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"Shrewd Pennsylvania manufacturers
contribute fat to Mr. Quay's frying pan,"
ha-fti the Philadelphia Record, "much more
willingly since it has been shown to them
that Republican success means the wiping
out of the Knights of Labor organization
as a factor in industrial affairs. They like
to combine politics and business." This is
possibly true, but campaign dodges aside
the Knights of Labor appear to have de-
clined during Mr. Cleveland's administra-
tion from about TOO.OOOto 300,000. Of course
it can not be shown that Mr. Cleveland has
had much to do with this. Neither can it
jeally hi shows Utpt lejmViicftn? ywu wipe
out such an order. They would persecute
it. Employers of either party may Iks found
to have conflicts with such an order and to
wish it annihiliated. Does not tho Record
imagine that there are some democratic
party men employers, and others who
would contribute fat to Quay or his infernal
majesty, Quay's employer, to wipe out the
Knights of Labor if contributions would ac-
complish such an object!
,wo——p—a—
WHAT IS SUCCESS!
Some of our American dailies, emulating
their English contemporaries, have found
relief for themselves and their readers from
tlvq. hoarse monotony of current political
controversy by expatiating upon the pro-
found and delicate social problem suggested
by tho title of Mrs. MouaCaird's article in the
Westminster Review ontltled, Is Marriage
a Failure? The sensation produced by the
article was phenomenal, almost amazing.
The writer, after considering marriage in
its various aspects as an institution of law,
concludes that at least in its aspect of du-
plicate slavery under the yoke of legal com-
pulsion it certainly is a failure. It is this
conclusion that has proved such a sugge3-
tivo and provoking theme for comment by
papers and .correspondents. The diversity
of treatment has been as wide as the range.
Within a week after the appearance of the
Westminster Review article, the London
Telegraph devoted four columns to com-
munications regarding it, and tho
discussion continued at about the
same rate in a series of subsequent issues.
The New York Herald, not to be outdone
by its London contemporary, opened its
columns to the discussion with equal liber-
ality, and it appears that, a large majority
of the correspondents in both papers agree
that marriage, as at preseut conditioned, is
relatively and measurably a failure, while
many of them vehemently contend that in
most cases it is au absolute and dismal
failure. But the matter, like Othello's
jealous mind, became suddenly perplexed
in the extreme when a rattling correspon-
dent dashed in with tho question: "Is any-
thing a success!1" Then coming from the
general to the specific, he asked: "Is high
civilization a success? Is our code of
morals? Is popular government? Is sci-
ence? Is speculative philosophy? Are our
courts a success? Are our schools or
churches? Are our sports and pastimes,
our public and private amusements a.suc-
cess? Is not everything a failtire?" Re-
ferring to all which tho Chicago Times re-
marks:
Probably the person who propounded tlie?e
conundrums did so with a view of showing that
marriage is as much of a success as any of the
institutions about which we boast so much. If
so, lie scored a point in the argument in favor
of marriage. Tiiis. Mona Cairo's article set peo-
ple ta thinking about asubject most persons are
interested in during some portion of their lives.
They were surprised that any one should ask:
"Is marriage a failure?" They wore tho more
surprised when they learned that the person
asking the question was a young ami very
pretty woman, happily married, living
in luxury in the most beautiful portion of
she south of England and connected by birth or
marriage with some of the most distinguished
families in the land. The seriesof questions in-
cluded in the communication headed Is Any-
thing aSuccess? should also set people to think-
ing. Is anything really worth the price that wo
pay for It? Is Justice as obtained in a oourt of
law worth what it costs to get it? Do we get the
reward foi our labor iu any kind of intellectual
work? Substituting happiness for coin, are we
suitably remunerated for any of our exertions
beyond those required to sustain life and keep
ourselves warm? Is not the savage a success,
the highly civilized man a failure?
The bewildering course which the discus-
sion is thus seen to have taken is traceable
to a very simple cause. The perplexity is
verbal rather than intel lectual. It is in words
rather than in ideas or things. It could not
have occurred had the discussion begun
with a definition of terms accepted and un-
derstood by all parties dealing with such
questions as whether marriage is a failure
or whether anything is a success. To an-
Hwer either question it is necessary that
another question shall first be answered.
