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A LANDLORDS COMPLAINT.
Court Delays Make Il Dineult - Dis.
Dessess Undesirable Tenants.

To rns EDITOR OF Tns suN-Str: Ar
outrageous condition has existed the
past six weeks In the Municipal Courts
Of the city Of New York. Every land
lord In this city tries his best to get
along with his tenants and 10 reluctant
to dispossess my one. but there are
times when q man 10 driven to the
courts to protect his properly.
The Judges Of the Municipal Courts
have arranged the court days for July
and August in such . way that It 10
Impossible to get q disorderly tenant
out in less than two weeks. For In
stance, II q landlord wants to ~dispossess
q tenant on Monday he 10 told that the
next court day IL on Tuesday Of the
Following week. which 10 eight days
away. and then the Judge gives i've pr
more days. making II two weeks for a
property owner to evict . drunken or
destructive tenant. I ask II this 10 fair7
Tho law says . dispossess should be
made returnable In no more than hve
days. Still the condition I have ex-
planned exists. The marshais are ready
to do their duty. but they too are him
defed by the conditions.
All we agents and owners ask 10 half
the consideration given 90 tenants.
JACOB BoLfAN.
NEW York, August 10.
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II General FUNSTON has advised
the withdrawal Of General PER.
SHINES command from Mexico on the
ground thnt the villistas have been
scattered he has merely followed
the terms Of the order under which,
the punitive 1xpedition crossed the
border. by, the War Department
General FUNSTON was directed to or.
ganize a force to pursue the bandits
who had; raided Columbus. to ron
tinue the chase until the de facto
Government was able to relieve the
United States Of the task, and In my
event to regard the job rs finished
ms soon as VILLAS band or bands
are known to be broken up." The
army vas not ordered to keep at its
task until VILLA was captured or
killed; Mr.. WILSON proclaimed that
purpose for public consumption. hut
IL was not specified in the instruc-
lions to the soldiers.
What CARRANzA a md cannot do
nobody knows: the only fact estab-
lished since PERsHING went into Mex.
leo is that CARRANzA has not assisted
the American troops. Instead he has
them In every way that lay
in his power. But when General
FUNSTON reports that the villista
forces have been broken up. his state.
ment will be accepted. and the public
will wonder what course President
WILSON will adopt. lie has pledged
to catch the slippery PANcHO;
but he set out to get a salute for the
dag from HUERrA In 1914 and was
to do without It. His IN.
determination to bag VILLA
may have melted away under the
heats Of summer politics.
Meantime II PERsHING returns to
border 1t will b4 after completing
he duty his orders set for him /; and
WILSON will have to ex-
plain not a military failure but IN.
'ther rhetorical explosion.
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Playing the Q~uestioas Cana

To THn EDIroa o. Tns srx-Ny. Som.
questions Mr.. Wilson might have been
asked In 1912 had the muckrakers favored
Taft:
lation1
DO yen approve Of the rural free a..
livery?
DO you approve the work Of Taft's A.
mihistration for the States ratification q,
the constitutional amendment that VI
make an Income tax possible7
10 you approve Of the work Of Repub.
ncah senators that you Will adopt ,or
financial reform legislation
DO you approve Of Mr.. Tat's Surr.ms
court appointments and Of tho precedent,
ne adopted by paying the nrst CAL on
Justice Lurton7
WIN you give Bryan q post OF import.
ance?
stunning, No Convincing. Mo- PI',
MIN In a hole. No?
nut 'hey are Just rs convincing a. go
FAMOUS list OF questions to Hu.hes. tr A.,
man can't he President for four ,c,,
without doing some things rigat.
REroRMrp MUCKpIktH
NEW YORK. August 10.
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BOUND.
An Oh Salt Furnishes the Words Of
the Sailors Song.

