Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1889 — Page 4

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The Sunday Journal has double the clrcn Jarion of auy Sunday puper In Indiana, f rice Ato cents. TQWSSHIP LIBRARIES. The failure of the township library bill in tho Senate, yesterday, can only be accounted for on tho theory that tho rotes against its passage were cast under an entire misapprehension of tho character of the measure. Certainly tho majority of the Senators can not have wished to put themselves on record as opposing the existence of so useful and important an institution. In cities, where largo private libraries are accessible to many, public libraries are found to bo invaluable adjuncts to tho public schools, and it should need no argument to show tho especial need of them in country districts. One of tho great drawbacks to country schools is the difficulty experienced by pupils and teachers in gaining access to standard literature, encyclopedias, and otherbooks of reference. In many, perhaps most, cases such works are not to be found in the districts. In no way can this want be so well supplied as by the totraship library system. That the system, as it has existed, was defective, and that tho libraiies once established have gone to naught is no argument against the institution itself. The Senators seemed to have labored under the impression that the bill presented was for the purpose of re-establishing tho libraries on the old plan, whereas, it was expressly intended to cure tho defects of the old law, and to place them on n firm and permanent basis. Tho yearly fund to be derived from the two-mill tax proposed would, in tho majority of townships, bo small, Tout sufficient to gradually build up libraTies that would be a credit to the State, and of incalculable benefit to the people. It is to bo hoped that the bill can bo brought up again and its merits moro clearly presented. A POtST IJi UXLKftKX xiilUL'S. Every now and then tho time-worn question is raised as to tho comparative jnerit of literary work prepared with- a view to the pecuniary compensation it will bring, and that produced purely for love of it and no financial clement involved. It would 6eem that the question should be settled for each individual by tho application of a little common sense, but that '.opposite views of the matter still exist l i i a. -T i as snown every time it comes up xor uis"Ussion. A writer in an Eastern paper, imd who, it is to be presumed, writes for vglory alone, has recently given forcible Expression to tho belief that tho best lliterature is, that written without any View to a possible reward, and that the avork of one who writes for a living nust necessarily be of inferior character. It is, of course, easy to point to examples of fine literature produced by persons who were under no financial ftress. Washington Irving was one of these; he was a man of .comfortable fortune and devoted himself to literature through natural bent of jnind, just as other men of wealth have .become physicians, or lawyers, or scientists. This fact, however, gives do feason' to believe that his books would te less charming had their sale been his tole source of income. On tho other hand, Ilawthorno was pressed by poverty all his life, and lajored with Ids per. for bread, but it will jiardly bo said that the "Twice-Told Tales," the "Scr.rlct Letter," the"Blithctlalo Romance" would have been better told had his purse been full of money. The truth is that genius is not at itsbest without incentive; it may even need the spur of necessity to bring it to its high est development. The incentive in one . case may be tho hope of fame, or of the commendation of a limited circle; in an other it may be tho desire to " accomplish a certain aim, philosophical, philanthropic or what not; in still another tho motive may bo the mixed one of a wish to gain n name and to gain a livelihood. Tho sentimental theory is that when tho brain is "coined into dollars" through the pen, tho work, in some way, bears a lingo of inferiority, born of the supiiosed sordidness that produced it. This U true only as it Is true of any other class of work down to that of the daylaborer. If the worker has no other inspiration than that of the dollars hoped to bo won then tho results must bo lacking in that which should make them of most value. It does not follow, however, that becauso he toils for money, no other interest or object is . involved. The lawyer has a profes- , sidnal and personal pride in working for and gaining a verdict for his client which is entirely apart from tho fee re-

ceived. The doctor, with a critical case on hand, is not worthy of the name if ho can measure tho care and skill rendered by the amount of the bill the patient can afford to pay. The same is true in business life. The employer pays for certain work to be done, but if the employo gauges his service

