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4 Los Angeles Herald K^S|f ISStnEDSVERY MORNING BY ■ : Till', HERALD CO. I THOMAS K. GIBBON.. ..\....... .President ;FRANK E. WOLFE Managing Editor THOMAS ■3. GOL.DING. i .Business Manager DAVID ;O. 8A11.1.1K .Associate Editor f i, Entered as second class matter at the i postofflce In Los Angeles. : OLDEST MORNING PAPER IN I , MM ANGELES . ] Founded Oct. 2, 1873. Thirty-sixth Yetr. Chamber of Commerce Building. * ; ' Phones—Sunset Main 8000; Home 10211. The only Democratic newspaper in South- Urn California receiving full Associated Press , report*. : \ NEWS SEHVICB —Member of the Asso . elated Press, receiving Its full report, aver aging ?0,000 words a day. 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Population of Los Angeles 327,685 CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN if&EsfiQlA miLLAlfl M AT THE THEATERS Ari>ITORH!M—The Passion Play BEI^ASCO —"What Happened to Jones." IlUnilANK—"Sweet • Kitty Bellatri." (.|{\M) — "The Girl from Paris." 1.(18 ANGEUlS—Vaudeville. MAJESTIC—"The Right of Way." OLYMPIC — farce. OHPllEUM—Vaudevlllf. PIUNCESS—MusicaI farce. EDUCATION IN his book on "The Privileged Classes" Barrett Wendell wrote: "Of all educational superstitions wo may freely admit none is morn in stantly apparent than that which wor ships the classics and mathematics as idols. And yet the newer educational superstition which bows the knee to pedagogics is beginning to seem more mischievously idolatrous still. For be hind the dethroned idols then was an orthodox truth, not jet discernible be hind the new; and the education which resulted from the elder system had a virtue which must somehow be re vived, if the new is to justify the mag nificent and generous faith of Still youthful America. No education can serve much purpose In preparation for the perplexing diversities of practical lifo unless throughout the years of youthful flexibility it deliberately and persistently train that faculty Of vol untary attention which only In ma turity should be suffered to range among the matters of its choice or of its incidental duty. Any education, on the other hand, which does this work is a priceless boon, not only to those who have won It, but to the country uf which they are citizens. The in stinct of our people is right, after all. To cluck the growth of privilege, high and low, ami to avert the dan: revolution, popular education, properly directed, probably can in ip us mor< than anj \ hintr • fee, especially it' in that po| ular ed on should i thorough training in di nism, tin- iirst prim the truths thai all men an '. that thi I >r wii; ■ , thai among th< se are life, lib erty and the nursuit f happi] INCONSISTENT RATES A' fC( iR IMS'; to a well known Lo» Angeles merchant, who ha - iiinkiriß- s onomic I inns, tup Stand ai I <ill • pponslble for I hort- Inasmuch i need a swarm of Imitators, in i ombination with bu i tlm unscrupulous type, railroads work to extract from the pul turns than they have a right t > i or expei t The aii tr of ,ii .jus a hundred on tin sugar from California point Missouri riv.r. Published testimony shows it costs ill' 1 railroads I c; i ents 11 r 100 pounds t.> haul that freight, while they an hauling i' foi the trust for ."'0 cents. Why • hould the railroad company transport the tin's sugar for fai less than what ought to be charged, and charge Cali fornia producers of citrus fruits twice what they can afford to haul truit for? The trusts and the railroads between them are doing their best to squeeze the Industrial life-blood out of the United States. Nothing is more ur gently demanded than i.he development of waterways and the completion of good roads over which motor cars may haul freight. With waterwuy.s and roadways shippers may become inde pendent of railway* COLONISTS COLONISTS nrp being brought to Los Angeles in trainloads. Tim pioneers who (raveled to Califor nia overland, enduring terrific hard ships, or made ' the weary voyage around the Horn, encountering buffet ing gea% would not have believed a prophet if he liad told them the day would tome when citizens would be brought across tho continent speedily and comfortably. Still less would hsj have believed <he prophet had he an nounocod tho coming of a day when tho transcontinental trip would be brought within reach of a poor man's purse. Colonists are ambitious, energetic, thrifty and enterprising, As a rule they pet and Rive a square deal. By benevolent assimilation they become Californlans in a remarkably short time, and "talk California" with all the ease and enthusiasm of old settlers or native sons. Industrial and economic conditions are such that we may expect another great westward movement. In the older states the quarrel between labor and Capital is reaching an acute stage. It does not seem possible any longer to guarantee Industrial peace for more