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wet sjL. f' 4 i China or thfr ravages of the chplero among: the was elected the machine was at his feet and legislative strike on the' City Bailroad company to tax its gross receipts 5 per cent. It was followed by the burglarious entrance of the Flynn syndicate roads into sharing terms with the board of alder innoaenca of offense but; it is impossible to doubt the annoyance; injury; the: ynnis ance suffered by multitudes. That they are, willing stolidly to ring on without regard: to their more sensitive fellow creatures implies a measure of hard selfishness which neither religion, nor custom, nor a love for the historical, the supposed picturesque and suggestive, least of all utility to the mass of mankind, for a moment There is room for reform here, and it will.he accomplished by and by, though it is a long time coming. But to be effective in this matter, jnrors.who' convicted Prendergast could; have him off with imprisonment 'for life had they been so minded.

They rightly determined that he must die. Judicial killing of Prendergast will exert a helpful influence this country. While.it may not prevent other cranks from assailing public officers it will vindicate the outraged moral law on which civilization relies for its very existence. Perhaps thegibbeting ofMayor Harrison's assassin will discourage scoundrels who would follow his grewsome example. it does not additional precautions will coti.gwHs.

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IAN 1 Matinee 1 ONE WBBK ONLY. (Regular Matinees Wedneadar and Saturday.) fl. And his admirable company, trader Bri airecuon. in nis moac succe8si.ni commiy By MARTHA MORTON. Presented with magniheent scenery.

nandaoniA" xv tumee and the; original cast, oaie ox seats now. doo ins. COL. SINN'S PAKE THEATEB. NEXT SUNDAY NIGHT, DEC.

31, First Public Appearance in Brooklyn, of th MARYEtOOS MISS In Hor Extraordinary Tests of THOUGHT TRANSFER, Ml r.U t.t. Wliti. Kiln AtAAet Miss lanoaster finds hidden cards and pins. dIaooTei" A the principals of a mock murder, finds the irebon9 ana 'x't shows how the crime was committed; reading tho nnm bar of a hiddsn hank not. fco.

Irrinp Bishop andStuart 1 Cumberland ontdone. Prices, $1, 7oc, 50c, goo. AS V7 V. 'J AM II Persians; Distance destoys the of the catastrophe. There is something nnrea 1 about the happenings in remote.

Further than this, the capacity of man for emotion is limited. The imagination is liable to fatigue, and the sympathies are suDject to exhaustion. This is probably fortunate, for there are so many things whioh appeal to us that we would become a nervous wreck in a short time if it were possible to honor all drafts upon our emotions. There are times when men hear reports of terrible disasters without excitement of any kind. Their power to feel has gone, and until nature has had time to restore it they are cased in an armor of steel.

In one's own country there usually so large a demand upon one's sympathetic resources that the supply is exhausted when the foreign market sends in its orders. To the average person the Matabeles are but puppets and the Englishmen who are fighting them are simply clubs. A human interest can not be attached to their struggles without an effort of the already overtaxed imagina tion. PERSONAL MENTION. The will of Georeo Baboock of Plainfleld.

N. disposes of an estate valued at $2,000,000. bequest of $10,000 and three brick residences made to the Plainfleld public library and $200,000 is left to the Seventh Day Baptist cnurch oi that city. Qovernor Russell of Massachusetts will re sume the practice of law in Boston his successor is inaugurated. President Cleveland returned to Washingten from his duck shooting exoursion without any dUCKS.

Dr. Harper, primate of New Zealand, died at Wellington yesterday at the age of' 86 years. His diocese was metropolitan over the sees of Auckland, Wellington, Warapu, Nelson, 'Dune din and Melanesia. RECENT EVENTS. Bot3 at nlav found the skeloton of a woman wrapped in a blanket in Red Bank, J.

Many of the hat makers In Danbury, will return to work. The plant of the Onondaga Iron company in Syracuse, was sold by the eherifl for 841,000. It cost $400,000. Manypeople are leaving flhioago to spend New Year's day in the country, "so that they may escape tne noise of the celebration. The Manchester shio canal will be opened for general traffic on Monday.

