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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY FROM THE PEOPLE. MARYLAND MUSINGS GEMS FROM THE POETS THE SUN nla ranches. Canada would continue to sell ber meat and bread to England and spend the money she receives among the farmers and manufacturers of the United States. BARRON. On February 11, 1911, at 2 P.

at the residence of her brother. James Barron, at Ashland, Baltimore county, CATHERINE, daughter of the late James and Elizabeth Barron. Mass at St. Joseph's Church. Texas, this Monday, February 13, at 10.30 o'clock.

Interment private. BOEI1M. Suddenly, on the morning of February 10. 1911. at his residence.

No. 1014 East North avenue, HENRY beloved husband of Zlllah A. Boehm (nee Smith). Funeral will take place from the above residence, this (Monday) afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in Loudon Park Cemetery.

BRODERICK. On February 12. 1911. at the residence of his niece, Mrs. Margaret Gibson.

No. 1911 East Monument street, JOHN BRODERICK. R. I. P.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the above residence, on Wednesday morning, at o'clock, thence to St. Andrew's Catholic Church, where a Requiem High Mass will be offered for the repose of his soul at 9 o'clock. ft CASSIN. On Saturday. February 11.

1911. at 9.30 P. at her residence. In Georgetown, D. MARY in the 75th year of her age, widow of William D.

Cas-sin and daughter of the late Dr. Grafton lyler. men to deny to Lincoln a lofty patriotism, a deeply sympathetic nature, a great Intellect and a genuine desire to bring the greatest good to the greatest number. These, coupled with executive and administrative ability of a high order, fitted him for the work to which he was ordained, serving to give him a fixed place upon the roll of the country's great names. MR.

ELLICOTT'S FOREST PARK PLAN. President Taft's proposition to purchase from the State of Virginia certain lands lying along the Potomac to be added to the Government holdings and to be used in extending Washington's system of public parks fits in nicely with the plan advocated by Mr. William M. Ellicott, discussed in the local columns of The Sun yesterday. Mr.

Ellicott has made a study of the matter with respect both to the adaptability of the land proposed to be utilized and to the value of such a park as the plan embraces, and presents a strong case for the consideration of the Government. It is a subject well worth consideration. Such a park would greatly enhance the attractiveness and charm of the nation's capital, already esteemed one of the most beautiful cities of the world. PUBLISHED EVEUY MORNING? P-y THE A. S.

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J. E. H. Invltlnjcc Attention Of The Street Cleaning Gang: Around Charles St. Paul Streets To Belair Market.

Messrs. Editors: I should like to have had the pleasure of the-Mayor's company today as I passed up and down both sides of Belair Market and through some of the short streets, where not over-well-off people are obliged to live. Unless the amiable gentleman has a good, strong stomach he would have felt some qualms. Streets and alleys littered up with every conceivable kind of trash, old. decaying fruits, vegetables, and evidently no pains taken by the market overseer to better conditions at frequent Intervals! A pleasant policeman standing near while I expressed surprise at the conditions said that on market days the rubbish was swept up and carted away, but he thought that was not often enough every day it should be done.

A lady informed me that often she had to wade through refuse at different points around Belair (what a misnamed place!) Market and she had never seen it really in strictly good condition for many years. Cannot the hearty gang who slick up St. Paul and Charles streets leave them alone for a week or so and work where there is something to clean? A. W. Ltman.

Baltimore, Feb. 10. Mr. Groh Corrects The Report That He Has Begun A Crusade On The Merchants In llagerstown. Messrs.

Editors: Kindly permit a brief correction of a recent item in your columns saying I "began a crusade on merchants." A pavement on a 6-foot-wide lot ol mine, six blocks from the city's centre, that I engaged a man to clean was neglected by him and, without notification thereof. I was summoned to police headquarters and fined $1, though I had cleaned all my other pavements and have never before been delinquent or fined for anything. As a small wooden shed (contrary to our fire ordinances) used as a lunch stand has stood for years outside the curb line in our "city's centre, the Public Square, Impeding pedestrians and traffic generally, I quite naturally inquired why this obstruc GOLDEN WEDDING. By Emily Huntington Miller. "Dear love." he said that morning long ago, "Where life may lead the wisest cannot know.

Or through what changing weather. If I could choose, no cloud should dim the sky." She smiled, "What matter where the road may lie. So we two together?" "Dear heart." he said when they had jour- neyed far. And the calm radiance of the evening star Above the hills was shining. "The road was rough, and life, the master, taught Lessons with bitter wisrom sometimes fraught.

Beyond our hearts' divining. "Yet good has sometimes come from seeming ill. And love unchanging led us safely still Through storms and sunny weather." She smiled, "What matter though the road was rough, The lessons bitter. This was joy enough, That we have walked together." "DRIVE THAT WEDGE HOME" What Baltimore Should Do To Secure The Democratic Convention Of 1912. From the Ridgely (Md.) Sun.

There should be no "if about it. Baltimore is the proper place for the 1912 convention and it behooves the counties as well as the city to get busy and land it. In times past Baltimore was notably a convention city. Big men have been nominated there. The question of money does not enter into the proposition as a possible bar to the success of the proposed plan.

There will be plenty of money available, not only from Democrats, but from Republicans and those affiliated with other parties, for every resident and every business man in the Monumental City appreciates the prestige and the advertising that would follow, and the counties realize that the houor accorded Maryland would be worth any effort they would be called upon to make. Baltimore is ideally located for a convention of this proportion, and moreover her people know how to handle affairs of this kind requiring executive ability, perfect management and unstinted hospitality. The entering wedge into the good graces aud appreciation of big men of country-wide prominence was started at the Democratic jubilee but a short time ago aud there is now only one more thing to do drive that wedge home and land the 1912 convention for Baltimore. Worcester People Favor It. From the Snow Hill (Md.) Messenger.

The people of Worcester county arc very much in favor of the next meeting of the Democratic National Convention being held in the city of Baltimore. Baltimore is not only prepared to accommodate such a great assembly of people as will be In attendance at that convention, with its splendid hotels, but it has also demonstrated that it can entertain the delegates in a manner superior to any city in the East. These conventions have been held in the West for many years, and we have no doubt that Baltimore can now secure the convention if all the people unite in one great effort to that end. Down To A Practical Basis. From the Emmithburg Chronicle.

Baltimore is getting down to a practical "basis on the 1912 convention proposition. Politics has been relegated to the rear and business and professional interests will now join hands in an effort to advertise the city and restore it to the list of noted convention places. Don't Get Jealous, Neighbor! From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Baltimore is making a fight for the Democratic National Convention. That city doesn't seem to care what happens to it.

