The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-06-13

hibitory laws as O means OF curing the ap-
petite Of men for spirits and beer and have
found them Ineffective. The issue was
distinctly raised in the late political contest
in Rhode Island between prohibition and
license, and the election of Mr.. Lippitt az
Governor, last week, by the Legislature,
terminated the contest in favor of the latter.
The decline of the prohibition movements 10
one of the most curious and s'gnlhcant OF
the minor features of American political
century ago in the Maine liquor law agita-
ton. and swept triumpbantly over all of
the New England and several of the West
ern States. Total ebstinence by repression
has been faithfully tried in most of these
States, and one by one they have abandon
ed it and returned to a permissive system,
guarded by stringent provisions against
abuse.
{" In the city of Rochester, N. "" said
the Rt. Rev. Bishop McQuaid, in his recent
address in Cincinnatiy "the common school
system is tottering under a load of high
school, with Latin, Greek, French, German,
music, drawing and contingent expenses
To cut down expenses the Board of Educa-
ton seriously resolved to buy no Feather
taking their own figures for one of the most
favorable months in the year, they have
only q few over 1000 children in their
schools. The Catholic schools have about
5000 children /; the Lutheran and Episcopa-
liam and private schools have about 1000.
In other words, only about one half the
children attending school in the city are in
the public schools. The ysten is breaking
down, because 10 Cleveland there are over
1000 children in Christian free schools, and
not in the public schools because in Gin
cinnati nearly one half the children of the
the city going to school are to be found in
Christian free schools because in New
orb TO, hnn a
like number in Brooklyn, whose prefer
Christian to public schools. There are
manufacturing villages in the New England
States, as Chicnpee, Putnam, Baltic and
others, in which the proportion is still
greater. l have beard of one place having
400 children in its Christian schools and
only 80 in the common school. Will any
one tell me that a system planned on Pa
gan basis and carried on with such results
can endure Z"
The London Spectator, in commenting
on Miss Elizabeth Thompson's pc.nre,
"Last Charge of the French Cavalry at Qua
tire Bras )" says: "Miss Thompson conceives
it not as general of division or as a mill
tary tactician, but as simple private in
the ranks who has s. to do or die She en-
ters into the mind aud spirit of each man,
ard expresses with Sbakesperian truth
the way in which the situation would be
likely to effect each grade of individual
character. The moment chosen for illus
tration is when repeated failures to break
the square have bred confidence in the
younger men which shows itself in jeering
levity, but does nothing to shake the steady
discipline of older soldiers, whose habitusl
course is that of solid, steady, business-like
resolution. under all circumstances alike.
The broad contrast of the two classes of
character is both telling aud artistic, and
the minor shades in each class are dis
criminated with discer5meut and wonderful
power of observation"
A case of some Importance to picture
buyers, particularly in this country, has
just been decided by French tribunal at
Rheims, in Champagne. A Paris dealer
purchased Of a dealer at Rheims picture
signed &C Jaquer guaranteed to be a genu
inc work By the clever artist of that name
who resides at Rheims. The purchaser
wrote to NJ. Jacque to inquire about the
work and found that he had purchased an
outrageous and counterfeit copy. The
seller refused to make amends aud the pur
chaser brought suit. The Court has just
sentenced the seller to take his picture
back and pay the purchaser the 600 francs
which he had given for it with interest
from the day when the fraud was discover
ed and denounced. When the business of
counterfeiting modern pictures by living
artists can be thus impudentIy carried on
within reach of their own ateliers, it is
clear that foreign investors, three thousand
miles away, cannot be too careful not only
ss to what they buy but also as to of whom
they buy it. The only safety for that
large number of amateurs whose pride iu
possessing pictures is greater than their
knowledge of art, lies 10 dealing only with
houses of the highest character, and in in
ssting upon a guarantee of authenticity
with every picture which they buy for the
'naRe" of the artist.
Does Britannia really rule the waves I
Not if the report of Boy tone first effort to
cross the Channel from Eogland to France
be accurate which is given to the world in
pamphlet entitled '.Le Traversee de De.
troit," published at Boulogne- sur Mer last
month. This pamphlet, issued by the Hu-
name Society of Bouiogne, informs US on
the authority of Boy tons brother, that he
was ouly prevented from reaching France
on the 10Th of April last by the seasickness
of the British reporters and by their terror
of the night and of the wavesI 1t seems
that no fewer than twenty. one of these
gentlemen of the press forced their way
on board the tug which accompanied Boy
ton access the Channel, although they were