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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10
DINE NOTEL UORK.

The work of the dime novel is being performed
with even more than the usual success. The other
day three boys robbed their parents and started on
for the boundcss West More recently lad in a
Philadelphia public school drew revolver on his
teacher, and examination showed that seven other
boys present were armed with revOlvers and bowie
knives They had formed n secret brotherhood,
their leader the boy who pulled the pistol, having
taken the tcrror-inspirng name Of "SchuylkIll
Jack" They meant to set off in little while lol
the West also. being consumed with a fine am
bition to become cowboys This sort OF cscapade IS
becoming common, and while no doubt there are
many absurd features about such bOylsh out
breaks they furnish cause for uneasiness too. Inc
class Of literature which is mainly responsible tor
all thi, folly is distributed all the country in
immense quantities. and it distinctly evil in its
teachings aud tendencies. The heroes of the dime
novel are almost always thieves, robbers and I'M
moral characters and the hcrOines are no better.
The stories abound with descriptions Of brutality,
cruelty and dishonesty when they do not go further
and fare worse Boys gather from them the idea
that violence and trickery and immortality arc
manly, and that the character to be admired Is the
bully and ruiliau who knocks everybody about,
and cuts throats right and left, and plumbers sue
ccssfuly, and is Lail-fcow with the thieves and
dangerous classes generally.
Through reading this pestilent stuff great many
boys are undoubtedly put fairly i'm the road to ruin
They insensibly acquire crooked moral vision
They BEGIN to detcriorate in their associations
They pine for opportunities to emulate the heroes
they are reading about Presently they are tempted
to steal from their parents. friends or employers
70 prepare for some prcpostcrous raid, and then
though they may be saved for the time, their
characters have sustained shock which is liable TO
weaken them permanently. 1t is difficult to deal
adequately with this evil because of the absence Of
uniform legislation a good deal can no donbt be
done by vigilance and local preventive organiH-
tons. such as are at work in Ncw-York but proha-
bly the most effective remedies are in the hands of
parents and relatives who, if they will only take
the trouble, certainly must be able to cut OIL the
supply in large number of cases.
The habit of relying upon the State in such mat
ers is in fact a bad one and it is already far too
prevalent. The State ought not to be called upon
to do anything which can be better or rs well done
by private energy, and affairs concerning the
family nearly all come within this category When,
Therefore boys are being corrupted by the dime
novel influences it is in order 10 inquire what their
parents have been doing to protect them against
this vicious agency and the parents ought not to be
encouraged to look to somebody else for relief from
their unmistakable duties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

The schemes of the Communist generally self
destroying. but the French Communist generally
has the most marvellous skill in devising ways TO
ruin himself. Eleven deputies were recently
charged with the duty of reporting reform in tax
alton. and they gTayely proposed to abolish al
taxes drinks, wines, spirits, and beor, and on
paper and TO transfer the maintenance of local
roads from the Departments to the National Gov
eminent. To this pleasing scheme for the encour-
ageInent Of wustefulness aud drunkenness they add
an equally injurious mode of discouragng economy
and thrift for they propose in order TO make up the
deficit. to put tax OF per cent On rents Az per
cent on all revenue from lands and houses, i'm
stead of the present - per cent on all other interest
and dividends per cent on income from mort
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10
4 CONTRAST FOR GRATITUDE.

