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BUSINESS NOTICES. death is most significant on the side of the cause of it most significant in the sermon it think he has covered them into a generalization. The action to cap the recommendations Mayor Boody has reserved for a second term. "Our country," remarks the Voice, 'is in tho hands of moral outlaws and bandits and rebels. Shall wo rescue tho country?" By all means.

But do not forget that Van Slooten is running for the senate. witoh aoon after reminded him that things aren't always what they seem. A PBEMOItmOH OF OBEATSESS. Pater (to son who had been loft to take an orange while his father'lef the room) Why didn't you take the largest orange, Johnny? Fils Beoause I could tell by feeling them all that the largest one had no juice in it. A CURIOSITY.

Manager What is yonr specialty? Soubretts I have never sung "After the Manager You have no badness on the stage; you ought to be in a museum. FUTILE PBECAUTIOXS. "Mary Ann. I saw a tramp in the yard Just now. Bolt the "No need.

mum. He's bolted with the spoons." A VJSBY DOUBTFUL COMPLUIEJiT. Aunt Hepsy Lank a mcrcyl So that's young tax spenders are absolutely calling themselves "Brooklyn" and are stigmatizinu the taxpayers who ore questioning them as "enemies of Brooklyn." There are many evils here. The sum of all evils, however, is indicated in the monstrous Idea that the tax spenders are the masters of taxpayers who should be unquestioning and silent slaves. There is a proverb that if beggars are put on horseback they will ride to the devil.

It seems to mate with the suggestion that political servants, if allowed to put a saddle on the people, will try to ride them to pretty much the same place. The Eaole is glad tho taxation question is being agitated. The temper shown by officials is regretable, but when servants get too mad for their fnnctions or too big for the business they are hired to do, the people are apt to get XI AT 1I0B.M5G. OCTOIiEU 29, 18S. The Snndar Mornins Edition of the Eagle a Large and Growing Circulation Throughout Vie United States.

It is tits Mest Advertising ZTediwn for Those who Desire to Beach all Classes of Ifewspaper Renders in Brooklyn and on Long Island. Th Daily (Evening) Eajrln now in its FiftyJhird year. Its Circulation is Larger Than That of any Other Paper of its Class in the United States, and it is Steadily Increasing Keeping Pace with tlie Growth tf the Great City of which the Eagle is Admit, ttdly (lie Journalistic Representative. seems to be a prominent cause of heavy death, rates in infanoy and ohildhood; in another foul air appears to be speoially pernicious. Dr.

Billings does not close his 'admirable paper without a few practical suggestions. Both Brooklyn and New York, he ooncedes, have well organized health departments whioh employ a large number of inspectors, and the tenement house class of the. population is as carefully looked after as in any city. Neither has he any fault to find with the water supply. Some of the sewers, however, notably those in New York, he declares, ore faulty.

Defective cleansing of the streetsalso oomes in for criticism. Dr. Billings would have steps taken by the municipal authorities to obtain aconrate information "with regard to the death rolls of the different races in different parts of these oities and the oauses of the great differences which will be found in them." They must know, he thinks, in order to make the record complete and useful, for eaoh unit of area which they select, not merely the number of inhabitants but the number of eaoh sex, of each race and of each certain groups of ages. The information should be obtained at least once in the interval between the United States censuses of 1890 and 1900. The work would not cost New York city and Brooklyn less.

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TEARSM WILLIAM J. GAYNOB'S OPINION OF THOMAS E. PEAKSADLr At tho Democratic Jnrli.is.rr Ooti rent ion held in Brooklyn October 18, lS6t. the name of Thomas PearsaU was presented for nomination for office of Jndct of the Oity Court by Mr. William J.

