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rnmn ematrlee for dally and PUMkf oailiesa SIXTEEN PACES, REVIEW OF, BOOKS AND ART. COWttOITDEIfTS AS SPIES The astonishing Announcement made by Count Cassxxx at Washington yesterday thAt the Russian Government hae given notice that the newspaper correspondents Haln wireless telegraphy win be treated aa spies offers an Invitation for candid Inquiry aa to the motive of the order. 80 far ae we know, the only persons using- wireless telegraphy for news purposes near the scene of the war between Russia and Japan are the correspondents employed in the Joint service of The London Times and Tan New iYoas: Tim a They are on board the steamship Halmun, which is equipped with a De Forest wireless telegraphy apparatus. This steamer cruises about tha Gulf Pe-chl-U as near to Port Arthur as Is practicable, and sends wireless dispatches to the De Forest station at Wei bat-Wei, which are then transmitted to 'London and thence to New York. That a newspaper correspondent on board an unarmed steamship under a neutral flag, outside the three-mile limit off the XJeo-Tyng Peninsula, should be held by the Russians to be subject to capture and execution as a spy.

is a doctrine that wlU Instantly arrest the attention of Downing Street, Just It would arrest the attention of our State if the correspondent in question were an American citUen. On land and within the Russian lines 'a' corre- 1 apondent Who had been ordered to sub rait hi dispatches to a censor and yet continued to cast them upon the uncov enanted air. to be recorded a hundred miles or more beyond the reach of the Russians, would of course be subject to Interference and possibly punishment. That Is very different case from the one presented by the activities of the correspondents aboard the Halmun. They re pursuing their lawful business, and ft la the merest pretense to assert that they are giving unneutral aid to the nemy by disclosing secrets of campaign movement or preparation.

Admiral Tooo has certainly been able to get news of the Russian fleet in Port Arthur, and to get It In such volume, particularity, and detail as to leave no occasion for the supplemental services of a correspondent by wireless telegraph. Every merchant Ship or passenger steamer coming from the neighborhood of Port Arthur brings newt; although, of course, It la later pews than that. got by the correspond-nta aboard the Halmun. In fact, these correspondents are doing what has been openly, done In every naval war since newspaper reporting upon a large and scale was practiced. Tha use of the wireless telegraph in no wise changes the essential nature of their relation to cither belligerent.

The language of Count CAssnrfs notification left at the State Department yesterday would Imply that! Ruwia seeks Xo engraft an altogether' new doctrine upon the body of International law, by the txse of the pretext that wire leas telegraphy in aome unexplained way establishes a new status for the correspondent. That Is preposterous. The essence of the correspondent's work la getting the news, that Is, using bis powers of eb-ervatlon: the transmission of bis dispatches Is a detail, and whether he use submarine cable, wireless telegraphy, the megaphone, or carrier pigeons establishes no such change of status or relation as would Justify the barbarous order of the Russian commander the corre- apondents aboard the Halmun are to be treated as spies and their ship seised aa prise. We venture the opinion that the Hal- i tana will continue her work without mo- i lestatlon from tha Russians. la the first place, the Port Arthur equadroa has by 'repeated experience that there Is no safety for a Russian 1 ship outside the The attempt to rapture the Halmun and the correspondents aboard ber would Involve grave risk ot encountering the fleet of Admiral Tooo, a risk the Russian commander would wot willingly run ta his present enfeebled condition, Worse than that, the seizure of a ship under the British flag and the treatment as spies of British subjects aboard her would cause a pro- test to be Instantly 'lodged at St.

Wtere-. burg by the British Government, with a demand for reparation and apology. In view of the grave character of the Inter national rlaks Involved It la improbable that tha Government of the Csar wtU deliberately embark upon the policy ot as-'aertlng and enforcing this new principle. I TEJt PXTEOPAVIOTSX; It would have been a very sad antl-; climax IX It had really appeared that the Russian flagship, gallantly steaming out ml Port Arthur to engage the enemy, had routed one ef the Russian mines laid for lier protection. The CAtastrophe1 would have denoted a more than.

Chinese, a mors 'than Bpaniah, incompetency to battle. Why the official Russian telegrams should have Imputed this Ineptitude to the Russian commander Is one of the many wonders of this war. As a matter of cold fact, the most enlightening dispatch we have thus far had about the fate of the Petropavlovsk Is that rom Che-f 00, Vhich Imputes her destrpctlon to a 'mine laid by the Japanese torpedo boati. On that theory the Japanese might have run la close enough to have planted effective obstructions la. tha way cf the deep-drawing Russians seeking to emerge, and then have got out of the way themselves.