JOHN L0CKW00D KIPLING Something Of The Father Of The Famous English Author. London. Correspondent New York Sun. John Lockwood father of Rud-yard Kipling, was proJbably best known to the public ns the author of "Man and Beast in India." His death a few days ago has reminded the writers of obituary notices that the elder Kipling had done much other good work. He was eminently successful as a decorative designer.

Among other work of this kind he designed the decoration of one of the rooms at Bagshot. the Duke of Connaught's residence. When Queen Victoria saw it ste was so pleased with it that she sent for Mr. Kipling, with the result that he designed the decoration of what is known as the Indian room In the royal palace at Osborne. Lockwood Kipling's knowledge of Indian art is said to have been unique.

He had much to do with several important exhibitions, for he sent to Paris, Melbourne. Amsterdam, Calcutta and London large collections of Punjab w-ork accompanied by careful descriptions. The sketches and designs for the pavilions at the Delhi Imperial Assemblage and the designing aud making of the heraldic banners presented to the native chiefs on that occasion were the work of Mr. Kipling. The Mayo School of Art aud the new museum at Lahore bear witness to his ability as an architect, and his hand Is seen in the Punjab Chief's College also.

The following story is told of Lockwood Kipling and his famous son: When Rud-yard was 12 years old he went on a sea voyage with his father. The elder Kipling became very seasick and went below, leaving the youngster to himself. Presently there was a great commotion overhead and one of the ship's, officers rushed down and banged at Mr. Kipling's door. "Mr.

Kipling," he called out, "your boy has crawled out on the yardarm, and if he lets go he'll drown." "Yes," said Mr. Kipling, glad to know that nothing serious was the matter, "but he won't let go." QUALITY OF ADAPTABILITY Jere II. Wheelwright, New President Of The Consolidation Coal Company. From the Manufacturers' Record. The election of Mr.

Clarence W. Watson to be United States Senator from West Virginia has just at this time focused attention upon an exponent of the equally valuable quality in success adaptability in the person of an associate of Mr. Watson for some years, Mr. Jere II. Wheelwright.

of'Virginla birth. Trained to the law and practicing for a few years on the Pacific Coast, Mr. Wheelwright, just chosen as the successor of Mr. Watson in the presidency of the Consolidation Coal Company, became in the early nineties the private secretary of United States Senator Camden, of West Virginia. That led to his employment subsequently in connection with Senator Camden's coal and railroad properties in West Virginia.

As superintendent of one group of mines for Mr. Camden and lessee on his own account of another, Mr. Wheelwright made it his business at the age of 30 years to acquaint himself with everything pertaining to coal mining, even to working as a miner underground. Twelve or thirteen years ago he and Mr. Watson became associated in mining enterprises, and five years later they came prominently to the front in their purchase of the Baltimore and Ohio's holdings in the Consolidation Coal Company.

Now that corporation, with which others have been consolidated, holds properties aggregating several hundred thousand acres of coal lands in Maryland. West Virginia, Pennsjrtvania and Kentucky, and only a few months ago it announc-pd its acquisition of 100,000 acres in the famous Eikhorn coking-coal fields In the last-named State, an undertaking involving plans for the expenditure by the coal company and railroads and others of $15,000,000 or directly or indirectly. The lawyer has become a master-man In the coal industry of the world. Mr. Wheelwright has been quoted to the effect that this day of corporation activities is as full of opportunity for brains and energy as were the days of simpler activities.

He talks by the book. His success, a clearly written result of the application of brains and energy to the matter at band, is of the latter-day order. What he says he has done, others can do. DIED. ABERT.

On February 12, 1911. at her residence, in Rockville, MARTHA STONESTREET. in her 54th year, beloved wife of Dr. Charles Abert. The funeral will take place from the above residence on Tuesday, February 14, at 2.30 P.

M. Interment in RocSville Cemetery. Writers for the People's Column arc requested to make their communications as brief as possible. As a rule, they should not exceed 300 words, and when they do they wi-I. except In cases of unusual Interest or importance; be reduced to that limit or returned to the writer for condensation.

Letters must bear the names and addresses 'Of the icriters, as evidence of good faith, but the names will not be made public without the consent of the contributors. Anonymous communications are never published. "A Million For Uessr8. Editors: The writer of the editorial on the Democratic convention in this morning's Sun touched one note that is inspiring "It was a manifestation of the 'New Baltimore spirit that is working for a big census in 1920." That is fine. It is something definite to work for and hang to, and includes everything else.

Let the slogan be "A Million for 1920." Let us start now to extend our boundaries and go after the other 300,000 with a vim. It's a "cinch" bet we can do it. Once again "A Million for 192(4" Baltimore, 10. The Rabbit. The Buffalo Plan Of Paving Opposed On The Score Of Injustice To The Poor.

Messrs. Editors: I trust my felIow-citizen3 and voters will not in the next spring election get too much interested in any one particular candidate for Mayor and forget to vote against the $5,000,000 paving loan according to the Buffalo plan. Whereas a poor man is unable to meet a rich man on a "level" financially, he may, or can, meet him perhaps on an improved street paved and paid for according to our good old Baltimore plan, out of the general tax levy, contributed by everybody, rich and poor. According to the Buffalo plan, where is the square deal when the poor man is required to pay individually for a portion of improved pavement used by everybody and when the rich man has heretofore enjoyed that particular luxury, paid for, of course, out of the general fund or tax levy? Shame, I say, on such a proposition No "square" deal and no justice at all attach to such a scheme. Relegate the plan back to Buffalo with all the votes of those who reside on cobblestone streets against the plan and let is compromise and borrow probably 000 or $10,000,000 and let every taxpayer pay his share as heretofore, and then show that there is some civic pride left among the poor men living in Baltimore.

Charles J. Itzel. Baltimore, Feb. 10. Mahool And Brown Would Make A Good Team, One Contributor Think.

Messrs. Editors: In your admirable cartoon of a few days back, "The Starting Gun," you represented Mr. George Stewart Brown as an athlete ready again for the Mayoralty race. He certainly put energy and ginger into his former running, and has hosts of well-wishers in the city. I think, however, that our present Mayor has made such a fine record that no other candidate has any chance against him.

But there is another post of great importance in the city government where Mr. Brown would have a good chance to win I refer to the presidency of the Second Branch of th City Council. Mr. Brown's past work in the City Council was the admiration of all progressive citizens of every party. 'He has the rare gift of nltlatlve.