Ten elopinc couples were married at Jefler sonville, on Thursday. Some British guests at a dinner in Montreal, civen to Joseph Tasse. the Canadian commis sioner to the world lair, objected to the display oi tne unuea states nag ana it was raxuovou. Edward "Williams, a noero. wa publioly whipped on the street of Broadway, for attemnted assault.

A cronk named Buckley was arrested in Guthrie. O. while attempting to see the governor. He was armed with a revolver, a long dirk and a large quantity of arsenic. William J.

Lloyd and James Siecrlst, business men of Philadelphia, killed themselves because of the hard times. Edward Hogan, a councilman of Passaic, N. 7., was drugged and robbed in his saloon. The Rev. Elias Waohman, a Jewish rabbi.

was arrested in Newark, N. charged with illicit distilling. POLITICAL A. Republican elub was organized In Glovers Tllle. It Is announced that the regular Democrats of the state propose to.

renominate Qovernor Flower. Gossips "Washington say that the important New York appointments will be made next weeK. Congressman Utevens of Latrrenee, says that a substitute to the Wilson tariff bill is preparing. Boss HoKane may esoape punishment on a technicality, but he will never rule the little town of Gravesend with an iron hand again. Providence Journal CONTEMPORARY HCHOB.

She knitted' a tidy "With consummate care. And put it on sale at A little church, fair. A pious youne fellow Attended the fair. And purchased the tidy To put on his chair. He fixed it on smoothly.

He did, on the chair. And early thereafter He learned how to swear. Detroit Free Press. "Hello!" exclaimed the Brooklyn man, "there must have been something wrong with the trolley railroad yesterday." "Weren't the cars running?" asked his wife. I don't think so.

I don't see anything in the paper about anybody's having been killed by them." Washing Ion Star. Attorney Sharpe You deserve a higher place on the benoh, your honor. Bqulre Wood In deed, you natter mei anarpe jnoi at all. sir: not at alL You.oucht to be chiet jus tice of the court of errors. Truth.

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HOOD 4 00., lxmell, Mass. Gentlemen A year atro I was stricken do with rheamatism and for three months it seemed to me there was to be NO END TO MY SUFFERING. I was attended by the best physicians, bnt with no god resalt. Like one fcraspina; for some support, and to get at tbe facts about SARSAPARILLA, I boaght a bottle of this medicine and began taking it. The effects were for I was soon cored and AX MY BUSINESS AGAIN.

Twice since that attack I have felt symptoms of the old disease, and at onoe commenced vitn a new bottle. of HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA, with the same good effects, driving away all trace of tho disease. Rhoimatism, in my mind, comes fom a disordered state of the blood Hood'sCures and disarranges the whole system, and I am sure in my cose HOOD'S SAESAPARIXLA. acted directly upon the blood, aa It gave me relief so soon.1' F. C.

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(no initials), who opened a store a on another part of Fulton street. A. Smith 144 FULTON ST, Brooklyn. Wine Vaults in the arches of the Brooklyn Bridge. Good Seasons Why physicians prefer to prescribe Caswell, Massey EMULSION OF COD IiIVER OIL with PEPSIN and QUININE.

It is not advertised as a core all. It is made of better materials than any other. It can be taken by the most delicate when other emulsions or plain Cod Liver Oil ore intolerable. CASWELL, MASSES" 1,121 B'way, 578 5th N. Newport.

INSTANT RELIEF FOR COLD IN THE HEAD. CORYZON CATARRH AND HAY FEVER. SOLD BY ALL DRUGQIST8 IT NEVER FAILS. absolutely wanted him to do right and to be brave. But before he was sworn in, the chine was on his back and he was on the ground'.

