Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1881, Page 4

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Commualeation Friday ‘eveain Rinslerat, Susinesy.of grout, iivortanes, will ewe efore the Ludee, Every mens expected tc present. Br onler of HUGH MASON, W. M. GEO, A. WALT, Seeretary. RICHAKD COLE }.0DGE NO. 67, F. & A, 3 Regular Comnr mn Thursday. June 2 at3 ‘AI members are hereby nor oy jes of tmportance wii! be boous By order of, DAVID OG A MATTUAY, Secretary. CORINTHIAN CL Convocation 3 Work on the Companions are curdialty in 3.0, DICKERSON % KNIGHTS inect! Mi Bucso'ciock, 1 pie ferred. Visiting Sir Knights aiways welcome. By order of HHL POND, E.G. DAVID GOODMAY, Recordez. LADY WASHINGTON CHAPTER Ni willuive a dime party at thelr. of Twelfth and talated--13., SL. Members und friends of th invited. ALL 30. Lsuuthweet cugner | dav erening, Muy Urder are cordially WHITE, Secre’ VAN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFBC- IN, FOURT Tin SCO" IT APOLLO COMMANDERY TEMPLAR—There, will be evening, May 3L orde mander. se SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1881. New York, and Havana seem to be suffering most from the ravages of swall- pox during this season. In London during the list two weeks 313 new cases havo de veloped, and there are now not less than 1,600 patients suffering from the contagion In the hospitals of that city, and of these 100 were adinitted yesterday. AL Leon Gauprrra, if taken at his own rating of himself, is a statesman without guile. a man of pence, and withal a sort of childlike and bland politician, such a ane as aight be imagiaed in the good time coming whon war-drems throb no longer,—when battie-Alags are furled. Speaking last Friday tothe people of his native village, Cahors, hesaid he did notiavora policy of aggres- sion, adventure, orconquest. The Republic, he added, meant peace, with liberty ana progress. The eminent Frenchman's re- marks were received with enthusiasm by his hearers. Perhaps they did not comprehend the meaning of peace and aggression, and had not heard ef ihe Tunisian episode. Ransow Cook, the well-known inventor of -Cvok’s auger, died yesterday at Saratoga, N.Y., in his Sith year. The deceased in- ventor was the patentee of the Armstrong gun. After its invention, in 1842, he tried to induce the Government of the United States to adopt it, but, as the United Sates was at pence then, his efforts in this direction were unavailing. An Englishman having obtained a copy of Cook’s plans and specifications, : adopted the invention as his own, and made | afortune by the sale of the right to use his alleged patient to several Governments, Mr. Cook was a stanch Republican, and in- sisted on being taken out of his bed to the polls last November to vote for President Garfield. Is the French Chamber of Deputies yester- day, an extreme Radical proposed an amend- ment to the Army Recruitment bill, making it obligatory on seminarian: denominational schouls, to serve four years in the army, while limiting the term of serv- ice of teachers in the State schouls to one year. Premier Ferry opposed. the amend- inent, pointing out its manifest injustice to the seminarians, who are mostly priests, and added that its adoption at this juncture, in view of the friendly relations existing be- tween France and the Vatican, would be im- politic. The amendment was then rejected, und the original clause, providing for one | year of military service from seminarians and public schoolmasters alike, was adopted. Decorarion-Day comes to-morrrow. The public-school children are not to be let out; and it Is feared some of the children ofa larger growth will not be. The day is not growing as a National holiday. Yetit de- serves todo so. Both the sentiment and the service are good,—so good, in fact, that it will be a long while yet before the people, as individuats, forget to remember their dead, whatever the public may do. Is there any- thing in the suggestion that holidays designed to commemorate the services of a Nation's * heroic dead are less likely to survive than those which promote. the pleasures of the living? Perhaps it is true that the Fourth of July would have been forgotten long ago if somebody had not invented the small boy and the fire-cracker,—the fire-cracker first, we believe. Mr. Forsrer, who recently had the can- non used to waken echoes at the Gap of Dun- Joe in the Killarney Mountains captured, ‘will probably next turn his attention to the country chapel bells and order a raid on them. The brass tongues of these seeming- ly inoffensive. and useful appendages to Irish Catholic chapels which were wont to call the people over hills, and roads, and fields to mass when Sunday morning smiled, have lately been employed by the landlord- iP hating and law-breaking Leaguers tosummon the people to occupy the hills and passes with the purpose of preventing Queen Vic- or teachers in | toria’s policemen and soldiers from evicting their friends and neighbors. And the sum: mons of the bells have beon answered as prouiptly ag when Igud in air they called the peuple to prayer, as W shown by the massesthat poured volleysof stones—the only bullets Irishmen are permitted to have—and used their shillelahs—their only Gatling guns ‘on the devoted heads of the landlord-aiders— ‘at Mitehellstown, famed for many fray and | foray before, and at- Now Pallas, where the Ryans and Bourkes seemed to have had it all their own way. Those chapel bells are more dangerous to the Englisn control in Ireland than all the rifles of America,—for they won't be allowed to enter Ireland,—or the anna ments of Gaul, as long as Gambetta rules the destinies of that uation. Mr. Forster will probably make a raid on the bells. They “toll their bold notes” too freely of late. ene Tue machine politicians in New York have considered it appropriate to style those Republicans who are not Conkfingites as “half-breeds,” as by contrast with them- selves, who are entitled, of course, to be con- sidered the “bucks” of the tribe. We think | they are fairly entitled to be classed as the “bucks,” because there is much, very much, in their general style that corresponds with the Indian chaps on the frontier who are known to the army as “Dbueks.” In every tribe the bucks are the braves who daub themselves with many-colored paint, who grease themselves to the shining point, who strut around displayiyg their feathers like turkey-gobblers, who