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THE BItOOKLYX DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. AUGUST Tfi. 1014.

2 THE MacDOWELL FESTIVAL We trust England will escape. She has lcs thini two months supply of print paper, but the North Atlantic Is open, iiml Canada will ilo her duty. to the papers. Martial law exists, and he could carry out his notion. But to British subjects who want to know what has happened that notion seems the extreme of the ridiculous.

enough to raise beef to feed ninny times their own ioiulatiou. Experiments of the sort are being tried in some Northeastern States, but the profit of eattle raising there Is (TraAe Mark "Eagle" UfgistrfJ CHICAGO'S SHADE TREES. IFrom the Cblcafo yews. In view of the advance which city beautldcation has made during the last few years, especially in Chicago, Arbor Day. observed in this city today, has a definite significance.

Tree planting exercises have been or are being held -n all parts of the city, about 230,000 wjlto pine seedlings be We refuse to believe that James W. Gerard is being boomed for Governor ter feeding. The Southern growers in-with his own consent. He is much too; sist that that cost is much smaller for tragic. Our schools, conducted in that spirit, have so increased the supply of labor in the white-handed employments that the wages have been cut down to the danger limit, while in the trades the suiiply has been so limited that the wages have risen to the point crippling some lines of industry, and thousands of public school graduates, with no vocational training of any kind, have been objects of occasional even permanent charity.

If Mayor Mltchel's administration shall redress the balance of teaching so as to reduce the number of public school graduates who become criminals or paupers, for lack of any training which enables them to hold their "place In the sun," he will deserve a monument in front of Cooper Union. ing provided for yards, vacant lots and roadways. Last year 200,000 elm seedlings were planted; the year before 300,000 Russian mulberries, and in 1911 a total of 280,000 catalpa seedlings were given a chance to grow. If all these grew Chicago wjuld be not a garden city, but a forest city. The mortality-rate among seedlings, however, is almost as great as it is among slum habits.

If a respectable fraction of these young trees grow to maturity Chicago will be in time a woodland paradise. An -luthority on arboricul-t ture as applied in cities, says the ratio should be one living shade tree to every live inhabitants. In the absence of a tree census it is impossible to say how near Chicago approaches this ideal. Be that as it may, the principle of Arbor Day is wholesome. It is but one phase of the general tendency of the day to instill into the children an instinct for some of the finer things that older folks have thought they were too busy to cultivate.

AX OLD ONE REVIVED. From the Pittsburg A broker talked luminously the ether day of the decline in value of securities. He said we must be careful not to legislate too harshly against the country's vested interests, or th prosperity of those interests, and with them the country's prosperity, would be impaired. He Illustrated his meaning with a story. There was a schoolteacher, he said, who exclaimed, impatiently, one afternoon: "Johnny Jones, what are you fumbling with there?" Johnny hung his head and was silent.

But the telltale of the class spoke up: "It's a pin he's got, ma'am." "Well, take it from him," said the teacher, "and bring it here to me." This was done and then, in a mollified voice, the teacher said: "Now, Johnny Joucs, get up and re- cite your history lesson." But Johnny did not obey. Ha blushed, hung his head and sat still. 'Johnny," said the teacher, "rise, I tell yoj!" Then the little fellow blurted out, distressfully: "I can't, ma'am. That there pin you took is what holds me trousers up!" A PRINCE IX THE SLUMS. IFrom the Chicago Record-Herald.

The Prince of Wales, aged 20 years, slipped away and saw the East End of London, a dread spectacle which seldom comes to the eyes of royalty. His august parents, much perturbed, have, sent him to Norway to view the glories of nature and to forget the miseries of man. The right-minded, slmple-natured lad received some impressions and formed It is feared some opinions which, while proper and Inevitable In the case of generous, unspoiled youth, ure disadvantageous for one whose future role will be large and prominent In the smooth conventional humbuggery of. English life and society. In order to like, to enjoy, to be fit for that sort of "society" one must be "caught young" and put at it early as George Du Maurler said.

