Show contemporary I 1 I 1 I 1 0 I 1 0 0 a THOUGHT I 1 I 1 I 1 EDMUNDS AND TIM THE SENATE the new school of constitution makere say that they think the senate has become a body of rich men ho rained gained their places by corrupting legislatures in a pecuniary way but to an any one acquainted with the ot of the senate as it has existed tor for a generation and la Is now such a statement Is known to be absolutely destitute ot of foundation the proportion of rich men in the senate Is not greater thin than that which exists in every state and community in the whole country where the honors find and responsibilities ties c of public p u bile loftlee are shared aalice by the rich the comfortable and the tha poon poo As a perfect millennium has not yet been rei reached reich ched cd it is doubtless true that some UK vory very few men have secured oc electa a senators senator by pecuniary persuasions sua or to put it roughly hive bought their places with money a crime of the worst character both in the buyer and in the seller but alas i tills this Is not a peculiarity belonging to tha office of 0 senator alone it has happened equally or more often in elections eions to tile the house of 0 representatives ca as well as is in state and municipal election A legislative election of senators therefore ti 19 not the cause ot of this treat great evil in the nature of things it must bo be worse in popular elections for the bembera mem berat ot of a legislature must in the I 1 choice of a senator vote openly so that know whether or I 1 rot not bleir representatives have followed fall owed the general of the particular coi they represent a matter of vital importance lit in all rep represents five government dut but in popular elections where each citizen la 13 acting in III his personal capacity only it Is equally important that lie have lave the right to vote secretly not nol wal liet anding that he be may inay be bribed in spite of every precaution that the law may adopt to prevent it ex senator I 1 edmunds in the forum 1 JAPAN AND CHINA IN 1 the jealousies and animosities of china and japan are not ot of recent date they had their origin in the remote pact and the korean peninsula jutting down as it does between them has haa often been the cause causa end and scene of conflict As tar far back as the second century of 0 the christian era japan claims to have conquered korea and to have made of her a vassal asset state por for sonic some centuries these relations with certain interruptions seem to have bave continued then came a cessation of tribute and frequent invasions until near the end of the fifteenth century japan again conquered and overran korea shortly alter after tho the koreans aided by the chinese forced them to abandon the country from this time dates the dominating influence of china japan however never relinquished her claim until the year 1376 when she ehe made a treaty with korea recognizing her as an independent notion nation prior to this recognition the hie japanese felt that to surrender their claim upon korea would be an act of cowardice and a national dishonor the ill resent ivar is being wa waged wag ged ed not ot with the desire e of conquest but for the he purpose of wresting korea from the ile stagnating influence of her unwieldy dy neighbor the statesmen of ja japan art realize that the strength of korea kore is s in her ter weakness that the preservation pre ol 01 1 1 of her ter autonomy and the recognition of her independence are arc absolutely necessary to the peace ace of the orient they know that chinas cainas domination of the peninsula or its dismemberment and aad absorption would be a constant nio menace nace to themselves and well aware that there Is ft a large party in korea headed by the king izing himself which Is more than anxious to break the thralls that have so long bound them and to adopt n ideas and western civilization they are determined that korea shall have that opportunity general lucius 11 foote in november overland BLAINES REPARTEE on one occasion a decision which blaine made as speaker of tile the house greatly enraged a new member who waited on pennsylvania avenue atler after the house adjourned with some friends declaring that hat he would I 1 have it out or light fight you cant 1 said one of ills his friends lendl fr you will say will get the be better ater of 0 malnes Bl alnes good humor and politeness well see bee said the enraged man as ile he caught sight of the stately figure of the speaker coming slowly toward him lie he stepped forward quickly and stood across his path mr air blaine he said loudly 1 I dont know you I 1 am no acqua acquaintance ill of yours but I 1 take the liberty 0 CC telling you sir air that you are a fool and a jackass indeed In ded 11 said blaine mildly now I 1 wonder regarding him thoughtfully what kind ot of a liberty you would have taken it I 1 had bren been ono one at your intimate friends and bowleg he passed on while the tha companioni compa compaLa niona of the congressman burst into a shout of laughter RECORD or OF THE jamss jamis russell lowell used to tell this story to intimate friends it wp aps vps I 1 told tod him by john lothrop lathrop motley la ila jilt before the crimean war commenced the lie benei abio baron von lium bolet came to london on oil a v very