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TRADE BRIEFS.

The London and River Plate Bank
Ltd. has received authorization from the
Portuguese Government to establish a
branch in Lisbon with capital OF f1o0,
900
The exports Of dried fgs from Spain
during the past three years were as fol-
lows: In 1915, 22.OT2.35s pounds, valued
at s484. 72a; In 1917. A.244soo pounds,
valued at 1891 ,564; and in 1e1s. 34,1s4.2oO
pounds, valued at s7le,e43.
Small motorboats predominant in the
Norwegian fishing industry. Rowboats
have nearly passed out OF use and sail
boats have not proved themselves able,
from an efficiency standpoint, to meet the
motorboat competition.
A list Of importers and commission mer-
chants handling all kinds OF foodstuns
in Copenhagen. Denmark. may be obtained
from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce or It's district or cooperative
Offices upon referring to File No. 1l2175a.
II is reported that an italian trading
company Is being formed for the mpor-
tation into that country of cereals after
the conclusion OF peace and shs resump-
ton OF private Importation of foodstuffs.
This new company will be capitalized NJ
30 o00, 900 lire.
The important nrm of Pedro A. Lopez 4
Co. OF BoEota has just signed a contract
with the Department Of Tol!ma for the
construction If a railroad between hague,
the capital OF the department. and AM
balsma, on the Magdalena River 10 con-
meet at It's river terminus with the La
Dorado Railway and at the other end
with the new Girardot -Ibague line. which
is q link In the projected Pacific Railway.
Imports into Guayaquil during May
amounted to $4,000 packages, weighing
1880 tons. The number of packages re-
ceived from each country participating in
the import trade was: Canal Zone. $50;
France, 754; Italy. 10; Peru, 1918; SAL
vador, 35; Spain, 2G2; United Kingdom.
4,64s; United States, 22,9s5 A portion OF
the imports from the United States con-
sisted of $50 O02 pounds OF -four and $780,
ia pounds OF la-i,
According to the London Times al a sale
Just conducted at the Amaze factory. Glss-
gov, by the Disposal Board of the British
Ministry of Munitions S455 was paid for
a one ton electric overhead runway hoist
which cost, when new. SEQ For ten
horse power shunt wound direct current
electric motor, $40 volts, 100 revolutions.
1915 was paid. profit OF 212O; and for
a similar motor, with double the power,
which cost sSe7, 500 was paid.
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1T COULDN'T HAPPEN NOW.
A Deal In Pork In Which Judge GIL
dersleeye Had q Part.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-vSir: One
day in the fall OF 1878 / happened to
be in a country store here. near the bay.
1t was storming, and for that reason
a lot OF the baymen had gathered there.
Judge Gildersleeve of New York,
driven In by the storm from the bay.
where he had been duck shooting, came
into the store and spoke to the store
keeper and told him to pass around the
best cigars he had, which the store
keeper did.
Among those present was a misery
old fellow who never used tobacco, but
he reached in the box and took a cigar.
After the Judge has paid his bill and
gone away the misery old fellow called
the storekeeper into the back room and
traded his cigar--it was a fifteen cent
one--for a pound and a half of salt
pork. pork at that time being ten cents
a pound.
The old fellow Is dead, and he died
we'll of in worldly goods. but some
where in his boarded pile is fifteen cents
he saved on pork by virtue of Judge
Gilderseeves generosity.
ARLINGTON II. CARMAN.
PATcHoGuE. August 90.
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cate TO any extent. They flowed from
his facile lips on Tuesday like water
from an open bunghole. He Is also
willing that the Senate should make
It's own interpretations to any extent,
out only In form which renders
them as invalid and ineffective in our
international relations as will lie his
own after the contract has been
signed and sealed. This, Of course,
Is the attitude and position of a self
appointed autocrat.
We concur with Senator BRANDT
GEE In the opinion that 1t is useless
longer to probe into an intellectual
apparatus like that. The only thing
Tor the Senate to do Is to exercise
on Its own part the treaty making
powers which the Constitution en-.
trusted to 1t; to preserve intact
Americas traditional policy and to
safeguard Americas future indepen-
dence by valid amendments or reser-
vations, as was done with the conven-
lions OF The Hague and Of Algeciras.
