New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-12

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Rut the farmers who might have acted on the
nuhlished instructions under o contrary BELIEF
will derive cold comfort from the information.
Their inquiries into the influence Of outside
sneculatorso with the organization should lead to
some instructive disclosures. II it appears that
tn. managers of distinctly political body are
trading on the Changers supposed grievances to
their real jeopardy there ought to be no difficulty
about predicting its demise
Bishop Perry, Of Iowa, against whom q charge
Of wholesale plagiarism was made recently
bv a correspondent of The Tribune, denies the
charge in The Davenport Ia) Democrat He
saws he expressly disavowed any claim of origi-
naIlty in the preface to his book, and that in the
special instances sdduced by the correspondent
particular acknowledgment was inadvertently
omitted. The subject matter of the book was
originally delivered in the form Of lectures. and
was not published In book form until ten years
later, and In revising the copy" for the book.
the bishop did not have the opportunity to compare
il with the original Ms, and therefore was not
responsible for it's appearance Since then he has
had no opportunity to revise or correct it. Every
one will be disposed to accept the explanation
such as it is, of the distinguished psslate But
even he must acknowledge that it still leaves him
In an unfortunate position. He appears as the
victim of circumstances over which he had con-
troll No man should allow publisher or proof
reader to put him in position which VIII ex-
pose him, even though innocent, to charge OF
wholesale plagiarism. BY the way, we notice
that "The Living Church." Of Chicago, refers to
those who have brought up this question OF al
legged plagiarism as "lewd fellows of the baser
sort" In a swashbuckling Western frontier Jour
nal, such q method OF meeting grave charge
supported by strong primo facie evidence would
he regarded as blackguardism, and we do not know
that its adoption by religious journal at all
changes its character.
II ignorance be bliss tits folly to knew any more
than do those ever-curious persons that talk 50
glibly of no commerce, navy, coast defence, ana
so on. The first and best method of defence, Tor
men and nations, is to attack your enemy before
he gets ready to strike you. How TO do this with
out navy is something not yet discovered
While New-Yorlt has been struggling inef-
fectvey for years to get its wires put underground
it is in the highest degree gratifying to find that
another city has succeeded in accomplishing that
desirable result without any great pother bos-
ton is the city which has had this env1able ex-
perience AS "The Journal puts IL, 1t has been
done by the companies using wires voluntarily,
without any fuss and practically without the
knowledge of nine-tenths of the citizens. IL
seems that the companies were led to do thls
partly for convenience, partly because they
would have to come TO il sooner or later ana so
wished to be prepared, and partly i'll obedience TO
public sentiment" The people OF Boston are
certainly TO be congratulated on this result; and
the people of New-York can only mourn that pub
lie sentiment and the spirit of the electric COM
panies In this city are different from what
they are 200 miles to the east. At the same
time we are better of in one respect than Bos-
ton is In the matter Of wires. Boston Is afflicted
with the intolerable trolley system In an ag-
graveted form,
Sixty vacancies at West Point Now Is the
bright boys chance for q cadetehip. Such state
OF things has not existed since the MILITARY
Academy got going, say for seventy years, ana q
curious commentary it is upon the belief, popular
in some quarters, that the young men Of the rising
generation are to find every avenue closed to
them.
II Is gratifying to be assured in positive man
reality died from organic disease, and that the
nbvsicians examination disclosed evidence what
ever that an electric current had passed through
him, None the less is 1t an alarming fact that
the dangers of electricity are almost everywhere
nresent in the city The number OF accidents,
fatal and otherwise has been for some time smaller
than IL was few months ago, and 1t Is TO he hoped
that this Is the result of greater care than was
formerly exercised by the companies. In part,
though it must be attributed to the greater eau
ton displayed by people generally as result Of
the numerous warnings they have received.
At such times as these 1t is interesting to note
how differently vegetation and animal lie are
affected by humidity, or the lack OF IT, In CON-
bination with heat. Dry air is blessing 10 man
and beast during these bursts Of torrid weather.
When wet bulb thermometer reads 20 or 80 de-
qrees below the dry bulb--in Northern lndla IL
| roads 40 or AZ below sometimes-a shade tempera-
tnre of 90 or 10 is really endurable; ana the
NIGHTS which follow such days are apt to be cool
and refreshing. But high humidity, by preventing
evaporation from the skin, makes an even lower
degree of heat intolerable, and night then brings
little or no relief On the other hand. the sap
which carries life up through the slender stems and
thin leaves of grain and other plants is often alb
sorbed by the dry g hot winds" OF the West ana
Northwest so much more rapidly than 1t can be
replaced from the soil that crops perish almost as
by prairie fire; but when plenty Of moisture at
tends the heat vegetation ourishes like side shows
ut q county fair Next to having the air well
soaked with moisture, however, the crops want to
have the ground well watered and this latter is
inst now the situation over pretty much the whole
country.
Personal.
Kate Field who has made Washington her home for
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