That position was maintained until the people themselves puiled tne machine off of him, casting it into the mire and kindly restoring him to the freedom of pri vate station in the benevolent hope that with the recovery of liberty there would be return to that mood and mind of broad citizenship on the reputation of which was originally elected. The hope may not be wholly fallacious. It has certainly not been abandoned, but much to call for its abandonment has been furnished, the much being lamentably capped with the unrebnked sconndrelism of the aldermanio effort to steal the board of supervisors, put forth this forenoon, without a protest from Mayor David A. Boody on his last day in office. Excise Commissioner Hacker.

Mr. Joseph O. Hacker's acceptance of an excise commissionership will promote effici ency in the new municipal administration. Mr. Hacker is not a stranger in public affairs.

No man in the new cabinet is better informed on municipal questions than Mr. Hacker. Under the ward system he served the city well in the board of aldermen. While a member of that body he resisted Tesolutely suggestions of jobbery and stood sturdily for the welfare of the city. Every vote that he cast conformed to charter requirements and operated for the benefit of his constituents.

Reappearance of Mr. Hacker in public life coincides logically with results established at the last election. He belongs to the school of genuine municipal reform. His efforts in behalf of good government were recognized by the Republican party here in the city convention of 1882. His nomination that year for the office of city auditor was effected in pursuance of Mayor Low's intention to bring about the election of associate city officers in accord with his opinion of what the city government ought to be.

Mr. Hacker accepted the nomination reluctantly. In company with his colleague, Mr. Alexander Forman, he was defeated only by the sweeping influence of the anti Folger tidal wave. Mr.

Haoker in his defeat had the satisfaction of knowing that he ran far ahead of his ticket. In the excise commission Mr. Hacker's attitude will be consistently for enforcement of law and preservation of order. His views on saloon methods are liberal, but liberality does not mean undue license, in his opinion. In harmony with his colleagues, Commissioners Welles and Forrester, Commissioner Hacker ought to pursue the "broad middle course" which Mr.

Seth Low, as mayor, recommended and advocated. Gladstone's Birilida v. No one has yet discovered the secret of Gladstone's remarkable vigor. He was 84 years old yesterday and his intellect was more active than that of any of his colleagues. His voice is firm, his eyes are clear and his step is vigorous.

The conservatives wonder at him and resign themselves to parliamentary defeat so long as he conducts the affairs of the liberals iu the house of commons. He is as adroit and as full of resource as in his youth. He is never caught napping and his opponents have not been able to surprise him. The younger men in his cabinet are worn out with work, while he remains at his post unwearied and vigilant. He would be note worthy for his physical vigor if for no other reason.

There are few men of his age who are so strong or so active. There have been few such men in modern times and certainly there were fewer in ancient. This century has two. The second one is the pope. Bismarck has sometimes been called a third, but he is in retirement and it is believed could not stand the strain of active public life.

Mr. Depew saw both the pope and Gladstone on his recent trip abroad and he has told us that the two men are a constant surprise to those with whom thev associate. They may have discovered the elixir of life, but if so. they have not told anyone what it is. Dobs Better Than Lions.

If doctors are willing to treat lions why should they not be willing to treat dogs? A New York lion had his right rear limb broken in an argument with a lioness and he was taken to a doctor to have it set. The doctor did not, object, but secured several others to assist him. Then he strapped the beast to a table and put splints on the leg and sent him back to 'the dime museum rejoic ing. Now a dog has a greater utilitarian value than a lien. Tho king of beasts is only an ornament and a terror, like Vereatchagin's paintings, for instance, while the dog is use ful as well as decorative.

But to call a man a dog doctor is to heap upon him the most ignominious reproaches. Is it because there is among doctors a professional pride as there is among artists? A member of the American academy would feel insulted if any one should ask him to color a gross of coal scuttles, even though coal scuttles have a more obvious practical value than paintings of the sky or sea or fields. There is reason for supposing that the higher artists of all' kinds rise in their profession the greater becomes their regard for the visionary and useless side of life. That is why physicians are delighted when they are called upon to treat a patient whose only claim to distinction is wealth and who serves his generation only by spending his income on big dinners and costly wines and yachts and such like luxuries. If they were summoned to set the leg of a stevedore they would not go with so great alacrity.

