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Barrelism and Lynching.

u T a mass meeting held in Chi
I cago yesterday afternoon. called
I TO protest against further en-
croachments of the street car compan-
les upon the rights Of the public, lynch
ing was openly recommended as the
only remedy for boodling. The people
Of Chicago seem to feel that the ordi-
rary processes Of law are powerless to
reach the offenders. and that that be-
ing the case. the spectacle Of a Doodle
alderman dangling from a lamp post or
telegraph pole would be conducive Of
good. Certain OF the Chicago papers
have advocated such drastic measures
apparently i'm good faith. At any rate.
many of the people have accepted the
suggestion and appear 20 be ready to
act upon Il.
The only possible excuse for lynching
is the absence of power to punish Grim
inals in due and legal form. That was
the excuse of the vigilantes of Mon
tana, n II has always been endorsed
as sufficient. II II holds good in Chi
cago to-day. IL Is because the man with
he barrel controls the courts as well
as the council. The man with the barrel
Is by long odds n graver offender
against society han aldermen and leg
i%slators who accept the output Of the
barrel. IL lynching is To begin. the man
with the barrel should receive first at
tention. II IT is a fact that all other
means of safeguarding public interests
are powerless. the exasperated people
Of Chicago can hardly be blamed for
turning the rascal out and stringing
him up. 1t is an ofense against the
law. but an offense that will be readily
condoned by public opinion.
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The Immunity Of Women.

~HAT Il is practically impossible
to convict a woman Of crime,
particularly II she be young and
pretty. is the deliberate opinion Of John
+. Mcintyre. assistant district attorney
of New York City. Mr.. Mcintyre is
Just emerging from an experience that
lends point TO his observations. An ex-
~traodinary drama tool place in a New
York court last week. 1t concerned the
efforts OF a man and his pretty wife to
blackmail a prominent hotel keeper by
means OF What Is known as the badger
game. This consists in the victim be-
ing found in a compromising situation
by the outraged husband. who soothes
his feelings with such sums as he can
extort from his wife's guest. In the
case on trial last week the evidence
was abundantly sufficient TO convict,
but the woman in the case was SO
beautiful and fascinating that the jury
disagreed"
Mr.. Mcintyre says that when Jurors
IN a criminal case in which a woman is
the defendant or In which a woman is
closely concerned are examined before
entering the jury box, they solemnly
avow that the circumstance of sex shall
not affect their judgment OF the evil
dence, and that they will mete out judg-
ment according 10 law. as II ii were a
man who's fate was concerned in the
verdict. But let a pretty woman be
rung into the case-for effect only-and
there is an immediate transformation
of character in the jury box.
Mr.. Mcintyre further says that law
yers have come TO realize the fac that
twelve men. honest. good citizens, are
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MONDAY. DECEMBER y. 1885.
E PAGES.
Calixto Garcia.

@ECULIARLY sad is the death or
~ Gen. Calixto Garcia. Like Abra-
ham Lincoln. he lived just Ions
enough TO see the terrible drama In
which he was one of the principal actors
brought TO a happy conclusion IL
seems a pity that he could not have
lived TO see the perfect fruition or MS
hopes and desires. He had suffered
long and much. He had been struck by
Spanish bullets and given up for dead.
He had known the horrors OF Spanish
dungeons. He had encountered the riV-
Aries and jealousies Of his own coun-
trymen. He had been abused and lied
about. snubbed and ill-treated. He had
braved everything-like st. Paul-'in
journeyings often. in perils of waters
in perils Of robbers, in perils by mine
own countrymen, in perils by the
heather. in perils in the city, In perils
in the wilderness. in perils in the sea-
in perils among false brethren; in wear
mess and ~painfulness. in watehlnGs
often. In hunger and thirst. In lastulgs
often. in cold and n~akedness.
All these Calixto Garcia, an educated
cultivated. sensitive man. suffered lit
orally. With his sunerings and perils
over, and the supreme ambition of his
heart on the verge OF complete accom-
plishment. he might have passed the
evening of life placidly enjoying the
spectacle of the development of a free
and liberty-loving nation. for whose
creation he had increasingly toiled and
dared. Peculiarly sad, we repeat
seems the death Of Garcia under these
circumstances. Yet IL was left to him
20 live long enough to behold Cuoa
I,ibre a fact in history and to know
that his labors and perils were not
without their reward.
Let Il be aid of Calixto Garcia that
he was a good and great man. In after
years. when the examinations and an
tagonisms e~ngendered by the pride and
self-interest Of the actors In the last
acts Of the drama just ended shall have
been forgotten, the calm light of his
tory will reveal Garcia as a hero Of the
noblest and purest type: as the man
Who more than any other set in motion
the instrumentalities that wrested Cuba
from a hell of slavery and suffering,
and made her a lane OF the free-as
she long has been a home Of the brave.
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william Black.

