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THE SUXDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY SO, WOT.
in up. or
MODERN WORLD
Chicago Professor
Classes
Them With Negroes as
Inferior.
THIS WHITE MAN'S WORLD
Thomaa Renews Condemnation of
Female Sex, Calling Women Am
ateurs in Modern Intellectual
Life of Mankind.
CHICAGO. Jan. IB. CEpeclal.)
Modern woman and the black race are
classed together as mentally unfit to
enter the "whit man's world" by Pro-
feasor William I. Thomaa. of the Uni
versity of Chlcagro, in an article on
"The Journal of Sociology," to be l-
sued Monday from the University press.
The Midway professor's statement la
published as the announcement of a
new theory of "Bex," In which the de
velopment ol woman is shown In, paraj-
vlllam with that of uncivilized man.
Woman lit Shell of Habit).
Physical characteristics and histori
cal incidents, according to the profes
nor. have "Inclosed woman in habits
which she cannot and will not frac
ture." and which reduce her to a sec
ondary class. Examples of able wo-
men are explained as sporadic and un
usual cases. Like the blacks, she "Kot
into the a-ame late." and In conse
quence stands In the relative position
of an amateur to a professional, he
vieclares. The modern system of mar-
riage also Is Included in the causes
for the Inferiority of women.
The article will be included as a
chapter in a book on "sex," soon to
he published from the university by
Professor Thomas, in which. It Is de
dared, a number of startling; features
"win be contained.
Professor Thomas recently aroused
a storm of discussion by an article of
"The adventitious character of wo
men." in which a psychological defense
of the "social evil," the statement that
women o loose habits make "uncom
monly rood wives," and that American
women are "house cats" were the chief
points.
Aside from the "sex" theory, Frofessor
Thomas advances the Idea that the
weiR-ht of the brain is no test of intelli
gence. Difference in the mental capacity
of women and uncivilised races as com-
pared vith white men, he declares, is
due to differences in historical habit and
opportunity. He says:
Modern Life White Man's World.
"The world of modern Intellectual lite
3s in reality a white man's world. Few
women and perhaps no blacks have ever
entered this world In the fullest sense.
To enter It In the fullest sense would
to be in it at every moment from
the time of birth to the time of death
and' to absorb it unconsciously and con-
cciously. as the child absorbs language.
"When something like this happens we
will be in a position to judge of the
mental efficiency of women and the lower
races. At present we seem justified in
Inferring that the differences In mental
expression are greater than they should
e. in view of the existing: differences in
opportunity.""
NO VERDICT IN SHEA CASE
COSTLY TM.U, MA5' RESULT IN
DISAGREEMENT.
Chicago's Expenditure of 97 0,000
and Months of Time May
Be ill Vain..
CHICAGO. Jan. 19. (Special.) The
celebrated Cornelius P. .Shea labor con
spiracy case, which has been on trial
Xor 130 days, went to the Jury this
forenoon, ana late tonight there are
indications of a disagreement There
are union labor mn on the Jury and
it Is now feared there will be no ver-
diet.
This trial has c6st the state t'UOO.
Jt grew out of the teamsters' strike,
which lasted live months, cost, the city
thousands o dollars to maintain even
a semblance ol order, and resulted in
the loss of millions In business. For I
five months the streets were the con-
Btant 'scenes of rioting-, bloodshed and j
disorder. Nineteen persons lost their I
lives through violence, and 432 vera
so badly crippled as to require surgi
cal and hospital attention.
Business men. angered by the fact
tfiat ttig teamsters had violated tbeir
eontractfl In order to take up the dd-
feated strike of 17 garment workers,
all of whom had secured work else
where, determined to make a final
stand and they broke the strike. The
city adminlHtratlon was new and an
"honest "fTort was made to enforce the
laws. The combined merchants fur-
nished the money for exTra police and
deputy sheriffs and paid for their board
and lodgrinff. With the city enforcing
the laws the failure of the strike was
inevitable.
fc'tiea, international president of tne
teamsters, was first Indicted for con
spiracy In accepting- money for call
ins: the strike June TS. 1 905. and was
reindicted with his associates July 26,
1906, The trial began September is,
lftOfi, and the first Juror was selected
raepiemoer 19. ine last Juror was
cnonen iNovemoer XV. nrter KOOO tales
men had been summoned and 4176 ex
amlned.
