The morning call., 1893-08-25

uoGeucldTY. Inc story is not aDSOluIcly
| impossible. AS there is million in the
cashbox. variouslv accumulated in San
FRANCISCO. Philadelphia and New I 0rk.
most or relatives IS certain to spriDB out OF
the ground, accompanied by lawyers.
glOatlng over the prospect. The mlliOn Is
a good SNOWFALL TO melt away lu the
courts and the laborer may long oe Kept
waiting for his own. Should the fortune
come to him suddenly he is in danger of
being rendered positively unhappy In
stead OF thinking about his Work, eating
MS dinner and enjoying sound sleep such
as lew have who are plunged In care, ne
VIII have unceasing wOrries about his pos
SESSIONS and become f1accid from want OF
exercise.
The case OF suicide at the Grand Hotel
in San Francisco is peculiarly sad. 1t will
carry sorrow into two families. substantial
in their circumstances, and excite vain re-
grets that relief was not afforded high
spirited and possibly hayward young man
In his embarrassment. Some wretched,
purse-proud pique about the marriage is
evidently a principal explanation If the
mystery. No one can doubt from the let
tiers left by Parker that he was sensitive
ana OF high culture, and that whatever
relatives thought of his marriage be was
deVotedly attached TO his wife and happy
to have the prospect cf going through
parting with her. leaving her here destl-
tute and going East under arrest Tor some
money trouble, possibly susceptlb BILE OF
honest solution, drove him TO take his He.
IL Is true that by blowing his brains out
he did not better his wfe's position OF
friendlessness and want, but he had the
notlon that fortune may smile on her once
more. The price of railroad ticket would
nave arrested his hand. For want Of
little money he dashed off a few affection
ate letters and said good-by the world.
Withdrawals of money from Europe for
America. and the general scramble for
gold now going on, are driving the Bank
OF England's discount rate up. Ii Is now
PER cent. and the bank will not hesitate
to nut it higher if il thinks there is neces-
slty Tor II. All customers can have gold
when they want it, and the bank does not
resort 10 payments In silver. as does the
Bank Of France, to check The outflow. 1t
IS now becoming England's turn to feel
the tightness of money in Ombination with
very languid condition OF trade.
The attendance at the Chicago fair is
getting near the figures which would have
enabled the management to pay everybody
and apply surplus IN some useful pur-
pose. There were over $50, 600 visitors in
jackson Park on Wednesday in add ition
TO the army Of deadheads. They NAV be
considered to a great extent the fruit Of re-
ductOns in fares by the leading railroads.
The companies receive less per individual.
put more I'D the aggregate.
The very clever thief who says he stole
the GainSboruugh portrait of the Duchess
OF DevOnshlre is reported to have had the
notion of daubing the work over with
some other subject and then pretending to
discover the treasure beneath. He might
have succeeded, too, could he have trusted
the artist he employed. 1t would have
taken him few years of hard industry to
paint figure well enough himself to pass
muster But he still would have had 20
surrender the Duchess. the picture being
too well known TO be salab anywhere
as Gains borough al a high price, and in
any other guise it might not fetch more
than an ordinary pOtbOiler. The discovery
OF old masters beneath daubS-CoIregiOs
Leonard0s ana Rem bTandts-has been car
ried TO high pitch of perfection, and
many there ne who are caught on their
own indisputable connoisseurshir.
While the Navahoe was at Cowes n row
occurred between guest and one of the
crew, an American, who is described as
the smartest of his watch. The guest
struck the seaman in the face. There
seems to have been almost mutinv in
consequence OF the insult. Ultimately the
gentleman" rather than have proceed
ings in the courts, paid the man six
months wages, $3.50, and his passage to
America. little of this spirit on board
merchant vessels when captains and mates
are tyrants would be wholesome. but there
are, unfortunately, very few Americans
before the mast.
The French in Siam ar nibbling little
more than the late settlement warranted,
but that is not out of the way in the deal
lngs OF European nations with Asia. At
all events the English are not in a position
TO com plain, seeing how much territory
they have mapped with a red border
England is now said to be anxious to bring
emma in as buffer state both betw cen
herself and France aud herself and Russia.
But II constituted ths buffer viii! very
likely rot away or be mined and pierced.
Fifty Japanese have been returned to
the Sound as ineligible to land in this
country owing TO being under contract TO
work. Their fate is well deserved and
they are no doubt pensive about the oper-
alton OF law which would admit them il
they bad no Work but banIshes them when
they have. AS they had ali a little money,
they may return, but their room Is better
than their company. Not one of the fifty
could speak English. 1t is a pity that
those who engage such men cannot be got
at. 1t is they who tempt such laborers to
come here.
The anarchists OF New York have had a
touch OF the majesty of the law as repre-
sented by the police. A bold person who
threatened to serve the guardians OF order
as they were dealt with at Chicago did
not stand on the ceremony of his goin
when the police raised their clubs, but
went. The hall OF the defiant was empty
IN liffey. Such methods among the dis
tressed 10 not succeed in exciting SYM
pathy and they fail TO beat down consti-
tuted authority. There is sympathy and
bread. too, for all in this country if the un-
employed gu the right away about it, Chi
cago and Fresno are dealing with destitu-
ton in manner to be approved by pro-
vldlng food and endeavoring to supply