WHY WILL WOMEN GET OFF A CAR THE WRONG...

IN THE PINAL STAGE OF SLEEPINGSICKNESS.

WHY WILL WOMEN GET OFF A CAR THE WRONG WAY?

NEW-YORK DATTT TRTRT XE, SUNDAY, APRTL 11, 1909.

young on?s who are agile in tight corsets, and withtheir young strength overcome the binding of thestays to such a degree that they get off the carsproperly.

"It Is the large, fat women, laced to the lastpoint of durance, who have the most trouble.They are compressed as If in a steel case. They

cannot bend, and in consequence getting off a carIs a hard task for them.

"The strong scrubwoman, who does not wear cor-sets, can Set off a car as easily as a man andfare In the right direction while doing it."i It was self-evident that the streetcar companymust find a remedy for woman's facing backward.Ifone existed. The riddle remained unsolved untilthe other day, when a bright idea was carried to

President Mitten. The Idea was suggested by theword ""co-operation," and meant a new appeal to

the public. So. In place of the 65 per cent placards,Mr. Mitten has ing works of the lithographer'sart in all his car?. These are pictures of the sideof a poy-as-you-e.nter car. with a woman getting offbackward and falling down amid her burden ofbundles at one end of the coach. .while at the otherthere I? represented another woman alighting withupright -poise end smiling face.

THE REMEDY ANNOUNCED.Tacked on the side of the car In the picture,

wherein the pen shown are sketched in brillianthues of orange and black and blue, there is a signIn big letters pf Jet. Half of the signs are In-scribed:

Right underneath that order there Is a. biack jhand, which plays no part In a death threat extor-tion game, but serves a. good purpose. With Indexfinger pointed st the woman alighting face for-ward, her ielt hand gripping Mr.Baer"s safety rod. iit calls attention to this notice: "The Right Way."Beiow there Is another hand pointing toward thetumbling woman, with this sinlstei expression:

The Wrong Way." The other half of the signsroan as folloivs:

Below this sign, also, two black hands direct wo- 1men to observe the Illustrated "Right"and "Wrong*1

ways. Thus Js the many million dollar tramway ,corporation trying to overcome the 111 effects of Itight lacing on

- •reet car travel. ?The city governments campaign is being carried

on through the Board of Education's physics] cul-ture department in the high schools. All of thegymnasium exercises are d«*itjr.*d. not only toassist In the physical development of the girls andto make them strong end agile, but also to makethem selr-relialnt as regards their own safety.Bpedal attention is given lo the danger •' street-car travel.

Chicago Blames Their Corsets a^nd Tries to Curethe Dangerous Ha.bit.

PLACARDS BY WHICH CHICAGO HOPES TO TEACH HER WOMEN HOW TO GET OFF STREETCARS PROPERLY. WHILE PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE SAMEART IS BEING GIVEN TO GIRLS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

CHARITY TOWARD SUICIDES SEEMS TO INCREASE

WHAT DiD HE MEAN?.* i beiieve that every Intelligent woman-

"But. Senator, 1 understood that you we;* op-posed to women's 6uftrage?

"Iam."—Judge.

Professor F. C. Buck, principal of the Lake ViewHigh School, where Professor roener set the pre-

cedent, was enthusiastic over \u25a0.\u25a0 results. "Alimb, he said, "is better than five minutes of timeany day. It Is better to take a littie tinia and

think In 6*i*ln„ <•** a car than to lose an arm or aleg or a foot, even !f a person hae to be late.

There is much danger for women In the streetcars,

•specially so since the ir.sralla.tion Of these pay-as-you-enter kind, which have, a dearth ol handle? to

graep when getting on or off ItIs always diffi-

cult for women to get off a car. The great troublepeenis to be tiiat ahe doesn't learn from observa-

tion how It ... We are teaching the girls

how to get along in Chicago wltihout being in

danger of getting under car wheels."Cnto C. Schneider, president of the Board of

Education, expressed his indorsement of the teach-Ing as follows: "So many cf our girls are entering

business life that It is a good thing to tea them

how to take care of themselves."

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Emll Groer.ei. physical instiuctor, is creditedwith estabJishir.g in th« Chicago ncr.' the nrstclasses in the science and art of mounting «nddismounting from a streetcar platform. ll© con-structed a small car. whose platform wat theheight of that of an ordinary trolley car arid hada step at the side. Several girls would »-e!*a arope atid Aral this car around the symnaslum.\u25a0while others practiced jumpingon and off th« mov-ir.g- veLicle, learning to swing- the body properlyso as to overcome the momentum tnd jat:d face for-ward oil their leet '.:. aiig-htlng.