Late tonlsrht there are Indications
tne Jury will disagree. Judge Ball
has camped out in an adjacent hotel
ana says a verdict must be reached,
no matter how long It requires.
A. M. The Jury In the Shea trial I
still out. There are -no indications that a
veraict nas been reached.
Mitchell Report Is Indorsed.
INDIANAPOIJ.S, Ind.. Jan. 19. The
convention of the United Mlneworkers of
America adopted the report of President
Mitchell and refused to concur in the re
port of Vice-President Lewis. President
jntchell Indorsed the action of the last
National convention in allowing miners
to agreements by districts. Viee-
Preaident Lewis had taken - the opposite
position.
lie Is Confident of Peace. .
CHICAGO. Jan. 19. Baron de Kukuchln
formerly a Oahlnet officer In the Japanese
government, arrived here last night. He
is on his way to New York, where he ia
to sail for England on Tuesday. -.
He expressed himself as satisfied
With the friendship existing- between
&U Munta &&d the United Statu,
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missionaries, state officials and traders I
paid board and lodging at every stopping-point
with the single exception of
one American mission . station a fact
which leaves me freedom. While the
state facilitated my viit and my work in
many ways. 1 was not. at any time. In
relations with It ,of such a kind as to in-
terfere with free observations or tree ex-
presHion. I made this entirely clear on
my first vbslt to the state authorities at
Brussels, and It 'was understood by them
that I should spepK freely and iranKiy or
everything which I should see. On their
riart the state authorities expressed the
ivellest satisfaction trat an independent
American traveler should visit the Conga
Free State, and said that they did not
wish anything concealed or extenuated-.
as they felt sure that such a vie it as mine
could only do them good.
Opposed to Elevating Savages.
I have aald that my position was
doubly peculiar. I was not only independ
ent and untrammeled in observation and
expression, but my personal attitude to
the whole question of colonization and
administration by a foreign power, or na
tives. Is radical. Personally 1 dislike the
effort -to elevate, civilize, remake a people.
I should prefer to leave the African as he
was before white contact. It is my belief
that there is no people so weak or so de
graded as to be Incapable of self-government.
X believe that every people is hap
pier and better with self-government, no
matter how unlike our own form that
government may be. I feel that no na
tion is good enough, or wise enough, or
sufficiently advanced, to undertake the
elevation and civilization of a "loWeT11
people. Still less do Z approve the ex
ploitation of a native population by out-
siders for their own benefit. Nor do I
feel that even the development of British
trade warrants interference with ' native
life, customs, laws and lands. I know,
however, that these views are unpopular
and heretical.
In the series of articles, then, which I
have been asked to prepare. I shall try
to take the etand point of the practical
man, the business man, the man of af-
fairs, the philanthropist, the missionary.
All these agree that, civilized folk have a
perfect right to Interfere with any native
tribe too weak to resist their encroach-
ment. They agree that it is perfectly
right to trample under foot native cus
toms, institutions, ideas to' change and
modify, to introduce Innovations, either
to develop trade, to exploit a country, to
elevate a race, or to save souls. I a:
forced, then to look at. Congo matters
from the point of view of these eminently
practical men.
Flossing, but Few Mutilations.
Of course, I saw much to criticise. It
is true that there are flogging's and chaln-
ganffs. and prisons. X have seen them all
repeatedly. But there are floggings, chain
gang9 prisons in the United States.
