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JAMES WATTS GARRETT.
Inventors Room In Same Condition
as When He Worked In 1t.

From the Glds1oio Herald.
The problem of how to remove and
preserve intact the garnet in which
James Watt, the engineering genius
who made the steam engine a practical
proposition, pursued his mechanical
studies is now puzzling the James Watt
Centenary Committee. which arranged
elaborate centenary celebrations at Blr-
mingham last month.
II Is proposed, If possible. to take this
garnet from its position at the top of
Heathficld Hall, the old manor house at
Handsworth. where Watt spent his last
years. and to reerect it intact In the
central memorial buildings to be pro-
vided in the heart of Birmingham.
The difficulties of removal, however,
are very great, and the house of which
II Is part is at present in occupation.
The garnet Is still In exactly the same
condition as when Watt worked in t.
The piece OF iron Watt was last en-
gagged in turning lies on the lathe. The
ashes of his last fire. where Watt used
to do his own cooking because of his
wife's objection to seeing her husband
looking like blacksmith, are in the
CRATE; the last lump OF coal is in the
scuttle, the Dutch oven is in it's place
over the stove and the frying pan in
which he cooked his meals is hanging
on its accustomed nail.
dish on a shelf contains a withered
bunch of grapes. On the floor in a
corner is trunk containing Gregory's
school books. Gregory was the youngest
son of James Watt. who. to his fathers
infinite grief. died young and at the
commencement of promising career.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
safety First.
From the Vancouver World

From the Vancouver World.
Jenkins had an auto car,
johnson had a nag;
Jepkins travelled near and far:
johnson had to lag.
Jenkins struck road one day
johnson headed toward 81;
Didn't hear the brass horns bray,
Jenkins didn't hear the neigh.
Came together in the way.
Neither could afford IL.
Didn't stop to say Hello"
Didn't stop to look.
Auto wasn't going slow.
Nag was doing his bit.
Auto kissed the horses nose,
Maggie was offended.
Kicked the auto in the lamp,
On Its franc he tried to tramp,
Thought he was an awful scamp,
Tale In almost ended.
Jenkins lies up on his bed,
Talking of the moon,
Auto isn't In the shed,
Won't be very soon
Naggies where the horses go
When they leave this sphere
Roasting? Freezing? What's his show .
Didn't learn his habits. so
Cannot answer 'YesF or NO"
Only he's not here.
Johnson's In the hospital,
Broken all to bits.
Nurses think the, got him all
Seems like nothing ats.
Maybe he'll be whole once more,
Out upon the street
Auto might run as before
Now it's scattered on the floor
While mechanics paw II % err
Won't admit defeat.
Jenkins may not drive again.
johnson has no nag.
CLASSY conversation. when
Either breaks his gag.
Jenkins cusses nags and mules
Johnson: Cars the worst
Says the drivers all are fools
Don't know steering gear from tools
Threatens quit. and passion rules,
Moral: Safety first"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
NEW LIVES FOR OLD.
Marvellous Reports of the Success O
Serge VOronoff's Experiments.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. Your
report Of Serge Voronofrs experiments
as enclosed is correct as far as II goes
and no doubt of interest to the layman.
I happen to have received a much more
complete report with the steamship La
France. In yesterday.
The results obtained by the insertion
Of the interstitial gland are truly mar
vellous. In my report. which l shall be
glad TO submit to you, II is stated that
this gland was inserted In second hand
fiivvers and third hand typewriters, with
results as astonishing as II the inser-
ton had been made in an animal or
human being.
The full report should be published In
the interest of true science.
JOHN ]. HARDY, NJ. d.
BROOKLYN, October 10
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
Brief Index OF Prohibited Letters.

