The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1877, Page 6

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Her yachtsmen propose to join in a grand ocean race. ‘Tue Ourtranes or Tiy ‘TELeGRaPsic ANNOUNCE- went of Bisinarck’s resignation aro woll filled in i by oar Berlin correspondent, who gives also an interesting sketch of the great ex-Chancellor himeclf. , Proressor AptER remarked in the course of his lecture yesterday that what a woman is no one knows, not even herself. How thankful the Jeeturer should be that the mass of American girls cannot get at him this morning! Ayr Oxe Wio Wisnes To Asuse the United States Navy need not look to Old Boreas for as- sistance. His little affair with the Powhatan a few days ago must have convinced the old growler that blowing great guns cannot hurt wooden walls when there are Yankee tars behind them. ‘Tue TEMPERANCE Union listened yesterday to some needed words about the inability of mere talk to stop intemperance. It is a pity that the hat was not passed at the close of the meeting to discover in how many cases the enthusiasm of the attendants could get as far down as their pockets. ‘ No Wowper that Ponce de Leon imagined he might find “The Fountain of Youth” in Florida. To view such a glorious outburst of waters as the correspondent with the Heraty Exploring Expedition in the Alligator State describes the source of the Wacissa River to be is enough to make even a cool-headed scientist dream of ro- mantic improbabil A Goxtumvtor to “Our Comrtarst Boox” is so fastidious as to object to the presence of a dead cat in his street, and he offers to donate to the “Grand Serenade” the same animal, or such portions of its internal economy as are tradi- tionally consecrated to musical uses. Let him be grateful; a dozen dead cats are inoffensive eompared with one live one, while the latter, as a serenader, is without an equal. Tae Renicion that most people are look- ing for was found on Saturday by several men, They were harangued in a small room by a man NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, . Lines of New Departure—What the South Necds is Justice and Common Sense. If the new administration is wrecked it will be upon the Southern question. ‘Chis was the rock upon which Johnson struck. This was the snag in the way of Grant. The country stood all of Grant's mistakes until he blundered in Lonisiana. Then his power waned, It was the South which gave Tilden his apparent majority and almost made him President. The Southern question is the first difficulty of Hayes, Now that it rears its horrid front and menaces him, aos it men- aced Johnson and Grant, let us look at it calmly and see in what respect Mr. Hayes may take a new departure. The truth about the Sonth isa painful one. We have a con- quered territory and wo do not know what to do with it. The conquered States natu- rally follow their old leaders, and their aim is to recover through political oxpedients as much as possible of what they lost in the war. There is a good deal of cant abont “cheerfully accepting” and so on, and “gladly welcoming” emancipation, for in- stance. But itisall cant, How can the South- ern people ‘cheerfully accept” the most terrible and crushing defeat ever imposed by one Power upon the other since Scipio conquered Carthage? How can they “cheerfally welcome” an event which, how- ever much we in tho North may sing and pray about it, has ruined hundreds of thousands of the best men and women in the South? This is not in human natnre, and any theory shout the settlement of the Southern question based upon it is un- sound, because it rests upon a falsehood. What tho South accepts is the sword. What she is now striving to do is to put away the sword. She has “accepted” nothing. She | fought the military rule at the end of the war, although if that rule had been contin- ued for ten years she would have escaped the corruptions of the carpet-bagger. She fought the Frecdman’s Bureau, although without it she never could have controlled the lIabor which has enabled her to grow as much cotton as in any of her peaceful years. She has fonght every system of government, every experi- ment that did not bring back, as nearly as possible, the old system. Wherever she has found a Copfederate leader she has honored and promoted him. She shows it in the long list of gallant and distinguished men who hold seats in the Senate and the House because of what they did for the lost cause. Wherever one of her sons has shown a disposition to make terms with her enemy, even sons as distinguished as Long- street and Mosby, she has punished him with swift and merciless rigor. She cares nothing for the democratic, nothing for the republican party. Her aim, her natural, proper and excusable aim, is to recover as much as possible what she lost during the war. {If we take this sensible view of the South- ern question the new lines of Presidential policy are cfear. Let Mr. Hayes say to the South, ‘Act with me in good faith and I will give you more, far more, than you can win in a hundred electoral campaigns.” The prac- tical effect of the Southern efforts for the