of our politics. Is it not, however, unjust, even by implication, to censure the boss for sending himself or his "alternate" to represent him and his vested interests in our National Senate? Having acquired, by dint of much labor and expense, a proprietorship in the State Legislature, why should not he do as he likes with his own? The wrong, if there be wrong, consists in permitting individual ownerships of legislatures. Since we condone this ownership, we should not demur to its logical consequences. It would be a miracle greater than that of the loaves and fishes were the boss to consult public sentiment in doling out his patronage. Yet we may, nay must, cry out for relief; but whence or how shall it come? To overthrow the prevailing system of legislative padroneship with the skill, the resources and interest of the bosses actively arrayed against us, is an appallingly difficult task. But there is a chance for success through the withdrawal of the motive for investmeni in legislative seats. Since the road to the United States Senate lies through the State Legislature, the securing of a Senatorship has come to mean nothing more than the selection of the members of the Legislature. They who fancy that public sentiment has anything in particular to do with it must have indulged in a political Rip Van Winkle sleep of more than twenty years. If we The remedy for all this, of course, lies with the people. But the remedy through popular action could be made more easy of application by a change of constitutional method. would but adopt and engraft on our Constitution that plank of the Populist platform which proposes to take from the State Legislatures the election of Senators, a vast amount of capital now invested in legislative ventures would be diverted to other channels of business enterprise, while the standard of our State legislators probably would be raised. Whether the characters of our National Senators would materially improve, time alone could tell. Certainly the work of reclaiming the State Legislatures would become a far easier task. Moreover, it is not likely that the people could be directly bought so easily as they can be cajoled into sending the pawns of the boss to the Legislature. The demand for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people should be pressed until it shall become an irresistible popular cry. The Outlook's reference to the Pennsylvania contest is suggestive, and, were it not so serious, would be amusing. Intelligent, educated men, who fail to see in this style of reform politics one of the most vulgar and one of the most dangerous forms of bribery, must be afflicted with moral strabismus. The simple truth is that the method here disclosed was simply a competing with the boss for the ownership of a Legislature. It was the farthest possible remove from an appeal to public opinion; yet we are reassured by the statement that the fight is to be continued Notes and Queries NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS.-It is seldom possible to answer any inquiry in the next issue after its receipt. Those who find expected answers late in coming will, we hope, bear in mind the impediments arising from the constant pressure of many subjects upon our limited space. In Notes and Queries (December 12, 1896) your answer to "E. A. C.," although good, leaves the reader to suspect your doubt as to the truthfulness of the story of Jonah and the fish. When Christ referred to Jonah, he meant the whole story, from beginning to end, and not a part, as the "sign" "given to this generation." If the story of Jonah and the whale be not received, Christ goes; for it makes him as not knowing what he was talk ing about. I accept Mr. Moody's position, not because it is his, but because I would not dare to assume ignorance on Christ's part as to this story, or dishonesty in conveying his thought with a double meaning. If I mis interpret your meaning, please make clear. S. D. A. Perhaps you have not observed our careful explanation given January 2. As we there showed, a comparison of Matt. xii. and Luke xi. gives good ground to believe that Matt. xii., 40, is not part of the original text, but one of the later additions, a number of which have been cut out in the Revised Version, though this one has not. Finally, please notice that the fundamental question in debate is this: Is the story of Jonah a historical account, or is it a story of the religious imagination, like Job, which used to be thought historical, but is now universally believed to be a dramatic poem? For a good exposition of Jonah as a work of the religious imagination, which we hold it to be, see the truly evangelical account of it in the Bible as Literature," récently published (Crowell & Co., New York). For our part, we do not dare to stake our faith in Christ on any opinion which the progress of knowledge may discover to be mistaken. Indeed, true faith in Christ cannot be so staked, but only a nominal faith. Is there any brief, simple, and modern statement of moral and religious teaching which you could recom mend to be