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FRIDAY, PECEMBER 0, 183-0. .
THE PBESIDBSTT AM) THE INSl-t
GEN.TS.
Now nnd thon George Balley, nf the
Houston Post" has Iticld mohierits. We
wish he hud more of them; for, ln
pplte ?f Irreverence; he really can (lo
good vork. Hear him:
-lt ls s.ild thal ^resldent Taft hn.
_xtended the ollVe branch to some of
the refractory Senators of his party.
If he would take our vlew he would
use a bludereon wlth spikes ln lt on
these rellows."
Prestdenl Taft was probably broug.it
up on Webs'ter's old Bluo Back Spell
lng Book. and he wlll remember tho
Btory told ln it. aboiil thr old man who
tried persuaslon upon thc boys who
were robblng hls applo orchard, and
finding that Bofl worda would nol
affect them ln thelr course, ho knock
ed them out of thc tree wlth stones
?which lay convenlently al hand. There
havo been a good maViy reports from
Washlngton ahout how the President
lia. been "snuggllng up" t<> the [n
surgents. how lic has callr.l them Into
counsel nnd begged their parclon and
hoped that they would forglve htm,
and all thal; btit if he has done any of
these things. and we doubt it very
much, ho nas made a thistake. Tho
club ls not a very attractlve weapon
to carry around wlth one. It is awK
ivarrt nnd heavy, and cannot be con
cealed, thore ls no place to put it when
one wants to slt down and no placo
;o carry It convejB_*fitiy whon one
wishes to .and up, and we should pro
fer the stiletto to the stlck. It means
a great deal closer .llghtlng, but at
'the same time it means more cffectlve
iightlng, and that is better than bat
trring up ono'a adversary or being
battered up in turn.
.Mr. Taft wlll not he able to make
anything out of the crowd who have
been antagonlzlns him, we mean the
crowd wltnin his own party; people
who are fortunately on tho outside
have the right to antagonlze him, and
lt is thelr duty to antagonlze him; not
pr-rsonally, of course, for ho Is _ very
lovable man, but because of hls poll
tlcs and the party of whicli he is the
head and front. If ho should make n
'treaty of peace wlth tho traltors in
the ranks of hls own party, ho,could
have no assurance that they would not
break the terms of the agreement. Tho
thing, therefore, for hfm to do ls to
Tteep hls head, to follow hls own Judg
ment. to do what he thinks ls right,
and, God helping him, to stand.
WllY IOWA HAS LOST,
"Lafe." Young is one ot the new
-enators at Wg^hlngton. He was ap?
polnted by the ;_ovdl"nor of Iowa to
.ucceed tho wldely lamented Jonathan
P. Dolliver, and lf he is as successful
in saying things in the .Senate as he
has been ln speaking his thoughtB
through his newspaper?Tho Des
Rloincs Capital?he wlll make an im
pression on the country as he has made
?upon his newspaper constituency. The
population of Iowa has not kept pro?
gress witij the rest of the country, nnd
the loss of population in that Sta,te
is charged by Mr. Young's pappr to the
progrcsslye legislation of the last ten
years. Speaking In the Capltal pappr
Wednesday evening, he, or thc man
he has left in charge at Des .Moines,
made this very frank and truthful ex
planatlon of the cause of the doea
donce of lo
like ten years ago a
llsm began to swoep
The doctrlne began to
at tho functions of gov
bi Ing porverte- to
Men who knew n
bi n to stlmulate
o whlch toaches
,. ? uch should bo
viiii susplclon, while
ihose that have much less must be
given tho benefit ?f the ilunlii.
T is stato ol began to find
- ; n in new legii lative i nact-"
thents, tlu chlei alm ol whli Ii wa.s ??>>
ahtagoni-e property rights, rather
than to safi fuard o thi ough
fconomy and ind i . .anuged to
acnuire it."
Tlie. suresi it iy to destroy the pro:
perlty ol Stati o? i ? pmmunil>; Ih
Peopli wl o ??:? ?". idene., pen.
Pie who are Inv.stli . . ; lial, people
fl.magogur-s,
lo learn this
Un ?.)?:,! g of tli
ii, lm_ii ].-;:,- Tho
newspap. ? ' il,..!,.
powi r to od.I ? ia
have
v m have responsible lendorRhlp in
polltlcs aud buslnes-."
SWKI,I,I.\G TIIR FlINU,
Tiir Is.ties of tho CPngrcsBidnul tie
conl for Monday and Tuesday wero
recelved yesterday by thouaand- of
people in every parl of the natlon.
Thero are no Interesting speechcs ln
theB. pagos, hut n, rnndntu perusal of
tho llst Of bills introduced-wlll reveal
the fact thnt ahout l.fiOO new penslon
bills wero presented in thc lirst two
dnys' sesslon. Most of those nre for In?
creases in pcnslons, whlle some are
for new pcnslons and others are to
"eorrect lhe record',1 as to certain 'sol?
diers or near-soldlera or nevcr-wera
Boldlors,
At thls rate, there will be many
thousand penslon bills before Con?
gress nt even thls short sesslon. Tho
enormous riuahtfty of these hllla wlll
afford little opportunity for propor in?
spectlon oC thc merlts and dcmcrlts of
these claims and wlll allow but little
effort In the way of detectlon of fraud.