last ten years has been to make the leaders the tools of the gang of speculators in politics who now control that bankrupt, worthless, ignominious concern called the democratic party. The Southern people have gained nothing, and even if they had elected ‘Tilden it would have been a barren victory for them, however it might have been to the gain of the operators who held shares in the recent demo- cratic Presidentigl pool. Neither Mr. Tilden nor any democratic President could have had the confidence of the country to the extent possessed by Hayes. Without that nothing can be done for the South. As it now stands we have the President and the Vice President, five out of seven members of the Cabinet, a large section if not the majority of the republican members of the House and Senate, willing, anxious to do anything for the South that will give us peace, take all sectional questions out of politics, and enable us to give some atten- tion to financial and industrial questions. Will the South accept this? Or will its leaders by continued follies so exhaust the patience of their friends in the North as to make any effort to help them vain? We in the North owe much, very much, to the South, and the debt should be paid. We understand why the Southern people who offered them large prices to listen, and regard any reconstruction as hollow that showed his money to prove that he meant busi- ness. But alas for human hopes! To-day, when all New York sinners and righteous men would gladly drop business and attend such a paying service, the wealthy and spirited preacher will probably be sent to a lunatic asylum. Tne Serenave to the Police Commissioners for their great success in keeping the streets dirty will be very popular, judging from the let ters received from contributors. A distinguished | composer is now busy arranging the music for the unique instruments to be employed. The first two numbers in the concert programme will be “Sweep By and By” snd “Down in the Dumps.” Others will be announced in a few days. Asan artistic triumph the serenade will bdo unprecedented. Amone Yusterpay’s Sermons was a defence of God against the theologians who seem to think that the nature of the Almighty and the needs of humanity have nothing to do with each other, a series of practical lessons from the life of St. Joseph, some explanations of radicalism by » preacher never suspected of conservatism, and a sermon which, though delivered to those who toil with hand and foot, contained not a special word to either burglars or tramps. Tus Wraturr.--With the exception of a alight rain fall and cloudiness on the New Eng- Jand coast, cloudiness, with rain, on the Florida nd Gulf consts, und cloudiness and rain in the Northwest, generally clear woather provailed yea- terday throughout the country. Thursday's de- pression has moved off the Nova Scotia coast in southeusterly direction. The area of low pressure in the West has moved into the Missouri Valley, wttended by brisk to high winds, which are felt on the Gulf coast. Tho highest barometer ls moving over the lower luke region in a south- sasterly direction. ‘The temperature is very high in tho south and in the St. Lawrence Valley, on the Atlantic coast, the central regions ‘and the Missouri Valley. Westward of the low area it falls rapidly. We again cali attention to + the probability of another Gulf disturbance dur ing the early days of the week. ‘Tho weather in New York today will be warmer and clear or wartiv clove. throws upon them the most terrible burdens of the war and does nothing to help them carry the load. Take emancipation. in the North are as much responsible for slavery as tho South. We enjoyed many of its material advantages. We legalized it, and men are still living who were dragged through Northern streets with halters about their necks for questioning its divine char- acter. Yet we take away all genuine inerit in the noble work of emancipation by throwing it on the South as a war measure, like Bismarck when he exacted his milliards from France. Bismarck frankly avowed his purpose to cripple and punish his enemy. He did not talk about “fraternity,” as we did when we reduced hundreds of thousands of families to beg- gary. Whon we add to this the repudiation of the various war debts of the South, the currency, the destruction of every form of government machinery, the pillage of half the States—the desolation of South Carolina, for instance, by Sherman, not as an act of war, but as an avowed act of vengeance— how can we resist the conclusion that some- thing must be done for the South—some- thing that no statesmanship has yet had the courage to dream? And we know that we speak for the generous, magnani- mous North when wo say that our people, if rightly directed, once removed from the ter- ror of a Southern outbreak, once assured that there was peace in the South to black and white, peace and justice and fair play, would only be too glad to take into consid- eration the true burdens of the war and do their part toward making them oasy, Why has this not been done? Simply because of tho hell-born spirit of political intrigue. The