Baltimore cannot afford to drop uch a man at this time, when she Is raising the slogan of "Progress." Mr. Brown stood time and again in the forefront of the battle against corporation dictatorship, acknowledging the necessary monopoly by certain public service corporations, yet demanding that they should serve, not rule, the city. Mr. Brown is an alert fighter, Mr. Mahool is a man of peace.

Brown and Mahool made a splendid team in 1904; why not now Mahool and Brown? A Progressive. Baltimore, Feb. 10. Telfair W. Marriott Nominates Mr.

Morrison For Mayor. Messrs. Editors: Of all the gentlemen who have been mentioned as candidates for Mayor of our city there is not one, with the exception of Mr. George C. Morrison, who will give the Democratic party one of its largest majorities.

I have had many business transactions through the Baltimore Trust Company with Mr. Morrison, and without doubt, in my opinion, he will give, the best administration. I am writing this note unknown to Mr. Morrison. All the other gentlemen mentioned have their drawbacks.

Some are unpopular, others with past records, and some are not firm enough to cope with important matters. If you can get Mr. "Morrison to accept the nomination, do not hesitate to support him, as I do not think he has an enemy in the world. Yours truly, Telfair W. Marriott.

Baltimore, Feb. 11. 'Good Government" Pleads For Good Nature In The Discussion Of aiayoralty Timber. Messrs. Editors: Will you allow me to suggest that all of the candidates for the Mayoralty and their supporters keep in a good humor, and all agree to support the candidate who wins honestly at the primary election, and let the people decide, as is their privilege, who shall be the nominee.

A fair, good-humored primary election may be worth several thousand votes to a fairly elected candidate at the general election. Permit me to emphasize this suggestion as above. My article of February 7, signed "Good Government," expressing my firm conviction that Mr. James II. Preston was an ideal candidate for Mayor, as well as a logical one, has been answered by M.

C. Browne, attacking both me and Mr. Preston, but perhaps he does not mean to be taken seriously in his unfair and wrong statements. Let us in a good humor, follow the Golden Rule, and whichever candidate wins let the others all agree to elect him. I have not the honor of the acquaintance of Mr.

Browne, and I take for granted he is not speaking from facts regarding Mr. Preston. One thing that I admire in Mr. Preston is that he is above little things. He is a broad-gauge man.

He is all wool and a yard wide. I hold in my hand now a letter from Mr. Preston on some business matters In which he goes out of his way to speak highly and in a friendly way, and very cordially, of some of his expected competitors. 1 wish I could make his letter public. It does Mr.

Preston credit. The people of Baltimore will feel a good deal about Mr. Preston like the old lady felt about the man she was going to marry. The preacher asked her "Will you take this man for better or worse?" "Jes as he is, pahson," she replied, "jes as he is. Ef he gits any bettah, Ah'll know de good Lord's gwlne to take him an' ef he gets any wussur, w'y, Ah'll tend to him myself." The voters of Baltimore will, I feel sure, accept the responsibility of Mr.

Preston's future state and his service as Mayor. Good Government. Baltimore, Feb. 11. The Selfish Success Of Saving On A Salary Of $18 A Week.

Messrs. Editors: It has been said that there is no 6uch complete failure as the selfish success, and if ever there was a glaring illustration of the fact it was recently furnished by the death of a Baltimore policeman, who managed to accumulate $20,000 on a salary of $18 a week and then, after he had saved it, died, leaving it to distant relatives. In other words, the money he hoarded and denied himself life's pleasures and comforts for will now go to almost strangers, who perhaps scarcely knew him and who will in all probability spend it. for those comforts and pleasures which he denied himself. Folly is a mild word to use in fhe description of a life like this.

Why a man should sacrifice so much, suffer perhaps real pangs in his denial of those things which add to life its real worth of living, knowing that he had no one perhaps, who cared the least for him to leave It to, when he went into the Great Beyond, is beyond comprehension. It seems almost one of those vagaries of the human mind for which there is no accounting. Had a rich but friendless man no other pleasure purchasable with his money, than the doing of good to others. It seems he would prefer it to hoarding It up and after his death having it disposed of by others to others, for whom he cared little and knew less. The hungry mouths he could have fed, the sick and afflicted he could have aided, the little children he could have cheered and educated and made better men and women, the good generally he could have done and thus brought himself happiness and honor, it would seem, would have appealed to him, but these things did not.

He died and could not take his money with him. Financially he was a success By The Bentztown Bard. The Old Towns Of Dixie. The old towns of Dixie, oh bring them to me, The old towns that dream in the dear land of Lee Ia peace and in quiet, with love running through, They wait the sweet bloom of the rose in the dew, The mountains all round and a river so sweet Running down the loved valleys that dream at their feet. The old towns of Dixie, Oh bring them to me.

Ye old towns that dream In the dear land of Lee Their names sing forever with song ever young As they trip through the dream on the end of my tongue The old towns of wonder and beauty and light That lead the pale morn to the gate of the night With a plume o'er her bonnet, a star on her head And the moon like a jasmine to shine by her bed. The old towns of Dixie, The sweet towns and true, That bloom mid the shadows And smile 'neath the dew The mountains all round and a valley near by, A dear river singing its heart to the sky The old Rappahannock, the lovely Sweetair, And that loved laughing water, the silver Shendare; The old towns, I know them, and knowing, ah sweet To me the fair'vales and the streams at their feet The old towns of Dixie, The loved towns that sing Of the dear life of dream Where the red roses swing Winchester, Staunton and Lexington, yea, The old towns of Dixie are dreaming today, With the mountains around them just waiting to tell The music of magic that over them fell When the white winter mantle dropped off and they felt The warm rain of April all over them pelt. The old towns of Dixie, Where sweet lives are spent In the same daily round That the old dwellers went The old towns of Dixie one name for them all, Theold towns that sent every son to the call Of the dear Dixie bugles that blew through the hills When the brave banner rose o'er the ridges and rills, And fathers left homesteads, gave up all they had. And every brave son did the same as his dad. The old towns of Dixie, Oh bring them to me, The old towns that dream In the dear land of Lee The rhubarb pie is on the Job and o'er the lea spring lamb doth bob, with mint sauce fine and dandy Worry is only human, And all of us have our share The secret Is, it is caring For some one else's care.

So, when none of us worry. It's a sign burned bright above We have forgotten our brothers, And we don't know how to love. Freezer, with his frankfurter in rest rode forth blithely to the call of battle. Oft To School. They go off to school with laughter.

