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The Jewish outlook., 1907-11-08

A vicar not far off lost about the
best man who ever worshiped in his
church, whose many good works were
then found to include an annual gift
of f1OO towards securing curate S
help-for there were two churches to
work. AS soon as Mr.. Leopold de
Rothschild learned this his sympathy
was reused for the minister who had
sustained double loss like that.
While out riding he met the vicar,
turned his horses head, and said:
"Vicar, hear poor Charlie used to
give you a hundred a year to help to
maintain your church services. l
should be sorry to see them suffer
through his death. Be pleased to ac-
cept tt same from me-" Which was
very nobly done in man of another
faith
The Jewish outlook., 1907-11-08

culation of blood, and all the other
concomitant physiological changes,
and there is no anger left.
Now then that ceremony in reli-
gion is absolutely necessary for the
preservation of religious ideas,
thoughts, emotions is entirely beyond
dispute. You may say that you love
your children just as much as your
neighbor loves his. even though you
do not educate, clothe, feed, or in any
other way interest yourself in them,
but | refuse to believe it, for l know
better. You may argue that your
children love and respect you, al
though they never in word, deed. or
otherwise devote an hour to you, but
again refuse to believe it, and again.
not because am Il skeptic, but be-
cause know better.
The same is true of ceremony and
religion. No one can preserve the
spirit of Judaism or of any other re-
ligion except through real activity,
real ceremony. real interest mani
tested in real ways.
The objection might well be raised
that one may perform all the reli-
giOus ceremonies and yet not feel or
mean anything by them. That is very
true. So a man may raise his hat to
Il woman and feel not the slightest
respect for her, but that does not mil
itate against the fact that if he has
respect and wishes to show and to pre-
serve it. he WiH raise his hat. The
very act impresses upon his own mind
the fact that he does respect her.
Let him for one reason or another be-
gin and continue to omit this very
simple convention of ceremony, which
is the outward sign, and it will not
be long before the inward feeling for
which the outward sign stands will
also disappear. This is not Il mere
theory, but psychological fact which
every one may verify for himself in
a thousand ways by experimentation.
Whenever Reform Judaism takes
away any religious ceremony without
substituting something in its place, it
robe the Jewish religion of SO many
means for awakening and fostering
Jewish ideals and Jewish spirit.
1t is time, therefore, that we stop
ctherealizing Jewish ceremonies and
begin ceremonialiZing Jewish spirit.
If we believe as perhaps we have
right to. that we understand the
spirit, the ethics and the history of
Israel better now than ever before.
then should we begin now to cmbOdy
this higher understanding and appre
citation in beautiful and fitting forms
and ceremonies in order to make sure
that we do not forget what we think
we know. JACOB ii. kAPLAN.
Selma, Alabama.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-11-08
NOVEMBER 8, 1907.
EDITORIAL
On
Religious
Mishts

ETOSS IlllScOuCcptiou tudt
NASAss exists in regard f."
things, which misconception is all too
frequent a hard matter to eradicate.
Men and women find themselves well
at ease and comfortable in what they
term their belief. and do not care to
be disturbed. Why should their pre-
cious heritage be assailed? What
would be the Use of giving up what
to them has been held sacred and
handed down from father to son. TO
put their ossified and stereotyped re-
ligion in the crucible of reason and
common sense would be an annoy
ance; it would force them to yield up
the solace of centuries and urge them
to the responsibility of duty. And
this responsibility of duty would en-
tail time, and that would be so much
opportunity and energy wasted to
getting. And so, these people are
content to live in ignorance, beyond
the dreams of avarice, as far as knOwl
edge and moral and spiritual uplift-
ment are concerned. They are salts
fled to perform all the minutia and
details of religious form. with an
over-zealous and an INSCRIPTIONS
care, which has been clustered around
the synagogue, and which leaves them,
except in few eases where it may
have produced thrill of supposed
Joy at the consciousness of having
performed something God-ordained.
And this perverted Simcha Shel MitZ-
vah is enough for them. God is APP
peased and pleased with them because
they have exhibited some species of
consciousness. For their minimum of
strivings, they are going to receive a
maximum of reward. The profits are
large though the prophets are mis-
construed. Religious misfits Many
such tread the various walks of life,
men and women of too little knOwl-
edge to be accounted cultured, of
Overmuch smartness to be regarded
refined, of too narrow soul to be
The Jewish outlook., 1907-11-08

