Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1899 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS, NEWS, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2. 1899.

g»«w»if III ■ ■— .

NEW BOOKS,

| Special iRUFFted j CUftainS 3 Days' Safe 1 Dainty Swiss Curtains, felled ruffle TQc pair. ■ Lace edge, ruffled Swiss CurP tains — 98c pair.

i l 'S

red Scotch Swiss Ruffled

rtains.

.•1.13 pair.

■'Ruffled Swiss Curtains, lace p edge and insertion, *2.50 qual-

ity, at...,

..,•1.48 pair.

" Ruffled Bobbinet Curtains, lace ■ edge and insertion, regular 12.75 kind •1.98 pair. ■ Ruffled Bobbinet Curtains, wide S point lace edge and Insertion, 5 now •2.48 pair. § Taylor's, 5 26 and 28 If, Ifas/r St. p — “ ■ Sale for 3 days only—Thursday, Friday aad Saturday. SnnuuHiaBi»»»iBii

Frank fl. Carter, Druggist

ta W. WMklnftm. M. •.■Nil .I4*, Mar Mar.

77* MaaaaahuaaMa *«.. a. W. Oar. at. Clair.

Stearns Paste 18c id-ne-Oids 40c nkham’sComp ....7»c

40c and 7Rc

»Oc TSc

s

Maybe you did not know this was headquarters on Mirrors. I make them for you. all sizes, and the right kind, too. Come and look over my stock this week. You can buy an 18 inch x 40 inch French Mirror

Bevel edge in a nice Golden Oak Frame $6.50 BACH I also have them in stock up to $150 each.

Mirrors Made to Order

W.H.Messenger 201 E. Washington St.

AMTSBMEVrS.

FAIRVIEW PARK INDIANAPOLIS MILITARY BAND wHl givw A request concert every Wednesday evening from 8:00 to 10:30. Request* should tie sent In three day* In advance. KISSEL’S KVBBY Arfmw ' 1 AND MICNOM BERNARD, Ralladiet, BABE LIVINGSTONE, Serio-Comic, OMAS. W. MINOR, Barytone and Plan, Virtuoso, and Other Attractions

Causes of Loss >f Hair Dr. Sa'oouraad, the eminent French Dermatologist, says thet 80 per cent of heir losaea ere the results of microbee and the neglect of dendraff. The emiaeptie ection of

SEVEN

SUTHERLAND SISTERS’ ' preparation, kills microbes end remeree dendraff. Their cone tent see for e period will, t»y directly on the heir bnlbt,

mt, vitality and *

the impoverished root*

resulting ia com-

> rr uauoowTu.

“Japan In Transtttoa.** “Jepen to Treneitlon." by Stafford Ren•omr. recently upeciel corre*pendent for the London Morning Poet in the far Best, la a comparative study of the progreea, policy end methods of the Japanese since their war with Chine. In hie Introduction the author points out that there are three Japans in existence to-day—the old Japan, as It has been for two thousjuid years; the new Japan, which has as yet hardly been born, and transition Japan, which Is passing through ’.ts most critical throes Just now. Every one of the three affords an extremely difficult study, and of them all, the author declares that "Japan In transition" la the most complicated. Mr. Ransome does not, however, make his comparison between the Japan of to-day and the Japan of the past; the comparisons are made between the methods of the Japanese to-day and the methods of the people in other countries, to view of the fact that Japan is endeavoring to bring herself Into line with the most advanced nations of the earth. It Is safe to say that the most Interesting and pertinent fact in Japan's history Juring the last generation was her treatment of foreigners. Rigidly excluded for generations, when they were finaUy admitted, the Japanese rapidly adopted their methods and their religion, sought foreign teachers, foreign engineers, foreign officers. To be a foreigner to Japan twenty, ten or even five years ago, was to be a man of power and influence. Now, according to Mr. Ransome, as the Japanese have learned all the foreigner can teach them to science, literature, art, war, commerce, manufacturing, they are rele gating their Instructors to the background with the cry "Japan for the Japanese." The first chapter of "Japan In Transition" corrects some popular misconceptions of Japan; thereafter the book deals with what Is, and does It most interestingly. Japanese manners and customs are most fully described, and to most readers the facts In this book will probably come with a great shock—they are so different from w’hat the novelists and romancers had given us reason to believe. Those who remember Mrs Mc'fweedie's interesting work on Finland, will recall the trouble that lady had to securing privacy when bathing; according to Mr. Ransome, Japanese customs are not greatly dissimilar to Finnish in this respect. He tells us: Even If the bath Is unoccupied when he (the foreigner) enters it, he can not expect, in a busy Japanese hotel, that it will remain so; and while, as I have above explained, the Japanese will always do their best to avoid bathing at the same time as a foreigner, it is hardly to be expected that when they are ready to get Into the bath they will stand shivering until the foreigner has finished. Thus the foreigner who has temporarily adopted the Japanese style of living must not be disconcerted if, when sitting In his bath, one, two or three ladles should come and sit down beside him. If they do not know him, they will take no notice of him; but If one of them happens to be his landlady or someone who has previously conversed with him In the hotel, she may address some commonplace remark to him on the heat of the water, or any other topic; but It will all be done so much as a matter of course that the most prurient-minded member of a modern vigilance committee would find It a difficult matter to twist the situation Into anything suggestive of vulgarity, or of a want of modesty. An eccentric situation, if you will, from our point of view, but not an Indecent one from theirs. The man who wishes to keep clean In Japan must not leave the beaten tourist track, unless he Is prepared to undergo over and over again the above ordeal; and for the European lady, It Is obvious that the situation would be even more trying. Mr. Rhnsome's experiences with foreign missions In Japan will be disheartening to those who have enthusiastically given much money to their support. He thinks that the number of bona-fide Christians among the Japanese will not number one in every 100,000 of the population. Much of the failure of the missions In Japan ia attributed by Mr. Ransome to the constant bickering between missionaries of different sects. The author thinks the missionary has done splendid work In Japan, but It has been done on dther lines than mere proselyting. He says of the missionary: At first his task seemed pasy. He erected schools, which readily filled with pupils, who were eager to learn everything the foreigner was willing to teach them. So it looked, on the face of it, as if Christianity was making progress, for this rush for knowledge, and especially for a knowledge of the English language, waa mistaken for a rush for Christianity. Now, the average Japanese has a highly-devel-oped desire to avoid hurting people’s feelings; and. as an effect of this, when he went to a mission school to learn English without paying for it, he raised no objection to being called a Christian for the time being.- He fell in with this practice from very much the same motive whicn prompts even a free-thinker to take off his hat when he enters a sacred edifice. It was the right thing to do and he did it. But when the pupil left school, he left his Christianity with his school books, behind him, aa a matter of course. But, on the school question, the outlook Is decidedly optimistic. According to Mr. Ransome, there are In Japan to-day 80.000 schools of all sorts, 100,000 teachers, 500,000 graduates, 6,000,000 pupils of both sexes. The annual outlay to maintain the schools has reached about £1,500.000. Two-thirds, therefore, of the total population of school age arc receiving tuition of a sort which, in quality, compares favorably with that to any other country. In evidence that Japan has thrown off for good the yoke of the foreigner and has taken her own country, her own Industries, her own future In hand. Mr. Ransome says: Except In certain Industrial concerns In thq treaty-ports, owned by foreigners, there Is hardly such thing as an executive foreigner at the head of any Japanese factory or administration. A German or two will be found managing a brewery, end o few Scotchmen in shlp-bulldlng yards and so on, but that Is all. You can visit arsenals and dock yards and nearly ail the railway and engineering sheps and y< u will see no sign of a foreigner anywhere. You will be received In a foreign office, by people In foreign clothes, with all the paraphernalia of foreign business around them. You will be talked to in English, as a' rule, and you will be shown through works built on English lines, and flued with workmen dressed like English mechanics, working at English vleec or at machines with the names of English-makers on them. And so. Mr. Ransome has something interesting and novel to tell about the "Moral Standard” in Japan: the commercial integrity of the Japanese, their International business relations, the strategical geography of the country, the question of colonisation; in short, a complete history of Japan, as it stands to-day. in his chapter on the "Effects of the War on Foreign Relations." referring, of course, to the Chinese-Japanese war. he has. to say: The comparative popularity of Great Britain with the Japanese dates,of course, more particularly from the close of the war. Very little distinction Is still made between Americans and Englishmen in the minds of the Japanese, and incidentally the Anglo-Saxon owes much of his present popularity to the American branch of that race, for the Americans, as a rule, have been more intimate with the Japanese, and In dealing with them have been less unbending In their attitude than we have. For a short period in 1837, when the Hawaiian question was first on the tapis, the Japanese expressed a great deal of resentment against the United States, but this was mainly duo to the fact that America did not show a great deal of political tact In dealing with the question; and. although Japan had never any serious wish to annex the Islands, she. no doubt, resented very much