And it rings through the house all day, The echo they left in the morning When they trippingly went their way. They come with the same sweet laughter When the books have been put aside, And we wait for them at the portal With the doors of our hearts thrown wide. They go off to school full of dreaming, And we join in the hopes that they feel They are climbing the far-flung ladder, And the fight that they fight is real. They come afterwhile from the battle, When the trumpets have sounded goodnight, And we wait for them there in the shadows. And we welcome them unto the light.

We are living our own lives over In the laughter they take to school In the study, the hope and the dreaming, In the lesson of book and rule. We are fighting our own old battles When they go to the warfare there, And we go through It over and over. The toiling and trouble and care. They go off to school with singing, And they leave us with silence around Except that the echoes are ringing Deep down In our hearts and profound. They come home from study with trusting.

Their little lives full of It all, Its lure and Its light and Its leading, Its joy and its triumph and call. They go off to life's school, they leave us, And the day wears away to the dusk, And only wee shadows come trooping Through the mist, as a rose through the musk. But, with only their shadows to welcome, And with only an echo to ring, Of their golden and beautiful laughter, Wide open the portals we fling. Yea, open, wide open to welcome The dream and the joy and the song Of the little lives out in the struggle Where the throng treads the heart of the throng, Till the studies are over forever, Till the last school is out for all time, Oh, swing off and 6wing home, little children. While our hearts beat in tune to your chime Strenuous days ahead for "Hank" at Merrill "Bill Broadwater is going to Cumberland next Saturday to try to Induce 'Hank Brown to come out to Garrett county and kill cats wild cats.

The woods are full of 'em. Bill thinks Hank's monoxide Is the dead sure thing for cats." I want to whitewash fences I want to dig for bait, I want to plant the tulip bulbs Inside the garden gate. I want to set out onions, I want to see things grow, I'm weary of the winter, I've had enough of snow. I want to take the sickle And go and cut the grass; I'm tired of eating beefsteak, I want some garden sass. Twlce-a-week visitor at Armstead: "Ray Browning, of Thayerville, spent a couple of evenings at'Able De Witts' last week.

There must be some attraction, Ray." All About The Accident. Call In Dr. Wintergreen, there's been an accident, Old winter's backbone, If not broke, Is very badly bent. Bring Iodine and liniment and pills and plasters, too, We'll have to ease his suffering the best that we can do. He Is not long, we don't suppose, for this year, anyway.

But after all it makes us sad to see him pass away. Call In Dr. Peppermint and bring witch hazel, 6lster, We'll put a poultice on. his breast and also try a blister A sunbeam struck across his path and down he slipped upon it, We heard him twenty miles away cry out with grief bun It And when we got there, ah, the slg oor fellow, there he lay Floored by the laughter and the smile of a bright golden day it may be that we'll pull him through another month, but oh, He's old and with a broken back a fellow suffers so Still, call the pills and plasters In and patch him up a while, A little song will help a bit, and so will a little smile, For if he's going we'll let him go with sweetness in his heart. It is so hard in hate and spite from an old friend to part.

Call In Dr. Sassafras and let's try cambric tea, He's hurt so bad he can't lift hand and cannot move a knee He seems to realize his fate and knows that it Is time A gray old citizen like him should hear the death bell's chime A few more weeks of bluff and blow, of chilly air, and then We'll lay him on the April hill beneath the rose again When will the soft crabs meet again? THE COWE.MIOX AS PART OF TUB BIG rLAX FOR A NEW BALTIMORE. The movement to secure for Baltimore the meeting of the Democratic National Convention to be held next yar is but part of the big plan now maturing to develop and advertise the advantages of this city to the world, with a view to enlarging Its business. Increasing its wealth and adding to its population as well as its prosperity. To secure the national convention for Baltimore would be to make It for months the most conspicuous city In the country In newspaper mention and discussion, and for a week or more the place to which all the papers would surrender their frontpage space.

This would be supplemented by hundreds of articles in magazines and pictorial publications of one kind or another. It would awaken an Interest in Baltimore not felt by the country for many years, and, coming just at the time when efforts are being put forth in other directions to bring the city into the limelight, would return the money invested in It many fold. Mr. Itobert Craln, chairman of the committee In charge of the convention matter, expresses himself enthusiastically, over the encouragement met with in Washington among men whose voices will be Influential In fixing the location of the convention, and everything looks bright for Baltimore as the spot. Mr.

Craln is actively at work in the matter, and if he is given the loyal support of the people of the city this' manifestation of the newly awakened spirit of progress will win the success it deserves. MR. HOOSEVELT ASA CONSERVA TIVE PROGRESSIVE. "The Republican party must be progressive," says Mr. Roosevelt; "otherwise it has no warrant for existing at all." But he holds that it must be "sanely conservative," as Lincoln was, and not run into the extreme radicalism of John Brown or Wendell Phillips.

The Roosevelt who spoke at Grand Rapids, on Saturday appears to be a much more conservative individual than the Rooseveit who laid down the doctrine of the "new nationalism" at Osawatomle, Kan. Then he lauded John Brown and unfurled the flag of fiery radicalism. Now he points to the practical Lincoln as an example. This sounds as if he had seen a new light since the lesson of last November, but who can tell how long this soberer and saner view of things will last when he "gets a-golng' again politically? Nevertheless, the enthusiastic reception of Mr. Roosevelt in the West Indicates that he still has a large following, and that his influence Is not to be discounted.

Before many months the leaders of his party may realize that he must be reckoned with. Men of all parties will watch with interest to see what attitude he assumes on the important questions that will enter into the campaign of 1912 tariff revision, the curbing of the trusts and the restoration of government by the people as distinguished from government by the Executive or gov ernment by "the interests." ma a rilE PANAMA CANAL AS A COMMERCIAL ASSET. The Pnn-Amerienn Commercial Congress to be held In Washington this week will include representatives of all the republics of the two Americas. The spirit of the gathering will be distinctly commercial, though diplomacy will be represented, delegates being expected from nearly all the trade bodies of the country. Wlille this conference is in line with the general policy of developing trade between North and South America, its specific object is preparation for the changed conditions in commerce that are expected to result from the opening of Panama Canal.

If American merchants and manufacturers fail to take advantage of the openings that will be presented, they will neglect the most important field for the development of our foreign trade. The recognition by Latin-America of the tremendous influence the canal will have on the world's commerce directs fresh at tention to the importance of marking its completion by a national celebration at the nnt lonnl capital. This can be combined easily with the proposition of Senator Swanson, of Virginia, that a review of the world's navies be held in Hampton Roads. This Is the water-gate to the capital, and it would seem absurd to gather the war vessels, com manders and sailors of the nations within a few hours' sail and then fall to provide for celebration in Washington. The congress promises to be a notable gathering of business men.

