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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. APRIL 20. 1912.

his 'year to get the fireworks the city pays Capitol to Hie White House. The fur BUSINESS NOTICES. although, for sixty years NO NEW BATTLESHIPS. (Trad Mark "Eagle" Registered.) elation of Now, spelling is not not an association of Ideas. It is an association of sounds.

If you teach it by association of the Idea of sounds, well ana good. Why should the child be robbed of the help which association of sounds would give him? Why should each word be made an exception and have to be learned by a distinct mental process? Why are the theories of Pestalozzi and home has hecn in Brooklyn. His ac- for und to eliminate the "graft which count of the buttle, which The Kagle last year's celebration. To will reprint tomorrow, was written to that end it is propositi to have each his father, Captain Alexander V. Km-! Alderman make the contracts for the ser, fifty years ago, just after the stir-.

A reworks for his own district and to ring events which lie narrates. It will make him responsible for the cclebra-be found to have all the freshness and Hons which his own constituents wit-vividness of the testimony of an eye-1 "ess. Then If the fireworks fail in any titer development will require a cross axis, nt one end which shall be the Washington Monument and at the other this Lincoln Memorial. The Bacon design for that memorial does not repeat lite Washington obelisk, but provides instead a classic temple which shall Inclose a statue of Lincoln. This design lias been criticised on the ground that classic art Is incongruous iu a memorial of Lincoln, who typified modern democratic ideals.

It has. however, the approval of those men best qualified to decide questions of artistic fitness. By the great majority of Americans the plan will be approved because it involves making our Capital, already our most beautiful clly, more beautiful and more impressive sfill. Its influence on the broad- based planning of other cities will be considerable The decision comes just at the time to add weight to the arguments for the systematic planning of Brooklyn and its execution will influence the people of many cities, whose minds will be awakened by the beauty and fitness of the result thus achieved. Italy's Doubtful War Policy.

The only conclusion that the outside observer can draw from the recent developments of Italy's war policy is that the Rome Government, finding serious delays and setbacks in Tripoli, is now seeking to force intervention by the yowers. The seizure of the private yacht of the Khedive of Egypt, considering the fact that Egypt has prevented the passage of Turkish troops to' Tripoli over her territory, will cause much comment in England, which is responsible for Egyptian administration, and which seems not to have been consulted before such action was taken. The futile shelling of the Turkish forts at the western end of the Dardanelles, followed by a flat denial that' any forcing of the straits was intended, like the earlier bombarding of inhabited places without defense, and the persistent rumors of au Italian-Russian entente, point to tJ same purpose. The Dardanelles, now blocked to the world's commerce through Italy's attack, will be a perpetual Irritation till Now it is well enough understood that Germany and France and Eng land have been anxious to avoid the general Eastern question, and consented to the occupation of Tripoli only with the understanding that 'as Turkey's naval weakness would prevent her attacking Italian ports, Italy, iu turn, should refrain from naval operations not Incident to the seizure of Tripoli. Italy obtained a free hand.

She londed a great force and took possession of the Tripolltan coast. But away from the sea she could not move to advantage. The Turks and their Arab coreligionists knew the desert, could live there, could campaign there better than Italian soldiers. Perpetual harrying of the Italian army is known to have gone on, although reports of many engagements are contradictory. It is remembered that it took France some fifty years of fighting to get a firm grip -on Algiers under like conditions.

Italy is not prepared for such a stringing out of hostilities. Her people are vastly patriotic, nearly unanimous in approving the Tripoli seizure, ready to bear their heavy war taxes patiently for a reasonable time, but not ready to bequeath a costly hostile occupation to their descendants. Hence Rome wants to reopen the Eastern question. She thinks she can "nag" the powers into playing her game. Whether she will succeed or not Americans can only guess.

If a common attempt to partition Turkey springs out of the nagging there will be much bloodshed ami much hard lighting before that attempt can be successful. And probably this fighting will affect the whole Mohammedan world. Turkey will not be partitioned, it is safe to figure, without such a struggle as the world will have to remember for centuries yet to come. THE LOST ART OF SPELLING. Old Spelling Books, Now Discarded, Had Value Through Good System.

The rising and even the risen generations cannot spell, says Mary Eleanor Roberts In Llpplncott's. Our school children cannot spell, our college graduates cannot spell. The dean of a post-graduate department of one of our universities complained a few years ago that the men who came before him to qualify to study a profession could not spell. The trustees of one of our large institutions, which by its charter requires all Its officers to possess the degree of Bachelor of Arts (even that of B.S. not being accepted) find that the aforesaid B.A.'s, when confronted by the severs mental effort of writing necessary reports, cannot spell.

