New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-06


estimate that at the present rate Of destruction
there viii DO none left after few years. There IS
another side to the matter, however As soon as
the buffalo disappears the savage Indian disappears
too. The great clumsy animal is the wild Indians
chief dependence for subsistence, and furnishes him
beside food with both garments and habitaton' for
il Is out Of his hide that clothing and tentcovers are
made by the nomadio tribes Hunting the buffalo
is the young braves school OF arms, Workmanship
and adventure. When there no moro buffaloes
to be found on the plains or in the valleys Of the
Rocky Mountains, the wild Indian will have to
raise corn and potatoes hang around the agencies
and live on Government rations
What is called the Dress Reform, originally
Bloomerism, has never made much progress In the
United States for good and sufficient reasons, and
probably never viii. here in any other civilized
counry. The r-'-al taste Of woman in the arrange
ment Of her dress Is worth more than all the crude
plans Of the theoretical cosruners if it be not
superior to sanitary considerations Weare Informed
by The London Telegraph that in Berlin the mania for
change in feminine costume has been strongly de-
veloped, and Clothing League for the Abolition Of
Long Skirts established. OF course, the project
could take no other than a metaphysical turn in
Germany, and we are not surprised TO learn that
flowing garments are regarded by the Berlin League
as typical of all the disabilities wrongully ascrbed
TO woman, by her oppressOr, man." Now, consider
ing that man has little OF nothing TO do with female
fashions except TO pay the bills, we cannot but re-
gard this insnuatOn as positively cruel. Nor n Is
the only man who is consulted at all in this world
and we are sure that Worth does not care sou
for the disabilities wrongfully ascribed TO women"
The general style of the dress in vogue expresses
the conclusion at which woman has arrived after
many centuries Of experience, respecting fitness
elegance, propriety and comfort So far as health
is concerned, il is quite capable of all necessary
notifications 1t need not be troublesome 1t need
not be expensive, and it will probably be adhered 70
long after these Berlin ladies have left this cold and
cruel world for a better At their meeting one
Frau Peters stood up manfully, If we may say so,
for skirts We are told that her protesting voice
was drowned in q storm of indignant clamor." But
Frau Peters may console herself. She is ono Of an
overwhelming majority, and it will not be long be-
fore the Berlin clothes insurecton will be forgotten
there, OF remembered only through tho numerous
heavy volumes which German wisdom viii produce
upon the mysterious subject.
Did Lord BeacOnsfed die Christian or a Jcwi
This is a question which gossps are discussing IN
England. Sir Nathaniel Rothschd one Of his
Lorlships executors is said TO b0 In possession OF
the fact that Dsraei returned TO the faith OF ms
forefathers even if he ever really held any other
II is added By way Of confirmation that ho did not
avail himself of the services Of any Of the clergy
men who were personally known TO him. The
truth probably is, that he did not have much re-
lgion Of any kind His sympathies, tastos, prefer
ences would naturally be with the Hebrews, with
the ceremonial polty of the synagogue, with the
faith which holds that tho faithful rewarded in
this world and that what we know OF the next Is
too uncertain 20 h guarantee either Of happiness OF
of misery. J wa not for nothing that Beaconsiield
was proud OF be-, Jewish blOOd-it ran in his own
veins in lively and significant way. hominaIy,
however, and legally. no was a Christian, and
was buried as such. How he was 10 be- buried, and
what men would think or say Of him afterward, did
not. probably, give him the least trouble
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With bomb under it and trip-hammer sus-
pended ever IT, the future Of Bosssm looks just a
uiiie precarous
There have been unmistakable symptoms for
week past that tho toe Of the American public
itched for q square kick at Bossism and Primary"
President Garfield acting as the highest representa-
tive of that public has 4ratifed its greet yearning
by depositing that kick whore it win do the most
good. 1t is the most popular act Of his life.
Senator Conkling said It was either murder or
suicide for him He is able 10 SEQ by this time that
it Will be a little Of both
The Republican Senators who have been humping
their foreheads in subseryiency to Bosssm may a.
well straighten up and resume tho use Of their
spinal columns. They have been recognizing the
"primacy" Of the wrong man. The President OF
the United States Is occupying the White House.
Tho Committee Of Safety may as well disband.
They were appointed 10 find ont if the occupant Of
the White House had q backbone, and they have
found out They are to-day-like the man who went
into the cnginc-Oom Of an electric light establish
ment uptown few DAYS ago. and carclessly took
hold ~ no wire over which the electricity pass
ing-viser than they ever were before or ever eX-
pected 10 be. IL is absolutely certain that no one Of
them will ever again ask President 10 recognize
the primacy OF the Boss
We have President with grit and grit is
the admiration Of the American heart.
lis very much feared by the Conkling journals
that the President will "stoop from tho dignity Of
his high Office II ne makes personal fight Itisa
little late for anxiety about the dignity of the Pres
dent 10 break out in that quarter.
Ofcourse Mr.. ConlSling must fight now. What
would become Of tho "primacy Of Boss who ran
awayf
II looks very much rs If George c. Gorham would
never again be- Secretary Of the SENATE The able
senator. seem 70 be- able TO understand that they
cannot carry him aud the sacred sham Of Senatorial
cni,rtcsv al the same time without inviting dis
aster.
There Is no longer any doubt about who is Presi-
dent
lis arcned by many persons that the Presidents
action OF Yesterday is all right and perfectly iustf
able but that be ought to have takon II sooner He
could not have been so sure of public support
II he had acted sooner. lie has given Mr..
Conkling full opportunity to exhibit himself