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SUNDAY, MAfiCH 34, 1889.

TWENTY PAGES.THE NBWS THIS MOBNINB.

Forelgn..A sheikh brought the newe to Oairothat Emia Pacha had ronted an expedltion of6.000 dervishoa at Bor. killing moat of them, and

capturing their steamrrs and ammunition. j=The couosel of the Comptoir d'Escompte has issueda ciroular about the affairs of the bank. -

Fraddent Cleveiand and party reaohed Harena.== The Gladstonian oandidate waa eleoted toParliament from the Gorton dlvision of Lamoasbireby an inoreasad majonty. ===== A Freach torpedoboat foundered off Cherbourg. Fifteen Uv«a were

]et_ - The Canadian Government will issuemodua \-ivendi lictnbcs good until Deeember 31,1889. to all Ameriean vessels that apply for them.

Geegrass..A number of nominations were sent

by the Prcsidwnt to the Senate, among them belngthat of James Tanner, of New-York, to be Com-misaiouer of Pensions; among the nominationsoonfJrmed by tha Senate were thoae of WhltelawBeid, of New-York, to be Envey Extraordinaryand Miniater Plcnipotentiary to Fianoa; FrederickD. Grant, of New-York, to be Knvoy Extraordinaryand Hiniator Plenipountaary to AaatBia-Hungary,and Jolrua Gold&ohmidt, of Wiaooasin, to be Con-sal-Generai at Vienna.DomestJc-The aale of the Wabash Railway waa

fleoreed by tbe United Statea Court in Chioago.st.;- Fine wrather attwcted a large number of.isitors to the White House. r=_ General W. B.Tilton ditd at NewtonrlUe, Maaa. ===== Sevenphy_oians were aued for $10,000 damagea foreaoaing the death of a patient at Carlisle, Pcnn._.__The warm weather haa aecioualy hurt tbe ioeand logging industtiw in Haina. ===== The man-

agera of a Fittsborg water eompany have been ao-

enaad af fraud by tbe stockholders. ===== LitUeepring wheat haa been serded in the Weat, owingto the drr weather.

Clty and Subnrban..Thomas Ooattgan, Snpcr-T_ar of ¦ The Clty Beeord," reaigned tbat poal-tion at the Mayor*a re<iueat, and Wilham G.MeLanghlin, Edibor af "The Matropolia," waa

appointed in hia atead. =_= The flnai bouts fortbe feneing, boxing and wrestling oonteata forthe ehampionahipa of the Amateur Athletio Dnionwere auoceaafully brought to a close. BBBSS Thaaafe of a German book pabhsher in Brvington-*L was robbed of over 98,000. ¦ W. S. Strongeleoted prcaident of the Busjness Men's Bepob-hcan Aasociation, in place of John F. Plutnmer,who inaiated on his resignation being accepted.-Barnum'a circua opened. _as Stocks dullwith gcncrally small fluctuations, closing steady.l_e Wcathe'r..Indications for to-day: Clear

and warnier weather, followcd late in the day bythreatening weather. Tempcrature yeaterday:Higheat, 57 degreea; lowcat, 44; average, 50 7-8.

Such talea as are ooming from the newlydisoovered gold fieJ(U in Santa Clara Valleyean but oreate a stanipede of adventurera to theainiost unlcnown wilderness of Lower Calfornia.Already the plateau in which the " nuggets aa

big as your fist" are being found is staked outin claims, and thoosands are pottring in fromMexico and the neighboring Statea. There isa fascination frantic about such adventurea,though tbe number of men who come awayfrom a gold hunt richer than when they wentin beara no proportion to the number of thoaewho come away pooter. Kxtravagant storiesare told of the great resulta realized by luckyimmigrant* who are said to be inaking from$20 to 9200 a day. One man is represented tohave made $7,000 in five days.a picbure o'profperity which many a snrviving Forty- ahiwill regaid with a oynioal and dabioua axdle.

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The appoinfcment of Corporal Tanner aa Oom-nsiaioner of Pensions will give great sat-isfaetion to ex-soldien and Grand Armj men

tbrooghout the country.^ Mr. Tanner ha<3. bothhls feet ampntated during one of the earlybattles of the war; othorwiae ho would probablyhave riaen to a much higher raok than that bywhich he has been proud to be known for near-

Ij thirty years. Of his fitnesa to ancoeed the" Pbyaicftl Wreck" there ean be no queationamong thoae who know him or know of hispnblic sorvices. Ue was an efficient subordinatein the Now-York Custom House for a consider-able ttroe, and filled the office of Colleetor ofTnxes in Brooklyn for severai years withmarked sucoeaa. Corporal Tanner's sympa.<ywith all movements in the direction of liberaltyeatment of the men who wore the blue iswell known, and under his administration th*PensioA Oflfce will not be used to grind thefaces of the widott-s and orphans of soldiers.

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The Hon. Mr. Costagan k ont. If there beany to wbom the Hon. Mr. Costigan is unknown,it ahonid be said that he is one of the pillarsof tha County Bemocracy, one of tbe honoredlead«r8 of the reform section of tho local Dem-oetatio party. As such he has held for a dec-ade or so the ollioe of Superrisor of " The CityRecord," a place with small honora and a med-erate salary, but in whkh a sagacious potriotlUtY _<? .aery well for himseif aad reform. Theimpreswion exieta that Mr. Coatigan haa doneverj' wdl, h» mUiaed hts opporiunitto, andhas permittod nooe of them to go aai_cro*«_.He has rolled np a deficienoy aceount of orer

$25,000. He has aupplied/muoilage wtough tothe Department at Charities to make treeclefor all the city's paupers for a year to eorae.Be has apent the public funds with eoergy and

admir-tion of all true machine bosseA Now

that he ia out, we udviae the Mayor to take a

good long look at those booka of his whiob

he took from the hands of the Fassett Com-

mittee'6 accountant just when their examina-

tion waa becoming intarcsting.

