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THE BEOOELYN logic' of the situation compels the conclu lege president regard as essential Is covered by these qualifications. Let. the mayor elect speak for himself: "I must have proof that the public is to be' honestly, faithfully, efilciently served and that no call of duty on the part of an official is to be denied. I must know that the man I will name will do his whole, ing. Is It to be inferred from, what the veteran says, that because a man Is a Catholic he must necessarily be a Democrat, or that because he is a Democrat he must necessarily be a Catholic? Is it to be assumed that adherence to the old faith precludes the exercise of that freedom of judgment lu political matters which, as we understand it, Is one of the blessings that American citizens, irrespective of denomination, are yet supposed to enjoy? 1 There are other features of the interview that will not escape a large share of attention, but.

they are unimportant as compared with the one under consideration. It Is certainly a remarkable circumstance that not until the election Is Evans' basket. But they all thought he was wonderfully funny. All of be missed his wife. He found' her In the kitchen: sorrowing over a copper kettle full of ec.rcb.ed cherries.

And the patient forgiveness In her eyes quite sobered him. Never before had he touched a dTop of Intoxicating liquor. He did not dream that the cherry juice had fermented. And never again, to the end, hid he put within his Hps one drc that might, inebriate. Yet that, ancient story, heard when he was young, clung till he was old; and it rides In the front wagen of his traits.

His1, neighbors are not slanderers. he dies they will stop, breathless with the sheck of that taking off. And never again will they repeat or remember the mihap that far summer day. Meanwhile, he Sits there these autumn evenings, with light wood fire In the big fireplace, with his children around him or comfortably located within call, with the summer's work ended, and the granaries full, with the cattle nipping rhe short, sweet autumn growth of clover, with stores of food In the cellar and comfort everywhere; and it dees trouble him that he never was deacon, or school director, or town ship trustee. Strong old Gabriel Shaw.

Chicago Times Herald. the front pew," Invited: his relatives, and friends, paid a clergyman a good sum to preach his funeral and so got more good of his obsequies than any other man of his time or nation. If we could all read such obituaries of ourselves as some fellows have the luck to get, it would moke us complacent for all the rest of our days. Checks Upon Crime. Much objection has been made to the Bertillon system of measurement and description by which criminals may be identified, but it seems to have proved its usefulness.

The murderer Stelger, alias Meyer, alias Schmidt, has been identified by means of It as a burglar, abductor and assailant who would never have committed his recent homicides if he had been sent away for a proper term in the first place. He Is the sort of man who appears to be Incurable, and who for the safety of the community should have been put out of the country, if not out of existence, long ago. He prefers a life of crime and Idleness to any other, and no matter for how many years he may be sent to pris to have his shoes blacked, he is charged twice as much as they charge outside. There Is no right or reason In this. Charges at the big hotels have already risen to a figure that puts It "out of the power of the majority to stop in them for more Uaan a day.

In view of the price that he demands the landlord might at least pay his servants and forbid them to take fees. There can be no compromise in these matters. The fee system is un American, unmanly and unjust. If the manager of some first class house will engage only self respecting people for his waiters, pay good wages to them and Inform and request his guests and tne public accordingly, that man will rise in the estimation of the world and will reap the pecuniary reward that he deserves. The least that can be done is to post a schedule of fees demanded by employ all over our hotels, in order that the unknowing guest may not be gouged out of What the majority find it inconvenient to pay.

RECENT EVENTS. The Attorney General of the State ol New Jersey has filed information in tie Supreme Court to the effect tfrat the To wa of Dover has no legal existence and that the mayor and the common council have usurped tie privileges of muniiclpal office. W. H. Sage, son oi ehe late Henry W.

Sage, has been elected permanent chairman of the executive committee of 'the Board of Trustees Cornell University. Because Minna Holscher refused to marry him, Albert Merckle, 23 years old, a footman, employed at 583 Western boulevard. New York, shot himself on Wedaesday in Long Island Ci'ty. Captain J. B.

Hobler of Vanceboro, Ky died ait his home on Wednesday from the effects of vitrol thrown into face by an unknown person. A. F. Nason, superintendent of agencies of the Eastern DHviston of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, died on Wednesday night at his ome in Hartford, Conn. When Postmaster Mahoney of Passaic, N.

entered his office on Wednesday morning he was handed an extra of a Paterson Journal announcing his death. I sion' that it must have been in Tammany HaJL If Mr. Piatt did not mean to charge Tammany with betraying him, and. if he did not intend to give to the people reason for, continuing to believe that he had. made a deal with Croker lie was unforunate in deed In his choice of words.