We must know what is success before
we can know what is failure. Aud the
question of Pilate, what Is truth? was
scarcely of deeper or more awful purport
than the question, what Is success? Of
course "nothing succeeds like success"—if
it only he success. But no condition or en-
terprise which wears the semblance of suc-
cess can be success if it is in transgression
of the laws of nature or the laws of moral
integrity. Men and nations beset with a
superstitious aud pestilent solicitude about
success run a breakneck race in pursuit of
phantoms and end with sprawling in the
mire and feeding on husks. The only suc-
cess Is a right end attained by right
means. All else that may pass for
success is immediate delusion and
final disaster. What can any so-
called succcss, however great and illustrious
—intellectual, professional, financial, social
or political—be worth to the winner at the
cost of shattered nerves, impaired digestion,
weakened character or corrupted conscience?
The rogue may think he succeeds with his
ingenious thieving tricks, but he cheats no-
body so badly as himself. The men who
contrive to pi It! up fabulous hoards with
incredible rapidity by procuring or remorse-
lessly cultivating special advantages of
wrongful legislation may think they suc-
ceed. But they are dupes and victims all
the same. They take out of themselves the
elements of happiness the more they add to
their needless stores. There is a necessary
limit to these stores, but none to the avarice
whose infinite appetite makes famine for
the lord of so much treasure. Then comes
another aud greater punishment in the
shape of a mighty fear. For the eternal
moralities havo decreed that fear shall in-
evitably follow wrong, and that there
shall be no escape from its scorpion scourge
by tho wrong doer as long as he remains un-
purged of the wrong. A like tragedy of de-
lusion and disaster attends every glittering
but hollow semblance of political success.
"The farmer," as Emerson has well said,
"imagines power and place aro fine things.
But the president has paid dear for iiis
white-house. It has commonly cost him .ill
his peace, and the best of his manly at-
tributes. To preserve for a short time so
conspicuous an appearance before the world,
he is content to eat dust before the real mas-
ters, who stand erect behind the throne."
TIIE PROPAGANDA OF WASTE.
Carl Schurz hit several weak spots iu the
republican armor when he wrote that last
letter of his, which is worth more as a cam-
paign document than half the speeches de-
livered by democrats. Among other points
he draws attention to a singular omission
in the republican platform, coupled with
a succeeding bold defiance to any remaining
instincts of economy. "It was tho custom
of the republican party to pledge itself in
its platforms that the government should
be administered with strict economy. The
platform of this year omits this pledge and
recommends the liberal spending of the
public money for a variety of subjects.
What this means is easily understood."
Every reader can draw the necessary infer-
ence as to the jobbery and corruption to
wiiicli a fiOftgtiWiUy iuuejtsiug surplus must
prove an incentive. But the republicans
have abandoned tho idea of economy,
and "in fact," says Mr. Schurz,
"we begin to hear tho Idea of an economical
administration of tho government rather
joeringly spoken of as a plcayunish, nar-
row-minded polioy. No true friend of the
country can witness such a tendency with-
out serious concern. A democratic govern-
ment which constantly raises a much larger
revenue than it needs for an economical ad-
ministration and then embarks in lavish ex-
penditures for tho sake of spending the sur-
plus—that government is in a very bad way.
Such a practice, sometime continued, will
produce a carnival of rascality in our pub-
lic affairs compared with which the Tweed
regime In New York will appear like white
innocence and virtue. Such a practice,
raised to tho dignity of a system, would be
the moral ruin of the republic." What
then is tho duty of the republican voter
who believes in the republic more than he
believes in tho so-called republican party?
Mr. Schurz indicates that he realizes what
must be tho true consistency of action with
declaration for the republican voters who
desire a pure ballot and an honest gov-
ernment of intelligence. He therefore says
plainly that he will vote for Mr, Cleveland
in preference to Mr. Harrison. This is a
kind of mugwumpery to which even David
B. Hill may bo willing to take off his hat.
Boulanger is accused of being in alliance
with the royalists. Without doubt he has
been supplied with a great deal of money
from some source to the public unknown.
President Carnot has made a trip to
several towns In France and lie declares,
and through him the Temps, that nowhere
did the people express any desire to have
the constitution revised, Tliey wish to
pursue their business in peace. Boulanger
undertakes to show them that the constitu-
tion must be revised. Those who want an
upsetting appear to be in a preliminary
agreement to this effect.
