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THE SUIflPAY OKEGQyiAy, POKTLAND, JULY 6, 1902.
ETHieAL TALKS By CLE-RGCJ ANT), THE LAIT
PUTU-RE BROTHERHOOD OF MANKIND ... By Marcel Prevost
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THE beginning of tho 20th century
. will, some time from now, go down
on the records of history as an
j epoch when the most contradictory doc
trines were battling against one another.
Never has there been a time when tho
most different opinions have been defended
or opposed more eloquently than Just now.
In politics, In religion and in social ques
tions. Tho science of war has been studied in
all its branches and brought to a point
when it seems almost Impossible to go
any further.
Nevor lias the world seen as enormous
organized armies as now, and at the same
time the peace idea, has gained territory
and universal pfeace is no longer consid
ered an utter impossibility. The nations
still stand sharply against one another,
each one prepared to fight to the last drop
of blood in defense of its Independence,
and stHJ there have been occasions when
the whole human race has felt that, after
Ell, we are all one great family.
OME days ago the newspapers con-"
tained the report of a banquet by
the proprietor of the Dewey Hotel,
Washington, in honor of the completion ;
or his palatial new house. Among tho
guests on that occasion were several well
known United States Senators and mem-,
bors of the House of Representatives,
whose names are given. That it was a
convivial affair, at which champagne
llowofl freely, Is apparent, as the report
states that one elderly member of the
Congressional contingent imbibed so free
ly that, leaving the dinner party early,
he wandered over on Fourteenth street,
and in some manner obtained entrance
io the house of an Army officer, where
nobody was at home save two nieces of
the General and the butler. The Congress
man became so disorderly that a police
man was sent for, and the intruder taken
to the police station, where, doubtless, in
some cell he would have had to spend
the night but for the timely intercession
of two other members of the Congression
al contingent at tho dinner, who happened
along just as their co-member was being
taken to the station house.
In what eondition the other Congress
men left the banquet the report does not
state. This humiliating spectacle need
UESTIONS of Natlenal and inter
national importance have been
discussed and settled amicably
and finally by commissions appointed by
the ruling powers of monarchies and re
publics. Strikes and wars between capi
tal and labor have from time to time been
subject to adjustment until some new
conditions require tho adoption of new
scales and new rules regulating prices
and services.
But up to the present time there has
arisen no domestic economist who has
suggested anything practical or in any
sense profitable in the settlement of the
Important question of domestic service.
There are no laws or rules by which
domestic servants can be made to under
stand their obligation to fulfill their con
tracts or perform their duties satisfac
torily or forfeit their wages.
Under the usages now existing, they,
at their own sweet will, do exactly as
they please, and are permitted to add any
amount of impertinence to their indif
ferent service, and at the same time de
mand exorbitant wages; can come and
High Mission
THERE are more churches in this
world than most of us ever think
of. We are at best short-sighted
and narrow-minded, and are in the habit
of thinking that a church must always be
built In a certain shape, and that prayers
and hymns are of no value unless pro
nounced In the vast naves of these
churches. And still we ought not forget
that the chamber where our cradle stood
was our first clfurch, where we, kneeling
down at our mother's side, were taught to
say our first prayers.
In such a moment a mother is a verit
able priestess tp her children, whose eyes
hang on her lips while they repeat, with
their young volce. the holy words.
To educate them, to elevate their minds
and direct their thoughts to all that is
jioblo and good is a sacred task, greater
and more sacred than that of any priest.
Wherever a mother's Influence reigns su
preme there is a. little part of heaven
on earth; her vigilant love, sanctifying
all thut it touches, ennobles her smallest
and most Insignificant work so that even
the flame over which she heats a cup of
milk for her sick child becomes as holy
as tho sacred flame of the altar on which
the most precious offerings are sacrificed.
The flame carries toward the throne of
grace her tears and sighs and devoted
prayers for the recovery of the little be
ing, that is dearer to her than her own
life. ., ,
There Is no picture in this world sweeter
and more beautiful than that of an Inno
cent child, asleop in its mother's arms,
resting its head against her bosom. A
mother's bosom Is for the child the Holy
of Holies, the sanctuary from which is
banished all danger and all temptation,
the port that Is the safest shelter from all
the storms of life.
There is another sanctuary, tho sick
room. In the. hospital, whose priestess, tho
Sister of Mercy, walks with noiseless step
from bed to bed, bringing to all the suf
ferers her dlvino message of peace and
consolation. Her mission is, perhaps, the
highest of all, for. having no child her
self, she has made herself a mother for
all the disinherited children of humanity.
