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Results to be Feared. _
One of the gravest perils to be feared
_ from the great floods of the Mississippi
valley is that the recession of the wa-
ters may be followed by famine and
pestilence. The feed supplies of. the
flooded region. covering an area of
many thousand square miles, have been
almost wholly .destroyed, and unless
provisions are forthcoming from other
sources ,there will be- acute and pro-
tracted distress among a large and
helpless population. ,
To this danger must be added the
possibility of malignant fevers follow-
|
, ing the accumulation of stagnant waters
in the lowlands, and the miasma due to
rapid evaporation from the marshes
under the blaze of a torrid sun. The
prospect is alarming even from the"
most favorable point of view, and it
Will be fortunate indeed if the Victims
o the great overflow, escape with no
more trying hardship than that which
has already befallen them.
The situation is one that appeals to
both public and private charity, and it
deserves a quick and liberal response
from every neighborhood.
A Rabbi on Whist Playing.
The denunciation of whist playing by
the Rev. w. T. Worth, of Boston, be-'
cause so many of his flock were engag-
ed in whist that a Lenten service had
to be omitted, has called out a sensible
letter from 35be M. Elkin, "of Her:—
fprd,_. to the Times of that city upon
this game. He does not regard whist
playing as an invitation of the devrl to
reboot man out of his soul’s salvation.
He 1991i9.95i,.‘?° the _ optimistic view that
nothing radically bad ekists on earth,
but that God. created everything for
His divine'glory. He avers that liquor
or. cards cannot of themselves be con-
demned as,irre1igious or immoral, and
says'it is the abuse of things that make
them a curse. .
Giving his attention specially to the
game of whist, he says: “Whist in it-
self is a very innocent and amusing
game. As long as we use it moderately,
as an occasional pasttime after a week’s
hard work and care, itis not only irrep¥
rehensible, but even commendable.
Butthe moment we abuse it by making
it our-daily occupation, or. worse yet,
sacrificingtto it the-hours of our divxne
services, whist playing becomes. in-
stead of a blessing to the weary, a very
curse to our'homes, to our churches. to
every higher interest of humanity, and
a baneful poison to our children I
Under this abuse of whist the game
"became a shame and a disgrace; nay,
not less shame than whiskey as a means
of lowering man to the level of the
beasli‘ In the future a. whist playing
man or woman will be pointed at as we
point now at a whiskey drunken man;
3'0: both deserve indeed the same de-
gree of contempt, for degrading a gift
intended as a blessing into a means of
shame I But the punishment will not
.stop there either, but overtake the gam-
bling father or mother in the disrespect
of their own children. For no child,
unless it turns itself into a gambler too,
will, or even can, respect a parent who
‘ is either a gambler or adrunkard. Let
parents ponder over my words, and ‘
take them and the warning they con-
tain to heart before it is too late! Let
the present generation beware of the
inheritance it will entail upon the gen-
eration coming, that it be not an inheri--
tance of shame and ungodliiiess. but
one of honor, piety and true humanity.”
Rabbi Elkin takes a sensible view of
the matter and presents with force the
evi ~ :p- »~ 'l(':e in 24.5.37 direction.
Th.“ .ne ii. ~l‘h the game, but
wit... is play a, and ,_.. '9 he com-
mends whist as a diversion, he con.
demns it as a dissipation, and that is
what whist as “all-the-rage” is getting
tobew ' '
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Bad fonthe Boys.
There are few, if any, States in the
Union whose people take precedenceZOf
‘ the people of Iowa in intelligence and
morality. Bearing this fact in mind it
is difficult to account, on any reason-
able hypothesis, for an attempt :by the
' Ma Legislature to do irreparable
., damage to the moral character of anyl
\ _'
'su’ch performances.
portion of the State’s population. But
that such‘imt-he case is pr‘oven by the
fact that the proposed amendment-to
the Iowa cigarette law has a provision
that_any minor arrested for smoking
cigarettes may escape thepenalty by
giving information of the seller.
We: can believe it possible for a boy
to indulge in the bad habit ‘of smoking
cigarettes and yet develop into hunor-
able manhobd. We can believe it pos-
sible for a boy addicted tothat habit
to become a self-respecting and univer-
sally respected man. However injuri-
pus cigarette-smoking may be, it seems
unreasonable to suppose that it is in-
evitably bound to irreparably impair a
youth’s moral nature. . "
But the lesson that this amendment
and young men of Iowa is a lesson in
bad mo’rals. It offers a high premium
on sneaking hypocrisy. It says to
every boy who has not reached the vot-
ing age—to the "kid” in knickerbockers
as well as to the full grown man of
twenty years, eleven months and twen-
ty-nine days—that he may violate a
State law with impunity, and as often
as he pleases, on condition that he be-
come a sneak. It proposes to make all
the boys in the State detectives. It is
a modification of the Parkhurst plan of
getting evidence. '
We are glad to see that the Burling-
ton Hawk-Eye is trying to induce the
Legislature not to perpetrate this of-
fense. It reminds the legislators that
the promised amendment is of doubtful
morality, and cites, for their instruc-
tion, the fact that the Connecticut Sen-
,ate has voted to repeal the law under
which a person arrested for drunken-
ness could be compelled to tell. where
he obtained the liquor under penalty of
commitment for contempt. ~
We have heard a good deal of late
about freak legislation in the Populist
Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska,
'and it is true that some wild and i0 Niel.
measures have been proposed nLlIl
seriously considered in those bodies, al-
though few of them crystalized Into
laws. But no Populist law-maker has
ever suggested such pernicious Iegigla-
tion as this Iowa proposition. It is go-
ing quite far enough in the way of intro-
ducing men to violate the law for the
sake of punishing them to employ police:
detectives for that purpose. Under the
inform regime in New York this plan
has been pu~hed to e revolting and in—
human exII-eme. In this city it has, oc—
casionally, been responsible for abuses.
