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ir THE WAS SHOULD GO ON. If Japan and Russia, falling to make peer, at Portsmouth, should resume hostilities in Manchuria, what would they be fighting for? In the caa of Russia the answer la easy. 8ha would bo fighting because the Japanese terms included an Indemnity which ahe refuses to pay. But for what objects would Japan be carrying on the war? We can best answer that question by first Identifying In her demands the objects for which ahe has been fighting during the last eighteen months, by -ascertaining further what conditions ahe Imposed In her trm of peace submitted At Portsmouth; and then, after excluding all those original ante-bellum object a which she has attained and the demands which Russia haa conceded. what remalna must evidently be accepted as the purposed for which ahe would resolve to continue tho fighting.

The Japanese terms submitted by Baron Komi'ha, of course. Included every condition; whether arising before the war or during Its progress, which Japan desires to Impose upon her foe as thfl price of peace. Of the twelve articles, demands which are known to have constituted the terms of Japan, the following have been concedod by ItusMa In the course of the negotiation: The first, recognising the preponderating influence of Japan In Korea; tho second, providing for simultaneous evacuation of Manchuria: third, the transfer of the Uao-Tung lease to Ja-ran; f.mrth. the re-establishment of Chinese civil administration In Manchuria; sixth, the transfer of public property In Tort Arthur and Dalny; aoventh. the transfer of tho railroad property In Manchuria; twelfth, the recognition of Japanese fishing rights xn tho Siberian coast.

The eighth article provided for Russia's retention of the main Munrhurlan line of the railway. The tenth and the eleventh articles, providing for the transfer of the Interned ships to Japan and for the of the Russian naval power In the Pacific, hnve been abandoned by Ttaron Komvra. This Laves only the fifth article, which demands the cession of Sakhalin Island to Japan, and the ninth, providing that Russia shall reimburse Japan for the expenses of the war. Sakhalin Island has manifestly been used by both parties as a make- weight, to be thrown Into the scale taken cut as might be necessary to ad-Just the nice balance of the negotiation. Japan caree little for it.

or ahe would not agree to sell one-half of it back to Russia; and Russia, who has always used It as a penal colony, refuses to pay more thsn market value, which shows that her national pride has not been deeply hurt by the loss of it. If Sakhalin were the only point still in dispute, the treaty would be signed at once. Resides. Japan haa the Island, and would still have It even If there were no formal act of cession. So, eleven of the peace conditions disappear.

There remalna but one, the ninth, which Is the demand for Indemnity. Japan's victory In arms has been well-nigh balanced by Russia's triumph In diplomacy. M. Witts) and Baron Roskm have been too much for the astute Japanese gentlemen who face them across the table. They hae put Japan Into the position of continuing the war for money, In caah.

or of gTeeing to a peace on Russia's terms to the Indemnity the terms, that la, of abandoning it altogether. Japan does not want to make war for money, not even for a sura which Is arrived at by deducting- the 50.000. 000 which Russia haa offered to pay for the keep of the prisoners from the 1000.000,000 which Japan baa demanded. No nation wants to make war for money. That sort of thing belongs back In the barbarous ages when forays were made for pillage.

Bat how can she shield herself from the hideous accusation? AU the political, territorial and commercial objects for which she went to war, as they were set forth by Baron Komcra In 1903. have been 'attained, and much more In addition. Every single ne of her conditions of peace has been met or abandoned save only that respecting the Indemnity. If she resumes the war, for what else than money will she be fighting? For the principle of indemnity? Manifestly, not. Russia would be fighting for that.

Were ahe to pay the lnlemnlty, by that met she would con- that She is thoroughly beaten. which ahe denies; that Japan has ber down, and that she must pay to be let up, which she emphatically don lee. There Is no legal principle governing the payment of indemnity. It Is a matter altogether of force Snd duress. When a nation's powers of! resistance have been entirely exhausted, as those of France were by Germany an Indemnity may be demanded and extorted.

Japan baa not put Russia In that helpless position. If she must have Indemnity money to help her wjth her big debt. It Is evident that she consented to a too early peace negotiation. If she had first thoroughly thrashed Russia. M.

Witts would not have met her with such a denying and defiant countenance. To her first mistake of consenting to dlscuaa peace terms before the war was over. Japan has added the serious technical error of letting Rus- i sla put her In the position of having to choose between an unsatisfactory and penniless peace and a continuance of the war for the avowed, or at least the obvious and undlsclalmable, purpose of filling her empty Treasury. Will It be worth while for Japan to fight for tho Indemnity? Anybody can see that It will not. She will run herself millions deeper In debt, and will never get the Indemnity, liet her conquer Vladivostok, let her take the railway and half of Siberia Ruasia's burdens would only be lightened by the loss.

