Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1881, Page 9

9 IEes Business Suits, of Elegant Fabrics, made and trimmed.accordingly o 10ur Boys’ Clothin \ Men, Boys, and Children. t Materials, Handsomely Trimmed and Elegant Styles, for Trouserings of Finest Textures and Superb Patterns---in shape perfect. g has been made with a special view to Durability and Comeliness. Our Children’s Department is more complete than ever before. Style, Elegance, and Completeness s simply perfection. THE IRISH QUESTION. fbjectionable Character of the “Peace- Preservation” Bill. The Action of .the British Government Apparently Arbitrary and Un- " necessary. Sm:himaflrersions upon the Conrse of Hr. Parnell and the Land League. Sperial Correspomdence of The Chicago Tribune. - loxpoy, Eng., MMarch 2—The Govern- meot’s Iatest Irish legislation, seewng that its effect is to postpone the Land bill probably for weeks, has shocked a good many mem- bers of Parliament besides Mr. Parnell’s lit- teband, T refer to the Litroduction of the Peace-Preservation bill, which Iast night was Tead the first time in the House of Commons ‘mdfr a vote of urgency, and which is simply areénactment of a . WHOLLY REPUGNANT INSTRUMENT OF RE- * PRESSION that expired about a year ago. It is now roposed that it should remain in force for fve years longer, and be operativen districts for the time being under .the ban of the rd-Lieutenant’s proclamation. Nobody is Whe allowed, except under such couditions % may be set forth in the proclama- fin, t0 carry or have any kind of frearm, sword, cutlass, pike, bayonet, or any Rt of these weapons;- nor bullets, gun- Wowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cot- 1on, or other explosives. If a man happens tofalf under the suspicion. of any officer of Peace he may be arrested and searched Without warrant; and, if found with any of Bephibited articles in his possession, he Yill be lable to tiree months® imprisonment LY fine. On the warrant of the Lord- uitnant, moreover,, any man’s house Day.be entered and searchea. by force need be, any time between suurise Bdsunset, One looks in vain for any limit St mitigation in the action of this sweeping ment. It does not even contain any Povision for the deposit of arms, nor for ®mpensation being made to such persons as ey surtender them, Some modifications my be added in committee, but such as I e stated is this Peace-Preservation as it Wpresent stands. E‘Otwilhstnnulng the stringency of this ob~ 2oions measure, the Government carried o nmu’ong last night by overwhelming “Jflfifies. Nevertheless, their perseverance thit, immediately on the back of the sus- Dension of habeas-corpus, SIS AGAINST THE GRALN OF SOME RADI- CALS, 10 of whom voted against the motion of UBeney, while others abstained from voting ozether. - Expectations have been eneral, s Ilfl and out of Parliament, that the bill B Ud be abandoned, and the disappoint- ¥Ut s vendered none the less keen by the mmmflf,'in forcing on the bill, the Govern- it lm_Ve Sprung no surprise on the House, lmum Simply carrying out the program an- .:m.d at the beginning of the session. Yieg Program, however, was announced in W 0f a certain state of afairs then exist- 'entgn and, but which has to a large ex- i, ueAdlsappenred. and is every day still Phearing. The Coercion bill practically troge lotake effect from the day of its in- mt‘[:lon in Parliament. It is said that I'éhmm the most disturbed districts in =y Tent-paying has again become the g ":Id is 1o longer the exception; ¥ Botouly have gerarian outrages great- h}detmee éased, but the decrease has-been seen iy bfilnue with the progress of the Coer- N_hwxlhmugh its several stages. All this "2, %80 urged, and in the main Is true, though I have my doubtsas to the resump- tion of rent-paying being so general in the West of lreland as is represented. But, at any rate, the objects of coercion were in course of attainment, and every new day’s experience tended to RENDER THAT KIND OF LEGISLATION UN- NECESSARY. The expectation, therefore, that the obnox- ious Arms bill would beabandoned was quite reasonably founded. Even the Conservative paper, the Standard, gave ventto these ex- pectations several days ago, and to-day not only condemns the Government for disap- pointing them, but zoes the length of con- demning its own party for giving the Gov- ernment their support. The circumstance is unique, aud curiously illustrates the