Show editorials GENERALLY throughout though out the union people have on their thinking caps just now and after drawing lessons from tile lile election have been drawing leesone from the fire that little boston blaze hereabout the people have on their thinking caps too but they are drawing from the gofir no fire lucil lineal happenings are the main topics lust just now and among the most salient of these happenings ings are the circumstances that everybody is out of coal just when there la is no coal to be had well what do we learn by this thib several things much in many ways among other things the following may way be noticed 1 that it la Is unpleasant inconvenient unhealthful and very trying to even good tempers to be without fuel in nobody lines iines to hear the wife complain of chilled feet or half cooked cooled meals meala or to hearlie hear the chidden cry with aching toes and fingers and nores nore s us as cold as a dogs doge with no fuel to help over the difficulty 2 that those who cant get coal now dow can save their money until the market murke t is better betten supplied bup Eup plied piled 3 that like the dutchman who wanted his deposit when he heard beard the bank was shaky and want hib bih money when he le learned arned that the bank was sound so eo as soon as there Is ia a whisper whimper that coal is scarce everybody flocks to the depot to buy whether he needs it urgently or not until a regular larg sized panic is created and those who really are in need can not be relieved 4 that weighty blame is laid on the coal owners and hand handleis lets for not keep ing the market better supplied each individual person composing the great public bilo forgetting that he himself m may ba bo ai kok koc noa ing sufficient fuel for fon borhi his s own wants in advance to outlast a possible months scarcity 6 5 that it is not safe for the community to wholly ignore wood and rely entirely on coal for fuel as ut at this juncture for instance what a good thing it would be if every family had a load or two of wood on hand in addition to as much coal as they might have been fortunate enough to secerel secure coal Is ia cheaper than wood generally but it does not do to rely wholly ois on either 6 that there has been no lack laek of carb cars on the railroad to convey all the coal required by this community though there might be a temporary lack of carfif cars if the community demanded the conveyance of six months supply of fuel in ID a week 7 that the early and severe storms a short time back made the roads very bad if not temporarily impassable and dispersed to their homes many teams from the weber mines but now that the roads and the weather are excellent very excelle excellent ut for hauling and EO 20 long ai a i those conditions exist much coal hauling should be done 8 if that hat the weather Is also very favorable to the getting of wood out of be canyons 9 that the business of supplying this thia market with fuel steady extensive growing and profitable as the business is ought to be placed on a better and more satisfactory basis than it appears pears to have yet been 10 that now dow is a good time to be as economical with fuel as one reasonably can be a lesson which many people have not yet learned 11 that patience and fortitude are useful qualities J just net now 12 that the present coal famine Is not likely to be of long duration that energetic measures are being taken by enterprising citizens to elleve relieve the market that coal can be mined as fast as it is wanted that t he the grade of the railroad connecting the thy weber mines with the U P R R jil lil is ready for the rails that negotiations are in progress for a supply of rails with engine and cars to run that branch on the narrow track principle that there is a prospect if things go favorably of the laying of the rails and the running of the cars on that branch within a fortnight or so ao that thence forth there is ground to think that the market will be much buter better supplied than it is now and that therefore there to is no cause for despair THE boston fire exercises the minds of the writers and talkers a good deal naturally enough boston preachers are twitted twisted wien laying the account of the chicago tire fire to a visitation of god as a punishment for wickedness past but over this boston fire the ther elb eib 21 al refIs crumb of comfort offered by no 88 a bersot age than mr beecher yet the tho crumb of comfort however satisfactory is not received without a captious query as the following from the chicago tames times shows the rev henry ward beecher assures the country that the boston conflagration old ola was not a visitation of divine providence upon that city because of its sins the announcement will be received by the public with the greater satisfaction because it proceeds from one of the professions whose members generally assume to know about such things the reason ahiah h brother beecher alvea gives for his conclusion Is not however a perfectly satisfactory one he thinks if the almighty cluid burb burba up so virtu jus a city ss as boston oli oiw on account of its sins that there would not be ba any cities in this country left standing how does brother beecher know that he Inte intends ids to leave any of them standing IN the maiter malter of the recent appointment to the philadelphia post office so lio far as we have learned president grant has haa done dune a good and commendable thing in choosing a competent person from a subordinate position in preference to putting the office into the hands of politicians that is the way let iet appointees poin tees be chosen from those who are known or understood to be men of capability and integrity and civil service reform will be effectually under way A movement la is now made on the part of certain manufacturers whereof mr edward harris is a master spirit to procure the adin lefcion of al ail wool free of dutwin duty in return for which they are willing to submit to a reduction of all duties on woolens to a uniform rate of tweety fave five per cent this movement asserts thattie th that atthe abe cost of clothing in this country Is fifty ii per et cent higher thal thai than in europe the proposed 1 bed aed change Is ax expected to reduce this excels by one halt hait that it would aiso also reduce the tue tar far farmers inducement to grow wool by reducing the price of that stapie staple Is ia adi admitted and how will the revenue be bio ennic ennie effected ted by it we cannot pay our great debt out of nothing the measure affects so many substantial interests thatis will not prevail revall without the gravest gr ave at donel consideration dera t fon ton new york tribune |