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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22
4 NEW Project FOR Wills.

A bill is pending before tho Legislature OF Michl-
gan embodying principle which is worthy OF at
tenton In other States. How often in recent
years have the public been vexed and dis
gusted at the quarrels Of disconnected heirs over
the wills of rich men! Vanderbilts will was at
tackled on the plea that insanity and undue lnhu-
cnce q had led him to disnhert his son Cornelius
Stewards on the charge that he had forgotten u
his blood relatives; and there have been hundreds
of lesser instances. The Michigan bill proposes to
fores.al these dissgreeable lawsuits over the wills
OF the dead by enabling whoever wishes to prove
his will while living Its substance is that any one
who chooses may submit his own will to tine Judge
Of Probate furnishing also the names OF all persons
who would share in his estate if 10 viii wore made
aud that the Judge shall cite these persons to show
what objection they can suggest. At the hearing
the Judge shall examine the witnesses produced 4;
and if it. be shown that the estator is OF sound mint
and full tcstamcntary capacity. decree shall be
mado accordingly, and the will thus established
shall nevor be set aside for insanity or want of
capacity of the testator any charge that 1t was
executed through fear, fraud Importantly or undue
influence The tasator is not to be required to dis
close the contents of the will and is not to be embar
rassed or restricted III reyOkng or altering his will
afterward.
The principle or the proposed law seems SOUND and
wholesome. The chief defect in the plan viii be
the practical that few testators will be willing
to challenge the inquiry it directs. Yet probably
few cases would occur in which heirs would re-
spond to the citation in which sons or nephews
would meet their father or uncle face to face In
the courtroom with charges of incapacity TO make
q will And even Though such law were but very
seldom invoked, it mil bt be well worth having for
the expense and scandal il would prevent in the
few cases In this State there has been for fifty
past IA statute embodying the idea in part. II de-
caros that any person may deposit his will with the
Surrogate or other county officers named who shall
keep the document safely and devert TO the Tesla
tor on his subsequent request. or after his death to
his executor This law does not indeed in terms fore
stall inquiry into a testators sanity; yet jury
would be 10th to believe that a man who voun
tarily presented himself at an Office OF county
records to deposit his WILL and who then appeared
to understand nteligently what he was doing, did
not possess capacity and exercise free choice The
law has never attracted wide attention; yet ru-
mors in the gates Office in this city to the
effect that about fifty wills a year are deposited
under its provisions. This would seem to indicate
that If the more efficient measure proposed in
Michigan were placed on tho statute books through
out the country, aud made generally known, it
might be invoked oftener.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22

this city, but in Boston, Chicago. Minneapolis
Denver, Savannah and half dozen other clles'
Of their prompt and efficient aid as nurses In
private families, and of their invaluable WORK
among the poor as visiting nurses attached 10
the City Missions, THE TRIBUNE has from time
to time given detailed accounts.
That the sphere of their labOrs may and should
be extended there can be no room to doubt
The New-York State Charities Aid Assocla-
ton has directed attention to this field, and
in New York itself trained nurses have been
first introduced into city almshouse, while
Rensselaer, County has been the first to adopt
trained nursing in o county Misunderstanding
at Troy. The general employment Of trained
nurses in large almshouses would not only De
in accordance with the common dictates OF
humanity and act as a check upon abuses, but
by broadening the field for this useful ana
noble work there would be presented ne"
opportunities and inducements for some among
the host of unemployed or poorly employed
women to join the ranks of a most honorable
profession.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22

