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e • Sii0 — CKS TO SOCIETY. DEPLORABLE SOCIAL CONDI- TIONS IN ENGLAND. 'Ike Marquis of Nay., ht Alt -used tot the llorder of Ilia Stepstlu lhe New Woman's During , ItreseIt of Log- linh Custom. is WO so,•ial sensa- tions of somewhat similar nature are just now vastly agitating French and English people respectively. The that is the trial of the Marquis de Nayves for the murder of his wife's son, in the eourse of wheel not only certain char- acteristic tendencies of French life are brought out in strongest relief, but the extraordinary and to the Anglo-Saxons the seemingly infamous perversion of justice in French criminal procedure is dramatically illustrated. The Marquis is himself the son of a French officer and a young glove -maker, who subse- quently married. He advertised for a rich wife, and the young daughter of a distinguished lawyer was offered to him by her parents with the frank statement, however, that she had a son by her father's gardener. The Marquis found no objection, and he and hifr wealthy wife lived many years in ap- parent happiness, two children being born to theta. The Marquis is now on the dock on the accusation of leis wife, but she lived with him, and even wrote him affectionate letters after the date at which she swears she became con- vinced he was the murderer of her first born. He on his part swears the accusation is the result of an unbounded influence over his wife gained by the Abbe Rous- selot, their domestic chaplain, who, he says, desires td occupy his place as the master of his household. Incidentally it appears the mother-in-law took the warmest interest in the welfare of her daughter's son, that the grandfather had settled a hiendsome fortune upon him, and that he was to be educated as a priest. The trial has developed many other extraordinary, but appar- ently not unusual features of domestic 're MARQUIS DE NAYVES. life among rich French provincials. The reports occupy many columns daily in the newspapers and no fiction was ever more dramatic nor apparently more improbable. But the most re- markable and to us the most shocking feature of the trial, Is the revelation of how the full power of French law is exerted to bring an accused man to the guillotine. It will doubtless be news to most readers that a man may be ac- cused in France of any crime on un- sworn testimony; arrested absolutely at the pleasure of a magistrate, and that from the' moment of his incarceration until the magistrate finally binds him over for trial, no legal process can either get him out on bail or even per- mit him access to his friends, to coun- sel, or to evidence against him. There is no habeas corpus, grand jury or anything similar to them In France. Asked during the trial why he had signed without reading the report of the evidence before the examining magis- trate, the Marquis declared had he not done „ ao he might have been kept in prison for years before coining up for trial or being able to secure counsel. Not only is the examining magistrate practically a prosecuting officer, but so is the judge who is trying the accused. The judge le the present care has sev- eral times stigmatized the accused as RD assassin, and when the Marques de- clared he had not given,information to the police of the death of the boy be- catiee he did not wish thorn to make public his wife's dishonor, the judge re- plied that the mother, the Marquise, seemed to have been less careful of her own 'honor. , These are not extravagant examples of every effort and word of the pre- siding magistrate to aaeume the guilt of the accused. Reading the reports, one wonders if innocent men ere not fre- quently judicially put to death in France, the antidote, however, being the tendency of French juries to acquit In face of the strongest apparent evi- d enc e of guilt. Considering that the French have shed more blood in defense of personal liberty than any other na- tion. It is certainly ceenereable that the legal processes and tyranny, which led to the demolition of the bastile and tlre revolution, are Ptill unimpaired. Vir- tual lettres de cachet are now lasued by republican magistrates, instead of by . monarchs or monarchs' favorites. The other case is the fact of intenee excitement throurlemt England ov er the effort of Mis- , I eith Lanele ster, a young and milli ity Pehool teacher, t daughter of poi , 1 , 1 , in middle rinse, to become the wife of a young laborer without the previous cereniony of mar- riage. They are socialists, and. like GraptAllen.'s heroine, mean the act to be an open protest against legal matri- mony. Americans have been informed of the various public proceedings in the affair, but probably not of tint very in- fluential aid and sympathy tk •3 young lady hes received In the beet press of London and the provinces and other notable quarters. The fact is symptomatic of a recent great change in English public opinion touching matters of this sort. The out- rageous public promenade in MUSIC halls are defended by half the Lotilloo press. On the other hand, the estab- lished chereh leseteIng its face rigidly against we religious marriage