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M:- ■ 4 - THE BROOKLYN DALLY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. JUNE 15. 1902. c^- t i E ■ w i m i. m m- Hi I s i III i $ t e i Ji i I S i ' i s Ifi i; m %K Iff Ip iff Iffw iff I f f is fa *1 fc S p: i- f f |s if;'-'- I i ii If II 1 |li I 0 i Ipii I i p'A m v.lV. V-.i-ff. p i : | t|: P p a Iff- p i 1; fo Iff: Iffa I'sii Iff i i Iff'-: p f f P > p i; i l i Ii I '^w o W g iigailidriigk (Copyrlehtcd.) rrra f l * rnarU \E a g le\ reRiatereil.i SU S 'D A Y M(M;.\-I.NO. . i r X E ir.. •.Ma, tE n tered a t th e Brooklyn. N\. T .. I^ost omc-e cecond class m a tter.) bis spogrnphj-, because there can’t be a n y cellars in New Orleans. There nvo in Cbic.ago, but subtvays ----- ? There ought to be no politics in col- legp.s. esiwei.TUj- of the kind that, tvill steal a presidency. And, so f a r as known, tliore is none. T h e Sunday Morning Edition of the Eagle ' tiaa * * Large and Growing Circtdation Through- j out the United States. It is the Best Advcrtis- • fng Medium for Those who Desire to Reach all Classes of Newspaper Readers in New York and on Long Island. The Daily (Evening) Eagle is now in its Sixty-second year. Its circulation is. Larger T h a n T h a t of any Other Paper of its Class in tlio United States and it is Steadily Increasing —^Keeping Pace with the Growth of the Great City of which the Eagle is Admittedly the Journalistic Representative. branch Offices — Borough of Brooklyn: 1.24£ Bedford Avenue, Near Fulton Street; 435 Fifth Avenue, Near Ninth Street; 44 Broadway, 154 Greenpoint Avenue, 1,039 Gales Avenue, 2,511 AtLanti: Avenue, 801 Flatbush Avenue, and Bath Beach, Bath Avenue, Near Bay 19lh Street. Borough of Queens: Jamaica, 3 Herriman Avenue, Near Fulton Street. Borough of Manhat tan: 952 Broadway, 'World Building, 241 Columbus Avenue, Near 7Ist Street; 263 ■West I25fh Street, Nc.\r Eighth Avenue, and 756 Tremont Avenue, Near Park Avenue. Eagle Bureaus—Paris Bureau, 53 Rue Cam- ton; 'Washington Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street; Information Bureau, Room 29 Eagle Building, Brooklyn (Branch, 952 Broadway, Manhattan). Americans 'cisUing Paris are cordially in- tUed to make their headquarters at Vie lHagle Paris Bureau, No, 53 Rue Cambon. - Member o f the Associated Press a nd Amtri~ can Neuspaper Ptihlishers' Association, Eagle sent by mail, postage included, 1 month, $1.00; 2 months. §1.75; 0 months, $4.50; I year, $S.00. Sunday Eagle {tcliich includes general nem, foreign cable letters, tpecial articles elaborately illustrated, several page,i< o f spotting neus and speciallies, ueekly chess and ichist columns, etc.), \ year, $1.50. Monday Eagle (sermons), $1.50. Tuesday Eagle (theaters), .$1.50. IVednesday Eagle (society), $1.50. Seiiurday Eagle (literary neics, secret societies and churches), $1.50. Cojomuni'cations, unless accompanied with stamped envelopes, will not he returned. In 5Iexico the noop.s are shooting the Yaqnis w irhoiu quarter. No w o rd from the FUipinopbilos of Boston? Mr, Cannon of San Francisco died last week and woi.ghed t)40 pounds. If one cannot be a great gun he c.an be a great Cannon. Think of that, now; The Filipino w a ter cure tu r n s out to bo a cure for fever, nerves, dyspepsia, Brj.ghfs disease and chilblains. Pelee is licld by some farm e rs to be re- eponsible for the drought up hero. 'Well, will somebody go down to M artinique and cork it? You have to w ear black silk knee breeches when you go to tlie coronation. But, then, you don't hare to go to the coronation. Tod Sloan, who used to bo paid for .speeding a horse, has been lined for speeding an autom o b ile. lIor.se owners are jealous. It is a question wiictUer more dust and vapor come front tlie O n atem a ian vol canoes or from cougrossm en wlio vapor about tbem. .'Vnd now HaffCn, who is a “.loke.” w a n ts to know w h ether Croker will take a dare. \H e shall not return.\ In the niuuo o t the prophet. Bosh: ' ;''’v — ^ ---------------- W e stern gaiubier has become sheriff, and up in M aine the .same office Is held l>y a parson. The people elect whom they deem to b e the rao.st adequate, soinv- times; but in :ttie,'W est they are free from the faith that a sheriff can enforce a prohibition law. No, there will be no abandonm e n t of the ! F rench islands. Yon M'ouldn't leave New j York because the subw a y blew up every | Tuesday. You would move a few blocks j over to the E a st Bide. I If President Mitcliell is responsible for the coal strike the s tate should m a k e him responsible for tlie conduct of the coal strikers. H u m anity eaniiot stand for am bushes, assaults and m u rder. For more tlian tw e n ty years the public of this city lias been seolding because It has to stand in street cars. The only w a y in which it will ever avoid this ne cessity is to remove to the eountry. In our navy yard ilio largest ;uid fine.st m e teorite in rlie world, found Iiy P e a ry in Greenland, is lying noglceti'd on a dock. W hy is it not nndcr cover in the m usoinn of the l-irooklyn