Mr.. Martin Upper lately dropped out Of blank
verse in a friendly way, long enough to put some
more or less proverbial philosophy into the prose
of a letter to The London Times. From signs Of tho
cold season he forecasts "a tempest on its way to
Great Britain" which-in meteorological phrase
sis likely TO develop dangerous energy" Why
this present sensible ferment of the social system
with secret spirit of revolution Well. there
is general neglect of active duty, and refusal OF
passive sympathy as between man and man, chiefly
concerning the responsibilities of wealth and the
calls and cares of high position.
Furthermore, there are too many feudal mag
mates anxious to live alone IN the land, unmindful
of moral responsibility, Of kindness toward the
poor of liberal treatment of tcnantry; not potent
friends; not rich in local love. These latter are
manifestly suicidal foes against their own worldly
interests. Coming to details, there is excessive
game preserving in the midst Of hungry and ever
increasing population. "And it not a hardship
that workmen debarTed wholesome habitatiOn on
vast domains trudge many weary mile to and
from the DAVIS labor they can get no lodging
nearer than some distant town.
Again, SIS it not an evil that thousands of fami-
lies all the land over cannot preserve In their
novels the decencies of life the possibilities Of
health from an enforced overcrOwdng, while 50
many square miles of mans common heritage in
our little isles of the sea are kept without inhab-
itants through the selfish luxuriOusness of sundry
dominant lords whose main wish is to have as few
human beings possbeo their great estates unless
indeed they happen to possess villages or townships
filled to snffocation with tie feld-hands and their
families driven into such Sitting abodes from the
open countryf
Such, in paraphrase, is part of the catalogue of
avowed hardshps threatening perons conse-
quences aiiording practical force to the not Illogical
accusations and inyectves of the indignant and
popular agitators. While yet there is given a
quet hour the lull before the storm let sundry of
ourmagnates, urges this modern jeremiah, hasten
to concliate public opinion by setting their estates
in order. "The energy and honesty of his warning
saws prominent English agricultural journal, - is
fully warranted by the grave circumstances-the
glaring abuse of the landed social system"
As colors brighten by contrast, and I'VE know
the object of desire by that which pains u.s., the
gloomy picture here presented may serve as a spur
TO sluggish gratitude for the American breadth and
freedom Of a Government of the people, by the
people, for the peoples which accords right of life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness; and. because of
vast natural resources places not merely cabined
and confined tenants habitation, but whole farm
within easy reach of the honest thrift of every
citizen and of the oppressed of other lands as well
China alone excepted.
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Nmuoemenis Co Night.

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GG.SSyySos-" The Merry War
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~ vs. CuT ATRF-S-" The Country GIRL 8,
Se.sn OPERA HOUSES" Boarding HOUSE.,
HADTsoS SQUARE THEATRE-s:3O-"Aillh h"s'S'
MrTRoPoiITAN OPERA HOUSE, haihi'''
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NTy-YORK COMEDY THEATRE-s-"fecA b"" AV''
N1p o's G. ARDEN-S--' Storm Beaten
sTRp THFATRF-S-" Nirginlus. ,,,,,o,r,
TnAllA THEArRt-s-" Kaetchen Won Hei .ioH
SuI ,TpF CoNIOI-F--S--" COTdclias Aspirations
trnIcS SoY. 1RF 'THFA TRE-S--"S Separation
t1SIyFRsITY CLUB THEATRE l-kead.nsS
NAIIACK's IHEATRE-s-" Lazy ONue. S,,,.sop
D. a,rN,f-, TIIF ATRF--S--" lie Voyage en- suisse
YIN aN-r~I-r TBF MRS." Princess lda
lam STRTFT TIN AIRE---S-" Hobbies.
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New2lprk Dailu Gribn11e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY
NrW-yORK. MONDAY. MARCH 10.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRr1GX.-General Graham has announced his
intention of marching against Osman Digma on
Tuesday. - The betting on Bubear and Ross
in London yesterday was even. -- An Internal
machine was found in package addressed to the
Comte de Paris. --=- 4 newspaper IN Spain mas
been eonfscated on account of attacks upon the
King. --- Officials of Montreal have robbed the
CITY of SO, 900 in the last year -- The Gov-
ernorGeneral of the Dominion has received threat
eninr letters from Fcnans of Chicago.
DONFsTC-It is stated that the Morrison Dill
will not be reported to the House to-day. --
Friends OF the Postmaster General deny that he is
irving TO succeed Judge Drummond. -- An I'M
successful attempt was made yesterday 10 hnd
Began Cash. the South Carolina murderer - A
ffteen-year-old boy committed suicide at Lexing-
ton. Ohio. 49, The City Marshal of Wilmington,
Ohio was killed by drunken prisoner. -- The
Storm of sleet did much damage in New-England.
CITY AND SUBURBAN-lt was learned yesterday
that a negro cOachman had gagged and bound young
woman in the Sloane flats Saturday night and
robbrd the apartments. --- The officers of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
smoke of the need of saving the Adlron-
dack forests. - 1t was stated that
a syndicate was negotiating the purchase Of con-
trolling interest in The Commercial advertiser. ---
The Rev. Julius II. Ward gave the third of his lee
lures on the History of the American Episcopal
Church. - Professor Felix Adler finished his
course of lectures OH Tenement-houSe Reform -
The Central Labor Union protested against the
outrage ar Ridleys
The Manufacturers local observations In
dIoate rain followed by colder, clearing weather
Temperature yesterday: Highest 81; lowest
2s'; average, 29$iN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

