The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1895, Page 2

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English and American notabilities and art critics, who were treated to a private | view of five of Abbey paintings on the | Subject of “The Quest of the Holy Grail,” were enthusiastic in praise of the ‘work. The principal broom factories of the East have entered into a combine and/ Feduced prices 10 per cent. Lord Dunraven is going to be active in Britieh politics, whether he captures the America Cup or not, Hungary's new Premier announces “that he will adhere to the Liberal pro- | gramme of reforms. More echoes of Creelman’s story of | Japanese vvichery at Port Arthur come from 1 ondon. Dr. Parkhurst and the Committee of! Seventy favor a public meeting and a campaign against the Ei-Partisan Po- Lice bill. ‘William Banks, convicted in West Vir-| @inia of stealing waste, was sentenced to life imprisonment under the law in- @icting such u penalty in case of u third conviction. ‘They are selling two loaves of brea for five cents in Indianapolis. Ip & fight with Bill Dovlin's gang of outlaws near Hennessey, Okla. Doolin end three of his men end two deputies Were killed Admire) Beardelee, with the flagship Philadelphia. was ordered to Honolulu @P gvoount of the Hawallan uprisin, ‘The revolution wes discussed in both houses of Congress * belonging to Miss stolen in he Ap- of the New York not been praiser's Gepartmen Custem-House and she hus able to get redress Mire. William E Astor hes taken an @partment in Faris enc will spend the Season there, leaving New York uf Lent. Her wwn house here is to be orn down to make room for & Lotel Mire. Lene Kich, whe ieft Chicago for Hamburg, tas turned up Gestiture and Gemented in Leghorn, Italy Mr. Turner, of Georgis, war taken 1 @t the Capitol in Washingto: The Presicent nominated James D. Tillman, of Tennessee, to ve Minister vo ‘Eeusder Predmore & Dodge, lumter sealers, fof Gouverneur, have ausigued owiny to Predmore's defalcution, wud the guilty partner dias fed. Two Philadelphians, managerr of & @ompany formed to recover & $10.uWh un English estate, have Leen sued by vne of the victims who bought shares in it Coroner Hughes, of Ban Francisco @ccuses Dr. Kegensverger, & leading Physician, of offering MW for & veruict of accidental Geuth. at ‘The New York ansociated banks BAAS io surplus reserve for > Week. Btocks were lower yesterday 9m sales Ww realize profits. Bonds were 9 Ed ‘The shipments of gold to Page. | day was 533 mobs of strikers, was stoned and Jeered at, butt performed the work successfully and then joined the union . 0 as An extraordinary chapter in the early career of Hetty Green is published, which teil how the richest woman in America was accused of forging her aunt's $2,000,000 will and, being forced to compromise a sult which followed, fled the country, and has been practically in hiding ever since 27 ‘The most desperate woman criminal in America, the notorious Sophie Lyons, has been arrested again, and ® complete narrative of her many escapa on two continents 1s given. together with a study of her pecullar methods. oe The author of our national hymn writes of the circumstances under which it was written, declaring that it war written on Paper in half an hour's tim a) McAllister #rites in favor of social Patriotism and says we should make New York the centre of the world's fashion .. was Pauline Markham, the celebrated old- time etage favorite, who ts now al- most destitute, writes her reminis- cences of theatrical life in the early "0'8 ess An Interesting account ts given of remarkable village where one per- son in four ts deaf and dumb and where almost every one talks in pantomime the Four Hundred have just fin- ished a twelve days’ race for a medal 19 Can women work and be strong? is answer In behalf of women who e: ert themselves in society or in bu ness .... Mise Gilder reviews Marion ford's latest novel, which 4 society life in New York G This country’s debt to artistic Irish- men Is the subject of an article cov- ering an entirely new phase of ai hife in America. eae New York has a new industry for making Gobelin tapestries, many of which compare favorably with those made In France......... ay An article on the sisterhoods of New York describes the novitiate, the beautiful ceremony of taking the vell_ and the life of the members... 