General Jok Wheeler has joined the
Catholic church. Ho was a pall-bearer at
General Sheridan's funeral, and the Catholic
burial service so impressed him that he be-
gan to attend that church. Recently he
declared his adoption of its faith.
IF there is any truth in the report of an
interview lietwet-ii Street-car President
Yerkes anu the west side Chicago strikers
their strike was a silly thing. He is repre-
sented as asking them what they were
striking for, and their answer was that they
were afraid if he succeeded in beating the
north side men he would cut their wages
down. Then and there Mr. Yerkes said:
"But I won't do it. I'll give you any kind
of security in reason not to try to reduce
wages on the west side for five years." Still
the strike was continued. The men are
trusting their direction to a committee com-
posed partly of others than employes on the
line.
A London correspondent quotes a high
official of the court at Vienna as saying:
"SVe dare not mention Prince Rudolf's
name in the kaiser's presence." Meaning
by the kaiser, Emperor William, There
exists a bitter dislike between the two im-
perial personages. This may have an un-
fortunate effect upon the future of the Aus-
trian empire. Prince Rudolf is the Austrian
crown prince.
A VTUMN.
October haze o'erhangs the willing Earth,
And Nature in her garb of gaudy tints
Hares her fair brow to catch the fan of Autumn.
O bounteous Autumnl Surelv thou art sins
Whom Eart h should meet with kisses. Kagerly
She craves the fruits that load thy mellowing
lap—
The fresh, crisp mornings, aud th' all-tempered
days
Now pregnant with thy vigor-giving breath;
'Twill brace her for the t ime—it comes apace—
When melancholy wiuds. through wood and
grove.
Fetch their deep sighs, and moan, and fret thy
leaves
To fall, and dance and whirl like giddy maskers
In the ball room maze.
'Tis called the sobbing time of year, and then.
Sear Kartli, stripped for her shroud, all life-
less lies.
And trees with widowed branchletsweb tho
skies.
(.Joseph Wliitton in October Table Talk.
THE PUBLIC REGISTER.
Marion Crawford has been spending the
summer at Vallombrosa, near Florence, and
has completed the sequel to Saracinesea.
Don Francisco d'Assissi, tho husband of
Queen Isabella, lately had his house broken
into near Paris. Liko his own fortune, thero
was not much good In it.
A few days ago, in a gun foundry in
Petersholf, tho czar lifted a mass of st e .1
weighing nearly TOO pounds, to the cheers of
the surrounding workmen.
Ilerr Wolffson, who, it has been an-
nounced, will defend Frofessor GefEeken in his
coming trial, is a prominent national liberal.
Ho represents Hamburg in the Keichstag.
M. Zola has intimated his ambition of
becoming a candidate for the Acadamie
Francaiso at the next vacancy. He will he
strenuously opposed by M. Alexandre Dumas
and other influential members.
The empress of Germany nurses her baby.
His father recently created him honorary
colonel of a regiment, but in his time he will
have to pass through the different grades of
the Gorman army just like any ordinary Ger-
man young man.
Emperor William has added a set of bril-
liants to tho decoration of the order of tho
Black F.agle, which he oonferred upon M. de
Giers, prime minister of Itussia, and has made
similar additions to the decorations which ho
bestowed upon Prince Waldemar of Denmark
and M. von Bihlt, the Swedish premier.
King George of Greece, who contemplates
abdication after tho marriage of bis son, tun
duke of Sparta, to Princess Sophia of Prussia,
will retire to a beautiful estate in Denmark.
His majesty iutends to drop the title of king, as
he objects to being termed "ex-king." He will
call himself by one of the minor titles of his
family.
The news that the mikado of Japan has
become addicted to alcohol, while the emperor
of China is devoting most of his time to opium
smoking, is not satisfactory. Kalakaua is still
playing poker with disastrous results to his na-
tional treasury, lteally these remote poten-
tates seem to need the services of an all-round
reformer.
Isidore, grand rabbi of France, whoso
death is announced ill Paris, was a man who
rather dwelt on high morality than the observ-
ance of rites. His sermons were, eloquent, and
showed him a man of thought, feeling and con-
viction. He was truly kind, never forgot a face
or name, and had a pleasant v. ay of showing
poor Jews that he remembered them and was
interested in their welfare.
Does Tliis Mean Killing?