situation. The “Conservative party have made a great mistake”” says tnig Conservative journal, “and have played needlesly into the hands of their enemies by not resisting the introduction of the Arms bill. We believe the measure to be unneces- sary, An the {ight of this general sentiment, and the considerations on which it rests, the ac- tion of the Government has all the appear- ance of being gratuitous, arbitrary, aund indeced unnecessary in the circumstances, The: conduct of tlhose members of Parliament, also, who did not turn their sentiments into votes, weurs a look of cowardice and inconsistency. And what is to be thought of the conduct of the Irish wembers themselves? Two-thirds of them, or 1more than are Home-Ruiers. Some of these are avowed Nationalists. Yet among them all not thirty votes could be mustered last night against the Govern- ment motion of urgency. The minority of thirty-seven only reached that inconsiderable fizure by the votes of ten English Radicals. That minority, on_the motion for the first reading of this adwittedly despotic Arms bill, actually dwindled down to twenty-six! X mention these facts because they point un- mistakably to one conelusion, long foreshad- owed, but now visible to all. The stars in their courses B HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST THE LAND-LEAGUE. Its motives may be unselfish, its aims justi- fiable, and much of its work philanthropic; but it has failed to gain the hearty conlidence of representative lrishmen in Ireland. A thousand pounds sterlng come to its ex- chequer every week from America,—the gen- erous donation of warm-hearted, hard-work- ing, and expatriuted I[jeum\:- but it might ns well be thrown_into Lake lfl(:lllgi}n for any real good the Land League are likely to do withit for the poor country of ILreland, un- less they recousider their course. Unless they Zdo that, their opportunity for good will be gone, and the Land League itself be- come a name. The courseof the League has been a wrong course, in so far as it has tended to lead the Irish tenantry into false positions, where its organization and its money are powerless. Mr. Parnell’s stock advice to the people, tor example, has been o pay no rent above a certain sum; and that was surely bad advice—considered merely as a matter of policy—unless he could secure them from eviction, the consequence of non-payment. ‘The same thing has to be said of the adyice he gave at Clara the other day, that tenants about to be evicted should plow up their land a few days before, so that the landlord would not be able to turn cattle to graze on it. Now, such plowing is an offeuse punishable with penal servitude, and when Mr. Parnell found that out a few days after he, of course, withdrew his advice, but for all t.fia.t. it has been acted upon already in several instances. And yet ne told his audience at Clara that the sacri- fices demanded of them are not much, Much or little, the sacritices demanded of those who follow his advice are eviction, ruin, and possibly worse. T 1S, TO SAY THE LEAST, CURIOUS, that Miss Anna Parnell here, and Miss Fanny Parnell in America, should be both saymng the same thing at the same time on this very point. At a ladies’ meeting at Puulnphuc::l Iately, Miss Anna is reported to have sai that the Irish people had been pretty well led & in_the present movement, and,” if they failed, it would show -that the mettie of the people lad failed, and_that they were not ef the right stuff. Miss Fanny, likewise, in a recent let- ter to an American paper, says that, if it is true, as‘she fears, that the tendency to pay rents.is on the increase, she is convinced the Irish farmers are not worth fighting for. Aud so, because the name of Parnell is not 1o be synonym for success and glory, the well as the brunt of failure The disposition of English Radicals, and of Irishmen themselves, to mitigate the rigor of these coercive measures has been para- lyzed from the first, and all along, by the gressure of facts which they cannot gainsay. vernon Harcourt, the Home Sceretary, who introduced the Arms bill last i ht,f an argument made to his hand in the ATTEMPTED MURDER OF ME, IIEARNE, Clerk to the Ballinrobe Petty Sessions, on ( Irish tenant-farmers are to bear the blame as ound , tke previous day., This mentleman, who is upwards of G0. was threatened with death in November last. The day before yesterda; he was shot down by two men, who attacked him from behind on'the pubiic road in broad day,—receiving two shots in the back, two in the breast, and two In the right hand. This morning it is stated that Mr. Hearne still lives. Then the fact that agrarian out- rages have greatly decreased since the beginning of the year, instead of being an argument against the Arms bill, must have , on M.