Gaynor, who, after tdat the jnrirt diction of that Court was in all respects equal to that of the Supreme Court, added: "It behooves ns to Bee to it that renominate a member of the bar who, when wo have nominated him, we can place up against Jndge Reynolds and say that for practice In the Courts, for ability. for stndlouuneBs, for learning and tor exalted character, he is a man who is his equal. Mr. Pearsall is a lawyer of twentv years' hard study and work and practico in tho courts, right here in Brooklyn. He Is Known of all men, on Who would fill this exalted position on tho bench not merely with credit to himself but with justice to nig fellowmen." For Mayor, CHAS.

I SCHIEREN. For Senator, Fourth District, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Twenty. seventh "Wards, H. Regular Republican Candidate FOR SENATOR, Comprising 13th, 19th, 21st, 23a and 25th wards. FOR SENATOR, 5TH DISTRICT First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eleventh arid Twentieth "Wards, KEGUXAJR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR SHERIFF: J.

Regular Democratic Nomination FOR STATE SENATOR, SIXTH DISTRICT, fonainei fni) ftffinn Should leave their orders for printing at the BROOKLYN EAGLE J.OB PRINTING OFFICE, where their wants can b'e quickly supplied at xaauvixuuio prices. DANIEL ADLEi preaches this Sunday morning against that cause. Beading made a full man of him whom nature made a versatile man. Travel informed what the strife of politics and the tests of affairs had tensely trained in him. He was one part statesman, two demagogue and three superb administrator out of a possible six.

He was a fluent and swinging speaker, the despair of tho thoughtful, the terror of tho scrupulous, tho easy proy of the skillful and the idol of the proletariat. He was chosen mayor for the fourth time last election, against the opposition of all that stood for progress and civilization In Chicago, because that opposition ran a dreary dunderhead of incapable respectability and of no other ability against him. He threw himself heart and soul into the success of tho fair and his brillianoy in that tniBt atoned in much for the errors and worse of his administration in other regards. Yesterday was "all mayors' day at the exposition. He splendidly rose to the reception of many chief magistrates and then went home, where ho was soon to take a bride from his native Southland, to die by violence amid the as sumed securities homo is held to represent.

Brooklyn remembers him with thanks as a burly though chaffing welcomer of hor deputation on June 27, and Brooklyn will be sorry that he is no more. Could this consummate actor in his coffin speak out of the grim realities of eternity, into which he was sent without warning, he would say what the Eagle says that the spoils sys tem is bad to live by and worse to die by, and that cities can do no other thing so needful as to bring it forever to an end. At the Academy Lnt lYfchr. The meeting at the Academy last night was the largest, probably, ever held in it. Raised seats on tho stage doubled the seating capacity of the house.

Every inch of space within and around the building was crowded. The audience was as remarkable for intelli gence and attention, as well as for enthusiasm, as it was in numbers. It participated in the speaking at repeated points with commont, inquiry, amendment, satire and suggestien in a manner that was the perfection of interest and earnestness. The address of ex Mayor Schroeder as chairman, that of "William J. Gaynor, the remarks of Candidate Schieren and the speech of ex Mayor Seth Low are carried in full in the Eagle to day.

They reflected the marked and markedly different abilities of the men. Mr. Schroeder was philosophic and wise. Mr. Gaynor was analytic, remorseless and with extraordinary power to make details instructive and convincing in jithe lessons they taught.

Mr. Schieren was intense, incisive and in matter and in manner thrilling. Seth Low was both critical and ethical and renewed the reputation of his years here in rounder and mellower form. Not a word of partisan politics was advanced. Not a line of local affairs was left untouched.

The supreme consideration claimed for and vindicated by Brooklyn's interests was the dramatic feature of an unique demonstration. The opposition has evidently raised the opportunity Mayor Boody has to denounce aDd defy the machine to a duty to his fame, to the Democracy, to Brooklyn and to every desire he may have now or hereafter for the favorable judgment of his fellow men. Will he heed or lose the chance Aside from the cause the occasion was meant to advance and the formidable hold of which on the mind of the people the occasion evinced the ability and thoroughness of the addresses constitute an attractive and inspiring study of home affairs and call for a dedication of every true man to their betterment. The Democracy can only meet this occasion by exceeding it, and their candidate can only meet it by delivering himself at once from tho trammels of the ignoble power that has stood between him and an aroused people. laxei and the People.