If they are able to plan broadly for the future, they can extend our trade enormously and make the Panama Canal one of the nation's most valuable commercial assets. LINCOLN. Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln; on Saturday it was celebrated in many places throughout the country, and today it will be observed in many more. Fifty years ago Lincoln, just about to be inaugurated President, was the largest figure in the life of the country. For the four succeeding years he was tried as few men have been tried, and at the pinnacle of his success he was removed by the bullet of maddened assassination.

For a good many years following that time the country was so torn by sectional discord and factional rancor that it was hard for the people who had opposed Lincoln, and whose succeeding woes had a seeming start in the triumph which he was Instrumental in gaining over them, to do Justice to his real worth. On the other side, he loomed so large in the foreground of the national picture that he photographed himself upon the mind as a sort of demigod instead of the mere human being that he was. The distance of half a century has given both friend and former foe a clearer view of his true charactera simple, kindly man, of the earth earthy, but endowed with such intellectual strength nnd broad humanity and gifted with such a clear Insight into the nature of ids kind that he will unquestionably appear for all time as one of the commanding figures of the century in which he lived and worked. While he lacked the moral majesty of character and splendid self -poise of Washington, he brought up from the lowly surroundings In which he was born and nurtured such a strong love for the great majority, such a perfect understanding of their wants and ambitions, their needs and their desires and such sympathy with their struggles and their sufferings that he seemed the incarnation of their spirit while he lived and the symbol of their hopes and aspirations after his death. It has been thought by those who knew Lincoln best that, had he lived, the conditions in the South following the war would have lacked much of the harshness that was experienced by the people, because he would have been the one man with heart to sympathize with It in its distress and with strength at the same time to save it from its despoilers.

The Southern people themselves, for the most part, feel this, and it has brought them to a kindlier view of the man they once so greatly detested. Indeed, one of his most eloquent eulogists was Henry Grady, of- Georgia, whose father was a slave owner and a Confederate soldier, and another is Henry Wntterson, of Kentucky, who himself fought under the Stars and Bars. To the former he "stands as the first typical American, the first who comprehended within himself all the strength and gentleness, all the majesty nnd grace of this republic" to the latter "be was inspired of God, for nowhere else could he have acquired the wisdom and the virtue." While to the cool and dispassionate judgment these encomiums may appear somewhat hyperbolic, yet there will be few just i-uneral services at the chapel in Oak Funeral will take nl.iro frnm hr lnt resi dence. No. 1113 North Caroline street, this MondPv.

at 2.30 I. M. Interment in Loudon Park Cemetery. Februarv 11.1911. FKANK aged 47 sou of Johanna aud the late Frank Erust-berger.

Relatives and friends of the fainilv ara respectfully iuvited to attend the funerai, from his late residence. No. 1423 Pennsylvania avenue, on Tuesdav morning February 14. at o'clock. High Mass of Requiem at the Immaculate Conception Church at 9 o'clock.

GALLAHER. On February 12. 1911. ELHNORA in her 6Gth year, beloved wife of the late John If. Gallaher, of Boonsboro, and daughter of the late Joslah L.

aud Mary A. Baugher. Carroll county and Washington county papers please copy. Funeral services at the Funeral Parlors of George W. -Little, No.

531 North Fremont avenue, on Tuesday morning, at 10 o'clock. Interment iu Loudon Park. HILBEKG. On February 10. 1911.

CATHERINE HILBEKG. aged 59 years. Grandma now has gone to rest Beneath the tree of life: She let ns upon the Saviour's breast Aud finds eterual rest. Funcial from her daughter's residence. Mrj.

Anna B. Harper. No. 2122 Ashton street (formerly Ramsay this (Monday) afternoon, February 13, at 2 P. M.

Relatives and friends are iuvited to attend. HOOPES. Suddenly, on February 11, 1911, EDWIN D. HOOPES, aged 74 years, beloved husband of Lucy B. Iloopes.

Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, at bis iate residence, Rogers avenue, near Park Heights avenue, this (Monday) afternoon, at o'clock. Interment iu Greeu-mount Cemetery. A 1 1 1 1. On Februarv 12. 1911.

MARY ELIZABETH, aged 25 years, beloved wife of Philip F. Kahmer. Funeral from her late residence. No. 3005 Hudson street, on Wednesday, at 2 P.

M. Interment private. A CA LISTER. On February 12, 1911. at the residence of his daughter, uear Westminster, after a lingering illness, REV, HIRAM JOHNSON MACALISTEK, aged 63 years, beloved husband of Laura S.

Macalister (nee Ross). Cecil. Baltimore, county (Md.) and Cumberland county (Pa.) papers please copy. Funeral from his late residence on Tuesday. February 14, at 11.30 A.

M. Carriages at Westminster will meet W. M. R. It.

train leaving Hillen Station, Baltimore, at S.57 A. M. Tuesday. MANNS. Oil Februarv 12.

1911, FREDERICK A. MANNS, beloved husband of Emma A. Manns. Relatives and friends are respectfuly invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence. No.

1312 West Lexington street, on Tuesday, at 2 o'clock. 1 MEISEL. On February 10. 1911, at residence. No.

1048 North Central avenue. BARBARA, aged 54 years, beloved wife of George N. Meisel. May her soul rest in peace. Philadelphia papers please copy.

Her funeral will take place from the above residence, on Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock, thence to St. Paul's Church, whpre a Requiem High Mass will be said for the repose of her soul at 9 o'clock. Relatives and friends re respectfully invited to attend. Interment in Greenmoiint Ceru-eterv. MORAN.

On Februarv 11, 1911. at Owiugs Mills, RACHEL, in her 70th year, widow of Peter Moran. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services, at Relsterstown M. E. Church, on Tuesday, February 14, ut 3 P.

M. MORAN. Departed this life on February 10, 911, at 8.15 P. MARY EMMA MORAN (uee Cadell). Funeral from the residence of her daughter, Mrs.

Potee. No. 6 East Hill street, this Monday, at 2 P. M. Interment In Mount Olivet Cenieterv.

NELSON. Suddenly, on February 12. 1911, BESSIE, aged 21 years, beloved daughter of Thomas J. and the late Annie Burns (nee Deuipsey). Funeral will take place from the residence of her brother, John T.