material rise In the American tariff, with regard to certain articles which directly and very seriously affected Japanese exports to that country, added fuel to the resentment against the United States, but such resentment was not very long-Uveo. The general effect of reading this stoty of Japan Is to convince the reader that Japan has before it a future of great promise, both political and Industrial. Mr. Ransome presents his facts in a very entertaining way. and has produced a book which should prove of very great value to

the American capitalist It is fully Illustrated. (N«w York; Harper A Bros. Indianapolis: The Bowen-MerriU Company.) “A Tale of the Mlsstsslnewa.” "Rollnda, a Tale of the Mieslsstnewa," la a new book by Holland Lewis Whitson, a new Indiana author. It is of "The Hoosler Schoolmaster" order, and gives an interesting glimpse Into neighborhood life as seen by a teacher In a country school at the time of the transition from the rule of muscle to that of moral suasion, from brawn to brain. It relates the vicissitudes and final triumph of an Indianapolis girl, a graduate of the public schools of the city, and trained for teaching. who after much discussion and electioneering by advanced thinkers In a farming community on the Misslssinewa, Is elected teacher at the Crotxer school, which has been dominated over from its institution by bad boys and girls rather than by the men of much avoirdupois, whom it was thought necessary to get "to skin 'em alive.” It always turned out one way—It was not the bad boys and girls that got skinned. So It was decided to try a woman—with progressive Ideas and modern methods of teaching. Unnecessary to say, that after a disheartening beginning, h^r kindness finally won all the boys and girls, and the complexion of the Crotxer community waa changed. The principal characters, besides Rollnda Davidson, the teacher, are Neighborhood Scottle, an orphan waif, who drifted Into the community from New York, and boards around with anyone who wUl put up with her, and who, with “Skip It” Adams, are the chief terrors of the school: Henry Frock, a son of the wealthiest farmer around about, and who has had a college education for the ministry; “Weary Tiresome,” who has been a circuit rider and spiritual adviser there for over half a century; Rebekab. a woman's rights advocate, with a tongue, and Jethro, her down-trodden husband, who Is glad to get his three meals a day and let his wife run the farm and the community generally. i The book Is Illustrated by Miss Olive Rush, an Indianapolis woman, who lives to New York, and much of whose work has appeared in St. Nicholas. It Is full of quaint humor of country life, as it used to be at the time when the Governor's Circle was the chief resting-place and breathing-spot in tho town of Indianapolis. The characters will not appear overdrawn to those who have attended a real “deestriki skule,” and If it appears that all the incidents related could not have happened In the one school, It Is easy to understand that they may all have happened at one school and another like the Crotxer. The book (366 pages) comes from the Champlln Press. Columbus, O., and may be obtained through the Indianapolis Book and Stationery Company.