The penslon inill goos grinding on,
waatlng the public money at every
step, pourlng v.ealth Into the grasp
ing bands of thoso who have no just
cialm ln law and fact to reward.
Take, for lnstance, the bills to "eor?
rect tlie record." That ls a short eut
tci graft. The pretended soldler or
tlie ex-honie guard gets In i>y this
route to plunder and pillage tlie trea?
sury. The Offlciai records do not men?
tlon them, but they gathcr evldence of
a doubtful or spurlous riature, use lt as
0 lever by whieh to prize open a place
for them in the olflclal reeortls, and are
enr'olled as regular soldiers.
The genuine veterans are passlng
rapitlly; President Taft in the message
which he sent to Congress on Monday
declared that old soldiers are dylng at
lhe rate of 3,000 the month, and point?
ed oui that. tlie rate of deaths ls in?
creaslng inevit.ilily ns tlmo paSSOS.
Novorthelcss, after forly-livc years of
I sllence and Inactlvlty, new names are
! being added to the peusion rolls, re
mlndlng as very much of that wiso
saylng Of Dr. .lohnson, "..itriotism is
lhe last refuge of a BC'oundrel."
One of thc be3t things that Presl
tlent Tafl said In his mOssago was:
"Care should bo exerclsed nol to go
to abBurd lengths (in the matter of
1 pcnslons), or dlstribute the bounty of
tho GTovernment to classes of persons
j who may. at thla late day, from a mer
cenary motive. seek to obtaln somo le?
gal relatlon wlth an old veteran now
tottdring nn tho brlnk of tho gra.v< "
Thls utterance did not go to the
root of tho matter, nor did it touch
upon the most Iniqultoua featuros <>f
the penslon system, but lt recalled to
the Amerlcan public that many schem
ing young womeii and women of mld
dle age are mairylng these veterans
wlth an eye slnglc to sccurlng a
wldow's penslon for tiio probably long
remalnder of their lives when their
htlsbands havo died. Such a relatlon
is hardly lnatrlmonial, ln fact, in many
cases tlie relatlon ls not one formally
recoghl.ed by thp law or by rellglon.
Thla glgantlc fraud lakes man;
forms nnil ramlficatlons' It ought to
be Investlgated, and it ls lo l>e hoped
that Congress will look Into lhe mat?
ter thoroughly and ordor lt Investl?
gated from top to bottom. The Gov?
ernment In thls matter ls carrylng- pa
ternallsm too far. Bloro and more
"penslon" is becomlrtg a synonyrn for
graf! and for theft in tho guise of
patriotism.
A GltEAT WORLD POWER NOW.
In nollng tho death of il. H. Iirock
way, lhe last of tho old-tlmeNew York
landlords, tho Waterbury American
says very trulj : "The identlty of tho
proprlotor is no longer important in
the New York hotel. Onyx columns
and sklll in BWeetbreada sons cloche
eontrlbute much more' offoctlvoly to
tho saUsfac'tlbn of patrons, The only
personaitttea which count are those of
the headwalter and tho hartendcr."
But our Waterbury friond forgets
that we aro a natlon now, a great
World Power, lilled with aspirations
Whlch, In tho clrcumstancos, we can?
not aelileve, but a World Power Just
j the same. Wlth tho prlmltlvo virtues
there has doparted the simplo ffaya of
tho old-timers whlch made life very
sWeet and health very good, because
i ln the days of bbttor cooklrig lhe food
I wa. suited to the human stomach, nnd
' not tn the demands of Frenchy names
! on iliuminated cardbpnrd. Thero are
i feW places lofl in New England, we
! belleve, whero men can bo fod on good
food,'but even New E-gland is yi.-ld
Ing lo the demands "f our Natlonal
life.,
WIItSON IX TIIE WEST.
' Wrltlng to the Edltor of The Tlnies
Dlapatph from away out at Milwaukee,
WUeorisln. an old Federal aoldle'r, who
spent four years in Virginia during
lhe War, and who has "n/ very warm
slde tor the Old Donilnlon and hor peo?