w novelist. whose death t%s at a't the
age of 81. was recorded yester-
day. enjoyed a large and a~ppreciative
audience. His popularity reached its
zenith about ten years & Since 1890
he has encountered formidable rivals In
his own chosen field of novel-writing.
and competition failed to act upon him
as a stimulant. His later novels re-
vealed a change of mood and a dete-
rioration Of power. The piquant pes
simism of Macleod of Dare" and
"Madcap Violet" In large measure dis
appeared and no vivifylng motive force
took Its place. There were no longer
any dark tragedies or melancholy ca
t~astrophes to cry over. Everything
was as merry as a wedding bell-and as
tame; we were about to say as COM
monplace; but that would be an injus-
tice; for whatever his plot, Black was
always picturesque. His descriptions
of scenery are amazingly vivid. Sun
rises and sunsets. thunderstorms, the
drifting of the clouds, the scents and
sounds of the woods. the solemn voices
OF the sea, the glories of lights and
shades playing upon the landscape, the
darkness %brooding over the hidden
mysteries of n~ight-nowhere in English
literature have these been painted with
a brush more sensitive and sympathetic
than Blacks. The fascination of his
descriptions lies in the conviction
which penetrates the reader that they
are absolutely true TO nature, that they
are the result of long and minute OBJ
~servation, and that they possess that
atmospheric quality that makes the
picture alive"
William Black was not a great now
elist. He struck a minor key, but he
brought forth sweet, delightful music.
His range of d~elineation of character
was rather narrow. His h%eroines in
variably are too good. too pure and too
beautiful. Their worst sin is an occa-
SION indulgence in capriciousness, but
W then they are altogether too an
gelic for common clay. His men are
more human. and Mr.. Black sometimes
kindly permits the devil to get into
them nd lead them astray. But char
aoter as depicted by Black is so far
subordinate to nature that nature
seems to assume moral responsibility.
Black has a multitude of admirers
who love him and swear by him. He
Is to Scotland what Bret Harte Is to
California, only Harte is more virile
and passionful. Black has exerted a
wide and deep influence on modern de-
scriptive writing-you can see 1t even
In daily journalism. He has had many
imitators. and one man who began as
AN imitator of Black has far outshone
him Inc ranks as the greatest of liv-
ing English ~novelists. That man, of
course. is Thomas Hardy.
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A RETRIEVE GRANTED.
A Dramatic Demonstration when wark
Was sentenced To Death.

London, Dec. 11.-Lieutenant Wark
of the royal artillery who, On Thursday
last was sentenced to death on the
charge of numbering Miss Jane Yates
of Liverpool, a girl of good family, by
conspiring with her to procure an ille-
gal operation which resulted in her
death. has been reprieved. The evil
dence i'm the cas- tended to show the
girl was solely responsible. She made
a statement before she died exonerat-
ing Wark, who, after the jury re-
turned a verdict Of guilty, protested his
innocence in court. Wark. who is an
Irishman, is 46 years of & n mar
ried. He enlisted as a private about
30 years & and rendered distinguished
service i'm the Afghan war. He met
Miss Yates while he was stationed at
Liverpool. She was a pupil in a riding
school there. The witnesses for the de-
Tense showed that Wark tried to per-
suade her not to undergo the operation,
but on her insisting he promised TO
stand by her. The scene in which he
protested his innocence vas highly dra-
matte and vas followed by an extraord-
mary demonstration against the trial
judge, when the latter left the court
room. The newspapers took the mat
ter up. declaring that. ever IL the ver-
dict was legal. IL would be an outrage
to carry out the sentence. as Wark was
evidently innocent of deliberate partic-
ipation in the girls crime.
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Current Comment.
Hartmann Health.

