The morning call., 1893-07-31
mates all the time. and may have avalled
himself of opportunities to invest MS
savings to good advantage.

uc oApoIilu0uG Oh d p6ALicoCA"SJs sum
as some literary dreamers projected, Il
about to be tried by number Of Austral-
ians in Paraguay. The Government has
given conditional grant OF half mil
lion acres at n distance of fourteen miles
from tho nearest railroad station; but
should the requisite number OF families
900 not form the colony the grant may be
revoked. This Utopia will fail, as all
others have done; but tho projectors have
resolved to keep lawyers aud land agents
out. and the scheme may linger Longer
than usual. No man can join hands with
less than $500. and ono has contributed
S2OOO. All property is TO be neld IN com.
mon,. women and men are declared OF
equal rights. and manager, who is re-
spoDslDie to popular vote. 10 70 grease
the wheels of government and regulate
the running. Unless it is self-centalned-
world In itselt-the conditions OF life and
progress cannot be oti0se. with $40 IAN
lies there must soon come time Tor N.Y.
ing, because the land can produce no more
after attaining an average fertility ana
the number Of human beings will so on
augmenting. So poverty and struggle Will
steal in upon bliss.
The bungled execution at Auburn is
now being discussed with a elasticity
which must have good results at such
ceremonies In future. 1t Is needless.
however. to exc out the agony with dismal
pictures OF the torture endured by mur-
derers. under sentence or awaiting trial,
at the thought of sitting in the lethal
chair. lapse into Inconsistencies, and
then an awaking with tingllDg pain In
every nerve. muscle and bone, to be re-
lieved by doctors prodding hypodermlc
assnagents into the flesh until another
dynamo battery is got in order. A very
large proportion OF murderers give them
selves little concern about an execution.
Only one in sixty passes from the Sheriff
TO the undortaker, but q somewhat larger
percentages take the thin-spun lifesiit by
Judge Lynch. The elsctric engineer
must get to work on apparatus that Will
not fail, and II he has carte blanche he
Will succeed. Ono failure does not war
rant en- agitation to repeal the slectrocu..
ton law. There have been numbers Of
failures in hanging. where there was
torture for minutes that must have seemed
as hours. Perhaps an ideal state OF So
ciety IS to dawn, when murders will be
considered vagaries and eccsntricities not
demanding the punishment Vt death. but
only reformatory kindness in jail.
Almost interesting anecdote of Charlotte
Corday has seen the light. apropos of the
centenary of Marxts execution. While
Charlotte was on her trial. she saw an
artist sketching her portrait. and she
turned her face round, SO as TO give him a
better view. After her condemnation she
gave him sitting in the prison. that he
might finish his work, and when he had
been thus engaged about two hours, tap
was heard on the door and the execution
ers entered. The victim turned pale, but
as self-p0ssessed, and she cut of 4 long
lock OF hair with scissors and gave it to
the artist, asking him at the same time to
send replica OF her portrait TO her fami-
ly. This was done. The artist was Ger
from his daUghter-in-law, who is still liv-
ing. The lock was afterward lost. The
portrait hangs at Versailles.
Lord Charles Beresford, no mean
authority on the art OF naval warfare, has
pronounced in favor Of the route by the
Cape OF Good Hope as the true one for
English trade during hostlities. He ad-
vises that in time OF war merchant vessels
should give up the use OF the English
Channel aud tAs Suez canal, and use the
western ports, coal at Sierra Leone, As
cension or some other point. ana then 90
round the cape. They could return by
the same route. and come round by tbs
north of Scotland. Certainly :his route
would he safer, il longer. he advocates
the building of moles at Gibraltar for coal
ing purposes. The SuSZ canal would soon
be blocked and rendered useless, in spits
Of all protests and obligations. A few
vessels sunk in the channel would eff
little operation could be repeated by any
shlp-owners.
The tug men must be just little put out
that they did not get salvage for towing
the Cedarbank into port. Captain Moody
played joke on them pretty we'll when no
appeared Indifferent about taking q
hawser aud would trust to tho western
breeze, but his coolnss, OF head did rot ex-
tend to mis- feet, the deck being so rot that
it would have made a bear dance. The
real situation was concealed by the
matches and tarpaulins. and the tug Vigi-
liant did the work OF towing for the trifls
OF $40. Now Captain Moody is radiant
and the tug man is moody.
Eastern papers are comforting farmers
with the assurance that they are tbs only
happy people at the present moment,
tradesmen. bankers, manufacturers and
even workmen being in serious concern
about money and business. II may DO so.
A farmer can at least cling to his home
stead. But he is worried about grass
hoppers, and the price Of wheat is as low
as the bears eau pay for. and when he
pays interest to the MORTGAGE he knows
what lot OF work it has cost him to cara
1t. But II there is balm in Gilead for the
farmer so much the better.
The intimate commercial relations be-
tween the United States and England
have been strongly emphasized by Mr..
Bryce. the author of "The American
Commonwealth" in reply to LORD
Salisbury. who had delivered himself Of
a philippe against home rule for Ireland
Mr.. Bryce affirns that the one country in
the world with which it behooves Great
Britain to be on good terms in case OF war
is the United States. and that she has far
more to gain by securing tho friendship Of
the Irish in America than by any other act
of International policy. The English. he
maintains, can make friends of the Irish
at home and abroad by policy of justice.
and they can gain nothing anywhere BY