NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPINIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 72, 24 March 1906, Page 9

NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPINIONS.

, nofter clergyman to keep a pub. i $* - a Dr Samuel Thackeray, te &$*Z sngge __s. we think, a quite , ***tfaHatd of qualities for the pur- j over the Fish and Eels! fft. jTrr and hopes ro run it on im-I •'- ffsrl °u ae f "I «h-Il b,hi!l ' l the ! *_te says "and as occasion arise? 1 j fej-eie the liquor my-elf.- There j --1. to he a manager and mana- . after all. Dr. Samuel g*. is unable to devote th~ whole. I intone to bis mod-st and conrteous j ration But he will do what he can. ! fgZ* being to talk affable morals -[ -ha 1 talk to them he .xplams "and it IJ 1 mi seme useful ideas before them, i aS ',' +■_> the Independent Labour' ' "in the hotel I -hall probably j *J5 ftw family prayers also/ The j _Celias a charm of much simplicity. | to harmonise with Dr. i r - 5 n ew system of musical no-1 _T_ucb "reduces all music into one j f__S of C natural." We trust, „v_een_ as natural to the customers j ._ Fish and Eel- a s it doe, to the Sole reformer. Mora! axioms w,th a j T o f four _lf wore jus; what Mr. had never the c-oura.3. to re- j fn2 :El<-. j ut s till his whisker? grew!" I with vagrancy, a man named; Martin, -he \'ienna "Fremden- j :.:•• 9 v5. has boen sentenced at Esseg. | Zcm-'to * short term of imprison- j It transpired that he made a I OU s livinir Wv showing his \oni\ Cjifi-monev. This hirsute append- \ no k-_ than 4ft. Sin. in j w«_. and te wore it rolle.l up like n , headdre. and held in position i under hi- chin. The hairy , -Wan" ms in the habit of tre.juent-j iofes. where, for a. -man fee. he. Lddisplav the full length of bis tre- i pataE facial adornm?m to amazed be-, Biß___«h ?ultan i- probably the -«r fear-ridden man in Europe, the for not excepted. _>I. Eoche. the manaLafaßelsrian company engaged in iSaaereial enterpnV.'s in Turkey, has Laved a communication from the Otauthorities requesting of a typewriter, which gui" 'la-ay the firm had sent to their corat Daman-us. and which was owius: to the tear that the mai__em_bt possibly be an .~n;_ine of degsriiim. The e-.nl a nation "f this curiB nraefie_ng lie- in the fact that m ieasof the Turki-b police officials rhi,r -Ppe-.n- unknown or sake is susnioious. Ever since th" plot the Sultan's Mis have been troubled by virions m -ingl ma-'uin.--. and his whoU enis affected by this unreasoning ants that the mo-t innocent pots kms comin_ from abroad may no bappnetratc into the Sick Mans £ -3__.a_i_--.- ; .r.:; article in the "Monthly gap on "The Fascination of ParliaB_g __k Michael MacDonagh recounts .__eroi.the trial- which M.P.'s have SjStuu with at the hand- of their conthe outside public. In _ coarse ot it he a-U- l_- *« r»-y tin- p<. _r IP. who receives such a letter as the fol-krn_-:—"Honoured Sir. —I hear that Mr Moiir is no: a married man. Soine■_ias tells mc that 1 would make the _# sort of wife for him. lam c-ominrr tLondon to-morrow, and will call at the sn~e or! ommon- to see you. hoping you _ _et mc an introduction to the honErabie gentleman. I am only 30 years (tags, aad can do cooking and wa^hmrr. — JfflsMerton. P.S. —Perhaps if Mr Bai- __ wsuid net have mc you would say a _d for mc to one of the policemen at _ Eouse." Mr MacDouagh assures us a: shinny the evening the member who isaVed this strange epistle went cauSiisly into the Central Hall. and. sure ssrm. e_pied an eccentric-looking woua in anury controversy with a conaale. _o was trying to induce her to so "2.~: bur she refused To leave, and ultiatdj iouv.d a sympathetic companion in is crazy old lady who ha- haunted the B_e for years in the hope that some day seinfl induce the Grovernment ro restore &5J00.900 of which -he declares they fee robbed iier. —J3 p.oi.ie have been under the ira-?S-!on that rj.. pit. was one or the ssimaa'. he-t friends. Rut it would that the succulent one is uo--I™% or the =<jrt. On the contrary, he *si insidious toe. responsible for the population of the country. Moreover. y commit.