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THE feSdoSLTST DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1889. EIGHTEEN PAGES. 8 out the French. The further project was to notion of any benefit acoruing to localities from the yards is well nigh dispelled and BUKDETTE ON THE WING. testations of interest in the welfare of the colored brother, emanate with very poor grace from the members of that party.

travel. But rivers don't go everywhere. 1 heap of scenery by clinging to river. Stage, dusty and rough. Ideal travel, route and moci canal.

No reckless speed. Got of bi' Jump off' on tow path and walk. Fond of ex ment, help boy drive mules. Great schr more canals; railroads all freight lines: tran tation of pigs and people in great hurry. boat for leisure class and "hupper suckles." carried into effect hope to have canal boatr after me.

Robert J. Bohde. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1889. manufactured in this country. The effeofc of the success of his design would be to raise the price of every article into the manufacture of which tin enters.

American housekeepers, without an exception (for they all use tin utensils of some sort), would therefore be taxed for the benefit of the manufacturers of South Dakota tin. If the choice were given them how many of them would agree to contribute from their own pocket books for the sake of setting up some of Senator Moody's constituents in a private business The Fourteenth Ward Democrats have taken a good deal out of pol itics recently in the form of McCarren, Nolan and others, and UBS. ALLEN'S POCKKTBOOK GONG. Robert M. Johnstone, 38 years old.

who to bo a lawyer, with a residence at New Bn S. and H. Jordan, aged 20, of 51 Eas street, New York, wore arrested at the lat dress by Detective Sergeant Handy, of York Central office, on a charge of ster', poeketbook containing $47 from Mrs. Allen, of Richards' Hotel, Jersey City, wl was in tho General Post Office at 4 o'c' Thursday afternoon. Mrs.

Allen waB ad a letter and loft her poeketbook on the front of the mailing box, whilo she walkt tho corridor. Johnstone and Jordan word shelf at the timo. When she retuniod por; aud men wero gone. KOYAL AUU.VNIUJI. Fort Groono Council, 1,048, co splendid work, and its meeting last Th': a rouser.

There was a delegation of oicr'i from East Now York Council, also Brrt land and Arnold, of Brooklyn Counci? Arnold gave an excellent recitation, "i Dream." Four now members wore in! Bix applications wore presented. AFTER KKA.DIXU THE KTAXDARD i To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: But, Franklin, you should nevor let Your angry passions nso; Your fair, soft hands were never ma To scratch out Nathan's eyes. M. Washington street, November 1G, 1889. Voting Smylie'M Licorice Prcparnti Cure coughs, colds and hoarsonos.

All druggists. Btrou'n'N Kroiicliial Troche For coughs possess roal merit. Sold oaly In boxds. BUSINESS NOTICES. 1863 ESTABLISHED 186' TTTTT It TC F.1IKE Z.

K1C EBK I. liEEE LLLLL LLLLL 464 AND 4(iG FULTON STREET, OPPOSITE DUFFIELD, THE LARGEST CCOCO RKRKR KEEKER DDDDD riTTTTTTTT OR 1 II Oli RE DU OR RE DU RE I) II HRRRR EEKE IHI HIE I) DII CR RE DII OR 15 DII 1 OOOCO 11 II KHKKliE DDDDD II HOOSE IN THE WORLD. TWENTY SIX YEARS BEFORE THE PUBLIC IS A SUFFICIENT GUARANTEE FOR FAIR DEALINO. PPPP 8SSS PL UUSSHH PL PPPP 8SSS HHHH 8 II UUSSHH LIXLL UUU ESSS extend the territory of the United States the Rio Grande to the Isthmus. Lincoln was killed.

Andrew Johnson would not sign the concession. Ben Butler, therefore, never fig ured as a filibuster. The bottom fell out of the scheme and Butler had a new reason for trying to impeach Andrew Johnson a work at which he failed. Where iu Sir. J.

Kllen Foster 7 The Chicago Tribune rejoices that Mrs, J. Ellen Foster, who led the bolt in the Wom an's National Christian Temperance Union is, as a wife and mother, a much more thor. oughly developed person than a maid could be. Perhaps this is true. But, as bearing on the subject, it is not inappropriate to inquire whether there is a Mr.

J. Ellen Foster, and if so, what has become of that remarkably quiet and elusive individual The question as sumes broader significance when it is remem bered that Mrs. J. Ellen Foster is incidentally a temperance advocate and professionally a spouter" for the Republican party. In the presidential campaign she was intrusted with the formation of a woman's move ment in favor of Harrison and a hitjh tariff, and to do her full justice, she acquitted herself admirably.