cry rinar tant in luelon ile he sailed upun lord PaIn lorston and andraid said I 1 know a var 1 la 1 imminent between kniland and her he allica p op on the onatia nd and Il if you wll to temporize make diplomatic delays delaya do CIO anything to for or a year or two wo there will not need to be a war 1 why palmer palmerton ton olk od de because ause nicholas of puabla L will ile die within two yearn the fatal curse ot of the finianos Rin ianos I 1 is 3 on him do you not know that a great sc erces told peter the great that no male member 0 of the Roma would over t ver live to see hla sixty fifth year hut nicholas IS in not lot yet SO 50 ralmer palmer eton all answered mored 1 I K ia to sale ie an im how flow 0 of human clooj lilo oil 1 gaid bald old ald solemnly 1 I know that the I 1 wll will tile die within two years lord almer attil was wan greatly impressed with will laren Hum boldts statements but he could not hold his own hand the then 17 francc rance in vl 7 of louis ready recognition 17 palmerston Palme raton and ill fill europe E drope followed d ills lead vaa thou alieu I 1 eldy irany to take tile the field so the crimean war giai to go 90 on OIL but nicholas of of russia hussli died within four foul months of the two years walt limit given him blin by von Hiim boldt leaving the ile prophecy cv out of the Q question it 13 19 a fact of history that tile thi Kus Rumi filan lart czars azars have died before ca alexander ills grand grandfather tather the half insane czar paul and the four I 1 arau acla aft tho baor before nicholas all died before ao 0 and of tile tha falln FIL ln AL that has haa been bea deadly to alex alexander I 1 lit at one time napoleons great ally then his enemy who so aided in the downfall of the french lanh ll nh emplit died when he was waa 41 i of monomania bordering on insanity says pays history metternich the greit gre it i austrian premier of that late date blunt bluntly ly declares he h was insane the 0 orand rand duke constantine who was really entitled to the throne waived his tight tn in favor of 0 alexander 1 I lie he had sense neue enough to bo be aware that he was not m mentally lit ill to rule e auch 1 I Is 1 all I 1 1 1 empire as russia ruela ile he died 1 in a h his 1 fitly fifty second year ot of what would now lr bp called d meningitis the grand duke michael was vas killed in aw orv vu hv A u fall all from hla his horse while in a fit it lie he had shown signs of 0 madness so 80 often that it was a question whether it was safe cafe for him to be at largo large so goes the th long lone but never chari changing ging record of 0 the roman offs offa for two centuries washington post WHITTIER AND HOLMES john W chadwick in the november forum says bays whittier did much room more than ito holmes imes to soften the puritan but holmes did vastly more than Whitt lor to soften the puritan temper of 0 the community and here was his big most characteristic work he vaa neither nor mor ascetic neither indifferent to lifes sweet and pleasant things nor while hankering for their did he repress his noble rage and freeze the genial currents of 0 ills his soul ills his was an all undisguised enjoyment of earthly comforts a happy confidence in the excellence and glory of our present life a persuasion as one has hag said that it if god ran made e us then hald lie he also meant us andee held to these so earnestly ro 0 o pleasantly so BO cheerily that lie could not help communicating muni cating them to everything ile he wrote they pervade his books and poems like a most essence ind and ills his readers took them in with every breath many entered into his labors and some tie no doubt old did more than he to save what was best in the puritan conscience while softening what was waar worst in ill the puritan temper and what hat was more terrible in the puritan the closy but it does not appear that any one else elee did so much as dr holmes to change the social temper of now new england to make it less harsh and joyless and to make easy for hla his fellow coun thymen the transition from the old to tito the new and it may be that here was the secret in good part of that great and steadily increasing affection which went out to him in the later austrums lu strums of his life it was recognized oni zed I 1 or felt with dim self con rc loss that here was waa one who had made life better worth the living wh who removed t the lie interdict on simple capplo happiness and pure delight who had taken an intolerable burden fro from the heart and bade it swell with gl gladness aTness in the good world and the good god whatever the secret it Is certain that no man among us was more ll 11 idely loved or will III be more sincerely m mourned IS THIS THE NEW WOMAN A sketch scandalously clever of the new woman roman appears in the Corn hitt magazine october the writer discreetly conceals cona cals his name but he can not conceal ills his masculinity it Is a pleasant little carton caricature lure good natured and containing perhaps pel haps truth enough to awaken profitable reflection the writer precedes ills sketch with the quotation Ue ij esprit sprit ds de la a des del temmes sert bert plus a foreiter fort for lter titer leur colic que clue leur ralson the wit of the majority maque of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason we present a portion of the bof of sima the ew w woman as 03 follows she Is young of course she looks older than site she really Is arid and she calls herself a woman her mother Is content to be called a lady and Is of small account chief characteristic is her unbounded self satisfaction she Is dark and one feels that it if she were fair she would be quite a different person for fairness usually goes wl with th an interest in eb children ildron and other gentle gentie weaknesses of 0 which NON Nos sima Is conspicuously innocent she dresses simply in close fitting garments technically known as tailor ins made de sho she wears vears her elbows well awa away y from her side it has been hinted that this habit serves to diminish h the apparent size of the waist this may be so len do not lot aiwas under understand stand such things it certainly adds to a somewhat aggressive air of independence aich which finds birth in the length of her stride Novis sima strides in from the hip heie met men and women fear to tread in the evening simplicity again marks her dress always close fitting always manly and wholly simple very little jewelry and close fitting hair bair which description Is perhaps not technical ter her hands are steady and somewhat en ell evidence her attitudes are strong sirens and independent indicative of a self reliant sahit with mild young men she Is apt to be crushing she directs her conversation and g glance ince above their heads beads she he has a way of throwing scraps of talk to them in return tor for I 1 their heir mild platitudes crumbs from a well stored intellectual table pictures no I 1 do not care about pictures she says they are all so BO pretty nowadays she has a way of talking about noam men by their surnames hur our names tout court indicative dica tive of a familiarity with them not enjoyed by her hearers she has a certain number of celebrities whom she bhe marks out for special distinction distinct loii obscurity being usually one of their merits prettiness Is 0 one ile ot of her pot pet aversions Novis sima Is by the way not pretty herself she Is white pink girls call her sallow allow slie she has a long face with a discontented mouth and a nose noe indicative of intelligence and too large tor for feminine beauty as understood dundei stood hy men her equanimity like her complexion pl exion eXten la 13 unassailable one can not make her blush it Is the other way round in conversation she ho criticism men and books freely tho military man la Is the object of her deepest scorn ills his intellect anle elect lect she he tells one to is terribly ro re stirl eted ed lie ho never reads reads that 13 with B s capital for cults acue be has a sneaking a ferill nino ness too loo deeply ingrained to be stamped out in one generation of advancement van vari cement literary men she he tolerates they have probably read some of the tha books selected out of the ruck for her approval cut but even to those she talks with an air augg suggestive tive of the fact that sho she could tell them a thing or two it aiho he took the trouble which no doubt sho sh could mother la Is Ivil wholly holly v and meekly under innas steady thumb the respectable ladys lady e attitude Is best beat as aa speechless it I 1 she opens her ter mouth Novis sims closes close it for her ber with a tolerant laugh or a reference to some fictional character with whom the older elder lady is 18 fortu 1 nathly unacquainted oil oh mother she will say it if that relative la Is mentioned yes but she a he Is ill hopelessly behind the times you know that settles Novis simas mother at As for lier her father a pleasant square bult man who la Is a little deaf he Is not either of much account ima Is kind to him as a to an animal ignorant of its own requiring management she describes him as pam find and takes good care in her jaunty way that no deleterious loui atlon comes beneath his gaze he would not understand it poor door Jt I 1 thing hingl he explains i and pho Is quite right young calamus the critic has had a I 1 better education than Novis sima a ta fa alir lie he knows halt half a dozen e coun itkor trios their language anel and their 1 altera alloun t iture lure and lie he does docs not understand no notion i the world in B apt to t take Novis klima I 1 ll at 11 her art 1 own I valuation when fihe alle makes a statement ement and statements fire are her g strong r 0 point I 1 halt the people in tile the I 1 r room rag k know po better ater but make the mistake of believing that they must bo be bronw wivi nef hana llao ch cb 1 11 n wi tiva tha ther other halt half know totter better also but tire are too wise or too imy to 0 c argue there Is 9 ot of 0 course lt ft gb moral to the a sketch Novla shina utter after speaking familiarly mili arly irly ot of Calit calamus inua for or years at length meets him at a country house and displays tile treasures of 0 her intellect I 1 e elect to captivate him calamus la in in 04 te tere rested sled and thinks that sho aho adl nl io do well tor for EL a side character in his now new book that ho he reflects Is her position in real life she Is not like tile the rest but it Is the rest we fall in love with and marry he regards records her merely as ft a product of 0 cheap education proving 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