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The sun., 1895-02-08

IL is called in legal phraseology, the duty de.
wolves upon that Judge who is assigned for
service in Part I. TO charge the Grand Jury,
instructing its members in the law and in
their powers and duties. The Grand Jury
is composed Of laymen, not lawyers, and II
Is incumbent upon them to accept as bind
ing the Interpretation Of the law as given
from the bench Mt the beginning Of each
term. SO long as the several Judges take
turns in Part I. there is no damage,
but the RoBERTsoN bill seeks to make
Corr the permanent presiding Judge in
Part l., and thus the sole legal guide and
instructor, in matters OF law, OF the Grand
Jury, which has primary Jurisdiction over
all criminal cases.
To intrust this power, arbitrarily and ir-
revocably, to ono man, making him, in fact.
superior to and independent of the other
Judges Of the General Sessions Court, is a
proposition 30 monstrous and a danger to
justice and freedom so insdious that it
ought to be stamped out at once.
The extra salary for GoFF, indefensible
though his grab for $4,000 instead OF
$14, 900 is, seems of little account when
compared with his lawless grab for despotic
power in a court in which he Is now in his
fifth week of service.
The sun., 1895-02-08

Army Corps; that much the Pldttdeutsche
Post tells u.s. Everything else is con jectural
Coming 10 the United States, DAMsRN es-
chewed war for the triumphs Of peace and
became notary public on Avenue A. lie
forswore allegiance to the Kaiser WILHELM
and became member OF the German-Ame
lean Reform Union. He put aside the habili-
ments OF the warrior and associated himself
with BLUMER, the ScHwABs, FRIEDMAN and
FIEDLER, and CHARLEY MCLEAN to reform
New York at SEQ, 900 year rs Sheriff But
he did not forget his Hanseatic comrade In
arms, IKE GOODMAN, who runs the Plat
deutsche Post, as RIDDER runs the Stddts-
Zcttung. The politicians say that it
was Comrade GOODMAN who secured for
DAMsEN HENRY LfNDEMYER, the most re-
sponsible OF his four sureties and in con-
sideration Of this, DAMsEN appointed, on
GooDMAN's application TO R1DDER, VICTOR
HEMBERGER as deputy sheriff at salary
Of $4,000, paid by the people Of the city Of
New York.
However that may be, THE SUN would not
pluck laurel from the brow, or clip hair
from the whiskers, of DAMsEN. His defence
to the charge Of scandalous incompetency
is his martial service and 1t Is easy, nothing
easier, to suppose that he made a better
soldier than he is making Sheriff But
how about his subordinates of the Sheriff's
Hanseatic Leag1ieP Was BLUMER, await
ing trial for forgery, color bearer in the
Hanse infantry Was FIEDLER, from whom
prisoner escaped, corporal' In what
Hanseatic regiment did RIDDER enlist Was
KLEINAU, the auctioneer, a soldier with
DAMsEN; was ScHwAB; was FRIEDMAN;
was HENNNe; was LAUBi
From what Hanseatic company or regi- |
ment did SEBASTIAN BENKLER hail, the |
Barrow street cobbler who has been re-
turning as mot found men summoned |
for jury dutyf The case of BENKLER is |
worthy Of some attention. He is a shoe
maker, and DAMsEN, who has probably
never heard the old adage which admonshes
the cobbler to stick to his last, selected
SEBASTIAN as a server Of jury notice process.
The days Of itinerant cobblers are at an end
in this town cobblers work in their shops,
and SEBASTIAN appears to have waited for
jurymen to present themselves in order that
he might summon them. Failing in this,
he returned the names of these jurymen rs
" not found" striking. therefore, with his
awl, 30 to speak, at the very heart of law and
justice, trial by jury.
We say to the Pldttdetttsche Post, in all
frankness and fairness, that the record Of
DAMsEN's military service in Schleswig and
elsewhere is no defence for BLUMER, FED
LER, or BENKLER, and we doubt very much
whether 1t can be urged in mitigation of
LIEBow, SCHoEN, HARTNAGEL, BERINa,
BEHRE, HAEKELING, FELDHAMMER, BECKER,
RAABE, RIDDER, WILDE
SAUER, or AMEND, the bond adjuster, fee
and all-round reformer, until re-
,ently candidate for County Clerk on the
Hanseatic ticket.
The sun., 1895-02-08
Gold Bonds from New York.

