New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-01

Persons Iearinq torn for the season, and sum
sner travellers. can hare THE DAILY TRIBUNE
MAILED to them, postpaid. for rs cents per month,
ytbs address being changed as often as desired
THE DAILY TRIBUNE wiH be sent toany address
IN Europe for 81 IS per month. Chich includes
the ocean postage.
notwithstanding the humiliation which Eng
Isbmor must feel in connection with the settle
nent Of the Afghan boundary line, their spirits
orc ;mnrovinp. This is due to the fact that
tbair crons will be better this season than they
have been for years. During the first two
weeks of May the outlook was bad; but the
,,ro.opt warm weather and sunshine which are
reported as prevailing in the British Isles nave
A;snelled the fears of the farmers. Ii the fine
weatber only continues, a bountiful harvest Is
assured.
The average drugstore does not oiier many
attractions for an experienced burglar. mere
ia seldom much money left loose IN 1t, and the
chances of being poisoned by tie stolen gooos
render such job uninviting. But man VINO
was desperate enough to rob shop OF tnls
kind would probably be desperate enough 10
kill any one who caught him In the act II ne
Thought he would escape detection. On this
theory the murder of the clerk, Hands, In
Hudson-st. drugstore Is readily explained.
The police have given out some facts con-
corning well known confidence woman wmch
they hope will lead to the production OF
evidence sufficient to justify her arrest. Ii is
curious way of comprising the ends OF justice;
but at any rate the story told elsewhere in this
paper is an interesting one. Persons whose
initials are ]. V. and who have been robbed OF
their trunks on their way to Europe, or friends
of such persons, may help the police immensely
by identifying certain fine clothing once In the
possession of this woman, but now under the
control of Inspector Byrnes.
general" w. Andrew jackson Sparks de-
clares that the duties of Commissioner OF the
General Land Office are almost more than any
one man should be asked to perform. Now we
don't think much of Sparks's ability, but we
suggest that he might pull through if he could
attend TO the legitimate duties of the place and
not waste his strength in trying to nullify the
Homestead law and the Civil Service law, or In
deciding points which ought to be. left to the
Supreme Court. But if under such conditions
he finds himself overwOrked, we firmly believe
that Sharks could got some other Democrat to
take his position, say Muldrow Slater, Bannis-
ter-or even Henley, "the man without a
country"
Workers who aspire tQserve their fellow-
citizens in the Legislature next winter may
tDend some of their summer leisure probably
by watching the workings of the piece-price
system which will soon be in force in the New
Jersey prisons. The effort is experimental
only, and the authorities are handicapped by
the law which forbids more than 100 convicts
to be employed in any one branch of industry.
But the conditions are much the same as those
which would prevail here, and the problem can
be profitably studied by Lawmakers, actual or
embryonic. In the last Legislature the stub
born opposition of most Of the Democrats, and
few Republicans, prevented the adoption of
any plan to remove the confusion which pre-
walls in New York State prisons, but the sub
!. feet is bound to come up next winter, and men,
bers of the Legislature will find it of advantage
to have watched the experiment in New-Jersey.
The Postmaster General would do well to
read over the Civil Service law occasionally,
lest in his desire to evade 1t, he may openly
violate it. Judging from the Villas circular,
Republican postmasters who have given money
or service. or have done anything else to keep
the Republican party In power, are Offensive
partisans" and must 20. Yet there is q clause
IN the Civil Service law which is de-