Arizona republican., 1899-04-25

is said to comelfn like lion and go out like a lamb, CT contrarywise. But of the animal which it stimulates Tn the middle of its career nothing is said In future. the saying must read: Comes in like a lion, gees on like q polar bear, and is metamorphosed into an icicle Tn the five arctic days which were vouchsafed us thus far by a be- wildering Providence this month I have caught twelve colds, only four Of which are really better yet
 H. J. Johnson, secretary of the So- ciety for the Suppression of Street Noises, is hopeful that parliament will, at this session, pass bill that shall put an end to the distracting sounds which disturb us of 9 Sunday morn ing Prom early morn" he com plains in circular issued this week, ''and throughout the day, In many dis tricts, there is one incessant hullaba- loo, commencing with the newspaper boys, continuing by the shoal of milk vendors, yelling one against another, all sorts of idiotic noises, and supple mented later by the host of other bowling hawkers, with wrinkles, shrimps. water creases, oranges, ripe strawberries, and sundry other super fiuities l take it that knockers and bells were invented for the purpose of communicating with people whc live in houses. and we don't all camp out O. realize the need of rushing about th Q streets after hawkers of papers, milh
 pennywinkles,' ices, and mullins Fhe whole system of street selling and baw.ing in the streets of London has arrived at a pitch at which it must be regulated And regulated it shall be-" Johnson is right. There is toe much noise made by the fawkers. But how about the noises made by the church bell ringers and church chime manipulators?
 Eugene Stratton, the most popular music hall minstrel in town, halls from New York state, hut through long residence his cocn dialect has acquired the cockney flavor popular under the shades of Bow and in the purlieus Of Whitechappel Stratton is now doing a new song and march entitled "The Coon Drum Major, produced by Leslie Stuart Stratton appears on the stage at the head of thirty-two grenadier guardsmen, all men who have been in the Soudan and who had been decor ated with the medal of Omdurman They have, however, doffed the req coats of the queen, blaelzed their faces and donned the blue uniforms worn by the soldiers of Uncle Sam The mob howls with delight as the mins- tIel and these bogus black heroes parade the boards. There is consider able sympathy in certain circles here with men of color and their alleged sufferings and grievances the world over. Thus l found in the St James Gazette the other night Q two-cclumn review of Tobias book, Free, But Not FIeed,' calling attention to the or ganized cruelty and shocking injustice, attending the ccnviet lease system prevailing in some Of the southern states. After sensational extracts from the book, the reviewer con- oludes: Much more might be writ ten to show the gross evils of the con- vict lease system. The public in the northern states of the Union can hard ly ba aware of the horrors perpetrated on the Africans, or this system would be put an end to by the intervention of the federal government"
 
 Charles Dickens, were he to return to his earthly haunts, would find them much changed, and many of them he 'wCu.d find obliter8ted altogether Al most all the old houses associated wi.f: the novelist and with prominent char acteis in his books are fast being de- molished by sacrilegious builders, and stately new houses are taking the place of historic old Cnes. You would be surprised at the amount or build ing there is going on in this gray cap ital of an alleged effete monarchy The wOrkmen are dreadfully slow at at their work, compared with worEs men over your way, but they accom- plish results, in spite of innumerab,e cans of beer and in spite of minute trade union regulations What will London be like when all these struct- ural fnnovaticrs are ended? 1t twill certainly not merit the severe strict ures which Dickens himself pro- nounced upon it in his day. "Tne shabbiness of our English capital wrote he, ''as compared with Paris, Bordeaux Frankfort Milan, Geneva almost any important town oD the continent of EUrCpe-T find very strik- ing after an absence of any duration in foreign parts. London is shabby In contrast with Edinburgh, with Aber- deen, with Exeter, with a bright little town like Bury St. Edmunds, London is shabby in contrast with New York, with Boston, with Philadelphia - Lew Rosen in Washington Post.
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 Mir. Bryan has placed his G;Dner timn