Gold is the money OF the commercial
world 1t has been the monetary standard
OF this country for sixty years. The threat
OF another standard, in the judgment of
the financial masters of New York's city
Government, has made it desirable that
this fact should be announced and fortified
with the declaration that when New York
borrOws money she will repay in the same
measure that she borrows.
Comptroller FITCHs scheme 10 meet the
rising rate of interest and keep it at the low
point where it has been for years past, with
the specific pledge to pay back in gold, as
business proposition is as sound as the metal
he proposes 10 deal in,
The sun., 1895-02-08
Touching the Bottom OF II.

A remark contained in a letter from JOHN
GALLAHER Of Boston, is so timely and to the
point that in order to give It more distinct
prominence we will consider 1t here. 1t was
written after the prolonged period Of riot
and its indecent encouragement from with
out by various agencies, had been capped by
Judge GAYNoR's extraordinary letter to that
"legalized humbug," as Mr.. GALLAHER puts
It, the State Board Of Mediation and Arbi-
tration. Mr. GALLAHER thus concludes:
when we nnd Aldermen, Police Commissioner. .
Mayor editors and Supreme Court Judges egging ig.
norant 10 commit rapine and murder, how long
will It be before the liberty that took ancestors
Thousands of years to gain shall be ~ dead as
drowned oatT
Is there boy out Of the primary schools Of
this country who can't appreciate the
weight Of Mr.. GALLAHER's question:
The sun., 1895-02-08

With the recurrence Of cold weather in
February, comes revival of police raids,
and the wonder is that the perpetual re-
schemes. have not given any attention to q
salutary reform Of this matter.
1t is violation of law, an offence against
the Penal Code, for a person to maintain
what is called "disorderly" house, or one
devoted to gambling or opium smoking.
The offender should be apprehended by q
warrant, and the service of such a warrant
Is never resisted. In fact. the defendant
usually has no motive for escaping.
Instead. however, of the arrest of the de-
nnquent in an orderly manner, as a robber,
forger, or intoxicated person is arrested,
platoon of policemen make what is called
a descent. They seize hold of every one in
sight and some persons out of sight. A
number of individuals guilty of no legal
offence are taken on a winters night
through the streets to Jail. They are in
carcerated. and the next morning, on being
arraigned in court, all are honorably dis
charged. Next night another such farce is
gone through with, and so 1t continues to the
injury Of justice, and as an agency for op-
preston and blackmail.
The law allows an arrest only where there
is probable cause" for believing that the
arrested person has committed. or is about
to commit. crime. The arrest of person
who has committed no crime, and is in
fact not accused Of committing crime, for
the purpose simply Of having him dis
charged next morning, is in itself vio-
lation of law.
The sun., 1895-02-08

From the Washington Post.


A company of gentlemen assembled in an up
town hotel last evening fell to relating poker
stories. and several of rare excellence. even II
not Of the latest vintage. were recounted.
The late Jim Wintersmth," said one of the
party unWittingly told the very best poker
yarn ever listened to. He was the hero OF his
own story, and laid the scene at Hot Springs.
Ark. According to Mr.. Wintersmith, ne had
experienced extremely bad luck in n series of
plays, and made up his mind to try one more
sitting. after which, IL he failed to recoup, he
would never more touch a card. Likewise II he
won out enough to get even he would cease the
He weighed in. so to speak. and there was a
good big jack pot opened while the game was
still young. Wintersmith observed that his
own hand contained n straight flush of the kind
dubbed royal, as it ran from the ten spot up to
the ace. He raised, Of course, both before and
after the draw. only one man staying with him
to the end aud having the pluck to call him or
course, ne won tremendous sum OF money.
He vowed that since then he had never had the
slightest inclination to sit in game OF poker.
w hen MIR. Wintersmith had ended his story
here one of the group to whom he was nnrrating
fellow hold =
Four jacks replied Wintersmith. Then
everybody broke into n laugh, and the gentle
man from Kentucky had to own up that he had
INDUCED In romance"
The sun., 1895-02-08
His Credentials Were Good,
From the Kansas CITY Times.