She-must collect her Indemnity In St. Petersburg or she will never get It The statesmen who are responsible for the government of the Japanese Empire know very well that their money would give out and their credit be altogether exhausted long before they had gone very far on such a march of conquest Russia has won her point as to the Indemnity. She may concede something, she may give something more than $50,000,000 for the sake of concluding an Immediate peace. But the time has gone by when Japan can talk about collecting the cost Of the war. She has already reimbursed herself.

In fact, through acquiring rights of control over Korea and of commercial access In Manchuria which the world knows well enough means also control. It is our pinion that she will not let the Russian denial of Indemnity prevent the making of It Is Intimated In dispatches from Tokto that the minds of the Council and of the Elder Statesmen were a good deal occupied by considerations of this nature at the meeting they held yesterday. PREPARING FOR jgQ.6. The plenipotentiaries of the working and employing coal miners are preparing Americans for tho repetition of the struggle which awas settled by President Roosevelt's Intervention in 1902. The last utterance is that of the.

President of the United Mine 'Workers of America at Tamaqua on Sunday. Said he: We want to have the union recognised In the anthracite region so that we can eay to Mr. Baer, Here Is the labor of 150.000 men and boys. Tou can take it or leave There will be general support of this position of Mr. Mitchell, Freedom to employ or not to employ is what the employers ought to have.

Freedom to work or not to work Is also the right of every worklngman, and that. too. each of them ought to have, without any more conditions than limit the-employ-ers' right to employ or nol to employ. The difficulty is that each' elde thinks the other seek to Impose something over and above the strict 'legal rights above stated. Mr.

Baer asserts that he has no objection to unions, but the unionists disbelieve his statement. Unionists and i non-unionists do Indeed work Bide by slde. but the unionists think this Is running their business. Itj Is Interference with the unions' idea that only unionists should be employed. Mr.

Mitchell parallels Mr. Babr's affirmation of non-interference with the unions with declaration of the unions' non-interference with the employers' business. Said Mr. Mitchell, We let him run his business without our assistance for five and a half months, and then he wanted us to help him to manage It." As between these two positions the general opinion will be that Mr. Mitchell, la furthest from the line of strict fact.

The unions did not leave either employers or employed unmolested. There is a long record of violence, not only In the coal strike specifically, but lu many strikes, and especially In the strike which New Yorkers know most about the building strike, to prove that non-interference with either worker or employers who are not unionists Is the exception, not the rule. With such records behind them the unions are not Justified In saying, as Mr. Mitchell, said. Industrial peace can only be brought about by the recognition of the trades union in the making of contracts." Industrial peace can be better brought about by the enforcement of the law against those who violate the peace of the community, and by maintaining the right of every man to work for whom be pleases upon terms agreeable to them both.

Is history about to repeat Itself? Is there going to be another- strike, another Intervention, another fleecing of the community in the namf of protecting the community? In 1902 the miners forfeited In Wages. This and more was added to the burdens of consumers of coal. The; producers' profits are In excess of $1 per ton more than they' were before the strike, and the production of anthracite last year was 73,156.700 tons. The higher price of anthracite haa influence upon the price of bituminous, and the product of i I both was 83X.106.953 The -consumers win object to another similar settlement so much In the favor of the producers. The miners are equally dissatisfied with a settlement which raised their wages but left them dissatisfied In every other respect The next settlement should not be a com promise, displeasing to both sides and burdensome to every coal "User.

What the case calls for Is a strict enforcement of the law which promises to both what neither recelves adequate pro tection to all who wish to work or not to work, to employ or not to employ. Mr. Mitchell's position Is plain. Ills union Is languishing as unions always do when workers prosper. Never were the coal miners more and the unions are weak in membership.

To revive them he promises a struggle for an eight-hour day. The average day Is now under eight hours. And th wage was adjusted by the strike commission. According to Mr. Mitchell the present wages are the fairest for thirty years, but "if you were to get an Increase of 25 per cent.

In your wagestn-morrow I would be still ask ing for more." Argument and comment are needless. What is wanted Is a settlement which settles, and which places no premium upon violation of the law by any section of the community. supplies an amusing story with a serious moral. Three insurance companies failed, and upon receivers being appointed nobody and nothing connected with them could be found. The officers and furniture had disappeared, and the assets consisted simply of worthless mining stock to apply upon losses of $19,000 in a total of risks outstanding for $1,500,000.

