The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-09-06
PARIS LETTER.



''' PARIS, FRANCE, August 90, 1900.
T. scarcely recognized that the
,ost potent and far reaching influ-
n,Os D.ss Of the Paris Exposition appear
.", . ,he Hall Of Congress, Palais DIES
Cousres =, r as it is called. This is the
,.,st List striking part of the Exposition.
There are here no great captains OF
;aJns,ry with changing machinery, no
%,pIays of mining industries with their
ss,onishing statistics. no ad captand-
80, Inventions or results of thrilling
discoveries in physical science. Only
.nnmber of societies consisting of
nl,n men and some plain women dis
rm,ipp peace, education, charity, re-
Gron psychology, hygiene, ard other
sobiects that relate to the ameliora-
non and progress of the human race.
Can it be doubted that these organiza-
lions composed as they are of servants
dall countries, though they are scarce
" known outside OF the esoteric circ-
les of their specialties-statlstician
bookworms. theorists, dreamers some
will say. working in solitude but fur
nshing material for legislative con-
sderation and action, are the real
bepeiactors and saviors of mankind?
They have no monuments and want
none. They desire no isles of the
hest. no quiet seats of the just, to
rest in a golden grove, or to bask in
summer sky give them the wages of
going on and not to die"
NJ. de Block, Russian Councillor of
State, held yesterday in the Sale des
Fetes of the Petit-Luxembourg a
meeting to consider the problems of
war. and the policy OF colonial ex-
panslon.
In that meeting, which related es-
pecially to the objects of the Interna-
!iona Peace Congress, M. de Block
insisted on the necessity of special in
Quries concerning the conditions of
modern war, and the utility Of colon
ial expeditions. At his suggestion,
commission was appointed to study
economical and financial crises which
might be the causes of war between
the great powers, In the interest of
humanity at large, which suffers so
cruelty in the clash of ornaments, NJ
de Block urged that these inquiries
should be multiplied especially at the
present time, when the war of the
Tr4nsvaal justihes absolutely the
words of Mr. Broderlck OF the English
Parliament that a very small rumber
oftroops holding themselves on the
defensive, will be able TO resist for
long time an adversary much more
numerous, and lnhict on him terrible
losses He held that the experience
Of the Transvaal was OF a nature to
consolidate European peace in that it
demonstrated the immense difficulties
ofinvasion. The conference adjourn
ed with the impression prevailing
among those associated for the study
and propaganda for enlightening the
governments and the paople, with re-
terence to the dangers of expansion
and colonial extension--that there is
great peril IN an armed peace which
really means permanent war.
The President of the Medical Con
greSs, Prot. Raymond, who is the
present occupant of the chair once
held by the renowned Charcot, of the
Salapetriere, made an address at the
opening of this Congress, and briefly
reviewed the principal characteristics
OF the physiology, anatomy and path
oIogy of the nervous system of past
times, and paid due homage to the
superb work and discoveries OF Char
cot, Vulpian, Horn, Friedreich, Ley
den and number of other servants
through whom we are enabled today
to understand so many obscure mat
lerS relating to nervous pathology.
Our role, said he, is to contend against
the progress of degeneracy and NOR
bid heredity, against the dissemination
OF infections, and against the ravages
otsyphllls and alcoholism. In short,
10 Impress our time with the truth
that the principal sourse of happiness
resides in perfect harmony between
the human organism and its environ
ment.
Among the most interesting papers
submitted to the Medical Congress
were those by DR.. Labadie, of New
YORK, DR.. Berthau of Paris and DR..
Ducamp, of Bordeaux, on the new
Wieatment of consumption which was
discovered by a Frenchman, DR..
Irolte. The method is, in effect, to
transmit antiseptics, especially form
oldehyde TO the effected parts by
means OF static electricity and not in
he usual way through the stomach.
1t was urged that the direct transmits
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