Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-28

dead Senator by a good deal
Mr.. Holman was addressing thousands Of
packages OF seeds to farmers with his own
hand, not being able to have it done, and 1
thoughtfully shortened nv interview in order
10 give INN chance to start his mitrailleuse
| again and fire benefcent volleys of beans peas
patent potatoes and superior rutabaga turnips
into this oucolc post. W. A. CRoFFUT.
NEW YORK NOTES.
The Eject Of the Epidemic Grip in the Me-
tropolis.
| INACTIVITY OF THE EASTER TRApE-BRoADwAY
AND ITS TORN Up ooNDIrIoN-AYoUNa MILLION
ARE AND HIS PRoFLIaAcY-THE CIGARETTE
FIEND.
special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
New YORK, March 26, 1891.
A PLEASANT TALE OF NEWSPAPER
"A life is to the effect that managing editor
sent note to the paragrapher directing him
to supply few choice jests on the grip. to
which the answer came from the funny man,
Il can't, I've got it." For this same reason
l am in mood to treat this new tramp-dis-
temper very seriously. 1t is indeed serious
thing, and the young lady who hanged herself
on account Of it the other day out west arouses
the same sort Of admiration among her less
spunky feuow-sufferers that the bold bad
traveller who just missed the train excited in a
lady traveller in the same plight, but less
| courageous in the use of swear words The
lady who hanged expresses our sentiments and
gains our thanks, though we haven't the nerve
| to follow her example.
The one infallible penacea for seasickness is
''the shade Of tree" But the grip reveals
the awful truth that one may now be seasick
| on land, for that, as near as my experience
goes, is what the new ailment means. And
imagine prudent individual who hasn't ever
| let loose his desires for travel because of a
horror OF seasickness all at once finding him.
self utterly nauseated, blind with headache
shivering and burning, quite willing to 60 to
bed with his boots on and with no real wish for
ANYTHING except simply to turn over and die.
The board OF health have officially declared
| the disease epidemic, but few need tho authori-
tatlve announcement, as the thinned ranks of
church, shop and theater crowds tell the story
with striking force. More than one-half of the
| editorial staff Of my own paper are hors de
combat. and the rest are nervously waiting their
turn to be hit. However. it might be worse: it
isn't the cholera. remember. speaking of get
ting bit, how, once in q cholera year in the east
the invisible bolts used to fly like the veritabe
| arrows OF death. / recall one strong. ell-look-
| ing woman who suddenly sprang right up in
the air with scream, like q wounded fawn. and
fell back on the floor in q fatal collapse.
COME TO HUsKs.
The parable. Of the prodigal son has local
setting in the career Of a young man who
landed here on Tuesday. Six years ago, when
| he was seventeen years Of age this youth in
herited fortune from his parents Of 1000, :
O0O. He succeeded in running through il SO
| thoroughly that he has come to this far country
without q cent of money for bread and with his
pride so humbled that he says he would not re-
| Ject an oher OF place as dishwasher in a
restaurant. For q time his money went yery
fast. He bought yacht, followed the races
and speculated in cotton. He is now home
| less vagrant and pauper, and is likely to re-
main 80. He hasn't even father to welcome
him back and provide the reconciling veal
THE WORN TURNS.
You doubtless remember the strong delega-
| ton that went on to Washington last winter,
representing the various lines Of trade in this
| city that were opposed to the Mckinley bill
A somewhat similar demonstration was made
this week at Albany against o bill which
proposes to tax the stock of the business man
whether he owns 1t or not, and which demands
| the exhibit of his account books, together with
other inquisitorial and oppressive features.
The mercantile community has become yery
much aroused on this subject, and Tuesday a
humping delegation went up to ALBANY in q
special train and made vigorous protest in the
| committee rooms there. The bill is probably
| on the grave, and probably the soil is battened
down SO hard that there will now be no resur-
rection. The New York laws are hard enough
| now on business as may be seen by the fire.
4uency with which corporations emigrate to
New Jersey and Connecticut where they are
offered an asylum against the local tax gath
erer.
AGAIN THE SPADE ON BROADWAY.
Poor Broadway! 1t reminds one of the
slough Of despond. into which millions of loads
Of good intentions were dumped but which
still was incorrigibly in need OF new repairs.
and in spite of the most determined labors
never got any better: 1t was only few months
| ago that the whole street was turned up to the
| infnitive interruption Of business and literally
to the loss OF millions of dollars to the business
OF the city. but now up come,the stones again,
not in the shape OF riot, though mob might
not be more destructive to the city than one of
these epochs of improvement. The roadbed is
| ruined this time to prepare q way for the cable
| road and incidentally. Of course for another
repaving. 1t is strange that the busiest
thoroughfare ON the continent cannot be
| treated more handsomely than this.
AN UNPRoFIrABLE LENT.
What's the matter with trade this Eastertide?
The retailers are croaking worse than the
spring frogs. And the shoppers say they never
saw the big stores SO empty. The milliners de-
clare that even they are dull and that appar-
entity means there are to be no Easter bonnets
Allowing Tor degree OF cant in all such talk il
| is undeniably true that the ladies' have passed
| . very sparing March. 1t can scarcely come
| from sudden distaste for worldly varieties.
and it's hardly fair to charge it to the bad
weather or Maj. Mckinley. No one cause per.
haps is responsible beyond all others, but the
/ fact remains that the Easter trade has been a
failure. For all that, however, people are
looking forward with keen anticipation to the
| fashion pageant on Fifth Avenue next Sunday.
The spring then opens. There is really q
| double event. Barnums circus parades We'd
nesdsy and the -Four Hundred on Sunday.
Then the base ball heroes begin to root in tie
mud, the peach buds freeze. the noise of the
crunching radish 10 heard in the land. the
young mans fancy takes another turn and the
| sage editor. on some day . little more bleak
than its neighbors, quotes with gusto from
Goldsmith that winter lingering chills the lap
Of May"-quotes, but generally with q lofty
disdain for . slavish subserviency to the exact
text
Wasthers ever worse case Of cigarettes than
that Of young Hugh C. Miller Of. Brooklyn, the
hre-bug2 He has confessed TO setting fire TO sew
eral tenements, Just for fun, and nov thinks Il
must have been the forty grains Of ouinine he
bad taken that unclaimed the fre-aend in him.
But ~ he was . confirmed cigarette 6end NO
other explanation il necessary. The wretch
has set up defense Of insanity, and very likely
he II crazy. But the state provides strong ire
proof AAts for lust that kind of insane peopla.