Let us looE at his remarks from an other point of view. Mr. Tracy could not have been elected unless he had received the votes that were cast for Mr. Low. The Citizens' Union candidate polled nearly 150,000 votes and Mr.

Tracy polled but 101,000. For the hundred thousand to charge the hundred and fifty thousand with treachery Is the height of absurdity. If there was treachery it began in the shoes which Mr. Piatt wears on his feet and ended in the hat which he puts on his head. If it had not been for the policy which this man pursued Bis candidate for the chief judgeship of the Court of Appeals would have polled 80,000 more votes in this great city than he did receive.

The total mayoralty vote in New York was 278,000, while the total Court of Appeals judgeship vote was only 228,000, or 50,000 less. In Brooklyn 180,000 votes were cast for mayor and but 150,000 for the chief judge. The Democratic candidate received more votes than were cast for Mr. Van Wyck. The Citizens Union Republicans refused to indorse Mr.

Piatt's judge and they would not vote for the Democratic candidate. The charge of treachery will not lie against the Republicans' who own themselves and voted their convictions, on Tuesday. Mr. Piatt is a shrewd politician, but in this instance his gay young assistant, Timothy L. Woodruff, has been wiser than he.

The Lieutenant Governor suggested on Tuesday night that "the day's events be a sealed page in Republican history." It would be better for the bosses if they should plead that the people forgive and forget than for them to talk about treachery. If the junior senator had as large a collection of waistcoats as the Lieutenant Governor he might find consolation for defeat in the reflection that there were still some things worth living for. Because of the lack of waistcoats he indulges in bitter comments. Fire Losses. In a time of peril life is the first thing to save.

James Duigard of New York lost his in trying to save his papers. If the commodities of which he was in search were in the form of currenev his anxiety can be understood, but if they were stocKS, oonas, mortgages, bank books, notes or any of the usual representations of riches there was little need to incur a risk in order to secure them, for such valuables are protected by record or duplicate. The increasing use of safe deposit vaults for the storage of such papers and possessions points to a lessening danger from fire and burglary. In the case of Duigard he persisted in staying in a burning house in order to rescue his papers, and would not be dragged away by those who were wiser. Many losses of life have occurred through the same fatuity, and in the burning of the Brooklyn Theater an actor was killed because he insisted in going back to the stage to get his costumes.

But every fire like that in Manhattan street points anew to the dangerous fllmsiness of structures that our building authorities allow to be erected. Often the entire house is wrapped in flames within a few minutes after the discovery of smoke. The thinness of the walls, floors and partitions allows the fire to eat through the wood work quickly, and the airshafts and other openings serve as chimneys to draw the fire into a fiercer blaze. In the many cases in which tenements are burned by incendiaries for the insurance on their handful of furniture, the premises are sprinkled with oil in order to make the destruction the more sure, but even without these helps tlie shabby construction of buildings that are homes for hundreds of people invites death, and makes total demolition of the house an almost certain sequence of such an accident as the fall of a lamp or the of a curtain against a gas jet. Too many houses are built to sell nowadays.

Trouble in India. If what the captain of the relief ship tells is true, not an American would object to seeing the neonlo nf Tnriio against the English in their country and ena tne rule of civilization forthwith. But is it credible? There must be a mistake somewhere. The Americans, with their usual promptness, subs and sent provisions to the starving people inaia, wnen the provision steamer arrived at Calcutta the captain of it says that the customs officers tried to prevent the landing of supplies and that the English of the city, resident and official, looked upon this attempt to save the lives of the natives as an intrusion. They would not allow the cargo to hr rmt ashore for ten days, and then only on pay ment or excessive duties.

Three of the American sailors were assaulted in the streets of Calcutta a.nd the pilot who took the ship into port told this surprising cap ram mat ne wouiu nave done better had he brought in a cargo of rapid firing guns with which to kill the nn.t!vis than bring food to keep them alive. The captain applied to our consul at Manilla, he says, for aid he does not say what kind aaid it was refused. Consuls are not there togiveaid, as he should have known, but to draw salaries. Really, one does not know what to make of this report Perhaps the captain ate all of the provisions on the way over and makes this presentation to cover up the fact Reading One's Own Obituary. The New Jersey postmaster who is occupying his leisure, just now, in reading the nice obituaries written of him in the papers local to his bailiwick, is enjoying a rare delight.