Mutilations are so rare that one must
seek for them; and "Z had too much else to
do. There Is taxation yes. heavy taxa-
tlon-a matter which I shall discuss quite
fully further on. And In connection with
taxation there is forced labor, a matter
whiCh, of course, I disapprove,, but H ap-
pears as Just to all the groups ot emi
nently practical men to whom I have
referred. There are. no doubt, hostages
in numbers, but I saw less than a dozen,
And the Whole matter of hoetagca is one
whitfh merits careful and candid discus-
slon. And X know that In many & lartre
district the population is much smaller
than in former times. The causes of this
diminution In numbers are many and
various, and to them I shall return.
Flogging, chalngang, prison, mutilation,
heavy taxation, hostages, depopulation
all these I saw, but at no time and at no
place were they so flagrant as to force
themselves upon attention. And of fright-
ful outrages, Buch as I had expected to
meet everywhere, I may almost say there
wae nothing. It is. of course, hut fair to
state that I wee not In the district of the
J. 2. L.a I cannot believe, however.
it conditions in that district are c
appalling as the newspaper reports would
Indicate.
Negro Happier Tlian Me Dreamed.
On the contrary, I found at many places
a condition of the negro population far
-happier than I had dreamed it possible.
ie negro of the Congo or Bantu, If
you please is born trader. He is imi
tative to a degree. He is acquisitive, and
Charmed with novelties, lie is bright, and
quick, remarkably intelligent. lie read
ily acquires new languages, and it is no
uncommon thin? to find a .Congo Bantu
who can
besides h
speak six or seven languages
s own. In disposition variable
and emotional, he quickly forgets his -sorrow.
I saw hundreds of natives who
were workine happily- living in good
houses, dressing in good clothes of Kuro-
pean Stuff and pattern, ana saving prop
erty. That tills number will rapidly in
crease I have no doubt.
And now on my return, after having
many of my preconceived Ideas complete
ly -shattered and feeling on the whole that
things in Oongoland are not so bad, and
that Improvement Is the order of the day.
am startled to find the greatest ex
citement Pages of newspapers are filled
with stories of atrocities, many of which
ever happened, some of which are an-
cient, and a part of which, recent m
ate, are true.
find a fierce excitement about the
Belgium loDby; vigorous resoltuions pre
sented in the Senate, and the President
of the United Slates outrunning his most
rgent supporters and advisers, ready to
take some drastic, action to ameliorate
the condtiions of the suffering millions
In the Congo" Free State.' The surprise
is so much the greater as my latest in
formation regarding the American official
attitude had been gained from the letter
written by Secretary vRoot some months
What Is Motive or Agitation ?
What can be the reason of such pro-
digious and sudden change?
what has happened in the Congo since
April to , produce the present state of
mind? What Is the motive underlying
the bitter attacks upon Leopold and the
Free State which he established? Jo it
truly humanitarian? Or are the laudable
mpulses and praiseworthy sympathies of
great people being used for hidden
and sinister ends of politics?
I do not claim infallibility. I do claim
.hat my having spent a year in the Congo
Free State, independently, should qualify
me to express opinions on the conditions.
! have heard both sides. X have traveled
housands of miles In" the Congo territory.
have visited natives of 28 different
tribes. Jo interference has been placed
lu my way. I have gone where I pleased,
and when and how I pleased. No prep-
arations have been made with reference
my visits. I believe no change in
practice have been produced by my pres-
ence.
In the scries of articles before us It is
my intention to present in detail what I
have seen, and much of which X have
heard, in the Congo independent state.
I may make errors, but I shall tell no
Intentional falsehoods. X shall criticise
what deserves criticism. I shall praise
what is praiseworthy. I trust that those
who are Interested in forming a true
idea of Congo conditions may tind some
thins useful in my observations.
Three Types of Negroes.
At this point it is necessary for us to
know something of the Congo native hlm-
fielfi In Dark Africa tor Northern Africa
is and always has been a white man's
country there are three negro or negroid
m susses. There" is 'little doubt that the
original Inhabitants of the continent were
dwarf people, ancestors of the pigmies of
the high Kturl forest, and the Batua ol
the Upper Xassali.