swear at the small buys, Who beat and abuse the squaws, for- ever going on the star routes, which they call the war-path, who steal and grab all they caw lay hands on, who are noticed for their toilets and their odorous perfumes, and who wear feathers, blank and breechclouts, and are forever brandishing their tomahawks and kuives, killluz imagivary enemies, and scalping imaginary victims. As compared with the half-breeds, these bucks fairly Gil the bill of the Conklingites of New York. Conkling, Arthur, and Me-Too are just now conspicuous from their paint, their feathers, their abuse of squaws, and the rigidity of their breechclouts. They are literally bucks of the most savage and untamable character. ene retmenmanenee Tue Albany Evening Journal, which has j excellent sources of information, prints the names of forty-three Republican Assembly- | men and fifteen Republican Senators, mem- : | pers of the New York Legistature, who are opposed to the reélection of either Conkling or Platt. Judge Robertson vouches for the aceuraey of the list, end predicts that to- morrow seven new names may be added to the list. ‘The Cunklingite following at pre ent numbers only forty Lezislators,—nine Senators and thirty-one emblymen,— while thereare only “ eight on the fence.” It will beseen. then, that, according to this state- ment, am; ty of the Republican members- of the Li ature are Opposed to the reélec~ tion of either of the two ex-Senators, and that the majority is likely to grow. The j Albany Erpress, Conklingite organ, admits that x majority is opposed to its candidates, and that the attempt of the Conkling sup- | porters to obtain the signature of fifty-four | members to acall for a caucus failed. Itis | now admitted that only forty signatures were obtained. There are many evidences of dis- integration in the Conklingite ranks, and itis ! not improbable that before this week | is over there will be a sufficient number of anti-Conkling men to elect two Administra tion Senators. Among the persons most Mkely to receive the honor are Chauncey M. Depew, Judge Folger, Secretary Evarts, the Hon, Rufus Choate, and Sherman Rogers, THE CHANGES IN THE WEW TESTA- é MENT. Through the enterprise of Tur Cincaco Trmvne, aided by some of the booksellers and publishing houses, the revised edition of the New Testainent has now been before the public long enough to admit of careful read- ing and comparison with the old King James yersion. A thorough inspection of Tur Cu- j caco Tinpune’s reprint, which is the only | complete and correct one yet issued by any ! newspaper, and which has circulated all over the country by thousands upon thousand: will show that there are only about half a dozen radical changes that have been made, ‘and that these do not affect any of the funda- mental doctrines of the Church. ‘These changes may be classified as follows: 1. The substitution of the Greek word “TIades” for ‘Hell in certain passages. The word “ Wades,” in its original signitiea- tion, meant the place for departed spirits, and was divided into Elysium and T us, the respective abodes of the good and the bad, and corresponding to our ordinary ; understanding of the words “ Heaven and | Hell? As regards the analogy between the term “Hades” and our English word “Hell,” another says: “It may be remarked that the Jatter, in its primitive signification, perfectly corresponded to the former. For, at first, itdenoted only what was secret or concealed, and it is found, moreover, with little variation of form and precisely with the same meaning in all the Teutonic dia- vets.” As we have said, the word “ Hades” is only used in certain passages. Wherever. the sense implies punishment as connected with the place, the word “ Llell*? is used, as-for instance, in the Sermon on the Mount, at the close of the twenty-second verse, we read, “the hell of fire.” On the other hand, in the 1 of Matthew, we read: unto Hades.” In the eighteenth verse of the sixteenth chapter of the same Gos- pel we rend again: “The gates of Hades shall not prevail against it? Nu- merous other distinctive passages of tho same general character will be observed by the reader. It seems, however, as if the uso of the word ‘Hades’? must create confusion until the loeality and purpose expressed by itare clearly defined. In the Greek it was clear, as we have said. It was the place to which all men, good and bad, were sent after | death, and thence they were ultimately dis- patehed to Elysium or Tartarus, or, as it is again expressed, to ‘* Paradise or Gehenna.” What does it mean in the new version? Not Hell asa place of eternal punishment, for that is specifically characterized in every case. Not the abode of eternal -happi- ness, tor that in every case is called “Tieaven.” If not either of these, then it must be sume intermediate place where spirits await judgment, corresponding to the Roman Catholic doctrine of Purga- tory, without necessarily involving its pen- alties or preliminary or temporary punish- nents. It seems to us that the real accepta- tion of the word “ Nades*? ought to be stated by some of our American members of the Commission so as to avoid the inevitable confusion which must otherwise obtain. 2, The substitution of the word “love” for “charity” in Pauls majestic utterances. There is no question that the music of his ringing sentences is almost entirely destroyed by the use of the shorter word, but the mean- ing of the original is better kept. In its primitive meaning it implied love of our fel- low-nen, consideration for their shortcom- ings, toleration in points of difference,—in short, universal kindness, if not absolute forgiveness. In our time, however, the meaning of the word has been narrowed down to alms-giving, which was implied in Paul’s use of the word, but did not cover the whole ground. As there are yery few readers-of Paul's epistle, how twenty-third verse of the eleventh chapter | “Thou shalt go down | | association, there can be no question that the ever, whe do not associate the with the practice of relieving suffering and helping the poor, and that alone, the use of the more generic and comprehensive word “Jove” is to be preferred, and can leave no possibility of misconstruing the sense. 