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edly true that many persons, both men and
women, think IL necessary to coddle their
ailments in bed when they would find them
selves In very fair bodily condition IL they
walked abroad and tried to divert their
thoughts from imagining that there was
anything the matter with them.
Miss CoBBE lays great stress on the moral
disadvantage Of this encouraged invalidism
OF ladies, and she certainly has some reason
for so doing. "Out OF it," she asks, what
evil vapors OF morbid feelings, jealousies,
suspicious, hysterical passions, religious
terrors, melancholy, and even insanity are
generated, who shall estimator She is sur
prised, not that there are so many lunatics,
but that there are so few when people thus
neglect the laws OF mental health. She tells
OF lady who had enjoyed the luxury OF
illness for many years who said that actual
pain is always. In a sense, entertaining"
There are good many people who feel In
this way, and they are not always women
either.
Miss CoBBE complains OF the dress OF
women Of civilized countries. 1.-The dress
OF men i'm all Western nations meets fairly
all the conditions OF health and decency,"
she says, and only falls on the side OF
beauty. The dress Of women, on the con-
trary ever variable as 1t is. persstently
misses the conditions of health, frequently
violates the rules of dcccncy and instead Of
securing beauty, at which IL aims first In
stead of last, achieves neutrality-suspicious."
Now, while we agree with her that the dress
Of our Western men IL just about az unbeauti-
full and unpicturcsque as II well could be,
we cannot join Miss CoBBE In her wholesale
condemnation Of the female costume There
never was time when women dressed 50
prcttily AZ they do now; and If In the effort
to secure the effects of beauty they some
times sacrifice mere utility We shall not con-
denim them. Some of our New York women,
however, might probably learn the lesson
that dress which may rightly be worn in
a carriage is not just the sort Of thing to be
dragged over the pavemcnts in a pedestrian
| excursion.
Miss CoBBE Is very severe on what she
| calls the brain-heatng chignons," the bon
nets which expose the forehead To the cold
and furnish no protection against the sun,
ncccssitating the carrying of n rarasol; the
| low-necked dresses at parties and the thin
shoes worn by ladies'; and she even goes so
far as to quote ian experienced shoemaker
who informed her that che scarcely knew OF
a lady Of fifty who had what he could call a
foot at all--thcy had mere clubs" Her
main objection, however, Is against the
skirts of women, which she thinks are very
injurious in several ways She would have
womens dresses reach to the ankle and nc
further, and contends that II this fashion
had been adopted in England twenty years
ago, the population would be far better of
than ii is now.
The views OF Miss CoBBE may be, and
many of them unquestionably are, sound
but we fancy that for long years to com,
women will go on so arraying themselves a.
TO enhance their beauty in the eyes Of men
and, for our part, We are not hard-hcarte(
enough to deny them that qualification.
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when the people were cheated out OF their
government last year, men whom the Dem
ocratic party had loaded with its favors
lent themselves. or sold themselves, to the
fraud baser, more shameful trcachcry is
not recorded IN political history. Some of
these men have already touched the price
Tor which they bartered their honor; others
are waiting in hope.
Even now. when the criminals have fallen
out among themselves and begun TO turn
States evidence. when the sophistrles and
technicaltics with which they at first
sought to cover that monstrous crime
against civil liberty are dropping off on all
sides, public men calling themselves
Democrats, and public prints calling
themselves Democratic are found apollo
giving for the fraud and preaching
up the duty ofacqucscence in accomplished
facts. "Of course ii Is great pity and a
great shame, they say; 1T must never,
never, be repeated but, as the thing has
been done, let us be polite and consderate,
and say no more about it. What is the good
Of making disturbance over split milk"
AUGUST BELMONT is not that kind Of a
Democrat or a citizen. He is unable to see
any analogy between split milk and stolen
Government In his old-ta-hiuned code
Of morals acQueSccnce in wrongfully
accomplished facts Is not duty
but Il crime. Arguments goins to show the
necessity and patriotism Of compromising
political felony are quite thrown away
upon him. And he has the courage of
his honest instincts and his intelligent
convictions. Speaking on Friday evening
t. an assembly Of Democrats, he said.