Today the pigmies are mere fragments,
scattered and . separated, but retaining
with tenacity their ancient life. They are
the same today as they were 500O years
ago, when they were objects of interest
to the old Egyptians. Little in stature,
scrawny In form, with a face shrewd,
cunning and sly. the pigmy is a hunter
With his bows and poisoned arrows he
kills the game ot the forests and makes
no pretense of doing aught In agriculture.
He Is universally feared by the large
blacks in the neighborhood of whose
towns he settles. He trades his game for
agricultural products with his large
neighbors.
In Uie Soudan and neighboring pars
of Western Africa live the true negroes.
notable for their thick lips, projecting
lower faces and dark skin.
Throughout Southern Africa we find a
group of population much lighter in color
and on the whole more attractive in ap-
noaranpft than the trufi nejrro. These
tribes, plait.iy related in language, are
no doubt of one blood ana are called
Bantu. The: name is unfortunate, as
the - word Bantu simply means "men"
in that groun of. languages. Practically
the whole of the Congo population are
Bantu there being almost no true negro
and but few pygmies In the area.
Where Textbooks Are Wrong.
It would sem as if the , Congo native
should -be so well known by this time
(hat the current description of him in the
textbooks would be accurate, yet, at least
in tfyrsnectaj these stereotyped accounts
.are LSbIv' -The Congo Bantu are not
long-T.caUed, and it Is not true that they
differ from the real negro in the absence
of a characteristic and disagreeable odor.
There are scores of Bantu tribes, each
with its own language and minor peculi
arities In appearance and life. It would
be untrue to say that all smell badly.
but I have . often wished the writers of
books could be. shut up awhile 1n
the same room with, for example, a group
nf: Unnflnvtrrl T i noi-IMn that nrt tirnfl
of African smeii worse. :
Xt would be. however, a mistake to
think that the Bantu are dirty. Far from
ft T hnvn fflnpa tprTlv nrmrvp,1 jtit pa r-
Hers when we came to some brook in the
forest set their load amMa trir. thm.
selves when necessary and bathe In the
iresn, cooi water, xney are scrupulous in
attention to their teeth, and use, often
several times a day. a little stick of wood
somewhat larger than a lead pencil,
shredded at one end.- to clean their teetii.
The Instrument, by the way, serves its
purpose far better than our own tooth
brushes.
?fot Good Burden-Bearers.
According to' his tribe the Bantu may
be short, medium or tall. King- Ndombe
or the Bakuba, measures six feet three
lfi stature and Is well built, though not
heavy. - Among the Bakuba, Baiuba,
Batetela and Bakete tall statures are
common. It Is rarely, however, that the
Santu present what we would call finely
developed forms; their chest is often Hat
and" sunken: their shoulders not well
thrown backward and th- mnscnlnturn
of their back, their chest, arms and legi
Is poor. Of course, there are exception:
and one sometimes sees magnificently de
veloped specimens. In the Lower Coneo.
where on the whole the men are shorter,
they make excellent carriers. In the old
caravan tfaya the standard burden was
6d or 70 pounds, and a man would carry
It without difficulty all the working day.
The Kasai tribes are poor carriers and
indifferent workers. The chopbox of CO
pounds weight, which the, lower Congo
man shoulders easily and carries without
complaint, will be slung to a pole to be
ooriie oy iw0 carriers among- the Baluba,
in lire the Bantu population, so far as 1017
JL3m bthe recovery, also of the
Is the same everywhere though there1 Mn,s tney told wno wcre similarly af
are local and tribal differences of minor i n'Tte1i.r ,.,, ,. ,,,,
sorts Thus, airt every tribe has its; & ZiiS
own trihnl marks nut In. Aaah I -
own tribal marks cut into the flesh of
face or body.