That theory saves the face of the Russians, saves also the face of the Japanese, and la the most plausible that has been thus far promulgated. is 'distinctly to the In terest of Russia, that It should be accepted. Because the theory that a great Russian battleship was wrecked by running Into a Russian mine laid out on all the official Russian charts Imputes gross Ignorance to the Russian naval officers, under which there is no real reason to believe that they. laborj TEX DEMOCRATS AND TEE PHILIP-PCfES. We think that the opposition was badly advised in Its solid, vote against the bill for the amendment and Improvement of the law regulating the civil gov eminent of the Philippine Islands.

The bill made no essential change In the principle on which that government has been founded. It did not involve In any way the relations of the Islands to the United States Government, which have been substantially fixed and must continue for a long time. It Is even doubtful If these relations cduld be seriously modified should the Democrats succeed to power the National Government, since they are practically determined by the conditions existing in the Islands, and, these can be changed only slowly; What the bill does that Is most Important is to authorise the Phil lpplnes Government to borrow money in moderate, amounts for the continuation ot public Improvements heretofore paid for out of revenue, and to authorize the Government to guarantee the Interest on railways, also within limits fixed In the bill. The responsibility assumed under this bill would be Inconsiderable compared with the certain benefits to be secured by Its operation. The opposition to It seems to us to have been ill-founded.

ELEVATED SAILSOAD TRAVEL. The overcrowding of trains on the Manhattan Elevated Railway continues to be a cause of complaint among those who find themselves under the necessity of traveling during the rush hours. Let us, however, be patient. In view of the fact that In a given the elevated railroad system of Manhattan carries more passengers than all the long-distance railroads of the United States combined. In one day in January last the record up to that time was broken by the movement, without accident or casualty, of 1.046.000 passengers.

On three days since April 1 the number carried exceeded a million, and on the first Monday of this month a total of 1,003.000 was scored. These totals seem impossible, but they represent fares, paid. A few passengers may have purchased tickets by the dollar's worth, but the number thus consulting their own convenience is not great enough to affect materially the astounding total. Cer tainly It would be fully offset by the deposit of tickets purchased previously, and not included In the cash fares of the day. These figures art bewildering.

Such a trafflo on such mileage of road was never before approximated In the history of transportation. It has been made possible wholly by the substitution of electricity for steam traction a train movement, and the limit of possible In crease by this means would seem to have been reached. The memorable congestion of Dewey Day was the result of an attempt to handle 830,000 passengers. The movement; of 1.0C3.000 In one day on April 4 was effected with so little friction that It Is probable no knew that It was a record-breaking exploit. MOOT: EASTMAN.

For whatever time the court may de cide that the ruffian Eastman shall be confined, the mere fact of his falling Into the clutchee of the law will be grati fying to all decent men. He la a peculiarly odious criminal, though perhaps not so dangerous as some others with a less contempt for civilisation and more craft. A violent and combative person, delighting In dominating his kind by brute force and by the fear that force Inspires, with a crude Instinct for leadership and enough talent for organisation to' 'maintain a "gang of lessef he engaged the unusual occupation, of letting out to those desiring them the services of himself and his followers, much as did the condottlert of the early Italian days. That his trade conflicted with the customs and laws of the society In which he lived and brought him Into constant danger from the police and the courts are tacts that do not diminish the queer credit he enjoyed among his own class. They rather Increase "it.

But they do tender exceedingly Impressive the mere phenomenon of his activity In this city at the opening ef the twentieth century. His trial and the evidence admitted as to his practices. his his backers, and employers reveal a strange standard of human conduct Is a considerable portion of our community, a standard so "opposed to the Ideas and familiar sentiments of the great body" of the population that It Is hardly conceiv THE HEW YOHK TIHE3. RA.TUHDAY able. But It to matter that cannot be safely Ignored.

JJere Is a set. of ydung fellows actually not professedly but actually without perception of the enormity and hldeousness of their prac tices. They are men, to whom the ordinary rights to personal safety or even to life, instinctively and habitually recog nixed and respected by the great mass of citizens, do not exist, Their purposes, their desires, their appetites are preda tory, and about on the level of those of men Just emerged from the roost prlml tive savagery. And they are a class. They are pot Isolated Individuals, but members of a group, numerous enough to have an 'effective public opinion, and that opinion defies and outrages every' thing held sacred or respectable by the millions among whom these strange creatures dwelL It would, of course, bo easy to exaggerate the relative' Impor tance of the existence of such a group or ckss, but It would also be still easier to err in- underestimating Its significance and Importance.