lustiuito? And still tile siiot whiz in tlie woods! and tlie song birds fall bleeding to the \ ground. Isn’t it alioiir tlie poorest, sm a ll est. most cowardly, most eonicniptilile business tliar people ealling theni.seives men engage in? Europe is lam enting heenuse 'America buys lier best pictures. Blame the a r t ists for selling them, not ns for bu.ying tbem . W hy be a European a r ti s t unless you can make some ricli Yankee think you a good one? Chicago is je.alous again and is claiiior-| ing for a suliway. Is Cbieago deep enough for a suliway? It would make Chicago discoutentod to ride through a ' hole filled to the roof with w ater. Tlie ' m a n who w rote about pirates carousing! In a cellar In New Orleans didn't know 1 Is This a Free Country? A free country is- one in which a m an iiia.v go about Ids legitimate, business w itliout let or hindrance and w ithout fear. It is a eountry whei'ein the rights and privileges which belong to him by law can be en.loyed w ithout the fear of violence. Among those rights is the right to earn his wages at any honest oceupa- lion in which he chooses to engage and at which he can get employiiioiit. If he he estopped from such opportunity le gally he becomes a slave of the state. If he be estopped from it by the violence or th r e a ts of his fellows lie becomes the slave of his fellow workmen. T h e re are tens of thousands of such slaves in this country a t this moment. By a curious irony their m asters are the very men w-ho are loud in their clam or for the rights o f manhood. In Chicago, in Provi dence, in Indianapolis, and In the an th r a c ite coal regions of Pennsylvania th e re arc tens of thousands of men who w a n t to work, and earn wages w h ich em ployers are anxious to pay to them , but they are afraid to go to work for fear of violence to themselves and insult and contum e lj' to their wives and little ones. The gravity, the deep peril of such a condition of things is but faintly real ized. Again and again it has been pointed out th a t auy m an or set of men have the right to quit work for any reason which seems to them good. They are under no obligation fo assign any reason w h atever. They m ay quit because the w a g e is too sm all, because they are tired, because they W a n t to go a-fishing. B u t they have no right to p u t the sm a llest obstacle in the w a y of men who wmnt to take their places. This has been repeated over and ovef again. B u t it has not been said in such a w a y th a t the w o rking men of the country have come to see it and to act upon it. L e a st of all have they been brought to see that by the violation of this elem ental-right they them selves m u st in the long'run be the losers. It is -worse th a n idle, it is false to affirm th a t there is no danger of violence at the hands of striking w o rkingm en’and their friends. T h e re is such danger. There is alw a y s such danger; They know it, the employ ers kno^Y it, the sheriffs of the counties k.no-w it, the would-be w o rkm en know it: It is the one ever-present, ugly peril. It is a peril which the public has toler ated fa r too long. People Lave borne -with it because the sym p a thy of a large p a r t of the com m u n ity is naturally w ith the strikers. It i.s a lw a y s taken for granted th a t a body of men will not throw up th e ir jobs w ith out some good reason. M oreover, the feeling is alino.st universal th a t in Uie distribution of the profits of industrial operations the owners get more than their / b a r e and th a t workm en g e t less than their rightful due. 'VVe believe this to be true. 'VTe believe th a t the worU- mou have the right to use every iegiti- m-nte means to force from their employ ers higher wages and shorter hours. The public would be glad to see them suc ceed, a n d is willing to bear inconvenience while they - stand out for their claims. B n t the public believes in the rights of the other m an also. This other m an is kept out of his right by f e a r of violence. The fear is well founded. There are now some four or five thousand coal and iron police under pay in the coal region of Pennsj’.lvh'nia., They are m a intained at a great expense. Does any saPe uian suppose for a m oment th a t the com panies would as.snme this expense need lessly? To allege that thej’ do it “to provoke trouble'’ is fool talk, only fit for children. They are not composed of the kind of men who do silly things. They do it be cause the e.xperleuce of years has taught them tliat it is necessar.v. It is a burn ing scandal and disgrace to a free peo ple th a t anyw h e re in the U n ited States it .should be!necessary for a single w o rk m a n to refinire a Single guard to protect b ip i'a t bis work.' It is a violation of th e fundam e n tal principle upon which gov ernm e n t Itolds together. More th a n that, violence or the thre.it of it alw a y s fails, ahvay.s. It produces Incalculable injury for a time, to b'e'.snrc. B u t in the end it invariably defeats its own piirpo.se. And it doe.s nibre'than that. It deepens the