Trifling, as it was, with the liquor question, the Republican organiza tions saw a glorious opportunity to further its advocacy of "higlt moral ideas" by enlisting the services of a woman of Mrs. Foster's prominence. It was apparently of little concern that the lady's position was not entirely consistent that the homes in which she professed so touching an interest were, as a matter of fact, suffering from the main principle she espoused, viz. the necessity of adhering to high tariff taxation. Whether Mr.

Quay was entirely pleased with Mrs. Foster's solicitude for our homes we do not know, but we presume he was, because by blending tem peranco with tariff, the lady managed, presumably, to make some votes. No fault can be found with Mrs. Foster for espousing the cause of the Republican party if so disposed, but in justice to herself and to her constituency, she ought to be more candid. A professed advocate of prohibition iu Iowa and an enthusiastic supporter of Harrison iu Now York, the lady is hardly to be complimented on the 6coro of consistency.

And this leads us again to ask, What has become of Mr. J. Ellen Foster? Has he been provided with a comfortable berth under the Harrison Administration, and is this tho real explanation of the condition of innocuous desuetude into which he seems to havo lapsed? Their Time Will Come. The California Athletic Club, which is the name of an organization which pays for prize fights out in that city of braggadocio, announces that it will not put up $25,000 for a contest between Jackson and Sullivan. It does not consider that the game is worth the candle.

The correspondent who sends this information declares that William E. Craig, whose physical magnitude may be indicated when he is called "a prominent member of the club," is of the opinion that La Blanche, the Marine, is a far better man physically than Jack Dempsey, whom the bourgeoise here has been wont to call the Nonpareil. This will be a depressing estimate in the Eastern District, and the Eagle does not believe that Mr. Craig would be popular out there or iu this vicinity generally. The prevailing impression has been that the Marine won by an accident, and that ho has been very careful not to allow another contest to come off between himself and Dempsey.

Flowers have their time to fade and champions to collapse. Dempsey has diminished. In time Sullivan will simmer. The Eagle published only the other day that McLaughlin, erstwhile the premier of jockeys, is now only a starter of horses. Some of these days tho Marine will be mashed aud Jackson himself will be jumped on.

Tlic if If there are any classes of men in the world to whom public gratitude aud admiration are due they are the men on our life saving stations. On their hands, when not employed in a work which taxes heroism and courage to the extreme, time in the weary Winter months hangs heavily. Of that time good reading matter permits the benign improve meut. Such reading matter is not contributed to them by the Government, for it is uot in the contract of their service. It should be contributed, therefore, by the people from their loft over store which they can well spare.

Arrangements have been made in Brooklyn to receive and distribute such reading matter. Books and magazines and pamphlets, new or old, can thus be con tributed with the certainty, the Eagle knows, that they will be promptly and judiciously distributed among the men referred to. Let our readers who can spare such reading matter send it to Miss Jennie E. Moore, 72 Boerum place, Brooklyn, and by her it will be punctually acknowledged aud promptly forwarded. This is a work in which there should be no stint and no delav.

Tho improvement of Second avenue, which will now likely go forward, must have an important effect in tho development tho neighborhood of that thoroughfare between Thirty ninth and Fifty eighth streets. The assessment, amounting to $65,000, was confirmed last month, and one third cf it has been collected. A single check an unusually large one for such a purpose! for $20,323.60 came from the Hunt estate. Much hitherto idle laud will be occupied as a consequence of the grading and paving of the avenue. With much difficulty Yale College prevailed recently over the Crescent foot ball players.

But wait till President Low reorganizes the seat of learning beyond the bridge. The Yale men may then find a Brooklyn boy's boys too much for them. The distinguished editor of our esteemed contemporary the Syracuse Journal, Mr. Carroll E. Smith, is cited to illustrate one of the amusing contradictions of American politics.

On the 2Gth of October, 1372, he "sized up" Senator Frank HiScock in the following editorial paragraph Mr. Hiacock is an accomplished politician in tho lowost sense of the torm. But when he strives to occupy the higher placo of politics he fails utterly for he lacks moral appreciation of principle. Through the political influence of Senator Hiscock Mr. Smith has just been appointed Postmaster of Syracuse and his unscrupulous critics are having lots of fun in asking him whether ho thinks the Senator's "moral appreciation of principle" has improved any.

