New-York tribune., 1900-12-30

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shall produce his sloop In disappointed
and delayed way America has waited Just
twenty years to have this question hammered
out in Cup or trial races At present prooaoH
nine-tenths of the practical yachtsmen agree
that Mr. Crowninshield is doing the right thins
when he brings out the Lawson crart as
fin keel but all seem to think that the Massa-
chusetts amateurs owe it to themselves. ana
to their acknowledged interest in the old inter-
national question TO put the Haniey oodl
afoat.
The Boulevard trees are so good to gaze
upon that they have a right to live. The plan
to save the best of them appeals strongly to en-
lightened public sentiment, and it ought not to
fail.
The death of Lord William Beresford is
deplorable loss to the English turf. No English
owner of thoroughbreds surpassed him in 1udg-
ment. IiberaIity and the keenest sense of honor
in racing matters He was one of the first turf
men in England TO understand that the abest
American trainers and Jockeys knew thing or
two which had not been foreseen by British
racing experts. Lord William Beresford did
more than any other Englishman for years to
encourage the employment at Newmarket and
elsewhere of skilful and honest trainers and
riders from the United States. Like his brother,
Lord Charles Beresford. he had no prejudices
against Americans, and was quick to recognize
exceptional ability and acumen.
A keeper of thievish gambling dens uptown
cut off a mans ear in quarrel months ago.
He was indicted but never brought to trial
On Thursday this Tammany pet who is said to
be a friend of the Tammany head OF our Street
Cleaning Department, got out his ready re-
volver and his victim will never bother him
self about Tammany politics again. With
proper administration of the District Attorneys
office, this rufflan would have been sent to Sing
Sing long ago.
female doctor and doctrinaire comes out in
a shriIl manner against the practice of kissing
and asserts that it is worse than the liquor
habit, and more insdous than poppy, man
dragora, henbane any of the insane roots that
take the reason prisoner Such theories are now
and then brought forward by ancient bombazine
women in the courts and parliaments where such
ideas are most discussed, but they never find
any considerable following. The sentiment and
usage Of mankind in all lands and ages are
against them and they dip their absurd paddles
against a stream of tendency constant and po-
tent as the tides of air and ocean. The anti
kissers male or female, have no standing in the
court of public opinion, though everybody worth
noticing is in favor of judicious regulation of
the practice
Some of our stalwart and muscular patrolmen
are always spelling for fight, In several cases
of late they have beaten prisoners almost into
an offal heap. How would it do for the captains
of the precincts to remind the welders of the big
sticks that while it is excellent to have giants
strength, 1t is tyrannous to it like giant?
Would that soften blows?
Most of the Connecticut savings banks are
paying per cent on the deposits of 1900 Good
for the thrifty State of steady habits! Most of
the New-York savings banks paying not
more than 81 per cent, but the Connecticut
laws permit a wider range of investments than
the Empire State statutes allow. The preeau-
tions to the funds put in trust by the poor
can hardly be too strict 1t may possibly be
that the New-York policy of extreme prudence
is wiser in the long run than that which prevails
in Hartford and New-Haven.
Minnesota has always enjoyed excellent
reputation as a State which discouraged delib
crate mendacity But what are we to think of
the current dispatches dated December %.
which assert that wolves in great numbers in
fest the vicinity of Minneapolis? further
touch of horror is set forth in these words:
Even on the outskirts of Minneapolis the howl
ing of the wolves is heard at night" Bounties
for wolf scalps are not unknown in the West.
Might 1t not be advisable for the State of Min
nesota to offer a bounty for the scalp of the
man who sends out fctions so absurd? There
may be as many wolves the outskirts of Min
neapolis as there are the outskirts of Bridge
port, Conn, when travelling menageries settle
down in their winter quarters, but all the wild
animals whose howls can be heard in the most
populous city in Minnesota -Aust be in cages.
And Christmas is not April Fools Day.
Rummage sales have become wonderfully
popular in many American towns and villages.
Might it not be possible to get up rummage
sale OF odds and ends of our local government?
The new century so soon to stand on tiptoe on
the misty mountainous will look abroad
tolerably peaceful world with only little skir
mishing going on in the Philippines and South
Africa and an occasional brush between the
tallow eating Muscovite and the pgtailed Man
churian Boxer. This is better showing than
our disorderly planet commonly makes at the
opening or close Of any century, and the coming
one will be ushered in with attendant conditions
much happier and more benignant than they
usually are.
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