To II EDITOR or THE svN-Str: Mr..
Greene's inquiry as to Harrigan's som
In THE Sun Of August . and Of J. N.
Aliens quotation Of It's refrain In THE
SuN OF August IS impel me to throw a
little light on the subject. The idea was
assuredly not original with Harrigan.
neither are the words:
When your moneys gone.
It's the same old song;
Get up. Jack. John. sit down,
Its origin is lost In the mists of
more than n hundred years old. I
heard the song for the first time in the
year 1856 as a youth aboard the square
riseed ship Antipodes. Captain Grey.
bound from London e Van Diemen's
Land. now Tasmania. during my first
long blue water voyage. 1t was while
running down the trades and in the
dog watches In a long spell Of fine
weather with the big bellied sails filled
with a fair and steady breeze. The
wash OF water along the vessels sides
was a low and pleasing murmur. The
dog watches are in the twilight after
the days work Ia done. and they are
the watches in which all hands are. on
deck. II Is the hour for skylarking and
recreation. Then n robustious sailorman
with a sonorous voice sang the song.
"Homeward Bound" The air is stir
ring and tuneful. inc II is surprising
II has escaped appropriation by Ameri-
can comic opera composers. A sailor
who has spent all his money Is Jack
and Is outward bound n who has Just
returned from a deep sea voyage with
all his pay due is John and Is home
ward bound and welcomed by the land.
lord. The stanzas from "Homeward
Bound" from which Harrisan evidently
got inspiration are:
And now We haul into the docks
Where all those pretty girls come In nock.,
And one to the other they will say.
. here comes lack with his three years
pay"
Huzzs. we're homevard boundi
And now We haul to the Dog spd Bell
Where there's good lie uor for - sell.
In comes the landlord with a smile,
Saying. Drink. my lads. for IT'S worth your
while.
For l see you nre homeward bound"
But when our moneys ali gone and spent.
And none TO be borrowed nor none to be
lent.
In comes the landlord with a frown.
Saying get up. Jack. let John 81, down.
For ! see YOU are outward bound"
This is from memory from those
halcyon. rolllcA!ng days In the dog
between the topgallant fo'c'sle
and the cooks galley. nut md that
Admiral Sir Cypr!an Bridge In his book
~ Sea Ballads" most OF which were
before Trafalgar. gives a version of
'Homeward Bound" with little or no
from the above.
Il. r.. VALENTINE.
NEW YORK. August 10.
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proper share Of the burden q SUPPORT.
ing the Government
Mr.. UNpnwooo's eriticim q ne
revenue bill 10 true - fAr a. II eoes,
but Mr.. UNpERwooo did not 20 a. far
40 he should have. We attribute his
hesttancy not to ignorance Of the m.
ture Of the bill, but to realisation Of
the effect Of the exposure Of all its
iniquities, for Mr.. UNDERwooD 10 not
illogical. and he must understand what
acknowledgment Of the whole truth
would lead to.
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woman, ascertain II she will TAX. mn.
other child to add to her home c,rc,.
The purpose Of this arraneemen, 4.
mutual. You then procure an orpban
child from an asylum. and she moth.r.
the mite for you while you contribute
enough for that child's board and care
to insure the stability Of the woman and
her family. Give her SIS a week.
That, will enable her to deyote b.-.
self to her own children and TO IN.
orphan o have added to her bomo
The sum Of SIS a week will cost vor
$7S0 . year; add to that the mn.
things you will want to buy the orphan
and soon you will nnd yourself contrihu,.
ing literally to all Of the orphans; and
you will be dcvoting $1,000 a year In
helping to solve the situation OF n.
poor widow struggliEgtto rear her fami,y
and At the same time you will r.,c,.
from the motherless charity Of IN.
orphan asylum . little mite of humanity
who will mix readily with tho other
children. whose mother will mother than
al II backed by your philanthropy"
MY friend X. said to me:
That idea 10 founded on rood seuss
] Will follow the suggestion. lIescefor,h
the $4,000 I applied to my own selfish.
ness. 1 will apply to three orph.n,
placed in widows families"
He has done 10. has three chi,drs,
from three institutions 10 placed.
Protestant child pleasantly placed IN =
Baptist widows home a Catholic child
adv~antaEeously placed with a Catholic
widow. and q Jewish orphan nicslv
adapted to q Jewish widow and her
family. And X. visits them all, takes q,
Interest in their welfare. learns their
needs. Joys and sorrows. and gets IN
return the knowledge that he is doins
. great work. He feels the stimulus OF
his own practical charity.
Right here let me say that no man
car do q work Of that kind and not r.,
out Of 1t the spiritual dement's which Al.
ways come from we'll doing. X. says hi,
wards are doing more for him than No
does for them. Certainly he enjoys nj,
giving. for I tell him his giving to ,hs
widow and the orphan Is the giving mos,
pleasing to God.
Let ME say to those whose souls have
never reached the height Of KS attain.
ments. to apply At least $1,000 a wear.
certainly not a large sum. to one widow,
home and one additional orphan, and
when you do II. do II with a sense O,
responsibility to God and humanity.
BosToN. August 10. B~osroNiAy.
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Distinctive Qualities Of Manhattan Dirt,
Disorder and Noise.

