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New-York tribune., 1884-11-06

The folly of using the parlor stove as safe do
p0slt vaHlt received ITS latest ilustraton-the first
occurrence Of the annual fail series we believe-ln
Brooklyn few days ago. A hard-workng painter
sold out his business lately and handed he proceeds
$0OO-to his wife to take care Of until they COM
pleted their preparations for European trip. with
glowing eyes and n swelling bosom she counted
over the crisp bills, and then casting about for
place Of safety, the unused stove in the front
room and said to herself that surely no burglar
would ever look there for valuabes And mas
much as the pipe had been removed. there was no
danger that any member of the family would IN
cautiously kindlc fire without her knowledge.
The fact that she had converted the stove into a
sale she carefully locked III her own breast. One
day last week the head of the family had occasion
to light his pipe in the parlor, and naturally he
dropped the half-burned match into the stove
When the painters wife went to look for the money
and found only some fragments of burned paper,
there was "a small earthquake in that household
The tripto Europe has been postponed. The painter
has secured q new stock Of pots and brushes ION
credit and his wife casts evil looks at the stove
whenever she it aud is strongly tempted to
throw it out of the window
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06

n populace may act under like circumstances
whom Il lacks this inherited capacity for self
government, in the turmoil and disorder which
resulted from tho Belgian elections. 1t Is
almost impossible to conceive OF similar at
'tomrts in this country to dispute the popular
verdict. Those who most firmly believe such
verdicts to be erroneous at times, nevertheless
how to them instantly, and thus 1t Is that ma
iority rule in the long run vindicatos itself,
and secures and continues orderly and settled
government, despite tho ferceness OF party
conflict, and tho earnestness and enthusiasm
with which politics arc followed by the Amerl'
can people generally. And it is from these
great elections more than from any other part
of our governmental machinery that foreigners
may learn, If they possess true insight, the
depth and stability of tho American political
avstem.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
THE AMERICAN At HIS BEST

On Tuesday over ten millions of citizens went
to the polls and decided long and hotly con-
tested political campaign by their ballots.
Thr0ughout the Union this duty was performed
with the minimum of friction. And when the
polls were closed the people gathered every
where about the newspaper Offices and other
centres of information and awaited. cheer fully
and in the best of temper, the announcement of
the result. Scores of thousands i'm this and
other great cities spent the best part of n stormy
night clustered around the bulletin boards.
cheering every indication that promised success
TO the party they belonged to, and taking
lightly the news which was less favorable. In
many instances groups from opposing factions
were thus brought and kept together for horrs,
but while lcnty OF jcsting passed between
them their rivalry was only manifested in
cheering and counter cheering. Ii was evident.
as always in American elections, no matter how
high party spirit may run during thc campaign,
that the people were "eqnal to either iortunc,n
and that they were not going to be carried away
Inv tbc outcome, whatever it was.
And though this is so usual with us as scarcely
TO excite comment it Is really the strongest and
most practical proof that can be given of the
entire fitness of people for self government.
For il shows that tho instinct of law and order
and majority rule has been 50 thoroughly en-
grated upon the masses IA to have become u
part Of their nature. We have lately seen how
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06

the front have elected the candidates OF tno
County Democracy for District Attorney, Con-
troler and President of the Board OF Aldermen
Tammany has saved from the rout with whlch
Mr.. Kelly has closed his campaign, two Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas, Joseph 4.
Dalv and Richard L. Larrcmore having been
re- elected. Henry Wilder Allen, of the County
Democratic ticket, retains his present position.
The Republican Judiciary candidates poi'ed
large vote and If they had been nominated
earlier would undoubtedly have been success
ful But they were put in the field in place OF
nominees who were withdrawn, and on the
same ticket with man who excited belief in
bad faith somewhere, by declining frst tho
nomination for tho Mayoralty and then
the nomination for President OF the Board
Of Aldermen. That they ran so well under
sucb a handicap shows their genuine strength
in the community.
Mr.. Kelly is at liberty to get such consolation
nc he can from the success OF the Iammany
candidate for Coroner. His whole organization
seems to be In need of the services OF this
official just at this time.
The voters Of this city have practically COM
m;tted its government to the control of fac
ton of the Democratic party, some OF whose
leaders are as unscrupulOus and cOnsclenceless
politicia g as New York has ever suffered from.
II is now the duty of all good citizens to limit
the disastrous consequences of this blunder 80
far as q yigilant, cxacting public sentiment can
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
PERSONAL.

