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7 THE NEW BRITISH PREMIER. Public Opinion Prevails Over The Common Law By? 7oscoe Pound, of Nevada, President of the fSWNtV Jlmcrican Ear Association -o 3 AW is no longer anything sacred or mysterious. Judicial decisions are investigated and discussed freely by historians, economists and sociologists. The doctrines announced by the courts are debated by the press and have even been dealth with in political platforms. Laymen know full well that they may make laws and that knowledge of the law is no necessary prerequisite of far-reaching legislation. Tho legislative steam-roller levels the just rule with the unjust in the public anxiety to law out a new road. The introduction of the doctrine of comparative negligence in employer's liability statutes and recent statutes leaving questions of negligence wholly to juries, or, in other words, cutting off all assurance that like cases involving negligence will re ceive a like decision, the common law doctrine, at least as explained to the people, did not commend themselves to the public intelligence. In such cases, something is to be done; and it is done too often with but littla understanding of the old law, mischief or remedy. But we have no right to rail at such miscarriages. The public must move in such legal light as the -luminaries of the law afford. We must not make the mistake in American legal education of creating a permanent gulf between legal thought and popular thought. We may com mit this mistake merely by teaching legal pseudo-science and obsolete phil osophy, quite as much as by the more prevalent method of saying nothing about these matters at all, -leaving the student to pick pp what he may here and there in the cases and texts, with no hint that there are other conceptions and theories entertaine'd by scholars of no small authority, and to go forth in the belief that he is completely trained. In all cases cf divergence between the standard of the common law and and the standard of the public, it goes without saying that tho latter will prevail in the end. . Sooner or later what'public opinion demands will be rec ognized and enforced by the courts. A bench and bar trained in individaul 1st theories and firm in the persuasion that the so-called legal justice is an absolute and a necessary standard, from which there may be no departure without the destruction of the legal order, may retard, but cannot prevent progress to the newer standard recognized by the sociologist. In this prog ress lawyers should be conccious factors, not unconscious followers of popular thought, not conscious obstructors of the course of legal development. To this end it is the duty of teachers of law, while they teach scrupulously the law that the courts administer, to teach it in the spirit and from the stand point of the political, economic and sociological learning of to-day. It is their task to create in this country a true sociological jurisprudence, to de velop a thorough understanding between the people and the law, to insure that the common law remain, what its truest exponents have always insisted it is human reason. at it M t IS &fswmq$f Jv&QtltCiL Healing Experiment Initiated and Carried on with the Help of Leading Re urologists. Ey the lieu. Samuel McComb. N interesting and, it is believed, fruitful experiment has been going on in connection with Emmanuel church, Boston. The church is Protestant Episcopal, but the wTork it is seeking to do is human and universal, knowing no distinc tion of creed or social station. This effort may be described as an attempt to weld into friendly alliance the most pro gressive neurological knowledge of the schools and a prim itive New Testament Christianity as scholarship has dis closed it, with a view to the relief of human suffering and the transformation of human character. In the first place, the effort is scientific. It was initiated with the ap proval of some of tho leading neurologists of New England, and has been carried on not without their advice and co-operation. Hence it differs from the various mental-healing cults by freely acknowledging that if the mind exercises a profound influence over the body, the body no less really affects the mind. This commonplace is ignored by the quasi-theosophicai systems at present in vogue, and men and women are treated as if they were disem bodied spirits, instead "of being, as they really are, very much at the mercy of physiological processes. We distinguish, then, with science between "or ganic" and "functional" disorders, and we believe that the legitimate sphere for moral and psychical methods is that of the "functional," not the "organic," though even in the latter they are a valuable adjunct, inasmuch as they tend to strengthen the resistive powers of the patient against the pathological causes at work. We do not agree with those religious persons