a. so many words, that the Democratic
party was the victim of its own discussions,
Inconsistencies and inhdclitcs; that these
had worked DISCRIMINATION which threat
ened, not merely its efficiency, but its very
existence a party. These are sharp words,
hut their sharpness is the sharpness of tho
surgeons knife-pGinful but salutary. He
added Not even the great wrong COM
mitted against the liberties Of the American
people 10y the party which has usurped an
other four years lease Of power 10y crime
aud fraud has proved Il sufficient incentive
for harmony and union"
Such an uttcrance a. this from AUGUs1
BELMONT il in refreshing contrast b The
cowaidly equivocations and rcticences that
provoked it. 1t is a rush of pure air, chasing
the fog and malaria. All honest men vii
breathe the more freely for IL.
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ton over that Of GRANT We have a fraud
ulent Cabinet which Is professedly virtuous
dncluding Honest john SHERMAN. Even II
It's claim TO be considered reform Cabinet
could be admitted, 1t represents nobody and
nothing. II Is the exponent OF no strongly
supported aims or ideas Consequently, II
the bogus Administration were thoroughly
and heartily DESTROYS OF cffecting reforms,
IL could receive no certain assistance from
any source. HAYES need not imagine, as
Senator EDMuNps has shrewdly intima-
ted, that he can dominate both parties by
forming n ministry Of men who represent
neither party. The party which uses him
as tool will despise him, and that which
cannot use him will hate him. In this there
il none Of the sustaining confidence without
which a real reformer is unable to work.
Many and great reforms have been effect
cd but none can be pointed out that were
not accomplished or ordained by the last
Congress. Even JOHN SHERMAN. who did
his best In the Senate to maintain and in
crease extravaganza, has now put his hand
to the retrenchment plough; but he Is merely
trying to make virtue OF necessity. The
Democratic Congress which forced all visi-
BILE reforms, first upon all unwilling Admin
istration. and then upon an impotent
Administration, went out Of power at
the opening Of the era Of triumphant
Fraud, and was succeeded by Congress
which has shown little Of the virility and
purity Of its predecessor. The reform ele-
ment has decayed, and the cause Of decay
is manifest The people elected reform
President. and he was counted out 10y fraud
and perjury. supplemented by dcspicable
jobbery This treason to reform, and the
apparent ncqucsccncc OF the people I'm the
success of Fraud. have too evidently taken
the heart out of the reform movement. Men
who were relied upon to push forward the
lines Of retrcnchmcnt have become Identified
with jobbery and corruption, with bar
gain and sale. They cannot help but
feel that their practices give the lie
to their professions. 1t Is no wonder
that their hands grow nervcless and their
faces blcnch IA they look forward to the
future. The odium Of the immediate past
fatally impcdes the action Of the present
The virus of the great Fraud has poisoned
the flesh Of the party that was to overthrow
fraud, and 1t has become powerless to nc.
complish the purpose for which II was ele.
waited to power. The recent passage Of the
Army and Navy Deficiency bills, so called
without inquiry into known thievery and
lawlcssness, was not only an act Of crimina
negligence, but ominOus Of evil for the fu
| ture. There can be no doubt that the re
| form movement has lost vastly more thar
| 1t has gained by the triumph Of Fraud, anC
there is but one way to recover the aban
doncd ground. What Congress has wrong
fully done it should rghtfully undo.
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Miss FRANCES POWER CoBBE an English
woman with very vigorous n..nd, con.
tributes to the Contemporary Ptpie,c for Jan
uary Noteworthy paper on The Little
Health OF Ladies"
Her pOilt is that a large proportion OF
women of what are called the higher classes
Of England pass their years in semi-inValld-
ism; that they are chronic valetudlnarans,
who make themselves unhappy and bring
unhappincss to the homes over which they
preside Though we believe she has never
been in this country TO observe for herself as
TO the condition of our women In regard to
health, Miss CoBBE AYERS that they are PEE
culiarly fragile. This Is an old charge, and
perhaps at one time ii had some truth in 1t
but now it cannot he sustained by facts.