No detached resolutions of interpreta-
ton by the Senate will do the Job of
salvage for independent America.
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FROM A STRIKE VICTIM.
A Stage Hands Wife Tells Of Added
Hardships at Home.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: I
am the wife of a stage grip whJ was
getting $40 a week. but who isn't now
because he went out to help the actors
and actresses. Every one of them gets
mere than he does; I've seen them
getting in their autos to go home after
the theatre.
One of our children is an Invalid and
by doing some day work when ] can
get it managed to get her things
she needs but now we haven't got any
thing but what little l can make.
My husband says he's got to do II
because the actors and actresses belong
10 the same federation he does, but
say It isn't right. None of these folks
ever did anything for him and they made
more wages, and / don't see why we
should have to do this for them or they
should ask him to. God knows 1t was
hard enough to live without doing such
foolishness when the grips had their
jobs and we were just getting along.
New YoRK, August 20. Mrs. X
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MINING IN MANHATTAN.
A Meteor and a Petri6ed Tree Tw,
Finds Of an Excayator.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: I
was much interested in your fine article
In THE SUN of August Is on the find-
ing Of several varieties Of precious stones
In places where rock excavation had
been going on in Manhattan. 1 have
done much rock blasting from 1866
until recently in New York and have
found specimens OF more or less value.
In blasting the lot now part Of the
late Andrew Carnegie's garden at Nine
tieth street, Fifth and Madison avenues
for another owner who sold to Mr.. Car
neEie 1 came on considerable rock full
Of garnets and some other minerals
have forgotten. The owner brought
some to an expert who pronounced
them genuine but hardly large enough
to be profitable. The rock was sold
anerward to a builder at four cents a
cubic foot.
In excavatipg at the northeast corner
of Eghty-fourth street and Madison
avenue / found an unusual boulder
blasted showed all the colors of the
rainbow and then some. A bright
looking man, a college professor, exam
ined the rock and said 1t had at one
time been a meteor and asked permits
son to remove parts of 1t to the mu-
scum at Seventy seventh street. Sew
eral men came with him and carried
of quite a little Of 1t.
loaded the rest in a truck for the
dump, when a gentleman passing asked
me how much l wanted for the load. i
said humorously IS. He gave me the
money and asked to have it sent few
blocks from there. I found later that
he had made a pyramid of the stones
with water running over It for a centre
piece for his garden.
In blasting the rock for the old Twen-
ty-second Regiment Armory at Sixty
sixth and sIxty-seventh streets and
Broadway I found part OF a large stone
tree with rings so perfect that l had
1t set aside. intending after noon to
send It to the museum If 1t was wanted
there, but 1t was carried of by truck
through mistake. JOHN CooMBs.
NEW YORK, August 20.
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Captain Matlack, the Resourceful
Rescuer.

Acutely as all Americans have re-
sented the necessity of paying ransom
to bandits to insure the safety of
Lieutenant DAVIS and Lieutenant Pc
TERsoN, the army aviators captured
by Mexicans, the humiliation was nat
urally impressed most deeply on the
soldiers to whom the actual transac-
ton was entrusted, and Captain MAT
LACKS refusal to give up q cent more
than the rescue of his fellow officers
required was a convincing demonstra-
ton of the general attitude. By
quick wit and quick action he sue
ceeded In getting the Lieutenants out
Of the hands Of their captors and at
the same time restoring part of the
ransom money to the source whence
IL came.
The rescue was as thrilling as any
writer of melodramatic fiction could
imagine. The cottonwood tree be-
meath which the transfer was made
Ia the blasted oak familiar to all stu
dents of the dramatic art of a quarter
Of century ago. The lonely rider
with the blood money, the conspira-
tors with their prisoners, the unreal
ity of the whole transaction in an age
of airplanes, wireless and a thousand
other appliances of modern civillza-
ton give the proceedings an atmos-
phere Of the stage. Captain MAT
LACKS final dash for the American
lines with Lieutenant DAVIS on his
horse belongs back of the footlights.
There were no camera men to re-
cord the final episode of this stirring
incident, but patrons Of the screen
drama may confidently expect to see
II reproduced. The chance is too
good to be lost by the motion picture
men, and when the gallant soldiers
on the laboring horse dash across
the international boundary line in a
thousand theatres there surely will
be nobody so literal minded as to ex-
claim Fraud"
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OUR OWN CIVILIAN SEAMEN
INsTHE WAR.