To THE EDITOR ~ THE SrN-Sr. The dirt,
disorder and noise OF Manhattan may he
unpleasant, but on notice you Will find
that the dirt. disorder and noise OF Man
haitian Is confined to conEested districts.
while across the bridge In the borough of
Brooklyn. where there Is space a plenty,
NTH r"igL. supreme.
Manhattan borough" says "Old Resi-
lis simply no longer q pleasant
place to live in Well, then. he Will have
to leave Greater New York. The Bronx,
Brooklyn. Queens and Richmond are not
to he compared with It.
Manhattan's dirt, disorder and noise may
be distressing. but where will you ind
dirt so picturesque. disorder so exciting
noise 40 musical? Manhattan's noise and
II thoroughly metropolitan. and
Its dirt and air thoroughly cosmopolitan.
10 why Manhattan Is New York.
NEW YORK. August ~. d. NJ. ]. u.
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tiai ngtinA iron ths garden, and
looked out. The new noon, Q new
dollar In the heavens, cut ths rrsochy
garden In sharp black and white.
There, In his Palm Beach suit uni.
form. paced q Chinese soldier" guard
Ing the lepers from The pirates. Pi.
rates and Photographs In the same
part Of the world.
In the morning Father BoYroN
crossed the river In q sampan pro.
PEELED by q Chinese, woman, "who
might have been a piratess and very
likely was" The P.ere said psss in
a humble chapel for six Canadian
nuns and the lepers. The lepers re.
cited the Rosary in Chinese. aloud,
The baby lepers played about the altar
rail-. The priest called them the isis.
ters' dolls" All day they ran about
In clean pajamas. II would be years
before they would know.
On the island Of the men and boys
Father BoYroN viewed the lepers
"close up. as they say In the movies"
There rel boys with just the FIRST
dush upon their cheeks-and then
the objects that had been men. Some
Of the boys had on their faces the
full realization Of their fate. ."And
yet these little chaps, who already
know Pomethins Of the grave, have
not lost the boy heart, 40 70 testified
BY the collections Of trinkets-stones,
and ar occasional picture cut
from some magazine published on the
other side Of the globs. JIM JuyRrEs
and JACK JOHNSON were two Of the
treasures tackled to the wall above
one cot" The priest understood. for
he writes that he regretted deeply
that he did not have Mr.. wnLARD's
photo handy, to bring this young
leper sports heroes up to date" A
on an island 10 q yellow Chi.
nese river. remembers who Is cham
pion Of the world even when We who
zee the sport pages every day have
forgotten.
The place was cheerful. Where
here was suffering. 1t was patient.
The men and boys who could work
raised food in the fields. The Pere
md his helpers sOwed the magic seed
II hope. "A little while and they
will no longer be lepers" was the
that Father BOYroN found
,mOng the sick. And that was the
which STEVENSON, with all
lis art. did not get on paper.
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barrel shotgun into a bevy Of quail; no,