We will not attempt to explain why utilitarianism is condemned and Philistinism is used as a term of reproach. Every man who observes the signs of the times has noticed the growing worship of the useless things and the gathering of men to gether into groups of chosen people. Conviction of A capital verdiot in the cose of Prender gast, assassin of Mayor Carter H. Harrison was a foregone conclusion. All the elements of premeditated murder were visible in his crime, i he verdict rendered was entirely i ust.

Imposition of other than the death penalty would have been as grave a miscarriage of justice as would be release unscathed of a monster of the Guiteau or Wilkes Booth type. Execution of the murderer is poor compensation for the atrocity he committed; but he deserves to die and his deserts will be duly attended to by the officials of Illinois. Trial by jury has been thoroughly effective in the case of Prendergast. His conviction is in pursuance of a system radically different from that whioh prevails in the state of New York. Here the degrees of punishment for killing a human being are distinctly defined in the 'statutes.

The jury finds a verdict and tho judge sentences the convicted criminal. In Illinois the jury performs both functions. Having stated its conclusion that a defendant is guilty it proceeds to decide what his punishment shall be. The let If BArCBDAT KVEK150. DECIXBKB SO, 18J.

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Mayor Booaj'j Day. This 30th of December, 1893, will be the last day of the mayoralty of David A. Beady. Utnciauy ne will be mayor to morrow, bat no public business is done on Sunday in Brook lynior even in Kings county, except at Graves end, where they successfully subvert government and defy the supreme court any time in the week they please. On Monday Mr.

Boody will not be mayor, although np to the hour of noon he will, or may, figure as such. Practically this is his last day. Since Mr. Boody assumed office on January 1, 1892, the facts of his administration have been printed in this paper from day to day, or as ny of the facts concerning it es could be contemporaneously obtained. There has been less government under a blanket in this administration than in the administration of Mr.

Chap in. but there has ben some. Had been none, the record would have been better and, to the extent to which publicity has been the policy, Mr. Boody's term has been an improvement upon that of his wore cnld, more cunning and more secretive predecessor. Open government, however, while desirable, is not enough.

It roust be vigorous as well as visible, wise as well as apparent, right as well as open. Such cannot be said of this administration without concluding that the people who refused to continue it in power are neither just nor intelligent, but are vindictive, stupid and cruel. There is no alternative in fact to these propositions, but, we understand, Mr. Boody thinks there is and is urging it on attention np to the very close of his official life. His theory, as it comes to U3, is that his administration has been right, but it has been misrepresented; that the people have been wrong, but they have baen.

misled Ha is certain that the misrepresentation and the misleading have been done by the press. The press is a collective expression in his mind, but if he were required to define it, the term would probably undergo this reduction: The press, outside of New York and Brook lyn, have primarily paid no attention to the affairs of this city at all. The press of New York city only pays attention to such Brook lyn affairs as the Eagle brings to its notice. The press in Brooklyn, other than the Eagle, had seldom had any antipathy to maladministration which has interfered with its presumed interests and rarely hit that govern ment with anything harder than a pil low or a sugar plum. Consequently the misrepresenter of administration and the mis leader of the people, which Mr.

Boody calls the press is and has been in Mr. Boody's mind the Eagle and the Eagle alone. As the private and personal statements of the poli tcians reduce (or enlarge) the indictment ex actly and exclusively to this paper, their public utterance on the subject can legitimately be construed to the same effect and the construc i tlon is entitled to all the candid aids of types which it here receives. The compliment is appreciated at its proper value, but it is based upon a misconception. The administration was the architect of its own misfortune.

It was the author of its own defeat. It was its own nndoer. The press or the Eagle may have contributed to the result by telling the truth in news and in comment, but if they had suppressed the news in the first place and lied about it afterward, we doubt they could have done more than have added themselves to the number of those whom the peo ple rebuked. Newspapers cannot make bad government pass for good any more than merchants can make bad money pass for good. There have been two cardinal errors of poli tics in Brooklyn in the last two years.

