The Washington critic., 1886-10-14

Judge Bond merely cites the decision
Of the Supreme Court of the United
States that the original contact be.
tween the State and the coupon holder
was something not to be impaired by
subsequent legislation, adding that he
cannot see how the State can refuse to
take It's own evidence OF debt Whether
the money represented by the coupon
is in the treasury or not is immaterinl
Judge Bond holds that 1t ought to be
there, If it is not just as much as
though ii were school money.
THE attention of the Humane SO.
cicty is invited 10 a new and dangerous
appliance for the lniliciion of cruelty,
known as the air gun. with which not
only the "small boy" but in some in.
stances boys, aud even girls, Of larger
growth amuse themselves by shooting
pet animals, with the usual result Of
cruelty manning them. The weapon
should be prohibited as u diaboIical
invention, and the little mi3crean,s
who use 1t about the streets and back
yards subjected to sharp discipline.
UNLESS something is done, and done
quickly, to prevent 1t, there will be q
lockout on Saturday by the knit.goods
manufacturers at Cohocs, N, Y, that
will involve not less than 10000 opara-
tives. Fifty.nin mill-owners are in
terested and the lock. out is based upon
n determination to sustain the manu-.
facturers Of Amsterdam, n. y. IN their
pending trouble with their employees.
This is gloomy prospect for the mid
die of October.
UNITED STATES TREASURER JORDAN
says that If Congress will authorize
the redemption of the trade dollars and
have them recoined into dimes, of
which there is great demand, the
Government will be large gamer By
the process. What the exact amount
of outstanding trade dollars is nobody
seems to know. Guosses range all the
way from $1,000, 600 to $4,000, 900.
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IT was fortunate, perhaps that the
pending labor troubles at Chicago oc.
Cured while the Knights were in Cen
eral Convention at Richmond. The
influence of that body had great weight
in preventing a serious outbreak, and
| the Knights of Labor are entitled to
distinguished credit for having rallied
so promptly and effectively on the side
Of peace and arbitration.
CHAIRMAN JONES of the National
Republican Committee gives it ont as
his opinion that Mr.. Blaine las no de.
sire to make another Presidential can
vass, and declined to serve on the Re
ception Committee at Piltsburg, lest 1t
might give the coming demonstration
| the appearance of boom. Mr.. Jones
may be a shrewd enough politicla but
as practical joker We fear he is not
much of success.
Mr.. WILLIAM f. CHANDLER of New
| Hampshire is out in letter to the New
York 13iJuaG to-day on the official
integrity Of the present National
Administration. 1t Is devoted mainly
TO an excoriation of Secretaries Bayard,
Whitney and Garland. The judgment
of the Administration will be that 1t is
Extensively partisan.
Mr.. WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT big
steam yacht Alva was launched at
Wilmington, Del, to-day. The cost
of this luxurious piece of property
was in the neighborhood of 5000, ,000
and there is no ocean voyage which she
is not well. equipped to make. The
speed of the Alva will be about fifteen
knots.
II will doubtless be n surprise to
many people that so renowned soldier
as General William r. Sherman never
received but one brevet This was
given him May 30, 1913, "for gallant
and meritorious services" in California
during the war with Mexico.
| A NONAiAbi O-NbNNA iiuhNo NiA 'ANJl-
lent suggestion in regard to street.
cleaning. The contract system ap.
pears to be failure. To have the
work well done it should be done by
the District Government direct.
|
MIR. HEWITT will make formal an.
nouncement TO morrow whether he
will or will not accept Tammanys
nomination for Mayor of New York.
1t is safe enough to announce to-day
that he will accept.
Two Ways of EOOking at IL.
81 don't see" observed Boggs as he
leaned back in his chair, "how any man OF
sense can be led TO embezzle $50, 900 ol
$lCO,O eco and skip the country. lie Is dis
Craced, his future ruined, and what good
can the money do him Y'
"You don't take the right view OF IT,
replied stcbbins.
"WbyY"
"The idea, my dear sir, Is to settle fol
half the sum stolen aud return home to be-
looked upon as u smart man and re- rejected
president OF rival institution. III Wal
Street News.
LOVE IN THE WORLD.
The olives, where we walk today
In the olive groves, are white and gray,
And underneath the shimmering trees
One almond bough Is family pink
And lilac blow the anemones.
In all the flowers, In all the leaves,
A fair and silent magic heayes;
a hint of some remembered bliss,
A rapture just beyond the brink
Of feeling, which we still must miss.
Perhaps when we are dead, my dear,
our phantoms still shall wander here,
And breathe In this Elyslan wood
CAS- others breathe for u.s. Think
A beauty dimly understood.
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