New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-26

The Probbitory law continues to be executed by
starts and spurts In the City of Boston. The Mu-
nicpal Police will have nothing to do with It, bur.
every now and then, the State Constabulary emerge
ripe for raid and full furnished with wagon train.
and carry off two or three stocks. An operation Of
this kind was performed quite recently and stimu-
lants valued at about $1,000 oarted to limbo to
be hereafter adjudcated and probably conliscated.
popularity of these seizures is that while they are
in progress the people stand about and subject tho
servants of the law to satrcal remarks at once dis
loyal and irritating. One consequence of this is.
that the poor has MT much heart for It's
work, and is by no means disposed to press II
with enthusiastic vehemence. In q great city like
Boston, and in the large towns the quantity OF
strong drink seized is, in comparison with the
quantity left behind as drop to the ocean. The
fact is the trader naturally learns TO accommodate
himself to the probable vicisstudes of the law, and
makes such preparation for iluck that at the worst
he is not obliged TO suspend operations for more
than few hours Thus far it is perfectly certain
that strong drink is sold in almost all parts Of the
State as freely as ever There is new element
of probable loss in the trade, but that is ALL The
evil effects of the traffic unquestonabe, but they
are not summary and direct enough to secure its
prompt and vigorous suppression and there are too
many conflicting theories, there is too much difference
of opinion to allow the law fair trial. The effort to
change rum-selling from mGlsm prohibitsm to NAHUM
in 90, will no longer be necessary when men stop
drinking. While the majority of those who drink
continue to drink moderately, tho possibility Of
using without abusing will continue to be asserted:
and the probability. however great OF damaging ex
cess will nevertheless remain probability against
which it will be hard efficiently to legslate II the
liquor traffic be stopped altogether, it ought
not to be difficult to control it, and We think that
the experiment of local option Is well worth fair
trial 1t is not by any certain that the whole
matter may not be most safely intrnsted to munich
| pal regulation.
Bishop lecturing the other night at Rochester
| Books and Brains said: Books are the only
things that connect tho past with the present and
| future; without them the deeds and words OF men
would never be handed down beyond the seners-
| ton Immediately succeeding them, and without
| books the very names of the worlds heroes would
perish from the earth" We very fond OF books
| nobody moro SO ; but he reads them, We think, 70
little purpose who claims TOO much for them. Inc
Bishop has certainly forgot the time when Memory
was the mother of the MUSES., and the MUSES. could
sing sweetly without help from goose-quilL" AL
the Homeric poems were transmitted without the
help of written manuscripts And they indisputaoiy
perpetusted the deeds and words of men and tho
names of the worlds heroes" Letters were used
aQteCe0ent
public matters and for nscrptons-not for writing
out rhapsOdies. II not until three centuries
afte ward that letters were employed for merely
liter nv purposes; nor in the whole ty-eight
books of the Had and the Odyssey is there single
sllusion TO writing OF to books" Indeed. 1t is evil
dent that there must have been high degree OF
literary culture before books could nave oeen
possible There must have been something worth
preserving before the idea OF preservation could
have suggested itself TO mankind
The Health Board of Baltimore have had serioa
Of analyses made of the milk furnished in that city
The report of the chemist, Prof. Vim. 7. Tonry, 10
elaborate and interesting though it's peruSal might
uroye trying to persons with delicate stomachs In
one sample-the address of the dealer being given
there were found traces Of blood and other abnormal
organic material, showing the unhealthiness OF tho
cow There was evidence that in some instances
the milk sold was mixture OF the produce OF two or
three different establishments, that which WAS
tolerably pure being mingled with some that was
intolerably impure The Baltimoreans are, however
to be congratulated ON the following encouraging
feature: Il fnd,r says their chemist, no aduisefS
ton with chalk, carbonate of soda, Sleeps brains
molasses, or starch III any Of the samples nav
examined He arrives ut the somewhas sa"-
ordinary conclusion that milk from city COWS iII
dry feed. or FROM cows GU the immediate ou''s
of the city, il preferable to that which c oJ tn
the more remote country Baltimore = wewrsciyss
the choice ON her own showing On. ~ nrsfsrnce
for y" % steady drink we nave "o0-
for Orange County --I.. d, b lt..f 90
Vermont newspaper announces that ms mint
mum charge for frst-class marriage noao' WI"
dfteen pouuda OF dried sppes. Notice. va"
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