Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-25


There has been unseenly and undignifed
haste on the part of the New York authorities
in trying to force his family TO decide I'm favor
of that city as the burial place OF General
Grant before all the consideration affecting the
case could be presented and properly weighed;
and at this writing there is reason TO believe
that the statement sent out from that city last
night that the question was practically settled
In nsvor OF Central Park as the chosen spot was
intended TO prevent discussion rather than to
express the exact truth. II Ii shall turn out to
b we'll founded, the decision is one greatly to
be regretted. OF oil places that could have
been selected for General Grants tomb, the
people Of the country will regard the pleasure
ground of q great city as in every way the most
unsuitable.
Central Park Is a credit and an ornament to the
city but 1t Is a mere playground. 1t Is designed
for the recreation of the nlasses-a breathing
place for the people. Laying aside the consider
alton, which weighs with many persons, that
the dead should lie in consecrated SOIL ID jars on
almost any ones sense OF fitness TO learn that
the body Is 10 rest In II pieasure-ground. New
YORK has more than one beautiful cemetery
where the honored remains might rest, but
Central Park Is but one step from the Polo
grounds or Jerome racing park. We do not re-
call I'm instance where u national hero lies amid
similar surroundings.
General Grant himself had strong preferences
ON the subject, TO which he gave expression
long before he wrote the recent memorandum
in which he named West Point, Galena and
New York as places where he thought his re-
mains might properly rest. Interesting light is
thrown on this point in another column of to-
days paper in the interview with Col A. II.
Markland, who for many years was one of
General Grants most intimate and trusted
friends.
OF course General Grants own views should
have due weight in deciding the matter but
in spite Of their force still think that for the
considerations stated in yesterdays STAR, and
others In the same line which will readily occur
to the reader. the City OF Washington is the
fittest place Tor his tomb. In such case rs this
II seems to US individual preferences should
give way To the wishes of the nation.
A step in the right direction toward proper
LIQUOR license system has been made in the New
Hampshire Legislature, where a bill has been in
trOduced which provides for the license OF any
qualified voter who shall present to the author
tiles of his town or city petition To that effect,
signed by "A majority CT the qualified voters of
his town or city, the full name. and addresses
of the sisnerS being given. The license is To he
good for two years, and the fee To be 81 900 in
every city and every town of 5000 inhabi-
tants, S7OO in towns of from 1000 to 5000,
$500 in towns of from 5000 to 1000, and
500 less for each 900 decrease in pOpula-
ton.
The mos: serious objection to the measure rs
proposed lies in that clause which restricts the
petitioners to qualified voters. Women and
minors are as much interested in the subject
as voters, and they are often more directly al
fected by the results Of the liquor traffic than
those enjoying the right of suffrage. 1t is only
just, therefore, that they should also have {,
voice In the matter. If the bill We're so changed
az TO require all intending licensees petitions to
be signed by majority OF all the persons in the
town. male and female, over the age of fifteen
years, il would be a very fair and reasonable
trestansnt OF the vexed question.
The New York banks are Tn help the Treasury
department out of its silver difficulties by sup
plying 1t with SO. 0O0, 600 in gold, in exchange
at par for that amount of fractional silver cur
rsney, and If necessary they stand ready to
continue this exchange up to 10000, 900.
Othsrvise, il Is stated. the Treasury would be
obliged 70 suspend gold specie payments
IL ID question whether this step will accom-
Ptish it, object II rests upon the superstition
that Congress at its coming session will vote
70 stop the coinage of the standard silver
dollar, but II Ii highly improbable that that
body viii do SO. Nor will it help the project
10 have 1t 6ostered by the New York banks
against which the silver men in Congress have a
special luminosity. II might be wiser
70 let the whole matter be regulated by the Or
binary course OF trade. If the silver men are de-
termtned TO drive gold TO premium no appeals
from Wall street will divert them from their
purpose. Perhaps the crisis is inevitable and,
nso, IL might as well be met at once. Nothing
would cure the people so speedily and so
thoroughly Of q laundering after a silver cur
rsncy as practical experience with ii.
Wrinkles make more interesting subject than
most people are willing TO admit. An Italian
Hfrf
oughly, and some Of bis conclusions are worth
noticing Passing by the scientific fact that
they are said ito depend mainly ON the fasciculi
which form the reticular part of the dermis"
the painfully practical fact is noted that ..thev
are In every case normal at forty, or even
earlier Vertical wrinkles tell of study and
worry; arched wrinkles on the forehead of
cruel physical or mental suffering. The crows
feet mark the passing of the fortieth year. and
are especially detested by ladies, so our author
says. The wrinkles of the nose and mouth are
not so unpopular. They are due to laughing
ana eating, and sometimes appear very early
In life. Inc burrows in the cheeks and chin are
pioughed up by father Time, and for that
reason, are unwelcome. The worst OF it is that
there Il no remedy, preventive or curative The
sse,h may lie, white hairs deceive but wrinkles
never. The best palliative the author can sug-
gest is 10 grow fat as We grow old.
In the positive refusal of the Grant family tn
erals body TO be made they will have the
hex..p - - ttx Ill.