~-P.’s who study their blue-books rather the force of a demoustration of its neces- sity. 1 am only surprised that no one called attention to the following points in the House last night: InJauuary outrages fell to just one-half of the number in December, but even in January the number of - outrages in which iirearms played a part still remained uneomfortably large. As you will see from the oflicial returns sent you, a farge proportion of the outrages reported in December con- sisted of threatening letters and offenses against property of a trivial nature; and, although the number of outrages was 869, only seven were cases of firing at the person, and twenty-two cases of firing into dwell- ings. Unfortunately, although the total number of outrages in January is just one- half of those in December, or 439, the de- crease is in the threatening letters and trivial ; offenses, while the more serious outrages in which firears play a part SHOW LITTLE ABATEMENT. In January, while there were but two cases of firing at the person, there were still fwen- ty of firing into dwellings,—Connaught be- ing the province where that variety of out~ raze is most practiced. There isanother kind of offense, classed in the returns as the * de- mand or robbery of arms,” of which there were sixteen cases in January,—thirteen of these being in Munster and three in_Con- nnuplzht. These figures go far to explain the small minorities which opposed the Govern- ment on the Arms bill There is another aspect of the case which perhaps tne Government cannot very well i)msant at this stage of jt. They at least have nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by disappointing the hopes of their sup- porters. For such 2 result, the sarcastic as- surance of Lord Randolph Churchill, that their policy is satisfactory to the Tory party, will scarcelv console “them. But they have difficult cards to play in the approach- ing struggle for -land-reform, and it is perhaps 100 much to expect that they shoufd Tisk the success of their Irish measure by showing all their hand at inopportune mo-" ments of the game. Their existence as a government is probably involved with the fate of that ineasure. There is much truth in the remarl which Mr, O’Connor, member for Galway City, said he had heard a° supporter of the Governinent make in the lobby last ;’ufiht, to the effect that the Arms bill'wasa . g : “*FOR THE DISARMAMENT OF THE OPPOSI- TION.” ‘Whatever the lgndlords of Ireland may be incfined to do. the Tories and Terrimnafists of England will concede nothing to menace, but would be ready to seize on “a popula- Lion in arms” as an argument against *‘cow- ering and concession,” and as a rea- sor for -doing absolutely nothing. The phrases I have put in_ quo- tation-marks have mnot “been heard yet, but few here will dobut but they tvould have been heard but for the Arms bitl. Suéh ar- guments and such attacks are anticipated and deprived of whatever force they might have had. “Hinc ill® lacrymm” of the Standard. Besides. the inflexibility of the Government in adhering to their program is a good omen of the future of the land ques- tion. RaNDOLPH. ——— T Bread Cast upon the, Waters. Mertden (Conn.) Republican. They tell on the streets of 1 handsome fortune that has fallen to Mr. W. H. Augur, and the story goes that while in the army he miet threo Virgicia ladies who were in. great distress for ack of money, and ho gave them $100. They bad been very weaithy, but found themselves in money difliculties. " The money was after- ward returned. but they kept up a correspond- dence until three years ago, when the last of tho three sisters died, leaving a will that thelr property.was to be kept in trust for certain ‘missing beirs for a certain term of - years, and that at the expirution of that time it 'wus to go to Mr. Augur.. The time' bas now expired, and it is sald that Mr. Augur inds himself in posses~ sion of the handsome sum of - $100,000, and that Be Roes Sonth to take possession of itlna few ays. i - SUBURBAN. : ! EVANSTON. Theseniors of the Medieal and Law De- partments of the University came up from Chicago yesterday, and were entertained by the seniors of the Liberal Arts Department. ‘There were about a hundred. of thu visiters, and, under the guidance of President Oliver Marey, they made a tour of inspection’of the Unlversity buildings in Evanston. The ‘Woman's Coliege, University 1ial}, the Libra- 1y, the Museum, and Ieck Hall were all ited. In the evening the three senior classes, together with the Faculfies of the different deparuments, were received and entertained in a most pleasing manper by President and “Mrs.