3. Thestory of the woman taken in adultery. As there seems to be no doubt that this story js an interpolation, its detachment as a part of the sacred text was warranted. [t Is an evidence, however, of the exquisit beauty of the story and the deep hold it has taken upon the popular mind that the revisers keep it in its connection, but inelosing it in brackets to show that it is an Interpolation, So far as it was intendrd to enforce the necessity of the sublime doctrine of forgive- ness, it was unnecessary, for that doctrine shines out conspicuously upon almost every page of the New ‘Testament. Those who ad- inire the story and have come to accept it as part of the Scriptures will hardly have their views changed, certainly not their admira- tion, by the brackets with which the revisers have hedged It in. 4. ‘The Lord’s Prayer. The universal. ap- peal of mankind to God the Father remains substantially as in the old version, with the exception t “deliver us from evil” ap- pearsas “deliver us from the evil one,” the latter version being strictly correct, as has been shown by a reviewer whose criticisms were published yesterday, who states that the old translators followed the Vulgate, where the Latin, having no article, gives “a malo” for the Greek “apo tou poneron” "The other change is the omission of the ben- ediction or doxolozy. As it does not appear in the version of the Prayer in Luke, is not fuund in the Latin version’ in any of the earlier manuseripts, nor in any of the refer- ences of the Fathers to the Lord’s Prayer, any eriticism as to its removal would be merely sentimental. 5. ‘The use of the word “Devil.” The Devil is distinctly recognized as persut by sin- gling him out with the article to specify him in distinction from the evil spirits who at- tend him. In this use of the word it is re- markable that the suggestion of the Amer- iean revisers to characterize all others called “devils? as “demons,” making the same distinetion as is nade between “the Christ” and the “angels,” was not adopted, 'These are the most important changes which have been made. It 13 apparent at once that they do not disturb any of ue doc- trines of the Charch, ‘Those who have beon wont to prove their grounds of faith upon certain texts, will still find them there with their old meanings, though they may be in new dress, ‘Those who believe in a personal Devil and: those who do no not, those who believe in a literal Hell and those who do not, those who believe in immersion and those who believe in sprinkling, those who believe in eternal punishment and.those who believe in the ultimate salvation of all, | willfind all tiieir old texts and arguments. | What has been changed does not radically change meanings, and what has been omitted is not essential. ‘The ehanges as a rule are certainly fur the better, though sometimes the verses lose in their beauty and stateliness of diction, but as the offset to this, it taken into account that the new ver comes nearer to the literal meaning of the original than the old, as might be expected from thé progress that has been made in Bidtieal history and information and in all departments of seience and general study. For these reasons, though we may be inclined tocling to the old version by sentiment and ill be the Bible of the future. new version ¥ 2 CHICAGO STREET PAVEMENIS. Gen. Sovy Smith, the well-known civil engineer, has recently returned from Europe with some valuable hints as to street-paving. Ais observations while abroad, and especially ; in the City of London, have convinced him it ; is not necessary that Chicago should abandon the wooden pavements, as many people have begun to believe of late years, but that these pavements may be constructed in such man- ner as to cumpare favorably with other pavements in durability. In other respects their superiority is conceded. ‘The practice in London is to lay asubstratum of concrete, about four inches thick, ina bed of sand, then to lay the blocks in asphaltuin and fil in thespaces with more concrete. ‘The wood is solid and well-seasoned. Gen. Smith says the approach to London Bridge, which sustains a larger amount of travel than any other spot in the world, and is paved after this fashion, has been in use during the past four years and shows small sign of wear. Of course the construction of wooden pave- ments on this plan entails greater cost in the first instanee, but it is probably more econumical in the end than the cheap and flimsy process which has been used in Chicago. ‘The deficiencies of wooden pave- ments in this city have been twofold,—tirst, the lack of proper foundation, and, secondly, tho use of rotten pine blocks. Even sucha foundation as Gen. Smith describes misht fail to insure solidity unless the substratum of earth had been packed down thoroughly; newly-lilled streets, in which the filling con- sists of ashes and refuse matter as well as Joose dirt, will not sustain any kind of pave- ment without giving in places. The Committee of the Common Council, of which Ald. Clark was Chairman, was right, however, in. contending that all the streets should not be paved with the same j kind of material. The character and degree of travel over a certain thoroughfare, and the uses to which the adjoining property is devoted for the most pari, should be taken Into consideration in determining the kind of pavement to be adopt- ed. Noislesness is not so important a quality as toughness and durability in streets whieh run in the immediate neigh- borhoud of railway depots, large warehouses, and the heavier lines of wholesale business. ‘Traffic naturally groups Itself by occupations ina city, and the street-pavements may be regulated accordingly, So, in the newer sections of the city, where the streets lave | been recently filled in to correspond with the grade, it is unwise to lay what is intended to be a permanent pavement. Broken granit, with a cheap top-dressing of gravel that can be renewed without great cost, is a sensible sort of pavement fur such locality, as it will prepare a solid foundation for any surface | that may be ultimately selected. Some policy must be adopted in this city without delay which will assure uniformly good streets within the business and thickly populated districts. ‘The loss to business may be counted by tens of thousands of dol- lars annually in the delays, the accidents, and the wear and. tear on wagons and horses that might be avoided by a thor- | ough system of street-pavements. Driving tor pleasure has almost ceased to bea popu- lar amusement, and street- riding is gen- erally preferred for convenience, comfort, and expedition beeausé of the