ple, though they killed my horse and
made me very uncoinfortable while
wlth them," says: "If the South
gocs solid for Governor Wllson, a greu
aon of Vlrginia, it will niean lhat th
Republlcans must nol put up a scrub,
Tlioi-e. was never a truer thlng said
;i in that, and lllO DeillOl iatic party
could not name a eandidale for l'ro.l
deni wfiH would ai>: eul morc strongly
t,, iho people ut tljls wholo country
tMft-W-. .row Wllson, of Nrv, .Tersey,
Ih- han grown U'limensely iu popularlty
and Intluence slnce hls marvellous i-ani
ign ln Jorsey, and he ls golng to
l.A.TEST ilii.VC l\ MG1IT (!OW.\_,
Tlu. oiti Ll u modela ior liom
do ' ni nn -ua- rp.co'inmendo'i.1
tl e~l il J ton llcrild. They
i ai,- all omplre oi ueinl-bmplr. ln cut,
| UlthO-gh thls ssiyle [? said to be not
1 ' I ? oi.uio- tu BtOUt HdllU-II. Tlie IR
I terlul ioi- tbe body ot tbe gown may
I ni. !.- -i no Inau -, but it is per
,... . :,.? L-iri rt-ivp itki a ?oi t
Ihnt nalnsoolc wonrs hettnr thnn titttll
or bntlsto, and Ior thls reason, lf no
nllier, it is fair to prcHitrno tljat nnln
Boolt wlll bc largely used ln Texas.
Thr- el'mple'sl di-slgn ls reneiied hy
cuttlng lho rinplrc bodleo of tho ma
lorlal. lllltng lt smoolhly, but nol. no
tlght Ihat It wlll look drawn, nnd,
thls having been done, tho neck should
he cut around or in a Bhallow sfiuare,
and ptiff slooves ndtled to the elbow.
Tho confeotlon can be trimmed, bodleo
and flloeves, wlth motlfs of laco or om
brotdery set on ln irregulnr dottblo
fotVfl or ln any deslred shape. If
mcdiillloiiK nre uSed they should ho
lirst bdsted on carefully nnd then ap
pllqued wlth Hn.v bttttonhole stltch, af?
tor which the materlal undcrnenth may
be cut nwny. If hard work is nkod,
the mednlllons can be worked in by
llne brlar st'tchlng or tlio shape above
thc edge enn be outlincd by n llno of
chaln stllch. ln Uiia case the nock
and slecves should be finished wlth
lace or e'mbroldery beadlhg to match
motlfs and cover thc jolnlng of bodlec
and gown. In some instances a frlll
of lnco at the neck und sleevo ls found
more heconi'ng than the medalllons,
and thls frlll can be ovcrcast scnntlly
to the beadlng nftor the gown Is finish?
ed, whleh would seem to be a very
clever way of gettlng around the
medalllons with the brlar stltclilng, or
even tlie chaln stltclilng. If the frlll
should be adopted, a wldo wnsh rlbbon
should be ru.. through the hcndlng and
be finlshed wlth fluffy rosettc nt the
left slde ot the neck and walst and on
tho outer part of the nim.
A more elaborato gown, wlth bodlce
of Swlss or batlstc and four-inch ln
sertlon to match, jolned by narrower
Insertion of laco, ls made; but wc do
not. thlnk wo should llko to wear lt so
well as the plainer, but thc less com
fortablo gown of nalnsook. Tlu- body
or skirt of thls sort of gown is mado
of two strips of cloth, so that tho
edges of the ombroldery shall face the
polnts, "being jolned all thc way up
the back and far enough up thc front
to get Into easily and leave a be
coming surpllce effect." We should
not like that.nt all, and espeelally as
tho outer edges are to be sewod in a
seam tinder the arms and the sleeves
aro to bo bell-Shaped.
Both of thoso models would do well
enough ln Roston, but there ls no rea?
son why any such Yankeo notions
should be adopted ln thls lawabld-lng
part of the country. At thls season
of tho year we should thlnk that tho
patlent would be more comfortable
with somethlng a little Ihickcr.
EVERY CITIZE.V SHOULD ATTEND.
One of those rare opportunltles which
come to tlie people ot' Richmond to hear
about tlie method by which the schools
of Rlchmond may bc- bettered nnd
broadened and made greater is pre?
sented to-night, when, at 8:15, Frofes
?or Charles Zueblin lecturos on "Tlio
Twcntieth Century School." Thls ad?
dress will be delivered in the audlto?
rlum of the .liilm Marshall Hlgh .School,
and should be heard Uy all who have the
welfare of thc school chlldren and thc
schools of Richmond at heart, By
great effort tliis omlnont speaker has
been Induced to come here, under the
ausplces of tho Rlchmond Educatlon
Assoclatlon, and ns admission wlU be
free to all, there ls no reason why hc
should not have a splendid audience
to-night. '
An oloquenl speaker, n master of his
subject, a rocognlzed authorlty in his
llne, Professor Ztieblin should havo a
representative and large audience to
night. ln other citles he has so>vn
prolltable seed, and il is to be hoped
that he can do so here.
TIIE VALUE OF CIUOUMSTANTIAL
EVIDENCE.
Just a llttlo while ago a man In the
Ohtii penltentiary was convlcted of
murder and aontonced to die on Decem?
bor 81. Thero was a strong chaln ot'
clrcumstantlal evidence against the
man. The prosecutlng attorney evl
dently belleved that the man was gullty
aud convlnced the jury', apparently, that
he was. Tho judge, ln proriounclng tho
death senlencp, must have felt that
justice was being dealt out. The jury
must havo thought that it hnd found
the Iruth, even giving to tho prlsoner
the bo'ni ilt of ull doubts ln tho case.