exactly according to contract, determined to "do no more than he is paid for," then his service is inferior. It is the spirit of personal interest with which a man performs his work, what ever it may be, that makes it valuable, and it is precisely this spirit that cannot be bought nor hired. It is what the literary worker, the lawyer, tho ac countant, the mechanic puts into his work over and above the filling of the contract according to value received that makes it worthy of notice and wins approbation. The literary laborer is as "worthy of his hire7? as another, and his efforts will be none the less artistic and satisfactory if the hire be liberal. DDP0SITI0N3 OS KEW8PAPEB8. In primitive times in this country it was customary for the pulpit to bo made a free advertising medium for the dis semination of a variety of social, roligious and personal information. Tho same custom is still in vogue in rural communities, but wherever a daily paper exists in the neighborhood the preachers have "struck" against tho im position, and have requested their par ishioners to make their announcements through tho press. Accordingly, the long list of coming events, and other matters of interest to a limited circle, are no longer laid upon the pidpit desk, but are sent to tho newspapers. As tho preacher was required to read them without charge so the newspaper is ex pected to print them gratuitously. If but one church were involved, grumbling would not be worth whilo, but when one is multiplied by twenty, each demanding especial attention for its little affairs, the matter becomes some thing of a nuisance. A newspaper is not, primarily, a benevolent institution, ougli it is always willing to do its part in that direction. It is chiefly a vehicle for the circula tion of such news as it may consider of general interest, and for tho publi cation of advertisements. Between the two it endeavors to draw a sharp line. If, for instance, an announcement comes in to the etFect that a distinguished stranger is to occupy a certain pulpit, that is news, and will be printed as such; if, oil the other hand, the notice is the stereotyped one that the church is open, and that the pastor will preach as usual, the place for that notice is the wastcbasket, unless it is accompanied by the cash that will secure its insertion as an advertisement. If "local talent" is to give a conceit, or dramatic entertainment, or to otherwise disport itself before the public, not only one notice is demanded, but many, and for a hundred dollars' worth of advertising no return is expected to be made unless it be half a dozen tickets grudgingly given tickets for which the office attaches have no use, and which can seldom bo given away. The same desire to get something out of the newspapers for nothing is manifested in other directions. Innumerable arc the ways by which busi ness men, who never advertise in a legitimate way, endeavor to get themselves and their business mentioned. Notoriety seekers are continually trying to be bolstered into prominence by the press; pretentious persons of whom not a dozen readers o f the paper ever heard, but who desire the appearance of social prominence, lose no opportunity of send ing accounts .of their doings to the society columns. Newspapers are not op posed to aiding their readers in tho at tainment of their ambitious purposes, but they are soulless corporations when such matters arc concerned, and it must be made an object to them and must bo done in their own way. Advertising columns are always elastic; news col umns only when the news is news. THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES. The establishment of a State Board of Charities introduces a new factor in the practical charities of the city and State, and no whch may prove very fruitful of ;."mt results. The law is modeled on that of Ohio and cher States where similar boards have existed for several years, and proved very valuable in mat ters of prison management and reform. The functions of the board relate en tirely to this line of work, their duties beiug purely charitable and philan thropic. The members of the board serve without pay, beyond their neces sary expenses, their services being given gratuitously in tho interests of practical reform in the management of charitable, penal and reformatory insti tutions. Under the law tho jurisdiction of the board covers tho entire State, and embraces not only all tho State institu tions and prisons, but county poorhouses, infirmaries and jails. This makes a large field, and one in which there is amnio room for reform. No doubt many of tho county poor-houses and jails are in very bad condition, and cover great abuses. Under the law the board, or a sub-committee of its mem bers, may at any time visit any of the State institutions or county poor-houses and jails, and investigate their condi tion, management, finances and ac counts, examine officers and inmates, hear testimony as to alleged abuses, send for persons and papers, etc. In view of the jurisdiction and authority conferred on the board, it is evident that the law is an important new departure in the management and supervision of public institutions, and probably the beginning of valuable reforms. The board has no power to appoint or remove officers of any institution, but it can go any length in the way of investigating and exposing abuses, and may suggest needed reforms in any or all the in stitutions it may visit. The law is an excellent one, and good people of all parties should unite in giving the board hearty support in carrying it into etltct. The first members of the board appointed by the Governor are Judge E. B. Martindale, Mrs. C. W. Fairbanks, Mrs. W. A. Peclle, Rev. 0. C. McCulloch and Mr. John R. Elder, of this city,