“Who's Who In America." “Who’s Who," a catalogue of ’.he notables. has long been a popular work in England, but, owing, perhaps, to the slxe of the United States and the democratic tendency, with, possibly, some lingering regard for that clause of the famous de-, cl&ration about the equality of man. there has been no such book In this country. Now, however, a book with the old, familiar title, a biographical dictionary of living men and women of the United States, edited by John W. Leonard, has been Issued. It Is a book of much usefulness as a reference work and of some interest. It contains exactly 8,602 biographies, most of them obtained first-hand from tho subjects themselves. A curious feature of the book is its democracy; no State Is left uncovered, and the list of people who pass in review through these columns Is as heterogeneous as the crowd that passes a club window. Indiana Is represented by IS) biographies, among which newspaper editors take a large nart. The book should delight the heart of the statistician for the curiosities it reveals. Of the 8,602 names Included in the book, 3,970 were educated In colleges or universities, which might be taken to indicate that the college man manages to hold his place in the race of life. Twenty out of the number are set down as self-taught; 185 were privately educated and 640 declare that their education stopped with the public school. If may be learned from this book, too, that out of 860 lawyers mentioned, only 336 are graduates of law schools; of 847 clergymen in active work and hundreds out of the active field, only 374 are graduates of theological seminaries. In most cases the ages of the "Whos" mentioned In this book are given and one. before going to the theater this winter, can turn to the book and find out the ago of the well-known Ingenue who looks as if she were about fourteen. If one doubts the democracy of this book, turn to page 141, and here you shall find Buffalo BUI consorting with Rose Coghlan, the actress; with J. B. Coghlan. the naval officer, who was heard from in the late war; with Bourke Cockran, the Democratic orator. Queens are in the book also, for Lilluokalanl, of Honolulu, is found In close proximity to Robert Todd Lincoln and to Clarence Lexow, whose committee raised so much fuss In New York. The book evidently took some time to prepare, for David Turple is given as a United States Senator from Indiana and Albert Beveridge is only to be found under the head of “Addenda.” It may be added that the editor of “Who’s Who” seems to be a good-natured man and desirous of hurting nobody’s feelings. In the As, under Alger, we see nothing about why that gentleman left the army, and, although the ages of several actresses are given, we learn nothing about certain marriages and divorces. (Chicago; A. N. Marqu'.s & Co. Indianapolis: The BowenMernll Company.) “Boffalo Jones's Forty Years of Adventure." "Buffalo Jones” Is the nickname of Charles Jesse Jones, born In Illinois in 1844. The present volume, made up of his adventures mostly on the plains. Is written by himself and compiled into continuous narrative form by CoL Henry Inman, who has also furnished an introduction to the book. “Buffalo Jones” seems to have slaughtered about as many buffalo in his time as Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill), but his chief claim to distinction rests on the fact that he early recognized the value’ of the American bison, and has devoted the best years of his life to saving it from absolute extinction. He has also labored long and earnestly to preserve from extinction other animals of this country, the field of his labors embracing all of the territory extending from the Gulf of Mexico up to and Including the frozen wilderness of the Arctic circle. "Buffalo Jones," after telling of the hardships and experiences of bis early life, tells how it was he became interested In the preservation of the bison. He says that In March, 1886, as he drove from Kansas to Texas: I saw thousands upon thousands of the carcasses of domestic cattle which had "drifted” before the chlHing, freezing "norther." Every one of them had died with Its tall to the blizzard, never having stopped except at Its last breath, then fell dead to its tracks. When I reached the habitat of the buffalo, not one of their carcasses was visible, except those which had been slain by hunters. Every animal 1 came across was as wiry and as nimble as a fox. I thought to myself: "Why not domesticate this wonderful beast, which can endure such a blizzard defying a storm so destructive to our domestic species? Why not Infuse this hardy blood into our native cattle and have a perfect animal, one that will defy the elements?” He explains how this train of thought led him to undertake the work of preserving the buffalo. He tells of how good buffalo beef is, and claims that tfie milk of the buffalo cow Is infinitely richer than that of the Jersey. Thereafter he explains how he captured and domesticated a herd of buffalo, and details hia success In caring for them. But this book, covering tho experiences of forty years, does more than deal with the question of domesticating buffalo; there are thrilling stories of battles with the Indian, strange hunting stories and a wealth of wild adventure all over the unsettled places of this continent The best of it is that the Incidents in this book, while lacking a highly-finished literary style, are yet told In a plain, straightforward way, and Impress one with their truth, lae book