vile condition of our thoroughfares outside the parks and boulevards. It is not possible to estimate the damage done to the city by the bad name | which strangars give its streets, but it is cer- tain that no one visits Chicago who does not | go away thoroughly disgusted with its streets, and such a feeling largely obscures the other attractions and evidences of met- ropolitanism. These are prosperous times, and the property-owners can well afford to pay for general street improvements if they can be assured of honest work and durable pavements. If such improvements be post- j poned till hard times come again Chicago ! will become almost uninhabitable. There is one thing which should be done by the City Government. Every street newly paved, whether with wooden blocks, macadam, or gravel, should be inspected frequently, and ihe smallest defect should be prompt- ly repaired. It will pay to maintain this system of repairs out of the general tax fund even to the extent of double or treble the appropriations made heretofore. All kinds of pavements will last twice or thrice aslong if promptly and thoroughly repaired at every place where they begin to give v It is the old principle that ‘‘a stitch iu time saves nine,” but it has been ahnost totally ignored in Chicago so far as street-pave- ments are concerned. THE BRIDGE OBSTRUCTION. We print elsewhere an article showing the extent of the obstruction to street travel from the South Division occasioned by the opening of the bridges to permit vessels to pass up or down the river. ‘fhe time taken was from 5 to 7 o'clock p, m. on a week day other than Saturday, and the points selected were the bridges from Van Buren street to Rush street, and also the two tunnels, ‘The city has recently revised the or- dinances, and these revised ordinances are te take elfect ina few weeks. One of these enactments provides that the bridges shall remain closed for the hour from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. each day, or so long as any passengers or vehicles may be in waiting, to: cross. Against Unis regulauon itis understood the vessel-owners protest, and protest indignant- ly, 4s ap unconstitutional obstruction to com- merce and navigation, and, as they put it, an unwarrantable and impolitic discrimination aguinst the interest to which Chicago is so greatly indebted for her trade and for her prosperity, We think the figures and facts we give are sufficient to satisfy even the veascl-owners that the new ordinance Imposes no anreason- able restraint upon the use of the river, and uhat, on the contrary, the new regulation will be a great convenience and a great economy of time to them, as compared to the present regulation. It appears that on an average week-day the number of persons crossing from the South Side'to the West and North Sides between the hours of 5 and 7 in thoafternoon is 54,612, ‘Laat of these 26,956, or nearly one-half, go on foot, that 20,955 go in thestreet-cars, and 6,70L in carriages and other vehicles. Of the whole number only 1,349 pass through the tunuels. "Those conveniences are nearly valueless. In | addition to the 54,612 persons crossing from the Suuth to the other sides of the river with- in tne hours nained there are 3,839 vehicles of ull kinds, not ineluding 497 horse-cars. Reduced to 2 plain, simple question as to economy of time and convenience to the pub- lic, the query is, Shall 54,012 persons and 4,300 velticles be arrested and detained, and the neighboring streets blocked for miles, or sume thirty vessels be required to wait one hour? Under the present regulation the bridges areallowed to be open for the passage of vessels ten minutes at a time, when they must be closed. Itis not possible, however, to carry out that regulation. Vessels go both in and out. ‘The greatest delays are those caused by the oceurren of jams at the bridges; some propellers take a much longer time than ten minutes to pass through the bridge, eausing delays of other vessels; some- umes they get stuck, and remain within the draw twenty, forty, or even sixty minutes, blocking the river to all passage by other vessels, and keeping several -bridges open, to the interruption of all travel. ‘The ten-min- ute rule may be carried out with some rev- sonable certainty during some parts of the day, but not in the late hours: of the after- noon, During the hour which, under the new ordinance, the bridges shail be closed against the passage of all vessels the vessels could only claim passage during these intervals of thirty minutes in all; so at the most the bridges will only be closed thirty minutes more than at present. Dur- j ing that hour the great pressure of foot pas- sengers and of crowded ears will have passed over the bridges, and then, the draws being open, the vessels ean have full and unin- terrupted right of way, more being able to enter and depart the river than in three times the same length of time under the present regulation. ‘The new ordinance will be of great public convenience; and that, after all, is a full justification of it. The delay to the vessels is trifling andinconsiderable. A little manage- ment will enable vessels to leave the river be- fore 5:30, or to delay leaving until 6:30, and this management will not be. equal to a damage of $100a year to all the vesscis en- tering or leaving the harbor. But it will make a vast difference to 50,000 persons who .are now subjectel to the most unjust and annoyimg delays, especially to those who, having been employed at labor allday, naturally and anxiously desire to reach their homes. We have not included in the figures any allowance for the persons coming from the West and North Sides to the South Side, of whieh probably there are many thousands during the hours named. Lake street bridge being unused during the last week, it has been assumed that the travel on that street has been included in that over Randolph and Wells streets. It is common for vessel-owners to object to being cut off of the unobstructed use of the river, on the ground that it is a eonees- sion to the horse-car lines at the cost of the navigation interest, But the figures given of the actual tra show that in the hours nated over 20,009 persons travel in the Borsc- ears, and itis the convenience of these per- sons, and not of the horse-car companies, that is to be considered in the matter. We think that within two weeks after the new ordinance goes into operation, so