TH TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper an d Review .
DUMT VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius JX. to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, zbfo.
Vol. 92. No. 3059. L ondon, D ecember 24, 1898.
P r ic e sd ., b y P o s t sJ£d.
[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C hronicle o f t h e W e e k :
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For the Cure of Consumption— The Liberal Leadership — Lord Salisbury on Matters o f Coming Conflict— Liberty as She is Made in Germany — The Chamber of Deputies and the Dreyfus Case— Is it to be a “ Coup d 'E ta t ” ?— The Irish Secretary and Local Government — Imperial Penny Postage at Last— The Queen’s Thoughts on Peace and Empire— Strike Picketing Declared Illegal — Pin-Pricks from France in China — The Retirement of a Catholic Judge— A Balloon Trip Across the Channel . . . . 997 L e a d e r s :
The K e y of the Pacific . . . . 1001
CONTENTS
L e a d e r s (Continued) : g Sir Henry Hawkins . . ..1002
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The Imperial Penny at Last . . 1002 Fra Girolamo Savonarola ..1003 N o t e s . . ... — — ..1007 R e v ie w s :
Life of Vice-Admiral Edmund
Lord Lyons
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Ave Roma Immortal is . . ..1010 Studies of the Mind and A rt of
Robert Browning . . . . i o n The Life and Work of Lady
Butler . . . . . . . . t o n Vanity Fair Album . . . .1011 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ... — - 10 1 3 News from Ireland _ — 1015 News from F ran c e .. . . ..1015
L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :
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Dr. Horton’s Defence . . ..10 16 Palm Sunday Processions ^ ..1018 More Facts for the “ Ritualists ” 1018 Church Music .. . . ..1018 The Church in Australia . . ..1018 Madame Patti’s Wedding . . ..1020 The Third Order of Franciscans ..1020 The Return of the Monks . . ..1021 Some Catholic Statistics . . ..1022 Association of School Boards and
Secondary Education . . ..1023 Catholic Truth Society’s Publica
tions . . . . . . . . ..1023 The Apostolic Delegate to Cuba . . 1023 England’s D u ty Towards Africa ..1024 The Late Catholic Premier of
Queensland.................................... 1024 Books ©f the Week . . . . ..1024
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F rom E v e r yw h e r e . . .„1024 O b i t u a r y . . . . ... «.1026 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l ... ..1026
SUPPLEMENT. N ew s fro m t h e S chools :
Catholics and the Universities ..1029 Secondary Education in Ireland.. 1029 The Old Borromean Association 103c St. Joseph’s College, Denmark
H i l l . . . . .. . . ..1030 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :
Westminster ..........................1031 S o u t h w a r k .................................... 103 2 Leeds . . . . . . ..1032 The Ritual Controversy . . --1033 Catholic Missions to the Maoris ..1034 The Bishop o f Nottingham and '
Board Schools ..........................1035 Christmas A p p e a l s .......................... 1035
Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE W EEK.
OF CONSUMPTION. A
FOR THE CURE
NEW association has been fo-med under the immediate patronage of the Prince of Wales to spread information as to the proper treatment of consumption. In many ways consumption may be considered the typical English disease. A doctor, interviewed by a representative of The Daily Neu’s, states that in 1896 there died in England and Wales from consumption of the bowels 6,000 children. In most of these cases the disease was probably contracted through milk. In the ten years from 1881 to 1890, the Dumber of children who died from the same complaint was 75,873. O f every seven deaths that take place in London, one is due to preventable tubercular disease in some form of another. There are many forms. Tuberculosis may attack the brain, and then you have tubercular meningitis. It may affect the joints, the glands, the bowels, the lungs. Even scrofula, or the King’s evil, is one of its manifestations. That consumption is highly contagious is a modern discovery. It is now generally admitted that although a person may be predisposed to consumption or some other form of tuberculosis, the disease will not show itself in him without the bacillus, which must come from outside. In the light of this certainty the present state of the law is very defective. Thus, if a small-pox or scarlet fever patient is seen walking down a street you can get him run in. But if a consumptive person is found spitting in a public place you cannot treat him in the same way, although the liberation of the bacillus by the drying of the expectoration of such persons spreads the disease. I f a dairyman sells milk from tuberculous cows you cannot call in the police. The doctor whose opinion is given by The Daily News considers milk as the most common medium of infection, but he added that there is one safeguard within the reach of everybody— boiliDg the milk before it is drunk. This can be done by putting it in a vessel and placing that vessel in a pan containing water. Asked whether meat from tuberculous animals was as dangerous as milk, he replied : “ No,unless the diseased part is eaten— the lungs tor example. It is to be presumed, however, that the butcher cuts away and destroys such parts. In that respect again we should be safer
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if we had public abattoirs thoroughly inspected. Cooking, too, is a safeguard against tuberculosis in meat. I would not recommend anybody to eat it unless it was well done.”
“ Who will lead ? ” is still a conundrum which 1 i b e r a i 1S exerc's'Qg the minds of persons even outside l e a d e r s h i p , the Liberal party. The meeting of the National
Liberal Federation which assembled at Birmingham on Friday in last week could, of course, do nothing to solve the question. It was attended by about 500 out of the 700 delegates appointed by the Associations throughout the country, and the disussion was somewhat stormy. Dr. Spence Watson, in his opening speech, pointed out to the meeting the inconvenience that the rank and file of the party had suffered from the want of a leader, and from the gradual dropping away of the men to whom they had loyally looked for gnidance. The choice of a successor to Sir William Harcourt in the leadership of the party in the House of Commons lay with the members of the party in that House, whilst there was no such thing as a leader of the party as a whole. There was no machinery for the election of such a person, and Mr. Gladstone’s great position had been due to the evolution of circumstances. Dr. Watson concluded by proposing a resolution regretting but accepting Sir William Harcourt’s resignation. An attempt was made to request that he would reconsider his decision, but this was disallowed. The ’ next excitement was the proposing of a resolution that the question of leadership of the party should be taken into consideration, a motion which after some bickering was withdrawn. The general discordance and inconclusiveness of the meeting, exception the one point of the acceptance of SirW.Harcourl’s resignation, shows how deeply the party is disorganized. The view of it, expressed by the Duke of Argyll in a characteristic letter to a correspondent who had asked if there was any hope of a reconstructed Liberal party now that Sir W. Harcourt was gone, is interesting “ You give the title of the ‘ Liberal party,’ ” says his Grace, “ to men who do not, and never did, represent it. You forget that all the best men of the Liberal party, with whom I served for thirty years, revolted from Mr. Gladstone’s new Irish policy of disintegration. Nothing but the debris was left him. I knew them all personally, and can estimate their value pretty well. Lord Hartington, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Goschen, John Bright, Sir H. James, Lord Selborne— these, and a few others, were the very brains and backbone of the Liberal party. Those who, with a sort of canine fidelity,"'stuck to a personal leader, whatever he might do, were all, comparatively, inferior men. Yet you call those
