The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 10, 1898, Page 6

THE BAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1898. Thre .o 'SUNDAY. ..\ oo — g JOHN D SPRECKELS, Proprietor ons to W, E......Maket and Third Sts., S. F | phone Main I8 .....217 to 291 Stevenson Street | one Main 187 i CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s | this clty and surrcunding towns By mall $6 per year: per month 8 Address All Come § LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OF Te EDRITORIAL ROOMS. Te THE SAN FRANCISCO served by carrters In for IS cente a week. 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL . OAKLAND OFFICE.......ccooiiiiniiisannne NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Buliding | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE Rigge Houee | C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | “One yean by mail, $1.50 | 908 Broadway | BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery strest, corner Clay, open untll &30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until $:30 o'ciock. 6R! McAlllster strect. open ugtll &350 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misslon street, cpen uotil 10 o'clock. 289! Market | street. corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 c'clock. 2518. Misslon street., open until 9 o'clock. 106 Ele street. open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | untll &30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. | AMUSEMENTS n—"A Gar Deocelver™ ~Shore Aeres ™ | “OM Lavendar.™ 1ivali—~The Widow ¢ Orpheum Y.ML G A Vaudevii “The Passion o Vauder corner Mason hramm, Wednesday after | Boon. 4 5 | Central Parx—Basehall to-lay. | Recreation Park—Based El Campo- Muste. nF, every Sumdar, Horses. atcorner Van Ness | JocK. H Ry Killip & Co.—Tesaay. avenue and Ma: | PASSING OF AN OPPORTUNITY. he opening day of the Trans- b the more evident is the | provided for an exhibit s made a mistake. Perhaps it is W not too late. Much could be done between and the 1st of june, when the doors are to 3 fact ot having there Cal been held in this country, on of the Columbian affair. roaching completion are large It is worth re- at a Trans- Californian pre- | trong and en- Mis 3 sissippt C t th sent a d that there was | Cahiornian 5 s to be consid- | nestic market as om every part of the ! be at Omaha by the thousands during he exposition is to be under way. Farthermore, California intends soon to have an ex- position on a magnificent scale. nition of the be a foreign one. and visitors The Test recog- | rocity ought to cause | liberal treatment of The money expended and the good will shown would bring rich returns. \Tbc managers desire that if nothing more ~ - done Commissioners be appointed from this State and private exhibits be forwarded. It certainly se:ms strange that among the States invited o participate | California shoald be the only one to refuse. THE JURY-BOX SCANDAL. r able that we shall ever discover the parties who _ were respounsible for putting the three bogus slips into the jury-box in Jwdge Hunt's court. The | expert who examined the penmans of the slips and | compared it with that of the various deputies who | copy the names furnished by the Judges for jurymea | bas satisfied himseli that none of them wrote the hngu!mt slips. For the present, therefore, the in- | vestigation is blocked, and perhaps nothing but a for- | tunate accident hardly to be expected will ever ai- ford evidence as to the criminal. In this sitmation Judge Hunt Proposes 1 new sys- tem of making up the lists and the establishment o’f a check against a repetition of the offense. The pla is a simple one. As stated by him to a representa- | tive of The Call, it consists in a rule requiring that all ! names for jurymen be copied by not more than two deputies, and that each slip shall be signed by the deputy who copied it. In that way, as the Judge says, if anything goes wrong it will be easy to trace | the cause of it There will be a personal responsi- | bility on the part of the deputies signing the slips, | and such responsibility nearly always resuits in mak- | ing careless people careful and scheming peoolei We directed attention a few days ago to a plan pro- | posed by Mr. Shannahan for accomplishing the same purpose as that aimed at by Judge Huat. Which of | the two remedies will best suit the need of the occa- | sion is for the Judges to decide. The public will be satisfied with anything which secures honesty in the | fatare, but will continue to hope that the court, its | officials and the detective force of the city will not | forget the offense already committed, but kecp n‘ watch for some disclosures that will lead to the ar- rest and conviction of the criminal who, without the | knowledge of the court, the clerk or any of