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this woman, who like St. Elizabeth,
can transmute matter into spirit has
the mind and the habits of a scientist
with tbe heart and love of the apostle
who followed Christ the closest In
her long residence in the slums of
Chicago she has bjeen studying pau
pers and recording the causes of pov
erty according to the laboratory
method, not for Ler own honor or
glory, not even for science, though
her truly scholarly mind wou'd thus
be tempted, but for the sake of finding
a way to help the poor eventually.
She says that drunken ness and
laziness are the'eause of but thirteen
percent of the cases of pauperism
reported. Forty-one percent of the
cases were the result of sickness, due
not to dissipation, but to the unsani
tary conditions which surround the
poor in large cities. Further ste says
that "each succeeding generation,'
born in large cities, shows a decreas
ing physical stamina, most of the
paupers coming from the third city
born generation. If forty-one per
cent of pauperism is due to sickness
and that sickness to unsanitary dwel
lings it wuuJ(i.payX:hlcagoand aH .their pjely, t;eir ZSm of being a
Other cities to more stringently en- republic and the undercurrent of
force all sanitary regulations, espec chivalry for the weaker that has made
iaily those in regard to the construe- them advocates in America,
tion and cleanliness of tenement
on between Mr. Chamberlain and
President Kruger since 1881. The
despatches between the British and
Boer governments and the official re
port of the Bloemfontein conference
are all tbe arguments that Mr. Rob
ins uses. Everyone -who still thinks
that Mr. Chamberlain precipitated an
unnecessary war should, for the sake
of truth and justice and bis own re
lation to them read this report. Be
tween quotations from the Bible,
President Kruger makes the most
glaring misstatements. The dealings
of the Boers with the British are
characterized by insincerity and
childish prevarication, the dealings
of the British with the Boers by for
bearance.patience and manly straight
forwardness and anxiety for a peac
able settlement. If it were not for
tbe difference in the relative size of
the two nations there could be no
sympathy in America for the Boers.
The system of exclusion and of
taxation adopted and insisted upon
by the Boers would not work in any
country today and it is only their in-
s!fnlrimnr.. rhpir oxnloitation it
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Pauperism by Miss Jane Addams.
After many years' sympathetic,
houses. Forty-one per cent would not
only be saved but the paupers would
become producers and add t.elr share
to the wealth of the community.
These evils are only slightly pres
ent in Lincoln, but more rigid in
spection and condemnation cf alleys
by the health officer would result in
a decrease of sickness. Among those
who cannot afford to be sick, the cost
of the sickness, and the support of
the families meanwhile is borne by
the city. A preventative cleaning up
Women in Business.
Mr. Bok's editorials have not given
the Ladies Home Journal its vogue.
II he were not the publisher and prin
cipal owner it is doubtful if his manu
script would dud a place in the L. H.
J. This is severe, because the stories,
essays and poetry in this publication
have evidently not passed a rigid
literary examination. No other mag
azine of national circulation publishes
so much that is uninspired and coin-
scientific observation of poverty Miss
Jane Addams has presented a report
interesting in itself and authorita
tive because of its author and her of the bottoms, now will save medi- mon place, yet because of the hinLs
unique opportunities for observation, cine, doctor and funeral bills later, on housekeeping, manners of good
In the days when saints were made These are not the ideal predictions of society, gossippy twaddle about liter
Miss Addams would have been called a sentimentalist but the conclusions ary people and innocuous reading pro
of Jacob Kiis and of Miss Addams pared for the jeuntfille and especially
who have studied the subject longer because of the advertising and bril
and more conscientiously than any liant business management, the L. II.
other moderns. J. claims the largest circulation in
the country. Mr. Bok despises his
constituency and expresses his dis-
The English and the Boers, dain in nearly every issue. In regard
Since the English have been victo- to women in business, he says in the
S lint Jane when much younger than
she is now. But even saints in the
olden time were proud of their morti
fications, their fastings, their flagella
tions, even of their miracles which
they did not claim to work of their
own power but of their influence.
Mbs Jane Addams seems to have no
desire for power or recognition. She
has inspiration of a kind that the
old saints may have had. Under the
influence qf her quiet, gray eyes, from
which the signs of selfishness and
self conceit have long since disap
peared, cne has an overpowering sense
of unworthiness and frivolity.