GEIf. MILLS. After all, the issue of the deliberations ot the Military Committee ot the Senate seems to have been the dictate of the good sense of the American people. was a curious and Interesting case. It Is extremely likely that the tote President McKixuet appointed Capt.

Muxs ot the cavalry to a command far out of his reach, considering Capt. Miixs's relative rank in the army, and also considering the traditional claim ot the engineers upon the Superintendency of West Point, doubtless now and always one ot the "plums" of the army, without-very much consideration and without any con sideration at all of the army feeling." The appointment did not vindicate It seisin advance. In tact, some ot Capt. Mills's best friends rather hoped that he would decline It, so anomalous was It, so perfectly Irrelevant did It seem, that a Captain of cavalry who had shown dis tinguished gallantry In Cuba should on that account be appointed to a place which had theretofore been held sacred to a distinguished, at the very least. Ma Jor of engineers.

But the appointment, which we admit waa not fully vindicated when it was made, was fully vindicated shortly after ward. Col. MiT.tJi has shown that he to one of the best Superintendents the Military Academy has ever And his promotion to the lowest rank that a Superintendent of the Academy ought In decency to occupy follows, as a matter of course, and ought to be acclaimed by tha Military Academy, the army, and the country. TEE BOLL WEEVIL. An entomological expert employed by nature to investigate the status and outlook of the boll weevil scourge In the cotton belt reaches disquieting conclusions.

It is a Mexican Insect, and did not cross the Rio Grande In numbers sufficient to be of concern to the cotton grower until it had practically destroyed the cotton Industry of that country. It is not by instinct an enemy of tha cotton plant. It has simply found that vegetable a more agreeable food than It had before cotton was grown, and one better adapted to Its sustenance. The writer quoted believes that be weevil wilj spread over the whole cotton-growing area of tha United States within the next twenty years, and that, unless some means are found for diverting' It from what Is at present Its food pursuit, the fate of cotton growing la the United States will be that which attended, the efforts In Mexico to establish this Industry. This is gloomy prophecy, but perhaps It" embodies a valuable suggestion.

If the boll weevil eats the cotton plant be cause It. seeks agreeable food, la It not possible that In nature there to some kind Ot food It likes even better Its original diet, for example? If this could bo found and raised with the cotton, It might protect the latter, and. Incidentally, permit the extermination of the pest at the 'stage of its development which renders it especially vulnerable to systematlo attack. Tha farmer cannot afford to destroy his cotton plants even to eradicate the weevil, but be cou' very well afford to uproot and burn oth-. erwlse useless growths cultivated to feed this epicure of the Insect world.

VASSJXI VESESTCHAGHr. It It be really true that Vassiu Van-BsrcHAonc was the guest of Admiral Makaroft on the Petropavlovsk and shared the Ill-fate ot that battleship, the "tidings are Important, even momentous. It would not be accurate to describe the death ot the Russian polntv ss a loss. He had done his work, delivered his message, completed his career. In fact, the pictures that he showed here thre on four years ago were, la all pictorial qualities, Inferior to those that he had shown here twenty years or so before, and Indicated retrogression.

t' Neither, at. his best, was he a great In the niceties of the craft ot bis art any pupil of any ot the recognised schools could have given him lessons, which to be sure he was too self willed and too proud' to take. He waa very far Indeed from being one of those artists every stroke ot whose brukh the looker-on sensitive to his art follows with delight. But It Is questionable whether, not being a great artist, he was not something greater than ia great artist. He was a great reporter, using pigments Instead of words, and Issuing "human He was so faithful a reporter of his own country that his paintings, after all that can fairly be said against them as paintings has been said, convey to most people who have not visited Russia an Idea of Russian life at least as vivid as can have been convey by the pens of the gifted band of Russian novelists, from ToMtoTv" 1 J.

And not only Russia was Illuminated by. this Interesting and. singular man, It was bis luck, and now it appears that it was his doom, to be always at the centre of the situation, always where what was ot most general Interest was going He had, as In his capacity of reporter behooved him to have, a nose for Ot that last collection of bis pictures the American observer could not fail to observe that the charge up San Juan Hill, and that the ways of the West Pointer with the Filipino, were depicted in a very, enlightening way. In spite of his grave technical deficiencies, Vxhsstchaoiw was a great reporter and a great TOPICS; OP THE TTJZE9. We have already referred to the courage, coolness, and presence of mind that were apparently every man on board the Missouri after" the turret explosion, but this triumph of discipline over the instinct of self-preservation to so many minds was such a striking one, owing to the fact that to It was obviously due the preservation of the ship and all on board from complete and Immediate destruction, that It Is well worth further consideration.