Somebody said he was dead. Probably it was one of the yellow journals, since they say anything to fill space, without regard to tlie wishes of people they write about, or to tlie facts. He is not dead and has no present Intention of even tailing to his bed. But having killed him it became the duty of the slayers to say what they might that was good of him, in amends, and the subject of the sketches undoubtedly feels that it was worth while to die for an hour or two, In order to discover how many different kinds of a virtuous man he was. Why not publish all these good things while one is alive? Why wait until a person is dead to make these pretty offerings? A man up country had his funeral while he was In sound health had his empty coffin brought into church, sat in TKUBSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1S97.

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Only those who like to undertake what cannot be accom will attempt to rail the seal from ott that bond. For his certificate of elec tion, backed by a majority of 80,000, he i is primarily indebted to an organization 1 which lias not always commanded confi 'dence. There are many pages of its his tovy it would prefer to have passed over without nerusal. As far as was possible, under the conditions which existed, another organization participated In the con yention choice. Brooklyn was accorded i all the representation it could lay claim to rand its delegates either silently or other wise acquiesced in what was done.

Upon two powerful political organizations, therefore, rests the responsibility for the nomination ratified at the polls on Tues I day last. The Brooklyn contribution to the ratification was as significant as that went into the ballot boxes on tlie mother side of the river once more the re sponsibility crossed the bridge. The ln dorseinent here was unequivocal. It was the more emphatic, because Brooklyn was "regarded as a low stronghold and Van v. Wyck as a sort of invader, inviting over repulse.

The battle ended i.vrhea the sun went down on election day. A. Van "Wyck is no longer a candi date for office. We are no longer being tbid "why we should vote for or against hiai. A campaign of extravagant claims has'' gone into history.

There is more a suspicion that the winner might have been much less astute. It is not easy to imagine how speech, no matter of what character, could have materially served his purposes; it Is easy to imagine that it would have diminished rather than added to his strength. He was tlie less offensive because he did not take the of tfensive. Speech stimulates and silence criticism. It may be a mistake to 'iiare nothing to say.

but few are the mis takes of those who say nothing. However, and inexorable conditions have been created and the curtain has fallen Aipon uncertainties. For better or for worse, the verdict has been rendered. pessimist is with us. As he looks at things they have gone all wrong, radically, menacingly and hopelessly wrong.

j.There is no salvation for us. We have de "liberately placed ourselves at the mercy forces from which no mercy can be "looked for. We have stripped ourselves ''of all means of defense and walked into lair of a famished tiger. Theodore L. 'Cuyler is a man of sanguine tempera ment.

The slightest break in the clouds enables him to see a ray of sunshine, but impenetrable gloom envelops him. He declares the result to be a terrible calamity and is certain that Its influence all over the land will be most unhappy. The dangers are such as threaten what he alls the fabric of free government and eyes that are blind now will not be four years hence. If we are not Vsory, we will be. We have thrown our a precipice at the bottom of our more or less mangled remains be discovered at the expiration of the first mayor's term of office.

It is not jx pleasant picture. The closer tlie scrutiny the less inviting it becomes. Obvi ously, this ordinarily cheerful divine is of "the opinion that we are about to enter upon a career of municipal shame. With the beginning of the year will bo gin a carnival of official crime. The i start the imperial city will make is to be I IJa.bad start.

It is to set an example not be. emulated but avoided. It is to be an object lesson to those who would steer clear of all that is tin wholesome, sinister malign. A brilliant opportunity lias: been lost, we have decided against de in favor of depravity and we have the charter in tlie hands of men who will take care that it becomes un The new administration is condemned in advance. It can do everything wrong and nothing right.

Trial usually precedes conviction; in this case con comes first. Before crime has been committed we have a criminal mayor and we can point to at least one case 1n which justice has been sure but not slow. Consolation will come to Dr. Cuyler. Dr.

Storrs says he is neither surprised rior discouraged, which is just like Dr. Storrs, who detects possibilities of good even in Xuzareth and who is not easily The criminal made a statement yesterday and as he spoke not for "the, purpose of Influencing voters, the lit that he said is all the better worth ac cepting. It was to the point. Among other things he took occasion to observe that he would make appointments with reference to fitness and honesty. Seth Low himself has said nothing more per "tinent and reassuring.

