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4 OSIER 5 SPEECH Confidant-Confessor to 800 Law Breakers (j(Jj [JS[j[!]S I Warden Moyer Shares Woes of Prisoners 10.000 CHURCHES Man to Man Talks to Head of Federal Prison Lighten Burden Cardinal Will Ask Old Friend to, of Wearers of Stripes. Retract Criticism of Catholic Faith as Superstition. BALTIMORE. MU, April 21 When part of the Hpeeoh of Hir Wil liam Osier, at the dedicatory exercises the J’hipp* * Paychlatric clinic of i he Johns Hopkins Hospital, wax read to Cardinal Gibbons the prelate exclaimed: "I am shocked!” Sir William, who in professor of medicine in Oxford University. said, in part: "Primitive views will prevail ev erywhere of man's relation to the world and to the uncharted region about him. Ho recent is the control of the forces of nature that even In the most civilized countries man has not yet adjusted himself to the new conditions and stands only half .•wake rubbing his eyes. Ninety-nine per cent of our fel low (reaturc*. when in trouble, sor row or sickness, trust to charms, in cantations and to the saints. Many a shrine has more follower* than Pasteur: many a saint more believ ers than Lister. I^ess than twenty years hawe pass ed since the last witch waH burned In the British Isles' "Mentally, the race is still In lead ing strings. In the childhood of the world we can not expect people yet to put away childish things ** Will Ask Retraction. "Scientists in any line smile and make statements such as that of Dr. Osier.” said the Cardinal, "and only a short time ago I had to defend some truths that Thomas A. Edison at- iacked "These scientific specialists think iheir statements should g.i unchal lsnged. but this one of Dr (isler shall not. and I shall write to him. asking him to retract it." "I would like to call the attention of Dr. Osier to the fait that Pastepr was a devoted Catholic and put Wl trust in the saints. He said that ms his knowledge of medh iuca Increased his faith grew likewise. The state ments attributed to Dr. Osier arc an attack on Christianity. '1 am aurpriseu that In- should make such attacks in this age. "What do the things that Dr. Osier preaches stand for anyhow'.’ Fifty years hence all his teachings may bo overthrown by new discoveries, ills whole doctrine is bas'd on theory. “Fifty years ago the scientists of that day imagined they knew all that was to be known of medicine; yet to day their conclusions are overthrown by later discoveries. "The Catholic Church is not found ed on theory, and whereas the whole world is informed of its doctrines, the conclusions of Dr. Osier are known to comparatively few. The world at present s alarmed by the condition ol’ the head of the church, ami changes in his health are of great interest— more, perhaps, than that of any scientist whom we know now Dr, Osier Perturbed. Dr. Osier, when Informed that the Cardinal regarded his reported ut terances as an attack «>n Christianity, appeared to he greatly disturbed. "I am no enemy of the saints,” he declared. "I will talk to my friend the Carlins! about this us soon as I get back from New Haven.” Hit William made It Clear that he regretted the exception taken by the Cardinal to hi* remark**, and that hr intends to see the Cardinal about It. Hr mentioned the Cardinal’s name In * w«v tint indicated that his feel ings toward the Prelate are kindly ami that he is eager to have an op portunity to settle the difference by a heart-to-heart talk Blood Transfusion Costs Father's Life Failing to Save Dying Baby. Hagar Shive. Himaelf, Falls Victim to White Plague. NEW YORK. April 21 —Among his friends th< death oi Hagar Hhlve, a liveryman of Whltestone. L. 1.. who died yesterday. Is attributed to Ids heroic effort to save one of his chil dren from death The child, a hoy fifteen months old. -uttering from tuber* ulouls of the bone, was hi the Babies' Hospital, ihls city, last December. In the hope of saving It the father submitted to an operation for transfusion, giving up a large quantity of his blood. The effort was in vain, and a few days later the inlant died The father never full) recovered from the shock and his death was due t«» tubercu losis. Shiv** it survived by widow and iu£aiit child He wus twenty-four years old POLICEMAN HAS ONLY ‘LIGHT’ BREAKFAST; LOOK AT MENU KANSAS CITY. April 21. -Sam Sc- bree weighs 21*2 pound - and is six feet six inches tall. He is a patrol man on the North Side It takes » large amount of fuel to keep a *>■*- ■*m like that of Sam' going H* thus yea tarda y morning at “I had an awful light morning. I guess 1 lunch.” you have to cat this ?” was asked, and this i at the At- Two score con- n their appoint- with Warden VV. v are going to tell •t their hopes*, their their sorrows, i there, more or less, afternoon, because »yer it* the confidant *sor of the men In his they go eagerly with me about everything said the Warden yee- T. Moy him va fears, the The nu every Tne then Ward' and father - charge, to w their froubh I "They tall under the sun. terday, explaining the “man to man” system which has Its application at the prison "About business trouble* and family 'troubles, about life and death, about themselves and their consciences. And. some Jurt talk.” It is a part of the "humanity” sys tem at the Federal Prison that it is so. Tuesday afternoons have been set apart a* the time when the prisoner may forget his stripes, may become a man with Warden Moyer, and may talk out of hiv heart. 