republican leaders do not want it, because the passions of the North, the ‘war spirit,” und so on, enable Mr, Blaine and Mr. Morton and the fanatics to make an effective campaign. The demo- cratic leaders do not want it, because the We} ! their work they have usually made sure of passions of the South enable them to carry the Southas » unit. What do these men care about a North’ mourning because tho Union is not a union of love, abont a Sonth mourning in sackcloth and ashes over a glory that seems to have set forever? But we have a President, we trust, who is above these dark and degrading aims, Behind him we have » country that will only be too glad to follow the Moses who will lead it out of the wilderness of hatred and heart- burning into the promised land. Let the true men of the South—men like Lamar, Hampton, Lee, Gordon and their fellows-- throw aside all political ties, and, unit- ing ‘with men like Conkling, Fish, Hoar, Evarts, Adams, Edmunds and Dix, form a new patty, a thoronghly American party, a party whoso first duty will be jus- tice, magnanimity and aid to the South. These Southern men can in an hour give assurances as to the protection and well- being of the negro that will at onco satisfy the North, They can give him political equality, and in so doing open the way to a settlement that will end tho most painful question that ever afflicted American poli- tics and bring about that era of good feel- ing of whick the Republic is in such sore noed, The European War and Our Rail- road Property. The railway property of the United States is likely to be affected in two entirely oppo-~ site ways by the great war now bursting upon Europe. The market value of such property will be still further depreciated and its real value be considerably inercased. This prediction may look like a paradox, but it is not so self-contradictory as it seems. The expected depreciation in the market price of American railroad securities will be a consequence of the discredit into which they have fallen in the period immediately preceding the out break of the war. The belligerent gov- ernments will be forced to raise money at exorbitant rates. When their loans are offered in the European money centres at temptingly high interest the holders of American railway bonds will sell them or send them home to this country for sale, with a view to invest the proceeds in the war loans of the belligerent Powers. They will feel that they are mercly exchanging one bad security for another, and that a bad security with a very high rate of interest is preferable to a bad security which does not promise so” much. The ‘chance of realizing on Russian bonds or Turkish bonds will be deemed quite as good as the chance of realizing on the American railroad bonds in which European confidence has been prostrated within the last few months; and as the offer of ad- vantage will be double or treble, the dis- credited American railway bonds will be sold to procure the means of speculating in the new war loans, We may accordingly expect large amounts of American railroad securities to be returned upon our market for sale, depressing prices beneath their present low level by a great excess of supply over demand. But this will furnish a golden opportunity to American capitalists who are in a position to take advantage of it. They will be able to buy, dog-cheap, securities whose value is certain to rise. The real value of American railroad property will be greatly increased by the European war. ‘The powerful stimu- lus which will be given to our grain trade and our provision trade will add to the business and enhance the profits of our rail- roads. ‘This species of property will be largely increased in real value while sinking in market price. The great amounts of it which will be offered for sale by deluging the American market from Europe will make it a favorable time to buy, and no investments will pay better to American purchasers who can afford to hold. Our capitalists may recover from Europe a part of what was lost by the sale of our government bonds at about half their real value during the twoor three years which followed our civil war. As we then sept government bonds to Europe and sold them for a song, so European holders will now send our railroad bonds to America for sale and take what they can get. Nothing is more certain than that American railway property will ultimately recover, and those who purchase it with proper discrimination as to the prospects of particular roads will make as’ good a thing os did the European purchasers of our government bonds at the time when the markets of the world were flooded with them. English Athletics Which Pay, All who enjoy out door sports were glad | last season to see England's first gentlemen oarsmen on our waters, manfully taking their chance against all comers, in the world’s race for the championship, They brought us many good hints from the school of British athletics. For general use, how- ever, the lesson of how to husband the en- durance in the short, sharp, terrific pace for one mile or six, is not the most valuable. This kind of work may bring disordered