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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
MEYERBEERs PROPHET

The first representation this season of Meyerbeers
Prophet took place at the Metropolitan Opera House
last evening and the occasion OF rather surprising
exhibition OF interest in the highly coored old work II Is
more than likely that large portion OF the audience
(which seemed the house could well hold
was attracted by desire to see Herr Niemann In
role and that does not belong 10 Wagnerian music
drama but before the evidence OF three
sous TO prove that the opera, mixture IL Is of musical
vugarisms and really beautiful Inspirations has charm
which yet out 10 has features which lifted II
above any its predecessors at this house SO excellent
was general spirit that the sable Iiabaptiss re-
make OF their time honorcd privilege OF sing
ing out Of tune frulein Lchmanns assumption OF the
part OF Bertha had great deal to do with lifting the rep
resenaton to its high plane for, hstrioncay rs we'll ~
unsteady IL of the most brilliant
in the annals OF German opera here.
Herr Niemann's vocal deficiencies were of course moro
obvious In Meyerbecr's music than in wagners but he
nevertheless surprised his listeners with frequent out
hurts of electrifying power Yet. may be imagined
his abilities actor obvious than his skill
singer He showed Meyerbeer's hero 10 be truly y
tragedy type and brought the development In the char
TO the attention of the audience In vivid manner
The popular triumphs, however were won by Frauein
Lehman aud Frsulen Brandt Concerning the ttdes
" the latter have spoken ~ often that only the tribute
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
4 SOCIALISM, TROUBLE.

The English Socialist leader, Hyndman has
been before the courts lately under rather
peculiar circumstances, and the case has an
interest as showing how utterly incapable a
man who aims at regulating tho affairs of
society ut large may be of managing his own.
An application was made to the Bloomsbury
County Court for the commttal to prison of
Hyndman and his wife for something like con-
tempt of court. They had been sued for debt,
and Judgment against them having issued
they had paid no regard to the order OF the
court. On examination curious mode of life
was disclosed. Mrs. Hyndman testified that
her husband had no occupation, but that be
was trying to obtain n clerkship in solicitors
office. "She said they rented house at ESQ
year, but the furniture was heavily mort
gagged, and in addition there was bill Of sale
over it, They had no money and had been
unable TO pay the debt. The only money
thew had had was that which she received
from her dodgers and rs that did not pay the
rent they raised another loan. Her husband
was the leader of the Social Democratic Asso-
citation, and went about the country lectur-
ing, but he received no pay for his work. He
went to dinners without paying, and they had
been supported by relatives and friends. He
did not contribute anything toward their liv-
ing, and she had to borrow money to pay the
servant her wages"
Here evidently Mr.. Hyndman plays the role
which Mrs. Jellyby took in her own family.
While he is engaged in stirring up the Social
lists and preaching discomfort and anarchy !;
while he is planning demonstrations which will
give the thieves and roughs of the metropolis
an opportunity TO do some work for themselves,
his wife is left without the means of living,
and is exposed to the humiliation of laying
bare the misery and shame of her condition in
q publc tribunal The Hyndman class is truly
not a comfortable nor a level headed one. 1t
is a long time since it was put on Scripture
record that the man who does not provide for
those of his own household is worse than
heather, and there can be no doubt that this
Judgment was intended to restrain the light
headed people who fancy they have Hcalls J." to
this or that, and forthwith neglect their fami-
lies and begin to take upon their shoulders the
affairs of all the world. The best guarantee
for the soundness of a mans judgment on
social and economic problems ought to be the
success of his treatment of those whom he has
had personal contact with. Hyndman, tie
bankrupt, INDECENT dependent, forced by his
own folly to throw the support of his wife upon
relations and friends, is good illustration of
the value of the doctrines he represents and
breaches.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
New9lprk DAILY Wribn,re
FOUNDED HORACE GREELEY.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IS, 1886.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRFIGN.-The Triple Alliance; Count Kalnoky's
efforts in behalf of Russia. - The Irish Land
war raging - Rumor that Sir Robert Hamil-
ton Is to be dismissed from Dublin Castle. -
The Coleridge-Adams case - German methods
of suicide - Death of the Rev. Henry Wilkes
at Montreal. - Relations between Church and
State IN France
DoMEsTIC.-Annual dinner of the Iroquos Club
in Chicago speeches by Speaker Carlisle, Senator
Beck and Others - Verdict in the Moen-Wil-
son case in favor of Moen. - United States
Dlstrict-Attorney Benton reinstated in Missouri by
the President - Two iremen killed and two
fatally injured in Baltimore. - The murderer
of General Augur found guilty in Washington.
National Baseball League and American Assoca-
ton in session in Chicago. - Heavy snow
storms In the West - coal famine threat
ened in Cleveland
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-Mrs. c. r. Agnew and
Miss Grace H. Dodge appointed on the Board OF
Education. - A jury obtained to try McQuade.
- Munkacsys picture on exhibition. &C
The law against coloring oleomargarine 10 be en-
forced - The Aldermen had a busy day. -
Beginning of Synod of the Roman Catholic Arch
diocese of New-York. - Testimony against the
new Tichborne claimant. - Annual sparring ex-
hibiton of the New-York Athletic Club. - The
captain of the Elder arrested. - An insane
mother in Jersey City crt her throat after trying
to kill her children. - Gold value of the legal
tender silver dollar 412la grans'--467sd. per
ounce-7S.O4 cents - Stocks active and
higher later declining under heavy realizing but
closing steady.
The Observation-Disclosures for to-day Rainy,
growing colder Temperatur yesterday: Highest,
81; lowest. 400: average. 5Olso.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18

risy thrown over the business by the appoint
ment of Bishop" Oberly AZ chief of the Com
mission, by the offensive partisanship circular,
by the political speechmakng of Cabinet
officials and the removal of subordinates for
doing the same thing by tho packing of nomi-
mating conventions by officials, the careful
blindness Of the President, and the perfunctory
appreciation of his course by conspicuous
professional reformers. This. at least, has
become clear, that whatever Is left of the
reform, after two years moro of sitting under
Presidential pretences aud nursing by the
Democratic party, will not seem worth saving
to anybody except Republicans. Whatever
force that issue may have in the future can
only 60 to help the Republican party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
PERSONAL

cnptain Henry Motcaf. Of tho West Point faculty.
Is presently to lecture on engnserng ana
at W H." correots in "The Boston POST mis-
apprehension as to Miss Frances Power Cobbes re-
liglous attitude. She has mover been Positivis''
nor found her God In collective humanity. but IL q
strong Dct and probably cOmos nearest 10 inc opin
ions OF Theodore Parker whose works she edited In
England.
Cayarro sixtocn years ago got eighty cents night
for singing In a music hall ct Madrid Now he has
made engagement to sing at the Opera fifty nights
for 10000.
Tho Hon. william RI. Englishs old bank OF In
dianapos long tho strongest institution In tho state
Will presently be closed 1t Is quite solvent put can
longer pay 25 per cent dividends as IL dld wnen
Mr. English at Its head. so the stockhoiders nave
decided to wind Its affairs and 90 out OF Dusne'S
Mr. @. W. Johnson. Of CROYDON Eng. is dead at the
age of eighty four He the author OF tho his
tory of Gardening and founder and with Dr. Hogg
co editor of "1he Journal Of HORTICULTURE"
Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson is the subject Of dainty
memorial pamphlet issued by Mr.. L. ID. Thayer, OF
Denver, Col. 1t confirms phototype pictures OF tne
dead author, her old homo at Colorado Sprlngs hor
grave In Pine Hill Forest. and Cheyenne Mountain.
The Emperor Of Austria has been in the habit Of
smoking twenty cigars day. and his doctors
tell him he must stop 1t altogether IL he wants to 20
rid OF tho facial neuralgia which Is making MS lie
miserable.
During his calls at the White House which no often
makes. Senator Edmunds studiously avoids mcntion-
ing any official or political topic.
Dr. Wilhelm Moewe. or Moewe Cable. whose death
is announced. OF the last few remaining lead
ers of the Frankfort Parliament OF 164S. when inc
rump of that body was removed in Stuttgart he acted
as its president until it dispersed by Prusslan
bayonets He was condemned to penal sorvltulo
for life. but escaped from tho country and zane &C.
New York, where hc practised medicine uhtli 1901
when the amnesty allowed him to return to Prussia
Senator Morrill, is in Washington, quito recovered
from his serious illness Of last summer.
Mr. Gladstone has a rent-roll and land income OF
$4,000 year. and is rerorted to hold several mill
ion dollars worth OF railroad shares.
Tho wife of Senator Mcpherson has gone to Wash
ington with health restored.
1t was recently announced that tho German EN-
peror had been out hunting the Forest OF lIessenha
and had killed nineteen deer and nine Wild pigs
This was true But it should bo explained that the
Emperor stood platform and fired at the saue as
it was driven PAST him along lanc ABOUT thirty
pacos distant.
WINCHESTER Va, Nov 17.-General sheridan ana oeh%
tor Don Cameron arrived here this morning. ana are
stopping at the Arlington House They came down me
valley on horseback, and left for washington thS
evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18

view Of the frequenv contributions 70 cw "Con'
science Fund" Tho latest contributor shows that
he possesses true grit, although he conccab his
name and privily turns over to the Tax Department
the amount that he kept back Conscience has
made an honest man Of him at last. His conduct
Is the more to be commended since he considers
this personal tax, which he got reduced by false
swearing, both unjust and pernicious.' He says
that he knows men who do O much larger business
than he and arc worth three or four times Is much
who do not pay cent Of personal tax. Tho con-
sciences Of such ought to prick them sharply when
they read tho accounts Of this payment OF $40
which had been held back for years. III all the
offenders in this respect should go and do like
wise tho special conscience" account which Con-
troller Loew is to keep would doubtless speedily
I'll moro than ono hugo volume
The official canvass gives S. V. White plu-
rality Of 1872 in the lid Congress District. And
yet Boss" McLaughlin's youthful organ docs not
cease to insist that Mr. White will not be allowed
10 take his seat. Nevertheless bulldozing will not
be permitted in Brooklyn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
VOMEN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

Mayor Grace will deserve the good wishes OF
the gentler sex if he ever again becomes q
candidate for municipal honOrs. Two Of the
seven School Commissioners appointed by him
are women. One of them Ia Miss Grace II.
Dodge, daughter of William Z. Dodge
and lady conspicuous for executive
ability, Christian zeal and sound judgment in
the conduct of numerous charitable enter
prises. The other is Mrs. Mary Nash Agnew,
who is equally we'll known in connection with
many of the most useful and successful he
nevolent agencies of the city. Each is a worthy
representative of her sex in this new sphere of
publc activity. The Board of Education will
be greatly STRENGTHENED by the presence of
these two Commissioners. We confidently
expect as the result Of these judicious appoint
ments that the number of women in this i'm
portant educational council will be steadily
recruited until the sexes are equally repre-
sented The public schools contain larger
proportion of girls than boys on the roll of
attendance. There is no reason why there
should not be as many women in the supreme
educational council to supervise the training
of the girls as there are men to look after the
interests of the boys.
There are many practical details connected
with the successful administration OF the
public schools which require not only womanly
instincts but also peculiar powers of discern
ment that are lacking in men. A sensible
woman's experience will be of the greatest
possible value and assistance in the determine
ton of educational questions. From the .pri-
mary departments, where children barely old
enough TO remember their names are systemat-
ically drilled in the rudiments to tue normal
school where the pressure Of Over-study and
artificial examining is often exerted at the
expense of health Of body and mind, there is
need of wise, vgilant and ceaseless supervi-
sion. There are hundred questions arising
every year before the School Commissioners
which women arc better qualified than men to
decide. The fact that the body of teachers is
recruited to a very large extent from their own
sex will give these two Commissioners COM
handing position among their associates. They
will be regarded by the rank and file of the
teaching brigade rs their personal representa-
tives and sympathetic leaders. The effect Of
their presence in Office can scarcely fail to be
salutary. We congratulate them heartily
upon the honor bestowed upon them, and are
pleased to commend the action of the Mayor as
timely and judiciOus.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

