Evening journal., 1893-11-02

lteh NlNiull th1tfttttU lHhL lhtl are now
with its horrors but they knew quite all
they needed to know as an inducement to
labor for the reclamation Of the fallen.
II Is impossible TO see what good their
expedition has done or could be expected
to do. II has given them a novel sensa--
tion, but the sensation was heart sicken-
ing and wholly without value These
w. J. T. u. ladies' have clearly made
mistake IL was not 80 bad as that made
by dozen Others Of their organization
at Osceola, Neb, who recently undertook
to reform certain members Of their sex
by Turing them into an ambush and fog
ging them severely That piece Of work
was crime, and crime is worse than vice,
even when IL is committed for the
repression OF vice. lt Is Ike cutting of
the hand to cure bruised finger. With
the desire Of good women TO win their
fallen sisters back TO pure lives every
sound hearted man and woman must
sympathize. But one of the most neces-
sary conditions Of efficiency IN reforma-
tory work is the avoidance Of such mis-
taken methods as those here referred TO.
The Nebraska reformers are in Jail
awaiting trial for crime. The Indiana
women are In bed with nerves unstrung
hearts sorely wounded and minds last
ingly hurt, and all to no purpose what.
ever. The women themselves are the
worse for the indulgence of their morbid
curiosity and nobody else is the better
for it. 1t was a needless and worthless
sacrifice. Nothing can be worse than
female Parkhursting.
Shall the Senate Rule the RepubIic9
II. Won Hoist in the November Forum.
Whatever Senators may think about
the dignity and the worth Of the Senate.
the people of the United States cannot
afford to let Il drift into becoming
worthless, or worse than worthless,
body. To wipe II out Of existence-as,
perhaps. the House OF Lords will be
wiped out in not too distant q future
will not do. Not only the historical evo-
luton of the United States renders It's
perpetual conservation indispensable. To
abolish the Senate would be virtually the
abandonment of the Federal principle;
and a republic of the size of the United
States, that Is not constructed upon the
Federal principle, must inevitably drift
into anarchy or absolutism, or a combina
tion of both. The relations between
the executive and legislative would
be lacking the necessary regulating bal
ance- wheel, If the President were con-
fronted by One.Hous Congress. I'm
less they are elected at the same time,
their pulling together would more and
more become question of chance, and
by pulling together they might easily
render themselves even greater curse
to the people than If, by incessant wrang
ling, they should frequently bring the
government to a deadlock or keep the
political temperature constantly at fever
heat When somebody rallied at the
adoption Of the bi-cameral system by the
Constitution, one of its authors-I forget
who It was-interposed by saying, "What
do you do, when your tea Is too hot2' 81
pour II into the saucer to cool, was the
reply. "Well, reioined the sage, "the
Senate is the saucer. If any modern
constitutional state cannot dispense with
such a saucer, then 1t is this republic.
| But il we must have IL, it is also as i'm
perative upon us to keep 1t fit to serve
It's purposes.
Guy do Maupassant and the Moral
Romance.
Paul Bourget In the November Forum.
In examing from this point Of view the
entire works Of certain writer's, one can
trace easily the progress Of the evolu-
ton In no case has it been more
marked than ia that Of the favorite
| pupil of Gustave Flnubert, the laborious
and unhappy Guy de Maupassant The
reader who compares the first books Of
this author, "Une Vie for EXAMPLE.
and "Bel Ami, with the later ones.
Pierre ct Jean, Fort CONNIE la Mort "
and "Notre Ceur," will place his
finger on the transformation or which !
speak. To the dissection Of sensation
succeeds, little by little. the dissection OF
sentiment. Instead of painting simply
instincts, the artist seeks to define traits.
In word, he perceives dimly this domain
of the life of the soul, Of which he seem
ed ignorant, of which he was ignorant,
at the period of his first attempts. He
has not ceased to be positivist, and his
observation still limits itself to stating
facts In the manner of a scientist who
Classics phenomena without inter.
preting them. Bat IL Is already clear
that he suffers from this atttude-and
of this those who knew that great
WI ter personally were well aware. Dur
ing the year which preceded the last
crisis of his malady, he was almost
wholly absorbed with religious questions
No doubt whatever that IL he had lived
his fine talent would have been definitely
modified in this sense, of spiritual ant
perhaps Christian life, a sense altogether
unsnticipated by the admirers Of his
FIRST writings.
The Happersett killing.