Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1881, Page 4

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MATYILA CORINTHIAN CIL * Convocution Monday Work on the iP. und companions are agra d.0. DICKERS! COVENANT LODGE. NO. 535, F. & ALM. 1ST East Kinziest—specis! communication Friday evening, ‘clnck. Husiness uf imporiance. Vislt= ing brethren always welcome. TLUGH MASON, W. M. GEO. A. WAIT, Secretary. PTI A. 3L—Special Bt Socluck. Visiting IL? secretary. SUNDAY, JUNE 19, issi. We are going to have Adelina Patti after afterall. She will come to this country and g slag under the management of Nicolini, and will return with a well-filled purse, and, we hope, as kindly feelings towards America as are entertained by the Bernhardt, ceeeiaiaeineenieaoasas Tne King of Spain appears to be a gener- ous and liberal monarch, . It is aftirmed that he has sent word to the Spanish Minister at Coustantinople that he will gladly receive persecuted Hebrews into his dominions, not only beeanse be thinks it is proper and just, but to compensate the persecuted race for the harsh treatment and ‘persecufion of the Israelites by his predecessors. _— ‘Tne total value of the domestic bread- ported In May of this year was S1!,- as against $20,052441 worth exported 1880, The total vaine of the bread- stutf exporis for the first five months of this Year is nearly $3,000,009 less than the value of the breadstusls exported during the cor responding verlod of last vear, being 391,3 156 for the five months of 1Ssi, against £04.- 100,085 in the five months of 1880. While there has been a decrease in the prts of the whole country, there has been an in- crease in the exports from Chicago during thé last month of $225,000 in value, as com- pared with May of last year. Ax Irish farmer, a tenant of Lord Lucan, having been evicted from his holding in-the County of Mayo, applied under the Giad- stone Land act of 1570 for compensation for improvements effected during his te ey, fixing the amount due him at cluse on $30,000. ‘The landlord, who is one of the most odiaus in all Ireland, refused to pay the tenant any- thing. - He wanted to appropriate every im- Provement made by the tenant without any compensation whatsoever; but even an Irish County Judge, himself an lrish landlord, has decelded that Lord Lucan. cannot g0 quite so far, and- that ho must pay the tenant something tike $15,000. And this ‘under an act which is adwitted un all hands to be rrossly inadequate and defective. ‘The robber propensities of an Irish landlord are not fully understood yet. ir Is stated by a New York newspaper that Senators Conkling and Platt had a eonfer- ence with Gen. Grant yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, which was. attended also py Vice-President Arthur, Senator Junes of Nevada, “Insurance” Simyth, ‘and other New York politicians of focal note. ‘The advisability of the ex-President’s goiny to Albany was discussed, but it was deemed best that he should not, as it was believed that he could do nothing there in aid of the ex-Senawr. It is averred that. Conkling declared that he would not go back to Wash- ington except with t, and, . though pressed by his friends to change his de cision in this matter, he declared it final. The members of the conference, it av- pears, have little hopes that cither of the Senators will be reglected, and the discussion turned on the question of 2 compromise can- aldate. Cornell was named, but Vice-Presi- dent Arthur bitterly opposed the idea. Le would. have nothing to do with Cornell, whom he regards as 2 traitor to the machine. ‘The only compromise cancidate who seemed to meet with favor was Gen. Grant, but he does’ not wish to date, for several reasons, chief of which is that his Mexican railroad interes!s need his entire attention, However, he was prevailed upon to withhold ‘a final 2 and agreed to take the matter under advisement.: The bribery phase of the Senatorial squabble was discussed, and Platt looked mysterious and predicted some startling developments during this week, It seems that Platt was the only hopeful mem- ber of the conference, which broke up to meet again to-morrow, S AN obscure newspaper, published at the National Capital is authority for the state- ment that President Gartiel’s visit to Long Bruich is for the purpose of meeting Gen. Grant, and conferring with hin on the New York Senatorial muddle, ‘The paper in ques- tion says the meeting has been arranged by mutual friends of Conkling and the Presi- dent, and may result in a settlement of the whole difliculty.. he statement lacks every element of probability. In the first place, it is not likely that the President will inter- fere in. apy way in the State politics of New York. So far he has refused to doso, and the wisdom of his course has been universally approved. In the next place, it{s not likely that Gen. Grant, who has been expressing himself very freely in eensure of the Administration, has consented toactas peacemaker, And then, again, it is more than doubtful that the President and the ex-President by thelr united efforts could induce the New York Legislature to re- elect Conkling. . ‘The story is too gauzy. is Sanan Berniranpr has been interviewed atl about America, and the substance of her interview indicates that she has beena eareful and intelligent observer of men and women during her visit to America, and that she hasa proper appreciation of the greatn of this country, which she deserives “erand, colossal. extraordinary, fabulous?” Of American audiences she says they are brill- liant, appreciatlye, warm, and sympathetic, and adds, parenthetically, and woman-like, “Such rich toilets.” The women, she says, —and no one. will doubt her good judgment in this matter,—are’ eharm- ing, and much nicer than the men. She speaks rather favorably of Amer- ican actors, saying they are “clever,” “ have talent, appreciation, and temperament, but Jack systematle training.” Mile. Bernhardt thinks the newspapers have not trented her fairly, and complains particularly of their statements that she is married to M. Angelo. ‘This, she says, Is not true. M. Angelo and herself have been old comrades, and good friends, but she “shall