Their fun is not innocent, nor is their argument sound, for it would not require a person Senator Hiscock's keen perception of character to detect the virtues of so excellent a gentleman as Carroll E. Smith. with it goes the argument against a great central one. The Government may well weaken its constructive force by dividing it. Where the best of means are provided the best results will be attained.

It is not worth while to recapitulate the details of the report. The subject is clearly nature to be presented and as tersely as its permits. The amount of money expended is large, but so are the improvements contemplated. What is intended is not a patching up of the yard, but its thorough reconstruction. The theory of Secretary Tracy is a sound one that complete plans should be prepared, "so that hereafter all appropriations for this purpose may be expended in carrying out such plans." Large sums may easily be wasted, without dishonest intent, in vague, haphazard and temporary work.

The estimate is $8,045,711, not all of it to be forthcoming immediately, but to be applied in ten years in annual disbursements ranging from $474, 534 to $1,456,383. The figures wear an air of professional exactness, but it is not impossible that, if the work should go on, a total in excess of $8,000,000 may prove to have been necessary at the end of ten years. The report will be widely discussed, and a work of such magnitude as the one it describes should not be undertaken without careful deliberation. But. this much is safe to be said at once and positively.

If the Brooklyn Navy Yard is to be continued it should be made as sharp a contrast as possible with the shabby curiosity shop so long familiar to the city. The Mayor's Salary. Concededly the mayoralty of Brooklyn is one of the most important civil offices in the country. Under the present charter its duties are manifold and arduous. Enactment of the One Head law and the concentration of responsibility in the executive im posed on him larger obligations than he had theretofore been called on to discharge.

He is compelled, by the logic of the situation in which he is placed, to exercise direct supervision over every department of the municipal government. Not only is he required to perform tho moro prominent and dignified functions of administration, but he must become a master of detail. Tho Mayor, indeed, may be likened to tho mainspring of a timepiece. While he is efficient the rest of the machiuery is bound to move without friction or obstruction. When it is remembered how far the security, comfort aud general well being of 800,009 people are made dependent on his official conduct, the nearness of his relation to the community is brotight home to every observant person.

Only two mayors in the United States have a larger population under their supervision. In many States the number of inhabitants is not a fraction of those who find residence within our boundaries. The Chief Magistrate here is, therefore, of far greater consequence, for all practical purposes, than more than one half of our Governors. With the growth of the city the duties of the Mayor are destined to multiply. Every passing year brings a larger task to his hands.

There are material improvements to look after. An augmenting force of departmental employes must be watched. To the expanding volume of administrative work is added an increasing demand for the courtesies and graces of enlightened social intercourse. The attendance of the Mayor is solicited on all sorts of occasions. The exactions laid upon him in other than governmental relations are enough to try his utmost pationco.

Nowhere else in the land is he expected to go so far in unofficial relations as in this municipality. Everything considered he is, perhaps, us busy a man, when every requirement has been adequately met, as can be found on the continent. It is becoming, in view of the burden laid upon him, that he should receive every reasonable consideration from his constituents. An officer who meets all the demands made on the Mayor of Brooklyn should be liberally compensated. At present the salary of the place is $6,000 per annum.

This is $4,000 less than it was during the time of Mayor Schroeder and the first term of Mayor Howell. Those gentlemen, while serving in the City Hall, received $10,000 a year. For the reduction to $6,000 no sufficient reason has ever been advanced. That is $2,000 le3S than is paid to the Corporation Counsel. A police justice in New York City receives $8,000.

Mayor Grant's salary is $10,000. So is that of tho Mayor of Boston. Brooklyn certainly ought to be' able and willing to pay as much as the Massachusetts city. For the right kind of service it can well afford to pay as much as the neighboring municipality. A move in the direction of granting the increase would not be out of order at the approaching Hessian of the Legislature.

Whether it is generally favored or not, it will form an interesting subject of discussion. Leaf Out ot a Democratic Hook. Ou esteemed contemporary the. World is of the opinion that Mr. Blaine contemplates some striking foreign performance by which he will enlist the excitement of tho country and create new issues for his party.

What if he does Ho cannot do anything without Congress and Cohgress undeniably represents the people. Even if Mr. Blaine should do what, the World attributes to him, he would only, bo copying a page out of the Democratic book. When tho lust of conquest seized tho nation under James IC. Polk it was the managing genius of James Buchanan that guided it to the getting for Freedom on the Pacific more territory than Slavery acquired along the Rio Grande.

The purpose that moved iu the subtle mind of Rufus Choate was always agreeable to the Democracy. That purpose was to kindle what he called the gay and festive spirit of Democratic defiance iu our foreign relations. Concisely stated, it was to use up the surplus energy of the nation on Cuban maneuvers and South American diplomacy. Statesmanship was then given time to invent means to salve or to soothe or to supersede recurrent home troubles. Mr.

Blaiue'B alleged Jingoism is good historical Democracy. It is also good historic Republicanism, as this will show. On Abraham Lincoln's desk, that fatal night he went to Ford's Theater, was a concession which only awaited his promised signature the next day, to permit Benjamin F. Butler to take "50,000 American laborers to Central America," to whom was to be permitted "the right of defending themselves with suitable arms." The laborers were to be soldiers in disguise. The force was to be an army.

The army was to march from Central America into' Mexico and aid the people of that latter country to clur of Rapid transit congratulations multiply among the people of the Twenty sixth Ward. It was supposed that Monday's opening of the Kings County's extension would include nothing beyond Pennsylvania avenue, but arrangements have been made for taking in Van Siclen avenue, the last station. That is to say, the shuttle train to the latter point will run during busy hours. Inasmuch as a mile is thus added to the line it is evident that a large number of persons will be accommodated by the improvement. The actual occupation of land which has halted on account of transportation delays, even if prices have not will be encouraged, and the company as well as its customers will profit by the extension.

The road now covers seven miles only three miles less than the full length of the Sixth and Ninth avenue branch of the Manhattan, running to One Hundred and Fifty fifth street, New York. Tlie Future of tUe Brooklyn Navr Yard. It is not sur prisiug that the Navy of the United States has attracted a good deal of attention in recent years. The shame of its dilapidation, of its persistent neglect of opportunities for modern improvement, of its consequent lagging far behind nations of the fourth or fifth grade to say nothing of other scandals has pressed with growing force upon the popular mind. Deterioration aifected wholly the administrative side.

Professional and persoual merit iu its organization kept pace with historic reputation. As good officers as ever trod a deck were sent out in ships to which they were mortified to invito their English, French, German, Italian, even Chinese, contemporaries on foreign stations or were kept on shore because there were not enough vessels even of this sort with which they could put to sea. It is not surprising that the Cleveland Administration yielded to the general demand that something should be done energetically and systematically to remove the national reproach. Tho Department of the Navy during the four years ending in March, 1889, was perhaps the most active and interesting field of the Federal Government. There is no disposition to depreciate the heralds of a new marine service, such as the Dolphin and the Atlanta, which Secretary Whitney found completed, or nearly so, when he took his portfortlio, and which have since demonstrated their value.

But the naval policy, alert and businesslike, exemplified by hiin and energetically pushed by his successor, has encouraged the hope that the Republic is at last about to regain its place on the ocean, at least so far as its official representation there is concerned. The resulting modified view of the Navy will guarantee a more favorable popular attitude than could have been looked for at any other time toward the somewhat formidable scheme which is set forth at length in to day's Eaqle. It does not follow that the large and expensive suggestions will be at once approved by those who will pay for carrying them out. They may at last be rejected. But there is now reason which once did not exist for believing that the money will be expended in honest, substantial work rather than wasted iu futile experiments, or in something worse.

On the thirteenth page of this paper is printed in full the report of Rear Admiral Braine and Engineers Asserson and Endicott, who were appointed by Secretary Tracy on the 25th of May, 1889. a Board of Permanent Improvement for tho New York Navy Yard, to submit plans and estimates for "a complete development" of its usefulness. The report is accompanied with a map show ing wnat tne situation win oe wnen tne proposed work is done. The Brooklyn Navy Yard to use its appropriate rather than its official name is to be considered from two points of view, that of this city and that of the National Government. There has been for a long time a growing inclination to rogard the yard as a doubtful possession.

Looking at the matter from the lowest level, that of politics, politicians have found small profit iu what was once believed to be a powerful political instrumentality. Leaders on either side agree that the purveying of its patronage is detrimental instead of advantageous. A. few followers may be rewarded with petty places, but many more are sure to be disappointed aud alienated by f.iiling to get anything. Elections have been lost despite the help of its plunder.

Elections have been won without its aid. Whatever tho earlier facts may have been, it is probable that the managers of any machine would be entirely willing to let the Navy Yard go. So very likely would the citizens wiio are not politicians. The yard lies along tho water front a strip of foreign territory, in a municipal sense. It breaks the line of the city and sectionally separates it with a force which is felt far beyond the boundary of the United States jurisdiction.

