Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-28

ton. Newspapers like the Press, which
have been foremost in awakening public
interest in this matter should SEQ to it
that. the fund collected d properly
handled. It is likely to swell to an
amount sufficient to make Betty and her
baby comfortable for. the rest Of their
lives, if safely and wisely invested. 1t
may also be big enough to tempt some
scoundrel to steal it or to turn an ignor-
ant woman's head 50 that she may
squander it. The editor Of the Press and
two other reliable gentlemen should, by
common consent, be made trustees to see
that the interest of the fund is secured
to the woman for Life, and the principal
to the child at her death. For even
should Mason be pardoned his admission,
upon being entered at the penitentiary,
that he was without religion and of in
temperate habits, indicates that he is not
to be trusted with the control of four OK
five thousand dollars.
THE Philadelphia Bulletin, a Stalwart
Republican paper, says: "Not one per-
son in thousand can give any sensible
reason for signing petitions for Sergeant
Mason's pardon. As there is NO such rea.
son, the fact is not very remarkable"
THE board Of trade in Easton are agita-
ting the consolidation Of that borough
with South Easton under a city charter,
and recommended to the councils of the
respective boroughs that the matter be
submitted to vote of the people.
THE Pope expects to purchase for the
Vatican the largest topaz in the world,
weighing seven pounds, and upon which
famous lapidaries of Naples have been
working since 1882, fifty years ago, carv-
ing upon it representations of Jesus at the
Last Supper.
THE McCalmonts having disposed of
their Philadelphia & Reading railroad in
terests, quite naturally have no desire to
continue their litigation against the de-
ferred bond scheme, but now that Mr..
Gowen has clear path, it will be as well
for him to pause and consider whether any
exigency requires him and his company to
resort to this means Of raising money.
All nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.
Wrote his grand Eiipns ami simonides
When each had numbered more than TOUR
And Theophrastus. at tourscore and ten.
Chaucer, ut WOODSTOCK with the nightingal es
Al sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales
Goethe at Weimar. toiing to the last,
Completed Faust" when eighty years were
These are. indeed, exceptions; but they show
How far the gulf stream ofour youth may now
Where little else than iife itself survives.
For age is opportunity no less
And "a the evening twilight fades away
The sky IL filled with stals, invisible by day
THERE is such variance of opinion al
to the effects ofivy fastening itself on brick
walls, that people who have it against the
sides of their houses will be glad of the
Suns assurance that the attachment o.
ivy to walls, SO far from injuring then
and causing dampness, is an advantage
II the walls are dry when planted, ivy viii
keep them SO. If damp, as the plant over
spreads the surface the dampness will dis
appear. Where dampness prevails, ivy
sucks out the moisture, and its thicl
foliage will prevent the access Of rain tt
the structure and thus it is not only 9
remover, but a preventive of dampness
The only danger attending the planting o
ivy on buildings is where fissures occur il
the walls, in which case the shoots and
roots will enter, and, if left undisturbed,
their growth will soon begin to tell upor
the building, and will, by increase o
growth, push against the sides o.
the opening, thereby enlarging il
and eventually So weaken the wall as t.
cause it to fall. Where tho wall is sound
there is no such danger, for the plant doe.
not make assures. although quick to dis
cover them.
IT seems hard ruling indeed OF til,
supreme court that the sudden death o.
illness of an insured person on the day hi
premium is due, preventing the payment
of it instantly, should work such for
feiture of the right to recover under it a
cannot be cured by a subsequent tende
of the premium ON the part of his heirs o.
legal representatives. An account is else
where given of how two leading compa
nies availed themselves of this severe in
depreciation of the law to avoid payments
which in all equity and good conscience
they were bound to make. In HONORABLE
and CONSPICUOUS contrast with their per
formance is that Of the New York Mutual
in paying similar risk which it coul'
have avoided under the law. We hav
sometimes criticised this company 70
what we deemed its readiness to take ad
vantage of technicalities against the in
sured and the answer has been that in
mutual company the management mus
protect the general interests Of all tn
stockholders by resisting every doubtful
claim. No company can fail to do itsel