the dep- uties, managed to get at the jury-box and stuff the | lists according to his fancy. A Ty A woman has been acquitted of the charge of bigamy brought by a2 man who pretended to be her husband. But if the acquittal was just, why is the man still out of jail? 3 ROM the present outlook it appears improb- | | There was once written a sentimental song about the “Letter That Never Came” Appareatly there ! are other letters inclined 1o act in the same mnuy! fashion. The flyingsqudmhsbm{ormfimfady to move. It could be wished, almost, that Tom Ml had more of the charactesistics of a fiying squadron, Spain seems to have two alternatives. She can quit be hs can't help fesiing resigned. Cuba or fight. or she may fight and quit Csba. I | W78 either case she loses the island, “Jim™ Rea has boen to an honast pofities! gather- | courss. Even afisr eas ing There is culy one way t5 ewplaia this. He mast | hanging bs sannot aveid | ti SPANISH RETROGRESS!ON. HE reported remarks of the Spanfsh War Min- ister introduce an opera beuffe feature as a pre- lude to the tragedy that is te follow. He fer- vently wished that Spain had net a warship afloat, for then none would have to strike her flag te the United States. However, as she has some ships, he suggests that they be blown up by their crews. This morbid expression is the outcome ef een- turies of folly and bad government. Europe to-day is not the Europe of Phillip II. Every advanee in edu- cation and every extension of popular freedom and human rights that has taken place in the last three centuries retains in some form the sting of Spain's opposition. She has stood fast by the old order. Glutted with the spoils of America, her people at home neglected the preservation of her industries and her commerce, until, when her American Pactolus ran dry, they had largely lost the capacity to thrive by the industrial arts. Her forests had been wasted, her streams lost their waters, her soils failed in ‘fer- tility, and her enterprising sons were driven into strange countries to seek the larger opportunities of life which had failed at home. Centuries of war for revenge, for dynastic ambition, for the purpose of feeding a foolish military pride, have left their mark on the stature and strength of her people. Neglectful of reinstatement of home in- dustries, wasteful in her financial methods, unwise in taxation and prodigal in expenditure, she has for years come to depend on the revenues wrung from Cuba and the Philippines. With characteristic im- providence she has returned bad government and op- pression in those nds for the millions they have yiclded to her. Compared with her rule in her colo- nies, that of Turkey in Egypt was benevolent. Roman politicians who secured a province might oppress its people and overtax their substance, but the oppressed had a hearing before the Senate. Rome produced a Verres, but raised also a Cicero to pursue him. Spain has put her colonies under tyrants who added their own to the exactions of the home Government, but she has never questioned nor impeached them. In her colonial possessions her policy left to the people only the recourse of assassination or revolution. Timely concessions were refused. A degree of par- pation in their affairs that would have confirmed the loyalty of her colonists was scouted. They must put their necks under the heel of the Goyernor- General she sent and see him absorb their substance, until, gorged like a condor, he took flight to make room for another hungry bird of prey. It is no wonder that such a policy has isolated her in Europe, where modern progress looks upon her uncomfortable qualm; and in the mind the vision of 2 dead fornt bearing the marks of violence. So sor- row may be put on the programme as a regular thing: A murderer deveid eof it eould hardly contribute to the smoethness of a first-class execution. And then not to feel ill will is the proper course. There really does not appear any good reason why an assassin should cherish a disregard for seciety he had out- raged and whieh is ‘simply meting out to him the penalty he deliberately incurred. ° These stereotyped accounts of hangings should be revised: They ge into unneeessary detail. Let the public take for granted the whole scheme of sorrow, resignation and forgiveness. The story get$ as fam- iliar as that ef the suicide who performs a “rash” act “while laboring under a fit of despoadency,” in- variably using “a cheap pattern of bulldog pistol of 38 caliber.” N Tilton of the whaling steamer Belvedere strik- ingly confirms the wisdom of the Government in dispatching a relief expedition as soon as the peril- ous condition of the whaling fleet was made known. Thanke to the promptness with which the expedition was started, there is reasen for the hope that it will reach the whalers in time to