These stocks, purchased upon a formal Directors" vote, had been ceremoniously deposited In safe deposit vaults, and were forthcoming for the satisfaction of all demands. It is easy to smile, and to say that the Incident has no moral, the procedure having een so foolish as to be culpable, even without Other facts strengthening that view. But the case Illustrates the prtnolple upon which some think even the best stocks Injudicious for Investment by Insurance companies or any others in fiduciary relations. Stocks are but profit-sharing certificates. If there are no profits there is no value.

And where there are profits to-day there may be none tomorrow. Of course it is equally true that where there are no profits to-day there may be large profits In the future. That is why stocks are equally attractive to sound Judges of securities, and inadmissible to those dealing with trust funds. There are few more attractive stocks In the present market, than those listed the other day in Tub Times's Financial Supplement as having sold within a few years at 10 per cent, of par or less. Thus Northern Pacific, now above 200, sold at a fraction of 1 per cent.

It is almost beyond belief that those fljrures can be ever reversed. Undoubtedly we shall have setbacks, but It seems unlikely that wc shall ever have such a combination of commercial, industrial, financial, and other conditions as passed so many railways through reorganization. Rut the degree to which this Is true Is and must be uncertain. In some degree there will be loss both of price and value in stocks. It is true that this is true of bonds as well, provided that the holder is under necessity of realizing at market prices.

But the theory of investment by insurance companies, or others In such relations. Is that no market reverse shall ever be risked. Bonds which are taken are presumably to be held till paid, unless they are realized at a higher price. The basis of worth of a bond Is not what it sells for, nor what it yields in Interest, hut what It will bring when paid, interest being reckoned during the interval. Bonds may be as speculative as stocks upon a short view of the market, with risk of its fluctuations.

theoretically there Is no risk except of payment of principal and Interest or of taking property worth more than that That Is the reason why many prefer short-term obligations to long-term In troublous times. The nearness of the maturity is Insurance against depreciation, for the face must be paid, however the market fluctaatesj There is a saying that any man can be a successful banker if he can distinguish between a mortgage and a promissory note. It would seem equally simple to distinguish between stocks and bonds as Investments, and yet many fall to see why sound stocks are not the best Investments. It la simply because they are a promise to pay profits merely, which must be at the risk of the business. Mortgages are promises to pay money, with a pledge of value to make the promlsegotJdNy IstrikAng onT Cleanliness being near to godliness, its rewards In general are not in cash or merchantable commodity, but come In a physical and spiritual sense of purity of more value than rubles.

When Mr. Charles Haogstrom. living somewhere on the ragged edge of the Pennsylvania oil belt, sank a well In his back yard the other day to supply a new bathroom he had Just put in his house, he had no expectation of striking anything except water or accomplishing any results except those which promoted the cleanliness 'of his household. But he had no sooner sunk the shaft nd made the connections than his bathroom began to run crude oil In barrels and with a persistent force and waxing volume which gave token of unlimited quantities In the fountain which Ms excavations had so fortuitously revealed. The first day's flow brought him In I about 150 barrels, which at the local 'market rata of $1.42 per barrel shows a revenue-producing power In his back lyard which has lifted the value of all similar inclosures In the neighborhood to a point which may be figuratively described as out of sight- The whole countryside has abandoned its customary occupations and fared forth to hunt up leases on property or find some other means of sitting in" at the game.

As Mr. IIaoo-strom had to sink his well only about fifteen feet before oil began to flow from It the small capitalist may have a chance in that region without being swallowed up by the whale of monopoly and used to point a moral by some future Miss Ida TarbelL It was a general surmise diffused through the publlq mind that Pennsylvania had produced first and last so many oil surprises that had exhausted her stock of them. But It turns out to be not so. New ones are ivldently ready to spring out of the earth whenever Its surface Is scratched in the right place and the right way. The lesson taught; by the experience of Mr.

Haoostroh la that the back yard in many regions of Pennsylvania Is still good property to hold on to and bore Into. TOPICS OFj THE TIMES. I It Is next to never that we are moved to print In full one of the many communications from Mrs. Eddt's Two Kinds of Suggestion. press agents with whloh we are well, call It favored, for we; long since numbered Christian Science among the undebat-ables.

its status having been definitively settled, and settled adversely, so far as our columns are concerned. Occasionally, however, one of the press agents does manage to evolve la useful sentence or two. and one of them has done It in the course of his Inevitable protest against a characterization of the delusion he exploits, made by ud recently while commenting on the use, more and more conscious and Intentional as time goes on, of the power of suggestion by the regular doctors. "Conceding." says the press agent. that he well-meaning physician does something, we find that he administers larjcelyjto the mental equilibrium of his patient, and the results are obtained mainly.