and Mr. Timothy Nicholson, of Rich

mond. These names are a guarantee that the board will be organized in the interest of the objects it is intended to promote and that the new system will be inaugurated under favorable auspices. A PREMATURE DISCUSSION. A reader of the Journal asks for an ex pression of its views in regard to the annexation of Canada, "so that some who artun darkness may receive light on the subject." The Journal can express its views on this subject in pretty brief space. It regards all discussion con cerning the annexation of Canada, for tho present, as premature, unprofitable and impertinent. No considerable num ber of Canadians want to be annexed to the United States, and if their mumbcr were many times greater there is no rea son to believe that Great Britain would tolerato tho idea for a moment. We could only annex Canada by a war, and certainly we do not want it badly enough to pay that price. It is possible and even probable that the two countries will eventually come together, but it will be after a long process of gradual approximation and assimilation of tho Canadian government to ours. That process is going on, and is likely to continue until the absorption or annexation of Canada will become a logical and po litical necessity; but the event is not in sight yet, and is likely to be retarded rather than accelerated by present dis cussion. It will be time enough for us to talk seriously about the annexation of Canada when the Canadians them selves, or any considerable number of them; desire it, and when England would not resent the suggestion as an insult. At present tho proposition is about as impertinent as the one recently made in Canada, to purchase of us the New England States. Lieutenant Baker, of Lansing, Mich., who commanded the party of cavalry which captured J. Wilkes Booth, the assas sin of President Lincoln, publishes 6omo interesting facts concerning the event. Ho says the pursuing squad of cavalry traced Booth to his hiding place, in the Garrett barn, near the Rappahannock river, in Virginia, and demanded his surrender. As he was well armed and refused to surrender, the barn was finally fired to drive him out. As he came out of the burning building, pistol in hand, ready to sacrifice his life dearly, he was shot by Boston Corbctt. Booth had thrown both crutches away be fore attempting his daring charge on the squad of cavalry. The body of tho assassin was taken to the Potomac, under escort of Lieutenant Baker, in a country wagon driven by an old negro. When the body reached Washington, by a gun-boat, Secre tary Stanton was puzzled about its burial, and it lay for a day on board the gun-boat. Finally Lieutenant Baker and his cousin, Colonel Baker, both of the secret service, took the body in a row-boat with a heavy ball and chain conspicuously displayed. and dropped down the Potomac. This action -was plainly seen, and the special Washington correspondents immediately reported that the body of the assassin had been sunk in the Potomac. Frank Leslie's newspaper illustrated tho burial in the Potomac on a full page. As a result of the report rebel sympathizers dragged the river for the body. But the body was not sunk in the river nor in the sea, as was reported at the time. After nightfall the boat returned to tho old penitentiary near the navy-yard, and the body was buried neath tho flagstone of a cell. The penitentiary was then used as an arsenal. A monument has been erected at Emporia, Kan., to mark the geographical center of the United States. A glance at the map would indicate that the location cannot be very far amies, but now comes a California Congressman and claims that that is the most central State and San Francisco the most central city in the United States. This is the way he argues: The most easterly limit of the territory of the United States is Quaddyhead, Mo., which lies in C7 degrees west longitude; and the most westerly point is Attou island, one of the Aleutian archipelago, which lies in 173 degrees east longitude. A point midway be tween these two extremes is 127 degrees east longitude, and San Francisco, being in 123 degrees east longitude, is but 270 miles east of the geographical center of the United States. This statement is based on the fact that the outlying islands of Alaska stretch off westward in the Pacific ocean about 2,000 miles from the mainland. In fact. they stretch so far west that they cross the 180th degree of west longitude and extend far into eastern longitude. ' By the way, it may surprise some to learn that the area of Alaska, with the islands of the Aleutian archipelago, is 632,000 square miles, or nearly fifteen times the area of Indiana. Another remarkable fact is that the miles of Alaskan 6ea coast on the Pacific and Artio oceans exceed the entire coast line of the United States on the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Alrani, one of the finest singers America has produced, though probably somewhat passee now, sang in concert in Albany, N. Y a few nights ago. The Albany Journal recalls the fact that it was there she re ceived her first decided recognition after some other cities had failed to recognize her merits. The editor adds: "Tho writer will never forget his experience when connected with a Troy newspaper. A concert ' had been given in that city, at which Albani, then known as Miss La Jeunesso, sang. It proved a failure so far as tho attendance and enthusiasm of the auditors were con cerned. The father of Albani was much provoked over tho failure to recognize his daughter's pre-eminent talents, and visiting the newspaper office expressed his disgust to the writer at the lack of musical culture in the city of Troy. Shaking his finger and trembling with emotion, he de clared: 'The timo will come when this city will be glad to hear my daughter 6ing.'" And so it did. The new-fangled street indicator in tho street-cars of this city affords a new and. perhaps, hardly commendable amusement to the passengers. A staid, elderly gentle man was observed, the other day, offering to bet a nickel with his companion that the driver would slip a cog and get the machine out of gear before reaching Washington street. Passengers who do not bet occupy themselves with watching the driver make change, whip his mules, look out for passengers, stop and start his car. watch the crossings and the boys who "catch on" and jerk the indicator, all at one and the same time. The Australian ballot svstemis not the onlj rigid law they have in that far-away country. They havo a very stringent liquor law, under which a license to retail intoxicants can only be granted to a hotel or public houso containing not less than thirty beds for guests, and all such houses arc required to close at 11 o'clock r. m. As

a result of this law there are no dram-shops such as we have in this country, and liquors of any kind can only be obtained at a hotel or lodging-house.