Is fully Illustrated, mostly from photographs. (Topeka, Kas.: Crane Sc. Co. Indianapolis: The Bowsn-MerrlU Company.) “In Castle and Colony." "In Castle and Colony,” by Emma Rayner. has a new type of woman for heroine. a Swedish maiden, and the novel itself deals with one phase of colonial life In America about which little or nothing has been written—the effort to establish a "New Sweden" along the Delaware on territory already claimed by the Dutch. The “Castle" part of the story deals with Sweden. It tells how the heroine—Agneta —hea been betrothed In her Infancy to Gustavius Pors, a Swedish gentleman, who has gained an ascendency over her father and her half-brother. Gustavius manages to involve Agneta’s estate, and on the half-brother's death he comes into possession of the entire property. Agneta’s mother, fearing Gustavius, flees from her castle, and to course of time Agneta finds herself In America, In the colony known as “New Sweden.” To America comes, also, Gustavius Pors, and continues his love-making, but without success, for Agneta has become betrothed to a young Swede In the colony, an engineer who had been sent out to this country as a conyict, but who had managed to clear himself from the crime with which he was charged. To this young man Gustavius, at the end of.the story, resigns Agneta. and this bit of self-sacrifice Is the climax to the tale. Outside of the Interest attaching to this love story the reader will find much that la worth while In the descriptions of early colonial life. In this novel Is preserved one of the stray chapters of American history. The author appears to have made careful researches to Insure the authenticity of her report of conditions. and she gives a most Interesting lot of details about the dignified p utc ^ Governor—Pieter Van Stuyvesant-and fils burly Swedish enemy—Governor Prints. The characters throughout are well drawn; the style of the book i* clear and simple, and it is above the aV^ ra «e to merit. (Chicago: H. S. Stone &Co- Indianapolis: The Bowe-n-Merrill Company.) The Periodicals and Literary Sotes. Charles H. Sergei Company Chlcago an nconcea a new book by Olive Schreiner entitled "The South African Question, by an English South African. . The famous lighthouse on Minot* off Cohasset, Mass., is the subject of the frontispiece of the August St. photos and of a brief description snd historical sketch bv Gustave Kobb*. John Oliver Hobbes’s forthcoming novela sequel to "The Behoof /or Saints —is to bo.called "Robert Orange, after the character who, at the end of tj 1 ® work, was left in tho position of an ,nno cent bigamist. Mark Twain ia taking a tour with W* family In Sweden and Norway. Mr. Gilbert Parker, who has thrown himself w:th enthusiasm into the literary life of London, la Just now seeking recovery from malaria at Carlsbad. Charles Neufeld, who was twelve years a prisoner to the Khalifa, and was rescued by the British army under Kitchener after the battle of Omduiman, has written a book descriptive of his life among the dervishes, which will be published next autumn by G. P. Putnam's sons. Houghton. Mifflin ft Co., Boston, will bring out in book form at an early day, "The Remlniacencea of Julia Ward Howe, which have been running lor several months In the Atlantic Monthly. They also have in press for early issue, "Square Pegs,” by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. A volume of short stories by Julian Ralph will be published before long by Harper & Bros. The volume is to be entitled "A Prince of Georgia and Other Tales." This firm has almost ready in book form Senator Lodge's "War with Spain,” which has been running as a serial In Harper’s Magazine. The sole companion of Dr. Nansen during his fifteen months’ exploration of the ice region after leaving the Fram was Lieut. HJalmar Johansen, who has written an Interesting narrative of the expedition, entitled "With Nansen in I he North.” It is illustrated with photos taken by the author. The New Amsterdam Book Company will publish the book. Alnslee's for August strikes an original course by offering an American fiction number. In which are five short stories by the foremost native writers, F. Hopktnson Smith, F. Marion Crawford, R. W. Chambers, Morgan Robertson and John Luther Long. Each of these names is guarantee for a masterful tale, and it is rare that even a midsummer number contains such a delightful set of stories. The Messrs. Appleton, publishers of the Town and Country Library, announce the publication of a new library in paper, to be called Appletons’ Popular Library. It will contain fiction, adventure, etc. That It will not be limited to fiction is shown by the character of the first Issue, which will he of F. T. Bullen’s “Cruise of the Cachalot,” which will appear in this library In paper at the price of 25 cents. D. Appleton & Co., it will be remembered, are Mr. Sullen's authorized publishers in this country. Tho fiction number of Scribner's has come to be an annual event of importance In the magazine world, and the number this year is a marked improvement In many ways over the previous fiction numbers. The present (August) number Is remarkable for its color printing. Its brilliant pictures by young artists, notably some pictures by F. C. Yohn, of Indianapolis, and for the high excellence of its stories. The cover is one of the most successful of Maxfield Parrish's designs. The new German copyright bill, which the Reichstag Is to act upon early next year, ppovdes for the better protection of the copyright of dally newspapers and of literature generally. No paper will be pci mitted to reprint articles without stating the source, or to reproduce a scientific article from a journal without the apectU permission of the author. Reproduction of the nows of the day will be permitted on the source being acknowledged. The copyright of musical works will be extended from thirty to fifty years. “Qtieer Luck,” by David A. Curtis, Is a collection of short stories about poker, most of which have appeared in the New York Sun from time to time. There is something of the same sort of fascination about poker stories as there is about stories by fishermen.; so many queer things may happen, and while they may strain credulity they are not by any means beyond possibility. Each one of the thirteen stories in the book is Interesting. (New York: Brentano. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrtll Company.) Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly for August Is a midsummer art and fiction number. Among its writers are Included:

Pierce, C. F. Carter, Theodosia Pickering Garrison, Perriton Maxwell, Larkin G. Mead. Eben E. Rexford and R. K. Munkittriek; these illustrated by such wellknown artists as Albert B. Wenxell, Howard Chandler Christy. F. Luis Mora, Vb. Granville Smith. F. Hopkinson Smith, Hugh M. Eaton. Clifford Carleton, Charles Grunwald, H. C Edwards. Frank Adams and George R. Brill. The August number of Ltppincott's Magazine is an exceedingly interesting one and ccntalns articles by well-known and favorite contributors, lae complete novel Is by Sarah Barnewell Elliott, which Is entitled “Fortune’s Vassals,” and the, short stories, entitled. “The Court of Judge Lvnch." “The Illumination of Lee Moy.” "Noah’s Ark” and "Woman; a Phase of

article on "Wire ess Telegraphy Through Scientific Eyes,” and there Is a Philippine legend and study by Charles M. Skinner, entitled “The Devil's Bridge.” Few happenings have been more dramatic or more filled with dash and excitement than the raid made by Morgan’s cavalrv through Indiana and Ohio during the civil war. The story of this famous ride has been used by Henry Scott Clark for the historical setting of his new novel. “The Legionaries.” Told in the first person by a young Virginian. & captain of cavalry to Morgan’s comand, wro loves a girl of the North, the book gives a series <.t most vivid pictures of the time; the descriptions of the intense feeling existing in the "border States” and of his own conflicting sentiments being capitally done. Throughout is Interwoven a dainty love story. The book is to be Issued In September by the Bowen-Merrill Company. The leading article to Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly for August Is a reply to Comptroller Coler, by Franklin H. Giddlngs, professor of sociology In Columbia University. While Professor Gtddings agrees with the comptroller that It Is economically wrong for private organizations to use the taxpayers’ money without any public accounting, he believes that there are a number of considerations which partlaily Justify this arrangement. Appleton Morgan discusses "Recent Legislation Against the Drink Evil,” and his figures seem to show that legislative attempts to diminish liquor drinking almost uniformly have the reverse effect.