a Jew in these great United States
who doesn't read any paper pecul-
iarly identified with his interests, is
like ship at sea without a rudder-
he'll lose himself and ultimately be-
come derelict.
The Jewish outlook., 1907-11-08


themselves to be the worry lords of
creation, pillars of the church or the
synagogue. They are, however,
broken reeds upon which the institu
ton, if it relies overmuch, will surely
fall.
Regard any religious system or So
ciety you will. and you will discover
this attitude to be the.most prevalent.
There are many noble protesting
Christians-we will altogether omit
the so-called orthodox cult-who are,
as far as they themselves are con-
cerned, striving for the progress and
development of their particular sys-
TEN, but who, in spite of everything,
are most sectarian and bigoted. n
hereditary atavism, as 1t were, pos
sesses them, and they are altogether
unable to struggle out of the web. and
thus, all unknowingly and unwil-
lingly, take unkindly to IL universal
iZing process which alone can win our
men and women for Righteousness,
Justice and truth. Protestants though
they be, the strong power OF some IN
describable, yet OverpOwering intlu-
ence holds them back in tight grip,
and prevents their blossoming into
sweet-smelling and pleasure-giving
flowers in Gods beautiful garden of
universal and loving fellowship.
They are unable to completely and
intelligently comprehend and carry
into practice religion in the true full
ness of its expression. They see but
to certain point-they discern the
dim figure of human being suffer
ing the cruel torture of Roman exc
cution-beyond that point, however,
all is chaos. and they are unable to see
anything else. They know not that
before that individual ever lived and
labored, the ethics of religion swayed
mems minds and souls. and taught
them and urged them to be and to
do for mankind's development and
upliftment, helped them towards real.
izing religion as fully as was at that
time, or rather at each period OF that
age, possible and realiZable. And we
Jews and .Jewesses. also. are unable
somehow to pierce the thick gloom
that divides our age from that gfori-
Gus period of the past, when seers and
teachers bore messages of vital con-
Germ which have since swayed and
dominated the religious thought of
many ages.
Yet it cannot be gainsaid, that it
was always difficult matter for the
Jew to rise above his environment.
History, it is said, frequently, though
not always, repeats itself. But in this
respect Jewish history has been very
much the same as human nature.
The same tendency is discernablc
throughout it's whole course--the ten
dency to fall prey to religion S non
essentials and to fail to appreciate
fully the intentions of those who place
character, conduct and duty above
theology, dogma, creed and barren
forms, is glaring in it's boldness and
in the ruin it serves. How, indeed, to
combat this besetting danger! By
mild *cquiescence and submission :!
Surely not, for what then is to be-
come of ourselves and our own-of
those who are to come after us! BY
antagonism and war? No! again, for
fbon pcoco won1I ho ramoya1 for
The Jewish outlook., 1907-11-08

AS long as man cannot
dematerialize himself
and become Il perfect
disembodied spirit. SO
long will words, signs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
WYOMING COAL LAND CASES REST.
Federal Grand Jury Expected to Resume In
veStigation To-day.

Contrary 10 expectation. there was no invcstiCa o.
ton Yesterday 10y the Federal Grand Jury or tho
Wyoming coal land entries. due the fact IL wa $
said, that the grand jury spent tho dag dispos-
ing OF routine cases. II was iutmatcd. however.
That tomorrow the grand jury would resume It's
inquiry into the way In which the owl Creek Min
ing Company and the Northwestern Coal com
pany got $500 acres Of valuable coal lands i'm thu,
Big Horn Basin Wyoming Il was also said that
"a few suhpUnas had been issued calling Tor tho
attendance of certain material witnesses for to
day IN connection with the coal investigation
Assistant United States Attorney O'Rricn spent
the day In consultation with representatives. of thu,
departments or the Interior and Justice who it
is understood. came to New York on business con
nertcd with the Wyoming cases
II IS learned that a number OF individual indic:-
monts for perjury viii probably be brought in as
well as several cooperative indictments alleging
subornation OF perjury. based upon the theory thar
~" expected individual indictments TO perjure
were permitted on these coal lands each claimant
being limited 10 quarter section. or LOO ages OF
land. The government does not permit corpora
ton to take title to these lands iuyestir.t-
uon II was found that two corpora lions had taken
title TO nearly. ten thousand through assign
meuts of title made To them or their renreSart,
interior Department discovered that the ma iur
portion OF the claimants lived IN and near New
n1rk. many OF them In Amityvilc. Long Island
Tho claimants are butchers, bakers. bartcudcrs
Farmers. hlackSmtths. hoatmeu. bookkecpcrs bridge
builders bank clerks, hutlcrs and men engaged I'm
similar occupations, with a women I,,ivej
Wyoming. Jurisdictions or the cases 4, had i'm New,
YORK city. owing Ia tho fact that the original
signed their interests TO the corporations are resi-
dents OF this federal district.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
SEWERS rs SNOW DUMPS.
Craren Says They'd Clear Streets in
Third of Present Time.