Letters to the editor conveying the
more or less violent, or perhaps libel
lous, and more or less interesting
generally less, not more-personal
opinions Of the writer, who astutely
"dares" the editor to print them;
Letters TO the editor, nominally ad.
dressed to THE SUN but really in
tended for some one Of THE Suns es-
teemed contemporaries with which
the writer has bone to pick; letters
very likely already submitted to and
returned by the journals they par
ticularly concern;
"Open letters" to various dlstin-
guished individuals. of great interest
to the writer's thereof. of little or no
interest either to the persons to whom
they are addressed or to the general
public; submitted to THE Sun as a
convenient medium Of communication
and often with the fine air of being
benefactor;
Letters to the editor of the clrcu-
lar variety; bigamous or polygamous
literary proposals offered slmultane-
ously to two or more newspapers
merely on the chance that II one
doesn't publish another may;
Letters to the editor which obvi-
ously should have been addressed d.
rectly to'the office cat.
The foregoing index or list is not
exhaustive.
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The frost is on the pumpkin,
As the poet Riley wrote;
But the price of pie is far too high
For newly. I'm the eoati
Old man HI Kost has laid me hat,
Tryin' to make ends meet;
Tn fortunate to get plain bread
And sich like things to eat.
Ny rent has gone a-scootin'-
My trolley fare is more;
The doctors bill is higher still;
There's no tick at the store.
Ny salary Is just the same.
And II looks like chicken feed,
The Riddles shoes is gettin' thin
Mas hat the worst I've seed.
There amt no use o. kicSin'-
There's others worse than me;
got home safely from the war
To the wife and children three.
But when the poet told US
OF the fodder in the shock,
He didn't say a doggone thing
About the overcoat in hook!
CHARLES A. DALEY.
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The Country Of Mystery.

From the Toronto Mail and Empire.
Sometimes we grow tired and weary. tired
of lifes anxious quest.
Tired 81 life and Its sameness, weary with
the hearts unrest,
Burdened with care and sorrow, from
which the soul would be free,
Longing for love and laughter In the coun-
try of mystery.
From the heights of that mystic country,
there are reckoning hands that call,
In the gray, dim dawn OF morning. in the
eve when shadows fall.
And brightly its CLEAN and glory food the
days that are 20 be
With light from that magic country, the
country Of mystery.
Over life's long trail a-winding. we wenc
our onward way,
Sometimes with spirits broken, sometime s
with heartsongs gay.
But ever the spirit of silence lures on in
grief or glee,
Far beyond Iifes shrouding shadows. to
the country of mystery.
So mid OUR song or signing. life Il ever
wrapped In dream,
Dreams OF the days beyond u. hopes that
with gladness CLEAN.
But the heat s de- d. subtle longings shall
be satisfied and free,
When from dreams we awake in His like.
ness In the Country OF Mystery.
HELEN B. ANDERSON.
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For q FastldIous Lady.

Fastidious and dear. you lose the thread
OF friendship in this labyrinth OF doubt :
Hereditary ancestors cry out
In all your moods. and though my heart
has bled
A thousand drops TO leave you eomfortsd
You will remember where fan ana fau
From that high caste that Is your All
in all,
And with the thought our kinship will be
dead
Although the nguro tower TO the SKY
And Aeschylean eagles sweep around
The straining brow, your microscopic eve
VIII see but rough hewn granite ana
the ground
That gives It substance, and you will re-
lax
Before some ngurine OF polished WAY
HEssERr s. GoaMlS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
Famo us Men Who Never Breathed.

Literary fabrication so bold that
1t is spread on the pages of stand
ard work of American biography and
yet so modest that for thirty years
it has escaped the eye Of truth Is
charged in the September issue Of the
Journal of the New York Botanical
Garden by DR.. JOHN HENDLEY BARN
HART, who was the librarian of the
Garden from 1907 to 1912, and who
has been its photographer since 1913.
DR.. BARNHARr declares that the sub
jects of eleven biographical sketches
OF botanists in Appleton's Cyclopedia
Of American Biography are Pigments;
that their births, their names. their
voyages, their scientific adventures
and their numerous books, so solemnly
given by title and number of volumes,
existed only in the mind of some falsi-
fer of the human record.
We will not say that the imposture,
as 1t appears to be, Is shocking, ex-
cept perhaps in so far as 1t may dis
turb students Of the photography of
botany who, reading the Cyclopedia,
have accepted as a fact that there
was, for instance, an ALEXANDER DAM
TEL KoEHLER, who. inspired by HuM-
BoLDT. came to America, lived for
seven years at Santa Fe. explored
South America and wrote, among
many other works, Flora Brasilien-
sis" published in four volumes in
Berlin in 1928. To most of us
Herr KOEHLER's non-existence is not
a killing matter. 1t Is not as If
Baconian, rObblng us OF SHAKE
sPEARE, could also rob us of what
passes for WILLIAMS works As for
the Cyclopedia itself, which DIR.
BABNHART describes as otherwise 80
authentic" and which is familiar to
every student Of American history as
the most complete and dignifed COL
lection of It's kind on this side of the
Atlantic. 1t is no more harmed by the
little sprlnkling of invention than a
mlnce pie would be by the addition
Of couple Of imaginary raisIns.
What Is most interesting about the
discovery made by the Bronx Park
bibliographer-who publishes the ex-
posture now after many years Of ST.
lence because he finds that the false
hoods have been making an impress
sion upon the literature of his profess
sion--is not so much the apparent
crime but the supposed criminal, his
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