TVlth. the !nstaJl3.tiou of this car the Chicago

City Railway Cornpar;y, operating under a newfrsrchlse. set out to give lte long suffering strap-

tfcr.ger jja.trons, ts President Thomas 71. Mitten•msouncec. "the best service !r. the world." Pur-

r-&r.t to the intention Mr. Mitten hung up at the{rest er.d of every car a placard inviting the co-Bpera-tlor. of th* public and closing with a state-

ment nlznosi as l:.spirlng as ••Remember theMelse!" the exact phrase being: "The city g^ts 5Sj,er c«r.*-

"' By that n-ean« bia constantly remindedtie cltlzerj that In return for its new franchise

ise cc— par.y was putting 55 i-er cent of everyr^ckei Lack into the pockr-ts of tliose who paidfares, granting, cf course, that it would meander

rack to the taxpayers In so;ue way through The-'.ty treasury. Into which oj per cent of th« com-pmsy'a groi« receipts was to t>e poured.

Fr-Fi^e-t Mitten, who learned in Buffalo hoiv to

opente *great city traction eystem. placed Ir:-

fpectors m the cars to ascertain whether the^pub-

Ua ttss co-epcrattog and to study the hablta of theTipple, that they might suggest methods of lm-p:-o\-irjr C»e tervu-e. It was these insptctois who

ma-x the great tight with regard to corsets. Theirfil»«>very wa-- r^a",;.- incidental. What they werea:>e:- was an I^ca to change, the habi:? of tho

tner. for Pre^dent Mitten had received a thousandtad one coanplamUi that his cars were always fullof "seat hogs." and that the second man who

triodl to occupy part of a seat, unless he were tx-

cepttaozJly narrorr. had to hang half way over in

tt« centri ai-le. which naturally obstructed the

lr.gress «-pr*-bS of others. No remedy for the

--ear hog" wis found. Woman alone figured in the

inspectors' reports, mads to a modest individual.-rTI-o held the humble offlce of bam superintendent.

Fred C. Baer by naive. Mr. Baer announced the

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MERE MAN THE DISCOVERER.il;r» man was the discoverer who started the.

r»forrr.£ticT. that is in progress. The pay-as-you-

«r.ter csj was his magic alembic. Before and forc lorg tin:e after the advent cf this specific meansc* transportation, ir. CJilcago. woman was concededto have ot.b Inviolable characteristic of femininity,gome of her sex might affect a more cr less mas-euUr? mod* of garments, seize and prove her rightto occupy man's ofile© chair and- in other things

pet away as far s.s possible from the proclivities

o* their oid-fa^i^ortcd grandmothers, but every-where &.r.d always the newest of the new womenretair.ed the distinguishing trait of facln? backwardin hoppiTy? or «TriTigiii£ or siepplr:^ from a street-

car. And nvsr& man was willingthat she^ should.far aMi It enable him to play the pa'2ar:t andminister to her dej^ndency. with his strength? But,c .a*

' Ths Chicago schools and the pay-as-you-

»nter ran divesting vrozran of the one niark thatfcarks back to chivalry.

TTesteni investigation of a problem that has con-fßuadeJ r^yc^o'ogists and perplexed coroners'Juries «ver since the day when the 10-vcly muleb«pan dragging- the first bob-tailed passenger carthrough a city's streets has brought forth one newanswer to The question. Why dees woman Ignorethe latrs of nioticn and alieht the wrong: way froma. streetcar, with a consequent fall on her face !fthe vehicle is not standing stiM? The reply is:Ccrfet:;tight lacing.

Having ai-q-jired this momentous information asto cause, the municipal frovernmer.t of Chicago andth« Chicago City Railway Company are undertak-ing to-day to nullify the effect. They have de-crt-efl thst woman must abandon her inherited habit,

not of wearing corsets— althoush the new kindthat extend! down near the knees is said to irn-p*rl!her ".!> where the discarded style merely ren-dered her jikely tr> puffer a broken nose— but thehabit of emulating the forgetful Mrs. Ix>t whenrlie step? off a car platform. Through its publiceclsools the city is instructing the pirls to faceForma By means of mechanical appliances and\u25a0warning posters the public service tramway cor-poration Is trying to reform woman herself.