inipression. -wbieh is slowly and re- liiotantly gaining ground th a t the work- ingiheu as a class are not good citizens, that they prefer their cwm class adv.an- tage to law or justice or the public weal, tVlien all is said the .so-callod capitali.st .and the so-c.ailed workingm en together constitute only 15 per cent, of the popu lation. The othbr So per cent, have to be reckoned with. Their sym p a thy is still w ith the w o rkingm an, but it is every year gro-wing more feeble. The thing which threaten.s and will be fore long destroj- this sym p a thy Is sucli scenes as have been witnessed so often in the pa.st, t'dilch have been repeated lately in Chicago and Indianapolis, and -which are of daily occurrence iu Ponu- .sylvania. I f the sym p a thy of this other 85 per cent, shall sh if t so ag to be habitual ly against the, workingm an, as it has been . h eretofore for him, labor w ill he let in for a period of grinding oppression and hardship such as it has not felt for m any a day. For sym p athy while it is a potent force is also a- p recarious one. It is moi'e tlie outcome of an habitual tem p e r of mind than of reasoned judg m ent. E v e ry indication shows, that It has been for .some years coming to lean tow a rd the employer rather than the em- plo.ved in their di.sagreements. Noth ing ims done .so much or can do so niucli to hasten this as the sight- o f men who are willing to work for a certain wage frightened aw a y from their places by terror of the men who have left their ow n jobs. L e t John Mitchell and men like him ponder»these tilings. What Democrats In Congress Should Do. \'o te for the highest rate of relief for Cuba possible. M ake th a t the basis for dem and for higher m e asure of relief for Americans hereafter. Sustain the President’s appeal for hum a n ity and righteousness—ignor ing his special plea tliat \only a little\ revision w ill not hurt protection; \only a little’’ w in compel more. Cubans first, A m ericans next. D o n 't fellowship with the dirty and diabolical end of Ropuhlicanism \to put Roosevelt in a hole.\ You will thereby only put your own party in a hole, giving to Roosevelt an indictment against you as well as against Repablicau monopo lists. Public Baths and Hospitals. Two instances wlilcli will stand largely to the credit of the adm inistration in the final reckoning occurred yesterda.v. The B o a rd of Esiim.ote .allowed $T25,000 to Brooklyn for two all-the-yoar-arotmd public b a ths and .$,32.5,000 to M a n h a ttan to be spent in the same way. Of course, there w a s a warm debate as to the rela tive justice of the appropriations. Presi dents Swanstrom and C a n tor each w anted more for his own borough and each would have been willing to see the other’s appropriation cut down to swell his oivn. T h a t is w h a t borough presi dents are elected for. B u t th a t phase of the m a tter w ill drop out of m e m o ry in a w eek or two. Tlien the baths will be built—one in Brownsville, one in South Brooklyn and several in M a n h a ttan. At the sam e time H e a lth Commission er Lederle got $500,000 for m o re con- t:igiou3 disease hospitals. H e would have liked five tim es as much, but $500,- 000 is better than nothing. The appli-. cation developed t’ne fact that, while M a n h a ttan and Brooklyn have each one hospital for the isolation of contagious diseases, neither Queens, Richm o n d nor the Bronx has any provision of the kind nor any disinfecting plants. In fact, sm allpox patients on S taten Island have been carried thirty-five- miles to North B rother Island in th e single city boat provided for that purpose, and have had to w a it tw ebty-four hours or more before the transfer could be made. There are no detention hospitals in either Staten Island, Queens or the Bronx and any disinfecting done in Queens Coun ty has to be from tlie hospital and plant on K ingston avenue, in Brooklyn. No body pretends to send cases of auy con tagious disea.se, except sm allpox, off from Staten Island, because the facilibes are so poor and there is continuous scarlet fever a n d diphtheria there and in Queens Count.v because no eflicieut means has been provided to isolate or. cheek- the spread of these diseases. T h a t is tlie le.gitiniate business of governm ent. It is a duty which was sham efiiliy neglected under tlie last adm inistration; If we are ever to have m u nicipal goverum e u t choseu solely with regard to local inter ests it m u st be through developing in telligent interest iu ju s t such things as these. A fter, baths and. sufficient hqs-. pitals for contagious diseases have once been established there is little likelihood tliat any adm inistration will dare to al low them to he discontinued. It is the beginning th a t counts, and the begin nings tow ard better sanitation and but ter citizenship which this adm inistra tion is m aking along m any lines entltllal it to the coi-dinl support of every man wlio voted to bring it in. A Juror’s Suit for Damages. M annheim Bro-wn, the ju r o r whose il'i- ness delayed the trial of Roland B. M olineux for ten days, tvill sue the city for .