Their Honest Claim TO the Attention
Of Government and Public.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir. News
papers have made several references to
fund OF millions that United States
citizens are trying to raise for the bene-
fit OF British civilian sailors or their
families who suffered during the war.
II 10 an admirable idea and is sponsored
by representative citizens. The seamen
OF the British merchant service gave
constant Manifestations Of civilian cour-
age at sea under war conditions that
make all maritime men, of whatever
nation, prouder thar ever Of their call
ing, and should thrill even the inland
citizens Of our own country, whose sense
Of civilian sea life. through long neg
lect of 1t, is vague.
But more than 900 civilian seamen
OF tho United States merchant marine
died at sea as the result OF war perils.
Many others endured hardships that en-
tailed long illnesses or permanent dis
abilities I know personally OF numer-
GUS cases where seamcn and their fam
ilies will be Handicapped all their re-
naming years because of the way the
civilian sailor of the United States mer-
chant marine bore his part on the ocean
cargo ships during the war-during four
years and a half. not only two years,
OF war.
cannot learn that either the Gov
eminent or any private committee has
charged itself TO see that these men
and their families do not suffer through
the years ahead. They served steadily,
with no enforced enlistment period and
with an insurance guarantee from the
Government of only about $500 in
case they died, while a sailor in the
navy or a soldier in the army had s10,-
900 of insurance available for his fam
lily and all the apparatus Of free COM
forts and succor that the navy and
army so admirably provide.
While the fund is being raised as a
tribute to British seamen. or before 1t
Is raised. a substantial amount should
be secured, governmentally or through
private subscription, for looking after
these men Of our own and their de-
perdents In the same attitude OF ad-
miring recognition and not Of charity.
NELSON COLLINS.
NEW YORK, August 20.
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Daylight Saving.

Congress has bowed to the farmers
and killed the daylight saving law by
passing the repeater over the Presi-
dents veto. After we have turned
the hands of the clock back on Dc
tOber 26 they will not be advanced
again until a difficult educational
campaign has been carried out and
the majority of the articulate agrl-
cultural population reverses its pres
ent opinion.
We are sorry daylight saving is to
be abandoned. 1t is sensible, econ
omy promoting, money saving prac-
tice. But we shall not despair of the
nations future or abuse our granger
friends who have had their way in
this matter. The earth will continue
to revolve on It's axis and to move
forward in Its orbit regardless Of the
clock. Uncle SAM will continue to do
business at the same old stand. Wen
all be happy yet, you bet.
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WHOLESALE CUTS IN
ELLIS ISLAND FORCE
IS Dismissed, Sc Sent on In
definite FurIough.

Drastic reductions in the stan OF the
immigration inspectors and others at
Ellis Island were made yesterday under
orders from Washington. In view of
the fact that after two years of inactiv-
ity travel from Europe to the United
States now is rapidly resuming its for
mer dimensions the dismissal Of so many
employees OF the service came as a
great surprise TO every one connected
with, the immigration service.
In the absence of Frederic c. Howe,
Commissioner of Immigration, Superin-
tendent Percy A. Baker said that the
reduction had been made under orders
from Washington and that information
as to the reason for 1t would have to
come from there.
A total of eighteen employees were
dismissed and fifty-six were placed on
indefinite furloughs, which forces them
to find other occupation. In addition a
number of the older men who have
reached the higher grades were reduced
in rank and pay. One inspector over 20
years OF age, who has spent most of his
life in the service, was put back into the
boarding detail, which visits incoming
ships at Quarantine and is generally
considered a suitable place for the
younger and more agile men.
The sudden and unlocked for dismiss
sails and reductions announced yesterday
excited especially bitter comment among
the employees. because they have been
In a state of discomfort for some time
over their failure to receive their June
pay. On account of deficit In the
available funds during the last month
In the Governments fiscal year this
money has never yet reached them, al
though they have received the July pay,
which was covered by new appropria-
ton.
Some of the men have been Offering to
sell their June vouchers for considerably
less than face value in order TO obtain
ready money.