Everywhere, whore there are victims of
sorrow and sickness, we always find her;
mighty and humble, rich and poor; young
and old, ugly or beautiful, all are mem
bers of her groat adopted family, and her
love and tender attentions are given In
full measure to ail of them. 'She Is like
an angel of charity walking in their
midst, the gentle touch of her hand cool
ing a feverish forehead, arranging the pil
low for the patient, that is restlessly toss
ing onhis bed. or holding the cup to the
parched lips of the poor sufferer.
Her centlc voice encourages the soul
Thecatastrophe in Martinique has shown
us one of those unforeseen, sudden, spon
taneous coalitions of all humanity, and
this proof of solidarity among all nations
is encouraging, not only to the few survi
vors pn the island of fire, but there Ue3
in this outburst of universal sympathy a
great hope for the whole human race. It
seems like a glimpse of light revealing to
us all the prospects of a glorious future.
Is it not absolutely without precedent in
history to see Englishmen, Germans, Rus
sians, Italians, Americans and Turks all
inspired by he same feeling of sympathy,
a sympathy that Is not limited to empty
words of condolence, but that is mighty
enough to mak'o them give up what Is
dearest to all of us money.
You may think that this is merely a
form of international courtesy, but this
is not so, for it is not only the Princes
and Governments that have contributed,
the help has come from private citizens,
from cities, large and small, from news
papers and from innumerable other
sources that tend to show how. common
A LESSON TO THE
not surprise anyone when it is remem
bered that in the basement of the National
Capitol two illicit saloons have been run
ning in connection with thp two restau
rants that are kept for the convenience
of our law-makers and their friends, and
that these blind pigs are conducted under
the authority of honorable committees of
the Senate and the House.
Surely Illicit liquor selling In the base
ment of our National Capitol, under the.
superintendence of Senators and Repre
sentatives, is quito as henious an offense
as illicit distilling by a moonshiner in
Kentucky or a low groggery that sells
without a license in the slums of Now
York.
How are we to prevent such scenefe as
followed that banquet at Washington?
Within tho last few years there has been
a notable advance in the attitude of busi
ness firms to the use of intoxicants on
the part of employes. Never was there
so strong a business instinct among large
employers that sobriety is absolutely nec
essary and must be insisted upon.
The time is coming when the only open
ing for the ambitious man who drinks
will be in politics. It is rapidly becoming
so now. Private employers dare not
trust their business to the man who
drinks. Great corporations dare not. He
is not wanted on the railroads. The
THE SE-RVANT QUESTION M Wanted: An Agreement
go at their pleasure and without in tho
least consulting your convenience or de
sires, and there have been Instances when
they have actually given the name of
employors who were obliged to discharge
' them summarily for flagrant disregard J
01 men- auues as reierence. unere are,
of course, exceptions In all cases, and In
all nationalities, but as a rule they have
but ono Idea, and that is to get as much
as they can and give as little service as
possible.
We have tried the English found them
in the main the least objectionable; but,
having been accustomed to Innumerable
servants in a single household, and each
required to perform almost Insignificant
service, and expecting much time and ex
tensive provision for their support and
accommodation, people with moderate
means cannot afford. to havo them.
The Irish, if you take them all In all,
are the best, but too frequently perfectly
unmanageable, arid of all other servants
the most Impertinent after they have
been In this country long enough to learn
from their male friends the power of the
of Women
who has lost all hope, and her presence I
brings a ray of light into the darkest
places, into the sickroom, the prisoner's
cell, and into the hospital tent on the bat
tleflela, all these palaces are temples and
churches far more beautiful than the
most imposing cold stone cathedral that
human hands ever built.
Woman is the priestess of the hearth.
Her home is her fortress, her uncontested
kingdom. From sunrise till night she at
tends to her household duties, she is her
husband's true helpmeet, she encourages
him in his work and makes the hours that
he spends with her so full of happiness
that he forgets the burdens of business
life. Thanks to her he is saved from all
Inconveniences and household troubles,
that might avert his thoughts from his
ambitious goal.
Too much cannot be said in praise of
those women who educate children, not
their own, and who give their whole life
and soul to the education of orphans en
trusted to their care, teaching them every
thing that they have learned themselves,
without thought of reward, and even for
getting in their devotion that there are
surely angels who watch their every act
and Inscribe their names in the eternal
register of priestesses of the religion of
love and charity.
There is no sphere so humble that
woman's sprit does not sanctify it.
