Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-03

In Washington.
New York 0fsce; Room g. Tribune Baildins
Although Washington shows q degree Of goot
sense above that Of some Of her sister cities IN
postponing the opening Of her schools until
the hot season is pretty certainly over. the
work of the term may be said to have begun,
after q fashion, already The teachers are
turning their thoughts in the direction OF
preparations for the campaign that will absorb
all their time and attention for another nine
months. The pupils arc struggling horne
from the mountains and seashore, taking from
the shelves their states and papers, their
biographies and grammars, and wiping OF the
dust which summers ideness has allowed to
collect on them. The first Of September is in
some respects a more appropriate time for the
forming of good resolutions by the young
people than the first OF January. It is q suit
able time, also, for parents to take their turn
at determination and discipline. How many
can honestly say that they have worked with
and for their children as they ought? To throw
the entire responsibility of a childs training on
its hired teacher is q poor practice. 1t il un-
Just to both child and teacher. The child can
not work to the best advantage if it does not
feel the eye Of the parent on it; the teacher
cannot hope to make the child do its full duty
if the adult Oversight. maintained for i've or
six hours day in school is dropped like .
burdensome cloak as soon as the pupil passes
out Of the school building in the afternoon.
King Malietoa has come back to his kingdom.
but not to his throne. His exile has told so
seriously upon his health that he has not the
strength to take up again the reins Of gov
eminent, and Matsafa will therefore continue
In command for a season longer. There must
be great satisfaction to Germany in q review Of
the work she has done within q year at Samoa.
She has taken away q monarch who was beloved
Of his people, and whose only offence, a. far a.
can be learned, was desire to reign a. king,
instead Of as assistant to Q German consul.
She has suffered q heavy loss in human
life and property through . hurricane, and
been Inundated by the generous treatment
offered her by the supporters Of the monarch
she had wronged. who might, had they 90
willed, have avenged him terribly. She has
been shamed into submitting her claims to q
peaceful international conference from which,
If reports be true, she has emerged not exactly
with flying colors. She has finally carried back
the exiled sovereign, broken in spirit and health
pathetic monument Of the tyranny exercised
by a strong power over feeble one for pur-
poses of self-aggrandizement alone.
The death of Darwin A. Henry, New York
electrical expert. by shock from live wire
in the works of the electric Light company
which employed him, will carry more weight
in the minds Of the people than all the testi-
mony drawn forth at the Kemmler inquiry.
1t is stated that the fatal current was of one
hon zorNA lNz1
ever, Of any Disagreement Of the victims body.
and what is known of the incident indicates
that death came instantaneously There ia dan
ger now that murder may go unpublished in New
York state for a twelvemonth or so. The law
which establishes electrocution as the form of
executing the death penalty contains a sweep
Ing clause doing away with every other form.
The legislature will not meet again till next
January. and the work Of remodeling the
statute will take some time; meanwhile every
murderer whose offence was committed on or
after the LIST of January, 1889, will il he can
escape death by electricity, go unhurt for lack
Of a law with which to put him out Of the
world. There have recently been some homi-
cides Of uncommon brutality in New York, and
the public is in no mood to permit the murder
ers to go UNPUBLISHED, merely to prevent an
alleged danger to the responsibility, social
standing and morals Of electricity, or merely
because it may be decided that the electric
shock at the moment when it is fatal hurts
more than the public had supposed.
There is no place like home," played the
band as the Washington Light infantry marched
into Its armory last evening amid shower Of
aerial fireworks and in the glare Of colored
lights. The city was glad to welcome her
soldier boys back, and they seemed quite as
well pleased to get here.
Itwould be, perhaps, misleading to saw that
the bob-tall car has disappeared entirely
from the street railways of New York; but
though the substance Of the bob-tail remains
to ve1 the eye, its worst feature has ceased to
trouble the spirit The cars on some lines are
as short as ever and minus a rear platform. but
they have taken on conductors under the ordi-
nance enacted by the city fathers last June
making that reform compulsory after the LIST
OF September. The drivers function hence
forth Is to drive, and it will be for the con-
ductor to run the door, collect fares, answer
questions, hail passengers and help the ladies
aboard. By combining his attention to bis own
dusles, the driver will be spared the pain, and
his employers the expense, Of killing and
manning SO many worthy people. Other
cities may well initiate the example Of New
York. Here in Washington all the roads,
together with the city, are fast outgrowing the
bob-tail stage Of development and the improve
nent OF equipment must be required to KEEN
pace with the increase Of density Of settlepr emit
along the bob-taii lines and Of the earnines
Of these companies
Don't fail TO have an opera glass or other
magnifer ready to take . view Of the occulta.
ton Of the planet Jupiter by the moon this
evening. The planet will be hidden wholly or
partially from about $40 until 80, and il the
sky be clear his disappearance and emergence
VII constitute sight well worth seeing. and
one likely to be remembered.
Labor day" passed here without especial
celebration In other leading cities it was OBJ
served by professions, picnics, and similar
festive entertainments. The idea of brineinp
the workingmen Of various neighborhoods to-
gether once year for some other purpose than
work Is happy one. 1t is true, there il no
capital day." distinctly so designated; but in
the judgment Of most workin9mep Identifies