LEAvENwoRTH. Kan. Jan. lS.-Edward B.
Milliken. until recently City Clerk of Guthrie,
Oklahoma. arrived mt the Kansas penitentiary
at Lansing to-day under sentence of two years
for emhezzling city funds while in office. He
came alone. and had his admission ticket in his
vest pocket. Arriving at the penitentiary lie
applied to the Warden for admission, and upon
his showing his credentials the Warden was
thunderstruck.
Milliken says he and the Guthrie Sheriff are
old friends. and the Sheriff trusted him 10 con-
vey himself to the pcnitentiary, IL being a saw
ing TO the sheriff of the expense of a trip from
Guthrie. Milliken was sent up by the United
states court, and tomorrow begins serving the
two years sentence.
The sun., 1895-02-08

abundance Of capital and Of labor, can get -
many skilled operatives from the North as may
be needed. can manufacture the finer grades Of
goods, and can market both the coarse and the
fine grades more cheaply than they can be
marketed from New England. Some Of the
Northern mill owners who had established
branches In the Csrollnas and Georgia, are
transferring their plants to these States because
Of the superior facilities obtalnsble there.
The truth is that the change, which began in
a small way few years ago. has steadily in
creased in magnitude, and has become matter
OF gravity moro especially fo- Massachusetts,
and Connecticut. II Is folly TO try any longer
to belittle that change
The sun., 1895-02-08

It would be misfortune for the world II
the French people were to disappear from it.
We have heard for q good while Of the small
birth rate in Francs, under which the births
per year were less numerous than the deaths,
and we have seen computations by statisticians
that IL this disproportion between the births
and deaths were kept up for q certain period of
years, there would not be Frenchman on tho
face of the earth at the end of that period. We
would have been sad over this prospect IL we
had believed 1t could ever be realized: for the
world would be fiatter than it is II the French
were not In 1t. A crowd of Germans, or Eng
lishmen. or even Irishmen, could never make up
for the lost French.
We are happy to be able to relieve any appre-
hension which may have been created by tho
statisticians. France herself, ever ready for any
emergency, has come to the relief of the world
The French Government has Just issued tho
population returns of 1893 I'VE ought TO have
those of 1894 by this time). and they arc joyful.
There was excess of births over deaths in
the year 1893, not a heavy excess, but still en-
couraging. The number of French In France at
the end of the year was greater by 7.146 than at
the beginning. The record looks all the better
when we compare 1t with that of the previous
three years, during which the births fell 10000
behind tho deaths 1t is a record which gives
evidence that the tide has turned: and. IL
last year was as good year as the previous
one. the growth of population must be
such as to knock out all the computations of the
pessimistic statisticians. most of whom, by the
way. are either Germans or Englishmen.
1t is first-rate news for France. Tho army
must be kept up. 1t is good news for the world
We could not afford TO lose the French. How
dull old Europe would be without French poll
tics. and play-writers and Presidents and ar
lists, and novelists and women, without French
esprit or pensee or elan fatigue other things
that belong almost exclusively to Francel
France and the French are great. The Ger
mans, English, Italians. West Africans, Q |
others had better not indulge in any hope of the
OF the French.
The sun., 1895-02-08

There were few battles in the civil war in
which New Workers now take 80 much pride as
the affair of Roanoke Island. which occurred
thirty-three years ago to-day. Not that this
battle was fought by New York troops alone,
for regiments from Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, and New Jersey played credita-
BILE part In II; but the critical charge OF the day
was made in a particularly gallant style by the
Ninth New York, commanded by Col CHRIS
TOPPER RUSH HAWKINS. The Confederates
had strongly intrenched themselves on Roanoke
Island. which commanded the approach to
Albemarlo Sound. and It's capture by tho
Unionists would have unlocke ed the back door of
Norfolk and given them the control Of several
important canals and railroads No less than
five forts mounting thirty heavy guns, had been
constructed on the island. and hotilla of gun
boats gave the enemy additional means Of de-
fence Tho island Is nine miles long and three
wide at Its broadest part. while the only road
running through II was guarded, at o place
where swamps extended on each side to the
waters edge, by masked battery of three guns.
While the Union gunboats engaged some OF tho
forts the troops landed, and shortly after day
break on Feb. 8. 1862, began the attack on the
masked battery. The fight was kept up until
the ammunition Of the navy howitzers was Civ
ing out, when Col. HAWKINS offered to charge.
His men formed with fixed bayonets, and at tho
word charged at double quick along the cause
way. leaping over fallen trees and other obstruc-
tions which the Confederates had placed there.
yelling "Zou! Zou! Zoul" The onslaught was
irresistible. and the enemy were completely
routed. tho Zouaves pursuing them some dis
tance up the road. In q short time 1875 Con-
federates were taken prisoners, and tho island
with all its forts was in full possession of the
Unonists. who suffered total loss of At killed
n
owing to the protection afforded by their breast
works, was much less.
The sun., 1895-02-08
A Triple Grab.

