New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-11


the family is for the family to go back to
simpler modes of living. Less display, less
indulgence of aesthetic taste, less outlay on
every department of social and domestic life,
will lessen the appalling ravages of nervous
diseases among us more quickly and more
certainly than any secret of the medicines.
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Mr. Henry w. Burton, ex-stage robber, has been
the lion of Philadelphia for a week past, most OF
the leading newspapers giving interviews with him,
in which his stawart form, manly bearing and fine
cheerfulness are described; also, his " look OF
emotion" at learning that he was sentenced to hve
years in the prison at Auburn. Mr.. Burton was
quite resigned long az he supposed that his des-
tination was the Philadelphia Penitentiary. but he
no doubt justly regarded Auburn ~ living tomb.
In the next days papers we are informed, with the
liveest sympathy that it is now probable thai the
Government will place him in the prison of his
choice, which can be done by the payment of his
board to the State Of Pennsylvania. We are sur
prlsed under the circumstances, that the State of
Pennsylvania was so mercenary as to ask board
from this distinguished guest. Who shall say after
this that we are not well-bred peOplcf One
would say at first sight that nothing could be
finer than the courtesy of the Govern
ment and his Philadelphia jailers to
Mr. Henry w. Burton, if the diplomatic
relations between Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
and Mr.. Frank James did not as examples of lofty
courtesy and consideration, quite throw them in the
shade. 1t is stimulating to National pride to
read of the negotiations now carried on in writing
between these high contracting parties by means of
r. J. Hare, attorney for the James family. Let
u.s." cries the Governor In an enthusiasm OF sweet
ness and light join in the noble effort to reform
this man and restore him TO peaceful and honor
able citizenship The noble effort is to be made by
granting Frank James full amnesty and protec-
ton 1t will surprise a foreigner to learn that
Messrs Burton and James, toward whom such deli
cate respect and consideration paid by the high
est authorities, are now, and have been from
their youth thieves and murderers of the most
brutal type. They have not given one hint OF
reform or of a wish to reform. Ii New-fork author-
tiles wish to initiate the example of this Sir Phllp
Sydney who now governs Missouri, let them fling
open the doors of the Tombs, Sing Sing and Auburn
and invite the inhabitants to become peaceful and
honorable citizens on consideration OF receiving an
immediate pardon and future protection.
The fervid excitement in Ireland does not in the
least diminish the frequency OF Irish bulls. Here Is
so experienced man as Mr.. Daytt, reported in yes
terday's special cable dispatch from London,
to TIE TRIBUNE, declaring some foul
calumnyp to be "a He,"-as If he sup
posed people would otherwise think it a
true calunny In the next sentence he boasted that
the Irish have "profted by past experience, and.
please Cod we have profted to advantage, as if
he feared people might think they had proited to
a loss Alas, after ALL isn't that the kind of
profit" to which most efforts yet made for Ire
land seem to tend
One Of our country readers, IN n short letter pub
lished Thursday, discussed in womanly way tho
special phase of the Irish question with which Amer
leans are most deeply Interested Here is all estma
BILE lady, who employs two houSemaidS. pays good
wages. provides liberal table, makes Sundays
work rs light as possible, and governs her kitchen
by the Golden Rule, yet cannot ecp her servants,
and from want of them fairly forced TO close her
house and board with nelghbor Her good lnten-
lions and unhappy lot lend plaintve interest to
her question: What be done about it"
She does not seem to consider policy of CO.
ercion and repression as practicable. She appar-
emily suspects that certain social must
be made to the kitchen and that there is touch of
sympathy lacking in the relations of mistress and
maid She even suggests that house service can be
moro explicitly defined that leisure can be legal
lied by social contracts and that followers may
be allowed with matrunly supervision" Now
sympathetic treatment and sweet reasonabcness
may be sometimes wasted on some cooks and cham
bermads. If they want TO work III factory, OF
to marry and take in scrubbing, or 10
spend their earnings in n servants clearinghouse,
they will do it and tho rocking-chair ana cheap
lace curtains in the kitchen and all other Fictitious
aids to responsibility will not keep them back As
for the " followers" they will have them if they
want Them and if there is to be any matronly
supervision" the chaperon would better have
policeman within call.
The death Of a prominent business man of New
Britain, Conn., has evoked a communication in The
Hartford COuraRt from someone who evidently be-
lieves himself fine example of Connecticut clever
ness and thrift. The writer says he bought OF the
deceased merchant i'll 1529-ho being then at school
in New Britaln-"a two-baded red bone handled
pocket knife " for which he paid % cents. Il was
then" he says as have ever been since. inclined
to buy SELL exchange and try to get gain. My
practice was to swap knives from two to ten times
each day, always aiming to get little boot money"
At the end of tho term he says he had az the pro-
ceeds of his trades with tho 22-cent knife.
SO In money and two old knives.
This sum with other small savings he placed in the
savings bank and as he remarks with conscious
pride it now amounts to more than 5000 This is
all very fine rs an example of thrift but it Is quite
possible that the boys in the school whom he did
died out of the $15 and the odd knife have been
more useful citizens and done more good in the
world; and without saving so much as $500 either.
The story reminds us of the economical brother who
Boosting in prayer-meeting of the cheapness Of the
gospel, said he had been a member of the church
forty years and it hadn't cost him forty cents
God bless your mean misery old soulp was the
fervent though somewhat unexpected response
from the pulpit.
NJ Ernest Renan has done many venturesome
things in the course of his man OF letters,
but nothing so foolhardy as his recent escapade in