Year: 1873

We have received the following letter from an
Earnest Man, lifelong reader of the paper and
tho father of an interesting family. Wo cannot
present any adequate exculpation OF the charge
made by our correspondent, but print his letter as
some small reparation for the undoniable Sun Oh
omission.


TO the Editor Of The Tribune.


SIR: Our town is very small town. but |


think that people have just views about most m9t
ters and are toeraby we'll informed upon general
topics. Our OPINION think is entitled TO respect; ana


am Obliged to say that it is becoming opposed+o the
course of The TRIBUNE Of late a certain subject.


tell you this frankly that can amend that course
If you DESIRE before you have 30 far as to ALLEVIATE
the friends and subscribers you have among us here
Now We find no fault with you for irJurlng Tweed all
you can for speaking Ill OF Connolly; nor DO we
think wrong IN You censure Mr Sweeny; Dut wnat
ws do get impatient is you continually pur-
suing these persons really of little consequence
while you seldom utter word about that greater
criminal that far moro wicked and degraded being,


ldas Isoario Why do you maintain this silence ABOUT
him Surely 1t s not because you feel Irendy Io"a'u
him. You cannot feel in such way toward a person
who was capable Of doing what he did There has Deen
much talk about this in our village and Will be frank


with ye and tell you that many Of our best people feel
strongly about IL and not merely the religious, but also
the worldly. Mr.. owen Rogers, tho Postmaster Is
worldly man-one of our most influential citlzens-yet
he has stopped his paper He says this course OF yours
he cannot counenance ndorseit looks IKE stuuieu
purpose shield Judas iscariot with the mantie Oh


silence and he says that silence In such case INDICATES
approval Some Of do not go 80 far as that We De-
lieye that either you feel charity for him on account
M what he suffered or you may know all the facts
in his case: or he being dead now, you feel as 1t
IL ia lust az well TO let bygones be bygones
But weare not willing do this. Bygones ought not TO
be bygones In the OF man ike TINS, LOT IL ohy
eggs on other and do just the same thng ne
did We feel that he ought TO be lashed and frowned
down and found fault with by every paper IN this land
that respects right conduct and desires TO do good We
believe that he ought be disparaged IN every way
We do not believe his being dead Is any excuse 10 leu
him alone we do not believe mis- former position ought
shield him at all. If THE TRIBUNE will take hold OF
Iscariot and give him what no richly deserves
keep after him. every day and every week. unth he
has not friend left the United States, it will be
great and good work, and will do much good With such
a course as that could get up clubs here and all
around this part OF the country and we would all gady
Join and help. This is the way feel about it; and


know that II you will hold Of Judas scariot now,
it will be by far the most popular thing you can do.


Larson Forks, w., Feb. l, 1873 SIMON j. WALTERS.


Who was the genius who suggested the retirement
of the old-fashioned square lamps in the uptown
streets and tho substitution of those unsightly
round ones which are not only an eyesore, but are
almost useless as guide boards, the name of the
street being studousy hidden under the projecting
border at the tOp To find out where you are you are
compelled to go about the lamp like the Psamist
about Zion and then the dexterty of the painter
frequently battles your attempts. Another and an
older nuisance needs no further denuncatiOn.
1t is possibly too deeply rooted in the
national life ever to be changed. That
Is the wtless custom of painting the number of the
house upon the right hand outer door and then
throwing this door back and carefully concealing
the number from the street. Any one who has
driven through an unfamiliar uptown street at
night has suffered from this senseless and exasper
ating custom. 1t is not uncommon TO see whole
block of houses in which not single number Is WIS.,
ible from the sidewalk. We would suggest TO the
Boy of the period that he could not employ his
leisure to better advantage than by ringing the bell
violently at all houses which do not show their
number, with the request for information on
that point. In France a system of careful
experiments was once made TO determine the best
way of displaying the names of streets and numbers
of houses 1t was decided that white letters blue
background were most easily legible, and according
ly every house is numbered and every corner has
the names of both it's streets thus nlad in the wall
Of course, the true American scorns any such COM
nonsense measures as these. by which nobody
profits except the public But would it be too much
TO hope for the reformation at least of these two
crying abuses-of street without legible in
scriptions and houses without visible numbers.