Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-09-30

OF the school funI in maintaining their own school
system- The credit OF its successful management
gives them self respect and self reliance just as
1t does in the case of their churches, and their
military, social and benevolent organizations
And they resent the sIur OF inGeriority put upon
them by those VINO maintain that they cannot
manage their own affairs OF the kind In the
matter or the schools. as one OF them says, "We
are willing TO train in the same regiment with the
whites, but not in the same company. We want
schools OF our own"
The world and its inhabitants may escape
destruction by threatening comets. and thus avoid
sudden and violent death, but according to the
latest scientific observations, natural death Of
the earth sustainer OF life is In prospect which
cannot be averted except through change in the
operations OF nature. We do not refer to the In
evtable tumble into the sum- which the world is to
take or TO its gradual cooling into un1nhabi-
table state. The danger, now referred TO, is not
that OF burning up or freezing up, but OF drying
up. Professor j. D. Whitney, OF Harvard College,
In a recently publish monograph discusses the
subject OF the deSiccatOn OF the land or the dry
ing up of water on Its surface. The doctrine OF
this article is that In proportion to the gradual loss
OF heating power OF the rays OF the sun, and the
consequent lowering OF the temperature of the
air In contact with water, there is falling off in
the amount OF evaporation, and consequent
diminution in the worlds rain fall As the rain
becoming at first incapable of supporting dense
population or people OF intellectual vigOr and in
the end an uninhabitable desert. The author main
talnS that history and authentic monuments OF
various kinds justify in believing that one OF the
most prominent causes of social cha and OF the
migration and decay OF races and peoples in the
region about the Mediterranean has been the con-
SANITY increasing desiccation OF the soil. With
respect to Persia of the countries to which ref
erence is made, the author points out that this
vast region, once supporting people great in
numbers, wealth and power, is now so dry that
decreasing population is barely able to find the
means OF subsistence, even in years when some
nightful famine does not sweep over the land. 1t
is also held that While temperate climate suffi-
GENTLY supplied with moisture is indispensable to
Intellectual development, such a climate is not to
be created by man himself, nor can the deteriora-
oon wrought by nature be artifcially removed or
postponed il any but the most limited degree
Only small proportion of the surface OF the globe
therefore, presents conditions favorable to the de-
velopment OF a dominant race; and when deScca-
zion has driven civilization from moist strong
noid the latter can return as long as nature
ID constant History, as influenced by geology and
climatic changes and in the light OF the present
theory, has consisted and Will consist of the re-
cords OF series OF moisture boasting peopleswho
nave temporarily raised loud voices in the worlds
Affairs. and then. following the popular inJunc-
don, have dried up forever. AS the author holds
that the possible space within which dominant
races may rise and high civIliz alton may flour
tsh is already much limited, and as the drying I'D
process Is said TO be general, inevitable and
lrremediable, the desccating world is destined to
BEE Its civilized areas decreasing from year to year.
its Inhabitants gradually lapsing into barbarIsm
and imbecility, and finally perishing, physically
rs well as intellectually for lack OF rain No time
could be better than the present for breaking this
painful intelligence to the readers of THE STAR.
However soon the Great Basin or the shores OF the
mediterranean, may be desiccated into barbarism,
80 long as we can boast floods and continuous
rain-falls like those under which the unscientinc
now groan, our moisture and civilization are In no
danger.
With the verdict rendered In Philadelphia this
morning three star route thieves have been con-
vieted and one, tool Of the Others ACQUITTED
1t does not appear that there was any BIZ Dickson
70 read bribery documents " in the Jury room In
violation OF law and the charge OF the court, to
influence the jury.
Arab Pasha and the more prominent OF his
co-workers, being defeated, at once ceased to be
leaders OF the national party, even in the columns
or American newspapers, and. being convicted
by failure, were thenceforth styled rebels The
more serious consequences OF this change In
name and condition are now to follow. A court.
martial Is to be summoned by the Khediye to
greatest patience and fairness to the pleas Of the
Egyptian rebels, and then TO convict them II
now seems that Arab Pasha has not been lead
Ing all the forces that feeble Egypt could muster
against armed foreigners, who seemed to the
Egyptians 10 be meddleS0me, graspIng, arrogant
sndels, and that he IS not now an English pris- |
oner OF war, but that he and the rest OF Egypt
have been engaged in rebellion against a certain |
Individual called the khedve who has now sub |
0ued an entire nation OF refractory subjects and
Is about TO deal out amnesty TO some and courts
martial 10 others OF the conquered rebels In his
defenSe before the cOurt-martial Arab will |
aouhtless undertake TO defend his course as |
patriotic and in accordance with his religious |
outy, ana TO throw the responsibility OF blood |
sneo upon the foreigners, whom he will repre- |
sent III he dares, as officious Intermediates |
prompted oy avarice and ambition, who have
"aeed un1uStlnable war against feeble but |
practically united people upon the firnsy pretext
that II has rebeled against its .ruTer m,Ittarv
court organized by the Khedive Will hear these
representations with appropriate increduitty
lnceed, trial OF Arab is hardly necessary He
mas already been convicted, by the result of the
BRUSH assault at Tel-el-Kebr, OF rebellion.
hur1er, burglary. arson, petit larceny and all
the other oQenses with which he NAV bv anv
possibility be charged.
The New York milk dealers, selling their wares
under rigid enforcement OF inspection laws, dis