A~G00D~BVR0fKA}f.Count 8chouvaloff waa one of the t^tofo-

matists of this generation answonng to laiiey-

rand'6 deacription of " a good Europe*n_ II»

influence waa powerfully exerted ob the sido

of peaoe when neariy all hi» Russi-n col-

leagues, Prlnce Gortachakoff included wore

clamoring and intriguing for war. As Russian

AmbaAsador at the Court of St. James while

Lord Beaconsfield was in power he did more

porhaps than any other statesman in Europe to

avert the cataatrophe of war between his own

country and England, and to open the way for

a paoifio settlement of all qiiestionB ansinK from

tbe Balkan campaign. He ocotipied that im¬

portant post at the moment when the Cossacks

were a few miles outside the gate* of Constan-

tinople, and England was aflamc with excite-

ment over the Treaty of San Stefano. If ho

had not been one of tho cooleet and most sa-

gaoious of Ambassadors, one of the most disas-U-ous of modern wars might have resulted from

the impetuous zeal of Ignatieff in the Balkanand the C»ar_ military advisers in St. Peters-

buTg. Posseasing his sovereign'8 confidence byvirtue of arduous and brilliant service in the

Ministry of the Interior, he was enabled to

offer strenuous resiBtance to the Hotepurs who

controlled the State Conncil, and to effect in tho

<md, as the leader of a smallminority, a peace-ful aettlement of a most dangerous diploroaUcoontroversy. The secret memorandum whieh

Count Schouvaloff and Lord Salisbury signedand Marvin revealed to an astonished worldmade it posstble for the Congress of Berlin to

assemble and reviae the Treaty of San Stefano.The servioes whiob this eminent diplomatist

rendered to Europe in that momentous orisis

when the British ironclads had forced the Dar-

danelles and Sepoys were in garrison at Maltatendod to impair his popularity in his own coun¬

try. He was largely responsible for tho nego-tiaUon of a treaty whioh tho military party mRuasia have never ooaaed to regard as tn nn-

ncoessary compromise and an irre-ocable blun-der. The oourse of evente aince the BerlinCongress has oonflrmod the apprehensions ex-

preeaed at that time by Ignatieff, Lobanoff andthe victorious generals. Rusaia has graduallylost control over Bulgaria, and ite prestige inthe Balkan has steadily declined. The war of1877 involved great aacrinVes, but ended withthe conquest of European Turkey. Ausfeia'sneutrality had been purchased in advanre of

hoatilitiea by a secret treaty respecting Boamaand the Horaegovina. Prince Bisroarck withhis cynical ¦ Beati poasidentes" atood ready to

aanction a Buasian treaty of peSce dictated withConstantinople at the mercy of the Cossacks.All these advantages of open war and secret

alliance were frittered away at Berlin by whatthe military ataff described at the time as " the

diplomacy of surrender." The ground last thonhas never been regained.

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While Count Sohouvaloff waa held reapoa-Blble by Panalavi.tta at homo for the negotia-tion of a convention whieh haa unquestionabl)retarded the Russian maroh to Constantinoploand the expulsion of the Turks from Europe.he was honored throughont the Continent as a

peacemaker who intorvened in an' alarniinporiais and aveg-ted a war'fraught with dangerand ruin for hia country and England. Hispatriotism waa aasailed only by reckless oriticswho refused to acknowledge the eridence re-

apeoting the exhauation of the CzarA militaryreaourcea at the close of the Balkan eampaign,and the inherent probabilities of fhf ultimatoformakion of a European coalition ogainat Rus-sta, if England had declared war and sprungto the defence of Constantinoplo. ln realityCount Schouvaloff served his oountry whon heenactod hia part as a good European, and hisdeath'is to be deplored aa a losa to Christiaucitilication,

FOBTTXINB ~AND ElQtt'TY-MSE.Old Fortj-nincFS laagh at the atbempt to

compsxe high prices at the Lower Californiaplacer nrines with those whioh provailed in thefirat flush of the gold discovcry in the Calomamill-race, and they aro right, for there is no

parallel between the easea. The Californiagold discovery of forty yeara ago waa literallja worid-disturbing event. It oecurred at a

time when no great war» or enterprises of anykind serving as outlets to stirplus energy wero

in progresR, and the announoeraent stirred upthe adventurous in every part of the globe.It acted with equally electric effect upon thespirit of commorce. A race began for SanFrancitco. Hiuidreds of vessels wore put on

the route with every imaginable kind of cargo.Immense loases were incurred by mcrchants andshippers, first, because they had to guess at thomarket and often dispatched nnaalable goods;secondly, because tho arrival of all ships atYerba Buena was tbe signal for indiscriminateaud helter-skelter doserttons. Often every aoulon board, from the loblolly-boy to tho captain.aet off for the minea, It was soarcely possibloto flnd shipkeepers, no matter what wagea were

offerei. Ten dollars a day waa refused forstovedoring, and 'longshoremen would hardlyaccept the cargo for the labor of unloadjng it.Ten dollars for an hour- work was frequentlydemanded in those times, and as promptly paid.