All that the most ardent advocates of the Columbia Col full duty to this city." It will perhaps be difficult to persuade Dr. Cuyler that such utterances could fall from the lips of one hot only under obligations to the tiger, but who has already been elected. Itiis doubtful whether even Seth Low, himself could improve upon them. They create doubts about that carnival of offi cial crime, and if the danger of a career of municipal shame be imminent it is not apparent To tell the plain truth about the matter, the statement, not of Van Wyck, the candidate, but of Van Wyck, the mayor elect, can disappoint only those who prefer to be alarmists. It is direct and positive, and it establishes a high standard.

It is encouraging and it is a warning. It serves notice not only upon the pessimist, but upon those who contend that a man who will not be mayor has been elected. The assumption that a quarter of a million voters are blind and that only a minority and a comparatively small minority can see will hold about as little water as a hat the crown of which has been cut out. To few men, perhaps to no man, has been presented such an opportunity as Is now at the disposal of Robert A. Van Wyck.

The power he will exercise cannot be withdrawn. It is his to have and to hold for four years and it will be time to deny him confidence when he forfeits it. He has spoken like a man of courage and of honor, and the greater city will take him at his word. His declaration will be taken at its face value until he himself impeaches its worth. He is at least entitled to a fair chance and premature explosions are not in order.

They can make a great noise without being especially destructive. Accept the result and face the future. An Extraordinary Interview. It is not often that the leader of the local Democracy can be persuaded to discuss the results of elections. For so many years has he been in command of the party forces, and through so many political vicissitudes has he passed, that he has learned to accept results, as a rule, philosophically, whatever they may be.

When he has been Induced to speak he has customarily been extremely guarded in his utterances and has taken care not to say. anything which would leave a scar, but which, on the contrary, would allay rather than inflame the intensity of partisan feeling. In the Eagle of Wednesday the veteran had something to say about the result of this year's election, talking with a degree of freedom that will be surprising to those who for many years now have admired his brilliant flashes of silence. One thing there was he said which will command very general approval, at least on this side of the river. It was that the Kings County Democratic organization was well able to take care of itself.

By that he undoubtedly meant to intimate that it could take care of itself just as well in its dealings with Tammany Hall as, in this electtion, it has proved itself able to take care of itself before the peo pie. And then, having disposed of this phase of the subject, he came to the dis cussion of a much more sensitive and delicate one. It was a mixture of religion with politics. Becoming reminiscent, he cast his mind back to the campaigns of 1854, 1S55 and 1856, and made comparisons between the vote cast in those years, respectively, the vote cast for Mr. Low this year.

In his judgment the same prejudices which lent, weight and impetus to the Know Nothing movement were at work in another form in the recent campaign. Here is the language: "Sure. It was the Know Nothing systerfi in those years. It was the American Protective Association yesterday, supplemented by the support of so called high toned Roman Catholics such men here as the Keileys and the McMahons and tlie Kelly's. There is a passage of Scripture which says: 'Lord, forgive them; they know not what they And then the veteran proceeded to remark that no one could be more surprised at the result than Mr.

Low himself. Such result was to be attributed to the so called "better element" within the Catholic Chuvch. The leader does not characterize the "better element" beyond saying that it is comprised of men who "represent Catholicism in their minds" and who "do not go to confession very often," In his judgment. He could have made, he said, a great many more observations to the same effect had he seen lit to do so, but he did not see fit, and thus our readers were deprived of further commentaries on a subject which, to say the least, is extremely interesting. The logic of the foregoing statement is that there is something incompatible between Catholicism and the support of such men as Mr.

Low by such Catholics as the Keileys and the McMahons and the Kellys To not a few people it may occasion surprise to be informed that Catholicism has its classes and that they can thus be carefully differentiated. For if there be "high toned" Catholics, as we are told there are. it is to lie assumed that there are Catholics of the middle class and Catholics of low degree. And to the latter, we are most positively assured, the Keileys and the McMahons and the Kellys do not belong, for they cannot be high toned and low toned at the same time, without doing violence to one of the fundamental processes of human ua 1 ture, or in other words constituting them 1 selves Intellectual and moral freaks. With this phase of tlie subject, however, we are not especially concerned.