hearts or weakened lungs or early wrinkles ; but such quieter and less hazardons outdoor | recreation as the brisk daily walk, ride or row, certainly tends all tho other way. An hour's constitutional late each after- noon in the open air, in such form and with such companion as best suits the taker, if kept up faithfully for one month, is almost sure to be enjoyed thereafter as regularly as one’s dinner, so necessary to the general welfare does it become and so welcome is the improved tone it brings. If it sharpens the appetite and makes ono sleep the sounder it may also lead to retiring early. So good an authority as James T. Fields says that late hours and hard brain work in thong are among the most fruitfal causes of insomnia, and hence of the early wearing out of men who other- wiso would live out all their days, while those who are up and at their work early aro far fitter for it and stand it longer and | better. Webster and Wellington of the past, and Sherman, Cushing and, Bancroft of to-day—all five o'clock men—certainly bear this out. By being thus forehanded with the afternoon constitutional an® the sound general health it entails. Among the good habits one tries to implant in his chil- drea let this daily hour or moro of ac- 3 tive, hearty, ont door exercise—no matter what the weather or how coarse the road— be not omitted. Boys or girls, they will live to thank their parent for a habit so easily learned and so beneficial alike to body and mind. Nay, in the very teaching of this custom, which will prolong their lives, a father will quite likely find that he has done much to save his own. Lawyer and Secretary of State. When a high officer in the public service deviates from long established usage he should either give, or enable his friends to give for him, valid reasons to justify his course. Reasons founded on his private convenience will not suffiee. They must rest on grounds of public utility or the country will not listen to them. The greater part of our long line of illustrious Secre- taries of State have been bred to the law, but until now no one has gone into a court in his professional capacity while charged with the responsibility of directing our foreign affairs. Precedent has, indeed, but little force against reason; but an unbroken line of precedents, extending through nearly ninety years, creates a presumption that there is some good reason for the uni- formity. Mr. Evarts is not the first Secre- tary of State who felt, when the place was tendered him, that he could not maintain its dignity on the salary ot the office. In 1841 it was offered to a practising lawyer as eminent as Mr. Evarts. But it never oc- curred to Mr. Webster that he might eko out the inadequate salary by continuing to render professional services to clients. While he was hesitating as to whether he ought to accept his Boston friends raised by subscription a handsome sum to enable him to take the office. On that singular and questionable transaction we make no | other comment than this, that it was a clear proof that Mr. Webster and his generous, admiring friends were of the opinion that it was not proper for him to continue the practice of the law while filling the office of Secretary of State. While Mr. Webster was | a Senator of the United States he earned a large income as a lawyer. Congress is in session, on an average, not more than half of the year, and even during the session so little depends on any one member that his occasional absence works no inconven- ience to public business, Mr. Webster never hesitated while he was a Senator to argue | cases in the Supreme Court while Congress | was in session. He did not hear the whole of the Hayne debate, in which he took so distinguished a part, because an engage- ment in the court room called him away. But, although he had no scruple about prac- tising law while serving in the Senate, he never entertained the idea that he could reconcile his profession with the duties of Secretary of State, and hence the large con- tribution made by his Boston admirers to enable him to take the office. ‘The incom- patibility which he recognized seems to rest on sufficient reasons. A lawyer who has engagements with clients cannot do them justice unless he appearsin court when their cases come up for argu- ment. But it may happen, at such a time, that there is an unexpected crisis in the foreign affairs of the government. In that event either the clients who had depended on him must suffer or the public interests must be sacrificed. The two obligations are incompatible, and no public man has a right even to incur the risk of becoming so entangled. Moreover, it is the duty of a Minister of Foreign Affairs to keep himself thoroughly informed re- specting the latest developments of policy in all the governments with which we hold intercourse, and a statesman who does this faithfully can have no leisure for outside duties. There have been Presidents, like Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, who, having been Secretaries of State and ambas- sadors to foreign countries, needed compar- atively little assistance from the chief