Representative MORGAN of Oklahoma
is wasting his genius in Washington.
His plan to build homes for 100000
sol 'iers. charge Off per cent. of loans
due from borrowers each year. charge
off 10 per cent each year to sundry
losses, pay all administration charges
and at the end Of twenty years show
a net profit of TIA per cent. on a re-
volving Federal fund of 100000 900 is
not only too good to be true but is
even too good for Congress. 1t is just
good enough to be discreetly offered
by mail to school teachers, parsons and
widows seeking safe investment for
small savings. II post Office inspectors
could be induced to keep their hands
off the scheme it surely would enable
Its promoters to get rich quick.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
POEMS WORTH READING.


To q yioIinist ''Gene west
When the music you made for us died on
the air.
And left a sweet fragrance behind.
How little we thought as we sat listnins
there
We must be to your own loss resigned
We may weep. as We do, as we did when
you sailed,
And our tears then as now had free
scope.
If the charm OF your music TO Heaven has
prevailed,
We shall srieve no, as men without
hopei
o the Ere OF your violin melted US then
Till we granted your sayins was sooth;
That a man of the nddie was not least Of
when he fought ns he'd sung for the
TRUTH
we may weep, as we do, as we did when
you sailed
To lay down your life with your bow,
And the music of both In our hearts has
prevailed,
Like a sweet water. well in its dow.
WILLIS srzs11-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
Mortgage on Home Treasures

Stockton correspondence ST. Louis RepuhRc
There was hled in the once Of tho
recorder OF deeds the most unusual chatteI
mortgage ever presented at the Office. The
articles mentioned to secure a debt OF sac
were as follows: One shotgun. one Win
chester rife. two vlolins. one black tom
cat with white feet. named Tom. II was
not specified that the guns had hammers
nor the hddlss with bows, but the identiA-
cation of the tomcat was not left In doubt.
indicating that the cat was considered by
the MORTGAGE the most valuable part of
the security.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
A Union DEGREES What Credit an
Employer Shall Extend!

Persons who are not familiar will
the extent to which organized labol
has gone in its attempt to regulat,
business according to the desires, the
cries or whims of the self-appointet
regulators may have to read twice tn,
subjoined circular before they will be
lieve their eyes. 1t Is a letter ad
dressed to the newspaper publisher
Of this town by Photo Engraver,
Union No. 1:
"SEw FORK PHOTO ENGRAvERs UNION
NUMBER ONE.
''502 PULITZER BUILDING.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 1919.
Publishers Association Of Nep York
City, PuHtser Building. Neto York
City:
GENTLEMEN A menace to the
photo engraving industry exists in
the granting OF extended credits by
certain employers to publishers. ad-
vertising agencies and other users Of
photo engravings.
Work such as our members pro-
duce which is mostly personal service
and labor should be paid within
reasonable period and this organiza-
ton recently found 1t necessary for
the protection OF its members to set
a definite time limit Of ninety days
from time Of rendering service. In
which engravings produced by them
shall be paid for.
ION and after October Is of the
present month. this ruling will be
enforced. After this date. our MEM
bers no matter where or by whom
employed will refuse to grant further
service to any publisher. advertising
agency or other users of photo en-
cravings who have not paid for such
former service within the time limit
above stated.
BE assured that this further ac-
ton in carrying out and enforcing the
terms OF our Minimum Selling Base
for Photo Engravings' Is for the flu
ture protection of our members and
. the general betterment of the photo
engraving industry.
VERY truly yours,
"E. ]. VoLz. President,
New York Photo Engravers I'm
ion No. l."
1t is reasonable, and only just to the
union, to assume that coordinate no
tice has been served by the union or
its members employers. the engmv-
Ing houses which supply goods to the
publishers who are warned, In the
letter quoted, that they must not ex'
pee, any credit except that which the
union DEGREES.
We submit the document as one of
the most interesting pieces of evidence
Of the syndicallstic drift that has
come to the surface.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
Had There Been League Of Nations
In 1879.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The
popular argument in favor of the League
OF Nations is that had the league been
In existence IN 1914 the war would have
been prevented.
The same argument holds good in re-
gard to the War OF the Revolution. Had
the league been in existence then the
United States would have been pre-
vented under Article X. of that worthy
document. B. d. McKERNoN.
BRONX. October II.
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An Eternal Subject for Deba ts