The -'oiimiunity perhaps thought that
Justice had boen done.
lt now has come to llght that the
man eondemned to death Is lnnocent.
The real murderer has confessed. llo'
owned up lust iu time to save tho liro
of tho eondemned man, Confosslon ia
too dfton delayed untll it is of no avall
to either lho lnnocent or the gullty.
Tn.' u'nnnls bf crlme aro illled with
such Instances. A large-slzed book has
beon issued tolllhg of Instances whore
iii lnnocent men havo suffered tho death
porialty lor crlmos which thoy dld nol
conimlt, Such cases are not tho only
arguments against capital punlshinont.
Tho law ls not always sure in its llnd
Ings,
SCHOOL CIIILDUEN AS A I'OLITK AI,
WEAl'ON.
According to the spooch of .lohn L
l.co, ol' Lynchburg, mado ln tliat clty
Wednesday night, thc school elilldren
ul' that clty aro bclhg used by the pro
Itlbitiiin uleiuent thero as -'a polltical
woapon" against olto-half of llie peo?
ple of thal city. \Vo think thal Mr.
I.o..-- v.as right in asklng the people ot
tho. Hill Clty, "Why do you stand for
thls'.'" ?
Wiother the people of lho clty are
"dry'' or '.'Wet" in ilioir bollofs. thoy
hftvo lo pay fpr tlu- support pf thu
schools. Thoy are tu-Norl for thfti pur?
poso, Tin- school duthoritlcs havo nn
right to llno up tho puplls ugaiiiHt uny
ono ola.-s ol ptttl'OIta aud pupporlors
of tho schools. To parado tho children
aud traln, lliem to Hlvfs lovnl option
liyiiiiis on tlio stro.-is of l.yni-hburg to
day is a proceduvo in wliii h the school
atithorllloH, If they shall do n, wiii
uvol-itop 'tlll ir b lltndS iillii o.so.-cd Hu
uittliQi'll} tleji'gated to tii.-m
??ii donioiistnites Hi-- ubsoHi'te lutonv
jjci.iiice' Ot tho.-.v ? v. iio wluiui to bc lor
toinpernnoo. T Bay lt Is nn otitrngo to
DUt Into tho mlnda of little children
that whleh wlll tond to cngonder strlfe
nnd bltternesn," said Mr. Neo on Wed?
nesday night, nnd he war, rlght. if lhe
school children, mb such, did thesiu
things under tho direction of sehnol
offlccrn, uslng tholr authorlty to carry
o.ut thls plan, thon these offlcers do
scrve thn severest censure.
Tho duty of a Bchool teacher ls to
teach. It is nono of hls buslness, In hla
ofllclal capnclty, what the polltlcal ls
sues' aro ln hls town. He has a rlght
to tako ono sldo or tho other per.on
ally, but ho has no rlght to Implant
prejudlclal ideaa into tho mlnds ond
hnarts of tho young. That. is for the
prnacher, not for the teacher.
If the parents of children wlsh to
send them out to slng .md pnrado, lt.
Is another matter; but It is n matter
wlth Whleh thc teachers have nothing
to do. The b'est thlng thc teacher can
do, bo he ever so zealous for prohlbi?
tion or local option, is to let tlicso
things alone, so far as the pupils are
concerned. It Is a well settled prln
ciplo in the Unlted States that
tho public schools shall not be
abused for thc purpose of extendlng the
doctrlnes of any sect, denominatlon or
polltlcal belief.
It js wrong to put into the mlnd of
tho chlld, who is not old enough to
thlnk for himself or herself, Ideas thnt ;
aro prejudlccd, ideas thnt wlll later ln-'
clte to c-nmlty and had feellng, Such j
action is dlscrimlnatlon, Is wrong, and [
is repugnant to the splrlt nnd the let-j
ter of Amerlcan instltutlons.
RETAIN COCK1M-I.I..
The Baltlmore Sun dlrects attention
to the fact that the term of Ex-Senator
Francls Marlon Cockrcll as member of
the Interstate Commerce Commlsslon
Is about to end. Ther.- are nimors
that he wlll not be roappolnted. Ile is
no longer a young man, but Ia us llt
for the position aB any man that can
bo obtalned.
He has already served live years on
tho Commlsslon. Ther. is no doubt
that he has shown rare quallflcatlohs
for thc ofilce. Ho has heard the ovl?
denco iu the important Invcstigatlons
and cases now nwaitlng declslon. A
rare comprohenslon and understanding
of great and vltal questlons has been
dlsplayed by Commlssloner Cockrcll ln
thc work of the Commission for the
last llve years, ln which work hc has
done hls full share. %
A btlgadler-general ln the Confeder?
ate army, Commlssloner Cockroll be?
gan hls servlce in the Unlted States
Senate in 1875. For thirty years ho
was a member of tho higher branch of
lhe Natlonal Legislaturo. Of the high?
est ability and charaeter, he has made
hls work faultless. He ls fair, judl
clal and honost. The only thing
brought ngulnst him ls his age. It ls
certain that that has not Ineapaoitated
him, and his long experlence and ad
mltted ability entltle. him to be con?
tlnued ln office. Ho has had long traln?
ing, ho has rendcred elllclent servlce,
and he is stlll able to render it. The
reappolntment of Commissioner Cock?
rcll ls to be desired.
