Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-09-07

fused TO attempt was lltlle mort Vi Sulciuc
for the mad american. But Jones was
not cast in an ordinary mould. When lie
got to Erest, he made up his mind once
and for all, by one good fire OF British
shipping to put an end to all the ship
and town burnngs in America -tieofge
Gibbs, in the "New Lippincott" for
September.
\ Teachers Value.
"What the teacher is counts for much
more than what she knows. a love Of
children, unlimited tact and infinite pa
thence are the necessary natural endow-
ments," writes Caroline b. LIE Row in
the September Ladies' Home Journal.
sol course, the ability to teach implies
the possession Of an education, though
no amount OF education alone can make
IA good teacher. While all teachers must
know more than they teach, the power to
impart to others is the il Oitant matter.
and the one in which tact or ingenuity is
absolutely the prime requisite. More
over, she should be personally social,
intellectual and moral force in the com
muni:y. The physician and the clergy
man have immense opportunities for this
uplifting OF humanity, yet their advan-
tages are small wien compared with
.ulv unlimited. Encouragement and
satisfaction in this field Of labor never can
he depende It upon results, for it is sell
dom that the teacher is permitted to
know what the years OF maturity owe to
faithful care Of the youthful days. The
teachers time is always one Of secd-sow-
ing, never Of harvest"
Tne French Way Of Conducting "A Trial.
The daily inc dents in the court room
at Rennes last month were interesting
enough, to be sure but they were, com
raratively speaking, of transient impor-
lance. France is civilized nation with
noble codes OF law and highly trained
! body Of lawyers. French trials are, how
ever, conducted in such way that many
aspects OF them seem worse than iidicu-
OF The United States and England. Thus
the witnesses at the Dreyfus trial were
i'm the main given freedom to tell what
they knew in their own way, and were
allowed to assert their opinions, beliefs,
prejudices, dislikes, and emotional points
Of view as if these were really matters OF
evidence. Under our rulings such di
gressions would be severely repressed as
irrelevant. And yet it does not follow
that our method is so superior to the
French in all respects. Our rules OF evil
dencc are so technical that it often hap
pens that the ends Of substantial Justice
are wholly defeated because a really sig
nliicant thing, which a witness would be
glad to state and which would clear up
the case, is ruled out. In an American
trial the lawyers seem to be playing Il
certain kind OF game, it'll the Judge as
umpire, under elaborate ans. extremely
technical rules which nobody can hope
altogether to understand except the pro
fessionals. The witness must under no
circumstances tell in his own way what
he really knows, thinks, or feels about
the case, but must answer the LAWYERS
questions IN ways which do not violate
the technical rules OF evidence. In France,
however, it is the judge, not the opposing
counsel, who conducts the trial, and
what the judge wants cf each witness is
the revelation OF Whate yer may be in that
witness mind respecting the subject I'm
DEF investigation. 1t then becomes the
subsequent business of the magistrate to
get at such grains Of legal evidence as
may be found in the chaf of the witness
rambling discourse. 1t would be rather
bold proposition to assert that under our
American method substantial justice is
rendered in a larger percentage of cases
than under the French method. In the
Dreyfus case liberty allowed to witnesses
on the one side was allowed in about the
same measure to those on the other
From The Progress of the World" in
the American Monthly Review of Re.
views for September.