$50,000 dam ages because, as lie claims, bis Iiealth w as wrecked tlirough lack of cute oii tlie p a r t of the court au thorities, who looked afte r him during the hearing of the fam o u s m u rder case, ilr . Brow n -was not ivell when he was called to serve on the M olineux jury. He subsequently fell ill a n d . w a s con fined to his lied. On his retu r n to court Recorder Goff promised him that the strain of the trial should be lightened ns m u ch ns possible, so fa r as he was concerned. This pledge Is now deolartd to have been'unfulfilled and in conse quence Mr. Bro-wn-says t h a t he became an invalid, totally incapacitated for tlie transaction of business. So' fa'f as the grounds upon wlUch be -will sue the city are known through the 'text of hi.s •application served upon Controller Grout aud by t’aat official rejected upon the advice of tlie Corporation Counsel, it appears th a t ;Mr. Browii holds th a t bis pre.seut condition is due to The, c areless ness of the court officers -who made him w alk in a driving rain from the City Hall B a rk to the Astor House, not a long walk, it is true, hut still a daiigerous and prob ably ueediess exposure of a man who bad then ju s t arisen from a sick bed. In a statem e n t published -yesterday. Con- tiollcr Grout adm its th a t the am o u nt asked by Brown is not excessive in view .of the fairly well established fact that the claim a n t is coinpieteh- di.sablecl, \Im t,\ adds the Controlier, \hi.« ca.se •seems to belong to the catalogue of t.ho.se ■whicli have no redress.’’ Does it? The point is an unusual and interesting one and. althougli Mr. Rives deiiio.s that there is any chance of tlie plaintiff oli- Talnir.g compensation for the injury to his health, the trial of the case will de- terujlne tie Em its to which the icdivld- md m ay be forced to sacrifice himself I'u the in terest of the state. If Mr. Brown can prove all th a t he now nl- ieges the sym p a thy of the public will be largely w ith him even if it lie de term ined th a t he has no riglit to expect a fiuancjal -return for the sacrifice, un invited by him self, of th a t for which no am o u n t of m o n e y can serve as equiva lent. The Surrender of Lady Burne-Jones. • L a d y E d ivard Burne-Jones, widow of the fam o u s painter, is an aunt of Rad- 3 ’ard K ipling. She is al.so an' anti-im perialist. and a pr'o-Boer. Tiie fact of her relationship to- the poet l.cuicate o f im p erialism , au th o r of \The King,” \The A b sent M inded Beggar,” \The Islanders” and '.a,'fcw'- o th e r ver.slfiod Indorsements of. -war, and e.vpansion, aud tlie mailed list, m a k es h e r f a r more conspicuotm tlian she can ever-hope to become thvou.gh the exploitation of her political views or through reference to her life partnership with .a- m a n w h o greatly adorned Ms chosen profession. Lady Buriic-.Iones and Mr. K ipling are residents of the picturesque Sussex village of Rotting- denn, b u t w h ile they are neighbors and relatives, th e y have found it impossible to harm o n ize opinions on the one great question w h ich has concerned England for th e last tw o years and eight mouths. A u n t and nephew cam p aigned against one another w ith tongue and pen, but when the cau.se e.spon.sed bj' the latter ultim a tely achieved the victory the for mer refmsed to recognize tlie term s of peace and m a intained hostilities to the end—and beyond. T h e re w-as a public celebration a t Rof- tingdean as soon as the result of the Pre toria negotiations w a s announced, and during its progress Lady Bui’ne-.Ioncs displajred a flag in licr window w ith the inscription: \You have killed, j-ou have couquereci.” Very true, as to both asser tions, b u t th e Rottlngdenn folks regarded the flag very much as some of our im ported citizens regard the occasional dis play here o f a Briti.sh'ensign. So a mob slarted .after Lady Burne-Jones. It was then th a t R u d y a rd burled the hatchet and gallantly cam e to the rescue. He hustled up the street to his aunt’s home and m o u n ted the front stoop ju s t as the fictional hero who quells the strikers al w a y s decs, and from there he told the crowd th a t their conduct was hardly the thing, dontcherknow . Lady Burne-Jones being a xvoinan, w a s entitled to a wide latitude of opinion, b u t all the sam e he prom ised th a t if the moh dispersed the flag would come down. And the mob did disperse and the flag did come down, all of w h ich shows tiiat Mr. K ipling is a g r e a t diplom at as well as a great w'riter. Tile s u rrender of Lady Burne-Jones is not the least notable feature of the late un pleasantness. A Presidential Cemetery? No. A bill has appeared for gathering the bones of all our Presidents, the first ex cepted, and placing them in a common burial ground in tbe A rlington Ceme tery, opposite the City of W ashington. T h is plan we disapprove. I t m akes of the dead exectitive a common property, though he had in the interim between retirem e n t and death returned to plain citizeiisliip, practising the employments he had chosen before be w a s called to tbe AVlilte House, and sinking bis per sonality iu th a t of the million other well w ishers of the republic. .