The young working girl, the poor seam
stress, whose needle, Is busy till late at
night to support her aged father or her
sick mother, does not she accomplish tho
most pious task, sacrificing without com
plaint, her youth, her. health and Her
strength?
The patient little creature, bent over her
work a mute, pathetic picture is a true
heroine In her resignation in her fate, de
prived of all joy. No complaint escapes
her lips, and still she must fight down all
the desires of her heart, without tho least
hope of ever being able to have any part
in the pleasures that life has reserved for
its more fortunate children.
The little girl who drives the geese out
Into the field, watching them all day, Is,
as long as her thoughts are pure and her
heart sincere, a link In the chain that ties
all women together as so many sisters, for
a service or a work honestly and faith
fully done, is never lost, no matter how
humble It may be.
That other women, whom we see, nurs
ing one baby at her bosom and leading
another child by the hand, while her
anxious and thoughtful eyes scan the dis
tant horizon, over the cruel dark waves,
that perhaps cvon now have swallowed
her husband's frail boat, is not she a
symbol of a priestess of the sea and the
tempest?
Let 'the-winds howl and the ski darken.
and deep the sympathy Is In the hearts
of the people of all nations. The heart
of almost every civilized individual
throughout tho whole world has been
stirred as if this calamity had happened
to a member of his own community, of
his own family.
Especially characteristic were the edito
rials in the newspapers all over the world
the day after the terrible disaster.
Nations of tho north and south, east
and West seemed suddenly to havo had
their eyes opened to the ties of brother
hood that unite us, only because a volcano
on one point of the surface of this globe
which belong to all of us, Turks, GcrmanJ,
Latins, Slavs and Anglo-Saxons, hnd
opened its mouth and belched forth
streams of Are and boiling mud.
And this outburst of human solidarity
is so much more remarkable because tho
national feeling has. never been stronger
in all countries of the world than Just now,
and this is shown not only in the readi
ness of every individual nation to sacri
fice life and blood in defense of its own
TNATION'S LAWMAKERS.
steamship lines have cast him out, and as
for banks, they will not have him. Only
tho people, long suffering and generous,
remain as his resource. For this reason
municipal. State and Feredal governments
are his speciality, and while the patience
of the people lasts public office will breed
scandals as naturally as our swamps will
breed malaria.
By railway managers Intoxication is
now considered the most serious offense,
and in nearly every case is followed by
dismissal from the service of any and all
railroad companies In this country.
Why should not all employors of men
remand of them entire sobriety? Why
should not this demand be made of our
legislators? Why risk the Influence of
drink, when all men know that it renders
those who take It unreliable and reckless
and leadi3 to untold mischief? Clear brain,
and sober Judgment cannot exist with In
dulgence in Intoxicating liquors. Why
not exclude from public office, from the
halls of legislation. State and Federal,
all who are known to Indulge in intoxi
cants? This may be considered a drastic
measure, but it is no more drastic than
tho case demands, as witness the sceno
at this Washington banquet, and secenes
frequently witnessed at the final adjourn
ment of some State Legislatures and ses
sions of Congress. I
ballot to secure them most unreasonable
concessions from their master and mis
tresses, whom they consider no better
than themselves In this "free country."
We have labored assiduously to teach
the reliable German the arts of cuisine
and household economy, to be rewarded
with stoical Ingratitude If some one, dis
covering our treasure, offered them sur
reptitiously a few cents more on their
wages. The Danes, the Swedes and the
Norwegians are much the same In tem
perament and' stolid indifference to any
thing but, their own intorest and pleas
ure. The French, with their artful man
ners and peccadilloes, may be considered
experts In the art of deception, and prob
ably the most unreliable of all classes.
We have been patriotic and have taken
the unsophisticated native Americans, li
.nocent of all ideas of domestic economy,
and without clothes in which the) could
appear In any household; have furnished
them with everything necessary to make
them presentable, spent hours teaching
and training to find that they had not the
least appreciation of the trouble wo have
what matter that? She watches, she
strains her eyes, and her face turns palo
as tho hours pass without a sail appear
ing. What will become of her poor little
ones If he who earns the dally bread does
not return?
It is then that she must be at the samo
time both father and mothor for her de
fenseless little children. Her heart Is torn
with sorrow and pain, but she does not
lose courage, and she gathers all her
strength for the desperate struggle.
