Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1881, Page 4

1 + Club of Bre. * Twenty-sevond-st.—N} 4 SHE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MBER 11, i881-TWENTY PAGES. eee | Dick; or, Bootblack and Actor”; * Marked’ | She Crilume. BY MAIL-IN ANVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. Daily edition, one year.. $12.00 Parts of a year, per month. 1.00 Dully and Sunday.one year. feseeeee 2400 Wacsday, Thursday. and Saturday. peryoat.. 6.00 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. per year... §-O8 Sunday, 16-page edition, pcr ye2t | WEEKLY EDITION One copy, per sear. ‘Twenty-one copt Specimen copies sent fre: Give Post-Office address In fall, Inctuding County and State. a 7 ‘Hemittances may he made eliber by draft, express, Jost-Oftice order. or in registered letter, at our risk ei TO CITY SUBSCRIBE: Tony.delivered Dats, delivered, Sunday ine!nder 0 ceats per week, Address THE TRIBE COM! r, Vorner Madison and Dearbozn-s1s., Uhteazo, IIL, ———ee POSTAG cents per week. Intered at the Post-Ofce at Chicrg., 11, as Second- Class Matter, ‘ For the beneSt of our patrons who desire to send single coples uf Tre THIBCNE throgsh the mall, wo save berewith the transieat rate of postage: gu and Dom Per Cony. Eteht, ten, twelve, und fourwen p: paper..2 cents: Sisteen, elznteen, and twenty pase paer...i5 cents. aMonty-two and renty-four pace paper... cents, _— 3 SOCIETY M + APOLLO CUMMANDERY, NO. 1, KNIGHTS TEM- eecla conclave Thexiay eremag, Dec. ii B51, BINa) Delock. for installation of the officers.” It ts Expected that the Itt-Em. the Grand Comumunder of filtais togetner with members of the Grand Com~ mandery, Will be present nt this conclave, and itis desired that not only shall there 2 full attendans Or the sir Knights of Apol o. but also of visiting Highs, and all are’ egurrecusty and curdially ei mai mimender, Tied. By order of the HON ECTIREANS: Mecorder. piar- COLUMBLA LODGE NO. 155, A. O, U. W.—Members are requested to meet at thelr Hall; comer Elston- av. and Clybourn place ntYa. mun Sunday. tec. Th ‘wo attend the funeral of Bro. Charles Page, at 19 a.m. Members of sister lodves are invited toatiena, SURGE 8, 1 SON, Me We JOUN-0. CONNOK, itecorder HESPERIA LODGE, NO. IL, A. F. & A. MILE members are hereby notilied tw attend a rezular cum~ munication of the Ladze to be held Wednesday eve: ing, Dec. 1, at 7:9) o'clock. Master Musons ara cordially Invited. “A special nicelane will alwo be held arSorctuck p.m. of the same day for dezree work.- Byoraer ot «JAMES SMITH, We M. CHAS. IL BRENAN, Eceretary. ‘ GAUFIELD LODGE, NO, .0%, A, F: & A. Me Annual communication in their halt ‘Muesday eve! ing, Dec. 1 for clectiun of oficers und payment of dues. ‘There will also be held a memorial service for our decensed W. Bro. 1. HL Frees. it ix noped every ember will come, Vistiors welcome. Sharp G. A. DOUGLASS, Secretar, CLEVELAND LODGE, NO. 211, A. F, & A. M.—The annual communication of this lodze for the elecon of oftcers and parment of dues will be held on Thursday ovening, Dec. 13, FNL All_ members are reguested to attend. RL. TATHAM, W. Me WILLIAM £. HOLMES. Secretary. WASHINGTON CHAPTER, NU. 43% It, AM ‘The annual convocation tor the election uf Odicers, payment of dues, and other business pertaining thereto, will be beld Friday evening. Dec. 1 mh By order of JOUN MURPH CHAS. C. DOULITTLE, Secretary. ORIENTAL LODGE, NO: 3 A. F. & A. M.—TIall 122 Ja Salle-st.. The annual communication of Oriental Lodce will be held Friday evening, Dec. 16. for Dusiness, election of omicers, and payment ‘of dues. Visitors welcome. By order 5 ¥ OMIT G. BEECHER, W. 3. CHARLES CATLIN, Secretary. LAFAYETTE CHAPTER, NO.2, R.A. M—An- nual convucation Jor clection of oficers and payment ef dues will be held Monaay evening, Dec. Lat 72) v'eluck. Visiting companions ie. By order of WILLIAM. K, FORSYTH, M. E. IL P. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, Secretary. : OUCVALIER BAYARD COMMANDERY, NO. 52, of Knights Templar—A spccia! Conclave will be held on Thursday, Dec. 15, at p. u., for the installation of uficers. Visiting Knights courteously invited. By order ot the E. Commander. HENHY C RANNEY, Recorder. p LONGE OF PER- A. SCOTTISH RITE MASUN Regular Assembly ‘Thursday evening next. Work on the Fourth and Pith Degrees. I the SL, ED. GOODALE, Grand Sceretary. VAN FECTION, ORIENTAL LODGE, NO 33, ALF. & A, M.—Hall 122 La salle-st There willbe a special communication Wednesday evening, Dec. 1, for important wo; ¥. G, BEECHER, W. a. CHARLES CATLIN, Seert R, NO, 127, eA. Mi—Halt 144 weelal Conrocation Wednesday Visiting com- CHICAGO CHAP erening for installation of office: vantons welcome. By order of M, NO. Th PLLAR-Special Coactave Monday evening, Dec. a SRIgAgo COMMANDERY, KNIGIIUS jek, The Urder of the ‘Temple may be cunferred.” Visiting: Knighis always welcome, By order of 1. POND, ELC. * DAVID GOODMAN, * Recorder. D.C. CREGIER LODGE, NO. 64, A. FP. & A. Mo Regular Communication Wednesday evening. Dec. 14, ati: ocluck sharp, tor werk. “Visiting Brethren cordially invited. By order of > teat. JAMZS KEATS, W. M. JOUN GINOCHIO, Secrets APULLO LODGE, NO. AL . A. M.—Thore will bea special communication of this lodge tomurrow: iMonaay) evening. Members are requeved to pe present. STAN ACRES, W. Me OUREN. ZSTHER CHAPTER, NO, 41, 0, #..S.— Witleive another purty atG. ALI Hinil, ist Eas: Washington-st, Wednesday evening. Dec. 10. UNION PARK LODGE, NO. 610, A. F. & A.M Aatual communication Monday evening, Dee. 12, ESL for elecuon of officers, payment of dues, and re~ ceive copy of new by-laws, By order, CL ATT, W. M. INO. C. CLUETT, Sec’y. 1c CLUB eepurt” passes can tind runs 103 South Clark ‘CHUOCK, Secretary. ANCIENT COMPANIO: Compantons desiring the then at Companton Jon E. 5 street. “SUNDAY, DECEMBER U, 1851. Tur Trmuxx has repeatedly urged the enforcement of the ordinance relating to the smoke nuisance, and takes occasion once more to denounce this outrageous infliction upou the long-suffering people of this ci The heavy atmosphere of the last few days has precipitated the vast volumes of smoke sontinually roiling out of the thousands of thimmeys and smokestacks in the city npon the streets and into the doors and windows af business-blocks and dwellings, filling very crevice with its thick, sooty, ndisome, stitling odor, until the whole city is cough- ing, sneezing, chukimg, gasping, and literally dying with its horrid pressure. For this, there is positively po carthly excuse. ‘There are several inventions before the public, all with more or less merit, and some claiming to give absolute immunity from the horrors we continually endure from this omnipres- unt smoke. And we have acity ordinance requiring owners of buildings and others using conl to make use of some one of them for the