From the Washington Post.
II ave learned a great lesson says
Representative Hartman Of Montana. II
am not going TO draw upon my health
any longer without recuperating every
year to the extent Of the demand"
MIR. Hartman looks the picture of
health. His face is ruddy. his step is
springy. his blood is active. and, alto
gether he fclls as II the ~springtime Of
his life has come again. All this Is because
MIR. Hartman took n holiday last sum-
mer. For years and years he has worked
along. catching a day here and there
for such recreation as he thought he
needed. Last summer he went on a new
tack. lie felt worn out AMI knew II was
not medicine. but rest. he needed. So out
into the mountains he went. % miles away
from the railroads, taking his family
with him. but otherwise cutting loose
from civilization. He left word that no
letters or kilograms were to he forwarded
to him.. and then he held communion
with his fishing rod.
Next year" he said yesterday. 81 am
going To take six weeks of. There Is
nothing like Il I'm the world. II a man
were To put 5000 i'm front OF me now and
offer me the entire sun IL ! would 20
back to the wa I felt before | went into
the mountains ! would spurn the oner,
and $500 is not a small sun to me"
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weak in the presence OF a woman. n
act accordingly. These women who pose
as the wives Of men accused OF crimes.
or as the direct victims OF allurement
or insult. almost invariably turn out,
when the trial is over. not to have sen
either wives or victims. Criminals OF
late years have come to realize the
weakness OF Jurors in dealing with wo-
men charged with ofenses against the
laws or implicated in such offenses. As
a consequence they now try. deliberate
ly to involve women in all cases for the
purpose of prospective defense IL
brought to trial
with these facts, Mr.. Mcintyre de-
duces the observation that every mis-
carriage OF justice in a case where a
woman is tried for a crime makes more
than n hundred new female cri,ni-
nails" The inference from this seems
60 be thai IL would be better not to
but that of course is a false conclusion.
One remark of the New York lawyer
Is suggestive. He says that "the wo-
mans rights advocates are always
noisily demanding that women shall be
considered the equals OF men in all
things-until a woman comes to be tried
for a crime. Then they demand and use
the cajoleries Of their sex TO procure a
different law or a different interpreta-
ton OF the law favorable to the wo-
man." TIL trial OF women accused of
crime before juries composed OF women
would be perhaps still more dangerous
than before male juries. The sympa-
thies Of women are too easily aroused.
The upshot of II all seems to be that In
a city like New York a pretty m
can he just about as wicked as she
pleases without mourning legal conse
auences.
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The Clayton-Bulwcr Treaty.

~ connection with President McKin-
ley's recommendations as TO the i'm
d construction Of the Mica
raRuan a great deal is being said
In England about our proposed viola
tion of the Clayton Rulwer treaty. This
treaty was negotiated in 1850 by John
NJ. Clayton. our secretary Of state. and
Sir Henry Lvtton Bulwer. the British
minister at Washington. II consists of
n preamble and nine articles. The pre-
amble states that the treaty refers to
ANY means of communication by ship
canal which may be constructed be-
tween h Atlantic and Pacific oceans
by way Of the River San Juan de Mica
ragua and either or both Of the lakes
OF Nicaragua or Managua. To any port
or place on the Pacific ocean" Article
one provides that neither government
will ever obtain or maintain for itself
any exclusive control over the said ship
canal" with much else besides as mat
ter naturally growing out Of such a
main agreement. the principal point of
which Is that neither government shall
obtain or exercise n exclusive domin-
ion or influence in Central America or
effect Notifications in tina vicinity.
The second article AGREES that the
vessels Of both nations I'm the event of
war between them shall not be block
AIDED in or near the canal. but that both
shall be given a certain free distance
from the ends Of the canal. to be agreed
upon. The third article refers To the
guaranteed security which any parties
shall have who may undertake 10 build
the canal TO use any arts IL may please
TO induce the Central American govern
ment To grant concessions relating 10
the work. The NTH article guarantees
the perpetual neutrality Of the canal.
$50 that the said canal may forever be
open and free and the capital invested
therein secure" but in the case the
party that holds the canal shall employ
unjust discrimination in tolls and gem
eral management. this guarantee of
neutrality may be withdrawn by giving
six months notice. The next we arti-
cles provide for inviting all other
friendly nations to Join in the enter
prise 81 the same terms. that the canal
may be for the benefit Of mankind on
equal terms 10 ALL" The eighth article
STIMULATES that the same principles. in
order to establish a general principle -
shall apply to ANY other practicable
communications. whether by canal or
railway. across the isthmus." Article
nine is the ratification Of the instru-
ment.
For some years the United States
government has been acting as II this
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BRIGHTON STAKES
Announced by the Association for the
season of