Apart from any use to which tho place might bo put local statesmen havo dreamed of a market there more magnificent than any Brooklyn has ever known, and have mane the promotion of this shadowy enterprise, their chief Congressional capital apart wholly from this it would be hard to discover auy benefit accruing to the city as compensation for the topographical impairment due to the yard. There is thcreforo reason to believe that "local pride" would be appealed to iu vain for its retention, even with the expectation that it would presently become the most magnificent naval establishment on the continent. The United States are accustomed to weigh lightly neighoorhood judgment or prejudice in administering tho affairs of the Navy, and it may be assumed that the Government point of view will prevail. The first question for tho Administration to decide is whether the East River furnishes the best site for its principal navy yard. Such a situation is accessible for the men and material needed iu the work.

But it is also accessible to a foreign foe, if such an one should ever be aggressively curious in regard to it. If the Brooklyn yard is to be made a vast depot aud workshop it should be protected from destruction by better defenses than are now provided for these cities. It may even be said that a less convenient site, even an interior one far up a river, might be better because less exposed. This apprehension of danger from without may be met'vith the assertion that the establishment of such a yard would make not only necessary but certain the putting of the port of New York in a perfect state of defense. The site determined, there is much to be said in favor of equipping a chief yard, one, indeed, so pre eminent in its appointments that the others will become insignificant, except aB occasional and convenient resting places for ships.

The A Young Man "Who Made Himself Quite Comfortable. He Didn't Discover That He Was on the Wronpr Train Until He Had Exchanged His Shoes for Slippers anil His Coat for a Lounging Jacket. Funny signs a fellow sees. Right opposite depot in Providence you read, from top of building dowD "Dyer building: Hellman bad combination for fellow who dies; next floor below, "Boys' knee pants;" time for the knee act, you think. Two lower stories "Union Wadding Company;" "Half dime lunch room." Fitness of things there, mire.

Worst case of this kind at Corry, also opposite Union dopot; highest sign on building, "Cancer cured here;" under that, "Meals; Lunch." "my" post office. General Wade Hampton advises tho Postmaster General to read about Ananias and Sapphire. We would suggest that a warrior who lifts up hiB voice so valiantly against a non combatant Sunday school teacher will find some edifying reading for himself in the Old Testament. The name under which the animal wan entered iH not given, but Balaam was tho name of the man who rode him. nOWU IN THF.

BLUE GRASS. Judge Blueclay "Sheriff, convene the co't. Where is the Jury?" Sheriff "Back in the Jail yard, your konali. We happened to get three Frenches and a couple of tiverxoies on it, an' they're fightiu' it out, if it please the co't." Judge "Where is the prisoner in thus horse stealing caso?" Sheriff "The Barnard boys got him out last evenin' while I was at aunner and hanged him." Judge "Strike off the case, Mr. Clerk.

Aro the parties to tho Salt Lick road cine ready to proceed Sheriff "It was nettled early' this morning: they're gittin the defendant ready for burial now." Judge "Well, then, if the District Attorney is ready we will proceed with the State va. Hiram Garrard." Sheriff "If it please tho court, the 'istrict attorney is not ready. Gar rard's counsel carved him with a bowio knife right after breakfast." Judge, wearily "Ad journ the co't." RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SIOXAL SERVICE. A scientist tells us that thoro is no such thing as color; "hut what we call color is simply caused by absorption or refraction of tho waves of light." II'iu. That sounds reasonable.

AVe always thought a black eyo was caused by absorption of something and by something refractory, but we didn't know it wan light waves. Always scorned more like high rollers. AN INEXHAUSTIBLE HCr FIA'. They have struck a yein of natural gas 25 miles from Chicago. Yes; it leaks and seeps through tho porous soil of the prairies quite a long waya.

THAT'S THE WAY TO SERVE IT; HOT. "Have you a tasto for poetry?" asked Miss Babibell. "Indeed I have," replied the great editor, for it was he. "And what kind do you moat like?" she asked. "Broiled." ho said, through his set teeth, "broiled to a crisp, over the coalB." THE NEW TRIUMVIRATE.

O'Gnnnavan Uossa, Boulanger and Allen O. Myers. There's three of a kind for you. Takes fours or a full to beat it. A FAIR AVERAGE.