neyer, neyer” marry M. Angelo. c Iris stated by a Liverpool newspaper that the dispatch sent by the British Foreign Secretary to Secretary Blaine in reference to the moutlings of O’Donovan-Rossa merely calls attention to some blood-curdling pas- sages in the dynamite patriot’s newspaper, and submits that they go somewhat beyond the widest limit of free specch, but the ex- tradition of Rossa, or even his confinement in a Iunatic asylum, is not suggested. ‘The British authorities know ‘quite well that they have nothing to fear from O'Dono- van or his treacherous agents, ‘and that the attempts at explosion are mere feints which are used by the dynamite patriot to in- duce unthinking Irishmen in this country to subscribe for his “skinnishing” fund. The fact is, that Rossa has been expelled from every Irish organization in this country, and it might be further added that the paper which he is writing his wild harangues in is not owned by him,orby an Irishman, Izis said to be owned by a wily Hebrew, who allows Rossa only a mere percentage of the profits. Te, therefore, represents noboby but hin- self and his money-making associate, and neither is a nfo be much feared, ? A BOGUS CONCERN. Wheneyer Wilbur F. Storey, or the paper upon whose mortgages he is wasting the last days of an ill-spent fife in a vain endeavor to pay rapidly accumulating interest, attacks anybody or anything, the publie, from long knowledge of the methods pursued by our paralytic contemporary, begin to inqnire what special act of duplicity “the old man” is trying to cover up, and the result of such inquiries is generally both painful and dis: trous to the party most deeply interested, Of late Mr. Storey has been very much con- cerned about the innnense advertising patron- age bestowed upon Tue Trinunn by the people of Chicago, and has indulged daily in frantic appeals to such as-read his paper to assist his failing fortunes by the bestowal upon him of a portion of the vast sum annu- ally paid out in this city for advertis- ing. Asan editor Mr. Storey has never been a suceess, although this fact is due in some mensure to his lack of educa- tion; as a business man he has been a con- spicuous failure, but as a howler for cold victuals he is withont a peer, Were Mr. Storey to confine himself solely to the réle of 2 journalistic mendieant and professional blackguard, no one would be surprised or in- elined to find fault; but when the proprietor of a newspaper is reduced to the necessity of printing whole pages of utterly bogus ad- vertisements it is time the public knew some- thing about the matter. Yesterday a gentle- man sent to, this office the following com- munication, which will be read with inter- est: Ib the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cricao, June 17.—Being in want of a girl to do housework, I picked up the Times yesterday and clipped frum it the following udvertise- ments: WASTED Situation vy an elderly German wom- VV a tof rete.cnees. Calluraddress EMMA, 15 Kast Erie-st YVANTED— Situation to do general housework by reduble Geriiuu wo nan; does not speak En- Ensit: cam cuok Well; kitcheu Work preferred. 1 Wes- ones 7 AN'TEN—Sttuatiun—General work: good wages: Wtnttetorene aes Lay North starkee tuntion for xeneral work on the Address LUCY, a8) North Market, Yunen proceed loux up the parties, At the first place, I je street, the ludy of tho house sxid that no one there wus looking for a situation, and that she had been anuoyed for several days by inquiries and postal-cards, I thought this rather strang Wessou street, and was surpri the zentlemau and lady of the bouse that they also bad been annoyed by inquiri advertisement dud been sent trom there. I con- eluded to try one wore nddress, thinking that perhaps one of the advertisements might be xenuin®. Accordingly I drove to 309 Market ut with the same result. The young woman who exme to the door said that no one there had avertised in the Times. 1 then guve up the job in disgust, and resolved to louk in the uext morning's Times and see if the notices were repeated. Sure enough, in the Times of to-day the same advertisements are there. tease ventilate this matter for the ben+ etit of the public. SUFFERER. The trick of which our correspondent was made a victin is nota new one, but has been practiced by the Times for years. Among the attaches of that paper is a woman whose sole duty is to write bogus advertisements, for which labor she Is paid $20 per week. If Mr. Storey chooses to spend his money in this manner it is a matter of no possible con- cern to anybody except his creditors, and, as it is only occasionally that any one is de become a candi- ceived by these spurious advertisements, no great harm fs done. | But, when ‘he tempo- rarily interrupts his appeal for co d victuals to snarl about other papers he displays a lack. ‘of judgment akin ‘to that of the ‘historical ‘person who, while tenanting a house byt exclusively of glass, engaged in the unre- munerative and necessarily dangerous pas- time of throwing stones, Mr. Storey’s alleged advertisements are bogus, his alleged special cablegrams are bogus, and his. chiatter- ings about Tie Timpuny are the most bogus of all. THE CANAL PUMPING-WORKS. ‘Khe conference between the Mayor and the Canal Commissioners gives some assurance that the work on the pumping-establishment |sWill really begin. The bids fur the engines, pumps, and other machinery haye been in- vited; the selection of the site and tho plans tor the buildings will take pluce at once, and the bulldings themselves will be erected in time for the reception of the machinery. The daw and lock at Bridgeport cannot be con- structed until the pumps are ready for use, butcan be promptly built when uavigation closes. ‘The value and importance of this work have been underestimated by those who ought to know better. Objection has been mado to it becaus¢, it is claimed, nothing less than the entargement and deepening of the canal to the proportions of 2 ship or steamboat c: nal should be tolerated. If any person will take the trouble make a profile of a sec- tion of the canal at present, he will find that the water in the canal is of the level of the water in .the river; that tho width