Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-18

The Rev. J. B. Pedelupes, of Ramsey, Illi- nols, has written rather notable pamphlet
 on the prohibition question. He denounces the prohibition movement with emphasis,
 and undertakes to prove that prohibition en- csurages drunkenness, and that the moderate use of liquors is not an offense in the sight of God. He claims to be able to convict the pxohibitionists of having been the cause of a fearful increase in the use of opium and nor phine. He quotes from the Scriptures to shOW that the business of manufacturing liquors is not wicked, and that the ruin of manufacturers by prohibitory laws is injus- tice and robbery. These manufacturers came into the State, and with it's full consent they built breReries and distilIeries. Through no fault of their own they are ruined, hs says, or greatly damaged te satisfy the whim of fanatics.
 A correspondent of a London paper de- scribing the earthquake at Ischia says the sufferers were generally SO stupefied that they had lost ialmost all sensation. They underwent severe amputations and opera. tions without uttering sound The unin- jured persons who began to drop into the public squares at a. n. on Sunday ap- peared perfectly crazed- One man, a lemon ade seller, who had with his own hands dug ont the corpses of his three children, neither wept nor gave any other sign of emotion, but offered the lemonade to passers. .by re- fusing payment. A woman who underwent an operation with perfect calmness merely :L kkT A.I .ss dren and they are all dead, even the baby of eighteen months, who was so pretty" Anoth CT, meeting an acquaintance, said in 8 quite ordinary tone, My fathes mother and three of my children are dead'' Another led 8 lit tle girl by the hand, saying, "Your mother and brothers are dead, and now we two are alone" No one screamed, no one cried. A Neapolitan gentleman who had lest his two daughters sat on the sea beach immovabIe as 8 statue. The Duke and Duchess of Gala britto sat calmly waiting till the corpse of their little son should be sxcavated and the Duchess, when asked if she had any other children, replied with simple "No."
 M. Emile Olivier, in his pamphlet on the Church and State, now in press, takes strong ground against compulsory education. GAS at present instituted, |" he says, ''it is piece of tyranny, an attack upon the chief of those individual rights that should be beyond the reach of the majority-the right of father to be the guide, master and lawgiyer of his child. It is only excusable when confined to the purely mechanical part of education, such as reading, writing, arithmetic and gymnas tics; but it is detestable when it becomes, in the masters hands, school of false views. historic lies and mutual hatred or means of electoral propaganda and of making prose lytes to sect" He also objects to the ex- cessive number of subjects that young chil- dren nowadays are forced to study. ''It is not wise," he says, ''to exact too much from 8 child. The true method is to teach him only how to grasp an idea and how to form his own judgment, thus maturing also his will and conscience At present children only get into their heads rules and tables, so that if some were not idle there would be soon not thinker in all France. Then, also, the premature learning of foreign languages is replacing the national idiom by cosmopoli- tan jargon. For man our system would be homicide; what must it be for child of six or thirteen 20