2.000 Have Interviewed Warden. Sin- * the custom of Tuesday after noon Interviews began, nearly two years ago. about 2,000 men havo talked thus to the Warden. Hitch prisoner has access to request Mariks on which he may frame a formal application for an audience with the big. hearty man wno Is tho prison’s guardian. The .application al ways is granted the prisoner Is brought down to the Warden’s office on Tuesday afternoon, and talks. And because he Is their confidant, hearing things that men in the free world seldom entrust to the ears of others, he is not inclined to talk much about w hat he has heard. Not even under the veil of anonymity will he tell you of incidents In the Inter view’s; he is the confessor of tho men. and there is something sacred In the position. Man To Man Talks. But about the "man to man” scheme In general lie talks. And the story of the .system makes It very plain that here is work that might very well be deemed sacred. It deals with the hearts of men. the secret hearts. "They talk about everything.” the Warden explained. "They hear for Instance, that busyicsa affairs are going wrong, and come to me for ad vice. or for assistance In communi- enting with one man or another. They want to know what to do. In these cases it is not hard. "With other* something is w’rong with the prison tHeir clothes, or their cells, or something that they want changed That. too. is easy. "But then there comes another man with another trouble. This time it is himself or his conscience. That is harder. The best thing Is Just to lis ten. and to help when I can. Some* times there Is nothing to do to help except to listen But that seems to help some, they my.” Heart Pangs of Prisoners. Sometimes, lie said, a man tells him Just this: A baby has been born at home, and Its coming has brought a joy and a pain together to the father In prison. Emotion* have come *q the prisoner-father that swell over and beyond the walls of the penlten- | tiarv*. and somebody must snare them. It is Warden Moyer's fnission. Sometimes a death has occurred at home. A long-term convict, maybe I for the time In- n mood of revulsion | again*: the stripes and the barred j doors, hears this new « and mutt have i sympathy j It Is hard to hear your trouble* alone after >i time in prison." the I Warden comments, "there is some thing behind tho walls that softens a man’s heart In affliction, and that brings him to yearn for sympathy and companionship." A Tuesday afternoon interview' j Set m« to mend the trouble. There Is sympathy from the big man In the I office, the sympathy of a man to an other man. Not the sympathy of a | guard to a convict Comfort to Sufferer*. "Some men come to me," he wvnt , on. explaining the-system, "who have not lu ard from their homes and rela- i tives. They come at time* with n jftar In their hoar, that they hesitate; ; i" express. Something is w rong at I Wilsons Move Upstairs to Live, Converting Lower Floor Into Reception Rooms. WASHINGTON, April 21— Per- sons familiar with the interior of the White House during the laat ad ministration would find themselves In unfamiliar quarters did they enter the presidential home to-day. In the six weeks of her residence Mrs. Wilsor. has made a complete transformation in the appearance of the lower suite. Mrs. Taft used the blue, red and green rooms as family living rooms. The President and Mrs. Wilson and their family have forsaken the lower floor and betaken themselves to the apartments above stairs. The red. bluo and green rooms have been re stored to thetr earlier estate and will be used only on formal or semi-for mal occasions. The big tiger skin rug whic h in Mrs. Taft’s day w r as a feature of the furnishing of the blue room, with the baby grand piano which stood near the south window, has been shipped to New Haven with other of Mr. Taft’s possessions. The innumerable tea tables which Mr*. Taft had sot about in almost every room have disappeared, and so have countless pieces of bric-a-brac and many picture*. The furnishings which the Presi dent and Mrs Wilson brought to the White House have- been placed up stairs. The old-fashioned library with the fine piano Is now the living room. Miss Margaret Wilson, the musician of. the family, brought her own piano from Princeton, and this she has placed In her own suite. The much discussed "studio in the White House” has not materialized, nor Is It likely to. However, the numerous canvases and photographs 1 that beautified the modest home at I 25 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, have 1 found a place in the family quarters. Mrs. Wilson has her tea table set in the red room for her more formal 5 o'clock teas, and the china service of the White House is used. This serv ice was bought at