The Prince has been caught and will be held In place; in the end he may accomplish as much or as little for social amelioration as hi father and grandfather before A High Private Herr Johann Aniireaa Dlppel, director Chicago grand opera, It eald to have "been-conscrlptfrt, and to he serving a a- prlvat In the Austrian army. Xewi.J I was monarch of all of the stage. My right there was none to dispute; They trembled to witness my rage. Both singers and footers that toot. As a private, I'm awkward, I guess; The dnllmatter's swearing at me.

My feelings I cannot express, But, oh, how I long to be free. Second fiddle I never could play; A tenor, at starting, was I. A tenor Is proud, in his way; But, now, I'm not even ace high. I must polish my buttons with zeal I cat with the commonest gawks; That, setting-up exercise, real, Makes anyone lame when he walks, I was monarch of all I surveyed. Of singers and footers that toot; My fall more emphatic Is made; I'm under the drlllmaster's boot.

SI All the perils of war at Its worst I'm ready as any to brave; But camp life Is properly cursed; A private's the serf of a slave! J. I busy us our Ambassador In Germany think of any Immediate contest for political honors. Joseph V. Bailev threatens to run for United States Senator in Texas in Hllii on an alcohol platform, at least an anti-prohibition platform. Forewarned forearmed.

Texas will take care of him in her own way, when the time comes. Congress should heed the warning of Herman A. Metz about trying to restart the shipping from Germany of drugs and dye material. Mr. Metz knows what he is talking about.

But when he is most serious some folks are bound to suspect him of joking. The State of New York will have to buy buck the Philipse Manor rights to most of the minerals of Putnam County and Dutchess County to clear the titles of farms. We don't burn barns these days. We have money to burn, ami cash payment leaves less of hard feelings. If you want to make remarks about the blessing of a cool summer, don't go to Coney Island to do It.

The natives have ropes in their booths, and lamp posts are handy. They have their own views about what makes a good sum mer. Nothing is ever too hot for their trade. BEYOND THE CENSOR'S REACH. There Is nothing but truth in the World's statement that no other censorship was ever comparable to that which has been Imposed by the British and German governments.

Perhaps, also, the facts justify the further statement that, neither the Germans nor the English at home know what is going on, but even the most rigid censorship has It limitations all leaks cannot be stopped. No seal of secrecy can completely cover battle lines flung so far as to extend miles by the hundred, with combatants almost countless. Proof of the truth of that Is furnished by the World itself. Further proof can be found In every issue of The Eagle, which is to say that no matter how serviceable the "lid" may be, some steam will escape. Over some things no censorship can draw a veil.

That "far flung" are the battle lines is known to all the world, as well as it Is known that without precedent as to number are the forces confronting each other. Nor is there less (ruth In the assertion that, calculations have been upset. It takes no expert in the science of deduction to reach the conclusion that time was the essence of those made at Berlin. Presume two to be advancing on a third superior, perhaps to either, but not to both combined. Presume the two to he closing In upon him, not from the same distance and at an unequal rate of speed.

Celerity of movement on his part might enable him to deal with one before the arrival of' the other, making time the essence. He could face no greater danger than that of delay or of being delayed. In the ease in point, either it was or appears to have been assumed that there was little or no reason why Berlin calculations should take Belgium Into serious account. Apparently, it was taken for granted that the neutral country would make only perfunctory resistance, such objection to Invasion as would "save its face." The more confident the calculators were of this, the more disagreeable their surprise. Even If not true, though the Paris Temps vouches for its authenticity, the story told by a German baker In a special cable to the Sun serves to Illustrate.

He exhibited a military service hook showing him to have been ordered to join his regiment nt niieims yesterdayAugust Those who leave Paris for Rhclms after breakfast can return in time for lunch. It would be absurd to measure the results of such miscalculations by the INt of fatalities. This, no matter whether the losses have been large or small. Were they multiplied hy many times, their seriousness could be compared with other consequences. A lumbering giant Is the colossus of the North, but he Is wasting no time.