Where ever she goes she changes the
values. Iler company though it is of
the cheerfulest, depresses the worth of
money and position and elevates puri
ty. The values change under the pe
culiar effect of her presence as though it was chivalrously concluded that
one were dying. Silver, gold, jewels, England was abusing and tyranniz-
rugs, furniture, equipages, gowns ing over the Transvaal. "The Truth
everything dear to the heart of wo- about the Transvaal," a small pamph-
man changes color and value as let of forty-three pages by "William
though seen by eyes about to close Robins, contains an unprejudiced
forever on the wor.'d of matter. Well, statement of the negotiations carried
rious in the Transvaal, newspaper
comment on the wrongs suffered by
the Dutch farmers has almost ceased.
While there was a prospect of Kru
ger's eventual success the newspapers
applauded him and expatiated on
the tyranny of England etcetera etce
tera. Because England is the most
powerful nation in the world and
because the English are the most en
lightened people and because the
Transvaal is a small oligarchy and its
people the most ignorant in the world
March number "that having proved
themselves incapable of meeting the
demands of modern business, they are
rapidly being replaced by men.'
There are so few women who go
into business for fun or from discon
tent. The large majority of working
women are working to support them
selves and others. These cannot re
tire without electing starvation.
And the arguments and remonstran
ces concerning the disturbance of the
market by women, all the economic
essajs ever written are not convinc
ing enough to make one woman give
up a job, however poor, which feeds
Ler, her children, or her tired male
relatives. Women will work for hire
in spite of angry male expostulation
as long as starvation is fatal and hun
ger is uncomfortable, as long as wu
freeze without warm clothes and arti
ficial warmth, as long as the rays of
the summer sun are perpendicular,
as long as everything that decorates
amuses, or instructs us is bought
.with aprice and not given away.
Women have gone too far ever to find
the way back and in spite of Mr. Bok
who despises women because they
take the Ladies Home Journal, com
paratively few women who are obliged
to earn their own living by type
writing, book-keeping, clerking, or by
law or medicine will resign their
positions. A greater authority than
Mr. Bok, a more conscientious scholar,
a more just and less prejudiced critic
might discourage women in their at
tempt to make a living. As it is it
is not worth while to take Mr. Bok
seriously. He has the money making
instjnet, but from a literary and
economic point of view his opinions
lack authority.
An Inconsistent Verdict.
Juries come to their decisions by
mazy" "pToCCsses 'e( or influenced
thereto by advocates m uuui.ij.uuu
how soft is tbe heart of man in the
last analysis and how unwilling to
punish a woman wiio has looked at
them with large, if withall, feline
eyes, during the days of her trial.
Nevertheless Viola Horlocker was
guilty, if she was sane, of a premedi
tated attempt upon the life of a wo
man whom she was jealous of, and of
an attempt to poison all the other
friends in the studio with Mrs. Morey,
known and unknown to the assassin.
If she is insane, for the protection
of society she should he confined in
an asylum for the rest of her life.
But she was a woman, she cried and
cast appealing glances and the jury
forgot how small was the provocation
for attempting the life of Mrs. Morey,
and of how she bad no excuse what
ever for trying to kill Mrs. Morey "s
innocent pupils, and acquitted her.
Miss Horlocker committed so grave
an offense against society for so slight
a reason that now she is loosed upon
it and gone to a strange place, where
the inhabitants may not know that
she counts gratification of her desir. s
cheap at tbe price of human life,
those who surround her are surely in
danger. Because Mr. Morey is a
hypocrite and a coward and cannot
be punished for posing before Mit
Horlocker as an object of sympathy
in want of a friend, is perhaps an
other reason why the jury refused to
impose the punishment, for a slaught
ersuch asshe attempted. Mr. Morev's
hypocrisy and manifestations of sym
pathy before the. poisoning and lib
cowardice afterward incensed and
disgusted the people. The jury not
being able to punish him, let Mbs
Horlocker escape the more readily
Provocation so slight as she had is
likely to occur again. This ex
perience will teach her to be slyer
next time and reassures her, that If