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: You
ask Does a chap sleep better
in pajamas adorned with SIG mono
grams than II he laid him down to
sleep in cotton pajamas carrying
a set of necessary bone buttons?"
Permit me to ask, Does a chap sieep
better In pajamas than in an old fash
toned nightshirt?"
ONE WHO HAS TRIED Born.
MARLBORO. N. H., October II.
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Run the Railroad Ferries |,

| Responsibility for restoring the ma
rine transportation system in the har-
Dor Of New York city rests absolutely
and completely on the United Suites
Railroad Administration. a division of
the United States Government under
the exclusive control Of the Wilson
Administration.
Twice within ten months strikers in
the marine departments of practically
all the railroads serving New York
have paralyzed traffic In the harbor,
disrupting commerce and endangering
; the lives of millions Of citizens.
In one case the Railroad Admins
tration, which has control. Of all the
affected railroads, patched up a COM
promise with the strikers after grave
injury had been done to the people.
In the second instance the Mayor
Of New York succeeded in getting the
men to go back to work under an
agreement which gave promise Of ami
cable adjustment Of the questions in
dispute.
In both cases the United States
Railroad Administration betrayed a
weakness and lack of initiative which
had 1t been shown by the private
management of a railroad would
have called forth unmeasured denun-
citation from the public.
In both these cases the Railroad
Administration abandoned an essen
tial part of Its service, dumped pas
sengers out before they had been car
ried to the destinations the Railroad
Administration had contracted to
carry them to, and suspended trans
portation lines operated under fran
chises granted by the public and i'm
peratively required for the mainte-
nance of orderly life in and about the
greatest city in the world. II threw
up its hands and refused to make an
effort to do its duty.
Now the men who struck in January
and struck again in April have quit
their jobs once more. without warn
ing, without defined grievances. with
out serious explanation. Millions of
persons are imperilled in their COM
fort, their business and their health.
The food supply of a great community
is menaced. The arteries of civilized
society are strangulated.
In this situation there is only one
thing for the Railroad Administra-
ton to do.
The Railroad Administration must
restore the service interrupted by the
strikers. 1t must find means to fulfil
its contract obligations. 1t must i'm
provise methods by which the trans
portat!cn system shall he effectively
reestablished.
If the Railroad Administration can
do these things, can do its duty by the
public, without collision with lawless
men, we'll and good. If lawless men
attempt to prevent the Railroad Ad-
ministration from doing Its duty, then
every instrument of the United States
Government In cooperation with every
instrument of the States and their po-
litical subdivisions for the protection
OF the peace must be brought into
operation to enforce order.
The conditions created by the fail
ure of the Railroad Administration
to operate the transportation system
as 1t should be operated, to run the
railroad marine equipment as 1t
should be run. to keep in good faith
its contracts with Its patrons to fur
nish the service, are intolerable.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

produce varieties of human Ills; good
cooking cures many. Doctors pre-
scribe diet courses for patients igno-
rant cooks spoil the medicine. Whole
wheat is an excellent article of food
for some sufferers; 1t can be made
into an unattractive indigestible mess
by some cooks. Let doctors be taught
to cook well and in turn teach many.
The world then will be healthier and
laugh more and only the mixers of
drugs will sigh.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

would mean much to him II he could
see It; but at Its base there may be a
well fed newsboy asleep in the sun |;
perhaps a lad born in Genoa and
come here to make his fortune. He
would mean a good deal to the kind
old Admiral.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
Your Promised Land.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Mebbe we amt all in clover,
Be we're goin' to play our part;
Got 30 much for to say grace over
Dunno where to start
It's a fine old world
Where the blessings fall,
TIL you can't git round
To count 'em ALL
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