Similarly the members of one tribe- mv
oe aistinsruisned by their mode of dress
ing the hair. To a less degree the form
to which the teeth are chipped and
broken mark tribal differences. It may
almost be said that no two tribes in all
the Congo huild houses that are Just
alike, and almost every tribe has its char
acteristic mode of arranging the houses
in a group. Thus in one tribe the houses
will be arranged In continuous lines, one
on each side of a straight road; In an-
other the houses may be grouped around
the three sides of a square, the group
belonging to a single chieftain and being
succeeded in the village by other similar
groups of buildings; in another the houses
will be arranged In two curved lines.
leaving the open space in the center of
the village oval or elliptical. The chairs
or stools of one tribe will differ in form
and decoration from those of another:
so will the wooden spoons, the stirring
sticks,, the combs, the dress and orna-
ment5.
Still Ruled by Chiefs.
The Congo natives for the most part
still lead a tribal life. A chief is the
head of a little community clustered
about him. He may not be the chief of
a whole village; for example, at Bomanlh,
on the Aruwiml. there are three chiefs.
Each one has his own cluster of houses,
and though the three clusters are ar-
ranged continuously in two parallel
straight lines, every native of the village
knows precisely where the domain of the
individual chief ends or fcesins.
The power and authority of the chief
has been greatly weakened by contact
with the whites, but he still retains great
influence. At least over the member of
his own household, including, of course,
his slaves, he has the power of life and
death. In large affairs, Interesting a
considerable number of people, he usually
acted on the advice and opinions of his
fellows as expressed in a -village or tribal
palavar. The chief was, and still is, dia
tinguished from the common people by
nis uress and ornaments. ie Is usually
a man of wealth and has -a considerable
number of people actually dependent upon
him, subject to his orders, and a force
upon which he can depend in case of
war or trouble.
When I first entered the Congo my
heart sank, for it seemed as If the native
life was gone. In fact. In letters written
from Matadl I doubted whether I had
not come too late for aught of interest.
My spirits began to revive, however, with
the railroad Journey Trom Maai to Leo-
poldville. Groups of natives, with scanty
dresfl and barbaric ornaments, replaced
those who" at Matadl and its -neighborhood
gathered at the station to see the
train pass.'
Native With Three Wives.
In my first walk ' from the -mission
house where I lodged at Leo within three
minutes' walk of the mission I found a
little cluster of Bateke houses, which,
.with its inmates,
much delighted me.
women, with abund-
Almost naked
ance of beads and teeth, hung at their
necks as ornaments, with hair elab
orately dressed and bodies smeared
with red camwood powder, squatted
the ground, were making native
pottery In graceful forms.
In the shade in front of the door
one of the houses was a true barbarian
lord Of the place. By rare $ood luck
he epoke a little English, 80 that Wft
might carry on a conversation. i-When
X asked him who the women were, he
replied that they were his wives. I
think there were three of them, and It
was my first Introduction to African
polygamy. Each of these women occu
pied a separate house. Each of them
! w rkei A11 of tnem contributed to
the importance and support of their
husband.
Measure "VVealtJi by Wives.
Polygamy, . of course, prevails
throughout Dark Africa. But do not
misunderstand me. I do not use the
word "dark" to characterize polygamy.
It IS settled institution wnicn seems
to work quite Well. Later On 1 SaW
the wives of Ndombe, 3 4 in number.
Ndombe is a really important chief, but
Compared With some whom we met or
of whom we heard in the Upper Congo
he was but scantily equipped. Sixty,
seventy. a bund red . or hundreds of
NOT ACCIDENTS
All the parties below had advanced
cases of chronic Britrht's Disease or Di
abetes. 7ote the certainty of the results
in his own family and told several others,
who recovered.
Adolph Weske, capitalist, San Franels-
co, recovered himself and told two
friends, who recovered.
Dr. Carl T. Ztele, pioneer druggist, 623
Puclflc street. San Pranclaco, recovered
himself and gave it to more than a doxen
patients, who recovered. .
Charles Enpelke, editor of th German
paper, San Francisco, recovered himself
a nd told 1 1 to a number, w ho recovered,
one of them being Charles F. Wacker,
the Sixth-street merchant.