Soores of ships rotted at their anchors. Somebroke adrift, weat ashore, and berng left wherothey afcranded. wore in time buried under thoconstantly growing city. Some whieh lay atwharve- were served in the game way, Theywere not always completely unloaded. Severaiyears ago, for examplo, tt*ile streot repairstwere being made in the " mado grouiid" (thelower pari. of San Francisoo) tho hull of one ofthese buried veseels was uncovered, and in itwere found severai cases of ehampagne whiehhad been lying there sinoe '49 or '50. It is a

curious fact that even when prices generallywere higheat, liquors and winos remaincd com-

paratively choap. The books kept at Sutter'aFort show tbat in '4 9, whon a pair of gumboots coat $7 5, a ponnd of ta'low candlcs s 2 50.abox of Oerman mntches $1, nails 81 a pound,pickles from %& to $5 a bottle, and so ou inlike proportion, there was plonty of ehampagneto be had at $26 the basket. The explanationof this is that all shippers naturally diepatchodwinea and liquors as miuerV steples 8ino of amarket. The reeult waa to glut the marketwith " wet gooda." But many other thingswhieh were needed at the mines never got therebecause of the lack of transportation, and tbefaroine in the San Francisoo labor marketcaused tho loas of incalculable quantities ofvaluable merohandise. At one time the grentorpart of a cargo of plug tobacco was used tomend the steeets, hundpeds of boxea beingdumped in*o mud-holes and employed to buildcrossings with.The waste in these ways roust have been

BEormous from ftrst to last, but nebody haaever as mueh 88 tried to eompute It, and anyaxwh attempt would be idlo in the circum-ataoce*. In that mighty oonvu'sion (for it waanothing less) men never stopped to estimateloBsea of any kind. The four great fires ofSan FranoiBCo awept away acorea of millionR,but the hsavieaA loaara knew that recovery waa

«-4S"B'VBMM^i s-'fdnck an^ xxsuUmc*, and

they did not wait for the embers to cool before

theybegantobuildagain. AU th* thi» coun-

trv couid fumish of energy, grit, enterpnse and

Sying qualities gathered in Cahfornia tnen

_nd presently all the world sent of ite bejt and

J. worst to the great new Tom TiWlersground. Nothing is impossible. and. ao it will

not do to say that no such Boanea will ew¦ be

aeen again; but at least it is improbable that

the overwhelming excitement, the fierce fever

of that time, will recur. Mr. U. H. Bancro t

has done justiee to tho marvellous era in h a

" Hirtory of California" and the nuxiliary vol-

nmeB. but a complete narratire of the periodOOfdd only have boen written by one who was

thore and had shared tbe strong emohon,; aad

strange unparalleled experienees of the rush

and the Pionecrs of '49 are growing old and

few. and though they havo ample chromcles.

somehow those who came aftor them are unable

to inform these records with the aubt e spintwhich threw ita glamor over 49. M wasa

wondroiia epoeb, a magnetic, flery, >wift hurry-

ing pcricd, and abounding in BUggeation and

iJtruetion for tho psychologist and the studontof human nature. As to tho new Lower Cal¬

ifornia mines, it would be a. absurd to comparo

a bonftre with Veauvius in *.I*onaM to

liken them to the great gold fieJda of 4».

WOMAS'S TRIAL8.Probably no ono who followod the evidence

in the trial of Mrs. Lehkuchner for poisoninghor children foels cithor surprise or regretather acquittal. The simple narrative of the

prisoner herself must bave convinoed such read-

ers that the terrors of the law were not for a.

criminal of her ordor. It was indeed a case>to

stimulate the most callous man into unwontedsensibility, for in this wrctched creature, dnven

to the insonity of despair by tho concurrent

pressure of external destitution and the im-

mriow demands of maternity upon hor ill-nour-ished nyatem, wore foroibly iUustratod the worst

of tho evils which men's bmtal passion and st.ll

more brutal solfishness cxpose eo many women

to. It is not of any practical we to say that

such cases rcgister the low-wator mark of ex-

isting oivilisation. but it ia none the loss true.There ean hardly be a depth of horror, shamo

and degrada-tion beneath that to which Mrs.Lobknchner had been dragged before ahe fell

into the madness which denaturalired her and

turned her mothcr's heart to thoughta of mur-

der. The agony which even a coarac nature

must suffcr beforo it comea to wch a paia isscarroly to be realized, the physical sufferingswhich in her caso compbeated and Intensifiedthat agony ean surely not bo realired at all bymen, however sympathetkj.There are somo situations in wbich tbe in-

cidenco of man-mado law seems painfully in-

adequato and discordant, and this is ono ofthem. The jury who triod the case must. havefelt that by somo defect in tho administrativoor logt«lative maohinery the wrong person oc¬

cupled the position of dWondant. For who was

responsible for the crime of Mra. Lcbkuchner?Surely not tbe abandoned. helpless, starving.prognant woman whose cniol deacrtion, thopangs of hunger. the appeabi of hor starvingrhildren, and the strew (»f hor coming broublo'all combinod to dcthrone hor renson and tomake hor iseek, with iiu_no direetness, the onlyescape from suffering for thoae she loved thatwas within the compaas of h<r pitifolly reitrirt-ed means. Who was it that threw her thu*ovorwhclmcd upon tho strcets to dk like a dog ?The law takea no cog'nizance of toe man uponwhom thia heavy re*ponsibility reats, but Juriesare human after all, and no human Jury couldhavo convicted this martyr to the loast cnrablovices of ninotoenth ocutury civilization. It iswell that the poor woman has betn releaaodfrom the shadow of the gallows, but the moreyaecorded hor wbuld be vain indoed if oo sirit-able proviaion be made for her forlorn futura.

OFF TO EUBOPE.The annnal Amorican migration to Europe

will be exceptionally large this year. It is al-ready beginning, in fact, and all tbe signa poinito an exodus beyond procedent. Tho Paris Kx-position will ho tho grt»at attradion, and thatalone will be sufhVient to draw many thousandaof yieitors acroas the Atlantic. Tbe steamahipcompanie^i are making their prepantions for a

great businoss. All tho ocean greyhounds are

being groomed for tho raro to tho other ahore,and. tho proapect is that tho ubiijnitous Ameri-ran will be more than evor plentiful thia autn-

mer on the Strand, on tho Pariaboulevards, on

tbn Kigi, and in the Uorman bocr-gardons.Tbis annual fliMing of Tnany tliuwands of

our pofiplo to foreign fthoros is a uniquo f(»tnreof modern lifr\ It is not to bo seen in anyothor c.iiinlry in tho world. It riso* to tho dig-nity of an internation.il social jil^nomenon.The MBrap^rtd are kopt btisy recirrding itamanifestationa. The novelist and draniatiatare iinding it a ri<-h mine of material. It isgomewhat the faahion to regret that so muchaion^y gors out of ttyo country, bia tbU is a

