Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-04

not as yet know of the per6dy and de-
ception practiced upon him." 1t is
very kind of the newspaper reporter not
10 tell him until the rest of the world has
had an even chance with him TO read it
in the morning paper and under many
head lines of display type and then
next day he has a chance to tell how the
husband takes it.
The newsmonger has somewhat had
the stiffening taken out of him by the
GOODNESS with which the husbands take
il. In all the cases, We believe, they
have speedily become resigned to the sit
uation, forgiven their wives and kept
the babies, entirely satisfed-having
none Of their own-tO raise those of
somebody else. The astonishing cool
ness of the husbands leads to
the suspicion that they were not
SO badly deceived as had been re-
presented. 1t looks as if, after all, the
worst fooled men were the newspaper re-
porters. At any rate their sensation has
been very short-lived. They have not
set many suspicious fathers to cOmpar-
ing the almshOuse records and their
family Bibles. People who have learned
to love and have begun to raise children
under the delusion that they are their
own would just as soon not have that
notion dispelled, and journalistic enter
prise has often taken a more creditable
and profitable direction than IN this at
tempt to disturb domestic arrangements
the fixity of which interfered with no
good public interest.
THE story is revived again that Mr..
A. j. Cassatt resigns the first vice pres
idency of the Pennsylvania railroad to
accept the presidency Of the Reading.
Hardly. Mr.. Cassatt resigns because he
is rich and wants to enjoy his wealth as
Il private citizen. He does not want to
be restricted in his doings by being any.
body's servant or by being In a position
in which people will feel right to criti
else him. His tastes are aesthetic, il
not always correct. A railway presidency
is not the place in which to best satisfy
them. Mr.. Cassatt is going to Europe.
TIE Catholic bishop of St. Hyacinth
Canada, following tho example of his su.
perior, the Archbishop of Quebec, has is
sued a pastoral warning his people agains
reading the New York Courier des Estat
Unis. The bishop, in his pastoral, say
that "immoral and irreligious books an,
journals have caused and are causing an,
archy, revolution and ruin in the OLE
world"
TIE kilograms from leading banking an,
mercantile firms in New York, thankin,
the president for his veto, will be followe'
up at an carly day by public indignation
meeting, representing the best elements Q
both political parties, against the senator
and representatives who voted to set til
veto aside. 1t is designed to be not onl
an overwhelming expression Of publ
opinion condemnatory of the river an
harbor bill, but also a movement to pre-
vent tho re election of any senator Q
representative who voted for it.
| CONsIsTENCIE's a jewel, and nowhere
its beauty more wildly illustrated than il
legislation. A black man is refused a,
commodation at hotel, and straightwa
he proceeds to recover damages from th'
proprietor and to soothe his laccrate
feelings with large financial plaster, b
virtue of the law OF the land. A yello,
man applies to the courts for the benefi
of naturalization and is informed tia
under the provisions Of a lately enacte
statute he is debarred from tine right Q
citizenship. This is n great country.
MANITOBA, that home of polar wave
and the fountain of frigid temperatures,
just now feeling the relentless weight q
the law Of compensation, with the mel
curry cavorting way up at 1O4 degrees
the shade. Just where the hot streak wi
70 next is matter Of some concern, bu
,sot sufficiently SO to mar the serene sal
i2t.ctiOn Of tho average citizen as b
pir.;lres in his minds eye the spectacle {
t., barly Manitoban armed with pail
leaf fan vainly erdeayoring to temper tn
atmosphere surchargcd with calori,
while in this region We are enjoying balm
breezes aud refreshing showers.
THERE is just now going on a livel
discussion upon the question of the mo
ality Of the waltz. The i'll ill.considcred an
extravagant assertions that are frecl
mate as to the demoralizing tendency /,
the dance are in most instances the mel
vaporings of pruricnt imagination
though there is no room to doubt that a
in all other things good in themselv,
there docs exist tho opportunity for abu.
ing this healthful and invigoratirg exc
else. For all that there is no perceptib
reason why the waltz should be tabooed
Immoral per sc, and VIC do not look to s,
any great benefit wrought from the presel
thoughtless and in many respects sons
less agitation. If reform is needed it mu.
come from other sources than the ligh
headed and vulgar fanatics, who ha,
neither the mental balance nor the NOR
tone 10 t:eat the subject in its proper r
latiOn.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, of Missouri