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Peop,e WHO come to high words are apt
to indulge in low ones.
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psychological institute where scientists,
unhampered by other labors, may pursue
investigation in the lines indicated as well
as in the field known as psychopathological
this including such cases as the loss Of
the sense of personal identity, secondary
personality in all its manifold forms, GER
tain types OF hallucination purely function
al. amnesia or abnormal loss of memory,
psychic epilepsy. alcoholism or dipsoman!a,
certain cases of apparent melancholia and
paranoia, incipient insanity. etc. Whether
his appeal for the endowment of such an
institution will meet a financial response or
not, it seems reasonable enough. 1t is not
everyone who is ready to concede that any
definite knowledge of the mysteries of life
and spirit will ever come-"Canst thou by
searching find out God?'-but certainly the
study, if it is to be pursued at all. should
be done with dignity and by those best
qualified. And why should not the psychical
be put on an equality with the physical in
scientific research? The soul, If there be
soul. is surely as important as the body, and
its phenomena quite as Interesting.
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from a reputable institution is generally
accepted as such evidence, but how was
German court TO decide which institu-
tons were honest and which were diploma
factories? One sure method presented it
self of eliminating the fake" colleges,
and that was TO recognize only degrees
from schools under State supervision. In
Germany the state puts the hallmark Of
genuineness on its products. The German
theory is. in case Of doubt. choose the State
institution. The court therefore had mere
" TO find what colleges of dentistry in
America were under State administration.
Strangely enough, there is only one, and
that is the University of Michigan. Hence
the sweeping decision.
of course the German authorities do not
consider the Michigan school to be the only
reputable college of dentistry in this coun-
try. They recognize the fact that there
are in this country many fine private insti-
tutions and many first-class colleges not adj
ministered by the State The court SIM
ply assumed that all these other schools
were independent and therefore irresponsi-
BILE; that their character was not a constant
quantity, and that they had no means of
guaranteeing professional fitness. Further
more, the German government has no time
to send commission over here to make in
quiry and fix a standard.
The decision works a terrible injustice,
but il cannot be denied that it is logical
from the German point of view. The dental
profession of the United States cannot feel
otherwise than indignant that the degrees
of all colleges save one have been charac-
terized by the German Supreme Court as
simply business merchandise" But there
is only one remedy, and that is to clean out
the Objectionable institutions. Diploma
mills Of all sorts have long been the re-
proach of this country in foreign lands. 1t
will be long time before American profess
sional men abroad can recover from this
stigma; but with them lies the remedy.
The disgraceful gree-while-you-wait''
colleges must go; they have been allowed
to flourish too long.
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PSYCHICAL RESEARCH.

A good many people have been interested
In more or less casual way for several
years in the proceedings of the Society for
which was first formed in England and was
later extended to include investigators in
the United States, undertook to study the
phenomena of telepatLy, clairvoyance,
phantoms of the dead or apparitions of de-
ceased or dying persons, the claims of
with a view to determining what. if any
part of them, were genuine and what they
signified. The interest felt by every per-
son in the subject Of survival after bodily
death caused unexpected attention to be
given to the Investigations and their re-
suits. All the proceedings that have been
made public have been eagerly read, and
though it does not appear that sufficient
data have been secured on which TO base
any serious conclusions, interest in litera-
way with the questions and the phenomena
involved finds wide reading. The public
has, however, taken less interest in the
society itself than in its work. and little
has been generally known Of the character
of the organization. 1t now develops that
while its members have been deeply in
earnest, they have had TO pursue their
studies in somewhat desultory way, both
on account of lack of time and of money.
The society. it seems. was never we'll estab-
llshed financially, but has been held to-
gether more by the common zeal for in
vestigation than any other cause, and has
been hampered by lack Of funds The
members were. for the most part, engaged
in other lines of work, some of them being
professors in colleges and could only give
their limited leisure TO the new undertake
ing, the result being that less ground has
been covered than might have been the
case.