"Race Questions to the Philippine Islands" Is an Informative article by Ferdinand Blumentritten, which we havo previously noticed, editorially, at some length. The Hon. C. D. Walcott, director of the United Btzte Geological Survey, contributes an article on “The United States National Museum." There are numerous other articles of great Interest and value. The most beautiful copy of the Rubaiyat Is said to be the Illuminated manuscript executed by William Morris for Lady Burne-Jones. It Is on Roman lambskin vellum, twenty-three pages, measuring six by three and one-half inches. On eighteen of the pages the illumination Is confined to central space, three by two Inches, and consists of beautifully drawn and colored flowers and fruit. On the other five pages the margins are completely filled with floriated designs, among which are very small, but beautifully-drawn and colored figures. Political science is beginning to turn from the contemplation of abstract theories to the study of concrete conditions. This Is Illustrated in an investigation Into the nominating system in Philadelphia which Dr. W. J. Branson has published in the July issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He shows how complete Is the control of the machine, a control which in Philadelphia can not be shaken off, aa one party has so large a majority that a nomination practically insures an election. In the same journal Mr. C. E. Prevey discusses the ’’Economic Function of Charity Organization"; Professor Zorn, the distinguished representative of Germany at the peace conference, writes upon the "Constitutional Position of the German Emperor,” and Dr. E. 8. Meade teeats the "Relative Stability of Gold ana Lucky Is the poet who can say with Horace that he has. In his works, reared unto himself "a mounment more enduring than bronze.” The approval of one generation may be unanimous and the next may consign the unfortunate verse writer to oblivion. A notable case of this kind is recalled in the current number of Literature. Fifty years ago Robert Pollok’s poem, “The Course of Time,” was one of Ihe popular books of the day. In 1969, It had reached its seventy-eighth thousand, and there was still a large demand for it. There semed every reason to believe that the poet had achieved a lasting fame. Over his grave his friends placed an obelisk with the inscription: Hia Immortal Poem la his Monument. "Alas! for prophecy," says Literature, Poor Pollok, It is to be feared, is remembered now only by the few. Yet he has not been enUrety forgotten. At the time of the celebration of the centenary of his birth a proposal was made to erect a memorial to him in the vicinity of the place where he was born in Scotland, aryl the scheme has received a fair measure of support.” The Century for August Is a midsummer and travel number. "The Present Situation in Cuba" is graphically stated to a brief article by Major-General Wood. Jacob Rils writes on “Feast Days in Little Itly.” The first feast Is in honor of some Italian saint "just-a-llk'-a-your St. Patrick here,” as one of the celebrants explained to President Roosevelt of the police board, who accompanied Mr. Rils to Elizabeth street, and took five chances in a raffle for a sheep. John Burroughs gives a fascinating glimpse of the wild life about his cabin near West Park. In "The River of Tea” Mrs. E. R. Scudmore writes of the Yangtsze-Klang. Professor Wheeler's "Alexander in India” gives a graphic account of the great and decisive victory that marked the conqueror’.* crossing of the river Hydaspes. Paul L. Ford’s installment of his Franklin papers deals this month with "Franklin as a Jack of All Trades." Other out-of-door articles are "People of the Reindeer,” by Jonas Stadling; "In the Whirl of the Tornado.” by John R. Muslck, and an article on "Tornadoes." by Cleveland Abbe. The short stories in the number are by Chester Bailey Fernald, Mary Tracy Earle and Seumas McManus. IDn Manner’s Delight at Snccess. The suspicion that Du Maurler broke himself down by overwork is confirmed by F. C. Burnand. In his "Punch Notes’* in the August Pall Mall he writes: Apropos of money, "Kiki” Du Maufef began making a fortune most unexpectedly just a very few years before his sadly premature decease. WItn the true Frenchman's instinct for saving, ne had carefully husbanded a very respectable amount when the sudden anl almost- unexampled suet ess in America of “Trilby” as a book and then as a play made hia fortune. The dramatic adapter of the novel came to terms with Us author: and from America, England and the colonies the money, in the shape of percentage on the performances, poured into :he coffers of the utterly surprlsid and overjoyed Du Maurier. His previous novels had achieved a fair amount of success, but this "beat Banagher!" How well I call to mind his boyish delight as, holding his cigarette In ont hand, whil- the other was thrust into his capacious trouser-pocket, he said: "By Jove, old boy! if this goes on I needn't do another stroke of work!” Then, becoming suddenly depressed, he added plaintively: "Ah: but will it go on? Isn’t it too good to be true?” Then, after l had pointed out to him the usual course of a highly successful modern play, he plucked up again and exclaimed: "I must do another novel and have It dramatized’ Wasn’t It good of the publishers to render me the dramatic rights, which I J vo . ul i;. h , ave Bold ’ em for fifty pounds! hein?’ ! agreed with him. naturally. “Bui I’ve got another on the stocks. They would give me £10,0<W for It my SS “ w,lu “• I strongly recommended him to lei his publishers wait, and advised him to take his rest at ooce, contenting himself with doing just one drawing a week for Punch "Oh, I'll never give up Punch.” he exclaimed cheerily; "asiong as I can draw. I’ll always do somethting. If It’s only a quarter-page now and then. But—’’ he paused, walked up to the window, smoked, turned round, faced me fc and resumed: "No; I must do this work first. Et apres"—and he waved hia hand with the cigarette in It. shrugging his shoulders in -is Frenchiesi manner and laughing sarcastically at his own whimsical mood After this Interview, except at the Punch dinner-table, I never saw him again. When next I visited his house he was lying ill; he had Just fallen asleep, I was informed; a few days after my

it Is my strong impression inai ii poor Kiki had only been contented, for a while at least, with the success of “Trilby.’ he might have enjoyed many years of happy and restful life. Some Proverbs of Sav*ure*. [London Standard ] Tc learn the proverbs of a savage people is part of the white man’s burden, for no nation can deal properly with a conquered and inferior race unless It conforms In the first Instance to its long-established truisms. If not to the peculiarities of its folklore. Sayings that come down tho s'ream of time like smooth polished stones are ready to band in the language of every tribe to the uncivilized world; and In order to guide, advise and befriend a conquered people, it is without doubt necessary, at least in the first place, to calculate with their own handy pebbles. A great number of African proverbs are of a jA-artlcal nature. Nevertheless, this is not to say that poetry is altogether foreign to them. Apt analogy falls into beautiful expression occasionally, as when they say, concerning the protective power of a great man. ‘The long shadow of the Lorassua palm shelters him that is afar