save them from the destitution and starvation that threaten. Mr. Tilton states that after the ficet had become ice- bound an inyentory of the supplies of all the ships was taken and it was found that by allowing two scant meals a day to each man the provisions might be made to last up to July 1. Unless relief was ob- THE ICE-BOUND WHALERS. EWS brought frem the Arctic by Third Mate of those tragedies of the Arctic in which brave men, exhausted by lack of food and numbed by the fear- ful cold of the impr'@oning ice and snow, lie down amid the frozen wastes to sleep the sleep that knows no waking. So certain was the impending danger, so sure the doom of the crews, that it was determined to risk one life in the hazardous attempt to force a way across the desolation of the north to seek relief. Mr. Til- ton volunteered to make the journey and succeeded in performing the unprecedented feat of crossing from Point Barrow to civilization in midwinter. He arrived to find that his venture had been forestalled; lief for the fleet. None the less, however, does he deserve praise for his achievement. He performed | a dangerous duty for his fellow-men courageously and well, and the worth of the fea. is not diminished by the fact that the relief he sought had been dis- patched long before he arrived to ask it | | tained before that time the result would be another | that American humanity had already dispatched re- | | would but slightly disturb the serenity of the bitum- as an enemy, and has turned against her the hnndsj of her own sons. Unwise and wasteful in her day of power and prosperity, when her splendors dazzled | the world, and unable to support adversity with philosophy and patience, against the bloody and bril- lant background of her high and mighty past is cast the shadow of her pitiful decay. It is a far cry | from the Cid Campeador to a War Minister who | . D IR 3 peelers to! blaw ! B her ships rather thanbce an | time. Unless some obstacle insyperable by human | energy stops the relieving expedition, the ice-bound enemy and fight. AETRY P SEng SI X resisted all our efforts to convince it that it | sailors will be saved ere long from the danger that threatens, and their scant allowance of two poor A MARKET-STREET SEWER. e = L) is not good business policy to repave Market | street prior to the construction of a main sewer, now- | | meals a day will be changed to the aburdance of launches the argument that if a new pavement is laid | it will be worn out long before the authorities get | B With the coming of this news The Call finds a new attention to the peril of the whaling fleet, and was not only instrumental in inducing the Government to send a relief expedition, but contributed liberally and largely in the way of supplies to make it a success. This is clearly a case where needed help was given in N esteemed morning contemporary, which has | > LR in the ordeal of the Arctic winter. OPEN PORTS IN CHINA. s : . ight w: learest utteran around to the adoption of a sewer system: This| Sey igbtipeas theilustsand o i may be gquestioned. But even if admitted it does not | RIS B e & : 2 0€S BOL| | the situation in China and the attitude taken by alter the force of the reasons we have given for im- | 2. : ENmeR A * al Great Britain toward the recent aggressions of Rus- PTOV! R X street cco! 3, o - 3 bl - g accepted | a As was to have been expected, Balfour claims a business methods. complete victory for British diplomacy, and aiter A bituminous pavement on that thoroughfare, if laid in defiance of burrowing corpor- ations and sewer builders, will never have a chance to wear out. ! tion of a { it appears he has good reasons for his claim. According to Balfour Great Britain has obtained % : A from China four important concessions. The Chinese bituminous pavements on business streets our con- | A i 1 3 | Government agrees that the vast and populous re- temporary makes a careless estimate. The concrete | i o; of the Yang-tse-Kiang shall never be alienated It will be destroyed by them long be- assigning ten years as the life of » base practically e;f_“'f Q;'”rsd C":‘t' _Golden Gate | 5 joreign power, that the director of the Chinese T 3 5 and ha ' = < - avente was paved in 1835 and has since been sub- |0 0a) customs shall be an Englishman, that access jected to the heaviest of traffic. Yet : 9 nth‘scarcely to the inland waters of China shall be free on equal any repairs at all most of the blocks are still in Pretty | (ermg to the ships of all nations, and that three new good order. - Nor was the bitumen on this avenue | roaey ports—Funing, Yochan and Chin Wang—shall laid on concrete. The strect was paved with mac- | po qoen to commerce. These concessions, if main- a@ under an act of the Legw!afurr. and the| . -4 with firmness, will constitute an effective