What interests us is the bald proposition that I there is something incompatihle between Catholicism and the support at the polls of an independent Republican, like Mr. Low. We need not characterize the proposition. Suffice to say that there are people who will regard it as amazing, in spite of what the veteran lias to say in criticism of "the better element" within the Catholic church, if there be such a thing, there will be no sort of doubt, not only among Catholics generally, but among members of other denominations, that tlie Keileys and the McMahons and the Kellys, in espousing tlie cause of the independent Republican candidate for the mayoralty, responded to precisely the same impulses as those which animated men about the character of whose intentions there cotild be no question in the mind of any sane human be over do we encounter the suggestion on the part of any public man of responsibility that denominational tendencies, or prejudices within denominations, played any considerable part in the campaign just brought to a close; Such may have been the case. The suggestion, however, that it was the case can only be regarded as unfortunate, for it leaves wounds be hind it and is calculated to kindle resent ment when otherwise nothing but the kindliest and best of feeling would pre vail.

A Sign of Promise. The sale of the property of the West Brooklyn Improvement Company to a local syndicate means that that property is to be developed at once. The land which the company owned is within thirty five minutes of New York by the Thirty ninth Street Ferry and within half an liour of the Brooklyn City Hall by the trolley ears. When a connection is made between the elevated and surface railroads this time will be lessened. The Fort Hamilton boulevard runs through the district, connecting it with Prospect Park and with the Narrows.

The proposed boulevard that is to' run from the Ocean Parkway to the Shore Road crosses one edge of the tract and there is one trolley line connecting it with the City Hall and the ferries by way of Fifth avenue and next spring the Brooklyn Heights Company will extend its Flatbush avenue line into that region by way of Avenue and one of the avenues between Fifteenth and Nineteenth avenues. Thus it will be seen thai the men who have invested their money in this property are not likely to have the land decrease in value on their hands. In tact, it is announced that they have made plans to increase its worth by building next year more than two hundred houses on it. They Intend also to advertise it extensively, so that knowledge of its attractions may be spread. This cannot be considered as wholly a private speculation.

Of course the men in the syndicate expect to make a profit. But they cannot benefit the property that they own in the West Brooklyn region without benefiting the adjoining property directly and the whole city indirectly. The houses to be built will cost from $3,000 to and will be sold on easy terms. The increase in the number of householders Insures an improvement in the quality of government that we have and decreases the number of people likely to accept socialistic or communistic theories. The Eagle hopes that the syndicate may not only sell every house that It builds next year, but that it may also have such a deniand for houses that it will find it difficult to meet it.

There is room in Kings County for thousands of detached houses for homes for rich and poor and there is increasing evidence that this fact is at last appreciated by capitalists. One Result of Party Discipline. The Fourteenth is at the front as the banner ward. It is rather proud of its allegiance to Senator McCarren, who not only believes in party organization but who may be called a political disciplinarian. The Van Wyck plurality there was larger than that placed to'his credit in any other part of the city and as a vindication of his methods it ought to be and unquestionably is satisfactory to the Senator.

He has at least the consolation of knowing that the party has little to complain about, so far as results are concerned. What he sets out to do he usually accomplishes and results count It almost looks as though he is under obligations to those who challenge his supremacy they seem to fortify his intrenchments. There are less capable leaders here and elsewhere. Well Done, McOarry. Among the councilnien elect is.

young McGarry, who has little reason for being ashamed of the returns. He trailed behind nobody and has made it clear that he is honored in his own country. He inherited some political capital and accumulated more. Because he has clean hands as an alderman and because he Is a gallant fighter the Eagle includes him among those to whom its congratulations are extended. As to Traitors and Liars.

The comments which had been waited for patiently all day came from the lips of Senator Piatt late Wednesday afternoon. He said: "The defeat of Judge Wallace and General Tracy is due to the lies and mendacity of our opponents and the treachery of alleged friends." This remark is as unfortunate for the cause for which Mr. Piatt supposedly stood as his policy for the past few months was disastrous to the cause of good governiiK nt. Who were the opponents of Mr. Piatt's ticket? Were they the managers of Tammany Hall? If wo are to identify the opposition by Its words then Tammany cannot be charged with hostility to General Tracy, for Tammany directed itself against the candidacy of Seth Low and said not a word against Mr.

Piatt or his ticket. It was the Citizens' Union ticket that attacked General Tracy's candidacy, so Mr. Piatt's charge of lying must be directed against that organization. Now as to the treachery of the alleged friends. Who were these people who made promises and did not keep them? Were they the men who joined months ago in the Citizens' Union movement and demanded the nomination of Mr.