who would tie down the divine operation in healing diseases to one method, nor do we think that it betokens any lack of faith to suppose that God can heal by pure air, good water, and even by medicines compounded by human skill. Why should we tax our psychic energies with tasks which could be easily discharged by psychical instrumentalities? The Century. h a M M i Our Greatest Malady Is Lack of Individual Courage Ey Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University. Cf T fOOWW HE life of our own age shows no touch of system; it must of the cynic. You must devise your own system of success. The difficult questions of the day are moral questions. Who is he that doeth righteousness in our modern life? Every affair of life takes on more and more the aspect and practice of wide organization; each man finds himself a small part of some great whole, whose operation is decided by votes taken about 'long tables in directors' rooms, whose morals are composite morals. This is our peculiar and fundamental moral problem where and how to separate the individual from the mass. You will find that you cannot pool your consciences; you had better, then, not try to pool your morals. Wrong is conceived in the individual heart, not in boards and committees, and those who participate stain themselves with the same iniquity with which the au thor and originator of the wrong is blackened. We shall find our reforms not in law but in conscience. Look about you with candid eye end you shall find that the malady of the age is lack of individual courage, lack of individual integrity of thought and action. A democratic country more than any other needs for its enrichment, for Its growth, for that variation which is life, men by the score, the hundred, the thousand, who have indomitable intellectual moral initiative. It' needs more than that; it needs men by the hundred thousand, who will not submit to be put in the wrong, who will not sell their consciences, who will not run with the crowd out of craven fear and in despite of their convictions. And where shall we get such men if not from the colleges, if not from among you who know the truth, if you would but follow it? RT. HON. HERBERT HENRY ASQUITII. The new hand at the helm of state in Great Britain is that of a law yer, the first since the days of Pitt. Mr. Asquith i3 the twenty-sixth Premier since the beginning of the nineteenth century. He is a Yorkshire man by birth, in his fifty-sixth year, an Oxford scholar, of whom Dr. Jowett once remarked: "I never knew his equal for trenchancy and force." It !s believed that Mr. Asquith, following the precedent set by Sir Robert Peel n 1842 and 1S45, will Introduce the budget, thus superseding the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, as Peel superseded his Chancellor. ' Attachment For Pitchers. A peculiar and unique invention just patented is shown in the illustra tion below. This drip cup was de signed to provide a simple means of! preventing the contents of pitchers and similar vessels aving a dis charge spout trickling on the table or on whatever object they happen to be placed. The drip cup is secured tc the receptacle beneath the spout. Steel Belting. Consul Frank S. Hannah, of Mag deburg, writes that in a recent issue of a German technical paper, the use of steel bands to take the place of leather belting for the transmission of power is stated to have proved practicable after repeated tests by a firm in Charlottenburg, its advan tages being given as follows: The points of superiority claimed for this new method for the trans mission of power are the following: On account of its solidity a much narrower band can be used, one sixth of the widtn of the use of leather band being sufficient; as a result of this the steel band is not so heavy as the usual band, and, as it can be very tightly adjusted, the distance between the engine and the machine is not a matter of impor tance, as is the case with the leather belting, where the transmission of power is dependent upon the weight of the hanging belt; by a unique con tact, the slipping is much reduced, experiments showing not over one tenth of one per cent. The entire loss of power is very small, about one per cent. By the lightness of weight of the steel belting, the influence ol the centrifugal force is not so great, allowing increased velocity. Americans Fond of Oysters. According to t"he United States bu reau of statistics, it appears that the production of oysters in the United States exceeds 16,000,000 bushels per annum. Oklahoma, although the youngest State, has ninety-three Catholic churches in the care of seventy-six priests. Amoosin' Lecture by A. Ward. "I haven't distinguished myself as an artist," Artemus Ward said, "but have always beou mixed up in art. I have an uncle who takes photographs in his sane moments, and I have a servant who takes everything he can lay his