of per - setts divorced. The open protest of the church digni- taries. supported by the Duke of New- castle, against such a marriage in .1 fashionable London church last sum-. titer, is to be soon repeated at the forth- coming similar notable wedding cere- mony of a guardsmgn to the daughter of a peer. The couple have been duly warned of the intention of the members of the Social Purity League to denounce them at the very altar. The famous London doctor who signed the certiti- ,cate of Miss Lanchester's insanity de- fends his action by quoting lice admis- • LAN(7HESTER. sit,. .at she knew she would have no legal claim on her lover for the support of their children, and by saying that as he would be justified in pronouncing her insane if she declared to him her intention to commit physical suicide, so he was justified in forming the same opinion on her declared intention to commit moral suicide. ACCUSED OF MURDER. Jerome Conceit Charged with hitting Ills Wealthy Adopted rtarent, The police of Baltimore have an- nounced that they , have discovered most damaging and convincing evi- dence against Jerome Conceit, the 19 - year -old boy who is under arrest. charged with the murder of his adopted parents, Capt. Frederick Lang and his aged wife. The victims lived in the suburbs of the city, and Capt. Lang is supposed to, have been worth $100,000. The house was entered on the night of Nov. 4, the two old people were liter- ally pounded to death with a hammer, and the house rifled. Suspicion fell on young Conceit and his brother, both of whom were arrested on election night. The brother will be released, but the police claim that they have found bloody clothes belonging to Jerome, and that he wore shoes which fitted perfectly the tracks left by the mur- derer. It is also asserted that gunny sacking was used by the murderer to muffle his footsteps, and that portions of this material were found clinging to the shoes of the accused. The boy maintains a stolid demeanor, and does , JEROME CONCELL. not seem to realize the enormity of the charge against him. averse Wagner's Creed. You may know an the stars Clear from Neptune to Mars; You may have every science by heart. Be up in each ism And versed in each schism— In short, think you're fearfully smart; And though you impress Common minds more or less, You are not a philosopher till, Casting learning behind, The true secret you find Is.to look verg wise and—keep still. —Sporting Life. Mow TOIt ii11.•%1 ft? • If Arthur Irwin adopts tete same tac- tics in the New York team the coming year that he Is reported to have don's in theePhiladelphia team, he will come no nearer winning the championship In the former case than In the latter.— Boston Herald. A flood hiss. It is semiofficially announced thni the British public prosecutor has resolved on stopping the sale of racing tips, and has intimated his intention Of entering proee-ittion against all special paperer putilisheig Ruch information. It is set considered good form to wear a pin b. while rushing the growler. THE NORMAL GrIlLS. STUDIOUS MAIDENS OF A FA- MOUS HIGH SCHOOL. — Quaker Clubs for ganisations of Bright for Intellectual Ett.roy intent provenuent Clut•Itte of after echeolThwurs. These ettganiza- Guns are not thl„autcome of the sug- gestions or the erection of the faculty. They seem to have developed out et a desire for increased knowledge which the spirit of the echool seeks to stimu- late. While the societies are of spun- ru a thi e 81 \elet or - taneoue growth the f tculty of the school Young Women are not unconcerned in their organize - sae mm- tion. Some of them depend for their Classes existence upon the cotoperation of the teachers. Each of the Normal , \S.chool Clubs has an individuality of its own, but by right, of age and the number of its inembers the Hobby Club stands first. For simple, unconventional enjoy- ment the Iloby Club is unique. Its name suggests its purpose. It alms to allow each of its numbers to air her hobby at least once a year. Is your hobby absurd? Do friends intimate— politely - that it is a bore? In the Hobby Club it receives respectful—seri- ous attention. The flourishing mem- bership allows of no end of hobbies. They canter, they trot, they pace, they gallop and run from light and frivolous volumes of Darwin and Spenser to pon- derous newspaper paragraphs on the \new woman.\ As a ritle the meekest - faced girls seorn . , ny but the most vig- orous hobbies; leaving humble conies- til0I18 of weakness to their apparently strong minded sisters. Everything about the Hobby Club is Regular Pbiladelphia Correspondence. II A P P Y e thought prompted tliescuip- tor to carve above the archway of the Philadelphia n o r- mal school a bust of Minerva. Day by d a y the all -wise godeass be ck ens through the clear light of the No- vember morning to :he hundreds of girls who seek the por- tal; and at afternoon, when the stu- dents, arm in arm, chatting gaily in groups of twos and threes, retrace their steps, the chiseled face, bathed in warmer radiance, still smiles upon their way. Coming or going one marks the springy step, and the eyes that see the future through rose-colored