In: most exses wholly, by the direction he gives to the thoughts, and therefore to the acts, of the individual he wishes to help. To think of the medical practitioner as naturally and necessarily a person tmderstanding the use of the power of the human mHid is to throw upon the avenge physician a responsibility is in no way qualified to assume. Without special and Intelligent education In the use and application of the power of mind he is no more fitted to wield this mightiest of human powers than would be the Christian Scientist to administer medicine." That considering its source, is a B-jrprislngly neat bit of sophistry, for it contains an appreciable element of important truth, and even as logic It is pretty good for an Eddylte. But the Impudent -assumption that Mrs. Eddt alone Is competent to teach the would-bo wlelder.of this" mightiest of human powers vitiates the whole argument, of course, and then how dangerous for the whole structure of Kddyism ts tha Implied admission that Its votaries merely do a lot ot what the doctors do a little that the former are trained sugges-tionists while tha latter are untrained ones! As a matter of fact.

Eddyism stands or falls, both as a cult and as a source of income, on the maintenance of the contention thai between it and suggestion there is no likeness or relation. With either confessed, the whole system comes crashing to the ground. The Eddylte suKEestlon to the patient is that he has nothing the matter with him. and it works in a few Instances even when there really is something the matter. The doctor makes the snme statement when It Is true, and accomplishes as much as does tho witch woman, but his real suggestion is exerted in the cases when Eddyism is helpless in the cases where denial Is as useless as absurd and he docs It by confronting a recognized reality, always with calmness and usually with tho hopefulness that rests on knowledge of the natural tendency toward repair and recuperation and with the confidence that comes from training and experience.

A peculiarly difficult problem in moralsand lmmorals has been presented to us for solution. These Things Will Happen. It Is so very difficult that we give it up without shame or hesitation, but we are quite willing to pass it on for others to I solve if they can. The circumstances, as narrated to us, are these: A resident of one of tho northern suburbs Is asked by his sister as he starts for town to telephone as soon as he reaches his office to a sister-in-law who lives down on Staten Island, telling her to be at a given restaurant at noon, there to take luncheon with the sister, and thence to proceed on a shopping tour which the two had plann' d. The man promises to' convey the important message, goes to his office fully intending to keep the promise and never thinks of it until Just as he is starting out for his own luncheon at 1 o'clock! There is then nothing to be done nothing, that is.

except to wonder how he is to oquare himself on reaching home. He realizes ouly too well that he has committed a serious crime and made a lot of Naturally his first thought is of a oleasine- fiction hv mhlrh ha EUb I 1 1 i viouiv un iuo icippiiuns company, out he remembers that this excuse Is almost aa permeable as that of the letter that never arrives, so hie thinks of it no more. Ho also rememfce that sirters and sisters-in-law are of ail women about the hardest to bamboozle with any of the ordinary varieties Of domestic mendacity. The situation is pretty desperate, and he appeals for help to office associates, masculine and feminine. They all sym pathize, they all ponder, and.

with an appalling approach to unanimity, they begin to suggest lies such poor, palpable lies that never a lone of the associates would hope for success in trying even the best of the lot on the least credulous of sisters or of sisters-in-law. A few of the aasociates those whom the wretched man had long suspected -of secret hostility to himself advise him to tell the truth and take the consequences. He thinks he sees a sinister gleam In) their eyes as they give the advice. There the narration ends. The unfortunate doesn't tell us what he finally determined; to do or whether he did it He does add.

as a sort of a poet-script that he had; somewhat opposed the shopping tour in question, and we can easily see how that fact Increased the horror of his situation the difficulty of his problem As disinterested moralists. of course ear own opinion Is that the man should, as always, have told the truth. but we venture to ask. as a matter of purely aemdemle Interest whether a tale could havoi been told that would 'have saved his and. If so.

what It was. See rotary Shaw, la defending from criticism oome ar ks of Impromptu," Not Extemporaneous. his on the French reciprocity treaty, says that the speech was Impromptu, though not extemporaneous." Evidently the Secretary Intended by the use of these words to make a very delicate, but still real, distinction. Perhaps he did it. but we confess that we find difficulty In seeing Just what the distinction intended was, and In our consequent Irritation we more than half suspect that either the Secretary didn't know exactly what, he wanted to say or else he didn't find the words to express it and took the first at hand that sounded well.