officer of the Cabinet. But Mr. Hayes does not be- long to that class. He is entirely dependent on his Secretary of State for information re- specting foreign governments, and Mr. Evarts having no previous experience in the great office he holds, there would see1a to be em- ployment enongh even for his brilliant faculties in keeping himself qualified to ad- vise the President and the Committees on Foreign Affairs in Congress in every exi- gency that may arise. There ought to be somebody in the government who is thor- oughly equipped in that kind of knowledge, and that person should be the Secretary of State. It is said that the salary of the office is inadequate ; that Mr. Fish spent fifty thou- sand dollars a year in excess of his salary in maintaining the dignity of the office. This is a false standard of comparison. Mr. Fish, a gentleman of great wealth, merely | continued in Washington the same style of living to which he had been accustomed in New York. It was not the office of Secre- tary which cost him so much, but his own previous habits as a private gentleman. Mr. Fish’s independent fortune is no reason why his successors should not, like him, give their whole time to the duties of their office. If the dignity of fhe government must suffer it had better suffer from a less profuse hospitality than from the spectacle of a Secretary of State going into the courts as a practitioner of law. What Is Don Quixote Blaine Going To Do About Itt When the renowned “Knight cf the Sor- rowfnl Countenance” put on his rusty armor, got astride his bony, wall-eyed steed Rosinante, and sallied forth in quest of ad- ventures, he made the trifling mistake of not percetving that the “age of chivalry is gone.” Had he lived at an earlier period the Knight of La Mancha might have made acfeditable figure among tho high-souled champions who roamed over the world to slay monsters, rescue distressed damsels, make war single-handed upon robbers and challenge all comers to acknowledge the peerless beauty of the lady to whom he had dedicated his affections and his valor. But inasmuch as his chivalric impnises were exhibited an age too late the adven- tures of poor Don Quixote, as related by his veracious historian, sound only as the greatest contribution yet made to the mirth and amusement of mankind. We fear that our new Knight of the Sorrowful Counte- nance, who sallios forth from Maine instead APRIL 23, 1877--TRIPLE SHEET. ————[—$ of La Mancha, has equally mistaken his epoch. His sable Dulcinea is no doubt quite as chaste and lovely as the village wench whom the imagination of his re- nowned prototype clothed with wonder- ful charms and dignity; and _ her irrepressible, doughty knight may perhaps win equal glory from battles with windmills, unless his prosaic Sancho Panza Hale should have better success in curing him of his illusions than attended the efforts of the faithful squire of La Mancha’s ever memor- able knight. The redoubtable Knight of Maine mounted his Rosinante and poised his formidable lance on the second day of the late extra session of the Senate. He boldly challenged President Hayes, boldly challenged every- body, to admit the superior beauty and virtue of his black Dulcinea; but President Hayes, at least, has declined to say that there is no public interest which can com- pare with the negro question, and we shall now see what the Knight of Maine will do to avenge the injured claims of his adored Dulcinea. In the fiery speech alluded to Mr. Blaine denounced the idea that ‘‘Pack- ard was not to be recognized and sup- ported.” Six times in the course of that short speech he said, with ever increasing emphasis, “I deny it,” stating after each de- nial some reason, which he seemed to regard as conclusive, why it could not be true.’ ‘‘I shall find myself,” he said, ‘‘griev- ously disappointed, wounded and humil- iated if my deninl is not vindicated by the policy of the administration.” He went on to say that disappointment would make no difference in his own course, and added in a tone of defiance, “I hope a republican Senate will say that on this point there shall be no authority large enough or ad- venturous enough” to do what he denounced by failing to recognize and support Pack- ard. President Hayes has given no heed to Blaine’s denunciations ; and now what will Don Quixote do to avenge his slighted Dul- cinea? A tilt against windmills seems to be the only resource left for signalizing his valor. After the withdrawal of the troops there is every reason to believe that Louisiana will be as peaceful and orderly as South Carolina already is. It is not easy to see what topics Mr. Blaine will find for his inflammatory eloquence at the extra session. If instead of the butcheries and bull-dozing which, according to republican orators, have in recent years been incessant in those States in spite of their carpet-bag govern- ments, there should be an unbroken reign of quiet and tranquillity after the with- drawal of the troops, what ground of attack | will Mr. Blaine find against President Hayes? Does he wish to split the republican party? Can he think his own chances for the