narrcw view to take of what w really an ed-urating proce*«. One of it* most plmsing cbar-:tcf er^t i<- is thit the humher of persons of mod-crate and even limitod nseans who go is inereaa-ing every year. Kato* for oewtn paasage, ea-

peoially upon return tickeLs, havo now rcaehedsiah a lovel that a few hundred dollars willmake it possible in a few weeks' time to see

many of tho great sights of tho world- Thoschooltcacher saves what she ean from her mod-est salary. and goes to toke a brief bnt eo-

static dranght of the wuudcrs for which hersoul has been thirsting for years. The clorgy-man goes on a tnodeat purso raised by his oon-

gregation. Many, who only a few years agocould itever havo dreamed of enjoying such a

privilegf;, are now able to gratify the accumulat-ed int-lI'M-tiial and artistfc cravings of a lifo-time, and come back charged with momorlea.the solace of which they will carry to theirgraves. The trip t'o Europe hroadons tho mindof every prrson who-takes it, no raaUer howignorant or vulgar bo may bo. It diffusea in-telligen<;o and scatters provincialisrn and nar-rvWMBB. All llMBB travollcrs spond more orlcs« money on tho other side, but there isnot ono of tfccm who dooa not bring back some-thing more arociotis than ho took away.

THE Q.VESTWN OF "HUB8,"We ol »crv8 that among tho many progrea-

sive and porten'ous doings of the recont SorosisConvenMon, a lady delegate f^om lowa calmlychallengod the time-honorcd claim of Bostonto conaideration as the " Hub."| It ia signifl-rant of the advanoes already mndo by lovelywoman toward conwlete ema'iK-pation from tberulo of the Tyrant Man that this iconoclastiostatcment was put forward aa quietly u tboughthe matter in hand had been simply a quea¬tion of spring fashions, and that the conventlonlistened to it, not only without exhibittngmarked emotion, but with every appearanee ofabseiuto unconcern. The lady who broughtforward the revolufetonnry doclaration, Mra.MoLean, of lowa, is indeed herself the presideiUof an lowa City >Oneteenth Century Clob, whichdonbtlesa was founded with the inteation ofKuperseding. overrlding. and generally orush-ing the New-York otganization which beara thesamo name. Having thus arranged for thodiacomiiture of New-York, Uie Hawkeye ladies,taucb vipen iBrtoa in dreadJtol phaUni. 8_%

declBration of war was in the followiag words.Mrs. McLean said: "I wish to ctimtot a slightmistake before I begin my paper, and make a

statement of fact. It has been generally snp-posed that Boston is the Hub. I beg to statethat this is not ao. Iowa baa the honor to bethe Hub of our America. Take out yottr g*-ograpbies and flnd if I speak not true. Iowahas a higher percentsge of c_ture than sayother Stste, and Iowa City is called the Athenaof Iowa."

It is necessary to observe, before going fur-tber, that Mra. McLean did not put the caae

quite unambiguously. Iowa, ahe said, "hasthe honor to be the Hub of our America"; now

Iowa may be the Hub of our America, and yetnot question Boston's supremacy, for Boston.but let us quote tha immortal worda of theAutocrat of the Breakfast Table in evidence ofthe exact nature and extent ef Boston's claim:" Boston State- Honse is the hub ef the SolarSystem. Tou couldn't pry that out of a Bostonman if you had tha tire of all creation straight-ened out for a crowbar." It will be seen fromthis that there is both a distinctlon and a differ-once. Boston does not pretend to be the Hubof 6ur America, but the Hub of the Solar Sys¬tem. Neverthelesa, Mrs. MoLean haa in termsdenied the right of Boston to call herself theHub, tbough she does not aseert on behalf ofIowa City a higher position than that of Hubof our America. It appears, therefore, tbatif issue is to be joined between Iowa City andBoston, tbe counstu for the former nuist aroandher compiaint. At preaent there fa really nocase to go to trial upon, for Iowa City, whilevirtually denying Boston's supremacy, in factadmits bor owa iuferiority by claiming for her¬self a Hubahip altogether dlfferent from andfar less comprehenaive than that whieh form*thecapital artiele of the Bostoneee creed. Per-haps the revolation of this defect in the Iowatitlo may tend to negotiations and peaceful ad-justment of an otherwise menacing dispute.

IWANTKD-COFPKB TAFERS8.The saloon is the poor man's olnb. The

Probibitionists, who think they ean aboiish italtogether, overlook the faet that tbe saloon iathe centre of social pleaaures for a large classof the population. The poor man eseapes to itfrom tbe noisea, odors and many discomfortsof his tenement-hoiiae home. He finda therelight, warmth and a general air of comfort,with newspapcrs to read, companions to talk toand garnes to play. These attraetions bringthe saloons mueh of their patronage, and haveto account for a share of tho rom total of drunk-ennesa and orimo, though. to be sure, tbeaourcea of the larger part of these He muohdoeper. If tbe saloon ls cloaed, how are thesesocial cravings to be satisflcd? There l* a

moro practiral question still.is there not some

agency whioh ean be set at work to moet thesewante of the poerer rlassos, and whieh ean thuacompets with the saloon on ita own ground?Tho coffee tavern, as it exista in tbe larger of

the English ctties, is such an ageocy, and itspraetirability haa been thoroughly demonstrat-ed. Robert Oraham, the well-knowii seoretaryof the Chnrch Temporanee Society, gives somearcotint of thoao in its nrgan, " Temperance."They are divided into twe tt_. those whiehare conductod puroly as buaineaa enUrpriaes,and are expeoted to pay a full dividend on thomoncy invested; and thoae whioh have an'avowed moral ptirpoae in carrjring on a misslonwork in conuection with the eatabliahment.With the flrst claaa the rule has been foliowedin all eaaes of maklng the cofleo taveros equailyattrartlve with the aaloona, and quite as fresfrom any guggestion that they are charitableinatituteons. They are conductod by llmibedliahility atock companies. The flrst of thesewaa formed in Liverpool foarteen years agowith a share capital of 1304,000. It now hassixty-three houaea in difrerent quarters of thecity, and it» dividenda have never fallen below10 per cent. New-York cannot poesib.y pre¬aent a graatet need for an undertakktg ol thftkind than Llverpool. The aaloens were theonly reanurces, both for food aad aheJter. of a