Low? Respect for the truth of history compels the statement that these men were frankly and openly opposed to the plans of Mr. Piatt from the beginning. They said that there was no liope of success except In a union of all the anti Tammany forces and that there was no better man to head such a union than Seth Low. They were not treacherous, either to Mr. Piatt, or to General Tracy, or to themselves.

Where, then, was the treachery? Respect forjhe WEALTH THAT BENEFITS OTHERS. The recent death of George M. Pullman recalls 'the incidents of '1804, the facts of which and their relation to the public welfare "ara put very clearly by the Brooklyn Eagle: "The dead man has been variously regarded, In consequence of his attitude during the great strike In the West that was engineered by Eugene V. Debs, a man who had been indirectly benefited by Mr. Pullman.

When the hard times began the orders for cars dropped off, so that there was liess business lor tho works at Pullman amd wages were reduced and many of the employes were discharged. This created bitterness. It was said that the shops ougltt to be run at a loss to accommodate the employes. Then some of the roads, talcing advantage of the hard times, ordered new, cars to replenish their stock, but owing to their decreased earnings they were not able to pay for them as much as they had formerly paid. In order to keep his shops going Mr.

Pullman offered to build these cars, tm though they were sold for about the cost of making, the workmen complained that their wages ought to bo raised. In this anarchists, agitators and other Idlers and disturbers who hang on the skirts of labor and live on its earnings vTaised" their voices and demanded that Mr. Pullman should arbitrate. Mr. Pullman said, that he owned his shops and was uotag as well with them as he tould, therefore he had nctlhing to arbitrate.

The outsiders persisted in the invasion of his business and his premises, and when the strike took on a violent phase he was prooably In greater danger of his life than he knew. Some the murderers, incendiaries and train, wreckers were killed by troops, others were Imprisoned, and when better times returned tlhere was work for the really industrious. Mr. Pullman shared the common fate of people with money In that he was hated by the very men who ate his bread and held up as a typo of all that was grasping and unjust. Men of his type are needed, nevertheless, especially in new countries and in periods of inventive and industrial activity.

Where such a man oppresses one, allowing that there is any truth in the charge against him, he benefits a thousand There can be no doubt that the saner judgment of men. In weighing the value of such a career as that of Mr. Pullman, will closely accord with the views of the Eagle. Indiscriminate assault on wealth, property and enterprise Is as sure to react to the injury of the assailants as the poisoning of one's food or water supply is certain to cause serious consequences. Mr.

Pullman started from poverty and through inventive genius and great business ability created a vast Industry and accumulated a large fortune. He lot only did this, but he made travel comfortable for countless thousands of travelers, and thus added to the sum of human happiness. And in the doing of all this he provided work and paid wages to thousands of others. Suppose there had been no George M. Pullman to invent, to organize and to direct.

Where would the workers have found employment and wages? Men of Pullman's stamp give impetus to the race. Without them humanity would remain as non progressive and inert as the torpid millions of China. Of course all such men will be misrepresented and abused. But In the long run the world will estimate them at their true value, and history will accord them their proper places. Troy Times A NOTED SEA MARK? The most northern lighthouse in Great Britain, the northwest tower on the coast of Shetland, is one of the most interesting of latter day sea marks.

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In youth reform is possible, but in middle age the character Is apt to be settled for good or evil. A great need is upon us of getting rid of our growing criminal class, for we now have such a class. The beginner in crime is usually a tramp, who loafs and begs until his self respect Is gone; then takes to demanding what he used to ask, and after a while takes without even the demand. The beggings and peculations of this army of Idlers represent an immense sum annually, and.they return absolutely nothing for them in work or any kind of service to society. Experience has shown that it is seldom possible to reform a tramp after he has been on the road for some years, and lie grows worse all the time.

We need to send such fellows out of the country. The purchase of a colony In a far away place from which it would be practically impossible to return may yet be forced upon us. Robberies, murders and incendiary fires were rare occurrences thirty years ago, but now they happen several times a day. The perpetrators of these offenses live on society when they are free, and are supported in idleness by society when they are in prison. We do not need them.

Everything like the Bertillon system, that puts a check on the criminal and vicious, serves as a protec tion to society and is desirable. When a man has lived thirty or forty years of his life as a thief and outlaw it is dangerous to have him far out of the sight of the police. He has proved that he can not be trusted and he is therefore not entitled to his liberty. We shall see the usual delays and tricks of law to defend this assassin, in whose case there is no doubt, since he was taken red handed after his second inurder, and such devices will encourage men who are like him to continue in wicked ways. We have too many criminals.

Hotel Libraries and Fees. Boston has a gorgeous new hotel that Is different from all other hotels in this: it has a library of 2,500 volumes for the use of its guests. Naturally if this sort of thing was to be, it would be in Boston first. In that bookish town they have the finest public library in the world, and the people use it, too. Having many thousand volumes at its own disposal it Is proper that the Boston public should wisn the rest of mankind to share a few of its advantages when they visit the town.

The new hotel has no reading room, so called, where guests fight for 1 and 2 cent papers; indeed, the custom prevalent in English hotels and clubs of waiting all morning for some other man to get through with a penny paper has never obtained here to any considerable extent. Instead of papers in which are recorded things of only passing moment, like congressmen and prize fighters, books are provided for the stranger wherein he can learn of the labors of the Jesuit missionaries, the explorations of the Spaniards in Peru, the proceedings of the Concord School of Philosophy and studies in comparative theologies. Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whittier, Longfellow, Lodge, Dana, Whipple, banning, Butterworth, Wright, Guiney, Poe, Alcott. Brooks, Lowell, Winsor, Parkman, Everett, Webster, Sumner, Ware, Mather, Holmes, Grant, Simpson, Agassiz. Mann, Bishop, Howells, Aldrich, who live, or have lived, in Boston or Its suburbs, will be conspicuous on the shelves of this library and will present an array of lore and genius likely to so impress the visitor that he will be proud to have been there.

And, really, the scheme is one that commends Itself. One now has room, bed and board in bis hotel, he has electric lights, electric call bells, baths, the use of a telephone in this hotel every room has one of those aggravating inventions and quiet service; music is furnished with dinner, carriages are called, laundry work is done and one may have a shave or a cocktail without going out of doors; then, why not also an innocent book or so to while away the time that may fall upon one's hands when one is waiting for a man, or for the east wind to Change to the west, so that one may go out and meditate on the borders of the frog pond? Limited trains now have libraries and ocean steamers have had them for years. It is remarkable that hotels have not had them before. But the great need of the modern hotel is free service to its guests and a landlord who will pay his servants. It is all very well to cover the walls with gilding, to hang costly paintings in the parlors, to build marble stairs for the guests to climb, to spread the tables with the best of linen, cut glass, china and silver, to have old wines in the cellar and a French cook In the basement, to increase comforts to luxuries; but not a single guest In sach a house feels at ease so long as he Is the prey of the servants.

These fellows are In some hotels the masters of the guests. They will do nothing without being paid twice: once ly the landlord, who evidently does not pay them eaough, and again by the who is forced to pay them much. Is a meal served, the waiter expects his tip. Is a trunk taken to a room, where it must go, anyhow, the porter Is impudent unless he has the price of a drink. Is a pitcher of ice water taken to a that must be paid for.

Does one register his name, he Is assailed by a youth with a brush who expects a nickel for dusting off a coat on which there is no dust. Does he go Into the basement CONTEMPORARY HUMOR. 'When woman won't she won't," they say. Which means that she starts out that way, But, later on, as you will find. She's pretty sure to change her mind.

Chicago Record. Smith Do you know that our government encourages counterfeiting? Jones Why, of course not. What do you mean. Smith Well, anyway, It employs a lot of congressmen to pass bad bills. Chicago News.

your wife seems very devoted to her flowers." "Devoted! Well, sir, many an October night that woman has dragged thn blankets off my bed to keep those weazened little geraniums from getting frost biueu." Detroit Fiee Press. "Thcimas, Thomas, when you tell a lie do you ever scop to think of the dozen other lies you may have to cell to get out of it?" "Course I does, sir, an' I takes care to tell a lie in the first place o.s'11 do for the whole dozen." Harper's Bazar. "My dear, why do we used condensed Tillk In our coffee?" "You forget we are living in a flat." Brooklyn Life, ball team! Yonkers Scatesman. PERSISTENCE OF A SLANDER Illustrated by the Story of a Farmer's One Drink. It may be that a rolling stone gathers no moss, but the itinerant may lose a reputation every year and gain a new one in the next town.