Prof ]. II. Hyslop, of Columbia Uni
versity, who has been one of the most ac-
tive members of the society. sets forth the
financial situation in a New York paper and
urges that IL is time 10 put the work upon
4 secure basis. and this not only for scien-
tifc reasons but because it is important tina:
the society. having reused the interest OF
the public. should be in a position TO direct
it's intellectual tendencies in this direction
wisely and 10 protect from illusions that
may arise from half knowledge. What
Professor HysloD wishes to establish is q
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ART AND ART WORKERS.

An early painting. probably painted about the
year 1880, showing the whole extent OF New York
city. sold at Andersor's auction rooms recently
for s75. The artists name is unknown
Elenora Duse has sold at auction all the OBJ
jects of art in her Villa Capponcina, near Flor
ence, some OF which represents the works OF the
modern and most progressive sculptors and paint
of Italy. others old works from the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
An official report of the admission and exhibit
ton at the National Academy of Design, just
closed. shows that more than 10000 people VS.
tied the exhibition. Twenty-one pictures We're
sold in all, the highest price paid for any one
picture being 81 500, given for The Marine" by
William T. Richards. No. IS.
Two marble columns OF beautiful design and
great antiquity, belonging to a church in the
town of Cave. near Rome. which previously
formed part Of some ancient monument. was
bought by FIorentine agent recently and taken
TO Rome. prior to being shipped to an American
customer. The Italian government discovered
the contemplated expectation of work or art
and seized the columns, refusing TO refund 10
the antiquarian the sum he had paid for them
At an auction sale of old silver held In Lon
don recently some Of the prices realized We're as
follows: An antique wine cup, which weighed
4 OF. dwt., SIZE; pair OF remarkably nne oio
Irish cast silver candlesticks. weighing a o.
S17: a George III shaped engraved tea
pot. weight IL o., $50; plain Irish sauce boat
weighing 3 o.. $50; Queen Anne antique silver
gilt paten, weight 4S or, $3.50 chased Georgian
two-handed cup or porringer, weighing IL o.
$685. a plain three-legged cream ever. weighing
or dwt.. SIS; a George III coffee pot ls o.
was sold for $50. and George III soup ladle.
fiuted bowl o.. brought s2S.
The new Capitol OF Minnesota is TO have mural
paintings by leading American artists. This
building designed by Cass Gilbert. John La
FARCE will contribute the decorations for the Su-
preme Court chamber consisting Of four span
drels, the subjects being Divine and Moral Law,
Relations of the Moral Law to the State,
THE Recording of Precedent in Law" and "Ad-
justment of the Conflicting Interests and Privi-
leges Under Law" Other mural work will be
executed by Edwin H. Blashfeld and Edward
Simmons the general scheme Of decoration being
in charge of Elmer E. Garnsey Some Of the
sculpture for the Capitol will be supplied by Dan
tel
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Leland Stanford is said to carry a
larger amount of insurance than any other
woman in the world. Her policies amount to
more than one million dollars
Some one asked De Wolf Hopper the other
day at the Lambs Club, whether he commonly
alluded to the ladies who have shared his name
and fortune in days of yore grass widows
or as grass Hoppers."
Mrs. DisraeIi once said to an astonished circle
in an English country house: Dizzy has the
most wonderful moral and political courage. but
he has physical courage 1 always have to
pull the string of his shower BATH
The Peoples Refreshment House Association
has just established it's thirty-n ninth house in
London. A rule of these establishments is that
only two drinks shall be served one customer
But there appears to be rule a the time
that shall elapse between each pair of drinks
A razor is a saw, not a knife, and II works
like saw. not like knife. Under the micro
scope its edge is to have innumerable fine
saw teeth. When these teeth are clogged with
dirt honing and stropping will do no good.
Dipping it in hot water dissolves out the debris
from between the teeth.
Some things that happen on the stage are
very wonderful. An English audience re-
Gently marveling at dog which was playing
a bit of old masterpiece a piano. sud
denly some one in the audience yelled ''Rats!'
and the dog made a break from the piano. But
the music kept right along. just the same.
