Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1895 — Page 4

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Wlllard'e Hotel and the Washington Newa Exchange, 14th atrret. bet. Penn. ave. and street. . If the Indiana Democracy ever Intends to turn, over a new leaf this New Year's day Is the time. , - The new leaf that the people of. In-, dlana would have turned to-day Is one lor a record of Intelligent, public-spirited : legislation in the interest of all the people. . . : '.. If there is an association of county officers having for its object the defeat of a fair fee and salary law the best thing: "which it can do to-day is to swear oft for. trocd. "While it would be useless for the President and Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle to swear off blundering, such an announcement on their part to-day would prove their good intentions. If the moguls of the Indiana Democracy cannot turn over a new leaf to'lay they might resolve to turn down the men who planned the raid upon the school fund and the one who pocketed $40,000 of it. It is the best day ever known in Indiana for the officers In tha State institutions to turn over a new leaf and make the first entry on the clean page a resolve that they will not forget that the taxpayer has rights. , Would it not be wise for us to turn '. the sympathy which we have been expending upon the distant Armenians, whom j we cannot help, to our fellow A mericans who are said to be in need of assistance in Nebraska? It would be greatly to the advantage 1 V- 11 . . . n 1 II .1 4. , ul oucn rAUf iiciu rnauno us oeueye LUcti . . T . . . . . . . ii m I nil i;i r r 1 1 m rnHTipr is iiprrprT rn orswear vneir emims lor ineir own m-lauioi-iiy w-uay, out xney win not even consider this suggestion a moment. What a new leaf It would be If the prettent House should pass a currency bill which would command the support of the country. But In the eri of ,mlracles there is no record of a sudden change from stupidity to intelligence. - I 111. a 1 J. A. 1 ... . If , those enterprising promoters who Indulge the delusion that the streets of Indianapolis were - laid out and maintained that they may be filled with street-railway tracks could be made to see their folly and forswea it this new year they would indeed turn over a new eaf. A few years ago Lord Randolph Churchill . alluded ' sneeringly to Mr. Gladstone as "an old man in a hurry." With the g. o. m. celebrating his eightyfifth birthday and Lord Randolph fighting death at forty-five after traveling the pace that kills, the old-man-in-a-hurry seems to have rather the - best of it. ' ; " ' ( It may be that there are those in the Democratic House who realize the fact that if they pass any sort of a banking or currency bill which will check the presentation of greenbacks to the treasury for redemption with gold from the reserve they will be compelled to authorize a loan to make good the deficit which their tariff seems to have made permanent. So long as the Secretary can issue bonds to keep up the reserve which is being expended to pay current expenses these about-to-die statesmen can denounce the issue and escape the responsibility of an attempt to legislate upon a subject for which they know that they lack the ability. . The people who have been expressing, a wish for the production of something t distinctively American in the way of musical composition may "have their desires gratified when Walter Damrosch ompletes his new opera. "The Scarlet ' Letter." The libretto is an adaptation of Hawthorne's novel and is certainly sufficiently representative of a potent element of American history and American character-to1 suit the most exacting. No other' phase of the Nation's development shows greater opportunities for epic writing, and it is upon the epics of a people that some of the greatest musical compositions have been based. Hawthorne's story does not afford opportunities for the tremendous clash of the powers of earth and air that Wagner; found in the Nibelungen Lied, but there is enough of the pathetic, the tragic and the, intensely human to make a theme, for a beautiful and a great opera. Whether or not Damrosch will rise to the occasion remains to be seen. The music of the first and second acts will be produced at the" symphony concert in New York this week, and much interest in regard to it is expressed in music circles. The statistics of Dun's Review regarding employment and wages during 1892, 1893 and 1894, while not presenting all the facts, are valuable as indications. The statistics include establishments which employed 153,865 people in 1S92. ,t In the year tl at the Cleveland leaders were predicting the passage of a tariff . bill which would destioy protection tho

number of employed fell to 125,099 in those factories, and, again, in 1894, rose to 134,672. But the wages are the most important feature. In 1892. under the Republican tariff, the factories included 'in the Review's report paid $5,370,070 as wages; in 1893, under the Cleveland scare, the aggregate wages fell to $3,C20.728, a loss of $1,749,324. or 32.57 per cent. In 1894 the aggregate wages were $1,168,860 less than in 1892, or 21.77 per cent. Here is an aggregate loss of $2,918,142 to labor in factories which employed 153.SC5 people in 1892. Extend this ratio of loss to .all the wage earners in the manufacture, transportation and distribution of merchandise and one can form an idea of the enormous loss which the free-trade fad has imposed on wage earners. The Dun figures, it should be

added, 1 refer only to establishments which were in operation the three years, and give no inkling of the loss to labor by the closing of factories in 1893 which have not since resumed. But it is encouraging to know that the Dun statistics indicate better things. , ' MICH BRIGHTER PROSPECTS. The country enters the year 1895 with much brighter prospects than it began the year 1894. Then no ray of hope pierced the pall of gloom. Doubt and distrust paralyzed business. Silent factories had . turned hundreds of thousands of deserving people to idleness and to that poverty which means wretchedness. Through the humanity of employers who gave half work, the liberality of the well-to-do ani the silent, self-sacrifice of the less unfortu-, nate widespread suffering was averted. What is' better, we have escaped without increasing .largely the t army of pauperism. The better times which would have come if Congress had been animated by a . spark of pacrlotic intelligence were postponed and eventually liosc ty,its perversity and shilly-shallying.'