She draws very depressing picture OF a
home In which the wife and mothcrplays the
part of an invalid, declaring that ii the mis-
trcss spends half the day In bed the whole
| household Is sure to fall into disorder and
| the demoralizing effect on the children Il
| lamentabe She oven goes so far AS to sug
| gest that some Of these Interesting invalidS
are malngcrers, people who keep Sick II
| order to avoid their duties and to gain 9
! sympathy to which they really are not en-
| titled. Perhaps, however, her own higl
health prevents Miss CoBBE from giving
due sympathy to those of her sisters wh'
! are actually inyalids, though it Is undoubt
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hat il the Gain I

What gain has accrued TO the country
from the present Fraudulent Administra-
ton? Compared with the Administration
for which the people voted, and which should
have Dccn secured to them, there has been
an immense loss, a loss Of progress and self
respect, of material en1 moral we'll being
But the true cannot rightfully be compared
with tho use or the honest with the fraud
lient. Setting the bogus but prctendcdly
tiituuus Administration Of HAYES against
IT, genuine lut ruinous Administration Of
GIi,NT, has there been any gain to the couu-
try, ana ii 50, Of what quality and il what
direction;
The pacifcatlon Of the South Is the first
and greatest claim of the HAYES advocates
hut GRANT and HAYES proceeded upon the
same principles Of political necessity,
though applying them differently In the
interest Of his party GRANT upheld the car
Yet-haggcrs, ~ his own interest HAYES
abandoned them GRANT strained the law
for the benefit of his partisan friends
HAYES pushed aside the men who had made
him. in order to carry out a corrupt bar
gain. GRANT, who was not at heart a Re
publican was true to his party; HAYES,
WIN lll'l HcNfl D''ll uuNl ulllS tlSt, DctItNtu
it, principles and its leaders. II the
one pursued his purposes by methods Of
doubtful legality, the other gained his ends
by methods of unquestionablc immortality.
v lat real advantage can accrue to the
''untry from wrongfully doing right, from
accomplishing Just act with all evil OBJ
Jrctf AS a matter Of fact, the South is
free, and cannot easily be enslavcd again {:
but the prisoner who escapes from jail with
the connivance Of his keeper, when the
doors should have been lonorahly opcno
u him, cannot be expected to bless thu =
and their administrators. Pac.noatic W.
been effected, after q fashion; but mai IN
OF tho olive branch were withero, ave
poisonous breath Of barganand ny u"
III The South will reasonably sale Man
ARE indebted 10 thcmsel' claim that t''
Characterization md M ,ee alOno fOr thci
continue TO DO of any In the NorlH WI
thing that W ended, not So much at III
doing it. as done ms at the manner
ton, IN this there is no real pacillca
e. .iothing to indicate an era OF goo
cling The immediate benefits accruing
The country, or to any section are MOI
than Offset by the moral injuries that mus
extend far into the future
IN the matter Of general reform, viii
gnin lN>e We from The bogus Admllistr
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An Old Minister Retires.

The fact that the Rev Dr. STEPHEN II.
TYING has decided to retire from the rector
ship Of st. Georges Church, in Stuyvcsant
square, on the first of next May. is a very
interesting one. Dr. TYING is now an old man,
hard ON to eighty. He has been a pretty per-
sstent worker and has succeeded In build
ing up very notable parish in New York.
Twenty-Five years ago there was no clergy
man in New York who exceeded DR.. TYING in
reputation H. had a reno rkahlc extern
poraneous facility, and he engaged the atten-
tion and secured the respect which sincere
convictions, ably and porsuasively pre-
scnted, are sure to win He was the champion
Of what is known as the Low Church cause in
the Episcopal Church. Though he preached
with more grace and what is called nova
days culture than the rcviyalists Of his day,
FINNEY. KNAPP and the elder BEECHER, for
instance. displayed in their appeals TO sin
ncrs, still DR.. Tying inculcated the same doc
trines which they tried to enforce on the
people He waS a strict Calvinst, and never
split theological hairs for the benefit OF men
who strOve to get To heaven 10y a short cut.
Both heaven and hell were actual states Of
being to DR.. TYING rather than places simply
imagined by the poets and prophets They
Were the real abodes Of the righteous and
the unrghteous.
