The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-07-19

In the North 1mcrican Resie,r for August.
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher writes of
Progress in Religious Thought pointing
out the many influences, social, educational
and scientific, which are by degrees trans
forming the whole structure of dogmatic be-
lief and teaching. T. V. Powderly, the OF
fetal head of the knights Of Labor, the
strongest union Of workingmen in the
United States, contributes q temperate arti-
Gle on The Organization of Labor" The
well-know British military correspondent,
Archibald Forbes, writes of The United
States Army dwelling more particularly on
those features of our army management
which appear TO him to be most worthy of
imitation by the military governments of
Europe. "Woman's Work and Woman's
Wages" by Charles W. Elliott, is a forcible
statement of one of the most urgent prob
lens of our time. The author sees no adj
vantages to be derived from the employ
ment of woman in mans work, whether of
brain or of hand; such employment, he in
sists, only reduces mans wages, and does
not really add to the total resources of the
whole class of workers. In highly inter-
csting .ssay on ''rhe Ethics of Gambling,
o. e. rockingham analyzes the passion for
play with rare ingenuity. The Remuner-
alton Of Public Servants" by Frank ID. y.
Carpenter, gives matter for serious consider
alton, both to the civil service reformers and
their opponents. Finally, there is paper
on "Artesian Wells upon the Great Plains"
by DIR. C. A. White, of the Smithsonian In.
stitution. The Review is sold by booksel-
lers generally.
Whether the popular mind, or not, is sa-
tiated by the years proceedings following
the assassination of President Garfield by
Guiteau: the enormous bills of the doctors,
at which congress seems to object; the trial
of Guiteau, his defence, his lawyers, his con-
yiction, execution, burial, and autopsy,
wherein there was, as in all phases of that
shocking affair, difference of opinion, it
would seem that now is the proper time to
conclude the whole business. But yet there
is another aspect TO the case, as announced.
Drs. Hartigan and Sewers, to whom DIR.
Lamb. while he consigned the BRAN of
Guiteau to their charge, and autopsied il
without their concurrence declare that they
have their report ready for publication. To
what end, for either the advancement of
science or the benefit of the public are these
unseemly disputes among the professors of
the so-called healing art. Despite their adj
vice and attendance the President died;
they were confessedly al fault as to his in-
Jury, and the sentiment of confidence which
hitherto reigned in people generally, in ref
erence to the infallibiity of the profession,
received shock that it will take at least a
generation to alleviate. The world moves
on. The death of men, either by crime,
due process of disease, or age, is inevitable.
The living have 10 brace themselves to the
emergencies OF the situation and meet the
stern and always inexorable duties of lie.
Let us hope, therefore, that all the sad his
tory of wrong on the one part and grasping
avarice upon the other. shall be relagated to
history and, at all events, that newspapers
will confine themselves TO the current topics
of the day, of which, if anything, they are
the mere exemplars. The world moves;
seasons come and go, and the evils OF the
past are, in the end, but the lessons of the
future.