The GoFF grab bill is not merely grab for
extra salary and for extra patronage for
power which under the American system OF
Jurisprudence should be intrusted 10 no one
individual. Heretofore the four Judges of
the Court of General Sessions have taken
turns in presiding in what is called Part |.
At the beginning OF each month, or term, as
The sun., 1895-02-08

To THE EDITOR or THE SUN-Sir: We can
not refrain from expressing our surprise and
indignation at the reflections cast upon the Ger
man merchant marine in tho article entitled
"The North Sea Tragedy" on the title page of
the THE SUN OF sunday last. German mariners
officers and men-aud examination will apuiy
particularly To those of The Nortl German Ilnyd
have too often demonstrated their deN nt ION 10
duty, their fidelity tO their vessels and tlslr
passengers at the RbrOlutc risk Of their own
lives, Ia permit thar suCh slur ahould he cnst
upon them. The result o. the preliminary In.
vestigation, cabled MS by our company, directly
contradicIs the "sturics told.
OELRICuS a Cn
The sun., 1895-02-08
HASN'T Missed a Trip In n Years.
From the risr.TournoI

NASHVILLE, Jan. 25.-Capt w. G. Kidd ia
conductor on the accommodation train running
the position since 1857. In ali that time he has
never missed trip; has never been reprimand
ed, ana has never been reported to the company
Shpt. kidd ID ~ years of age, but in activity ia
Iuly thirty years younger. Hale and hearty
now, ne says he expects to run the "accommo-
lie Will die with the harness on '''''
The sun., 1895-02-08
Aras.Iaa. App..I 20 Enrnpenn Cou.,rl..

WORCESTER, Feb, The United Armenian
Societies Of America have signed petition 10
the great powers OF Europe, which is in the ma
ture OF an appeal for justice and demand for
home rule for Armenia. Six copies OF il have
been drawn up ana will be mailed tu-dsy t0 tile
governments Of Great Britain, France, Ger
many, Austria. Russia. and Italy.
The sun., 1895-02-08
FIorIda's oyster-bearIng Trees.

''"" "o N""'HF'JOdrhdt
Inc mangrove tree spreads In n curious way
as grows, its branches dip over into the water
ana ana make fresh roots To the dipping branches
the oysters attach themselves and thus II is that
one can cut or a limb with four or five dozen
oysters attached. These tree-grOwn oysters are
nor, as rule, good TO eat, They told me in
snu'hnrn FInrlda that II Is always dangerous to
the tide wv ''' S'''' VI
The sun., 1895-02-08

To clean the streets Of this city as they
ought to bo cleaned, would probably cost
s4,000,o0o year. Col. wARINa should have
money enough to do the Job properly.
But first OF all the statute compelling him to
pay men 81 day should DO repealed. The
market price of labor should not bo exceeded
for the work of street sweeping.
The sun., 1895-02-08

To EDITOR ~ TuE suS-Sir: II The Manhattan
would Issue ana sell twenty tickets for one dol.
lar they would he the Hnnrrs thereby 10. n would In
crease their tramc, aud thousands OF trk"tG yearly
would bc lost or never usCd by careless peopir hut
not byA MOUNT VERNON CoAarTrR
The sun., 1895-02-08

Those of the New England cotton-mill
owners who have smiled Tor some years at the
thought OF Southern competition, are growing
serious over II. They have become aware that
their Southern competitors can obtain an
The sun., 1895-02-08
Satisfactory.

from Life.
hd1 'psnslYeyl- ~ hope youil invite me TO the we'd
JHA ,oolly III invite you the nrst one and n Won
u"N' a'''p' mere won he any eddng. -"
The sun., 1895-02-08
NothInE NrM.


From Bro'cHiH9, King d co.'s Monthly.
Van nabhler-I see the fashion Is coming In agGiA
TO have your bored 49,
AA1s knnul-I I'm used 70 that
The sun., 1895-02-08

!. tBoe Boes horrIson know anything about music %
a.,s Ano"S mat tue correct pronunciation Is VoS.
The sun., 1895-02-08

IFOIH the Phiddslphid Record.
An uptown milk depot sign readsi 4" Aldsrnsy milk,
butter aud eggS."
Arizona republican., 1895-11-05
PROTECTION AT HOME.