The Fair Trade Conference at bennington
was n remarkable demonstration OF hostility 10
Free Trade. The speakers united III the acc
laTatiOn that n system Of One-sided frce '"''
was running England, and resolutions were
adopted dcploring the lack of employment anu
attributing it to the enormous quantities Oh
manufactured goods and food products I'M
portcd duty-frcc. Lord Dunravcn, who prcsld-
cd over the conference, made an uncqulVocal
sncecb in favor of Protection, recommending
iudIcious imposts upon the manufactures OF
other countries on the ground that absolute
Free Trade was a myth and that the whole
world. England alone excepted, was in favor OF
high tariffs.
Americans are asked to abandon the economic
system under which they have prospered rs no
other Nation on the planet has ever prospered.
They are advised to return to policy Wmch
in their own experience has not worked sa'lS-
factorily. and which one Nation after another
has given up until England stands almost alone
Before they decide upon so disastrous an eAper-
iment they will do well to consider these eVl-
dences of a formidable reaction against Free
Trade in Great Britain. twill be fat-witted iVr
them to renOunce the American system at time
when English Conservatives are already STRIVING
TO prevent the importation of American cattle
as a means of encouraging home prOducton-a
genuine Protection measure clumsily disguised
and when an appeal to the constituencies may
prove "the first great blow at the policy OF
Free Traden
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10
TILDEN AND PROTECTION.

General Roger A fryOr.-Tlden will be nominated by
reclamation at the Chicago Convention. Win he accept
He will. And Hcndricksl That does not follow. There
is love lost between them should rather say Palmer
Illinois, free trade plank No. tariff for
only" either The Democratic party is sick Of grow
Ing leeks for home consumption. And they couldn't make
the South swallow them. The CarOlinas would bolt.
Logan and I in Congress together both Douglas
then though made equal haste to get al different
ends rope in the The stron gest cket
the Republicans could meet with would be Blaine and
Lincoln. But 10 will be q close fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10
TALKS ABOUT TOWN.
TIE ROOSEVELT BILLS.

CAet-JuStce NOah DariS.-I hope both tho Roosevelt
bills will become laws in the interest Of order and
waited City Government Give the Mayor power with re-
spOnsbilty and he will not dare TO prove recreant No
phase reform has frightened the liquor
sellers much high license. 10 Il entering wedge
driven by practical legislation which goes the heart Of
the whole business In the effort make the class 70.
spectacle you make II smaller Also. 1t becomes more Wig,
liant OF its rgtsand the nquorseler has his rights
der the present constitution Of society Putting the
duced force Ofdeaers police duty will, in my opinion
in short time clean the unlicensed dives with which
streets now honeycombed The great cities are
not yet ripe for prohibition II is folly and failure to
attempt to enforce it in advance OF deep and wedis
fused public sentiment What be done with that "a
in OHIO and in OF the small towns in this
think the time is at hand when prohtitory law
will be enforced In this city in obedience 10 the popular
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10
G quantities are in tons of 1000 pounds:

For the last two months of 1888 after the price OF
American neSsemcr rails was reduced by the large
sales at $50 by the Lackawanna Company. the inn
norris of rails dropped to 54 tons in November, and
223 tons in December. The British production of
steel rails IN 1883 was only LOLITA gross TONS
AGAINST t.lIs.7O9 in the United States in 1889
Great Britain made 235. 7s5 gross tons, and the
limited States ,2S4, 067. But Great Britain makes
about 49, 900 tons more BeSsemer ingota than TINS
country, and sends part of them here to DO rolled
into rails.
SILK WEAVERS.-Ihe ribbon weavers OF Paterson
have at last come TO the conclusion that II does not
pay TO demand higher wages hen all industries are
Frustrated and that it pays still less to allow
liquor seller to go about threatening IN their namo
TO boycott merchants who not willing TO
pay the liquor sellers claims against idle workmen
Whether the liquor seller had any authority from
the workmcn or not his performance certainly tended
to arouse feeling against them, and the workmen
might boycott" him without great harm to them
selves.
ENGLISH RAuwAYs.-SiXteen leading railways
in CIR at Britain earned during the last half of 1883
1871 $50 more than in the last half of 1882, and
this increase was almost equally divided letween
increased expenses aud increased net revenue, the
latter amounting to Sl,sl6.300, or pig per cent.
But there was an increase of 27s per cent IN the
miles run by trans-lO7 ,5i2 i0l miles in the SIX
months Tho Increase in traffic receipts was
| 81 ,93S, O10 from passengers, So404Oo from mer-
| chandise. and $I14s, $50 from minerals, with Il
! decrease In livestock The extension of miles
operated less than u per cent, 50 that the no
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

tnrn upon capital invested was rather better than
IN the latter half of $50. This result in spite Of
the serious depression in many important industries.
is one of much significance. The figures for the
entire year. however. show slightly less favorable
results than those of either of the three previous
years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

STEEL RAus.-Tbe official statement Of the Iron
and Steel Association shows that 1,295 40 tons of
steel rails produced in this country last year,
against only 84,954 tons of IRON rails. Only DISC
tons were open. hearth steel 81, 629 Bessemer
rails rolled in iron rolling mills and ,253925 were
Bessemer rails rolled in Bessemer works. The fol-
lowing comparison will be interesting and instruc-
tive. The quantities are in tons of 1000 pounds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

dutv They know that our marriage anu
divorce laws are inadequate. ms mas re-
peatedly been made clear i'll the columns Oh
THE TRIBUNE. Some of the legislators argue
that the root of the evil cannot be reached
except by National legislation. Well, let New
York State set the Nation good example.
The immediate necessity is statute when
would explicitly make ii unlawful Tor guilty
divorced person to marry outside this state as
well as within its limits That would meet the
suggestions of the Court of Appeals in the Van
Voorhis case. Is there no Assemblymau or
Senator anxious to do himself the credit OF
proposing such a law9
The action of the Assembly tonight in regard
to the preservation of the Adirondack loi'S,S
will be awaited with painful interest py d"
wcll-informed residents of this STATE no
prospect of the passage OF some adequate ""i
which will save these woods from the deS'I"I
ton now being dealt out to them unfortunately
is not bright unless the Assemblymen are more
kcenlv alive to the interests at stake imam lhe9
were last week The measure now before them
is entirely inadequate. This is not because Il
better one has not been provided. Inc So
called compromise bill arranged by Senator
Lansing and the Chamber of Commerce Com
mttee is infinitely better, and yet it has already
been practically rejected by the Assembly
which seems to be under peculiar influences on
this important question Before our legislators
at Albany vote on this matter finally tonight
we suggest that they read what the officers OF
the Delaware and Hudson Company have to say
about the effect upon theiI canal OF cutting
away the woods in the Navesink. Their state
ments are printed elsewhere in this impression
and are directly to the point.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