barrel shotgun into q bevy Of quail; no,
Q bird would escape.
The entrance to the harbor IL 400
yards Wide. The harbor proper Is
three-fourths Of a mile broad, abou,
twice that In length. and eighteen TO
forty-eisht feet deep. In q word. the
h3rbor is too small to be valuable for
. modern navy.
Besides. our danger is In the West. MOI,
IN The East. When the great European
wal ends the contendlng nations will
be 70 completely exhausted and bank.
fupted that we shall have no war for
a hundred years TO come. We would h.
act!ng with far more wisdom IL we put,
that $25.ooe 600 into building a naval
base In the Hawaiian Islands.
GEORGE W JoIiI
OwENsBoRo. Ny. Angus. is.
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Islands Of Death and Hope.

1t Is more than n quarter Of n rem.
fury ago that STEVENSON visited Mo.
lokai and presently gave to the world
n lasting picture OF a leper colony,
1.-THE most d~istressful country that
ever yet was seen," as he quoted.
That picture lacked one element which
was not visible to the gifted visitors
eyes and which he could have found
only by searching the souls Of DA-
MEMS and their charges.
This was hope: not the hope OF a re-
turn to the business of living, but the
hope Of the life beyond. This element
Is not lacking In "A little story Of the
leper settlement Of Shek Lung In
South China, written by the Jesuit
NEIL BOyToN and printed in the Are
Maria magazine. Because hope Is
not absent, there Is IL certain cheer
fulness about the article that argues
against the blacklist despair.
A sampnn rOwed by lepers took the
American priest up the yellow river
to the two islands where the French
priests and sisters spend their lives
with the white death. "A rich brown
puppy on the bank barked himself
hysterical." 1t was the first stranger
he had seen in nearly a year, except
the pirates, who came regularly to
rob the priest until the Chinese
Government sent a guard of soldiers.
The priest In charge, Pere DEswA.
zIEREs, told Father BOyrON how he
had come to help the American fOun.
der Of the settlement, Father Con.
RAGpy, and how he had buried him
and taken up the task II being king
ana fnther and doctor to six hun
lepers who looked To him for
everything. Two hundred women and
children were on one island; four
hundred men and boys on the other.
The singsong of Chinese boys recit-
ing their lessons came to the visitor.
\ leper, 1t was explained, was teach
Ing them to read. And not to write?
Father BoyToN asked. No, nos TO
what was the use? The cues.
ton reminded the French priest OF
the kind lady who sent II bicycle TO
the little lepcr boys and how, alas.
1t lay idle. The American under.
stood when he toured the huts and
saw the rusting fingers.
Father BOyToN asked the French.
man the inevitable question: aren't
you afraid OF contracting IT." Pere
DEswAzIEREs was frank NATURALLY.
! do not like It. Who does care 10
I've In Il corpse thnt should he de.
,entiy Inferred? But II He chooses
% send til accept" Then he rose,
anghing, from the table and added
ut means no much shorter a pur.
What chance Inns desDalr
this philosophy?
Going to his whitewashed chamber.
he visitor found there concealed tho
Faster surprise for his people
monograph. Itis not a long way
rom West Orange to Canton; and
here Ia no despair Ia a good disk.
The Usst heard sounds, Ike Gales
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RECORD OF A UNCONSTITUTIONAL
BOSTON CHARITY
Practical Application Of the PNssaal Element In . Bay State Human.
Entoepe1se.