Commissioner Craven of the Street Cleaning
Department has presented a report to Mayor
Mcclellan showing how, In his estimation, snow
can be removed from the streets Of New York
by shovelling it into the sewers. He believes
that by this method the snow can be removed in
one-third Of the time and at one-third of the
cost of removal by carts.
1T is shame that they don't allow US to
dispose of snow in that way" said the Commits
sioner yesterday. They talk about choking UP
the sewers. There are two three OF the trunk
sewers in this town that can't he choked up.
There is a good stream OF water running
through them at all times at fairly high tenn
perature. OF course. some of the dirt gets into
the catch basins but that is what they are
for and they be cleaned out.
IF the city get rid of snow In two days
which would take II five six days TO get rid
Of under the present method, II would be worth
while putting in special sewers IN those sections
OF the city where the present sewers not
suitable for the work. The saving the cost
Of snow removal would more than pay the IN
terest on the sewer bonds. Now we have only
195 miles of streets the snow schedule, but
IL could show, a great saving IN the work
we would be justified in increasing the schedule
for some Of the storms
Il have made out full report the subject
for the Mayor and the Board of Estimate The
idea Is certainly worthy of the most careful
consideration
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
FEAR FOR CLERGYMl4N.
Friends Of the Req. ". +. T7camIeg
Begin Search.

Annapolis, Feb. 5-Consderable apprehension
is felt here over the disappearance of the Roy.
w T. Twamley assistant minister Of St. AIMS
Episcopal Church, who has not been seen or
heard Of since last Sunday morning when ne
left his hotel for st. Luke's Mission Chapel. at
Eastport, a suburb Of Annapolis lie did not
appear at the chapel. but man IN clerical garb
answering the description OF the missing clergy
man. boarded the morning train at West An
napois for Baltimore.
statement was given out to-day by the Rev
Joseph p. McComas rector Of St AIMS parish
In which the fear is expressed that Mr.. TWAIN
ley may have fallen into the waters Of Sn,
Creek. Mr.. McCOmas said that inquiry had
been made everywhere about Annapolis and in
Baltimore Washington and Chicago where Mr.
Twamley has friends. He had been sufferng
from attack Of grin for several weeks NIr
McComas added, and it feared that i'm his
weakened condition he may have lost his foot
ing while crossing the bridge between Annapolfs
and EaStDOTt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06