From the Toronto Nail and Empire.
Like torches of golden, light
Held in some hidden falry's hand,
Shedding glorious radiance over fields and
dying meadow lands,
Fringing the dusty highways
Through the valleys misty haze
Along the lengtheninB shadows
You win find IL in all its glory
These mellow autumn days.
MABEL SASDILANDs Rom.
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Kentucky ut Last settles a Long standinr
Controversy,

ITV" tNo utUIVtTUWU IFMet
Mrs. Kate Rice spent Sunday with Mrs.
Jennie Walker at her home in the country
and reports that while there she saw one
OF natures wonders. This wonder was in
the form Of an old rooster which has
raised eight guineas until they are almost
grown. This old rooster has done as well
or better by the guineas than a hen could
have done, which goes to prove that the
male OF the species is almost as sficient
as the female:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

or the thrilling transcontinental air
plane race RuDYARD KIPLINo might
write just previously to the official an
rouncement Of the results:
East to west. and west to east!
And which OF the twain will bent?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

A famous school of medicine In
Vienna has announced that hereafter
all Of its students will be required to
take a course In cooking. May the
course be practical. thorough and in
tensive and not concerned exclusively
with such food as is found in kings
houses, but such as the kitchens OF the
ordinary home offer to the doctor
cook. Bad cooking is now known to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
The Sun Calenda,
THE WEATHER

' For eastern New York-Partiv o,....
IN north. threatening and go, 0'oaay
PROBABLY rain In south portlon :. VIC
winds fresh nora
For New Jersey-ThreatenI,s 49,,
err. with rain to-dey: to.mors ana cold.
Ahr cool fresh north and northea,, CLOUDY
cloudy and cooler to-day, to' Snu - Partb
continued cool; fresh no-.s..-9s row fak
4 southern New Engiand-Tb-a"niinrs
ana colder to-day: to-morrnu, !eng
, CLOUDY; fresh north winds pNth
For western New York-p.-,,.
.o.aay; tomorrow fair, contipuss, cloud
moderate north winds. '"ued co.,
| WASHINGTON, Oct. I'm
| Is low on the North Atiar,ihe pressu,
over the Gulf of Mexico s ana ,' coast al
Ms.issip al'' vsl.y from the AXE.
las; Inc weather was mucb o vac Paes
ing saturday In the Mississinni' V Sr du.
th IN. Sor, the region Of the great axes axe oas
Esfstures continue states ar, and lower t:s
warm weather prevailed saturdSsOor tihweE
Atishtic states south Of penrs,., "a ths
sno there has been a reaction ~ Snnanl
the Roety over the plains States t ,ss
iest twenty -four hours there u,a.nng The
IN the Middle Atlantic md New raim
SS,nntes. the lower lake region sugsnm
an vnio ana Middle Mississippi VaIsvaa %.
me Gulf States. Heavy local rain. "a, and
Eastern Texas. Northern Loui.an,sH
kabsss, the Lower Ohio Valley ana A.
western Alabama. The outIooL south
edoudy and cooler weather suns,S 20
fair weather Monday In the Nav ga any
ana threatening and colder westS..
weather Monday in the Middis couty
states the Ohio Valley. Tennessee H ars,u,
East Gulf States; partly CLOUDY a ano u.
WIZ Local showers Sunday and Wa S'ar
with somewhat lower temperat,rs "ounusI
daY in the South Atlantir sts,s Non.
generally fair and cool weather So, IN
and Monday in the region Of IN. 'I n..s
Observations at United States wes,ho, n
s esa stsuons taken at P. N. ysstsrS ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

Taking a psychological test at Co
lumbia University. a certain kind of
beer seems to have "f1unked" with
only 2.75 per cent. rating.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12

The celebration Of this day may be
widely different in character in Genoa
and in Fiume.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS.

TIC temperature In this clty ve,terd,v
recorded by the official Thermometer 4
SHOWN In the annexed table: