New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-11

But tell you, Alec my own, the more thlhh Vi
IL the more firmly 1 am convinced that the WORST
Is not going to come to the worst, Dut that uhe
best is going to come to the best You don6
know ma, as 1 do. have perfect confidence IN
ma lust you watch ma. But, Alec, what light
through wonder window breaks ? Dear, dear
Alec. it's daylight. You must be going Ihere'
,bere-didn't you understand me to say 1t was
time YOU were going2 Look out for that dog OF
Bismarcks, and trust ma.
Exit Prince Alexander.
There are O great many quiet, old-fashoned
Democrats who think that the Administration has
no serious expectation that the Mills bill Will De
passed great pother will be made over III
for a time and then it will be dropped ms Will
enable Mr. Cleveland to say to the free-trade
Democrats that the Administration tried to meet
their views while, on the other hand, the pro-
lection Democrats will be quietly told that the
Mills bill was only introduced TO please the Tree
traders. without any intention OF passing IT, Ac-
cording to this view of the matter, which may
or may not be true, the President will go to the
St. Louis Convention with the support OF both
wings Of the party without having really done any
thing for either wing 1t is pretty scheme, but
the difficulty of riding two horses which are going
different ways is well known, and the President
is not agile enough for that sort Of thing.
The irrepressible Gillg, who has been hunting
notoriety these many years, seems to be bagglnG
good deal of it just now.
The movement to get women appointed on the
Brooklyn Board of Education has better chance
of success this year than it had in 1887 One
reason for this is that it has acquired momentum
because it has been longer in progress and another
is that its promoters have Mayor Chaplin, instead
of Mayor Whitney, to deal with. or course,
appointments Of members of the Board of Edu-
cation ought to be made without any political
considerations whatever. Unfortunately, they
are not always made in that way. Mr. Chaplin,
however is more likely to disregard politics
than was his predecessor and it is no more than
| fair that women should have direct voice IN
the management of the public schools. The eX-
perence Of New-York and other cities has shown
the practical advantages of appointing women
commissioners. Dr. StorrS is one of the many
influential citizens of Brooklyn who have in
terested themselves in this movement, and he will
preside at meeting to be held tonight in His
torical Hall to promote it. To the voice of
public opinion as there expressed Mayor Chaplin
should give heed
| General BOuangcr's election by great majority
| from the Department Of the Dordognc looks like
personal triumph, but is in reality victory for
| Radicalism. The popularity of the OpportunistS
is steadily declining and in the next general cleo
| ton their downfall will probably be decrecd
| The Radicals arc making use of General Boulanger
for their own purposes. They have their natural
| leader in NJ. Clemenccau, who is incomparably
the ablest man in French public life.
Mr. Matthew Arnold cSnccalIv commendS
people who see clear and think straight" 1t is
pity he does not always entitle himself to his
own commentator. Here, for instance is his
recent account of drol incident following his
| first visit to this country
"when 1 had gone back to England New.Y1rk
paper published criticism Of Chicago and its people,
purportng to have been contributed by me to The Pail
| Mall Gazette over here. 1t poor hoax. but
many people taken In and cxcusaby angry"
This is poor specimen of seeing clear The
alleged criticism of Chicago and its people did
not purport to have been contributed to The
| Pail Mall Gazette The Pail Mall Gazette
was not even mentioned. The article distinctly
| purported to be contributed to " The Pail Mall
Journal
| 1t did not purport TO be contributed by Mr.
Matthew Arnold, neither did it mention him.
| 1t was not a poor hoax. On the contrary, it
was so clever hoax that, in spite of these distinct
safeguards. Mr.. Matthew Arnold's appreciative
| friends in Chicago insisted upon Immediately de-
claring il bO be his.
The trouble about the name of Dakota is that
| both sections of the Territory want it for their
wheat North Dakota may not be a very pretty
name but If it helps the price of wheat the thrifty
farmer won't let that stand in his way
| Mr. Mansfield and his friends have the right
1 to feel aggrieved at the attempts to plag iarize
| " DR.. JelIyu and Mr. HYDE" for that is what the
limitations amount to. The audacious conception
| of putting the story upon the stage was Mr.
Mansields, and this alone was a stroke Of genius
| The plot which constructed as framework
was his; the labor, anxiety, and triumph were
| all his, and now crop of actors is appearing
who initiate his play, his business, everything
| probably, but his brilliant success and his scrup-
ulous honesty in giving share of the proceeds
to Mr.. Stevenson. This is unfair
| Sor1c one with a fantastic ina gination, who
had probably never spoken to Sluggsr Sullivan
| in his life, cabled to this city grotesque dis
| patch purporting to give Sullivans exact Ian
| guage in explanation OF his recent disastrous
| failure in the fight with Mitchell. Every one
who knows anything about the dethroned CHAM
pion of the prize ring knows perfectly well that
he is q coarse brute who cannot utter two gram
| NAUTICAL sentences in succession, who has no COM
mand Of English, and can only express himself
in the dialect which ornaments of the prize-ring
| generally use And yet this dispatch represents
| this ignoramus asserting that he is studying
tho institutions of the country" and that somc