-Marey at their residence on the corner of IChicago avenue and Chureh street. A supper was served in duc time, and at its ehd members_of the three classes wers ealled upon by Dr. Marey to respond to toasts. The remainder of the evening was spent in secial couverse, and the students returncd to the. city on the 9:45 train. An audience of pot far from a theusaud gathered in the Methodist Chureh Friday evening, and listened to afine musical pro- gram, given undex - the direction of FProf. Oren - L. Locke, [of the Conservatory of Musle. There was present Mr. Adolph Licsegang’s orchestra of forty pieces, which was very Joudly applauded, ospecially iu the rendition of the ¢ Second Hungarian Rhap- sody,” under the leadership of Mr, Liesegany, which was encored, and the overture * = jam Tell,” which wus led by Prof. Locke. ‘The soloists were cordially received. Mfsses Jessie Hardy, vocalist, and Grace Thompson, Emulsh gave some finished selections. Mr. U. M. Hutehins, the cornetist, was loudly en~ cored. Mr. P, C. Lutkin on the piano, with string orchestra accompaninent, played with great expression. The concert was, on the whole, the best that Evanston has flad. AMr. George Ide has been brought forward as candidate for the Villaze Clerkship, ana will probably secure the nomination. A testimoninl entertainment will be given to Miss Evelyn Browne noxt Tuesday eve ing at the Baptist Churoh, under the direc- tion of some of her Evanston friends, the oc- casion being her début as a public reader. Miss Browne has been long known in the communityas a lady of zood mind and heart. Her reputation as a reader in select circles will draw her a good audience. Bishop McLaren administered the rite of contirniation at St. Marlk’s Episcopal Church Thursday afternoon. The Rev. A. J. Scott will preach this morn- ing ‘and evening in the Coungregational churen.’ ‘The Rey. George R. Pierce will preach af the usual hours in the Baptist church to-day. ‘The Rev. Frederick S. Jewell will preach this norning and evening in St. Mark’s Epis- cafnl Church. . ‘The Rev. George C. Noyes, D. D., will reach this morning and evening in the Pres- yterian church. The Rev. A. W. Patten will preach:this morning and evening in the Methodist church. Chinose Table Etlquet. Amerst Gasette, Ting Lang Ho, an educated Chinaman, writes as follows: -+ Accordiug 10 tho teaching of ou- fucius, no conversation mist be carried an at table. This precept of Confucius, disngreeabls though ft must se¢m to MaNy, prevents many embarrassments at table,—namely, one's be s interrupted when he tries to_speak nt table, an the boisterousness with which gome carry on conversation at table. Chinese etiquet requires all to begin to eat at the samo time, but each one before be begine to cat generally says, *Let us begin,’ which is accompanied by & gesture with the chopsticks. In Hnishing onc's menl, the same gesture .13 used, but not tho seme words, He says thon to those who aro stitl eat- ing, *Donot be in haste.” It is customary for the elders to help the younger to those dishes whiclrhe cannot reach, but in recelving ctiquet requires bim or her to rise.. In sitting at a Chi- nese table neither one's budy nor his dress must touch the table, and great gtriotness in regard to one's position is enforced. It is not aceording to Chinese etiquet to look around when one is ent- 1ng, DO to stare at one another. Hemarks.mnde on the food and the smacking one's lips are (I'm sorry to say) allowable in Chinese eriguet. o chopaticks, when one {s not using them, mustbe placed on the table close togsther, perpen~ dicular to the spoon. Ac Chinese [ etiquet, it {5 rude for oune to finish too soon; one must try to keep together with the rest, though it 1s becoming for inferiors tu tinish a_little be- fore tholr superiors. but not a litfle too late. Readiag of periodicals is strietly forbidden, but Istters aro