Our old German ancestors appreciated
how much they owed to their women, and
honored them highly. They were sacred to
them, they approached them with respect
and fear, looking up to them as priest
esses, who decided all questions of im
portance. These raw, uncultured warriors under
stood that they could not show too much
veneration for their wives, their mothers
and the mothers of their children. They
thought that these faithful guardians of
family and hearth were endowed with
prophetic gifts so that their eyes could
penetrate the mysteries of the future.
The hearth was to them a sanctuary,
and its flame was never allowed to die,
and the best and purest girls of tho na
tion wore selected to watch this holy Are.
The temples of humanity In which
women are priestesses are many, and of
many kinds, some are grand and mag
nificent, others apparently small and In
significant. The" space they occupy Is In
essential, all depends on the work that is
done, on tho good will and cheerfulness
of those who do it.
Certain women have consecrated their
lives to the education of the young, for the
funds of knowledge and wisdom that have
always ijeen considered the most precious
treasure in all countries and at all times,
are only a loan given to us, and trans
mitted from generation to generation, and
they must be put into the hands of the
young who grow up around us.
It is a-task of no little Importance to
open this treasure box to the young, souls
that impatiently await their lnheritanco
of lcnowledge.. ,
The village school may be the portal
that gives access to the sanctuary of wis
dom and the woman teacher may be a
worthy priestess of this temple.
Her work Is not always appreciated. The
seed that she sows often falls In ungrate
ful soil, but very often It bears fruit, and
this is her rcwanL She knows the value
of the knowledge that she imparts, when
she guides the inexperienced fingers In
their first attempts to use tho needle, and
for mure than one little girl this Is the
real beginning of life, this first lesson in
the -useful arts, that will later mako her a
happy woman and mother.
Every woman may become & priestess "If
territory, but also in attempts to acquire
new territory.
The rational nationalism that is natural
and sound has been carried to the extreme
and produced Imperialism, and there are
very few countries that have not been
poisoned by this virus.
England has lost a great deal of its
moral prestige. In the United States you
find everywhere people who talk of noth
ing but the "Americanization of tho
world," and any German newspaper that
you may pick up will show you that the
Germans are perfectly sure that Provi
dence has given Germany the task of civ
ilizing the earth. "
"We find ourselves surrounded by pan
Slavists, pan-Islamists and pan-Chinese, as
'you might well call the "Boxer."
All of them are filled with the import
ance of their particular mission, and like
tho old Romans they want to transform
the whole, world and reorganize it un
der their laws:
"Tu regero imperlo populas, Romane,
memento!"
The disgraceful scenes attending this
Washington banquet show how vicious
arc the social drinking customs of today.
Custom is the most absolute and powerful
of monarchs. It is a tyranny everywhere,
but nowhere is it3 tyranny more Injurious
ly employed than In connection with
strong drink.
Theso customs are of all kinds and de
grees, from corporation and college, din
ners, with their semi-pagan toasts and
alcoholic hilarity, down to the plain "come
boys, let's treat," In a low saloon. In the
tentraent and " White House they havo
been honored and cherished. They have
identified themselves with our most, com
mon avocations, with all the civilities,
tenement and White House they have
entwined themselves around the heart
and led captive the understanding of the
wlso and the good. Every event of gen
eral interest is signalized with drinking
tho acknowledgement of Important serv
ices, the celebration of great events, all
accompanied with. great dinners, where
the wine cup plays the most Important
part, and it Is in the observance of these
customs when too frequently the appetite
for liquor originates. They constitute the
school for drunkenness. But .for their
existence Intemperance would have no
place among our social vices. A man may
drink apart and alone, when he has be
taken, considered that they had amply re
warded us by condescending to be serv
ants in our homes at the highest wages
paid even" to skilled labor. As soon as
they had become accustomed to good food
and good clothes they at once desired to
extend their travels and rest from their
labors of indifferently aiding us in the
domestic duties Indispensable in any
home.
Then we havo fallen back on the negro,
the omnipresent dependent in America.
We have taken them as children ' and
carefully trained them for domestic serv
ice, clothed, fed, paid them good wages
far in excess of their earnings, over
looked their pilfering and excuses with
which they aro always ready for neglect
of duty, to find after months' and years '
they, too, were parsimonious and ready
to desert us the first opportunity, tho
proffer of any glided toy being too much
for their avaricious desires.
Scarcely a single representative of
either nationality above mentioned have
tho first idca of moral responsibility.
They mane ana break engagements with
By Carmen Sylva
she guards the holy fire In her own
bosom, keeps it pure and immaculate and
does not let it be obscured by frivolity or
extinguished by the cares of life.