general lessening of this e but utter disregard of Iaw seems to be.the rule, We call upon his Honor the Mayor and the Council to turn their attention to this matter and compel obedience of law from the diso- bedient. The frost has haply given us tem- porary relief from muddy streets, and now we call on behalf of the long-sutfering public for relief from this terrible and vexatious smoke annoyance. Ir is gratifying’ to note an entire ehange in the demeanor of Judge Cox. He has deter- tined..to, have order his court. To be sure, this firmness is to be exercised on the sudience, not on the prisoner, Guiteau., But is refreshing to have ocular demonstra: tion of the fact that the smiles with which the learned Judge’s face has been wreathed are at last turned into frowns. He has frowned on a small boy, and nut only frowned upon him, but driven him out of the ourt-room, pinafore, peanuts, and all. And for what? For applauding District-Attorney Sorkhill Col. Corkhill remarked that he utfered certain testimony for the purpose of showing that what the defense calls insanity “is nothing more than devilish depravity,” whereupon the small boy stopped eating pea- outs and clapped his hands. No wonder Judge Cox rose in his wrath and ordered the sumunary expulsion of the stréet Arab. Are brisoners to be insulted while the qtiestion of uilt or innocence remains undetermined? Shall it be said thatan American court has failed in tender consideration of the inalien- able rights of at American citizen on trial jor his life? Whatare courts for if not to take care that the feelings of prisoners on trial are not shocked by intemperate remarks of brutal prosecuting offivers thirsting for ‘blood? It may be understood-now that Judge Cox has, soto speak, put his foot down. When the: District-Attorney insults Guitean_ urchins aré not to be permitted to applaud. LJeréafter' there is'to be but one priviicged character in Judge Cox’s court. Guiteau will continue. to tell. the wit nesses that they Iie, to. tell the opposing counsel to shut up, to pound the table with his clenched fist, to howl in simulation of a Bediamite, and to smile patronizingly upon “tne Court” appointed to try him. And at allthis Judge Cox. will continue to smile blandly in return. But he can, frown as fiercely as another if. occasion requires him to wrinkie his judicial countenance—pro- vided the object of his wrath isa small boy who recognizes the fituess to Guiteau’s char- acter of the appellation “devilish depravity.” By all means, Judge Cox, let the prisoner spit out his venom on counsel and witnesses; let him shock the whole court-room. with profanity and obscenity, but put down the sinall boy in the audience with a strong hand, ‘This is at least avpropriate administration of one side of the scales of justice. Ragas ES Tre Land Courts of Ireland have now been in operation about six weeks. Within that tine 62,000 tenants have applied to the Land Court to fix *fair rents” ror the next fifteen years, This number has applied in the face of the “no-rent”? manifesto in the first six weeks of the court. . The “ No-Renters” have applied violence in many pl to prevent tenants from paying their rents and applying for leases. So far from the hand bill bemg a dead letter, the rush. on the and commis sions to-aflixafair rent has overwhelmed theni, and the Government will be obliged to appornt a dozen or twenty more sub-commnis- sions to. work off the cases, and even then it will take years to go through all of them. A few days ago five new sub-commissions were added, making ten in all. The reduc- tions in rent continue to range from 26 to 50 per cent. ‘The largest reductions are made in the West of Ireland and the smallest in the North, where rack-renting had not been so prevatent. Speaking of the work of the Irish Land Court the London Times says: The members of the Irish Land Commission Courts are a singularly fortunate body of men. Th suged. in redressing grievances, in joosening hard yoxes, and in dome battic for the weuk against the strong; and this without any of the personal drawbucks whieh the perform- ance of sitch a work commonty carries with ite ItisTor the most part after a hard strugeie and as the reward of tue self-sucriliee of a lifetime that the right is earned of dong what the Land Commissioners are now Uusy mbout. When Hampeaen stvod out in opposition to an iliegal tax, or when Cobden sct biuself to obtain the repeat of tho Corn laws, it was no slight cost to themselves that success had to be paid for. ‘he work was worth tke price, but tho price had to be rendered for it. Itis the happy Jot of the Land Commis- sioners to serve Woir countrymen on much easier terms than these. They eau zo up and down the land and enn give effect everswhere to their benevolent imnu Ppretiminarics to thei: some process of co uceded, clients are calreay convinced. There is no martyrdom to be gone througa. for they have for their the resources of civilization on their side. There is no pecuniary sacrifice culled for in their case on the contrary, they are well pai fermance of their patniutic duvie: thus made smooth tor them, und cach guy's re- port from Irelund brings fresh evidence of the zeal and energy with which they ure addressing theniselves tu their tn: Tue London Times calls attention to a_re- cent decision in one of the higher English appeal courts which must exercise an im- portant influence upon the popular vote by enfranchising tens of thousands of men who have not hitherto been considered voters, and enlarging immensely every town con- stituency, . ‘The appellants made a test case to decide what constitutes « ‘householder, or the householding qualitication for voting. In other words, the question decided by the English Justices was, What is a dwelling- house? ‘The lower court had decided that the appellants, who rented rooms and held them ona tenure from-week to week, were “lodgers? and not “householders.” The uppercourt reverse: the decision undera de Jaration of the Rex. iration act of 1878, v had hitherto escaped notice, tu the effect that the term ‘ dwelling-house ” included “ any part of a house where that part is separate! occupied asa dwelling,” and decided that they were “householders. The court, in- deed, was so elear -in its opinion that it re- fused to permit any further appeal, and said “Tr was too clear for doubt that the object of that act wasnot to confer.2 new franchise, but to settle judicial doubts as to the inter- pretation of ‘dwelling-house,’ and to lay it down distinctly that any part of a house sep- arately oceupied as a dwelling-louse should confer the franchise.” The effect ot this de- cision, says the Times, “will be to enor- mously ineré the urban constituencies throughout Great Britain. The nature of the change is apparent from the fact