The revelations now being made in THE
SUNDAY TRIBUNE by Mrs. Helen Campbell
concerning the sufferings and wrongs endured
by the workngwomen of New York must
appeal to the public conscience, and should
move it to revolt against the conditions pass
i've acquiescence in which makes such misery
possible That two hundred thousand women
should be forced to seek their livelihood under
such stress of competition that daily submis-
sion to the basest chicanery is their only
alternat with starvation or shame is a fact
which Christian community can only ignore
by frankly renouncing the religious faith
which it processes. These two hundred
Thousand women are not concerned in any
intellectual or spiritual movements Their
condition precludes their participation in any
such agitation. They are absorbed in a sheer
struggle for life struggle in " hich blind
greed and public thoughtlessneSs are pitted
against the precarous fund of physical strength
they can bring to their incessant toll. The
political economists, who do not recognize
sympathy, humanity, self-abnegation, as
factors in social progress. drop the subject
when they have pointed out the normal effects
of a surplus population upon the labor markets,
and have demonstrated the coincident power Of
commercial rivalry in maintaining the low
prices which mean starvation wages. But hen
political economy has had its say the problem
is vet unsulved. Is there no other authority
under obligations to undertake the solutionf
If the community is to sit with folded hands
while these two hundred thousand. women
wear out their lives in hopeless and ceaseess
labor, 1t must be because the conclusion has
been reached, openly or tactly, that there is no
remedy for the evil. But that conclusion IN
wolves n serious revolution in thought. 1t is in
effect declaration of belief that Christianity
has no longer any message or mission for tho
world. The materiaistio doctrines which
modern economists teach Justify the attitude of
indifference to human misery. But Christianity
has been supposed to ltake Its stand upon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
.SO-C1I[EU REEORM.

Before the elections when it was desired to
impress the dear people with sense OF the
Presidents virtues, he removed an active Repub-
lcan of Pennsylv ania who, being an official, was
also an efficient speaker, and saw fit to use the
time that belonged to himself in advocating his
principles At the same time the President
removed Democrat of no particular influence
who had been doing the same thing in Missouri
State where Democratic speeches are about
the most superfluOus things conceivable. Then
professional refOrmers shouted hallelujahs to
the President for purifying the service, and for
treating both parties just alike.
The election being over, Senator Vest, of
Democratic official of that State, Benton, and
declared that any order prohibiting that official
from using his own time for the promotion of
good government according to his convictions
rs free citizen was unconstitutional. lie
threatened that, if this man was not restored,
the Senate should find out how many speeches
Postmaster General Villas and other officials
who had not been removed had made dur
ing the campaign. Now the President restores
Benton, and does not remove Villas or the
other officials. Especially he does not restore
the Republican from Pennsylvania who was
removed at the same time with Benton and
for the same offence So the cant of reform
goes on, and the country every day gets more
and more disguised.
The Presidents trouble began when he..was
pressed to help his party by the removal OF Re
publicans. The notion that tidewaiters. clerks
and cross roads pOstmasters can make public
opinion is about as serviceable in politics as
prehistoric stone axe would be in a Michigan
lumber camp it is a relic of that ancient night
in which there were no teegraphs, railroads or
newspapers. Because of that antiquated
notion Mr.. Cleveland has offended the mos.
sincere and intelligent Independents by remov-
ing about 5000 officials for partisan reasons
only-about one every five inmates for every
working hour since he was inaugurated.
Because of the same antiquated notion, his
party feels outraged because he has not cut OIL
twice as many official heads already, one Tor
every two OF three minutes. When he answers
that he has gone 50 fast already that great
many disreputable persons and jailbirds have
been appointed by mistake, he is told that
heavy Democratic losses have been the fruits
of attempting to buy the favor of Republicans
with half the offices. But his removals were
more sweeping and undisguisedy for partisan
reasons In Virginia and Indiana Than in any
other States and these prove to be the two
Democratic STATES which the Republicans have
now carried
If the President had been able to grasp the
idea that crossroads postmasters do not manu-
facture public opinion in modern times, he
might have helped his party more by genuine
fidelity to Civil Service Reform But that
cause must indeed bs strong if it survives the
odium of Wholesale removals and jailbird
appointments, and the air of cant and hypoc-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18

