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WALL STREET has taken a "flyef@
opium,-one Of the last things in the World =
might be supposed, that anybody would ~
get up Il corner in. The price has advances
from * Or $50 pound to $3.50 or s.: Tsa
basis Of the corner is an alleged short cn9 tF
two successive yenrs in Turkey, from whtchor
principal supply is obtained. The pgepasa1
opium for smoking comes from China, and g
that tho duty Is IS per pound. and the totalT
portation Is but G6,2c6 pounds. The medle!a4
opium from Turkey pays hut 81 duty, and ny ny
importation OF this during the last fiscal 5esf
was 33o,2G pounds. Opium that contains les
than per centum Of morphin cannot pass taa
Custom House; sud us Indian opium doe3 t@
contain this proportion, the only supply q
medicinal purposes must conc from Turka{.
The crop for ls111 and 1878 was about ~
to 5000 cases Of $50 pounds each; in 1917 ~
supply was reduced to 1000 cases; and thls5es+
1t is said, owing to unusually cold weather. ne
more than 1,500 to 1000 cases will be avaiian4e:
If these estimates should prove to be em17s
the Wa1l-strcet spectators will have enttreefn,
troll Of the market. ~
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and swept, and that their coarse and scanty
fare should be well cooked, than that the
lady of the mansion should be well and intel
Iigrntly served. The poor little girl taught
cleanliness, and thrift and industry by
gentle methods at the kitchen-garden is
strengthened for the battle Of life which she
must wage against an accumulation OF ad~
verse circumstances. First of all she llghtens
and cheers the old home by the Introduction
Of purcr atmosphere. II it is her destiny
to be a servant she will be able to rem
der better service, and so command better
pay; and if it is her fortune to be married
and bear children, she will be better wife
and mother. II this be true, the kitchen-
garden is new help to society and fresh
support to the State.
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States, except when called into service by
some act Of Congress passed for that pur-
pose.
The President is to appoints Board to pre-
pare system Of rules and regulations for the
government OF the active militia, to recon-
mend 4 service dress for the force, and such
other recommendations as to details as they
may adopt. ALI existing laws on this sub
ject are to be repealed.
This bill seems to be well considered and
well designed to meet the great National
want Of q well organized and disciplined
militia It Is not an arbitrary law. 1t leaves
to each State the choice to have an organized
militia or not. 1t is left optional with each
State to form State militia OF not, but If
there IS to be State militia it must be in ac-
cordanco with this law.
The Committee Of Congress seems to have
modelled the classification of the militia upon
the law Of this State, into an active and an
inactive, or reserve, militia In each State.
The whole number Of active militia In time
of peace in each State is not to exceed 100
officers and men for each Representative in
Congress, which would give to this State at
this time 1890 militiamen Of al1 ranks,
and for all the States and Territories, 10000.
This organization will be made practically
school for military Instruction, in which the
course Of instruction will extend through
three years, and as much longer as the citizen
may desire This instruction will be under
thepractical direction Of army officers detailed
for that purpose.
The United States proposes under this bill
to furnish the arms, uniforms, ammunition,
and camp equipments, thus relieving the
volunteers of the burden to which they are
now subject It's exactons of the time Of the
volunteers are trifing, but the discipline it
establishes is just what well organized
militia would itself demand. The bill in no
wise leads to any controversy between the
State and National authorities; it follows
strictly and merely gives force to the pro-
visions Of the Constitution which read:
The Congress shall have power: To provide
10r calling forth the militia to execute tue laws
Of the Union, suppress insurrcctions and rcpel
tnvusions. To provide for organizing, arullng,
and disciplinin2 tho militia, and for governing
such part OF them as may be employed in the
service Of the United States, rcserring to the
States respectively the appointment Of the otti-
cers and authority of training the militia accord
ing to tho discipline prescribed by Congress.
The bill reported by the Committee is one
that has long been needed. The law Of 17o0
was adapted to condition of circumstances
which has long since passed away. It was
never executed, and for ninety years the
country has had no militia law and no mill
tia. A few States have kept up semblance
Of a militia, but it has been burlesque upon
o military organization. 1t is time to have
proper law and proper militia. a Nation
of 45. 100000 Of people without standing
army can we'll afford to have small por-
ton Of its people organized as an active
militia
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dried theologians who burned heretics at the
stake; and If thnt cheerful mode Of rebuklng
heresy existed now and was the approved
fashion, it is altogether probable that there
would be as many fagots blazing about
the orthodox as about the eyolutionists.
On which account, 1t is a matter
for congratu1ation that the differences be-
tween the two factions are only wordy, and
that nothing more serious is likely to result
from them than Il mutual declaration Of
falsity and the ultimate doom which awaits
unbelief, which at least is q brutun. fuzn1ers.
The question, however, does not hinge upon
the truth Of President Porter's convictions or
of Prof. Summers. We may assume that
the former is a doglnatic, orthodox Christian.
Unquestionably lie is. We may edeally as
sumo that Prof. Sumner is a dogmatic eyolu-
Zionist and social scientist, and unQuestiona-
bly, he Is, for it is not long since he
informed q Chicago audience that they
could not know as much about the subject
on which he was lecturing as he. But thisis
not apropos to the issue at all. If Yale Col
lege is a Christian college, then President
Porter was correct in his position, and had
the right to demand that a book which says
each system of dogmatic theology, with
the sentiments that gather round it, becomes
an impeachment in the way Of social science''
should be excluded from the curriculum. II,
on the other hand, Yale College is not a
Christian college, but the fountain-head of
liberal thought and science, then Prof. Sum-
ner is right in his position; and the future
of this controversy should be narrowed
down to ascertaining the real religious
complexion of the university. At the
same time, the situation is not
without its humorous side, for if there be
any creature OH earth who is not theological
in tendency 1t is a Yale College student. II
there be any creature on earth who holds the
Mosaic cosmogony, the rationalistic ideas of
cause and origin, or the genesis Of social
phenomena, as developed by Mr. Spencer, in
sovereign contempt, It is that same Yale Col
1ege student. Even to assume that he could
retain the Spencerian ideas in his craniu1n
twenty-four hours after they had been
crammed in implies an absence Of the ordi-
nary and average mental limitations and the
presence Of an intellectual grasp not usually
characteristic of students or of any one else
save Mr. Spencer and Prof. Sumner.
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Co,lPLA1Sr is made that the hote1keepeo
OF Chicago nre putting up their mites and p
pairing to squeeze the public generally dats4
the meeting of the Republican National: g9
yeution. We do not know TINT these casts9
are well founded. Investigation seems 70 Wy.
that they are not. But it will be well faf w
hotclkeepers as far Us possible to avoid tue .K
pearance of evil While it may be necessary
crowd 4 little in order to accommodate 4. +.
public, it is not and cannot be desirable 70 ias
the rites in u single instance. Chicago ouxn. oux.,:
be favorit city for conventions; and !: wv.
be extremely short-stghted for any set Of ~
who have the truo interests OF the city at nen'
to act this year without reference to the fntlis
Delegates to the Convention should 60 a"a1i az
from Chicago SO we'll satisfied that they *A'
wish to como buck to other conventions sooa'
, 1880-04-11