When men, for speculative purposes,
raise the price of food, they commit a crime
against the whole human race. They can
not, expect to continue in'Fe business long
and live. [Atlanta Constitution.
Time Required.
Husband—It takes you half an hour or '
more to find your pocket, doesn't it?
Wife (sweetly)—Yes, about that, John,
dear; but it takes you longer than thai ot
times. [Epoch.
PHCENIX PARK MEETING
PROTESTING AGAINST TOM MORO-
NEY'S IMPRISONMENT.
Alinut GO,OOO 1'eople Assembled to Hear
Many View* of Many Speakers— His-
tory of the Case- Sir Thomas firat-
tuu Ksmonilu and the Law.
Irish papers of recent date contain an ac-
count of a meeting held in Phoenix park,
Dublin, consisting of about 00,000 people,
assembled to protest against the protracted
imprisonment of Tom Moroney, incarcer-
ated in Kilmainhaio Jail since January,
1880, on a charge of oonwmpt of court.
The plan of campaign was adopted by
tenants on the Horberstown estate, and Tom
Moroney, in the opinion of anti-plan-of-
oanipaiguers, was made one of the trustees
of tenant funds. On being called by Judge
Boyd of the bankruptcy court to tell where
the money was deposited Moroney refused
to become informer or in any way betray
the trust reposed or believed to have been
reposed in him by his brother tenants,
whereupon .1 Qdge Boyd tor this offense
committed him to prison.
speech op ebmonde.
The status and law of the case are well
explained by Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde
in his speech at the Phoenix park meeting,
a portion of which reads as follows:
"The placards which convened the meet-
ing announced that its purpose was to pro-
test against indefinite Imprisonment with-
out trial. It seemed to him that they were
rather late in the day with a protest of that
sort. They were a good deal behind their
English neighbors iu tho matter. A little
more than 000 years ago there was a gov-
ernment of despots in England—a mean and
lying government., as the government of
despots always is—ntitl this government
adopted against its enemies this plan
of imprisoning them indefinitely without
bringing the charge against tliem to trial.
Well, the Englishmen of that day deter-
mined this iniquity should cease, and they
gathered together and forced the despot
who sat upon tho throne to abjure all claim
of this sort over their liberties, and made
him sign the charterof public liberty which
provided that no man could be condemned
unless by the judgment of his peers. [Loud
cheers.] That we are told is the fundamen-
tal article of what is (Milled the English
constitution. As it stands in the constitu-
tion it is more than 000 years old. But in
Ireland—where the blessings of that glo-
rious constitution are supposed to diffuse
themselves on every side—they were met
that day to demand the elementary right.
And now that they were assemoled for that
purpose he hoped we should demand this
right with something of that spirit which
those Englishmen
EXHIBITED 000 YKAIIS AGO.
They could not of course, as they did, offer
a king his choice between concession and
the loss of his crown. But they could at
least make it dear to those with whom it
rests to make the law that this indecent
trifling with popular liberty will be toler-
ated no longer. [Cheers.] It is a monstrous
thing that in this nineteenth eentury the
liberty, and it may be the life of the citizen
of a civilized state should be at tho mercy
of a government official. For tho uncon-
trolled power of imprisoning for contempt
of court really comes to this. The judge on
tho bench is not only judge and jury, lie
is plaintiff as well. It is against
him, as a rule, tho offense designated
contempt is directed. It is for him to
say when the offense has been committed,
and it is forhim to assign the punishment.
There is no control of his decision, aud ap-
parently no escape from his sentence. We
have our choice either of submission to his
ruling or of imprisonment at hissweet will.
[Laughter.] There appears to bo no limit
to the duration of the punishment he can
inflict, no limit to the generosity he can ex-
ercise. He can immure the offender with-
out formality, and he can set him free with-
out any better explanation than his own
caprice. [Laughter.] With all this power
intrusted to £ne magistrate what,
he asked, becomes of the safeguard
of trial by jury? Is it not a prin-
ciple of the constitution which a
supposed to be the bulwark of our liberties
that we are none of us to be condemned
without trial by our peers? Why should
this principle be abandoned when there is a
question of an offense againt the majesty of
the law courts? and it is a principle of law
making that the punishment for a given of-
m
8 who violates "the li
" _ iy
wholesome rule be abandoned wheu a tres-
fense shall be distinctly set down, so that
everyone who violates the law n
the penalty beforehand. Wh;
pass against the official of the law is the
charge? I say it is a monstrous irregularity
(cheers),and I say further the time has come
when it must be ended (cheers) and the case
has arisen on which the fight against this
relic of
UAIiBAP.ous legislation
must be made. Let measures be fixed by
statute, and let the judge on the bench
have a law to guide him ns well as other
people. [Hear, hear.] Let him, too, be the
servant of tho law; let him administer law,
not inajce it. These seem reasonable de-
mands. They are so reasonable that it must
appear odd they were never hitherto made
in imperative, fashion by the people of Eng-
land as well as of this country; for the peo-
ple of England are in this matter as much
subject to the whim of judges as ourselves.