The Princess Krsr0tine Is II possible more ardent
socialist than her husband MY father" she says.
was rich gold miuo roprietor ami am princess
Look at that there nointing to- wretchet street.
sweeper wonder he does not come and cut my throat
WHAT right have to ho uvng in luxury while hc Is
working I'm the cold and dirt and living. probably in
some wTetchcd garrett or cellar. with mol cnoagh to cat
At her husbands trial she refused to -. down nnss' an
the poor wOrRngwOmcn IN the crowd III thS coortroon
we're also provided with chairs
pr. Oliver Wendell Holiness latest honor is a compli-
mcntary membership Ia tho American Academy OF
Medicine.
Adolphe Rcgnier the philoogst, whose death al the
age eighty has been announced was the 'uo OF
the Comte lie Paris
The Rev Phillips Brooks will he the select preacher In
Cambridge University. England. next Juue.
Alexander NJ Sullivan. the sto Irish leader was In
ca ~ life house painter. and when engaged In that ca
racty ON the mansion OF u certain nobcman lis native
ueiliroucs and gcutlcmany bearing created so favor
obls an impression that his patron gave him permission
to visit his library aud pursue ms seS eI i 1I
he peascd; ana thiis lie acluiicd 'no iioip' ~ " ~
education.
Edwin Booth has closed his Newport cottage for the
acasOn
The abatement that cast ofIord Tennyfons head has
bceu taken is contradic;ed by The World uondonl The
facts are says that Mr. Frederick s'ndys has ust hn
.hed Kt-cat ifc study in chalks OF the Poet Laureate
which i- delicate aul refined rend' ring Tue porf"t
s In the possession OF Mr.. Alexander Macmii.. anu Al
u xi,hont douht ut sone date be reproduced a'
n ~iynrtte frontspiece to new volume OF the foel
,.'. hn n win not serve "a a frontispiece to the
Lar volune of tie new edition OF his poems
Mrs. Mark Hopkins will mako her home herea'ter IN
GREAT harrington Mass but Will not part with her 'a-
fornia property
Dcspit, his falling health Alfonso OF Spain persists III
dcvotipe his dys to the chase aud his nights TO social
oys by which course his attendants te''r ho "
agsrayating the ma!adics tbat Aihlct MIN
Cecilia Thaxter will spend the winter in Boston.
rh. ,,,s Henry G.. Bohn et fine collection OF gems
g., .,o old mas,.rs and some choice works by mod
~ orn 49, n,t9trrs: about a thousand pictures In all
The Rev Dr. Emory j. Haynes Ia soon 10 10 huiioo'eu
aya,n among tho Baptist pastors of Brooklyn.
The two hundredth anniversary OF hopete p'r'"""!
will br celebrated on December throughout Denmark
and Norway tho theatres performing his most famous
uirr
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06

wsssr' 22eoo grains His heart should beat ~ .,,.
minute and no should breathe Is times minuta ~ a.
nours no would vtate l.7o0 cubic feet Of pure Al. "a
sA'on' OF per cent? . man. therefore, OF thu v,-..
monuonod ought 70 havr 300 cubic feet OF we'll
space He would throw of by the akin IA ouno.. :.
water' BOO grains NJ solid matter and 400 grain. %
bonic acid every "a hours. and his total los, dr.
"a honrs would be pounds OF water and a it,e .h.-"
pounds Of other matter. 's
Since Mrs william r. Vanderbilt Init, .o., 80
ings for her millionaire husband knitting stocn socas
be tho fashionable in fancy work Tor The WV
TROY Timea '"' "'nter-
large fur dealer says that cats arc very vau,,,.
rur'bear'ng animals, and states that more than m,,
catskins are used by the fur trade every year. Tbs 80.
OF the skunk is also largely used In this way.
b" Personal gliinpses OF vandvck are 90 very ,.,.
precious that" says The Pail AaA Gazette erc.n,,.~
Interest attaches TO the following story
as ali extraordinary example OF oral tradton-whch -
are assured has before appeared in print n -.
early part Of the eighteenth century very old lr
Thomas Hudson. tho portrait painter. who VA. ." -
l7Ol she told that artist that when .Le wa. ou.S
tle girl she had sat to and painted by Sir An,n.
Vsndyck. theT at tho height OF his fame and l,v,n
great state and splendOr In the then ashionabl. o,
OF Blackfriars. On occasion he led her forth ,,,
long gallery attached to the house wherein wers han
number OF the pictures he had painted Remsrtt, ~
whiteness OF the faces she asked him why he naI,.
them so pale paint for Time hc replied: .r..
will darken them and pOsterity viii thank m. ~, a.
This uttcrance. proving at once his knowledge 49,
and Zeal Dsy for his reputation repeated by gnd
to Sir Joshua Reynolds. whose master he wac Sir Jss
poor BENJAMIN Haydon; by Hayden 1t was told IA ~ 7"
W. r. FIRTH and by Mr. Firth 1t was reps ated to " "
Seymour Lucas. Thus without tho medium of la =. .
paper. has there been handed down us an iuters.,
statement Of OF tho worlds greatest man ,,,.y
before the Civil Wars hurled CHARLES from bis thrcns
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
THE CIMplICN LIAR IN EGYPT