"Impromptu, though not extemporaneous does sound well there's no doubt about that. According to the dictionaries impromptu seems to mean extemporaneous." but extemporaneous means something a little different from Impromptu." The etymology of both worda is obvious. Though of such different origin, however, they work out much allke and in ordinary use they are practically Interchangeable. Secretary Skaw drew a line, or at least he pretended to do so, and we cannot help wishing that he had told less about his reasons for opposing the French treaty and more about his 1 delicate distinction between Impromptu and extemporaneous." The question is worth Investigation, even if It results In nothiag more than the discovery that in both prompt and Impromptu the underlying, almost the foundation. Idea ts that of visibility.

Not quite every body knows that IMPRISONED PENNIES. How Slot Machines Affect the Coinage of Britain. Prom The London Express. enormoua decrease In tha oolnaca of pan-niea. half-pennies, and farthings, from 144.409 worth In 1002 to 77, 895 worth in 190.

is on aftermath of tha boom In pennies caused by tha cratljr extended uae of panny-ta-the-alot machine a faw yaara ago. The exports la cola production stata that there was oomethhir like a penny famine a few yor ago, and this led to a largo production of new ooppera by tho Mint. Tho circulation of tho petinr la a curious thing." aatd one of tho London and South-weatern Bank managers. For instance, wa think nothing of receiving at one city branch of our bank 100 worth of pennlea in one and tha great producer of pennlea la Packham. Many branch banks where buslnesa man run In and aak for a aoverelgn'a worth of ponnlea get their aupply of ooppera from Peck-ham.

"The secret of this la tha panny-ln-the-alot gas meter. The South Metropolitan Gas Om-pany'e army of men who spend their time In emptying the rynnlea out of household meter bank the money at Peckham. and milUona of pennlea are poured into our branchea In tha Peckham district. At present we find tha demand for big packeta of pennlea brisk." One of tha Secretaries of tha South Metropolitan Oaa Company gave an account of the five weeks lmprlaonment of million of pennlea Wo have 1S3.000 penny-ln-the-alot gaa meters. A large corpa of Inspectors spend their time in going round emptying theae.

They get around thla enormoua number Of meter about once every five weeka. It la quite a usual thing for them to empty out 2.5O0.000 pennlea in a few days. These million of pennlea have been locked up for ftve weeka In many cases, and If we let tha emptying process stand still very long wa should make a material difference to tha stream of coppers In circulation." Lunar and Solar Eclipses. From The London Standard. An obvious and necessary connection exist bctweejj the lunar eclipse on the 15th and the eclipse of tha aun on tho 30th Inst.

In order that an ectlpse of tho moon may occur the aun md moon must be nearly In exact opposition with regard to the earth. In order that an eclipse of the aun may take place the two bodies must be near exact conjunction. In tne lanruage of geography, we ahould say they must have in the one case nearly opposite and in the other nearly the same latitude and longitude, only that aatronomera have unfortunately aubstltuted for these terms declination and right ascension. The one condition" Is fulfilled at fuU moon on tho 15th. and the other -t new moon on the 30th.

Between full and new moon the change In tha poal 'ona of the two bodies will bring them more nearly In line, and thus partial eclipse in one case becomes total In the other. The orbit In which the moon revolves is changing rapidly from hour to hour, and It require rigorous calculation to determine exactly when eclipaea- will occur and when they will be seen, but so regular la the rate of change that the prediction can be made, and. In fact. Is made any number of years In advance. Tho eurloua may find In The Kucyciopaedla Britannlca a list or solar eclipses up to the year 1970.

The much more Interesting information what will be the sort of weather on next bank holiday tha man Is not yet born who can tell us. The Jewish Name "Gordon." From The London Chronicle. These Instances (says Mr. Gordon, who has been called The Jewish Kipling are aufflclent to show that Gordon in Jewish nomenclature la by no meana a case of latter-day usurpation, and tha correction will perhapa urge on ao earnest and able a genealogist aa Mr. Bulloch to aupply a more feasible origin.

I would only warn him against the common error, which, by the philological procesa of metastasis, derives the name from the Russian town of Grodno, the derivative of which is not Gordon, but Grodner. or Gradner, a name borne by numerous Jewish families." Another correspondent, who algns himself flalmon Gordon, sends an Interesting letter on this point. He says: I waa born In Russia. I know tho name haa been In my family for centuries. When I was a litUe boy I heard my father and mother tailing, on Sabbath afternoon, how a Jew doctor, an ancestor of his family.

Iaack. had been Court doctor to a great Oraaf (Lord) In Shotland (Scotland), and a daughter of the great Oraaf eloped with Iaack. tho Jew. to Poland. The Lord's daughter became a Jewess, and as Jews had no aur-name In those time lack took hla noble wlfe'a aurname, Gordon.