the time of the renovation of the White House in Mr. Roosevelt’s administration and Is known the "Roosevelt china." Nowadays it is at an early hour that th* President and hi* household i gather for the morning mea! in the breakfast room. The luncheons and i dinners in the state dining room also I are served at a much earlier hour ! than for past Presidents, and ounc- | tuality to the fraction of a minute Is the watchword of the new family. The President himself is never a sec ond late and the domestic machinery of the household moves with the pre cision of clockwork. GRAFT 111 EGYPT Money Trust and Special Inter ests Flourished in King Ha-Em-Hab’s Reign. Nine Hiv Bli Four < When be ate « for hi* t y mailed are * and weeks ■eply for months.” ive Inin In their it after sleepless hv they have nor ervthirg. fighting the senee of !m- 1th ffsts clenched PHILADELPHIA, April 21. -Egypt 4.000 years ago was troubled with a money trust, special Interests, graft er* and other Ills that American flesh is heir to in the twentieth century, according to Dr. Max Muller, of tho University of Pennsylvania, in a lec ture on "The History of Egypt.” King Ha-Bim-Hub, according to Dr. Muller, had the time of hia life when he started to ascertain the causes of poverty of the Egyptian*. First His Majesty found that a lot of ward heelers were making a good thing out of Ills harem. The King prided himself that his harem was the smallest ever known. He had only 800 wives. His predeces sors had double that number. Bui from the time he put the golden crown on his royal head until he died, he stood for economy even In his own household. The monarch w as surprised lo learn otic day that a group of aticient grafter* who had the contract for furnishing his maidens with hair oil. lingerie and dancing slipper*, were using "the unit" system to *»eoure an over large chunk of the pork In the harem barrel. Then the King found that interests which had been running the royal brewery were overcharging for the drinks There wasn’t anything the matter with the beer «n draught. But It appears that the clerks In the brewery office were charging the Gov ernment for fancy drink* that the brewery employees were putting down their own throats. At least so history relates. Professor Muller said that Hw-Em- Hab lamed a decree against all sorts of grafting and placed offender* in the penitentiary. Criminals had their ears and noses cut far identification purposes before Bertlllon was thought of COUNT WEDS WAITRESS AFTER HOTEL ROMANCE PR INI K ALBERT, SASK . April 21 From the rank of a dining room girl to that of Countess of the Court "f Denmark is the step taken by Lena Roy, of this* city, formerly of Fall River. Mass. Miss Roy was- married to Hugo VonHoistein Rathbon. eldest son and heir of Lord Frederick Emil VonHoistein Rathbon. of Denmark, and they left immediately for a short trip through the United States, after which th°y will fro t<> Denmark T!ie Count met Miss Roy when she was employed in .. hotrl in Fall Hhcr, out returned !«■ Denmark ?o obtain the • onset * of his* parents to the marriage. Ideal Husband Need Not Be Handsome: Standard Is Fixed ARE ABANDONED Rural Population Flocking to the Cities Responsible—Schools and Farms Also Deserted. WASHINGTON, April 21.—Clenry- men throughout the United States, and especially in the rural districts of the Middle West and South, are seriously alarmed over the increased number of churches which have to be abandoned because their attend ance and Income Is not sufficient to support them. Prominent clergymen have come to the conclusion that the large number of abandoned churches Is due, not to the decline of religion, but to the abandonment of the rural districts by the younger generation In favor of the cities. Statistics compiled by tho Census Bureau show that the population, of the rural United States ia declining. In 35 per cent of the counties of the country the population decreased 1 during the 1900-1910 decade. Thl ■ decrease has worked a grave hard ship upon the churches, and also has caused the abandonment of many schools, the loss of employment b) hundreds of school teachers and a general decline of the parts of th» country In which it ha* occurred. Counties near the large cities have suffered most from the decline In population. Newspapers and auto- ists are blamed for feeding the Im aginations of the country Tads until they leave home . Statistics compiled by the Play- 1 ground and R* creation Association, of New York City, to whom thou sands of these wanderers go each year, show that In certain sections of the South and Middle West schools which have only seven and eight children to-day housed from forty- five to fifty ten years ago. These in stances are not uncommon. The effect of the loss in population can be realized when It is considered that during the last decade churches were deserted In Illinois. 750 in Missouri. 600 in Tennessee. 