Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1910 — Indianapolis Sports Try to Wrest Kankakee From Chicago Hunters. [ARTICLE]

Indianapolis Sports Try to Wrest Kankakee From Chicago Hunters.

Hammond News. Attorney J. G. Ibach, of this city, has been retained by the Valley Gun Club of Chicago in its efforts to hold property which it has under lease along the Kankakee. The property is owned by the Ligonier Land Co. and extends practically the entire distance from Baum’a Bridge to Hebron. The Chicago club which is made up of a number of wealthy men leased the property forhunting and fishing. The lease has yet seven or eight years to run. Recently the land company has been negotiating with an Indianapolis club to take over the property. The sportsmen have long had their eye on the reserve and are extermely anxious to get hold of it. The Valley Gun Club does not care to have its property taken away from it in the first place and in the second does not propose to be robbed of its rights.

**W« are at peace with all the 'World.” Nicaragua doesn't count. Hare you seen any of Selma L&gerlofa books among the six best seller*? So far no one has gone to the extreme and criticised Dr. Cook’s literary style. . .«. No man should try to nurse all the orphan grievances that are left on his doorstep. One thing about the Panama canal, the more it costs the more we want it. It's like fresh eggs. Harry Thaw is getting pretty tired of living among a tot. of dull people who never created a sensation. Inventive genius has done a whole lot of things for the lazy man. The latest announcement is a machine to breathe artificially. Doubtless there are those who will keep a diary to the end of the year. Just to show that they possess remarkable will power. It may be worth mentioning that there is no record of the trusts having contributed anything to the government’s conscience fund. A Pennsylvania couple applied for a divorce because they are “tired of each other,” and the judge turned them down because he is tired of such cases. The world’s population is now estimated at 1,685,000,000. Good idea for the man who thinks he’s the whole works to paste these figures in his hat for occasional reference. One of the professors says woman’s senses are less acute than those of man. He probably bases his decision on the fact that a woman can get along all winter with low shoes. Mrs. Hetty Green begins her 75th year in excellent health and with about 8100,000,000 to keep .her from the need of an old age pension. If she is economical she will die a rich woman. Among the books that a member of Peary’s party took with him for reading in the long evening of the arctic night was Whittier’s "Snow-Bound.” It certainly was suited to the surroundings.

A prominent preacher declares that (inborn generations will bless John D. Rockefeller’s name. J. D., however, is probably willing to call it square if only the born generation will quiit scattering tacks on- Standard Oil’s road. Some of our folks fret about the Philippines as a very heavy burden; the responsibility we have assumed there terrifies them. How v&uld they be feeling if this country had the 293,000,000 Hindoos and Mohammedans of India on its hands? It’s well, occasionally, to think on our mercies. Schoolboy football has fallen under serious suspicion. in the public schools of New York City it has been wholly prohibited, after careful study and sharp debate; hnd school committees in other cities have the matter under advisement. Of the serious accidents to football players during 1909, the largest number happened to members Of school teams. The youth of the players is greatly against them. Germany has recently allowed France to erect a mdnument at Wissembourg, Alsace, in honor of the French soldiers who fell there in 1870, but it carefully censored the inscription and refused permission for the emblems which were to be placed on the pedestal. The unveiling of the monument was the occasion of a great demonstration of Alsatian loyalty to France, and emphasized anew the tragedy of the lost provinces which France mourns with unceasing bitterness. It is illustrative of a new view of “history.” and perhaps a new view of teaching also, when the University of Wisconsin sends a professor in the history department across the water to watch the budget campaign in England. The quick appreciation of the Immense importance of that momentous election, and the determination that the instruction given to their students shall be as vital and full of human iaterest as possible, are creditable alike to the Intelligence and the scholarship of the univerisity authorities. Another attempt is being made to have Christopher Columbus “enrolled among the saints. The Congregationot Sacred Rites of the Roman curia Ims jurisdiction over such matters, and the formalities of procedure, as now vmA In the process of canojQl»tion and beatification, were established by Pope •iztus V. in 1687. The proceedings often cover many years, as in the case )f Joan of Arc, whose name was added last year to the Hat of saints In 1892M, when the four hundredth inniveroary of the discovery of America was

millions of people, representing all the civilised nations, were sent to Pope Leo XIII. for the canonization of Columbus. The congregation of cardinals took the matter in consideration, out made no recommendation to the Pope. It is said that their unfavorable attl tude was due to revelations regarding the" not altogether blameless private life of ColUmbus; but his admirers are not discouraged, and will try again.

Are there, after all, any artistic standards, any fixed principles of esthetics? Most persons win answer yes at once, and proceed to dignify their own tastes and likings by these lofty phrases. But those more deliberate souls who have attended sc-mewhat to the history of art will not be so certain. Fifty years ago the women of Lyons presented to the city of New York a copy of the familiar Stuart portrait of Washington, woven dexterously on a loom of their famous silk-mills. It was an ingenious product, quite a triumph of mechanical performance; and a generation whicc was sincere in its admiration of the marvels of machinery hung the picture conspicuously in the governor’s room of the city hall. From that place it has now been removed by the Municipal Art Com.mission on the ground that it is not a work of art. No douljt the commission is right, but not many of our grandfathers would have thought so. They had not much use for tho charmingly realistic paintings of the Dutch school, over which modern connoisseurs rave, and they had the authority of so famous a critic as Ruskln for their opinion. It was little else than blasphemy in those days to speak of Rembrandt in the same breath with Raphael. They had got over thinking Beethoven the rank anarchist in music their own fathers had believed him, but they would have stopped their ears in horror at the sounds which kindle the emotions of advanced musical critics to-day. If, in addition to these perfectly dofensible hrtistic views, they chose to think that things like the silken portrait of the Immortal George or the homely Rogers groups were art,and their own somber and ponderously carved furniture more beautiful than the graceful designs of Chippendale and Heppelwhite, is it quite sure that they were wholly astray? "It’s clever, but is it art?” queries Mr. Kipling in one of his ballads. The world is always asking that disturbing question, and it seldom gives the same answer for two generations in succession.