The talk about taxes and valuations is encouraging, as a fact. "Valuation is the estimate of the citizen's property by the government or the. taxing power. Taxes are the sums levied on the property of citizens for the support of government. The government in the large sense is the people.

In more direct sense it is those persons whom the people elect to do business for them. These elemen tary statements are made to enforce the faot that the talk about the taxes in this canvass signifies that the people whose money is taken by officials are asking their elected servants concerning it. Such interest in the subject by the people is healthful. The questions which they are asking are proper. They have a right to ask them.

They have a right to receive true and Tespectful answers. They are entitled to know what has been done with their own by those whom they have chosen to deal with it. While property is the subjeot of taxation, the taxe3 themselves are also property in another sense, just as interest on money is itself money, the yield of money, the perfume of capital," as the French call it. More over, the taxes belong to the people in a moral sense quite as truly as the property which is taxed belongs to them in a legal sense. The taxes are intrusted to the office holders.

They are not given to them. They are intrusted to them by tha people, that the officeholders, as agents of the people, may get some things with them for the people. Taxes are contributions from property holders to the of fice holders with which to buy back from them protection from violence in the form of police, from fire in the form of men to deal with that danger, from epidemics in the form of a health board, from thirst in the form of water supply, from dirt in the form of street clean ing, from darkness in the form of lights on thoroughfares, from ignorance in tho form of schools and the like. Tho justification of taxation is publio ne cessity. The purpose of it is public supply, The moral ownership of the taxes by the peo ple never ceases any more than their logo! ownership of the property taxed does.

This being borne in mind, it follows that the people do right to bring to an account ing those who oolleot their taxes from them under instruction to use their taxes for them. It also follows that the anger, indignation and insults hurled by the tax users, the. officials, against the tax payers, the property holders, when the latter ask the former for an account of their stew ardship, are as illogical as insolent. The vEAOiE His ugliness of the Lockport Sun is still agitating the question, "Can women vote?" The philosopher has had occasion to remark that man's interest in woman is proportionate to his destitution of physical attraction. The Syracuse Standard begins an editorial this way: "Senator Hill came to Brooklyn Monday night to stem the tide of opposition." If tho Standard were published in Brooklyn its conception of the use of words might he a trifle more lucid.

Considering the excitement attending the local canvass the "wind jammers" have been comparatively merciful. They have, as a rule, been more temperate and sensible than in preceding campaigns. Their moderation is proof that, in the words of the colored revivalist, "The world do move." Let us hope that they will keep the brake of restraint on the wheel of partisan temptation till mouths and polls are closed. Sir. McLaughlin is very confident.

By a peculiar and undefined consequence his helpers have felt otherwise ever since he spoke his certainties. Mr. McLaughlin predicted 26,000 majority for Cleveland in Kings County in 18S8. Tho vote stood Cleveland, 82.446; Harrison, C9.979; majority for Clevelend, 12, 467, or 13,533 less than tho sanguine and venerable lender predicted. Neither side sliouid omit exertions because tho boss has taken to prophecy.

The Brooklts Eaoxe and a number of other hich flown Democratic papers, which just now are advertising the fact that they regard themselves as better than their parts announce oracularly that "ilamard should be beaten." Well, if Maynard should not be beaten where will the aforesaid Inch flown Democratic newspapers go and flock? Albany Eoening Journal (BUI He publican). Tho Journal is so seriously affectable by the results of elections as to be dependent on them. Its solicitude for others is an issue of its own exigencies. The Eagle will continue to tell the truth, shame the devil and publish all tho news at the old stand, whichever way tho election goes, well knowing that no political result can unfavorably influence its fortunes or cloud the difference between principles which are Democratic and maohines that are called so. Ex Speaker Heed is not disposed to give the President duo credit for smashing compromise and expediting repeal.