You're always around," said tho burglar, in a surly tone, "when you're not wanted." "Thanks, awfully," replied the policoman, "everybody olso says I'm never around when I am wanted." Lets him go in a burst of gratitude A CHANCE FOR TUB INVENTOR. Smokeless powder may bo a very good thing with which to kill people, but the invention of an odorless 5 coufc cigar would bo the boss thing for saving human life. REARRANGING THE ATOMS. Father Drouthie Mr. McSwill, didn't I see you coming out of a barroom this morning Wretched Parishioner Yes, sir; I went in to get some change.

Father Drouthie Chango for what? W. P. Breath. WHERE GOOn AMERICANS GO. "What is your national air aBked a Pan Amer ican.

And tho native American proudly swept his hand in one comprehensive gesturo toward the Capitol "That is our national lair. Come in and seo business draggin' along." How easy it is to tell a prohibition and a license town. Tho vernacular differs. Now, in a prohibition town they have closod up all the rum holes and gin mills and groggeries, and when a man is overcome with drink, he gets drunk. In the license town, on the other hand, you will find saloons and sample rooms, and men get a little full, or they drink a little too much, or they get over the bay, and once in a while they possibly may ho intoxicated, but not often.

Why does the O. W. Shipman lino, Rome, Wa tertowu and Ogdensburg, spell coal with a on all its cars? If it ia merely independent spelling, it's bad; and if it is a joko, it's worse. Maybo some other kind of coal, though. Hard coal, reckon.

Sells by the Ks. Joke. Brakemen on train other day, ono at each end of car. Never called stations alike. Never called stations, in fact.

Tried to, maybe, but inissod it. Whistle shrieked, front brakenian looked in, roared "State Journal! State Journal!" Wondered why town named after newspaper; must be type of American town. Bear brakenian looked in; yelled "Wait, woman!" Woman standing up to go out fell into seat like shot. Irain slowed up at station; road name ovor door "Natrona." Young man gets on at Harrisburg. Breezy man; two grips, one large, one small.

TurnB seat for himself. Puts high slick shiuy Bilk hat iu rack. Puts umbrella and cane with peacemaker handlos in rack. Puts on silk traveling cap. Itemoves shoes, puts on alligator slippers.

Takes off coat; takes lounging j. iokec from large valise puts on. Takes cigar from brand new case and stick it in mouth. Isn't in smoking car, so doesn't light it; uioroly advertisos fact that has it. Opens book; looks too sweet and comfortable for anything.

General impression among all women in car that young man is Old Traveler from Rov ervillo. Wander County, this State. Commercial traveler curling up for nap remarks, in low tones, audible from sleeper to smoker "FirstTrip." Everybody laughs. Young Oldtraveler, of Wander County, looks haughty and unconcerned. Train pulls out.

Conductor comes along great consternation young Mr. Oldtraveler on wrong train wants to go to Philadelphia this train howling along to Pittsburg first regular stop Huntington. Bell rope pulled. Young man scoops his things together dumped out into tho yards near Rockport. Has company of yard men, freight brakemen and switchmen, whilo ho drosses.

Pleasant men; much given to light raillery and badinage. Know the young man had pleasant time with them. Know also he will leave somo things homo next timo ho travels. Everybody young once. Family party get on at Bellwood.

Mother and little boy in one seat; father and little girl in other. Mother warns husband "Now be sure, don't lei Nettio go to sleep." Says he won't. Gen tlo sound as of snoring in high key with atmospheric disturbances, accompanied by childish snuffles. Father sound asleep; Nettie sound asleep in his arms. Mother Jabs boy viciously two or three times, as he nods.

Finally drops off herself. Head hangs back over seat. Hat falls off in my lap. Hate to pnt it on floor. Hold it best I know how, blushing painfully, conscious of awkwardness.

Giggling girls in next seat. Know they aro laughing at mo, hut hate to look around. 'Fraid cat. Altoona!" Takes two brakemen to waken family. Woman looks angrily and with dark suspicion in glanco at me as takes hat from me.

Evidently wants me to understand she thinks I took it off her head with intention of keeping it. No difficulty at all in understanding look. Turns reproachfully to husband Ob, George! After all I said you let Nettio go to sleep How could you I cast glance of sympathy toward Georgo as ho passes out, knowing ho will get my share of oration. Doesn't seem to mind it. Powerful tired of railway travol.