For several weeks tho reports coming from
Egypt regarding tho SOudan have evidently
bcen of the kind which used TO be known as
u uroorbacks.n The most sensational stories
have been told of tho alleged fall of Khartoum
and the capture of General Gordon. Elaborate
stotemcnts have been promulgated concerning
the strength and movements or the Mahdis 5
forces All these reports have reached Europe
by way of Cairo. and nearly all OF them have
been credited to suppOsititious Arabs, who have
here played the part which the ubiquitous Tar
tar did In the Crmcan war. 1t is supposed IN
some quarters that these stories have been put
afloat by Zcbehr or his friends, and this may DO
the case, though if 1t is the explanation or the
business is none the more clear. For 1t must be
assumed that there is some underlying motive
for the diligcnt propagation OF false reports
and it is very difficult to discover such motive
in this case. 1t is indeed barely possible that
the Egyptian campaign liar thinks it possible TO
.top the advance of General Lord WOlseley
upon Khartoum by representing that he Is TOO
late to save Gordon.
But it is not easy to believe even an Egyptian
politiclan so ignorant of European ways OF
thought and action as to imagine deception OF
able that even an Arab would be seriously In
Huenced by such manDuvrcs. The only effect
of the false reports has been to intensity the
anxiety concerning Gordon among those who
had not sufficiently studied the situation to dis
tingush readily between fact and fiction. No
doubt there has always been the possibility OF
Gor,lou's defeat, because it was known that he
had very few Trustworthy followers. But after
his Il We months successful defence of Kharoum
any sudden overwhelming of him was obvi-
ously very improbable, and the case with
which thc Oriental Imagination invcnts sensa-
tions should have put the world on its guard
against such stories. The latest reliable news is
to the effect that the Mahdi has never been
nearer Khartoum than the opposite side OF the
river, and it seems probable that recent events
ut FL Obcid may compel him to abandon the
idea Of serious attack upon GordOn's positions
before Lord Wolseley can come to the rescue.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
INTEuPERATE TEMPERANCE MEN.

Il Nh. Blaine is elected, as now seems prob
able it is in spite OF Prohibitory vote cast
with distinct purpose to defeat him. If he is
beaten il is by the votes of 20, 600 Prohibition
ists in this State, who voted with their eyes
open against the Republican leader in Maine,
and with the deliberate purpose OF electlng
man whose life was known to them. Because
they were not altogether pleased with the
course which Republicans, as conscientious
and as honest in zeal Tor the temperance cause
as themselves had deemed it their duty to pur-
sue, these Prohbltionists deliberately strove
to elect man they knew to be utterly
unworthy, and to give Il victory to the party of
free rum.
This was not a proper thing to do. 1t was
clear disregard of public duty at the behcst OF
narrow yindictive and bgoted feeling The
greater part of these 10000 Prohi-
bltonsts were intelligent enough to
know that Mr.. Blaine was in
fnitely more worthy than Mr.. Cleveland,
and that his defeat was passionately de-
sired by the liquor interest in all the
States Nevertheless, they voted to defeat
him and to elect Mr. Cleveland. They
did this intentionally, in order TO punish nine
teen out of twenty temperance men in this
State because these men had not been willing
TO 10 Just what the onctwentieth thought they
should do.
1t is well for the cause of Temperance that it
has earnest aud true friends who are as wise
ard honestas they are Jealous, and who have had
no part il this serving of the Devil under color
Of promoting good cause. the cause of Tenn
perancc were represented only by the 10000
men who have done their utmost to elect Mr..
Cleveland to the Presidency, one thing is GER
tain, that they would search long while before
they would get the aid or sympathy
Of majority in single Northern
State. At the best the behavior of those who
claim to be the peculiar defenders of the Tenn
perance cause has done that cause moro harm
than all the liquor interest has been able to do
in twenty years of controversy.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
THE SUCCESSFUL LCC1L CANDIDATES.