At a Kepublican meeting in Boston the other night he objected to "man worship" and reposed confidence on the "good sense and intelligence of the people." Mr. Keed lets his partisanship, in this respect, get the better of his cooler judgment. Without popular support the President's policy could not have prevailed. "Without Grover Cleveland's courageous leadership the sentiment of the people would not have commanded competent and convincing expression. Public opinion and Presidential foresight and firmness were indispensable one to the other.

Mr. Keed is a big and growing man. "When the mists of the passing campaign have cleared away he will take a more liberal view of Mr. Cleveland's aotion and the attitude of the country toward him. There nothing in the general estimato of the President's com se significant of idolatry.

It involves nothing more than suitable appreciation of good work well done. By tile Spoils System At the climax of his career and at the high water mark of interest of tho great exposition Carter Harrison is dead. He was assassinated by a discharged employe of the City of Chicago till lately a policeman at his residence last night. He expired shortly after the murderer's pistol was leveled at his life. The assassin was saved from popular slaughter by the strategy and courage of an officer.

He is now in the custody of tho law. A cursory estimate of his manner and statements impels the expression at the scene of his crime that he is of unsound mind. His motive was revenge. That for which he sough; his revenge was his discharge, under the spoils system, from a place to which, under the spoils system, he had been appointed. The spoils system has the faot of his insanity, the fact of his deed and the assassination of Carter Harrison to add to its account of shame and of blood.

The slaughter of Garfield should have sufficed to end that system in America. That, however, was not Brooklyn, now in a mortal struggle with that fell system, learn the extent of its possibilities of evil? Here it is gorging suffrage with the lawless naturalization of anarchical illiterates and denying redress or inquiry to the people who challenge the wrong. It is blackmailing tho civil servants of their money for a corruption fund. It is flooding the slums with colonization and dragooning the saloons into unwilling service. It is intimidating the humble and threatening vested interests into line for its imperilled cause.

It is turning party headquarters into a rendezvous to juggle returns, having already made the capitol of the state a den for stealing them. It is seeking to make the jury box a farce and the bench into a refuge and a reward for the pilferers of them. It would reduce politics to organized depravity, legislation to criminal debauchery and would turn over affairs to a close confederacy of organized and glorified toughs. Exemplar, apostlo and master of that sys tem, Carter Harrison fell its victim. Dead he preaches against what living he led and fed and fashioned and fostered.

"When the natural and passionato grief and horror of Chicago at tho deep damnation of his taking off have spent their force, may that great city vent on tho cause of his death the vengeance it would fain inflict on the agent of it who was, like the slain ruler, the victim of the cause. May every city cursed by bossism and the spoils system deliver itself from the danger and reproach of them that its annals marred by their crimes against justice and honesty and manhood be not stained with blood any more. Time for chronicle and comment on Carter JIarrison hereafter. To day the fact of his Peterkins. is it How ho has improved in the faoe.

Her nephew Aunt, yon are looking at the back of his head. Tin MODESTY OF LEABN rSO. Professor Muddles If I do aay it, Herr Bump ersnatter, I know as much about the bacteriol ogy of the Triassio as you do. Herr Bumpsrsnatter Acb 1 Wunderschoen Led me embraze you. It is de delight oaf my life do meed a real, cheniwine soiendist.

You musd be von'oaf de greatest men of de cendury. FOCOHETBY. Miss Annabel Claribel Cough, Though her hands were just oovered with dough. Have her lover a hug, As they stood on the rug; Tis a way they have in Chioagough. WHY CEBT'SIT.

