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CALEDONTAN CLUB arterly moeting will be B AL O A Caiedonia Bulldn, 167 and 169 Esat avening Dextat Boclock. Washinglonat-, o2 RagtR ST Fourth Chiefualn. gfl: The Chicags Cribune, Bundsy Morning, Msy 8, 1874. DERY, N HONESTY VS. LOYALTY. In the House of Bepresentatives, one day last waek, two members of Congress’ ventilated the record of each other. The letters of one mem- ber, ehowing personal and pecuniary intimecy with the Washington City Ring,—the member be- ing Chairman of the Committes on District Af- fairs—were resd to the House. Thereupon the member thus inferentially accused of dishonesty charged that his accuser bad served in tho Rebel Army, and produced somo lotters showing that this man approved of the Rebeliion. Then the two members stopped. Oue had charged the other with dishonesty; and the man thus sccused replied that his accuser had been e tmitor and & Rebel. A fow dsys later the American Bank Note Company of New York, in answer to & commaunication from the Tressury Depariment, disclosed & scheme by which the Treasury Department was systematically robbed by the engravers and printers in its employ; and the men thus ac- cused of robbery resgonded that the New York Company bad engraved notes for the Treasury of the Confederate Government, The answer to the charge of stealing, in this case asin the other, was that the sccuser bad been in sympsa- thy with the Bebellicn. Under the eystem of slavery it was s rule of Iawin the siaveholding Btates that no white person should be beld to0 angwer for any criminal charge made by & negro; nor should the testimony of any negro be heard in the trial of any case where & white man was a party. The proceedings at Washington seem to recognize the same principle, substituting participation in the Rebellion for the color of the skin; and, en- trenched behind this principle, official dishon- sty defies investigation, defies examiaation, de- Bes conviction. Tt is universally conceded that, at this time in our national history, the great struggle is be- sween dishonesty in office and the right of the people to dislodge it. The investigations in the United Btates Senate show that, for & series of years, it has been s practice to ‘purchase seats in Jhat body, and that these seats have not thus peen parchased for the mere honor of the office, put for the opportunity the place afforded to nake money. It is unnecessary to refer to the tevelations of the Credit Mobilier affair to show that the sbuse of official position for pecuniary gain has been more general than s consistent with legislative purity. For years the integrity of the men employed in fiduciary sapacities has been undermined, and we have $sd innumersble instances of paymasters, sashiers, and officers of every degree, charged with the custody of public money who have proved false to their trusts. This disease has »sxtended to private business, and the record of robbery and defalcation in banks, corporations, and private establishments has been unprece- dented. But the example of official dishonesty has been most baleful in its effect upon Btate, county, and city officials. The changea in office in 1878, by the Farmers' andother popular move- ments, unmasked & thousand or more dishonest Lreasurers in all parts of the country. These tacts show that the great struggle of the day is ahether this general corruption and dishonesty shall retain possession of the Governments, Xational, State and municipal, or be dislodged. The War, of necassity, made loyalty the chiet virtue for the time. But the War has been suc- ceeded by ten years of peace, and the loyalty that covered dishoresty during the Warcan claim no ench exemption now. It is no answer to de- tected theft to esy that the thief was ‘ loyal™ during the War. Itisnot sufficient excuse for robbery to ssy that the robber did not enlist in the Bebel ranks. XNor is it any defonse tq & charge of official dishonesety that the accusar was disloyal, or a Rebel, or & Copper- bead, during the War. That kind of defense, \wasa questionable and disreputable, has become threadbare, and its use at this date is an insult $o the intelligence of the public, and an insnlt to every man who is s patriot and not a thief, Wherever there is a case of official dishonesty, where professions of loyalty are used as & shield or a veil to the crimes practiced bencath it, the punishment of the guilty should be more prompt and severs than in ordinary cases. The an is guilty of & double crime, and shows that his loyeltyis not real, but sssumed for a purpose. It is time that the public shonld puta peremp- tory stop to any farther professions of loyalty when the guestion at issue is whother the officar I8 a thief ar not. — Freights by water are very low now. It costa only 4cents & bushel to send corn to Bufralo, which is sbont one-fourth the ruliog rate a year sgo. Such low charges have produced an almost unique effect. - A vessel belonging to Mr. Prin- diville has been chartered - to carry corn direct to Cork. The freight per bushel will be 80 cents in gold,~—sbont 54 cents in the blood-sealed paper it {s ouz bleased privilege $o bandle. This experic i ment waa first tried some Bovertoon years ago. It has been repeated once or twice since,—never, e believe, with much profit. ———ee CANNON'S QUALIFICATIONS, Some question has been raised sato Bishop Caunon's qualification tosit in the House as Delegate from the Territory of Utsh, on the ground that be is’s “practioal polusamist.” The House Commiites on Elections find that he has the nsual constitutional qualifications re- quired in all Representatives. And as it is neither & usual nor & constitutional quali- fication nof to be s ‘“practical polyg- amist,” they are of opinion that Mr. Cannon should hold hia place. 