-V P resident is not identified w ith the capital, either as ,a govoruiuent or a social center, for m any .rears. Almost never does he show a p r e f rjcnce for it as a home. He longs to throw off the cares and burdens that his place impose upon him. and seek tile peace of his own fields. W hy. then, siiould he be taken from his fam ily and people a u d buried am o n g strangers? lyiio thinks of the Adam ses as citizens of tC a shington? The.v w e re Yankees. M'ho thinks of Jefferson as a resident of the D istrict of Columbia? H e xvas a Vir ginian. W h a t of Jackson, of Lincoln, of M cKinley? Do we associate them rvith the place and people am o n g whom they had 'an enforced residence? And are we to dism a n tle the g r e a t tom b w e have built for G rant, and place his ashes in a street of dead P residents? No, lot us still regard the President of th is nation as a citizen who did not in the acceptance of an office resign tho.se ties of hom e aud kindred that make this nation w h a t it is. H is place is an Incl- dout. H is term Is brief, in comparison witli Ms life. In the future it m ay hap pen th a t one not Worthy will be chosen, tliougii it has alw a j's happened in the past th a t the m an has been risen to the m e asure of his opportunities, and if such an one appears, it will hardly he fit ting th a t he should he placed wdth the illustrious. To an A m erican the home is first. The accidents of change are not to he com m em o rated. L e t our dead lead ers sleep with Uielr fathei-s, and not turn tlieir resting places to a show. Valedictory. This is the last C o n servative.—The paper has furnished occupation for four years to a great m an, who had th e w e lfare of his countr.vmen very m u ch a t h e a r t. It was bis la s t w o rk. W h a t good he has done w ith it, and -what he would have accomplished in another ten years, i t is for oth e r s to estim ate. —To those friends who have encouraged and supported him in th is undertaking, his as sista n ts who have w o rked n e a r him retu r n thanks for th e ir friendship. Those words arc printed on the first page and iu the first column of the -week ly established in N e b raska City by the late .luliu.s Sreiling Moi’ton and by him edited aImo.st up to the m o m e n t of his death. The publicarion of th a t journal ceased, therefore, with tbe issue of :May 20. Those into whose hands its m anagem ent pas'sed with the death of Mr. Morton have deckled tliat its lease of life should be made as nearly as possible coterm in ous witli Ms own. Tbe m an anti tbe paper lind alike run their race and fln- islied tlieii- ivoriv. To, the w o rth of the form e r tribute has already been paid iu these columns aud iu ever.v other new s paper of mao or knowledge in the United States. Other tributes directed to the fam ily of the decen.sed are' now piib- lislieil for Ihe first time, we believe, in this valedictory and mem orial uumher of the Conservative. Among the senders of these me.ssages are men of the highest political, professional and social status, wlio.se personal association w/tli Mr. Mor- lion had borne fru it in a deep and en during sense of esteem. '5Vbat Mr. M o rton was, and w h a t be did, and w h a t he thought w e re naturally reflected in the pages of the Conserva tive, v.-hich becam e, in his behalf, capable aud con-sisfont, b u t w ithal a modest and m o d erate advocate of those principles which he believed to be vital to tlie suc- ce.ss of true Democracy. Mr. M orton’s political career -was checkered by sun shine a n d shadow', by more of defeat than of trium p h , b u t throughout it all he pre served unblem ished tlie reputation of one ■who stood for pure politics, for the sane and orderly adm inistration of national affair.s, and fo r the theory th a t party platform s should be m ade to fit the peo ple, not th a t th e people should- be made to fit party platform s. 'We presum e th a t his death m a d e certain the death of, the Conserx'atlve. T h e presum p tion is sus tained by all- the circum stances of the situation. D eprived of him the paper 'was deprived of a vitalizing force which none of his associates or assistants w a s able to supply, even though some of them wore men of generally recognized ability. Tbe extinction of the Conservative is in- itself a w itness to Mr. M o rton’s , influ ence. Hats at the Coronation. A m e m b er of P a rliam e n t nam ed Cremer, w b b represents - S horeditch, Is trying hard to m ake him self unpopular w ith the w o m en of England. This med dlesome individual invoked the assist ance of the B ritish • g o v ernm e n t—just think of his nerve!