. It was late in the season before that b'ody passed its tariff law with a threat to make . it the entering wedge to a policy which would open our markets o a competition from which every vestige of protection should be stricken. It was not until the election Nov. 6 that the country knew upon what it could tipend. In an overturn which is without parallel in political history the party whose policy had paralyzed with fear and threat the Industry of the country was hurled from power or tae possibility lof regaining it for years. , The fetish of free-tradeism was so overwhelmed that its devotees' cannot make it a power in this country again-until a new generation which has not the remembrance of the experiences of the first year and a half of Clevelandism shall have inherited th land. Assured by the election that the Gorman-Wilson tariff law stood for the extreme that" would be reached in the destruction of the barriers which preserved the home market for the home producer, business and Industry began to adjust themselves to the new conditions, confident that when any change in the national policy should come it would be in the interest of the American people. Business has been slowly picking up, the opportunity for employment has increased and trade has improved. " By the time that spring opens there is reason to expect a wider activity in the varied Industries of the country and consequently a much more satisfactory trade. Some industries will be cramped by the provisions of the tariff law,, and the present lower rate of wages compared with 1892 must prevail, but more constant employment will go far.to!relieve the hard conditions of 1893 and the larger part of 1894. ; Not only have the American people learned valuable lessons in the harsh school of experience the past year,- but they have had their attention called in a marked manner to political debauchery and misrule in various localities, particularly In New York. What has been laid ba"re there in the way of ex travagance, inefficiency and political crime has awakened the, people all over the country to the importance of intelligent and clean management of public affairs. At last ballot-box stuffing and gerrymanders have come to be understood as the parents of. low-grade and mercenary legislatures, t of purchasable city councils .and other officials who sacrifice public interests to private gains. The people, having made this discovery, are to-day demanding honesty and efficiency in public affairs. Indeed, .It is safe to say that never has there been a more general demand that government shall be "for the people" than at the beginning of this new year. This awakening of the people and their demand for better government, in connection .with the grounds for confidence in the industrial and business outlook, conspire to make "this, indeed, a happy New Year. .... THE EVIL OP LOOSB METHODS. The scandals attending the passage of the fee and salary law, which the Supreme Court has declared to be, unconstitutional because of its mutilation, and of the passage of such measures as the proviso . authorizing the plundering of school funds call for a reform in the rules -or usages of the Legislature. In every orderly legislative body the clerk or secretary Is the Custodian or guardian ,pf all bills vor resolves reported from committees. If he understands his duties he will permit no person to take any such measure from the session room, and will not, permit it to be taken .away except bv a conference or other committee. ' Such is the law in all orderly legislative assemblages. Such,; however, is not the custom in the disorderly gerrymander legislatures of Indiana. It is a notorious fact that members who have desired to retard the passage of bills ' have got possession of them and carried them about with them for days. A case could be cited where, after one branch had passed a bill and the committee in the other ha'd recommended concurrent action, a member of that committee put thg bill in his pocket and told its friends that it should not be passed until he was ready. He wanted a bribe. If the truth could be got at it would be found that the fee and salary act of 1891 was mutilated by some person who had no right to possession of the measure, or while It was out of the possession of the clerks who - should have forbidden its inspection by, outside parties. Pending the enrollment of a bill it should not be intrusted to others than sworn clerks. Attention is called to this gross Irregularity at this time , in order that the recording officers of the two, branches

of the Legislature or some one of their subordinates shall be made responsible for the security of papers upon w'hich action must be" taken that it be made a gross violation of the rules for a member to retain a bill in his poss'ession, . and that the clerk permitting any member or other person to take a bill which is awaiting action shall be discharged with censure. -

'THE OFFICIAL POLITICAL. ECONOMY OF IX DIANA." Under the caption "The Official Political Economy of Indiana" George Gunton, president of the School of Social Economics in New York, and editor of the Social Economist, exposes the fallacies of Professor Commons's latest work, "The Distribution of Wealth." in that periodical. Mr. Gunton uses the phrase "The Official Political Economy of Indiana" because Professor Commons Is the teacher of economic and social sciences in the State University. In his criticism of "The Official Political Economy of Indiana" Mr. Gunton briefly summarizes the theories of- political economists from Aristotle to the present time, and, by cutting a straight line through "the tangled jungle of these conflicting theories, arrives at certain principles," among which are (1) that the concentration of wealth in one hand is always productive of wealth in social use and never enjoyable wealth capable of being consumed for satisfying a want of the individual; (2) that the function of productive wealth is always to diffuse and make more abundant some form of enjoyable wealth; (3) that equality and abundance In the use of enjoyable wealth are proportionate to the concentration in ownership of productive . wealth so far as such ownership is really economic to society, and so far as it Is wasteful it ceases and the wealth is dispersed; (4) that this increased equality in the diffusion and the abundance in supply of enjoyable wealth is identical with higher wages, high standard of life and. high values to land where population accumulates and low prices of commodities, measured by effort spent in production- . Mr. Gunton says that these facts and principles of social economics do not find a lodgement in the mind of Professor Commons, but he evolves