If slow, lie is sun1 in movement, and it makes much difference that he Is not called upon to fight single-handed. One set of calculations being based upon another, revision Is difficult If at the beginning the unexpected be encountered. It Is the more difficult when the unexpected calls to a prolonged hnlt forces scheduled for virtually unimpeded movement. Still further difficulty arises when to resistance not anticipated Is added more of the there are English ns well as French In Belgium of this sort declare their Inde- of Hie censor. In due course.

At Peterborough, N. This Week, Will Have Novelties. The fifth annual festival of the Mac-Dowell Memorial Association, at Peterborough, N. H-, will be held on the Pageant Stage in the pines, and in the Town Hall, this week, from Wednes to Sunday inclusive. The programmes include a greater variety of musical and dramatic compositions than those of any previous festival.

The list of soloists includes the following names: Mme, Mieler-Narodny, the Misses Olive Kline, Josephine Knight, Louise Llewellyn, sopranos; Marguerite Dun-lap, contralto; Arthur Hackett and John Barnes Wells, Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, and Rector Stephens, bass; George Halprin, pianist; Mile. Lada, danseuse; Miss Gertrude Marshall, violinist; Carl Webster, 'cellist; Miss Ruth Ashley, accompanist. The Boston Festival Orchestra will, as usual, be conducted by Euse-bius Godfroy Hood of Nassau, with John W. Crowley as concertmaster. Many orchestral numbers by American composers are to have their first performance at this festival, and some, including Gena Branscombe's "Festival March" and Henry F.

Gilbert's symphonic prologue, "Riders to the Sea," were written especially for performance on this occasion. The first afternoon's programme has play in one act, "Youth Will Dance," Ferdinand Reyher, introducing a series of old English Morris dances. Besides this, there will be performed the "Southern Fantasy" of William H. Humiston. Deems Taylor's "Highwayman," a ballad for baritone and chorus of women's voices, with orchestra, will be sung, with Reinald Werrenrath the solo part.

The second and third concerts, on Thursday afternoon and evening, are both arranged for the Town Hall ana will present musical features only. For Friday evening's special feature is "Pan and the Star," pantomime in one act, by Joseph Lindon Smith, with music by Edward Uurlingame Hill, winch Chalmers Clifton is coming from Paris to conduct. The programme Saturday afternoon includes the only piano concerto of the festival, Liszt's flat, played by (corrre Jlalprin and ti 1'estival or chestra, conducted by Chalmers Clifton. Besides that, there are Edward Ballantine's "Prelude to the Delecta ble Forest," a play by Herman Hage- dorn, two movements from Lewis Isaacs' ballet-suite "Atalanta," written by the composer In one of the stu dios of the Memorial Association at Peterborough, and also several inter esting groups of songs. Sunday afternoon's concert will include many sacred numbers of inter est, the dirge from MacDowell's "Indian Suite," and Haydn's oratorio, "The Creation," sung by a chorus of 175 voices, including the Peterborough MacDowell Choral Club and the Mac- Powell Choir of Nassau, under the llrection of Euseblus fiodfrov Hood.

with Miss Kline, Mr. Wells and Mr. Stephens as solomts. PENAL DISCRIMINATION. (From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

About two years ago the British Par liament, in a season Of hysterics, en ded a law for the scourging of male (Tenders under the white slave statute. Recently a vigorous protest against has been presented iby a body of prominent Englishwomen, headed by Lady Constance Lytton. "Tho sex distinction which exempts women from a penalty to which men are subjected," tney say, "is less an Honor than an insult, inasmuch as it Is not privilege, but equal that women demand." This Is logical. It possesses the desirable element of consistency so con spicuously lacking in the doings and the sayings of the militant strivers for sex equality. Tho advanced women of today desire no privileges and immunities because of their sex.

They re demanding merely what they con sider tlielr rights. Of course, it Is not conceivable that women will ever again be flogged. A hundred years ago civilization de veloped beyond that point. The demand of the British protesters cannot be taken as a serious suggestion that women he punished with the whip. It is rather a demand that the barbarous punishment be abolished for both sexes.