Season of 3
New York, Dec. 1.-THE following
stakes have been announced by the
Brighton Beach association for the sea-
son of 1899. to close Jan. 3: For 2
year-olds. First Attempt stakes. with
$1,000 added. five furlongs; the Under
graduate stakes, with 81 900 added. five
furlongs; h Electric handicap. for fl
lies. six furlongs; the Distaff stakes,
for fillies. with 81 900 added, five and
one-half furlongs; the Spinster stakes,
for fillies. with 81. 900 added, three
fourths of a mile; the Rising Generation
stakes, $1,000 added. three-fourths Of a
mile; the Attendance stakes, with sl.250
added, three-fourths of a mile; the
Choice stakes, selling. 1000 added.
three-fourths of a mile; the Montauk
stakes, $1,000, three-fourths of a mile.
For 3-year-olds-The Nautilus stakes,
$1,000 added. n mile a sixteenth; Sar-
agossa stakes, fllies. 81. 200 added, one
mile; Sea Gull handicap, one mile
G~lencove handicap. 1900 added. one
mile and a sixteenth; Babylon stakes,
selling. $1,000 added. seven furlongs;
Peconic stakes. 81, 500 added. mile and
an eighth: Seagate stakes, $1,000. mile
n a quarter.
Three-year-olds and upwards =
Brighton Handicap, 5000 added, mile
and a quarter; Test handicap. with
81, 200 added. n mile; the Flight han
dicap. for all ages, six furlongs: the
Brighton Cup of $4,000. two miles and
a quarter; the Seacliff stakes, for al
ages, with 81. 900 added, six %furlongs;
the Islip stakes. for 3-year-olds and
upwards, one mile: the Jamaica stakes
i 1000 added, seven f%urlongs: steeple-
chase and hurdle race, h Punches
town stakes, a handicap steeplechase
for 4-year-olds and upward, the full
course; the Chantilly stakes, a handi-
cap race for 3-year-olds inc upwards
with $3.50 added, mile and a half owe
six hurdles.
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but the General insisted on Puerto. The
postofice department spells IL Porto. as
do most of the newspapers of the coun-
try.
In London there is a woman, Miss
Penman. who has control over more
than 500 conductors In the employ OF the
London Tramways company. Miss Pen
man is the only woman In England who
occupies the very unique position Of SUI
perintendent Of street railway conductors.
She engages all the conductors-50o all
told-and the inspectors. receives their re-
ports from day TO day and ~superintends
the numerous details appertaining to the
distribution of tickets. the checking of
the mems daily returns and the dismissal
of men when occasion arises.
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Personal Paragraphs.