If thla romanoa ahould be true It would bo no shame for Jaws bearing tha nobis name of Gordon." No British Death Traps. From Tho London Express. We do not think that foreign veaaala trading to British porta ought to be allowed to go to sea from our ports If they are so unsafe aa to endanger life; and wa recommend that tha proviaiona of the Merchant Shipping Act. 1894. on thla point should in future be appUed to foreign aa well aa Brttlah ahlps." Such is the gist of the report of the Select Committee which waa appointed to Inquire to what extent tha atatutory requirements applying to British ships aho.uld be made applicable to foreign Vessels trading to and from our porta.

BriMah ships are required to be marked with a loadline, and the owner or master is liable to a penalty If the ship Is so loaded aa to submerge this mark. Foreign Teasels, however, which are overloaded at any port In tho United Kingdom may bo detained, but there is at present no other penalty. The recommendations of the committee are 6V signed tej remedy thla defect. They also deal with tha proper stowage of grata cargoes, and tha rules as to Uf ear-tag appliances, and recommend that foreign ease Is should be required to substantially comply with our requirements. MUNICIPAL! OWNERSHIP.

Alleged to be a Failure) jln Nlns Cases "Out of Tsn. re Eiuor mt jr rrk rtsim Let me congratulate you on your able editorial of this morning en Clttsens and Machlnea." If we are to have a Fusion ticket In the city this Fall it must naturally occur to the ordinary and Intelligent voter that the candidates on that ticket ahould appeal for the suffrage of the voters on absolutely legitimate issues. Mr. Cutting certainly has In his bonnet bees humming of municipal ownership of public and Itj Is unquestionably true Mr. Odctl Is certainly In quest of "crank" or any other old kind of votes.

Judge Francis E. Baker of the United States Circuit Court handed down a decision a few daya ago. in which he said that municipalities had no power to take over the property of service corporations, even when an 'option on such property is provided In the corporations chartered. This was la the case of the 'franchise granted the Consumer Gas Trust Company, which was formed in 1SS7. I In framing this declsicn Judge Baker quoted very liberally from United States Decisions.

In that case Judge Baker based his opinion on the ground 'that the Consumers' Gaa Trust Company had no atatutory authority to sell Its plantf or to contract to do so, and that It la against publio policy to permit a publlo service corporation like the gas company to sell its franchise or plant and thereby disqualify Itself from rendering the very publlo service for which it waa granted a franchise. Unless Judge Baker la re versed on appeal, is not his decision a precedent 7 It occurs to the writer, and unquestionably to Thi Truss, that municipal ownership as an Issue this Fall Is simply a stalking horse brought to the forefront for the purpose of catching what may be termed, or is termed, the labor vote, and the votes of the Socialist. It is the undeniable truth that In nine-tenths of the towns where municipal ownership has been tried it has been a disastrous failure. Only a day or two ago Elizabeth. N.

had to give up Its municipal water plant and sign a contract with a water, company in an adjacent town to supply the city's needs. This contract was made with an independent corporation at a price below which Elizabeth. N. could supply her citizens from the oity's plant. REPUBLICAN.

New York. Aug. 2, 1905. ATTACKS ON MR. ROCKEFELLER.

Criticism of Business Methods Legitimate, but Not Personal Abuse. To the Editor of TM New Tor Time: Noticing the letter of Fairplay In your Issue of the 23d. the writer would like to heartily apnrove and to add a word. Like Fairplay I have never seen Mr. Rockefeller; the only business relations I have had with him.

his friends, or corporations has been the purchase of oil as a housekeeper ordinary retail channels, and in no greater quantity than one barrel at any one time. As to price, I have found I could purchase refined oil, obtained from expensive wells, brought by expensive pipe lines, or. In expensive tank cars a lopg distance, refined with more expense and then retailed at (as a rule) much less per gallon than natural spring waters which need no wells, no expense except to be run into barrels or bottles and brought In a great many cases a far less distance than the oil. Yet we are told the Standard is a giant monopoly while great competition exists In spring waters. These being the facts I have never felt that I was being swindled, or that I was ah injured victim of extortion.

Neither have I believed that Mr. Rockefeller was deserving of; all the abuse heaped upon him1 by Miss Tarbell. Even If every word she has written of his business methods Is absolutely true, her attacks on his personal his appearance, and on his son are entirely unjustifiable. That Miss Tarbell has made many friends for Mr. Rockefeller while doing her own reputation far greater and an irredeemable Injury with all fair-minded people is, I think, beyond question.

As a proof, when a group of several ladies were recently discussing the matter on my piazza, each and every one was united In the most severe condemnation of Miss Tarbell, also expressing the hope that some capable writer would voice their sentiments in the Press. i JUSTICE. l(ew York City, Aug. 23. 1905.