than v year at a time. Many honest, hard-working men of olil American stock are disgusted with conditions produced by the practice; of hiring southern Eurn pean workmen in competition with them. Most of them would gladly exchange a life of sordid toil and <]■ privation for one of healthy or activity and opportunity. California Is still in an early stage of development. Good men arc needed. Many eastern workmen are making up their minds they have had enough in dustrial trouble. They are -willing to Journey westward and leave the sul phurous and smok;- regions to the Czechs and the Huns. These Americans are beginning to come to California In greater and greater numbers. They should be welcomed and everything possible should be done to help them take, up good land and settle comfort ably in desirable neighborhoods, Uni versities and schools should extend their great work of teaching agricul ture. Our colonists Should be taught how to use intensive methods of culti vation. The correct solution of the problem of competition with oriental terming is to teach our fanners to outfarm the orientals. White men's farming, both In the United Kingdom and In the United States, Is remarkable for ex tra vacant waste. For generations the white farmer has neglected the tact that small values iv the npßn satt; make up large values. In a thousand acre farm a certain generous mar gin may be allowable. but the prosperity of the white man's Cali fornia will depend far more on the white man's abiUty to farm ten acres than his ambition to farm a thousand. With irrigation and inten sive cultivation, fSoutlu'm California < an support a population so vast that our present population il<"'s not by comparison amount numerically to a corporal's guard alongside of It. South ern California is as far from being overcrowded as from being over- CUltlvated. There is plenty of room for more workers, and the productivity of our southern part of the finest state in the Union can bo increased many I lines over. LAND SWINDLES ONE of the most oruol land .swindles of modern times has been suo lully accomplished in Nevada. Fifty German-American farmers were induced to invest their savings in a treat v desert, which had been de scribed to them as a paradise by swindling colonization agents In San Francisco, Western land swindles have injured legitimate business, and have sometimes made it difficult or even im possible for bona fide companies to transact business in the east. For this reason, a.s well as others, it is greatly to the Interest of all citizens ,if western states to bring about con ditions which will mako it impossible for the land grafters to fleece any more victims. There are main' nbvloua ways of do hit; away with the risk to which "blind buyers" nre subjei ted, The country at large should be warned not to trust any sale which has not been "O K'd" by a responsible govi rnmental agent or official. A little foresight and supervision exercised In order to make all kinds and varieties and methods of land swindling abso lutely impossible would be of the i,-st possibU benefit to the I men and good < Itlzens who, i"rt'i re in the overwhelming majority In our western country. FOOD REFORM MANUFACTURERS and Jobbers are now advertising goods that are warranted not to contain of soda, and i>U advertisers nning to ni;ik<' a specialty of uaranteelng the purlt Within n cent years a great food United states has been >■ ell begun, ai d If people in many well paid ns they ■■■• at any rate get ■ iy their moneys worth Tin- Plim nation of cheap imitations of and i • übstltutea Is if tho most laudable features of The I elng enfo and wo bi I effect of ltl enfor ■ n e\ Idem c. The ill will be lmpn • ly and the n Ltional efficient y w ill 1 ,<; increased by tin v E pure food. As a nation, wo may thank our lucky stars that some of the flagrant evils that were menacing the vitality of the Republic are being amended. The food reform whs of i tie highest Importance. If It can be supplemented by a re form of the conditions that produce disease, especially those responsible for tuberculosis, the nation Literally will take a new lease of life. LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 14, 1910. The Original Chantecler Hat LOS ANGELES WAY A CONTINUOUS record of progress and prosperity is the history of Greater Los Angeles. it Is en couraging to optimism. Absolute confidence In the ability to achieve li one of the causes of the »uc cesa of the Jjos. Angeles way. This confidence inspires action, and practi cally makes Los Angeles undertakings successful from the very minute of their Inception. in the. two weeks ending Saturday the bankf reported clearing* amount ing to 184,768,1112. This was the high est two weeks' record in the history of Loi Angeles. The total for the corresponding period of last year was exceeded by $4,815,092. Each day's gain but one as compared