pioughs managed 10 clear them all during the
day Several lines were kept open for traffic,
but the movement of the few crowded was
slow and irregular during the greater part OF
the day.
car service was suspended for several hours IN
the early morning, and the schedules on ooth
elevated and surface lines in the city We're sus-
pended. Ferryboats running 10 Mannat t
made trips through the ice foes whenever they
could. in some instances taking an hour for the
William Bradley. the snow contractor for
Brooklyn, had fifteen hundred men and seven
hundred carts at work on the clearing or the
main streets by 10 o'clock. When an attempt
made to dump snow into the river at Adams
street the contractor encountered an inJuncuon
say that the snow dumping fouls the river The
Corporation Counsel will have the injunction
dissolved Immediately.
FOOD SUPPLY AFFECTED.
AS New York never has more than three
days food supply on hand at one time. any
storm which delays incoming trains and i'm
pedes traffic through the streets invariably is
felt by the provision and produce men. and ulti-
mateIy by the consumer The big milk COM
panies all reported they received most Of their
milk yesterday morning but it was all more or
less late. The transportation of milk through
the city was so slow that consumers got their
milk anywhere from five TO six hours late.
Most of the men in Washington Markec re-
ported that they had got their usual supplies
Yesterday. but thought there might he trouble
to-day and that prices might go up. Many OF
the express companies which deliver goods frOl2
the markets to the retail dealers and private
consumers did not run at all yesterday. If there
is any delay in clearing the streets there may
he some trOuble in the next few days in get
ting coal. but urgent orders for coal that
could not he supplied came in to any of the big
dealers yesterday
Postmaster Wilcox called every extra man
and wagon into service yesterday to facilitate
the rapid delivery of mail. which came in from
one to five hours late.
Two horses were put on each ambulance at the
hospitals throughout the city. The FOrdham
ambulance took hour and fifteen minutes TO
go from the hospital. in 1921 street. near Je-
rome avenue. 10 the old roundhOuse Of the Put
nam division Of the New York Central al 16lSt
street. ordinarily made i'm twenty-five
minutes Tho roof Of the roundhouse had CaVcd
in from the weight of snow. burying and slightly
iniuring two Italians.
At I o'clock yesterday morning DR.. Bickel-
haupt, Of Forihan Hospital received call for
the ambulance from the City Island police sta
ton. bur when the long trip across-cght miles
each way-was completed, the patient, an old
man who had sucCumbed TO the rigorous wealth
er. was dead and the long trip back was begun,
consuming over two hours.
In many of the outlying engine houses extra
horses We're kept in readiness
There was a water famine Al New Brighton,
Staten Islam The water supply company shut
off its mains some time ago, and the residents
have been depending water carts. These
carts could not get through the drifts Yester-
day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
COLD GRIPS NORTHWEST.
Railroads Sno5obound, Trains Far
Behind and TOCRs IN Need.

st. Paul. Feb with few exceptions there
has been below zero weather in this region
for seventeen days. and for three days Their
mometers have registered % degrees below zero
or more.
In North Dakota 80 degrees below was COM
mon. and this was coupled with terrific Billiards
For days the main lines of the Minneapolis St
Paul & Sault Ste Marie the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific railroads have been
blocked, and many OF the branch lines have been
at a standstilI for weeks and months. There
have been reports of many persons freezing 10
death, but these have been denied from North
Dakota sources. II is admitted. however. by
railroad managers thay the spring thaw3 will
revea! tales of suffering starvation and death.
All trains from Chicago to-day wore from one
to five hours late The 800" line sent out the
first train for the coast in a week, but the OFF,
Gals made no promises that il would get farther
west than Porta, \. Northern Pacific and
Great Northern trains from North Dakota
points were from three 10 eight hours late. These
roads are gradually getting their main lines and
some branches clear afte: weeks of lighting tho
snow with huge engines and powerful rotary
pouEhs
McHenry, y. D. sends a telegram reporting
the temperature as 4s degrees below zero, and
saying that there have been no freight trains
there since December IS. and that all fuel, in
Guiding gasoene. is gone Farmers are burning
barley and fence posts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
TELLS or LAND FRAUDS.
Frisco Paper Says Government In
spect0r Has Unemthed Uany.

san Francisco Feb. 5.-"-The CaIl' to-day
says: Acting under instructions from Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Thomas B. NeUhausen, an in
spector of the Interior Department. co-operat-
ing with state MiueraIogist Lewis f. Aubury
has been investigating; land locations In Cali
forna. aud has uncarthed gigantic frauds which
Will be made the basis o, criminal prosecutions
The investigation. which has been sweeping
I'm its scope, will involve men of wealth and
high social standing in California
Inspector Neuhausen came TO San Francisco a
fow days ago, ana has been quietly gathering tho
evidence To warrant prosecutions. He has for
warded report so Washington In which il Is
said, he names from fifteen To twenty persons
against whom he has positive evidence
FRAUDS have been discovered all ;hc way
from Sskiyou County to Death Valley Cases
have been reported from Sislliyou Del Norte
Trinity. Tuolumne. MaripoSa. Eldorado, Kern
1nyo. san Bernardino and Riverside counties
the most naSrant offences have occurred in
Ioulumne County. In that section homestead
entries have been freely made on the Table
Mountain channel This channel IS OF lava
formation and contains rich deposits OF gold
Millions of dollars worth of the yellow metal
has been extracted from this land"
Washington. Feb. 5.-It was admitted at the
Department of the Interior to-day that Thomas
B. Neuhausen an Inspector of the department.
is making an investigation in California but
not along the lines indicated in the San Fran
cisco dispatch. The officials, however decline 10
reveal the nature of the inquiry Mr. Neuhauser
with four othcr assistants from Portland ~
has been IN California for some time collectins
certain evidence at the instance OF the Danart-
mene OF Justicss but Secretary Hitchcock re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
BRIGGS MADE SENATOR
Continued from first page.