that the Parish of St. Pancras alone—one of the suburbs of London—it adds more than ten thousand voters to the list. What will be the result over the whole of London? All those hundreds of streets in the centre where cach footyand perhaps each room, is occupied by “2 separate family, will emerge into a new politi tence... The political ugent andthe canvasser will begin to find them out. Ignored yesterday, they will be noted and nursed tomorrow.” THE VIENNA HOLOCAUST. ‘The fearful calamity in Vienna, the Capital ot Austria, grows in horror with each day's intelligence, andthe detail and vividness of the narrative bring it home as closely as if it had occurred in our own country or city, and inust ereate a kind of apprehension upon the part of every one who enters a theatre, for what has occurred in Vienna may liap- pen at anytime in any of our own cities. Aud yet, when the shock and novelty of the horror have worn away, the apprehension will die. out. ‘Theatres will be run very imneh as before, with the same carelesne: and unconcern. People will come and go as. before, with no thought for their security, and will crowd auditoriums io suffocation to listen. to favorit actors or singers, with no thought of what may happen or how they will escape if anything does happen. This was tne case in Vienna, It was a holiday and a gala night, fur Offenbach’ last work was on the boards, tobe performed by a large corps of singers and with the ballet, in whieh Vienna so much delights. The beautitul Ringstrasse was crowded with people on their way te the opera. ‘The foyer and lobbies were full of people seeking seats, ‘The galleries, four in number, were filled. ‘The parquet was filling up, the orchestra was inits place.. Only the stalls were empty, for they were the resorts of fashionable peo- ple who came late to exhibit* themselves. ‘The second calt had been sounded for the stage people, and the stage anf ‘dressing- rooms were filled. with them. suddenly a lame shot up, and in the twinkling of an eye was sweeping over scenery and properties. ‘The great curtain swayed in the draft a moment. The fire ‘shot through it and revealed the burning stage—the most terrible Spectacle it had ever shown an audience, A wave of flame. swept through the proscenium, over the parquet, and up to the galleries, forerunner uf death and destruction. Then it was the old, old story—the crazy, maddening rush; the strong trnupling upon the weak and fighting their way to the street; the rush and roar of the flames; the blinding, suffocating billows: of .smoke; the cries and screanis of agony; the ‘explosion of gas adding to the horror of the Scene; some trampling upon those in front only to be trampled down by those behin | men in despair jumping from the galleries and throwing nseives. from the, v Indows; men shrieking, cursing, praying, and scream- ing for help to the impotent crowd without; the sounds of ‘an agony growing fainter, “and the flames’ sitrging more fieveely and drowning then ii their roar and crackle; then no other sound but that of the fire as it swepé over its prey: nothing léft but a débris of ruin and death; nothing untouched by the flaines savea gilded angel blowing its trumpet, as if it were the angel of death loudly vaunt- ing its holocaust. Z 3 ‘The testimony shows that the Ring The- atre was perhaps as well. equipped with the ordinary securities against tire as the average theatres in this country or in Enrope, and it shows also that they were of as little ac- count. Ithid fire-plugs ii the’ auditorium ready for use, but they were not used. It had oil-lamps. in the lobbies ‘to be used in case of the failure of gas, but when the sas exploded it was found they were nobr audly, for use: It hadaniron curtain to shut off, the stage from the auditorinm, and there w: time to lower it, but it was not lowered. Nothing that should have been déne was done, for there was no one to do it; or, if there were any who should have done it, they were too terrified. This might and. probably would happen in any other theatre. . Besides this, the Ring ‘Theatre, like many another theatre, had narrow: ex! crooked passageways, doors opening the wrong way, side exits which of course were kept locked, and in general was such a laby- finth that only those thorougily acquainted with it could find their way out in haste. “Lhe lesson of this disaster is clear enough. It was very emp! ally taught in Brooklyn. It was repeated in Nic been tanght over and over again, but who lea the Jesson? Not the managers, for these ealam- ities continue to happen. Not the audiences, for if they demanded that managers should secure their safety against fire it would be done. This is all the more to be wondered at since the natural destiny of every theatre, sooner or later, under present: conditions, is to be destroyed by fire, and: because a theatre, however well kept'it may be, is a tinder-box. Its stage is a mass of highly combustible material— light wood, painted scenes, flim: old ‘scenes, lumber and properties: sto away, oils, and oil paints. Fire is constantly used upon the stage, and a careless hand.any moment may play the incendiary. Burning buildings are represented. ‘There is always the danger of gas explosions. Long rows of lights separate waving borders in close con- lignity. And yet there is not the same pre- exution that owners of public buildings use when the danger is much less, Is it not | time that the owners of theatres should be compelled to.make them fire-proof, or. as nearly su as they can? ‘That they should be compelled to use non-inilammable paints upon woodwork and scenery? And that | they shall so construct their exits that even a panic-stricken crowd can escape? HOW JUSTICE 18 KILLED AND THE GUILTY 2 ESCAPE. For several days during tt of the two branches of the Criminal Court of this county was occupied in hearing a trial tor murder. ‘The cases weresubmitted to tie juries on F y afternvon, and: yesterday morning verdicts of guilty were rendered. One of the accused was rded tiventy years and the other fourteen years in the State’s Prison. ‘The usual motions for new { trial were entered, and there the cases will Test. : Tie Trpune has pointed out certain bad defects in the criminal law of this State, and conspicuous are those which deley and tinal- ly defeat the conviction and punishment of criginals. ‘The Jaw of. this State offers peetliar facilities to criminals who have money to fee attorneys to aveid and. escape conviction. These have been notorious for years. They have included iong delays, re- peated continuances, packed~ and corrupt juries, changes of venue, new trials, super- sedeases, reversals by the Supreme Court upon strained’ technicalities, and puerile quibbles, and then repetitioris. ot all these over and over again, year after