We are all priestesses by the warmth of
our tender hearts, by the benedictions
that our lips have the power to pro
nounce, by the light that may shino from
our vigilant eyes, by tho work of our
hands.
Every woman who thinks more of others
than of herself Is a priestess in the true
sense of the word
All women are priesteeses who help the
sorrowful and" afflicted or who bring a
soul back to God.
And, therefore, if wc women must suffer
much during our earthly pilgrimage, wo
should grow even stronger and more flt
for our task through our sufferings.
The woman artist is a true priestess,
whether she be an author or a painter, a
singer or a musician, because her arl
awakens high and noble thoughts, and In
spires to heroic deeds. Hers is a glorious
mission when she Is aware of her power
and has energy to develop it
Hamlet gives way to despair, and the
whole world seems dark to him from the
moment when his mother has lost her
halo of true and pure womanhood. He
even doubts himself, when he sees his
Ideal of perfection blacken and tarnish.
There Is no higher priestess than a
mother, and there is no disillusion, moro
bitter to a mortal being than to see the
statue fall from Its pedestal and break to
pieces, and no more cruel torture than to
see the veil drawn aside from our ideal,
revealing a nature of falsehood, emptiness
and Insincerity.
Our fute Is never hard, and if we some
times lose courage it is because wc havo
not understdod the grandeur of woman's
task, and if we looksquarely at the ques
tion how can we dare to complain of our
burden, that only proves our high voca
tion. Have wc not every reason to feel
proud that God has elected us to fulfill
his mission in this world?
And This Man Vote, Too.
Boston Record.
An Italian came Into the federal build
ing tho other day and asked one of tho
watchmen: "Where is the man who
hires the nelp?" The' watchman explain
ed that It depended on the kind of em
ployment sought and began to talk about
the civil service, when the Italian said:
"I mean the men who take the letters
Out of the boxes."
"O, well, then you will have to take
the civil service examination,, and answer
questions about"
"Do you mean that the men who take
tho letters out of the box have to read
and write?" interrupted the Italian.
When Informed 'that they did, he looked
surprised and went away disappointed.
But they all forget that the Romans
stood as the only civilized nation of the
world at that time, and that they com
pletely and effectively civilized barbarians,
and organized Gaul and Germany, very
much as Franco Is organzing Madagascar
or RufQia Siberia in modern times.
But the right to civilize evidently ceases
when it comes to civilizing people that are
civilized, and it calls forth a sad, pitying
smile when we hear a German claim that
Alsace Is more civilized now- than it
was before 1S7L
Tho injustice of these pretenses has
created an opposition of honest minds
in all Europe and America, and, has exas
perated them against the advocates of
brute force, the last arguments of all
imperialistic clvlllzers.
Others have gone to the other extreme
and have ridiculed and Insulted the idea
of the sound and rational nationalism, the
love of our country. They have raised the
cry, "Down with the nation, down with
the country!" A cry that Is Just as absurd
as if a colored man would shout: "Death
come Intemperate, but few learn the art
of drinking apart and alone.
'TIs true, there are those who may drink
on ouch occasions with comparative safety
to themselves. The story Is told of an
artist who had some trouble in discover
ing a head for a drunken tinker which
he wished to introduce Into a picture.
At length he found a -cobbler that he
thought would suit when well primed with
liquor, so he set him In his studio in
the proper attitude, with a bottle of gin
beside him and permission to drltik when
ever he pleased. The bottle of gin was
soon emptied, but the cobbler continued as
sober as a judge; another bottle was
brought and emptied, with no better re
sult. "Be off!" cried the artist In a pas
sion; "it will cost more to make you
drunk than the picture will fetch." Now,
while some at the Washington banquet
may have been as drink proof as this
cobbler, there was one Congressman who
could not indulge with like success. With
him it was certain ruin, and doubtless,
though his name is not given, he was of
a warm, open, generous temperament, as
such -are most liable to become victims
of social Indulgence.
But, it Is asked, how can one be hos
pitable? How can ho receive, and, still
more, give hospitality, without partaking
of Intoxicants? Why, the mere fact that
you find such a difficulty in giving and
absolute Indifference as to. the conse
quences. They may fail In all Tespects
to discharge their obligations or fill their
contract: it the employer remonstrates
they drop the whole thing and demand
full compensation provided for In the
contract.
If refused, they proceed immediately to
a shyster lawyer and bring suit. They
know that rather than be annoyed, nine
times out of ten, the employer will pay
the claim.. They float about until their
money is gone and arc probably found in
some hospital or retreat sustained by
charitable people, their employers among
the number.