of the canal below the water is. very small as compared with the width ot canal above the water. Ile will also tind that the capacity of that portion of the canal, between the present water-line™ und the water-line as it was before the ditch was deepened in 1870 is nearly twice as great as the’capacity of the canal at present. Thus, the capacity of the cana! at present is some 20,000 cubic feet of water per minute, With a lock, and the water-level in the canal raised to the old level, filling the. wider and deeper partef the canal, the capacity with the ro sulting faster flow will be equal to carrying away 60,000 cubic fect of water per minute, ‘or three times the present discharge. The proposed steamboat canal makes the present water-level of the canal a permanent one, It includes a widening and deepening of the whole ditch, but as this widening and deepening must all be below the present water-level, the increase in the capacity of the canal for carrying off water will not be much, if any, greater than the ogpacity of the present canal, if the level of the water be raised six feet to the original level. Practically, then, the canal if enlarged and deepened, will carry off little more water than will the present canal if supplied by the pumps. It requires, then, an explanation why the city or State should expend six to eight millions of dollars to accomplish a re- sult no greater than will be accomplished by the expenditure of $200,000 for engines, pumps, anda dam and lock? If the latter measure will give a depth of water anda daily flow of water m the canalas great ascan be seenred by eight years’ labor and the expenditure of $6,000,000, it isa question whether a better and more profitable use might not be found for the | rr sum, THE EXAMPLE 5 It is related of a former Chicago million- aire, who died within the recollection of some of the oldest inhabitants of this city, that, when he was once very ill, he registered a vow that if the good Lord would spare his life and restore him to health once more he would recognize the favor by some liberal donation. This gentleman, like some other millionaires, had not given freely of his bounty in the past, and perhaps the Lord thought it a good opportunity to promote what the New Testament, before the re- vision, characterized as the greatest of all virtues. Atall events, the sick man grew well. . His obligation weighed heavily upon him, and he vurehased a handsome carriage, “a. span of horses, and all the proper append- agesof a stylish turn-out, and presented them to his granddaughter. Lis conscience was placated for the time being; but, some time after, he was down on his bed again, and sick unto death. Ne re- sorted to the stratagem which — had worked so well before, and made 2 solemn pledge that it the Lord in His great goodness would spare him once more he would certainly. do «something very mag- nanimons. The Lord took him at his word, and the millionaire was again permitted to resume his daily walks. This time he de termined to do something that would satisfy the most exacting Providence, and he pre sented his grandchild with $100,060 in bonds. With the prudence natural to a man. who had spent a long life in accumulating inoney he deemed it wise to confine even his ehari- ties to his own family. A third time the-old gentleman grew ill, and he renewed his promises to thas Lord; but the Lord ovi- dently entertained a somewhat different view of charity from that whieh he haa ex- hibited, and he was perniitted to die. - When he was dead somebody asked how much money he had left, and somebody else re- plied that he had left all of it. A good many penple will believe that the Lord really had not concerned Iimselfmuch about this old gentteman’s .promises, and that the millionaire would have gone the way of all flesh even though he Nad distributed his*vealth for the publie food. Neverthe- less, one feature of the legend wilt be ad- initted by both believers and unbelieve: When a man dies, be he worth much or lit- tle, he leaves benind him all the wealth he has amassed. He cannot take any of it with him. If he feels in his lifetime that he has had more than his share, and more than his heirs-at-law ean reasonably exact from him; if he has not lived so sordid a life as to ex- tinguish every spark of good feeling for his fellows; if he has any desire that his name shall be gratefully remembered by the com- tnunity in which he lives; and if he remem- bers that he cannot take any part of his accu- mulations with him when he departs for the unknown sand unknowabdle,—the rich man ought to find a good deal of satisfaction in providing out of his abundance’ for some public cause, and the descendants and friends he leaves behind ought to take a pride in his generosity and thonghtfulness, It is not. necessary that the millionaire should be- queath money to encourage panperism: There are numerous opportunities for pub- ‘He endowments which du not risk the danger of misguided charity. There is no fear of mistake in making donations with the pur- pose of enlarging and promoting the geiteral comfort, education, and civilization of the public. Institutions of learning, works of art, and provisions for the enjoyment of the daily tollers of this world are and always will be auxiliary to progress, good order, peace, and happiness. The late Eli Bates has shown how rich men may provide fora distribution of their wealth on a basis which brings joy to those they loved and claims gratitude and admira- ton from tne entire community. He remem- bered his relatives, his business associates, his friends, and his Servants, and be- queathed to all substantial evidences .of OF THE LATE ELI ATES. his esteem, But after doing this, though not a man of vast wealth, he was able to do something for the general good. Ie provided for the completion of the church in which he worshiped; endowed the Indus- trint School ‘under - the auspices of that church with a fund ample enough to assure its future usefulness; set aside for: the erec- tion of a monument to Lincoln, in the park named after the great martyr, a sum that will providea handsome work of art; and distributed other sums for a public fountain, for the-Chicago