spectacles. Youthful optimism is as yet undimmed. You who have never looked into the aces of these seven hundred girls as one can see them every morning at 9 o'clock in the assembly room of the Normal School, will still muse on, mar- veling why the ancients conceived of /A-, • se -, wisdom as a woman. No school means more to Philadei- pitia than does the Normal School—the crown of an unbroken system of free education which leads from kinder- garten to college and university door. Even in America—the continent of liberty, or, as Emerson defines it, \An- other word , for opportunity\—educa- tion for women has been accomplished only after hard struggle. It was one hundred and fifty years after Harvard — 'ege was founded \fore any pro - 4 vision was made by Massachusetts for the education of girls, and public schools were established In Boston for boys one hundred and thirty-five years before girls were admitted to \learn reading and writing for a part ot the year.\ When Mrs. Willard, in 1521, pre- sented to the New York legislature the first plan for the higher edueation of girls proposed in the United States, she very scrupulously stated that she wished to produce no \college -bred [-- males.\ The annual commencements of our Girls' High and Normal Schools are as welcome as the June roses. The Ameri- can eagle spreads its wings in pardon- able pride when one after another pretty girl mounts the platform to de- liver a graduation thesis. Yet only fifty years ago Lucy Stone was shut out of the New England College, to which her brother was admitted, and. journey- ing to Oberlin, extraordinarily liberal In governmental policy for those days, when she graduated at the head of her class, she was awarded the honor of a commencement essay, provided she would agree to let a man read it! She didn't! Fifty years ago is a long way off. The world moves! In Philadelphia to- day twenty-three hundred students at- tend the Girls' High School and In the beautiful building dedicated to Phila- delphia's professional school for the training of yobng women in teaching 725 more names are enrolled. Every phase of the life of a large school is Interesting. It has been well said, however, that the character and influence of a school may be pretty ac- curately determined by the number and character of the independent organiza- tions of the studenta which grow out of the work or the play of the school. If the atmosphere of the echool is stimu- lating and the teachers inspiring tile students catch the infection ane sup- plement the work of the class room with that of special organizations. In many professional schools self-interest. apart from intellectual or social gain, demands such organization of etii- dents. Clubs, quizz-Niind societies are a (miller adjunct of medical rind law schools. Often the pure love of learn- ing horn of centact with the school whose spirit Is intellectually etimulat- lug determines the number and charac- ter of the' students' orgitnizattons. or simply affection for the place -that in- tangible something that makes the students love to linger about its halls and delight In please:it memories which are apparently aroused by the rooms themselves. Of the seven bemired and twenty- five students who daily attend the Nor- mal School one-half, perhaps, are mem - bers of various organizations, which hold their meetines In the building a's:7 ' miSS He l en G . Lotiefs unique—even the manner of conduct- ing the exercises. Before the particu- lar hobbyist announced on the pro- gram speaks each member . of the so- ciety is required to name the particular hobby which she thinks beat suited to the speaker. The guesses set the meet- ing in a glow of geniality, and that they frequently feel ,short of the right an- swer adds all the more to the merri- ment. The officers of the Hobby Club are Miss Blanche Levi, president; Miss Carol Massman and Miss Sue Stuart, vice presidents; Miss Helen G. Lovett, secretary and treasurer. Upon these slight shoulders rest the responsibili- ties and trusts of this novel organiza- tion, whose delightful meetings are among the brightest pages in Normal School annals. In one of the finely equipped labora- tories,. whit* to every visitor are a de- lightful and inspiring revelation of the educational advantages which lie with- in the reach of the women of to -day, one comes upon the serious and digni- fied special physics and chemistry class. This organization, which meets each Tuesday and Thursday. is corn - posed of students who, desiring to pur- sue these Mettles beyond the limit pre- scribed by . .iee school curriculum, have persuaded Prof. Skidmore, wile directs the department, to give them more of his special subjects. Prof. Sktilmore's long experience with girl students has made him wise and he has cheerfully given them the freedom of the labor- atories. Among them is the right to use the fine apparatus which the professor himetelf' employee in demonstration, and which has. up to the present time, been limited to his ime. The men who thinks that. girls are not so emit of re eeareh ,is men and tea enthusiastic as scientists. should visit title class of bvisy eluvial workers