It Is said that a wealthy woman of
Chicago put all the blame of domestic
trials upon the employers, especially upon
the mistresses of elegant homes, declar
ing that servant girls were a much
abused class and ought to havo more
recreation and privileges. She furnished
money for a grand ball, supported tho
Servant Girls' Union, and did many other
foolish things The girls proceeded to
formulate by-laws, dictated by prominent
Woman's Modesty Defended, by EL C Stanton
AS WOMEN by their wisdom and vir
tue have honored and glorified
every century, by their purity of
life and religious devotion have been the
chief pillars of the church in all ages,
they have now the right in the 20th cen
tury to protest against such masculine
criticism and dictation as greet them "on
every side.
As woman Is now assuming an equal
place with man in all the Institutions of
learning, the trades and professions, as
authors, artists, inventors and scientists,
as pastors of churches who officiate in all
the sacred offices, at weddings, funerals
and baptisms, she now has a right to
equal honor and respect In every relation
of life.
In view of all this, it Is the duty of
the, mothers of this republic to protest
against the following opinions of bishops
as an Impertinence:
What right have they to dictate to wo
man as to what she should wear?
At a recent Episcopal convention In
New Jersey, Bishop Scarborough in his
annual address condemned the growing
practice of women appearing In public
without hats. This was noticed frequently
at seashore resorts and in some churches,
he said. He also urged the use of the
veil by womon at confirmations!
On what" principle should women wear
veils' at confirmations and hats in churches
while men do not?
Bishop Burgess, of the Protestant Epis
copal diocese of Long Island. Is still more
radical in regard to women's attire and
position in the church.
"That women must no longer appear in
the surpliced choirs of the Episcopal dio
cese of Long Island," Is said to have been
the sum and substance of an ecclesiastical
notice sent within a week to the clergy
men attached to the Cathedral of the In
carnation. Bishop Burgess is also reported to have
said In a discussion regarding his notice:
"I do not want to hamper the rectors of
the missions In their work, but the women
must not appear in the surpliced choirs.
Women should not wear cassocks and sur
plices, which have belonged to men from
,the earliest time in -the church. I feel
that woman should be modest at all times.
I do not think It proper for her to don
such nlmpnt. Thft whnlo 'hlnc- ta .notr
Thn Brntptti nt Ti.nn.an nn-t.. In kl. I
. einw. w& 11 U1UC1I WMUllJbCia III una
country within the last 15 years has been
great, and was first introduced by Dr.
Rainsford In St. George's Church, Man
hattan. I think it an abomination and
will stop it all I can."
That Dr. Rainsford himself Is quite will
ing to bear the brunt of whatever
churchly criticism his Innovation of wo
men choristers may provoke. Is evident
to all negroes," or an individual would
cry out: "Death to myself!"
They have declared all forms of govern
ment immoral and inimical to all progress,
and they have- denounced all organized na
tional armies.
But as a bright star among the storm
clouds shines this great outburst of Inter
national charity and brotherly love after
a frightful catastrophe.
The timid take courage, the wise have
new hope, aeelng that all these opposing
forces can be brought together under the
banner of love.
It is really possible that all these differ
ent nations can be made to feel that they
thave duties to fulfil, that they owe some
thing" to France that they have never
seen, and that she can never pay them
back, what they have given now.
Then It 13 really not necessary to acquire
new territory, to get more trade, to make
more money.
There are really times when they can
forget everything f but this, that wo aro
all brethren, and this is a bright promise
By "Rev. Dr. James
taking hospitality without the use of
liquors shows there Is something "rotten
In the social state."
This absurd Idea of hospitality being, as
chemists say, "soluble only in alcohol,"
is tho strongest fiber in the strong root of
National Intemperance the drinking cus
tomand it must be severed. "You can
not enjoy yourselves otherwise?" Does
your enjoyment, then, depend on animal
spirits, or alcoholic spirits? Is It a reality
of the mind, or only a fiction of the bot
tle? "You cannot show your kindness and
friendship otherwise?" Is It either kind
or friendly to put an enemy into your
neighbor's mouth, to steal away his
brains? To press upon him that which he
does not need, and which, by an inexor
able law of nature, will consequently, If
taken, injure him? ,
In giving hospitality, there need be no
practical difficulty. "Keep spirits" for tho
medicine chest alone, and have no alco
holics on the table.
Why tempt your friends by placing In
toxicating drink before them? You would
not offer them digitalis or prussic acid,
and why give them what is just as much
a poison, and may. be more destructive?