a theory which ignores these facts and regards the accumulation of wealth in one hand or in corporations as an evil. It is this theory which Mr. Gunton dissects. In one chapter of his book Professor Commons assumes as a fact that 1'agricultural products rise while manufacturing products fall." and he attributes it to "the exaggerated system of - private propertyin land." As a matter of fact, agricultural products have not risen in recent years, while the products of the factory have fallen. Mr. Gunton, however, criticises the assumption as if it were a fact, and makes the claim that the abolition of private property would make competition free very ridiculous. In the same manner he shows the absurdity of Professor Commons's claim that "the only raison d'etre of a' labor union is to keep up wages by restricting the numbers of men employed." "As well say that the only reason an army has-or existence is to restrict enlistments," retorts Mr. Gunton; "a union is like an array because both have a battle to fight." Of the claim ' of Pro fessor Commons that he has cut 'a straight line through the "tangled jungle" of economic "theories Mr. Gunton sas: , : -. Is fact, it was opened at least two thousand years ago by Plato, and has been trodden by a long line of dreamers not ending with Prudhon. They have steadily taught that private property should be aboiished, equalized or in some way reconstructed by confiscation. Such economists are in the condition of arithmeticians who have not- found the decimal system. The labyrinth has no clew. To be an official political economist of the State of Indiana, without the power to give an economic vindication of private property in land Is to be in command of an ocean steamer without chart or compass. . " The recogniton of the merits of the Indianapolis group of artists by Chicago critics is highly gratifying to their friends in this city, but it is not a cause for surprise. Here their talents and ability have long been knvvn and appreciated by discriminating picture-lovers, and it would have been cause for wonder if the same class of persons elsewhere did not at once detect the g;ood qualities of their work. The fact that this outside recognition has not come earlier is due largely to the modest and retiring: nature of the artists themselves. Not one of them has made use of the . various indirect though not necessarily illegitimate methods of advertising themselves and their productions practiced by many, if not most of the best-known artists of the day, but have depended wholly upon the character of their work to speak for itself. If the patronage extended to them in their home circle has not been what they deserved, it has at least been such as to retain them here and to make them the "Indianapolis school." This is not a city of wealthy people, and its art lovers are not all able to be art patrons, but so far as they could they have given their encouragement to the little group and are now ready to rejoice at the reception given it by others. Their wish is that this first, outside triumph may be followed by a series of similar successes. The weather and its variations afford an inexhaustible theme for New York and Boston space writers. Even press reporters who are supposed to confine themselves to the barest statement of facts are not free from the tendency to enlarge upon the meteorological phenomena of their region, but indulge in a vast deal of fine writing on the subject, to the great weariness of Western readers who know what blizzards and extremes of temperature are really like. It is therefore unwise to accept without question all the reports, of the recent storm in the East. According to , some of them there never was such terrible cold or such a severe wind, and of course every sensible person knows ithis is an exaggeration. Still, when the staid Boston Transcript tell3 of a woman on Summer street being lifted from her feet by the vind and, cast into a aiow drift it will have to be admitted that the down-easters have had something of a b'.ow. Nevertheless they ought not to get so excited over it. To talk so much about the weather is bad form, and, besides, shows a lack of versatility. The Aeronatic Annual for 1S95 has made its appearance. It is a book of 170 pages, and is devoted to the art of flying in its various developments. A few years ago two immense volumes were issued bearing the title "History of Woman Suffrage." At that time there was no woman suffrage and the books seemed superfluous, but as the women are now voting in several States and are likely to extend their political power, it may be that the premature history had its uses. There is as yet no aerial navigation by human beings, but the publishing of books about it may be expedite the day when man shall fly. Hon. N. A. Luce, superintendent of public schools in Maine, in his report "for 1834 fullv Indorses the free school-book system 1 which was adopted by the LtciJaturo five

years ago. The entire cost of school books for the State during the last school year was 156,682, or 40 cents for each pupil actually attending school. The cost per pupil since -the .free school-book law has been in force has been as follows:: 1890-91, $1.16; 1S9V92, 54' cents ; imrVl, 34 cents, 1893-'94, 40 cents. Under the old system of individual purchase the cost per pupil was $1.25. "The economy is not.'the chief merit," says the superintendent, "of the method; every child is promptly" supplied and the poorest is not kept from the schools, as was often the case under the' old method, because of the cost of books." '

Whatever may be the truth about the vaunted blueness ef Italian skies, Paris has nothing to boast; of in that line. The year there has been dull and gray, only forty days out of 351, says the Petit Journal, hav-ing-iaeen continuously bright. The climate for the United States receives a good deal of abuse, first and last, but it cannot be charged with a lack of sunshine. BUBBLES IX THE AIR. Hnll and Farewell. Thrice welcome, now, young '95, We're glad to see you come; For '94, who's gone before, . Was sadly on the bum.. ( .1. - i,i ... t AVoaldn't Stand It. "Fwat th' divil are yez baitin' this man for?" asked officer McGobb. "Because he insulted my party," said the Populist' gentleman. "He asked me in a kind ; Of sneerin' way who I suspected of wreckih' the Senate barber shop last week." . A Illteb. .Sir Peter What claim have you-to admittance here? ..' , New Arrival I always paid my pew rent and sent the children to church. "I miess we can let? you in on the same terms." , - t" ; ' "Er I 'didn't bring any money with ra." ThU Is Week. Of an old and noble