Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-24

the London season. Others take To
the Continent or fly to their own sum
mcr homes, with desire to escape the
first heat of the season aud the social
dulness of the town. The warm wealth.
er has hastened the exodus. In an
other month the exodus will have doub-
lei. Fashion will have shaken the
metropolitan dust from its feet. The
actors AMI managers will he abrOa I,
and the clergy and the artists will tie
on the wing. Everybody, as the say
ing is, will be out of town, and then
sets in the popular dclusiou which We
call 'the dead season, when the city
puts on airs of loneliness and tries to
convince itself that it is deserted.
This is very curious hallucinution.
Ten thousand people out of two mil
lion go away. None of the press
ing duties of life stop. Existence
does not lose its throb its
pressure or its anXieties. All
the necessary streams of life flow on
MS urgently and as riotously as before.
Labor does not relinquish its tools.
The steam whistles make their regular
calls. The currents of city traffic are
unbroken. Men, women and children
must he fed amused and buried.
Broadway may lose tint or feather.
There are not SO many flashing pan
els on the plaza, perhaps. But the Bow
cry, Grand street and the Eight ave-
nue. do not die ut the command of the
calendar
In short, city life, 1t will he found,
stands to its guns, let the season be
what II may. Love aud jealousy and
hunger and despair do not leave town.
Competition, rivalry, stress, are still
i'll their garrets or III their studios.
Misery turns up just the same in the
police court. Women will be
sold for TITLES and children abused
and men oppressed under the
dog star just as they were
sold and abused and oppressed under
the cold November skies. Aye, aud
some bells will ring on just the same
Some hearts will be just as glad, some
victories won in spite of the almanac,
and million quiet triumphs recorded
somewhere Of toiing fathers and pa
tlent mothers, sweating hopefully and
uncomplniningly through what the
filters call the dead season. The
heart OF the city never goes ont OF
town. There is no dead season for
toiling and eXultant life. The earnest
world has no frances obCdient TO
meteorology. Its destiny is to fight
on through all seasons, carrying the
torch Of unimpaired endeayor, ami
when it drops in the harness it passes
the torch on to the waiting progeny
Once more the need of thorough
reform of the jury system is made
manifest by the Mclaughlin case.
After legal proceedings extending over
many months jury, which it took
three weeks to draw, fails to find IL
verdict, and there is nothing for it
but a second trial, as tedious rs the
first, ana with no certainty of any
better outcome The first trial has
cost the County of New York $50, 900
or thereabonts, aud the second trial
will cost nearly as much more. SO
that. stated in business terms, it will
require 500, 900 to be Taken in taxation
from the pockets of the people of this
CITY in order to hear testimony that
only occupies twenty-four hours in
the taking, and to decide whether or
not it shows police inspector TO have
been guilty of bribery and cXtortion.
And there is no assurance that the
$50, 600 will suffice to secure a deter
mination of this exceedingly simple
issue Of fact. A third trial may be
needed, and it may cost the county
$50, 600 before a verdict is obtained.
If the Greater New York bill can he
passed without the referendum clause,
as Speaker Fish and Senator Lexow
say that it can, its supporters ought
not to surrender to the dickerers.
Honest opposition to the measure is
to be respected; provisions which pro-
tect the expression of the public will
are unobjectionable. But opposition
which merely counts on the chances of
something turning up inan interval of
of delay, and provisions which merely
seek to compel the repetition of a
twice.told tale, are not entitled to con-
sideration. The people of the Greater
New York have voted once on the
question of consolidation. Under the
pending measure they will practically
have to vote again in choosing MEM
bers of the legislature. There is
neither justice nor wisdom in calling
for an intermediates vote under the
guise of referendum. There is
no more reason for referendum
on this act than on any other enact
ment in the whole program of munich
pal legislation of the session.
Paris Figaro calls Johu Jacob As
tors book, Journeys in Other
Worlds" which has recently been
translated into French and published
by Hachette, impressive" and in
forms us that the author "belongs to
Harvard University and has taken an
active part in the scientific labors of
that assembly," We are also told
that the book has created perfect fu-
rore in America, and lastly, that "the
ancestor Of Mr.. Astor, founder of the
city of Astoria, on the Pacific, contrib
uted greatly to public education in the
United States by creating a celebrN'
ted library, to which he left at his
death gift of two million francs. y
What strange bits of information one
gets from French newspapers
The proposed reorganization of the