Atheneum, fora free dis- pensary, ete. The bequests made by Mr. Bates were marked by excellent judgment as well as exceptional generosity, and they will continue to du good long after the memory offnany selfish rich men shall have faded into obscurity. Mr. Bates’ example is one which the rich men of Chicago should not ignore. Even those who always ask themselves “Dues it pay 2” before doing anything which involves the conveyance of money or property may satisfy themselves, by earnest consideration, that, after death, therecan be no greater satis- faction than the respect, and gratitude, and kindly feeling which’ goes out to Mr. Eli Bates from thousands to-day who did not know him and perhaps never before heard of hin. Chicago is a young elty, and large fortunes have been rarer here in the past than they are in the older communities. ‘I'his is the reason, perhaps, why public bequests have been comparatively few in number. ‘Thoso of Mr. Newberry, Mr.-Taylor, and Mr. Bates, with a few ‘others, are conspicu- ous exceptions. Butas Chicago grows older the number of millionaires increases rapidly. Great fortunes have been and are being made here. The men who have enjoyed the oppor- tunities for rapid money-gettlag which Chi- eago has afforded should, as an act of simple justice and for the sake of themselves and the friends they leave behind them, lay out plans for distributing a part of their means for the public good, public improvement, and public happiness, They will be the happier thamselyes while they live, their heirs will likely be the better for the curtailment of in- herited fortunes, and their memory will be greener and last longer in the hearts of all than it would otherwise in the minds of a few. . INDOOR PAOPERISM. The Atlantic Monthly for June contains an article upon “Indoor Pauperism,” by Octave Thanet, which should be carefully read by all those who are interested in this vital subject, and by a great many more who are not, but should be, interested init. In addition to its general bearings the article possesses a local significance, one of its most prominent illustrations is drawn from the daily life in an-almshouse in Lilinois. ‘The writer simply records observations. No conclusions are drawn; in ity, they sug- gest themselves, but the observations are none the less interesting on this account. ‘The overwhelming Importance of this sub- ject of indoor pauperism is shown by its rapid inerease during the past ten years. New York spent in 1879 the large sum of $1,018,807 for the care of 57,925 persons In almshouses and poorhouses, and temporary help was also given to 79,35 persons at an expense of $629,165. Pennsylvania m 1880. paid $1,515,299 for the sup- port of 20,310 “persons. ‘For the entire support of 13,959 and the partial sup- port of 72,88L persons, Massachusetts paid $1,776,778, The writer claims that Ohio pi more ihan,jalf of the State taxati support ofcriminals and paupers, and the Jast biennial report in Michigan shows an incYease in pauperism four times greater than the percentage of inerease in the popu- lation, Such figures as these need no com- ment as to their bearing upon theimportance of the subject of paiperism. Considerable space in this article is devoted to the methods in the different States of administering and governing almshouses, but they are hardly pertinent to the real subject under inyestiza- tion—namely; the actual condition of these institutions. The first alimshouse inspected by the writer was situated in a rural district in INinois, which, though not the best, was far from heing the worst of its class. It was oc- cupied by paupers and insane persons in common, ont of the whole ‘number of ninety-seven- thirty-seven being in- sane. The almshouse keeper, though he had never studied medicine, acted as a physician. In the female departinent the rooms were very untidy and the bedding shabby. Sici, and well, and insane mingled together, and often quarreled. The vivlent’ lunatics were confined by themselves, and little or no attention was paid to them except when it was necessary to correct them, and at such fimes they were knocked down and beaten, and the writer was shown “ marks onthe cells where the. insane had beaten their heads agninst the walls or gnawed at their bars like wild beasts.” Aguin, says this writers, “We did not seea book or news- paper, nor indeed the slightest means of diverting the mind,—not so much as thecus- tomary pack of grensy cards. There was no hospital, and the bathing arrangements were most primitive; but, judging from the paupers’ aspect, they did not bathe often enough té be troubled by any deficiencies. ‘The keeper himself would gladly have had both bath-rooms and a hospital, but the Su- vervisors thought them too expensive. . . . Whatever abuses were apparent were caused. in the main by the construction of the house, which made cleanliness diflicult, and discip- line impossible.” é ‘This case, it should be remembered, repre- sents an almshouse of the average sort, and if such a rough-and-ready mode of treatment and such neglect ure manifest in its conduct, What must be the condition of those below the average! :If there was so much suffer- ing in the average INinois almshouse, what refinement of tortures must be practiced in those of alower grade! What that torture is, the writer shows, not by hearsay evidence, but by extracts from various State Reports, and they are suflicently brutal and terrible to make one shudder. ‘The last Michigun Re- port says: “The -way the insane are cared for. at the county-houses, without judgment, without knowledge, . . . is shinply shocking.” “It would be an act of énercy, in many cases,” says the Secretary bit- terly, “to leave these poor people to starve, rather than keep them e to drag out an existence which Is a living death.” ‘The last INinois Report says: “ Many of these insane departments are unfit physieally for the uc- cupancy.of sane men; imperfectly heated, or not heated at all; not ventilated, often dark, destitute of furniture, sometimes in an outrageously dirty state, filled with foul odors.” ‘The last Ohio report, after enumer- ating several cases of individual hardship, says: ‘A hundred ‘and fifty-six Ohio luna- ties and fifty. epileptics are reported as ‘secluded,’ which rather poetical term means that they are kept in narrow stalls or iron cribs in small outer buildings, usually dar! ‘almost uniformly without drainage or venti- Jation; and that thej‘are *untended, save as meals are carried to them.’ Others, not in ‘seclusion, are ‘restrained? with handcuffs, chains, and hobbles.””, As we have said before, the writer merely states facts as observed, and does not draw conclusions or suggest remedies, perhaps because they suggest-themselves. ‘There are two conclusions on. the surface: first, that such conduct is simply.wicked cruelty; and, second, that it arises ‘from the employment of brutal or ignorant; dfiicials, The remedy fs equally apparent-=@he public should give more attention. to.,these - institutions. ..The mere visit of Supervisors once a year, previ- ous notice having been given so that the Poor-House can be placed in its most favor- able aspect; amounts to nothing. ‘So long.as the officiuls are left to themselves, with no danger of interruption, it is useless to expect any change for the better. A full and free public inspection at -any time, consonant with the good of the Institution, as is had in Europe, would work a change; but, as long as the public cares nothing for its charities, so long will neglect and cruelty characterize their administration. ._ PED A. GOG. = “We printed Wednesday a communication from ** Ped A. Gog,” who professes to have ken advep interest in the articles which have appeared in ‘Tux Trrsune on the sub- ject of “ Kindergarten and Manual Trainins- Schools.” ‘There is a tinge of scorn in Ped A. Gog’s manner-of propounding questions which wo trust is not characteristic of his school methods, because in our opinion the scornful teacher is not the best teacher. Ped A. Gog inquires: 7 Is the kindergarten age from 4 to 7, a3 stated inSunday's TTetBUNE? Was that Frobel’s idea? No. The kindergarten age is from 3 to 7. We understand Frobel’s “idea” to have been the devising of a system for the physical, mental, and moral training of children of a very tender age. Tu whut rospects are children who havebeen in the kindonzuriga better prepared for primary school work? or, \n other words, does the work of the kindergarten proper deal atall in scholas- lic education? Prot. W. T. Harris, for many years Super- intendent of the St. Louls Public Schools, and with whose reputation as an educator Ped A. Gog is probably acquainted, says: “Of the twenty gifts which the kindergarten system offers, the tirst six form a group hay- ing the one object to familiarize the child with the elementary notions of geometry. Ife learns the forms of solids, the cube, sphere, and eylinder, and their various sur- faces; also, divisions of the cube, and com- binations of the cube and its divisions, in building various objects. Ie learns count- ing and measuring by the eye, for the cube and its divisions are made on a scale of an inch and fractions of an inch, and the squares into which the surface of his table Is divided aresquare inches, Counting, adding, subtract- ing, and dividing the parts of the cube give him the elementary operations of arithinetic so far as small numbers are concerned, and give him avery practical knowledge of them; for he can use his knowledge, and he has de- veloped it step by step with his own activity. tis always the desideratum in education to secure the maximum of self-uctivity in the pupil, ‘Che kindergarten gifts are the best instrumentalities ever devised for the pur- pose of educating young children through self-activity. Other devices may do this,— other devices have done it,—but Frébel’s is most successful.” . It has, We believe, long been conceded as one of che first, if not the first, principles of pedugugy that ‘the pupil is educated not by what others do for him, but by what he is Jed to do for himself.” Frébel undertook to apply this theory—to found_a system upon it—for children. As early as 1872 it was found that the graduates of a- kindergarten (play-school) under the direction of Prof. A. Donai, of Newark, N.J., “took high rank in the public schools, standing almost invariably at the head of their classes.” Fora further reply to this question we beg to refer Ped A. Gog to the public schools report of St. Louis for 18789; he will find it exceedingly inter- esting. Does Tug Trinune Know that the kindergar- tens of St. Louis ure an unguaiitied success, otherwise than in providing pleasant places tor the little children of poor women while the lat- ter. are at work? Tue TreNne only knows what the edu- eators of St. Louis say about it. Prof. Harris say: “As the kindergarten has now been in operation for six years, and on a very ex- tended scale, the time hag arrived when the subject may be discussed in the Nght of experienee, and satisfactory conclusions reached as to the advisability of continuing andextending the system thus far developed.” And in conclusion he says: “With these suggestions I leave the sudject, believing that they are sutlicient to justify the direct- ors of our public schools in making the kindergarten apart of our school system. The advantage to the community in utilizing the age from +4 to 6; in training the hand and eye; indeveloping habits of cleanti- ness, politeness, self-control, urbanity, in- dustry; in training the mind to understand numbers and geometric forms, to invent com- binations of figures and shapes, and to repre- sent them with the pencil,—these and other valuable lessons in combination with their fellow pupils, and obedience to the rule of their superiors,—above all, the useful sug- gestions as to methods of instruction which wiil come from the kindergarten and penetrate the methods of the other schools,— will, think, ultimately prevail in securing to us the establishment of this beneficent in- stitution In all the city scnool systems of our country.” In reply to Ped A. Gog’s interrogative sug- gestion that the kindergarten Is probably of no use beyond providing “ pleasant places for the little children of poor working women,” we again quote Prof. Iarris. He says: “It is diflicult to tell which class (poor or rich) the kindergarten