300 in Kentucky, 200 in Louisiana, and over 10,000 in the entire country. The abandonment of these churches has been accompanied by the aband onment of a larger number of farms, and the Department of Agriculture has sounded a warning in repeated ) bulletins, declaring this to be one >f the greatest dangers to country lif,? | In America. The department places a goodly J share of the blame on the farmer. *•■» i called, who travels from one end of the country to the other year af er j year, renting farms for the season. Not having any interest in the land other than how much he can obtain from it in one season, this renter be come* careless nnfi leaves behind him n wake of destruction which, after only one season, requires several years to repair. j Kansas College Girls Say He Must Be 5 Feet 11, Weigh 159 and Eschew Drink and Cigars. TOPEKA, April 21.—The Kansas college girls have fixed the standard for the "ideal” young man, the pos sible husband, and throughout the State In the college Young Men’s Christian Association buildings there is ported the list of things that go to make up the Kansas ideal man. /lyre they are: Height, five feet eleven inches. Weight. 159 pound?. Chest, 40 inches expanded, 34 inches contracted. Waist, 30 1-2 inches. Must make a good appearance, but need not be handsome. Must be careful of personal appear ance, but not a dandy. Must bo jolly, accommodating, con siderate and a true sportsman. Must be a good conversationalist, but not a flatterer. Must revere and respect the aged. Must show courtesy to men and women. Must not smoke, drink or be guilty of attendant evils. Must not sneer at religion or joke lightly of it. Must not recognize a different stan dard for men and women. Tho physical qualifications were the averages taken from the reports of hundreds of girls of the State, each girl being asked to submit the meas urements of what she considered her ideal man. The nine commandments for the Ideal young man were chosen fmm hundreds of statements of girl* who were asked to specify th* re quirements each would make, and the nine Items most mentioned in the let ters were the ones taken as the av erage ideal young man. The physical tastes of the girls are cause for wonder. Some liked giants and some liked little fellows who would have to stand on a chair to button his wife's* gown. Unusually tall girl* liked short men. while plump girls liked tall, attenuated chaps. BOSTON FIRM FORMED TO BREED ‘SILVER-BLACK’ FOX BOSTON, April 21.—The raising of the Prince Edward Island "silver- blnck" fox ir making progress in Bos ton. A charter has been issued for a $850.0(0 company to be known as the Massachusetts* Silver-Black Fox Company. A pair of tested breeders of this type of fo> is worth from $30,000 to $30,001. "Prince Edward Island has long been noted a* one spot where > \er-black" foxes can be raised with succes: The industry began on the island twenty years ago. T NOW RESTORED OPERA IS PLAYED y ened by the ravages of years, could not endure the great happiness brought to him last Sunday, when "Alldor,” an opera, the favorite child of his brain, was rendered for the first time In Los Angeles by the People’s Orchestra under the direc tion of Charles Farwell Edson. Came to Amerioa in 1865. The man wa« a musical composer, and he wrote operatic music of rare order. Alfredo Jannotta was a native of Capus, Italy. He was bom in 1837. In 1S65 the singing master, his breast aflame with the call of the musical muse, thought he saw his oppor tunity in the country from which Mars had Just been evicted. He came to America at the close of the Civil War and made hie home in Chicago, then one of the outposts of the faraway West. The musical world at that time had a satiety of Verdis. Oounods and Llszis, and the young aspirant after lyric honors w’as only a beginner. Then came the operatic revival, but Puccini and the others seemed to have the call, writing their music from foreign climes. Fails of Appreciation. The poor American writer of mu sic, an exotic in art, failed of appre ciation. although he lived in his art and will live long after his deRth In the heart of every true musician. "Alidor” was his chief creation lr the operatic world of music. For the same reason that has denied invent ors and creators of all descriptions recognition in their own country and time, the opera failed to secure that recognition that would have brought plaudits and emolument to its crea tor. Puccini and the others came and won the laurels of victory, but not so with Jannotta. Dire necessity prompted the teach ing of the vocal art. The creator was com pell 2d to become a nurseryman in the orchard of Calliope, to bend the young voices in the way in which they should grow. Weeps for Joy. Last Sunday. Signor Jannotta was called to attend a rendition of '*All- dor," his best opera. It was a shock to the old man. He wept profusely after the concert, as he stepped forward and thanked Ed son and insisted on thanking each and every one of the members of the orchestra that had found him out. And last evening he died. The am bition of his life had been achieved. He had heard the plaudits of a de lighted audience. Signor Jannotta came to Los An geles about eight veers ago in the hope of recuperating higr falling health. HD home was in Oak Park. Chicago, where he leaves a widow and a son. The wife, torn be tween the husband and the son. vis ited him here at regular intervals Signor Alfredo Jannotta, 76, Passes Away When Happiest Hour of His Life Arrives. LOS ANGELES, pr'l 21.