R. M. Wood, editor Wine and (spirit
Review, recovered himself and told it to
several, who recovered, n monir f-hm hn
I msj an oia-scnooi physician.
Edward Short, of the San Francisco
Call, recovered, also three of his friends,
via: William Martin. Captain Hubbard.
Of the Honolulu route, and William Haw-
kins, of the United States Quartermas
ter's Icpartment, of San Francisco.
John A. Phelps, of the Hotel Ftepeller,
San Francisco, and two of his friends.
AVe again proclaim to all the world the
curability of Chronic Bright's Disease
and Diabetes.
Abo u t ST per cent of al 1 cases are cur
abl by Fulton's Compounds.
When to suspect Bright's Disease-
weakness or loss of weight; puffy ankles,
hands or eyelids; dropsy; kidney trouble
after the third month; urine may show
sediment; f ailing vision; drowsiness; one
or more of these.
For Bright's and serious kidney dis
ease get Fulton's Renal Compound. For
Diabetes, ask for the Diabetes Compound.
For salo by all druggists, trade supplied
by' Clarke, Woodward Drug Co., whole
sale drupsrists. Portland. Or. Literature
mailed free by' the John J. Fulton Co.,
U.u ban ir'aoio avenue, uaKiano, jai.
wives and female slaves, "which count
for much the same, are In possession
Of great chieftains. There is. of course,
always one favorite of principal wife.
'When Ndombfs used to come, as he fre
quently did, to my house to see the
stereoscopic pictures,' he frequently
brought his favorite wife with him.
She was a pretty creature young" and
plump, graceful and modest. She wore
good cloth and any quantity of beads
and brass arm and leg rings.
In every case the women of a chief or
rich man live In separate houses, each
having her own. Until a man la married
he Is . but little thought of. The greater
the number Of bis wives, the more important-
he becomes. As each one culti
vates a fir Id and does other productive
labor, it will be seen tnat tne man wltb
the most wives Is the richest man.
The man has his own house, but visits
and Hves In the houses of his wives In
turn.- The child in Africa is rarely
weaned before it Is 2 or 3 years old, and
during the period or time when a cwia
is unweaned the father has no marital
relations with the woman. On the whole,
there Is less quarreling among the wives
Of a polygamic husband than one would
expect Bantu women, however, are
aften termagants, as women elsewhere,
and st times the chief's house group 1st
lively.
Slavery Still nourishes.
Domestic slavery still flourishes. The
state, of course, has done much to end
the actual slave trade for supplying- white
men and Arabs. It la. however, diffi
cult to deal with the matter of domestic
slavery, and In fact is scarcely worth
the candle.
Every chief or man of any consequence
has Slaves. Calamba, my Interpreter, at
Ndombe. though a young fellow, probably
not more than 25. had two. It Is rare
that the lot of the domestic slave Is un
happy. It it usually women or children
who are bought and they are treated in
all respecter as If members of the family.
Little Is required of them in the way of
work and service, and they must abso
lutely he provided for by the master, who
is alao frequently responsible before the
public for their misdeeds. Formerly, of
course, there was the possibility of being;
killed upon a festal occasion, the acces
sion Of the chief to increased power, or
to grace his funeral. Within those dis
tricts where the state has a firm hold
and strong Influence this possibility is
done away with, and the most serious
disadvantage in being a slave is thus re-
moved. Slaves may become rich men and
not infrequently themselves hold slaves.
Very fond of Music.
Perhaps the most striking characteris
tic of the Bantu, as of the true negro,
is his emotionality one instant Joyous.
the next in tears. Vowing vengeance for
an Injury today, he Is on the happiest
terms with his injurer tomorrow. He
laughs, sings, dances. Of all the intro
ductions of the white man, perhaps the
accordion Is the favorite. Men use it, but
women play It constantly. Most of them
play one song piece only, and one may
hear it from one end of the state to the
Other at every hour of the day and night.