uni- versal will be the approval of it by the pub; lic, and so evident will be its advantages, that the vessel-owners themselves will con- fess thatitis to them also an economy of time, and of such great practical benefit that they would notchange it if they could, TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH. What is there in an organ, the instrument of all others most capable of evolving superb harmony, that so often makes it the medium of discord in the Church? From the time. that organs were invented down to the pres- ent there has always been some congrega- tion in a quarrel over an organ, and there is no quarrel of which a congregztion is capa- ble that Is waged with such bitterness or Jeaves such rankling stings behind. -The fold may quarrel over pew rents, psalm tunes, clerical salaries, singers, stained windows, and other elements of discord, but these disagreements are easily patched up. An organ quarrel, however, has all the ele- ments of permanency, and is even handed down from one generation to another. The terrible imprecation which the old Scotch woman -hurled against it when she stizma- tized it as “tan unholy box o’ whistles” seems to stick to it yet in many quarters, despite the inconsistency of the appellation when applied to an instrument the least of whose whistles nowadays is trumpet-tongued and the largest of them heavy as peals of doom. Unquestionably one of the causes of the bitterness of organ quarrels may be found in the relations of age. ‘The young always es- pouse the cause of organs; the old always oppose them; and us, according to the adage. ung think the old are fools and th old know the young are fools, it becomes 2 wrangle-between opinion and fact, and these are always the bitterest of wrangles. Still, with all the superior knowledge that belongs to the old, it is not.casy to understand their position or the reasons for thelr opposition to this noble instrument. ‘hey associate it with frivolity when it is the most dignified of instruments, and with fashion when it is the least fashionable. If fashion could havo its way it would introduce lutes and mandolins, which are now the instruments of oir mod- ern cult and are deemed the only instruments sulfliciently utter to express the devotion of the religious esthete. It is a curious anomaly. that they will cling to the irreverent fiddle and unctuous, though hypo- critical, bass viol, when all the traditions show that these instruments have been mainly used in the service of the world, the flesh, and the devil, for which they are ad- inirably fitted. . Whoever heard of an organ in a beer saloon, a variety hall, at a dance, in atheatre, or in any Joeality devoted to the alluring pleasures or sinful pursuits of the world? Yet the violin is always to be found in them. It is not long since. thut to be called a fiddler was considered term of re- proach. Paganini, the greatest of his pro- fession, was ‘commonly reputed to be pos- sessed of the devil. ‘In the early days of the English theatres it was uot uncommon for the gallery to empty all sorts of decayed yegetable growths upon the devoted heads of the fiddlers, -and suggestions at times to KI a fiddler orthrow him out of window were always hafled with acclamations by the audience. As to the bass viol it is simply an overgrown fiddle with all ils vices emphasized, and the more dangerous because they are thinly dis- guised beneath 2 yeneer of propriety, while every one knows that the bald-headed old amen who play them lead very incorrect lives from their association with this Pecksnlif of instruments. We have been led to these remarks because one of these quarrels hag lately broken out ina prominent church in Toronto. Ata re- cent meeting of the church a motion was inade by the younger members to have an organ as an auxiliary to the service. Tho old members at once opposed it, and a controversy began. The young people, however, being determined to have thelr ¢r- gan, went to work, raised the money, and bought it, without saying anything to the old people. It was erected during the week, and on Sunday morning was In its place, with an organist on the beneh. The young people were on the alert to enjoy the new music. ‘The old people sas strangely quiet. ‘The hyinn was given out, ‘The young people rose with alacrity and pricked up their ears, The old people rose solemnly, but with a pecullar expression of countenance. ‘The choirstood up, ready to lift their voices to the familiar metre. They waited for the notes from the organ. ‘The organist had pulled out his stops, was fingering the keys, and treading the pedals, and the blower yas pumping for dear life, but there was not asound from the organ. ‘It was as silent as the grave. Then the old brethren and sisters pitched the tunes themselves, and squeaked away ina triumphant manner on their. fa- yorit “pennyroyal,” while the young people stood. with feelings which, to call them mad, does feeble justice to the subject. A sub- sequent search for the cause showed that some of the old people had ascended to the Jott on the previous night and smeared the entire inner works of the organ with glue, so that it was incapable of emitting a sound. ‘To the present time there has been uo recon- eiliation. The young people want tho old ones to get the glue out of the organ, and the old people want the young ones to get Doth gine and organ out of the church alto- gether. At present they are so far divided that even glue will not stick them together. ‘The church is disturbed to its organic foun- dations. THE PICIURE-PAPERS HELP US. The current number of Frank Leslie's Il- lustrated Newspaper contains a handsome picture of the St. Louis Manual Training- School Building, with this inscription: “Progress of technical education in the United States—The Manual Training-School of St. Louis, Mo.” The description of the institution which accompanies the cut is in } considerable part 2 quotation from a letter published in Tue Tripune April 17 last. In addition Lestfe has this to say of the St. | Louis experiment: It isan elementary school of the high-school or academy grade, whose course of trainings slights neither tho head nor the hand, but seeks to cultivute the powers of the one and the sEill of the other, ‘The senvol is young. It has by no means at- tempted to cover its whole Held at once, but, un- der the broad provisions of its charter, is ready to go forward to the turthest limits