Among them the power of the judge to de-
cide upon aud to punish contempt of court
is no more limited than it is here. Why,
then, have the Knglish people not protested
against this grievance long ago? Why have
they not had a remedy applied, for their
sakes, not for ours? Ho would tell them.
In England tho treatment of this question
of contempt of court is indeed a defect in
the law. But in England judges are not
found to take advantage of that defect, aud
so to make its existence sensible to the
people. In England judges are not the
creatures of political cabals. [Hear, hear.]
They are not promoted to the bench for
their abject services to a political party,
for their violence and brutality in
doing tho legal part of the work
of mlsgovernment, and in prostitut-
ing the sacred name of law to the
ends aud the aims of selfish seekers for
power. In England when a judge reaches
the bench he brings with him Borne sense of
the dignity of his office. [Applause.] He
has not been a hack and a slave. [Cheers.]
He has not had to swallow his professions
and sacrifice liis convictions to win his way
to promotion. lie lias not been the asso-
ciate of informers, perjurers and criminals
in plotting against the lives and liberties of
his fellow subjects who happen to differ
from him politically. [Cheers.] He has
not had a hand in judicial murders,
and has remained unacquainted with the
tricks of the jury packer. And so he
comes to the bench a self-respecting and
respected official with the dignity of a noble
profession unimpaired in him, and the
natural honesty of the man dnd the gentle-
man still left to guide and to restrain him.
[Ivoud cheers). And if the law be defective
at any point, and its defects leave auy fel-
low citizen at his mercy, he will not be
tempted by any sense of wounded feeling
in himself or any pressure from his political
associates to overstep the bounds of right.
His awards
will beau the scrutiny
of the public eye. The public approval
will sanction his decisions, and so the want
of legislation on the points with which he
deals will not be felt.. But in Ireland this
is not the case. [Cheers.] Here we shall
find judges who will bring the defects of
the law into full prominence. Here we shall
find men whom no sense of respect for
themselves, or their profession, or for the
law will restrain from acting on the bench
the part of political partisans and unsparing
political persecutors. This is the land ot
the removable magistrate, a creature set
upon the judicial sent, to carry out the
whims and give effect to the malignity of
some short sighted, ignorant and venomons
personage \yho rules tlie country under the
title of cliief secretary. [Groans] to the lord
lord lieutenant. [Groans], And this crea-
ture has, forsooth, to maintain the dignity
of his court and shield it from contempt! 1
am afraid the feat is more than all the
king's hon-es and all the king's men could
accomplish. As long as tho human sout
loathes cruelty ami meanness, combined
with insolence and incapacity, this section
of the Irish courts cim not by any devisable
safeguard secure iitimu^ity from com-
tompt. [Cht-ere.J This, too, is the land of
the jury paoker—of the jugglers who plays
tricks with the jury panel, and having se-
cured a jury to his taste blandly iuforms
the public that it is all done by mere acci-
dent. Aj>d it is the court iu which this
disreputable trickster performs his sleight-
of-haud an part of the solqnillitieg that we
are to look upon without contempt. Itwill
take a good deal of imprisoning to force us
into that frame of mind. This, too, Is the
land of the partisan judge, of the promoted
government official, who has gained his
place and his salaiy by deftness in jury-
pucklng, his servility to tho temporary ten-
ants of the castle, by his readiness to out-
rage the convictions and trample
upon the aspirations of his own
people, and who displays upon
the bench the narrow, spiteful malig-
nity which always characterizes the pro-
moted slave. Unlimited power of impris-
oning for contempt of court ""under such a
system must inevitably result in the inde-
cent violation of the elementary notions of
civil freedom, lie could only hope that the
struggle between Judge Boyd's (groans) of-
fended judicial majesty and the sturdy re-
solve of the indomitable Tom Moroney
(cheers) may be the beg'
tiou which'will put tho
(cheers) may be the beginning of an agita-
tiou which'will put tho liberties of Irish-
men beyond the reach of Judge Boyd and of
every official of tho land who fattens upon
the misery and degredation of Ireland.