Pitiful tales have been concocted and
told to saloon--keepers———tales of sudden
Illness and fearful suffering—to induce
them to make a :sale of liquor on Sun—
day. No city has reason to be proud of
But all this will be
eclipsed in Iowa if the Legislature adds
all the boys to the detective corps.
NATII‘INAL CAPITAL.
[CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE I
Frederick F. Bette, insurance com-
missiouer of Connecticut, ai rived at the
Ebbilt to day. He came to meet his
wife and daughter, who joined him to.
dav on ti «Ir wav from Asheville, N. 0.
They wrl He here for two or three days.
Dr. George C. Bailey and John W.
Coogan of Hartford are visiting Captain
O’Farrell here. »
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tVood Alcohol Causes Death.
San -Diego,v Cal.,‘ April 10.-_—Seaman
Cline of the cruiser Philadelphia died
today. Two of the other sailors are
dying and several more are in a. pre-
carious condition from drinking wood
alcohol mixed with eggs and condensed
milk. They broke into the medicine
chestduring the night, stealing the al-
cc-hol, of which they drank large quanv
tities.
Mrs. Silas F. Loomer Dead.
VVilliméLntic, Conn.,. April 10.—Mrs.
Parmelia Loomer, 67, wife of Silas F.
Loomer, president of the Willimantic.
Savings institution, died today from an
apopletic shock sustained Wednes-
day. Mrs. John M. Hall, wife of the
vice president of the Consolidated road,
is the only surviving child.
Death of an Err-Congressman.
' Boston, April 10. — Ex-Congressman
Benjamin Dean of this city died at his
home in South Boston today. He was
7'3 years: of age. Death was due to a
stroke of paralysis sustained several
days ago.
Forest Bill Signed.
Albany, April 10. — Governor Black
lost no time in signing the forest land
acquisition bill which he prepared for
introduction, and it is now a. law.
Jeremiah Connolly Appointed.
Washington, April 10. -— secretary
Bliss has appointed Jeremiah COnnolIy
of New York to be principal examiner
in the pension office.
. Raincs Law Amendments Urged.
Albany, April 10.—Governor Black
sent a message to the senate today
urging immediate action on the Raincs
law amendments. '
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loughby's Contradictions. .-
London, April 10.-—The parliamentary
South African committee resumedlgits
sittings in Westminster ghall today.
There was a. large attendance of prom-
inent persons in anticipation of sense.-
tional testimony, in viewof the Warning
given to Major Sir John 'Willoug'hby at
the last sitting on Tuesday,” that both
he and Dr. Jameson would be examined
today in order that their conflicting ev-
idence might be reconciled. Dr. Jameson
and Major VVilloughby were among the
early arrivals. .
Immediately after the committee was
called to order the chairman explained
to Dr. Jameson the necessity of his malt-
ing a. statement as to what he had séid
to MajorJVilloughby inthe privatecc‘m-f
versations alluded to by 'the latter on
Tuesday. in which Willoughby alleged
that he had been led to understand that
the proposed raid into the Transvaal
had the sanction of imperial authority. ‘
Dr. Jameson said that MajorWillough-
lief that :he Transvaal raid was under-
taken wi.h the assent. of the imperial
authorities, was not entitled to the 'ji-rn-
portance which the committee had at-
tached to it. Willoughby, he said, had
suddenly learned that the officers who
had parti pated in the raid were about
to be deprived of their commissions, in
which oxen: trey would be ruined, and
had tho—mm“; written to the war office
in the strongest and the most concise
terms, with a. view of avoiding, if possi-
ble, the loss of his commission.
The chairman asked Dr. Jameson if
the expression “imperial authority,” as
employed \by Major VVilloughby in his
references to private conversations
with the witness, meant the authority
of the Cape government. ~
Dr. Jameson answered: “Yes; in
most cases it meant the British high
commissioner.” .
When pressed to give a. more definite
answer the witness said: “I am not in
the habit of lying." He added that he
had not said that‘the government back-
ed the Transvaal movement, though
Major Willoughby might easily have
got that impression from the character
of .the talks which they had had to-
gether.
Sir John Willoughby then took the.
stand and admitted the much discussed
letter was drafted by B. F. Hawksley,
the lawyer of the British Chartered
.South Africa. company. The witness
lisaid he supposed Dr. Jameson saw it
before it was posted, and he was horri—
fied to discover he had not. He, Sir
John, knew perfectly well ‘he could
neither retain his o'wn commission nor
greatly moved.
Later Sir John Willoughby said he
did not defend the wording of the let-
ter. Time pressed and words did 'not
seem of importance. He could not. give
a. better version than Dr. Jameson of
ihe private conversations which had
taken place between them. His mind
was rather jumbled regarding the se-
quence of even'ts. He admitted, h0w-‘
ever/he was ‘quite wrong in using.the
words. “imperial authorities.”
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