1Mr. Cannon has been formally elected, is over 25 yesrs of age, has been seven years a citizen of the TUnited States, is a resident of Utah, snd that is all that the Conetitation demands. Ithas nothing to say abont polygamy or polyandry, and s0 Mr. Cannon may be Delegate from Utah and have thres or ten times the allowance of hap- piness which woman confers that ordinary Rep- resentatives can legally avail themselves of. He may sit in the House, make speeches, debate, Introduce bills, voto for or against, and, when he goes home, have, in addition to all thia hooor, four pair of rosy lips to smile npon bim, and eight eyes, black, blue, or gray, to shine in his’ bousehotd firmament; for on the number of wives which & Representative may have the Constitution is silent. : The Committee say they have no suthority to investigato the charge whether Mr. Cannon is a *practical polygamist,” but suggest a resolution bo introduced asking the ap- pointment of a special committes to investi- gate the matter, and to decide whether, if he be & * practical polygamist,” he be eligible to a seat 1n the House. When the Committee on Mr. Cannon's polyg- smy or no polygamy meet they will have to decide (1) What constitutes *practical polsg- smy." (2) Whetber Mr. Caononiss “practi- cal” polygamist. (3) Whetber, if eo, heisa fit person to take a seat in the House of Represent- atives. The Committee on Elections evidently draw a distinction between & polygamist pure and simple and & “‘practical” polygramist, We advise them, when they come to the framing of & definition of *practical” polygamist, 80 to word it that it shall embrace Mr. Cannon and no one else. Groat caution is needed here; else in the future some Senstor or Representative elect, and not from Utuh, might probably find find himself disqualified to assume his seat in Congress. l_unnwhila, those who entertain any fears that Mr. Cannon’s presenco inthe Houso may be hurtful to the morals of his non-polygamous colleagues will be glad to know that he does not take his fourwives to \Washington with him. One of Senator Carpen- ter's reasons why Congressional salaries should be increased was that every Congressman ghould bave his family with him; and, sa Mr. Cannon cannot draw four salaries, perhaps this is why he leaves his forr wives and four families st home. At all ovents, this is & charitable con- straction to put upon it. For sll Congressional purposes, therefore, Mr. Cannon may be re- garded as & bachelor. MODERN MIRACLES. We have been treated to large doses of the su- ‘pernatural during.tho last fow yesra. The man- ifestations have been arbitrarily classed as of the devil or of the Lord, according as they were wrought by persons outside or inside the Roman Catholic Church. When the closets of the Mo- ravisn setiloment at Bethlehem swarmed with ghosts of blood-bedabbled heads and shades of clutching hsnds, “demoniacal posses- gion” was the - ready explanation. And, in truth, the inane tricks of the av- erage spirit,—the thramming of guiters, and carrying of handkerchiefs, and laying om of hands,—sre too utterly frivolous to be ascribed to any very lofty source. Yet the devil must be wondrously stupid if he busies himself in sach ways. ‘The miracles of to-day are, howover, bt little better. Why should the Virgin Mary float sround in the air over & cortain spring? Or why shonld the Noly Bpirit, in the shape of s white dove, enter a cathe- dral and fly around the head of 8 priest who denounces the scizure of Rome by italy? Burely, these are very triding mira- cles, scarcely better than none at all. Yet mark the commotion they cause. A sick child fancies she sees the Virgin hovering over the Grotto of Lotrdes. She tells her innocent fiction. Pres- tol up goes a chapel and down go the pilgrims, hastening from every part of France. Bpecial trains are run for them. The engines aro decked with crosste. There is & Nationsl Assembly excursion. The devout Deputiea sing, on their journey, bymns to the Virgin snd Henry Fifth, to Heaven snd France. Itiaa curious politico-religious affair. Fancy & Congregational excursion to & place where a diseased girl thought she had seen God, with singing of hymuos in the French fashion: Praise God from whom all blessings flow, And Grat, our patron here below, Miracles have been most common on French goil. National humilistion and the fancled per- gecution of the ~Church have put the common people into & restless state of mind that gives ready epdence to roports of grest deads wrought by Heaven to comfort France or Bome. Moreover, the clergy havoe hitherto encouraged such a belief. A gurl in San Francisco snnounced, some time since, that her body had been miragulously impressed with the stigmats, The marks were there, sura cle. Bat the Catholic Bishop of that diocese, like & wise man, set a feminine detective to watch the girl. Bhe wassoon caught picking tho skin off her hands and feet with her naijls, The miracle collapsed. Thers wass gimilar case in Germany. The most noted of the French clergy, Bishop Dupanloup, who left the French Academy when it admitted & rank infidel to its sacred circle, has apparently learned wis- dom by the experience of his German and American brethren, and has turned infidel him- self, 8o far 88 miracles are concerned. He has written s pastoral letter strongly condemning that oraving for the wonderful which marks sensational religion. He quotes the saying of Pio Nono: *I do not give much credit to prophecies, because those in particular which have been recently produced donot deserve to beread.” Yet the Pope's children do not here sgree with the Pope. A book written.in support of & prophecy that the worid was to end on the 17th of last February found 50,000 buyers in France. Itwill bs seen that propbecy pays,— s, indeed, Dr. Cummings hss already found. It would have cost him much money if the.last trump had been blown at the time he first fixed forit. Each of his failures in prophecy hasgiven him a chancs to write » fresh