20 How the counterfelt pearls are made 18 explained in an article on the peurl fisheries of Ceylon. De Koven writes of Miss Sanderson’s debut in “Manon” and of other hap- penings in the world of music... All the sews and the latest w|honest and independent Republicans ‘Wanmaker for Daly, Martin, Scannel! Divver, Brady and White, he notifies that not only are the fruite of the reform victory threatened, but that their party is in danger of putting itself in the way of a cyclone. Platt has indeed plotted better than he knew. The people are at fault if they do not quickly profit by his un- witting service to the cause of munic- ipal reform, GOLD GAINS AND LOSSES. The Sub-Treasury lost gold to the amount of $6,800,000 in the week which ended yesterday. This is the largest loss in any week since the run of last summer. It reduced the gold reserve to $70,712,126. Since Nov. 22, when the gold from the sec- ond issue of bonds began to come in, the Treasury has lost more than $40,000,000 in gold. This country's and the world’s pro- duction of gold having increased largely during the past year, it seems strange to the uninitiated that our Government snould have such aim. | culty in maintaining its reserve, The trouble is due to three causes: 1, There fs a deficiency in the rev- enues, The expenditures of the Gov- ernment exceed its receipts by about $5,000,000 per month,- As gold is the cojn of ultimate redemption, so the gold reserve is the ultimate source of payment when the funds are low. If the Treasury could make “both ends meet” it would have less difficulty in protecting its gold reserve. 2. The Government's natural source of supply of gold was dried up when it abandoned the policy of requiring customs duties to be paid in gold. As pointed out in an article in the Social Economist for January, “since March 1, 1892, the receipts of the Treasury from customs duties have amounted to $395,000,000, but only about $20,000,000 of this amount has | been paid in gold.” The remainder was paid in legal-tender notes, The Government has no gold revenue of soctety : ‘The page for the children, including @ boy's account of a trip to the Arc- ‘The many small streets of New York, where they are and how they came to be constructed. as Nym Crinkle reviews the week’ events everywhere, COLORED SUPPLEMENT.—Cartoon by McDougall: “His Busy Season; New York's Overworked Republican Bot A page of original jokes, verses, sketc and illustrated humor, including Bull Nye's remarks on chewing gum. A page of current cartoons, pictorial humor and selected humorous miscellany, A page of original humor and the “The Absent-Minded Man," quisitive Kitten: Emergency.” ——— The average circulation of The World for the six days ending yester- 443 per day. At the accepted average of three readers for each copy sold this gives to The World the impressive total of over 1,600,000 readers every day. It was a week of stirring events at home and abroad, and as is usual when there is anything of importance hap- pening the people turned to The World for the news, PLATTS SERVICE TO REFORM. Nothing can astonish Boss Platt more than to learn that he has dur- ing the past two weeks rendered con- spicuous service to the cause of po- litical and governmental reform. Like all other machine managers Platt’s notion of “reform” ia that it is a sort of Mugwump cant—a good- enough cry with which to carry elec- tions, but of no earthly use in prac- tical politics. As all government, local as well as State and national, is a matter of politics with the boss, reform" begins and ends with turn- ing the other fellows out and putting his fellows in. When the result of an election is simply a change in bosses, King Log takes’ the place-of King Stork. hat ts all. Boss Platt's service to the cause of | real reform consists in his having made this fact clear to the people. Mayor Strong tersely says that the election in November meant for the elty “a change from politics to busi- * Platt's idea is that it meant & change from Tammany ring poll- tics to Republican ring politics. Col. Waring says that if a street-cleaner does his work well he does not care what the eweeper’s politics may be Platts ultimate object in political wuccess is to be able, in the words of Harrigan’: stateeman, to “put a man on # broom. Parkhurst and the b associated w him in redeem- ng the city say that the first step towards reforming the Police Depart- Inent ie to ake partisan politics out of it. Platt's decree ie that partisan politice shall be legislated into the force and kept there And so the issue is again as clearly cut as it was in the election. Then it Wae good government vs, Tammany ring rule. Now it ie better govern- ment ve. Platts ring rule. le show- ing bis partisan purpose in the re- organization of the Legislature aud the editing of the Lexow report | Platt shows good citizens their duty. In demonstrating by his control of bt ‘The In- * and "Equal to Any bess, mi with which to meet its gold Habil- tles or the export demand. 3. As has been frequently explained in The World, foreign distrust of our currency and of our railroad and other corporate management has sent hither for sale or in settlement of balances that would otherwise have been paid in goods or in money a large volume of our securities. This explains the extraordinary fact that while there was a balance of trade on merchandise (including silver) of $188,834,000 in our favor last year, the net loss in gold was $81,200,000, Add to these causes the fact that the Government has outstanding over $800,000,000 in paper money redeem- able in gold, by law or by official in- terpretation, and reissuable after every redemption, and the trouble with the gold reserve is no longer a mystery WHAT KILLS U8. The relation between death-rate and density of population ts generally assuined to be uniform, Probably the most important discovery made by the New York Tenement-House Commission ie that this is not the case in what Is now the most crowded clty of the Caucasian world, With an average population of 143.2 to the acre, New. York has large dis- tricts, as in the Eleventh Ward, which average as high as 986 to the acre, or the Tenth Ward, which averages over 621 per acre. The notable fact is that with this heavy population the Tenth Ward shows a death-rate of 17.14. Only one other ward In the city makes a better showing, and the general average of the city is materially higher, The average death-rates in various cities given by Whittaker for 1895 are 21.8 for New York, 19,04 for London, 30 for Calcutta, 20.5 for Paris, 34.5 for Moscow and % for New Or- leans, Bombay and Prague, which our commission finds are the only cities presenting extensive areas more crowded than the worst crowded parts of New York, have an average death- rate of 32.05 for Bombay and 28,05 for Prague. All these figures reinforce the committee's conclusion that density of population is only one of numerous factors determining the death-rate of cities, y also indicate that drainage and “general sanitation” are the most | important factors in determining the death-rate. Thus New Orleans and both have an enormous death-rate, though they have nothing in common except bad drainage and bad sanitation, In an article written for the Jan- uary number of the Engineering Magazine Mr. Romero, the Mexican Minister at Washington, gives facts | of the highest importance in this con- nection, for he shows that the death- rate of the City of Mexico—forty per thousand, the highest in the world— is due to bad drainage. The climate of the table-land of Mexico is salu- | brious, but the soil of the City of Mexico is saturated with animal matter, a8 our commission says is the case with the older houses of the county organization that he means to substitute himself for Croker, and Gibbs, Patterson, Van ‘ —— . Seeefeaegppe tne salina ast tn lower New York. The unavoidable couclusion from such facts is that men can live to- Se Fa ret, deadly. THE CAPITOL SOANDAL. The problem of completing the new Capitol at Albany without the fur- ther plundering of the people is one which the present Legislature ought to solve, The history of our State house's construction has been a long-contin- ued scandal. The first land pur- chases were made in 1863. Construc- tion began in 1867, One appropria- tion has been squandered after an- other until the “Capitol Ring” has got away with nearly $21,000,000 of the State's money. The building ts still incomplete. Yet as it stands it has cost $4,000,000 more than the total amount expended upon the stately pile un Capitol Hill at Washington, though the dimen- sions of the National Capitol are vastly greater, its architectural splen- dor immeasurably superior, and many of its details—particularly the exclu- sive use of monolithic columns—are legitimately more costly than any- thing undertaken at Albany. Peculation and politics explain the case, Peculation has absorbed appro- priations, rendering no adequate re- turn, Politics has forbidden every attempt at economy. When, for ex- ample, the owner of a stone-turning machine offered to supply the hun- dreds of great granite balusters in front for one-fifth their cost when made by hand, the deference of politi- clans to the votes of a labor union forbade, and the State was made to pay five times over for the work. Gov. Morton's suggestion is the right one, It is easy now for a con- tractor to calculate the cost of finish- ing the building. It is certain that responsible contractors will finish it for one-half or one-quarter the money it 1s likely to cost under present ar- rangements, The job ought to be put out to contract, and the stealing ought to be stopped. —<—_____. THE ATFETE AND HI8 NERVES. When one of the best amateur boxers and athletes of New York is secluded in the hope that his life may be saved by a course of treatment under the watchful care of the most skilful specialists, there is again oc- casion to inquire how much high physical training is able to do towards producing the sound body which ought to go with the sound mind. THE WORLD: SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 1895. Page. | Cott, Murray, Kerwin, Lauterbach and | gether with safety and comfort when | bookstores which deal in cheap paper they keep clean, but that when taken | editions for general circulation are together dirt and crowding are/| still to. be found copies of the books of chivairy which sent Don Quixote out to reform the world, and along with them are such celebrated works as “The Oracles of the Cumaean Sibyl,” “The Art of Evoking Spirits,” by Cornelius Agrippa, and others on the Cabbala, on necromancy and magic, which have long ago become so rare in America and England that the collector who finds a fifteenth or sixteenth century copy of one of them is delighted beyond measure. Both in Italy and in the Italian colony in New York such works as these are prominent in the cata- logues side by side with books of de- votion and translations of French, German and English novels. It Is impossible to look over an Italian bookseller’s shelves without being impressed with the extent to which Italy 1s now beginning to draw on English literature for the debt of culture outstanding since Chaucer's time. English poems, novels, plays and scientific works are increasing in popularity. The Italian popular mind still has a simplicity and freshness which the mind of some other Latin peoples has lost, and if in this simplicity there is much of mediaevalism still lingering it is destined soon to dis- appear before*the growth of the com- mon school. The countrymen of Virgil and Dante, of Horace and Petrarch, of Cato and Rienzi, of Galileo and Columbus, have not left their future behind them. They still have a great part to play in the his- tory of the world, The Hawalian flurry has served a useful purpose in throwing some light on the actual condition of the United States Navy as regards its fitness for an emergency.’ The Phila- delphia could be despatched to Hon- olulu at once and could reach there in six days. Besides the Philadel- phia there are at Mare Island four fast cruisers. These are the Ben- nington, which cannot be got ready in ten days; the Boston and Marion, which are ready but have no crews, and the Olympic, not yet turned over to the Government. The Ranger, the Mohican and the Alert are old, low- Celebrating “ Kings’ Day” — A Leguey for Poor Children—Russia's Now Year's Gift, the “ Bell of Pease "—The Post of Pre vence. (Special Correspondence of The World.) PARIS, Jan. 6.—Every well-regulated French family in France ts celebrating “Le Jour des Rota" (Kings’ Day). To do #0 Is to follow the tradition. It ts a day of great ceremony. The family armoire, which contains the table finery, finest and richest in cloth and napkins is brought forth. Flowers in profusion adorn the table. Nougat—that delicious confection of almonds and caramel—in the form of two royal crowns, ix set before the host and hostess, who serve their guests with the traditional comft. A certain wine, hot and spiced, is served with the hand- somest ladle that can be mustered and from the largest and most honorable pitnch-bowl! possessed by the family. ‘Thus the fine folk. A practice that is time-honored is held to among the masses, The “feve" (a species of bean) is placed inside a cake. ‘Whoever chances to have the piece con- taining the bean is lord of the feast and of the day. The bakeshops are full of these “galettes,” and few families are so poor that they do not buy one for their little feast. the decoration of Officer of the Legion of Honor. Whereupon Mistral, much moved, rose and in delightful words ac- knowledged the honor. He owned, how- ever, that he felt a touch of regret in relinquishing the little red ribbon that he had worn for thirty years. The ac- clamations following the speech of Mis- tral were appropriately meridional in warmth. ‘The other literary man to receive hon- ors is Alexandre Dumas. Since Jan. 1 he wears the decoration of Grand Of- ficer of the Legion of Honor, AMM. —_—_— PERSONAL AND PERTINENT. ‘When Greek meets Greek there may be the dickens to pay. Oscar Wilde is laid up with a mild attack of inflammatory epigramiatis. Quigley was cleverer than Seely in one respect. He kept away from Chicago, President Faure of France may find Emperor William's opposition too tonic, The Duke of Orleans and ex-Queen Liliuokalani should be permanently sup- Pressed. A good many banks seem to be run on the broad principles of faith, hope and charity. Secretary Gresham suddenly reflects that there may be more than two horns to a dilemma, An old Bourbon King had the custom of giving @ great feast on “Le Jour des Rois,” choosing for king the poorest and plainest child of the kingdom. This child was richly clothed and piaced upon the throne, after which Louis distrib uted large sums of money to the poor. The poor of Paris have other bits of cheer on New Year's Day. A rich man, M. Vincent by name, left a legacy of 2%5,000 francs, the interest of which “Is to be used in buying toys to be dis- tributed on New Year's Day among the poor children of Pai The origin of this legacy is interest- ing. It appears that Victor Hugo w accustomed to collect each first day of January a crowd of little folk recruited from the poor families of his quarter. A feast was prepared, at which he pre- sided—one can imagine how graciously— and at the close of the feast there was a distribution of toys and other gifts which had been made or purchased by the grandchildren of the great poet. ‘This gave the finishing touch of happl- ness for the little guests. M. Vincent was once invited to be present at one of these fetes and was so touched by the joy of the children over their newly bestowed toys that he resolved to add to the happiness among the poor of Paris in the same way. Hence the ‘Vincent legacy.” ee e This little gleam of lighg across spaces of dark shadows is welcome, for thei no denying the fact that the poor of Paris are very miserable. That they are, as a rule, patient in their poverty and persistent in their efforts to keep their powered vessels, and the Monterey cannot carry coal enough for a cruise to Honolulu. Under the circum- stances {it is well that we do not im- mediately need a powerful fleet at Honolulu, This particular athlete is still strong enough no doubt to “knock out” an ordinary man with one blow. Yet he is in fmminent danger of death in spite of great muscular develop- ment. It seems clear that his muscular development and the training and habits incident to it have reacted on his nervous system, wrecking his body and threatening his mind. Such cases are not rare, Every physiolo- gist has studied them and many physiologists have drawn the moral that it 1s a dangerous thing to dis- turb the balance which ought to exist between muscular and nervous | development. They cannot be far wrong who hold that long life and the greatest possi- ble intellectual capacity are conse- quent on moderation in everything rather than on excellence in athlet- ies, A highly organized nervous sys- tem cap be wrecked as readily by ex- cess in athletics as by excess in brain work, Of course if the nervous sys- tem is not highly organized, if the athlete 1s a mere brute with the nerves of a brute, this has less appli- cation, But ‘f he has inherited nerves which are fine enough to give him high intellectual capacity, the training and habits of the athlete who becomes eminent in his specialty may send him to a tunatic asylum or to an early grave. THE MIND OF THE ITALIAN MABSES. The fact that Italian immigration for 1894 was four times as great as for the entire ten years between 1860 and 1870 gives Americans an added interest In the new Italy—the Italy of the common school and of the free institutions, which there as every- where else must ultimately grow out of popular education, The debt of English and American literature to Italy is incalculably great, for not only was the classical language of Italy the interpreter of the science and culture of the world until as late as the eighteenth cen- tury, when Sir Isaac Newton wrote his Principia in Latin, as Bacon had written his Novum Organum, but modern English Iterature received its first compelling influence from modern Italian, Had there been no Dante there would have been no Chaucer, and without Chaucer we could have had no Shakespeare, As the mind of the Italian mass ia incited to greater activity by the spread of popular education, it is a | matter of profound tnterest to find that books which fed the minds of | the contemporaries of Dante and of Chaucer, of Cervantes and of Spenser, | are sull current, | Six-Fingered Jack, the ponderous romances of Charles- | Where the young | American 4s delighted with stories of the Terror of the Prairies, the young Italian reads The article which we publish in another column to-day in continua- tion of our history of Pacific railroad frauds throws additional Nght upon the tricks by which Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins ab- sorbed to themselves the scores of millions contributed by the Govern- ment in aid of construction and made themselves masters of transconti- nental commerce to the detriment of the Pacific coast States. The story told is one of trick and device. It furnishes additional and conclusive reasons why the Reilly Refunding bill should not be passed by a Con- gress which is not disposed to legal- ize fraud and to sanction the plunder- Ing of the Government by wholesale. Mayor Schieren, of Brooklyn, sald to a committee of citizens who called on him yesterday that his sympathies were with the strikers, That is quite right, It is always proper to sympathize with honest and law- abiding men who are not paid nearly as much as they earn. But no hon- est and efficient Mayor will let his sympathies lead him to tolerate law- lessness, How many arrests of law- breakers did Mayor Schieren cause to be made to show his sympathy with law before calling out the militia? The law prohibiting the employ- ment of alien labor in the work of street-cleaning in this city has not been satisfactory in its results, and Col. Waring’s request for its repeal should meet with no opposition. There are so many ways of not keep- ing the streets clean and the citi- zens are so tired of the record of fall- ure that they are ready to accept any plan that will produce results. They have no theories or prejudices. All they want is a system of street- cleaning that will clean the streets, The Naval Appropriation bill has been drawn without due regard to the condition of the Treasury. At a time when the Treasury is empty and the overburdened labor of the country is paying $140,000,000 a year for military pensions we are in no condition to order the construction of three new men-of-war at $4,000,000 each—especially as all recent mili- tary experience shows that such costly and unwieldy vessels are liable to prove inefficient against modern cruisers, The fact that during the first four days of the session of the Tax Com- missioners 1,200 of the assessed swore they had no personal property subject to taxation in New York argues convincingly that the Com- missioners ought to adjourn as soon perity as long as they are encourag- as possible. It is clearly impossible to bring about a full return of pros-| >snquet, the moment of the champagne, families warm and nourished on their Senator Hill ts again showing the versatility of his powers, He has been tripping the light, fantastic toe. The Emperor of China bitterly com- Plains that life Is too long and lovely for him to be bothered by outside busy- bodies. E. O. Quigley says that he realizes what a fool he has been. He flatters himself, He should real what a scoundrel he has been, Casimir-Perier has shed a good many tears, according to the cable despatches, His French love of the appropriate told him that tears are demanded by a crisis, Hetty Green says that she will stick to the country in spite of the fact that it is going to the bow-wows. In these gloomy times there is comfort in her heroic words. The fact that Charles Dudiey Warner's latest novel has been the most successful that he has ever written should encour- age young American writers who crave before their time. Mr. Warner has passed middle life by several years, but his literary powers are on the in- crease rather than on the wane, The stroke of paralysis that rob: Queen Victoria of Sir Henry Ponsonby’s services deprives her of an invaluable attendant. As private secretary and keeper of Her Majesty's privy purse his duties were arduous and dignified. haps his greatest characteristic was his tact, which was coupled with a knack of saying just the right thing at the right time. The Queen is credited with having made many amusing blunders on far too small wages makes their case the more pathetic, A vegetable soup made from almost nothing may through skill be palatable, but it fe not nutri- tlous, Deaths upon the street and upon tops of omntbuses have been frequent during the month of December, and yet the mercury has not been at the freez- Ing voint. ‘This t Us the story of insut- ficlent clothing and food. Free soup- houses are open in all the poorer quarters, but many a hungry cr ture is unwilling to make use of the means offered. These “silent noor” struggle on, but every day sees more than one succumbing from cold and want. Decent wages would cure the evil, for the working people are thrifty and industrious. No one makes a little money accomplish so much as the French peasant. But he must have that little wherewith to manage. Among public New Year gifts that of Russia to France is noteworthy. Rus- sla, desirous of expressing its sympathy with France, resolved to offer to Notre Dame a monumental bell. It 1s now finished, has been baptized ‘The Bell of Peace,” and is about to be expedited. It will be sent by rail to Odessa, thence to Marseilles by a special ship, and from Marseilles to Paris by rail. The Dell weighs 36,000 pounds, and the archi- tects have demonstrated that the tower of Notre Dame cannot support such a weight. It has therefore been ar- ranged between the Ruaslan committee and Cardinal Richard that the bell shall be placed in the tower of the Convent of the Sacred Heart. Within the walls of this convent ts the Cemetery of Picpus, where only the representatives of those noble families whose ancestors died on the guillotine are buried. Here lie the Rochefoucaulds, the Lafayettes, the Talleyrands and others of great names, not to mention the group of 1,300 buried “victims"—the flower of the French aristocracy, And it is among these historic, patri- clan shades that the Bell of Peace will sound {ts ironic peals, “‘Ironte," since Just over the border a young Prince is buckling on his armor, and stands ready at the right moment to appeal to the army and to his party to ald him in mounting a throne that does not now exist and restoring an order that has long since vanished. Will it be this Bell of Peace, swinging in its tower, in the shadow of which these old-time fine folk are turning to dust, that will serve to announce the new order? Now that the bell is about to make the journey to Paris, it 1s a question of the tunnels between Marseilles and Paris being of sufficient height to admit the monster to Paris, oe 8 8 By way of official New Year gifts France is decorating the chosen few. Chief among these is Frederic Mistr poet of Provenc et beloved of p ~author of “Mireille “Hes aor." He pays a visit to Paris on his way from Rouen, where he has been to su- perintend the rehearsals of his “Calen- dal.” Paris is wating for the shy, modest man—her child of the South— albeit his hair ‘# already gra: What does Paris prepare for the Provencal poet? She prepares a red rosette and a bouquet, Mistral must be honored, He must eashange the simple red ribbon of Shevalier for the red button of the Of- ficer of the Legion of Honor. And he must be feted, banqueted, toasted. And it has been done. The visit of Mistral to Paris was a flying one. At 4 o'clock of an afternoon he accepted the invite- tion to a banquet. Whereupon hundreds of messages were shot through the pneumatic tubes of Paris, and at 8 o'clock we see 300 felibrists gathered around the tables to do honor to their chief poet. It was at that choice moment of a at the close of a discourse o! occasions when Gen. Ponsonby was ab- sent and the duty of directing the an- swers to her correspondence devolved on herself. a SUNDAY LIQUOR-SELLING. Washington Post.—New York ts going to try a season of moist Sundays and blue Monday: St. Louis Post-Dispatch. — Mayor Strong has decided that New York shall not go dry on Sunday. It does not, anyhow. Boston Globe.—Mayor Strong's attitude on the Sunday IMquor-selling question makes him an object for the prayers of the W. C. T. U. Boston Herald.—When it ts borne in mind that a very large majority of the population of New York is made up of people who will have their beer or other tipple on Sunday, the reasonable- ness of Mayor Strong's attitude be- comes evident. Providence Journal.—Personally the Mayor is opposed to the opening of the saloons of the metropolis on the first day of the week, but he 1s of the opin- fon that the desires of other people should be respected, and !f a majority of the citizens of the city wish to have the present law rescinded he thinks It should be taken from the statute books. Always a News Leader. (From the Martha's Vineyard Herald.) The New York World is on top, as usual, in the matter of news from the war in the Orlent. Ita correspondent telegraphed an account of the massa- cre of the Chinese by the Japs when they captured Port Arthur, about a month ago, The World was the only newspaper on earth which secured this information, and most of the big ones in Europe and America discredited Mr, Creelman's story. We kept shady. Now, after a month hi passed, the newspapers, from the Thunderer down to the Tombstone Terror, are publish- ing this same dreadful news, recelved from China by mall. The World is great even among the greatest. AR The Best Ever Issued. (From the Detroit Journal.) Incomparably the best and most com- prehensive almanac ever issued {s that of the N York World for 189. In- cluded within its 628 pages is informa- tlon on nearly every subject, sctentific, theological, sport, the stage and other arts—in fact, nearly every thing that an be recalled in mind of man, The political fleld is treated exhaustively, the platforms of the several parties giv the votes at various elections, lists of officials, &c. The volume ts a mine of informaiton and a monument to perpetu- ute the name of the paper it bears, Hon. Richard Wel- stead Croker is taking advantage of the eneral confusion to gather up his jorses and slip out of the country, Washington Star.—Richard Croker is another wealthy American bound for rope, Possibly he too objects to the way in which newspapers talk about people. —o—__ An Ignoble Alliance. (Prom the Louisville Courier-Journal.) That is an inspiring spectacle in North Carolina of a mongrel combination be- tween Populists and Republicans by which eac Tnited States Benator. did Party st feel very proud of such triumphs us that. (From the Cincinnatt Commercial.) Ex-Boss Croker, of Tammany Hall, has shipped his “string” of race-hor: England, where, if he wins t to | som or Newmarket prize stakes, he may | be able to cable the editor of The Worll ‘Hill and the Nomination ‘To the Baltor of The World: I have read Senator Hill's letter f® favor of free silver coinage. It is un- doubtedly a bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Senator Hill 1s & fairly good politician, and a very poor politician can see now that in the com- ing Presidential campaign the j= sratic party in order to survive at all orate Parry In ordet cs sentcive stand for free coinage. ‘But while this is clear, it is not glear that Senator Hill can carry New York, or that the Democratic party will havé @ny chance whatever of carrying that State on Mr, Cleveland's record, | The chances are not less than a hundr nat Democratic, success, in New ¥: ven now, after only years, of the Cleveland Administration, an cq | . Cleveland. This being eo what has Mr. Hill to gain, by aceking the Democratic nomina- ion? It seems to me he is wasting hie energies. 'D. New York, Jan. 19. Fares and Franchises in Brooklyn. To the Editor of The World: It is not at all surprising that 6,000 Brooklynites should strike, but that they don’t all strike, for President Lewis has the nerve to tell them prac- tically that it costs him $8,000 a day to run his roads and they pay him $40,000 ber day to ride on them! Had Americans continued their pro- gressive independence of a century ago they would have led instead of havi to follow Glasgow, Liverpool, Man- chester, Birmingham and other up-to- date cities which now own their sur: face roads. Then Brooklynites could ride for $16,000 a day, or two-cent fares, and 5,000 of them could get decent Wages and patronize local trade, which the millionaires don’t do. But they would insist on giving away that $40,000,000 franchise which will soon be worth $100,000,000, and then under take to pay annual profits on it to the beneficiaries! Talk about generosity, charity and almsgiving! The market value of the franchise is represented by watered stock, and the wat- Te only Long, Island eae Com} its $30,000,000 capital 1 ered its_stocl ir cent. Pald $4,500,000 for and the citizens itallzed At nearly $0,000 capitalized at nearly $70,000,000. If any of the compantes have forfeited their charters according to law, why should not the Mayor so declare and | ive the citizens relief from this rob- ery and recurring injury to local bust+ ness? CHARLES SIBLEY MAY, Brooklyn, N, ¥., Jan. 18. Liberty to Drink or Pray. To the Editor of The World: Your editorial remarks on excise ar€ wound. Sausage does not agree with people. Hence if it does not agree with me I should not ask my neighbor to desist in eating it. Likewise with bee and prager, ‘am a church-goer ani Prohibitionist I should not compel my fellow-man to do and think as T di Let there be freedom of thought, an action; let every living soul enjoy itsel as it wishes, so long as it does not over- tep ‘ommon and moral law. fauch Chunk, Pa., Jan. 18. P. K, Gold and Greed. To the Editor of The World: In your editorial on “Gold Leaving Us," in yesterday's issue, you shoul have stated the real cause why gold is withdrawn by the foreigner. You are shifting it on the currency question, Why do you not say it ts the rascally and dishonest methods pursued by mahagers of railroad and other in- dustrial concerns? The foreigner has long enough looked upon our dishonest methods: consequently he is now dump- ing his holdings at whatever price he can get for them, ‘The only remedy for this condition of affairs is to stop the greed of people to get rich at somebody's expense. Limit the amount of wealth to one million to the individual who has the opportunity to obtain it, The greed then will grad ally die as he gets close to the milli point. PAUL KEFER, Jr, Mauch Chunk, Pa., Jun, 18, The Board of Electrical Control. To the Editor of The World: With mortification and surprise, but with no loss of confidence in your well meaning, I, in common with all decent citizens of this to-be-reformed city, have read in to-day's journals of the placing in the hands of Commissioner Kearney, of the Board of Control, of power to make appointments and removals, of course sudirct to the ctvil-service rules, Are you aware that he {s ex-Goy. Flo’ ery man Friday und his appoint or that of his clerk, the late Comm: sloner Gibbens; that he {s a ‘Tammany man at the Manhattan Club and a Re- publican at Republican clubs; that hi continuous acts as engineer for show him to be a pliant tool of th telephone subway companies and _ of the Edison Company, thelr ally; that he has never suggested an original idea, but always presented their plans to the board as his own; that he and Expert Wheeler allowed everything desired by the Huckteberry Railroad gang—Flower, Croker, Murphy, of ‘Troy, and Antony Brady ‘and Maher, of Albany—even to the deadly trolley ‘wires on Manhattan sland Are you aware that Cummings, whose PRITPRS Rane. of the Sun, represents, ike Dana, Western Union and the Goul interests? Are you aware that Hess publicly de- clared’ himself a Tammany man. last year, and took such great interest in the recent election that he dined with a ladies’ party at the Waldorf the night before election and went to a theat afterwards; that he has always been pupret in the hands of Lauterbach, ¢ counsel for the telephone subway ménop- Turn the gang out! ‘That board is and has been, under | Moss—Maurice — B, Fiynn's father. wand dummy—an , the worst pest-hole y government, Wishing blessings, young administration, A New York, Jan, 18, The Character of Trilby, To the Editor of The World: T cannot agree with the view taken by. the Rey, Arthur Whatham in Sunday's World as to the moral quality of the story of ‘Trilby. He condemns the book, and by Inference the author for writing it, and even considers that it is regrete table that t should be discussed in con: Versation on account of its ‘demoralige Mr, years Ing. tendenc In all this I think Whatham {s'too severe, and that It fe he and not the ublic that errs us to the eha influence of this pleasing story. He thinks Trilby was practically an ‘Impossible — character, jThat no ‘such person born and. real in such an atmosphere could have exe isted is by no means to be admitted, It iy difficult to prove a negative, and in | his negations on this point the reverend. ns to be far too sweeping. vhat is it that has drawn. forth neral admiration of ‘Trilb; Mr. Whatham comp ie it ls mainly the lovable character of th heroine, set forth with all that’ ski with pen and p of which Du Maue rier has shown he is the master, I think everybody must love Trilby bee cause she was so lovable, She was une nd tn this selfish t with @ chars arkably unselfish that We cannot help loving and admiring it when Ho come across it. One sees, too, in reading the story of Trilby's life that the objectionable Incidents in It were situation and the nuturai yin her ow! truthfulness of her nas Reshearied unselfi. accurate information to just where he got it, (From the Baltimore American.) ia the most crowded place | than. Perhaps this is the reason hat in by. of= rather there is a fecling w ion as a model ril jainst & social canon vention condemns, many ies theo se many ti) higher morality will not cor *e Boston, Mase, Jan. ik, “ete |