American exhibits for the coming Paris exposition are now being shipped at a rapid rate. The American commissioner says all the space assigned to the United States, 100,000 square feet, has already been allotted. This country has responded heart ily to tho invitation to exhibit its products, and those who have talked with the com missioners believe that America will make on this occasion her best foreign exhibi tion in every branch of natural and manu factured products. The obese subscriber who inquires about the Banting system in this issue of the Journal is recommended to try a more rapid and surer method of reducing his ilesh. Several ways might be mentioned, but one absolutely certain to bring about leanness is to work on a daily newspaper SC5 days in the year, the service involving several daily trips up and down three long flights of stairs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says, in a recent newspaper article: "The universe seems to me to be tilled with thought germs, and unwritten poems people space." Mercy! And are each and all of us in danger of swallowing some of those germs every time we go out of doors, and of producing tho Wilcox variety of poems? It is not very consoling to reflect that tho sea of mud, in which tho city is now float ing, will soon turn to clouds of dust. - aa To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Can you. In Sunday's edition, print the Panting system of rules tor redutlnc the flesh, and oblijre A Follower. Indianapolis, March 2. Tho Banting method consists in ab stinence from all farinaceous, saccharine or oily matter, which is converted into fat in the human system. He proscribes the use of bread, pastry, potatoes, turnips, beets, parsnips and carrots; butter, milk, beer, port wine, champagne, pork, salmon and the like; and recommends lean meats, poultry, game, fruit, dry toast, green vege tables and permits the moderate use of softboiled eggs and cheese. The quantity of food is regulated by the natural appetite. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: flow many electoral votes will, the four new States, soon to be admitted, have in 18921 J. s. CITV. They will each have, of course, two Sena tors and each one Representative, except South Dakota, which will have two. This will make thirteen electoral votes, and this arrangement willholduntila new apportionment of Representatives is made under the census of 1800. Whether this will bo done before 1J2 cannot bo stated with certainty. BREAKFAST-TABLE CUAT. George W. Childs, the millionaire ed itor of Philadelphia, began life as an er rand-boy in a book house, and eventually became proprietor. Mrs. Mackay's dinners in London have been the roost popular events of the season. The wife of the Croesus has won hei way into the most exclusive society of England. Twenty-three women are employed in the New York custom-house at a salary of $90 a week each. In the United States be tween 14,000 and lo,000 women are fulfilling the duties of commercial travelers. Sir Julian Pauncefote, who will be British minister at Washington after March 4, is a fine-looking man, 6ix feet two inches tall, black-eyed, heavy-browed, and baldhcadcd. He has a charming wife and daughter. A bronze statue, of heroic size, of Stonewali Jackson, to cost $00,000, has been ordered by tho Jackson Memorial Association, of Lexington, Va. It will be completed in three years. The model is by the artist Valentine, of Richmond. The right of women to practice medicine in Canada has been established by the successful application of Miss Mitchel, a graduate of Queen's University, Kingston, for a license. The Provincial Medical Board at Quebec received the application. Mrs. James Brown Pottkr was driven past the Knickerbocker Club in a certain dude's T-cart the other afternoon. She observed some men in the window. "Dear me," she exclaimed, "see how they run to the window to see me and save a dollar and a half." The English poet Bailey, the author of "Festns," will celebrate the jubilee of the first appearance of his celebrated poem, the sale of which in this country has been enormous. Mr. Bailey was a young man of twenty-three when this work first appeared. He is now in excellent health. It is said that descendants of dancers at the inaugural ball one hundred years ago do not respond to the advertisement for their presence at this year's festivities in such numbers as are desired. Tho "first" old families do not 6eem to have been Erominent in society a century ago. They ad not then accumulated their millions. The athletic-culture fad, which originated in Boston and has been steauily spreading, has now reached Milwaukee, where young women are evincing a lively interest in it. A new feature of the fad is tho craze for fencing and boxing two masculine accomplishments, which for some reason are very dear to the feminine mind. A FRENcn savant has recently announced hisbelief that women are increasing in size, Certain it is that tho hands of tho average woman are much larger now than formerly. The happy change in public opinion which enables women of all ranks to work with their hands, and take pride in doing so, may not be without effect in enlarging those members. Mrs. Ormistox Ciiant, who made such a pleasant impression as a lecturer in Indianapolis', last summer, was born near Chepstow in 1848. Eleven years ago she was married to Mr. Thomas Chant, a surgeon, who takes unfeigned delight in his gifted wife's popularity. For a time she was a successful teacher, then a nurse in London Hospital, and for a year manager of an insane asylum. AN interesting if not distinguished "arrival" at Philadelphia is Senor Don Enrique Jiminez Munez, of San Jose, Costa Rica, who has been four years in Europe, principally in Belgium, studying agriculture, and now means to spend some time at the Pennsylvania Agricultural College. His studies finished, he is going back to Costa Rica to introduce improved methods of farming. There is a cradle in New York that has rocked over 19,000 babies. It began to rock nineteen years ago, when the Sisters of Charity started a little foundling hospital on Twelfth street, New York, with $5 in the treasury. Sister Irene was at the head of it, as she is still, a wonderful, frail little woman, whose genius and devotion will always be remembered by those who have once beheld her among the babies whom she has saved and succored. Senator Hearst, of California, does not make an appearance suggestive of great wealth. His black clothes are generally unbrushed, ill-fitting and baggy. His hat is rarely new and never with its nan smoothly laid. His gray hair and his long utaiu are uuinmmeu. lei Denaior J ones, of Nevada, himself a millionaire, says that his California colleague is as rich as Will iam K. anderbilt. Tho man who paid ST.7,000 for a yearling colt must certainly nave a uouar or two. The lato J. Ingersoll Bowditch, of Bos ton, left by will to the city of Boston 10,000, tho income of which is to be ex pended in the purchase of books of permanent value and authority in mathematics and astronomy, to be added to tho Bowditch collection now in the public library. If the city neglects to aecept the bequest within one year, the $10,000 is to be given to Har vard College, air. Bowditch also gives to

