayly .carolled In the pres
ence of some of the immortas referred
to In Mr.. Carruth's letter. Mr.. Car
ruth's version may be the one in III
P~escoballo.' as the reference to Kirk
land street. where both Mr.. Norton and
Mr.. Child lived, seems to show. but l
feel sure that there was no such refer
ence IN the version TO which ! refer.
In 'Carmina ~Collegensia." compiled
by II. II. Waite of Hamilton and pub
lished by Oliver Ditson Il Co, Boston.
in 1865. the version OF The Lone Fish
ball Founded on a Boston Fact is as
follows:
There was a man went up and down
To seek a diAner through the town.
CBoRus.
There was a man, sc.
what wretch IL he who wife forsakes.
who best Of jam and uafi-s makes.
He feels his cash to know his pence,
And nrds he has but jus, six cents.
lie finds at last a right cheap place,
And enters in with modest face
The bill Of fare ne searches through,
To see what his six cents viii do.
The cheapest Wand OF them all
IL twelve and a half cents for two Ash.
ball
The waiter ne TO him doth call.
And gently whispers one fshball"
The waiter roars Il through the hall,
The guests they start at one fshhall.
Then quoth the guest quite III at ease;
"A piece OF bread, sir. II you please
The waiter roars II through the hall:
We don, give bread with one fshball."
MoNr.
who would have bread with his ishball,
Must get Il frst or not at all,
who would fshball with fxin's eat.
Must get some friend to stand a treat.
In a footnote it IL stated that "A some
what parallel incident Is told Of a Ger.
tain learned professor of New York IN
regard 10 b~uckwheat cakes. May no,
IA. b." as having occurred at Meschutte's
coffee and cake saloon at Broadway and
Howard street In 1857?
FRANCIS GEORGE Curtis.
CHESTNUT HILL. Mass, June 20.
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Brother Joseph III. Crooker's apol-
ogy and plea in mitigation are ac-
cepted by THE SUN In the same
generous spirit in which they are
offered; and at the same time this
favorable opportunity has been seized
for returning to his Massachusetts,
address the apparently embezzled.
but really lost. mislaid or strayed,
ten cents Gin the convenient form
Of postage stamps) which he informs
us We're RENTED by him. AS to the
question Of journalistic ethics which
Brother Crooker raises, we refer him
to the recently adjudicated ease OF the
Rev. DR.. McKim vs.. THE SUN.
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TO TEAR AND LICK A STAMP.
Explicit Directions for Inexpert Users
Of Mr.. Burleson's Stationery.

To II EplToR OF THE SuN-Sir: While
the paper on which the two cent stamp
is printed seems to be fiimsier than for
merly, the post office people assert that
1t Is not. BE that as It may, they say
that the perforations are further apart.
This makes the stamps more difficult -
separate without tearing.
| would suggest TO John Howard that
he fold his stamps along the perfora-
lions. run his nail over the fold and
then detach them. It's a Joy to see
them tear so nicely.
AS to the Ticking" do II with the
inside OF the lower lip instead OF the
tongue then there is no taste and Just
enough moisture. The mucilage Is ex-
cellent and could not be improved upon.
BROOKLYN, June 29. Z. J. MAPP,
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1t is plain that Mr.. RILEY, the SUI
p%erintendent of State Prisons, and
Warden OSBORNE of Sing Sing, who are
at loggerheads, differ only as to meth
DDS, not as to the end to be attained,
Both want to reduce the population
OF Sing Sing, Superintendent RILEY
would transfer 200 prisoners to other
institutions. Warden OSBORNE be-
lieves it better to allow them to escape
one by one. Either system. II Is plain
will bring the population of Sing Sing
down to the desired maximum.