Give your friend. prussic acid and he win
died at once the suffering will be short,
the tale soon told but give him alcohol
ahd you may pherlsh or call forth a taste
By Mrs. John A. Logan
labor union agitators, providing elgat
hours as a day's labor, permission to go
out two evenings and an afternoon each
week, and every Sunday, and permission
to entertain their friends in their em
ployer's servants' sitting and dining
rooms, and positively refused to work for
persons unable to furnish such' rooms
for their use, and many other impractical
and absurd exactions. Matters came to
such a pass that the misguided philan-J
thropist was obliged to give up her beau
tiful home and occupy a fiat because of
the Inability- to procure servants to prop
erly take care of her home. Other ef
forts have been made by organizing cook
ing schools for the training of domestics,
to find In the end that the pupils trained
gratuitously were impertinent and Inde
pendent and extravagant in their de
mands for high wages, because qf their
training. No new laws are needed for
the protection of servants, but Improve
ment might be made in them guarantee
ing protection to employers.
It seems there can be no satisfactory
settlement of this all-important question I
from the manner in which he spoke of tho
bishop's alleged action.
"Yes, I know all about It," he said,
speaking in his usual swiftly energetic
fashion. "But the whole matter Is be
neath notice, completely beneath notice.
Becauso one man says a foolish thing,
should I discuss It? Certainly not." t
In St. George's Church, as Is well
known, not only do the women choristers
wear cottas, but they march as well In
the processional. Many persons who do
not at all object to the presence of wo
men and girls in vested choirs have, a3
has Bishop Burgess, to quote him, still
further a distinct objection to their par
ticipation in the processional.
"I do not object to the women singing in
church," Bishop Burgess says, "but I do
object to their marching around In cas
socks and surplices. If they wish to sing,
they should be put on the floor on the lev
el with the congregation or up In a gal
lery, where they would not bo as con
spicuous as now."
Other representative clergymen of Man
hattan have various views regarding the
presence of women in vested choirs of the
Episcopal Church.
Dr. Houghton,' of the Church of the
Transfiguration, also agreed with Bishop
Burgess.
"Wo have a vested choir in the Church
of the Transfiguration," he said, "but it
has never been our custom to permit wo
men to be part of It. Bishop Burgess is
quite right as to the churchly Impropri
ety of women wearing any of the eccle
siastical vestments. It is according to
tho custom and tradition of the Anglican
Church. - And if It Is absolutely neces
sary, as it might be under certain condi- l
tlons, to have women's voices in a vested
choir, on no account should they bo per
mitted to take part In the processional.
They should be as inconspicuous as pos
sible." As to the fact that women themselves
are the most violent opponents of women
choristers, the opinion of one woman in
the matter becomes of interest and mo
ment. "Women singers detract from the
churchly dignity and purity of tho vested
cHolr," she said, "Not that women are to
blame for It, but It Is Inevitable that
when a woman becomes part of a choir
she Invariably attracts attention from the
service to herself. One tninks at once,
not of the hymn, but of the singer of the
hymn. There Is something in tho very
quality of the woman's, voice which tug-
frrsta nnrl ennveve Vinmii A-vnnfnnrA r-lfK
all that experience means to men and
women. A woman, try as she will, can
not but Impart a good deal of her per
sonality Into her voice, and you feel that,
not the spiritual, nasslonless Quality of
for a future so glorious, so brilliant that
we can hardly imagine It.
If I am not mistaken,' it is Paul Janet
who. In a preface to his "History of
Philosophy," says that all schools of phil
osophy can be classified in two classes on
every question, and as century fol
lows century, new champions of each of
these two doctrines or classes are horn
who" defend them in rejuvenated expres
sions and dialectics.
But as the discussion is carried on, wo
perceive that the two solutions get closer
and closer together and "converge toward
one Invisible distant point, and there is
reason to believe that this will happen to
Internationalism and Imperialism.
Just as organized society has made laws
to protect the recognized rights of tho In
dividual, we may also "hope that the whole
of Europe yes, the whole world will final
ly agree upon laws to protect tho recog
nized rights of each Individual nation, and
so guarantee It the right to preserve its
customs, Its traditions and its boundary
lines. MARCEL. PREVOST.
"B. Dunn
which will torment him with Indigestion,
unnerve and paralyze his powers, excru
ciate him with gout, and bring him slowly
to the grave: but not perhaps until he has
sacrificed his property, his character, his
friends, his soul.