A POIGNANT ANECDOTE. (From the Philadelphia Pulletln. The great fault of American servants familiarity. To be familiar Is to be inefficient. A familiar cook is as In efficient as a pessimistic doctor." The speaker, Mrs.

Board man Harrl- man. is perhaps the most brilliant conversationalist in New York a fact which renders more poignant this anecdote. "I had a cook, she continued whom I tried to break of her over- familiarity. What waa the result? The cook discussing me In tho ser vants hall, said: 'I don't say she's a bad mistress. but she's a woman of only one idea.

Wtiv, I ran never get her to talk or a single thing but eating." 181-183 MONTAGUE ST. I 3, NOSTR AND AVENUE, i COR. HERKIMER. Sr. i CLINTON AVENUE, I COR.

MYRTLE AVE. il FIFTH AVCNUC A private as $5.00 coR-Fimr-rouiCTH sr. Interest I lit i i'ii il ts a fJjAFEGUARD I "4 1 fire of The largely eaten Into by the cost of win- them. The future supply of native beef must come from the small farms, and if the South is In a position to compete with the West in meeting It, the danger of roast beef becoming a luxury like venison will be pushed into the remote future. MARINES AT BLUEFIELDS.

The landing from the Tncoma of 500 marines at Blueftelds, Nicaragua, is at the request of the t'nited States Consul and with the consent of the government of Nicaragua. The purpose is to preserve the lives and property of Americans. This mnst be accomplished, if possible, by any Administration. President Taft was much criticised by party foes for landing marines at. Corlnto and sending them far inland to Managua, but, though Wilson has been President for sixteen months, a hundred of those marines are still nt Nicaragua's capital, nominally guarding the American Legation.

The fact is that sentlmentallsm has to give way to practical sense in dealing with Central American republics. Nicaragua is peculiarly difficult. If the protectorate notion on the lines used in Cuba under the terms of the Flntt amendment could have been accepted by the t'nited States Senate, it might have offered almost a permanent solution. The treaty now pending will do nothing of the sort, though its advantages to Nicaragua are such that it is sure to produce a more friendly feeling toward the Vnited States. And even that Is worth considering.

TURKEY'S ANOMALOUS POSITION. After closing the Dardanelles as a neutrality measure, Turkey is put in a false or, at least, an anomalous posi tion by admitting to those waters two German cruisers the Goeben and the Breslau, which are said to be still flying the German flag, and to have har ried the merchant ships of Germany's enemies, minor craft that had been caught Inside when the closing took place. Turkey claims that, she has paid Germany for these cruisers, that they are her own property, and that she was justified In making the purchase, first, because England had seized warships belonging to Turkey and almost completed in British yards, and second, because Greece, which Turkey has most reason to fear, had purchased the Mississippi and the Idaho from the United States. England will demand that the German crews of the Goeben and of the Breslau shall be repatriated, sent home, and that Turkey take responsibility for the two vessels. This may drag the weakened Turkish Empire into the great war.

Turkey for ten years past has been edging toward Germany as an ally. She wanted Germany to stop the attack of Italy on Tripoli. The Kaiser refused, showing loyalty to his ally In the Drei-bund. Now Italy will not stand by him In his struggle with Russia and France and England. Only guessing Is possible on the understanding between Turkey and Germany, if there Is one.

But what on earth any nation engaged in desperate war should want to sell cruisers for, the world cannot understand, unless an alliance or an understanding existed with the purchaser. The Goeben and the Breslau arc worth having. They may be worth $10,000,000 apiece. They are surely worth more to Germany than to a "neutral" power, just at the present time. GETTING READY FOR TRADE SCHOOLS.