One Of those stormy scenes which only
Democrats can get up occurred at Syracuse yes
terday over tho selection Of delegates to the
Democratic State Convention Of New York Tho
Tilden men had the organization in their hands,
ana attempted to force delegates in favor Of the
old man of Gramcrcy Park on the Convention.
This was stouty resisted by the antt- Tilden mon.
A free fight and perfect babel ensued, which
only came to an end when the ridden Chairman
was put out and the Tilden delegates withdrew.
If the "exercises" yesterday are sample Of
what are yet to come, Democratic Conventions
will draw as large crowds IS any f1stic amuse-
mnnt
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cipal streets, gravel for the cross-streets and
alleys, and macadam or the Belgian pave
ment for the streets adjacent to the railroad
deDots and warehouses. But there should
| not be an inch Of common ground Within
| the principal business district of the city
| without a pavement that can be kept clean
and in repair. There will then be some use
| in sweeping and sprinkling the streets, and
| few carts, horses, and men will serve to
preserve the pavements and keep them in
good order. So-called STRENGTHENING under
the present conditions Is q delusion and a
mere waste Of money.
II it were aquestion Of imposing a huge
tax upon the general community there might
be some reason for the Council to hesitate
ami for the Mayor to withhold the sugges-
ton. But the cost Of the proposed improve
ment, Us we have pointed out over and over
again, will fall upon individual property
owners In amounts that will be tritllng as
compared with the values Of their property
and the benefits that will accrue to them.
Rents are going up everywhere in the city.
In almost every instance where new lease
has been made for next year within the dis
trlct described, the rent has been increased
enough to pay for the proposed improve
mcnt. In the case Of vacant lots the new
system Of pavements would bring them into
demand, and building and rental would soon
follow. The entire work could be done and
paid for without expressing, or even embar-
rassing, the owners Of the property within
the described. district The improvement Of
the adjoining parts of the city would be- un-
dertaken by the propcrty-owners voluntarily
and in their own interest.
The new Council will soon convene. When
Mayor Harrison shalt address it, the necessi-
ty for general system Of street improve
ments should be the principal theme Of his
message. If he will take this matter in hand
earnestly, we agree that 1t shall cease to be
called 1.-THE TR1BuSE's plan," and there
after be known as "Carter's plan.'' We are
told that cleanliness is next to godliness; Chi
cago is {: godly community lis also be
cleanly,
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AMERICAN GIRLS IN LITERATURE,