THE OAS WOHKS SITUATION.
Tho Times-Dispatch has nelther
charged nor assorted that there has
boen an exploslon at the Gas Works.
Thls pajper has sought to prlnt only tho
truth, and has had no Idea of Injurlng
any person or undortaking.
Jt ls well known that on the floor ot
the Common Councll on Monday night
members of the Councll Committee on
l.ight declared that there had been an
exploslon at thc Gaa Works. On tho
.strength of these statements, over tho|
protest of Mr. i-'uller, of the Flnance
Committee, who desired more Informn
tlon, the Council approved flve resolu?
tlons allowing payment to employes
of the Gas Works for tlme lost from
work whlle injured. It appears that
the Councll voted for the llve resolu?
tlons with thc distlnct understanding
lhat there hud been one explosioti
"some tlme in October." One member
of the commlttee descrlbed this ocour
ren'co as "a dareback" or "buckdruft."
On the morning after the action ot
the Council, whicli is a- matter of rec?
ord, was reported in thls paper, Super?
intendent Knowles, of the Gas AVorks,
who was not present at tho Councll
meeting, by the way, vehemently denled
that there hud been any accldent at
the works and "demantled a retractlon."
He asserted that tho report of the
Councll commlttee was injurious lo him
and to the work conducted under hls
direction
Tho Times-Dispatch slmply prlntcd
tlie proceedings uf .tho Councll com?
mlttee. lt reported what was said, and
no more. The statement as to the accl?
dent was generally accepted by the
Council, there was no tlenlal entered
at tlie time, and thls paper slmply re
peated tlu- romarks inndo in meeting.
It now app ars, according to the com?
mittee records, that there were, as lirst
mado known in this paper, flve sepa?
rate aud Indopondent accldents. In?
stead ot happeuing practlcally stmul
laneously, the accldents took place at
dlfferent tlmes und in dilt'erent ways,
Members of the l.lglu. Committee' who
havo slnce looked Into the matter as
sert that tlte claims are all moritorious
-uid should be paid.
The facts that stlll stand out clearly
are that the Councll voted for tho llve
resolutlons under the lmpresalon that
there was but one accident. Also, Su
perlntondont Knowles has not wltli
drawn hla posUlvti dc-nlal that there
v. ,i- aity accldent, nor has hc with
di'awn hla donunclation nt tho prlntcd
rep H'i ot ia,- Common Council.
Tli ? oniv lesaon 10 bo dcrlved from
thi i s hore given is that beforc
- t _ms nt- rattlloi] by any Councll eoni
mltlon ihe coinniittee ahould bo in full
l'"-ss' islon.-of all tlie factH np-jl which
th' ,-laim is baaed, Bo far as the pro
vlous Btatemenl of thc proceedings iu
Ho- Councll is concerned, Tho Timo.s
iMspaich i,as ncvpr uttpmptod to make
om lhat there was au oxploulon when
Ihori- was not one. Thin paper was
I'iyh- iu tht lli'.u-Insiuncc When it ri'
porlod what had booli sald In Council,
ind lt has utrlven elmply to glvo a
true ahd falthful report of tho dup
posod facts upon which the Council
ictcd.
THE HOOKS THAT HELt'ED.
Tho current Christlan Entloavor
World of Boston contalns a sym
poslum in whleh thc hooks omlnont
people declaro havo beon most holpful
o them Aro set forth. It ls a rather
remarkable llst.
Julia Ward Howo dcclarod that she
was most deeply Indebtcd to Bunyan'a
'PllgrJni's Progress." Sho nualntly
iald that ln the flrst parties whleh
?he attended ln hor early soclal Itfd
)hc seemed to flnd "all of Bunyan'a
ilnnera and hut few of hla salnts."
Slbbon'a "Dccllno and Fall of tho Ro
nan Kmplre" and Splnoza wero also
:speclally holpful to her.
Joaquln Miller, tho poet of tho.Sler
raa, has found "most pleasuru and
proflt" ln tho Blble, placlng Plutarch's
'Llves" next.
John KurroughR values Emorson'a
\isays flrst nnd then the poems of
Walt Whjtman and Wordsworth.
Presldent Ellot plaees tho Blble flrst
ind then ncknowledgos hls great debt
to the essays of Emorson and Bacon,
tvlilch ho has most frequontly con
iitlted for wlsdom and advlce.
Henry Cabot Lodge really doesn't
know what book has Influenced hlm
nost, but we should lmaglne that tho
-vrltlngs of Alexander Hamilton havo
iftorded hlm much comfort ln hls
lolitlcal actlone.