As there ar^ two powers thus engaged •i thiscrusade, ss thai is a double motive behind it.Th* chief purpose is to reduce to a minimum thenumber of traction casualties, to prevent suffer-t-g. to preserve human "facts from scars incident

'\u25a0- violent collisions with rough pavements of woodand stone, to avert the breaking of legs and armsand to sa-ve gowns from being splotched with mudor torn Into strings. But there Is a financial a?

-K-eli as humanitarian object. By decreasing thet<?tel cf accidents both the municipality and thecorporation's mar.apemeni hope to destroy thetrade of the "ambulance chaser" and to escape de- !

7ietir.f: their treasuries in settling numerous claims jfor damages and persona.] injury suits, for which, j

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Whiie self-destruction remains a crime in thesight of civilized man. many persons are now-

adays disposed to view this act with a greater

amount of charity than in former times. A

tendency to deal gently with those who whenconfronted by trouble or disgrace have souphtrefuge in death is indeed one of the features

of the first decade of this twentieth century.

Ever growing enlightenment has brought withIt an increase in the understanding- of misery

and In sympathy for suffering It is only nat-

ural that this disposition to kindlier Judgments

should find its chief expression in those Churcheswhich were taught by their Founder that thegreatest and most Indispensable of all virtues

ie charity. Under the circumstances the an-nouncement need <?xcitw no surpriai that theconvocation at Lambeth, ufter carefully con-sidering and discussing tiie matter, has decidedto recommend to the King-, as the supreme head

ol the Church, a modification of its laws, In

such a mariner as to provide Christian burial

for the self-slain.

Church of England Tc\kes

Steps to Provide Christian

BuriaJ for Them.

of Parliament ai U• srr;iinster.

invocation cannot be-. the sanction of the sov-

ereign ipreme head of the (.Tiurch.

Its resolutions take the form of recommenda-' ' •• King who, if he approves of them,

" a order of the Privy-.is wil]In the matter.

RECOMMENDS SPECIAL SERVICE.• - ng the v!pws of

f the i'hurch ofat Lambeth ha

-• .:'rimace, to the King

for his apj what !s dluty and

:the Inten-self-slaln. Where

like\u25a0 is In more mod-

ern times always permitted the ordinary burialases where the

struction been est . dellb-•> existing: liturgies

nave isly inappropriate and ou:of p!a a been omitted and

\u25a0 5 beei refused by the clergy.new alternative commitment service.

drawn up by the Archbishop and bishops andclergy of the convocation of Lambeth, ani ir;-

as a matter of form by the convocationof York, is for use at the burial of intentional

B, so that their relatives may have the: aion of feeline that they have received• -.an burial; and after receiving the sane-

of the Archbishop of that city. But sincehe and the six dioetsan bishops of his province

are obliged to be In London while Parliamenttend to their duties in the House

of Lords, and are therefore rarely at>ie to put inan appearance at the northern convocation, it

a that save where purely local matters\u25a0 d the real business of th.* Church

Is transacted by the convocation in London, the•d engage our attention.invocation meets '.n response to- -. erelgn. Issued through the

: Can erbury, and holds its ses-tter's ancient palace of Lambeth.

concurrent!} with those of Parliament at West-r, on the opposite bank of the River

Thami-

Itis l.'.id^d into an ui>per and a lowerhouse, r consisting .if the Primate ofAll Enplano and the twenty-four diocesan

• •. while the other ia com-.- fins, elxty-one arch-

• t.!.i»p proctorj, or elected rep-ih<> cathedral chapters, and

forty-six proctors for rise benefited or parish

HUNTING FOR A SLEEPING SICKNESS ANTITOXINTHE UGANDA TSE-

TSE FLY.flyTha^t Gives the DiseaLse

Thick in Uganda. WhereMr. Roosevelt Goes.