higher ground to Insist upon the duty OF
mutual help and mutual surrender to
incuIcate a loftier ethIc than proceeds from
Adam Smith, Ricardo or Mill. There was
time when the Church was the refuge and
protection of tho poor. Has that time gone by
foreveri This Is pertinent question, seeing
that the Church appears indisposed to tako up
the problem of the workingwOmen. Surely it
falls distinctly within the scope of Christian
duties to undertake this painful and pitiful
problem Surely il the Christian Churches
refuse to NEEDLE with the matter it will be idle
to expect that Mammon- worshippng Secuarity
will overcome the difficulty.
An occasional sermon on the question 10 OF
little use. The case is one for organized action.
Women are not free from responsibility In the
premises. The bargain counters heaped with
articles made by half starved or cheated women
are thronged daily by crowds OF matroDs and
girls who can well afford to pay more for all
they purchase; who assuredly cannot afford,
If they knew it, to contribute ever so little to
the maintenance of the misery out of which
these attractive bargains proceed. But, as
Hood sang, evil is wrought by want of thought,
more than by want OF heart; and it is here that
the power of the Churches could and should BIO
exerted in the interest of the sufferers. Women
can organize to put down the killing compe-
tition which is grinding the weakest and most
helpless Of their sisters into the earth. Some
what at least Of this hideous pervasive agony
Of toll they can relieve If they will. The
abuses which grow out of competition can he
put an end to by such work as the Women's
Protective Association is doing. But this Is
oh ho hrf ha chas
An opportunity is offered them to show
sceptical world that evangelical economy Is
something more than an abstraction, something
more closely related to human life than the
weekly deliverances of the pulpit. The time
is ripe for such demonstration. The Science
of Wealth has no remedies for the Sufferings
of Poverty. Let it not be said that the
Churches too recoil in impotent dismay before
a question which the Founder of their Faith
assuredly did not deem unansw cradle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
NmuSemeftf0.

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pettve Art Exhibition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18
MUNKACSfS PICTURE on VIEW
THE ARTIST INCREASING HIS vocABuLARy-wuA'

THE ARTIST INCREASING HIS vocABuLARY-wuAr
WAS SAID OF HE PAINTING.
NJ Munhacsy has been In the country two days
and during that time has hardly been further away
from tho Hoffman House than the Tabernacle In
Twenty -thId-st, where his masterpiece Ia being
exhibited. lilo Is not making rapid progress In the
United states language, he calls IT, but under tho
tutelaee OF Eugene Fsohhof his managers In laws
hos added the words "how do you do I" to his vocab-
ulary and yesterday greeted eli his callers with thas
query.
About 500 people saw the painting "Chrst Before Plata"
In tho Tabernacle the afternoon ct what was termed
Z" special Wow for nembss Of The pEuss." IAs We
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-18

The Preidents lett err resembling his order
suspending District Attorney Benton for per-
nicious activity in politics is a characteristic
document. Benton does not deny the charge
against him but he says that he arranged the
appointments for speeches so that he could
reach his office q once In each week." On this
slender excuse the President backs down
completely. OF course nothing except the
fear of the loss of the Missouri delegation in
the next Democratic National Convention
could have induced him to take such an undiG-
nifed tumble. AS if to make this more evident
he says that he saw printed list taken from
newspaper containing engagements made by
Benton to speak once and twice day during
long period, even when the United States
Court was in session, which seemed to him to
present case of fragrant, defiant neglect OF
official duty" and he adds. seven with the ex-
PLANTATION given your course appears to be
thoughtless and at least subject to criticism"
If it we're possible for any person to dlsobey
che Presidents order on his own showing Ben
ton did it. 1t is no wonder that there was
general laughter in Washington over the RI
diculous plight the President has put himself
in by this absurd letter.