Biograph views OF $4,000 San Francisco school
children will be unique feature Of the San
Francisco educational exhibit ar the worlds fair
The plan proposed is to line the pupils UP on
Van Ness avenue. which smoothly paved
and with the camera mounted on automobile
ride rapidly past and take moving pictures Of
oil Of the children
Curious ceremonies are witnessed in Siam
when one Of the sacred white elephants dies
It is given funeral grander than that ac-
corded 10 princes OF royal blood. Buddhist
priests officiate, and thousands OF devout
Samese men and follow the deceased
animal TO the grave. Jewels and offerings rep
resenting some thousands of pounds are buried
with the elephant.
w. d. HoweIs. the great novelist. has been
giving of precepts TO theater-goers He
says man who goes TO the theater must re-
| gard himself not merely vessel &C be filled
with pleasure from the stage. He ought 10
realize that he Is part OF q great and splendid
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Concerning Libraries.

To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal
There are schools nowacays for teaching
Librarians, which would seem an easy matter.
Buy books that people want is all that Is neces-
sary TO a good library, and have a catalogus
up 10 date. All the rest is what Carlyle calls
"a whirlwnd Of straws." Clean books. too.
would be a luxury, but perhaps that's too much
10 ask Nothing is so useless in this world as
big library. All the books that anybody and
everybody could possibly want read in this
world would form but a very small library: the
rest are rubbish. dead matter. not wanted by
any human being. To quote Carlyle again, use
less books pretend 10 be golden apples OF the
Hesperides bit they are only gilded horse
dung" The enormous masses Of totally useless
rubbish that cumber public Libraries are a waste
OF money, OF peoples hard earnings Turn 10
the back OF a useless book IN a public library
and you find by the ticket that Il is unread
while the good ana wished-for books are dirty
and worn or entirely gone out OF the library
from JAMES ROGERS
Indianapolis Feb 10
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collection for this purpose. and. taking plate.
after HIS sermon. he went up and down the
aises giving every chance TO contribute.
Much 70 hts surprise. he extended the plato
towards one ''old son OF the sod" he was given
a shrewd smile and wink instead OF money.
The father. however. thought this meant that
Patrick was not prepared to give that day and
would do 50 later.
Not securing enough money at this time, the
following Sunday he made another collection,
paying particular attention 10 those who had
not given the previous time. Coming again 20
Patrick. he greeted in the same manner.
Meeting him the street cay or two later.
the father said: Patrick. Why did you not
help US last Sunday?''
''Ah. that's all right, father. it's al right.
an niver'n say wan wurd
Why Patrick said the mystided priest.
you'll not say a word
Its all right
What do you mean -
'Ha, father said Patrick. pulling HIS fore
lock. begin yer pardin. scr. but don't yer
think I know that tn church air het be stameg''
-Lippincotts.
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

I never will believe that youngest days
are our happiest.-George Eliot.
For to travel hopefully is better thing than
to arrive. and the true success is to labor
Robert Louis Stevenson.
But neither didst thou choose thine own time
to come into existence; but when the Universe
had need Of thee.-Epictetus.
thousand daily little things make their Of
ferings of pleasure to those who know how TO
be peased.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Humor and Poetry belong to each other; for
Humor is but Fancy laughing and Poetry but
Fancy sad.-Frances Anne Kemble.
Men talk as IL victory something for
tunate. Work is victory. Wherever work is
done, victory is obtained. There is chance
and no blanks.-R. W. Emerson.
Like a blind spinner in the sun
1 tread my ways;
know that all the threads will run
Appointed ways
] know each day win bring its task.
And, being blind, no more ask
Helen Hunt Jackson
What matter though doubt at every pore.
Head-doubts heart-doubts. doubts at my fingers
ends,
Doubts in the trivial work OF every day,
Doubts at the very basis Of my soul
In the grand moments when she probes herself
II finally 1 have a life TO show
The thing did. Robert Browning.