The first was Mayor Boody's administration. The second was the attempt to re elect him. The first cardinal his administration, was sub divisible into several errors of detail. One was the reappointment of all the 'Chapin office holders. That was due vto weakness and credulity.

Incompetency oi infidelity marked most of them. One more was xbe kind of bill drafted to acquire the Long Islabfl Water company's property. It chiseled the ci'w of the right of appeal. One more was the gift to that company of 200 additional hydrants, each at 835 a year, until 1921. That increased the value of the plant which it was the city's interest and its officials' duty to keep down and not put up.

One more was the exemption of Brooklyn from the Cantor act. That was reached by a of to men. It. progressed to the effort of the corporation counsel to beat the mayor's veto a phase of the scheme in court. As the year closes even Judge Pratt has enjoined tbe Flynn fellows from going on and even the aldermen, under fear of an indictment for waste and piunder, have rescinded a resolution to pay their personal counsel his foe out of the city treasury.

Another of the contributive errors to tbe colossal error of the administration itself was the course of action under the Columbian bills. The common council had no power incur those bills and knew it had not. In March, 1892, it ordered the corporation counsel to obtain legislation giving to it the power. He disobeyed the order. Tho aldermanic committee and tbe mayor boldly assumed a power denied by law, and the county authorities, barring the supervisor at large, acted with them.

The bills of robbery, the auditing that did not audit, the presentments which lave not been expunged and the indictments, of whioh two have been toyed with and the twenty nine others have not been touched, followed. As the year closes the officials who violated law by auditing unitemized bills have proceeded to reaudit them after having them They who awarded without law, because without vouchers, without contracts and without advertisement, charges that were filled with extortion and rank with dishonesty are cutting them down to decent figures on paper. In the pockets of the plunderers is the money. On the noses of the plunderers aire their fingers. At the city government the plunderers are wiaelins those fingers.

The meaning is that the city can whistle for its money, while the officials who let the city be robbed of it are vindicated to the degree in volved in reversing themselves or in writing down tneir own misdoms and undoing on paper. But whv add to these contributive errors? They are not recapitulated for the pnrpose of rubbing them in. The object is to accom pany a sophistical defense of the dying, to day blandly rendered to a dissolving cabinet, with the facts of the case that the truth of history and the lessons the truth car ries be not lost, especially on tne ingenu ous youth of the time. The withholding of the tax levy was wrong. The concealment of the $300,000 due as earnest money on the "Wallabout lands was wrong.

Handing over the board of education to the ways and men of "Willoughby street was wrong. Paving 8120,000 for tho Twelfth ward park land to those who less than a fortnight before had bought it for less than 850,000 was wrong. The effects were as bad as the causes. The low state of the city's credit, which could not yesterday sell its bonds, was one effect. The enforced stoppage of all public works was another.

A quarrel among scoundrels over the street cleaning divide, for streets not cleaned, was another. The abandonment of Brooklyn property for loaning purposes by outBide capital was another. No newspaper did these things. These things themselves un did the men by whom they were done. The newspaper that persistently pointed them out was true to the people and to itself and can stand the censure of those whom the people censured.

Greater than the error of this administration was that of trying to re elect it. The nomination of any Democrat who had public confidence would have commanded party unity and probably party victory. The nomination of the most conspicuous loser of public confidence split the party and gave victory to the opposition by more than 30.000 majority. An indefensible judicial candidacy mated with an undefendable mayoral nomination. Marionettes of mud were presented for the assembly and expert practitioners of plunder for the state senate.

Men for or against whom ab solutely nothing was known were put up for aldermen and supervisors as decoys. The intention was for "Willoughby street to nominate the Republican ticket as well as the Democratic ticket. The Kepub lican ticket was to be made up of Democratic dummies in that party, but the Republican party revolutionized itself and the independ ent Democrats cut themselves loose for free action. The Waterloo of November 7 ensued. Unhappily the last hours of maladminis tration are as offensive as the last moments of a rancid candle.