dictated by wisvom and experience. In this promising tie! of dual culture or head and hand, considered as a matter of general, not special, training, Jus schoo! to-day stands alone in our country, if notin the worid. ‘The City of St. Louls ean point. with pardon- able pride to an Institution of native growth hica bus alroady taken front rank In the edu fonal world, Nor will {tbe forgotien that its ence there is the direet outcomo of the Inbors of Prof. C. M. Woodward, its prasent director, who for tho past dozen years has per- ently urged in public and in private the ablisbiment of a system of educadon which should train all the faculties of our youth fur the dutles uf active life. We bave said that the growth of this manual training idea, in its broadest sense, wag native tn St. Louis, and tho claim is justly made. For, previous to the year Ist, before sbop-xchocls were many tere, or vhere, and before the schuols of “Russia had systematic 6 the y Senool of Washington University, through Prov, Woodward's instrmnivatality, had a ghop titted | for toul instrueiion, and regularly operate upon the Instruction or vo-ealled Russian plan. The friends of the cause of practical edu- eation are under obiigations to Mr. Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper for so pointedly eall- ing the attention of the whole country to the | St. Louis Manual TralningSchool. Tur Trre- + tune is endeavoring to rouse a spirit of emu- tation of the splendid example of St. Louis in the breasts of the people of Chicago. As yet no response is heard from our publ spirited citizens, but we shall Inbor and wait. ‘Three years ago the then President of the Chicago Board of Eaucation called public at- tention to the palpnole defects of the existing system of instruction in the commenschoo! Ile said: * Labor is apparently becoming un- popular, and tvo many despise it, and | lyok down upon those who earn their bread ; by the sweat of their brow as an unfortunate | and inferior class. Consequently the so- called genteel occupations are overcrowded, and thearmy of idters ts belng recruited | fromthe schools. . . . The training of vhildren to habits of industry will, in my judgment, tend more than any other agen- ey to make them good. and useful citizens. Much may be done in our present schools, at small additional cost, to develop an indus- trial spirit and a taste for mechanical pur- sulis. More time shouid be allotted to draw- ing. ple tools. Saturdays, or part of them, might profitably be devoted to industrial educa- tion.” It is plain that, in the opinion of the Presi- dent of the Board of Education of Chicago, “education does net educate” in our com- mon schools, for he says:“The army of idlers is being reeruited from the schools.” He thinks that children should be “trained” in thesehools “to habits of industry.” This is his remedy for what he regards as a glaring defect in the present system of public instruction. Mr. George A. Walton found, in the schools ot Norfolk County, Massn- chusetts. within ten miles of Boston. “all A is j ott, Boys should be familiarized with siin- + the utterly exploded methods of teaching children to read, write, and cipher flourishing in full vigor”; and Charles Francis Adamé, Jr., insists that the. methods of instruetion in voxuc in our schools are antiquated and unscientific and call loudly for instant reform. Butin the face of these tirgent demands for reformation on the part of practical educators and thinkers there is among the masses a disposition to rest con- tent; and, even worse, a disposition to in dulge in imprudent panegyric o£ the public educational system as a whole,—imprudent because undiscriminating. For instance, on Sunday last the Rey. Mr. Vanhorne, of this city, preached a sermon on “Our Public Schools.” It was a glowing tribute to the value of edu- cation, and, in general terms, so highly eulogistic of the public-school sys- tem as to warrant the inference that, in his opinion, it is as nearly perfect as it is possi- ble for a human institution to be. We doubt much whether this is, In fact, the reverend gentleman’s well-matured opinion, for he quotes and characterizes as wise the answer thought most proper for boys to learn ”— namely: “ What they ought todo when they beconie men.”? Now, the prime objection to the prevailing methods of public education is, that they do not teach boys “what they ought to do,? and what, in a yast majority of cases, they will be required to do, “when they become men.” Boys are not taught, either in our private or public schools, generally, how to work. They are nottaugut to handle tools. ‘They are not taught how quickly to become skilled laborers, notwithstanding the fact that this class of labor is in great de- mand. It is time to put a stop to the pleas- ant but enervating indulgence in unthinking eulogy; time to break the habit of glorifying an educational systein which is clearly sus- ceptible of radical improvement; time to take a long stev forward. Ifit be true, and eve believe it is an indisputable fact, that ‘the army of idlers is being recruited from the schuols,” it is high time to teach | boys and girls something beyond the art of reading, writing, and ciphering. If “the army of Idlers is being recruited from the | schools,” so is the Poor-House, and the Peni- tentiary; for “idleness is the parent of the industrial workshops of the country would be almost empty were it not for the fact that enterprising foreign mechanics are hurrying to our shores to fill them. Let us make mechanies of our poor boys and so | keop them out of the clutches of poverty, } erime, and the Penitentiary. Ture Board of Education bas been for sev- eral weeks wrestling with a simple question of arithmetic, and the progress towards a so- tution is seemingly as remote as ever. We eit that the Board has no design other than to secure to the School Fund the great- est sum of revenue from tho means 2t its disposal. Some time ago the Board made a contract with the First National Bank by which that bank leased the Haverly Theatre lot ata aluation of $345,000, on which the rental was to be computed at the rate of 6 percent perannum. In addition the Board leased the present structure on the lot, the same being valued at $65,000, The $05,000 property is subject. as other property, to general taxation for city, county, State, and other purposes. ‘The School Board is there- fore entitled, to the proceeds of about a