Harvard College S6.000. the income to beexi

pended under the direction of the prof essor of physiology lor xne promotion oi original investi orations in the physiological laboratory of Harvard Medical College. JoSEru G. Parkinson, of Chicago, is said to be the only deaf-and-dumb lawyer in the country. He is associated with his twin brother, who docs not share his disabilities. When Mr. Parkinson was twenty-three vears old newas cmei eiamnier mine Patent Office at Washington, a place he held for six years. In 1879 he resigned, and soon afterward was admitted to practice before the Lnited Mates fcupreme Lourt, He now ranks as one of the most successful patent lawyers in the country. It is the pet ambition of the Princess Maria Theresa of Bavaria to own more dogs and know more people than any other member of the royal families "of Europe. felia is unmarried ana travels with a maid of honor and a chamberlain, to whose ten der mercies are confided the fourteen ani mals that, compote her traveling menacerie. When in Madrid she carried a tame rat in her arms when she walked abroad, and was followed by her chamberlain, who was chained to a small cinnamon bear. In Philadelphia the average number of persons living on an acre of ground is only thirteen; the number of dwellings per acre is two and a half, and the number of per sons per dwelling six. In New York the number of persons on each acre of space is fifty-two: the number of dwellings per acre four, and tho number of persons per dwelling eighteen. Is it any wonder, under these circumstances, asks the Record, that people livo longer in Philadelphia than in Isew York? or that they are happier while they livef There is in one of the Tremont studios in Boston an ingenious and clever young woman. The broken bits of china usually thrown away by the dealers she buys. onie of these are easy enough to mend, but the unmcndable pieces she takes and, with the aid of rivets and cement, molds them anew into shapes, strange, grotesque and sometimes beautiful. A dexterous paint brush helps her to conceal the joiningu here and there. Marvels of ingenuity are some of the specimens of her work in a line which she has invented for herself. The widow of the late Richard A. Proc tor, who is now in Flonda, has received a dispatch announcing that Queen Victoria, in pursuance of a memorial signed by numerous eminent men, has granted her a civil-list pension of SOO a year. Among the signatures to the memorial were the nam.?s of the Duke of Argyll, the Karl of Crawford. Lord Grimthorpe. Professor Tvndall. Professor nuxley. Sir John Lubbock, Sir Henry Roscoe, Sir L. McClintock, Sir Robert Ball, Prof. Piazzl Smythe, Dr. Copeland. Colonel lupman. Colonel Herschel. Dr. Huggins, Messrs. Clements Markham, Grant Allen, Warren de la Rue. and manv others. The art and exhibition committee upon the Washington centennial celebration has approved the magnette of the commemorative medal prepared by Mr. Augustus St. Gandens. The obverse shows a profile head oi Washington, and tne reverse an eagle with outspread wings, and the city's coat-of-arms. This medal, which is three and a half inches in diameter, is to be cast in bronze for general distribution and for sale. and in silver for presentation to distinguished guests. A reproduction, half size, is to be used by the gentlemen connected officially with the celebration as a badge of office. The price of the large medals has not yet been decided upon, but it will probaDiyoeSL, General. Sherman was once a patient of Dr. Bliss, who died the other day in Wash ington. The Doctor bad been treating him for some time for 6ome slight but troublesome disorder, and had given him several different kinds of medicine, when one day on making his regular call the General said to mm: "Doctor, 1 don't seemto be gettint? any better for all of your medicine." "Well, General," replied the Doctor iocosely, "perhaps you had better take Shak8pearos advice and Hhrow physic to the dogs.' " "I would. Doctor," replied the sick man, as he turned his head on the pillow. "I would, but there are a number of valuable dogs in the neighborhood, and I don't want to kill 'em olfl" This story is told of the Emperor