l\ iawed if they are very important. One very seldom asks for un excusc from table 11 Ching, bit every one govs at the same time.” WOMEN'S LACK OF TACT. Why They Cannot Malntain Clubs— Quarrels of Women—Fathcrs=in-Law Have No 2ad Reputation, Applston's Magazine. We ventured lust month to question the valldity of the popular, theory that women Iave intuitions superior to those of men. There is another notion concerning the fe- male sex that no one seems to have had the temerity to dispute; this is the alleged su- periority of women in all matters in- s- [-volving tact and delicate management. The world is so;fixed in this idea that no doubt an attenpto cqutrovert it will look like foolishness and presumption: but it will do no harm to air an old theory, however re- spectable it may seem, and test it by renewed observation. Tact 1ay be defined as aquick and nice discernment, a prompt pereeption of cireum- stances and facts, a ready appreciation of other people’s feelings or tastes, a happy faculty in turning the corners and meeting the exigencies of social intercourse. Now, 1t is possible that in the innumerable minor things of the drawing-room women are more the ease, the air of the salon sooner than men do; they are commonly more at home there; they are mere vivacious, more sympa- readythan men. Women acquire the maunners, thetle, quicker to seeand act. This difference, however, is mora noticeable between young thau between eld people. The girl learns the art of society with ease, while the boy commonly undergoes a long and painful novitiate; but the wan of maturity, when also a gentieman, has acquired ‘sacial deft- noss in all its phases, and is master of the art usually deflned as tact. While we are often called upon to admire the skill and deftuess of an accomplished hostess, we shall find that an accowplished host receives his guests or presides at table with an art that is inno ‘wise interfor. Let us, iowever, concede that In the draw- ing-room women, as a rule, have more tact than men. But when we extend our obsel vation over a larger area, whaido we dis- cover? 1f we take up either domestic life or busfoess life, or the various organizations in which men and women gather, it is not apparént that women are more adroit or more skillful, orthat they have a micer discern- ment or botter perceptions than men. We are afraid, indeed, that animpartial examina- tion of tho evidence will show that, instead of men being more fnusensible and less -adroit than women, they distinetly exnibit in im- portant things a superior skill. Thisis rather a bold defiance of accepted notions, but let us scan the evidenoe and see. 1t i3 notorious that muon the greater num- ber of domestic quarrelsoriginate among the women of the fannly. ‘The altercations and differences that so frequently exist between families united by marriage are almost al- ways on the side of the women. Men are dragged in and become partisans in the war- fars; but gauntlets arc commonly first ex- changed between the ladies. Assuredly, if tact I3 a quality desirable in the draw- ing-reom as a sort of social buffer, smoothing sharp angles and softening col- lisions, the very field for it is the domestic hearth, where the unapt word, the il-considered retort, or the loss of self- command, i3 so productive of mischief. Can it be asserted that in this domain women, as a class, have more tact than men ? Is pesce between husband and wife more oftenmaintained by the wise repression, the soft answer,? the skillful word, the adroit evasion of an issue, onthe part of wives than of husbands? If we, Asmodeus-like, could peop benoath the roofs of houses, which sex would we find most froely occupied in nag- ging? Which would we discover most com- mouly taking offense at the casual word ? ‘Which would be showing a superior skill in meeling and turning the dangerous little things that arise hourly in every circle? In that taet which teaches us when to hold our tongres and when to speak, what to see - and what not to see, we suspect that the mas- culine part of the community mayclaim some little preSminence. Of course, we ure gener- tempered wives and bratal husbands; but among the average right-intentioned pedple it is o deficiency of tact that so often causes collisions, and this deficiency is at least com~ wmon with both sexes. Young women are very skiliful in managme their lovers, but many of them too frequently lose tleir skill