year, until at Jast the felons-and murderers are turned out I despite their noturious guilt. has been the «disgraceful history of criminal procedure in this county for years, and this, foo, despite whatever influence and efforts the Judges of our local courts have under the wretched laws. of this State, which render the Judge the most powerless person in court. This practice has been somewhat improved in one or two particulars of late. The pack- ing of juries with bribed and perjured mis- ereants, and by the associates of the prison- ers, has ceased to be the rule, and is daily. becoming more exceptional. The successful change of venue has been stripped of some of its abuses by the changes in the law, Selections of more intelligent jurors render convictions more certain. ‘The first step in all these-eases atter con- viction is the inevitable motion for a new past week each trial, During the trial of a case the eriininai takes exceptions to all the rulings upon which ppeal can be taken, and. then, when convicted, moves for a new trial, and | when this is refused takes an appeal on all excepted rulings, and also on the refusal of a new tria!.. ‘The case goes up on a number of alleged errors, and then on all these con- as solidated in the motion for a new trial. the motion for a new trial is of neces: based upon the “ errors*! made by the Court, during the trial, and as the Court believes his decisions were free trom error, the over- ruling of motions: for new trials ought to follow, just as certainly as the motion fol- lows a conviction. er, Is not the case. These trials are often allowed to remain unacted on month after month, tine being killed, delay obtained, evidence lost, witnesses run off or dying, and the ease for- gotten just as well in that way as in any other. E ‘There isa striking case of this kind now pending. More than two years ago aman killed his brother, and ina year or more was brought to trial and convicted. After the usual delays he got a new trial, and in due time wi in tried and convicted. A mo- tion was made for a new trial in his case, and that motion has been unacted on for sev- eral months, and may be allowed to defeat the punishment of this twice-convicted mur- derer for six months to co:ne. When over- ruled, then it will be in order to take the case up to the Supreme Court, and possibly when all the present members of that conrt shail have passed away, their successors may discover, and so decide that as royal and princely titles are not recognized in this country the indictment of an American citizen by the title of “Prince Albert Jones was unconstitutional, and the man be unconditionally discharged! This . man, though twice convicted, is now in the third year of his successful defeat df justice. Now that the courts have been able to se- cure and enforce the attendance of jurors who willingly sacrifice their time and ab- sence from business to’ serve the public, the courts owe it te the public that the proceed- ings in courts sould yo on with as little de- lay as possible. "The time of the courts, of. the witnesses, and of the jurors should “not be wasted by needless delays and waits, nor more than wasted. by long and_ needless Speeches and harangues. Jurors and, wit- nesses taken frum their business and attend ing court wider compulsory process are en- titled to Rave the cases they are required to The professional ‘juror cares nothing for delay— in fact, he would .be willing to serve per- mancntlybut with the man taken fromhis store, his counting-room, his factory, and Workshop, the case is different, and jury Service is made ‘intolerable to ‘him, not be- cause of time occupied in hearing cases, but wasted and lost in-the delays of fe: court- Fooue sg? Weve: ‘The juries in tne murder cases tried last week took a merciful view of the crimes committed. ‘Phe persons killed were not of & character calculated to excite vindictive or resentful feeling towards those who killed them; nevertheless, there was no doubt ps to the guilt of the necused. The police, the grand jury, the Court, the prosecuting ofli- cers, and the trial juries have all done their duty fearlesly and well.” It now remains to be seen how long the convicted persons can, under the laws of the State, postpone, if not. finally defeat, justiee and render all these proceedings of no avail. LENSES FOR CITY REVENUE. The Mayor, in a recent interview with a reporter for one of the city mewspipers, eX- presséd the opinion that the only way the City of Chicago ean secure sufficient revenue itain Use neces protection for pub- fety and property under: the 2 per cent Jimitation of taxes on a low valuation, is to procure from the Legislature an act author- izing cities to impose license charges upon all classes of business and professions. . This is aseheme which will meet with widespread and aimost wu pposition, and the merits of which it is not necessary to discuss atthis time because the City of Chicaso— the Mayor to the. contrary notwithstanding ean increase its revenues from license fees it is now duthorized to charge sufficiently to uiford relief fer the more pressing necessi- ties of the commuuity. * Ibis adinitted that the limited, revenue of the City Government bears most heavily upon the people in the consequent failure to sup- port an adequate police foree and to keep the streets clean and in good repair, There is reason to believe that buth these deficiencies can be suppligd in hirge part, if not alto- gether, by a proper use of the Council's power to collect license fees authorized by the charter. In the tirst place, the saloons. of this city ought to be ade to pay chough to support 250 additional police 1. ‘Phere are some $,500 of these places, each of whién, without regard to.size or character, now pays the in- gnificant, trifle of $82 per y k—no more than was pi y ago, when the city cou inhabitants. “But. since Chicago has not more -than one-half as many policemen as ost other larze cities ia proportion to the population, and since the liquot i nate or fuster most of the vice and crime of every city, the license fees on these estab- lishments ought to de raised to a price which will. yield: revenue enough to support a police force of suilicient-strength to preserve order, arrest crimindls. rerress crime, and protect the lives and property of law-abiding: people, “There is no need of going to the Legi: ture to procure authority for inaking such a change. The charter of the city plainly au- thorizes the Council to ticenge and regulate liquor-selling, ‘and to determine the amount to be paid forsuch license.” ~The Council has as ample and complete power to charze 300 for a-license to sell whisky as $52, if. it chooses to exercise its pow ‘The gross re- ceipts of the saluons of this city .from the sale of liquor exceeds