If our people manifested an earnest and general desire to patronize only home industries whenever possible, how long would it be until the finished products of woolens, starch, oat meal, glucose, sugar and innumerable other articles of general consumption would be turned out here at home?
 In the manufacture of articles, the raw materials of which are produced so superabundantly here as these, no outside combination could successfully compete; always and only if the con- sumers here would give their patron age to the home industries as against outsiders. This is now being done in Arizona more than ever before, and the good work is only begun. Push it along. The reward is rich and sure.
Arizona republican., 1895-11-05
STAND UP FOR ARIZONA.
PHGN1x, NOVEMBER ,, 1895.
AN ATTEMPT AT IA CENSORSHIP

Although the suggestion has ire quently been made that the dramatic interests of the country would be great ly aided by a legal and official censor ship, no serious effort to test this prop osition has as yet been made in eastern cities. When it comes to taking a firm grasp on great subject like this we are usually compelled to depend on the youthful energy and boundless re- sources of the vigorous west.
 Such an attempt would naturally be somewhat unexpected in the east. It was made in Louisville, Ky, however, last week, with only partial success. When the announcement was made from the stage of the opera house that a favorite local prima-donna would sing After the Ball" one of the most prominent colonels in Louisville arose in his place and announced that if she did he would "clean out the house."
 It is probable that the rest of the au- dience was not prepared to accept the issue in the shape in which it was pre- sented, and on a mere trial of brute force the colonel was defeated. But in the police court next morning the judge who had presumably heard the popu- lar prima-donna sing After the Ball." decided that the colonel was in the right and discharged him.
 The question of a dramatic censor ship in this country is, accordingly, un- settled. But it is pleasant to think that an attempt has been made at least to define the limits at which the patience of an audience ceases to be a virtue and at which the absence of an official censorship may be supplied by an ap- plication of the first law of nature self-defense.
Arizona republican., 1895-11-05

Hired help costs money, and left to itself is unsatisfactory beyond measure. It costs more as the demand for it in creases. And there is not enough of it to go round The only measure of re- lief that we can suggest for the compli- cated difficulties besetting woman's s adoption of what used to be mans oc- equations that none of the new wo- men of that sort should marry. Then they would not have any baby responsi- Utilities or any obstreperous husbands and they could live in happy indepen- dence in boarding houses.
Arizona republican., 1895-11-05
THE DOMESTIC CRISIS.

The situation possesses all the ele- ments of humor when a Dr. Mamie Stevens sues for divorce because her husband will not put the baby to sleep, or cook the meals When the "she doc tor" was consulting with a colleague down stairs, while baby was in bed with it's father and began to cry, what else could she do but go up and say: Why didn't you put that baby to sleep?" In a comedy by Sheridan or Moliere that incident would be con- sidered exquisitely humorous.
 But it has serious side. For babies, if people bring them into the world. are importunate in their claims for atten- tion, and they really must have atten- tion. And unless man ceases to be a cooking animal, somebody must pre- pare the dinner, and keep the house habitable And if the wife is busy with her medical duties, who is to perform these all-important domestic functions except the husband? If the husband has other work of his own to do, and has besides a distaste for housework, the result possibly of an ingrained pre- judice-then an impasse arises, and the divorce court is open.
Arizona republican., 1895-11-05
LETTERS BY TELEGRAPH.

Experiments which have been made recently with machine telegraph inven- tions have proved beyond a doubt that speed in sending messages will soon be so increased that the cost will be vast ly lessened.
 The great obstacle now in the way of cheap telegraphy is the time occupied by the operator, who, if expert, must be paid a good salary. The only way to sunmount it is by an increase in the speed of instruments, and this seems to have been accomplished almost be- yond possibility of improvement. Several inventions are now in the field which enable anyone who can operate a typewriting machine to indite his own message, or better, place it upon the transmitter and send it at a speed of hundreds of words per minute
 That this will revolutionize the tele- graphing business can hardly be doubted. As charges decrease the length of messages will increase, and it is logical to assume that the great bulk of business correspondence, and possibly even of friendly letters, will at no distant day be sent by electric wire
 Such a revelation will affect receipts from the postal to an extent that con- not be estimated and therefore it en- phasizes tremendously the argument that the government should purchase or construct telegraph lines, and con- duct them for it's own benefit, as all of the advanced nations across the Allan tic have done.
 It must seem almost incredible to foreign economists that a great andaI shrewd nation like the United States should permit it's millions of patrons Of the telegraph to be at the mercy of cor operations whose greed is their reli- zion