The Brooklyn Eaole must be having lots of satisfaction in supporting Mayor Boody for re election Buffalo Enovirer A Few Desirable Office Rooms To rent oa ucond floor of Eaole Apply in ooanting toom. HISI IV ESS NOXIOUS. The Closing Out Sale of BR0CKWAY Bankrupt Stock of 3 at 39 41 West 23d st, N. (Opposite Stern Bros.) WILL POSITIVELY TERMINATE ON TUESDAY, OCT. 31.

Though all goods have been marked BELOW COST since commencement of sale, a further cut in prices will go into ettect Monday morning, and be continued up to close of sale on Tuesday. The greatest opportunityjever presented to secure the best Furniture of every description at the price of the cheapest Terms strictly cash. The stock was purchased by R. 1. Horner Co.

of West Twenty third st, and is being sold by them at the Brockway Warerooms, 39 41 WEST TWENTY TETRD ST. (OPPOSITE STERN BBOS.) CREDIT AT CASH STOBE. MEN'S FALL OVERCOATS; SUITS AND TROUSERS. Overcoats from $8.00 to $20.00. Homespun and Oassimere Suits from $10.00 to $18.00.

Oheviots and Worsted, from $10.00 to $18.00. Corkscrews and Clays, $12.00 to $20.00. Pants from $2.00 to $8.00. An elegant assortment of Boys' and Children's Suits, from $3.00 up. I vrn firm nrmnj Suits Cloaks In all the latest designs.

Ladies' Plush Military Capes, with and without Pur. Also fine line of Indies' Tight Fitting Jackets, with the full skirt, in all the leading Colors. FDR "CAPES, In Minks, Astrakhan, Sable, Bear, Opossum, eto. Large assortment of Muffs. A full line of Comfortables and Blankets.

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EAGLE BmDDraT Office Boom to Bent, Second Floor. Thero are few very desirable ofiiceB second floor to rent. Apply at Advertising counter. FIRE FURNITURE on no Oyii Bros mad, too, and then better results follow all around Brooklyn Is Not Competing When the Union League club recently hit upon skirt dancing as an effective means of reviving interest in the Republican cause it probably did not take into consideration the fact that its action was likely to have a demoralizing effeot on the suburban towns. Yet it was only reasonable to suppose that such would be the case.

As the only pure source of Bepublicanism in this great city of Brooklyn, it would be strange, indeed, if minor communities did not look to it for the inculcation of truths calculated to warm the hearts of the faithful. The skirt dance, to bo sure, was a risky experiment, but it drew together under one roof more adherents of the grand gd party than would have assembled to listen to a McKinley or a Depew. "With this fact in mind it will be roadily understood how the fever for the ballet should have extended to a town in the New Jersey wilderness. 0 the political proclivities of Westfield we have no accurate knowledge, but it is safe to say that there is wailing and gnashing of teeth in many of its homes to day 03 the wives and mothers and sweethearts peruse the accounts of last night's proceedings under the auspices of the crack club of the place. The Westfield club not only saw tho Union League, but it went it one better.

Listen to this description of tho costume of the premiere danseuse, which is extraoted from the columns of our erudite contemporary, the New York Sun: Hor skirt could not impede tho action of her knees, because it was of gauze and stuck out almost straight all the way around. Her well formed less were encased in tightly drawn and almost transparent black silk stockings. If "Westfield is providing entertainments of suoh a character for the purpose of strengthening the backbone of its Republican constituency we see no decided objection, but if it is doing so with the view of checking the settlement in Brooklya of the surplus population of New York, hoping thereby to be benefited, we want to enter a most vigorous protest. To be candid, Brooklyn cannot afford to compete with Westfield if that town is determined to look for its at tractions among the beauties of the midway plaisance, and determined also to graft on Western civilization the ideas and practices whioh have attained their richest development in the orient. Under such conditions we are not "in it," for to say nothing of our superior reputation for morality, there is the additional argument that we are not bidding just now for all the bald headed sinners who thrive between Harlem and the Battery.