Mr.. X. Is my friend. who enjoys . for
tune the income Of which AMOUNT each
year to the sum Of $4,000. OF this in
come x. reported to me that he spent
$4,000 annually On himself In diversion6
Of one sort or another. aside from his
regular living expenses. Let me say X.
Is unmarried. has q natural affection for
children and IL . gentleman.
I r~eprimanded him for spending the
sum Of $4,000 or himself annually. and
asked what he gave 70 charity. Learn
Ing that he followed. an average course
Of indlscriminats well doing. I took my
friend to task and outlined 10 him my
Boston idea.
A child reared in an orphan asylum il
like . chick which has an incubator for
a mother. The little one loses tina APP
plication Of what We call motherhood.
And to take out Of each little life that
motherhood Is the meanest part Of pres
ent day charity for the benent Of chill
dren. The orphan asylum should be
only q clearing house for children, never
the home. The homo should be . real
home with an old fashioned mother pre.
siding, one of those souls in the female
flesh that exclude seihshness. sordid-
ness and, personal meanness. God bless
them everywhere!
Well. how about the Boston ideaf
Here It II. Ny friend X. sat discussing
with me q little philosophy" when I
called to his consideration that he an
nually spent 90. 900 on himself. I then
discussed with him the motherlesshess
OF orphan asylums. the loss the young
In charities Of that kind and the
sin Of selfshness In expanding too much
money on ones self with little or no
concern for the rest Of Gods creatures
less fortunate and less favored. Finally
! said to him:
~. sou should divert that $4,000 you
spend on yourself to charity. regular
charity. Do something worth
while. Help while you are here. You
will be a long time dead"
What would you have me DO" was
his response.
ID . piece Of practical charity"
pleaded. First find q widow who has a
little brood dependent upon her efforts.
Let us say she goes out washing and
a %workday. leaving the
to the Oldest child. or perhaps
some old woman. whose m~inistrations
can be secured for . small sum. The
widow earns 81 or $3.50 a day. On that
sum lives the woman and her family.
When you have the right kind Of q
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Her Own Labor Union.

From Pittsfield, up in the Berk.
shires, comes the announcement that
the servant girls have been organ.
lied into a union, under the auspices
Of the American Federation Of Labor.
The membership Is already 100 and
growing. It promises to include all
units of domestic service, cooks, wait.
resses, parlor maids and upstairs girls.
This is the prospectus:
Members will demand Q minimum
wage scale and . uniform number Of
working hours. No longer will they
toll from early morn until bedtime with
no time OF during the day. Under union
rules they can work only % manyAours
daily and must have four hours Cd. II
twelve hours elapss between breakfast
and the evening meal"
P1ttsneld must b Q very different
place from New York and the subur.
ban towns Hereabouts there 10 no
such thing a. domestic servitude, ex-
cept In those rar cases like that Of
the old darby In the Alabama hills
who had eve heard Of the Emanci.
patton Proclamation. Hereabouts the
freest, most Independent, most care
free wage getter Is the domestic SER
want, or maid. as her mistress prefers
to call her. The maid Of all work. to
take the ordinary house worker. is
independent even Of labor mionism.
She is her WI labor union. She IL
the supply that b less than the de-
mand. She needs no previous expert.
ence. nor, for that matter. a recon.
m%endation. She may be dumb In Eng.
lish. having just landed. Accordingly.
with q little coaching from the init.
ated, she makes her own terms.
Conditions. hours, pay must suit
her. She takes a mistress ON trial.
and the family too, II she comes
and she may not. She makes her own
rules, to be observed by the house
hold. The mistress must keep out Of
her kitchen-the girls kitchen. No
meals served after hours. Tips. for
company. Presents at Christmas.
out and one or more after
Moons In the week. Latch key. Choice
IF visitors Of both sexes In the kitch.
IN. with service Of refreshments.
Use Of the parlor and victrola when
he family Is absent. Full pay when
he house is closed In vacation time.
No sweeping the porch or washing
windows ut my time. The name Of
n~istresses who will testify that the
has not been overdrawn Is
egion. Certainly in these parts the
Domestic servant Is her own com.
organized labor union.
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Cynical Thoughts of q N.u,,.,.