The current issue of the Nation draws at
tention to the prominence which the Amer
lean girl has recently assumed as heroine
in the literature of fiction, and encourages
further effort in the SAME direction. This
suggestion proceeds upon the notion that the
efforts that have been made thus far py Mr.
Howells, Mr.. James, the author of IAN
Earnest Tritler,' and other writers,
With the purpose Of delineatIng the American
girl have given us individual portraits %
which lack " the force Of generaIizations that
might portray a national type" Thereupon
the writer proceeds to generalize upon
certain traits,-such as self-assertion, self
consciousness, eagerness for information,
and other conditions incident to the indie
pendence which the American girl enjoys
and the influence upon her character which
has been exerted by the peculiar facilities
for education that have been opened up to
her. This theory is well enough for an
essay, but it Is not likely to be successfully
worked out in fiction. Human nature has its
variations in America as well as other coun-
tries, and American girls are as diverse In
their freedom as English, French, or Ger
man girls under greater restraints. Every
noyel-writer who takes an American girl
for his heroine will draw either from his
Imagination or Ills personal observation. In
the latter case the characteristics will con-
stitute portraiture Of a compost model
In the former there will be an ideal
tzatlon or an exaggeration which,
with notifications, might reflect with
equal truth the girls Of other countries.
An American girl is easily recognized
on the Continent Of Europe, but so is the
English girl travelling in this country. There
arc distinguishing characteristics Of dress,
and style that denote nativity and
associations, but these are minor accessories
in literature. The broad freedom that is
given to the American girls has undoubtedly
developed spirit Of independence, certain
sense OF seh-renance, and an aspiration for
improvement; but these traits a1ayariousIy
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THE proposition to establish Home for
Incurables in this city has now assumed shape
which promises success. 4 few earnest women
have taken hold Of it, and they only need now
the cooperation Of the medical fraternity to
bring the charity before the people in such a
manner as to command all tho necessary funds
A meeting was held last Thursday to further the
cause, and another meeting has been called for
next Thursday ut o'clock, in Methodist Church
Block, to report progress. We are informed
that the subject will be brought before the med
ical ASSOCIATIONS ut their next meetings, and tho
active aid Of the physicians will be secured.
The promoters Of this charity need not be
ashamed Of small beginning: if properly
established ind honestly managed, it will rapid
II grow IN proportions and usefulness A small
house may be rented to start with; it Is the or
gauizaton Of the charity which should be kept
in view. Such IN Institution would be partially
sclf-supporting. for there are incurablc invalids
with money Of their own, or having friends that
contribute to their support, who will avail
themselves of the facilities care, and attention
that such an tnstttu ton ought to provide. Let
the good work so bravely on.
, 1880-04-11

CLEANLINESS NEXT TO GOODNESS"
People are beginning to talk about what
they call THE TE1BuSEs plan for cleaning
the Streets" We hope the wave Of converse.
ton will extend to the City-HalL Everybody
except the Mayor and the Common Council
seems to appreciate the importance Of the
subject. Each week is divided into three
days Of ineyitable mud and three days Of in
tolerable dust, giving one day Of high winds
to convert the former into the latter. The
last three days Of the week just closed have
been devoted to dust. There has been no
escape from it. In the Offices, and the stores,
and the homes, in going to and from business,
in walking or riding, in the centre Of the city
and in the suburbs, on the ground floor and
in the A1ansard, dust has been the prevailing
element. # this sort Of thing shall continue
much longer, strangers will avoid Chicago,
and residents will seek an escape to some
more inhabitable part of the globe.
THE TnBUSE's plan," so called, is sim
ply to put Chicago's streets in a condition in
which cleaning and repairing will be prsc-
ticable- It is the only plan that will afford
relief. We have suggested that the district
bounded by the lake, the river, and Twelfth
street shall be provided with paved streets;
not a strip Of pavement here and there, with
intersecting dirt roads and various degrees
Of decayed blocks on all sides, but a uniform
system Of paved thoroughfares, paved cross
streets, and paved alleys. Every large city
IN the world has been obliged to adopt this
universal system OF paving before it could
secure clean streets, and Chicago cannot be
an exception. So long as the dirt is con-
stantly dragged In from the unpaved streets
and the dirty alleys, and distributed and re-
distributed over the paved thoroughfares,
the work OF cleaning will be as futile and
unsatisfactory as the task set for Sisyphus.
1t is not necessary, and perhaps not de-
sirable, that all the streets should be pro-
Vided with the same kind OF pavement.
Cedar blocks might be adopted for the prin-
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The policy of the Democrats IN Congress
in reference to 1.-The political riders to the Def
cheney Appropriation bill is one Of silence. They
leave the Republicans to do all the talking, and
hope to be able to push the appropriation bill
through in its present state. They will pay no
attention to argument or reason, but experience
has proved that veto has very excellent effect
on the Bourbous.
, 1880-04-11