Mayor Mltchel's announcement that the heads of the University of Cincinnati and of the schools nt Gary, Indiana, are looking over the chances for trade schools in this city, and that he hopes to secure them both to help start the trade schools for which appropriations have been asked. Indicates that action Is to take the place of the vociferation which lias been the chief fruit of agitation of the subject In the Board of Education. The Mayor hit the present situation exactly when he said "We have already established vocational and Industrial training in this city, but It Is not broad enough; there has not been laid down a plan or programme which permits all the children of this community to take advantage of the vocational ami Industrial trulnlng that the city provides in small meas ure." Not only tins there never been any such plan, but the very Idea of opening trade training to all the children, to the same extent that scholastic train-lug Is now open to them, Is utterly an- tagonlstlc to the theory on which our school system, and those of most other! I American 'ltie. is founded. The men I pin-pose eduction was not to men ior manual laoor, mil to raise them above the need of It.

So Ingrained Is that Idea In our thinking that in its early days Industrial training for negroes at Hampton and Tus-kegee was bitterly opposed by some champions of negro equality, on I lie ground that Gem-nil Armstrong and thus to deprive them of that eipiallty whlch the constitutional amendments guaranteed. That argument was grotesque In Its application to the actual facts, but It was founded upon a ide ly prevailing notion that ediieatloii for whites was aid to make them carpenters or blacksmith or plumbers, but Inn, vers and doctors and men-hunts and bookkeepers. The unfortunates who could not get education enough lo take them lulu these preferred or "upper" classes would have to continue to do the luminal work of the world, bill the Idea of seiidliig a boy lo school wns to raise him nbove nny sui'h need, to "make gentleman of him," In the language of a few years ago. The absurdity of such an Ideal In a niorm'w would be Inughahle if the of It hod not been of or to MiiIIMNi; Lmerp.l November K. lTl', unjer the ct ct is X.

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Whether trust-splitting is a good thing or not, is yet to be determined. Short-fuse Fusion has Its perils. Harvey D. Hinmaii may not be able to get out of the way in time. Fish foods are cheapest.

We don't eat German carp, anil Spanish mack erel are still devoted to neutrality. Imported lyes from any sources are in evidence. For German potash they offer, however, uo uatisfactory substitute. I Kansas doesn't blame Senator Bris-tow. She only squelches him.

Blaming a man for being himself would be unreasonable. Mr. Carnegie shouldn't lose hope entirely. Afghanistan and some parts of South America are still in a state of profound peace. France has no Napoleon, but per-fcaps a Duuiouriez will do.

Valmy Isn't yet forgotten by the singers of the "Marseillaise." The Federal Reserve will be maintained without any censorship. Public business done in the full daylight Is the American notion. California claret will run just as red under its own name. The French labels would be silly with no imports from Sunny France In sight. Denatured State conventions are Just as expensive as old-fashioned ones.

They cannot long hold their own in the normal market of politics. Pallida Mors belongs properly to the dead languages, but is known to all races and understood In all tongues. That Is why "good war" is nothing but a paradox. The Man With tho Hoe isn't wasting any sympathy on the Harvester Trust. He knows that Its burdens will be shifted quickly, and his pity is reserved for himself anil his neighbors.

The prices of all liquors ought to go down. Millions of men are now under military discipline, and not permitted to drink. The law of supply and dr-nianil is a bad one If it doesn't work both ways. The tin pan numbing of tympanums In New York City Is henceforth forbidden by law. Long Island Hound Is still heard In the distance, but that's outside the jurisdiction of the antl-nolse ordinance.

English basement houses arc mighty hard to rent In the Klclgcwood section, according to last accounts. So we are Informed by a realty man who knows how to keep bis face straight through nil his extravagances. Poet Laureate Bridge Justifies himself. His war verse, compared with that of the late Alfred Austin, shines. As for Kipling, who is yet to be heard from, he isn't In the laureate class, ami never will be.

He doesn't count. We are hearing less and less about the Police Department. That Is a good sign. Perhaps Commissioner Woods Is "making good." Of course nobody ever praises (hi- police, even tt In they do. serve It most.