To day ten aldermen, 'turned down" by the machine but decorated with indictments, went through the mum mery of receiving a supervisor's resignation only to elect him over again. This was done in order to steal the next board of supervisors for the machineand to choose JohnT. McKaneas its fragrant head. As Louisiana Bepublican ism stole the presidency just before it ex pired and as David B. Hill Democracy stole a legislature which the people have regained, so does the Brooklyn machine, in its mortal agonies, remain true to its instincts by seeking to steal a board of supervisors, that it may be as consistent in death as it was in life.

While this larceny was going on at the legislative end of the city hall, the executive end of it was to resound to the syllables of ante mortem mush. The Eagle would not recall these things the dean knew now to die gracetuily or decently. Had they accepted the public sentence with decorum and philosophy, they would have found the public prone to forgetfulness and not averse to good nature. But the effrontery of persisting to the last in defying public justice and in denouncing and decrying the most magnificent exercise of public virtue an American city has ever put forth challenges what it gets and to the full shall get what it challenges. The present mayor was eleoted to be a reformer and to be free.

He has made government worse and he has been a voluntary slave to the wickedest and stupidest confederacy of brigands that ever wrought the plunder of a city a parody on rule. When he was elected his party was united. His party is now divided. When he a he in political and other things, reform must general. If it were possible to melt down the metal in this or that tower or cut off the rope the result would be imperfect.

There is a church but why make it specific? The whole ecclesiastical community could not present their now suffering but thin grata fnl fellow citizens with a better present, a present which would be a reminder every day, almost every hour of the day, than to re solve in the year of grace, 1894, to silence' every dreadful bell. Why not? "It frights the isle from nerpropriety." Special Elections for Congressmen. An Albany dispatch in Friday's Eagle stated erroneously that the terms of Ashbel Fitch and John R. Fellows, retiring representatives in congress from the city of New York, would expire on March 4 next. Their terms will not end at that time.

The period for which they were chosen will terminate 1895 instead of 1894. They could well have been permitted to serve the term for which they were elected. Mr. Cro ker's nomination of Mr. Fitoh for controller and Mr.

Fellows for district attorney ranks among the surprises to which, as boss of Tammany hall, he at intervals treats the citizens of the metropolis. Their selection will cost the people of New York some thousands of dollars of unnecessary expenditure in the naming of their successors. involves on outlay of public funds that could have been avoided in the public interest. The Day of Penlecosi. The governors of New York city do not often surprise by their official appointments: Whatever reasons control their action, and these can be found without difficulty by those who observe such matters, they ore not of a novel or sensational sort.

They astonish the public. They are determined by hard, solid machine sense, or what serves Tammany hall for The chief source of the strength of the wigwam and its warriors is the popular faith in their unfailing possession of what, from their point of view, stand? for substantial, uniinpassioned common sense. When', as now and then happens, they adopt a variant policy, the people at once say: "Tammany is rattled, is scared, is trying to strengthen itself, else it would not depart from its own rules and strike out wildly in an endeavor to reinforce xt self by surprises and sensations." But when man or any number of men try to retrieve and rectify themselves by snddenly doing something altogether different from what they have been doing all their lives, the result is almost sure to be a blunder. It is interest ing, therefore, to see what reinforce ments Tammany is seeking for in making Pentecost an assistant district attorney. Hugh F.

Pentecost is the younger of two brothers, long conspicuous in the public eye. George the elder, is, a well known evangelist. He has filled several pulpits of various denominations in this city and elsewhere with success, but he always grew dis satisfied with the lines of restraint. He in clmed to say with John Wesley, and in. a somewhat different sense, 'the world ia my parish." He leaned toward the labor of an evangelist, with a preference, not to speak at all disrespectfully, for the go as you please six day evangelist.