So Insurmountable is the difficulty that the advocates of simplified spelling join forces with the advertisers In search of a trade-mark, and both of them affront our eyes and insult our intelligence with their horrid makeshifts. The fault cannot be entirely that of the English language. Fifty years ago the case was different, as Is proved by the survivors from that primitive period. Your grandmother if you are lucky enough to have one may not know the difference between the subjective and the objective, but she can spell. Let ua see if we can find the reason.

Grandmother, when she was a girl, may have lived in the country. If so, she went to spelling-bees. If she was edu cated In city schools, she took part In monthly spelling contests, in which team contended against team, class against class, the teachers Joining in the game. In those benighted days, even the boarders in summer hotels played spelling games, and are said to have enjoyed them. There was systematic drill in what was recognized as a difficult and valuable art.

In the memory of Borne of us who ars not grandmotners, spelling was laugnt by a graduated system beginning with the phonetic value of the letters. The spelling books we recognize It now designed 10 uutKe learning easy. Long lists of wonts of similar sound but with different Initial letters were given, and possibly with one or two exceptions or variations sandwiched In. The ear and the mind, from frequent repetition, grew accustomed to a certain combination, and, once learned, it was never for gotten. Today I taKe up me spelling dook or a child just out of the kindergarten and attempt to hear him his lesson.

What do I see? A list of "Things to Use on the Table. He spells "bread," "salt, and "plates' correctly, and sticks at knives." He goes back, studies it again, and again sticks at "knives." Why should knives be spelled as it is? He cannot understand. The fact that it is something to use on the table does not help him. I turn to the preface of the book to see If I can find what Rossettl would call "the fundamental bralnwork" under f'nlf 0oth, should be taught "by an asso- lying the syBtem, and learn that spelling, The Time Has Come to Call a Halt in Our Policy of Naval Construction. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In cutting down this year's naval appropriation by something like the Democratic House has only followed the example set by England.

The powers of the world are coming to realize that the time has arrived for a truce in the building of new battleships. To continue increasing their navies at the rate that has been In effect during the past ten years must inevitably lead to bankruptcy. It costs Jl.000,000 a year to maintain a modern first-class ftattleship, and the cost of maintenance Is increasing with every new invention in armament or naval architecture. Better than most other powers can we afford to pause for a brief space in me building of new vessels, while time and experience are testing the value of those we have alerady built. We are constantly forgetting that the modern navy is an experiment, almost an untried quantity; that the investment of money in big battleships means the risking of millions upon millions to try out theories with regard to battleship propulsion, the caliber of guns, the effectiveness of the torpedo.

We know hardly anything about these things, but we guess, we theorize and we conclude on the basis of two sea flghtB and the maneuvers of a decaae The tlneoes in Congress who are contin ually shouting for new battleships, as though these cumbersome fighting ma chines represented our sole defense against a foreign invasion, overlook two things. The first and most important is that the effective strength of our navy will have practically doubled wnen me Panama Canal la completed in 1915. That canal will be ours, and we will control access to it. This means that our warships will be able to pass through It any time, and that within ten days we can concentrate the entire effective strength of our navy upon either the Atlantic or the Pacific Coast. To be sure, this Increase ot naval power win not come Into effect until 1915.

but It is also true that any battleship authorized this year will not be ready for service until 1916. Moreover, in making provision thts year for auxiliary vessels Congress is contributing Just as much to our effective naval strength as though It were adding cruisers and battleships. Our navy is deplorably behind the navies of Europe in Its complement of colliers, supply ships, torpedo craft and repair vessels. Nor are we in as happy a position as England, Germany, Japan or even France In their ability to provide auxiliary vessels from their merchant marine. We might buy them, true, but it Is one thing to turn to what is practically a naval reserve and another to purchase untried vessels that require to be re built and the crews of which must first be trained.

The fact Is that we have too persist- ly followed the theory of extensive cultivation in our naval development. Let pause for a while and fill out the chinks. For example, we are in dire need of dry docks. Of what use are dreadnoughts if the first minor accident will make them unavailable for service until they have traveled a long tistance to the only dry dock capable of receiving them? For defensive purposes half a dozen torpedo boatB are cetrainly better than one lame battleship. No, the House has done well in putting naval in crease upon a sensible basis.