Presidency will be increased by provoking theadministration and all its supporters to make war upon him? If he assails the President he will probably en- counter an inglorious defeat; but if he has any success it will only be in dividing the republican party and leading one faction of it. What would a nomination by that fac- tion be worth to him in the next Presidential contest? We adviseDon Quixote Blaine to put off his obsolete armor, lay down his lance, confess that his black Dulcinea is merely what she is, and turn his over worked Rosinante out to grass. Muscovite and Tark. The active hostilities which are on the eve of breaking out between these ancient rivals will be after all only a new act in the great military and political drama that was put on the European stage during the reign of Peter the Great. Glancing back over the history of the two nations we find them at an early day struggling for the dominion of the East. @he fiercely contested battles that marked the progress of these historic wars between the Czars and the Sultans were fought on the same fields that will again be drenched with the blood of the armies of the Pruth and the Danube. The same fortresses will be besieged and, in- deed, the same plan of operations for offence “and defence will be adopted, sub- ject to the modifications rendered necessary by improved arms and facilities for transportation. Tactics change with the times and conditions, but strategy— never. We print elsewhere in to-day’s Henraxp o synopsis of the history of the wars between the Muscovite and Turk that occur- red during the past two hundred years. It will bo seen therefrom that the quarrel of to-day is the same one that caused the wars of 1696, 1769, 1787, 1807, 1811, 1828 and 1853, the same casus belli that will renew hostili- ties in coming years, until every vestige of | Turkish power is wiped out of Europe. There has always been put forward a pretext to justify conquest, and the grounds for that excuse have ever been furnished by the incompatibility between the Ottoman idea and European civilization, Nothing short of the dismemberment of the Turkish Em- pire will ever solve the Eastern question. Spring Sun Softly rose the sun of yesterday, and ten- derly and impartially it shone upon every one and every thing. It kissed the cheek | of the maiden and hurried into bloom the roses already budded there, and it liberated from the garbage in the streets the robber Malaria, who will soon snatch the roses and crush them iffto dust. Sick men crawled to windows and thanked God for the new beauty spread over land and sky, while from the street beneath there arose a subtle influence which will soon enable many an invalid to return thanks face to face with the Giver. Down from tenement house | attics and up from noisome ceilars came grateful mothers to bathe choir pallid in- tants in Heaven's healing flood of light, and up from the gutter to meet them came the power that transforms visible children into misty memories. Along the street or two | which form the exceptions that prove the rule of the Street Cleaning Bureau's neg- lect rolled carriages fall of well dressed people intent upon breathing the earliest aroma arising from Spring’s invisible censer, and with it they unconsciously inhaled ex- halations wafted through side streets from sources the reverze of invisible. he sun- light fell—great is the mercy of Heaven !— upon the Street Cleaning Bureau, but was lassitude. It peered through the windows of the Health Board, but could not pene- trate the tangle of red tape which hangs like a pall between that department and duty. It shone in upon the unemployed and despon- dent physician and whispered the certainty of plenty of business, and it fell with new significance upon the polished surface of the undertaker’s stock in trade. Under its promising rays even the lone tombstone of the family burial plot found hope of early companionship. At last, gently but irrev- ocably, it fell, and with it the doom of many, for its warmth remained hidden in the bosom of the garbage heap. Why the Politicians Oppose a Spring Election, The plea of expense and inconvenience urged by politicians in the Legislature against changing our municipal election to April is deceitful and hollow. They really oppose this change for the same rea- son that the people support it—namely, because it would divorce our city affairs from State and national politics, Undoubt- edly the vote would be smaller than it is at present; but the people who come to the polls would be actuated by purer motives, In all great cities there is a corrupt and purcliasable vote. The proportion of this which is brought to the polls depends upon the amount of money expended for election- eering purposes. When Stato officers, mem- bers of Congress, members of the Legislature and county officers are to be chosen at the same time as city officers the election ex- penses of the whole are put into a common fund, and the combined exertions of all the candidates reach the worst slums and lowest purlieus of the city. In a quiet municipal election comparatively little money would be expended, and