bar- bitumen was spread upon the bed of broken rock | 3 A |rier against excessive Russian domination in China, prepared for fhat' m:\fenal. X Experts at the time| .4 Mr. Baliour justly pronounced them “a consider- declared that this foundation would “crawl” an - delusi Still after thi | able harvest for two months’ negotiations.” prove 2 delusion. Still after thirteen years of wear| Ay of these concessions, with the exception of that and tear the street is in fairly good order. erly paved and given careful attention afterward the | Great Britain herself. They are certainly of value tothe bitumen ought not to wear out at all. A proper sys- | United States, and particularly so to the Pacific Coast. tem of repairs should keep it in order indefinitely. | They secure to us a freedom of trade with China and But no system of repairs can protect a highway from | give us a chance to expand our commerce there on the digging of the water, gas, telephone and side | the same terms with other peoples, and how impor- sewer vandals. Even if it were possible to build a tant that commerce may be is now rapidly becoming main sewer i Market street without tearing it up— | understood throughout the country. which is 2 Chinese dream of most incoherent char- In view of the fact that these concessions have acter—there would be no saving the pavement from | been obtained avowedly as an offset to Russian move- these individuals. | ments and may be regarded with hostility by that If a sewer is ever built in Market street it ought to | country, it is interesting to consider the prospects of be a ten or twelve foot affair, capable of carrying off | their maintenance.. It is one thing to gain advan- all the water flowing from the hills on the north and | tages by diplomacy, but quite a different one to up- the flats on the south. Such a drain should also pro- | hold them at the risk and peril of war. Accordingly vide a conduit for pipes and wires and dispose for- | the question arises at once: Will Great Britain stand ever of the burrowing corporations. Our contempor- ] firm if Russia should continue to advance uader a ary may think that the construction of an intercept- | threat of war and should be joined in the threat by ing sewer such as this is a holiday affair or that it ? Baliour did not directly answer that question, but inous pavement for which it is now sighing. But would be left of the street after such a sewer was | that the Russian Government having refused to ab- completed. | stain from taking Port Arthur, Great Britain has de- There is but one businessiike way for improving | cided to take the port of Wei-Hai-Wei and fortify it Market street, and that is to build a sewer first and | as 2 means of preventing the Gulf of Pechili from then put down 2 permanent pavesent and take care | falling under the maritime costrol of “one power,” of it afterward. 3 Here, then, is an advanced position taken at the out- set, and the significance of it cannot fail to be under- iTHE HABIT OF BEING ' RESIGNED. | stood. The British flag once hoisted on strong for- | Spanish question, and say that under cireumstancos s tifications 2t Wei-Hal-Wei will not be haufed down HE latest murderer hanged in this State was | without battle, “fully resigned to kis fate.” He “cxpressed sor-| It is to be noted, mereover, that Balfour does not row for his crime.” His final assurance was | ex; that he “bore no ill will toward any one” Al these {or free ports in China. He deelered an earnest con- facts were ascertained from & reporter who was there | yietion that the grest ereial powers and who was kind enough to make record of them, China W Come to think about it, the murderer belors the latest one was controlled by a similar set of emeo- tions, and also the ens When & than reslizes his inevitable fats Is 19 | course sha has taken, This view seems te be sound. The markets of Chira must be open on equal terms to and sq joag as Great Britaia stands for that pelicy ast lack for frlends oa either side of the It is a part of Aa- The narves ssam to be dulled sad an and ferrer. is to be expestad as 8 tle peiice eaptain A peputatien, gratification in the fact that it was the first to direct | nourishing food needed to support life and strength ALFOUR'S speech in the Commons on Tues- |- that has yet been given by the British Ministry | making every allowance for the inevitable exaggera- | party leader defending party achievements, | E S | granting the control of imperial custéms to an Eng- | The truth of the matter is, if Market street is prop- | lishman, are of as much value to other nations as to | 5 Y, £ | certain portions of his speech show what the answer | token of editorial recognition of my that thought is another Mongolian vision. Nothing | will be when the time comes to make it. He stated : pect Great