A^*^Tc:ng to an »"\u25a0 y\ umfiiin-u i»-i»jiu. nacu-

tlsta ere braiding vp !iop*-8 of combating the d*adly

r'.eepins: sickness of Africa with the co-operation of»s.pr*.Fj(s«u Boosevelt. The distinguished hunter.It la rumored, willcontribute a sample- of Ms blood

to be used as «n antitoxin in the treatment of sh«ilary d!?«-aju% a:.< 3it if confidently predicted that thevirile fluid.which caused bo much commotion amonK

A.rr.eri<raTis^:n the last f=e\ci! years -a ill put the Afri-cwi microbe to rout. Unfortunately for the eredl-t:'.'*; ':' this r>r irirt. ihere \*not enough blood in the

Tio"s^vehlan *yF-.*m:o supply a fraction of the de-mand for such an antitoxin, and the most ard«-nthumanitarian mould not wish such a depletion ofthe hiin'er'" vebn ds \u25a0would reduce his vigor In• 'ayii-K Uona end writing the serial history of )>is

«d.^rt'j-e« K-s admirals «-\«n ft-ar that Mr.

Boosevelt may ffsi! k victim to th*- disease con-\<-y*o by th^ fly, and though he escapes with IllsBfe. may netUTB to civtllzfttion a changed man

—so

Q'ii** ard iasFitudinous as to \* unrecognizable byDK^eXactora and other u'ld'-sirable citizens.

That tr r. F'.eepins sickness ha* attained the di-tr:»r;s.one of .. Rerlou« plague may be judged fromth« f»rt that to the last * ig^ht years ithas destroyedwtr two hundred thousand natives in Uganda, ort^o-t^irds of the total population. It Is rapidly•prtiding over Africa, having dc-ciinated tiie r^pu-\z.H:jt.t of ton:o sections of the \u25a0• jongo Free State, andtsv£<;^<2 -r.e Frtcch Congo, the Soudir.. Orni&n K;i*tA*- .. Rhodesia and th< lJr:Ti.-!i Central Africaproftctorat*. Not a fr-«s- Europeans i.aye \>e^n at-tack«-o by the dieea*^ some of them developing ti<^•ynsptona ifter :".:r.\!:.g apparently unscathed toth»lr northern homes. Several government oommli-B'-r-.s arc now In the field studying the malady andendeavoring to find a cere. An K:.«^ish commissionfc^td^d by Sir l>aviJ Eruce. one i.f the scientist*•rfae fiiscoientd the deadly work of the Bleeping i':ckn«-v» }•..-_ has c Eta.-r,lj<thr«l a laboratory on the Inorthern ehor* of Lake Victoria. The French gov- ictsment has stt up a. Bl&eplng sickness laboratory«-t Brazzivillt, hi trio I'r'.ncii Congo, under the dl-KCtlOa of Dr. G. Marthi.XU rnj-tierj- at ihe Bleeping eicixtss was partly

Iunveiled in 1302 by Dr. Aldo Castellan!, who four;'':

ja bacterium called trypanosome in cerobro-spinaljRaid taken from patients whom he had under ob!Eervatlon at Entebbe. Sir David Bruce then demon-j strated that the fly conveyed the germ to the

Ihuman system. There are now known to be eight!sj'eci^s of tsetse flies, all of them blood puckinp.jday flying inserts resembling the common fliesjof northern zon«»s. They infest thickets, fords,

imarshes and lake regions, attacking wild and dr>-| ..... ani:uals and men with equal sect. The

Boers lost thousands of oxen by the agency of thej flies 6om«? years ago. "On the approach of eitherj animal or man at a river crossing or in the densestI forest." Fay? a Congo observer, "the victim is soonj soented o'lt by tho fly. if there be one in the viein-j ity,arid then. either silently or with a peevish buzz.| the fly makes straight for the most ao.-esMbl« spot.•

by preference the leg or foot in man or the ear\u25a0 in th«* pig. ard makes its stan."

After Inoculation (he human \u25a0tim feels an Irrl-I tation around the bitten part. This ceases after a| few dare, and is followed b;, fe\er. accompanied

Iwith w«-akn<"s". 1°" °f weight, headache, sore eyes,

j cramps In the legs and Incipient drowsiness. Red1 epots appear on the body, and there is an ab-normal sensitiveness in different parts, a Flightpressure or Mow causing Intense pain. I- case of

fatal termination, which may be four or eightmonths after infection, there i? a paralysis oftongu" and limbs r^Biiliing in mumbling -:•-\u25a0

and shuffling Rait; the patient becomes extremely

emaciated and falls Into a coma which proclaims

the approach of d^ath. The comatose symptoms,intensified In !h<* !«•«' stasis, are responsible forthe r.aine "sleeping 6ickiv?n;."