—Liter- ally killed by happiness. Signor Al fredo Jannotta, aged 76, a singing master and composer, breathed his last at the Hotel Victoria, Seventh and Hope Streets, yesterday after noon. The doctors, prosaic men who, un der the influence of their profession, see nothing but anatomical facts, wrote it down that the signor died of apoplexy. Those who know him best declare he died of Joy, that his frame, weak Kansas Pastor Sues Another for Slander Brings Suit for $10,000 Damages, and Town of Peru Is Divided Into Two Camps. SEDAN. KANS., April 21—The Rev. J. D. McBrian, formerly chaplain at the State Penitentiary and pastor of the Christian Church, at Peru, acting as* his own lawyer, has brought suit in the District Court here against the Rev. J. W. Brown, pastor of the Methodist Church, for $10,000 dam ages, alleging slander The suit is the result of a church row which has affected almost the entire population of Peru, which is divided between the two churches, and which has re sulted in several fistic arguments. j It is the outgrowth of a revival in the Christian Church some weeks ago, when a traveling evangelist, in one of his sermons, made a bitter attack on the Methodists and declared they “get all their religion out of their church discipline.” Suffragists Given Gallery in Congress Also Will Be Allowed to Distribute Petitions for Ballot Among the Lawmakers. WASHINGTON, April 21—Trie Committee on Rules of Congress has made the suffragists happy by send ing them 135 tickets to a special gal lery which has been allotted to the i women who will march to the Capitol on Monday and petition the members of the House and Senate for nation wide suffrage. The women also were notified that permission has been granted them to Invade the rotunda of the Capitol, and that ample provision would be made for them to distribute their pe titions for a nation-wide suffrage among the members. However they were instructed to j leave their bands and banners out side. SCOTT PARTY SURVIVORS GRAY-HAIRED OR BALD TORONTO. ONT.. April 21.—Two- thirds of tho survivors of the Scott polar expedition will comp home eith er gray-haired or bald. Alfred Wright to-day received from his son. r\ <? Wright, the phys cist of the ill-fat ed company that sought the South Pole, a letter which said this was a result of their hardships and suffer ings. NEW YORK, April 21.—Guarded day and night by heavily armed de tectives. little Olive Whitman, the two and one-half year old daughter of District Attorney Whitman, prat tles away undisturbed, while her mother watches over her in wide- eyed terror. Ever since the start of the police graft exposures in New York City, Mr. Whitman has been receiving threats of death and bodily injury. But the most cowardly threat in the whole deluge of rtanderous and in timidating letters is the message he has just received, threatening that his daughter would be kidnaped. "Do not let your baby out on the j street with her nurse,” it reeds, "un less there is a police guard.” For six months threat® have been flowing in upon the Whitman family, and tnough they often average two and three a diy, nothing ha? yet come of them. In the past fortnight Mr. Whitman’s veiled enemies have made thes*^ Threats- To blow him up with a bomb. I To "get him” if he dared show him- I self in certain streets in Harlem. To "plug” him if he ventured out j after dark. Some are vulgar and blasphemous, and demand that he let up in his fight against graft. Others vrge him to give the police a chance and at tack some of the other departments. Thu? far Mr. Whitman has never been molested or interfered with, and frequently makes night trips getting evidence, unattended. Likens Fashions to Lunatics' Fancy Ball Basil King, Author, Says Women’s Dresses Affect Their Morals. CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. April 21. Basil King, writer of fiction, declared to-day that the changing fashions of the modern women savor of the lu natic asylum, and that a woman's wearing apparel affects her morals for good or bad. "I walked down Fifth Avenue the other day and It was like being at a fancy dress ball in a lunatic asy lum," he said. "The more civilization was In creased the further people previously had come to covering their bodies up. The inclination of the present generation is on the down-grade, for women take off instead of put on. "The spiritual qualities of women dwell in their faces. Since their faces are hidden under hair or hat or put under a total eclipse by their clothes, the appeal women make is most decidedly to the grosser senses M RS. CHARLES S. WHITMAN, wife of New York’s militant prosecuting attorney, and her son who is threatened by letter with being kidnaped. The baby is being kept under guard j day and night. Ever since he started to expose the police graft situation, Mr. Whitman has been receiving threats of death.