with tho corresponding date of last year ex ceeded $500,000. On one day, however, the gain was nearly $i,."oo,ooo. Prosperity Is reflected in building ac tivity. In thn first eleven days of March, compared with the correspond ing period of last year, the gain In building valuations amounted to $354, --557; and in the number Of permit*, 138. The progress of Los Angeles is steady and Is absolutely normal and dependable. There are no eccentric "neighborhood booms.'" The great city Is being expanded in every direction, and Its destiny as tin- metropolis of the west, the New York of the Pacific, is indicated by many unmistakable signs. Los Angeles way is illustrated con stantly by a vast population of happy, Country Suffers Because Men of Ability Don't Serve IT is not an encouraging sign of the tlmai to sec- such men as' Governor Hughe* of New York insisting that the claims of their private in terests compel retirement to private life. In tins., days when it i'; difficult to Induce- a nirin of tin Hughes typo to so into public life becaute of the financial sacrifice Involved, it is all the more necessary to hold on to su h in. ii. once they do consent to take up md hardship* oi public office, There Is, moreover, something d< fectlve or tacking In a social and po litical system that makes such a con dition not only possible, but quite likely. Undoubtedly the American propen sity f.ir making- our tal-tits count for our nun advantage Brsi la at the Foundation ol the condition we note with regret and with .sonic alarm. This very habit <>f looking out be yond our environment to something largei and more profitable usually in doubtless the cause .it once of our wondi I tul progress and of our lack of, continuity, which hai become well nigh a national characteristic. Often the man who hap pi ns to gel into office sock that, no matter how he strive! to perform loyally and to Heroine Will Be Honored by Monument at Bismarck THE women of North Dakota are about to erect a monument in front of the capitol building at Bismarck in honor of Sacajawea (Bird woman), the Shoshone guide ol Lewis and Clark across the Rocky mountains in igo4, There is already a beautiful statue of this heroine in the park at Portland, Ore., made by a Chicago woman artist, with funds raised through the efforts of Mrs. Eva Emery Dye and others at the time of the j Portland exposition. Hut Sacajawea Is entitled to all the honors that can be, paid her. V '' The new statuo for Bismarck was designed by Leonard Crunelle, and the clay model Is now in the studio of Frederick C, Hibbard, 923 East Sixtieth street, Chicago, it iK of heroic size, nine feet tall, and depicts an Indian woman muffled in a blanket, with a papoose upon her btti k, and her right arm extended as If pointing out the way. The money to pay for the statue was raised by the Federation of Women's clubs In North Dakota and by the school children of that state. The reasons why the women and children should erect a statue to Sacajawea are given in laconic terms in a little cir cular published by the Women's feder ation: loyal, enthusiastic citizens—the finest people In the world. In spite of esteemed contemporaries the Fagot buys who are working 'n the freight offices of an American rail road ore not "scions of nobility." They an the sons of Sir Arthur and Lady Paget A "sir" Is not a "nobleman." (Not that it matters; but we might as well be correct.) Another grand old man will cole brate his one hundredth birthday an niversary at the soldiers' home. Peo ple of seventy and eighty are sprightly youths in Southern California. They cannot ho regarded as "aged" until they have passed the ninetieth birth day. Russian minister of Justice refuses to allow woman lnwyers to practice In tho czar's dominions. One of these days the Russian czar's dominions will be the Russian people's domin ions and then "everything will be dif ferent." Golf Is gaining such a hold on the affections of the people of Southern California that they may yet be in duced, for friendship's sake, to give the word Its correct pronunciation, which is "GOWFF." Many new business enterprises aro being started in Greater Los Angeles. Many new incorporations bear witness to the prevalent healthy business ac tivity. (San Francisco News i the very best of his ability the work of his offlce, there is always an active watchful interest in opposition seek ing to profit by mistakes, which may not be avoided, to confound and de teat the administration. Thus is the struggle endless and hard, and often unprofitable, from any personal point of view apart from the satisfaction derived from the conscious ness of duty performed to the best of one's ability. What li worse, the political ma chine, ;mii we know it, in city, state and nation, la well organized and is usually prepared to force the fighting. In this resp«Ct it has a decisive ad vantage over the forces of good gov ernment, which are rarely cohesive and oft. n quite the contrary. The Independence and the individual initiative that make for political in tegrity and for civic order and decency "i! ii aid in the defeat of their aim because Of the uncompromising nature of these qualities. It baa been the experience of every One who has ever undertaken to live ,i|i to the trying demands of a reform office thai the support which should be given ungrudgingly by those who elected him is often withheld, or if given at all, liven negatively or weighted down with reservations. (Chicago Record-Herald.