Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-07-09

church people themselves. Many Of the
| celebrated MurrseS We're buried in that
/ yard - including Lewis the Signer
! CuuNerntur. n colonial governor Of New
Jersey. mayor of very old New York,
and ienerai w. W. Morris of the rivil
war. They won't care. 1t is said by
! the real estate agents that the rest OF
the rhurchyard will never be invaded.
/ Well. even Trinity churchyard has been
/ invaded: even st. Puul's churchyard
has been cat down, and many another
| churchyard in New York has been
! abolished 10y the progress of the living.
/ Why talk about the "sacredness" OF
sepulture? 1t is nonsense. Let us have
cremation, honestly and decently, and
an end to this absurd pretense Of perm.
anent burial where the resurrection
trump will find the dead.
New York has got new spectacle to
gaze at. 1t is the tip top OF the steeple
of the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst's church
which was struck 10y lightning the
other day. and the final Is badly out Of
gear. OF course, there are all sorts Of
speculatons as to why the lightning
should strike Bro Parkhurt's church,
rather than the temples of less dis
tinguished reformer. and the conclu-
sions vary with the predictions of the
spectators. Mayor Van Wyck proba-
bly, thinks the lightning showed uncom-
mon discretion, but. of course he is
glad the guardian of New York's morals
was not up there at that time. Passers-
by squint skyward at the spire. and
ii is sad to say, they joke as they go
along over the freaks Of nature. and
the cost of this one to the church. But
it is an i'll stroke of lightning that does
no good. New Workers. will have occu-
patton for some time to come watching
the difficult repairs and bold man who IL
to make them.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor having
become Il naturalized British subject,
according to London Vanity Fair he
will either have to drop the prefix
Hon" which lie has been carrying
about. since he was American minister
TO Italy, or he made a peer in his own
right. EngliShmen do not bear even that
complimentary title unless they happen
TO have Il father who is u lord, or have
been colonial cabinet ministers. If he
wants to be thoroughly distinguished
from his fellow creatures, he should re-
main Mr.. Astor'-simply that, and
nothing more. Perhaps he will.
The tree on Bedloe's Island on which
Hicks the pirate, was said to have been
hanged in 1853 was blown down by the
recent storm. There IL some dispute
about the historical incident. There ID
in the possession of the United States
marshal In the Federal building a gal
lows on which it is Gained that Hicks
was hanged.
Mr.. Van Wyck's six months power Of
arbitrary removal over his department
appointees has expired. Hereafter re-
moval Will be possible only on charges
and a public hearing on such charges,
with authority resting in the courts and
in the hands of the governor to review
the testimony taken. Glancing back
over events at the city hall since Jan. l,
it is to he recalled that several of the
heads of departments named by the
mayor have indulged in wordy dues
with that testy gentleman and earned
his unqualified dislike. Whether the
small man in big place will be bold
enough to decapitate these men with
out consultation, or will be able to secure
Mr.. CrOkers consent to their removal
Is, OF course. an open question. Never
theless the uncertain braves are likely
to rest uneasily in their beds for while,
devoting their days to mObilizing all the
political pull" within reach.
That exceedingly ancient and fishlike
libel suit brought by the head of an i'm
porting house here against newspaper
of the city for asserting that the i'm
porter was importing British gold in
1894 to assist in Grover Cleveland's cleo
tion is still meandering through the
courts The court of appeals now af-
firms the verdict of the lower courts,
which gave damages to the importer on
account of this silly campaign lie. Pre-
sumably this decision in the highest
state court settles the question for good.
The whisky biscuit is demoraizing
the youth of this city. 1t contains q
somewhat larger dash of liquor than
the candies into which intoxicating
fluids are sometimes introduced in
other parts of the country, and Is cor
respondingly more exhilarating. The
police have pOunced down upon 1t, which
would seem to show that more or less
danger turks in the edible.
The CaledOnian club of this city has
just laid the cornerstone of its own club
house in Manhattan. 1t was q really
remarkable occasion, for the club COM
prises several hundred Scots of all the
city Of New York, as good Americans as
ever came over, and some 200 Of them
were in kits, with pipers and flags.
Wallace Bruce of Poughkeepsie, whose
intensive Scottish name speaks of his
lineage, not his nativity. was the orator,
and made note that the stars and stripes
was designed by Scotchwoman carry
ing out the ideas of Washington and
Robert Morris, and further that the day
was the anniversary of Bannockburn-
on which day almost 600 years ago was
laid the cornerstone of Scottish inde-
pendence.
The World Of this city has given up the
broadened columns on its editorial page
and resumed its old-time width. The
change Is simply mechanical, however.
The editorial views will not be narrowed
down.
KNICKERBOCKRR.
Teacher-When angry you should
count ten before you speak.
Pupil-Oh, 1 can always think of
hateful to say without stop
ping to count.-Boston Transcript.
1--WE Chinese bind our feet and you
Americans your lungs" royal little
lady said one day to missionary who
protested against the former cruel prac.
tice; "it is difference Of custom, that
Is all. except that ours is the better"
Similar superiority Is felt by the ma