foreign house He was the eldest Sun, She, just a plain American But then she had the Mon. "Love, why should -we be longer Tue?" One eve he' softly said; She saw no reason why they should, , And next week they were Wed. ABOli'!' Pis-OPLE AND THINGS. Cedarcrof t. Bayard Taylor's home at West . Chester, Penn., was destroyed by fire 'on-Dec. 22. : f Justin McCarthy,' the Irish Parliamentarian whose novels 'have been so widely read in this country is in his sixty-second year, but even at this age it is no unusual thing for him to slttup all night over his typewriter. , ;;." . The great Alpine climber, Edward Whymper, who has just broken a bone by tumbling up stairs, had a perilous -experience once in sealing the Ma tterhorn. He fell in a few bounds eight hundred fest, and was insensible for hours. The will of John' :LlTthgow, ho died in Boston a year ago has been disallowed. By its terms. his estatervorth $150,000, was to be held until all of 1iis children and their issue were dead. This might have locked the property up for 100 years, and the courts decided that he was of unsound mind. Prof." J. M. F. ' Snodgrass, of Chicago, has resigned the superintendency of a Sunday school in that'cit b'jeause the church officials insisted on having some one impersonate Santa Claus' at' the Sunday school Christmas celebration. He disapproves of the-ffd legend about Santa Claus, and says it tends to superstition. VMenlo Park," said Mr. Edison lately to a reporter for a London paper, " ,as the name of my other place in New Jersey where I used to live. Pretty place, but too far from civilization. This little wife of mine wants to be near town.- Likes to see people. I like to keep away from them, and could be perfectly happy in a primeval forast." - :.;, , ." Rumor is -constantly remarrying Mrs. Nellie -Grant SarlortsI1h""Las summer tha bridegroom selected by gossip was Gen. H. K. Douglas, of Maryland, but the notion of that alliance has been dropped by the newsmongers in favor of one between Mrs. Sartoris and Frank H. Jones, of Illinois, First Assistant Postmaster General. Mrs. Sartoris, it seems to ibe accepted, is too attractive a woman to, be left in widowhood. In the little village1 of Gruchy, near Cherbourg, where deari Francois Millet was born and grew; uo, still swings an old blacksmith's sigh in front of the village smith, representing a horse tied to a door. It was paintsd by Miliet. long; before his "Angelus" and "Gleaners" ihaji attracted the attention of the world to him. But now the French government is desirous of 'securing it. and have made ofters to purchase It that It may find a resting place in the Museum of the Louvre. . Rev. Dr. James Newton Shaffer, a Methodist divine of Nfew York, celebrated his eighty-third birthday the other day. In speaking of the, early days of his church worK the doctor said that he offended one congregation by using the word "invulnerable." On that occasion the church officials summoned him before them. "We do not want, and -will not have any Latin or Greek in our sermons," the spokesman explained. "We want plain .Methodist preachin' and no foreign fashions." Mrs. W. J. Baird, the famous chess-probi lem woman of London, recommends the game for. women on tha ground that it is a useful corrective to the tendency to jump to conclusions which most of the sex have. "Besides," she says, "it is a home accomplishment; no 'woman is compelled to leave her own fireside for the sake of chess, and, lastly, it proauces no flirting and general frivolity." Mrs. Baird is now ab!e to turn out a chess problem in half an hour. Her first one, composed six years ago, took 100 hours to accomplish. Her work appears in the ablest London newspapers and in the Chess magazines. - BOND ISSUES IX FRANCE. Peasants Are Frugal and Lend to the ' Government. . ' Washington Post.. - "One cannot help but admire the thrift and frugality of the French people," said Dr. Charles ' W. Chancellor, United States consul at ; Havre. "Everybody in France saves Up money and nearly every peasant is a ' bondowner. Without calling for a dollar from1 the outside the enormous war indemnity due Germany was pa.d m a little while. The government Issued bonds of $10 and $20 value, the French people quickly r took them,- and, coming into the hands of the- masses, they reaJy became a source of national wealth. In addition, it gave the people a vital interest in the preservation of the government. Men do not want to overturn a government if their pocketbooks will suffer loss, and so I think financial considerations as much as anything else wilt keep down all danger of future revolutions in that republic. There is no complaint of lack of gold over there, or any other form of money, and France has more bullion than England, Germany, Austria and Italy combined. "Then. too. it is a wonderfully productive land, raising annually about 350,O0O,CO0 bushels -of wheat, or within 5O,OO0,OOj of a max.mum crop In this country, so they need but little of our breadstuffs. The system of taxation in vogue there would be intolerable to Americans. Besides h.gh duties on imports, they place a tax on nearly everything in use. A farmer can't bring his eggs into the city without paying a tax. ' Every check or receipt must have a government stamp and no kind of leial document is. without it. The sale of tobacco is a government monopoly, because the tax on it- is prohibitive to private dealers, about $7 for a two-pound package. "Havre would be a pleasant city to live in, as it has an agreeabe climate, were it possessed of . modern sanitary conveniences. There is not even any system of sewerage there and it i a rare thing when an epidemic of some kind or other is not prevalent. Another objection from the standpoint of u American consular official with moderate pay is the extreme expense of living. Everything is just about-twice as costly in Havre as in my own city of Baltimore beef at 45 cents a pound and $1.50 for a chicken. Generally I have found it to be true all over Europe that Americans sent to the old world as representatives of their government cannot live in decent style without drawing on their private resources." w.i-- ."it;, Mnklug Him Popular. Kansas City JournalOne of .the "resolutions adopted by the Populist conference- at St. Louis denounces Judge W oo J s's action In imprison. ng Debs a "a stain: upon the judiciary of the country." The more of this kind of abuse Judge Woods receives the greater will be his popularity anwnj intelligent and patriotic people. - , '

OF THE NEW WOMAN