I1L OCt' EccI tL bCN-iH '''''
The details of the New-Iork City vote for
the varions candidates furnish an interesting
field for study. William X. Gracc's total
vote for the Mayoralty exceeds that OF
Hugh j. Grant by nearly 1l,OOO. Mr..
GIaces success was not due TO eX-
ceptional popularity and was won i'll spite OF
the serious embarrassment caused by the doubt
thrown upon his citizenship lie secured a
larger Democratic support than that given to
his 1ammany opponent because he was looked
upon III his party as having the stamp of rcgu-
larlty. Tammany's attitude toward Cleveland
both before and after the Chicago Convention
lost Grant thousands of votes. Mr.. Grace also
received some Republican support because of the
dissatisfaction caused by the delays and blunders
IN puttlng the Republican ticket In the field.
IIe will now have magnificent opportunity to
serve his fellow citizens and TO earn a lasting
rcpntation. Ills powers and responsibilities
will be greater than those of any Mayor in re-
cent years. BY cutting loose from all connec-
ton or suspicion of connection with the Ihomp-
son Ring he can take the first step TO secure tho
confidence of public spirited citizens.
1he samc causes winch carried MIR. Grace u
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
Watch the locked ballot-bOxes in Brooklyni

BY general admission the American bc!lboy is
smart Mr. TrvIug tells a good story of one he met
IN his hotel IN one of the he has lately visited
He rang for the waiter afternoon and the bell
Toy presented himself instead. He was cool boy
this beli-boy. No doubt he had never seen the
great actor in private life before and was deter
mined 70 make the most of his opportunity 5, he
took q chair silently and gazcd at Mr. Irving.
Fully approaching the spirit of the situation the
actor sa d: Are you tircd7" '.Guess am. replied
tho be-boy. 1t was my long night np last
night" aud he settled himself moro comfortably Ia
the char and looked pensive. After 4 little con-
versation on general topics, Mr.. Irving remarked
casually: " Do yon think that after your long
night up you couid manage to get me walterf
The bcll-boy reflected; thea with sudden in 'pl-
ra ion, he sid Guess could" and he rose from
his seat. Bat he not g"nG Just yet, that bell
boy He crossed the ts the re-piacc. and rest
ing his elbow on the mantcl-plccc ruck an impress
slvc attitude and gazcd upon the actor. Mr. Irving
missed great chance then. He ought To have en-
saged that bell-hoy on tho spot Such genius for
dry comedy ought not to spend itself answering
Ill.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
4 UERY INTERESTING FYPE

u
One of tie most dincuit social questions Of the
ti,nr s how to reach and lift up that large element
Of yer, poor people which IL to be found in the
great modern cilirs. II is now recognized that the
kind nf help which consists merely III giving money
to this class docs harm than good. and that no
relief can be effective auu no reform lasting wnich
does not involve the practical coyaion of tho poor
themselves. They must, in fact, bc taught
to help themselves. Their scIl-respect aud anIbl-
tion must be stimulated, and thoy must be
made gradually acquainted with higher ideas ami
better modes Of living. In theory this sound
smoothly but the question has been how to get it
INTO operation. In England the universities have
long been broedine-p aces for ali movements de-
pending upon the enthusiasm of humanity. and
from them has now proceeded "a scheme whereby IL
is hoped To solve this hard problem. IL Is
called the Unversltios' Settlement Associa-
tion. Ii Is founded on tho belief that in order
TO help the poor eectualiy 1t IA necessary to live
among them, to study them, and to learn to under
stand them and their confidence. IL tis there
fore proposed to establish University Residences,
as thcy are called. at the East End of London.
Hero graduates of the Universities Will
reside devoting themselves for certain
definite term of service 10 whatever
useful work mny prove necessary. They
arc to endcavor to make tho iyes of the poor moro
enturabls by providing them various innocent
a,nusements; by bringing them together In club
and lecture rooms; by afIording them in'ercstius
instruction aud especially by watching over the
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
BLAINE AND LOGAN.