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lures has changed since last they
were in the limelight Of publicity.
Locusts are no longer a pest the news
from Cadillac, Mich, Is that they are
now "a weapon to cut the cost of liv-
ing" since farmers are drying them
for winter food for chickens. From
the same State comes the information
that the desplsed potato beetle is a
blessing in disguise; boys are grow
ing rich catching them for fish bait.
Grasshoppers no longer worry Kan
eas; an insect has attacked them and
they are dying In the field by hun
dreds Of thousands a day."
1t is ho more the "loathsome liz
ard" A New Orleans newspaper in
an article under the caption of "Liz-
ard Oatchers Wanted says that 80
great is the demand for lizards "for
pets and for keeping greenhouses free
of harmful insects" that they are
each day shipped out of New Orleans
in large quantities. Men are sorely
needed to go into the swamps and
hunt them 1.-THE only skill necessary
to be a successful lizard catcher Is
more agility than the lizard" Don't
scorn the bee on account Of it's sting.
Chemists say that the purest formic
acid is now made from bee singers.
One energetic American woman sells
yearly $4,000 bee stingers and is max
ing fortune at 1t. She finds selling
them more profitable than selling
honey In fact the singer is now con-
sidered by scientists to be the best
part of the bee.
The old favorites are unquestion-
ably coming back; they have not been
on q strike, they have merely been
obscured. The acts reported are only
one days bill; they always offer a
brand new programme, every feature
Of 1t, In the words of the Snowman,
bright, fresh and interesting.
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The Return Sf Pre-war Fayorites

The cable despatch from London
telling how an oyster at a Great Var
mouth fish market caught a maraud-
ing mouse in its shell and killed it
may indicate the temperance of
favorites who had humble but not
uninteresting part in the days news
before the war. Even had not the
wires been too heavily burdened with
the doings of men to tell Of oysters
and mice, the war censor might have
seen in the incident covert sugges-
ton of one of those strategic nut
crackers" to crush the German Gen
erals head about to be sprung by
HAIG and have thrown out the des-
patch for military reasons"
Matters which the world considered
of more Importance deprived 1t of a
kind Of information that 1t once read
with interest. Would any one have
stopped reading war news to give a
thought to "the monster turtle weigh
ing 500 pounds and estimated to be
200 years old" taken in a fisherman's
net off Greenwich, Conn? The first
report In years of doings in the rep
lillian world has just come from a
northern Ohio town in explanation of
the mysterious theft of eggs. A snake
was the thief and he came to his
death because he was n town snake
and could not readily distinguish be-
tween the real article and nest eggs
of chinaware.
The curator OF snakes at the Bronx
Zoo, feeling the neglect of his pets,
recently went to Southern swamps on
n hunting expedition and brought
back new reptiles and new stories.
An expert catcher of snakes says that
the war has brought new conditions
in the demand: "In Europe they want
American snakes and In America they
want European reptiles" Snakes are
coming again into fashion; press des-
patches report the capture In Ken
lucky of a rattler with two heads and
In the Blue Ridge Mountains of IA
copperhead with two we'll formed
legs three and three-quarters inches
In length, located about six inches
from the tip of the tail"
Fish, too, 1t is evident, are about TO
come into their own again. The first
evidence Of any activity in the tribe
for years Is reported in the days ex-
changes in despatch from Poplar
Bluffs, Mo-, telling Of the remarkable
discovery made by JOHN WHITMAN,
farmer living on the banks of the
Marais des Cygnes River. Mr.. WHIT
MAN was greatly distressed by the
decrease in the milk production Of
his herd and reports that seeking
The cause he found the cattle were
wadIng in the river to keep cool and
while in the river the large catfish
were milking the cows"
Mans attitude toward many crea-
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The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER

For eastern New York and New Jer-
sey-Unsettled to-day; tomorrow local
showers and thunderstorms not much
change In temperature gentle to mod
crate south winds
For New England--Fair to-day; local
showers and thunderstorms tomorrow
moderate variable winds.