It is to be hoped that it will persist in its deter mination, despite opposition in the Sen ate. A REFLECTING DEMOCRAT. WOODMAN CHORAL CLUB. Brilliant Work in Its Programme at the Brooklyn Academy. The Woodman Choral Club concert last night, in music hall, Academy of Music, was as brilliant an event as usual in spring musical annals in Brooklyn.

Clear, luscious song characterized it from beginning to end, except when orchestral numbers intervened. They were "Meditation," from "Thais," and "Notturno," by Karl Mattys, and violins, harp and organ gave the melodies to perfection. E. Lorenz Smith and Hermann Kuhn were the violinists, Paul Surth the harpist and S. Lewis Elmer organist.

The benefit of placing Henschel's "Morning Hymn" first on the programme was evidenced by the beautiful prelude effect it made, a kind of attuning of voices and souls to the sweep of melody which was to follow in "Winds in the by Goring Thomas; "In May," by Professor Horatio Parker; "By the Rivers of Babylon," by Lizst, and other song gems. The little "Indian Cradle Song," which crept in after the rich "Morning Hymn," was by H. A. Matthews, text by Sarojlni Naidu. The club sang most sympathetically here, and, with piano effects of the best quality, "Winds in the Trees," the choristers gave, wtth its sadness in the finale, very effectively, and "in May" they sang with free and joyous delivery.

Mrs. Louise MacMahon, soprano soloist, recently from the South, has a voice full of sweetness, and in her solos and concerted work with the club she made an impression in which lyric gifts, feeling and musical soul were well mated. Handel's "Skylark" and "Care Selve" she sang acceptably in a high sense. Henschel's "Spring," HeckscherV "orse Maiden's Lament," the brief "Birth of Morn," by Leoni, were given later, and Huntington Woodman's "Birthday Song," the last accompanied by the composer, went so delightfully on that a storm of applause greeted It. The great number, "Death of Joan of Arc," was one of the best for choral recital, and Mrs.

MacMahon took the solo part finely. The choral work was most satisfactory; it had breadth, seriousness and beautiful tone. The Woodman compositions for chorus were well sung. They were "Ashes of Roses'" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes." in both of which there was perfect understanding between conductor and conducted, making the lovely scores vital. The Liszt number, "By the Rivers of Babylon," was given with violins, harp, piano, the organ and the club, with solos by Mrs.

MacMahon. Her impressive work was sustained in like manner by the choristers. Through its highly spiritual feeling, inspired by the text, it was a more Impressive number than the "Joan of Arc." 'Ethelbcrt Nevln's "Before the Daybreak," sung by the club, appropriately preluded the "Ashes of Roses," and the Jocund "Now Is the Month of by Templcton Strong, ended the concert blithely, the club doing specially crisp work in it. Mrs. Florence Brown Lookey was at teh piano, and played with skill and expression the accompaniments.

The active members or the club are as follows: Mrs. James A. Nelson, president; Mrs. John F. Thompson, vice president: Burn- ham, secretary; Mrs.

1-rancls A. Wilson, treasurer; C. G. Henshaw, Miss Mary Perkins, librarians; Miss Louise Adams, Miss Delia S. Avery, Miss Jda 1.

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For cost of advertising, apply or send for rste card, or make Inquiry by telephone, No. CtiO Main. So Fix Present Responsibility as to Make for Future Safety. The investigation that can anil should investigate is now murer way In the Titanic matter. A committee of the two houses of Congress is conducting, it.

The proceeding should differ from those which iu Federal, State, clly or county matters give to in quiries affected by a relation to poli tics no serious significance iu public opinion. This inquiry is affected by a relation to humanity. Neither untruth nor half truth will be safe or escape condign condemnation iu this instance. The largest vessel in the world became debris on her first voyage. The greatest number that ever took part in a voyage of pleasure travel and of commercial interest were sacrificed.

Yielding to temptation did not deliver the carriers or the carried from the evil consequences. The former were the victims of brashness. The latter were the victims of misplaced confidence in the former. Not seamanship but sordidness was responsible. It is true for Ismay to say he gave no orders to Captain Smith and in nothing interfered with him, and that the Captain could have lined his ship below the danger line, had he thought best to do so.

It had been best to do so. What had beeu best to do was not done. The eye of the master is the fear of the servant -'Under the eye of Ismay the record of Optaiu Smith lost its symmetrical ex cellence on the Olympic and on the Titanic out of Southampton, and fatally on the Titanic off the hanks. And the ship, the Captain and the hundreds of passengers are now at the bottom of the sea. Captains and passengers would rather be able to prove an alibi as to Mr.