ten millions of dollars a year, three-fourths of whieh is clear vrofit. Add to this between two and. three millions more for tobacco retailea at a large profit, | ind the absurdity of the present license ot a dollar a week is seen ata glance. Saloons ought to be classified. The Mayor agrees to that, and everybody who has ever given the subject any thought is convinced of the fairness of such an arrangement. ‘The . saloons selling only beer and wines should not pay more than one-halfas much as the saloons whieh sell whisky as well lighter drinks. The charge to bee should be 3100 ar, With a heavy fine for the sale of any liquor not specilied in the license. The charge to saloons selling whisky and all kinds of liquor should not be less than $200. Even the latter amount would be Jess than $4.0 week, or about 50 centsaday— the prefit on ten drinks at the most. There should bea much heavier charge for a 1i- cense issued to 2 concert-saloon or any com- mon resort for both sexes of a low character —not less than $500 year. ‘This last item would-have the double benelit of reducing the number of houses of bad character, and at the same time largely inereasing the reve- nue from those which might continue in “ business.”e It is safe to estimate that a graded license system for the saloons on the basis proposed would yield from $250,090 to $500,000 more than is now collected from such establishments, and the ordinance might provide that afl this additional reve- nue should he set aside for the support of an inereased police for What is most needed is 2 Mayor who will boldly urge an increase in the license fees fur saloons without regard to loafers and dives at future elections. Public opinion would soon constrain ‘the Council to take the proper steps under his direction and persist- ence. Leta suitable license fee be- estab- lished, and all the more respectable saluon- keepers will oppose its repeal, and the whole’ body of the public will uphold it. GERMAN POLITICS, It has been wittily said by some French- man that where there are two Germans there are three opinions, and the remark ix forci- biy.exemplified in the German Parliament, which represents German unity, and has nineteen different political theories, ‘To grasp these theories, or to understand the policies and dividing-lines of these _ partie: has generally been ‘considered impossible, not only by foreigners, but,- it has been claimed, e¢en by Germans themselves. ‘The Berlin correspondent of the London Thncs, however, in 2° very. exhaustive article upon the results of the recent election, has thrown considerable light upon this point, and we are enabled thereby io get a very clear idea of the Parliament and its parties. -The- Reichstag has 397 members. ‘They ) iy be generally grouped as Conservatives, Liberals, Radicals and Reds, Uliramontanes, and a heterogeneous lot of Protesters, Par- tleularists, and Independents, or * Savages.” ‘The Conservative group includes the Con- servatives, Free Conservatives, German Conservatives, . and German Iinperialists, numbering eighty-one members. The Lib- erals include National Liberals,” Seces- sionists, Progressists, and Liberal grottp, numbering members. The Radicals in- elude Social Democrats and Popular or Non-- Monarehical party, numbering twenty-one members: The Ultramontanes include the Clericz Is or “Blacks,” nunibering ninety- eight members, and the heterogeneous lot, which includes Poles, Guelphs, Danes, Al- sace-Lorrainers, and “Savages,” numbers forty-six members, fi Witt the principles of the three main groups, the Conservatives, Liberals, and Ul- tramontaues, our readers are well acquaint- ed. . The Conservatives are the Crown party, and believe that the Crown should be and is superior to Parliament. Chey are the de- fenders of the Prussian Monarehy. ‘They are recruited from the ranks of the nohlesse and landed gentry, and supply the country J with its Ministers. “They” are thé Bismarck party, and support his policies, The Liber- alsare the opposition. The Ultramontanes are both Conseryatiye and Liberal, but they unite upon the isstes between Church and State. There are many of the factors, how- ever, entering into these three main groups, whose policies are not so well known. Some allusion to them, therefore, will be of value for future reference, ‘; The Progressists, who. belong. to .the Liberals, desire to reduce “the arniy dnd the: term of compulsory service... They are bitter enemies of proteetion and the T’apacy, and the uncoinpromising foes'‘of all of Bismarck’s so-called economic schemes. ‘Lhe Popular sparty holds.a place between the Progressists aid. Sotialists,“and represents demécratic principles. ‘The Socialists are divided into three factions, the State -Socialists, who would ake the State financially independ- ent and: otherwise omuipdtent, the Sucial Democrats, who would institute a revolu- tionary -Comuiunism, and. the Christian Socialists, whe take their stand on Christian faith and love to King and country, ‘and ‘aim ut the penceful organization .of workingmen and lessening the distance between rich and poor by moral means. ‘The Particularists in soine regards are like our State-sovercignty advocates. ‘They are not hostile to the idea. of Empire, but demand political independence in’ the States. The Poles are -chtssed with the Particularists as advocates for. spey privileges, among them the use of their language in school and. at Court. The Danes, are ranked with the Pol ‘The Guelphs are tue Parliament- ary representatives of the Duke of Cumber- fand, ind want the independence of Hanover. ‘The Alsace-Lorrainers are not a unit, 2 por tion of them protesting against annexation and the remainder demanding a larger degree of self-covernment. The © izes”? are so called “because they disdain to beloug to any ticular faction, but camp out in the open, ‘away from . all lisan haunts, and vote according ty the impulse of ‘the moment or the exigencies of their con- seience.” ‘Lhe Cor ‘atives and Ultranion- tanes are almost entirely landed proprietors, but the Liberals and others are made up of lawyers, clergymen, journali: Professors, university men, physicians, and scientis who are 2 hard lot for Bismarck to handle, though by his present combinations he ap- pears to be in the ascendant as usual. FASHIONS FOR GENTLEXIN. To paraphrase Shakspeare it may be said: “To be w well-dressed man is the .gitt of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature? An old writer says: “Fashion builds ber temple in some mighty empire, and, having selected four, or five hundred of the silliest people it contains, she dubs them with the magnificent and imposing title of The Worid. Her smile has given wit to dull- ness, 2hd grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.” The thing fashion has brought