used as a sort of catechism for children in the Sunday-school? G. I. A. Such a one has just come to us, "The Gospel of Truth," a catechism prepared by the Rev. J. W. Cooper, D.D., of New Britain, Conn., for use in his own pastoral teaching of young people. It is adapted for use in Junior Societies of Christian Endeavor and similar circles. Address the Adkins Company, New Britain, Conn. (5 cents; $3 per hundred). Another, recently received, is strictly ethical: "The Commandments Father Wisdom Taught the Child He Loved," a series of ten precepts concerning the relations and duties of child-life, prepared in simple language by the Rev. E. M. Fairchild, and designed to be committed to memory. For copies address the Educational Church Board, 117 Lake Avenue, Albany, N. Y., inclosing a two-cent stamp. We wish in this connection to call attention to "The Christian Primer" at the end of Dr. Bruce's admirable book, "With Open Face," which we reviewed January 9. It is a catechism on the life of Jesus, intended to present the Gospel as a Gospel for children. May a subscriber, and one to whom your paper has been in many ways a great help, ask for some information in regard to the training of proof-readers? Is there any place in New York or Brooklyn where one could take a course which would fit him for the work, or would it be preferable to enter a publishing house at once ? M. K. We have never heard of a school for the training of proof-readers, but presume that our correspondent might get such training by inserting an advertisement in one of the daily papers for instruction by some practical proof-reader during his leisure hours. This would be decidedly preferable to trying to "pick up" a knowledge of the work in a publishing house. Where can I get a literal translation of the Greek New Testament, and what is the price? I want one free from all theological bias, and one that will give both sides of all doubtful questions. R. F. H. Professor Noyes's translation, published by the American Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, is the work of an eminent and thoroughly unbiased scholar. It costs, we think, about $1. By comparing this with the Revised Version, including the marginal notes of the revisers, and the notes of the American Committee in the Appendix, you will get all the various points of view. The process through which the creative thought issues into objective form is all that the evolution doctrine is concerned with. Who is the author of "Pushing to the Front," or "Success under Difficulties"? D. F. "Pushing Mr. E. A. Rand has a story called " Ahead." X. It has never been understood until now why the Philistines, as described in 1 Samuel vi., should have made atonement, when returning the sacred ark to Israel, with golden images of mice as well as of the "emerods," as the Authorized Version translates. The Revised Version translates by "tumors." It was in fact the same bubonic plague that is now in India. "Tumor " in Latin is bubo. A singular feature of the plague is that rats and mice die of it, and when attacked by it desert their holes without fear of man. Thus the epidemic among the Philistines is identified as the first clear case in history of this terrible scourge. Other identifying features are: (1) the fact that the tumors were particularly noticeable in cases that were not fatal, ch. v., 12, and (2) the communication of the disease by infection, as the ark was carried about, so that it spread even into Israel when the ark was brought back (ch. vi., 19). We condense this account from a recent paper by a physician of Montreal, Dr. Adami. Federation of Churches.-A few weeks ago a query, whose date and signature we forget, was put concerning the scheme now evolving in England for the federation of the Free or Nonconformist churches. We replied by letter that there was no available publication that could be referred to. This lack is now supplied. A series of articles on the subject by Mr. Thomas Law, the Organizing Secretary of the National Council, was begun January 14 in the "Christian World," of London, a valuable weekly journal costing 2 cents a copy, exclusive of postage, or to subscribers in this country $2.08 yearly, postage included. A. E. C.-Another Jewish scholar supplements our answer of January 30 to your inquiry respecting the Jewish view of Jesus by referring to Dr. Hirsch's pamphlet on Jesus, and Dr. Wise's lectures on Jesus, published by the "Reform Advocate," of Chicago. A. L. P.