LLoud cheers.]
POLITICAL DRIFT.
"Out in Indiana," says tho Philadelphia
Times, "all but Colonel John C. New be-
lieve that Anna Dickinson's speeches have
been worth 5000 votes to the democrats. The
reason why Colonel Netv doesn't believe
this is because he thinks 10,000 a more accu-
rate estimate.1'
With characteristic stupidity the New
York Tribune, after making a charge of for-
gery of a congressman's frank ami pub-
lishing a fac simile of the alleged forgery,
has refused to place the original packet in
the hands of postoffice inspectors detailed
to investigate the cjusb. This refusal not
only blocks the wheels of justice, but robs
the Tribune of whatever political capita l it
might have gleaned from further develop-
ments. The franking privilege ought to go.
[Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Schurz's letter is a cruel blow to the
republican party. It is a candid statement
of the issues of the campaign from an ele-
vated poinj of observation He does not
indulge in extravagant praise of President
Cleveland^ Indeed, he criticises him with
undue severity, but he establishes the ftict
that tariff reform is the supreme issue of
this campaign and shows that Cleveland's
policy is the policy of tho people, and the
hope of the country. And as for Harrison—
well, Harrison means Blaine, and Blaine
without responsibility. [Charleston News
and Courier.
Dr, Storrs would never for a moment
think of telling people that they ought to
follow a particular man who had taken to
drink and was up to all sorts of evil per-
formances because twenty-five years ago lio
used to be a most estimable citizen. But
he seriously advises people to vote for the
association of men called the republican
party, wben it means the dominance of
such men as Blaine and "Pat" Ford, because
twenty-live years ago the association of men
then called the republican party had such a
leader as Abraham Lincoln. There certain-
ly is no rule of conduct laid dowu in the
teachings of moralists without claim to in-
spiration, which justifies such action, and
Professor Whitley declares himself unable
to reconcile it with the teachings of script-
ure. [New York Evening Post,
Tho governments of Germany and Eng-
land, having, as Washington Irving said of
the pope, equal rights over all things that
do not belong to them, have solemnly be-
stowed on incorporated associations of their
respective subjects a couple of very consid-
erable slices of east African territory, in-
cluding the dominions of tiie sultan of Zan-
zibar. Tho Germans have been hard at
work improving their concessions for some
st, having already had two or three
successful battles with the natives, and tho
English company have just dispatched an
expedition to take possession of their share.
Philanthropy is at the bottom of it all, of
course—philanthropy, with incidental dol-
lars. [New York Standard.
9 ..... —.
WITH TIIE WITS.
The latest production of the able Maine
liar is an apple that grows wrong side out.
[Lewiston Journal.
The Johnny cake craze is reallv coming,
and don't let the wheat speculators forget
it. [liostou Herald.
Mr. Quay, it is said, has been urged to go
to Indiana and "stir tilings up. But he
seems to think it is not best to Quay from
New Ytfrk. [Chicago Herald.
Two openings -for the ends of tho iron
"trusses Sir tho assembly chamber ceiling
have been cut into Hunt's picture, The Dis-
coverer. [Albany Argus.
It is Senator Blair who proposes that wo
shall buy Canada for her £100,000,000 of debt.
Tho New Hampshire senator is the most
generous man with other people's money
that we happen to know of. [Bostou Her-
ald.
No less thr.n seven Harvard graduates are
running for congress in Massachusetts this
year, with one or two districts yet to hear
from. The school looms up in our politics.
[Boston Herald.
It presents one of the characteristics of
speculation, in its utter superiority to con-
sistency, when we see railroad stocks going
up on account of the big crops, and wheat
booming on account of the small crops.
[Pittsburg Dispatch.
Why doesn't some democratic representa-
tive in congress introduce anil hustle
through tho house a bill providing for free
trade in fish? [Albany Express.
Perhaps it is because that provision is in
the existing tariff law, put thera under
General Grant's administration. [Albany
Argus.