Drinking practices would be compara
tively free from harm were they confined
to the patronage of the openly dissipated
and wretched. Were the noted tippler to
lay his filthy hand upon your shoulder
and ask you to drink with him, you would
shrink as from a reptile, but let the chal
lenge come from the lips of beauty, or at
the table of the respectable and influen
tial, and, feeling ffattereu by the request,
you comply without hesitation. But the
temptation can be resisted. As an illus
trious example we cite the case of the -most
distinguished officer of the American
Army, Lleutenant-General Nelson A.
Miles,. When General Miles was sent
abroad to represent our Government at
Queen Victoria's Jubilee he attended more
banquets in Europe than perhaps any
other American since General Grant's
time. Yet in every Instance he declined
the "social" glass, no matter at whose
table he sat. If it was at the table of an
Emperor or at a luncheon given by tho
Duke of Connaught, King Edwards
brother, the General's glass was un
touched. James B. Dunn, General Secre
tary National Temperance Society.
until the employers take a firm stand
and co-operate all over the country in es
tablishing a moral responsibility on tho
part of the employer and employed, and
in fixing reasonable and just compensa
tion for all classes of labor based upon
the efficiency of the laborer, and not
upon the whims of the employed or tho
employer, or upon the wealth of the em
ployer. The ability to pay exorbitantly
for Indifferent service should not enter
into the question. Tho ability of the
person entering Into the agreement to
perform the service satisfactorily, and
that of the person engaging to pay the
party to do. certain and prescribed du
ties at a reasonable price, should furnish
the basis upon which to fix inflexible
rules; either side falling In their con
tracts should be subject to fixed penal
ties. Until some such agreement Is made and
enforced, every household will be subject
to continual disruption and discomfort,
and the unworthy will continue to mako
It very hard for meritorious servants and
honorable employers who 'wish to do
good, not evil, to all within their gates.
MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN.
church music, when she sings. With men
and boyc it is different. They do not dis
tract one's thoughts from what the muslo
Is meant to convey.
"And then women will always pose a
bit when they are in a choir. They al
ways act. If you notice, a good deal con
scious, and as if the congregation wero
personally Interested In 'them, and their
appearance. Men and boys do not caro
at all, and as for their appearance, thcy
all loolc alike.'
As to the opinion of tho one woman
protester, she evidently oe'enpies the samo
position In the church as the antl-suf-fragists
occupy In the state. I have no
words strong enough to express my sur
prise at the anomalous position of either.
Are not the sentiments of modesty and
morality naturally as strong in woman
as in man, and a sufllclent guide in her
career?
In a recent number of a New York paper
appear the opinions of five clergymen op
posed to the Ideas of these bishops. All
praise to those clergymen and to Dr.
Rainsford, who 15 years ago led thd way
ln giving the church a new idea of its
duty In regard to the emancipation of
women.
Now the time has come for woman her
self to demand of the church what she Is
demanding of the state.
What Is the origin of all such Ideas?
It is that marriage is considered a de
filement by the church, and Id ore sect
denied Its priesthood. A woman, in order
to be permitted to clean the fioor of the
the "Holy of Holies" In some cathedrals
must be single. Or to play on the organ
in some churches, she must be single.
Woman, according to the Bible. ,by eat
ing the forbidden fruit, precipitated the
fall of the race, hence was cursed of God
In her maternity, and all the race born In
sin and iniquity, is tho origin of the doc
trine of infant damnation, considered one
of the essential creeds of the church,
which hundreds of intelligent, highly ed
ucated men have Just discussed for days
in a great ecclesiastical convocation In
New York City.
The degradation and defilement of wo
man Is so clearly taught In the Bible and
sacred literature that the priests In some
sects are forbidden all relations with her,
while in others she Is defiled by marriage,
but, singularly enough, they are not.
There Is a class of gentlemen leaders In
the church and In the state. In sacred and
In profane literature. In history and in fic
tion, in art and in polite society," who evi
dently have a contempt for woman, who
are always dictating as to her sphere of
action, her manners, dress and home du
ties, her morals and mental capacity, who
evidently neither respect nor appreclato
the sex.
These gentlemen could never have
known the tender care of a mother, tho
'devoted love of a wife, the warm affec
tion of a sister, nor the sweet reverence
of a daughter, or they must 'have had
some feeling of gratitude, kind regard and
high appreciation of womankind.
But perchance, like Minerva, they all
sprang from the brains of their fathers,
fully armed and equipped for the battle
of life. ,v
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.