QUESTIONS FOR THE BRIDGE TRUSTEES
The Toll Committee of the Brooklyn Bridge
Trustees decided last week to adhere 20 their
original report which had been sent back to
them uy the Board for further consideration.
The main features of the report are that foot
messages over the Bridge shall be- free, that
the charge for riding in the cable cars shall bc
8 cents, and that the tolls for vehicles and
animals shall be on sliding scalc-10 cents for
one horse and vehicle, 20 cents for vehicle
with two horses, etc. The latter charges are a
triAe lower, on the whole, than those of the
Union Ferry Company, with which the Bridge
will compete directly That the committee
were wise in deciding to make the Bridge free
for foot-passengers nobody disputes; and their
action in that respect will doubtless be con-
firmed by the trustees at their meeting to-
morrow. What will be done in reference to the
rest of the report is uncertain Some members
of the Board, led by General Slocum, are ear
nestly in,favor of making the Bridge tree for all
kinds of traffic, charging fare only Tor using
the cars. In support of this position General
Slocum made an able argument at the last
meeting of the trustees, cOntendng that as the
people would pay Tor the Bridge i'll any event,
il was WISER safer and more economical TO
make the payment in the form OF taxes than by
leyying toll upon themselves for using the
Ridge. He cited the London bridges which,
huilt By private capital, became obnoxious to
tbe people on account of the toll system and
were purchased by the city a few years ago,
and made free. One argument against free
Bridge il that it will benefit some portions OF
the CITY at the expense of others. This, how
ever. IL not likely to be the result The Bridge
will naturally tend to cause reduction OF
ferry rates at all points from Greenpoint to
South, Brooklyn, aud thus will bring all parts
of the city into easier communication with the
metropolis.
Our own opinion is that the Bridge should not
be entirely free, but that tolls should be
charged for riding or driving across il. They
should be arranged ON such scale, however,
as to draw trade to the Bridge; not to divert it
TO the ferries. We think the schedule proposed
by the committee too high; especially so when
il is remembered that one of the first acts of
the Union Ferry Company after the Bridge is
opened will probably be to reduce lis rates in
order to retain its business. Mr.. Otto Witte,
one of the Bridge Trustees, has declared his in
tention Of presenting to the Board Tomorrow
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distance from the college buildings. This hes b.
NAMED an admirable and we believe unique fss-
ture Of college life. Tho hospital is only one story
In height containing two largo and two small
rooms, and contains all the necessary furnishings
and appliances ready for immediate uss Thither
any student taken sick with contagious disease Is
promptly carried in closed sedan chair kept for
the purpose. Since the hospital was opened 1t has
never been occupied by moro than two students at
the same time yet the advantages Of its existence
are obvious. 1t would be well for other colleges
where the students live in dormtories to possess
wcll-furnished cottage hospital within easy reach r
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22
GENERAL NOTES.

While the Swedes are discussing the project
for obtsinnga guarantee Of neutrality and aboishins
their army and navy. the Danes, fearful OF
the meIaces of their powerful neghbors on the East
strengthening their coast defences aud CONSTRUCTING
armored gunbCats
Declining trade and agricultural distress
lod the Swiss National Council to pass resolution
in favor OF substituting protective tariff for the peseh
free-trade tariff far existing commercial treatsS
will allow. The Geneva correspondent OF The Londo"
Times supposes that this retrograde policy" VIII oe
confirmed by the Council OF State but rejected by tae
popular vote, TO which II must be submitted peio'o"
can become the law.
The Russian Government has begun TO exec
cute its scheme for coonizng the lower part OF ta0
Amoor province, adjoining the Chinese frontier "
dispatchng from Odessa $40 emgrants, consu1uVns
$50 families. II the project, which contempla'es 'no
removal of 100000 persons TO the new settlements
carried out on the scale on which It has begun 'no
expense will be enormous-not much less than
SlOOOoO0O In the opinion Of The koscop Gazette Inc
colonists already dispatched were supplied with noun
OATS agricultural implements. 40 mlstones H NV
wagon-whees several thousand pairs Oh sows and
window glass and each family received $50 Win "nV'
TO build a hut.
An Italian vender of images named Michaei
Bern has Just recovered damages for assault WHICH,
doubtless far exceed his rosiest dreams OF pronts V
his trade, and apparently he deserved tnem Aoou,
year ago, while he was perambulating Georgia 'ns
Sheriff of Douglass County, two prominent citizens 30.
an exmember OF the Legislature decided ito have so'
fun" with him. Accordingly they broke bis inases'
rolled him around the courthouse floor, and dnaiV So
down upon his PROSTATE body and began to sing soDs
and tell rude stories. The result Of this rttie me'
making was that the Italian lay In bed for sixteen uAy
The Grand Jury were too much In awe OF the assas
to ndlct them, but they finally broughi ps oI
United States Court and compelled TO pay
their fun although they put In the manly aaaZ ths5
explanation that they we're TOO drunk W Sn0T ME-
ware doing.
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NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY 90 lssa-TwELyE FACES