There might have been supposed to be sufficient work of this kind to do in this country, but he was impatient of even this loose restric tion. He suddenly went off to India to con vince the high class pundits of the depth and darkness of their ignorance. "Without winding up the pundits he suddenly came back, stopping on the way in London, though he abandoned the field there as freely. Hugh was as restless and impatient as George, but when he began to move, he readilv transcended religious Christian lines, which his brother would not overpass. At first strictly orthodox and serv ing old fashioned churches, Hugh presently left George F.far behind.

He not only went from o'ne kind of church to another, but he lost little time in going out altogether. He proclaimed himself a reformer, first of re ligion, which he soon dispensed with, but also a reformer of politics and the social order. He found an advanced stepping stone in the sin gle tax, land confiscating philosophy of Henry George a theory which the latter appropriated without improving, from the Scotch barrister of fifty years ago. But Hugh almost immediately plunged, on where the Episcopalian economist of the west would have been' shocked to follow. Before he had finished reading "Progress and Poverty," Hugh took steps far bevond, and soon became frank socialist, agnostic, atheist, anarchist, nihilist, and in this full panoply he enters the depart ment of justice in New York.

Having secured his office, it will be curious to speculate what he will do with it. Recallinghis straightforward views as to the duty of universal destruction, beginning with the rich, it is easy, to eon oeive that he may presently be somewhat em barrassed. Unless the Evening Post's suggestive sketches of Tammany millionaires are all a joke, the work of destruction will natu rally take in some of Hugh's official creators. But waiving personal matters, this is the first time that the office of the administration of justice has been frankly chosen for reconstruct ing the social order' upon the theory that there should" be no social order. At all events, when it is known that the rank and file of Tammany's forces have distinct religious and political views of the anarchistic, nihilistio, socialistic atheistic classes, with, which Tam many is attempting to reinforce itself, the blunder seems tolerably clear.

District Attorney Fellows, with his fragrant record of a 'blameless Christian life," is laying up plenty of trouble for himself, or somebody else is laying it up for him. Soothing Effect of Distance. The report that Captain "Wilson and a com pany of English soldiers have been killed by the Matebeles in Southern Africa does not stir the emotions of the people in America very deeply. Little is known of the country or the Matebeles, or the cause for which they are fighting. The situation is understood by a few men wTiose business it is to follow the course of foreign events.

But to the average person it is only a fight between civilization and barbarism, which must inevitably result in a victory for the former. The white men want to work the gold fields and the black men object. So they have slaughtered Captain "Wilson. "We ought to be grieved, because the soldiers were Englishmen and of the same blood as the majority of the American people. But sorrow will not come at the oiddmg of duty.

'It is no easier to grieve over destructive floods is A la certainly have to be taken for protection of men in commanding relations of public usefulness. ITIore Facta About It. Ex Senator Henry A. Dawes' article in the current Century magazine on the Blaine and Conkling fend about Garfield in 18R8 is interesting and accurate. It stops at the point of the resignation of Mr.

Conkling from the United States senate on May 14, 1881. The facts beyond that point are likewise very instructive. When Mr. Conkling and Mr. Piatt resigned, they defended their action in a long letter to Governor Cornell.

It was written in Washington on May 15, Sunday, but 'dated on the 14th. Louis F. Payn was made the bearer of it to Governor Cornell. He should have reached Albany with it early Monday morning, May 16. He did not get there until 1 in the afternoon.

The report of the resignation preceded him. The intention was to read the letter in both houses of the legislature that night, and by a forced ballot the next day to choose Mr. Conkling and Mr. Piatt as their own successors. The letter was read in the assembly, but the reading of it in the senate that night was prevented by a summary adjournment immediately after the chaplain's prayer and before Governor Cornell's fatally slow private secretary put in an appearance." This delay by federal law required that the balloting be postponed until Tuesday of the week following.