The moment the explosion occurred, hardly onoof the men who survived it could have failed to realize that another, violent enough to tear the whole ship to fragments, was much more than likely to follow within a few seconds. It would have been entirely natural for all who could do so to make rush for the and thence Into the water, whence, even If the Missouri blew up, a good many of them would doubtless have been rescued by the other vessels In the neighborhood. That, Indeed, seemed the only chance tor life big enough to measure. But not a man took it. There was a rush, to be sure, but It was to' the post ot duty In such an emergency, and whatever could be done was done without hesitation or confusion.

What could be done proved to be enough the ship was saved, and those who escaped the first explosion were soon out of danger. The episode recalls to mind by a difference, not a similarity a story that has been told many times, but not for years, about the old Idaho. Soon after close of the war that vessel" waa ordered to the Far East. She made the voyage under sail, owing to the condemns tloa of her much-dlscusaed Dickinson engines, and carried, in addition to her own officers and crew, some other officers destined for service on the Asiatic Station, who want as passengers and had nothing to do on the voyage. In the cargo were six tons of powder with the same destination.

On the way the Idaho passed safely through the dreadful calm which is the centre of a typhoon, but what made the trip most notable was a fire on board that for' a while seriously threatened the magazine. As on the Missouri, the Idaho's own company showed no signs of fear for their own lives. but went every man to his post and stayed there 'till the danger was over. But the passenger officers, though men of exactly the same quality, exhibited the wildest ex citement and alarm, getting as far from the magazine as possible, and as many as could running to the end of tne bowsprit without a thought of -professional dignity. They were not cowards, but they had no responsibility, and nothing to do, and that made all the difference.

The Missouri bad no passengers, so every man was anero. When a mistake has been made that la at once practically irreparable and terly lenxplioable, what to to be done aoout It? That Is the painful ana embarrassing question which has been raised for our consideration by a paragrapn puDusnea In this column yesterday. It ran on at great length vast solemnity; about the deductions which. should and should not be- drawn from the death of the man Kxacx In Bellevue! But the man Kwacx did not die in Bellevue he died ta the Man hattan Hospital on Ward's Island, and therefore were the officials, the doctors, and the nurses of Bellevue wronged by our remarks with a good deal less than no excuse at alL Why? If we only anew I To say It was done in carelessness or stupidity would be an easy way out of the mystery, and whoever will may accept either or both of those explanations, but as a matter of fact we know that the par agraph was not 'written carelessly, and we can still hope that it was not written stupidly. Perhaps the experts In cbarae ot Bellevue' own Psycbopathlo Ward Will be charitable enough to draw upon their comprehensive knowledge of the queer thing a human mind can do when Its owner thinks It is working all right, and help us out ot a terrible difficulty.

If they reply'that their experience is largely with alcoholics, the Intimation be not leas untrue than cruet, and therefore. unworthy of them. We are ourselves quite helpless in the matter. To declare that we did not Intend to write Bellevue Instead ot Manhattan State" would be an absurd waste of time, and to say that we are sincerely grieved at having done an unintended wrong would not be much better. The worst feature ot the case Is the- of fending paragraph will undoubtedly go tar and wide, while nobody wooid think it worth while to copy this one.

even though we spun it out a foot longer with well- known and indisputable facts as to the excellences of Bellevue Hospital as it la, of Its steady Improvement for years past, and of ls promise soon to become a model among institutions of its class, worthy of rae imitation or tne world. We can onlv hope the members ot the Bellevue staff will remember that 'tis mortal to err and that lamentable accidents happen' in newspaper offices as In operating rooms for which the responsibility is hard to place I A troubled reader who mar er but pot have a reprehensible interest In matters aleatory-one can, remember, be interested In them as a scientist as well as from the rambler's standpoint wants to know if runs of luck continue to run wheth. er one continues to play or not. In other words. If a man stops playing at any given game wnen iuck begins to run against him, can "he begin again at the end of any period with the expectation that his bad luck run is over, or does he resume exactly wnere ne lert out This, an things consid ered, to the most difficult question that was ever submitted to us.

and we had thought that nothing new in that line was possible. The fundamental trouble with the Inquiry to that there Is no certainty whatever about the existence of "rune of luck." Experience says Tea. while reason says No, and-, there you are. to whether a run, runs while there to nothing running, who can even begin to form aa opinion blind Instinct pronounces the suggestion absurd, and then asks Why? What would have happened it one had tried a chance one didn't try can never be known, and yet so nearly universal is the feeling that luck to an entity distinguishable from a mere accidental sequence of unrelated events that even tne sober-mum ad can ponder a moment over our correspondent's curious conundrum. 1 nearly inevitable la it that tn wtov- namea chosen for oooular arm atut officers will be pleasantly applicable only ta case of victory, that it seems to be unwise to.