condition of things were likely to be permanent.
But il is not it is disease which invariably breaks
ont in the youth Of prosperous nation, Just as tne
mumps or measles do in the childhood OF the indi-
vidual. The Dude and the Cad are but the symp.
toms of too high feeding and too little exercise OF
mind in certain classes They have appeared uhoer
other names in every generations: the Danny anu
rIncroyable and the MacsrOni and the t0ad-eaters
were their progenitors. Here, in American citles'
boy born with good honest blood and average
common sense is liable to become Dude or Cad
for few years, simply because his knowledge OF
the world is so limited. He knows that the esteem
and homage of certain college or social clique is
won by particular kind of clothes or accent
Hence his ambition and energy are limited to
clothes and accent. He knows nothing beyond,
and therefore attempts nothing. "The world"
saws Andersen's hero extends quite to the fence on
either side of the yard And a red rag around the
leg is the highest distinction chicken con ENJOY
in the world Strut well with your legs then, my
cbildrenp Should the world be widened and opened
for these lads as 1t was for the boys OF 1875 or
1860, their good blood and good sense will enable
them to rise to meet the demands of q great emer-
gency as bravely as did their forefathers, and they
will be ashamed of their little youthful strut and
red rags.
Even if no great crisis like that of civil war or
financial depression should occur to startle these
lads to an apprehension of the real world about
them, there is ground for the ieremads concern
ing the enfsebled and sffemnatc state of the youth
of America. In the first place. these three classes
fortunately represent exceedingly small part of
tho young men of the country. And in tho second
place, In country where the social condition of
every class is so fuctuating, the chances are tnat
the pampered Dude or vulgar Cad Of to-day may
twenty years hence be a grave. earnest man, work
ing hard for the bare support of his family. AS for
the Boy, and the Boss of whom he is the embryo,
the cure of that worst and fatal disease 10 still IN
the hands of the people. to use if they will.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22

