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A , #*« TTFF ATLANTA OKOROTAN AND NEWS, MONDAY, APRT L 21, 1913. Hubs me va f; V^| 41* - • •« OSLEHS SPEECH Confidant-Confessor to 800 Law Breakers |]| [j fj " SITS f Kirden Moyer Shares Woes of Prisoners Cardinal Will Ask Old Friend to Retract Criticism of Catholic Faith as Superstition. BALTIMORE, MU April 21.— When part of the Hpeech of 8ir Wil- ’ liam Osier, at the dedicatory exercise* of the Phipps Psychiatric clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, was read to Cardinal Gibbons the prelate exclaimed: "I am shocked! Sir William, who is profeasor of medicine in Oxford University, said, i n part Primitive views will prevail ev erywhere of man's relation to the world and to the uncharted region about him So recent is the control of the forces of nature that even In • he most civilised countries man has not yet adjusted himself to the new conditions and stands only hall awake rubbing his eyes Ninety-nine per cent of our fel low creatures, when in trouble, sor row or sickness, trust to charms, in cantation* and to the saints. Many a shrine has more followers than Pasteur; many s saint more believ ers than Lister. Less than twenty years have pass «d since the last witch was burned in the British Isles' Mentally, the race is still in lead ing strings, in the childhood of the world we ran 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 tacked. These scientific specialist* think their statements should go unchal lenged, but this one of Dr. osier 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 fact that Pasteur was a devoted Catholic and put his trust in the saints. He said that as bis knowledge of medicines increased Ms faith grew likewise. The state ments attributed to Dr. Osier arc an attack on Christianity. ”1 am surprises that he 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 based 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 conclusion* are overthrown by later discoveries. ‘The Catholic Church is not found- 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 is alarmed by the condition of tli« head of the church, and changes In hl« health are of groat interest— more, perhaps, than that of any scientist whom we know now Dr. Osier Perturbed. Dr. Osier, when informed that the »'ardinal regarded his reported ut terances as an attack on Christianity, appeared to be greatly disturbed. ”1 am no enemy of the saints,” he declared ”1 will tulk to my friend I he Cardinal about this gs soon as 1 get back from New Haven." Sir William made It clear that he regretted the exception taken by the Cardinal to hi# remarks. And that h® intends to see the Cardinal about it. He mentioned the Cardinal's name in a way that indicated that his feel ings toward the Prelate are kindly and that he is eager to have an op portunity to settle the difference by a heart-to-heart talk. Man to Man Talks to Head of Federal Prison Lighten Burden of Wearers of Stripes. It is Tuesday afternoon at the At lanta Federal Prison. Two score con victs are waiting on their appoint ments for interviews with Warden W. T. Moyer. They are going to tall him variously of their hopes, their fears, their joys, their sorrows. The number Is there, more or less, every Tuesday {Afternoon, because then Warden Moyer in the confidant and father confessor of the men in his charge, to whom they go eagerly with their troubles. ■ They talk to me about everything under the sun,” said the Warden yes terday, explaining the “man to man” system which has its application it the prison. "About business troubles and family troubles, about life and death, about themselves and thiir consciences And, some juK talk." It is a part of the "humanity” sys tem at the Federal Prison that it is so. Tuesday afternoons have been set apart as the time when the prisoner may forget his stripes, may become a man with Warden Moyer, and may talk out of his heart. 2.000 Hav® Interviewed Warden. Since the custom of Tuesday after noon interviews began, nearly two years ago. about 2,000 men have talked thus to the Warden. Each prisoner has access to request blanks on which he may frame a 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 day and night. Ever since he started to expose the police graft situation, Mr. Whitman has been receiving threats of death. Blood Transfusion Costs Father’s Life Failing to Save Dying Baby, Hagar Shive. Himself, Falls Victim to White Plague. NEW YORK. April 21.—Among his friends the death of Hagar Shive, a liveryman of Whitestone, L J., who died yesterday, is attributed to his heroic effort to save one of his chil dren from deatii. The child, a boy fifteen months old, uttering from tuberculosis of the bone, was In the Babies’ Hospital, this city, last December. In the hope of saving it the father submitted to an operation for transfusion, giving I up a large quantity of his blood. The | effort was in vain, and h few days *ater the infant died. The father never full> recovered from the shock and his death was due to tubercu losis. Shive is survived by a widow and. : nr Ant child He was twenty-four! yeans old. POLICEMAN HAS ONLY ‘LIGHT 1 BREAKFAST; LOOK AT MENU KANSAS CITY, April 21.—Sam Se ! btee weighs 292 pounds* and ia six I feet six inches tall He is a patrol man on the North Side, it takes -i large amount of fuel to keep a *vs- tem like that of Sam's going He complained thus yesterday morning at 11:30 o’clock: "I had an awful light! breakfast this morning. 