enthusiastically pur- suing limier the Ktilthines t of their teachers Inv eatigations which are he - scud those generally supposed to in- terest yming women. The class has not fiend it necessary to he, P officers. Somewhat the same character of an organization is the class under the di- rection of the teachers of physical cul- ture, which meets eacli e Wednesday in the gymnasium. These are the special students who aspire to become leaders of divisions of their own classes, so that they may have charge of the work and instruct their classmates. They are practically being trained for officer - ships; to become, in fact, first lieuten- ants of the teachers of physical culture, who are glad to find helpers among the students themselves. This is a volun- tary work, as interesting as it is en- joyable. The students who join this class are strong and vigorous. It is a pleasant sight to witness them going through this special athletic training. Some have become expert in very diffi- cult exercises and beside any of them the young lady of the old social novel whose smelling bottle was the most im- portant belonging of her outfit no long- er exists. She has vanished with the \salt tears\ and the \crystal tears\ of the poet's ideal. Athletics have no lit- tle to do with the growing self reliance in women. The work which the girls of the Normal school do will, for grace, agility and daring, astonish those who think athletics are the prerogatives of the masculine part of creation. * S * * * Students who thirst for highei springs of literary culture are many The Shakesperian society has arisen spontaneously out of the students' own aspirations for these better things. This organization is made up of devoted Shakesperian students, who read and study the plays of the myriad -minded dramatist. The plays are cast with the good readers, each reader being as- signed one part. Front time to, time the one who presides, who is Miss Corinne Sickel, the clever daughter of J. F. C. Bickel, assistant superintendent schools, interrupts the reading, and an animated discussion ensues as to the Interpretation of the text. Miss Jean McGrath is the leading spirit in the organization of the society, and has general managerial charge of the cast - 4 r Arrl, ce, r ce e e.a( --e ' / L \ AP -; /•s • je.01(Grciff, / ing of the plays, a work which requires tact and taste. The organization Is very successful, both on the literary and social side, and promises to be a great agency for culture in the school. The class meets each Monday afternoon. The tale is to'el 1 , n the Hobby club how one day the tall 'figure of the prin- cipal of the school appeared in the door- way. The students set him in the midst of them. Then they tried to guess his hobby. They guessed long and they guessed frankly -everything is bon camarade between prlucipal and stu- dents. One said \English.\ another \Neckties.\ It will be no violation of the secrets of the Hobby club to divulge the right answer. Mr. Cliff freely con- fesses that his atipreine hobby is to make the Normal school a power in the civic life of Philadelphia—and 725 girls are trying their best to help him ride it to—success!—Rose Thorn. Longevity Stories Told in oeorebe Two remarkable cases of longevity were recalled recently by a conversa- tion between several gentlemen in Athens, Ga. They were discussing the death of the Rev. George McCall, the veteran Baptist preacher, when it was authentically stated that Mr. McCall's great-grandfather lived to the ripe old age of 127 yew's. He we, a bachelor at 100 and took a notion to get married. He carried out his idea and was mar- ried. Three sons were born to him. and he lived to see the oldest mon old enough to vote. This was considered remarkable. bet a gentleman in the crowd whose char- acter and standing, religiously and so - really, are above reproach, told an nu- thentic account of the life of his great- uncle, who was one of Georgia's pio- neer citizens. The old gentleman lived to be 130 years old. He lived in a log cabin, in the northern end of which was cut a square hole. The old man turned the head of Ills hell to Dint hole and slept that way in the warineet and coldest weather. Ills wife died when he was about 90 years old, and for many vu arc he lived RR n widower. At the age or 115 he cut a new set of tenth and at the age of 123 one mornIng he Raddled his own horse, sprang into the soddip and rode thirty miles to address a wid- ow and ask her to be his wife. He watt evieently rejected, fur he rode bacir that day and live,' .,even years longer. —Atlanta. Constleitem Illeglontot I Ire (I. ,,r. Christ's Invitstimn to the weary anti heavy laden is n call to begin life over again upon S new principie. \Watch my way of doing things,\ he says; \follow me; take life as I take It: he meek ., and lowly and you will fine rest.\ Henry Drunimeh(i. CONVERSATIONAL QUOTATIONS Origin of Some of Those Most Common - my Used. Sam Welifftelia.not originate the ex- pression \wheels within wheels,\ 11'1 many supposed; he used it, truly, tult the idea is from the Bible (Ezekiel x , 10), says Chambers' Journal. Another Biblical expression, which would hard- ly be recognized as such at first sight, Is \the skin of my teeth\ (Job x1x., e0). We are indebted to Cervantes for the proverb \Honesty is the best policy . ,\ while the familiar phrase \diamond cut diamond\ is due to Ford, the author of \The Lover's Melancholy.