Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-14

INNING AAo IA oAAAh -
is not often that the cruel punish
ments which they are in the habit Of
intlicting upon their children for
slight offences result fatally, as in a
recent case. Still there is an
amount of daily cruelty practiced in
the homes of these unassimilated
aliens. 1t is time to do something TO
make them understand that they are
living ia the United States and must
conform to American standards in the
treatment of their children. This
fellow Colandriello, who battered his
little girl to death with club because
she did not answer his call as speedily
as, in his brutal Judgment, she ought
to have done, is good subject to
make start with in teaching this
needed lesson.
Such men come to thiscountry from
lands where the crudest mediaeval
notions still survive. The old four
teenth century domestic code, which
gave the husband and father such
rights over his wife and children as
practically put their lives at his hourly
mercy, still survives in practice, though
not IN theory, among millions of semi
civilized Europeans. 1t may be pos
sible, it certainly has not yet been
found practicable, to set up any sort
OF test for immigrants Mt our ports of
entry by which these morally stunted
and blunted people can be kept out.
This is n pity, but there seems to
be no help for it. The next best thing
to do is to take hold and educate them
to Il clear apprehension of the fact
that New York is not Naples, and that
the feTOcious parental privileges of
Sicily cannot be maintained at par.
ity with the laws of the United States.
| There is but one way to do this, and
that is to give such criminals as Col
| andrieilo, whenever they fall into the
hands of the law, the seyerest penal
ties which our code prescrlbes. II
this is done, the fact will soon impress
those Of them who are left on the ont.
side of our state prisons that this
is not favorable climate for the en-
ioyment Of their peculiar home amuse-
I mcnts.
Theodore Roosevelt Is today our
police boss. The fate of the men in
the picture--his predecessors should
be an awful warning to him, Il proves
that no boss can rule this city very
long unless he be good bcnelicent
ruler, which is to be no 'Doss. but
the peoples servant.
According to the philosophers of
antiquity, whose opinion was shared
/ to considerable ci.t"nt by tho early
| Christians, woman is the cause of all
mans woe. 1t has been wrongly sup
| posed by some that she was called
"woeman' on that account. The
derivation is faulty. But ii is wise
to reject AS wholly unscienttic theo-
/ ry without which so many incidents
| in the life of the male animal OF the
species cannot be accounted forat all?
! Here, for instance, is the case of Il
/ Mr.. Lane, who is now in the hospital
with badly strained neck, rs he
would not have been, hal he not
| stuck his head ont of Il window of n
mavng railroad car to smile at pref
ty factory girl Certainly it was not
| her fault that she was pretty nor that
! Mr.. Lane had Il weakness for pretty
! girls. 1t was simply klsmet. This Is
! the solution OF the whole matter. A
long as there is woman left in the
world the men who remain in it will
make themselves fools about her, and
she will be utterly unable to help IT.
Whether she is the new woman OF
the old, whether she is learned or ig-
norant, strong minded or conliding,
domestic or forensic, whether she Is
bashful and beautiful, or bean-eating
and bespectacled to the top of hel
Boston bent. it will be all the same.
Men will make fools OF themselves
about her to the end OF the chapter.
For as Dante remarks in one of the
sublimest passages of the Inferno, IL
is fate, and there's no use kicking
1t has been discovered that there
h as been an organized band of fire
bugs in New York, banded together
for the purpose of burning buildings
and collecting the insurance money,
1t seems impossible that human being
could be SO utterly depraved as to en-
danger the lives of thousands of peo
pie for the sake of money, Do no
these human monsters deserve to b,
punished as severely as any murderer
Their crimes might result in man,
murders.
The Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
Company is making arrangements t,
operate funeral trains over its road
This innovation will be introduced a
soon as the new bridge station is com
pleted. 1t is proposed to have tw
cars especially fitted up for funera
purposes. One of these cars will b
given up for the exclusive occupatio
of the coffin and flowers, while tn
! other will be for the mourners Ele
, yators are to be constructed at tn
bridge stations adjoining the cemetel
les and some others. When the sci
, vice of the funeral train is desired
will be drawn to any station designat
, ed The coffin containing the corps
will be raised to the station and take
, aboard and when all is in readiness til
! train of death will take up It's journe
to the cemetery station. The railroa
company will contract to convey tn
funeral party only as far as the cemt
terry station. The coffin will there b
/ lowered to the street, whence it ca
be transported to the grave in an III
! dertaker's wagon or by pail bearers.