book, cuntdqhgthbvm'mu‘ news about the final grand transformation #cens. Esch chancs has THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 38, 1874 been improved, and each book has found num- bers of credulous readers. Mirscles pay, too. It is an excellent thing for a priest to have one happen in his parish. Fresh intercst is taken in religion ; more masses have to be said; gifts are ‘moro froquent. It adds, too.to s man's importance to have God persopally help him to care for the souls committed to his' charge. Then rivalry between parishes comes in. Why should Lourdes have a sacred spriog, and not Pau? AndeoPau gets one forthwith. Noth- ing easier. Put s weak-minded girl in s lonely gpot, tell her stories of Divine spparitions, and set her praying to the Virgin Mary to appear now. Bhe will surely believe her prayer has been snawered. Judicions advertising and ape- cial railway rates for pilgrims will do the rest. Bishop Dupsnloup may write pastorals galore, but they will not stop false miracles. BSecular education is the one thing that will do that, and the Bishop's Church does not believe in such training. — THE GRIND OF EDUCATION. Although the world shows no signs 88 yet of preternatural wisdom, it is poesible that we are learning too much. Children epend six hours & day in overheated, ill-ventilated achool-rooms, learning & number of things that are utterly use- less to them thoreafter, and adults, who can study with more discrimination, yet have to rob themselves of needed rest if they would gain the highest rank in the army of truth-seekers. The trouble soems to bo that we are trying to realize that false ideal of an education: ¢ Somothing about everything and everything about somo- thing.” Such a training is no longer poasible, When & curriculum included ounly the study of how ‘“to ride, to shoot, snd to epeak the truth,” this ideal might have been attained. Even at a lator day, some- thing like it was possible, as the life of Loon- ardo do Vinci proves. Butnot mow. The field of knowledge has become &0 vast, and is so sharply divided into so many little fields, that 10 man can hope to becoms master of it ail. The smaller the spsce ho tries to occupy, the more chance of success. Thero was wisdom in the traditional death-bed saying of the German professor who had devoted his life to the Greek article: * I have rashly attempted too much; Ishould have confined myeelf to the dative cage.” The power of the man of one ides or tho man of one book is proverbisl. Knowledge outside of one's specialty, however good in iteelf, may bs a positive dissdvantage. Hamerton, in his * Intellectual Life,” gives an instance of this, An artist spoiled his pictures enough. Crowds came to seo this palpable mira- | by studying, with great care, botany and gool- ogy. Thereafter his landscapes were but bo- tanieal or geological charts, good for & class- room, but not for sn art-gallery. The speeches of Charles Sumner, overcrowdod with the results of his roading, furnish another case in point. Moreover, outside knowledge interferes with & specialty by unduly limiting the time that csn be devoted to the latter. It is melancholy to seea person, mot a polyglot by nature, struggling to keep up thres or four langusges, besides attending to one especisl literary —pursuit. He is deliberately crippling himsclf in the race with his literary rivals. It requires s deal of moral courage to decide to stop studying unnecessary things and so throw away the fruits of long hours of toul, but it be- hooves a wise msn tomake the sacrifice. One reason of the lamentably low standard of culture among women is because they aro apt to chase that will-of-the-wisp, * general culturo.” They try to know something of everything and so know nothing of many things. If they wonld but each take a specialiy, how much they might do! Wisdom tells the man who would be truly learned to study his specialty and to stop study- ing other things, save so faras they bear upon this, Yet the advice is hard to follow. The student yearns, lize Faust, for the knowledgo of the world, and perhaps, like Faust, fritters his life awsy in a vain attempt to grasp it. e CO-OPERATIVE PRODUCTION. The annual English Co-operstive Congress met at Halifax on Easter-Monday. Its sessions were mainly devoted to a digeussion of co-opera~ tive production. Co-operative distribution be- came long since a settled fact. As the Patl-Mal says: *There may yet be, and is, some differ- ence of opinion as to the limits of its ultimate development; but the question here is not one of success against failare, but merely as to the probable amount of a success, the fact of which is alresdy beyond dispute.” Production on co-operative principles is, however, still on trial. The store has naturally preceded the shop. In Chicago this state of things is reversed. We bave two co- operative workshops, but & store is still in abey- anco. England has co-operative corn and cotton and iron mi!.la! tailor-shops, carpenter-shops: coal-mines, etc., otc. None of the large institu- tions have, however, been in existence long. It is impossible to ssy, as yet, how successful they will be. One of them—the Ouseburn engine works—lost £10,000 last year, and has puffored from = strike this season. The last statement sounds strange, since co-operation is supposed to bo & preventive of atrikes. But in such establishmenta soma of the workers hold more shares than others. This is inevitable. When the concern is making profits, it will pay bheavy stockholders among the workingmen bet- ter to have the profits consumed by divi- dends, but the others will find it more to their sdvaniage to have them added to wages. This arrays labor sgaiost labor. The test is the amount of capital each man owns, 0 thiat it is really the old fight betwaen capital and labor over again. 