During the vigor Of his manhood, the now
venerable rector of St Georges waged n
bitter and persistent fight against the ad-
vance Of ritualsm in the Episcopal Church.
His voice was often heard in the General
and Diocesan Conventions of that denomi-
nation, protesting against what he regarded
| rs purely Romanist tendencies In the com
munion TO which he belonged He saw that
| Arminiansm was steadily advancing, and
! he did his best to stop its progress; but,
| probably, as his years began to accumulate,
he lost something Of his interest in the
fight. At any rate, it has been a long time
since DR.. TYING appeared as the champion OF
Calvinsm in the Episcopal Church.
He has probably seen, what is the fact
that the party known as the High Church is
bound to win, and that he Is practically out
of the contest We present to the Rev. DIR
STEPHEN II. Tying our compliments, ant
hope that his seventy-eght years will b,
greatly increased before the record Of his
death appears in these columns.
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Judge VIRGIN of Maine. while hearing n
divorce suit in Saco last week. said that he in
tended to be very stringent thereafter in such
cases us the courts OF Maine were granting di-
vorces at the rate Of one thousand year there
having been an increase from five hundred 10
one thousand within five years. He added that
il matters went on in that way there would soon
be no married people in the State All of which
goes to show that families can be Just rs uhhap-
by. and quarrel Just as bitterly, in State where
liquor selling is prohibited as where the traffic
is legalized.
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Whether Capt WILLIAMS is or Is not
blameworthy in the case Of City Marshal
CURRY. whom he expelled from Gilmore's
Garden. CURRY has certainly taken the proper
course TO enforce his rights as a citizen. There
is n widespread impression that police officers
can be prosecuted only by complaints before
the Police Commissioners. II is an error. and
an error that helps many policemen guilty Of
violating the law to escape the penalty Of the
law A police officer who assaults citizen is
just as liable as any private person to prosecu-
ton in a police court and before jury.
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A correspondent OF The Hartford Times
explains why number Of the tenants Of the
Trinity Church estate are allowed to carry on a
traffic In intoxicating liquors. Many Of the
leases under which the property is held were. 1t
appears. made in the good old times when
dcacons kept their whiskey on the sideboard,
instead Of hiding 1t on shelf in the closet. and
1t was not considered necessary TO insert
clauses prohibiting the sale Of liquor on the
premises leased. Consequently Trinity has no
power to prevent liquor selling on property So
held. But in all renewals made within the past
ten or fifteen years clauses are inserted prohib-
iting tenants from engaging in the liquor traffic
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"Up to the present writing, the Rangers

"Up to the present writing the Rangers,
headed by the Sheriff. have killed four Mexi-
cans and wounded one woman-thep took no
prisoners" says Collector SLADE of FL Paso in
his official report. This is one incident OF the
bloody border vendetta, which has been stimu-
lated by the countenance given TO the annexa-
tionists by the HAYES Administration. A Sec
ond incident is that the Fort Stanton reservation
Indians have taken the opportunity Of the alb
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-01-27
The Nnc orleans Democrat logically say

The Ner orleans Democrat logically says
that il we denounce the men who organized
and carried out the criminal conspiracy by
which he was made President. we must con-
denim him in the same breath for II is impos-
sible to conceive that he was ignorant of their
measures or hostile 10 their purpose The
Democrat adds that for months and months he
has stood trembling in terror Of the Louisiana
Returning Board. and for nearly year he
has permitted these men themselves and their
immediate followers to hold the most important
Federal ofiiees in Louisiana."
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The ghost of the murdered KELSEY will
not down. Huntington is again in ferment Of
excitement over the affair, The once pleasant
village, the Auburn Of Long Island, cannot ex-
poet to be happy and peaceful again until the
bloody spot ON its record is wiped out by the
punishment OF KELsEY's murderers.
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THE SUN, SUNDAY, JANUARY q, 1879.

senco Of the troops at FL Paso to break away and
go upon little Rio Grande raid Of their own.
They surrounded a party Of Mexicans in tho
Capote mountains. and killed seven Of thom
they also ravaged the ranches far and wide, and
put the people to flight Under such circum-
stances our outcries against Mexico for the
robberes and murders committed by her In
dams had better be pitched In lower key.