* 1. Sucajawea was the first North Dakotan whoso name was enrolled on the pages of history. 2. ii is proper that wo mark historic spots in our young and rising common wealth. 3. Sacajawea was tim only woman to accompany the Lewis and Clark expedition. 4. She was their guide and inter preter. 5. She protected them when threat ened by hostile Indians. 6. She procured for them food and horses when they were destitute of both. 7. She saved their journals and val uable papers at tho risk of her own life. 8. She was the only one of the party ■who received no pecuniary compensa tion for her services. 9. While enduring hardships and Buffering she administered to the ne cessities of others. 10, She welcomed with intelligent appreciation the civilization of the white race, and was the first Indian west of the Missouri river known to embrace Christianity. 11. She was the first pioneer mother to cross the Rocky mountains and carry her baby into the Oregon. coun try ' '."■"■ . ' — Chicago Ttrcord-HrrftM. Public Letter Box TO CORRESPONDENTS—Letter* Intruded far publication mud l>» accompanied by Ilia Dame ami addreM of the writer. I 1 lie Herald cWea tii* wlilrit latitude to cormpoßdenU, but unmn' no renponelMHty for their via we. OBJECTS TO COUNTY PAYING PREMIUMS ON INSURANCE LOS ANGELES, March 10.—[Editor Herald]: I arlso to a point of business Judgment. Why does our board of supervisors Insure county property? From a news item in The Herald of yesterday I noticed that a burden of Insurance premiums ~n a half million's valuation of county property is to be put on the taxpayers of this county. If Los Angeles county, with its hun dreds of millions of assets, is not able to Insure Its property, I would Uko to know how an insurance company, or several of them, with only a fraction of the security represented by the coun ty of Los Angeles ran? The United States does not. Why? Because It builds carefully, does away with a largo percentage of risk, and saves millions thereby. Suppose a govern ii.cnt, a statf, a. county or city build ing should be dstroyed by fire, each could replace It hotter and quicker than any insurance company in ex istence. The writer believes In insurance by private parties, who may not bo able to rebuild In the event of loss by fire, without the aid extended to them by solvent Insurance companies. Resi dences, stores, machinery, private goods In transit, should be Insured. A city, a county, a state, a nation can replace property for the premiums paid to Insurance, companies and 1 aye a surplus left for a sinking fund to meet bonded Indebtedness as it comes due. Insurance companies are In the busi ness for profit, but taxpayers should not be called upon to pay toll, simply to swell the dividends of the Insurance companies, which will be the case if the board of supervisors persists in taking out insurance on county prop erty.. A REGISTERED VOTER. SUGGESTS LIFE ON AN ISLAND FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN SANTA ANA, March 4.—[Editor Herald]: With your permission I will endeavor to reply to the parties who, when writing on the cause of the high cost of living, proceed to draw such line discriminations between a "gen tleman" and a worklngman, and sign their articles with the titles of "A Criitleman" and "A Lady." Now, I expect the same party wrote both those letters, as the aforesaid "lady" comes bo promptly to the defense of the aforesaid "gentleman," and both letters classify the human beings who inhabit this country as the aristocracy, and the people of "coarser material," in a way which savors of toadyism to the monarchies of the old world. Tho "lady seems to think it vorj presumptuous that a producer of the necessaries and luxuries both should dare to think of partaking of the products of their own hands. I should like for these aristocrats to explain why the Creator of the universe en dowed us all with two "paws" if not to each do our share of the work nec essary to provide for His creatures? Indeed, does not the Bible say, "If any will not work, neither shall he eat"? I lid this "lady" or "gentleman" ever read of the queen who on being told thai her people were crying for bread, replied, "Why don't they eat cake?" It' so, they must know who produce cakfl or bread either are apt to eat some