The popular rating of the commander
who figured most prominently in the re-
cent war as shown In the naming of new
postofices. now stands as follows: Dewey
~. Schley ). Shafter n Sigsbee 4 each,
and Sampson 3.
Upon his arrival at Manila General Mer-
rift asked Admiral Dewey how far on the
island his jurisdiction extended. The re-
ply was: From as close to shore as far
as ! can move these fat-irons 1.-THE ships)
to AS far inland as ] can throw "A SHE'LL
"
Forain. the French caricaturist. was re
Gently asked whether he found d~epravity
the deeper among the rich or the poor.
There Is no such thing as depravity." he
replied. with all the disdain he could put
into his voice. "a the top IT is diseased
nerves; at the bottom hunger"
Colonel Thomas p. Ochiltree has Just
ended his saith transatlantic trip. When
he left for England some time ago he had
to be carried on a stretcher from a New
York hotel to the steamship. He returned
to the same hotel too late for a Thanks
giving dinner. but in fine health and
spirits.
While on his way TO Washington last
week Speaker Reed heard two fellow-pas-
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sehs.Is :" ~ ~ ,e az w
Sou",iy ~ :. 100
Neh' saiu u MaIne mar, ~. ,sans
ar Peop's w ~ " I'M 'ma I1u
yea can IuInish 'dhneu ireeuonh vi al
tue hea'"e"'
G%overnor-E Elect Roosevelt OF New York,
while on his way to Boston, where he
mas btued 10 deliver q lecture. was caught
Ca Tho Tremendous srous,orr, ana SNOW.
"a IN Having ho.r onsagad 10 write +.
ma.azirc ar,icls no anhr,cad This on.
nor,unity In ,bres bonrs no had dictates
4, ,hus earning 900 ar sIiyhtlv NOR
,hon e. x ner minutc
lhomas Ryan whose discovery OF tne
famous hepunhc mines IN Wasnihston
converted a door man INTO one OF iapu-
,or,hIass Co.. ~ -. a. 30 such q ne
culiar annsar,rc. ~ not ono miner in
r,,I,,on uo,ld 49, s,snoc,od ina, ono
ornce ~ gnId c,uIg - hoan fonnd I'm a
,on -, The stun ! 5idn., NJ irst"
wa
Nine b~erhhat't expects TO nc inc haru'
est OF WORKERS. ana me greatest Oh sIoot
trot'ers mex year n mas engasenneht
III Don y ,nI'u states anu ihuia, ~
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To Stop Privsteering.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
The United States are now In a position
TO make a movement in favor Of the pro-
lection OF private property at sea In time
Of war. and it's first action I'm its new
position among the nations could not be
"A better one than to invite a conference
on the subject. with a view to a mutual
agreement on a new law of nations
whereby private property on the high seas
shall be made exempt from seizure or de-
tention In time of war. Peaceful ships on
peaceful missions should not be molested.
and the general adoption Of a resolution
to this effect would mitigate at least one
of the horrors OF war.
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Something Mckinley Forgot.

From the New York World.
Among the notable omissions In the
presidents message none Is more signih-
cant than his failure TO refer to the race
conflicts In some of the Southern states.
Perhaps his silence was due to the awk-
ward fact that there has also been deadly
rioting against colored men I'm the north
ern and republican state of Illinois. What
ever the reason. IT is evident that Mr..
Mckinley does not think there is a
chance to get one more president out
of the bloody shirt
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Drifted on the Shoal.

San Francisco. Dec. 1.-THE schooner
Webfoot. on her way to Gray's harbor.
went ashore on Anita shoal in the Golden
gate to-day. Below Black point the wind
died out. and I'm spite of all Captain Don
nelly and his crew could do the Webfoot
drifted bow on to the shoal. The vessel
was hauled OF by a tug without having
sustained any serious damage.
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From the Boston Herald.
We want to obtain new and enlarged
foreign markets. We wish to prevent. IL
we Fan. foreign nations having colonies
and dependencies from placing barriers
in the way of our access to these mar
kets. but in order to obtain these advan-
tages we must adopt on our own account
the methods which we wish other ma
tons to practice toward us.
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Gar and the Juggernaut.

From the Pittsburg Post.
Speaker Reed. 1t is said. will oppose the
imperial policy of the administration, and
II he does IL may be embarrassed or de-
feated. The court circle at Washington
is gently intimating to the speaker that
he had better beware of the fate Of Sena-
tor Sumner. who opposed the Grant adj
ministration, and Roscoe Conkling, who
cultivated war with the Garfield-Blaine
outfit.
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the Spanish difficulty. Some of the things
which England expects Of the United
states are set down in terms by that
blunt newspaper. the London Saturday
Review. IL expects Us to deal generously
with Canada in the matter OF tariffs; 1t
expects that Great Britain will be re-
membered when the United states gov
m firmly establishes It's authority
over the Philippine; IL especially expects
the assistance Of this government when
the Inevitable struggle over China be-
Qfns
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Assembled Mt. Aconcagua.

New York. Dec. 1.-THE Daily Chron-
icle publishes this morning a cable
message from Sir Martin Conway. the
celebrated explorer. now in Mendosa,
Argentina, asserting that he has
climbed to the summit of Mount Aeon
cagua, a peak of the Andes in Chile.
and intends to attempt the ascent of
Noun Sarmiento, a remarkable noun
tain In Terra del Euego.
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Releasing the Volunteers.

From the Des Moines Leader.
Doubtless. for political reasons. IL for no
other. the government will seek at the
earliest day to give the volunteers their
release. To this end we may expect that
the bill for the reorganization of the reg
ular army. increasing IL to such a number
as to make unnecessary the further hold
ing of the volunteers. will be brought
forth as quickly as possible.