CARDINAL GIBBONS COL'RTEOirSLY SHOWS HOW HAD SHE IS. She Haa) the LawleamneKM of Eve, Moral Standard of Lacedaentonla, and Domestic Falling:) of Greece. - i Baltimore Letter in St. Louis Post Dispatch. The New Woman visited Cardinal Gib bons at his residence. She went to confession to him, so to speak, and the Cardinal has given her permission to print what passed between them. Cardinal Gibbons is an object of particular interest to : the New Woman, He has frequently written against her cause. He has recently preached against it, and the New Woman Is too much surfeited with approval not to be curious about any man who assails her. Furthermore, the New Woman is not happy. She has come to the philosopher in the still watches of the night, her war paint streaked with tears, her three-eyed peacock feather trailing in the dust, and said: " " . - "Behold, I am clothed with the sun; tho Tammany tiger is under my feet; the stars of Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas, are in my crown, and the ever-advancing cause of woman's rights is booming fireworks on 'every side. Yet, powerful as Lam I am unhappy. . Something ails me, and I don't know what." "I can tell you what." has. been the Philosopher's reply. "You need somebody or something to command you. You - wanted your way, and now that you've got It there's nothing left but to sit, like Alexander, and howl over the vanity of your vast possessions. You have developed your muscle and successfully met all comers. You have developed your mind till everybody in nature and good government propounds one problem only: 'Here's the law; Where's the lord? Men are afraid of you, municipalities consider you, States make a place for you, the devil consults with you and the Lord have mercy on you! Thus it was the New Woman was moved to go to confession. -Directly the Cardinal entered the room the glory of the New Woman seemed to turn wrong side out. It was not the brilliancy of his dress, with its gleam about the edge of the habit, the broad cardinal sash, the cardinal cap and heavy gold chain with pendant cross about his neck, that distinguished him in a way to embarrass the aggressive, advanced, end-of-the-century woman. It was his impersonality that offered her nothing to combat. It was the simplicity of hl3 manner that, without diminishing the dignity of his rank, greeted her familiarily rather as if she were a fximliar object, a woman just a woman, no more or less. That's the greatest emDarrassmem possible for the New Woman to be stripped of her discriminating adjectives. However, with an effort, she made bold to sav bluntly: "If it please your Eminence, I am the New Woman come to confession..' "The New Woman," repeated the Cardinal, wonderingiy; "who, what is she? I did not know there is a New Woman.' "Not know there is a New Woman! Your Eminence cannot be in ignorance of the New Woman. Why, she is the great achievement of the nineteenth century. She controls the age. She is in all the colleges, all the, pro-essions, and pretty nearly all puohc offices. She's the woman who is written about and who writes about herself; the woman who is talked about and talks about herself; the woman who is seen and sees nothing but herself. She is the 'I am' of modern civilization. Surely you must know that she carried the last election in ever so many Western States and overthrew Tammany in New York." A HINDRANCE TO PROGRESS. "Oh, I understand," said -the Cardinal. "She is the woman suffragist and her daughter. Personally .1 knojv nothing of that woman, except that recently she strove to prove my knowledge of ancient history incorrect. However, I bear her no ill will for that. But as a Catholic I am bound to disapprove any so-called jvoman movement The Church of Rome oxa.ts womawnood in the veneration it accords tne uiouier of jesus ennse, but in exalting -woman it stul nas regard tor tne speciau nature o ner mission in tne woriu, nicn .is equai to ma.it s, tnough not identical with it. Advocates of women's rignts, thougn 1 would De very sorry io mipU6" meir motives, are vary iar irom contributing to tne real progress and happiness of a woman." "But, your imminence, is not woman sufrage tne logica. outcome of tne higner education of women.'" -uoubtiess, ' replied the Cardinal. "That, however, is not to estaolisn tne right of woman suttrage. For tne nigher education of woman that takes her trom genue innuences from tnei influence of maternal solicitude and relg(on-to place her among men in the universities thaw prescrioe tne education witnout reierence to tne heart and soui, deoases womanhood, though developing woman's intellect. There is a saying of a German writer very apropos of this that tne modern educated woman vhose head has been enlarged at the expense of her heart is liive tne Strasburg geese whose livers have been fattened very nne livers, but very sick geese. "God has given use a heart to be formed to virtue, as well as a head to be eniigntened. Taking no more sentimental or religious authority than Webster, his definition of to educate is to instil into the mind principles of art, science, religion and behavior. , "Also Guizot, kn eminent Protestant writer, declares that education to be truly good must be fundamentally religious. Now, fatal as is the Indifference to eternal truths rosulting among men from a rejection of this principle, if the women, the mothers of our country, are to divorce religion from their reason, and gauge .. their excellence by the standard of a secular education.what can we expect of their children?" The New Woman interrupted the Cardinal here, saying: "Your Eminence there jumps to a startling conclusion from an unwarranted hypothesis. You assume that the New Woman has children. As amatter of fact, she does not. She puts off the evil hour of matrimony to the latest possible time, during which interim she enjoys a man's social license as a bachelor girl. She is devoted to her club. She excels in all manly sports and smokes cigarettes with as much unconcern as she dons bloomers and rides a hirvo.lA. If she hannens not to like ciirarJ ettes or bicycles, of course she lets them alone. Still there swells within her gentle bosom a glorious consciousness that what she does like she may attain. She may like social reforms. Then she goes into that sort of thing. She may like a profession. She follows It. She may like politics. She purifies them with her presence. In Washington just at present women are seeking to elevate morals with the introduction of women on the police force in the District. But -whatever her bent according to her temperament, she is everywhere animated by th scientific spirit thnt lives on experience. Finally, as a sociologist, she gets married She is the disciple of Malthus and