8o compromise is needed, in & co-operative workshop, 28 well as anywhere else. Itis, however, easierthere than anywhere else. = One important benefit rendered by co-oper- ative production is the fixing of a fair scale of wages, which may serve 23's guide to masters and men undor less fortanate conditions. The pay workmen fix for themselves may justly be regarded 2s the limit of what they ought to have. Another benefit consists in teachiog labor the risks capital has to run, and the tasks it has to undertake. Wero these better apprecisted, fewer satrikes wonld be caased by the belief that employers were mak- ing unduly high profits. The groatest good is, of course, the resouing of labor from the hand-to-mouth life that makes bresd and butter s man's sole aim. Poverty, and the discomfort it causes, aro the prolific parents of sin. Removing them by giving the workingman profits as well ss wages is a grand thing. Bat, to remove them, it is easential that co-operative ‘production should succeed. And, to insure suc- cess, it is far botter, especially in large concerns, that masters and men, not the men alone, should co-operate. Then the trained intellect and the astablished business connsctions of -the one and {ha strength, skill, and good-will of the othars 3 v I 1 W™ ¥ o i wonld work together for tho common good, We have several times eketched in -theso columns the place of such s union. Ita trinmphant suc- cess in England calls for its adoption here. — MUSCULAR CHRIBITANITY. The Rev. W. H. H. Murray, more familiarly known as ** Adirondack” Murray, pestor of the Park Street Church, Boston, has atlast, after weeks of dissension, which came nesr rending his church in twain, obtained the vacation for which he asked, and the appointment of s associate clorgyman to aid him in his duties. The element of discord which led to all this trouble is no secret. Mr. Murray is a muscular Christian, who gots many of his doctrines from out of doors instesd of out of the-dusty tomes of his library. Ho is ns devoted an angler as Izaak Walton, and ss mighty s bhunter ss Nimrod He hss whipped every brook in the White Mountains, and knows the favorite haunts of cod and halibut in the «gad ses waves." Ho can traverse the Adiron- dacks without a guide, and has slept on tho ground with a rock for s pillow and only the heavens for & bed-quilt. He nas shot deer in the mountains, and hag antlers and fox-brushes in his dining-room as trophies of his prowess. He can walk with Weston, hit out from the shoulder like Morrissey, and swim like & duck. Worse than this, he knows & horse, loves 8 horso, writes about horses, keeps high-bred horses, aod is in his eaddest moods when some ome passes him on the milldam rosd. He loves good dinners, knows how to cook them sod eat them snd digest them. Worse than all, perhaps, he has a profound con- tempt for the little porquisites sppertain- ing to the ministerial officc and some of ite moro finical duties. He does not like worked glippers. He would rather have top-boots,—if of alligator leather, all the better. He does not banker after book-marks, because he had little to do with books. Most of his sermons he finds 1n the hills, brooks, clouds, and stones. Ho bas no more use for thoso worsted and paper knick- imacks which zealous young women con- struct for ministers in their hours of rapt dovotion snd leisure than a cow has for the latest style of polonaise. Feeble gisters, who come to him with rheumatic cer- tainties and spiritual uncortainties, are a bore to him, and he would rather any time take a 20- milo gallop or go fishing for flounders tban at- tond sewing-circles, atrawberry-festivals, or necktie-sociables. The great question at issue, therefore, was : Can a minister indulgo in such earthly luxuries and be s minister? Can s clorgyman who hunts, and fishes, and drives a fast horse be spiritually inclined ? Can a min- jster who drives a sulky inside of 2:40 preach 80 acceptably as he who drives at the conven- tional jog-trot in a chaise, snd is mot distressed because the cows pass bim on the road? Iathore any saving grace in a man who can oo without spectacles, est without dys- pepeis, run without & back-ache, and ehout sgainst & northeaster without detriment to bis vocal organs? These arethe questions which distressed the good bretlren. They feared there was heresy in the Adirondack woods and spiritual lapses in the Marshfield beaches. Itis pleasant to know, however, that thereis one congrogation which believes that s man can be a minister even if he has & good stomach, a well-ordered liver, & straight back-bone, and hard muscle PULPIT-CRITICISMS OF THE DRAMA, ‘Tho following are excerpts from s sermon on the Drama preached at the University Baptist Charch last Sunday, and reported in Txa Trrs- UNE of the day following: It {s an imbecilo indulgence, sn unhealthy excite- ‘ment, 8 sensusl gratification. Thero is no system of morality that the stege has not vilified and brought into public contempt. It pro- fancs the relation of the sexes ; it violates every refin- e sentiment of womanhood ; it perverts every prin- ciple of manbood. Tt seems to please at the expense of virtue and rell- glon, and 80 15 destructive to man and dishonoring to God. Instend of refining the manners and improving tha taste, there 18 o vice that has not at ono time or other sprung from the thestre. For & play to be popular it ‘must appeal to the grosser nature, and #0 degrads and not elevate. Then Satan has got you surs, i ho has so gilded the ‘house of death that you think it to be tho gate of life. The moral reputation of actors is lower than tbat of any other class of equal talents, No man would be #lling to marry sn actress if he wanted s virtuous wife, He would not wish an actor to viait his family and associate with his children. Tts infiuence 18 evil, since it 13 & necessary and un- avojdable imperfection aa a work of art. The best sctors the world ever saw cannot copy ‘human Hife accurately enough to give a single lesson