THE CHICAGO Tn1BUSE has established branch
tces for the receipt OF subscriptions and ADVERTISE
xuent. follows:
NEW YONK-Room g Tribune Building F. T. Nc
fADDEN, Manager.
GLASGOW, Scotland-Allnn's American News
Agency. 81 Renncld-st-
LONDON EnG.-Amertcan Exchange, ~ Strand.
HkNHY F. G1lLIG, Agent
WASHINGTON. D. C.-Isls street
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TIE steamship Leviathan, from Bordeaux,
arrived In New York yesterday, having on board
the Captain and seven Of the crew of bark
bound from Darien to Hull, and loaded with
timber. The bark sprung leak and became
watcr1ogged- Three men we're washed over
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The SUMS upper limb rises Monday at 81, sgin
O. m. Souths ut ON. 3G-ls. p. n. Setsa 8h. aSSEn
p. N. i.
Tho suns upper limb rises FridaY at 5l7
N. Souths at lib. sem. ass. q. N. Sets 1t A,
423m. p. m- '''-.
Sidereal time Thursday noon, III, SIN. 021h.~
The moon will be at her greatest dtstauce fron
the earth about o'clock Tuesday morning; md
in her first quarter Saturday at 1:224 p. nj. saa
will pass Yer5 near to Mars Thursday mnsufnc
but tho planet will then be invisible. :
Three Of the planets Mercury, VenuA ii
Jupiter-are now oriental, rising befms TIA
sun. They are very nearly together the Comfy
week. Mercury and Venus Will DO eoasdned
Wednesday night, Venus and Jupiter THURSDAY
evening, and Mercury and Jupiter. next sanday
morning. At that time {about o'clock} Ass.
curry will be only six-tenths OF degree a1no.
nomically south from Jupiter, and Venus IN
and Il quarter degrees east from Jupiter, In
giaut planet will rise that morning ut LIZ, d
nearly an hour before the sun. 4 sharp eyen1yI
possibly detect Mercury near him In the naa.
ing twilight - ~
Mars will south Thursday at 4:3s p. M, md al
about 2 quarter of III hour after midnight Hes
is north from Orion and near the stars Ia thaE
feet Of GemInt, but not very prominent teaY8
barely equal in brightness to u star Of TIE frs4&
magnitude We note that Mars is now ye.Ynk4tk
the place In which Uranus was first ~ !
Hcr5chci nInety-niue years ago. ;,~.~<
Saturn is near tho sun, southtng Thms&q
about 20 minutes before noon. *:.s~
Uranus will south Thursday at 8h. Hm rm !
He Is now very favorably situated for evening
observation. He IS a little more than ha.f De i
gree east, and a little less than half dhre8
north, from Rho Leonis. n
The planetary conjunctions above motel nj
facts Of the morning, before sunrise, and haEe- 1
fore not favorable subjects Of observation hya
the majority OF our readers. The planetary ss.5
poets in the evening arc not partcalart inter- /
esttng just now, except In the case Of Uranus;;ss
and he requires rather large telescope for sn5'
thing beyond the bare fact of seeing TINT .ha vi
there" The stars now visible in the early eyea.
ing are, however, well worth notice: Tho Npp9
Il little to the east OF north; the chair near
horizon; the Pieindes and Of Tsataf
in the west; Orion and Sirius in the southwest
the Beehive cluster nearly overhead; the seth
Of Leo little further east; and *Arcturus xitf
bis sons - following up from the eastern qusstR.
These are the best known groups 4 very iatts'
esttng star, Algol, is low down in the nortases.
nearly half way between the Pleiades and Z? :
chatr, and above it is the brilliant clusterM IL
sword hand Of Perseus. = -:
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IT remained for a colored man to make
the best pedestrian record ever made. Hart,
who won the O'Leary belt yesterday, scored 585
miles and 185 yards in his six days walk. This
is thirteen miles better than the record OF
"Dlower" Brown, whose feat had hitherto been
UNSURPASSED.
, 1880-04-11

