Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-04

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 The Pall Mall Gazette boldly doubts the popular theory that there is a close relation ship between drunkenness and crimes of vio- lence. It says: At Derby and Northampton places widely different as regards the amount of drunkenness among the inhabi- tants-the proportion of effenses against the person compared with these against property is the same. The counties of Gloucester and Hereford are about equal as regards the standard of intemperance. At Gloucester the proportion of offenses against the person Is one-seventh, and in Hereford one-fftesnth, as compared with those against property. There is twice as much drunkenness among the inhabitants of Lancashire as among those of Cheshire, yet the proportion o$ ofenses against the person, ss compared with those Cheshire as in Lancashire. In Berkshire drunkenness is greater than in Buckingham shire, but offsnses against the person in Berkshire are as one in thirteen, and in Buckinghamshire one in seven, as compared with offsnses against property. In Cornwall, one of the sobsrest counties in England, the proportion of offenses against the person bears the same relation to those of property as in Durham, which is the worst county for drunkenness.
 Herr Stoecker, the Berlin preacher who has troubled the Jews of London, has, it appears. been misrepresented. As he explained his views at a meeting of invited guests at St. Stephens club, Westminster, he does not denounce the Jews as 8 race, but as opponents of Christianity, med dlers in the nation and despoilers of the peas ants by cruel usury. The old respectable Jewish people long settled in Berlin end oth- CT large towns he excepts from responsibility for the evils which he charges, declaring that these are due to more recent invasions from Jews from Russia, Silesia, Bosnia and remote parts of the empire. These exercise tremendous influence in the affairs of Ger many, quite out of proportion to their num- bers, and control the liberal press which he says has assailed Christianity for twenty years with great effect on the people,. Herr Stoecker's radical complaint is that the Jew ish influence is alien. If the Jews wished to be true Germans, would work as Germans work, subordinate their selfish interests to the good of the country, not try to overwhelm national and religious feelings, he would not oppose them. He stated that he was not in committee in Berlin, of which he has been reported the head, and in fact did not agree with that committed.
 The poet Whittier said in 8 recent inter view thAt Hawthorne, Emerson, LoDgfelloV and himself had always been friends. There were no jsalousies, and each took pride in the work and successes of the others. They would exchange notes upon their produc- tions, and if one saw kindly notice of the other it was always cut cut and sent te him. Hawthorne was by the others regarded as the greatest master of tho English fang uags Whittier describes himself as unlike any of the rest, for he never had any method. When he felt like it he wrote, and neither had the health nor the patience to revise his work afterward. It usually went as it was oriei- nally completed. Emerson wrote with great care, and would not only revise his manu- script carefully, but frequently reword the whole on the proof sheets. Longfellow, too, was a very careful writer. Hs would lay his work by and then revise it. He would often consult with his friends about his productions before they were given to the world. ''I was not so fortunate, /" says the Quaker poet. 'I have lived mostly secluded life with little patience to draw upon, and only few friends for associates. What writing I have done has been for the love of it. I have ever been timid of what have penned. It iS really & marvel to me that have gathered any liter ary reputation from my productions.