of both, whether the aristocracy approve of it or not. "Who labors for his bresrd its sweetness knows;" but such "ladies" as Anna Could, and such "gentlemen" an Harry K. Thaw may noi he satisfied with both bread and cake. If not, that need not keep US who do work from knowing the sweet ness of our bread. Again, let me quote from tho poet: "Whom shall we call our heroes? To whom our praises sing? The pampered child of fortune, The titled lord or kins? Th<-y live by others' labor, Take all, and nothing give; The noblest types of manhood Are those who work to live. "Who spans the rarth with Iron? Who rear* the palace dome? Who fashions for the rich man The comforts of tils hmoe? It Is the patient toiler. All honor to him. then! The true wealth of a nation Is In her workingmen." One of the noblest men that United States ever produced aaid, "Labor is prior to, and Independent of capital." By this aristocratic form of reason ing-, followed to its logical conclusion, this man I speak of might have split mill (luring tho term of his natural life and should have never aspired to anything higher. But fate, had or dained It otherwise, it one of these CURING BY HYPNOTISM Frederic J. Haskin OECAUSE the peoplo nt this country work and live under hlg-h pressure, overtaxing tholr mental and physical re sources, many of the leadirtf physicians and scientists oC tho United States havo aban doned drur i as t'...> cure for the nervous wrecks presented to them for treatment. It is becoming tho fashion among many of tho most brilliant prac titioners to treat such cases with neither modiclno nor knife. Tho now remedy Is Thought, or the uso of sug gestion with the aid of hypnotism. There are phyßlclans In New York. Washington and other large cities who say to the exhausted, nervous society women: "You do not need medicine. You must tench your brain and yoilr nerVM to rest. You must receive Into your mind tho compelling message (hilt tin- only thing which can help you is calm and repose. Wo can give It to you. but not by tho use of medicines or drugs." To the business man. who hns gone under mien pressure that he CM con trol neither his norves nor his brain, they rlvp the name advice, Hypnotism, which was once regarded as witch craft and later as an instrument only for harm, has become a benign influ ence (in modern American life, a prac tical remedy fur the distinctively Amer ican ailment Of "nerves" and the men tal trouble! which follow. It has har monized many a shattered nervous system: it has saved countless men and women from Insane asylums, and it has been demonstrated as a re liable cure of certain cases of drug and cigarette habits. • • • A Washington physician, who is known as ono of tho pioneers in tho movement to treat the ailments of the brain by the curative force of a healthy and normal mind, recently had a young man patient who has literally a nervous and physical wreck from the use of cigarettes. He told the patient thnt hypnotic suggestion was the only possible cure for him, and the young man agreed to try it. For five differ ent treatments ho was hypnotized, and there was conveyed to his receptive mind by the physician this one thought: "You will never want to smoke another cigarette; but, If you do, it will make you feel deathly sick, so sick that you will never try to smoke again." After tho fifth treat ment the doctor declared the cigarette victim cured. Two days went by with out any craving for cigarettes on the young man's part. On tho third day lie attempted to smoke one, but was seized with such violent nausea that to this day he has never touched an other cigarette. This is a serviceable examplo of the simplicity of the cure which has been advanced for a nation which Is nerve ridden. That such a remedy was sore ly needed Is shown by the fact that, while the death rate from contagious diseases has dropped 49 per cent since 1880. the rate from kidney, heart and mental troubles has increased 83 per cent. The physicians say that tho women of America, as well as the men, live on their nerves because they do not stop when their wearied- bodies cry out for rest. They sec nverybody else on the g-, and they do not be lieve that they can afford to be left " A New York physician Is authority for the statement that the number of nervous collapses and breakdowns among society women has grown to an almost incredible extent. A Washing ton doctor says that In addition to so ciety leaders being broken in the fierce social competition, there are .members of congress and other government of ficials who break under the strain. Both physicians agree that much of the nervous trouble Is caused by the increase in drinking and smoking In what is known as "high society." The New Yorker on one occasion treated a society wrmian who was plainly the victim of intoxicating drink. He asked her if she drank to excess. and she manifested Indignant