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“While there is Life there's Hope.” XLv. MARCIE 1905, No, 1170. 17 West Torery-Fixsr Srreer, VOL Dm year in ad jen tn) the Postal tmonths from or Vo contribution will be returned untess accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The iMustrations in LARK. are copy: ight and ave not to be reproduced. Prompt notification should be sent by sub- scrtbers of any change of address New York I* State Senate the other day Senator Coggeshall, in nding — his avorable aliza- tion of boxing con- tests, pointed out that in ‘1904 only four men killed in ts, while were prize- twenty- died six from young men the ¢ football has been proposed Legislation against football some States, but there is no law anywhere, that know of, the ainst as yet we the game. In States strict against Weste the have been passed, mainly exclusively, in young. Its the Western defending youth fror some of cigarettes though not the “ems surprising that while laws sale of the interest of lawmakers are so busy unhealthy ex- periences, they don’t make some laws against overstudy. Two casual items in anew: March 5 cause paper, side by side, both dated record two deaths from this A fifteen-year-old girl in New Jersey died in an insan taken resulting from take the junior and senior years of high-school study in On day died in the hospital of Ha law student, down his health last year by excess- asylum, she had because mental where of ¢ been trouble overwork while trying to one year. the same urd College a who broke ive study in the college, and had con- tinued his studies in the Law School -LIFE- against the doctor's orders. We don’ know that any one has compiled sta- tistics of the people that are yearly due to excess- ive mental exertion, but we would not be surprised to learn that the annual mortality from this deaths deaths of likely young cause much ex from all kinds of with a very much of breakdowns which do mediate fatal result. ceeds the athletic sports, longer list not have an T no legislature has ever done anything to check overstudy It is not even much talked about by our the educational authorities. If college presidents and deans grieve over it, they grieve privately, and without any concerted effort to check it, Excessive study is not the of the culprit who indulges in it, but tends, by raising the achievement to a dangerous point, to impair the respect which is properly due to conscien only a prodigious detriment to welfare standard of uu persons who seru- pulously regulate their powers of ap- plication in accordance with the laws of health to restrain this evil, it should t If there is to be legislation gin in ts, a State to which large numbers of outsiders go to polish their Massachuse understandings. If legislation may not be hoped for, the authorities of schools and colleges should at least be stirred up to a livelier sense of re- fate and influ- habits of ex- Summary dismissal of whose injurious habits of application seem immedicably fixed 1 mercy to such students sponsibility for the ence of the victims of cessive work students would be themselves, and would doubtless have an excellent effect in rendering their pitiable and_pern attractive to their fellows IDSHIPMAN ARROWOOD re- signed from the Navy on the ous example un- ground that “no Christian gentleman could remain such and be an officer of the Navy.’ The Navy Department declined to accept his resignation, and Arrowood thereupon quit his ship without further formalities, and got a job ashore. He was tried by for found guilty, and has been sentenced to be His sentence is thought to be very light. If so, it is creditable to the discretion of the court, for with a man who does himself an ill turn be- cause of court-mar! desertion, dismissed scruples of conscience wise ones or foolish—it is deal just as leniently as cir- cumstances will admit, Arrowood had demonstrated that yin the Navy, a thing was to get rid whether best to he was unfit to nd the important f him. We are rather sorry for th: He has a foolish fathe: ister, who advised him to desert trouble with both the seems to be that their knowledge sta young a min- The Arrowoods man the world and of men and things and principles is too limited to qualif them to shape the conduct of life under unfamiliar conditions. .\ strict Quaker, or other non-resister, is, of course, out of place in either army or navy, but for any other kind of pious 2 Christian gentle- man in the Navy is merely a matter of knowing how. The thing has been done too often, is done too often, for man, to live like any suggestion that it is impossible to carry any weight. Nobody has to go behind the barn, or into. seclu- sion, to live like a Christian gentle- Robust qualities are entirely proper for the character, but it is true enough that to live it with the best results in some situations and in some societies, calls not only for principles and for grit, but for manners and for gumption. And it is also true that the essential attributes of the char: ter are liable to be misapprehended by amateurs of narrow experience. It bel man. is a great. pity when that happens in the case of a sincere man, whose pur- poses are upright, even though he may be somewhat lacking in sagacity But with Tolstoi's formidable ex- ample before the world, no decent man’s self-denying aberrations of con- ely be regarded with even though fetch him loose from the usual science can unqualified contempt they standards of behavior which govern his fellows. comicbooks.com