"On tho Wabash slxty or seventy
.'ears ago bookH wero not plontlful,"
isserts .Speaker Cannon, but he found
lls greatest prollt ln Plutarch's "Llves''
ind Rollins's "Anclent Hlstory." The
Speaker confesses to a fondnesR for
Shakespeare, having read wlth proflt,
ve Imaglne, that masterly speech of
he great Cardinal, "I-'nrewell, u long
arewell, to all my grcatnesa!" Burns
s also to hls llklng. So are Scott and
jlekcns. whilo he says that he lourned
niich from McMnster's "Hlstory ot the
'cople of tho Utiltcd States" and Mot->.
ey's "Rise of the Dutch Ropublic."
.Strango tasto ls exhlblted by Wlll
2arleton, tho poet, who ha3 received
he greatest beneflt from "Tho Philoso
ihy <>f Health." by .1. B. Coles. M. D.
Shakespeare comes next in his heart.
Congressman-Elect Henry George,
Ir., plaees flrst linport.- co on the
31ble, and thoh on his father's cele
irated book, "Progress and Poverty."
Edward W. Bok, tlu- edltor of a la
llea' journal, prefers Emerson's Essays.
It would seem that the old favorltes
stlll hold their own. Few books aro
low wrltten that wlll be anybody's
irst cholce.
THE GHOWTII OI' CIlltlSTI AN"
SCIEXCB.
It is idle talk to say that with the
leath of Mrs. Eddy, tho Christlan
jclenco Church will bo dislntegrated
ind will disappear. Thls Church ls a
nuch more powerful one ln a phyaieal
icnse than most people thlnk. There
ire 90V churches and socletles of thls
'alth hero and in forelgn countries.
rhe approxlmato number of those who
'ollow Christian Sciencc is about 320,
)00.
There aro four churches In Afrlca,
>ne In Asla, one in the Philipplne Is
ands, four in Australla, six in Ger
nany, one in the Channel Islands,
hree in Ireland. threo ln Hcotland, one
n Wtiles, two in Holland, one ln Italy,
wo ln Swltzerland, one in the Baliama
Islands, three ln Canada, one in Pana
na, one in Porto Rico, two ln lho Ar
fentino Republlc. There aro flfty
ihurches in England proper.
In the United States and Canada
here aro :!,7G"> practlsing healers.
I'herc are 29G in forelgn countries.
Iealers are registered In practlcaliy
ivery country in the Northorn llemis
ihce. Every State in the Union has nt
east one Christlan Sclence Church.
The approximate valuo of ediflces
idonglng to the Christlan Scicntists in
Vmerlca alono is $28,000,000.
Thls growth and strength is remark
ible when it is romemborcd that
christlan Scienco is a comparatlvoly
lew faltli, and has achieved Its prln
ipal growth in the last two decades.
An encouraging word comes from
Chicago, where the Natlonal Cloak,
lul.t and Skirt Manufacturers' Assocla
ipn is now holding its annual c.onven
lon. The hobble skirt, the long coat,
nd freakish hats havo been triod, con
Icted and senteneed to death, and ln
911, wc are told, tho proper style wlll
ie an extenslon of tlie present hobble,
ufllcient to allow free and dlgnllled
iso of foot and litnbs, and the Jacket
vill be shorter and not so much like
. man's long cout, whilo the collar will
io larger. Thls Is flno! It shows
imong other thlngs that popular opln
on is stlll powerful In thls country,
ind that women wlll not bo permitteel
o make frlghts of themseives lf tho
lutt-makers and tho fault ftnders can
irevent.
Is tho Nowport News Timos-ilerald
U'ophetib? lt had a headltne yoster
lav, "Dr. Wlllson lho New Presidont."
Bve'rybody can guess why the TVynch
urg News is flghting local option.
We should like to know why Brother
\drtison. ?f tho Lynchburg News,
lalled to get Dr. Anna Bloimt, of Chl.
?ago. t? speak ln tho local option cani
lalgn ln hls town. N
Thousands of men havo beon em
liloyod to dig New York out of tha
snow. In Rlchmond, nothing of the
sort ls necessary, as. .thls town ls ao
sltuated thut tho snow nin's off by
Itsolf wTren lt gcis ready. VYohdci-ful
lown ls Rlchmond 5"n tho .lames!
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Soll ln Actlc ItetiloiiH.
In Arctlb rc-glons the ground ls per?
manently frozen to a great depth, and
the summcr thaw affectfl only a small.
though varlaible thlckness of soll. Thn
"perpetual ground lcc" near Yakutsk.
Slberla, hus been found to have a
aepth of ,"!&_ feet. Good reason has ap
I,. ared ;for bt-llevlng that It oxtends
much docpor in some places, and at
Polnt Barrow, tho northernmoflt polnt
of Alaska, about 10 degrees from the
pole, tha temperature at a depth of
thlrty-olght feet was 12 degrees
I-'ahr., the estlmate being made that
tlie ice must havo a total thlckness of
about 1,'Suo feet.