. TO T"s Eniros or The SUN-Sir. Re.
terring to Mr., Alfred Mullcr's letter in
n Sun quoting John Ruskin's scath,ns
rebuke to the munition manufacturer this
enumeration VIII make them vince when
they READ II. but I'd be willing to bet 81
nat Mr. Muller would not have called at
tent'on 10 tne matter II the manufacturers
we're arming the fathsrland.
That would be another horse Of . Az.
ferent color" a. Abe Potash would ,ay
stu. ] may he wrong. and sincer.,y
hope that Mr.. Muller Will send a marked
COPY OF THE srN to Bertha Krupp. l.. C..
GLfS RIDGE. ". j.. August II.
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do Most Of the Ensiish wome. Wan, IN.
BAllo(c

To THE EDITOR or Tue suN-Sir: In Tus
suN OF August IA you answer Asauith's
question. What shall be done with the
women'' by saying that after all their
gveat services In the war no other return
can be made them but bestowinx on them
the risht OF suffrage. Vet many Of these
women ana they say the majority. would
regard this as an unkind return for ,beir
&. r. g..
BosToN. August 10.
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TO THE Enron ~ THg srS >U D..
snout erection time We hear tax 'ua' VI
murphy Is going to resign from TauHls
nan Another yarn 10 foni the votc,.
becaus" MIR. Whitman II not W,
nancy and boodlsrs cant use htm. 's
don't like him.
me people know Mr., Hpghas ant ''"
ar" Just waiting ill the time tu
when the Democratic papers de-, %
column a day trying to show rcnplc so
weak Hughes Is you can make rp $50,
nina mat something 1. worrying ,hem
TnEoDoRrs VAS Ni'E
New YoRK, August ~
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The Allen.

How Idle ar. the boasts Of one who deems
He knows the m heart. Its hopes and
dreams.
He who hes never loved. can never know
The grief Of tours when loves last rose,
blow.
The valley dwsller In his hill set night
Knows not the wonders Of the starry
height.
And ere the triumph Of the Gross can he
The heart must pray IL hushsd 0sth-
Aanao WAasAaD SnAeG.
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n there 10 no further need Of the
troops at the Mexican border. the
President might send them to his own
temporarily hystericai State to repel
those hellish invaders. the babies Of
New York.
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Knickor-The egoist never escapes from
himself
Booker No, At best he merely hides
In himself
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knicker- Railroad men are demanding
an eight hour day.
bocker-Suppose stockholders only con-
asnted to hold stock eight hours?
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General BLISS 10 preparing . report
on the mobilization Of the National
Guard. n It Is considered possible
he may have Joined General FUNSTON
IN urging that the troops be Withdrawn
from Mexico. as the consensus Of mill
tary opinion appears to Be that they
are serving no useful purpose as at
present Observation-Disclosures despatch.
What about the consensus Of Demo-
cratic political opinion?
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Prince buried IN . poor mans gravs.-
Nesospopsr AeodN~s.
The poor man probably 10 glad to
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Any Democratic State chairman who
promises VANCE MCCORMICK less than
POO. on plurality should be removed
from his Job.
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fUcsivsd % guard@M 10 he 6fty
cents for which they serve In the
Federal establishment.
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How enervating must be the climate
OF Newport. where a Californian 10
beaten at tennis by q japanese!
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Why Not Leave IN. HsndI. an.

from me Pffsbnr0 Uispdfch.
The handle "f the new travelling nag "
80 attached that II can he piac~l 'ps
'he bag when II IL locked. lessen - ''
danger OF the bag being stolen
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Cars needed to move wheat.-Nevs.
poper headline.
What really worries the country 10
the possible need Of men to move cars.
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Dogmstic Declaration From the EDGE Of
Atlantic County.

To THE EDiroR or Tue SUN--Sir. when
a man accuses himself Of being sober he
has generally had . glass too much.
&. X. WILSON.
vENTNOa. \. j., August Is.
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Orion has three bright stars:
ORYAN, two big salaries.
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AZ the same time II must not be
thought that In Argentina the North
policy toward Mexico during
recent years has been regarded with
favor. Both La NoctoN and La Prcnsa,
the " great organs Of public opinion,
while expressing q hope that everything
possible will be done to avert war, concur
In finding hat policy weak and vacillat-
the EveHt10 Poet.
10 not Service to Humanity UNDER
stood south Of the equator?