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These are days that try the soul Of the
Fraudulent President. To sign the BLAND
Silver bill will be TO go back. not merely on him
self but on Honest JOHN SHERMAN, the white
chokcred responsibilities Of the Union League
Club, the Association Of National Bankers. Wall
street, and the devoted JAY GOULD; it will also
be to afront the public sentiment Of the Eastern
and central States as eXpounded in their news
papers. and TO ALLEVIATE the men. the country
over, who supply the sinews Of political war.
On the other hand. TO veto the bill will bc 10 60
back on Ohio in general and Field Marshal
MuRAT HALsTEAD in particular-to say nothing
of the minor Western journalists who would
swarm down upon him like 50 many enragei
hornets. The dilemma in which Mr.. HAYES
finds himself would be uncomfortable for an
honest man. How cruel, then, must it be for
MI. HAYES!
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The Chy Record is fraud upon the people
Of New York. 1t purports To be an advertising
medium. but not one citizen in thousands ever
sees 1t. or. in fact. has ever heard If it. ex-
cept through the columns of The sun. This
fraud should be snuffed out.
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In the action brought to break the will Of
Mrs. CAROLINE A. MERRILL there is room for
reasonable doubt whether the fact sworn to by
Mr.. CYRUS W. FIELD. that he had frequently
seen her snatch the likeness Of MOSES TAYLOR
from her mantcpiece aud kiss it. Is evidence Of
her insanity.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-01-27

Cable dispatches bring us news Of fear
full famine among the teeming millions OF
north China. Children. the kilograms say. are
daily sold in the markets for food. But chart
table citizens should not forget that fearful
want prevails among the poor Of our own
crowded cities. and that only week or two ago
q mother in Georgia deliberately drowned her
two children rather than see them starve.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-01-27

One OF the city churches gives public no.
tice that after its regular morning services have
been concluded to-day ii will take subscriptions
10 pay its debt. No measures inconsistent
with the day or place will be tolerated" says the
notice, which shows partial reaction against
Kimballism and surprise. party tactics.
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-nr rirst experiments with the block sys-
TEN OF street cleaning are encouraging. The
city is apportioned. and to each district are as
signed men whose duty II is TO keep it clean.
Now let us see whether this plan cleanses the
streets inhabited by the poor us we'll rs those in
which live the rich.
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The Rhode Island Supreme Court has de-

The Rhode Island supreme Court has de-
livered n decision to the effect that the Roman
Catholic parochial schools are not public schools
in any such legal sense as 70 entitle the land
and buildings occupied by them to exemption
from taxation, the schools in question not being
established under the laws Of the State nor un-
der the control OF State officers-and that par
sonages attached TO churches are not exempt
from taxation. The decision was rendered in
suits instituted by SITS. Peter and Pauls and
other Roman Catholic churches in Providence
against the assessors OF taxes.
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The Suffolk Bulletin publishes letter
from GEORGE KELSEY. brother Of the murdered
CHARLES G. KELSEY Of Huntington. Long
Island Mr.. GEORGE KELSEY is n resident Of
Washington Territory. having left his Long
Island home in 1sl9. He writes:
"when frst heard Of my brother CHARLFss death II
IN the year 10 IN the latter part OF September II
in THf INV YORK Sun that first read the account
OF the finding portion Of the remains In oyster Ray
esilent oi snuwhonish county Washington Terri
tory That the first intelligence I had from home
when read the details Of his sad fate heart went
back my old home II those papers that for the
nrst time learned that my family had written many let
to In California was not positive 1t was lac. at
reporter OF that paper called brother eSRY To
learn something OF my history IN that interval learned
that they supposed was dead wroie my rst letter 70
brother nEsRr, IN November, ~. from snowhomsh
city,
This and other letters were alleged by the tar
and feather party in Huntington TO have been
written by the murdered man himself. but the
absurd story is eflectually refutcd by Mr..
GEORGE KELSEY. who has made affidavit to the
truth Of the facts set forth by him in the COM
munication to the Bulletin.