The rr.iTobe. of tho malady is a bobbin with along tail that propels it with profit ability among

th* blood corpuscles. It measures between Zh-l.'**}

and 30-I.OjO of a millimetre.Governor 11. If- liell of the Uganda protectorate !

believe." it to be hopeless to exterminate the tsetse jfly In tiiat territory, and lias ordered the transfer iof'all the nurvivinß population to regions not In-.f*-sted by tli«» Insert. Mr. Roosevelt, however, ie !gcht-dul-d to do e< me huntlnp In Iganda. The whitehunter may protect himself by earing gloves and jnetted helmet, but some ungruarded moment may jbring him within peril greater tthan Jlions, eleji'iantb or rhinoceros**. Unless scitnc*

•finds a means of destrojing the fly or gaming tan- \u25a0

niunity against the disease, itIs evident that great jareas of Africa must be closed to human habitation.

' DRAWING BLOOD FROM A VICTIM OF SLEEPING SICKNESS FOR ANALYSIS,

At the French government labavalery at Brazzaville, in the French Congo.

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On the day after Mr. Taft'3 inauguration th»negro people tn Brazil—where th»-y ar«* not »&numerous; as they were— maile a demon strat Tonwhich showed that th*» memories vT th* aboli-tion campaigns made In the United States wcra/tlttforgotten. The committee representing at Tito d*Janeiro the negro inhabitant.-, of Brazil ha* scr.t acat>le mt-fsasn to President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt

the figures within my reach that suicide Is moroprevalent In New England and shows a greater

j tendency to Increase there than in any other{ part of the country- This is difficult to explain, j

save by the fact that there is probably a greater jamount of general culture and Intellectuality in jNew England than elsewhere, and that, as in jEurope, the disposition to suicide Is always most ;

Ipronounced among the most highlyeducated.Ithas always been thus, ever since the reign j

of the Roman Emperor Trajan, to which Ihave !alluded above. Suicide has ever been more !

prevalent among the rich than among the poor, Iall more common among the Intellectual than !among the Ignorant and more frequent amongpeople of rank than among the masses. Daring

!the late war in Manchuria the Japanese sol- jdlers recruited from the merchant class, from ;the artisans and from the peasantry were con- jtent to become prisoners of war when further jresistance to the Russian foe had become lm- |possible. But In almost every Instance where jthe warrior, no matter whether officer or pri- jvate, happened to be of noble blood, and to

have Daimi."> or Samurai Mood in his veins, hewould kill himself rather than surrender. InChina princes, great nobles and mandarins ofthe highest rank. ifthey are considered as mer-iting death, enjoy the privilege denied tot)

Inferiors of putting an enr» to their lives by imeans of strangulation or poison thus escap- i

ing the Infamy of decapitation, and It Is re- !ported that the late Emperor Hwang Su him-self was compelled to take poison, under the> jthreat of strangulation, In obedience to the or- iders of his aunt, the) terrible old Empress Dow- |ager, who was firmly determined that h«» should jnot survive her death.

In Turkey and other Mahometan countries'

dignitaries whose deaths arc desired by their irulers were until recently accustomed to receive ;

from the latter, with much ceremony, the gift

of a silken bowstring, to be used by them forstrangulation, and even on the continent ofEurope the officer or noble who is struck orotherwise insulted by his sovereign or by aprince of the blood, and who is debarred by therank of his assailant from seeking the customary

satisfaction by means of a duel, is required by

unwritten law to blow out his brains as the jonly way of preserving his honor Intact; fora blow or an insult unavenged is considered jamong the higher classes in most of the Con-tinental countries of Europe as disqualifying aman from any further association y\ilh thepeople of his caste, and as entailing the mostcruel species of ostracism. Even here In thoUnited States, when a man Is confronted by

"Las Ultlmos Notidas." of Santiago, which I»the evening edition of the seml-otQcta] paper, "b^lMercurio." said recently about the intende'l vovag*

to the provinces of Tacna and Arioa. of th«» <.TtWHmPresident: "The idea of th» President to tmd#r-

take a trip to th'>s* provinces, on the northernlimit of the country, under present circumstances.when the international Question has assumed *special character, has peculiar importance In ta*ejes of the country ami of th« foreign nation*which are watcting th«? problem which haa beenpending since isxi between Chiil and Peru." Itwill be remembered that slno« thar dat<» CftSl hs»occupied those conqu -r^d provinces and has evi-dently no Intention of giving them back to Peru.Inconformity with the clauses of the Aacosi treaty!The Chilian press thinks that a visit of PresidentMontt will produce "a. :-nor.»l result of great Import-

ance, since the First. Magistrate will tw ab'.i* f>

The President of the State of San. Pablo, or 9b*Paul'1, has forwarded, aceoriilrs: to the Rio daJaneiro papers, to th© Braii'.laa Ambassadorto the United States. Seflho- Na'ouco. a dispatch

relative to the tariff, discussion at Washir.gton.

