Let Us Kick

Mayor BEAKiasaw too late that he had blundered politioally aa well as morally in appointing Sipley city marshal. His attempt to fix matters so as to fatisfy the people who have some regard for decency left is exeeedingly lame. The city poor fund above all things should be considered sacred. The distribution of $2,000 annually to ameliorate the condition of the poor is something that should not be juggled with ; it should not be used to pay politioal debts at all, much less debts to wrong doers, to a man whoiscorapelled by public sentiment to resign his position. Even granting Sipley's willingness to make a good use of his almost irresponsible power over the poor fund, his intelligence is not great enougn. Just think of theanomaly ! A christian community intrusts with the care of its poor a man of confessed immoral character, and one who would not be intrnsted in a private business with a position requiring the same grade of intelligence and good judgment. Common humanity cries out against such an enormity. The man who has charge of the poor fund should be above rather than below the average in moráis and intelligence. The money might better be given to the Ladies' aid society. Let some protest go up for the sake of the City's good r.amp. Mayor Beakes sas in the Argus that not a single saloon keeper asked him to appoint Sipley city marshal. We do not believe that anyone is so silly as to suppose that the saloon-keepers did not make their wishes known to him. There is a saloon keeper on the council, put there to watch the saloons' interests, and he signed Sipley's petition. One saloon-keeper, at least then, did ask for Sipley's appointment, and he is a representativo saloon-keeper. But granting that the saloon-keepers didn't try to make their wants known, how does that help Beakes any ? When snch an influential business as the whiskey business comes forward and asks for a thing, city governments ueually comply ; and in the absence of counter demando, Beakes' compliance might be overlooked or regarded as due to nis great amiability. Bat he says they didn't ask him to appoint a whiskey sympathizer as marshal; he deliberately chose the wrong path without solicitation. Oue mayor in the Argua says it is a merit of his administration and of 8ipley'sappointment thit all of the saloonkeepers have paid their tax early instead of waiting as long as poësible as they usiially do. Boshl The saloonkeepers hurried to pay the tax because they were fearful that the new law would take effect soon, - a law which increasea the tax of all retailers to $600. That's the secret of their eudden ppasm of virtue, and Beakes knew it. His administration had nothinjf to do with it. Fancy Beakes being severe with his pol i ti cal b"sse ! The Free School of Mechanical Trades was the monument the late Isaiah Willianison, of Philadelphia, lef t of bimself. A. J. Drexel is founding a similar instítution for girls. These trade schools are becoming very numerous. They promise to revolutionize the oíd system oí apprenticeship. hb Chinese never kiss, bnt & Chinese mandarín wbo has traveled in western na tions has attempted to instruct the ba Bighted Celes tials. Ho says: "Kissing is I form of courtesy which consista in presenting the iips to the lower part of the chin and malcing a bound." Again: "Children when Tlsiting their seniors apply their mouth to the left or rip;ht Ups of the eider with a Bmacking noiae." + m When a Turk dies, the legs a-e tied together und the arms stretched by the sldes. The burlo l taJ:es place as soon as poasible after dínih. The corpse is handled very tenderly, us the Turks believe any lack of tendernesf would bring the curse ai th dead man'B suui upon them. The lato Dr. Dio Lewis, in speaking of Warner's Sife Cure, said, over his own rignatare : "If I found myself the victitn of a serious kidney trouble, I would nse Wn.mer's Safe Cure." He also said: "The medical profession stands dazed and helpless in the presence of more than one kidney malady."