FOR western New York-showers and
moderate to fresh southwest winds.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-A depression
OF marked Intensity IL central north Of
lake superior and pressure II high on the
soutn Atlantic coast. During the last
twenty -four hours local showers have oc-
CURED In the middle and upper Mississippi
ana the upper lake region. Elsewhere
throuBhout the country the weather has
been generally fair
Temperatures have risen generally east
OF Inc Mississippi River and have fallen in
me NE west Gulf States the upper Mississippi
Nalley, the northern plains States and the
northern Rocky Mountain region,
me outlook IL for showers and thunder
storms Thursday in the lake region tho
Ohio valley and tho east Gulf States and
IN Florida and on Friday in the lower
lake region. the upper Ohio Valley and
where throughout the country east Of the
orally fair. "'
1t will be somewhat cooler Thursday IN
the Ohio Valley and the upper lake region
ana on Friday in the lower lake region
and the Ohio Valley.
reau stations taken at p. NJ yesterday, sew
enty Fifth meridian time.
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Can it be that those who can afford
saddles and legs Of lamb or mutton
are eating goat meat? This disturbing
charge was made by Representative
JOHNSON OF Kentucky upon the au-
thority Of Agricultural Department
reports. He announced to nervous
hearers that millions and millions of
goats are being killed, but no one ever
heard of a goat coming out Of these
packing houses. Has any one heard
how many goats come out as lamb?'
Mr.. MACARTHUR of Oregon. where goats
thrive as do apples and rain signals,
knew a way Of satisfying curiosity in
respect to the matter. Examine the
carcass" he said. THE tail Of the
sheep sticks down. while the tail Of
the goat sticks up"
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value will ask six bottles Of what7r
There are those who are adherents Of
what IL called the perfect" who will
contend that the six should muster
two Of each. that IL of gin and OF each
of the two kinds Of vermouth. Others
who favor the older fashion will re-
joice IL they learn that the ladies are
with them in alGo favoring that pro-
portion which would divide the six
into three Of gin and three Of the
owners favorite vermouth. A later
school, however, deriding those Of the
schools Of one-third, one-third and
one-third, and those Of the half and
half, makes much argument In advo-
cacy Of one-half gin, one-quarter Of
Italian and one-quarter Of French
vermouth. Not why only six bottles,
but six bottles Of what7 is the raging
question.
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1t will be noted with curious inter
est that President WILSON'S moral
conviction of the unrighteousness OF
the German war and his eagerness to
get into the fight as a matter Of ma
tional duty were thus asserted by him
in response to questions by Senator
HANDING and Senator McCUMBER:
1T was our concurrence in the
judgment OF the world. This Re
public. IL interpret It rightly. does
not need a suggestion from any quar-
ter to fulfil its moral obligations"
"Mr. MccuMBER-Do you think
that IL Germany had committed no
act of war or no act of injustice
against our citizens that we should
have gotten into this war;"
The PRESIDENT do think So"
On August IS, 1914, before Ger.
many had had any time or opportu.
nifty to commit acts Of war or acts OF
injustice against our citizens the ut
terer of the foregoing declaration as
to moral duty issued to his fellow
countrymen an appeal for neutrality,
in which he said:
II venture, my fellow countrymen,
to speak a solemn word of warning
to you against that most subtle.
most essential breach of neutrality
which may spring out of partisan
ship. out OF passionately taking sides.
The United States must be neutral
in fact as we'll as in name during
these days that are to try mems
souls. We must be impartial in
thought as we'll as action. must put
a curb upon every transaction that
might be construed as a preference
OF one party to the struggle before
another"
And fourteen mnnths later, on DC
tober IL, 1915, after Germany bad
begun to commit acts of war and acts
of injustice against our citizens, he
said to the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. at Washington
America ought TO devote itself
only to the things that America be-
lieves in and, believing that America
stands apart In it's ideals, it ought
not to. allow itself to be drawn. so
far as it's heart is concerned, into
anybody's quarrel"
And four months later, nine months
after the sinking of the Lusltanla, he
said on February 10, 1916, at the
Chamber of Commerce convention in
Washington
IT am not afraid OF the slow YER
dict OF history with regard to the
neutrality of the United States, and
l believe we are justified in exercls-
ing every degree of patience in max
ing clear what our position is and
how sincerely We are determined not
to allow this quarrel to become ours
in any part"
This quarrel in which we had no
part! This quarrel" in which we
must have no part! Exactly what
did President WILSON mean ut Wash
ington day before yesterday?