surprise that he should ask the question. Kin ally her explanation was that she drank nothing but absinthe, that she did this only when she needed It as a medicine, that she frequently became exhausted by her social duties, con stant calls and late hours, and that absinthe was the only tonic which kept her on her feet. Upon his saying she must discontinue the absinthe drinking, she professed her utter inability to do so After he had treated her by hyp notic suggestion she neither liked nor needed absinthe. She let it alone ba solutely and in three months was again well and stronir This same doctor had the case of a broker who had formed the habit of buttoning and unbuttoning the top button of his coat. It was merely an evidenco that his nervousness was so great as to need an outward expression of some kind, but it had grown to such an extent as to make him appear ridiculous to his friends and business associates. There was never a mo ment when his hands were free that he was not buttoning and unbuttoning the coat. Of course, when ho became convinced that he could not stop the habit he at that moment did lose con trol of the situation. It was then that he went to the physician for the hyp notic treatment. It required only two treatments for him to become con vinced that the buttoning of his coat was entirely ridiculous and unneces sary. The conviction came to him by the doctor's saying to him over and over again while holding him in a "gentlemen," born in the purple, loses his wraith, as often happens, on what, then, will he maintain his stand ing U a gentleman. Fate is full of queer freaks, and It will not always do to Judge a man by the clothes he wears; they may not be his. Some of these "gentlemen," counterfeit million aires and others of their ilk, live on the installment plan, and sifted to the bot tom are In a similar situation to a young man who was sitting at a table with some Indies and ordering some champagne, when his tailor, whom he owed for the clothes he had on, came in and saluted him with the query: "What! drinking champagne when your clothes are not paid for?'" The young man, who was beyond the reach of shame, replied, "Don't you worry, this champagne won't be paid for, either." If this "lady" and "gen tleman" am not satisfied to live where they are burdened with the sight of the "low, vulgar class," who actually have to labor for the necessities with out which none of us, regardless of station, can exist, and whore all men arc said to be "created free and equal," no <me can prevent them from going across the big pond, and pur chasing their "badges" In the mart of titles (of the Boni de Oastellane or De Sagiin or Marlborough type). They might find a Crusoe's island some whore and live to themselves and go out in their yachts and "ride gaily over the sunlit billows" away from the maddening throng. READER. COMMENTS ON PROXIMITY OF JAILS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS PASADENA. March 7.—[Editor Her ald]: Thi! diseusion of crime and Ita ..in B* which has bcon going on in your columns has involved me in con- hypnotic sleep: "You aro no longer nervous. You do not feol the need of employing your hands uselessly. And you will know, when you awako, that tho habit is ridiculous." To tho Washington physician there came a woman who had been con stantly on the go throughout the social season. Physically, she was so nerv ous that her hands trembled, and her mental distress was acute. She had become possessed of the haunting Idea that sho was always going to bo late for the next particular function which she. was to attend. That idea got pos session of her nerve-racked brain and never left hor. It is easy to conceive of the tortures she gauffered and how sho Increased them di*y by day in her unceasing rush and baste. When she first went to see the doctor Hhe could not sit still, but paced up and down the room while she told him of her trouble. ye made her sit down, and with a few passes over hor eyes put her to sleep, saying to her In a distinct, com manding voice: "You have lots of time for everything you want to do. At any time that you feel you have too many engagements you will break thoee Which aro too much for you. You will .never hurry any more. You will never run from your door to your motor cur. You will In all things be calm and restful. You have lots of time—lots of time." This formula was repeated to her through eight or ten treatments until ono afternoon, when shu Ml awakened, she said carelessly: "I've no intention of going to the "s ball tonight. I've been doing too much, and I'm going to take my time here after." From that minuto she wan cured. • • • Another case was that of a member of congress who had been through a hard fight all summer and autumn for his nomination and election. It was hla first term In the house of represen tatives and he had continued to work long