Britain will have to fight alone the war elass Probablx the editor of the Traey Weekly Press meant all right when he made his hpw to tke public und.r something he was pleased to term a “Valedictory.” There is, however, a difference between a valedictory and a salutatory: According to my dim recol- lectien of Latin, “vale” means about the same as farewell, and the connec- tion it sustains with valedictory is not difficult to detect. N PR It is painful to observe that two Women are quarreling over the body of the late John S. Enes. It appears that while animated by the spark of life Enos had been married to one of them and had loved the other, to the ‘'scandal of the county of Bonoma, Wwhere this sort of business is properly frowned upon. The body has been consigned to a tomb, but is liable to being snatched out at any moment, an unpleasant posaibility from which neither litigant can derive much joy. I would humbly suggest a compromise. Let the coveted remains be cremated in the presence of witnesses. Then, with the assistance of a pair of scales, |the ashes may be equally divided. | Thereafter they may, duly urned, be- | deck the whatnot in each of the be- | reaved households, or, scattered at the | base of a rosebush, prove efficacious in | enriching the soil or discouraging the | prevalent louse. ' « e e | -I am forced to admit that while the |'Healdsburg lady who has written on the “Battle-ship Maline” is a patriot {and fit to be the mother of patriots, she is the author of the worst verse /that has come to my notice. I would not, however, speak lightly of her ef- fort. The theme is one which touches us all. It is given to few to write poetry, and yet the impulse to say something has stirred the common heart, and the inclination to say it in rhyme simply indicates a desire to | say it in the most striking way. I even refrain from quoting from the Healds- burg effort, and there is no method by which I could better express esteem. +I would advise the lady not to try to| manufacture poetry. This is in all | kindness. In seeking revenge for the wrecking of the Maine and the slaught- er of her men the usages of civilized | warfare do not permit the employment | of anything more deadly than cannon. . . Once more a painful rumor reaches me that two Hearstlings intend slap- ping me the first time the pair have| together the joy of opportunity. With- out any desire to evade hardship, I would suggest that they change their minds. 1 do not think either one of the | pair would make a good angel. . . The merit of having descended from | somebody is doubtless great, but it fails to impress me. Thé matter of pos- | terity is really of more importance. No | man can with justice be held respon- | sible for his great-grandfather, and | there is no reason why he should cherish a warm regard, or, indeed, | | anything but the utmostindifference for | a gentleman, worthy enough erhaps vhile living, but uninteresting when re- soived to a handful of dust. Of course if the old gentleman accomplished more than to pave the way for having a great-grandson, if he writ his name large on the pages of history, if he liberated a nation, formulated a benign law, made a good book or invented a way of utilizing steam, for the great- | grandson to feel a pride, and to be| fired by an ambition to do a thing or two himself, is natural. But in all| probability the great-grandfather was | an ordinary mortal, who plodded through life in eager quest for money, and at last died with a keen sense of disappointment at not having got more of it. Whatever he did he never looked | ferward to the glad time when a great- grandson of his would be prinking un- der the shadow of family tree, elate | at baing alive, conscious that others of | the same name had been alive Lefore {him. I observe the formation of a| | genealogical society here. To look back | | over the path trodden by generations | | which have passed away is interesting. | It is a matter of history concerning the | | individual, but I do not see what the purpose of a society may be. If a man has a family tree he can trace it out himself. If he has rone and wants one | he can buy it grafted to fruitfulness by | stolen branches. If he happens to pos- | sess one of which he is ashamed, or concerning which he is doubtful, he would object to having it peeped at by the other members of the society. | Perhape, however, by concerted inves- | tigation the research can be extended | beyond the usual limit. and the student of ancestry trace his line tothe monkey, and even learn whether that from which he spreng was of the ari -2al variety, delighting to swing by pr-ten- sile tail from the tropic limb; or the more sedate sort, who stayed below and garnered the cocoanuts their frolic- some associates rattled off in their | Blee. e o e “Ploneer” requests that there be made for him a “straightforward, inde- pendent, maniy paper.” He thinks he would like that kind. His letter of ad- ! monition happened to drift this way in capacity as a waste-basket. It strikes | me, however, that a man who writes Enuonmmulmhahu.lm el |acteristics he professas to admire; ‘which is enough comment for “Ploneer” iududlymmmnlum-iu ¢ s s There have been several nonsensical attacks upon local ministers because they have taksn a marly stand on the | existing the aword | should expal the Dona from Cuba. I dec WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. LR AR R L LR AL LR R L LR TR of groveling humility. It is eertainly far more noble, more in consonance | with decency and in accord with the courage without which a person or a nation Is a thing to be despised. Dt S __PRINCETON, N. I., Feb, 28, 1898, To W. R. Hearst, New York Journal, New York: I decline to allow my sorrow for those who died on the Maine to b perverted to an advertising schemec the New York Journal. GROVER CLEVELANT). In these few words was Editor Hearst | informed that the unspeakable effront- | ery of making capital out of brave men | dead and eminent men living would be | denied the connivance of an ex-Presi- dent. I honor the citizen who sent the reply. He might have passed unnoticed | the insulting message which had asked | him to become party to a fraud, or to have saved himself from the certainty of future abuse, permitted the use of his name on the “committee.” But he took the trouble to answer. The an- swer was deserved, complete, fitting; it could not have been better. Hearst has a scheme for erecting a monument to his own glory. He desires that the| memory of the brand of patriotism he| keeps in stock be perpetuated in stone, and that the public pay for the stone. To excite a general interest he has an- nounced the prospective shaft as de- signed to be to the sailors of the Maine; also that collectors of contributions are entitled to a rake-off of 10 ger cen’ To this palpable pretense, either through fear or thoughtlessness, some persons of standing have loaned their names. Mr. Cleveland had the wisdom to de- cline, being neither foolish nor afraid. This trick of the Journal’s is one of the lowest it has undertaken in all its career of infamy. If that paper is to be a permanency it must be refarded as a type of the greatest evil now threatening this country. It is more dangerous than war, more deadly than pestilence. Before its be-| §mea.ring assault no reputation is safe, mo privacy sacred, no canon in- violate. So open in its lies, so brazen | in its meddling, and the laudation of its | intrinsic foulness; so calm in its as-| sumption that the people are unclean creatures, delighting in the odor of the | sewer or capering joyously on the gar- | bage heap, it has already created a false and damaging impression. As a| matter of fact, the people despise it.| They do not believe a word it says. | | | | They cannot think any cause it advo- cates has in it aught of g .d. They may in instances fear it as a person of breeding would dread an encounter | with a fish wife. It has brought upen | journalism in general an unmerited | opprobrium. Disgus.ed with its flaunt- | ing lies, its stupid fakes, its pretended interviews, its counterfeit virtue, its noisome yearning for notoriety, readw ers may sometimes mist ke it for a sample of the daily paper. It is a sam- ple of nothing but filth; its methods vulgar, its ambitions vile. As justly might the women of the land be judged | by the scarlet outcat unblushing un- | der her badge of shame. There is no | hope for the Journal while Hearst lives | and his money lasts. He sinks deeper into the mire to which instinct has led him, and wherein it is his happiness to wallow, spattering any who incau- tiously approach. He has no moral | sense to which appeal : ay be made, and would spurn the hand extended to lift him to a decent level. But I can- not believe the Journal to be per- manent. For the nonce it attracts at- tention, but so does any other malign freak exhibited by a showman com- petent as a “spieler.” Mr. Cleveland | did well. He has secured a new hold | upen his friends by adding to the list | of his active enemies this r—~n Hearst, whose presence in journalism is a re- proach to public sentiment and a dis- grace to others who, in following a calling which has every right to be honorable, must in some measure be regarded as his associates. & leiiie | A man named Groezinger has been sitting on the bench of Police Judge Campbell while the latter jurist is away permitting his intellectual pow- ers to recuperate. It has been said of | Campbell, lightly and irreverently, that | he is a peach. If this fieure is permis- | sible, then the temporary incumbent is a whole basket of peaches, with