-There is a Burial Reform Association in the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which Bishop Potter is President, and the Rev. B. F. De Costa Secretary, at 224 Waverley Place, New York. A Burial Reform Association in Phila delphia has an office at 242 Franklin Street. The sacrificial theory of the Atonement, as taught by Professor Sanford Guthrie Buoney, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, is mentioned by a correspondent as likely to interest some readers of this column, who reject the penal, substitutionary theory. It is outlined in his book, "Soteriology," to be had from the C. P. Publish- the ing House, Nashville, Tenn. Can any one tell me of any verse or rhyme entitled "Who is my Neighbor"? I am interested in mission children, am chairman of the Children's Aid to the Women's Health Protective Association, and am looking for something that children can commit that will give a definite idea of respect and consideration for humankind, not simply the person they like next door to them. M. T. H. I wish to find the music of a song beginning "Oh, the old Virginia hills, how majestic and how grand!" Perhaps some one of the readers of The Outlook can tell me about it under" Inquiring Friends." Musicdealers in Richmond, Va., and in this city have been N. F. applied to in vain. "The wind one morning sprang up from asleep" is quoted as written by William Howitt, born 1795, in England. "G." can find the words in Charles J. Barnes's "New National Fourth Reader," on page 193. S. R. B. Will some one inform me through your Correspondence column where I may obtain Vols. I. and VII. of "Contributions to North American Ethnology"? About People J. H. B. -Senator Pritchard, who has just been reelected to the United States Senate from North Carolina, was once a printer's "devil" in the office of the Jonesboro' (Tenn.) "Tribune." -Mr. Robert Barrett Browning is establishing a school at Asolo, Italy, for the benefit of girls employed in the silk-mills there. The memory of Robert Browning will thus be linked more closely than ever to the place. -Mrs. Maria Lloyd Steele, a daughter of Francis Scott Key, the author of "The StarSpangled Banner," and the widow of the late Henry Maynadies Steele, has died at Annapolis, Md., in the ninety-sixth year of her age. -A service in memory of the great physiologist, the late Professor Du Bois Reymond, is planned in Berlin, similar to the services recently held for Professors Curtius and Treitschke. It is also proposed to erect a monument to Du Bois Reymond in the garden in front of the University, alongside those to Helmholtz and Treitschke. Professor Du Bois Reymond spent the last fifty years of his life in the service of the University of Berlin. -This story is told of the late James Anthony Froude as happening during a general election, when a canvasser called at the professor's residence in London: "Mr. Froude was out, so the canvasser interrogated the butler as to how Mr. Froude would vote. The butler-an old servant who understood his master well-replied: When the Liberals is in, Mr. Froude is sometimes a Conservative. When the Conservatives is in, Mr. Froude is always a Liberal."" The late Albert Nobel, the Swedish engineer, has bequeathed his entire fortune of $10,000,000 to the University of Stockholm. The interest on money I will be divided equally into five prizes, to be awarded annually. Three of the prizes will be for the greatest discovery in physics, the greatest discovery in chemistry, and the greatest discovery in physiology or medicine. The fourth prize will be for the most notable literary contribution of an ideal kind, and the fifth for the greatest achievement for the promotion of peace. The competition for these prizes will be open to the world. Nobel was the first man to make nitroglycerine available for practical purposes, and he did this in 1864, seventeen years after the inven tion of the explosive. Two or three years later he made dynamite, and it is said that he came upon the compound in experimenting to find a method for the safe transportation of nitro-gly. cerine. A few years later another explosive was announced as the fruit of his industry. It was called blasting gelatine. -Mr. Charles Edward Stowe, a son of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, writes to the Hartford "Courant" that he and his sisters will erect a suitable monument over their mother's "grave, inscribed, "Erected by her children." He adds: "No more useless or unsightly way of wasting money, generally speaking, is known to man than that which finds expression in the statue nuisance. There are many ways of doing honor to the memory of a person like Mrs. Stowe much more in keeping with her character. If anything is to be done, why could not money be raised to found a Harriet Beecher Stowe Scholarship at Hampton, Fisk, or Tuskegee? Such a memorial would, I know, be quite in keeping with my mother's taste, and far more useful to man and honoring to God than some brazen monstrosity scowling the unfortunate beholder out of counte nance from its ugly granite pedestal. The or dinary bronze statue ought to be regarded as a terrible penalty to be inflicted only on great offenders against society, like Adam, Captain Kidd, or Benedict Arnold." Answers to Fifty Pollys" See The Outlook for January 30, 1897 1. Poly-technic. 2. Poly-glot. 3. Poly-syllable 4. Poly-gamy. 5. Poly-cotyledon. 6. Poly-petal7. Poly-sepalous. 8. Poly-anthus. 9. Polyandria. 10. Poly-gon. 11. Poly-hedron. 12. Poly hedral. 13. Poly-hymnia. 14. Poly-basic. 15. Poly-chord. 16. Poly-plectrum. 17. Poly-chrom atic. 18. Poly-gnotus. 19. Poly-cletus. 20. Poly-type. 21. Poly-thalarnous. 22. Poly-morph. 