give them currency. For the fortune of war is cruelly uncertain, and affectionate names are 4amehtably apt to be openly or impliedly boastfuL Therefore, ia case of defeat they are remembered with regret by friends and repeated with cynical amusement by enemies, The fate of the Cossack of tb is not reassuring for the Bulldog ef the Russian Navy." or for the owners of other similar names that circulate, it seems, among the Czar's forces. The Japanese, so far as known, do not take the, chances, but co about their business under their own well vocalized names. It's the safer way. THE SMALLTALK Or WASHINGTON T.sSHeial is TU Srw York Tim.

WASHINGTON, April 13. Senator Morgan of Alabama can be facetious and satirical at times. When the Canal Zone bill was being considered to-day Senator Aldrtch moved to strike out the section that provided for establishing a Government depository- He explained that The Secretary of the Treasury favored the section, but the Finance Committee did not agree with him. Mr. Morgan expressed delight with the exhibition of boldness made by theRhode Island Senator.

This venture upon eTcourse not indorsed by aa executive department was balled as a hopeful sign that the Ben-ate might return to the virility manifested in the early days of the body. The section was eliminated. 8ome of the White House employes have been In the habit of soliciting subscriptions and offering tickets- tor sale tor various objects. Including church festivals and the like, to visitors, and those who are required to make frequent visits to the Executive Office, as well as those visiting the Executive Mansion, have been annoyed by these solicitations. The reading of newspapers by messengers and doorkeepers while on duty was also a subject of complaint.

These things will not occur In the future If the Order made by "Secretary to observed. The order forbids the reading ot newspapers when on duty and the solicitations of subscription or offering to sell tickets for sny object whatever in or about the White House by the employes. A the Senate Reading Clerk was racing thrugh the drowsy sentences of the Sundry Civil bill this afternoon he was suddenly Interrupted by Senator Bacon. President." said the Georgia Senator. I must protest against the way the clerk reads.

He goes so fast I cannot keep up with him. I have no objection to his skipping parts of the bill. He skips very Intelligently, but what he does not skip he reads so fast that It to simply Impossible to keep up with him." The Senate toughed loudly, and President Frye 1 solemnly ordered; "The clerk will read more slowly, so the Senator from Georgia can keep up with him." GENERAL NOTES. Forty-eight vears Lonla TUrrr tin a nl11 over the books In the office of the Collector of St. XjouIs.

though there have been many Collectors and these of different political faiths. It to claimed that during the entire time Mr. Berger has never lost a day from the office by reason of times. Though be has worked over columns of figures for nearly half a century, his eyesight continues good, and at the age of seventy-five years he does not wear spectacles. It to many years since Maine has changed Its Representatives In 4 Congress.

except when Speaker Reed resigned or death has intervened. All four ot the present delegation have Just-been nominated i for reelection by the Republicans of 'their districts, A Mrs. Jennie Nelson, was selected by the recent Utah Republican State Convention as one of the alternate delegates to the National Convention. It was not much, but. as one of the women delegates In tha convention urged, the, women voters were entitled to some recognition.

even 11 11 were out tne empty honor of election as an alternate. Mrs. Nelson was chosen under suspension of the rules by acclamation, "-''V On Monday, April 18. the Continental Con gross of the National Society of the Daughters 'of the American Revolution opens in Washington, and on Tuesday afternoon will be laid the cornerstone of the Memorial Hall to be erected by ho Daughters to the heroes and heroines of the Revolutionary period. "Young men and women, read the Bible as you would.

your Shakespeare," exclaimed Pr. Oliver J. Thatcher to his class ot Juniors of the University of Chicago a day or two ago. 2ie explained that he was not then speaking from a religious standpoint, and that, as be knew. It to a lamentable fact that most students, do not know anything about the history of the literature of the Bible.

They shun It and do not give It fair consideration," he added' Mr. William H. Baldwin finished on Thursday last his thirty-seventh year as President of the Young Men's Christian Union ot Boston. Enthusiasm keeps men young, says The Transcript. and Mr.