Prominence is given in our special cable dis
patches to the annexation of Papua, or New
Guinea, to the British Empire. A commissioner
has been sent to the island from Australia TO
take possession Of it as a dependency of Queens
land. BY this action of the colonial author
tiles one of the largest islands in the WORLD
with an area of something less than 100000
square miles, will be incorporated with the
British possessions. Holland is the only Gov
eminent that has colonial settlements in New
Guinea. but these are of small extent. The
island is almost the only terra incoGnitd in the
South Seas, and being Inhabited by mixed races
will not be easily governed. England seems to
have been completely taken aback by this
sudden step. The Empire is already regarded
by all sober minded subjects of the Queen as
entailing responsibilities too heavy to be borne,
and here is the prospect OF an enormous extern
sion of territory. The Radicals are naturally
inauisitive, and the Government, while deny
ing that the project of the Queensland author
tiles has been sanctioned by the mother State,
gives them evasive replies which seem to
imply inability on its part TO withstand colonial
pressure. The Australians it is said, are in
dread of "French fiibustering." Well, the
English themselves have done a good deal OF
that sort Of work in their time, and are still
doing it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22
TWELVE PAGES.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-The Government has received private
information of contemplated attacks on Offices in
Dublin.- Twenty persons have been arrested
in Midtown. County Glare, on charge of conspir-
acy to murder. - Sandeau the French novelist,
is diving g A. Yates's FIVE Year-Old Albert
Cecil won the steeplechase at the SandOwn Park
Club. - The deaths of Suleiman Paoha and the
Hon. Edward Morris Erskine are announced
DoMEsrIc.-The President started from Sayan-
nah for Washington last evening" he was still
weak and had another chill - Attempts have
been made to burn the towns of Easton, Penn,
and Matawan, n. j. - The Morning Journal OF
Cincinnati has been sold to the owners of The News
- The Christian Union will be enlarged 60
The secretary of the Emerald Society denies that
it has had any connection with political agitation
in Ireland.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The Thomas Company
Yesterday announced an important reduction In the
prices of pig iron. - The Old Guard celebrated
its thirty -ffth anniversary. - East-bou pro-
vision rates were reduced on the demand OF tne
New-York Central. 60 Dr. Farrie described the
Clan-na-Gael Society. 60 James Westerman,
town collector of Southield, S. L. is missing, and IS
supposed to be defaulter. - Superintendent
Wallng instructed the police TO enforce the Excise
law strictly to-day. - Mitchell and Sade
signed an agreement to fight. 80 Gold value of
the ega-tender silver dollar (412l2 grains), $3.50
cents. - Stocks opened dull and about steady,
and gradually declined all day and closed weak.
The WEATnER-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate fair or partly cloudy weather, with slight
changes in temperature and rain late III the day.
Temperature yesterday; Highest, 65'; lowest,
41o; average, 52l2o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22
WALL PAPER.


We agree Paper side walls OF Front and BACK Two
Rooms second floor two Large Rooms on third moor
and ali from top with Fine Embossed Machine
~ GOLD PAPER
a,n Gold Frieze uon third floor where tr3t quail
ity below old will used-all 10 be done in thorough
Workmanlke by the best paperhahSers-ior O1'
Hundred and Fifty Dollars ,,.,.o
give Won such figure II intend IN sell your mousse
faper IL as il will bring to three THOUSAND collars
NOR aft having been papered
Samples containing Hints on Decoration sent iree
Il. BARTHoLoMAE q Co, 49,,
ard Importers Curious and Expensive All
Papers
12xand 1876 West sSd.st, near Broadway. New.York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22

While all reputable American citizens re-
gret that due regard for Constitutional rights
seems to prevent our Government from inter-
fering with the plots which lrishmen are con-
coctng this country against England, it is espe-
cially exasperating to know that there are per-
sons inthe Governments employment at W ash
ington who are willing to aggravate the public
discomfort by applauding openly the political
use of dynamite. Mr.. Condor, an e1-Fenian,
now in the United States Treasury Department,
unfortunately has been guilty of this indiscre-
ton. He is only clerk; but even clerk
ought to have the sense 10 know when to he
quiet Moreover this man is peculiarly IN
debted to the United States Government. 1t
was National intercession which saved him from
the gallows once in Manchester So. no matter
how bitter his personal feeling, he ought to have
the good taste at least to say nothing publicly
which by any possibility conld embarrass his
employer and benefactor. Devotion to Civil
Service principles, perhaps, may properly pre-
vent Secretary Folger from disturbing Mr.. Ed
ward O'Meagher Condon's tenure of his posi-
ton but there is no reason why he should not
ADVISE his subordinate in a friendly way TO
keep his mouth shut
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22