Six days week on wheels not travel; business. Boar and rattle, crash and bang nevor out of head; jolt and jar and jump and swing, with noise thrown in, fairly maddening. No fun. Nice enough ono day, hard work everydayfor five mouths. Told manager this year, charge $150 extra for all banquets after lecture.

Much harder work to attend ban quet than to lecture. Man rides from 0 A. M. to 7:15 P. talks two hours full day.

Banquet no fun. Banquet Business. Same way with "seeing few friends after lecture." Much rather see devil. Moro eutortainiiig; uot so fatiguing. Railway going not travel, anyhow.

Simply transportation. Picks you up in Brooklyn sets you down iu Chicago. That's all. Transportation isn't traveling. Steamboat nice way to The Sunday Morning Edition of the Eagle has a Large and Crowing Circulation Throughout the United States.

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The Eagle will be sent tc any address in Europe at $1.36 per month postage prepaid. The President is an early riser. Ho enjoys the freshness of the morning. He likes to be around just as night's candles are burnt out and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. The habit of getting up with the lark is one of the respects in which he does not resemble his grandfather.

The old man luxuriated in that matutinal interval of repose which the French call "half sleei." He was a lazy hulk and gloried in his lazi ness. But his grandson, Benjamin, is quite otherwise. We may differ with him in many things, but none of us can refuse to admire the enterprise exhibited by his breakfasting at the same hour with the chickens. And see how richly sucli enter prise may be rewarded I It was owing to his early rising habits that he was able to "yank" Montana into the Union and give Russell's Senatorial boom a lift while the members of the Cabinet slept. Senator Evans' return to his native land is timely.

Ho is just in season to give his party the benefit of his sage advice in regard to the next high license bill. It will be remembered that the Senator is an eminent authority upon this subject. Most people will concede that what he doesn't know about it is scarcely worth knowing. His last explanation to a Republican convention of the Republican way of looking at it is still fondly cherished by all who were able to "catch on." Here and there a few cloudy Democratic intellects failed to follow the silvery current of his ideas, but among intelligent persons the impression generally was that he had hit it exactly. What the Senator thinks about the liquor question is what the party thinks.

They understand each other, and if dull folks don't understand it's of no consequence. "The French Canadians are God's people," exclaims Monsieur Thibault, of Montreal. It is the design of Providence that they shall build up a new Franco upon this continent," meaning that they will eventually absorb and dominate a large portion of the United States. This far exceeds the "Nouvelle France" of Frontenae's vision. But if the design of Providence may be inferred from the facts of history, Monsieur Thibault is mistaken.

The business of founding empires and building up new nationalities has been committed to the Anglo Saxon, not to the Latin, race. There was a time when thr avarice of Latin sovereigns gave an appearance of pioneer enterprise to the energies of the Latin, people but neither France, Italy nor Spain has ever accomplished anything in this line comparable with the achievements of English uolo nists. Monsieur Thibault is talking nonsense when he predicts the subjection of New England to his "New Franco." Thy Frenchmen were never born and never will be born capable of supplanting any fabric of national government erected on Anglo Saxon foundations. Of course Mr. William Waldorf Astor never said, as he is reported to have said, that Chicago ought not to have the.

World's Fair "because the people there sit out on their doorsteps as they used to sit in New York seventy years ago." There are thousands of people in New York who sit out on their doorsteps now, and therefore the objection would apply as well to that city. The idea which he meant to convey was that the Chicagoans lack that refinement which ought to characterize the community selected as the theater of a graud representative American exhibition. The fair will attract a vast host of highly cultivated foreigners, and Mr. Astor thiuks we ought not to expose ourselves to the risk of unjust criticism. He would not have our guests go away and sum up their impressions of their visit in the remark, "Americans have large foet and coarse manners." A correspondent congratulates himself upon the thought that the Tom and Jerry season is approaching.

This is one of t)ws) indications which, taken in connection with the result of the recent elections, is well calculated to cast a gloom over the entire Prohibition community. Of what avail is it for a noble band of perspiring reformers, after years of incessant striving to keep the ball rolling for "water straight," when any enthusiast can raise the cry of Tom and Jerry" and have nine tenths of his neighbors join in it Sir Edwin Arnold's description of Niagara Falls in one of his letters to the London Telegraph seems to show that a little American whisky, mixed with the poetic inspiration that evolved Tho Light of Asia," is capable of producing a cataract of words quite as wonderful as the cataract of waters. Senator Moody, one of the Senators from the new State of South Dakota, is said to have unbounded faith in the future of that Commonwealth as a tin producing State. It is accordingly his intention to obtain, if he can, an increase of the duty on tin plate to a rate which will allow of its being profitably they do not get tired of celebrating their successes. They held a big celebration on Friday night and displayed a disposition of clemency as well as of congratulation.