of Aus tria: A criminal had been sentenced to death. The death warrant was placed be fore the Emperor to sign. Convincing S roofs of the man's guilt had been prouced, and yet a shadow of doubt hovered in tho Emperors mind. He was just about to sicn the warrant when he nut his ren down, and sat for three hours immovable as a statue and plunged in deep thoucht. At last he began to write his name, but hardly had he compieted tho first letters when a tear rolled down his face and fell on the fresh ink. Turning to the minister in attendance, he said: "See, my tears obliterate my name. I cannot sign thisdeed," and no tore up the death warrant. The Crown Prince Rudolf, shortly be fore his death, gave sittings to Julius Benczar lor two portraits. One was a wholelength figure in uniform, destined as a pres ent to the Bnda-Pesth Adelskasino, in whose great hall it was to be hung as a companion picture to Angeli's picture of the Prince of Wales. The other wasa halflength, in hunting costume, intended as a present to tne mnce's companion in sport, Count Stephen Karoly. Tho Crown Prince. also a few days before his death, gave two commissions to the painter Aiuakiewicz. One was for a portrait of himself, which he IA A A O .1 imenueu as a present, to nis lamer, tne Emperor: the other was for a renresentation upon a largo scale of tho Galician maneuvers. Royal Blood in Every bodys Veins Baltimore Sun. Everv man has two. parents, four crrnpfl.parents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen grev-greai-granuparenis,mirxy-iwo-greav-great-great-grandparents, etc Now, if we reckon twenty-five years to a generation, and carry on the above calculation to the time oi wiuiain the Conqueror of England, it will be found that p.irh lifincr nersnn must have had S5,000,000 of ancestors. Now, supposing we niaKe tne usual allowance for the rroia?ntr rT i n t p rm n rrri n rr nf -fmi . -' rfVKTW.. V . AA A AAA M A A J AAA ASA. .AMAAA ilies in a frenenlncripnl line and for ihtk same person being in many of the inter6ttuuus ui mviuiuuj irte, euu mere wui remain a number at that period even to cover the whole Norman and Anglo-Saxon races. What, therefore might have been pious, princely, kingly or aristocratic, stands side by side in line with the most iirnoblfi. plebeian nr Hemormtiiv "P.jiph man of the present day may be certain of naving nau, noi oniy uarons ana 'squires, but even crowned heads, dukes, princes or uis nops, or renowned generals, barristers. puy&icians, etc., among nis ancestors. Our Riley in Boston. Boston Advertiser. Quite a group of curious folks watched "Bill" Nye and James Whitcomb Riley at the Parker House last night. Mr. Nye is bald only on the top of his head, but his hair, like that of Mr. Rilev. is of a very ngni yenow snaae ana cioseiycut. Mr. Nye is very tall, slender, with large bones, while Mr. Riley is only of medium height. Mr. Nve's features are pot prominent. while Mr. Riley's profile is of tho serrated order. In short, each is a perfect foil in personal appearance of the other. Mr. Riley recalled that on a previous visit ho patronized a shop here where shoes are tapped very rapidly, and after receiving uaiKms buucs, wiiicii were iavoriies, one turned out to be a shoe, another a gaiter. The proprietor is hereby warned that a man in a high state of nervous excitement. with a shoe in one hand and a gaiter in the other, may visit him to-day, in search of the missing shoe, lost six years ago. The couple have been lecturing together for the past luo nights, sleeping most of the time on sleepers. 1I1 Modest Entrance. Boston Herald. Thero need be no tears shed because Gen. Harrison did not come into Washington with a tlourish of trumpets. He knows the way about in that city, and those who warn, 10 meet mm win nave ample opportunity in the coming four years, while he himself will see all the parading he desires in the next four or five days. Abraham Lincoln got into Washington still moro quietly, yet he made some reputation as i'resiuent. Wait Till Our Ball Club Striken You A?aln. Chicago Tribune. inuiauapous indianapoiisr l hero is something in the name that rounds as if it had been once familiar. Where have wo heard it before!