Russia's 44 Honor and Dignity." To the Editor of Tht Xtw York Timet: Your correspondent who ask wherein lie the honor and dignity which Russia seejts to satisfy, doubtless puts a rhetorical question, to the end that others less well Informed than himself may be upon their guard. But tho ln- i iiiuciy, ana invites a mora open statement of the meaning ofj these words upon the Hps of those who speak for Russia. The whole matter lies In the tact that these worda do not bear the same signincance in America that they do la Continental Europe. Ther they express the self-esteem of divine right; here, personal virtue or worthiness. And between these two conceptions lies tho history of modern civil evolution.

These are words that in tho Continental sense, however they may oe coucnea in the larger language of states uuiusuip. in your London dispatch thla morning, ring wholly false on the ear cf a iree people, and the hope is ventured that few win oe misicu py them. By all means let the peace which the world hopes for be Honorable and as befita the dignity of jtwo great natl but the precious self-esteem of either Interests us only aa It calls for tact. New York. Aug.

26, 1906. a r. o. Historic Examples for Japan. To the Editor of The Xew York Timet: Charles XIL of Sweden and Napoleon ahould teach Japan wisdom In pursuing Russia to an extremity for as Peter tha Great said: She will ahow us at last how to beoomo victor." Let him that thlnketh ho standeth, take heed lest ho fall." DAVID 8.

COPELAND. Washington. Aug. 25, 1905. How Miss Hunt Died.

From Tho London Telegraph. PARIS. Aug. 18. Near the picturesque town of Morlaix, In Brittany, not far from Brest.

young Americas lady artist. Miss Helen Dun- lop Hunt, haa lost her life well as tragic manner. Sh In a very aad aa was alUlng on a rock near tho sea sketching, and was so absorbed In her work that aha failed to notice the rising of tho Feeling water plashing about her feet, she looked op from her easel, and saw herself cut off from tha mainland by nearly half a mile of sea. Being a good swimmer tha young lady resolved to get ashore as quickly aa possible, so aha at ruck out courageously for tho land. Aa aha waa taring a place of safety one of her foci was cut fearfully by the rocks, and sha was unable to move.

Tho young lady artist was drowned before help Father Duhlgg and Mrs. Mackay. To the Editor of The Xew York Timet: I have road la your paper of to-day tho correspondence between Mrs. Mackay and Father Duhlgg. In tho latter' a letter be says tho chil dren of tha parochial school are taught tho ordinary courtesies) of life." and la proof of this1 ho says they would be taught never to say Romanist." Suppose Instead of thla bo bad said.

They are taught always to apeak kindly of those who are not of our owa Chore, and new to aas- anyming aoout tnetr form saj religion which could give offense." would ho tot have made a stronger point? W. H. Geneva. N. Aug.

Z5. laoa. i MTY OF CITIZENS'. UNION. Not Oppose Tammany Hall, but to Encourage Good Government rerwref Th Sm Tor iThe action of the Citizens- Catoa through its City Committee In demandln the nomination Of Mr.

Jeroma vr.ZT deserves our attention. prent the question of the fitness Of the proposed nomine, tt II a esv1. ourselves to the Citizens- Its basic unaerstand It that the best men available shall be nominated for all offices and ail competent officials retained In the public service. While the writer does not accept thla theory as cape-ble of application In a city of the size and character of New York, and Is therefore a frank believer la government by party as being the whole best suited to the present stage ot develonment in nomocracy, yet still he concedes that meory aei i or in is highly attractive. His quarrel, with the Citizens Union is that when the chance la given to apply this theory It Is disregarded, and a dlok- er la made with another oartv I for the sole object of defeating Tammany nus ui inusens' union misses Its opportunity and forfeits pubUo eonO.

dence. If the present administration be compared with IU predecessor It will be found that the men now in charge of the several departments are on the whole as competent and their work ts done Just aa well as was the ease two years ago. Even thf much-abused Water Commissioner Is hot only quite as fit as were either of his predecessors, but many ot the faults charged against him are acta, ally the result of the Incompetency ot persons employed In his offioe during the era of so-called reform. Tammany Haa giving the city a clean and efficient administration, comparing favorably with any of those preceding It and therefore the Citizens' Union may with a clear eon. science Join with the other Independent organizations In -re-electing those whe have served the city welt Mayor McClellan has conducted a clean, manly.