Mr. John J. Clancy would do well to consider whether it may not become his duty to forgive the Democracy and apply for permission to carry the target instead of longer figuring as the target himself. The base ball people kept up all Spring and Summer with their games and they threaten to keep it up the whole Winter with their Leagues and Associations. The few who object to the prominence of this sort of thing will do well to reflect that newspapers accurately know what the public like, and that considerably more people are interested in the next base ball season than the number of those who are concerned about the next Federal Administration or the present one or even the next war.

Beside, base ball is mainly taken in a Chadwickian sense. Amherst College has made Seth Low a Doe tor of Laws. The degree was anticipated by the people of Brooklyn. For four years they made him a doctor of laws at the City Hall and in that time no Legislature of this State, Republican or Democratic, and there were both in his period, ever passed an act affecting the City of Brooklyn against which this Doctor of Laws protested. The action of Amherst is a recognition quite as much as it is a reward.

Saturday's Eaolb carried a report of a lecture on physieial culture in the Brooklyn Institute delivered the night before. The report says that the lecturer severely attacked the habit which women have of wearing corsets." Oliver Wendell Holmes has attacked that habit; John Brown, the author of "Rab and His Friends," inveighed against it; Charles Reade wrote smashing letters on the subject, and the Eagle has reason to believe that Adam, the father of us all, was equally hostile to the corset. Reade is dead, John Brown is no more, Oliver Wendell Holmes is in retirement, but the corset is here and here to stay. The secret of its continuance abides in the fact that no woman was ever guilty of tight lacing who wears it. The authority for this statement is woman herself.

There never was a woman, from Eve down to Mrs. Beck with, who confessed to tight lacing, and, if every one denies practicing it, how in thunder is anyone else ever to impeach her testimony There are twenty six wards in Brooklyn. Mrs. Beckwith got twenty five votes for Mayor. This is not one each from twenty five wards, for the Eastern District, as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of the Nineteenth Wards are called, only gave her one vote.

That is the Republican end of this town. It is lacking in gallantry and the Eagle would like the Brooklyn Times to tell this public the reason why. The Buffalo Courier hopes that the money will be forthcoming to secure a scientific encounter between Peter Jackson (colored) and Mr. John Lawrence Sullivan (msthetic), because "Jackson is apparently the man most able to give Sullivan the drubbing he needs." The editor of tho Buffalo Courier is a Philistine who cannot appreciate the cream of American civilization when he sees it. The persiflage to which American news papers are addicted is often the cause of soni' serious oflenses against the truth of history Wo read in one of the swell society journals of the English metropolis that "Mr.

Morton, Vice President of the United States, is a restaurant keeper in Washington." We do not suppose, that Mr. Morton's affidavit to tho contrary would prevent that statement from beiuir quoted bv future English his torians as an evidence of the vulgarity of American democracy. A sale of unusual interest took place Fri day when tho Finlay stores, near the Hamilton Forry, were disposed of at auction. The proceeding was the conclusion of a suit for the foreclosure of a mortgage held by the Equitable Life Assurance Company, which has rested upon the property for some years. A later mortgage or trust deed, in tho interest of other creditors, was made in 1888, but the price paid yesterday, $161,000, did not equal tho amount.

$191, 803.90, due to the Equitable, which bought in the property. Grain and other merchandise worth millions of dollars are stored in these warehouse.1; and while the ownership of the latter changes the business of Brooklyn's water front is uot affected. Baseball havi ng retired for the season from the outdoor field and transferred the activities of the cold term to a series of brilliant engagements iu convention, cImrs and billiards are coming to the front. These games we have always with us, though their interest is impaired by the excitement of Summer sports. The first is expected to attract unusual attention during the coming Winter, not only in this and the neighboring city, throughout the country.

As for billiards, it appears from an account in the Eaolb that, while public and club practice increases, there is a constant advance in private playing, and that ladies especially, to whom the exercise is well adapted, regard it with growing favor. Collector Nathan's promotion of John Strachan, a colored man, to the head of the spirit department in the Internal Revenue office, has elicited some unfavorable comment from disgruntled politicians. Mr. Nathan's action stands in shining contrast with the criticisms of his adversaries. Strachan served with credit in a subordinate capacity under Collectors Ward and Black.

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