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A QUEER DISCRIMINATION.

Legislation in Germany is sometimes of
the broadaxe variety; it sweeps in a wide
circle and strikes slashing blow-and it
does the business. This country could hard
ly be capable of passing such a law as the
German Supreme Court has recently en-
acted; and yet there is some justification
for it after all. A decision given by a
"Reichszericht" in Leipsic the other day
forbids all American dentists practicing
in Germany to describe themselves under
the title of Doctor" unless they can pro-
duce a diploma from the dental college
of the University of Michigan.
AT first glance this seems strangely I'M
Extraordinarily SO. There are thousands
of American dentists whose diplomas en-
title them to be called doctors even though
they were not conferred by the University
Of Michigan. There are dozens of colleges
in the United States where graduates are
as skillful. whose degrees are as legitimate
and as worthy of respect. Why this dis
elimination? The answer is far to
seek Germany, as we'll as other foreign
countries, has been infested with the
pIOOuClS VI ulpiOula
There are in this country scores of insti-
tutions which regard degrees simply as
business merchandise" and sell them with
few requirements to anyone who pay
for them. These degrees are not confined TO
dentistry, but to other branches of med
icine; and even baccalaureate degrees are
bought and sold in the same way. In
America the reputable colleges are pretty
well known. and people are shy of diplo-
mas from unheard-of universities" So
the owners OF these alleged honors go to
foreign countries and ply their trade with
security and profit.
Germany has had much trouble with this
sort of thing. and is at the end OF her
patience. The court which rendered the de-
cision in question had q simple problem be-
fore II: To find trustworthy evidence as
TO the fitness OF Americans who wished TO
practice dentistry In Germany. A diploma
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ToLSTOY ON INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY.

The Chicago Federation of Labor re-
Gently wrote to Count Leo Tolstoy asking
his views on industrial slavery" His
answer has just been received. He says
the working people of the world are bound
in industrial slavery by legislation. and
that as long as one class of people has the
power to enact legislation to its advantage
the servitude will continue. The abolition Of
one form OF slavery by the repeal of laws
will. he says, lead only to another form.
He thinks an advanced sort OF serfdom is
already appearing In such legislation as that
relating to hours Of work. sanitation of
shops and like measures in restraint of the
freedom of labor. Thus" he concludes,
"the fundamental cause of slavery and its
attendant miseries is legislation-the fact
that there are people who have the power
to make laws"
These views find as little support in ex-
perience and facts as Tolstoys views on
most subjects do. He is classed a
social reformer'' as other men are classed
as architects, engineers. mechanics, mer-
chants, etc. All of these and scores of
OIner classes Work at something and &C
complish results. They contribute in some
way and to some extent to the progress and
wealth of the world, but the Russian
social reformer" spends his time protest
ing against everything and trying to prove
that the universe is out of joint.
His assertion that the working people of
the world are bound in industrial slavery
by legislation is falsifled by the history Of
labor movements and of legislation. Both
have tended steadily in a very marked
degree to the enfranchisement of labor and
the betterment of labor conditions in every
way. This is especially true in the United
States, which, judging from Tolstoy's ex-
pressions, he does not know anything about.
There has been more legislation distinctly
in favor Of labor in this country than there
has been for all other classes combined.
All of it was intended to benefit wage
earners and much of it has done so.
What is Industrial slavery anyhow? In
a country where every man is free to en-
gage In any occupation that suits him, to
work or not as he pleases for such wages
as he chooses to accept and to better him
self whenever he gets chance, the
phrase is meaningless.
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There was party Of estimabe women who
made tour OF the prisons in New Jersey" said
Representative Hughes. OF Paterson They
were investigating TO see what they could do TO
relieve the hard lot the convicts
''They came to a particularly vicious-looking
man who doing twenty years for burglary
He had a tame rat IN the cell with him and ap-
parently was very fond OF IL.
&" My good man. said of the visiting
ladies. are you fond of that ratT
:" 4 love 4 better than anything in the world
said the convict.
