The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-21
Friday, April Fl. 'S2
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

COOP old Peter Cooper holds out resolutely
against his spring rations of East wind from
Long Island Sound, and has no apparent IN
tention of giving up the ghost. MIR. Cooper'S
yaletudinarian habits are sound guarantee
that there will be no injurious run on his Sanl-
tory bank. He has had great experience,
being nonagenarian, and touching 81. In
the meantime he is inAexibly devoted to the
interests of the Cooper Institute, which Is
superb memorial of his devotion to the worthy
and ambitious poor of New York City. lie
has now spent a million of dollars upon 1t, and
has probably provided for its endowment by
testamentary devise beyond any expectation
of the public. What pity it is that some OF
the Astors and Vanderbilts couldn't squeeze
little of the verjuice out of their monetary
ivers and endow an educational lyceum, or
other institute, in commemoratlon OF their
sordid dust. How is it that New \ ork with
over go millionaires has but one Peter
Cooper, but one man with psychological
epigastrum? Have the Rhinelanders and
Geolets no fear that the dynamite machine
will recoil after the funeral? Look out for
bounce, sharp ones!
AT ATLANTA, Ga, municipal affairs have
bad moral aspect. The customary expert
mental dodge of policemen matchmaking the
gamblers has been offset by the latter bullying
the police. On the I4th inst, the city officials
and two representative men of the sporting
fraternity, Shack Sims and James Dunning,
had row and came to blows under vinous
conditions, when bruises and black eyes were
taken into livery, and bad conduct, generally,
GOT the upperhand. When the brawl came
under judicial notice it had but one side to it.
The gamblers were investigated and heavily
fined, while the imputed black-mailers went
scott free. This is what makes the sporting
interest mad, and leads to the expectation
that the usual factor, Colt or Derringer, will
be called on as peace maker, and lead to fur
ther and more difficult complications. The
police. conviction that the average gambler is
a sort of free bank on whom the neophyte in
brass buttons may check at will, is going to
be disturbed in Atlanta. We don't blame any
one for trying to do the best that can be done
with this troublesome question, but would like
to have it settled in pursuance of the arts OF
peace.
THE Chicago Tribune has recently compiled
and printed history Of the leading ''murder
mysteries in England during the IS years
of Victoria, and is now following it up with
half century of Partisan crimes. Almost
any one, however morbid, would be satisfied
with current events Of that character, withou'
raking the embers of buried years to fan them
into living Goals and summons them to do then
work of horror over again in the suffering
sensitive universal mind. We would like tc
prevail on the Chicago Tribune TO abate thi:
cruelty, and accept the theory that all of u!
have enough to bear when we shoulder thu
heavy burdens that are every day brought to
our doors, and pay the penalty which all goo'
men must daily do at the shrine of the world
,misfortunes and crimes. Let US recall for it
instruction a sentiment Of the so-Called intide
Col. Ingersoll, that mo perfectly good maj
can be perfectly happy while there is one sa
and breaking heart in the universe" and trus
that it will spare our living these trials of tn
dead past anew.
They have granite question in St. Loui
sharply associated with the paving problem
The paving contractor and President Flad joi
issue as to the fitness of the material, it be
ing alleged on medical basis that the gran
tie in its bed has been exposed to the air an
taken cold. This, as health statistics, is ofir
terest and if granite gets itself sick and undo
disability by exposure to atmospheric air, VIII:
can human frailty be expected to do again
the poison? 1t is gratifying to know that III
process of taking cold has been going on fC
an indefinite number. of ages and is not, as ii
unpuarded reader might infer, the occurrenC
Of a NIGHT. But it remains true that the pa
ing capacity of St. Louis is abbreviated by
much, and that, hence, that corporation is N
happy.