~In an effort to regu late the size of the hats to be worn by women occupying stands along the route of the Coron.atioh procession.' In seek ing to fu r th e r this m a d schem e he ap pealed to A k e rs Douglas, w h o is privi leged to have “B ight H o n o rable” pre- fljced to his nam e because he i s , F ir s t Com m issioner of YVorks, a governm e n t position for rvhich we have no equiva lent in this .country. As Fi'r.st Commis sioner of W o rks Mr. D o u g las has the right to supervise the erection and ar rangem e n t of all the stands along tbe route o v e r : w h ich t’ne royal procession ■will pass on the day of th e ,. crowning. Mr. Crem er asked Mr. D o u g las to set some lim itations upon the dim ensions of the feminine-: h e a d g e a r allow ed on these stands so t h a t the general public m ight have a chSnee to see som ething beside straw an d ' flowers and'-feathers. Mr. Douglas replied t h a t he had no power in the pfernises. H e could dictate the size and approve or disapprove the construc tion of the stands, b u t he drew the line a t tbe - p roposition to tell women w h a t sort of hats they-should w e a r , w'hich only shorvs t h a t Mr. D o u g las Is discreet and values his job. I t is a perilous thing to fool w ith fashion, especially in a coro nation year. Cremer* w a s foolish in seeking to sp u r Douglas on and D o u g las w as wise in calling Crem er off. Aud the m inistry, w h o se agent D o u g las iS; is liappj' in th e knowledge th a t a grave crisis w a s judiciously averted. Reform In Chicago. They have not taken the bull by the horns in Chicago—they have seized tbe bird by the wings. I t is against the law in Illinois to w e a r dead song birds or to sell th e ir bodies. B u t several greedy m e rchants do uot cafe w h a t the law is so long as they can m a k e a dollar. H ence they have encouraged wholesale m u rder, and have been selling stuffed birds by thous.ands. Tbe A u d ubon Society has carried out its threat. It has seized the dead bodies aud has destroj-ed them .. The dealers throw up their hands aud shriek in chorus th a t they will be good. I t is better th a t men be good because they w a n t to than because they have to,’ yet it is b e tter th a t they be good. And w h a t has happened in Chicago m ight ju s t as w ell happen here. IVe are protected by the sam e laws. The viola tion of those law s creates the sam e dam age to agricultural interests and the sam e outrage to hum a n e sentim e n t th a t is created in Illinois. Is it t h a t w e are so accustom ed to m a k ing law s for m e re effect, and not for operatidu, th a t It never occurs to us th a t law s can be en forced, or is it that, a s ,a people, w e are le.ss civilized and refined than those of Chitago? AVhichever w a j' w e read it t h e circum stance is not flattering to us. W e w a n t reform e rs who reform . Less talk and more action w ill hiring about a wholesome .state of things. Our Noble Hudson. The place w h ere m ad A n thony W ayne led his troops to victory, w h ere he asked to be taken to tbe f ront th a t he m ight die a t the head of his column, though luckily he didn’t die, has become a state reserva tion and henceforth the public is free to ram b le over i t as it will. Stony Point is one of th e m any picturesque hills of the Hudsbn th a t should by right constitute a series of parks. W e have tlie beginning of them in the Palis.ades. one of the most beautiful sites for a park in the whole world, and we bear ta lk of others on tbe rugged heights back of H a v e rstfaw . The governm e n t has bought Iona Island for a naval station, it owns W est Point, the Peekskill cam p site is secured against desolation, and the state has set aside a p a r t of the C a tskills to save them as w a ter sources and gam e preserves from the tree butchers and pot hunters, Heuce we have already the larger links in the chain. The m o st beautiful stream in America, the m o st hi.storic, the stream th a t has figured in poetry and legend, which has created such a com p any of devotees th a t it gave its nam e to the first school of native art, should be kept against the spoiler. A t present the blasters are at w o rk m a rring the loveliness and grand eur of its shores, h u t w e may look w ith confidence for the tim e when both banks will be bordered by fine, smooth carriage roads, and when th e 'r iv e r , from th e vast city at its tenniuus, to Albany, a t least, on its upper roach, can be viewed ns easily and agreeably as travelers in Ger m any view the Riiiiic. If there is one possession th a t ought to fill the sous of this State of New York with pride, it is our noble Hudson. From its source to the sea it should be preserved against the devastations of com mercialism and the sordiciuess and ugliness of ignorance and evil taste. Gypsies have adopted the fashions and are now touring the country in autom o biles. T h is enables them to escape the police w ith more than usual certainty. B u t w ill the fortune telling trade, and th a t of horse swapping, w h ich are essen tially the occupations of the gypsy, sur vive this change? Garibaldi led a thousand m en in the w a r for I talian independence. There are of this num b e r now surviving 1,200, all draw ing pensions. Same here. The dem and th