Just administration. He haa shown that there is no Inherent conflict between the official oath and the party obligation. So he ia about to stand upon hla record as a strong and efficient Executive ask-ing once more for the suffrages of his fellow-ciUsens. Not merely do I hope he wUl be elected, but I bellevs his defeat would be a publio disaster. Should he be beaten, what Incentive would there be for the party machine, which must In the nature of the case be in power at least seventeen out of every twenty years, to give the city a decent administration ef-floered by honest men? It would be too much, to sxpect that any official should devote to his duty his beat energies and highest purpose were he convinced that as soon as the law allowed he would be turned out by a fitful electorate.

The failure of the Citizens' Union to realize thla phase of the question makes Its leadership weak and showa its blindness to existing conditions. If it could be endowed with prophetic vision It would, instead of seeking: above all 111, overthrow of the Democratic organization, consecrate lu efforts to perpetuating the beat government New York City need ever hope to have by declaring its choice for Mayor to be George B. McClellan. EDWARD McK. WHITING.

New York, Aug. 26, 1005. English Attitude Toward United States To the Editor of The Xew York Time: Tbe letter of Jack Canuck giving the roe on why English animosity toward the United States la dying out -prompts ma to glva the Engllshman-a view of tha matter. Canada la r. now on her own legs; she has got to fight bar own battles In ber own way, aad without interference from England.

All points of dispute that arlae between the United States and Canada must be settled between themselves. Cosv, sequently England and tho United Statea, with no vexatious questions arising betweea them, are now lulled Into fanciful security, aad give outsiders tha Impression that English --tmelTy toward tha United States ts dying out. It is sot that Englishmen are losing their manhood or are afflicted with national short-alghtedneaa. It ts simply that where there are no causes of friction there oaa bo ao ease for quarrel, Canada haa sought to run before ha could walk, but why should she lose has) temper about it? BRITANNtCUS. NewTork.

Aug. 28. 1005. $100,000,000 In Tips. From Tho London Telegraph.

PARIS. Aug. IS Notwithstanding tho Summer heat, a diligent French statistician has been very busily engaged la computing tho amount of the pourbolree. or tips, gtvaa la Franca annually to waiters, cabmen, box -opener at theatre, concierges, aad 'so forth. Tho sums thus -spent amount to nearly halt a milliard of franca, or 20.000.000 sterling.

In Parts alone nearly 12,000 changes hands In this way The statistician says that It moans a tax of seven centimes on each Paris! aa every day. taking the big sum mentioned for tho whole of tho population. Including those whe have no call to give tips, as well as tha others. wno spene a good deal or their time ra caisa I The yearly' amount of tips given In Paris about lOO.OOO.OOOOf. In tho provinces It reach! 372.O0O.O00f,.

which gives a tea of three oaa- 1 times daily for each French person living fat 1 tho departments. The statistician claims te 1 have got as near to tho truth as possible, Tbe -A tip system undeniably flourishes in France, aad there are no algns of Its approaching aboHtioa, despite tho period loaJ cunpalgss' organised against ft. An Unsafe Topic From The Philadelphia Public Lodger. Bishop Aroee tells a story of a slave in Missouri In tho olden time of negro age, who said to his chattel: Pompey, I hear you are a great preacher." Tea. do Lord' do help mo powerful sometimes.

Well. Pompey, don't you think the aagioas steal little things on the plantation rae mighty 'frald they do. Masaa." Then. Pompey, I want you to preach a sermon to the) negroes about After a brief reflection, Pompey replied: You see, Maasa, dat wouldn't never do, 'cause 'twould trow aucb a cci'aess over do meeting." -v Revenge on the Automobilist. From Tho Cleveland Plain Dealer.

got good and even with that automobilist. said tbe man who loves tha water. I waa crossing tha street tha other day when he whirled round the corner and knocked me dewn. I yelled, at him, but he only laughed aad rods The other day ho came down to the -river and asked mo in a great hurry to carry him across. My boat la tha only one en that ly one en ens cross over?" I a quickly 1 Then I laughed I part of the stream.

Want to cross asked hhn. be answered. possible. picked up the oars. Then and rowed away." GOLDEN ROD.

Tls now lit waves with wondrous style, and Whoops It up, while bees about It scoot and skim And all the gleaming of Its golden gum Ia elfin sunshine even, when It droops. -It cannot be turned down and so It scoops A gilded triumph that la never dim. And with wild joy, unto the very brim. -It fills all sages, bards, and nlncumpoopa That have an eye for beauty and a sonL But one it puts, and quickly on the rack. Because it means that soon and not la vain I'll have to grind the midnight ode for roaL: While dear old Mr.

Frost, whose first name's Jack. J. Carves rose and tulip on my window pane. 1. K.

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