23. Polype. 24. Poly-neme. 25. Poly-pode. 26. Poly-ergus. 27. Poly-gram. 28. Poly-graph. 29. Poly-phonic. 30. Poly-nesia. 31. Poly-hydrite. 32. Poly-chrest. 33. Poly-pharmacy. 34. Pollux. 35. Poly-phemus. 36. Poly-carp. 37. Poly-theism. 38. Policy. 39. Polity. 40. Politics. 41. Polites. 42. Poly-dectes. 43. Poly-dore. 44. Poly-idus. 45. Poly-nices. 46. Poly-xena. 47. Polish. 48. Poly-style. 49. Poly-scope. 50. Poly-histor. The White Hare's Valentine By Francis Sterne Palmer The woodpecker hunted far and wide, Fit to speak for the white hare's heart; Squirrel takes a tuft from his ear, And, last, the hen grouse shy and gray By Grace Thompson Mattie sat with a frown on her face. Her hair fell almost over it, so it was not as disagreeable as it might have been. Still, you know, even if the one who is cross is in another room, or downstairs, if you know she is cross, you feel uncomfortable. Mattie kicked her heels against the rungs of the chair. "She's just hateful," said Mattie. "I'll never play with her again," and she shook her hair down further over her face. "Why, Mattie! you are the picture of bad temper. What is the matter? I thought you were going to spend the afternoon with Alice." And Mattie's big sister put her books on the table and walked toward her little sister. "Go 'way!" screamed Mattie. "I don't want you. I think Alice is horrid." Mary, the big sister, looked at Mattie a moment, and then said, slowly : "I am sure, dear, you need not scream, and tell people you do not want them. Nobody could possibly want to be with you now, except mamma. How sorry she would be if she were here!" And Mary walked out of the room, and closed the door after her. In the next house sat a little girl, with big blue eyes that just now told that Alice-for this was Alice-had been crying. She had a box of paints in front of her, and she was coloring a picture she had cut from a magazine. The picture was of a little girl running out of a house, with her arms out, evidently going to meet some one she loved. You quite longed to know the story. If Alice had not been so busy she would have told you. Mattie knew the story well, for she took the same magazine. It was the story of two little girl friends, who had quarreled as to which had the prettiest tea-set. The little girl in the picture was the hostess, and she had been rude in telling her little guest that she thought her own tea-set the prettiest. That started the quarrel. You know how big such a quarrel could grow, and how quickly. The little guest went home very unhappy and sad. But after a time she remembered that it was quite right for each to like her own tea-set the best, and that she had been very rude in telling her hostess that old, mean buttercups were horrid-never as pretty as She remembered how pretty the fields looked in summer, with daisies and buttercups nodding in the wind. Why, both buttercups and daisies were pretty-all flowers were pretty! And before she knew it, she was running back to the tea-party. The picture was that of the little hostess coming out to meet her. roses. "Mattie loves pink, mamma. I'll make the dress pink," said Alice to her mother, who was reading. "I would, dear," said mamma. "I think I'll make these flowers look like roses,' continued Alice, her face shining with love. She worked carefully, so the paints would not spread. Her mamma looked at her with eyes full of love. At last the picture was done, and her mamma made holes in the top of the cardboard on which it was mounted. "I wish I had a pink ribbon to put in for a picture cord," she said. Alice stood a minute, and with very pink cheeks went out of the room hurriedly. She came back in a few minutes with a pretty new pink ribbon in her hand. Why, dear, that's your new sash for your doll!" exclaimed her mother. "Mamma, I want Mattie's picture to be pretty." Alice's mamma said nothing. She tied the pink ribbon for a ricture cord in the picture, with pretty bows on either side. Alice brought a box, and the picture was put carefully in. With her hood tied carefully under her chin and ber rubber boots on, she took the box, on which she had printed "You are my valentine," and started for Mattie's house. Mattie was in the window. She saw Alice trudging through the snow. When Alice got to the gate, the front door flew open, and Mattie, with her arms out like the little girl in the picture, rushed out, saying, "Your dolly's hat is lovely, Alice. Just lovely!" The two little girls went into the house hand in hand. When Mattie saw her valentine, she hung her head for a minute, and then she put her arms around Alice's neck and whispered, "Thank you for the beautiful valentine." It hangs over Mattie's desk in her own room. The Mouse and the Teacher The mouse had grown fearless. There were so many hours of the day without a sound that he felt the world was his, and it was very foolish to be afraid when there was nothing to fear. So he stepped through the hole in the closet wall, and through the door, which was open just a little way, and into the great silent hall. "How foollish," thought