Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-03-20

pavement for the convenience of their guests
will do well to note the case of Watson YER
! sas Ellis, decided in England by Lord Cole
| ridge and Nj. Justice A. L. Smith, ,on appeal
FROM the Bloomsbury County court Colo
mel Ellis gave a dinner party in Portland
place, and laid strip of carpet from his
house to the roadway for the benefit of those
bidden to the feast. Mrs. Watson fell over
the carpet and hart herself, and the jury
awarded her ESQ damages The colonel ap-
pealed, but ths decision was upheld, the
Lord Chief Justice remarking that the public
had an uncomfortable right to use the high
way, and that those who laid down carpets
thereon mnst take the consequences As
Lord Coleridge observed, this adds g new ter
ror to dinner parties, or rather to the respon-
sibility of those who give them.
Professor Goodwin Smith admonishes
English statesmen that the time is coming,
and now is, when they must be looking
around for an adequate and stable basis of
government in England-government with
a reasonable amount of authority, command
ing the general confidence of the people, and
capable of exercising forecast and governing
on plan, especially with regard to foreign
affairs, is necessity of civilized life" The
only basis at present is party, and that, he
says, is crumbling to pieces. The liberals,
split into factions, are held together in a
semblance of political union only by Mr..
Gladstone. Mr.. Gladstone is an old man,
and where is his political heirs The tory
party is rent by diverging tendencies-one
toward democracy, the other away from it.
The Irish members; who formerly acted and
voted with the liberal party, have broken
away, past all hope of reclaiming, and in the
next Parliament they will be on hand with
increased numbers and more troublesome
than ever. The process of political disin-
tegration is not confined to England. France
is from one day to another on the brink of
administrative anarchy. In Belgium the
liberal party has split in two The begin
nings of cleavage visible to Goodwin Smith
in the United States. In Germany alone the
astute professor sees strong government.
Southern newspapers continue to speak
kindly of General Grant. Says the New Or
leans Times Democrat: The mild terms which
General Grant extended to to the decimated
army of Lee; the care he took to make the
occasion of the surrender as little painful to
the defeated as might be; and, finally, his
grand and determined attitude when pros
pect appeared that the prosecuting sentiment
of portion of his people might result in the
denial of those kindly terms,-all these
things will be treasured to his honor and
glory as long as the memory of the dark
hours that witnessed the closing scenes of
our struggle shall last And if We have known
times since when Ulysses S. Grant has ap-
peared, in public or private capacity, to be
ill-advised, or the victim of self-seeking and
designing associates who were capable Of
clouding his fame to achieve their own ques-
tionable ends; if we have entertained strong
political antagonisms toward the political
party of which General Grant was once the
representative, and its elected chief magis-
trate of the country, and identified him with
methods and measures that We abhorred it is
not the time to recall such thoughts, but
rather to remember only that, if fierce ad-
versary in fight, he was manly and a kindly
victor. Twice hundred thousand southern
veterans will be grieved on the day the news
shall come that the twice hero of Appomat-
tox has handed his trusty saber to the uni
versal victor.
Mrs Frances E. Willard has some "views''
education, and they are sensible
ones, too. She solemnly AYERS that if she |
had the power the system of education should |
be so changed that the course of study of |
every pupil, from the kindergarten toddler |
TO the high school graduate, should be |
grounded where God ground our very being
on natural law. They should know the
laws of health first of all, since their physi-
cal being is the firm base of the whole pyra-
mid of character. The blessed word ''health"
once literally meant holiness" and that
means simply "wholeness.' The alcohol and
nicotine poisons leagred with bad food, un-
natural dress, bad ventilation and ill-pro-
portioned exercise, are the demons that hold
the sacred citadel. Yet we call ourselves a
science-l loving people, and think we care to
know Gods reason why! His laws ''written
in our members" we pass lightly over, that
we may learn mans formula for parsing
verb or constituting foreign quotation.
We pass over these weightier mat
ters of the changeless laws
of hygiene that we may tithe the mint and
cummin of grammatical punetilio and math-
ematical accomplishment. Even when we
study the natural sciences soar amid the
stars and hammer the rocks or dissect
flowers, but place the study of our own
more splendid organism at the foot of the
list instead of building the whole edifce of
education upon this solid rock, against which
the gates of hell shall not prevail. Our OBJ
liquity of vision at this point will be the
amazement of wiser and happier gneera-
tions.