Burns, No. 1329 Wirt street, of which due notice will be given. OHLGART. On February 10, 1911. ROSE in her 25th year, daughter of William and Elizabeth Ohlgart.

Funeral from her late residence. No. 415 East Biddle street, on Tuesday, February 14. at 2 I'. M.

Iutermeut in Loudon Park Cenieterv. i WINGS. On February 11. 1911. RUTH ESTELrA.

aged 11 years, beloved daughter of Milton G. and Rosa B. Owiugs. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, at her parents' residence. Walker avenue, Pikesville, this Monday, at 2 I.

M. Interment iu Mount Olive Cemetery, Rockdale, Baltimore county. RICE. On February 10, 1911, MRS. LILLIAN E.

RICE, beloved wife of Frederick Riee. Funeral will be held at Grace M. E. Church. Savage, this Monday, February 13.

at 2 P. M. ROMOSER. On February 12, 1911. after a short illness, GEORGE K-, aged 41 vears and 5 months, beloved husband of Emma E.

Roinoser (nee Springer) and eldest son of Edward M. and Virginia Roinoser. Washington papers please copy. Funeral will take place from his late residence. No.

517 Frederick avenue extended, on Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, thence to the Church of the Holy Cross. Millington lane and Ramsav street. Relatives and friends are respectfuly invited to attend. Interment in Loudon Park Cemetery. ft SEXTON.

On February 10, 1911, JAMES beloved husband of Julia C. Sexton. Funeral from his late residence. No. 20 Bartlett avenue, this (Monday) morning, at 8.30 o'clock.

Requiem Mass at St. Ann's Church at 9 o'clock. SHANE. On February 12, 1911, EM LI aged 58 years, widow of the Lite John II. Shane.

Funeral from her late residence. No. 1024 North Broadway, on Tuesday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Interment in Greenmount Cemeterv. 1 SILBERZAHN.

On February 11, 1911, at his residence, No. 1407 Anthony street, HENRY, aged 68 years 1 month and 19 days, beloved husband of Mary Silberzahn (nee Ledermann). Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, from the above residence, on Tuesday, February 14, at 2 P. M. STARR.

On February 11. 1911, ELLEN STARR (nee Morgan), beloved wife of Thomas Henry Starr. May her soul rest In peace. Philadelphia papers please copy. The funeral will take place from her late home, No.

301 East CroRS street, on Tuesday morning, at 8.30 o'clock, thence to St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, where a Requiem Mass will be offered for the repose of her soul at 9 o'clock. T- TRAINOR. On February 12. 1911, at the residence of her son.

No. 1043 West Mulberry street. JULIA ROSE, in her 83d year, beloved wife of the late Felix Trainor. R. LP.

Funeral from the above residence on Tuesday morning at 8.30 o'clock, thence to St. Pius" Church, where a Requiem Mass will be said for the repose of her soul. WELLS. Suddenly, on Februarv 12. 1911, at his residence, No.

2117 McHenrv street. JOHN D. WELLS, aged 44 vears. beloved husband of Mary Wells (nee Bauui) and beloved son vf James and Sarah E. Wells.

Due notice of the funeral will be givent WILLIAMS. On February 11, 1911. MARY WILLIAMS (nee Sinnott), beloved wife of Richard Williams, a native of County Wexford, Ireland. Funeral from her late residence, No. 111C Home wood avenue, on Tuesday morning, at 8.30 o'clock, thence to St.

John's Church, where a Solemn Mass of Requiem will be said for the repose of her soul at 9, o'clock. IN ME310RIAM. COAN. In loving remembrance of our dear mother. MARGARET COAN, who departed this life six years ago, Feb.

13, 1905. by her Daughters. Mass at St. Peter's Church. LIEDLICII.

In loving remembrance of my dearHiusband, GEORGE LIEDLICH, who departed this life one year ago today, February 13, 1910. You are not forgotten, husband, dear. Nor will you ever be; For as long as life and memory last I will remember thee, BY HIS DEVOTED WIFE. CEMETERY WORK. THINK OF UNMARKED GRAVES AND SE8 WM.

A. GAULT SON. E. Lexington st. FUNERAL DIRECTORS.

WM. COOK'S $75 FUNERALS cost you $75 but SAVE you $75 and there's all the quality you could ak for in them. WM. COOK, THE "LEAOINfS UNDERTAKER. NORTH AND GREENMOUNT AVENGES.

eier-v on Tuesday. February 14. at J.oO I M. Interment private. (- DEAL.

On Februarv 10. 1911, MARY a ged 71 vears. a Miiv nf Cunrru I Win I SUNBEAMS. "I've made forty-three millionaires ex-lalms Andrew Carnegie. "I've made forty-two new Congressmen rejoins Representative Crumpacker.

Dr. Taft will now proceed to make an examination of Arizona to see if he can find any constitutional weakness. Had Governor Wilson forgotten all about Charlie Murphy when he said "What we need is It takes a real financier to save $20,000 out of an $18-a-week salary, as a Baltimore policeman did. A political boss is always willing to save the voters the trouble of picking out a candidate. Does Senator Root recall what the Force bill did to the Republican party twenty years ago? The "standpatter" cannot change his stripes nor the Ethiopian in the woodpile his color.

All rival cities are warned against interfering with Baltimore's Democratic convention. EDITORIAL JOTTINGS. The escort of police at the Gould wedding cost the city of New Y'ork over $800, but think of the advertising New York got out of it Atlanta Journal. Political opponents In Paris, 111., having agreed to refrain from buying votes, all that is needed is an agreement to keep the agreement. Mihoa-ukee Sentinel.

Judging from the pictures in the papers, those Mexican revolutionists have better press agents than tailors. Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Why not refer the vote-buying cases in Vermilion county to a committee consisting of Senator Lorimer? Cleveland Leader. Tomatoes are selling at a quarter apiece in Washington. The canned ones don't taste so bad, after all.

Detroit Free Press. The old-fashioned boy who hoped for red-topped boots now has a son who- is an authority on silk socks. Dallas ATeic. Because of the private sales it Is hard to keep track of the market price of votes. MenvplUs Commercial-Appeal.

mm PROVERBS AND PHRASES. In bed we laugh, in bed we cry And, born in bed. In bed we die. The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe. Isaac De Benscrade.