benefits most. Society is benefited by the substitution of a rational training of the child’s will during his transition period. If heisachtld of poverty, he issaved by the good associations and the industrial and intellectual training that he gets. If he isachild of wealth, he is saved by the kin- dergarten from ruin through self-indulgence and the corruption ensulngon weak manage- mentin the family. The worst elements in the community are corrupted and ruined men who were once youth of unusual-direct- ive power,—children ot parents of strong wills.” How many boys are in the manual training School ut St. Louis, so often referred to? Does it do anything for the girls? What {s the axe of the boys? * Mr, Atkinson speaks of twenty boys at work. ‘These are not all, are thoy? If Ped A. Gog had read “the articles in Tur Tripuxk” very carefully lie need not have asked these questions, for they were answered therein. There are sixty boys in the St. Louis school, and they are 14 years or more of aga The school does nothing for girls; it is a schvol for boys exelusively. Mr, Atkinson does not speak of * twenty boys at work.” We have not quoted Mr. AtkInson as saying anything. about the St. Lotis school. He lives in Massachusetts, and we are not aware that he f. Woodward’s manual training-schoul, We quoted Mr. Atkinson as saying that unless we reform our existing methods of education “our almostautomatic mills and machine-shops will become mental stupefactories.” If Ped A, Gog is in the habit of asking such questions as these— questions which indicate a want of famillarl- ty with the text-book—in school, the boys will laugh athim: -\re the primary and grammar schools of St. Louis superior to those of Chicago,—If su in What respects? Does the education of a few dozen boys in me- chanical arts und the existence of an imperfect Kindergarten system prove that “St. Louis is progressing rapidly in education and that Chi- cago fs staynating ?? Jo the Prussian schools referred to take boys before or afcer they leave the grammur-schools? on Ita Sia that our sonnel are a Tuilure be- use we Duve neither kindergartens noi - ua training: schools deie aah ree ‘ould it be possible to advocate a new th: without condemning what we have? ss Tue Trius has taken the affirmative of | only one of the positions involved in these estions. It has not said that ‘the primary and grammar schools of St. Louis are. su- perior to those in Chicago.” We do not say go now. But we beg to call, the attention of Ped. A. Gog to the fact that evening schools were established as payt, of the public- school system in St. Louis in 1800; that in 187$0 the evening-school enrollment m St Louls was 6,286, and the average attendance almost 50 per cent of the enrollment, Ped A. Gog probably knows that evening schools were not established in Chicago untila much later date; that in his report for 18i7 the President of tho Board of Education said: “‘'Phere were no evening schools last winter, because the amount of money appro- priated was not sufticient tojustify the Board in opening them ”?; that the total enrollment in 1878 was only 3,245 and the average attend- ance only alittle over25 per cenwof the ens rollment. In 1860 public-school library was established in St. Louis, and the report of the Superintendent for 1875-9 shows the library to have consisted then of 44,000 vol- umes, and that it had a membership of 6,000. Ped A. Gog probably knows that there is no- library connected with the public schools of Chicago. These facts may not prove that “St. Louls is progressing ? while Chicago is “ stagnating ” in educational matters, but, in the opinion of Tue Trmune, it will dono harm to the cause of education in Chicago to direct the attention of Ped A. Gog and nis fellow teachérs to them. and _insti- tute these comparisons. We suggest that Ped A. Gog will do well to answer some of his own questions. For in- stance: “Isitasigu that our schools area failure because we have neither kinder- gartens nor manual training-schools?” Something might be added toit, too: “or because we have no public school library”; or because our evening schools are not in a very flourishing condition, as evinced by the fact that the attendance is only 25 per cent, while that of St. Louis is nearly 50 per cent of the enrollment. We think it “possible to advocate a new thing without condemning what we have.” This is precisely what we have been doing. We must remind Ped A. Gog that he insisted upon the institution of comparisons. We trust he Is satisfied. Itis a good maxim not to be the first to dis- card the old nor the last to adopt the new. Let Ped A. Gog revolve this maxim in his mind, We suggest also to him, in future comiunications on the subject of education, the advisabilfty of dropping scorn, and sar- casm, and facetiousness altogether. That styleis out of place in the discussion of so serious a subject as that of education. THE LAW OF HEREDITY. The law of heredity, which the philosoph- ic scientists are working out to almost an ex- net basis, isdestined to accomplish great good for the human race. There is no stronger sentiment in the human heart than love for offspring; in cases where such affec- tion finds no place the exercise of other influ- ences and restraints may well be regarded 13 hopeless. When this law shall command the faith of the professions and become familiar to all intelligent people it will be so eluci- dated and applied in a practical way as to reduce the extent of disease, crime, and suffering. An Instance of the future useful- ness of this study is afforded by an English physician, Dr. M. G. Echeverria, who contrib- utes to the Journal of Mentul Science an article under the title of “Alcoholic Epi- lJepsy.” The theory therein elaborated is, that intemperance and a variety of nervous diseases are closely allied. Alcoholism be- queaths epilepsy and kindred disorders, and these In turn hand down a new appetite for drink. The folowing paragraph sumima- rizes some of the investizations recounted in the article: : Here is. n summation of one table, tracing the family relationsnip of 115 individuals, us males and 47 femules, who were intemperate. The cnildren, counted in families to