Nevertheless we shall watch Westfield's growth with an eager eye, and will be pleased to men tion its precise location to those of our oiti zens who manifest a tendency, at times to become a trifle too gay. municipal Sanitation in Two Cities. An interesting and suggestive paper on "Municipal Sanitation in New York and Brooklyn" appears in the November Forum. The author, Dr. John S.

Billings of the United States army, i3 an acknowledged authority on sanitary matters. His researches have covered every considerable city in the country. They contribute a vast fund to the general knowl edge of vital conditions affecting human life in crowded urbau communities. In 1890, he finds, New York had a population of 1,515,301, occupying 81,828 dwellings, on 25,741 aores of ground, giving 58.87 persons to the acre and 18.52 persons to a dwelling. Brooklyn, at the same time, had a population of occupying 82,282 dwellings on 18,084 acres, giving 44.59 persons to the acre and 9.

SO persons to each dwelling. While New York was found to be tho more densely populated a greater proportion of the business population live outside of tho city limits than is the case in Brooklyn. Dr. Billings, in distinguishing between race3, classifies them acoording to the birthplaces of the mothers. According to that standard Brooklyn in 1890 contained 268,097 Irish, 195,663 Germans, 50, 379 English and Welsh, 10,946 colored, 14,195 Scotch, 4,777 French, 7,581 Russians andPoles, Scandinavians, 896 Hun garians, 205 Bohemians, 12,454 Italians and 16,400 other foreigners or persons of unknown raco.

New York, at the same time, had 334,725 Americans, 403,784 Germans, 399,348 Irish, 55.572 English and Welsh, 19,627 Scotch, 16.239 French, 80,235 Rus sians and Poles, 13,311 Scandinavians, 15,555 Hungarians, 12,287 Bohemians, 54,334 Ital ians and 74,963 other foreigners or persons of unknown race. Now York contained a greater proportion of Irish, French, German Russians, Hungarians, Bohemians and Italians than Brooklyn. Brooklyn had the greater proportion of Americans, Euglish, Scotch, Canadians and Scandinavians. Comparing the death rates of the two cities for the sixteen years from 1875 to 1890, Dr. Billings arrives at some significant conclu sions.

During that period the Brooklyn death rate per 1,000 varied from 26.3 in 1875 to 21.0 in 1878; 25.0 inl8S2, 22.6 in 1886 and 24.6 in 1890. In New York it varied from 31.3 to 23.4, having been the highest in 1881 2 and the lowest in 1877 8. From 1886 to 1890, the mortality decreased in New York and in creased in Brooklyn, but was always lower in Brooklyn. 'Die proportionate deatn rate varied greatly aocording to locality in the respective oities. The high mortality in New York and Brooklyn as compared with that of European cities is attributed to the extra ordinary number of deaths among Irish adults and Bohemian and Italian children.

The lowest death rate is among the Jews. In New York the death rate of married men from 15 to 45 years was for the Irish 23.7 and for the Germans 13.1; and of married women of the sauw raoes, for the Irish 23.9 aud for the Germans 10.8. Nearly the same dis parity applies to single persons of the respective races. The most prominent causes of the heavy death rate among the Irish are given as consumption, pneumo nia aad alcoholism and its consequences. While the proportion of deaths from those causes of the Irish is 'high, the death rates from measles, scarlet fever diphtheria and other children's diseases ore comparatively low among them and high among the Ameri cans.

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The Chicago Bubeatj of the Bbooexyn Dailt Eaole, Auditorium Euildiue, two doors from Wabash avenue entrance, Chicago, 111." This office will bo closed October 3:. Letters of credit should be presented before that time. Senator Hill has dropped Pf effer, but not added himself to tho Cleveland firm bv doing it. John Palmer is not only a painter but a glazier. Cord Meyer will 11 that glazier with broken panes.

