The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
BROKEN UP INTO FACTIONS.
The House Of Commons Network o.
Small Parties with Diverse Objects.

The House OF Commons q Network of
Small Parties with Diverse Objects.
Parliament is no longer in the main
the image of the whole nation, says the
London Spectator; it is a network of
petty miniatures of all sorts of fac
tions of the nation, the Irish party, the
Welsh party, the disestablishment
party. the temperance party, the labor
party, the socialist party, and the anti
vaccination party. The larger inter
ests, moreover. are all growing weaker,
and the smaller interests stronger.
Even the conservatives can hardly hold
together on the traditional lines. They
go home to dinner while the smaller
groups, full of the petty enthUsiasms
which are engenderea of sectional di
visions, ignore the wants of the body
for the pleasure of taking their little
revenges and enjoying the sense Of
their temporary power. And the
reason of this Is, we suppose. that not
only the house of commons, but the IA
ton itself, is more set upon small
things than it used To be and Less anx-
ious about its larger and more charac-
mons but the nation, is in Fragments
"a plague of microscopes" as Emerson
said of Goethe, has fallen upon it. The
habit of devoting ones self to small
causes has superseded that large sleepy
pride in national integrity which used
to predominant among US Instead Of
being Englishmen any longer, we are
almost all of us becoming devotees Of
some small. though it may be excellent,
purpose, the relative insigniheancs
of which we quite forget. We
have become absorbed IN bimetal-
hsm or recommendation, or IN az
dent opposition to the opium traffic, or
in the Gothenburg system, CT n pro-
pOrtionaI representation, OF woInen's
suffrage, or in recreation clRsses for
the overworked, or in children's break
fasts. All these may DO most useful
objects, but we have lost our hold Of
the true proportion of things. We are
forgetting that the whole Significance
Of life depends upon the dDe proper
ton of our interests, and that man
who is more eagerly devoted 20 the pur-
poses Of his group than he is to the
purposes Of country is really even more
lost to his country than II he ignored
politics altogether, for IN the former
case he adds 70 the disintegratiDg
forces OF the hour, while in the latter
case he Is merely neutral
The effect Of music on health and
longevity has lately been discussed in
the Scientific American One writer
repeats the well-knOyvn argument that
persistent work IA one particular direc-
ton Is injurious. aad that the benef-
cent influence Of music lies partly IN It's
providing az entirely distinct and
unique brain stimulus Ee concludes
with the following paeagrsph: ''This
art has the great advantage 20 he c-II-
neatly progressive and causes tie -
tener as well Is the performer - sa.-
isty the yssrliag q human nature for
a higher and hlgier lcveI Cf eEloy-
oent. which, thanks - TIE successive
labo-s Of men Of inventive gSnir&, hes
been provided for BY what may bs
called n usicsl literature. which - ss
rich IN eminent nszoes - Is tase Etcra-
tuTe q any Lation, either IN prose or
IL poetry. while il has sAe CAUTIOUS
c<-van-a7e bot % D. eonSnsd % sEy
special language. but - written in Tie
universal l2asuage q er3gtiozz, whiSs
:he refined individuals q al nations
understand al a2prec.a.s-'
The "Bsyeux Tzp>st~T.T called
Bayern from the place where = - pre-
ferved. l. pictorial histo-y On canvas.
more minute "A some particulars tEaa
written histo--. Il tse invasion AID
conquest Of England b. the H0rE4zns
In 1856 Tradition SAYS Il ia TIE Eorx
OF Malta. vie % william tn Con-
c1crs-. and tlc la-.es q her co1.t. aaA
that 70 was p-esen;ec b fhe queen -
the cathedral q Barsrr as token q