CASTORIA Tor Infants and Children. Bears the Signature Of . ^ The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. TH> CCNT.un COMPANY. NSW YORK CITY.

off"; or, again. It touche* an abysmal sublimity in a masterly way, as in the following, "He who goee to Pate returns not —all that returns is a cry!" Yet these instances are few and far between, and they stand almost alone against & thousand sayings which take a plain prose view of things whose inspiring grandeur ha* drawn songs and sublime sentences from other races. The negro mind that first described the galaxy as ”a hen with many chickens" must have spent years in eliminating all poetry from calculation*. This was probably the ■ on the

is like

.. . two large

calabashes, which being shut can never !>e opened.” From this theae scorners of poetry proceed from worse to worse. “The sky,” they say, "Is the king of sheds, and earth Is the queen of beds. Night"—

sky,” they say, "is the king of sheds, and t^e earth Is the queen of beds. Night”— but here the natural poetry, though driven

a pitchfork, creeps In again—

Night is the queen of shades, and tho sun is the king of torches.” But once descend to the ordinary things of dally life, upon which it Is so easy not to write an epic poem, and vou have a collection of sharp saws which may well have been set with the same instrument ae that with which some negro races file their teeth. I almost kiU«d a bird,” says the fool with the blow-tube. "Put you can not eat the ’almost’ in & stew," returns his more

practical father.

Similarly "Promises are good if you can cook them.” and ’’Better is nine 'take ** ten ’go and come.’ ” A self-evt-dent proposition, but one not without a point in analogy. Is this: "He who dives on 2 nd **criflces bis face." There is sound physiological knowledge gathered, no doubt, empirically, in these two sayings. The load without Is carried by the load within.” and "The unsettled man ? sl ?’.. the *teady man eats meat." Don t tell your secrets to a woman" is a piece of wisdom which seems to have been mastered independntly by every people on the face of the earth, but among certain African tribes it appears to have an expansive application, subject to the definition of the terra “woman.” This definition is found embodied In the proverb, "There are more women than men,” which, according to Sir Richard Burton, contains Us own explanation—viz., that all those who Hstpn to what women say are counted as women. Thus, the advice of the negro practically means: "Never tell your secrets to old women, male and female.” In practical matters the negro sometimes adds a footnote to law which would In no way disgrace a Moses or a Solomon. Very f ray was the hair on the head of the man who said: "Tf a boy does nine mischiefs he shall suffer for five of them—his father for

the rest."

Effect of International Copyright. [Philadelphia Press ] It is a curious fact that while the International copyright law was passed, after a long period of agitation, with the expressed Intention of benefiting foreign authors, It shoull turn out in its operation to put a comparatively small amount of money in their pocket* by way of royalties, but to bid fair to enrich popular American authors. This state of affaihs could not have been foreseen, and it is only within a few months that it has begun to be manifest that such Is the effect of the law. The act put an end to the printing of popular novels in cheap pirated editions. It left the publishers of various “libraries” at liberty to reprint only books issued prior to *1891. The result has been no very great increase in the circulation of the ordinary English novels of commerce issued in this country by authorized publishers, except those of exceptional merit, and these probably do not number more than a dozen. However, there is a great reading public, and it wants cheap literature. A popular novel might sell 150,000 copies, and yet as many more people would be willing to purchase the same book in a cheaper edition who did not feel able to buy the cloth-bound books. To meet this demand special “limited” editions, the limit usually being 100,000 copies, are marketing rapidly, and are eagerly purchased by the same class of readers as formerly subscribed to the "Seaside Library.” Most of the books so published are by native authors, such as Paul Leicester Ford's “The Hon. Peter Sterling." Mrs. Burnett's "A Lady of Quality," Richard Harding Davis's "Soldiers of Fortune,” Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's “Adventures of Francois” and Robert N. Stephens's "Enemy to the King.” Some English authors, of course, benefit by this new system, notably Hall Caine with “The Christian” and Maurice Hewlett with “The Forest Lovers.” In addition the regular publishers have been quick to perceive the opening afforded and are getting out paper editions of such popular books as “The Prisoner of Zenda” and “Rupert of Hentzau.” Both Appletons and Scribners announce that they are about to Issue new cheap libraries of fiction. The Scribner series is to contain seventy-five volumes, all but two of which are by American authors, and the Appleton series is to be devoted td fiction, adventure and so on, beginning with F. T. Bullen’s “Cruise of the Cachelot.” The firm chiefly concerned in marketing these new cheap limited editions is a big dry goods house. Thus It will be seen that the international copyright law Is now working a revolution to the publishing business in the United States, and one has only to look over the paper editions in any book store to see that native authors arc deriving more benefit from the change than falls to the foreigners, whose hopes were so extravagant. The Yegleet of Poetry and Essays. William Allen White, the Western newspaper editor who attained fame through his well known editorial, “What's the Matter with Kansas?” speaking, recently, on literature In the West, said: “As for the poets, barring Riley, whose ‘songs burst from the heart,’ try to name one easy-running, chainiess bevel-gear. '99 model poet who is expressing in any way the life that now Is. and you will find it is a hard task. The poets now are running on sixteenth-century wheels over turnpikes of archaic mannerisms, and with little speed In their Journey from nowhere to yesterday. The Amer-

Colored Splotches.

I Mr. H. L. Myers, 100

Mulberry Street, Newark. N. J. t says: “t contracted a terrible

blood disease which broke out into sores all over my body. I spent a hundred dollars with doctors but grew worse instead of better. Many blood remedies were also used with no effect, until I decided to try S. S. 8. This remedy seemed to get at the seat of the disease and cured me completely and permanently.”