The State of Sao Paulo is the largest producer otthe Brazilian coffee crop, which famishes nior*

than three-fourths of the article consumed in NorthAmerica. The dispatch, sent In the name cf th«people of Sao Paolo, asks the Brazilian diplomatvigorously to Intercede m order to prevent anycaange in the American tariff concerning coffee)

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LATIN-AMERICAN TOPICS.

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tion of the King It will,by an order of Coun-cil, be added to the official liturgy of theChurch of England.

Of course there are some who may argue

that the concession of Christian burial to sui-cides Is calculated to Increase their numberby the removal of a deterrent to the crime. Butit may be questioned whether the refusal ofreligious rites to the self-elaln has accom-plished anything beyond embittering' the sur-viving relatives and friends of the suicideagainst a Church that carried Its unforgiving-

ness beyoi •i deal:. Certainly it cannot be saidto have served as a deterrent, for the numberof suicides is greater than ever. Self-destruc-tion seems indeed to march hand In hand withcivilization, and the more people advance Inthe realms of progress and enlightenment the

greater is the tendency •which they show to

take their own lives. It was only the otherday that the cable dispatches were describing

how a young man, possessed of great wealth,

great talents, warm friends—

in fact, of every-thing that could contribute to render exist-ence delightful—blew out his brains, towardthe close of one of his most brilliant enter-tainments, for no other reason than that hewas weary of life, recalling the fact that Inthe reign of Emperor Trajan, when the old

Roman civilization may be said to bar*)

reached its highest point, patricians, after ex-hausting every pleasure and satisfaction withintheir ken, would Invite their families andfriends to srreat feast?, at which the feature of

the entertainment was the suicide of the host.To such an extent was this an established cus-tom that there is still In existence the formula

of invitation to these farewell banquets, as

well as the permit of departure to another worldgranted by the emperor to the applicant; for

in those days suicide was looked on as alicensed luxury,restricted, however, to the patri-

cians and great dignitaries of the state.

SAXONY LEADS IN SUICIDE.To-day, for some curious rea-son or. other, the

kingdom of Saxony leads the world In Its num-ber of suicides, the annual proportion averaging

469 in a million, as compared with 24 to the ]

million In Ireland. In Portugal, where misery

and destitution are immeasurably greater thanin Ireland, the proportion i!« only 16 to the mill-ion, while among the Esqulmaus, curiouslyenough, self-destruction Is entirely unknown.Here, in the United States, it would appear from

death as the only alternative to dishonor—

there are many cases in which a predicamentof this kind Is likely to arise

—his fellow citizens

win always (Seal more gently with his memoryIfhe selects suicide.

THE OLD METHOD OF BURIAL.'For this reason

—that is to say, because th#

. world is disposed to look. less harshly than It;did a hundred years asr> upon those was hay*

been driven by one circumstance or another t«">

take tbetr own lives—

the actlcn of the Churchof England in making provision for the Chris-tian burial of those guiltyof felo d© se may bedescribed an In keeping with the spirit of thetimes and In sympathy with the present state*of popular sentiment. The days are now hap-pilypast when the mode of burial of the suicidewas to thrust him at midnight, without prayer,

Into a hole dug at the centre of the crossing of

two high roads, with a stone upon the faceand a sharp stake driven through the body to

prevent his ghost from walking.A man of the name of Williams, a murderer

who had cheated the gallons by killing-himself.was disposed of In this fashion on January 12,lSlli, In London, at the spot where the New-Road crosses Ratcliffe Highway, the scene being

described a.t length In "The London Times" onthe following day; while at a still later dat",namely, in June, IS2U. a burial with,similar in-dignities to the dead body took place at theJunction of Eaton street and Grosvenor Place.It Is difficult to conceive anything more bar-barous. The thrusting ofa. body into a grave inunconsecrated ground without any religlcuaceremony whatsoever is but one remove better,

and the Established Church of KnglanJ byrelegating thl3 cruel fashion t<> the past hasshown Itself to be not only eniightened but al«-.>trulyChristian. EX-ATTACHE.

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