Baldwin's unflagging enthusiasm must be held to account for his apparently peren- niai youtn." Because ot a severe attack of larnygitto the Rev. Marsden R. Foster, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in East Brain-tree, Mass has obtained a leave pf ab sence from his pulpit for a while, and has accepted a position as motorman on the Boston Elevated Railway In the hope that the out-door occupation will In time relieve him from the throat trouble. He was graduated at Brown University hi 1909, John a Boston merchant tins recentlv celebrated tha fiftieth mi(mu of bis entrance Into business In that ana specially marked tha dar bv th nr of $5,000 to endow a free bed in the Massachusetts General Hospital In that city. Daniel B.

Wesson, tha wealth mvaIm manufacturer, has given 100,000 to the Hampden Homeopathic Hospital In Springfield. Mass. The money will ba uf rn, erection of a new building of granite and gray pressed brick on the present site of the hospital. The only atipulatlon attached to the gift Is that -a tablet shall htt nii cn the hospital stating that tbe building waa erected in honor of Mr. Wesson's wife.

Prof. William Callvhan Robinson. T. t. to to deliver a commemorative address on the late Francis Way land, former rwn nt the Tale Law School, In Hendrie HaH, New Haven, Conn on Friday evening next.

Prof. Robinson 1s now Dean of the law department of tha Cathnna TTnlvniv America at and was formerly Professor of Elementary law In the Yale Law BchooL Ex-Senator William A. TTarrla nf has 1 lately written to friends that while' grateful for the favorable mention of bis name In connection, with the Democratic nomination for the Governorship of the State, he wishes it understood that he could not permit his name ta any circumstances to be used aa a candidate tor any office. He says that his health to not very good at present, and that it would ba impossible for to attend' to his business and go lath politics in any way whatever, especially because of others' who are dependent upon him and whose claims are Imperative. 11PIUTJ 1G.

1 HATEFUL TO THE TIWES For Its Persistent Effort and Final Success In Repeal of Near-Side Stop, TO fae EUtoe TU Vms yer Timet; You are entirely right In your editorial ot April 14 on the "near aids ordinance. Tas Tntas to entitled to the gratitude and thanks of the community for Its persistent effort and final success in getting the un called for and obnoxious ordinance repealed; From any and all municipal ownership and operation of city railways or other fran chises, good Lord deliver us." Private corporations may have their faults and comings, but they have more sense than to adopt rules whose tendency to to drive away the patronage by which they exist. The most Ignorant man ef business has too much sense than to work on such a reckless plan. Witness the outcome of the expenditure of the vast sums la the late improvement on the Manhattan Elevated That corporation has done much for the comfort of the traveling public; and to now reaping the result la a constant Increase ot earnings. I have used the road nearly every day since that fool near side rule was put In force, and find, with the rush hour exception, every reasonable comfort.

I trust the distinguished municipal legis lature, when they make another and pos elbly the greatest effort of their life, tney will net forget to first try it on themselves. SROBERT RUTTEK. New York. April 15, 1904. KIND 'WORDS' FOR PROF.

TRIGG5. University of 'Chicago Graduate 8ay Criticisms of Him Are Unjust. To the Xiitor ot The 3re Tor Time Whenever the writer, of Topics, of the Times sees fit he refers disparagingly. not to say contemptuously, to Prof. Oscar Lowell Trlggs.

Frequently he goes out of his way to drag In the name ot one who more sinned against than sinning." It to obvious that he to' unacquainted with Prof. Trlggs's real merits. Relying on whatever adulterated pews comes to hand, he per Detuates every misrepresentation he can conveniently recall, regardless of their With the usual inconslderateness of news paper writers, your paragrapher attempts to foist every silly wherever made. upon Prof, Trlggs. That In season and out of eeason Prof.

Trlggs has denied tne many statements attributed to htm, makes no Impression on your, paragrapher. With brutal pertinacity he continues to marshal them but and exhibit them as a trophy of ridicule. -Now, Prof. Trlggs to a thoroughly sane man, a progressive and modern thinker. one of that unfortunate class of men who.

like Buskin and Morris, whom he has so ably explained and expounded, to toe big for any university. If In education the alMmpovtant thing to to have great souls breathe out abundant life, inspiring and invigorating all with whom they come In contact, Prof. Trlggs has met that stand ard exactly. To him literature Is a record of life, and not as some would have It, fossilized syntax- He believes that every great poet or author to an Interpreter of his age apd has therefore a message to deliver to the men of his generation. He likewise believes, that our modern education' to incomplete because It does not recognize the necessity of an Industrial training to fit men for the new Industrial era into which our coutry has naturally Is this so radical, so monstrous, that he must be slandered, slurred, and- slashed by thevauill thrusts of stuffed warriors, the-newspaper paragraphera? Every thinking man agrees with prof.