OF seven delegates elected to ths Repub-
lican Stnte Convention yesterday from Clark
and Jasper Counties all but two are for Blaine.
This does not look so much like Grant boom tn
Illinois The delegates from tho same counties
nre instructed to vote for the denomination OF
cox~ T,}Jou1
, 1880-04-11

THE Burmese astro1ogers predicted that
their country Was about to be visited by terri
BILE calamity, and the prevalence of smallpox
in their midst was good bnsis on which to
ground the predicuon. They also said that in
order to propitiate the gods that the calamity
might be averted, 400 persons selected from nli
ranks should be offered Us sacrifice About 100
foolish persons offered themselves for the
slaughter voluntarily, and the Burmese author
tiles set about selecting the other 400. Among
the victims we're some Burmese priests--nn in
cidcnt which WIS not bargained for-and some
children attending a Catholic convent. The
King under whose Instructions the victims for
the slaughter were selected is reported to have
died since of the disease which he wished to
check by the offer Of sacrifice. # his death
could purchase cessation of the epidemic it
will have been cheaply bought :.
, 1880-04-11

TIE Russian Government has decided to
make the Island Of Saghalicn penal colony.
Some zoo convicts have already been sent to that
, 1880-04-11

4 FREIGHT vessel Of the Anchor Line,
from New York to Bristol, loaded with wheat,
colided With. IN unknown vessel yesterday
morning, and WIS obliged to put back into port
, 1880-04-11

AN amendment to the German Army bill
exempting clergymen from military service was
yesterday rejected by the German Rcichstag.
They don't seem to regard clergymen as men of
peace ia Germany.
, 1880-04-11

UPWARDS Of one hundred vessels, laden
with over two million bushels OF grain, were
3eopardized in tie ice that janmed the passages
of the Struts Friday night Luckily all but five
escaped serious danlage.
, 1880-04-11

TIE Greeks, Bulgarians, and the Slavic
peoples generally, jubilant over the result Of
the English elections. They expect that Glad
stone will let the " Sick Man " CTurkey} die
, 1880-04-11

A DYNAMITE explosion at DoWneyton,
near Reading, Pa-, killed two men and seriously
injured twelve others.
, 1880-04-11

Gov. WILLIAM L. HOWARD, of Dakota
Territory. died at Washington yesterday morn-
ing. His death is universally regretted by the
people of Dakota, who regarded him as most
excellent Governor and a most estimub}e man.
, 1880-04-11

A COMBINATION, consisting Of Gen. Alex
audcr, Mr. Victor Ncwcomb. and Mr.. Wadey,
arc said to have obtained control Of the principal
Southern railroads. If this is true it bodies no
good to the business interests OF the South.
, 1880-04-11

GEEAT destitution prevails in the neigh
-aorhood OF Van, Armenia, mud appeals have
been issued in behalf Of the suffering in
-babitants.
, 1880-04-11

THE Iowa Greenback Convention to nomi-
-na1e State officers and to select delegates to the
National Party Convention will meet at Des
Molnes May l9.
, 1880-04-11

4 MICHIGAN Congressman who has been
visiting his State h:ts returned to Washington
aud reports tho Blaine feeling In that State as
very strong. The belief now is that the Maine
Senator will be able to get solid delegation
from there.
, 1880-04-11

TIE gale of yesterday has driven the Ice
out Of the south passage OF the Straits OF
Mackinac. The great thoroughfarc is now fully
open to navigation.
, 1880-04-11

RECENT frosts are reported to have seri-
pus1y damaged the fr1lit-trccs Of Kentucky, and
q short crop is expected.
, 1880-04-11

ALDERMAN woman was brutally murdered
and horribly mutiatcd By her demented son at
Louisville yesterday.
, 1880-04-11

PRESIDENT GREW has summoned the
French Cabinet to take into consideration the
replies Of the French Catholic Bishops to the
demands made on them to observe the DEGREES
a,uinst tho religious orders
, 1880-04-11

about these times or to break the glass In bis
windows. Any person who would dare to do so
might have few openings made in his head.