Silence Is their high nt eulogy. What a grand thing it Is that customs receipt" lire light. Collector Malone an go ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 demolishing Tammany Hull without iili-i -ting In the slightest degree lil routine duties under Federal law. We regard ii wholly discredited the rumor Hint tin- State Senators and A-hr-lllliU lli'-li are lulling II lot Ing nip for Ml her William or J. ().

Hiiinnillt of Citizen I'nloii. "Love jour fiif in I- not a eomiiiou inn I in in Nothing ni'-ie IhutIIiIc can be luiag Inert than the pbgut of an Kiigll-I, speaking iialln nt war. ai with no white paper to print newspapers on to is The Japanese can pronounce "Kiao-Chau" without hesitating or mumbling. Their anxiety to take the place from Germans, who are incapable of pronouncing the name, has some Justification. Labor Commissioner Lynch is voted $10,000 from the funds of the International Typographical I'nion in recognition of his services as its president.

Once only sovereigns scattered such rewards. Whether the world has changed for the better or not, it Is mighty hard to tell. J. W. Masury's suit against the Long Island Railroad for $100,000 damages because a car seat was taken from him and given to somebody else will Interest all travelers.

Suspension of judgment till the answer is filed is fair. Just how the thing happened is not explained. The "near-side-stop" ordinance for street cars has been signed, to go Into effect) September 1. The market for rubber boots should be benefited. Passengers wading through mud or water or snow to get to a rear entrance, forty feet away from a crosswalk, will say things, but they cannot help themselves by profanity.

IDLEXKSS. From the Ohio State Journal. The harm of doing nothing Is seldom realized. But it means going backward. Or, If it means floating along to somewhere, It also means getting soaked and heavy, and finally sinking out of sight.

Every boy should adopt Secretary Redfield's advice to business men to practice self-criticism; to find out if anything is the matter, and then correct it. We suspect if every boy and girl would undergo a little self-examination they would find that idleness was ono of their habits. And they ure apt also to think it is an innocent habit; but it is not; it is a dangerous habit. Remember the old saying that the devil always finds something for the idle hands to do, and that something is evil always. Now, work is not always struggle with one's hands.

It does not always make one perspire and get short of breath. a. persons thinks of things that are true, If he builds jp noble ideals, if he plans enterprises good will, If he makes use of his spirit In forming fine resolutions this is not idling. The test for Idleness is very easy. When one wastes his time he is idle; when he does not utilize thought and deed to make his life better, he is idling.

Teaching a hoy to value his time is the best lesson that can be given him. THK MAN WHO SUFFERS. From the Philadelphia Ledger.) Major Henry L. Higglnson, a distinguished New England banker, asserts that the continued government meddling with business is benefiting the rich at the expense of the people of moderate means, and this assertion Is what every intelligent observer knows to be true. Major Higginson refers especially to the effect of the delay In permitting an increase in freight rates upon the securities of the New Haven system.

The small shareholder, deprived of his dividends and suffering from the decrease in value of his shares, has been selling while he could because he cannot afford to have his hoardings wiped out altogether and because he must have his money earning something for htm. The man of large capital, on the other hand, with confidence in the future, has been buying the shares offered. He has money Wing idle and he knows that New Haven securities will bo worth their old price some day when the present meddlers have learned sense or have been driven from office. The 152 shareholders who own more than 1,000 shares each hav been Increasing their holdings und the 11.S60 persons who own from 1 to 10 shares have been getting rid of theirs. The rich are picking up bargains that the poor cannot take advantage of.

ICE IX THE SEA LANES. IFrom the Chicago Journal. Icebergs of unusual size and num bers for this season of the year are reported off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Government vessels are keeping careful watch on the move ments of these monsters, nnd sending out wireless warnings to all ships in or approaching the Uuugcr zone. This "ice patrol" is one of the few good results of the Titanic horror.