hours every day after reaching Washington. In his state he was known as a speaker of unusual ability, and ho had planned to make his ora torical debut on the floor of tho house during the consideration of a certain bill. As the time came near for tho delivery of his speech, which he had prepared and committed to memory, ho lost confidence, and there came Into his mind an awful dread of failure to Impress his hearers when ho spoke. This dread grew upon him so that finally he was convinced lie would fail This fear was tho direct result of his falling norves and tho high pressure under which he had been working tor eight months. Ho went to the phy sician a week before tho time he had set for his speech, and after tlve treat ments his Mtf-COnfldence returned, lie made the speech, which resulted in his gaining an enviable reputation as an orator. • ■ • There Is In the popular mind an im pression that hypnotism is a harmful thing because it puts a person's mind under the domination of another's thoughts and Ideas. I tis also believed by many that to submit to hypnotism is to weaken one's will power and force of character. As a matter of fact. It has been scientifically proved again and again that tho hypnotist can not make the patient commit any act or entertain any thought contrary to that person's Ideas of morality or principle Nor does hypnotism impair tho will power. Hypnotism can be, and sometimes is, abused by the pro fessional faker and operator, but, in the hands of a physician, It is merely a euro for ailments that cannot be reached by other means. It Is tho art of inducing sleep and then making tho patients mind so receptive that It will retain the healthful, helpful advice. telegraphed to it by the words and thoughts of the physician. The only opportunity for hypnotism to Impair the will power ai*ises when a person makes a habit of submitting to the same operator for purposes of exhibi tion and freakish tricks. In this way, in the course of time, the person hyp notized does train his mind 'to a cer tain extent to do whatever tho hyp notist suggests. But in all the his tory of the art there are only two authentic cases where the hypnotlets succeeded in using the persons hypno tised for criminal purposes. In both cases the persons had made a habit of submitting to hypnotism by one opera tor for more than two years. • • • The physicians who make a specialty of this hypnotic treatment do not as a rule continue it on any one person for more than a few weeks. If beneficial results do not come from it within a month, or six weeks at the most, it is generally regarded as impossible to make the desired progress. A woman patient is never hypnotized unless ac companied by a friend or member of her family. The great power of hypnotism over the physical functions of the body has been demonstrated by a Pittsburg physician, who put a patient Into a hypnotic sleep and told him that ho would suffer no pain when his tooth was extracted. Tho tooth was pulled out, and the patient suffered abso lutely no pain at all. Whether It can ever bo used instead of an anesthetic in surgical operations of a gravo ehur acter Is one of the problems of the art which will have to be worked out in future years. siderable correspondence, and this morning brings me a letter, part of which may interest your readers. I know the man as an orderly and pood citizen, but, coming to this country without a trade, he liud for h. long time a desperate struggle in the search for work. He writes me the follow ing, and I believe you wil see that his language is that of an educated man: "Time after time, all over tho land, have I been arrested for the crime of being broke (vagrancy being the legal term), and as often have I watched the faces of clean-minded young fel lose their clean-cut appearance and take on the hardest of the semblance of things with which John Law sur rounded them. Often has my own thought paralleled the Htatement that well might the guardians of the law change places with those they guard. "(Irim humor is often found in the proximity of our schools to the city jails. Often tho songs of liberty and patriotism taught to the innocent, trusting children float put to the mem bers of tho chain gang, or to impris oned derelicts whose liberty is being taken away from them, whose time in being stolen, and surely whose patri otic citizenship is receiving a shock from which it can never fully recover. I know." The letter struck mn as suggestive and perhaps worthy of reproduction in your paper. H. K. SEFTON. CHARITABLE It is said of the author of a volume of biography that his verict on the great of his chosen period i 8 much that of the New Hampshire parson at the highly approved funeral of a parish ioner: "Brethren, we muHt. agree that our deceased friend was mean in somo things, but let us in Christian charity allow that he was meaner in othere."