wuich they be- longed, numbered 436. Ot this total, 79 were healthy and 107 died from convulsions tn in- taney; 37 died from other maladies, 3 committed suicide, & are epiluptic, 13 ure congenital idiots, dy ure’ muniacs or bypuchondriucs, 7 ure af- ilicted with general paralysis, 3 with locomotor atnxy (irrexulurity in the locomotive organg), 26 with bysteria, 28 with paralysis, 9 with St. Vitus* dance, 7 with strabismus (cross-eyes;, 19 aro scrofulous sind erippied, 3 are deat, and 2s were still-born, 27 are living, but n sound, 12 ions in infuney, und 3 huve consumptive symptoms with their other mauled Intempernte instincts have shown themselves in 205 of the 2%, and twenty-eight of those ure among those counted in the healthy list. Just half of the epileptic prisoners in the Waketicid Jait in another of Ur. Ech ; lists, had a known family history of The lurgest preportjon of dungerous lunatics, he states, belong tu’ the class of the utcoholi insune. The safety of suciety, in more ways than one, is concerned in the removal of such chroni¢ cases trom the fuinily cirele and from: fumily ties. Another of bis tables gives 20 per cent of epilepsy in the prozeny of intemperate persons. Dr. Echeverrin inclines tv sum it up at 18 per cent: while he sets down 30 per cent of epileptic cuses at first instance directly due to alcohol; # much larger number in which bered- ity and some accidental agencies vesides co- operate with alcoholic excess to cuuse the dis- ense directly. Of 25 epileptics with such de- scent, 17 males and 12 females were the only surviving oifspring in their respective families; 38 hud all thor living brothers and sisters heultby, and the remaluing 178 hud either broth- ers or sisters who were idiotic, epileptic, Insane, paralytic, weak-minded, blind, serotulous, and crippled. The practical beering of such investiga- tions is obvious. The best way to assure the cure of any evil is to first ascertain its cause, When the knowledge of Inherited and allied diseases becomes as familiar to the doctors as their present information in regard to common complaints and the cause thereof, they will be able to work great reforms in the habits of people, and they will have the aid of the clergy, the schoolmastei, the wite, mother, sister, and sweetheart. Mén and women will reform for the sake of their elill- dren who would not change their course of life for their own sake. Abstract appeals, based upon moral example and influence, have not the direct force of a conviction that certain habits entail disgusting diseases, im- becility, helplesness, anc disgrace upon those they love more than all else in the world. The study of heredity and its laws Is one of the most valuable of all modern researches, THE NEW ADULTERATION ACIS FOR ILLINOIS. ‘The Legislature of Mlinois, at its recent session, passed an act to prevent and punish the adulteration and sale of any article of food, drink, or medicine, and this act will take effect on the Ist of July, after which day prosecutions may be instituted. ‘The law, which is modeled after the British lawon the same subject, provides for two kinds of adulteration: one when the mixture con- tains ingredients fatal or injurious to health, and the other when the mixture is harmless, but fraudulent, ‘The tirst section ot the act provides that no person shall “imix, color, stain, powder, or order or permit any per- son in his employ to mis, color, stain, or powder” any article of food with any in- sredlent, so as to render the article “in- jurious to health or depreciate the. value thereof,” with intent that the same may be sold, and-no person shall sell or offer for sale such adulterated article of food. The second section enacts the same prohi- bition as regards any drug or medicine, ex- cept for the purpose of compounding in the necess: preparation of medicine, it the mixture shall render the drug or medicine injurlous to health; and with the intent to sell or otter for sale. ‘The third section applies to a different and perhaps a more extensive: class of adultera- tions. It provides that no person shall mix any article of food, drink, or inedicine, or any article which enters into the composi- ‘tion of food, drink, or medicine, with any ‘other ingredient or material, whether in- 2 jurious-to health or not, for the purpose of gain or profit, or sell or offer to sell, or order or permit the same to be so done, unl saine be’ So manufactured, used, or ‘sold ‘uns der its true and appropriate name, and Doticg that the same is mixed and impure is mark printed, or stamped upon each package COne taining the same; or unless the purchaser bg informed by the seller of the true name dg the ingreslients of such article of food, drink, .: or medicine. 4 ‘ See. 4. prohibits the mixing of oleomay, garine, suine, beef fat, lard, or any for.;; eign substance with any butter or cheese: ins? tended for human food without distinctly. marking the package containing the same with the true name and percentage of such foreign substance contained in the composi. tion: it also prohibits the sale or offoring fo, sale of such adulterated compound withoy information to the purchaser. a ‘The penalties in case of conviction For the first offense a fine of not less $25 nor more than $200; for the second of. fense not less than $100 nor more than $209, orconfinement in the jail from one to gj months, or both; and for the third and “other. offenses a fine of from $500 to §1,000 and im. prisonmentin the Penitentiary from one ‘to five years. : F A. later section provides that no person’ ; shall be convicted under this act if he show i to the satisfaction of the Court or jury that” ; j ares he did not know he was violating the a and that he could not with reasonable dif! gence have obtained the knowledge. is The British Parliament many years ago" undertook by law to prohibit and punish’the’. adulteration of articles of food, and several. acts and amendatory acts on the subject proved failures. ‘There was too much aimed. at by the law. After twenty years’ experience: Parliament at last reacned the law which is now in ferce in England. It prohibits tha adulteration and sale of food and drink with: any ingredient fatal or Injurlous to ‘health.’ This is absolutely prohibited. It also re quires that any article of food or d:ink that? may be mixed or adulterated for gain or profit with any foreign substance shatl not } be sold without informing the ‘purchaser the fact, and without marking the pack; in which itis contained with a statement of the proportions of the genuine articlé and the proportions of all other substances mixed: therewith. The first class of adulteration were peremptorily prohibited as crime nal; the second class of adulterm tions were treated as frauds consumers, to whom notice of the fraud: upon k was required to be given. After someyears’ & experience, the criminal adulterations have. been practically broken up, while the inves purpose of fraud, in a given numberof cases,’ 1 tigations show that the adulteration for tha* I ' t of different forms of food articles, has de clined from 60 to 19 percent. The lawofIk’ -. linols is framed substantially upon themodel’ :* of the English law. ’ - There can be no objection to the exclusion ** from sale of all food articles which contain. udulterations with other articles dangerous. to personal health. Their manufacture and sale is a crime which should be punished’se- verely. ‘The requirement that all articles of food-- offered for sale shall be in fact pure, unless the fact of their adulteration is made known: to the purchaser and the fact stamped upon” & the box, bottle, jar, or other package is in the interest of honesty as opposed to fraud.‘ ‘Tea, chocolate, coffee, sugars, flour, oat-' meal, spices, bread, crackers, cakes,’ candies, canned goods, and a long’ and varied list of other articles which enter into general consumption as. food, are; frequently adulterated, but with hanniless things; the purpose is to sell asa certain quantity of a pure article a one-third or one. half of some other cheaper foreign substance, obtaining for it the full price of a like quan-* tity of the genuine, This is simply diskon-- esty even if the substance used for adultera- tion be of itself harmless, A striking ins’ stance of this is milk, the only value of which is in the proportion of its purity. It is as- sumed that even in England, under the rigors. . of the law, 20 per cent of the articles of food. sold as pureare adulterated, and this does not nclude those where the fact of adulteration is marked on the goods. How much greater must be the extent of the fraud in this coun~ try, where no such law prevails? This fraud is mainly dishonesty. The manufacturer resorts to adulterating his goods to the’e: tent of 20 per cent; he is thus able to sell his” commodities 10 per cent cheaper than his” rivals; but he is soon overreached by an- other who sells the same article 20 per cent cheaper than the pure, by increas: ing the adulteration. This is Illustrated by. a like fraud in the case of canned goods, where a purchaser of a dozen. of so-called three-pound cans will be fortu- nate if his purchase. equals twenty-five: pounds. Had the law included a punishment for false weights in goods sold by the pack- age, It would haveonly enlarged the scope of . the prohibition of a common fraud. ' The objection is that this law, being in foree * in Illinois onty, exposes manufacturers in - this State to the competition of the manufac- * turers of adulterated goods iu other States, who will flood this State with their impure prodnetions. The answer to this is, that the’ Allingis merchants and manufacturers have - the remedy in their own hands. They kuow * what goods are pure, and what are not.. Let them have two or three specimens of these . foreign-made adulterations seized, and have : sone person convicted of selling them; and Jet it be known that, by judicial finding, the sale of such goods in Ulinois is prohibited as adulteration, Such an advertisement , would prohibit the further sale of any such -- goods in this State. As a whole, tue end and purpose of the law are in the interest of jus-- tice and honesty, and if vigilantly enforced will accomplish good results. Gey, Grant will hardly deny that George . Joues, publisher and chief proprietor of the . New Yorl Times, is his friend. Jones has at least -. Proven it by just hunding over toGeu. Grant & , quarter of a million of dollars, that be. might ° have abundant means of Hving, end keep out of want ana Wallstreet. If the great General, da his way to New York, picked upon the lth the issue of the Times of that morning, he might avo rend these lincs aud others lke them: 4 ‘The Conkling fuction, with almost no support in the ranks of tne party. with a pronounced, deliberate. and intelligent sentiment of condem- nation against them on the part of the great body of ‘the party, are openty seeking an iid- journment of the Lesisluture, eithor dveecly: or ; by prolonging the dendlocs. “If this were dono * With any purpose of submitting thelr cuuse ton * frank judgment of the voters of the State, it wouid be a very diferent policy from what It is. But no such purpose fs entertained. On tke | contrary, gn adjournment, in all bunmn. probe ubility. wauld be followed -by che election nexk : full of a Democratic Legistatar And it fs this faction that Gen. Grant has beon + supporting without any apparent information, , hesitation, or scruple, and now they-ure deter : miued that if they cannot get the Senatorial seats, the Democrats shall uit them. Conkling - 43 preparing the way for great fame us a pollt- ieal traitor. aEaiensasemeemeeead “Wuen I propose an alliance, a com- pact,” said Prince Bismarck in the conversation which M. Saint-Genest reproduces * from a sure source” In the columns of the Fiyara, *{tis.ale - ways In good faith. T have always spoken the ; truth, Yes, always.” Itis tho stupidity of the .+ statesmen with whom he baa to deal which com- pels him to change his tactics. Only when bis * Addresses were rejected has he sought other al- Jinnces. Austria, taught by experience, torzets her loss of the Empire of Germany and Vente the key of Italy, accepts the protfered’ hand of . her conqueror, and realizes the ‘fact that in the’ south and east she hase ficld wide enuugh to lead ber to forget events in the north.. Why can’ France not imitate tnis policy, so good i