PeOple as a general rule do not buy drugs so
often or in lots so lalge that they are partlcu-
larly interested in the prices charged for them
The present contest, therefore, in the retail
drug trade to keep prices up to a certain sched-
ule does not greatly excite the public. The
principal anxiety of the apOthecarles customers
is to get their drugs and medicines pure. For
this reason the firm that acquires the reputation
of putting up only unadulteratcd goods and of
filling prescriptions carefully seems likely to
succeed best in the long run, even if its prices
are high And yet ii must be admitted that in
certain of the so-caed cheap drug stores of the
city excellent wares only are sold.
No small benefit ought to follow the action
taken Yesterday by the New-YOrk State Engi-
neers Union--an organization made up OF
men IN charge of the stationary engines through
ont this city, A committee was appointed to
examine the condition of these boilers (there are
5000 of them,) and also to find out if the en-
gineers running them competent to do their
work. The licensing of this class of workmen
and the inspection of the boilers are in the
hands of the Police Department; but Judging
from contradictory statements made in differ
ent official quarters of late, the work of super
vision is not thorough. Now many of these
boilers are under the sidewalks of our most
crowded thOroughfares. Evidently, therefore,
the general public has reason to hope that the
engineers committee will be able to lessen the
possible dangers which threaten from below.
1t Is pointed out in our Albany letter that the
Legislature shows a strange indifference toward
the evils flowing from the present marriage and
divorce laws of this State. This is due probably
to the pressure of other important questions
and TO the fact that no delegations of citizens
have gone to Albany to urge the lawmakers to
adopt some remedial legislation. But Assem-
blynen and Senators ought not 70 wait to be
,purred on to the performance of their plain
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

The person OF persons who sent an internal
machine to the Count of Paris must be as
ignorant as they are malicious. The Count has
never been popular except with his own faction
of Orleansts. This attempt on his life will
serve to endear him even to the followers OF
the late Count of Chambord. If the Socialists
will only let this man alone he can never do
them any harm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

papcs do per cent on all salaries and pensions
above 1900 yearly and per cent all profits Of
fauners-about 90 per cent of the average rental
value.
The appointment Of standing Quantities has been
proposed by the British Ministry at an early stage
OF the present Of the Commons. The expert
ment satisfactorily tested last year, two COM
pick measures, the Bankruptcy and Patents acts
having been carried through the House after being
exhausiyely discussed by the Committee on Trade.
AT the present session the Government are anxious
10 refer to the committee measures relating to
the protection of life at and to the extension
Of the powers of the Railway Commission. The
Committee on Law, which was unsuccessful last
year. is expected TO dispose of bills relating to
corrupt practices at municipal elections, and to the
law on stolen goods hese four measures, if favor
ably reported from the standing committees can be
passed without being subjected to critical ox2mlna-
ton in Committee Of the Whole House. In this
way a great saving of time can be effected, and the
Government may be enabled to force their three
great measures through the COmmOns-the Fran
chise, London and County Government bills. The
Opposition resisted the first proposals for the re-
yiyal of the standing committees, and would be
well pleased if they could dispense with them alto
gether. Legislative industry is a strong a gument
for keeping the Government in Office. The Con-
servatiyes are opposed to a rapid dealing OF the
cards. when the trumps all go into the hands Of the
Liberals. They have, however, no excuse Tor
struggling against the readOptiOn of common
sense system of legislation, which worked admira-
bly, last year.
The practical objection to indeterminate sentences
Is that they only substitute one arbitrary form Tor
another and that the proposed change affords more
for injustice even than the old system No
man can decide with any certainty when a criminal
is reformed. Conduct in prison is never a safe
criterion of reform. II has been recently declared
by veteran superintendent of prisons that fire.
qucntly the most ireclaimable criminals behave
the best in the pententary To make prison
behavior the test of reform to make action in one
direction the measure Of what acton would DE
in totally different direction. The adoption OF
such a method would inevitably lead to the prema-
turc release of many unreclamed criminals, and the
undue detention of Others. The existing system
does not pretend to attain anything like exact
Justice but in the long run 1t works more equtably
than indetermnate sentences ccnld do.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-10

II looks as if there was need of an Investigate
inc committee in Montreal Embezzlements by
officials In the municipal departments there
during the last year have been discovered
which amount to $25, 900 1t will possibly Oc-
cur to some New-YOrk officials that $4,000 is
q small sum for a city to get excited about.
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cages, 2l2 per cent on all salaries and pensions
above 1900 yearly. and per cent on all profits OF
faumers-about 90 per cent Of the average rental
value