in human nature. No man can felgn feelings, especially high and noble feelings, successfally. Ho is 2 hypo- crite 4 ho does. He who feigns s virtue commits a vice. All artificial demonstrations of grief, and tears, and woe, of envy, malice, and revenge, are simply infernal; and how much better is he who simulates joy and gladness ? Acting, in itself, s contrary to nature. He who scts 1ike a virtuous man and is not one is dounly vicions. It would seem that s series of intemperate, unjust, and untenable comments upon any art or profession, like thoss upon the drama quoted above, were unworthy of notice; but the pecu- liar circumstances under which they were utter- ed, the sanctity of the place, the reverence investing the speaker by reason of his office, and their subsequent repetition 1n the news- paper, have gven them sn suthority and publicity which entitle them to eome atten- tion. The Chicago pulpit has exhibitoed. in nota- ble instances, & painful spectacle during the past few months. [t has been the arena of bitter and uohallowed strife and dissension upon the- ological and moral points. So loud and angry bave its controversies swelled, that it has come nigh being & scoff and s by-word among irrev- erent and ungodly epectators. Deovout and thoughtful men deeply deplore such proceed- ings, for, sad a8 is the sight wherever human pasgions are let loose and human infirmi- ties exposed, it is most lamentable when tho display 18 made among church-members and their pastors. The conservators of the public good are gusrded in their censure of the shep- herdsof Christ's fold, under the feeling that, when they who stand before the world ns patterns of virtue are convicted of wrong in word or deed. & double offense is committed, and the effect on menkind is proportionately demoralizing. How carefully, then, it behooves these Christian am- ‘bassadors to exhibit in their lives and doctrines the divine qualities of the Master whose gospel of love and mercy they preach, so that, when the people go up to them for instruciion, for guidance, for example, they receive not a stone in place of bread ; lessons in bigotry, ignorance, prejudice, and false witnees, instead of training in liberality, justice, truth, and chasity. . If the conscience of & clergymanand the canons of his Church forbid the members of his.| flock an indulgencs in certain kinds of amuse- ment,—the theatrs or the opers, for instance,— it is his right, nay, his duty, wisely, plainly, kindly, to instruct them so; and if, in any case, . hs prohibited plessurs be pazsisted in, tonm‘ 0 ecclesfastical discipline ghould extreme meas- ures be deemed expedient. No one, inside or ountside that church communioz, would feel war- ranted in making & complaint. But whena in order to warn his Christian teachor, hearers sgainst the allurements of the thoatre and the opers, ignorsntly or willfally misrepresents the drama and indiserim- inately maligns the members of the dramatic profession, heinsults the good sense, the en- Iightenod reason, snd the morality of so many people that one is tempted to retort in language almost a8 severe as his own. Burely, no scenes ever enscted in theatro conld more shock & re- fined scnse of right, or would sow more germs of evil in the human heart, than the spectacls of a priest in the sacred desk distorting facts and traducing character. It would be as foolish to attempt to controvert the statementa which form the text of this articlo as if they had been leveled against sny other of the imitative arts. The msjority of them could, with quite a8 much truth, be applied to music, painting, poetry, or fiction, as to the drama. Their obvious inaccn- racy, intolerance, and detraction condemn them &t once, and deprive them of influence. All arts and vocations have, in the course of time, suf- fered degradation. Butmen who convincingly ghow their trustin the Deity snd their faithin humanity, who pursue truth by direct courses, who would scorn to secure the holiest ends by scandalous means, who would prefor to lift up rather than drag down, who would extinguish ovil evorywhere by purifyfog it; will cast no such eweeping &spersions uwpon the drama or sny other Institution that has the seed of good in it. They will chooss instead, by intelligent opinions, generous judg- ments, and candid treatment, to uphold what is right, and besutiful, and true, in all things s&nd all men, and 8o help to gain the Wictory over whatever in the world is really mean, sad base, and vitisting. ‘They will endeavor rather to counteract the ovil that enters into a house by developing the gorms found thercin than to pull down the house and bring ruin and desolation upon all who abide init. TESTIMONY OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS. To the learned professions, if anywhere, it would seem, we ought tolook for immunity from the potty jealousies and factions rivalry of the lower walks of lifs. But it isa fact that intellec- tual advancement mitigates in no perceptiblo de- fgree the jealousy with which competitors in the same field regard one another. Did one artist ever prase the work of enother engaged in the same branch of art? To learn every defect ina portrait, apply to the painter's professional neighbor. ‘The professional actor is & merciloss and bigoted critic, and toleratos excellence in his best friend as calmly as a bull tho traditional red rag, or the corner grocer his rival on the opposite side of the street. The pul- pit 13 Dot free from this selfish spirit; the medical fraternily is steeped in the essential extract of it. The schools of medicine are abso- lute, and in their mutualintolerance exhibit only the spirit which actuates the individual adherent of each. This was illustrated s few years sgo in Balti- more, and recent events have brought it out more clearly. The man BSchosppe, now in the Penitentiary at Joliet for forgery, wss tried for his life in Pennsylvania, accused of poisoning a lady for ber money. The medical testimony of Dr. Aiken, of Baltimore, previously & colebrated chemist, showed the presence of poison in the stomach of the decensed lady, and secure& verdict of guilty and s capital sentence for the prigoner. Dr. Aiken had for yoarz stood slone as the supreme authority in toxicology o Maryland and the adjoining States. Occupy- ing such & position, be incurred the envy and malice of many of his brother practitioners. An opportunity occurred in this trial to break down his influence and overthrow his sovereignty. Tho medical profession of Maryland combined against him in this case, contradicted him in every particular, and secured s second trial for Schoeppe. Throwing the weight of their united influence against Prof. Aiken, his opponents saved the lifo of the accused. Then came the celebrated Wharton trial. 