\ Although Sheridan's well-konwn char- m ter Mrs. Malaprop did \own the soft ii ipeachment,\ we must credit Shakes- eeare with the origin of the saying that \comparisons are odorous\ (so 'regtoritty attributed to that estimable lady), as he puts these words in the mouth of Dogbeery. lieu Jenson (\The Tale of a Tub,\ act iv., scene iii.) and Butler 4\Iludibras part 1, canto 1, line 821) both \smell a rat,\ and to Tusser, the author of \Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,\ the truism, \Better late than never,\ is due. The great Na- poleon may sneeringly have called us a \nation of shopkeepers\ (\une nation boutiquerie\) and have expressed the opinion that Providence is on the side of the big battalions; but the first is borrowed from Adam Smith (\Wealth of Nations,\ Vol. 2, published in 1775, when Napoleon was a child), and the second is a plagiarism front Voltaire's letter to M. le Riche, lated Feb. 6, 1770, (\Dieu eat toujours pours les grog batil• ions.\ \Though I say is as shoulthat,\ is used in slightly altered form by Beaumont and Fletcher and afterward quoted by Colley Cibber and Fielding. King Charles II. was of opinion that a parliamentary( debate in his time was \as good as a ' plsee\ For \murder will out\ we must turn to Geoffrey Chaucer, who, in his quaint spelling, tells us \Mordre wol out\ (\The Nonnes Preestes Tale,\ line 15,058). When we say we will \leave no stone unturned,\ we are quoting the answer of the Del- phic oracle to the inquiry of Polycrates as to the best means of discovering the treasure buried on the field of Plataea by Mardonius. To \make a virtue of necessity\ is from Chaucer (\Knight's Tale\) but the phrase is used also in Rabelais, Shakespeare and Dryden. THE DOCTORS' BILLS. In Sweden the Price of Stirs ICO IS Left with the Patient. Sweden has doctors, but no doctors' bills. If you have occasion to call in physician you will find him not only skillful in his profession but a highly educated and most honorable gentle- man. You will also have another proof of the honesty of the Swedes and their friendly confidence in each other. Swedish doctors send no bills to their patients. What you shall pay your physician is left entirely to your own choice. The rich pay him liberally whether they have need' of his services or not, if he has been once retained by them. The poor pay him a small sum and the very poor pay him nothing. Yet he visits the poor as faithfully as he does the rich. On the last day of the year you put into an envelope, ad- dressed to your physician, a sum of money which you think not only suffi- cient to compensate hen, but in accord- ance with your posttlon in life, and in closing your card with the money, send the envelope by a servant to your doc- tor. The servant returns with the card of the doctor in a sealed envelope di- rected to yolk, This shows that he has received your money and no word about the matter ever passes between you. Should you semi him nothing he will tome and prescribe for you all the next year and as long as you live, and he is too dignified ever to say a word abole IL The Examiner Was Cutting. At a certain Cambridge viva voe amination a particular candidate he so far failed to answer any question whatever. After wasting a good of patience on him the examine, desperation finally tore from a sheet of paper a portion two inches square. placed it in froht of the luckless yowl, and cuttingly observed: \Oblige me, sir, by placing upon Bee paper the whole of what you know on any subject of any kind whatever.''— Ex. NEWSY TRIFLES. The 'corner stone for the new dorml tories at the University of Pennsylvania lies just been laid. The United Hebrew Charities Society of New York gave work to 33,000 per- sons during the past year. Six hundred crates of celery were shipped from Muskegon. Mich.. to Chi- cago the other day. The weight of it was 35,000 potinds. A proposal has been made that a na- tional exposition he held in Washing- ton In 1900 to celebrate the centennial colored twins in Putnam f Theret ra pal are it city, e I county. Connecticut, four years old, with red hair. Bailey, the circus man, has sought In vein to get them. The New Orleans Picayune devoted two columns Tuesday - of last week to an effort to nrovn that we were in on paper the crown da A n ( g .r e o r ri f I r i , r 7 g t ra o a rt i n a rt r uk i e Rp e ap s . of the king of Portugal, which was re- cently . repaired by a jeweler, IA the most costly in the world, being valued at S Th il e .\ h ° 0a 100, 1 Ights from the locomntiv engines on Mein , \ railroads attract the deer from the forests nod numbers; of the 'liftman; tire Ming 1,1Fed ey the en - vine;. hundred Berlin journalists are to have their pictures printed itt a vol- tire rhich Gustav Dahma his written gm! Ai.ie'• /A to give an 'nettle view of eito , nee reemen jountaliam. 5 . 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