It is romarkablo how many men thero are on the streets these days vrho claim to have saved the Union. A man can do many things, but the man who can permanently boss a party well has not yet been born. The Troy Times had an editorial on Friday entitled, "Dogs Have Their Day." In Brooklyn Oats Have Their Nights. The Sun is not only fho friend, but the bully of the Chicago platform. It i3 bavin a great deal of fun with itsalf.

Governor Horace Boies of Iowa was undoubtedly born under a lucky star. Foraker is stumping Iowa against him. Now that prize fights have been ruled off here uutil after election foot ball should be prohibited. It is more injurious. God will watoh tlio ballots.

Beacon. But at the same time it will do no harm to keep one eye on the election inspectors. Uncle Daniel Bradley is rapidly solving the Great Van Slooten Mystery. As a discoverer Uncle Daniel may yet rival Lieutenant Peary. Aocording to the Syracuse Journal the midway plaisance is "a shady place." Not so.

There are no trees and only a very fig leaves there. Editor A. B. Colvia has, says' tho Troy Press, Mtohed himself to his resignation with a log chain. He will resume journalism if Hugh Duffey 13 elected state treasurer.

The Troy Times has discovered that the "Judas" of whom the Albany Argus has been writing was appointed a judga in Palestine, but was voted out when he came up for elec For an acknowledged authority on city affairs Mr. Alfred 0. Chapin has not contributed much to the mayoralty controversy. "When, if ever, will his clarion voice be raised again? Morgan of Albama says he is responsible for what he says inside or outside the senate. He should have the whole responsibility.

The Democracy would be glad to be delivered from it and from him. The TTtioa Observer is angry at Mrs. Kendal beoause of her appearance in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." The Observer's editor will be in the front row when Mrs. Kendal plays the part in Utioa.

He has a bald head. The opposition to Maynard is som a thing the Albany Argus will never condone. It has ordered the World and the Buffalo Courier to go off by themselves and die. They have tho temerity to live, but they are dead to the Argus. Doctors, dentists, prtosts, fortune tellers, grave diggers, clairvoyants, mediums, monks and nuns cannot sue for debts due to thein in China.

Those occupations saving the grave diggers' and as antecedent tho doctors are not overcrowded there. According to tho Troy Press the insufficiency of the hospital room on the man of war New York is unimportant, for we ii.ro not to have any war. In peace there are between ir hundred and seven hundred men on that essoL A hospital not large enough for three beds is too small. The Press should lend a hand. 3ayor Boody has drawn from Mr.

A. E. Orr nn opinion of a Tribune editorial on Mr. Boody, with Mr. Orr's resume of the report made by the commission of which he was tho hettd.

The opinion is unfavorable, the re same is in parts defective, but, nevertheless, "it la dtu prisingly accurate for anyone not a newspaper man to make off hand. The or gatnlriss to refer in terms to gongs in liquor tuiindes of Chief Nevius and to one or two joffier'iaatters noticeablo, but Mr. Orr may idle curiosity of a few speculative philosophers. or physicians, but to locate the great leaks through whioh the health, energy, life and money of the community are being wasted, in order that the remedies may be applied in the right direction and at the right spots, and that the cost and labor of really practical municipal sanitation may be made as small as possible." Out of Place in Ifew York. Suoh things as happened in the house at 218 West Sixteenth street, New York, Thurs day, are out of place in America.

They are Parisian, and they should not be brought across the ocean. The moral standard here has not been so distorted that they can be looked upon with oomposure. When a man mortally wounds the wife of another, and kills himself because the woman refuses to con tinue to live with him, we do not say that he has done well. This is what the man who called himself Count Maurice de Cornellissen did. For two years and' six months he had lived as the husband of Mrs.

Louis Alexan dre, who had separated from her lawful husband after three months of married life. She grew tired of Cornellissen and would not go to Europe with him, but returned to Alexandre. It is not surprising that this affair has ended in tragedy. It could not welTend otherwise. Cornellissen wrote several letters before he killed himself, one to his mother, others to a lawyer and to an intimate friend, and still another to a newspaper.