We still believe that Blaine ana
Logan are elected. Several States are
in doubt, and likely to remain so for some days.
but the Republicans seem to have the stronger
probabilities in their favor.
The Republican State Committee claim
handsome plurality in New-iork' ana
the reports from the counties justify confidence
Our own returns also give the State to Blaine by
considerable plurality and we do not believe
it can be taken away without fraud, or that the
fraud can 60 undetected.
There arc indications that in some quar-
tcrs the returns have been tampered with
in the interest of Cleveland and Kc-
form; and Chairman Manning's reported
instructions to his Committeeman TO
look out for technical errors that would reduce
the Republican majority are full OF sign'h-
cance. 1t seems certain that the vote OF this
State could not, under the facts as now under
stood. be counted for Cleveland without
challenge and most rigid scrutiny.
Hence it Is desirable for the public in
terest that the Presidential election may
be decided irrespective of the vote OF THIS
State. Happily, the dispatches give fair ground
for hope that the result may be so decided.
Without New-York, the Republicans can elect
If they lose less than II Northern electoral
votes. or if they gain enough from the South TO
compensate for any adverse votes at the
North in excess of IL. 1t appears probable
from the latest returns that every
Northern State except New jersey ana
Connecticut will vote for Mr.. Blaine. and III
those States also there is room for doubt, the
apparent pluralityin in Connecticut for Cleveland
being only 700. But the reports give strong
ground to hope that one or both oil the VIZ
oinios and Florida have voted for Mr.. Blaine,
and there are also doubts as TO tennessee.
Carving either of those States, the Repubi-
cans would elect Mr. Blaine without the votes
of New York, Ncw-Jcrscy or Connecticut.
1t will probably be several days before the
exact result in the Southern States can
be known. Meanwhile, if Indiana con
tinucs to promise slender but satis-
factory Republican plurality. the sup
portcrs of Mr.. Blaine need not feel that
tney arc I'm the least at the mercy OF such
frauds as Democratic officials III New York
are planning to perpetratc. But we exhort the
utmost watchfulness, and stern dealing with
men caught tampCring with recorded returns.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-06
EOBBERY NOT TO BE TOLERATED.

ROBBERY NOT TO BE TOLERATED..
The returns last night indicated only too
clearly that the Democrats had imported the
methods of Mississippi and Louisiana III order
TO defeat the will Of the people OF New ork
In Ncw-YOrk and Queens Counties, the Dem
ocratic majoritics large enough Tor any honest
man originally, were raised by later and
altered returns. In Ulster. 81 more ballots
were found III single precinct than the whole
number of voters, and blindtodcd Judge 50
successfully drew ont the excess as to give the
| Democrats 2sO plurality out of a total vote OF
| $40. There are other points IN thls State. and
not a few, where the methods of the Solid
South appear to have been diligently employed.
The people of the Northern States will insist
upon the most rigid scrutiny III every case
where ground for suspicion exists. 1t Is not
as if they bad to deal with party OF clean past
reputation or honest conduct in the past. The
Democratic party has been engaged for years
in desperate effort To steal the Presidency by
means the most shameless and infamous, ana
if comes into court with hands dripping with
the blood of murdered victims Its conduct TOR
twelve wears past has been black with frauds
of every description, from the tissue ballots of
South Carolina to the br:bed votes of Ohio and
lhe colonizcd voters Of Indiana. 1t has not
tried to hold n single honest election in all
These wears in any doubtful State, and there is
the strongest possible presumption that the
same men who laborcd for weeks to bribc an
elector in 1876 have chosen other means TO
cheat the people this year.
1t is right to tell the Democrats that they will
not inaugurate any President fraudulcntly
elected, without facing a most careful scrutiny
of thcir methods, both at the North and at the
South. If it should appear that rascally officials
at the North had attempted to rob the people
by raised or false returns, there Will be inquiry
not only as to Ncw-Yolk bat as to other states
in Which the illegality of Democratic conduct
ha, for years been manifest.
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here should be more of these officials or better

ones.
Unfortunately the warning from the National
Republican Committee to look out for Demo-
cratic fraud in making the returns seems 10
have been needed. The Democratic gains In
several places showed startling and sudden
increase yesterday afternoon. In Suhoik
County in this State 500 more votes TOT
Cleveland were reported. In Queens tne
increase was 600. 1t is not POSSIBLE
that in these counties mistake of so many
votes in the earlier estimates could have been
made; and in Long Island City there has long
existed one of the most INSCRIPTIONS gangs OF
Democratic politicians in the country. 10 ac-
complsh fraudulent addition OF 600 ballots
to the vote there would be mere tllne 10
them