A man who Is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor. La Rochefoucauld. By the work one knows the workman. La Fontaine. Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Goethe. mi 1 Ship Subsidies. From Harper's Weekly. It is entirely natural that a man of the general character and calibre of Gallinger, of New Hampshire, should be the main champion of postal ship subsidies, and that men like Cummins, the opponent of governmental favoritism, and Burton, of Ohio, with his long experience with appropriations, should be found very decidedly on the other side. The curious thing about the subsidy people is the promptness and indignation with which they reject any plan for helping our merchant marine that does not Involve actual payments out of the Treasury.

They admit that one great handicap we labor under is the greater cost of building ships in this country as compared with our chief competitors. But they are horrified at the very Idea of admitting foreign-bujlt ships to American registry, and they 'can see no virtue even in admitting free the materials of the sblp-bnilding industry They getaway from all such proposals by" mounting to the higher ground of sentiment and patriotism. It all comes down to a question of whether or not the opponents of subsidies love the old flag and want to see it back on the seas again. It is of no use to point out to them the utter fallacy of the notion that trade follows the flag, and to prove Instead that trade obeys fixed laws of its own. In some inscrutable way they know better Neither is it of any use to remind them that in the competition for the ocean-carrying business whoever can can render the required service most cheaply is bound to win.

They are above such sordid considerations. They remind us of the retired opera singers who undertake to run farms and raise pigs. It is nothing to these that their pigs cost a lot more to raise than anybody will pay for them or than It costs to raise the ordinary pigs that go to market. They have set out to be practical farmers, and they are going to be practical and businesslike If It costs the earnings of a whole opera Beason. Tigs is pigs, and they must have 'em." Similarly, ships Is ships, and we must have em.

and the flag at the masthead. Ships with the old flag flying, and plowing all the seas, mean a great and prosperous American merchant marine. A great and prosperous merchant marine is something we are bound to have, no matter If our net loss on the venture equals the cost of pensions. It always costs something to be patriotic, anyhow. Jail For Lavrless Students.

From the Chicago Record-Herald, Unsympathetic people have long held that the vway to tame the college boy was to treat him like any other boy. If he breaks the law, bring him strictly to book. This notion has obtained a good foothold at Ithaca. A week or more ago a crowd of Cornell students, exhilarated by the wind-up of their examinations, stopped a theater performance, wrecked a moving-picture show and fought a pitched battle with the local police. Two of the students are now in jail, and more are likely to be.

The court refused to impose a fine in place of a jail sentence, but put it up to the prosecuting officers as to whether the sentence should be suspended. They declined to make the concession. Ten days for one offender and five for the other were the sentences. The sooner the college boy learns that ho is not a privileged person the better. The quickest way to make him realize it is to adopt the Ithaca plan.

A Tribute To Champ Clark. From the National Monthly. The "Interests" walked over him once, but it does appear that Champ Clark of the common people is getting around to the point where the so-called "Interests" will note that it is another day. The Speaker-to-be will stand earnestly, firmly and determinedly for the application of fundamental Democratic principles to the affairs of government. Champ Clark is a Democrat by birth, inclination, surroundings and belief.

He is the choice of the Democratic masses as has been attested by splendidly enthusiastic ovations at his every public appearance. His success as minority leader has given the country confidence in his ability, his statesmanship and his patriotism. He is White-haired and hefty and handsome. He will bring dignity, courage and precision to the chair. Ever with him will be a firm devotion and high sense of obligation to the masses of his country, and when he leaves the chair it will be with the affection of the American people and tributes of their gratitude.

Morn Evening. Run-day. ing. K5.4-J0 R5.1W 83.8J) F5.WV) 8.Kil 85,270 Ki.rtO 32,270 61,367 33,615 33.35 S3.SOT 33, two 62,156 868.1S0 299,317 At. 84,479 33,392 59.8C3 Average Mora, and Even, combined, 117,871 Average Dally PAID CIRCULATION for Jninuir), lit 11.

Morning 70,795 Evening 28,311 Total Morn, and Even, 108.100 Sunday 54,308 IJATriMOKK. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 191 i. A S. A GOOD MAYOR ENOUGH A fiooi) ii, ai.so essential.

The citizens of Baltimore should not, their anxiety to get the best man fur Mayor, permit hcmsel ves to forget the need of good 'oiincilmcn. branches are to lie fleeted in May for a term of four years, mid if bad or incompetent men are put in (lie city v.111 suffer from it for a considerable time. Among the numerous aspirants for nomination to tbeCouncll some lut ve become prominent whose election would be a disgrace to the party which put them forward, if the 1 tcmocrats should by any mischance nominate one of these unfit or improper men. If is to be hoped that the Republicans will nominate a man against him for whom wolf-respecting Democrats can vote. The election of the 'niineilinen in the various wards and Council manic districts Is not nnd should not be a partisan matter, and it Is almost certain that a sufllclent number of Democrats will vote against a bad nominee In their own party to defeat him.

provided the Republicans offer a better man. The importance to the welfare of the city of having a competent and honest Council should not lie underestimated. The Mayor and City Council of Baltl-more, says the Charter, shall have power to pass all ordinances necessary to give effect and operation to all powers vested iu the corporation of the city of ISaltimorc. 'tills is grant of plenary power, and it should be committed only to properatid (dean bauds. No man In the city is too big or too Important to serve the city in the Council.

The names of suet Republicans as George It. Caither and George Wjiitelock have been suggested for nomination by their party. If the people call upon such men bs these to serve them in the Council, it will be their duty as public-spirited citizens to respond to the call. The first Council elected under the new Charter In 1899 contained such men ns George Stewart Brown, Skipwlth Wllmer, John Hubert, James 15. Cuyton, Richard M.

V'enable and Moses N. Frank. The Democrats put up good men that year and they elected every member of the Second Brunch and eighteen out of the twenty-four members of the First Branch. Since that, time there has been a deterioration in the Council. It has not kept up with the promise made by the nominations in If the Democrats desire to establish their party in the confidence of the people, ready for the State election ill the fall, It would be wise to make good nominations not only for Mayor but for Conncilmen nswell.

And, nboe all tilings, there should be no "vindications." There are plenty of men who do not stand any need of vindication and the selections should be from them. WHY SHOULD THERE HE A TARIFF WALL BETWEEN NEW VOKK AND CANADA ANY MORE THAN BETWEEN EW VOItlv AND PENN-SYLVANIAf In ills recent speeches In the West advocating the reciprocity agreement between the United States and Cannda President Taft lias spoken as a patriot and a utatesinan and not as a partisan. "Shall her people" the people of Canada, he asks, "and our people profit by the proximity that our geography furnishes and stimulate the trade across the border that nothing but a useless, illogical and unnecessary tariff wall creates?" In other words, is trade desirable? If no. whv not encourage it rather than dls courage It? The State of New York lies between Canada and 1'enusylvnnia one adjoining it on the north and the other on the south. Would It be any advantage to the people of New York to prohibit them from dealing with Pennsylvania, or lo discourage them from dealing with Pennsylvania, by putting a tax on everything that crossed the line between the two States? If It.