a t the E d itors of the Evenjng P o s t sliall take the oath of alle giance is grow ing almost unanim o u s. Why a n y one should think t h a t Senator H o a r is a b e tter man than Senator Car mack is strange. They both s a y the sam e things and both vote the sam e things against their country. W hile the convention of dancing m a s ters in the borough across th e river has not set the world on fire th a t sam e world owes thanks to the m a sters for not en couraging a n y m o re ragtim e. The 'W allaee-Lovatt autom o b ile col lision, in regard to which th e first court hearing w a s held at N y ack recently, has developed a new phrase significant of the public attitude. This phrase is “the vicious rich,\ A policeman found three policem en in a saloon w a iting the arrival of a drunken policeman who had threatened the, sa loonkeeper. Is i t a n y w o n d e r th a t crim es go undetected? But it Is a w o n d er th a t more policemen are not dism issed. If it is so th a t a citizen of Brooklyn, Mr. H ernandez, namely. Is ironed to the stone floor of a Y’'enezuelan prison, we shall give renew e d assurances to the al leged republic to the south of us of a distinguished lack of c o n sideration. The Chicago German w h o com plains because he w a s asked to rem o v e his h a t in presence of the picture of F ranz Josef in the A u s trian consul's office Is rem ind ed that people usually rem o v e their hats, anyhow, -when e n tering p r iv a te offices. W hen a m a n fears to fight because he knows he w ill be w h ipped he shows, ac cording. to the Lockport Journal, “An Indisposition to subm it his case to a vote which presages his d e f e a t.” H o race Greeley used to say: “P lain word.s are best.’’- So soon .as w e Can g e t hard coal w'e w a n t even the locomotives to stop using the disagreeable kind in this city, w h ether the courts say th e y can use it or not. .And we w a n t the railroad people to be decent a b o u t it, w h e ther the court says they m u s t or not. The Schenectady Star, speaking of Tam m any, says: “Those a t the head, o f the wigwam best know how to m a h age its business.’’ Two troubles there. None Icnows w h o are “a t the head of the wig wam.” Those who “know how to man-' age its business” won’t tell about it, lest they be sent to jail. Professor H am ilton Harbert-^-who in thunder he is, we do n o t know—says th a t “Peekskill is built over the crater of an extinct volcano w h ich m a y revive a t any m o m ent.” Not a bit. All the l a tent resources of a volcanic soi't there have w o rked out in Chauncey M. Depew’s stories about Peeksk.ill. -. A m a n com m itted suicide “w ith one of Marie Corelli’s novels in bis hand.” She will never forgive him. H e n ry,,Jam e s w rote a novel once in w h ich \the heroine found her guardian asleep In his llbrary chair, holding an open copy of the New York N a tion in his hand!” The late B. L. Godkin never forgave H e n ry Jam e s for that. N e ither' Jefferson D a v is, firm to the end in his rebellious faith and obstinate to the last in his argum e n t for the Lost Cause, nor J u h n l E a rly, w e a ring his Con federate uniform to the day of his death, furnishes an em b o d im e n t of irreconcil ability more perfect th a n that supplied by P a u l K ruger, late president of the South A frican republic. Four Ilalians in B u tte have organized a kidnapping tru s t. W e a lthy fam ilies a re listed to lose their children. Here, is an industry to destroy, an d destroj- w ith out law if necessary. The stealing of children is one crim e th a t m akes lynch ing excusable. But, com e to think, quite likely some “.lournalist” invented the whole yarn, which E a s tern folk are too ready to believe. If the -very best colleges w ish to in.alntain the veneration w ith which their opportunities have been regarded by tlirec-qunrters of the people of the eountry. It Is tim e th a t they renewed th e em p h asis on-fundam e n tals. These have been crowded into the cellar so long ns to arouse a suspicion th a t they have fallen upon a season of sad neglect. T h a t sus picion m a y do, and no doubt does, a serious injustice to m a n y colleges. B u t it is likely to work dam age to ' the in come and d r a f t of colleges as a -ivliole unless the suspicion is prom p tly and ef fectively overcome. FOBEIG3T NOTES OF INTEREST, T h e re -were 20,000 M e thodist soldiers in th e E n g lish arm y in South A frica. Since 1S79 France has spent $120,000,000 on canals. T h is does not include, P a n a m a . The island of Sakhaiin, the g r e a t penal col ony of R u ssia, has splendid forests of fir and pine. • • * ■ ■ P o a c h e rs using sm a ll explosive bombs have killed a g r e a t num b er of salm o n in the R iver Dee, England. F o r a q u a r ter of a cen tu r y no new houses have been built in the Sussex (England) v il lage of Slindon. * • * The suicide death ra t e in European arm ies ta r exceeds the rate of t h e country to -which the arm y belongs. * » » The coronation r o u te au th o r ities have given C a n a d a a fine position a t W h itehall, n e a r W’estm ln s te r Abbey. » • » The au thorities in Cape Colony have m a d e an enactm e n t forbidding the practice of m e d l' cine to all foreign physicians in whose hom e countries a sim ilar privilege is 'n o t accorded to resid e n t p r a c titio n e r s in C a p s Colony. Thus does th e recip r o c ity idea grow. BUSINESS NOTICES. Desirable Summer Clothes are so mpd'erate in price; nowadays,nt one nee'd deny himself solid comfort on the hottest days. ■ Can yon imagine.;anything cooler than a Serge Suit ? ■ ' ' ‘ . •' .