two- mill tax on the $65,000 property. ‘The bank, however, found that the im- provements on the land were of no practical yalue, save as building material, and there- fore asked the Board to modify the contract | so that this material may be valued at $15,- 000; and thatthe bank be permitted to use the whole of the leased and and erect there- on a building to cost not Iess than $200,000, which building would of course be subject to general taxation. The problem which so far baffles the math- ematical erudition of the Board of Education is, whether the Board would derive more revenue from a two-miil-tax ona building yalued at $315,000, or a like tax on an im- provement of $05,000. The rent from the land would be the same in both cases. The trouble in this matter is that the $65,000 valu- ation of the present improvement is notori- ously unjust, and therefore dishonest; the bank is caught by its bargain in a contractto pay taxes on a valuation $50,000 greater than it ought to be, and the sharp financiers of the Board, chuckling over their great ability, demand compliance with the contract, shut- ting their eyes, ostrich-like, to the loss of the greater revenue from the $500,000 building which it is proposed to substitute for the present ruins. Should the Board of Edueation continue to be unable to figure out under whieh con- tract the schools would get the most reve> nue, they had better submit the question to the boys and girls not over 9 years old in the schools, and take the answer given by the children. ‘Three times has the Board voted that itis better and moro profitable to have the revenue of a two-mill tax on $65,000 than have the revenue of atwo-mill tax on $315,000, provided the smaller revenue has the flavor of asharp bargain and a small steal in it! the morning of the day on which insof the Czar were executed all tho s:tloons and whisky-shops in St. Petersburg were elused by order of Cbicf-of-Police Baranotl. During the afternoon the keepers of these places received orders from the same oflicinl to close their places at 6 o'clock in the evening and to keep them closed until the next morning. Sev- eral days thereafter a saloonkeeper entered | complaint at the office of the then Minister Loris Melikoff, demanding damages for the Inss he sustained in being compelled to close his | place of business during the evening. The Minister assured him that. he did not Know anything about such an order, nd referred him to Chief-of-Police Baran- ‘This officer declared to have acted undet an order from Meiikoff. The latter, be- ing Informed of this fact, demanded to sce the order, which, on bemg produced, was found to be an exccilent imitation of bis bundwriting. It {ns now been discovered that tho Executive j Conmnittee ot the Nibillsts sent this counterfeit order to Buranoff because they wanted similar 1; ceremonies extended to the memory of their tive executed comrades as were ordered to be ob- served in memory of the Czar whom they had | assasivated. If anything, this may be termed sublime tmpudence. ————= ‘Tne attempt of Mr. Sella to form a new Cavinet for King Humbert as proven a failure. King [fumbert, therefore, , requested Mr. | Depretis, Minister of the Interior under Catroli. | to form a new Cabinet, after being assured of H i i i | the support of Cairoli and his friends. Accord- | ing to a Rome dispatch, dated Muy 28, the Cap- j inet will be composedgns follows: Depretis, President of the Cabinet and Minister of the was 1 { ‘esi ¢ “ | of Agesilaus to the question, “What he t eaihecae: vice.” The Devil’s workshop is full of the | yictims of an idle brain; and, unfortunately, | Mancini, Foreiza Adairs; Magtiari, Finance; Zarnadelli, Justice; Baccarini, Pubtic. Works: Bacelessi, Instruction: Berti, Agri- culture; Fedrero, War: and Acton, Marine. If | Mr. Depretis i3 supported by Cairoli and his friends, and also succeed in’ uniting all the rest of the factions and shades composing tho Left, he thei may obtain a mujority for his .Cubinet. in the Chamber of Depu- ties, which Cairoli could not get. If che fails in this, then. the only step left to strengthen his position will be to dissolve tho Parliament and order a new election. The King would hardly be willing to indorse this plan, because, according to the new election regulations for Deputies, anew fuctor in'the political calculations wil! bavo to be considered, and thut is the Clerical party. According to the new election reform Jaw the list of alactora has tofore prevailing system In nomination of candidates Is no lunger adcrissible. -Hereatter the whole mags of the middle classes and nearly allot the peasants will vote, so that the resuit of an election cannot be predicted with any de gree ot certainty. Ever siace the election of Pope Leo XIII. the Clericals bave been quietiy watching fur an extension of the right of sulfrage enabling them to enter Parliament ulso, and to compel the two parties of tho country, if mot to capitulate, at least to make far-reacismg concessions, If Parliament were dissolved, tke Clericals would have for the first time a chance to make ex. hnustive use of these new election priviteges, Since inst year the Clericalsof Naples, Rome, Florence, and other cities have taken parting municipal elections and gained no Inconsider- nble udvantages, and only a short time ago the Pope directly advised an enerzetle participation in the next Deputy elections. ‘Thus the Clericats might elect x considerable number of their cans didates and form a new purty of the Centre, such ats gxists in the German Reichstag. Under such circumstances the situation in Italy musz be considered serious, notwithstanding the suc cess of Depretis. ——<—<——— Gerore Thursday the prevailing wind in this region for n week or ten days was Irom the During all that time tho water of the North Branch was bemg pumped into the Jake through the Fullerton avenue conduit. 