The age-herald., 1901-05-05

the Strong administration. Some of It's leaders have used the power of their of fices to benefit themselves, but they have done so to the Injury of the organization. They may have. with the talons of vul- lures. preyed upon the carTion of the gam bling hels and the disorderly resorts. but Tammany claims 1t has not been done at the expense of the taxpayer.
 | have been a pretty careful observer of men and affairs, and I have come to the conclusion that ninety-flve percent of the men who enter the arena of poli- tics have but one object in view. namely personal profit and four and three guar ters per cent. honors rather than pecu- aiarv advantages. and one quarter of one per cent. civic pride
 also believe that politics has become one of the industries of great cities, which so disgusts men of patriotic senst- bilities that they retire early. Roosevelt has had his imitators, but they do not attain much success. and soon fall back into private life. Civic virtue is at low ebb. and the politician Is an adventurer who courts the wind that It may blow his craft into haven of plenty.
 s Human nature presents curious phases. The case of a clergymans wife Is worth noticing On Sunday she became i'll. and on Wednesday decided to leave New York and go to Southington. Conn. She sent for her parents and they escorted her home She entered a croweded railroad car at the station after travelling many blocks: indeed. five miles In a street car, Her complaint was smallpox. She Is a good woman and very properly believed in prayer. Not having faith in doctors or medical science, she refused all medical attendance and resorted to prayer. At Southington the house was quarantined. T Al.4. woman justify her disregard for the
 sengers 7S9 s90S ETAO ETAOIRLUO1 health and happiness of her fellow trav- slers, knowing that she was subiecting them to contag!on? Her faith in the cu- rative power of prayer Is one thing. her lack of appreciation of the health of oth- CTS is another. Is there not inconsis- tency revealed here2 Is there not some thing radically wrong in the spiritual makeup? Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" sug- gests consideration; to carry the seeds of disease knowingly form place to place without any regard for those with whom you come in contact Is an evidence of sefshness not only of the blackest kind but argues spiritual depravity. It would be more consistent with the Masters teachings to pray that those with whom she camen contact should not be con- tsminated, than that she, herself. might
 
 recover.
 Another praying picture may be re- corded as companion picture. although 1t suggests a sort of up-to-date Peeping Tom. At Scranton, Pa., a farmer had sick COW. Anthony, Harry, not Mark by name prescribed for the COW midnight prayers. which he would offer up while the farmers wife. In the altogether, danced slowly three times round the COW. The farmers wife danced and Anthony prayed and burned herbs. After the per formance Anthony as an exhibition of nerve. possibly. demanded fifty cents for his services The farmer demurred pend- ing the recovery of the sick and astonish- farmer refused to pay. The healer then ped the healer into jail for practcing black art.
 The medical world will be somewhat surprised and disgusted at the turn taken In the affairs of the Pathological Insti- tute of the New York State Hospital. Science and politics have met in con- fict. and the former has been seriously injured. About five years ago pr. Carlos Macdonald. the eminent alienist, succeed ed in inducing the State Legislature to establish a pathological institute for sci entific research and investigation into the causes of insanity, It's conditions, phases. etc, and to prescribe as the result the proper course of treatment It was then. and is now, pretty wei, conceded that in- sanity is pathological and psyschologi-