It is the best way yet discovered to deal with a very real and very treacherous peril. Hut the essentially makeshift nature of such a patrol brings up again the grandiose but perhaps not impos sible plan of Carroll Livingstone Rikor, Mr. Hiker thinks a dam or break water can be constructed extending trom Newfoundland out across a part of the Grand Hunin, which would heed oft the cold Labrador current that brings down tho icebergs, and permit tho Gulf (stream to now without inter ruptlon Boverul hundred miles farther north than It now reaches. On tho sur face of things, such a scheme Is wild and fantastic to a degree, but It should not be exist aside without Investigation. FOR PROTECTION OF BIRDS.

IFrom the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lovers of wild bird lifo and those who appreciate the economic signifi cance of its preservation ask the Senate of the I'nited (States to do two things. They ask that it restore an appropria tion item, knocked out by the House, sulllcii.nt to permit the Agricultural Department to take advantage of tha SVeekH-McU'nn act. I hey also ask prompt and favorable action on treaty with ire.it Krltuln, carrying out the si rit of tlt.tt act. Birds need no defense with intelli gent people.

desirability is mltteil. The Wjeks-Mclj-an law Is triumph for reason and humanity. I is too aooii a uuusure to llo upon tV stututo books useless, because of the luck of a reasonable appropriation. As for the proposed treaty, it pro noses to Kive wider scope to ine con servatlon principles contained In the lnw. Cnniidlnn opinion appenrs to ra vor Its n.

Though the treaty must be made with Westminster, It noi, Mention would be largely In th to the north. Its completion would bo a forward step which people both sides the boundary woulJ doubt less Indorse. JAPAN VAI lN OLD MEN. IFrom the Philadelphia Time. Old men still have the chance to shin publicly In Japan.

Count Hhlgenobu okiinin. who recently uccepted the pre-inlersblp, Is Trt ars old. Ills Important public- services tieuail In 1HT3. when he wns put In eh, on of the trensury lie boenuie minister of for. vliui nlTiiIrs In 18s, and revised th treaties which were before the restotntlon.

Iloraus-' of his progressive nnd liberal stand In International relations, an attempt was ninde upon his lire, nnd ns a result of this lost a leg. Count llkumu was premier In 1 and at the sani" li'-mg a renowned horticulturist, redd iho ministry of agriculture i nuiiti ns well of fnrcn nf.ilis. lie became the opposition lender 'h'u his cabinet lost powsr. day a by in a "A REGULAR CONVENTION." We can Imagine cold chills running down the back of Harvey D. Hinman when he read the manifesto from William Barnes declaring that the Saratoga gathering of August IS, is "a real convention, and not an informal conference," and that it has the power indicate candidates If it chooses, not withstanding the advance understanding that it would not do so, and notwithstanding Mr.

Barnes' adherence to the view that such action would be unwise. Hlnman's hope lies in silence, In being forgotten by the machine fellows clear up to primary day. A snowball in well, in an iron furnace has as much chance of surviving as he has of being indorsed, or favored, or even condoned, at Saratoga, if discussion on candidates is once begun. The regulars are in a fighting mood. They are, some of them, convinced that nobody but Glynn Is to be the Democratic candidate, and that either Whitman or Hedges can beat Glynn without any alliance with the Bull Moose people.

They strongly prefer a Governor without entangling alliances. Probably William M. Calder is not so nervous over the Barnes hint as Hinman. Yet as a candidate for United States Senator he might find It a grave disadvantage to be compelled to take sides for or against a combination with the Progressives. Perhaps he knows how Roosevelt feels toward him.

The world does not know. The world may be slow in finding out, unless Saratoga discussion lets the cat out of the bag. For Hedges and for Whitman discussion has no terrors. Their followers may be simply irrepressible when that unofficial convention meets. THE MAGAZINE BUSINESS.

The courts will, of course, decide the litigation concerning the proposed sale of the Century Magazine In such a way as to protect the rights of the parties in interest. With those private rights the public has nothing to do. It has, however, a great interest in the magazine in question, and thousands of readers will be surprised at the published statement that the sale was negotiated because the magazine was losing money. That statement of the would-be purchaser may seem not wholly to comport with his paying $5,000 down to bind an agreement of sale to him for $200,000, or with his offer of for a majority control of the stock, since the Century company changed its mind about, selling, but those figures are not exorbitant for the good will of a great, and famous publication, especially If the purchaser thinks he knows a good deal more about running it than do the people from whom ho Is trying to buy. That matter can be left to the parties con cerned and to the courts.