hands on at any moment. "At a very tender age I coujd draw on wood. When a mere child I once drew a small cart-load of raw tur nips over a wooden bridge. It was a raw morning. ' The people of tho village recognized me. They said it was a raw-turnip - drawing. That shows how faithfully I had copied nature. I drew their attention to it, so you see there was a lot of drawing in it. "The villagers, with the wonderful discernment peculiar to villagers, said I had a future before me. As I was walking backward when I made my drawing, I replied that I thought my future must be behind me." Youth's Companion. Unobtainable. The Doctor's AVife "Well, Jane, so your poor husband's gone at last. Didn't you give him his medicine properly?" Jane "Ah, poor dear, how could I? Doctor said as how it was to be Look in a recumbent position, an I "adn't got one. I asked Mrs. Green to lend me one. She said she ad one, but it was broke! So it were no good." The Sketch. AN OKLAHOMA BELLE. - '&Ty a V " J? &ty$w-&hb& ' ; if-" - r Pliowa Indian Maiden, In Her Buck skin Belt. An Editor's Confession. . A New York paper asks: "Can a woman dress on $20,000 a year?" Our wife does, and she is a large woman, too. Bernard (Kan.) Bee, The Tram? "Gee! I wonder is dere's a pair o' No. 10's( In de bunco." -From Bi-ooklyn Life. rew York City. Never has there a. prettier style been in vogue than that of the over blouse and it suits '''''' j the young girls so peculiarly well that It is a special favorite among the younger contingent. Here is one i one and one-half yards forty-four inches wide with one-half yard eight een inches wide for the centre front, three-quarter yard thirty-two Inches wide for the,centre front, three-qua-ter yard thirty-two inches wide for the trimming to make as illustrated. Velvet Trimming. , An acceptable trimming for tail ored and semi-tailored costumes is a thiu weave of chiffon velvet. Child's Reefer. There is no coat worn by the srnill girl that quite takes the place of t.fcj .reefer. It is very generally boom ing, it is simple yet absolutely smart in effect and It can be slipped on and off with the greatest possible e3se. This one is made of white serge witlt' collar and cuffs of Copenhagen blue, but the model can be utilized for every material that is in vogue far little girls' coats. White is always pretty and attractive, but dark red dark and medium blues and mixtures are all in vogue, while for the real warm weather linen, pique and pongee all are liked. The little coat is made simply wlt3 the loose fronts and back and with? ihe big sailor collar. The sb13 when worn is buttoned into place "oe- that is charmingly graceful and at tractive and which can be utilized either separately or joined to the skirt, making a semi-prineesse dress as liked. In the illustration the ma terial is pongee with bands of taf feta, while the centre front is made of all-over embroidery, but almost all materials that are used for girls' dresses are appropriate and it will be found equally satisfactory for the thin materials of the present and for the slightly heavier, ones of the near future. The centre-front por tion is a feature and can be made of anything in contrast. Banding's can be utilized, and some of the Oriental effects are exceedingly handsome, while again, the bands on the blouse itself can be cut from any contrasting material or could be of the same em broidered or braided with soutache, or banding could be applied over them. The blouse is made with the fronts, centre front and backs. The sleeves are cut in one with it and there are trimming straps which conceal the shoulder seams while the shaped strap finishes the neck, front and back edges. The closing is made in visibly at the back. The quantity of material required for the sixteen year size is two and seven-eighth yards twenty-one or twenty-four, two yards thirty-two or neath the collar and closed at the back. The full sleeves are finished with roll-over cuffs, but the plaic KmBroidered Net. An exceedingly pretty touch Is giv en the hand-embroidered waist by basting a fine net under certain fig ures before embroidering them, cut ting out the material afterward so that the figures appear to be of em broidered net. ones are simply stitched to simulate straight ones. The quantity of material required for the medium size (six years) U three and one-eighth yards twenty seven, one and three-quarter yards forty-four or one and one-half yards fifty-two inches wide with one-halt yard forty-four inches wide for col lar and cuffs. Hair Worn Plain. On occasions when hats are dis carded the hair Is worn plain, or adorned with beads or paillettes, the ribbons being quite abandoned. HatIlibbons. New hat ribfons show an immense white nolka del on deep colored back. grounds, such iJrkVed, m goiaen Drown ; d er"een. Three yardg will make a i. aCrous bow. 'A f4-
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