when they eome 1o manage their husbands. It is the lnck of tact on the part of wowen .that sets clique against clique in congrega- "tions, and inchurch societies of all kinds, that canses'aimost all associations orgunized by woulen to break up in differences, that keeps so many people in hot water in family hotels and boarding-houses, or wherever lovely wouman predominates. It is to a lack of tact that we owe the traditional mother-in-law. Fathers-in-law have no bad reputations any- where; may we notsay that is because they Liave too much tact to” interfere, too much tact to take notice of tritles, too much tact to Dbe fussy and irritating in matters that should be wisely left alone? = It has been shrewdly doubted whether clubs wohld be possible with Iadies,—not merely because they have not the club dis- position, but because they cannot abide to- zether without getting into hostile divisions. t takes a good deal of tact to meet daily on familiar and equal terms*with numerous per- sons, and keep all irritattng things out of sight. The club™is possible in the highest civilization ouly because nothing but the sell-repression that comes of the highest social training permits men of diverse in- terests and tastes to come together harmoni- ‘I'he club affords an excellent test of tact; and if men are better adapted than women for club-life, if they can live to- gether in this way without collisions, they have established the possession of tact more effectually than anything establishes it for women. 1t is impossible for one to succeed in any of the professions without the exercise of a great dealof tact. A lawyer must possess it supremely not ouly in dealing with ebstinate and passionate clients, but in the court- room, with Judges, juries, and witnesses. A phf'sici:m must possess it to a degree that ounly comes from a fortunate temperament and long practice. He nust evade, humor, aJole, please, keep his tewper, repress his impatience, hold himself well in hand, and know always how to- answer questions by saying something that means nothing. clergyman must be endowed with tact, or he will soon be on the rocks. He fust keep in good humor opposing cliques, Bear &auemly with_ignorance and self-nssertion, deal with caprice asif It were wisdow, and know how to harmonize the ever-rufflinz matrons of his flock. The tact that men must exhibit in these ways certainly excels that which a woman (lisnla{s in managing the wholly willing material of a dancing party or a pleasure expedition. 1l But tne supremest exhibition of tact is to be found in the Congressional or political leader. A statesman representing a party or a faction is pressed on all sides with contlict- ing interests, obliged to harmonize discordant materials, to be patient with_ impatience, to cover up the iistakes of indiscreet zeal, to uiter the timely word that heals accidental wounds, and the appreciative word that re- wards the voluntary service; he must know whep te advance upen opponents and when to withdraw; how to regulate and adjust endless diversities “of pas- sion, ambition, selfishness, and Jntrizue.- In ‘men placed in these _supreme and trying situations, we often find a tact that ainounts almosy to inspiration. And, while it cannot be safely said that wowen similarly trained and similarly placed would be unequal to men, it is at least idle to talk of tbe superior tact of women in face of the fact that all great opportunities for the dis- play of this talent. and all great manifesta- tions of it, are confined exclusively toiuen— to the sex which it-is fashionable to char- acterize as clumsy and blundering. These_are the leading .points of the evi- dence. Isthe reader still of the mind that tactis peculiarly a feminine qualiwy ? A Mysterious Disappearance. In regard to the mysterious” disappearance in 1863 of the Rev. Benjamin :reke.'flxe English Vicar who recently committed suicide. theLon- don Times gives the tollowing particulars: *Qup the Sth of January in that year he left Timinster for London, baving undertaken to officiate at the wedding of a fricad. The same evening he purchased a hatfn Warwick street, and Immediately afterward disappeared. It was tono purpose that the police endeavored to trace him. The anxiety of the public was wrought to & bigh pitch. The zegernl impres- sion was that he hud Leen secretly made away with. Notonly was he reputed to be of per- fectlysound mind, and therefore unlikely