S.S.SS, Blood (Swift’s Specific) is the only remedy that can reach Contagious Blood Poison. Book on self-treatment sent free by Swift Specific Oo., Atlanta,G»,

lean psopis—that Is to say, the reading pcopl*—have read only one poem In tut* decade that they are not ashamed to artthat i .' G the well-to-do suburbs any morning between 8 and 1, poll the train, and you will find not more than three person* In the lot who can remember the title or the subject of any poem that has appeared in any American magazine during the year 1R99, if you except Mr Markham'* versea The commuter* represent the highest Intelligence of Chicago. A* a people we do not , want poetry, and we do not want essays. What we want is a good story, whether It be from the Associated Press or by •pecla! correspondent or by the well-known author.” COXF1DEXCK I* THE JUDICIARY.

lha Ladies' Model E, of the Steams. Color: BLACK or OBASta*. Is the lightest creation in bicycles. Price, $40.00 C. G. Fisher & Co., ua N. Peim. St.

(New York Time* (Dsm.).] Three cause* conspire to produce a feeling of confidence In the bench a* a *ure, permanent, and adequate defense against subversive social forces: (1). ’ho almost uniformly high chtractcr of the Judges of *11 cur higher courts; (2), the right of appeal, under wjiich the porelbly wrong and dangerous decisions of one Judge may be reviewed in the higher courts up to the 'cry highest; and (3), our common law, the c< ramon law of Ei»gland, the accumulated results of more than a thousand years of striving by a sober-minded, lawabiding, liberty-loving, and Industrious people to establish the relations of man to man upon a fixed and mst basis. It is not easy for a bad man to mount to the bench of any of the higher courts. In the States where judges are still appointed, as in Massachusetts, a distinguished career at the bar is uniformly the btst title to a more illustrious career upon the bench. Where the Judiciary is elective, that saving remnant of respect for public opinion wUeh persists in the minds of the politicians who manipulate the nominating conventions, suffices, save in rare cases, to preserve the tradition of learning and respectability In Judiciary The UDroar °vet Mr. Ktchard Croker s rough interference In Judge^L P J^ mll l a, L or 'i la8t fa » a warning of . th e flrmneas of the public re- . at however much the other departments of government may be debased, todepS& h m UlUit b ® kept hlGh ’ pure * am * trfhiimll*' W o e come to the highest Unn£? RtVL he Su P rem e Court of the States, we see that even a bad haVi, a s,n ** e term of four years, or\w5 S^l he , ave r afi e , not m° re than ane fancies to fill, would be poweru a 00,1 trolling degree the = t l tut . ion olt the court; while to proceed by Impeachment and removal or by VVi?:fi y « In< T eaatn ? the number of justices, imply and require the possession 8 U£h_a full measure of power that ? 8l( ?? nt . wh .° should undertake it might justly plead that he held a mandate from tfie people to establish the new order. But again, the bad President Is the slenderest of possibilities. Nothing approaching that calamity has befallen ua in our national life of more tnan a hundred years. The reckless man who appealed with all his eloquence to a half-maddened people In 1896 profited by more favoring circumstance* than are likely ever again to conspire for the advantage of unsteady and unsafe ambition, yet he was beaten. The rape of the Supreme Court by the forces pf socialism must be regarded as only a retootely possible peril. That bench will remain a sure and general protection against the aberrations of the inferior Federal and State courts. It Is the court in which the law is interpreted for the whole people, and It Is constituted In accordance with their will. It represents the entirety of dominant public opinion, that massive majority sentiment that according to our theory of government is right With a Judiciary system that has stood the tests of a hundred years. Interpreting a system of organic law recorded In the Federal and State constitutions that ts the product of the best minds of the nation, and a system of common law that embodies the rules of right conduct that have fallen from the Ups of more than thirty generations of Jurists of the En-glish-speaking race, the agitator* of the new socialism seem, Indeed, to have set their lances against the hills, "rockribbed and ancient aa the sun.” Our law, bristling with writs and remedies devised to protect the humblest subject from the oppressive acts of his king, is not less solicitous to protect society from the madness of the humble citizen turned anarchist. The king with his sceptre and the striker with his brickbat stand upon an equal footing of enforclble good behavior before the supreme majesty of Anglo-Saxon law.

life saved by swamp-root The Wonderful New Discovery in Medical Science. SAMPLE BOTTLE SENtTrEE BY MAIL. Swamp-Root, discovered by the eminent kidney and bladder specialist, is wonderfully successful in promptly curing kidney, bladder and uric acid troubles. Some of the early symptoms of weak kidneys are pain or dull ache in the back, rheumatism, dizziness, headache, nervousness, catarrh of the bladder, gravel or calculi. bloating, sallow complexion, puffy or dark circle* under the eyes, suppression of urine or compelled to pas* water often, day and night < The mild and extraordinary effect of the famous new discovery. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, is scon realized. It stands the highest for Us wonderful cures of the most distressing case#. If you need a medicine, you should havo the best. Sold by druggists in 60c and 81 sizes. You may have a sample bottle of Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root and a pamphlet that tells all about it, including many of the thousands of letter* received from sufferers cured, both sent fre* by malL Write Dr. Kilmer ft Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and please mention that you read this generous offer in The Indianapolis New*.

7 Easy to Buy, Easy to Pay f m Your credit Is good it ■ 7 "The Reliable” /

WANT ADS” IN Tilt NEWS am- OWLY ONE CENT A WORD.