John Wanamaker and two other Philadel-
phians are credited by a Ne\y York dispatch
with the presentation of $100,000 to the re-
publican campaign fund. This is a good
deal more money than Mr. Cleveland gave
to the democratic funa, but then Mr.Wana-
niaker is in a better pacing business than
Mr. Cleveland. [Washington Star.
It is a oomfortable thing to have the
boundaries of civilization (lied at last, as
they have, been by a friend of tho Listener's,
to his own satisfaction at least. This per-
son is un amiable gentleman who vibrates
between New York and Boston, and this is
his dictum: "Civilization is bounded on the
south by the battery, on the west by Ninth
avenue, on the north by Blinker hill and on
the east by the Old Colony railroad." [Bos-
ton Transcript.
Facts for Wool Growers.
In 1867 the highest tariff ever known was
placed on wool. In two years farmers were
killing sheep for their pelts and tallow.
Free trade England maintains on high-
priced lands 30,000,0;)0 sheep, against 44,000,-
(100 in this vast country with its cheap pas-
turage. In the free trade Australian colony
of New South Wales the number of sheep
increased 12,500.000 in twelve years, while in
t he adjacent protectionist colony of Victoria
they decreased l,0u0,000. The United States
is the only manufacturing country that
taxes Wool. In all the rest wool growing is
relatively greater and more profitable than
it is here. ]Now York World.
HIGHTONED TUXEDO.
Actors ami Aetres.es Objectionable to tliut
Wealthy Colony.
New York, October 15.—[Special]— Al-
most any incident or accident comuiuudintf
publicity is doomed valuable to an actress,
for tho sake of tho advertising which 1} in-
cidentally docs, but the return of Mrs.
James Brown I'otter from Kit rope litis been
quickly followed by something too dis-
agreeable to bo desired, even for booming
purposes. Ever since the lady went on tha
stage, contrary to tha earnest protests ot
the Potter family, it has been talk that sho
and her husband wero estranged. No .evi-
dence of this has been udduced, although ili
is a fact that he objected strenuously to her
course, and it in also true that they liavo
lived separately nearly all the time. Mu-
tual frieuds liavo exbldinad this by saying
that his business demanded his presence
constantly iu this olty, while lior tours
necessarily took her away. While she
was in Europe last summer sho
emulated the example of Mrs. Langtry by
courting tho favor of the prince of Wales,
sho openly hobnobbed with Sarah Bern-
hardt, and iu other ways she evinced much
independence of conduct, although keeping
clear of scandal. The leading actor in her
company last season was Kyrle Bellow, and
he will ho with lier again next winter. He
made the trip with her across the Atlantic
and back, as announced, to supervise her
dramatic studies, and to help in her prepar-
ations for several new roles. James Brown
Potter owns a modest cottage at Tuxedo,
that famously fashionable and exclusive
summer colony of NewYorkers. Pierre Lo-
rillard is tho owner of Tuxedo and the orig-
inator of the enterprise. He leases sites' for
summer residences there, but only to the
most highly approved familias. Every can-
didate for admission must be parsed' upon
by a swell board of trustees,and it is as, diffi-
cult to get into Tuxedo as a resident
as it is to gain a membership
in the most pretentious clubs.
Of course, the Potters are all right, for thero
are three Episcopalian bishops in tiie fam-
ily, and a great deal of wealth and culture.
But when James Brown Potter sought, to
acquire ground ill Tuxedo, last year, tho
question was ruised whether his wife, be-
cause she was an actress, was eligible.
There was much dicker and not a little ill
feeling before the question was decided ia
the affirmative. Potter built his house and
when his wifo arrived from Europe he took
her to it. There is a combined hotel and
casino at Tuxedo, and they are exclusive to
the uses of the residents. A stranger could
not buy accommodation at that inn with
any amount of money, unless lie was Inviteil
by the head of some Tuxedo household.
The present trouble arises from the fact
that for a week Kyrle Bellow has been al-
most constantly in tho company of Mrs.
