New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-10

"for frees seed distribution, fails TO reveal n
"single instance OF benefit TO agriculture at
| 'tributabe to this distributor" what possible
justification can there be Of the perpetuatlon OF
| the system?
| And now the Bridge terminal is all torn up
| again, VIII It ever be allowed TO remain unds-
turbed for six months together?
The return of General Lee as Consul General
at Havana will be heartily approved. He has
shown himself to be the right man FOR the place.
and though the stream OF difficulties over the
Cuban war is not as broad as the ocean. 1t is
Just az we'll not 20 swap horses while crossing IT,
Now that a Chicago clairvoyant has located
an Illinois gas well, which sunk on the
spot Indicated 10y "a committee OF ten citizens,
and actual gas found at the bottom OF IT.. the
business OF those greasy soothsayers is likely
10 have boom all over the State. and perhaps
beyond It's limits. With mne-hunting added
20 their usual Industries the clairvoyants take
on "A new Importance til they are buried under
the Stag Of their failures. interment not 20 be
long postponed notwithstanding an occasional
lucky guess Ike the reported at Princeton.
II
The Scandinavian Exhibition furnishes further
proof ~ the marvellous vitality Of the great
Northern race No matter what other nations
may show physical or mental decline the sons
of the Vikings exult In unmpaired strength
and yigor
The best purport OF the promised Papal en-
cycllcal on the Manitoba school question would
be TO reconcile the people 10 the established
facts In the case. The Pope has shown so much
wisdom fl dealing with political issues in
France ard elsewhere that It IS not TO be sup
posed he Viii act otherwise in Canada
Hebrew colonies seem 20 be more prosperous
than many expected them 20 be They are sue
cccdug w~ll IN various places In agricultural
pursuits thus returning TO the occupation Of
their ancestors 1t may be- that thus relief will
be found for the prosecuted millions OF Jews In
Europe. originally they were n pastoral and
agricultural people. In becoming such once
more they may regain their former peace and
prosperity.
40 wonder that there Is rotng AT Prague and
elsewhere N the Austrian Empire. The ex-
ample has been ret In the Imperial Parliament
itself
II Will be good thing 10 keep four railroad
tracks of Arusterdam-avc. II would be n stu
better thing 10 make "A permanent and general
enactment that not more than two tracks shall
eyer be laid I'm any public highway.
Yale is the latest but will not be the last. col
lege 10 make gymnasium work compulsory upon
her students The fact IL gaining general recog-
milton that physical culture IL a Legitimate part
Of a liberal education. II had AT all. az II should
be- 1t must be In one OF two ways. Either the
boys will exercise their animal spirits In empirl-
cal perhaps violent or even unlawful ways, or
they Will do 50 In orderly and beneiicent fashion
The latter IL best 10 he assured by such sys-
TEN az Yale and other colleges have now adopt
ed A few hours Of we-directed gymnasium
work each week Will not make n boy poorer
student and II Will make him sounder physi-
cal organism and more orderly and better
poised social unit
The people Of Madagascar do not seem to be
altogether reconced TO the abolition OF their
Independence and the imposition OF allen
crcignty over them, though they do say that
cells get so used TO being skinned as actually to
enjoy IT,
The fourth centenary OF Nasco da Gamas i'm
mortal achievement Is now to be celebrated.
"I.usiad"? Yet how many cpics are better
worth reading :?
so those bloOdhirsty Armenians are on the
. warpath again marrying and massacring the
poor, defenceless, peace-loving Kurds What
an outrage It Is that sheep should be allowed
to range at large to the peril and injury OF the
wolves!
President Rossiter OF the Brooklyn Heights
Railroad Company Is to be most heartily COM
mended for taking a stand. as he Is said to be
about to do, against smoking trolley
At present smoking is permitted the rear
platforms Of all cars. That Is the platform by
which all passengers are required to enter and
leave the car. so that women are now compelled
to crowd their way past or through a crowd OF
men and boys who puff into their faces smoke
OF all degrees OF badness. and make the floor
slippery with foul expectations Moreover, as
the rear door OF the car Is kept open I'm mild
weather. and frequently opened at all times, a
large proportion OF the smoke finds Its way into
the interior OF the car so that II really would
be about as well to permit smoking inside OF the
car. The system is an intoerable nuisance. 1t
has already driven many patrons away from
the trolley lines, and will, II continued, drive
away many more. A. a simple bit of business
shrewdness not TO mention the higher duty 70