sh? converts or intimidates her husband with the same gospel. Of course, very occasionally, she proves that the ways of Providence are mysterious and past finding out, and. despite the perfection of her modern civilization, a child Is born to her. Then the previous ouestion of your Eminence Is in order 'What can be expected of the child?"' SIX AGAINST CHILDREN. "Wrong, wrong, all wrong, and the greatest menace to our American liberty is the growing disregard of this country for the little child," answered the Cardinal. "Religion reveres and glorifies that little child. It is as a little child that the second person of the Blessed Trinity is born into the world. It was the little children that without reserve Christ bade come unto him, and It was little children he set up as a type of spiritual excellence by which men attain the Kingdom of Heaven. "Yet. as a people, we neglect the American child in -our public system of public education that excludes all religious training-. We further disregard the little chill in lax laws that make possible the divorce of parents and the disruption of homes. And if now the standards of the woman movement are carrying us still further from the assurance of all good that inheres in the little child, our future Is a sorry one indeed. I have reason to apprehend that the tendency among women to restrict the number of offspr.ng Is a growing evil. The Catholic Church has one law fixed forever on this point that human life i3 sacred, amd anv means whatsoever employed to- extinguish life, though it be of but an instant's duration, is murder, for which 4he offender's soul must one day answer before a God who has declared Thou shall not kill. and further declared. 'Vengeance Is mine; I will repay." "The human race depends for its existence on the Intercourse of the eses. which Christ himseir has d.gnified, blet and made holy in the church through the sacrament of matrimony. The union of man and woman in marr.age is natural and noble. It is unnatural Mid isiKii le If such unkm contem

plates the avoidance of the responsibility of its fruits. In this connection, as in every other relation of her life, a woman finds divine light' to guide her in the l.fe of the mother of Jesus Christ 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be It done nto me according to thy word.' "The woman who makes her marriage vows with any reservation concerning the will of God In the number of her children, is a worshiper not of God. but of mammon, and ks unworthy the love and protection of an honest m.ui." "There is another difficulty, your Eminence man. What's to become of him now woman is crowding his sphere? Notningness or petticoats seem to be his whole future." SHE IS AN OLD SIN REVIVED. "There can be .no doubt," said his Eminence, "that, as the woman usurps the man's rightful place in the house becomes

the lawmaker and the bread-winner of the ' family the man must become correspond- ; Ingly effeminate; but the woman suffragist of the nineteenth century flatters herself in denominating herself the New Woman. She is a very old woman old as Eve, prompted by curiosity and lawlessness to gain information of the devil,"-and her effect on man will probably be no more than a warrant of old Adam's feeble excuse for his enjoyment of forbidden fruit. The bachelor girl you describe who indulges in manly sport is not a novelty in history. She and the present craze for physical culture among women mark . a return to the moral standard of the Lacedaemonian women, who were taught, when maidens, to engage in exercises that strengthened their bodies and imparted grace to their movements, but at the sacrifice of female modesty. Then the bachelorhood of the modern woman is not new. It but stamps our civilization with the character of the domestic . life of ancient Greece. This counted women of elementary education proper material for wives, whilst clever women of higher education enjoy the license men accord to their mistresses. Also the Malthuslan doctrine,' by which the modern marriage Is regulated, is. after all, no more an indication of . advancing civilization than the practice in India that regulates the number- of offspring by drowning nearly all female infants. "Men may even be obliged to return to this method if the advancing .New Woman goes- to much greater lengths in enforcing her theories on society. "In the matter of progressive marriage relations the New Woman has yet something to accomplish to attain the glory of her counterparts in history. Martial tells of a woman who had married her tenth husband. Saint Jerome writes of a woman in Rome who had married her twenty-third husband. Seneca, in his day, said: 'There is not a woman left who is ashamed of being divorced, now that the most distinguished ladies count their years not by the consuls, but by their husbands.' "No, the New Woman Is not new. Nor do I think she Is greatly to be feared. Every evil influence in society, is to be deplored, and its remedy seriously considered, but, thank God, Christianity assures the world always a large majority of right-minded, true-hearted women who work quietly doing God's will in the sphere of life whereunto they are by na ture called, protecting the little ones against the fuss and feathers of the female agitator." , "It a New Woman came to your Eminence and told you she Is wretched without knowing why, what would you say to her?" '. "I would tell her that the cardinal virtues' of a woman are chastity and humility. The one attracts God. and through the other God is born into the world. I would tell the New Woman that to be hapoy she must purify her heart by prayer and humble herself by self-denial, remembering that self-denial is actually the denying of one's self, and that herself being the vanHy of intellect she must subject reason to faith, as St. Paul says, and her whole being to religion. For what doth it profit a woman if she gain the whole world and lose her own soul?" , "Just What I Wanted." Grandpa looked at his fine new chair. On the twenty-sixth of December, Saying, "Santa Claus Is so good to me! He never fails to remember; But my old armchair is the one for me (And he settled himself in it nicely); . I hope he won't mind if I cling to it, For it fits my back precisely." PaDa came home that very night. He had plowed his way through the snow. And the Christmas twinkle had left his eye, And his step was tired and slow. W'armlng for him his slippers lay, I The lovely embroidered-in-gold ones. That had hung on the f "nmas tree last night, . . . :. : J3ut he slipped his feet : old ones. And when dear little 3 3rys bedtime came. , On the parlor rug they