In the latter told the story of his life. He was the natural son of Count de Cornell issen, a trench nobleman, and his mother was a Parisian modiste whom the count had betrayed. He was liberally educated and served in the Third regiment of the Belgian lancers. Here he became a master of horsemanship and also fell in love with a poor girl. Because of the latter he was dismissed from the service.

H9 oame to the United States in 1885, bringing the girl with him. She bore him a son. He earned his living by teaching French, by photogra phy or by teaohing riding. In 1887 he grew weary of the girl and took her to London and abandoned her. In 1891 he returned to America aDd became riding master in a New York riding academy.

He brought his child with him and advertised for a nurse, when Mrs. Alexandre answered the advertisement and was engaged. Soon the man and the woman were living together. The latter gave birth to a son, whose father was her lawful husband. This state of affairs continued till a few weeks ago, when the husband returned to his wife.

Cornellissen shot her, he wrote, because she would have dishonored the chil dren as well as herself and himself, had he let her live! The poor fool forgot that she was already dishonored and that he was the cause of her shame. Her return to her husband was honorable and her dismission of the al leged count was commendable. But Cornell issen did not think so. He called the husband whom he had wronged a coward and a villain. Little is known of the woman.

She was French and Alexandre had married her after a short acquaintance. What hor view of the case was we do not know. She did not leave a written statement. But she had secured a warrant for the arrest of Cornellissen because he had threatened the life of herself and her husband. The child of the woman and the child of the man are still living.

One is 5 years old and the other 2 years old. The latter dabbled its fingers in its mother's blood and said "Pretty." Have they inherited the passion and perverted moral sense of their parents, and will they re peat the tragedy of yesterday when they reach manhood If there is anything in heredity they are well fitted for such deeds. EAGLETS. REASON FOB HIS CHANGE. Oarleton What has caused De Bagley to change his opinion regarding the superiority of man's intellect over woman Montauk He has just married a widow who buried three husbands.

NO PAPEBIKG FOB HEB. Mrs. First Flat Is the landlord going to paper your walls for you this spring Mrs. Seoond Flat Oh dear no, the rooms are small enough now without having any more spaoe taken from them, HE HAD SEEN WOBSE. Visitor in museum Are you not afraid of thoBe reptiles Snake, charmer Oh no, I used to live out West and drank Chicago whisky for five years.

It takes a pretty good sized snake to scare me. BEWABD AWAITS THE OOOD. St. Peter (to the spirit at the wicket gate) What do yon want here? You belong in the basement. Shade But I went to the world fair and never, said a word about it.

St. Peter (swinging wide the doors) I humbly beg your pardon. Oome in and take a front seat. WHEBE? Where is the maidon all forlorn Who milked the cow with the crumpled horn That stepped on her foot and hurt her corn? FULL or EKPTIXESS. OHiof Did you say I oame into the hotel as full as a tick the other night McKell I said you were as full as the ordinary summer boarding hoase tiok.

O'Kief Oh. that's quite a different thing. Will you join me in a little stuffing McKell Don't care if I do. AT THE SAUSAGE PAOTOBY. "What's cats wuth, to day?" "Dead?" "Yep." "Fifteen cents." "Huh They're worth more for fiddle strings.

Ill keep 'em for a week, though, and if you conclude to offer a decent price you can have 'em." A FULL DBE8S ACT AIR. The daughters from over the hill Gave a unotion that quite filled the bill; Their gentlemen friends Did some elegant bends And not one of them wont home until A IiAUaHLMS JOKE. "I see signs of an early aprlng," said the small boy. Boftly, tohimaelf; as, he saw the teacher sit would not now ho main aprupvaibiuu us uun, mnuor lorine. juaeuiiniH una were ibaot for the erttWamaiyfactlwtttieU XX KV.EKY dayIh ths.