Of course there are native instruments in
plenty, drums of every size and form,
from the small hand drum. made by
stretching: a skin across an earthen pot'
three or four Inches in diameter, up to the
great cylindrical, horizontal drum made
by hollowing logs a yard In diameter and
lO feet long. There are horns, tifes. pipes
and whistles and a great series of
Stringed tnstruments, ranging from the
musical bow with but one cord to lutes
with 10 or 12. Of course the Instru
mental music goes with the dancing.
. The Original Cakewalk.
The native Is born to danee. Babies.
2 or 3 years old, dance with their elders.
Men dance together; women have their
Special forms; but, In the majority of
cases., the two sexes dance wgeuier.
There Is. however, nothing like our
waltses or round dancing. Individuals ;
keeping themselves separate. The dances
are mOSt frequent and lively when the
moon Is growing. On moonlight nights !
hundreds of people men. women and
children Rather at dusk, and to the noise
of drums dance wildly, often till morn-
ing. It Is no uncommon thing for people
working on plantations to work all day
and dance almost all night, and this day
after day. While some of the dances are
extremely graceful, most Of them are ob
scene and are followed often by frightful
orgries.
One thins; greatly interested me. au
been asked before my trip to Africa
about the cakewalk-a form of amuse-
ment which I love to see I should have
said that It originated In America among
the black: folK of our Southern States.
But, no, the Cakewalk Is no American
invention. In every part or me uuDu
one may see it even in regions wuciw
white influence has seldom, penetrated.
The American cakewalk is an Immigrant.
. Thfl Bantu ch lid s wonaenuuy pre
cocious. This precocity displays itself In
everything- The children run about with
perfect. freedom instead of tottering
along, one unsteady stsp after another,
as OUr Children Of the same age. They
speak astonishingly soon. A babe In
arms eats solid food notwithstanding
the fact that it is not weaned until 2 or
3 years Of age shockingly early. The
little child imitates the every action of
its older ' friends. Children or or o in
shrewdness, comprehension and intelli
gence are like our lo-year-oias. nis
precocity msw ine iaci i r :
in,. As a fact, boy ot lfi and glUS 01
13 are frequently ready for marriage. A
man of 2& Is In tne lri me 01 ute; h.
man of 30 aged, and on the whole the
term of life closes at 35.
STOKES TO GIVE UP WORK
Millionaire Philanthropist Is Dls
sppolnted at Results.
NEW YORK. Jan. 19. After an ex-
perlrhent of many months J. O- Phelps
StoKee and his wife. Rose Pastor stokes.
today announced that they will give up
settlement work on the East Side, as they
are disappointed in the results. E2very
effort made by them toward the better-
ment Of the lot or the poor was met and
neutraliaed, they ay. by COUflter InflU-
ences in the Interests of the rich.
"The truth is that the people appear
to be blinded to the real Issues at stake."
says Mr. Stokes. "The idle rich ar
blind to the fact that ft donation to
charity or philanthropy can serve no real
good purpose as long as the unjust social
system remains.
"As for the oppressed, they are blind
to the fact that settlements and churches
can do little or no effective good so long
as there remains this inherent injustice
111 thO misguided industrial system which
first makes people poor and sees that
they are kept so. It shall be our pur
pose from this time on to bend aU our
efforts In the direction of an awakening
of earnest men and women everywhere
to a realization of the full facts and
real issues."
Thaw's Slotcr Visits Him.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. The Countess of
Yarmouth visited her brother, Harry K.
Thaw, In his cell In the Tombs today.
There was an affectionate scene when the
two met. Mrs. William Thaw, the pris
oner's mother, and his wife, accompanied
the Countess. The prisoner's mother was
so affected by the scene that she was
overcome by her emotion and hurriedly
left the prison.
Kansas Town Under Water.
WICHITA. Kan., Jan. W.-Walnut
Hlver and Timber Creek are flooding the
bottoms at Winfleld. Kan., and families
are moving out. The water Is higher
than since the town as built. Fears
are felt for th safety of the business
sections. Reports rrom up tne streams
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