into vogue this year is the striped ‘Vest of our fore- fathers: Fashion has deereed that the vest of the swell and the snob shall be striped, or checked, or bt ngled with imany-colored flowers—bine, green, yellow, red. And of course, to mateh this vest of many colors, there must bé a more or less generous introduction ~of the ‘hues of the rain- bow into the rest of the swell’s ap- the chronicler of Fashion’s decrees: “Gentlemen are emerging from the plain dark clothes worn so long to. brixht colorings now so fashionable in ladies’ dress.” ° Lt is, then, to the tyranny of at that the calamity of the highly-colored, high- ly-wrought vest is to be attributed, We are to-have vests adorn with suntiowers, hollyhocks, and yellow roses, and pink: lilies of the valley, and ferget-me-not: aisivs because ourwives, and mothers, and ry themselves in robes which resemble a flower-garden in the month of June. Ifthe new fashion in vests could be con- fined to the ¢tite of society—the ‘four or fi hundred”? who constitute’ “The World”*— there would be no serious objection to it. But the misery of it all is, that the millions who ape'the five hundred snobs will have the rainbow on their vests too. A flower-garden is very well in its pluce, but to turn the wheat-field, and the corn-field, the potato- pateh, and the turnip-bed into the culture of sunflowers and black and yellow lilies for the benefit of the plowboys and the cow- ¥ to threaten the world with famine, @ swell will present a fine appearance as he. promenades the street with his eyesla: his stick, and his many-colored much flower bespangted vest. But how will he feel when he meets the butcher-boy in his shirt-sleeves with a vest covered all over with the picture ofa Texas steer in the act of being knocked down and cut up for the market! When madam calls at the vegetable man’s place she will find “it difficult to distinguish between the cabbages and carrots, the pumpkins and tomatoes on the vender’s vest and these in his stall -And will not she be dismayed the greengro- eer’s gorgeous vest covered with Daris-green pickles, canned peaches, preserved meats, bags of coffee, and chests of tea ? Everywhere these infernal vests covered with miniature representations of the own- er’soccupation will confront the vest-haunted community. ‘The vest of the dog-fancier will display the picture of a bull-pup showing his murderous teeth, that of the sewer-builder the section of a suwer-pipe in need of instant repair, that of the gas-man a piece of broken h the gas escaping, that of the restate nan a suburban lot ‘ cheap for hor “on easy payments,” thatof the bank resident a huge safe with the legend in large gold letters, “The Cashier has not stolen all the funds: we Keep a blood- hound at his side to prevent him froin visit- ing the Stock Exchange.” It is plain to beseen that Fashion’s esthetic purpose will be entirely defeated... The puinpkin, squash, carrot, and tomato style of vest, the yest of the butcher, baker, and can-" dlestick maker will outnumber thatof the esthete a thousand to one. Desides, the vest asan advertising medium will destroy the business of the newspapers. The dry-goods man willexhibic his new styles on his vest. ‘The house-renter will appear with a front all azlow with designs of attractive interiors, with descriptions of the kitclen, the cellar, the front parlor, ‘and thd spare bedrooin. The community will be transformed inte a living, walking advertisement; the streets will look: like a ‘Turkish bazaar; and man- kind will resemble a parcel of Court fools. It looks now much like a conspiracy on the. part of women to render the’ lords of crea- tion ridiculous. Nor are there’wanting other signs of this purpose in Fashion’s decrees. ‘The women have persuaded men to abandon the uarrow-rimmed hats so long in vogue and adopt the wide.rim and bell-crown. If now they can induce the swell to stick a. peacock.feather in’ his wide-rimmed, bell- crowned hat. his transformation into the semblance of an idivt of the Middle Ages will be complete. . Then let him wear on his .wateh-chain the Intest churm— “a lady’s’ bonuet enameled in blue and white ”—and’ paint his face an inch thick, and we shall have a combiration that would make the Egyptian dandy of the thme “of Pharaoh blush: for his‘sex. ‘To “match our modern dandy the greengrocer’s boy will aippear with 2 hat-rim a foot wide ornament- ed: with a-squirrel’s tail, and a yest adorned with Paris-green pickles, preserved peaches, green olives,.and sweet potatoes. = - ‘Trousers are to be blue, green, or yellow, and eut tight—of the .style of Bob’s, who, when asked by Fred to down, replied, “You know I can’t sit down, Fwed, because Tye goton my stand-up trousers All the swells this. year are to wear, as a searf-pin “an owl's head made of Labrador spar with diamond eyes.” Several vessels have been sent to Labrador to collect the spar. If the spar gives out before all the Swells are supplied, thuse remaining who do not die of grief will wear fresh-water pearls in their nattral shape, forming heads of serpeuts and alligators. ‘ Very fashionable party-couts inust be lined. with white. wa- tered silk.” When a swell presents hinself for admission to a sweil party the usher gently throws back the lapel of his coat to ascertain ifit has the regulation lining. it is there he passes in; if it is not he pa out. The transers which accompany the watered-silk lined coat. ‘must be lined throughout with black Whether the swell’s trousers are drawn off of the swell’s legs in the dressing-room in order to demon- strate his fitness ur unfitness to cuter the inner sanctuary Gf Fashion or not Fashion has not yet fully determined. LICENSES OF VEHICLES. Next to the inadequacy vf the present po- lice furee for the protection of life and prop- erty, the greatest‘cause of cumplaint in this city is the condition of the streets. The de sired street improvements may be nade by 1 assessments; but, waless the new pavements as well as the paved streets we now have shall be property efeaned and con- stantly kept in repair, there will be no relict | fromthe censtant fifth and rapid -deeay which have becomea curse to the people who live in Chicago. As the saloons are chiefly responsible for the extent of view and crime | Which requires-an enlarged police force, so the rapid destruction of the street pavements is due in the main to the heavy loads which are hauled in wagons and trucks with nar- row tires. As the salvons should be coui- pelled tu support the police to whour they give cecupation, so the people who destroy and wear ont the street pavements should be required at least to help Keep them in repairs ‘There is a way to do this. following ordinance gues into effect Wor tiie better protection of the paved streets, und other thoruugutitres. of the City slows and tires 10 be permitied tebe drawn 6: suid pasvcoents with a grester burd pounds weizbt. No veuicie of a tu fetlues und Ures less than lve inenes in breadth shail be permitted to be drawn or to over the paved strevts, alleys, und thor- ougntares aforésacd with a greater burden than sixiy bundredweizat, And every owner or owners of such vehicles for burden which shatl, | be drawn contrary. to the trae intent and meanues of this urficte shall for every such ot- fense be fined ina sum nol exceeding 825, toe gether with the cost of prosecutiua, : In Hieu of this provision there might be a license fee for all vehicles used for hire, or for the s of whic! ir owners meke a charge, such as the delivery ofj earth, stone, b: au, sand, ete.