3frs. Wharton was charged with poisoning Gen. Kotch- um and attemptiog the life of the cashier of & Balimore bank. The circum- stances were very strong in evidence against her. Prof. Aiken was summoned to give his testimony a8 an expert. It was damaging to the lsdy. Ho declared that poison had ‘been found in the stomach of Gen. Ketchum, and that the symptoms of the younger man pointed to the same drugs. Again the medical profession rose against Prof. Aiken 28 one mau. So unanimous waa their ontery against him that it was heard and believed all over the country, and believed mainly because it washeard. Prof. Aiken was pronounced & pompous quack, and Mra. Whar- ton's acquittal was s natural consequence. And now comes the sequel. Triumphant in their previous success, the Baltimore doctors submitted a resume of the lattar case to Dr. Gagylor, of London, author of & standard work on toxicology. One would suppose that the de- cision of 8 referse should be final,—at any rate, to the party who chose him. There is no doupt that the Baltimore doctors would haveagreed to Dr. Gaylor's decision, had it favored them. It did mot, however. It pronounced Dr. Aiken right and his bitter opponents wrong. Conse- quently, the latter have held & meeting and resolved * that Dr. Gaylor's decision must have been based on false premises.” There must have been 8 mistake somewhore. Of course it could not be on the part of the appellants. All of which shows how completely partisan fary may blind conscientious men to tbe truth. It likewise illustrates the unreliability of that sort of testimony called expert, and based only on individual experien: PUBLIC EDUCATIOR IN FRANCE. M. Michel Chevalier, s gentleman to whom France is indebted for many signal services, and who is ever awske to her best interests, in a dis- conrse delivered not long sincobefore the French Academy of Moral and Bocial Science, called the attention of the members of that institution to the present condition of education in France. The Academy was discussing the question whether the schools of higher grade in France should be placed under municipal or national control. 3. Chevalier took occasion to speak of the state of education in general in the country. ‘The object of all education is to fit young men for the places they are to occupy in soclety,—at least to prepare them for some useful position. The education given in France, M. Chevalier finds, does not do this. Hence, he argues, it must be subjected to very great modification. Many and many a time, he says, has he been re- quested to find a situstion for s youngman fresh from school or from college ; but such was the character of the education of the spplicant for ssxistance that ichad abeolntaly prepared him ety e ——— is not practical. French children had intelli- gence enough, but it was not caitivated aright. They had not been brought up to engage in real life, and fow of them could indite even the sim- plest business letter. B .chelors of Art he had met who knew all sbont ephori and archons, but nothing of the powers -and jurisdiction of & Justice of the Pesce. He complaius that when young men leave school thoy ceass to stody snd even to read. A few magnificently-bound books, intended for exhibition, constitate the only library of even the well-to-do classes. Bome among the poorer classes, ho says, read s little that they actuslly forget the art before they are 20 years of age. From all these facts M. Cheval- fer comes to the conclusion that the system of education pursued in France is defective; that it is not such 18 to excite the interost of, the scholars, Few improvements have been made of Iate in French methods of instruction. The peopla etill cling to the mistaken ides that they are suporior in every sense to every poople in the world ; that there is no one from whom they can learn anything. Laboratories and musenms of any extent are rare in French, as compared with English, Prus- sian, Anstrian, or even Russian, schools of the higher sort, It was thought s great deal when, towards the end of the late Empire, M. Duruyob- tained 800,000 francs from the Government to 2id in the establishment of laboratories. Yet, Just at that time the German Emperor had given 1,000,000 franca for cne laboratory,—that at Berlin,—and 500,000 more for one at Bonn. There is too mach government in French schools. The pupils are held in too great re- strafnt. Their minds are kept always at the highest tension. Their studies are rarely varied by physical sports. In places the children are kept at their books eleven hoursand s balf or twelve and a haif s dsy, No wonder thev do not accomplish much. The French seem to be the last to loarn that physical and mental training should go hand in hand. The tendencyis now to sborten the hours of study in elementary schools. Mr. Senior embodies the investigations of an English committes on this subject, in a small volume published by him, in which be shorws that, when the hours of teaching for very young pupils are only three hours s