The Delaware farmer., 1883-11-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


THE APPEAL FOR foreign protector
ate, which the Haytian Government is
said to regard as a possible way out of
its troubles, would probably come to
nothing if it should be made. France
and the United States are the two coun-
tries that Salomon thinks of calling upon
if he should find Bazelais too strong to
be over-thrown. But France in Tunis,
Tonquin, and Madagascar has foreign
entanglements enough to occupy her
while as to our own country, apart from
/ its resolute policy of non-interference in
the domestic troubles of foreign peoples,
it would hardly undertake to shoulder
the charge of civil war in Hayti, after
having refused to exercise a protectorate
or even to acquire port in San Do
mingo, the easterly section OF the same
island. or to buy st. Thomas when the
bargain with Denmark had been nearly
consummated.
IT rs SAID THAT THE advantages of the
new system of keeping time, especially for
travellers and in the running of railroad
trains, are so great and obvious that they
will counterbalance considerable local in
convenience. Besides, every locality
can retain its own time for local uses if
it chooses to do so; but it is not likely
that many watches and clocks in the
United States will long be run on the
old time. From Maine to California
millions of minute hands and second
hands will soon all keep step together,
and only the hour hands will differ.
When the clocks in New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Washington, and other
Eastern cities are striking u, those in
Chicago, st. Louis, and New Orleans
will be striking II, those in Denver 10,
and those in San Francisco 8. This
Ginning of clock bells from one edge of
the continent to the other will mark the
introduction into our time reckoning of
something of the regularity of planetary
movements, for the steadily rotating
earth viii itself be the chief time-piece
of all.
THE SAILORS ON THE GREAT lakes have
had good occasion during the late gales
to appreciate the value of the Life Saw
ing Service The storms were severe,
as they often are on these treacherous
inland seas; there have been many
wrecks, and q number of lives have been
lost. The number would have been
much greater if it had not been for the
Life Saving crews, who worked with
real heroism. The rescued men all speak
with the greatest gratitude of the help
received. The work done by the Service
on occasions like those and like the Ohio
floods last spring gives it a high place in
the affections of vast numbers of the
people throughout the country.
To ENGLISH GENTLEMEN resident in
America, remarks the London World,
nothing is more CALLING than the miscon-
duct of too many of the swell Eng
lish visitors. A very prominent member
of the committee of the New York Union
club complained to me bitterly of the
behavior of some of the young English
men admitted there. "Why in the
world do you let them in ?" I asked.
"Well," he said, "-'s name came up
yesterday for an extention of his honor
airy membership, and I moved its re
lection" Young Lord T. went in a
morning coat to a dinner party in New
York, but his host was equal to the oc-
casion. "Ah," he said, I see you
don't know our ways. will wait with
pleasure until you have changed your
dress" Lord W. did the same thing at
a very smart party at Newport. Lord
NJ. gave a check for a considerable sum,
which was returned dishonored. This
year matters seem worse than ever.
Some of those who went West as guests
in the party of Mr.. Hatch seem to have
outraged all decency.
How MUCH OF THE money recovered
by injured persons from railroad COM
panies and other corporations by suit at
law is held by the plaintiffs for their own
benefit? Not large part, if the pay
ments made,to lawyers are generally as
great as the sum demaded by counsel
employed in the Harold case. Major
Harold recovered $50, 900 from a New
York elevated railroad company, and his
counsel, Mr.. Chauncey Shaffer, refuses
to take fee of $4,000 and S., 900 for
expenses, asserting that $25, 900 would
hardly compensate him." The money
recovered is held by a trust company,
and, as the question about Mr.. Skaters