One of the defences of the public against
dynamite lies IN the very nature OF the ex-
plOsive itself. 1t is so terribly dangerous TO
handle that nearly everybody is afraid TO touch
ii. This is the case with the express companies,
whose precautions against the transportation OF
dynamite and even Of much less powerful ex-
plosives, have undoubtedly saved the public
from many frightful accidents The care they
take is shown by the statements of the agents
of the companies having Offices in this city,
which are reported on another page of This i'm
preston. An enlightened self-interest is the
main cause of these extraordinary precautions;
but all the same, with our present laws, the
public has reason to be grateful TO them.
The Democratic Assembymen and Senators
who work so increasingly at Albany all the
week in the interest Of patronage rest not
from their labors when they come home to
spend Sunday. Mayor Edison is the prime OBJ
,;ect of their solicitude just now, and great
is the anxiety of these patronage mongers lest
the numerous nominations he is to make soon
sball not please them. They filled bis office
Yesterday all day, and left him in no doubt as
70 what they wanted. But Mr.. Edison appar-
emily gave them little encouragement; at least
they have determined that the Aldermen shall
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NOT act ON the recent Excise nominations until
the Mayor has indicated in some way whom he
ia going to name to fill the offices at his dis
posal on May 1.
The Mayor and the heads of the municipal
departments in conference with him yesterday
formally approved the bill which has been
introduced in tho Assembly authorizing the
construction of another Hall of Records Tor
this city, This measure is indeed proper ana
desirable and has not received at Albany the
attention it deserves. The building in which
the valuable records affecting property In
New York City are Wondering is not suitable
for its present use, whatever it may have been
once. 1t is not fire proof; it is dilapidated
and too small. Moreover, 1t will be greatly in
the way of traffic when the East River Bridge
is thrown open to the public. his ola s'ruc-
ture should be speedily torn down ana new
one erected near the corner of the Clty han
Park, where the present englne-house sIihus'
The loneliness of Queen Victoria is the topic
of much conversation in England now, ana q
CORRESPONDENT in London sends us the current
arguments in the British capital for ana agaias.
sympathy with the sad monarch. 1he royai
isolation is attributed to her German ideas Oh
court etiquette, and to her German views upon
all points. The Queen is hardly to blame for
being of German extraction, and she comes
honestly and innocently by her German feel
ings. The British themselves are responsible
for the fact that their royal family is not very
English. They could1inot get along comfort
ably with the Stuarts, who were about as Eng
Esh as can be found anywhere. They threw
them over and deliberately invited the descend
ants of a petty German Prince to rule over
Them whose relationship to the proper heirs
of the throne was about as distant as could
be and exist at all. For these reasons it seems
the height of ingratltude now for any English
man to refuse his Queen his most loyal and
hearty sympathy, even if she does mourn only
the loss of John Brown.
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3nslness Notifies.


"ALDERNEY BRAND" ,,
Buy always - a g.
ANGOsrURA BITTERs have been Tor over lily MY
,hs standard regulators OF the uges'o
aarrans BE sure you get the genuine article
M'Canlis' mildew- proof Window and Door
for o,ty and residences VIII last twice as
long as the unpfepared goods and look brighter neo
wears than the ordinary AWNINGS Si'e' oA0
Send postal for price list
T. 1. MCANIIs, 2So SHAVE,
between oath and 25th SITS
Send postal card for price list of Gossamer
Rubber Garments, Rubber Clothing AIT CUSHIONS water
Bottles syrnges. Garden Hose &C;
between gath and 26th SITS
SAN Francisco OPERA HOUSE.
WILLIE EDoCIN SPARKS CO.
! Crowded nightly. See Amusement eoumn:
The MoDEMANN PEERLESS ARTIFICIAL Teeth
An not exhibit unsghtly divisions on tho gum Exceed.
inry fine full sets perfectly adapted TO the ANATOMY
mouth 10 stand the test OF Time o
81 and $40 Painless extracting with pure iesn nltrOs
oride or laughing gas direct from tho cylinder nprovea
method half the price and no chargc artic teetu
are 70 be inserted In this department lady IN attend noe
Teeth repaired so minutes sets made In three hon re-
onred No 500 and Sd southwest corner 3ithsb
sP~e<S"' eN~ MODRdANH.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-22

NOT act on the recent Excise nominations until
the Mayor has indicated in some way whom he
ia going to name to fill the Offices at his dis
posal on May 1,