great. floating aaiior population and a vasttMimber of unakillod laborera working in thedncka. Tho firat houae waa opened for ahiarlaas. and Mticceeded becauae the food waa oheapand good, was promptly aerved, and the wholoenterpriso waa well maaaged. Aa the houaeahave mnltiplied, they have been made hand-somer and more attmctivo. Mr. Qraham givea¦ picture of one whieh oost 950,000. He pre-wnts also a picturo of a similar tavern inKirmingham, whieh would be regarded aa a

handsome structure on any buaineaa thorough-fare in the world. It is barely twelve yearsaince this company was formed, and it now hasin Hirmlnghani twenty-three houses and payadividends of from 10 to 15 per cent

It is hardly neceasary to mnltjply examples.If the coffee tavern whieh is conductod as ahusinoav enterprise succoeds so admirably, thecoffee tavern whioh providee, besidea the coffeer.ar at.d reading rooms, a iecture hall for re-

ligiotw servicea and popular entertainoientadoes not need to pay so well to be oonaidoredMicocwsfu). Persons who ahonld undertake tofound ostahlishmenta of the latter olass wouldlook more to their elevating infltieiiooa than totho return upon tbe money inveated. Yet, un-

doubtedJy, these also could be made self-aup-porting, and cven remunerative. What betterwork could ho done by aome of our philan-thropiHta than to establiah a dosen or twantrycoffee taverns in the worst parts of the city?It is not onough to attempt to reatrict the num-ber of saloons, as all rtght-minded oitiseaa areanxious to do. We muat supplement thia,Mr. Graham tersely says, hy "aupplying theplace of the liqo alooit by aaloena withovtliqucr.tt __-_____-__--__.

ELOPKMKSTS AND TBE RgMRBT.1% ia apparent that we are entrrlng upon an

epldimlo of elopemcnt. It waa prrdictad two ortliree days ago, after a certaln young lady. whosefathcr is prominentfy before the publio, took thisway of entering into the matrimonlal rtata, thatthn example wns aure to he foliowed, and that waHliould probably exprrienoe a suooeaaion of runa-

way matchea. Tbit prediotion 1b belng veritied,it would serm, ss acoounta of minor elopnuenta arebeglnning to come in. How to keep the girla athome may aoon be a problem detnanding solutionin many houyeliolds ble&sed with evtn a less,nua.-ber than elfht of the dcar crratureaSome years ago a wrltcr whoee name, unfort-

unately, we cannot recall, publlshtd a thoughtfulartiole, fully iUuatrated, on tliat old and vexa-tloua quostlon of how to keep the boys on thefarm. We do not now recall muoh of thls ablepaper excrpt the ploturea, pf wliiah thore*waroseverai. One of these repreacnted tho boy whomit was thought desirable to keep on the farmconflned in a burglar-proof room, with he|yy baraon the wlndowa, and so forth. The author arguedthat there was nothlng better to keep a boy awayfrom the temptotloaa and anares ot elty 11 fe thanthia Anothor ahowed the fioy with a atotit ehainp_«*ed around his body and the other end of itfaatcned to the stove. Thla was hlgltly teeon-mended for maklng boya tt*l attaohed to tha farm.8*111 another rapreaaated tha boy ptaoed ia aa

«aay reeli-ing poeitlon and a conrMkrabfe plla ofbriofci hraped on hia legs. The wrtter olearly(lrmoimtrated that there waa nothlng whieh hada 3ret.fr tendenoy to maka a boy cling to the oldhemeatead.We know not but thla author may have wrttten

pactryt in a apirlt af'lavaty; otrtAiflly. khao af his.,

plana an novel, and we Bever heard that any tthem wore ever put inte aetnal ise, We do 1*eonsidet them practioal, however beautiful tVmay be ia tbeory, and if not adapted to the i©-oeasful keepiag of a boy on the fawa how mOhleew ase wenM they oe anything of even a remodytimllar nature ba ln nettaining an impetoueyoung lady bent on flying with a young m* to

aome acoommedating and «nterprising Justb ofthe Peaoe. Tho notorious failure of. stone /allaaad iroa bars to make either a piisoa or acagewaa sung of long ago, and nowhere willtheiriimdequaoy be more nolioeable than whci'tbeyare employed in an attempt to rcstrain a gi; fromelopiag when her heart is set on ltThe beat and only snre way to prevent tb elope-

ment and frequently break o« the mateh ntirelyis, we believe, to watoh carefully, and *en the

young man appeara to carry off his omanticbride, whethet he comea on a whit« pajrey and

puta up a ladder to her window, aa h* ehqtld do, or

only jiimpa off a street-car and imetaber in a

oandy stere~at thia stage ot the pioce/dings, wesay, Iet the father pnt in an appea»ndJ and pro-dnoe a mlnister, either from withinth, ehadow ofthe poreh or from the na« of tne

conrectlonery eetablishment, and lequeet theyouag peoph to tarry a momeit while thegood man tnakes them one Thla willbreak up the elopement and in a g*at many in-atnncea prevent the marriage entirelf, aa the mis-

gulded young felka will frequently kmclude theydo not wi«h to be married as badr aa they hadimagined. This pka pretry effeetially killa offthe romanoe. There ia nothing ronantio, we sup-pose, about standlag up in the mildle of a eandyatore and getttng married, whik the salesladleetitter and chew goa and custooers drop in andwlnk at one anothar. Let tiw fathen of thecountey try thia plan on their sloping danghteraand aee if it ls not sncceaefuL

THB BETUBN OF " THE SVBET 8UK7BB."The voicei of her who is known in seVct Bt'rary

circfes of Wyomlng Connty as ¦ the sweet aingerot Java" ia heard agatn. It waa but aaturalthat with the retnrn of iocnnd sprlng she shouldresome her high.but not too alWnd high.poetfcfunotion, which waa meatnuably soapended dur-ing the winter months. A oloae observer of tleseaaons baa well remarked:In tha nrlng a young man ouertes ef ala ghrl tf heeen

ln tha anring took out for dlttlee from the etnger rwestof Java.