absentees to reduce the total number so that
forty would be a majority.
The following vote then taken:
For Bradley-Avis, Cattei, Gibbs Jess and
Jones. .,..
DAWSON EIviu Freiughuysen Haines, Hand.
Hutchinson Trick Lee Lewis. Robbins, Shinr.
Smalley STEELE. Thompson and Tillman,
For Pitney-Bradlcy, Buxton, Chaplin ana
HilIery.
For Grlggs-Dcvinc and Wal,clee, 60,
For Stokes Drake Liagore. Manson. Mlnch.
Ridgeway. Taylor and Potter
Following the ballot the nomination OF Mr.
Briggs was made unanimous
When the Joint meeting was held Senator
hutchinson Of Mercer, nominated Briggs in
neat speech, and Senator Gcbhardt Of Hunter
don. named MARITIME. Perkins of Union. sec
onded tho nomination of Briggs and keinert OF
Passac. that Of MARITIME.
Tho vote was taken, and when Fake voted TOT
Briggs, thus giving him forty-one votes, an alb
soIute majority of the Legislature, there was
great applause When President Minch an
nounced that Briggs had been elected there was
long. continual applause. especially from inc
galleries which were crowded
Souator-elect Briggs said he was much gratihed
at the result and hoped his election would work
for harmony and continued Republican VIC
tories.
II was reported tonight that Senator Acker-
man felt disgruntled because there had been
secret conference III NeNdIh last Illdi S'lf'S a.
which Dryden's withdrawal and Briggss election
were settled. Alderman. so the story goes, felt
aggrieved because he understood there would be
nothing done regarding the outcome of the
Senatorship fight without letting him know
Mr. Briggs viii arrange TO resign as state
Treasurer probably next week. and then the
Legislature will elect his successor. The sen
timent tonight seems to point TO Daniel Noor-
hees. Of Morris County. as the next State Treas
urer Ex-senator Reed. of Somerset County,
and Senator Wakelee. OF Bergen are said to he
candidates. and each has a great many friends
prepared to give their heartiest approval.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06
Mr.. BAILEY GROH,S HOT.
Texas Senator Resents Impufatios
Of UitpeSs at Investigation.

Austin. Tex, Feb "A dramatic scene was
enacted In the Bailey investigation to-day. a.
most resulting in personal encounter between
Senator j. w. Bailey and F. y. Meutz. Of IIouS-
ton.
The clash occurred shortly after the legIslativs
committee resumed consideration Of the charges
pending against Senator Bailey. Mr.. Ment4
was the stand when Representative Coke.
who is prosecuting the charges against Senator
Bailey. asked Mr. Mentz il Colonel Cowart. %
Dallas. had not gone to New York % see Bailey.
MI Coke asked if Colonel CowRrt's visit. though
ostensib!y to have his throat treated. was not
really made for the purpose of attending 70 some
business for the Kirby Lumber Company.
Mr. Bailey, who had entered the room few
minutes before. arose and said that any one who
said that Cowart went to New York 10 see him
was liar The witness understood that Mr..
Bailey meant him. and he arose in his seat AMI
said he was not willing witness. but, so help
me God. win allow no man to call me narrr
he shouted.
Mr.. Bailey started for the witness. who seemed
ready to meet him. Deputy Sheriff White
stopped Senator Bailey and trouble was averted
The Senator then apoIogized to the COMMITTEES.
declaring that he had been irritated so much IN
the last few weeks that he could hardly help his
action. He asserted that 1t was hard 10 keep
from denouncing what he knew to be lies
Representative Coke retorted that Mr.. baiey
had legal advisers who were able to take care OF
hts interests