4 stream of inky bluckness having its tha mouth of the conduit could be di traced for a mile slong the shore. Very narrow at the source, it gradually widened as it ad- yanced, until 1t must bave been half a mile wide by the time it reached the North Pier, Unquestionably much of the water pumped out of the North Branch through this channel was drawn in agin through the main river by the action of the opposition pumps at Eridyeport, But it Is seldom that a northegst wind continues so long in the summer seuson, and the conduit may be depended on to fulfill its purpose reasonably well on all ordinary occasions. The operation of the conduit is satisfactory of itself. It only shows that the present water-supply cannet last. No one who has seen that foul stream stretching out in the Inke for miles, and keeping its form and color on a calm day, can reaarg.the possible contamination of the sources of water-aupply without apprehension. “The change must come, sooner or later. And those who have the respon- sibility for the city’s health on thelr shoulders may ag well put their thinking-caps on at once. ——————— Tue Lake street cars will begin moving next week, The West Side Company now has possession of four bridzes over the South Branch, and the North Side Company of three over the main river. Adams street and Rush street are as yet spared monuments of mercy Lut the attack on them cannot be lonz post- poned. By-the way, how temptingly the top of the railroad bridge near the mouth of the river Jooks for an elevated. raliway. Hasn't that thought been In the minds of the projectors of the North Store ftailway? The tunnels, of course, must eventualiy be utilized by the street-car companies. And the sooner the better. They are practically useless now. Nobody everthinks of going through them except to catch a train or get out of the rain; and the cable system ought not to interfere with this laudable mis- sion. — ‘Tne New York correspondent of the Phi adelphin Ledger surmises that the price paid for the New York Evening Post, aside trom the real estate, ws $1,000,000. The true figure was 3900,- ov. ‘his represents an income of $35,000 att per cent, or $51,000 at 6 per cent, and itis quite possible that the Pust under its new manage- ment may bring in or even 10 per ceat on the investment. It has a: steady patronace; and awkether these be prophecies, they may fail—but ‘tho Post never will, ——————___ Tue failure of the Irish Coercion bill seems to be admitted, and. tho Pull Mall Gazette has wisely discovered, after the event, that it i3 uscless to pass such mersures unless there is a public sentiment behind them to secure their enforcement. They are #3 idle a3 the Pope's bull against the comet. It isa little lute in the day for tho English press to make the discovery, but not too late for the Goverament to profit by it. —————__—_ Arr we to thank the gentlemen at the City-Hall for getting Needles’. Assessment bill through the Legislature? They insist that Chi- cago rea! estate is not valued high cnough. As if that defect, supposing it to exist, would not remedy itself. ‘The rural legislators seem de- termined to pluck the city as thoroughly as the country members in New York annually do their metropolis. Tne Nation is disposed to sneer at the ex- tremely probable story that Mr. Conkling was offered * a guaranteed Income” of $50,000 a year py a New York law-tirm. It would like to have the name of the law-firm. “Any name will do.” PERSONALS, Mr. Platt evinces a Spartan disposition ts follow the wagon as long as the band keeps play- ing. It is understood that the Princess Stephanie cried because somebody told her she looked like Gail Hamilton. “Little Georgie”—No, Mr. Murat Hal- stead did not make the world. Your error is a very natural one, however. It is now announced that Princess Louise will not return to this country untl! August. The haughty Princess is evidently trying to evnde the Fourth of July. “f haven't noticed anything about Mr. Reid recently. Don't neglect Whitelaw. fle is young and giddy, but his heart 13 in tne right ce. Lamalso given to understand that his liver is properly located.”"—S. J. Tilden. A New York paper says that “Mr. Tilden has heen but little seen on the streets recently, al- thouvh the cause of his retirementis unknown.” Af our esteemed contemporary imagines that 6 man can read the revised Bible in a few hours. it is wrong. i “Inuuiring Elder”—There are undoubted- ly more Sunday-school picnies than horse-races every year. It is diticult to say whether you would be justified in postponing a picnic which conflicted with a trotting-meeting. Write to Jtovert Bonner. A correspondent wishes to know what will be the subject of Mrs: Livermore's lecture next season. We suppose it will be the borrid men. Mary A. has been talking about them steadily for a matter of fifteen years, and would bardly desert the sex at this lnte hour. “ Kiss Me, Father, Sweet Good Night.” is tho title of the latest song, but the daughter of a Board of ‘frade man renders it, “Riss 1¥ Father's Wheat Good Night.” Her sire thinks that ona kiting market it would be more 8p- propriate to kiss the money good-by before It is paid out for wheat. The Louisville Commercial, a Republican journal, reports that * fialstead still has hopeso£ the Berlin mission.” OF course this means Field- Marshal Murat Halstead, of Clocinnut!. The fact may be so, although a sneer seems to be in- tended. What we have to say about itis that tf Mr. Halstead would like to be Minister to Ger- many there is, on grounds of public policy, 00 reasonable objection to interfere with wishes. [He is. a man of talent, of industry, and, above all, handsome enough to make a fine 2P- Fearance in the American diplomatic uniform of a Diack dress coat and white choker. Besides, he isan old friend of Prince Bismarck, baving made his acuuaintance amid the fire and cat nage of Gravelotte, where Bismarck found bim wandering ubout afout und hungry, and took bim in like 2 gentleman and gave bim a good dine ner. We dare say Bismarck would now be gad tosce him in Berlin. Iu fact, the two men have ‘acteristics in common except that Halstead younger than the Prince, and can’t hold & earidle to him in drinking beer. But for other reasons we shoul be sorry to have tho Field- Marshal removed from Cincinnati. It would destroy the equilibriuin of Journalism fo that beautiful metropolis. What would become of the Commercial it its great editor spould be Te moved to Europe? Who would remain to bold ft up agninst the assaults of the Gazette, with the true goodness of Deacon Richard smith aittus- ing a suft moral luminosity through its columns. ‘nd the reckless molignity of Romeo Reed, hihtened by long practice in the ways of wick" edness, sharpening tue point of every poisoned arrow? We trust, therefore, thit Halstead will not accept tho Berlin mission, but will remain in Ohio to advocate the gecond election of Garteld as urdently ns he advocated the Hrst.—Sarcastis Bir. Dane.