Ismay in all tiie circumstances than as to any other man. Too much on this could not, but more than lias been need not, be said. The peo-plo are thinking and remembering and shuddering, for the people are at bottom superstitious. The vanity of sheer display and the catering to unnecessary luxuries have cost results that more such vanity and more such catering will not gratify, satisfy or palliate. And lie responsibility Mr.

Ismay did bravely assume, in providing for the escape of a few, including himself, is not regarded as proof that he was barren of authority on his own line, to the degree he gives out, or us demonstration that he abstained from exercising it. The officers have gone to judgment, like the brave and true and lamented and loved men they were in life and long will be iu memory. The ownership remains and its representative is under examination. We are aware the number of lifeboats legally required was In requisition. But not all of them were in use.

Not all of them that were iu use were filled. Not all of them were in charge of experts. More than one of them owe to women the escape of children and some men in them from destruction. None of them seems to have had compasses, comforts or stored food aboard. Those who escaped owe their escape to the mercy of God, to the fortitude of women, I he mildness of the weather and the valor and the persistence of the men on the Carpnthla.

We do not say that Ismay is not brave and resourceful. But if he fails to realize flint perhaps owing to the innate perversity of events be Is regarded as a hoodoo, bis psychological capacity is limited or incapable of enlargement. The defects in existing laws must bo corrected. Inquisition of those defects should be thorough. Not a percentage of chances for some, but equal chances of safety for all, must be secured.

Too Inte this for the past or for the immediate present. Mandatory this for the near future. The hearts and homes rent and agonized now plead like angels trumpet-tongued against the deep damnation of the preventable destruction of the lost and for the surety or the travelers of the future. A Reminder of Admiral Farragut. The fiftieth anniversary of Admiral Farragut's achievement, in running past the forts at the mouth of the Mississippi, will arrive next week.

In view of the widespread interest in that daring feat The Sunday Kagle will print tomorrjw an account of the exploit and of the capture or New Orleans written at the time by Alexander V. Fraser, who was a second assistant engineer oil the sloop Brooklyn of Farragut's command. Mr. Fraser became chief engineer of the United States Navy, is now retired, I IN THI VtS 1847 ROGERS BROS. "Silver Plate that Wears" is fully guaranteed by the largest silverware makers in tne world, tor bi years li nas peen recognized as xne nignest quality in Spoons, orks.Knives, etc.

today it is standard in silver plate. Sold by Leading Dealers APPLE ORCHARDS OX THE HUDSON RIVER FOR 3J ME AND WOMEN. Thirty-nine and women are formlnar a small co-operative company to plant a 195-aere apple orchard on the employing an expert horticulturist uhIiik the same scientl-flc methods- that make Oregon orchards pay $5 per acre per year. i-'I7o rash secures a 5-acre interest; balanoo quarterly; officers and, members on equal basis. Invest a little money In a scientifically man-aed orchard, where you can spend week-ends and watch your trees grow Into money.

Profits expected, to a year, irom each 6-acre interest. Immediate returns from sweet corn and currants. Kend for details, R. 10 js. 4Sth New York.

near, Miss Lillian A. Knapp, Mrs. Richard l'. l.ttlmDeer, Miss Dorothy s. Lane, Miss Marjorie lAtiderdale, -Mrs.

"William C. Maclin, Miss Adele Masters, Miss Ijlsie Mrs. George Mcintosh, Mrs. Charles B. McLeer, Mrs.

PYederick K. Middlebroolc, Mrs. George T. Musson. Miss Jennie Navlor.

Mrs. James A. Nelson. Mrs. William O.

Newman, Miss Mary Palmer, Miss Oonstance S. Patton, Miss Hilda. Pearson, Miss Janet W. rearson, Mary Perkins, Miss Alice Por ter, Mrs. Henry Allan Price, Mrs.

Mortimer Reynolds, Miss Louise Rogers, Miss Anna, Ktishmore, Mrs. A. .1. Samtnls Mrs. H.

Sayres. Miss Alice N. Senior, Mrs." Harold I. Small, Mrs. Charles D.

Smith, Miss Elizabeth Starkweather, Mrs. John Swan, Miss Carol Thome, Mrs. John F. Thompson, Miss Nellie TwyelTort, Miss Constance Trowbridge, Miss Marjorls Webster, Miss Flor ence A. Williams, Miss Maybelle Williams.

Mis. Francis. A. Wilson. Picked Up in Passing Stern Say, is Browa's credit good? Kern Good? Why, he couldn't even borrow trouble.