Trin in this. The only detractors are the empty ws 01 ocwzpaperoomi ir In. common with a number of graduates ef, the University of Chicago I regret the action ef those officials who allowed Prof. Trlggs to leave. The university has lost a great personality.

whose departure will enentually be more damaging than the loss of endowments. Chicago University could well afford to miss a million than lose a radiating personality. For ultimately an great centres of learning focalize la one man and for Chicago that one was Oscar, Lowell Trlggs. i'' JOSEPH LEXSER, Kingston, N. April 14 1004.

CELEBRATE TOO EARLY. Deplores Use of Firecrackers In Anticipation of Independence Day. To iko 4Uor of The Xe Tor Timett It to one ot the many pleasant National traits of Americans that they are as a rule not people who complain easily and grumble about trivial matters. But at times behooves us to utter words of complaint, not so much to give vent to our Irritability, as to help Improve matters which concern and vitally Interest ail.cltlsena, Many, no doubt an of tin. hra -nrton continually, been annoyed to say the least.

If not driven to desperation, by the Inconsiderate, rude, and thoughtless acts of children In the streets who )ott firecrackers and torpedoes three months oeiore tne actual celebration of Independence Day. Now, I am not saying a word against shouting and yelling of voices; against foot and base ball playing to the endangerment Of ot Duicnrm' of all the other nuisances which must be pardoned because of the youthful and exuberant spirits of poor city children otherwise pent up In small, stuffy flats of all others I make no mention. But as regards this grievous, boisterous, nerve-Injurious explosion of fireworks, could not measures.be taken to prevent It until Its due time, before the evil has be come widespread that all appeals to police and Magistrates are useless; -'v. NEW YORKER. New.

York, April 141904. Cockfights and Horses' Bits. To the tutor of The Sew Tore Timttt To a reader of the news of the day It Is Interesting to see the great activity displayed by the agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, In the matter of the Brooklyn cockfights; this to well and In line 'with Its duty, but eon-latency to a jewel, and we do not Jflnd this society conspicuous by this adornment when It exerts Itself so hard to rescue a few chickens from Indulging for a few minutes In a painful but Instructive struggle, and falls to rescue the coach horses from hours of much worse pain Inflicted by the cruel Pulley-Badoon bit forced upon them bv many of our rich.1 Is It because in the 1 Brooklyn arrair there to much newspaper advertisement, and In the painful bridles seen on Fifth Avenue every day there to a fear of diminished income? HORSE LOVER, I New April 14. 1804. A Suggestion to the i From The' Buffalo News.

Sosaebody oaee wrote aa answer to Procter's rhapsody about "The Beat the Beat tha Open Seal end It wound Op with this refrain. So take stand TViOa land! Oa land V. Forever and ever oa solid land! This should ba tha matte of tbe Rasstaa com-stander la tha Far East, trots repeated iadioa-tloaa. But perhaps lbs Japs will not have It that way. i-- mwemmmmmMmBwmmmmmommomMmmMMMMmmm All the Law Allows, From Tbe Phnadetphia PubUe Ledger.

rtewliwed I tell you what, eld van, my wife is ase womaa In a thousand, Bacbeller Well. I should bops so. If she wars snore thanf one you'd be a bigamist, at least, r.AYAL LOSSES -COPARBl Sinking ef Petropavlovsk Recalls Cow- par's Poem on Less of Royal Gsorge, Te tU tutor of The 2fne Tor Timtt: I see you refer editorially to the loss of Admiral Makaroft and the Petropavlovsk? as curiously like that ot the Royal George and Kempenfelt more than a hundred years ago. Would It not be well to give your readers Cowpefs poem, which I eubJolnT j. ON THH USS OF THJB BOTAL CEOBGE.

ToU for the brave I The lm, that are eto ssorel AO svak beneath the ware i Fast by their, satire shore! I Eight bendred ef the brave, Whose courage waa tried, Had made the vessel And laid her oa her side. A land brMse shook the efcroede, And aha waal overset; Down want the' Boyal OeorgV With all bar rw eomplste. i. Toll for the brave! Brave Ketspeafelt Is gone; Hi last sea-nght Is feeght; His wer of done. It was nee la the battle No tempest gave the shock; She sprang as fatal leak; fan spoa nejWcs.

Bis sword was, la the sheath; His fingers hld the pen. When Xentpeafelt Went down With Iwloe four hundred men. Weigh the vessel tap. Once dreaded by our foes, And SBiagle wtth oar cup The tears that England ewes. Her timbers yet are And she may float again Full charged with England's thuadtr And plough the eietant mala.

