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themselves are too preoccupied to
exert. On the other hand, however, these
infants suffer fully rs much physical harm
IN the overcrowded, sitting schoolrooms as
they would in the gutter. The restraint
they suffer is cruelty irksome, and educa-
ton under the circumstances OF age and
environment is worse than farce. Ihe
condition OF the infant children OF the help
less poor is matter that pressingly de-
mands charitable consideration, but our
school system is not u charity. Before
primary education can deserve its name III
New York we must have more teachers,
more schoolrooms and intelligent sanitary
supervision. Until these are secured it is
in every sense the duty of the School Board
and the teachers to exclude all children OF
less than five years, and parents who have
the legal right to place children in the pri-
mary departments should importune the
Grand Jury and the Legislature to redress
grievances at which SO many school OFF,
Gals are wickedly winking
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08

unknown, and many and glorious are the
trophies won in the contest. Right, left
and centre. the legionaries of science are
marching onward, cutting down with the
swords of keen intelligence the obstructing
forests and underground of ignorance, ford
battering tho citadels of prejudice. The
newspaper, the great educator of the masses
is leading the van, and the music of the
marching hosts is given by the concert Of
printing press, locomotive, telegraph
sounder. loom and sewing machine, saw
mill and steam drill, ringing anvils and
clinking hammers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08
Perjury as Matter or Form.

Judge Donohue took a commendable step
toward checking the too prevalent custom
Of swearing to falsehoods in legal papers
when he ordered the defendant in a breach
Of promise case into custody on charge Of
perjury for having sworn in his answer that
he had never promised marriage to the
plaintiff, while, in his evidence, he admit
ted that such a promise had been given.
When the law requires papers in legal pro-
ceedings to be sworn to its intent must be
to make sure that they contain nothing but
truthful statements, otherwise the affidavit
would be needless Awitness who testifies
in case before court swears to
tell the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, and if he gives false
punished for the offence. When q de-
PENDANT makes answer in suit and, in con-
formity with the law, swears to his state
ments rs the whole truth and nothing but
the truth, he must certainly commit per-
jury if ut the time lie knows these state
ments to be false. But lawyers have fallen
into the habit of making an answer tit q de-
fendant's case without regard to facts, and
then attaching to it their clients affidavit
1t certainly cannot be any more justifiabe
to swear to lie in an affidavit required by
law than to do the same thing in the wit
ness box. The practice Of regarding answers
as mere matters Of form, in which any un-
true statement may be made, is calculated
to famiiarizc people with false swearing
and is direct incentive to perjury in evil
dencc, tho parties in suit naturally desir-
ing to bring the testimony up TO the
standard of their answer.
The action taken by Judge Donohue may
not result in the prosecution or con-
viction of the offender in this particular
case, but il canno. fail to have n good Ell C.
both on lawyer and client The one will
be more careful in future how he draws an
answer and the latter how he swears to il
without thoroughly understanding its con-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08

Whether or not the bankers who met at
Boston yesterday transacted more business
than publicly appeared, their utterances
will have the effect of strengthening the
public faith in the successful resumption
Of specie payments. None Of them doubted
that the results Of resumption would
be beneficial to trade, and the fear that
the gold that is to be issued will be boarded
by those who receive it was dissipated by
the statement made by President Coe, of the
American Exchange Bank Of this city, upon
the course Of the first greenbacks issued by
the government They were the favorite
currency OF their day, specie hav-
ing disappeared and the issues of
State banks being distrusted; yet
MI. Coe says that within eight days
after each lot Of So, 600, 600 greenbacks was
issued nearly the whole quantity found its
way back to the banks again similar re-
suit will come from the issue Of gold.
Compared with the few people who
can and will hoard gold the GUS
toners of the banks are hundred
times as numerous and handle a thousand
times as much money, and for the banks to
hoard gold while the volume Of paper cur
rency is being reduced will be an utter i'm
possibility. The stocking and the cracked
teapot may still be the favorite banks Of the
back country, but the back country seldom
has any considerable amount Of money to
deposit.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE

Australia makes better olive oil than Italy does.
The Japanese use telephones between their ware
houses
Dock Commissioner westervelt. who has been
seriously ill, is recovering
In Paris restaurant you will give the waiter Ave
cents on the dollar as fee.
The French Chamber Of Deputies has invalidated
the election Of the Duke Decazcs.
Unless We soon have plenty Of ice and snow this
may be the Charles Francis Adams of discomfort.
Lady Strsngford who organized hospitals for
wounded Turks. is angry at Lady Layard. who was
decorated therefor.
At last we have discovered what good there is in
policeman. He stares pretty shop girls they 20
to work about half past seven in the morning.
Senator Sargent is much better and hopes to he
able leave Washington next week for trip the
Bahama Islands, where he will remain until after the
holiday recess.
This, from Fun. is what London laughs at :-"when
artist makes up his mind to work what pigment
does he proceed to daub himself wthals He bistres
(bestirsl himself
Tho young men at the Academy who go out be.
tween acts probably go out for an opera glass
HERALD p. /. Wrong, Mr. p. L.; they probably go out
for their rye glass.-WhitehdU Times.
London Truuh:-"As q rule, Englishmen, except
when they writing novels, far too ponderous;
consumption Of novels in England
There is no truth in the report that Governor
Hampton. Of South Carolina. to have had his leg
ampuatcd yesterday. He is progressing favoraby in
recovering from the effects OF his accident.
Judy makes Engishmcn laugh at this pretty piece
Of humor:-''That is pretty story. My First Ball.
How well remember mine. II a worsted one.
But there calico balls ". All what a world
this it, All the worlds ball, and the men and
women are merely players lat ball. Of Counsel But
let me not moralze. Sloper says. IL is Of the
lcs" than the moral about IL; but matter -
The Saturday Rerieo says that the Of dissat-
sfaction cannot he removed by REFRESHING socialism.
The chief of these the poverty Of the
in large towns. the contrast of great Riches
the degree of education which makes men think
little and not much and decay in the influence OF
religion REFRESHING socialism will not improve the
condition of the in Berlin nor raise the
standard of education, bring about u religious
revival. The dissatisfied will longer be able to
read socialist journals but they will remain dissats
fed They will feel their own unhappincss and ask
for its reasons and its remedies.
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Shall the Mail Service BE Crippled
The insufficiency of the Pest Office ap-
preparation is likely to cause embarrass-
ment to the department and serious incon-
venience to the public. The service is now
performed at as low rate as possible, and
in no other public department are such par
simonious salaries paid as in this. Con-
gress cuts down the appropriation four
hundred thousand dollars below the most
economical amount at which the Post Office
business can be efficiently performed, and
the inevitable result must be the abandon
ment Of some Of those facilities Of distribu-
ton and delivery from which the business
communities derive so much advantage.
The department will be compelled to dis.
continue the postal car system, the value Of
which can scarcely be understood by per-
sons not familiar with the details Of the
postal service. 1t is sufficient to say that
the system by which the mail matter is as
sorted ready for distribution while the
railroad trains are proceeding on their trips
saves from twelve to twenty-four hours in
the time Of delivery. Is it worth while to
deprive the country of this great benefit for
the sake of saving few dollars through
pretentious but mistaken economy?
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A Greater India in Africa.

In the interesting letter which Mr. Henry
NJ. Stanley has addressed to Mr.. James
Bradshaw, of Manchester, and which we
reprint from the Manchester Courier. the
gallant explorer attempts to solve the ques-
ton which has been SO frequently asked
namely, "What practical benefit is England
to derive from the numerous explorations
OF Central Africa" Mr.. Stanley may pos
sbly be liable to form an exaggerated esti-
mate OF the value Of the regions with which
lie has become 50 familiar; but no one can
question the correctness Of his deliberate
statement that for a comparatively small
sum Of money n railway can be constructed
from Zanzibar to Nyanza. And If this
be admitted who can venture to doubt the
practicability of opening with the fertile
and populous empires OF Central Africa
traffic Of immense and ever growing value
an outlet, in short, for the fabrics of
Lancashire and Yorkshire which may COM
pensate in the near future for the loss Of
the great American market and the spirited
competition already begun by French
looms and FORCES in the other great markets
of the world? That England may find in
Africa second and q greater India is by
no means an improbable conclusion to
those who have watched the steady progress
Of the new British Empire in South
Africa, where, to recent annexations Of
the Transvaal Republic, Griqua Land
West, the Portuguese colony of Delagoa
Bay and the northern extension Of the
Atlantic frontier, is now to DO added, as
the result Of existing hostilities. the vast
regions Of Kaffraria proper, Zululand and
Bechuanaland.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08