—whether the charge be assessed in the prive of the com | modity delivered or specified for the service rendered—suid fee to be regulated: according to the breadth of the tire in proportion to the ity of the vehicle. For instance, in order to confurm to the requirements con- templated by the above orditiance, it might be provided that all vehicles with a carrying cupacity “not execeding pounds, but using tires less than four inches wive (they only average two inches now), shall pay per month, or at the rate of $24.2 year, license fee, but that the hicles with tires four inches wide shal! be lic ul for 3 ayear, as this will represent the difference in the damage to the streets by 4 narrow and a wide tire wagon, . Also, that vehicles witha ity of three tonusor more, hav- Jess than five inches, shall pay $1 a month, or. at the -rate of S45 per year (they now are only two to twu and a half inches), v les of the same ca- pacity having tires four-or more inches wide shall be licensed at $5.a year; vehicles with a capacity less than one ton and having tires less than three inches Wide should be made to pay $1 per month, but with tires three inches should be licensed tor $2 per year. Such asystem would reduce the wear and tear on the street pavements Cnormously by causing a general substitution, of wide tires, and yield a fund that would go far in keep- ing the streets in a condition of repair which would greatly prolong the life of the pave- ments. te ‘Ihe license system of Chicago,.as fixed by the charter, includes amusement places, ped- dlers, pawnbrokers, keepers of ordinaries, hacks, drays, trucks, cabs, omnibuses, ex- pressmen, porters, runners, billiard-tables, ball-alleys, and a number of other items. It is not untikely that the whole list of fees could be revised in such aamanner as to be fairer than now, and at the same time yiel/l more revenue, in addition to the increase we have suggested .on saloons and trucks “with narrow tires. The Mayor cannot do the city a greater s@rvice than by undertak- ing such a revision; but, if he shall neglect it, the Citizens’ Association should cause a tariff to he prepared, showing the revenue that it may be uiade to yield, and bring it before the Council and the public. WHAT THE BOYS ARE BEADING. President Garfield onee said that the first volume he ever read—the foundation of his Hbrary—was “ The Pirate’s Own. Book.” -1f his youth had been deferred until this time, he might have begun his literary pursuits by reading the Pirate’s Own Newspaper. The boys have, to a great extent, stopped reading dime novels, and are now reading flashy newspapers specially gotten up to create and utisty an appetite for stories of criminal ad- venture. At almost any news-stand half'a dozen of these pernicious prints may be found dis- played. The number and_ the evidences of prosperity which they all contain are surprising. But there is very little variety in their contents. ‘They all celebrate tne virtues of the sinall-boy-who-is-not-afr: lice. This small boy is very smart. He knows more than his father, and can outwit any, man by his superior cunning. le usually goes about heavily armed, and shoots with unerring accuracy.. He is not. above getting drunk and chewing tobacco, buteven in his cups his sagacity never deserts him. He despises schools and learning, and looks upon a teacher as an inferior “cop.” Lis vocabulary of ns is unabridged, He-is up to any “racket” and is not * phased by any “chump.” Five of these interesting periodicals are ve- fore the writer, The titles of some of: the serials now running through their columns are instructive. Some of them are: ‘* The Young-Bank Clerk; or, The Mystery uf the Money Vault”;.° Man, Woman, or De- mon”; “Merry Matt; or, ‘The Will-o’the- Wisp of Wine”; “Old Merciless, the Man LUunter,” by the author of “Lhe Boss De- tective”; * Yankee Donovan; or, ‘Che Un- known Champion of the Prize Ring”; “Dynamite Dan; or, ‘The Young Lrish- Aterican ”; ** Tony Bangles; or, The Big- gest Dare Devil in New York’: .* Little Ferret; or,'The Boy Detective’; “ Bastina- do: or. The Terror of. Mexico”; Dancing + rorists, Whether for Life; or.'The Mysterious Protester; “ The Boy Beast-Taier; or, Tommy Bean's q Travels with the Circus”; “Archie Alden; or, ‘The Infernal Machine and the Doomed Ship.” : 7 : ‘Lhe illustrations are quite ‘as exciting az the stories. ‘The favorit scene i 2 picture of u very smill boy, or even of # girl, holding . of a crowd of big men with a brace of re: volvers. Lhere “is a lite-and-death stragete | on the edge of a “beetling” . precipive; g hand-to-hand contlict with knives on ship. board; a street scene in New-York with two. drunken boys in the foreground: and a large and varied assortment of assaults with a deadly weapon with intent to i | This kind of literature is worse than the dime novels, because it is a studied glorifica- tion of the worst phases of criminal life in the large cities. There Ss something ro- mantic in the pirate’s career. It was. sea- faring life, and its scene was shadowy and remote. The boys couldn't, become pirates if they would, and must> of tliém at ‘once recognized the hupelesness of attempt to be anything so grand and splendid. Bug there is notin equal difficulty in entering upon acareer of crime in a large city.. The boy who persists in this ambition will be very likely to suececd. = The guardians of the morals of the youth should see to it that the venders of flash lit- erature for boys are met on their own grounds. ‘The boys should have 2 weekly newspaper of their own: that is not too good * for human nature's daily food: nor too’ pad ny buy tu read. . ‘he error. of respecta- ble publishers has been on the side of preach- - ing and stiffness. Lhey have put the boys’ newspapers too much ‘in ‘the hands. of wouien. .A boy likes stories uf adventure. Ne must and will have them, and they may be given to-him with perfect safety If they are juticiously chosen. ‘The line should. be drawn ouly at criminal adventure. -We are beginning to see that Indian steries and sea- coin