It ia oae of the most admired featnree of wis

engaging pdetesa tbat you ahways know wtpreto find her. She steedily does the duty neareetber, and that duty is invariably to set the life ot

Java to muaic, to give tho homely Joye andsor-rows of tbe village a rich-bnt-noVgaudy aerting.We quete the foDowing from _» ktoet co_nbu-ejon to * The Attiea News" :

WEDDINO B_L_BT9t J. Adams and Kale WtnteiB,

By enamosaBon iad. ,._.fWere tn wedloek's bonds united,Last week Menday. It ls sakd-

' Fatber O. e_elafad,Twaa at Java Centre done,

And the couple. wlfe and busbana,Two ln numbar are as one.

VILLAGE TOPICB.At rnnk's Cornera, A, G. Merwt_»;

Staunob and flnn ln every n»«,Aftar twentr waeks of tcacblnt.cW 01T Frtday laat hu aSoaL

Aa a teacber A 0. MervlUeIs ebead, It's said to me,

Ot aome wbo la Oeneeeo,Oradaatod reeently.

In t_s vfflage Michael Kortm, ,__Bootbed Whft aacure'a ceodeat law,

rrem _s good wlfe baa a lf«aen*Whteh, ere kmg, will esQ hlm "Pfc"Tbe event tha haart af -tsaael

Ktlla with Jojr (bla hon*' to bleaa)Wbleh no pen eaa wrlte out cleerly,And no tongne ean e*er expresa.

HYMEKKAl.rrankTowerbassuco-afulir pa«aed throa^lA eourtahla ontalnted by strtf*;

Has ended aW day of "inarklqg*Aad took aB.gaP BrbTs wVk.

Frehh la a yoang men of food baDKa,Kfod, eoononjieai. wiat.

And Fannie, his wsfe, sa a lady,Is Vruly a Ood gtven srtee,

We kaew tbein wken tbwy were but ohlMraa,aJ\£Z _^?r_t_^*Seh ![__.Aad kaow tbey u pa waa to ea»o otner.

Tbe wblle on tha blaak ehoree of Ume.

It will be aeen that the baHads an slmply aetu-tated with loeal oeler, and, oonsequently, are "dis-ttnotively Amariean." The admirers of KobertBrowning in Wyeming Cennty are inebned toanaax at the sweet atngw of Java and to dwclloompkeently npon the faot thatv alfbongh thereare s,4«« Baewiaing cluba rn the eonntry, not a

aingle otgaaisawon bae aa yet been projeeted look-Ing to the sttidy of the worka of Javu's bard. TheeomDarlsoa thaa Inatiftnted is not without foroc,and 18 ia but natural that the Wyoming Brownin»-rtee ahonld oall attaadon to it. But the Javaiteshave their anewer ready. They argne that thevery faot that no elnb has yet been fonned eitherin thia ooantry or in England to etudy the ewaetslnger'8 worka ls a demonatration of the aaperiorityof her luoeat genias. Her eongs, they point out,an hke the songs of tbe nighttngale. Uke the eonzsof the mountain stream.eelf-explanatwry; to hearthem ia to nndentand them and to understandthem k to be

"Loat in woodee, love and pralaa*It ls not our purpose, howevar, to be drawn into

this disousaioa. The literary eircles of the Eng-lish-eneaking nee an many and wide, and thenis room enough in them both for Browning andthe sweet einger of Java. We simply desin t»call ateention to tbe faet that the latter, after aellenee wbioh the loven of realistio poetry withthe bark on have found dlfflcult to eocdoae,baa taken down her barp from the Wyomiag wil-krwa. May her days be long in the land for the wear-

ing of cloth of gold.unalloyed and a yard wide.

The seleotion ef a suooeeeor to the late JustieeMatthewa is not the only appointaent PreaidentHarrison is likely to be eaDed upon to aake tothe bench of the Supnme Coart Thm of theJuatioaa-Mlller, Field and Bradley-ban paasedthe retiring age, and lt may be a_umed as oeruinthat they will avail themselves of ther privilegebefon tha end of Preaident Harriaoft'a torm, Ifthey do not do ao eoan. Juadoe Sradley, the

youBgeat of theee three in point of strviee, is the.Ideat in yeera, betng new eeventy-eix. JuatioesMfflar and Pieid, who have served respeetiverytweavtr-eeren and Birtntyvsix yean, an aeventy-thne yean oW. No Judgra upon the present benchraak higher than theae for ablMty and pnfoundleaming, and the eonntry wlU rejoloe «o aee themat their poata ae long ae their strengtb for thework ooatinaee, Tbe ohsngss whioh wonld fol-low thelr retirement to wellearned rtpose wouldinonaae the Rapublican strtngth in the Ceurt, aaJustiee ITeld is clasaed aa a Detnocnt.