Mr. Palmer, of the Union Square Theatre,
favors the public with his opinions on the
subject of the protection by law of property
in plays. He writes apropos to our obser-
vations on some views communicated by
the author of ..The Bankers Daughter. =
He takes issue with rs on the point whether
managers really want an international copy
right law, and says they do; and why and
how they want it may be seen by his COM
munication, which we print. They want it
because it would be cheaper Tor them
to protect their plays with it than it
is without it, All he says is on that theme.
He has not word to say in regard to copy
right from any other point of view than its
financial advantages to tho managers Of
theatrcs-and yet he objects to our view
that the theatre is a shop. But it is a
change for the managers to desire a copy
right law for even this reason; it is, how
ever, one Of those changes in which on atti-
tude is varied in order that we'll estab-
lished relation to some given point may be
maintained. Managers want copyright
law now-if they really do want it-be-
cause it would be an advantage from
a strict money point OF view TO
have such law just as before they
did not want it, because, in a money point
of view, it would have been disadvantage.
They wanted to be free to plumber foreign
authors when they had monopoly of it
but the growth of the country and the in
crease in the number Of theatres have made
a change in that. There is no monopoly OF
foreign plays now. They must pay to get
an advantage over one another, and their
rivals do not respec. that advantage. Mr..
Palmer even says that these rivals prac-
tise piracy. ''Some pirate" he says, an
ticipates the manager who has paid
an author. In all this not word of copy
right because it is just that the foreign au-
thor should be paid and not pirated. 1t is
fair enough to practise piracy on him, but
let no one do it against manager. Not a
word, moreover, of copyright because it
may lead to the fact that local writers will
be able to compete with foreign writer's if
In short not a word of copyright for
any literary reason or any reason re-
lated to national honor or honesty,
but only to protect the managers invest
ments. Copyright complications have
reached point where the absence of a law
has become q certain advantage to Amcri-
can authors, such as there are. For in
stance, Mr. Palmer says it cost eleven thou
sand dollars TO protect the 'Two Orphans. =
For that sum the manager could have had
eleven American plays. If that relation Of
price should continue capable people here
would begin to write for the theatre. 1t is
a sign Of hope, and, as soon as it appears
managers cry out, 'Giye us a copyright
law
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the ostentatious principle by Mr.. Adams.
DR.. King treats of the fidelity Of servants.
Mr. searlcs of Gospel temperance, Mr.. Rich
mond of life in the Apostolic Church and
Dir. Rowland Of the difficulties IN
Scripture. The treasury test OF re-
ligion will be put to his church by
Mr. Lloyd; the atonement and self-decep-
ton will be discussed by Mr.. Gunnison
and Mr.. Rogers, and DIR. Chaplin will present
Christ as human ideal DR.. Tying. Jr.,
will illustrate the Scriptures from the jew
ish Talmud, and DIR. Tying, ST., will deliver
al address on the mountains Of Israel.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08
American Art in the Future.