1 guest-* 1 will go have lunch.” "What did you have to cat this j 8am?” was asked, and this tggf. bacon. buttered toast, of coffee. went to the restau formal application for an audience with the big. hearty man wno is the prison's guardian. The application al. way, 1 ' is grunted, 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 whut he has heard. Not even under the veil of anonymity will he tell you of incidents In the Inter views; he is the confessor of the men. and there ie something sacred In the position. Man To Man Talks. But about the "man to man” scheme in general he 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 business affairs are going wrong, and come to me for ad vice. or for assistance in communi cating with one man or another. They want to know what to do. In these cases it is not hard "With others something is-wrong 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 1b Just to lis ten, and to help when 1 can. Some times there is nothing to do to help except to listen. But that seems to help some, they say." Heart Pangs of Prisoners. Sometimes, he 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. Emotions have come *o the prisoner-father that swell over and beyond the walls of the peniten tiary, and somebody must share them, it is Warden Moyer’s mission. Sometime!* a death has occurred at home. A long-term convict, maybe for the time In a mood of revulsion against the stripes and the barred doors, hears this news and must have sympathy “It is hard to bear your troubles alone after a time in prison,” the Warden comments, “there is some thing behind the walls that softens a man’s heart in affliction, and that brings him to yearn for sympathy and companionship.” A Tuesday afternoon interview seems to mend the trouble. There Is sympathy from the big man in the office, the sympathy of a man to an other man Not the sympathy of a guard to a convict. Comfort to Sufferers. “Some men come to Trie,” he went on. explaining the system, “who have not heard from their homes and rela tives. They come at times with a fear in their heart that they hesitate to express. Something is wrong at home. "The letters that they mailed are not answered after days and weeks Maybe there is no reply for months." The men who have lain In their cells, sleepless night after sleepless night, wondering why they have not heard thinking everything, fighting all the time against the sense of itn- potency. praying, with fists clenched and with teeth locked, for just n word GRAFT IN EGYPT — Wilsons Move Upstairs to Live, Converting Lower Floor Into Reception Rooms. WASHINGTON, April 21.—For- sons familiar with the interior of the White House during the last ad ministration would find themselves in unfamiliar quarters did they enter the presidential*home to-day. In the six we* ks of her residence Mrs. Wilson has made a complete transformation in the appearance of the lower suite. Mrs. Taft the blue, red and green rooms a.s 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, blue and green rooms have been re stored to their earlier estate and will be used only on formal or semi-for mal occasions. The big tiger skin rug which in Mrs. Taft's day was a feature of the furnishing of the blue room, with the baby grand piano which stood near the couth window, i has been shipped to New Haven with sir Tift's peaieMidM The innumerable tea tables which Mrs. I Taft'had set about in almost every ’ room have disappeared, and so have j countless pieces of bric-a-brac and J many picture?. The furnishings which the ftresi- i dent and Mrs. Wilson brought to the White House have been placed up stairs. The old-fashioned library with the fine piano in now the living room. Miss Margaret Wilson, the musician of the family, brought her j «>wn piano from Princeton, an<l this j 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 I numerous •anvuses and photographs that beautified the modest home at 25 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, have I found a place in the family quarters. Mrs. Wilson has her tea table set in the red room for her more formal & 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 as the “Roosevelt china." Nowadays it is at an early hour j that the President and his household gather for the morning meal in the breakfast room. The luncheons and dinners in the state dining room also ire served at a much earlier hour i than for past Presidents, and uunc- tuality to the fraction of a minute I? ! the watchword of the new family. | The President himself is never a sec- ! °nd lat*- and the domestic machinery of the household moves with the pre cision of clockwork. Ideal Husband Need Not Be Handsome: Standard Is Fixed Signor Alfredo Jannotta, 76, Passes Away When Happiest Hour of His Life Arrives. LOB ANGELES, pril 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 Money Trust and Special Inter ests Flourished in King Ha-Em-Hab’s Reign. ARE Min Rural Population Flocking to the Cities Responsible—Schools and Farms Also Deserted. PHILADELPHIA. April 21- Egypt 4,000 years ago was troubled with a money trust, special Interests, graft ers ami other ills that American flesh is heir to in the twentieth century, according to Dr. Max Muller, of the University of Pennsylvania, in a lec ture on “The History of Egypt." King Ha-Em-Hab, according to Dr. Muller, had the time of his life when he started to ascertain the causes of poverty of the Egyptians. First His Majesty found tnat a lot of ward heelers were making a good thing out of his harem. The King prided himself that his harem was the smallest over known. He had only 800 wives. His predeces sors had double that number But 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 was surprised to learn one day that a group of ancient grafters who had the contract for furnishing his maidens with hair oil, lingerie and dancing slippers, were using “the unit" system to secure 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 on draught. But it appears that the clerks in the brewery office were charging the Gov ernment for fancy drinks that the brewery employees were putting down their own throats At least so history relates. » Professor Muller said that Ha-Em- Hab issued a decree against all sorts of grafting and placed offenders in the penitentiary. Criminals had their ears and noses cut for identification purposes before Bertlllon was thought of COUNT WEDS WAITRESS AFTER HOTEL ROMANCE PRINCE ALBERT. SASK.. April 21. -From the rank of a dining room girl to that of Countess of the Court of Denmark is the step taken by Lena Roy, of this city, formerly of Fall j River, Mass Miss