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HEAPING UP WRATH.

1t makes no sort of difference what were
Mr. Stead'S motives; no sort of difference
whether he did the work he accom-
plished in order to further the inter-
ests. of his paper, or not. 1t remains that
he made disclosures fortified by proofs that
cannot be overcome These show that
girls and women are bought and sold for
vile purposes, debauched, outraged and
imposed upon by lecherous wealth, and the
police in London are hand in glove with
the wretches who carry on the nefarious
business. Yet Mr.. Stead has been indicted
for furnishing proof of these facts. Sup
pose his motives were wholly selfish. Sell
fishness is one of the most useful motors in
human action, and without it the world
would suffer, indeed 1t remains, that
however selfish was Mr. Stead, the crimes
he exposed still continue in England, to
her shame be it said. 1t remains, that one
can have a writ in England to search
house for lost puppy dog, but cannot
have warrant to enter and search for his
child if she Is barely Is years of age. 1t
remains, that in England, boosted, pro-
gressive, "moral" England, woman can
not lawfully consent to marriage under Is,
but can consent to be ruined at Is. 1t re-
mains, that female children of ) and are
sold in the shambles of prostitution TO
satisfy the horrible desires of bestial men,
1t remains, that the head of great church
in England has examined the proofs of
Mr.. Stead's charges, and finds them true
and that three distinguished men who sat
with him in the examination concur in the
finding. Yet, in England Mr.. Stead is in
dicted for what he has endeavored to do in
correcting the most shameful abuses that
ever put to blush civilized nation. If
English society tolerates his conviction, it
will deserve the contempt of mankind, and
the name Englishman should become
kissing and a by-word upon the worlds
highways. But we have hope of English
honesty, and believe that no such outcome
to his indictment will be permitted.
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FIGHTING COUPLES.
Says the Grass Valley TJdings on tn
divorce reform question:

Says the Grass Valley TJdings on the
divorce reform question:
The Court, in holding a fighting couple to-
gether, would punish the two, perhaps, for be-
ing foolish in marrying; but marrying is not q
crime or even q misdemeanor under any law
and the Court has no right TO punish in such
cases.
Marrying in haste ought to be crime.
Men and women have no right to burden
society with their errors and the direful
consequences of their folly. No, marriage
is not a crime, but its abuse should be, and
divorce in its present recklessness is SIM
ply the result Of the abuse of the privilege
of marriage. As to the Courts holding
fighting couples together, we are decidedly
in favor of it. 1t is the right thing to do
better far than to turn them loose upon
society to make other "scrapping matches"
If it were known that a mutual quarrel
would be Of no avail in securing dissolu-
lion of the bonds of matrimony, the mar
ried would be less inclined to mag" at one
another, or give such cause for legal sep
aration. This treating of marriage as a
mere partnership, to be dissolved on &C
counting demanded by either party when
ever disagreement arises, reduces it to
licensed prostitution-just that, and moth
ing better. If the married will fight, pun
ish the guilty, as others guilty of assaults
are punished. In any view, it is better
that they fight, and fight it out, than
that divorce unrestrained should establish
sort of tolerated polygamy, as it is now
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A NEW VIEW OF SLANG. ;

Walt Whitman's paper in the North
american Rerie'c on Slang in America"
is a most interesting contribution to the
literature of pathological commentary.
Slang he gives the unique and altogether
original definition of the lawless ger
minal element, below all words and
sentences, and behind all poetry" He
holds that it proves a certain freedom and
perennial rankness and professionalism in
speech. Further on he hkens slang to a
clown leaping in the midst Of the statliest
ceremonies in the majestic audience-hall of
the monarch, language. at is the whole
some fermentation of language by which
froth and specks are thrown up, mostly to
pass away, though occasionally to settle
and permanently crystalline" Thus, he
maintains, it is certain that many of the
oldest and solidest of orr words we're gen
Grated from the daring license of slang.
There has been nothing better said Of the
rough elements in our processes Of speech
than this, and no juster criticism
has been advanced. 1t may well command
the thought Of such distinguished students
of the science of language as Whitney,
Sumner and. their numerous colleagues in
the field of pathological reform. In his
treatment of the growth of language, Pro
fessor Whitney dwells upon the Legitimacy
which acceptance by communities gives to
notifications and eccentricities in spoken
language. 1t is upon like but broader
idea that Whitmans conception of slang is
based, and which he unconsciously clothes
in poetic attire. The retrospect of slang,
he holds, from the start recalls from their
nebulous conditions all that is poetical in
the stories of human nature" Such
declaration, he fears, will be pronounced
daring. But it will be conceded, after
brief thought upon the subject, that the
statement is truth. As language is the
unconscious structure that is evolved by
the needs of human expression, and is
builded by the unprecedented co-opera
ton of all men, so it is that those rude,
forcible and direct methods of expression
that formulate in words and phrases which
We denominate slang" and by which
men seek to intensity utterance, and to
give it all possible vigor and fullness Of
meaning, are substructuraI to the poetic
element, since poetry is the highest form
Of intelligent expression. We can, there
fore. very well understand what Mr.. Whit
man means when he says that this lawless
element in language is /" an attempt of
common humanity to escape from bald lit
eralism, and to express itself illimitably,
which, in the highest walks, produces po-
cts and poems" 1t is a new view-or, at
least, new presentation of an old truth,
and no further than that is any thing orig
inal-and dignifying Of the genealogies
of slangy utterances, and so inspires the
respect that truth always commands.
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A WORD FOR THE PAPERS

Not long ago we referred extendedly to
a criticism by Rev. NJ. J. Savage, made in
the North american Revie,r, upon the con-
duct of newspapers. Some of the excep-
tions taken to present methods were forci-
BILE; as, for instance, the objection to the
plethora of criminal and scandalous news
published, and the drift toward mere SEN
sationalism in the journals of the day. In
the course of his criticism, the critic
referred to the publishing of newspapers
for money making, as a reproach. He
added, that to make money-getting the
chief end of a newspaper "places it on
level with grog shops and the houses of i'll
fame" OF course the smile was absurd;
of course it was illogical, and Mr.. Savage
knew it. But the expression has aroused
John Monteith, who, in the Current pro-
ceeds to demolish Mr. Savage on this head
by pointing out that without the motive
in view which Mr.. Savage treats so con-
temptuously there would be no great daily
newspapers. He asks, why should not
money-making be made chief end with
publishers Why not, indeed? Certainly
Mr.. Savage did not expect any one to be-
iieve that newspapers are printed for the
fun of the thing" "But," says Mr. Mon
teith, in his spirited monograph, because
the chief end of business is money
making, by what sort of logical juggling is
it made to follow that the business is de-
graded to the level of the groggery and the
brothel? To rescue a respectable trade
from the clutches of this sweeping and
debasing influence we must assume thatit
is conducted with some other end in view.
The main object of the kings and princes
of the dry goods trade in maintaining high
class dry-goods houses is presumably to
cover and adorn the bodies of their Gus
toners. To suspect for a moment that
their chief aim is money-making is to class
them with the lowest grades of avaricious
mongers." Mr.. Montieth did not need to
indulge in this bit of sarcasm. The public
thought never for moment gave value to
Mr.. Savage's mistaken idea. News pub
fishing is business prompted by like
motives with other business schemes, and
differing from them only in the clientage
enjoyed and the influence exercised. There
attaches to the business responsibilities of
high order, and that demand conscien-
tious and upright conduct and methods,
not only for virtues sake, but because they
augment the capitalized value of the pa
per in the way of reputation, which, I'M
der the title "good WILL" is wholly de-
pendent upon the vigor, intelligence,
honesty and uprightness of the journal.
So the better and truer and more
manly and newsy the journal, the higher
It's value. There are influences, such as
act and react upon all business that may
negative this value when money-measured,
and so it is that some of the best of Jour
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THE RESULT OF PHILANTHRoPIC Eff
FORT

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher writes to the
North American Reriew commencing in
warm terms. the paper of Cardinal Man
ming, that appeared in that journal re-
Gently, in defense of Mr.. Stead, of the Pail
Nall Gazette, for making the disclosures he
did relative to vice in London. Mr..
Beecher well says: "The moral power of
corrupt passions in great cities has again
and again proved itself to be more than a
match for the moral power of the upper
classes Of society" He adds that it is re-
markable how unanimous representative
men are against vices and crimes and
every form of salacious immortality, and
yet equally remarkable is the refusal of
society, in any concerted way, to NEEDLE
with the subject. Men admit the vastness
of certain evils, their terribly demoraliz-
ing influence, and yet the moment any
man undertakes to suppress one of them,
good men and moral turn from him, and
are more severe on his methods than they
are or. the iniquity he is endeavoring to
suppress. How true this proposition of
Mr.. Beecher is has been strikingly. illus
trated in the case of Mr.. Stead. A man
must be possessed of abnormal courage in
this day of doubt and suspicion to attempt
to do good to the community of men where
he resides.
SAYS the Cincinnati Gazette: "Already
the subject of reducing the charge for the
immediate delivery of Letters from ten
cents to five is being agitated. 1t is
claimed that the system would be fully as
profitable if the rate was reduced one
half" No, do not reduce the rate until
the wages of the carriers are raised. 1t is
abominable that the Government should
pay so little for. service of such i'm
portance, and such unusual demands. We
do not believe it wise for the Government
to engage in this messenger business under
any conditions; but, 80 long as it does, it
should pay living wages. The service is
netting for the Government now 100 per
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SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

A party numbering $50 has left Iowa for
San Francisco, but it is not known where
they will settle.
The Rio Janeiro arrived Friday morning
with Hongkong dates to September oath
and Yokohama to October 4th.
Police Judge Lawler rendered q decision
Friday, holding Alexander Mcpherson to
answer for assault with deadly weapon
on John III. Burke. Bail was set at 81 900.
Christopher A. Buckley has sold out his
saloon on Bush street. The transaction
was closed Thursday. Buckley says he
intends this as a permanent retirement
from the saloon business.
Nathaniel Gray has donated lot 1201
1874, on the corner of California street and
First avenue, to the Pacific Dispensary
Hospital for Women. About 81, 500 has
already been subscribed toward building
to be used as children's hospital.
NJ Jordan, who recently travelled along
the Mexican border, says that Chinese are
swarming over the line into Arizona and
southern California. They come in large
parties every day, and no attempt is made
to keep them out. They are invading all
branches of labor in the southwest.
The annual meeting of the Order of the
Eastern Star closed Thursday evening.
The greater part OF the afternoon was occu-
pied in installing the new grand officers.
The Council appropriated 500 to pay the
expenses of the Delegate to the Supreme
Council meeting at st. Louis next Septem-
Der.
The question of the validity of the order
of the State Board of Equalization, direct
ing the increase of the assessment roll of
San Francisco 12l per cent, came up before
the Supreme Court Friday morning in
bank. All the Judges except McKinstry
and Sharpstein were present. The case
was argued and taken under advisement.
Between 500 and 600 acres of drifting
sand deserts in Golden Gate Park have
been redeemed for beautiful forest drives
by bents," or beach grass. Already,
where three or four years ago there was
nothing but moving sand dunes-glaring,
worthless, troublesome-there are now go
600 thriving Monterey cypress and pine
trees.
The report Of fruit shipments to the East
by rail during the past season is not yet
complete, but it is estimated that it will
amount to 1900 carloads. AS the carrying
capacity of car is 10000 pounds, this
would give in round figures 100000 of
green fruit shipped by rail in 1885. as
against 100000 for 1884 and 10000
pounds for 1875.
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mails have not been money-makers. The
day has gone by when news journals pub
lished solely for philanthropic reward
were possible. The modern newspaper
does great deal in the field of beneyo-
lence. 1t is constant alms-giver, an I'M
firing and patient alder of philanthropic
schemes, and plans for lettering the con-
dition of the children Of men but the
one thing it cannot do, is to ignore fnan-
cial reward for the business effort made
upon it. Referring to the remark of MIR.
Savage; "a million people behave them
selves, but that is no news. Nobody
thinks of reporting that, or saying any
thing about it." our Chicago critic
replies: ayes, and nobody ought to
report or say anything about it. shud-
der to think what this world would come
to if the performance of good or honest
acts was regarded as news" But as q
matter Of fact, the modern newspaper does
publish great deal about the good deeds
of men-nearly all, indeed, that take on
on the slightest degree of publicity.
These may be of negative order largely,
but they are none the less records of doing
good. The reports Of social, religious
and scientific bodies; of philanthropic
and progressive thinking the records of
public and private charities; accounts Of
humane societies and their work the rec
ords Of progress made in act, science, liter
ature, business and lawful industries the
discussion Of religious, educational and
similar topics; the countless items" of
charitable, brave, manly, womanly and
daring deeds-and so on through an al
most endless chapter, testify to the negative
of Mr.. Savage's charge. The very silence,
indeed, of news journal upon the con-
duct of the "million people" y. who be-
have themselves" is an affirmation Of their
uprightness, and the reading world so ac-
cepts it. since it is the outrages upon peace,
order and decency are the published con-
trasts the exceptions to the conceded and
broad affirmative of right-doing by the
million" While the publication of the
fact, and even the details of crime is
deterrent, and thus useful as well as in
formatory, and the printing of the daily
records of ill-doing is justiiable, not only
because such constitute news demanded by
the people, but because the world is far
better in the knowledge, than to remain
in ignorance of them. Mr.. Monteith in
dulges in one criticism in his caustic paper,
which is impregnable, and concerning
which the modern press has multitude of
sins to atone for. He objects, not to the
mere report of immoral occurrences, but
to the method of treatment they so largely
receive in the press-that is, the manner
in which the dishes are served indulg-
ence in a style, indeed, that is intended
d" to awaken and feed morbid tastes and
base susceptibilities."
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FIT WORDS WELL SPOKEN.

1t is exceptional to find in an Eastern
journal of intelligence the courage mani
tested by the Chicago Curriers', in a late
article upon the Chinese question. That
critical paper has the bravery to say to its
cultured contemporaries some hours far
ther eastward:
The editor at New York or Boston, or at any
other citadel of privilege, who urges the free
entry to America of pauperiZed laborers Chi
uese or what-not urges the destruction of the
very system which supports him in white linen
with clean hands and a well kept intellect
There is a certain philanthropy which is the
essence of selishness and ignorance Such
humanity is Caucasian's love for 400, 600
pagan paupers at the expense Of 600O0,000 fell
low-Caucasians. The Chinese may be very
good for those who have to do with them as
subjects of essays, but where are the schools,
arts and appliances of the Mongols? Whatever
number of Chinese there be in the Flowery
Kingdom, there will be no more for the limit
of starvation is upon them. Take millions of
them to America and the mortal coil will only
spring outward to fill the vacancy. Among
400 600 people, halfChinese, philanthropic
editors would have a chance to take Off their
coats and struggle for existence with the vast
populaee But such a state of things will never
come, because to secure il would require an
acquiescence in the lackadaisic morals Of East
ern good men, which acquiescence could only
be expected of Gilbert and Sullivan, in some
new oPera-bouffe. Perhaps Cinnamon ought to
wear their equivalent of our silk hats and
satin-lined oyercoats, and wear them at the ex-
Pense OF Americans: yet Cinnamon never will
do it. The most almond eyed editor in all the
East could see through it all if he would only
hire out as section-hand on a Pacific railroad
In which terse sentences the Current has
stated nearly the whole Chinese immigra-
ton question and marshalled the chief
reasons that actuate the people of Califor-
mia in their unanimous opposition to the
unrestricted importation of a servile class.
to dispossess the American laborer and
artisan, and seize upon the heritage that
our civilization should guarantee to them,
as against any and all attempts to usurp it.
When the Current has further examined
the matter, and ascertained that it is fact
that seven-tenths of the Chinese immi-
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

Two Mormon missionaries were driven
from Toledo, H., Thursday.
S. n. Brooks, the alleged father of the
murderer Preller, has arrived at St. Louis.
The Trustees of the Grant Benefit Fund
have decided to place the money in the care
of a trust company for Mrs. Grant and her
children.
Within the past six weeks many of the
New York brokers have received more
money for commissions from the city and
out-of-town customers than they got in the
whole previous twelve months.
Mrs. Weldon, who recently completed
six months imprisonment for libeling Mr..
Riviere, manager of the Covent Garden
Theater of London, has again been COM
mitted for trial on similar charge.
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister.
speaking regarding the failure of the Next
can Government to establish quarantine
against yellow fever, said that after an in
vestigation it was not thought necessary.
Professor Larson, the noted advocate
and author of phonetic textbooks, was
found guilty Thursday at Pennington, n.
j., of sending offensive letters through the
mails. He was sentenced to six months in
prison and fined 5000.
Vanderbilt seems to have given J. S.
Morgan carte blanche to work up the
schemes of recognizing the Reading road.
with the understanding that he would
supply all the money wanted The stock
has jumped from S14 to S25 %.
The President has decided to appoint
General Alexander r. Lawton, of Georgia.
to be Minister to Austria, but will not do
so until Congress meets and removes his
political disabilities. Lawton was nomi-
mated in May last for the Russian mission.
John c. Shields, appointed Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arizona, is a
prominent lawyer of Howells, Michigan,
about SO years of age. William H. Barnes
appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Arizona, is a lawyer of Jackson
ville Illinois, about 35 years OF age.
Schedules in the assignment of w. Heath
and Charles Quincy, comprising the firm of
William Heath & Co., bankers and brokers,
were filed in New York yesterday They
show liabilities of $1,350,000; nominal as
sets, $2,0H 900: actual assets $37s, 900. The
schedules state that the creditors hold Sc
curities to the amount of S418,00O.
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THE HOP MARKEr.-Emmet Wells New

THE HOP MARKEr-Emmet Wells New
York Hop Circular of October 18th saws
Under the influence of rather discour-
aging cable news from London, this mar
ket to-day shows signs of weakness; the
heavy receipts also tend to depress the
market. 1t would not be surprising to see
the London market go off little if ship
ments from here keep up much longer at
present rate. II must be remembered that
all the hops now being exported are not on
bona fide orders from London, but are sent
over to commission houses. We notice by
our exchanges that a good many growers
have turned exporters, and are consigning
direct to London, paying little regard to
the quality of the goods they ship. It is a
matter of great deal of doubt if anything
will be gained by this kind of business.
and we will venture the prediction that
when they begin to receive their returns
they will be disappointed by the poor
prices realized. Very few Pacifics are
arriving here; those that do come are of
excellent quality, and fetch about the same
price as best States We make no change
in our quotations this week, but the market
certainly is weak, and if hops come pour
ing in upon US as they have done during
the last few days, it would not be surpris-
ing to see lower prices
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