Williera O. MoLaughlia, the old publlsher of"Tha New-York Star," and afterward of "TheJeurnaliet," has been nude Supervisor of " TheCity Record" in place of Thomas Costlgan. It isan exoellent appointment, but it ia to be hopedtbat lt will not interfen with Mr. MeLaughiin'elatest newspeper entorpriet, the growing " Metrop-.bV

a

Charleeton, S. O., ia said to be the avognselYieuohn eeatre of the oouatry. A man who adver-tlan in " Tha Newa and Courlar" of that city atate*that " Charleston sooiety people almoat paaeeaa a

¦onomauia for progreaaive euchr?.', We oongratu-late Charlaiton on ita ohok». 8o long as people oon-

tinue to play progreaeiva euohn one may be tol-erably s«n that they an preaparous, happy andinnoeenl Why wouM lt not be a good Mee fos a

band of the beet Charketen phyen to make a

miasioaary exeureion through Kentuoky for thepurpose ef unfoWing the superior eharms of thegame to thoae whe an now aitting up nights inthat State eagaged in the too exolttng and over-

eeethj diawpekerfII waa reeerved fer the Mayor ot Atlanta, Oa.:

te pay the Ponee de Leon Hotel at 9t Augnatinethe flneat oompliment whioh it haa tbue farneahred. The Mayor haa Just been telling a

nporter that the Penoe de Leoa oaanot ba doneJustiee to even by tha rica and eopleua vocabuleryef whioh his friand Otady, af " Tha Atlanta Coa-

aktautsses.'-iBtheirajrtelsr, I» viwe-af lhl»s tha

iPosce de Leon may well flatter itaelf that tteome to atay.

It never rains but it preeipitatea For yaaasmusic-lovera have beea lamentaing tha laek ef .good conccrt>hall in New-York, ocnvenlently alka.ated, and adeqoate to all the demanes litrery tabe made*upon it Now it appears that we aa*to have not one, bnt three coucert-halla. Tha- jannouneement that Mr. Csrnegie wHl personaQjr,susiain the projeet for a hall at Fifty-eeventh-at *

and Seventh-ave. is quickly foliowed by the nre*that only a modemte degree of interest on thapart of the pnhllo ia needed to inaure the bolldtagof the great ediflee already planned for the Msdf.son Square Garden aite. SlmuHaneonary wa aaatold that the panerama buiHing at Fifty-niMh-aAand Madison-ave' is to b« altered into a eorwerlhall, holding 8,000 persons, where ThtodoraThomas will give snmmer eoncerta The flratthought mlght, be that the eoncervhall busineagwaa in danger of being overdone. But the pra-

posed hall for Mr. Thomas ean hardly be ofeesadwith the bthers aa a permaneat hom* of mualalthough the resumption ot Thomas summer ooa.

certa will be a boon tha pubHc will «"^^appreelate. If it should be found that tha buuA.

Ing of two great concert-halU waa aomewhat ia

advanoe of the pnbllo nerd-wbich ls by no neeiie

«8*ftTSp arcwto of populatlon will aoon M_«»it abreaat of them.

,Irj- Tbe Bostan Globo" anawerfng a er»«ttfoods«l

statea a fnet whieh doubtleaa ia not ge-erallyknow_ H tefls ita wrrespood**1* that he eaan*

Dhw cards ln Boston on Sunday, even f.r amnae.

S^thout renderlng hlmself*^ .«£rtls_**r.therefo«,that in apite of Joha L talfc

van'f pre^miBanee Boston la an uncommonly moaftOWB.

PBBSONAL.Mr. -aerta B. Lane, jtut elected Oate rtoperte-

teadent of Publio Inatruc.on ta NebraakA to a gn*uate of Dartmouth CoUege, Chandler fictonttiU) Da-

partment, claas of 1-87. ,

De__ Bttrgon cuce ended an animated ".0***_«and ao Jonah waa lodged ta the whete- beUr.where, my dear bmthren, we wlU leave hlm tintU we

ir.eet agaln aext Sabbeth,'Mr Andrew C. Bradley, who haa been awtnted

to tke bench of the Dtatrlct ot Oolumbla, la aa

alnmnua of Colttmbtan Unlversity and qfJ»"gg!KIw Sohool. Hla grandfath.ir waa . frat AaatotentPoatjaaater-Ueneral under Waahlngton.When Lord Beeconsneld waa on hls way baek from

the Congreee ef BerUa. he remarked to a frlead: ¦ I

ahall not ktat long. When I am grme, LoM _a_e-

hurv oturht to be leader. And ln hla pephew you wtll__S\^£-o_d Pltt? l-o nephew, of courae, to Mr,Balfour.The Bev. Dr. Burdett HaH haa beea made paator

emerltna of hle-old ohureh at Falrhawen, Ooon.

Profeawr Alexandar Agatsto wlU oecupy kis Nea.

port cottage durtng the eomlng aeason.

" Stepnlak," the Boaalan exfla, la a flnent eonvata-

Uonallat, but eaally relapeoa Into ellenee and broodngIf lt atrlkes klm that aU that he la aaylng la not Wngunderatood. Hle etrongly marked Butalan teaarea.crowned by a megnl_eent head, have ai00***"1?"-c*cy and MMB& tlnplartv ln eontrkat w»k ktovlgoroua bulW and the large Ttanda. whieh aem at

wwe Ume to have been employed ln ¦¦.JfaBBBfwork than Uteralure. Btepnlak ha* tae eya of a

dreamer. He eeoms to be aoo,u_tntod with al Utor-attirea and 411 languages.

Mr. Stead, of "The Pall MaU Gaaelte,* 09* thaa

bfs " Malden Trlbuta" buataeea coet hlm ovei 816,000.'Dr. Stoeektar. tha oourt paator at BeriS. -»** no

falth In Count Herbert Blamarok, who has ke aaya,¦ never ahown that he ls a man of hia tt-er'a aaal-nence."The Bev. Dr. Cyn» Knlght, hrshop-aect of M_-

waukoe, left Lancaafr yeaterday for Mllatukee, wherehla coneecretlo- will take place next iweaay.

arjardlnal Newman, now ln hla dghf-oln-i yaar,waa entered In 1818 aa a atadent of Lin-tln - Inn, aadactually Intended to borome a barribta.

Mr. Valentlne Prinsep. A. B, A-_est kne^^aa"Val'-sUnda atx feet three ln hla eftcWnge. Ha laa play-wrlter aa well aa a paiuler.