Roy wa? married I to Hugo VonHolstein Rathbon. eldest son and heir of Lord Frederick Emi! VonHolstein Rathbon. of Denmark, and they left immediately for a short trip through the United States, after which they will go to Denmark. The Count met Miss Roy when she was employed in a hotel in Fall River. hut returned to Denmark to obtain the consv, • of hiv parents to tht- marriage WASHINGTON April 21 Clergy 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, the Census Bureau show that the population of the rural United States is declining. In 35 per cent of the counties of the country the population decreased during the 1900-1910 decade. Thli decrease has worked a grave hard ship upon the churches, and also has caused the abandonment of many schools, the loss of employment bj hundreds of school teachers and a general decline of the parts of tht country in which It has 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 lads until they leave home . Statistics compiled by the Play ground and Recreation 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 1,000 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 h*s sounded a warning in repeated bulletins, declaring this to be one of the greatest dangers to country l^fe in America. The department places a goodly share of the blame on the farmer, so called, who travels from one end of the country to the other year af er 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 comes careless and leaves-behind him a wake of destruction which, after only one season, requires Severn 1 years to repair. 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 potted the list of things that go to make up she Kansas ideal man. Here they are: Height, five feet eleven inches. Weight. 159 pound.®. (’best, 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 be 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. The 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 from hundreds of statements of girl* who were asked to specify the 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 girls 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- blaek” fox i? making progress in Bos ton A charter has been issued for a $350,000 company to be known as the Massachusetts* Silver-Black Fox Company. A pair of tested breeders o? this type of fox is worth from $30,000 to $35,000. Prince Edward Island has long boon noted as one spot where “silver-black” foxes can be raised with .sucoos- The Industry began on the iaitwui twenty year* ago ened by the ravages of years, could not endure the great happiness brought to him last Sunday, when “Alidor.” 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 America in 1865. The man was a musical composer, and he wrote operatic music of rare order. Alfredo Jannotta was a native of Capus, Italy. He was born in 1837. In 1865 the singing master, his breast aflame with the call of the musical piuse, 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 his home in Chicago, then one of the outposts of the faraway West. The musical world at that time had a satiety of Verdis, Gounods and Liszls, and the young aspirant after lyric honors was 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 w'riter of mu sic, an exotic in art, failed of appre ciation, although he lived in his art and will live long after his death in the heart of every true musician. "Alidor" was his chief creation in the operatic world of music. For the same reason that ha* 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 compelled to become a nurseryman in tne 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 “Ali dor," his best opera. It was a shock to the old man. He wept profusely ^fter 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 ha^i found him out. And last evening he died The am bition of his life had been achieved. He had heard tht? plaudits of a de lighted audience. Signor JannottA came to Los An geles about eight years ago in the, hope of recuperating his falling health. His hlnme was in Oak Park, Chicago, J where he leaves a widow ond a so in. The wife, tom be tween the husbaiid and the son vis ited him here at j regular Intervals 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 a?* his own lawyer, has brought suit in the District Court here against the Rev. J. \V. 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. 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 dec lared 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—The 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 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 leave their bands and banners out side. 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 slanderous 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 street with her nurse,” it reads, “un less there is a police guard." For six months threats have been flowing in upon the Whitman family, and though they often average two and three a day, nothing ha? yet come of them. In the past fortnight Mr. Whitman’s veiled enemies have made thes'f threats- % To blow him up with a bomb. To “get him” if he dared show' him self in certain streets in Hariem. To "plug” him if he ventured out after dark. Some are vulgar and blasphemous, and demand that he let up In his fight against graft. Others nrge him to give the police a chance and at tack some of the other departments Thus 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. SCOTT PARTY SURVIVORS •GRAY-HAIRED OR BALD TORONTO, ONT., April 21.—Two- thirds of the survivors of 'the Scott polar expedition will come home eith er gray-haired or bald. Alfred Wright to-day received from his son, C. S. Wright, the physicist 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. 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 ’ civilisation was in creased the further people previous^ 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 dw'ell in their faces. Since their faces are hidden under hair or ha- or put under a total eclipse by their clothes, the appeal women make Is most decidedly to the grosser senses