Cincinnati Enquirer. She George, you are trembling: are yutt afraid of that cow? He No, dear; that is only my heart. fluttering for the love of you. Philadelphia Telegraph. 'Doctor!" cried the patient, writhing in pain, "I wish I could die and be done with it! Oh, let me die let me die!" "Be calm," soothed the physician.

"Re member, I am doing my best for you." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Conservative Mr. Taft says we've got to study the Constitution if we're going to preserve the government of the fathers. The Radical What did the fathers know about government? They didn't have any Roosevelt to tell them what to do. Buffalo Express.

"Pa. what's an oligarchy?" "That, my boy, is a government In which a few people do all the ruling." "Is our government an oligarchy?" "Not at present. The party I belong to is in power; but, it will be one if the other side wins." Chicago Record-Herald. "My boy," Inquired a visitor at north side school, "can you name the Forty Immortals?" "There ath'l that many. When you mention Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Fred Clarke and a few others you have to stop." Pittsburgh Post.

Mr. Wisely I want to rent an auto that will break down. The Liveryman An auto that will break down? Mr. Wisely Yes. Then, when the crowd gathers around me I'll sell them my wonderful hydro-electric fly swatter for the, small sum of ono dime.

Washington Star, The Wirel ireless stir the brains of scientific boys Who try to search the ether with their toys; I unite the shore and sea, ending much of mystery, Though no more mysterious elf than the elf thnt Is myself Could there be. I thrill the hearts of sternly silent men, I wake the sob for decades stilled, and then Comes the unaccustomed tear born ot knowledge and of fear, or I never tell the worst of a message, and at first 'Tis not clear. My sparks of blue with gloom are orer-ehot; With hints and merjpecs my breath la hot; Of the horrors that I knew, truly grim and grimly true, The more lazy telegraph proves I haven't shown the half Unto you! J. A. JIM'S MOTIVE.

From the Pt. Paul Dispatch. "Judge nn action by its motive," said Senator McCumber at, a dinner In Washington. "That is the only way to avoid going -wrong. "Jim Bludge of Wahpeton was a very bad man, but one Easter he turned up at church service.

'Everybody was aengntea. every body's heart warmed to Jim. But tne deacon, accosting him after the service, said cautiously: 'Well, James, i giaa to see you ai meeting; but how did you happen to come?" -Ha, ha, Jim Blutlge chuckled. 'It's like this, deacon. You see, last Thursday morning I found a counterfeit dime.

But don't tell AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN. Romantic and Beautiful Scottish Operetta, "MTTl.K HOY 111,1 Sited a 1 Features Monday Micht Only. 'A Hmv.I WltrhlnnfWs Pine Hand. Famous Gordon Fraser Troupe, Master James Moey aim mnju.cn land Dancers. 1 av.

Kntire house purchased by Clan Maclionald. All srain wnv tinii-e. lo cents. A guod reserved seat for 2T cents. 'I WICK DAILY TEL, IIUSH, Broadway Ital Italph Av.

Best Boats, Wa THK (Jllll. CHIIH MlSMOl lll AtlATKIRS I 1 1 A COMKHTS K.VF.RY sl'XUAV Dr if I DeKalb Av and Broadway, tHALD Phone 220 UtishwtcU. CONTINUOfS 1 TO 11 P.M. Vaudeville and Edna May Spoone Clock Co, Mattnea 10e.i EvsniDg. Froebel thus clumsily misapplied? The framers of the old-fashioned mem ory systems depended on the associa tion of ideas, and Justly so, for they taught lists of unrelated words.

They would have been the last to depend on it for the teaching of English spelling, They would have been the first to claim the help of the linked chain of similar sounds. Let us thank our lucky stars that wo were educated before there was an effort to make learning picturesque. Those of us who wept over "Reading without Tears" have reaped one advantage we can at least write a letter without look ing In the dictionary. A WOMANLY WOMAN Writes Her Opinion of the Other Sort, as Shown by Recent Events. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: In view of the widely published and be littling remarks of a number of eminent suffragettes in regard to the heroism of the men on board the Titanic, It seems only meet and fitting that, at this time of international sorrow and pride, some expression of gratitude should come from English-speaking womanhood in recognt Hon of the mighty tribute paid it by the uvea of men.