MRS. ST0WFS LIBRARY.

Books Presented to Her by Distinguished Peo ple with Affectionate Inscriptions. Special Correspondence Sunday JoumaL Jsewiork, March 2. Among the letters of congratulation which were sentto James Russell Lowell on his seventieth birthday was one from Harriet Beecher Stowe, It will snrprisc many to learn that Mrs. Stowe is 6lowly recovering her physical strength, although her mental faculties are still greatly impaired. Every pleasant day she takes a walk, accompanied b)ono of her family. Sometimes she goes down to her sister's, Mrs. Hooker, who lives on the same street. Often she spend an hour in Mark Twain's greenhouse. When I went to call on Mrs. Stowe the other day, the handmaiden informed mo that her mistress had gone over to "Clemens's greenhouse," She intended no disrespect to their next door neighbor, the genial Mr. Mark Twain, but that was her brief way of expressing herself. In the summer Sirs, fctowo takes a walk of from three to five miles. Mio especially likes to wander about Capitol xiui, accompanieu oy ner cnimren anu an intimate friend or two. Her walks are generally taken in the morning or late in the afternoon. Airs, towe's grandson, Lyman Beecher. is the little boy who was so very much astonished when he found out that his famous grandmother did not write the Bible. Child-like, ho supposed she monopolized tho writings of the world. Little Hilda is the namesake of the heroine of "The Marble Faun." There are some beautiful old masterpieces hanging on the walls of her home, as well as many modern paintings. Most of the latter are the work of Mrs. Stowo, and were painted at leisure hours. Ouo panel picture of a branch of oranges is a copy sue made a few winters ago :n r londa. A photograph of her Southern home shows a rambling nouso surrounded by verandas. On an easel in one corner is an engraving of the Duchess of Sutherland, and written underneath: "Mrs. H. Stowe, with tho Duke of Sutherland's kind regards, July, 1S09." Among tho books in her library is a conv of "A Fool's Errand." with the following inscription on the lly-leaf: MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, ON UEB. SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, June 14, 1882. The silver coronal of ace can never hide the golden crown of Immortality that fhiues upon thy brow. Albion W. Tourgee." Close bv is a copv of "Tho Prince and the Pauper." finelv bound in tree-calf: "I hud no better binding by me when I sent you the other copy," is written in the author's very best hand on the first blank leaf, "but I sent to New York at once and had this copy made, with a special binding, which suits me much better and does you properer nonor. sincerely yours. "S. Li. Clemens. "Hartford. May 28. 1887." The book-cases, built in the walls, are desk is an old cony of Dante, bound in parchment. One book-case contains the novels written by Mrs. fctowe; these are gaily bound in green and gold. jur. uiaastone remarKca on one occasion to Mr. James Russell Lowell that he considered. "The Minister's Wooing" one of the best noveis he had ever read, as there were five perfect characters in it. Mr. Lowell afterward procured a large print copy of mo uuua auu fcu i on iu jiim VJiuusiUUc nil her father. Mrs. Stowe some vears after sent the Prime Minister a copy of "Old Town Folks;"in acknowledging the gift he expressed Himself much pleased with the pictures of Puritan life, as portrayed in her books. Mrs. Stowe retired from active literarv work a few years ago, because, as she said, she always considered it better policy for authors to stop writing before readers stopped reading. InrvcalliDgthe times of long ago, she sayslJiat when a mere child 6he read Ivauhoe seven times, and when only nine years old, and hardly able to write legibly or to spell correctlj, she wrote a composition on "The Difference Between the Natural and Moral Sublime," and at another time. "Can the Immortality of the Soul be Proved by the Light of Nature?" was the ambitious title ot a lengthy essay. TT A A i 1 A. W V ner nrst arucie, "love versus Law," was published in the Mavliower. One of tho members of the Semi-colon Club, she prepared a little sketch to read at one ot the meetings; the title was "Uncle Tim," and the article was a very amusing one. Professor Hentz. his wife, Caroline Leo Hentz, the Misses lilackwell aud other bright and shining lights of the day, were members of poet and Trust" gives her particular pleasure and cousoiauon, anu is one 6ne oiten repeals. Doubtless all are familiar with it: O IiOve Divine, that stooped to share, Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear, On Thee we cast each earth-born care. We smile at pain while Thou ait near. The four verses of this poem the author copied somo 3ears ago for Mrs. Stowe, at her request, writing to her that nothine could give him greater pleasure than to make the copy for her. Uh, do remember me to Dr. Holmes.7' she said a few days ago to a member of her family who was about to start on a visit to Boston, and spoke of going to see the venerable poet, and then sho added, as if to herself "I think a great deal of Dr. Holmes." Her favorite quotation isthat well-known one from "Tho Ancient "Mariner." "He prayeth best, who loveth best." She occasionally sits down at the piano and plays over some old-fashioned hymns and psalms. The music book that stood on the piano rack the other day was open at the hymn. "Thy Will Be Done." One of her characteristics is her kindness to peddlers, and that much-maligned race, book agents. Only last summer, on one of her walks, she met a poor man selling writing paper. She bought some of him and then questioned him about his life, until he had given her his whole history. However uninteresting it might have been to others, she found much in the recital that called forth her 63rmpathy. Had he any religious faith? He confessed that he bad very little. She then went homo and got him a copy of Gieke's "Life of Christ," telling him to keep it, and to read it in connection with the New Testament. All animals, as well as peddlers and book agents, come in for a share of her kindliness. The great family cat, which has lived in the household for seven years, usually perches himself on the arm of her chair whenever she takes her place at the table, and when she sits down before the brightly burning wood fire in her own room, the dog9 and three catsa veritable happy familykeep her company. This affection of hers for dumb animals recalls a passage in one of her books: "A dog who lives up to the laws of his being is, in our view, a nobler creature than a man who sinks below his." When she walks out she never feels the least embarrassment in speaking to any one. An old "yarb" gatherer who lives in Hartford relates, in his Yankee dialect, his encounter with tho authoress a summer or so ago. He was out in the fields adding to his a lready large stock of herbs when "suddenly looking up," he says, "1 see the most curiosest looking little woman I ever sot eyes on; she a.sk'd me what I was doin', an' I told her I was get tin' yarbs. An' then she wanted to know what I was goin' to do with 'em, an' who I was, an' I told her I lived up on the hill and was thegran'father of a whole lot of ?cm, an' then I asked who she was." When he discovered the name of his interlocutor, he took off his hat with due oliteuess, and remarked, "I see by the ooks of yer that yer knew a heap, but yer sort of curious lookin' anyhow." Apropos of her readiness to enter into conversation with any fellow-being whom she may chance to meet, a friend relates that one summer, a few years ago. while at Old Orchard Beach with Mrs. Mowe, sho was walking out with her, when they came upon some .twenty or thirty men, who were at work on a railroad. As it was non. they were all seated on the ties, taking their dinner. ' Mrs. Stowe regarded them with interest for som4 moments, ami then walked directly in their midst, and without any embarrassmeut ou her part or theirs, commenced a lively conversation with them. A little sketcli which is much prized by herself and family, aud which now belongs to her sou, is one i:i pencil made by Mr. Ruskin to illustrate some remarks on architecture. Underneath the picture, which represents a lordly castle well endowed with turrets aud mullioned windows, is written "Rapid sketch taken by Mr. Rus