There said another OF the ladies: I have
always claimed there is a way in which these
men, no matter now hardened in crime can be
reached. Here is a man who loves a tame rat.
Now, my good man. will you tell US why you
love this ratE'
Because he bit the warden said the con-
vict New York World
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VIEWS OF JOURNAL READERS.
Protest Against ~sign. of the Times.


To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal.
THE Signs OF the Times grow more and
more obnoxious the eyes OF all who journey
from city to city. When anticipating a pleas
ant release from ones customary environment.
it is annoying TO be pursued. for miles from
the city. by signboards announcing the superior
cheapness OF commodities be had ones
own corner drug store. TO have square mile OF
attractive scenery cut from view by ugly.
glarinS board devoted TO the virtues OF ones
tailor. TO note that every square OF rock wall
vaunts the praises OF Brown Brothers shoes.
ct cetera, ad infinitum- And wherever the trolley
car has penetrated IL is hard TO find a bit of
rural scenery undesopiled by the monotOnous
legends Of the sign-painter. The trail OF COM
merce il over IL all. and one fears that II the
rapids Of Niagara or the waves OF the sea
could be quieted long enough this everlasting
commercial artist would not hesitate TO beau
tfy them with his song OF renowned trade.
Years ago on journey East. the writer was
surprised to see the beautiful New Jersey
marshes dishgured by a long line OF enormous
signboards stretching parallel with the rail-
road and marring most lovely landscape. This
deplorable method Of advertisement has since
clutched the entire country through the West.
and passenger a trolley hope to
get beyond this wearying cry from many custom
seeking houses-"Dry OF me; l the cheapest
and the best 1t defaces the rural landscape.
and IL is a hdeous bore. IL stands out moro
conspicuous than the hillside. the farmhouse
the great harm The country-Ioving excur-
sionist makes up his mind firmly that he will
not bry OF the merchant who Intrudes thus
mistakenly upon the quiet hour when he seeks
TO forget the thought Of business IN any form.
He resolves to boycott the shoe dealer whose
ugly and offensive declaration reiterates from
every stone. To his mind it Is vandalism-and
do the country people themselves enjoy IL?
Cannot something be done about this public
nuisance? The East has learned the folly OF IL.
and loud protests heard but how the
evil be reached. IL railroad and trolley lines
have any responsibility in the matter. how soon
will they learn that city people will begin
do not pass through a hippant panorama OF
billboards haTooing Of the very things from
which they wish relaxation. Advertising Is
proper and necessary. in its proper channels.
but il not be done through the newspapers
otherwise7 II would doubtless cost much
less to have handbills distributed through the
country at short intervals than to pay for the
offending. tiresome sgnboard while its con-
slant presence prejudices the mind OF every
beauty-loving person who sees II against the
tradesman who hopes to win custom by such
be entirely beautiful, and therefore some effort
should be made to keep the loneliness Of our
fields inviolate-in spite OF the almighty dollar.
INDIGNANT RUsTIcAToR.
New Albany, Ind. Feb. 10.
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E. s. Blydenburgh, Iowa's modern Blue
beard" is now safe in the State Peniten-
tiary. When the sheriff took him to prison
he handcuffed him with horsethief, and
1t is reported that the brutal wife-murderer
"felt much Inundated" at the circum-
stance. The tender feeling of some of these
criminals is wonderful, and their social
lines should be respected. The murderer
is the aristocrat of felons; he holds himself
a cut or two above the horsethief. and close
association with such common trash is a
bitter wound to his self-esteem.
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Whatever objections peace advocates may
have TO war they cannot deny that il is edu-
cational Since the Spanish-Ameriean war
the people OF the United States have
learned more about the geography and the
peoples of certain parts of the world than
they would have learned I'm half a century
OF peace. They have recently been acquir-
ing a great amount Of interesting informa-
tion about the South Americans. and now
japan and Russia demand attention. Those
two countries will have few mysteries about
them by the time the present conflict is
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