■■ A high-grade wheel of #00 QQ mm H strength and durability wAU' 30 Hj / CASH OK CREDIT. J Em Specification* k Frame, best seamless tubing, 34 in.; Wheels, 28-m.. fully nickeled W spokes, 32 front and 36 rear; Hub*, M mm turned from solid bar; Rims, best mm ■ quality wood; Sprockets, drop I. forged and adjustable. Tread, 5 M In.; Cranks, best spring steel; M mm Pedals, rat trap; Finish, black, mm ■ maroon and green; Weight, S3 lbs. ■[ Z "the reliable, a Furniture and Carpet Co. X 32, 34 and 36 SOUTH ILLINOIS STREET. V Imms ■/•Mkl

CLUB HENl end men careful about dree, ere our customer* The more careful, the better we like to serve them. We make to order the highest uf high-grade shirts for dress, business, golf sad general outing wear. but we cell special attention to our FANCY SHIRTINGS of madras, zephyrs, French corded linens and fine cambrics, knowing the veriety is so large snd the patterns so exquisite that you will find what pleases your fancy and which has the added merit of being uncommon. Price, cuffs attached. 13 to IS eat;h We send samples of fabrics and self-mass-urtng blank to oot of town customers. Wa guarantee to fit Lincoln Bartlett Co., Shirt Makers, 46 Jackson Boulevard. * Chicago.

YOUR

From falling, clear the scalp and hair of crusts and scales, allay itching and irritation, and destroy hair eaters by warm shampoos with /

the most effective skin ana scalp pnrifyfng and beautifying soap in the world as well as purest and sweetest for toilet, bath and [nursery. For Golf Rash irrltationa, chafings, undue or offensive perspiration, and other sanative uses, nothing eo cooling, soothing, purifying and refreshing a* a bath with CUTICURA SOAP. For the Hands, soak them on retiring in hot lather of CUTICURA SOAP, dry, and anoint freely with CUTICURA OINTMENT. Wear old glove* with, finger Ups cut off during the night. gyaold throughout tbs world. Price, CITJCTTaA 90 A P *6 cents j CUTICV* A OIKTMMT BO rents. Pottes l>st»e ako C***. Comr., Sols Props. Mosion, **AP About the Hntr.'* freo.

Six »ou

DM POUND, j In Tablet Form—Pleasant to Taka. f» sold under a bona Jlde puarantee to Cur* K idney and Liver Dleetue, Fever end Ague.

meg!sw. miny irwiiniwo* mr am.; w . Seventh Street, CincinnntL Obio. 23,000 PEOPLE IN THIS OITY ALONE.... Boy The INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Every EvsiJag when they have time to read and consider. Agents la over 400 towns THROUGHOUT THE STATE deliver 16.000 oopleadally to regular subscribers. Advertisers Appreciate This.

RAILROAD TIME CARD.

bunds? only.

O.C.C. ABt-L.Ry

I CKy "Pkl Of

Offtoe.Ne.

Bio Pour Rout* *. t K. Wash. St

Deport Arrive

ci.mx.AND i.rar*. iMunoifl nee. HM szstox asasos zuts. Bentou Hsrbor expree. .t«.M Benton Harbor exprese UU5 Wttb&sb accommodation '430 ST. WCIS LIES. Bt. bools ocoonunodaMoa t'-30 Bt Lout, southwestern Km, d s 11.45 Tefre Hsuie A MalUxm sccom t4.30 Bt. Louis eipress, s ‘ll-ao OHlCA.rO MX*. Lafayette accommodation ,«.46 Lafayette accommodatlt* tBlS Chicago night express. ■ .•1L0# OUfCIXXATX LUTZ. Cincinnati express, s -S.*# Clneimist! express, s ....n-lS Cincinnati secommodetiaa f7h0 Cincinnati accommodation MOJO Cincinnati express, p Orcenaburg accommodation ta.SO Cincinnati Washington f 1 ex, t d.. S. Vernon and Louisville ex, d s •S.4S S. Vernon and Louisville ex ....ril.45

yaoaiAjugat

Champaign accommodation t4.85 Peoria and Bloomington ex, • *11.18 SPBI!f«FISU> AXt> OOUTHSIJS ME*. SISSS a.83SaS::::~!«3

a£2a “"“’SrASwBSKS?" *

naiTfra

^®aasaasct:;.« .’as

JT jgwwaiMRi JWfwW 4

Peoria, Bloomington m aad ex. Peoria and Bloomington f ez...

tt.m

ts.10 18.48

*»JS

18.40 •8.10 no.»

•4.04

J

*»J»

•11.80 ni.05

•8.40 jjii •AlS

•11.80

1U.4I ia

uSftS

ClaotnnaU, Toledo, Detroit-..

...•1.07

CM.'HLTl.i* l H Lou?» l u<Mifw»

" “ If

•*821

.AW.L..'.tHJ*

Chicago vestibule, p ex'-. Sunday only 11 JO Chicago Vestibule, daUy ex Bun. d p 3.35 V

Xonon Accommodation ...14.00 tlOOt /

LAKE erikTa WKrrBHJT R. R.

a

i s«° m

INDIANA, DBCATLR ft WESTERN BTt Decatur and Bt. Louis mat! and ex—ft.lt t4.dO Chicago express, p d U .^.ttl® tf-4«

ttco'.a

Decatur aad St 'Loo's'lost ex.sV..*!!.

W

Ticket offices at

Phiinue.phtu aad New York.... Baltimore and Washington...... Columbus, Ink, and Louisville.. Richmond and Columbus, O. Pious snd Colusatw Columbus, *>., and I Richmond, Sunday < Columbus, lod.. ( ‘ Columbus, Isd,, 1 Vernon and MadisonIU« and Vtooenaes Xcots ........... cd JSast......——— ... Bethany Park sou, _and RMaxaead--... hia and New York e and Washington and Bpringdeld -

Hp .7.8:3

=M rj!|i

Phnai^hiraa^fSiZZ^'

1 ant Xenia..

Columbus, IbA,*r>4 LonlsYlUe.„™a..f! Logout port and Chicago —

VANDAL.IA LINE. ferre Haute, St. Louts ■ Kerr* Haute, bt. Louis 1

Jeree

Terre Haute, 11 Terre Haste sad ferre Haute and •t, Louie aad ah:

aadaUBolaia Beet *.*