5 But Kempesfelt Is gone His vtetories iare 'er; And be and bis eight hundred Must plough the wave no more. New York, April 15, 1904. A. B. QUESTION OFi BUSINESS ETHICS.

Thinks Merchant Justified In Selllna Adulterated Goods to Meet Competition. To the Editor of The Ktw Tfmett While conversing with a friend some even -Inge ago. a chance remark that there was a great amount of fraud perpetrated nowa days, which In the eyes of tbe perpetrators was quite Justifiable, celled forth the following remarkable statement from my friend: "Why, In my business competltloa makes It impossible for a single firm to exist If It did not adulterate Its goods. -For obvious reasons I shall not mention! my friend's business, but the existing eon. -ditlone which he explained were a revels tfon to me, and though at first his state ment was rather appalling, his subsequent a xp la nation has to my mind somewhat jus tlfled his course, j- v- His argument in substance waa that a--merchant who discovers that all his com peUtorraro able to undersell him because they adulterate their goods Is ustifled in following their- example in self-defense, If for no other reason.

Furthermore, a man who has the' means to retire when these practices of his competitors become Intolerable owes a certain obligation to his employes, many of whom, perhaps, havo grown old In the concern, and are unfit to start business life afresh. To sell out'' would simply shifting the responsibility JO other shoulders. Always taking It for granted that tho adulteration practiced to not Injurious and lr, to practically, proof fsom to man censurable who sells an adulterated article as absolutely pure, wfietf the cone" dltlons described are taken into considera-' tion? New -York, April 14, 1004. Force Rule In foreign Lands. r.J Te the Eiitor of The Veto Tor Tie: 'i Clyls Americanus deserves praise tof clever and just comments on Colorado's condition ot affairs.

('- However, he says toward the end of his article, Force may. cope with insurrections la the despotisms) of Europe, but it to a doubtful resort ia a may assure "Civis Americanus that what to now going oa In Colorado would scarcely be possible ta tho only despotic countries of Europe, "Ru sia and Turkey. In any other It would be out of Question CTVT3 York, April 14. M04. A THE NATIONAL CONVENTION The Common Sense of tho Situation, From Tbe Aagusta (OaJ Chronicle.

-Ths Nbw Toik Tocu has on editorial ea 1 Tha PemecraUo BnaUovsa. which. It aeetas to as, contains the eommoei sense eC the sltsaUva. 1 The Man and the Platform. Prom Tbe Savaaaah (Oa.) Mews.

-I The outlook at present ta that lodge Parker will be the party's Botnlsee. The prorpect of brlagtng about ttarmoay to the party with sia aa the nominee seesas to be better than with aay ether saaa who has bean eiowttosied ta eoaseetloa with the nomination. Such be tar the ease a mis 1 take, in the matter of a ptotforsa, br the New Tork CeaTeatlon would be extreaaeiy oaferte On Him All Can Units. Frota The Rome (Oa.) Herald, to bo te sas en wsms all eie meats of the patty would and ought to unite, If nominated. i Man Choose.

From The Athens (Oa.) Baoaer.f A great deal of grouad eeeld be gataed if tbe -Besnocrecy of the country would set to work tor Parker. i Should -Unite and Harmonlxev From Tho Columbus (Oa.) EnQOirer-Sun. Judge Parker's aomtaaUon should twite and harmonise tha Democracy as the soleetlea ef other soaa ssentloacd la this eonneetioaeetdd possibly do. a The Only Man. From Tho TaUtottea (Oa.) MewJEra.

-r. J- -T. We are of the optalen that Parker is the enty-man Who can lead the Democrats to victory. The Independent Votes. From The Nashville CTena.) No good Democrat can offer valid reasons to refuels a- to support Parker.

Ho can command ail tne votes ta tne party, and ho ought tm receive A ae Heme President. fUtteu t- lsrge Independent vote, wuhosrt eras or Republican! can ba a The party can aria With Jedge Parket wia ac an, ana the event it does set win tt wUl at least be eotreetiag the r-'trfihrt of the pasc ana ouuaiag tor the toti NE PLUS ULTRA. Oh. XAfcadlo Hearn, For Weird Tales from Japan, inTi omy co turn To the newspaper man. Whose glib pen never fsiig While his being endures To furnish us tales 80 much weirder than yours, Every day we may scan 1 Ia tho papers a line Of weird tales from Japan That completely outshine Any tales you may write.

And the newspaper man i Is the no te Indite Our weird tales from Japan. J. I-'-' vr- i -0 i I uv i I 1 .1 I 0 4.