That any Question should have been raised as to the chivalry of those following to the death that law of the sea "Women and children first," is horrible, unnatural, unwomanly. It can only be de plored in shocked silence by millions of women alt over the world. However, the gold of the deed cannot be tarnished by that pitiful group of women who could not bow their heads in silence while the dead went by. It has taken centuries of mothers to mold men of the mettle shown by those on the Titanic. It has been no work of a few generations for sheer brute strength and red-blooded manhood to subdue itself and place weakness in a niche of safety about the surge of the physical forces.

Woman owes her position in the world today to man's self-abnegation, whether she eares to face the fact or not. That she has Inculcated the protection she enjoys by her very weakness and dependence there is no doubt. In taking the stand they do, suffragettes are placing in Jeopardy this relationship of the sexes, this chivalry which Is one of the most beautiful and inapiring things in the uni verse. It Is one of the most fragile. growths in creation's garden and it was the mothers of the past who nurtured it.

With the strong and the brave it is, then, women and children first. But what of the men of tomorrow? Advocating that men and women stand shoulder to shoulder in the melee of life, the suffragettes Inspire the boys of today with a lack of reverence for woman's weakness, a spirit of everyone for himself or herself and the devil take the hindmost. It is the mothers of the men who went down to everlasting fame ou the Titanic, facing physical dissolution for the sake of an ethical standard, who are blessed among women today, even though their eyes be wet with tears. For, in its final summing up, life holds no greater glory for a woman than to be the mother of a hero. -MARJORIE DORMAN.

Office of Brooklyn Life, April 19, 1912. Personal ahd Impersonal Our new speed rule: "Festina lente." Confucius asked: "What can conceal a man?" Surely a shipwreck reveals him. The glacier's children do not get out of the speed manaic's way like the children of men. There is a difference between an iceberg and a Ashing smack which the mighty must respect. This will be a poor year for politicians urging progress by collision and explosion.

The palm garden and cozy corner will hereafter be features of the houseboat snail. The ocean greyhound will wear no diamond collar and no cerise ribbon. The green lantern of the Beaman who "had been Bhipwrecked twice before" betokened more forethought In the forecastle than was shown at the owner's office. It is the first time that yellow Journalism was stunned to neglect the flashlight and camera. Phenomena of this character lead philosophers to argue that good is a product of evil.

Had there been a night operator on the Parisian, only fifty miles away, nearly 1,700 lives might have been saved. The lesson in "Asleep at the Switch" must be taught daily by Dean Experience. There Is safety In numbers. Two or three ships crossing the ocean together will each make a more powerful bid for business than one ship sailing alone, although it be equipped to match a resort hotelkeeper's dream. A VERY DELICATE PROBLEM.

Parson. Henderpon, an evangelist of color, was caught one bright morning holding the bands of one of the ewe lambs of his congregation, who was a very popular young lady, and it created quite a stir among the colored population. So the parson was brought up for trial and was questioned by the officers of the church as to what he meant by his action, and this is what he had to say in answer to the question propounded to him: "My brudders, you have seen these great pictures, I suppose, so you know dat the great Shepherd am always pictured with a lamb of the flock in bis arms." "Yes, sah, dat am so," admitted Deacon Jones. "Den, Brudder Jones, -what am wrong In the shepherd of dis flock nolding a Iamb in his arms?" This was too much for Brudder Jones, so he proposed the officers of the church have a call meeting that afternoon. After the point was discussed fully the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, Dat for the future peace and dignity of the congregation dat the next time Parson Henderson feels called upon to take a lamb of his flock In his arms, dat he pick out a ram lamb." Mack's National Monthly.

A CALL TO ARMS. (From Harper's Weekly.) Mr. Tit will be renominated. The coun try has not gone crazy and the Republican party is not a fool, if it can't elect Taft, it can't elect anybody. Compromise would spell repudiation and repudiation would spell disaster.

Taft didn't need Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 1908, and he doesn't need them now. He already has 337 delegates and is sure of 232 more at least, making a clear majority on the first ballot. Roosevelt can con tinue to snort ana chortle all he likes. He can't change thi- inevitable result so long as William H. heel Is in the ground.

And it is in the ground and go ing to stay there. Jlat; no mistake. We know what we nro miking about. Wake up, Republicans! Down with the Demagogue! Smash the Third Terml Save the Republic! Belle Poor fellow, they've caught him at last. Dclle Hasn't be a chance to escape? Belle None whatever.

Maude has put a smaller bammork In the conservatory. Philadelphia Record. witness fresh great bravely. from the presence of A Bronx County Referendum. Governor Iix has signed the bill which creates, contingently, a County of the lironx.