found her, ; The long, dark lashes a-droop on her cheeks, : And her Christmas toys around her. Neglected Angelique's waxen nose. The fire had melted completely; But her precious rag doll, Hannah Jane. On her breast was resting sweetly.: . : The Independent. INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL. The Example Set !' Indiana College Presidents Should Be Followed. New York Evening Post. The presidents of Indiana colleges, at their conference in Indianapolis yesterday, decided to prohibit intercollegiate football contests between the students of the institutions over which they preside. Their action will no doubt cause a great outcry, and they will be called "physical wrecks' and enemies of their ratee and country: but really they must be regarded as the true friends of football. All they legislate against as the abuses of the game, which its hottest advocates admit must "somehow be checked or else the whole thing abolished. Indiana students can play the manly game as much as they choose on their own grounds. They can personally collide day after day with a violence 'and vigor which will assure even Professor Richards that they will make good citizens and be the safety of the Nation In the next great war. All they are to be prohibited from doing 4s to furnish a public spectacle of brutality, for glory and gatemoney. They can take each other off Into private corners of the college 'campus and "knee" and "slug" each other to their heart's content, . but they can no longer plunge the athletic alumnus and their sisters and sweethearts into a frenzy of delight by doing it before a yelling "audience at $2.50' per seat. It is perhaps too much to hope that our cultured college presidents in tho East should follow the example of these Hoos'.er schoolmasters, but th least they can do with decency is to confine intercollegiate football hereafter to college grounds. Such a step would itself do away with many of the gravest evils connected with the game, though we believe the entire Hoosier programme will yet have to be adopted. IN A -TRANCE ELEVEN YEARS. Cur ions Phases of the Life of u French Girl. London Telegraph. . - There is a; girl named Marguerite Bouyenval at Thenelles, in the north of France, near Saint Quentln, who is reported to have been asleep for the past eleven years. A good deal of doubt has been thrown on this phenomenal slumbering case, not only in Paris, but also in Thenelles and Its vicinity, where there are two camps, one of the believers and the other of those who maintain that the so-called sleeping beauty rises at night and had a good supper. The matter has 'been investigated by a Parisian, who has seen the girl, and found her as lean as a skeleton and as stiff as a corpse, but still living. Her mother Injects milk, peptone and sometimes wine through a broken tooth in the girl's mouth. Marguerite Bouyenval made away with a baby eleven years ago, and the gendarmes were sent to her house. The girl was so frightened at their approach that she had an attack of hysteria, which lasted several hours, and at the end of which she fell into a trance. The doubts thrown on the continuation of the trance have evidently been caused by the fact that the mother of the sleeping girl has made a good deal of money by exhibiting her. A local doctor, who has observed the case during the -eleven years, informed the investigator from Paris that Marguerite llouyenval hal really been sleeping during the. whole time. Occasionally she had hysterical crises, but did not awake after them. Other doctors have aluo agreed as to the genuineness of the phenomenon, and the sleeping girl of Thene.les remains a human mystery. "Trilby Awnin. The Critic. George Du Maurier. speaking of 'Trilby." recently said to an interviewer: "My earliest conception of the story was quite different from the one I finallv worked out. I had first thought of Trilby as a girl of very low birth a servant or something like that. Then it occurred to me that it would be much better . to make her Interesting to create a person who would be liked by readers. As a good many pwjple seem to be fond of Trilby now I'm very glad, indeed, that I made the change." - "Then the character was not a study from life?" asked the interviewer. "Oh, no; it was wholly imaginary." - Mourn for Jailfie NYoodi. Kansas City Journal. If the Populist cranks keep on denouncing Judge Wood they will make a presidential possibility of him.

CUKE FOR DIPHTHERIA.

HOW THE ANTI-TOXIN CCLTI RE I CAR I II ED ON IN BROOKLYN. Two. Cur.-fnll -Selected Hordes Wilt 'Yield the First of This Prod art -That Is .Made In America. i Brooklyn Eagle. Two horses of very ordinary appearance, stabled within the limits of Brooklyn, have been intrusted with a very important, mission. Quite unconscious of the fact, no doubt, the pair are engaged in the sclefitilioi process of producing for the medical staff of the Hospital for Contagious Diseases, on xvingsion avenue, a quantity as yet un known or anti-toxin. If the work is successful, and there seems at prenent no reason to believe that it will not be, it will result in the production of probably the first antitoxin made in this country. Anti-toxin is the newly discovered cure' for diphtheria. It is a very potent drusr and) has been used with marked success by Dr. 1.00 P T 1, , .... 1 V. ! , , . i ' " -'V j-'iu j- r.c iiju ilia a9.ai-aiikg x 1119.-Klngston-avenue hospital.' The limited quantity of it, however, which was Imported from Germany, was exhausted on Oct. 8. A new supply has been expected in this country daily, but has not yet arrived. Owing to Its but recent discovery and limited production it is very expensive. It was in July that the contagious diseases hospital received from Dr. Hans Aronson of Berlin some tntl-toxln for uie on patients of the institution. The preparation was usel in fourteen cases. Twelve of the patienta recovered and two died. The two ?atal cases were advanced to a stage olj eight and nine days when admitted to the hospital and were noted as most unfavorable for theuse or me arug, wnicn is considered to be or, beneficial effect not later than four or fivV days after the development of the disease.: The fourteen cases represented a dath ateof but 14.23 per, cent. The-moitality In cases treated by other methods was 2.45 per cent. ' This shows that there was a reduction of 13 per cent, in favor of snti-ioxin.' -- When called upon Joy a reporter, Dr. Duryea. who is superintendent at the Kingstonavenue hospital, gave a very interesting description of the production of anti-toxin. "Anti-toxin," he said, "is an Inoculation by hypodermic injection of chemically prepared blood serum from some animal wh.ch has been made immune from diphtheria." As Dr. Duryea, explained more fully this is how the drutf is obtained: From a patient afflicted with diphtheri.v Is taken a culture from the membrane in the throat. This is done by wiping a little piece of cotton over the membrane and placing the cotton in some substance which is favorable to the growth of bacilli, nuch as neei oouiuon. anis culture is put into an Incubator and the bacilli grow and produce a colony, sometimes In twenty-four hours. From this culture, known as Klebs-Loeffler bacilli, a solution is made. . ; HORSES .BEST FOR THE CULTURE. ' Then it is necessary to have soma aninr-al found to be the best suited for the work.' oiucuici auuuAia, auvJi eta guinea 1- 7 i-1 . .