Potter at the hotel and casino. He is a
guest of tne actress and her husband at
(heir residence, and they are sponsors for
him. Kyrle Bellew is a very handsome
chap, although he looks like a younger
edition of Henry Irving, whose manners bo
apes extravagantly. He was the last lead-
ing actor in the disbanded Wutlack com-
pany, and for that reason.has figured as a
stage masher in this city. He has a wifo
and children in England, and nothing is
sMd against his character. He is an edu-
cated man, the son of a literary worker, and
even at exquisite Tuxedo he is quits able
to figure with the best of the beaux. Nev-
ertheless, a formal complaint has been mado
to the trustees. It is signed by such influ-
ential persons as the Messrs. Griswold,
Burnham and Lorillard, and it sets forth
that an actor is objectionably a frequenter
of the casino. If that is to be tolerated,
they feel that they must withdraw from
Tuxedo. Tlir.t is the way the matter stands,
audit must rest, so until tho trustees act.
In the meantime, Bellew and Mrs.
Pgtter have resolutely lounged 011 tha
premises. They are to start 011 a profes-
sional tour this week.
Fiction of To-Day.
For sometime past the fashionablo tend-
ency has been largely in the direction of it
conscious, not to say willful, thinness of
narrative material. The old merits of full-
ness aud "body"—virtues apparently-*,he-
reditary in that lineage of robust minds
which can be traced backward without a.
break from George Eliot to Fielding—have
been growing rarer and rarer. In their
place the art of making a very little go a
very long way has been carefully cultivated
by 'undoubtedly dexterous hands. Fiction
has almost reached the point of sheer
bravado in sorao developments of the "so-
ciety" novel, notably a species growti in
American soil, or rather in New York con-
servatories and forcing-beds, and distin-
guished by an elaborate triviality which no
amount of clearness can render other than
vapid. Such a fashion can never, in the
nature of things, be long-lived. Thoso
miracles of inexhaustible nothingness, in
which the tiniest rivulet of incident just;
trickles across a continent of dialogue, caw
not long ba interesting, even as miracles, in
an age to which the miraculous does not
make a permanently successful appeal.
[Fortnightly Review.
Bmperor Frederick cu the Anti-Semitio
Movement.
The hostility of the Emperor Frederick to
the anti-Semitic movement in Germany ia
strikingly expressed in au utterance re-
corded in the reminiscences published by
Professor Delbruck, who long held the po-
sition of tutor in tho household of the do-
ceased monarch. "The anti-Semitic move-
ment," writes Delbruck, "had gained firm
ground 111 Berlin, and the crown prince
summoned to his presence one of his former
secretaries, Herr Max Duncker, in order to
leara his views with regard to the agitation.
'It is maduess,' was the historian's laconic
answer. Tho prince declared that to hiux
this expression was not sufficiently condem-
natory; he regarded tho matter as much
more serious. Not alone that the court
preacher compromised all Germany, and
especially Berlin, but his assaults upon .the
Jews were a sin, not only against humanity
but against Christianity, lie should like to
see that Jew who would now think of be-
coming a christian when every day outrages
are cominittetl against his race in tho name
of the christian religion."
Old Shady.
We can not feel angry at these pitiable
speeches because the speaker is far in years.
The loose and disconnected nature of his
talk is but the meaningless, though disa-
greeable creaking of the hinges of a mind
unhinged. The rust of age is there. The
offense is iu thoso whoshoveliim hi the
front and make him thus exhibit liimseLf.
"Vex not his ghost; O let hiin passl he hates
him .
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer."
ANARCHIST* ARRESTED
In Chicago for Being: Too Drunk and
Demonstrative.
Chicago, 111., October 15.—Fritz Sal-
lapsky, an anarchist and member of tl.a
Lehr Und Wehr Verein, which was so con-
spicuous at the time of the Hay-market
riot, came in the Larrabee street police
station late last night considerably under
the influence of liquor. "Here," he said, as
he emptied the contents of a large leathor
pouch upon the desk; "here you havo
taken my rifie from mo. Now you may
have everything else I have."
The sergeant was somewhat startled to
see in front of him a bayonet, two large
revolvers, a large supply of cartridges, and
a book of instructions and tactics of the
Lehr Und Wehr verein. Sallapsky then
became very violent in his denunciations of
the police and was locked up in a cell,where
he spent tho remainder of the night sing-
ing the Marseillaise.
Eouud for Jacksonville.
New York, October 15.—Among the ar-
rivals in this city to-day on the steamer City
of Columbia was Professor Paul Gibier, M.
D. He Is bound for Jacksonville, where ho
Is to act for tho Frcuch government iu the
yellow fever cases.
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