< Consider also that you can buy a good one at $10 and a better at ^12 to $20. Fancy Flannels and Wool Crash Suits. , Are excellent either for city or country wear. If you would enjoy life don't be without one of these— $7 to $16. ' Boys’ Clothing. Wash Suits, 75 c. up: Fancy Sailors and Russian Blouses, in light' Summer Fabrics, at extremely low figures. ' ' . STRAW Yes, hundreds of every style in vogue this Spring. , , All the new shapes at bottom.figures; Men’s, 75c. to $ 3 .50. , Boys’, 25c. to $1.50. p i A L i D W l J N . ff \ q - i ) e - - G l > P T H l E l ^ 3S0 and 382 Fulton St, Brooklyn. Horner’s Furniture. Lines specially adapted for Seaside and Gounfry CGlIeges. Enameled Suits, comprising Bedsteads, Bu reaus, 'W^ashstahds, Tables, Chiffonieres, 'Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Chairsi,8fc.- Complete Suits in Birdseye Maple, : Birch, O ik and Mahogany. Hundreds of .pat terns to select from. Brass Bedsteads in over KX) patterns. Enameled' Iron Bedsteads with brass trim mings. Full liae of Furniture in. Antique styles,'dull finish, specially designed for cophtry houses,' including Sittces, ,Sof^, Aria- Chairs and Rockers. . Select examples of Flemish; Old English, . Mission, Weathered and Green Oak FuN' niture. All at Very Attractive Prices. R. J. HORNER & CO., Furniture Makers and Importers, ' ■ 61, 63, 65 West 23d St, Jf. Y. ULEENAN’S ! 469 Fulton 8t. Qrid Lawrence. E S T . - 1 L O A M S T O A N 'r ARSO UM T oat Jewelrf, and Silverware. |Prlvate^n&5ilMlawienG0 St. ESTABLISHED 1870. ARTHURJ.HEANEY o l d - a k d . Reliable Pawnbroker, H.-^S BEEN* LOC.ATE d '^ T ■ 214 ; and 216 Atlantic Av, N E ,\R COURT ST. FO R T H E P.AST T H I R T V 'T E A R S . A d v a n ces zn.-de on personal p ro p e rly of every description. Str-nlshtforw a rd business only solic ited and fa i r dealing gu a ran teed . ' PO IN T S ABOUT PEO P L E . Em ile Zola is in Jerusalem coUt;ctiag m a te r i a l for a novel. Jliss E llen Stone, the m issionary, a n d .h e r adventures w ith Tiirklsh. b rig a n d s Ijavo fi-cen mgdo the subject of a m o lodram a. The Society of A m e rican A u thors, of v.-i’icti Thom as Dunn Engli.sh ■ w a s vice president, will erect a m o n u m e n t:ovor-his grave. . The Germ an E m p e ror ascrib e s his good h e a lth to abstention from tea and co2ce, bu t lie says n e r e r a word about beer. Mrs. H a n n a h B a r r e tt, whose father sciwed under General XVashington at V a lley F o rge, is still living iu Boston. She is 102.y e a r s old. P rofessor L e w is Swift, S2 years old, 'h a s J5 c o m e ts and 1.343 nbw nebulae to his credit, bu t Sir W illiam llc r s c h e l s t i l l holds t ’no record-. John .Alexander Dowle of Chicago v a h t s to m ake enough money to huy Jerusalem and take bis people there to aw a it the Lord'# coming. P r e s id e n t I.oubet. .during his visit to St. Feler.sburg, gave $20,000 ^ to r d istribution am o n g charitable ihstltutlcm s in S t.’ P e t e r s burg and Peterhof.: .. . j ■■ ■,— , •Senator Tillm a n is the -ivhisU o f'o;'fha Sen ate. tie w h istles w i t h .o r w ithout provcca- lion.- and his listen e r s cu r b -a-d e s ir e to use B tuning fork on hii-n. The late Amos J. Cum m ings w as the cham pion of the birds iu Congress and som e of tiis m o st brillian t speeches' w e re in behalf of his feathered friends. . Canon L a m b e rt o f H u ll, England, has suc cessfully m ade protest against the local school boards which furnished the children w ith copies of the n a tional anthem in w h ich one verse, containing the linos, \ C o n f o u n d th e ir politics, f r u s tr a te th e ir knavish trick s ,” had been excluded. * * <r F o r a num b e r of ycar.s C h a rles F. Lum m is, the C a lifornia au th o r and editor, has been quietly carrying on a m issio n a r y ' w o rk of his own. Every year he tak e s two Indian children for cdue.rtion, loolts a f t e r them w ith the closest attention an d 'r o p laces them -with two more when the tw e lve m o n ths have e.x- plred. The children rem a in a t his hom e all through the year. r * « David Crosby P o s ter, president .of the Poughkeepsl.-!, X. v.. Savings Bank, is be lieved to be the oldest active bank president in the country. He has j u s t passed his n ine ty-third birthday, but is a t his desk every m o rning unless the w e a ther is very bad, re- mainiOg until the bank closes a t 3 o'clock. He was first elected a d ir e c to r in 1?56 aafl became president July 1, 1877. ' . -I ' '4 '!/