to oc- casion his friends uunecessary dlatress, but bis alizing here. We haveall met with Sweet- U bar, which bud evideutly been Kuocked about, waa discovered soon afterward in Birdcage wa 1k, - Toward the cnd of February a man, dressedasa bullock arover, was apprebended ly the Pad-* stow police, who believed that be was an es- caped criminel from Hull. Inthis tney werd mistaken, but the contrast presented between his drcss and his bearing led them to make further inquiries before releasing bim.and in, tne result ne was identified as the missing cler~ gyman. It appeared thut ontho day of his ar- nival in London from llminsterMr. S peke went by rail to Basingstoke, afterward muking bis way on foot to the southwest of England. He ‘Dbought the newspupers every day to read what * related to bimself. When stopped be was think-.: ing of walking through Wales to Liverpool, there to take passagein asteamer bound for New York. Mr. Spoke was u brother 6f Capt. Speke, the discoverer of the source of the Nilo, and was descended - from & good old Somerset- shire family. s THE GERMAN SYSTEM. How Bismarck Has Throttled Proge ress—No Advancemens Towards Freer Institutions. - . New Tork Trivune. + Bismarck’s contempt for parliamentary in- stitutions Is illustrated by his peremptory re- fusal to allow the Reichstag to discuss the cost of including Altona in the Custows Union. He bluntly informs the Deputy who has reminded him of the fundamental right of that body to control supplies, thut the Gov- ernment also has rights, and these he intends to uphold agaiust interference from this and future Parliztnents. The reorganization of parties has no terrors for him, for he invari- ably gains by any readjustment of political - forces. Nor is he unwillng to subject his action to constiiutional tests, for no one knows so wellas he how little real power was conferréd upon the Keichstag by that Imperial charter. ‘The German Empire is 2 union of feder- . ated monarchies, with a central exvcutive baving almost absolute authority in war and diplomacy, and with a central Legislature vested with quasi vrivileges rather than sub- stantial power in home administration. - The Federal Council huas the privilege of ap~ pointing comnwittees which can make gener- al suggestions in_ rezard to the various de partments of administration. These com~ mittees do not have anything more than ad- visory functions, real power being exercised by the lieads of departments who are ap- pointed by the Emperor himseif. In like mauner, the Dietis nominally vested with the privileges of freedowr of debate, right of petitioping, and _legislative independ- ence, and the Chancellor himself is respon- sible_to the representatives of the peaple for his public acts;. Yet in pruactlco these privileges do not seem to confer actnal power. The Federal Council has effectually retained control over legistation and the Chancellor has exerted a commanding infiu- ence in that Council. Under a constitution in which artificial privilezes tuke the place of actual power, his wiil is law for the wholo mpire. 7 When that constitutional system was de- yised in 1867, ana readjusted three years later, the cominon view entertalned hy critics was that the Diet would gradually acquire the authority of a single Clhamber. . ‘The Federaf Council was rezurded as un artificial piece of constitutional mechanism _which would be practically inoperative. English writers predicted the rise of German institu- - tions and practices similar to their own, ‘The heads of Departments would become Minis- ters, the President of the Council wonld be & Premier, and the Diet would come to have . the functions of the Commons. ‘The tendency of the system bas not been in that direction. The Council bas not gone down before the Diet, but_bas maintained its position as at once a Cabinet, n Senate, anil an Advisory Board appointed by the various Governments - embraced _in the federative system of mon- - archies. The Diet bas become a national de- bating society without acquiring control over domestic administration or predominance in legisiation. The Chauncellor alone fn tae struggle for actual power has steadily im- proved his position. e —— Winchester’s RRypophosphites will cure consumption, coughs, weak lun, bronchitis, and general debility. Estal twenty-one years. — ———— For the tollet and the bath use Glenn's Snlphur Soap. 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