- his devastations with his **■ Tin- we learn on the authority ■Jsdge Adams, who, ar Limerick -es«ffls. wem r , ul 0 j - u j- wa y to j n( i.,. t [Vie ma. i'iie charge i- upon this wise: -5 ""pie" i< ; 0 the Yankee, so is the SPTOot to the Irishman. L'nder tbe 2 0I "crubbeens," pigs" feet are a dish at rai-e meeting- and simigaateririfrs. But no true FTibernian "V touch them without biscuits. Judge f&ns, who. by the way. awarded a *W m '•(•nibbeen--- costs for loss of •-_ ?= aia "' :1 railway company for i,f biscuits.'put the course aJ biscuits, and lemonj} tten more "crubbeens." more hisporter. Then, by way of a St? more ' e mona.ic. biscuits, porter, After a meal of This k',fi " a - w °nder that men go home is indigestion— -mart youna men w f 1 ?' 1 }- ? n - married and become W^ 01 ./ a milies: But rhey prefer -V . s '" indigestion, and death. , Mis S Ireland depopulated. "° i^ r ' s m tne German Two W bin WCre ime mlj<-rHig a stag they _W' 0,! a private estate, when S'w sur P ri:ieci by a gamekeeper. 'Vda°- t0 lheir ee^s 3Laa escaped in leaving their guns, which Ssia. l p!a< -' t ' d 'gainst a tree.'behind tta L a °Ogb the culprits had not ■« i ec-OTiji, c ,i , . . . , «5 tvvn ; -• • 8 aye suspicion rested %Ste& i__- Ua k' w bo were promptly •s_te -t _ ou ?ht before the magisWffa= <Esda uned all knowledge of t_aj fe ' aa( i ftoiidly refused to admit 8 wer . s theirs. In the face ■ :3 2_.t>--.-', 1 " , - est ' a ' llOßS innocence, the _ r " : ; orrer l to a stratagem. i_ssjg7 ~~_ 11 -' dismiss the case, he ad- ? sr as follows: "As ssiei tnn ° SS Do ' : seem to De estabI T ;'^ a -i" ta " Se your guns and go ; 511 r 'f ]l 1 " nto - the tra P> zpd i 5-t a t J = J " U P property, '' same mom ent the heavy * M . n sta__ fell upon their Proceedings were re- ! r - esalt "»** boa. made . - ■ ______ M _ t _«____

The question whether the Chinese are a squint-eyed race is gravely dealt with by _,£. Lemaire in the French scientific periodical '"La Mature." The author of the article assures us that the Western impression of the Chinese as being a crosseyed people is really based on an optical illusion. The normal Chinese eye. he says, i is the same as ours, in that its axis is placed perpendicularly upon the line of I the nose, but it is the formation of the eyelid, which partly covers the lachrymal .gland in the corner of the eye. coupled i with the oblique position of the eyebrows. | that produces the peculiar squinting ef- ; feet, which is enhanced by the eyelids, and | the eye?, themselves, being somewhat | smaller than ours. It would therefore be i more correct to describe Chinese eyes as ; "closely placed together' 7 than as "obliquely placed." In the same paper the | curious absence of the lobe of the ear in | the Japanese race is made the subject of | an interesting deduction. M.'Lemaire | say- that the European ear is at fault. i having been deformed by fashion. For J centuries our ancestors have worn rings ' and othei heavy ornaments in their ears. j for which folly we are now paying by | having lobes to ours. The French savant j seeks to prove this contention by stating i that the Japanese expressions ""mimi 1 tabu" i lobe of the ear) and "mimi gane" ! i earring i have only been introduce!! into I the Japanese language after the Japanese , came into closer contact with Western | nations. The glamour of mythical romance which so long surrounded the famous j ruins of Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, has been j dispelled in a lecture by Dr. Helver be- | fore the research department of the | Royal Geographical Society. It a!way3 ! has been supposed that the ruins dated | back to one of the earliest civilisations | and wore probably of Semitic origin. | ! Eider Haggard's romance of "King Solo- \ I mon's Mines" spread their fame far and j | wide. Br. Mclver, however, who