the corrupt class who vote for pay would have less inducement to abuse the right of suf- frage. The politicians by trade deprecate such a state of things, because their power depends on their control of the classes who have no public spirit and vote from mer- cenary considerations. To bring outa full vote from all the slums requires a large ex- | penditure of money, and a city election pure and simple would not supply the requisite funds. Aspring election would, therefore, be more under the control of citizens of public spirit. The State politicians as well as the city politicians deprecate a divorce of city from State politics. The success of a State ticket very often depends on the exertions of can- didates for local offices. The bargains for mutual support which always take place between nominees of the same party strengthen the State candidates to a greater extent than they do the city candidates, Democratic candidates for State offices seldom succeed without o large city vote, and they wish to reinforce their strength by enlisting tho local candidates in their service. Every man who is brought from the slums to vote for a personal friend or purchaser can be relied on to vote the whole ticket of his party, and the greater the number of candidates in the same elec- tion the better are the chances of all when each profits by the influence of the whole body. ‘The consequence of this ‘‘solidarity” of interests is that all aspirants favor the nomination of such associate can- didates as will work for them rather than such as are really fit for the offices. It is like what is called “log. rolling” in the Legislature when a set of schemers club together for mutual assist- ance and proqure votes for bad bills by promises to render a like service. The effect of a spring election would be like putting each legislative measure on its own merits. It would prevent a species of ‘‘log- rolling” between the State and city candi- dates and leave each set to stand upon their real claims. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Onioas cure sleeplessness. Alligators love dogs most. Great geniuses ure good lovers. The ‘‘V’rincesse’’ overdress still reigns, ‘The brains of reptiles lic adjoining the neck. Balzec was enthusiastic over Sir Walter Scott, Spanish lace scarfs, ties and barbes aro still fashion- able. Already 40,000 Servians havo been killed or wounded. Sir Henry Thompson says that brain workers should not take alcohol, Was ita Boston paper that headed its New York news ‘Suburban ??” Dr. Mary Walker would make a good right bower, if Jack Logan were the left. New street dresses are considerably shorter than those worn during the winter, ‘ Philadelphia Sullerin;—"*A man with water on the brain should wear a plug hat.’* Torchon lace of the finest quality is used for trim. ming tho costliest evoning dresses. Gray Varker, tho artist, is truth(ul in bis characters izations, but never naughty minded. Brillat-Savarin said that a dinner should be from the heavy to the light and delrcate foods, Tho daughter of a Californian is to marry a French count Ilo demanded $100,000 down, Millais is fifty, and he cares so much for money that be does not always value the essential merits ot his art. ‘The “Gath’’-ometer of Bobem!a does not believe in the starp ports of paragraphs. He is always point blank. Senator James G. Blaine, of Maine, and Goneral Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massacbusetts, aro dt tho Filth Avenue. A New York policeman bas more dignity than @ king, and be usually takes in » whole paper of tobacco for one chew, Tho Examiner says that the right to voto bas made the English masses more manly, and bas caused a de- sire for general education. The city belle who tried to drive a cow over the bars indulged in high-heeled ‘‘shoos.”” We are sorry to ay that the atoresaid is a pun. if We notico that Mrs, Hawois has edited ‘Chaucer for cbildren,’”? What children really need ts a big hunk of molasses cake and a lot of fairy talos. Garrett, the railway monarch of Baltimore, who did more than many other people for the aid of that purely artificial city, is not over popular there, When a boy used to play tit, tat, too on the slate he would sometimes try to make a row of three criss- crosses, and his opponent would make a little circle and bead him off. Hayes is one of these little circles, When Mrs. Jane Swissheim goes betore ber audience in what tho infidel of the Rochester Democrat calls her truly ablo chem!tloou, she lets down her back hair on the mantel and says, “That’s the kind of a clothespin lam!” . When you hear a membor of the Legisiature any that ho will co-operate with something or anything he can Jay his hands oo in the way of reform, just put the | fly blister of your intelligence upon him and make up your mind that he will be rich early. North Carolina is the champion State for blackber- ries. Ah! how happy those old days when wo stood beside a blackeyed girl ata blackberry bush and tried te make her pail get full before ours, so that she could | powerless to increase that body's dreamy sit down on a stone and rest, This isn’t a tear.