Is an advantage to the New York people to deal freely with the people on the south of them, why would It not be the same advantage to (teal wttn the same kind of people on the north of hem In the War of the Revolution the thlrj teen Colonies made every effort to induce Canada to Join them and become a part of the United States. If Canada had done co. there would now be free trade between that country ami the other States. Would that have been any disadvantage to this country? Under the original form of our general Government each State had its own tariff and taxed all that came in from the other States. That was found to be bo harmful and discouraging to commerce that when the Constitution was framed the States willingly surrendered the right to lay tariff taxes and declared for free trade among themselves.

It has been found beneficial to all. An effort has been made to array the farmers agaltist the reciprocity treaty. They have been told that they will be Injured by letting corn, wheat, eggs, In from Canada free of tax. Mr. Taft told the Illinois farmers that the whole corn crop of Canada was not as much as that of one Congressional district In Illinois.

The eggs produced and exported from Cannda in a whole year would not tie enough for on breakfast for the people of New York city. Canadian wheat Is all needed In England, where it will fetch good prices. It will not come to this country to compete with ours. On the other hand, the agreement will open the Canadian market to many products of our farms which the Canadians cannot raise, such as watermelons, many kinds of vegetables and fruit peaches, oranges, pineapples and the various delicious products of the Califor- Mom- Kfra- finning, ing. dav.

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14... C3.8M) 32,375 D5.702 M.nnn 23.710 17... M.Wi 34,730 At. fi 1.540 23.4M tion in violation of city ordinances, was permitted permanently in the very heart of our city, while I was fined for not knowing of my employe's negligence In this one Instance. The answer was that no one had entered complaint about the shed.

Then I answered "I'll do it then while I am here," and the police -justice immediately summoned the Mayor, who said no permit or license had been given the occupant of the shed, and he suggested that it and the adjoining fruit stand keeper be notified to move. you see, I've not inaugurated any "crusade on merchants," but asked only for removal of one unlicensed, unauthorized lunch stand. D. Webster Groh. -llagerstown, Feb.

10. Opposition To The Parcels Post Plan Called A Bogey. Messrs. Editors: Why all this hesitation and discussion about the adoption of a parcels post in this country? Practically every civilized nation adopted the scheme years ago and In none of them, as far as I am aware, has ruin followed either to the manufacturer or merchant. On the contrary, these very people are among the largest users of this undoubted public convenience.

At present the small country town merchant is often badly handicapped by the fact that he cannot afford to stock certain lines of goods, because to make them pay he has to take a large quantity in order to secure a low pro rata rate of freight. If he is out of stock of any line, he has either to order a quantity he does not want, lose the sale or pay an Inordinately large freightage, which kills his profit. True, in many instances it enables the consumer to place his order with firm's at a distance which may at the moment be making -an offer that the local man does not feel justified in competing with but, on the other hand, It is just this kind of competition which is the soul of modern business, and the short-sighted merchant who believes that his only salvation lies in keeping all competition out, and who would, if possible, do away with the railroads, because they enable people to spend their money elsewhere, finds his Ideas broadened and his trade diverted Into channels he had never before dreamed of. The same arguments now being used against the parcels post were trotted out years and years ago by all opponents of progress in the direction of street car lines, railroads, good roads, gas. electricity and machinery of all kinds.

Each In turn has been going to "ruin" somebody, but in every instance the croakers have lived to ee their predictions fail, and these prophets ave become a laughingstock. The real "nigger' In this woodpile Is the express companies, who for years have been paying inflated dividends on their watered stock and now find themselves threatened with a service which is for the public benefit and not for that of any privileged corporation. In Great Britain one may send a parcel weighing 11 pounds to the remotest point of the kingdom for 24 cents, about the same as is charged by the express company from Baltimore to Annapolis. The railroads, once the bitterest opponents, now acknowledge that their traffic returns are increased instead of diminished by the parcels post. I have seen the parcels post In operation in most of the world's countries, but never yet have I met any people who, if polled, would vote for its abolition.

W. Austen Bolam. Annapolis, Feb. 10. ANSWERS TO QUERIES W.

R. Is there sale for canceled postage stamps If so, to whom should they be sent, and what is the price received for them? Only the higher values above 10 cents are worth anything. The price depends on the condition and value of the stamp. Send me a stamped self-addressed envelope for the name and address of a reliable dealer. U.

S. M. Give me the name and address of the editor of All the World's Airships. Mr. Fred T.

Lane, In care of Sampson, Low, Marston London, England. R. J. S. Where will a letter reach Charles M.

Schwab, steel magnate, formerly of New York and Pittsburg? Mr. Schwab's office address Is 111 Broadway, New Yrork City. His home address, 2 East Forty-fifth street. New York city. N.

C. What is the extent of the Baltimore division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the names of the passenger and freight trainmasters of this division, and the place where their offices are located? The Baltimore division consists of the main line from Bayview, through Baltimore to Weverton, thence to Hagerstown, Including the Washington branch, between Relay and Washington, and the Metropolitan branch, between Washington and Washington Junction, and the Canton branch. Sparrows Point branch, Highlandtown branch, Locust Point branch, Mount Clare branch, Curtis Bay branch, Seawall branch, Baltimore Belt Railroad, South Baltimore branch, Frederick branch, Patuxent branch, Alexandria branch and Metropolitan Southern branch, comprising a total of 233.93 miles. Mr. C.

A. Mewshaw is trainmaster, with an oflice at Camden Station, Baltimore. M. C. I have been a subscriber of The Sun for many years and take the privilege of asking you a question.

I have a barrel of cider that will not turn to vinegar. The apples that I made it from are said to be very excellent for making vinegar. There is something to put in it to make it turn, but I cannot find out what it is. If it is no trouble to you, will you tell me what It is, if you can? The only way to turn apple cider into vinegar Is to give the cider plenty of air. This is best done by taking the bung out of the barrels.

It makes no difference about moving the package, with the exception that It circulates the vegetable matter that may settle on the bottom of the package. For your information, beg to advise that the longer the cider is allowed to ferment, the better and higher grade of vinegar you will eventually get. Cider vinegar, when four or five years old, is in its best shape, highest strength, etc. It must be kept in a very high temperature, f'.