Connecticut western news., 1898-12-01

| with my books, my sympathy, my expe- rience, my society, my love, my money, l will do. You shall forget your appe- tite and master it.'' A look of hope glowed on the poor mans face, and he replied, "Sir, will you do all that?" "Surely will" "Then I will over- come." He signed the pledge and kept it. That plan of President Davies which saved one man. tried on large scale, will save million men.
 The Conquest of Self. Alexander the Great made an imperial banquet at Babylon, and, though he had been drinking the health of guests all one night and all next day, the sec. ond night he had 20 guests, and he drank the health of each separately. Then calling for the cup of Hercules the giant, monster cup, be filled and drained it twice to show his endurance; but, as he finished the last draft from the cup of Hercules the giant, he drop ped ill fit, from which he never recov- cred. Alexander, who had conquered Sardls and conquered HalicarDassus and conquered Asia and conquered the world, could not conquer himself, and there is threatening peril that this good land of ours, having conquered all with whom 1t has ever gone into battle, may yet be overthrown by the cup of the giant evil of thetland-that Hercules of lnfamy, strong drink. Do not let the staggering and bloated and embruted host of drunknds go into the next cen
 
 almshouses and delirium tremens and dishonored graves.
 Another thing we must get fixed is a national law concerning divorce. Will liam E. Gladstone asked me while walking in his grounds at Hawarden, Do you not think that your country is in peril from wrong notions of divorce?" And before I had time to answer he said, ''The,only good law of divorce that you have in America is the law in South Carolina. The. fact is that in- stead of state laws on this subject we need national law passed by the senate of the United States and the house of representatives and plainly interpreted by the supreme court of the country.
 There are thousands of married peo- pie who are unhappy, and they ought never to,have been welded. They were deceived or they were reckless or they were fools or they were caught by dim pie or hung by a curl or married in joke or expected a fortune and it did not come or good habits turned to brutality, and hence the domestic wreck. But make divorce less easy and you make the human race more'cautious about en- tering upon lifetime alliance. Let peo- pie understand that marriage is not an accommodation train that will let you leave almost anywhere, but through train, and then they will not step on the train unless they expect to go clear through to the last depot. One brave man this coming winter, rising amid the white marble of wonder Capitol hill, could offer resolution upon the subject of divorce that would keep out of the next century much of the free lovism and dissoluteness which have cursed this century.
 The Jury of Nations.
 Another thing that we need to get fixed up before the clock shall strike 12 on that night of centennial transition is the expulsion of war by the power of arbitration. Within the next three years we ought to have, and hope will have, what might be called "a jury of nations" which shall render verdict on all controverted international ques- tions. All civilized nations are ready for it-Great Britain with a standing army of 2LO, men, France with a cfo or1Ht NF many with standing army of 500, 900 men, Russia with a standing army of 900, 900 tmen. Europe with standing armies of about 8, 300, 900 men, the United States proposing a standing army of 100, 900 men Whatla glorious idea, that of disarmament What an emancipation of nations and centuries The czar of Russia last summer proposed it in world resounding manifesto. Dis armament! What an inspiring and heaven descended thought In some quarters the czar's manifesto was treat ed with derisicn, and we were told that he was,not in earnest when he made it. know personallythat he did mean it. Six years'ago he expressed to me the same theory in his palace at Peterhof, he then. being on the way to the throne, not yet having reached it. His father, Alexander III, tisen on the throne, ex- pressed to me in his palace the same sentiments of peace, and his wife, the then empress, with tears in her eyes, said, ill reply to my remark, 'sYour majesty, there will never be another great war between Christian nations, '" "Ah, I hope there never will bel If there should ever be another great war, am sure it will not start from this palace" ..
 What boon to the world if Russia and Germany and England and the United States could safely disband all their standing armies and dismantle their fortresses and spike their guns! What uncounted millions of dollars wouldibe saved, and, more than that, what complete cessation of human slaughterl What an improvement of the morals of nationsl What an adop- tion of that Ihigher andlbetter manifesto which was set to music and let down from the midnight heavens of Bethle- hem ages agol The world has got to come to this. Why not makS it the peroration of the nineteenth century? Are we,gmng to make present to the twentieth century of rocking hospitals and dying armies and hemispherio graveyards? Do you want the hoofs of other cavalry thorses on the breasts of fallen men? Do you want other harvest fields gullied with wheels of gun car riages? Do you.want the sky glaring with confagration of other homesteads! An, this nineteenth century has seen enough of warl Make the determination that no other century shall be blasted with it.
 During the first half of this century we expended $8, 900, 900 to educate the Indians and ,$4o0, 900, 900 to kill them. According toa reliable statistician, dur inu thiS ca,atI1ru haua had tha Glri-