day, the maximum result is obtained with them. Again, teachera 1n France are very poorly paid. In this country they do not obtain anything to bosst of ; but thers they are paid no more than half what they are hore. When Napoleon wish- ed to securs the sarvices of the .Iate lamented Louis Agassiz for s Paris facuity he could offer him only 7,500 franca a vear. En- dowments for educational purposes are rare in France. It has no Cornells or Vassars to point to. It is no wonder, therefore, that, under such s system, with such hours, and such tho indifference of the Government andof indi- viduals, the cause of education in France shonld be a languishing one. ] A SOUTH-AFRICAN NEWSPAPER. We are indsbted to the courtesy of W. H. Paywe, a Chicago boy now in the gold fields of South Africs, for the firat two numbers of & weekly paper started in that out-of-the-way corner of the globo in February last. The paper is atyled the Gold News, and is published at Pil- grims' Rest, Lydenburg, Transvaal. This floor- ishing place of soothing and felicitcus name, which is thus brought to the notice of the world for the first timo by the medium of the printing- press, is maioly & city of tents. Ita popu- 1ation cousists of gold-hunters and adventurers, who have drifted up that way from the diamond fields, because gold pays beat. Nevertheless, there is evidence in almost every column of this little paper that the sojourners at Pilgrime’ Rest are enjoying most of the sub-~ stantials of civilization, even if theyaro debarred the luxuries of the opera, heresy-tnals, corrup- tion-investigatiqns, fine-art galleries, horse-cars, kid gloves, Jockey Club, and the last mew novel. For instance, the epicarean gold- hunter csa enjoy » quiet sit-down at *‘the soug establishment™ of the Mu- sio Hall Bar, get sandwiches at sny ‘hour at the Masonic, liquors of old-admired qualities at Stont's Cathedral, and tarts and ginger-beer st Niekirk & Vaughsn's. The Crusaders will be glad to know that theresione man who will sal! nothing but soda-water and Jemonade (and these withouat the * sticks " which are apt to get into them in older and more civilized localities), and that there is a Temperanco Hotel, where breakfssts, dinners, and tiffius are sorved at the shortest motice. Our epicure will have to pay pretty roundly, however, for some of his luxuries, as may be in- forred from the fact that Mr. Fraser sold on tho Market Bquare a quantity of stuff at the follow- ing prices : Peaches, 18 9d per 100; pomegran- ates, 18 3d per doz.; oucumbers, 6d each; onions, 7a 64 per bucket ; green peas, s 6d per bucket; and sn old goose at 8s 6d. A muscovy duck was put up at 48 6d. but was not sold, as one of the miners projudiced the crowd sgainst it by remarking tbat it wounld take s load of wood to cook it. The in- evitabla photographer, whose van alvays follows closely in the wake of civilizatiou, has arrived at Pilgrims' Rest from the diamond fields, showing that business is dull at the latter place. Amusement-seekers are whiling their evenings away at the Christy Minstrels enter- tainments, the tickets for which are sold by tho editor of the paper before us. Good churchmen will be delighted to know that the proprictors of Pilgrims' Rest hbave donated land for » church, sod that & minister of the English Church i officiating for the present in temporary quarters. Bat we are pained to learn that the pilerims are not supporting this gentloman aa heartily aa they abould. Chicago is represented everywhere. Dr. Graham, of this city, it is stated, is off to Delagos Bay having received some sort of an appointment to Cuba. Thers is one happy be- ing in Pilgrims’ Reat who advertises for & wife, + age or color no consideration.” There's con- tentment for you, pure and simple. There is enterprise, also, at Pilgrime’ Rest, for Mr. 8. T. da Fousecs, s Portuguess merchant, has started for Dolagoa Bay in s cart with four pxen to bring back produce. There are dark spots, however, even at Pilgrims’ Reat. Threo troublesome fellows have been hanored with the escort of s Police Bergeant five milea from camp, with orders mot to return. The following paragraph tells its own atory ¢ UxrosTuNaTE WaoRR.—Last week two diggers, af- ter Lively dlspute, decided to settie the matter with nature's own weapons, =nd sppointed & certun hour for the contest, Mesnwhilo the stakes—(20a side— were deposited In the hards of e fellow-digger, who aheconded, doubtlesa with the lsudable intention of _puttinga stop to therr sanguinary scheme. The Gold News is an independent journal The editor says i his salutatory: * We promise the Government our fair and genorous sup- port, but reserve the right and privilege of enticising Government action whenever we for nothing a8 all Raducation tn Franoe | think 18 necsssts” That Is seund doos trine. Al independent newspapers ars flourishing, and the editor of the Gold News is, therofore, warranted in joyfuliy exclaiming: ~Hurmah! From s emall beginving, modesty made, we shall rise (with and through thy diggers and their support) to s broad sheet in the fallness of time.” Of course you will, and Tuz Caicaco TRIDUNE, in this 1and of green. backs, sends its compliments and congratuls. tions to this new-born stranger in the lanq “where Afric's suony fountsing roll down their golden sands.” THE HANDEL AND HAYDN MAY FESTIVAL, The forthcoming festival of the Handel and Haydc Bociety of Boston, which commences og ‘Tuesday next and closes on Sunday evening, ig ono of those rare eveuts that exercise a lasting influence upon musical progress, and ons alsp which conld hardly take place in any other ity than Boston, for the resson that no other city has a Handel and Hedyn Bociety. Next tp Boston, Cincinnati has thus far shown itself the only city which has been abls, ogt of its own resources, to insugurate g great musical festival Even at the fes. tival given in New York last spring, just