This is the story of Gabriel Shaw. He is 72 years old a tall, straight, strong farmer, who never knew an excess nor suffered a day's illness. He is as gentle as his Alderney cows. He never said an ill word of anyone. And he is never so happy as when sitting beside the big fireplace which he still maintains In "the west room," and silently smiling over the group of children and guests.

His wife died twenty years ago, and it was then I first heard of the terrible immorality of Gabriel Shaw. He seemed to be crushed by the blow. "But, then, Bhe's better off," said a gray haired neighbor. "Oh, I suppose we would all be better off," said I. "Better off dead than live with a husband who gets drunk on cherry wine," was the neighbor's sturdy response to morbid sentiment.

It was a shock. Old Gabriel Shaw get drunk! It seemed impossible. They were all gentle enough, all sympathetic enough. I thought the gray haired neighbor was a slanderer. There was a brood of boys and girls in the Shaw homestead.

It was a delight to visit there. The barns were so the cattle so well kept and contented. The woods were a delight in spring, for there was a mighty 'sugar orchard' there. The house was a delight in winter, for we could crack walnuts and eat apples, with no light other than the flames from the roaring fireplace. One autumn I gathered hazelnuts along the line fence, and Farmer Overmeyer stopped his wheat drill to chat with me.

'Old Gabe's done his seeding, I said the farmer. To which I assented. 'Good farmer but old Gabe likes his little nip, I That was all he would say. He smiled when I pressed him, clacked to his horses and drilled away. While Gabriel Shaw was asking the blessing that night I did not close my eyes, but looked across at Ms splendid face, and It seemed to light with the sentiment of his fervid words.

He had performed the ceremony three times a day for forty years; yet his soul was certainly in it. He had given the brethren an acre of ground at the corner of his farm and there was a church and a little cemetery. He was a memher, and the ohieftest contributor. Bill Shiaw went wrong and wouldn't be corrected. But old Gabriel said grimly: "He oan't wear me out." And his patience with that prodigal was almost sublime.

Bill gave ten years to felly and then came back and settled down. He never wandered again; and I oeMeve the old man loved him better for the trouble he had caused. Rosalie followed the singing teacher away one New Year's eve; but the following Christmas she came back. And on to the very end, and when the work was finished at night Rosalie would fetch her knitting and sit on a split bottomed chair just between her father and the jamb of the fireplace; and he would lay one arm along her shoulder and pat her gently now and then, while he smiled or brooded. He never asked her a word.

He went on a note for Mart Law ton one time and Mart died Insolvent. Sol Miller held the note, but he lost it while burning brush. It was outlawed before he bought and Ga'brlel Shaw had supposed for fifteen years that Lawton had met the obligation. "I'm out $40," eald Sol Miller, the money lender. "You take a man Miat l'lkes Ms toddy, and he won't pay till he has to." But GabTiel Shaw paid the note wjthout a word when he knew the facts.

outlaw honesty," said he. I was in the little churcli when they selected a deacon to fil'l a vacancy. They spoke of Galbriel but shook their heads sadly, and yec with a twinkle in the eye. They did not chcose him. So I cornered old Deacon Freeman amd he told me.

"We are unfair to Gabriel," said the dominie. He might have sat as a model for John Knox as be cold me the story. It muse bavo been in 1849 or '50. Galbriel Shaw had just completed the big house that stltl stands on his excellent farm, and sfhelters sons and daughters who will weep in eplte of their adult age when they know he is dead. Young Mrs.

Shaw was putting up cherries when half a dozen of the neighbor women came to one aifternoon bringing their sewing and serving notice that they wanted a cup of tea. Gabriel caime up rrom the field, for he was proud of his home amd ott his wllfe and he thought she might need him. She coQd him to empty the big jar of cherries into the copper kectlo a nd "bring them to a boll." fruit had sat over night in the stone and she doubted If it would "keep" any longer. Then Elhe went. Into the east room amd those women spent a delightful afternoon.

Gabriel, emptying the stone Jar, found a pint or so of juice In the bottom, and he drank It. Presently it occurred to Um the women needed entertainment, and he went In and "jollied" them. He offered to sing about the "big, black dog that came down from the he chucked Monroe Thompson's wife under the chin and failed dismally no, Jovially to thread Mrs. Covert's needle. He broke the strand of Mrs.

Cor bally's knitting yarn and made a mess while trying to match the quilting pieces lu Mrs. I' ft ft It.