-. i- . . i ... ne . . a. - . . uuauie to wiuisianu ine eueci 01 ine poisonous bacilli and die A horse is sufficiently robust to endure the experience without Injury, ay iiypouernnc syringe me solution of toxin of diphtheria is injected into a horse. The spot usually chosen is the flank. About the only effect noticeable is a rise in the temperature for a short time. After a while tne injection is repeated. Tne process ts continued until the animal exhibits no effect whatever from the toxin. When it arrives at such a condition it is immune from diph theria, it may take rrom tour to six montna to put the animal into a condition of immunlrv. OnA mannpr nf nirf,nin!nsr fhrt im munity or tne unocuiatea animai is to ara some blood serum from it and then inject It Inl-rt u-nrtf-hAi- tieilfhv animal If nil tiff wf 1 is known to be immune. The blood seru'mt of the animal then is ready for use on diphtheria patients. A solution Is prepared ani that solution Is anti-toxin. Dr. Beh ring, who has used anti-toxin sfne its discovery, has found that the most favorable place for Injecting it by hypodermic syringe is at the lower angle of the scapula or shoulder blade. Dr. Duryea has found in the cases treated at the Kingston-avenue hospital that equally good results have been obtained from injections made in the arms and legs, as well as In the back. I The manner of ascertaining whether or not a patient has true diphtheria is as follows: From the membrane In the throat Is prepared a culture, which, after being for a time in an incubator, is prepared on microscopic slides for examination. If diphtheria bacilli are found then the case is known to be a true one of that disease, A culture is made from every case of diphtheria taken to the Kingston-avenue Hospital 'and the microscopic examination is conducted at the Hoagland laboratory under the direction of Dr. Ezra Wilson, the bacter'ologist of the health department. - But one injection of antl-toxln is made in a case of diphtheria. Two cubic centimeters is an average dose for an adult. The amount injected Is increased or, diminished, however, according to , the age and condition of the patient and the severity ot the attack. The only noticeable reaction in the patient is a rise In temperature of from one half to one degree. This follows three or four hours after the injection ami usually last from two to three hours. There is a slight fever. In the cases treated by Dr. Duryea the average duration of "'the attack of diphtheria was five days. Thus It will be seen that anti-toxin is a very rapid cure. ' CURED IN FOUR DAYS. There was one Instance this year where a family of five were taken to the hospital, all suffering from diphtheria. Four were given the anti-toxin treatment and wra discharged in from four to five days. The fifth, who was put upon another treatment. was not dischargel until three weeks had elapsed. Dr. Duryea said that In the two fatal cases at the hospital, the membrane was eight or nine days old. The age of the membrane made the cases most unfavorable ones for treatment. t . i. The antl-toxln does its work ; after one injection. Its operation is to destroy the baciui of the 0iease in the system. No other treatment is given a patient at the same time save of a supporting and antiseptic nature. The one difficulty with antitoxin Is that so far no one has been at'e to get a regularity in strength. The serun drawn from one horse may be of different strength from that drawn from another. Each solution has a standard of strength of its own. No virtue is claimed for the treatment in cases of diphtheria where tho membrane . is more than four or live days old. A weaker solution th;in antt-toxm it also irepared. called immunization fluid.' It is for the purpose of inoculating those who have been exposed to diphtheria, but who have not developed the d sease. The proces.i of inoculation is the same as in developed. C3.HGS ' . j- ' Dr. Duryea conducted the reporter to the stable on the hospital premises and had .the two horses which have been inoculate 1 with toxin trotted out. One of the animaij is twenty-three years old and fairly lively for its age. It frisked about the yard when, allowed to run loose and apparently enJoyed its freedom. A slight mark on the Hank showed where Dr. Wilson had . lujected the toxin. The other horse Is of rather lean build and was purchased at a moderate figure for the express purpose of bemV inoculated. Neither animal appears to be at all Inconvenienced by the presence of toxin in his system. It la five weeks since the firm Injections were made in the horses. , It may be six months before the animals- are in a state of complete Immunity. Or. Duryea in of the opinion that the anti-toxin obtained from them will be the flrst produced in tnis country, as he believes that his horses are a few 'days uheail of xome other animals which are im, ni nir u Mimi r irpinit'i I ill - r.vtf York. Mayor Schleren visited the hospital plant on Saturday and was greatly pleased with what he sav. The new building, which contains the laundry, nurses' quarters and disinfecting rooms. Is the rnoft complete of its kind in the country. It is built on the quarantine line which separates the wards from the executive build. ng. An elaborate apparatus for disinfecting clothing by means of 'steam heat has been introduced. Tho clftthlniz eoes in on one t?;de of the i huildlntt ana comes out on tne otner. m simdar way are tne catns ior paueius raneed. The natlent enters the bun : which is disinfected and where, clean t l ii-nr l nrovided. Tha live new cottages . comnieiea ana are unmuij euuiuum n diurv M-av. tt iircseni mere .nr dui e en patients in tne wnoie noopim;, mc ui -vivi are in the diphtheria want. One Theory. Philadelphia Inquirer. Possibly the. administration , U 1. . . , , -lf.rkiLMr,I..Uu Hilt hvMl

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