The Eraperor of A.istrla Infendato vlalt Eoglaodthla year tn aucfc striet ineegnlto that no one buthlmerlf and hla attendanta vUl kacw anythlng abeattt UU he la at home agaln.

TBE TALK OF THE DA T.

A baaeball player 9V do ab-oet anythlng he pleasaawith a bat, exeept to get on lt. The beerteg of thUremark Itet In the ipplleatlon af It

Explataed.-a»oftaJay (ln Boeton 'for the «rat ttart--What^. that blinong glara of Ught down tha ttreetl

¦%SBtfSW|,ll-»_| only a_be-y of ioatotetrla eomlng »oma from acheoL Tou aee the jrat"t&ting fcon thdr apeetacleaHBorlragUm TtmPrees.

Says ProlWaor Hadley: "Tke apeed of rallraadtralna la reetiteted wlthln thrae theoretlcal Umlta: F*at,a phytfeal Wnlt of eighty mOea an hour. beyond w_k*

It Ia _>und tmpoaalble for a traln to hold the taaektteoonB. »n operatlng Umtt of alxty mllea an Awir,whlch yractical expertenoe baa found trataa #__e»n,n wKhout mueh damage to Ufe; thtrd. a eonuaeeolalUmlt of thlrty mllea per hour. at whlch, aU thtagBcontUarod, lt la tound moat economleal to nnt a

trali-'U ApBreelated T_em.-Chath_rd--How8aa«l_-lifi

th. roeei bloom on Mias Slgourney'« ««_"" hmBd.Sayatt Any_owe-Yt:s. 1 always dld ada-re haa*

piinted flowera.-tThe Epoch.Colonel " Paf Donan. of DafcoU and the ree8 al

he Unlon, la IU ln Washlngton with Jung-i fever.

He caught the dlaeate tn the Natlonal capital.¦ Voii are not aeUlng any plotureB of »";£,.ev_te^'l

now that ahe baa loat her poeltlon Hj^afS,he land. ate you I" atked Uks »DW«r <_n,(L£".n,_._}_tMottiaTwho has kept a picture and curloalty ataad a6tho Capltol for an ordlnary llfetime. . -.¦

¦ Yw, by the hundreda," waa the reply.-<Wa9i»ia4>ton Poat.

¦ What to more rtdle-ous than Amartoan b__oombe..aakB a Canadlan paper. To whlch we unhetttattnglsrepty, Canadlan buncombe.Tbe Boota Will Be Saved-Actnr t» «nanager of ttnk

*_ovr-8urely you don't e_pcct me to go to tbe tana

with thla 812 pair of boots?tou ao InModern manaaer.Oh. no. Just betore Fou_-" '_

mmtrwm Laaaa-jiniia whirh wiu biow off .^oth

no^fear for them.-(Phllafephla IiKiulrer.The oldeat city ln the vorW. Damaacua, la aheA

te bave etreet cara and gaa laatpa.Her Mletake.~Brtde (of a »_f** ^tS-aJ

don't know what la to beeome of me. ^ hutbjnSlt ao aurly and anapplsh *n°~3 °y'_Lg£ .

"^

-«a_S8 SSSMAjyHSrJaabetter than to marry a rallroad tlc*BB «C-Bt. aoyno-fc

.(Pbtladelpbte Becord.^^

The Duke of 8t Albant 1a the Heredltary OreeA

Fakoner of Oraat Brttata. He tmmtm a aaiy^Si.4,885 a year. and. ot eonm, haa nothlng to do. a_-

ocpt draw hla talary. ,

Nineteenth Century lljfl'g^nl'AAlStfer-8o you are the man^JRilZiS? Ifor the crlme eolHanoa In ¦ BjfJ^SEX^^

Weatern JournaUat P**of _^iTu_a paator tn <mr¦ WeU, alr, the P»l«V ,^i»l5U Aiarl f you

ehureh la vacaut, and I wx>uld be very pae u r«u

woutfaee»tlt/|"K ro^wo-hta-t have to do anjuf**.* £I want of you ta to get up atartUng "'««'" ?.', ^1monkand wetta U,e* adj^a«ienta of them for taa

newapapera.,,-(PhUadel|ihla Hecord."Tke Chrtatlan Unlon* trankly advlaea Ha readsW

ln Maa^aehuaett. to vote agalnat M8I»JJiJ'HJJhlbltlon ln tho oomtog atasMsa. "-_. J*?j_gvet hlatod that the Edltor of ^« ^^'"^fSh. a red noae; but If It were to de ao, tt vwdd ba

S- »n keeptug with aome of Ita paat metitoda al

warfare.

w_-»_____?_w»jias8in the box carrtod hto Sl- bouquet and been> seenoylu tne oq\-//*."_!,~il,. __. in\ moat amlable mood.

^X_*_£S la. _l.%ai_^repiy. - te tooked al

sw_ ^_n_-_CS_SBsaa: squlrer. .

Ulahop Theodore B. Lyman. of North gag^WdUco"rod a new and bltherto nnauspaetad vlttua to

ZSZu Kor nearly two yeara he Jad autejjfromVwmmla About a fcrU-labt ago ke aU, BeeJof freah roaated peanuta betote retlrtng, and eBjeyaS

the expertment repeafdly atoeo. and haa »««.

effloacloua every tlme._^

a v.ht_»,ie Hero.-4»weet Olrl (aeeSng h«rf»W_V?_? r_S« 1 would have boen Arowaed l£mi ,h.!ftX ftw a handaome yoitaf toraHJf;

svaaVouns, ^^ hvM^t).A « -T^Far hr-Tto jump Into deap wator waa almoat <*»»

a^*H_h . Dld t> havo on a ball and ehaln ».. No bat att h»a pookata were llllad with 9* tato

*^_t. _oodaj*at Buch herotam »>|>t_ba ******l _ Mk Vatlb _-aarJU-0i_Jia(taUil-a BaeaaA.