the mouse, " to scamper up and down between the walls when this great world is unoccupied!" He would have compared himself to Columbus, if he had ever heard of Columbus. He ought to have known about Columbus, who discovered the New World, and about Alexander, who sighed, when he had conquered all the world he knew about, because there were no new worlds to conquer; for this mouse lived in a school-house. But you cannot complain of a mouse who is shut between the walls; when he listened he could only hear indistinctly. Many little boys and girls who are right in the class often do not hear what is said by the teacher! This mouse felt very important. He quite despised those other "Some mice mice who refused to follow him. are never anything but just common mice!" and he strutted down the silent hall. "My, but this is fine!" he said. "I'll run ;" and run he did. At the end of the hall was a flight of stairs. Down this scampered Mr. Mouse. Into another big hall. "This is glorious !" twittered Mr. Mouse, in his loudest tones. He ran so fast that he could not see. Suddenly there was a black giant before him, who gave an awful shriek and fell flat. The mouse was paralyzed; he could not move. Doors opened, other giants came out, there were more shrieks, and then something struck him, and Mr. Mouse never got back to the mouse world between the two walls. The other mice waited for him to tell of his travels, but he did not come back to tell of them. The Governor of Mouseland shook his head sadly, and in a sorrowful tone said to the citizens assembled: "I was afraid, when I heard that awful noise, that it would end this way. Those humans are much larger than we are, and we never could hurt them; but they always make that noise when they see one of us, and the one they see usually gets caught" And there was sadness in Mouseland for a week, for the traveler was very attractive and was the leader in all the games. The Boy and the Policeman The cold wind was blowing down Broadway; blowing off hats, turning fur collars up over the heads of the ladies, making the few small children out walk faster, and turning the noses of the people red. The policemen stood in the shelter of doorways when they could. A big policeman came round a corner where the people were hurrying in every direction, and beckoned to a small boy standing inside the doorway of a big express office. The boy came running out. He had no overcoat nor gloves. He turned the corner, and there was a news-stand made of two soap-boxes. A man wanted to buy a paper. The policeman watched the stand from his post on the corner, and called the small boy out when there was a customer. He was a big, cross-looking policeman, and would have made a bad boy run just to look at him, but you may be sure the little newsboy did not think him cross, when the policeman let him stand out of the cold while he protected the boy's property. I saw the boy look at him as he passed him, and I think he made the policeman know how he felt. Pussy Went Fishing The story is told of two small boys who were seen dancing wildly and screaming in front of a store. Some people hurried to see what was the cause of their excitement. It was Sunday, and the store was closed. A large glass globe, in which were several goldfish, stood in the center of the store window. On either side were piles of canned goods. On top of one of the piles was a cat reaching over as far as she could toward the fish. This it was that excited the small boys; they discovered that pussy was trying to fish. Pussy at last tumbled the pile of cans over. She seemed frightened, but in a short time she climbed to the pile on the other side. From there she could just touch the edge of the globe, but she could not get back. She tried to spring over the opening, but she fell in. Puss was as frightened as the fish. She was so frightened that she never thought of the fish. Puss swam and swam, trying to catch her claws in the smooth sides of the globe. At last Pussy was seen lying in the bottom of the globe, while the fish were swimming about as nothing had happened. The two little boys went sadly down the street. if Useful Citizens The school children of Rochester, N. Y., have by their industry succeeded in ridding the city of a pest of moths. These moths had become so destructive that the Forestry Association offered a prize of five dollars to each of the children in any one school who would bring in 1,000 or more of the cocoons of this insect; three dollars to the three bringing in the second largest number; two to the three bringing in the third largest number This was in 1893. The next year the amount of the prizes was increased to ten dollars for the boy or girl who brought in a greater number of cocoons than were brought in by any one pupil in 1893; this was 44,900. Twenty children each won a ten-dollar prize. The school-children of Rochester have gathered from the bark of trees, fences, rough places in houses, almost 9,000,000 of those moth cocoons, and now the city is free from these insect pests, through the efforts of these children. |