The measure docs not go into effect till after the people of that section have voted for the change. If the people vote against the proposal the passage of the bill and its signature by the (ioveruor become nugatory. hi his memorandum the Governor expresses a doubt as to the quest ton constitutional law involved in the referendum matter, but says he pre- ers to give the measure the benefit of that doubt. He is satisfied that this Is a matter on which the people of the lironx are better (planned to pass; than are the lawmakers at Albany. As a matter of fact the referendum on Hie creation of Greater New York is precedent taut dues not fully apply, since cities are not and counties are constitutional civil divisions.

The Hronx people, ninny of them at least, have felt that such records as are in the custody of county oflicen loeds, mortgages, wills, etc. should be available without going outside the Hronx. They have thought that Sheriff of their own would be an ad- mtage. They have envied the' meas ure of autonomy that Kings County has. Perhaps, also, the leeks and the onions and the lleslipots of county pat ronage have been without their appeal to local politicians.

Tammany ins striven to rule the P.ronx with a Igh hand, and the general resentment it the AVigwam policy was shown when Cy Miller was elected Borough President. Whether the separate county organi zation has been worth while to the Borough of Brooklyn is uu issue ou which there might be two opinions, but Kings County did not have to be cre ated; it was older than the former City of Brooklyn, and any plan to de stroy it would have been treated as an outrage. We think it is true, however, that the county has been of some value politically in offering a patronage nucleus around which resistance to Tammany domination could collect itself; for patronage and politics are not to be dissociated in practical minds. If the Bronx shall decide to be a county, Kings County will watch her progress on the new lines with interest and sympathy. There Is no logical reason why she should be made a tail to the kite, any more than Kings or Queens or Richmond.

One View of Italian Immigration. In his recent speech to the Society for Italian Immigrants Commissioner of Immigration Williams demanded new restrictions, insisted that "this country's first duly is to itself," and udded with a frankness that will stir wholesome thought even iu minds that cannot agree with him: I think the danger in this large Italian immigration is not that many of these people will become public charges, but that there will be introduced into the blood of this country a strain that will never do it any good. This is an advance on anything that Terence V. Powderly ever said. It is in advance of the present labor leader's views.

The union chieftains do not hesitate for an instant to acknowledge hat their opposition to Immigration is selfishly founded on economics. They bring all sorts of pressure to bear on government to keep up the bars, simply because plenty of labor such as is needed to develop the untouched resources of America will make the task of organizers of the labor trust more difliculr, if not impossible. More and more, as the years have gone on, we have got our unskilled labor from Italy. Ignoring the great economic truth that any healthy man with muscles to use and (lie will to use them is an addition lo the wealth of the country where he lives, the short-sighted government of Italy has encouraged Italians to leave the coun try. Thrifty, laughter-loving, kindly, passionate, capable of blood-thirsty an ger, but generally law-abiding, they have dug our ditches, laid our railway ties, cleaned our streets, and Irritated our labor unions.

It has been said that wa have as many Kalians shaving our faces and blacking our boots as Caesar had in all his armies. This is just pardonable exaggeration. Certainly a large part of the fruit trade, wholesale as well as retail, is iu Italian hands. In many city sections the grocery trade is going the same way. In the saving of money the Italian sees capital for small business.

A hundred years ago most, Americans had the same viewpoint. The danger that there will be intro duced info the blood of this country "a strain that wi'l never do it nnv good" is much more shadowy than what the labor unions allege. We are a conglom erate people. Saxon and Norman and Dane; Celt and German and Hungarian have brought iu their "strains." It is too late to bar oul the Italian strain. Most, of us do not want to bar it out.

It has too much, of value, it represents too much love of art, too much appreciation of music, too much of spontaneous life, to sacrificed ruthlessly to either the labor unions. the theorists Another Safe Fourth. The oltl-l'asltionoil murderous bralions of the Fourth of with deadly fireworks and cannon in the hands of men and boys wilhout any qualification for using them, inis gone by, never to return. The decreasing death rate since the change was made lit many cities offers an unanswerable argument for the new methods, while the interest aroused by celebrations which patriotism expressed by oilier menus than noise has commended the new fashion in ninny cities for its interest as well as for lis safely. Again has been called together last year's Fourth of Commit lee, and we shall have a repetition of last venr's celebration, with one Inmortnnt neighborhood the people can call, their own Alderman to account.