a| pitcher of cream and a barrel of sugar | handy. To get to the facts, it may bei said that a number of godless but dis- criminating people, recognizing the| value of The Call, have been taking| this paper from the doorsteps of sub- | scribers, their unholy act desecrating the early dawn, but providing them with the news. Before hearing from | Groezinger I would have called the act | stealing and the actor a thief. This | eminent authority, however, decidesi that a newspaper on a subscriber's| doorstep is not property. It has passed from the possession of the publisher and not into the possession of anybody { else. Therefore by the térms of the | Groezinger lack of reason anybody spy- | ing it has a right to pick it up, walk| away with it and leave the man -who | | concerned. ust for it to kick in vain. So this rr;aderiaznlnmnn declared when m.fi fender was brought before him, the testimony adduced. The prisoner had been seen to take the paper, to se- erete it, and when arrested it was found under his coat, where he had been observed to thrust it. Groezinger gave an imitation of thinking, and (he.n promulgated the piece of idiocy I have done him the homor to cite. It is a peculiar condition of affairs which ltm- pels one to pine for the return of a Campbell. e o * I am accused of having replied in 258 words to an indictment of ten words. It is added that the answer ‘wa.u made up of epithets. There are sev eral points about this which are incorrect. In the first place the ten words consti- tuted neither an indictment nor an in- formation. They simply afforded a text for a dissertation upon & particular style of ass to which the author of them clearly belonged, and, far from being abusive, the dissertation contained nothing more violent than a delicate in- timation tending to gently and con- siderately place the author aforesaid in his class. Yet I confess his return for this courtesy gives me a new impres- sion of his intelligence. He can count correctly the words in tor?ty Hnes of ype. One who, from some feeling which seems to him to be modcsty, hides be« hind a fictitious name, cannot reason- | ably expect serious notice. Yet I will do a specimen of this sort the homor to call attention to an irritating weak« ness of his, manifest in a tendency to correct the English of others and em- ploy bad English himself. He would better, with a view of improving his own style, read the work of Emanuel Elzas appearing in this paper, than do it with the idea that Mr. Elzas needs to take lessons from him. In the pen product of the anonymous person in question there are grievous errors als ways, so bald and distressing that & child might perceive them. “I object,” affirms this authority, “to the word ‘subjugate’ in the sense of ‘subordi« nate.”” Why? A gentleman of literary repute, by name Longfellow, onca translated the “Infernc,” and in doing so made bold to employ the followlng expression: t a torment e mmetactors. wers. condemned Who reason subjugate to appetite. But it is to be charitably remembered that Longfellow lacked the advantage of basking in the peculiar mentality which essays to shed light upon Elzas and the rest of us and fails through having no light to shed. In the same scathing paragraph of the carper oc- curs the phrase: “It is only when such writers * * misuses the Queen’s English.” To fall into the ex- pressive methods of the unknown I might add that such writers do not, as a rule, misuses. . The courts indicate a desire {to get hold of a Ilawyer named Holliday, in grasping an- other’s and clinging to the same, failed to hedge himself about by processes rendering the operation legal. For this professional oversight he is clearly in need of rebuke. He ought at least to be brought back and induced to divide the purse. But t interest- ing peint to the public will be that on his bonds for $2000 are two men who are pot worth any such sum, who are also on other bonds, and who in each instance could” have got there omly through perju There Was Dnever a y for putting a pair Personally I have not the least idea they will be thus treated. The straw bondsman seems to be immune so far as punishment is I have not the slightest doubt not only that these particular ones will escape, but that they will go | on more bonds any time they can get $5 for doing so. In many cases prison- ers are let out on bail known in ad- vance to be worthless. When the bonds are declared forfeited the incident closes. I do not impugn the honesty of | Police Judges. Perhaps they are ig- | norant of these facts, yet it is strange that they should fail to be aware of that which is familiar to everybody else. IRREPROACHABLE. No monarch in the world can upon more devoted support than can President of the United States. 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