question of vital importance to the
American nation is, What is to be the fu-
ture of its art /? The subject of the last lee
ture of the Loan Exhibition course was
american Art in the Future" and the lee
turer, Charles G. Perkins, Of Boston,
opened by stating that it was useless to at
tempt to prophesy as TO the character our
art will hereafter assume. After citing
notable examples Of the slow develop ment
Of what are called the schools of art of
different countries, he said that Amer
lea had no cause to despair because
she has no well defined school. Our
colossal proportions and unlimited freedom
were q. detriment to our artistic growth.
Early American art was an offshoot from
that of England, and now our inspiration
comes from the Continent This is all very
well and very true. What we need, how
ever, is not alone to be told why our art is
in the condition it is, but to have pointed
out what steps should be taken to cncour-
age and aid our artists in founding a ma
tional school Of art, which first composite
will in years crystalline into u reflection OF
distinctively national characteristics. We
are now only going through q stage which
other nations have successfully passed.
They all borrowed from one another, and
continue to do SO still, as our students
who are and have been abroad are doing.
we must likewise study the causes which
led to the rise of art in different countries
and apply at home the lessons thus learned.
I he great secret Of the success OF the M
tons who lead the world in art is govern
mental aid in the way Of supervision and
encouragement. This has done the work
abroad and should and must do so here.
Private individuals will follow where
authority leads. TO strike at the heart Of
the matter, then, government bureau, with
home schools and scholarships for foreign
study, should be established here. All gov
ornamental work, both State and national,
in architecture, sculpture and painting,
should be offered for competition, and an
annual exhibition Of all classes Of
higher art work held. This would es-
tablish standard which the people
would recognize and be educated by,
give proper means of instruction, cause
euuluClOu luOuS aItlSCS, IcWdIu lAc
most deserving, and eventually result in
strengthening and Matchmaking the art Of
the country. It would be a much better
way Of spending public money than filing
the national Capitol with works by IN
known and lobbying artists, which are and
will always be, if the present policy con-
tinues, the laughing stock Of foreign Wis
itors Thousands OF dollars would not be
wasted on feeble statuary and daubs painted
by the square yard, and men Of talent would
have both fame and money to work for.
Gradually, then, a national gallery could be
formed, and. in connection with the schools
and for the benefit OF the students and art
lists, collection made OF good foreign work,
both old and new. The initiatory steps in
this matter should be taken at once, and the
public man or men who take them will, if
the project be successful, earn the gratitude
Of the countrys best wishers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08
Religious Personalities.

Believing that all classes aud conditions
of men are entitled to Whatever degree Of
instruction they are competent to receive,
the HERALD il glad to know that many reli-
gious people in this city are to enjoy course
Of lectures this winter by the Rev. Joseph
Cook, of Boston. This gentleman has in
certain religious circles attained an enyiable
reputation by defending the faith against
various forms of belief which are said to
be irreligious, and if by 50 doing he has
strengthened any ones regard for things
pure, lovely and Of good report he is to be
reckoned among the good influences of the
age. This being the case II is to be re-
GREETED that in his first lecture in New York
he has seen fit to depart so far from the
spirit OF religious sympathy rs to in
dulge in personal reflections concerning
another teacher who is probably Just MS
devoted to the cause Of sound belief and
right living as Mr.. Cook himself The
charge that Felix Adler is not much bet
ter than French atheist" was entirely un-
called for by any principle that Mr.. Cook
wished to impress upon his hearers, and
it's natural effect will be to offend many
people whom the lecturer, If in earnest,
should particularly desire to impress. Tc
call other people ugly names is not only nc
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08
Wettrng Whistles Under Diniculties.

Connecticut temperance men are making
strenuous efforts to make their State once
more the land Of steady habits. and our
New London letter explains how the expert
ment is working. The New York blue
ribbon men, however, must not imagine
that because the law is doing good or
preventing evil in New London it can
be safely transplanted to this city. Liquor
is only a carnal indulgence in Connec ticut
in New York it is one Of the main forces in
business, art and literature, while politics,
without whiskey, would be more stale, fat
and Improbable than the play of "Ham-
let with the melancholy Dane as IN abb
sentee. Besides, prohibitory laws are
successful only while there are OBJ.
portunities for drinking on the sly, and in
this respect the New London method is
lamentably inadequate. Think of bibu-
lous New Workers being reduced to imbib-
ing in doorways from the pocket flask Of a
peripatetic dealer Why, the whole archi-
tectural system Of the city would have to
be modified, and up to the top floor of every
building in order to have doorways enough
to go around. As for the pitiful ruse Of
.Schenck beer" it would be treated with
the contempt that oil sub.erfuges merit
when they are weak Schenck beer may do
for Yankees, with whose aesthetic natures
the lightness, foam and froth Of malt liquor
is agreeably consonant, bat New Workers,
who have numberless reasons to suffer and
be strong, demand that their stimulus shall
have no nonsense about it. Again, the
New London plan has reduced ar
rests for drunkenness to mini
mum if any such change should
belall New York there would be nobody
left for policemen to club; it would lessen
the number Of votes which could be con-
tro.led by politicians with influence at
court; turn trustworthy "heelersi' into re-
spectacle members Of society, and knock
the bottom out of our whole political sys-
tenn. Ii Connecticut wants to get up re-
forms she has a right to 10 it, but let her
keep them at home.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08
Cantaim Schweu.en,s statement.