May 24. In that week enough anti Conkling Republicans in the legislature signed an iron clad pledge to enter no party caucus in which the name either of Conkling or of Piatt should be mentioned enough to prevent the nomination of either man by the Republican party. Mr. Piatt and Mr. Conkling were informed on this point in New York the following Saturday and Sunday, but the information was treated lightly by them and on the assurances of C.

A. Arthur, John F. Smythe, George H. Sharpe and others they came up to Albany 'to be re elected." A deadlock resulting in no election followed and lasted until July 24, when Warner Miller and E. G.

Lapham were finally chosen. The resignation of the senators was only less a blunder than their fail ure to realize that their re election was impossible. Conkling never recovered either happiness or power and was a spite factory until he died. Mr. Piatt hod facility and ability enough to pull himself together and made ho mistake after that until 1892, when he tried to nominate Blaine' against Harrison, in circumstances which made Blaine's candidacy a breach of personal honor.

Mr. Piatt, however, found that blunder largely condoned by Harrison's defeat and Blaine's death under circumstances which brought out much sympathy for Blaine and for his' friends. Long before he died Roscoe Conkling added Mr. Piatt, Governor Cornell, President Arthur and George H. Sharpe to the number of those whom he decorated with his hate, but Mr.

Piatt has steadily grown, in power by the timely discovery that implacable antipathies pay as poorly in politics as anywhere else. "Silence That Dreadful Bell." Church bells in cities exemplify the survival of the nnfittest. Whatever was the plausible theory of the original ringing of them it can have no application here and now. If we assume, for example, that they were intended in the first place to frighten the devil away from the temples of worship, this is by far too polite an age for such treatment as that. Instead of warning the devil away we would rather invite him, if he were not already.

within, in the best pew in tho bouse, to come in and be reformed. The fashion of the more ingenious age is to fight the devil witfc his own fire theological fire. Once a use of the church bell was to inform the people of the time of day. As a rule the citizen refers to his own watch to learn whether the belfry is right. Out in the country the sound served to summon the people to service and there was much of the picturesque and suggestive in the practice.

Here the worshiper does not wait for the bell to decide whether he shall go or not. There is nothing of the picturesque about it, or of suggestiveness, unless the suggestion of annoyance. Sometimes the single boom, or the discord of several "out of tune and harsh," beginning early in the morning and keeping company with the hours, circles the entire day with the ear and head splitting and nerve straining crash of metal. Unlesa there is a quality of beauty in the custom it must depend upon the question of utility. That there is no foundation of this sort goes without argument.

Many churches in Brooklyn, perhaps most of them, do. without bells. There is no complaint on this score. No society suffers in attendance or activity from the lack. The vain show is more than compensated for by the benedictions which pour down upon the silent buildings from neighbors allowed to rest in peace.

Centuries ago the religious establishment might be obliged to assert its presence in remote regions by "the sonnd of the church going bell." At this end of the century and in great towns its constant work announces it. The church associates itself with the life of the people and brings itself before men's minds in many ways. If this cannot be done by such methods it cannot be done at all. The church cannot commenditself to the people by making irrelevant and more or less irritating noises at inconsequential tunes. It has been easy to throw the matter over, as so many matters have been thrown, upon religion, tradition, habit.

But not so many things can be disposed of in that fashion nowadays. The ringing of church bells in cities will appear, after careful analysis, to stand upon a groundwork of selfishness. The pub lic does not need the bells. The inutility of the ringing has been demonstrated again and again. It may rather be said to demon strate itself.

Is there anything of the gracious, the beautiful, the soothing, the refreshing in the custom? The popular Voice has often answered this inquiry in the newspapers. It is about time now for another outbreak on the subject. Very likely the columns of the Eagle will presently overflow once more with the pleading, the remon strance, the protest, the denunciation or cor respondents. Few grievances are well People without nerves, people in robnst and aggressive health, people who never knew a headache, people who never lose a moment of sleep, all these may affirm their 'inability to understand what reason for objection there can Others who say "Let the bells go on" dwell at. a safo distance, beyond the reach of disturbance.

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