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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
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— Chicago Ttrcord-HrrftM.
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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."