was ! i commissioned by the British Association i to examine the rains, now reports that ! there are no grounds for the belief that ! t!u=y are of any great antiquity. Excavations have proved that the ruins beI longed to one period only in which maIdiaeval anil post-mediaeval buildings , were constructed by the people whose '■ implements and ornaments were found ] i there: that the people was a negroid/ ' race akin to the Ivaffir. Frederick i_e- \ ' lons agi'eed that the district never has been occupied by a civilised race, and, I' described the primitive methods of deal- , ing with cold-bearing quartz, which he believed had been carried on until the r Zulu invasion. Dr. Mclvor stated that he discovered two pieces of flowered ' blue and white > _nkin china, which j were certainly not earlier than the six- I teenth century. Several members dis-1 ; sented from the lecturer's views. j With the return to European Russia of sections of the Manchurian army, ill" awful fact has been brought to light ■ i says the "Anglo-Russian") that after each battle the Russian sanitary officers, ■ collect ing the wounded, put aside for .. burial those of them who in their 1 opinion were not likely to recover. One . of these '•shouid-be-buried'" tells the fol- ! i lowing story: —"After each battle the \ j sanitary officers would mark with red I paint those wounded who were to be j taken away for treatment, and with ! black paint those apparently hopelessly . wounded, who were To be left on the ! iieW and buried with the der.d. I my--1 self r. as !vin_r on the ground when a j hand touched mc. and then proceeded ' j ro fetch the black paint. I fully realised j my fate, and said to the officer: "But [j I am alive, and may recover. How can | you set like this?' "Have you money?' . ' he then asked. 'Yes.' I replied. 'How | much?' 'Ten roubles." 'Give them to : mc." He just nufnaged to put the , I money in his pocket, and was stretching ; ■' jut his hand for the red paint, when tra- ! a-akh. tra-a-fikh —the enemy's shrapuel : -truck him dead on the spot only a . j couple of steps from mc: f lay and j listened, but not a sound came from j him. Then I thought. 'Why should I , lose my money." and. gathering strength. 1 or opt up to him and began to search , \ his pockets, when to my astonishment \ ! I found net only my 10 roubles, but . | more than 300.''' The soldier's state- . i mem about burying alive the hopelessly ! ! wounded is corroborated by many more ! eve-witnesses, who tell of it as of -1 quite ordinary occurrence. .1 ' " 1 Some remarks of Mr Justice Deane In ' I the course of his summing up in an | English divorce suit on the ethics of ' modern friendships between women and men deserve a word of comment. The judge said he had never heard that a ! married man was not to have an affec- . | tion for any woman but his wife. If it ■ i was an innocent affection, not diminish- ■ :_._ his love for the wife herself, it could ' not be classed as "cruelty" in a suit for . i divorce. That is a judicial utterance . which we should hardly expect to hear if women sat on the Bench, perhaps: : ; and there are certainly wives -who can- • not rise to its impartial note. But with . i .Air Justice Deane's regret that ideas . | of propriety are more lax than formerly I every decent man will ag-ree. There has . I been a reaction against early Victorian | . ! prudi-hness. no doubt, and on the whole a healthy reaction. But its excesses, i . in certain ranks of society, may turn , i us back to an age of precieuses ridicules. , If natural friendships are to be without j , S reproach, they must observe the laws f of good breeding faithfully: and that , - i seems to us to be the most useful moral I . of the case on which the judge based hi-, comment. l At Bedford College. London. Mr . ' <.. H. Wood. F.S.S.. addressed a meeting ; convened by the Women's Industrial ? Council on. "'The Economic Position of i , Women as Wage-earners." He said that • | during the last 50 years some very re- - inarkabie changes had taken place. For . instance, in agriculture in 1851 there : were three men to one woman, but now i there were 18 men to each woman. That j made it obvious that women had left i I agriculture more than men. Perhaps ) ! the chief women's industry apart, from . j domestic service was the cotton trade, l {There, in-1851, men and women were . practically equal, but in 1901 there were l I 10 women to every 7 men. In the lace C| trade, on the other hand, men seemed I to be slowly displacing women. While t I in the last -30 years the number of males 1 i employed in the industry had grown t j from 9000 to 13,000, the number of - females had fallen from 52,000 to 24,000. f I Generally speaking, women - seemed to t I be getting hold of the lighter centra- _ j Used forms of employment. During the 3 j past 20 years women's wages had in- . ! creased in cotton, wool and worsted - ' and hosiery, but had lost in other s trades. It was very significant that - whereas among men there was a mark- _ ed tendency to leave badly paid trades 1 for those where better wages could he obtained, no such movement could be j < observed among women. The first trade . which came handy seemed to he the one _ I which, a woman adopted. She seemed 2 I to make no attempt to find the best "Joutiei.&_:.___iahsW. t,,.,.■,,;.__ -._.-_.- :1

An extraordinary instance of klepiomania is recorded by M. Marandon de Montyel in the '"P.evue Philanthropique." It presented itself with unusual virulence in the case of a French lady of great wealth and exalted social position. When under the evil influence she would commit acts of shoplifting with consummate coolness and audacity, as though she had been trained to larceny from youth. The victim of this distressing mania suffered great shame and mortification afterwards, and used to return value for the objects stolen, with an anonymous note asking forgiveness. Finally, in one of the best shops in Paris, she was caught in the act by a young detective to whom she was personally unknown. When taxed with ber offence the proprietor, who knew her as one of bis best customers, of blameless reputation, and renowned for her charitable works, profusely apologised, and severely rebuked the detective for a supposed mistake, but. burstin"- into ears, the unfortunate lady confessed that it was she who had oftpn anonymously returned money for article- she had pilfered. Even her nearest relatives were unaware of the strange perversity from which she had so long suffered. *~

At Washington last month the Senate Committee resumed its investigation into the case of Senator Smoot. the Mormon

''apostle." whose right to sit in the Senate is challenged. To a large extent the case turns upon whether Mormons still encourage polygamy. Professor Walter Wolfe, formerly teacher of geology at the Brigham Young College. Logan, Utah, was the chief witness. 'To the best of my knowledge,*' he swore, "polygamous cohabitation has increased very materially since Utah was admitted as a State." Professor Wolfe had been a Mormon until January 1. this year, when his connection was severed through his failure to comply with the demand for tithes. When he joined the Mormon- he was sworn to chastity, sacrifice, and vengeance. Asked to explain the Mormon's oath of vengeance, to which frequent allusions have been made during the present investigation. Professor Wolfe said that a Mormon aspirant subscribed to the following:— "You and each of you do covenant, and never cease to pray to God. to avenge the blood of the prophet on this nation." The latter meaning the United States. This oath referred, as the witness explained, to the killing of Joseph Smith in Illinois in the early part of last century. At the conclusion, each one taking the oath was required to bow his head and say, "I do." Witness gave several examples of plural marriages, showing ihat the practice still , ... j__s__a ..;,...