Shell .Money,
The shell money of the Indtans 1?
said to havo been used by early set?
tlers ln America. Ia lt known how
this money was made, and what was
Its value'.' T. II.
Tho wampum ls descrlbod as "shcll
beads" tnanufactured wlth fllnts wlth
much labor. instead of used In the
natural state, lljje tho cowrles or
small shells of lndl?. and Afrlca^ It
CHRISTMAS TREE
IS OF IRISH ORIGIN
lll I.I MUUU l-i: DE FOVrKXOY.
VEKMONT'a proposal to tax the
Chrlatniaa tree, wlth the objeci
->t piacliig sfome chcck upon tho
? \-i---i-. ? cuttlng oi young
frees and saplings which takes
pla;e every year in order to sattsfy
the demand for Christmas trces at
iTuletide, servcs to rccall that thc
Christmas tree, ln co far as its rela
tlon to Christianlty is concerned, ls
distinctly of Irish orlgin.
It was the lllbemlan Salnt Columba
nus (ho must not bc cohfounded wlth
Saint Columba) who when engaged ln
convertlng thc- pagnns of Germany and
Swltzerland t-> Christianlty, found them
so flrtnly linnucd with tlie sacred
character of trees, espeelally of llr
trees, that despalrlng of being able
to -indlcate the cult from their mlnds,
he and hls fellow mlssloniiries con
celved the Idea of endowing it wlth a
Christlan meanlng.
Already ln tho scventh century the.
flr tree began to flguro in Christlan
writings, pTctures nnd carvlngs, as a
symbol ot otcrnal llfe-, wlth Its poren
nlal verdure and Its brllllant llghts;
whlle popular legends dating from that
epoch, represc-nt thc old inun who at
Christmas vlslts each nbode, he lt pal?
ace or hut, to grant the prayer.* and
wlshos of tlie lnmatos, as bearing a
flr tree abluze wlth candles. As tho
chlldren yearned for toys. it was only
natural thut tbe tree ol good Father
Christmas should be hurig wlth gifts;,
and thus we have the Christmas trco
of to-day.
Throughout thc middlc ages, and
untll comparatlvely modern tlmes, the
Christmas tree remalned restrlcted to
Germany, Swltsserland and ScandinavlH
Thus; iu Austrla-Hungary, It only mado
Its- iirst appearance ln 1816, when
Grand Duohess Henrletta, tho Ocrnian
consorl. of Archduke Charles. set up
a monster llr tree, all ablaze wlth
llghts, and londcd wlth costly pres
enta for her young chlldren, who had
nev-..-r aeen anythlng of the kind be?
fore. Tlie ctiatpm <|iiickly spread from
her palace at Vleniui throughout the
Dual Emplre, and 16-ila.y there Is no
liouse, and not even any peasant
dwelilng in tho lonely Alplne distrlct,
whero llie Christmas tree ls not to
be found on Christmas Day. In Eng?
land. the Christmas tree was Introduced
from Uormany by Prlnce Albert, the
Touton consort of Queen Victorla.
it was Queen Dowager Chrlstlna
who tirst set up the Christmas tree ln
Madrld for her chlldren; while ln
France the Christmas tree may be sald
to have been introduced by the expa
triated Inhabltants of Alsaco aiul Eor
raine, aftor tho soizuro of those prov
incos by tho Gcrinans, at the close of
the war of 1870. It was determlncd in
Paris to give the chlldreh of the exiles
a Christmas as much as possible like
Uiat to which they had beon accus
tomijd In their homes on tho othor nlde
of tho Vosges. Tiie eharitable as?
soclatlons organlzed for the rollcf of
the lugltlves, took up tho matter, and
erected enormous Christmas trees,"lond?
cd wlth gll'ts, for the youngsters, at
the Hlppodrome. The Parlslans name
and saw the trees, and were dellghted
with the idea, and now tlio Christmas
tree is almost as unlversal in France as
it ts ln Germany, ln Austrlu, ln Eng?
land and ln this country, into 'whleh
it was Introduced by thc German set
tlers at the closo of tho olghtoenth
century and ln tho lirst half of the
nlneteenth.
Baron Mnx Oppenhelin. who was al
ono tlmo a frequont vlsltor lo thlt
countrv, nnd who has been for many
yoars now i-onnooted wlth tho German
legtttion at Calro, has just been pro
moted io the rank of Minister Resident
which does not, however. moun thal
he is to tuke lho placo of Count Iler
manu llatzfeldt, who ls ln charge ol
tho mlsslon. and who enjoys the rank
of Minister Plenlpotentlary. Baron
Opoenlielin's oonnectlon wlth tho mis
Hloii is of a rather unusual character
for ho does not servo ns a regular ol
jDount Hawfetdt's staff, but Js-attachsc
to tlie mlsslon tor tlie purposo of ln
ves'tltlg hlni wlth an ofllclal and diplo
multc stutus. so as lo ennblo hlm ti
pursim wlth grouU't' faclllty the work
tu whleh ho hns devoted tho last ton
or llfteen years.
