The age-herald., 1902-04-27
THE r1URr1UR OF THE WORLD.

ties for observing intelligently society and political conditions in the Old World the adorable woman saidtshe wished the truth of me.
 Tn the particulars which you specify, would say that our House of Repre- sentatives averages equal. possibly above the House of Commons. which is far above any other popular parliamentary body in Europe" I ventured to say. "Smock-frocks and fustian. ignorance, vulgarity, stupidity and even blasphemy are common enough in the House of Commons"
 q knew it-I knew it." she cried in triumph. Come! You must telrsth to my husband-he likes you-believes you are as truthful in politics as a. good Dem ocrat can be-he is good Republican, never can get him, to travel abroadi But stop a moment-arent the wives of mem bers of parliament in England at liberty to call on ambassadresses and even the queen, if they like?'
 Most assuredlyi'
 '"There-that settles it., she said. "They will hear about this in the districts-in the districts in the districts"-with ris- ing emphasis. ~
 In this brief interview if 1t may be sa called, there are whole volumes of bit terness now felt and expressed toward Mrs. Hays decree, which is without war rant and wholly unprecedented. Even those of us who laugh at the vanities of society-its rapidly succeeding follies. T level of absurdity in ping-pong, now vir- tually abandoned, together with the dis carded fad of the automobile-those of us who laugh at 1t as the high school of dunces and anuse ourselves with it as we may, must feel more than a little sym pathy for the hundreds of good and gifted women against whom Mrs. Hay has hurl- ed the curse of officialdom. '"The line is said to be drawn absolutely at the House of Representatives" This, too. when there are families represented in the Sen ate and higher up who never had grand fathers and whom no well-bred man would or could wish to dine with himl
 Talk about Spartan ''virtues!'
 But aren't the good women who are under the Hay blacklist mad? Anger doesn't describe their condition of mind.
 
 Turning from the world worldly to the pulpit worldly, the published contents of the last will and testament of the late T. DewittTalmage have produced a painful sensation in the public mind here and throughout the East. This preacher who had been for more than forty years preaching as minister of the Gospel benevolence, charity and humanity, died in possession of three hundred thousand dollars, not one red cent of which he left to any char ity, or any benevolent or humane pur- pose whatever! The more godly, the moro sublime. teachings of Christianity he ut terly ignored, leaving poor little thous- and dollars to keep the weeds cut from his own grave, and all the balance of his wealth to his own immediate family.
 A money-making preacher hoarding three hundred thousand dollars. and dy- ing without so much as mentioning char ity or the great love and goodness of God, is a fact in the record of parsons that will probably remain unique in the history of the churches. Clearly MT. Tal- mage loved money for the sake of money, and in that he differed from all other preachers whom one. lever knew or heard of for be it said to the great glory of the preachers, they love or hoard money for their own uses!
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.