pre. ceding that given in Cincinnati, it was foumng necessary to import the Handel and Haydn 8o ciety. The programmes for the commg festiva] bave bean madeup with excellent judgment, and are most judiciously distributed throngh the week. The foundstion of tho orchestrs will be Theodors Thomas' splendid orgasiza tion, reinforced by the best .players in Bostan, On Tueedsy evening * Judas Aaccabmus™ will be performed,—the soios by Miss Edith Wynne, Miss Annie Cary, Mr. Nelson Varley, and Mr. M. W. Whitney. Wednesday sfternoaa s miscellaneons concert will be given. The principal feature will be Schabert's unfinished symphony in B miner, of which two movements are completo, besides a fow bars of the third, It is known as the Eighth Symphony, and, though often performed in England, is new to this country. On Wednesday evening the pro- ~ gramme will consist of the first part of Hayda's * Beagons ” and Beethoven's Ninth Symphooy, the solos in which will be taken by Mra. H. 3L Smith, Miss Cary, Mesars. Varley, Osgood, W. J. Winck, J. F. Winch, aod J. F. Rudoiphsen, Thursday safternoon Mendelssohn's unfin. ished oratorio of ‘! Christus,” and * Hear My Prayer,” and a new Paalm, “God is our Refuge,” by Dudley Buck, a muaicisn snd composer, by the way, whose needless loss Chicago should ever regret. On Fridsy afterncon there will be a miscellaneons concert, st which Schumann’s B fldt Symphony will to the principal featurs. Friday evening Back's “Pagsion Music, according to Matthew,” wili te given entire,—the solos by Miss Wynne, Miss Adelaido Phillipps, and Messrs. W. J. Winch, Ru- dolphsen, and Whitney. The last miscellaneous concert will be on Saturday afternoon, &t which Raff's Lenore Symphony will bo the principal pumber. Baturday evemng J. K. Pane's newon atorio, “St. Peter,” will be produced, with Mra. West, Miss Phillipps, sad Messrs, Varley acd Rudolphsen in the solos. The festival will closs with the * Messiah " on Sunday evening, ihe so los by Miss Wynne, Miss Cary, and Measrs. Var ley and Whitney. No parson of any musics taste can read this list of works without at onct appreciating the high standard of culture of the Handel and Haydn Bociety, and, also, tho rart enjoyment of those who will have tho good fortune to be in Boston and attend the festi- val. Those of our musicsd people in Chicagc who have the opportunity to go shonld not fall to improve it. It will woll be worth making the journey to Boston for this purpose, even if thers is no other inducoment. Those who have onca hoard the Handel and Hadyn Bociety will cer- tainly do 8o, if they can. Those who have not ' heard 1t shonld do so once that they may learn what musio is. In this connection, the question inevitably suggests itscif: Wili Chicago eyer hsve » great mixed mueical organization, capable of producing the higher works of mu- pic? We may not get » flandel and Badyn So- ciety all at once; but one thing ia certsin, wo shall never get one unless a atart is made some time. Are we fcrever to wasto our time oo triflos and pigmy concerts, withont ever aiming 2t something higher? Or did the fire burntp all our musical pride and cultare? e THE CARI 2l5a puuOLARSHIFS, It bas been aiready announced that Mr. Catl Roes, 83 s memorial of tho Iats illustrioos Parepa-Ross, had determined to establish & scholarship of musio in England. Sinco this snnouncement he hss still forther enlarged upon his generous and gracoful design by also ostablishing an American scholarship for tho benefit of girls proparing to study musio in Ttaly, haviog been moved to this supplemental pur- pose by the memory of the fact that it wasin the Dnited States the great ariist was gm thoroughly appreciated, sdmired, and loved, sod that it was here shie won her most signal and oo during success. It may be added thal Cazl Rosa himsel? first met with succees Lors, to begin witb, a5 s solo violinis$ in the vame con- cert troupes with Mme. Roes, and, after his mar risge with her, 28 8 conductor and drector of English opers, for which dopartmont of art he has done a great and enduring work, both by bis own unflagging industry and musical abilicy and by the personal popularity and consummsta artistic power of Parepa. The tribute to this country, thersfore, is as graceful a8 1t iawell- morited, sod will endear him to students of ma- sic, and preserve the memory of the great artist 28 ane herself wonld have chosen 1o havs it pre~ gerved. The handsome gift ot only revels the strong affection which ‘existed betwscn the littla fair-haired Hamburg violinist and the largo- bearted and genial prims douna, but it lso brings ous & trait of character in his composition which none but those who bave known him io- timately have given him credit for. We under- stand that he has placed his scholarship Bpo% s practical basis by naming Carl Bergmane, J. B G. Hassard, and Mrs. Zolds Seguin 85 Traetees of the scholarship. In this move also bs hss displaysd eminent good tasts and jodgment Mr, Carl Bergmann, at prosent the Condustor of the New York Philharmonio Society, 224 many years g0 Jocated in this cff (which he left because he conld met endure the petty wranglings and dissenslond smong local musicians), bas for over twoo'Y years hold one of the highest positions 18 \n‘:‘ country as & conductor both of operatio 38d t shown by classical musie. His position 18 bes the fact that Theodore Thomas has rocently & gaged him to take charge of hisown matchless archestrs for s term of years, in order that be may have more time to devote nimself to othe? details of the great work in which he 14 engaged and also have some gest from bis incesseat 824 wearing labors, which have sadly ovmmdx hysical strength. M= :m’dn-lluflfln of ths New York Tridwse s geatloman of rips stiainments sad mudes - e g, o ¢ 4 A S A PRI SRR e Tt e i AT . b s s B S— b ~ r /22 T .- L AT I TR T e S RS KA AL WA T . 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