The thing which concerns the public is the de cline in prosperity of one of the most famous magazines In the country. The reason Is to be found in the rise of the 15-cent magazines. The situation shows that the old adage about the nimble sixpence and tho slow shilling applies as surely to the sale of magazines as to shoes or thread. Nowadays fortunes are sought by appeals to the multitude rather than to the wealthy few. The most significant illustration Is In theatri cals, where the moving pictures are coining fortunes, while high-priced theaters are trying to invent schemes to rctill their galleries, which the movies have so nenrly emptied.

But even in the automobile business, where the groat majority are Inevitably excluded from the market, the prosperity of one of the cheaper cars has been proclaimed in a way that Is beyond question. The same rule, with now and then an exception, holds In literature. The man who aspires to create a masterpiece must be content with glory and a very modest share of pelf at the best. Henry James and Howells are not as rich as Robert Chumbcrs or George Burr Mo-Cutcheon. A magazine at 35 cents may be better than one at 15, but it can hardly hope that enough people will esteem its excellence 20 cents worth to make It a better business proposition thnn Its cheaper rival.

This Is the day of tho big market and of popular prices, and the man who tries lo stand up against the tendency must be content with other rewards than those which he can draw from bis bank account Mayor Mltehel will not spend his vacation on the Riviera. lie will hunt tinder the British flag in New Brunswick, without compromising his neutrality In the slightest degree. The stupidest tnlk heard here In re hitlon to high prices Is the advocacy of an "export duty." The Constitution may not amount to much "bechune friends," us the late Tim Campbell hinted, but to Its explic it prohibitions some slight at tciilion must be paid. Let us nil admire the Imperttirbahlll ly of the Panama Canal maiinge-ineiit. While the Seven Seas are kept trembling by wnr, the Canal shows un rippled security, nnd goes toward com pleflon with an even motion.

Colonel Goel lials Is one man In million for his place. Kitchener' threat to suspend (ho elr dilation of London newspapers that i rlnt dou official war news la do Joke Peoples TmstCompamjf your valuables during vacation season by de-lJ positing them in the massive and burglar proof vaults Peoples Trust Company. other facts will follow suit. Nothing who control most of our school them from coming thick nnd mm' 'l Hie no- Ii ii1 fast. They will "burst their cerements." CATTLE RAISING IN THE SOUTH.

Good news comes from the famous Eastern Shore of Maryland. It may not bring down the present high prices of beef, but II Is likely to Increase the "iiiiiilv it few years hence nnd thus Ll CKdDW help to avert the "meat famine with Hooker Washington were trying to re-which we have been threatened as II dure negroes to menial positions, and box may be rented as low a year. allowed on deposlTs! TaC Off. Finest Rye Kit SOUR MASH PURE RYE RUkirtciiAl SKiV 1 Kef. U.

America's ilU HAND MADE STRAIGHT 11 fcfl'DCBOVrJ result of the cutting up of the great Western ranges. The Eastern Khore Is known for Its terrapin and oysters, but the staple on which IN fanners have chiefly relied Is heat for the llalllinore market. This year they realized only so cents, which hardly pays tin- cost of raising A good tunny of them In disgust ate going Into cattle nnd hogs. A like move men! I reported from other sections of the South. There lire successful cattle growers hi South Carolina and Mis slsslppl.

These men Insist that their climate makes grazing natural for nine months. 1O1II0 It lcasy lo raise winter clover nnd grasses on which the entile can feed out for the other three. The pnptilntlon Is small In the Southern riiati'S. and the rattle raisers declare that those Stales bare posture land- MM I'mfin RlaKlrM vbaIrethe largest bottlers of OLD-FASHIONED HANu-MADB Kn.fB MASH STRAIGHT PURE RYE WHISKEY IN THE WORLD H. B.

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