An outline is given in our cable de-
Schwensen, of the steamer Pommerana
in which some Of the important points Of
the story of the catastrophe rs hitherto
published are presented in decidedly
different light. 1t will be remembered that
the Captain refused to leave his ship while
was subsequently picked up by the steamer
CITY Of Amsterdam. He had no life pre-
server, but sustained himself by stray
spar. He was on the bridge, therefore,
from a period within few seconds
of the collision until his ship went
passed with the steady senses Of n resolute
man not distracted by any anxiety as to
his own safety. He does not believe the
crew behaved badly, and makes a handsome
tribute to the memory of the first engineer
and the second and third officers, who
persisted at their posts. In regard to the
story Of the seamen saving their effects he
is incredulous, but reports that the last
lifeboat was destroyed by passenger who
threw into it from the deck of the steamer
an iron bound box, which stove a hole in
its bottom. Many lives were certainly
sacrificed BY the loss Of that boat. il, in
deed, many persons were not lost in it.
Captain Schwensen has been offered the
command of new steamer, which the
Hamburg company will have ready in q
short time.
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Pulpit Topics Tn.DaY.

Advent lectures continue to be delivered
by city pastors, and to-day DIR. Smith will
speak OF Chrst's sec ond coming in prophecy
Dir. Knapp will answer the general question
touching this coming, and DIR. Rylance will
discuss the social question Of cooperation.
Brother Talmage will be taken in hand
again Ly DR.. Hatfield, who will present a
daylight view of our city in contrast with
the Brooklyn pastors midnight pictures.
Mr. Sweetser will deliver Christmas SER
mon on the visit of the shepherds, and Mr..
Ware. Of Boston, will begin the new work Of
Unitarianism. The women of the Bible will
be waited upon by Mr.. Affieck, who will de-
scribe woman's camp meeting hospitality;
by Mr.. Martyr who will portray the Witch Of
Endor, and by Mr.. Bonham, who will eulo-
give God-fearing women generally. The
future life in its various aspects will be dis
cussed by Dr. Fowler, who will take up the
general subject of heaven; by DIR. Rogers,
who will answer the doubts concerning recog-
milton Of friends there; by Mr.. Mickle, who
will point out and illustrate the contrasts
and connecting links between time and
eternity; by Mr.. Rowell, who will speak Of
memory in eternity, and by Mr.. Hull, who
will inquire what there is for the Christian
after death. The foundation Of the Chris
tian religion will be laid again by
Mr.. Corbit; the free invitation to the Cos
pei feast will be issued by Mr.. Colcord
the expansive power of the Gospel will
he shown nv Mr. Moment. the reason WHY
we pray will be given by Mr.. Pullman. and
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-08

The HERALD's articles upon the misman-
agement Of our city schools have elected
considerable correspondence, physicians in
particular being earnest in their indorse-
mont Of our statements and arguments
Some of these gentlemen call attention to
the TACT that oyercrowding Of primary de-
partments is partly due to the admission
of children of four years and moro tender
age, in defiance of the late legislative
enactment fixing the minimum age Of adj
mission at five years. There are two sides
to this question. No one can wonder that
the thousands Of women who are mothers
of large families and who are too poor to
hire nurses, or who even have to support
their own families. are glad to find places
where, for few hours a day, their little
children may be kept out of the street,
ont of mischief and under tia re-
straint and discipline which they