fales are comparatively “harmless. The danger lies in the praise of vices which muaty be ensily practiced at home. Why will not the publishers recall tho admonition of Mr. Chadtband to Little Jo: “You aira boy —ahuinen boy"? Most of the respectable juvenile pubiieations are not, we regret to say, intended for the perusal of “human” Tuk London est Engtsh friends of Ireland, thus speass of a Most outrageous crime recently committed by a gang of “no-renters 4 enot acruel people, though they bie ir history. to ducing which they 3 Freucy Tere dd; und among Leisa- men, the people of Kerry, the must purely Milesian of all countics, have ad. the repute uf Demy the most 2 ie and xentic. On Sature “id shi, however, It is repurted that this inci- dent occurred in Kerry: A Catholic. farmer named: Galvin, of Castie Isiand, a place uenr Tralee, wag sith ho ohis mother, aged = wom iu bls awa when tive disguised meu burst into We room, ‘They asked bim if be had pad his rent, and he said yes. ‘They thea xsked bin if be would have and the had only one ife to lose, and, should prefer death to mutilaton. The mea then ordered him to kucel, and tne teader, tell- ing his foiluwers to aim’ at the victinr's legs, guve the word tu fre. ‘The contents ot tve chureed, and Galvin, struck by three bails, tell woundud ‘on Mis Facey and then one of the men attacked hin, still prostrate, with his clubbed gun, breaking ‘it with the fury. of bis blows. The ‘man, who is still living, though in tho greatest danger, would’ have died there” and” then, but iat bis aged mother threw herself upon his body to shield it. from the_ blows, ' the invilders departed cursing. No reason was assigned for the crime other than the payment of rent, and neither Galvin nue bis neighburs doubt cut was tbe sum of bis olft stories we have read frum frelund oune gives us the sume drexry sense ot hopelesness a3 this. We see every day in tae Crimimal Courts cases of tur worse outrage utd fur deeper cruelty, but the crimes in those cases ure crimes of ordinary human passion, crimes of greed, vr lust, of re- venge, or that Semi-nitniueal anger with which the most brutal of the Engitsh secm to be tn- spired by women's But we sever hear of crimes which seezn su hopeless as this. << f Says the London Spectator: i Jt appears that tbe diamond merchants of Hatton Garden are-in the babit of zending qpuntities of piamonds im rexistered letters throusa the post-ollive, Insuring them with 1-" ‘surance ollices at tbe ‘rate of Is Ud per £1. Some members of the criminal class knew thls, aud knew also that a large amount wus to be transmutred on Wednesday. On that duy, there- fore, at 3 p.m., they transueted business in the Alatton-Gard St-ORice. turned olf the Rus, seized two bugs with £3 [320,000] worth of have wild spasms have seown the! dixmonds m them, and escaped. _ ‘The post- office has a Indy for Superintendent and ladies for clerks, and they seem to bave been paralyzed by the rusk, though the Superintendent . flume her “uring round some Vaiuabie bagson Ue counter. Noclew bas been discovered, or, We Inuy Venture to sur, will be, unless tne thieves quarrel; and, though suspicion ruils on the employes, It is, pra facie, unreasonable. How should they know. thut Such a quantity of digmouds were go’ that nyht? Ic is more probable that some: j eler’s clerk bus betrayed bis emp:oyer, and that the jewelers were robbed by some of the udritt alk down every woman of rank: on und seize her wedding prcseats. her marti it begius tu bu impossible to keep jewels in Ea- gland, except tn a bauker's bux, where they are not particularly useful. In Frauce, we rm hear of jewel robberies, even uctresses bi Mile. Schueider keeping theirs, though they Seen every nigbt on the sta; = $$ A CORRESPONDENT of the London Times has been all over the Holy City of Kuirwan, in Tunis, and penetrated to the boly of hulies, the tomb of Syed Abdullah, the * Companion” of the Prophet, buried there in 7) A. LL [1,uu years ago.] He found it a room of marble, with & cupola forty feet high, lignted by stained-glass windows, covered with rich carpets, and full of Jecterns of tortolse-shell ana mother-of-pearl, supporting illuminated Korans. ‘fhe city is full of mosques, sucred tombs, schools, monastery: colleges, and baths, some more than 700 years old, adorned with. marble courts, porphyry pil- lars, and ail the. arcnitectural glories which once filed Granada. Euch “cotleze” or sehool of Mohammedan thought seems to bave founded a building bere for Its disciples’ use, und the oc- cupation of the city will reverberate all through Islam. The correspondent snys tne learning has died away, the guardiuns of the shrines ure illite erute bigots, and: the citizens ure accepting Freneb rule with complacency, or ut leust resit™ pudon. nw THE Pall Mall Guzctte says that the Brit ish Government only employs 65,000 English troops to preserve order in {udia, with 4 popur Intion of 259,000,000; but ‘it, requires at prescut 35,000 troops in Irelund, in addition to 13000 armed Irish Constables, to enforce the laws and preserve order atmon: 5,250,0W Celts. The Ga- zetle remarks thut if tne expense of maintaining this. force in Ireland was subtructed from the ruck-rents of the island, it would not need’so many trops by considerable to preserve order. It adds: And thereupon we venture to propound & question whieh Bishop Berkeley, if we could call him up, wight possibly be persuaded to add to his “Querist"—numety: What proportion, on & Just com putution, duth the unnuat interest ou tog Whole vilue of te fee simpleof the Kingdom of Ireland bear to the annual ses of maintalne ing in that Kingdom balf the number of, Briush trgops that ure found suibelent tor the goverd= ment of the East Indies? o pe ea Wut to do with the crown jewels, whieh there is nobody entitled to wear, is a questo thut bas bothered the ftepublican French Gov- ernment ror sume time. A ccminittee having the matter in charge proposes to sell the whole stock © except 2 few presents from foreign monarchs and u sword worth 350,0%. Among the jewels 0 be thrown on the niurkel. -s the xexent dia- mond, bought in Mudras for Louis XV. for 350," Quu,-Which Is xccountel the ost perfect beill-. iant in Europe, though not the most valuable. Doubtless It will find a purchaser among ts sovereizns who are rich enough to own, 5u costly yewsuws. Republican France bas n0 Use for it. ae Proression at. zeal is a good thing in its way, but when curried to excess 13 liable to in volve tts posséssor in serious trouble, as witness the case of one Hathaway, City Enginecr of: Coldwater, Mich. ‘This enterorising official, deeming the citizeus of Coldwater entirely:t09 mild in thoir enthusiasm over the work. the Fire Department; of which ho was Chief,’ conceived a novel but effective plan of remedy