Last year only about worth of fireworks were delivered and would have been paid for them if Controller Preti-dergast had not held up the bills. This year the Alderman will represent his own district and the contractor will deal directly 'with him. That is an excellent application of personal responsibility. Street Car Transfers Bill Vetoed. The reasoning that led Governor Dix to veto the elaborate bill naming some 150 points at which street railroad companies should be compelled to give transfers iu Manhattan is precisely the same as that on which Governor Hughes vetoed a bill fixing two cents a mile as the maximum passenger fare on steam railroads in this State, drawn on (lie model of several Western and Southern Slate laws which are still under litigation In the Federal courts.

If Hughes had been Governor instead of Dix the memorandum ou this transfers veto would not have been different except iu phraseology. In effect it is held by the Chief Magistrate of the Slate that since we have i'ublie Service commissions it is not expedient for the Legislature to act on such questions save where by court decisions the powers of the commis sions have been made inadequate to establish justice to those who pay the fares. In the matter of the street car transfers, it is pointed out that the Public Service Commission of this district has already acted, making an order much like that which the pending bill would have established if it had become law and this action has not yet been held invalid by the judiciary arm of the government. Governor Dix does not pass on the merits of the question at all. He simply passes ou the expediency of any interference while it is still not clear that the decision of the commission will be set aside.

Of course, nobody doubts that the authority of the lawmakers Is greater, broader and deeper than the authority of their creatures, the Public Service Commissioners, and perhaps no one would go so far as to say that a spe cific bill correcting a known evil which the commission could not touch would be improper. That Is certainly not the Governor's attitude at all. In our judgment Hughes was right as to the two-cent fare bill, and Dix is right as to the transfers bill. Regu lation of common carrying corpora tions is necessary. Irregular or disor derly or hasty regulative measures will do more harm than good in the long run.

Mercy and Welcome for Dalzell. The quality of mercy is not strained. and perhaps the public generally has underestimated the element of mercy In the nature of Theodore Roosevelt. It Is announced that the Pennsylvania Itoosevel forces having beaten "Honest'1 John Dalzell In the Pittsburg prima ries, will take him into camp, and give him one of the four nominations for Congressmen at Large, which they will control. Dalzell has served more than a quarter of a century Iu the lower house.

He was a good enough Roosevelt man when Roosevelt was President. He has been good enough Taft man of late. He has been regarded as one of the most reliable of Standpatters. Amnesty for Dalzell was not expected from Colonel Theodore. It comes as a surprise to everybody.

Dalzell, in tills "Return from Elba" period, is a sort of a Marshal Ney. He metaphorically took the oath of allegiance to the Bourbons. He appears to have been more loyal than Ney to his new masters. He did not go over horse, foot and dragoon to the returning Napoleon. He fought hon estly enough to stop the fate-ordained triumphal march iu Pennsylvania.

But, losing, he seems to have taken up the victors, and they seem to have taken hint up. There may be a Quatrebras and a Waterloo before him; perhaps i metaphorical death alley lu the Lux embourg Gardens, if the Bourbons come out mi top, after all. Such are the chances of war In France aud of politics in America. "Honest'' John Dalzell is a native of New York Clly and a Yaie graduate. lie has been a picturesque figure from the start of his public life.

He Is also a trained parliamentarian and a close student of governmental Interests; and, if by any chnnce Roosevelt were to become President again, with a Roosevelt Inn House to Tiaclc him, Dalzell would lie a fortress of strength and Speakership possibility. Of one tiling we are sure, the former President, though ho has extended clemency to Dalzell, cannot use him without paying the piper. Dalzell is not built that way. The Lincoln Memorial. There is a special interest for Brooklyn lu the decision of the Lincoln Memorial Commission to accept the Bacon design for the proposed commemoration.

That design Involves extending the plan for tiie development of Washington, iu consonance with the original L'Knfaut design, to territory whose inclusion in tiie city L'Knfaut never dreamed of. This decision comes at the time when Brooklyn Is discussing clly planning and wiieu the value of a fundamental logical plan for the development of a city is being brought to the attention of many men of Brooklyn for the first time. The convincing evidence of such value In this country is 1 he L'Knfaut design for Washington, which has made the most beautiful city iu America out of what was swamp and wilderness for the most part, when the plan was worked out. Recently the need for enlarging Washington lias become pressing, and the architectural commission appointed, with Daniel II. Burnham at Its head, found that it, could do nothing better than to extend and develop the L'Fufant design.

That design had one great axis for the city, rouniy 1 vmlti avenue leading from the I. (UUl Is at present yisiUflS Au effort will I.e. made hH i lie M-jj.