This wjork ls ot a spuclul ciiuruc
aeter. It conslsta partly in tlie ex
cavation of tlio ruined citios of Meao
potiiinla, and of tho -Fuphrates valley;
secondly. of tin- oxploratlon of Arabni
and ot the rogloiis lylng to tho wost
of Kgypt: wlllle tho thlrd, nnd acecprd
ing lo many tho most Important ot
hls aetivitles, la his Gorman propa
ganda among tlie varhlus Moslom trlbes
of niirthern und central AfrU-a, ln
?\raiila, aud in all Ihat reglon which
extund* down iiiini Asiu Mlnor tu
thu Perslan Qu'U', ' ,
Posausaod of greal weaUh, whleh he
I
was made from the shells of whlte and
dark-colorod mollusks. One klnd had
thc form of porforated dlsks compnred
to a poppormint lozenge ln Blze and
thlckneas, and the other eonalstcd o(
short cyllndora ah elghth of uu Inch
thlck anrl two or three tlmes a? lonsr.
Both klnda wero commonly atrung on
cords of somo klnd. Short strlngs of
slx to twcnty-four booda woro lald
slde by Blde and knotted elosely to?
gether, formlng belts of varlod de
..gn from two to ten Inches wlde and
two to elglu foot long. Hevcral qf
these valuablo beltp were UBually ex
changed In ratlfylng- a treaty. Other
money was so scarec that the whlte
colonlsts wero glad to ??'1opt thla for
a tlme, und a. Massachusetts law of
1637 made it let?al tender for any
amount up to twelve pence, at the rate
of slx beads for a penny, whlle Con
ncctlcut made lt legal tender for any
amount. recelvlng lt for taxes at the
late of four bf_ds for .-. penny. in
Xew York lt was almost the only cur
rency for half a century. lta ubo in
trade wlth tho Jndlans contlntilnK
nearly to the mlddlc of the nineteenth
century.
devotes Wlthout stitit to these thne
?elf-imposed inlBsions, ii<- combinei
them one wlth another In so clever -
fa.hlon that he ,-.tn ulwa>: ,....?'
poll'.lcal propagand i witlt a mantle ol
Bcientlflc work: and thls excuse haj
frequently been pu< forward by tlu
German government, whenever th<
French or Engllsh authorities have had
to complalu of Baron Opponhelm's coB;
duct In forncntlng and encouraglng
Moslem trouble agalnst them.
There Is no doubt. however, that'thf
baron'a beautiful h.u
ho has on severai
..i tho dlipoaal of
various reignlng ho
.-laltlng i.gvpt. >.--. th
a g-.od deal ot Moslem antl-French and
antl-I.ngllsh nitive intrlgue, and thut
tlte baron oxcrclaes from thence a very
far reachlng Influence among the fol?
lowers of lalam, especlally among tho
Arab tribes; while it is lo him mort!
than to any one ?-lsp that the [Calsor
ls Indobted for the lmpression whlch
prevall.-i among lhe Moslem world of
.N'ortbern Afrlca, of Egypt, of Arabla,
Asia Minor, and even Persia. that Ein
peror William la tho champion, par
excellence, of islum, umong tho Chris?
tian powers of Kurope, and tlie bosi
and most powerful frlend pt thc foi
lowera of tho Prophet
liaron Max Oppenhe'ni has publlshed
quite a number of scientific works doal
Ing with hls various exploratlona, and
has made all arrangementa to aturt
at the end of thls month the exca
vatl.m of the great mound covering
tho rulr.s of the ancient HIttlte city
Of Tell lliiluf. ln central Mesopotamla.
Baron Oppenhoim ls one of tho only
two Hebrewa in the dlplomatie servjee
of the Kalscr, tho other being young
Gpldschmidt Rothschlld, who la at:
tached to tlie German embassy In
London, and whose engagemont has
Just been announced to Mlrlam Boths
chil.l, of Parls, only sister of Baron
James Rothsehlld, who spent Novem?
ber ln tourlng through the L'nlted
States. and who has just gone back
to Europe,
Apropos of Count Hcrmann Il-!_
feldt, there is no truth whatsoever In
the story cabled to thls country to
tho effoct that he has suceeeded to
tjie title of prlnce, borne by hls cousin.
tlie lato Prlnce Francls Hatzfeldt, and
also to tho latter's vast estates. ln
the lirst place, Prlnce Francls had no
estates of any kind. and was entlrely
dependent upon his American wlfe, on*
of Uve helressos of tho late Collls V.
Huntington Secondly, the parents, of
Prlnce Francls aro stlll alive, and
wliatever thoy can disposo of they will
leave, not to Count Hermarui, but to
tholr only daughter, Antonie> married
to tlie Austrian Count Althaun. It is
true lhat th'e latter may posslbly In
horit some of the cntailed property
of liis uncle, Prlnce Alfred, but it
remains to bo seen whether, the Em?
poror wlll he wllllng to revive Prlnce
Alfrod's prlncely title, after hls death,
ln favor of Count Hcrmann.
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