hlled with choice books. One is given up to French works entirely, Racine's, Moliere'8, Pascal, and others. On the writinc-

Mrs. Stowe has a fondness for repeating

ry, especially Longfellow's, Whittier's Dr. Holmes's. The la;tpr' "Hrnni of

kin in a walk with us near NeuchftteU ltfO." Her son also has in his library n engraving made from a drawing executed some years ago in England by George Richmond. This picture was "presented t her husband and family by some English friends." Although without any personal vanity, she was rather annoyed at the caricatures they can hardly In; called pictures of herself which were to be M-en everywhere , after the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." These unfortunate pictures were? the occasion of a rather amusing incident. She crossed over to Liverpool about that time, and on. the same steamer was an old Kentuekian. who remarked to her one nay with that long drawn out draw 1 which only a native of the Blue Grass region can command, "You are a tolerable good-looking woman, Mrs. Stowe. Why do they make such horrible pictures of 3 011?' Goethe, in his old ape, used to have passages read to him from his books, "Warming himself over his own coal," he called it. When passages are read to Mrs. Stowe from her biography, which herson, the Rev. Charles E. Stowe, is writing, she listens atteutively and becomes absorbed at times to such an extent that she exclaims, "That i good!" or "Who wrote that the pasace. perhaps, being an extract from one of her own letters. And she is often moved t tears by passages which recall the old familiar times; the happier davs of long ago, or tLose which were saddened by the death of a loved one. This biograpli3 will soon. 1k5 in the hands of the publisher. a it is not

the intention of the compiler to wait until alter .ns, ciowe s acain ociore giving it to the public. FlSANCES STEVENS. SUNDAY AFTERNOON. A Phase of Existence that Presents Itself to a Woman in a Country Home. Written for the Sunday Journal. The winter Sunday afternoon is the lone liest period of the village woman's lonely life. In spring, summer or even in the mourn ful autumn it has its ameliorations, but in Februaiy, when the winter is old and be fore thero is a 6ign of promise in nature, nothing is more drearily blank than tho still. 6low Sundaj afternoon. This woman is not religious, if she werd a book of sermons or the Bible might console her for her idle fingers in their unwonted rest. She is not purely domestic or her mind might bo busily devising tho duties of tho coming week. No, she ha thought that all out. She knows the path she is to travel and it is not the pathwa- o her soul's desire. Her book fall unnoticed to tho floor; its interest has palled upon her; tho fire burns cheerily enough; it wooes her to read tho pictures in its glowing depths, bufr herdaj-sof castle-building - are over and she cares not for tho silent caress of thoj lights and shadows across her face. Old memories tamed to griefs crowd thick upon hen the sileuce opens the gaUv way for them, and Jhe wind outside sighsW out its sympathy and sorrow for the winters of her discontent. She presses her face against the window,! looking out over the landscape which ha thrust its monotony upon herall her life, l The gray sky reiiects its despair upon hep eyes, and as she watches the scattering: snow-flakes drift aimlessly to the cold, ha nil ground. ' Would it were springthatshemightfeehhrt subdued pleasure of pacing the old pardon. paths,noting here and there where the Easter ttowers are peeping up and the tangled larkspur and nryrtle miow green tendril, along the' beds. But the garden gives no promise of beauty; all is coldand silent, and ( Know-flakes fringe the borders where grew the old-fashioned blossoms. Beyond tho . yard is the old dull picture. The fewfamiliar houses that, like her own, nestlo barely under the wing of the village, th pray old fields, with their grayer fences and :i few patches of snow upon their coldi bosoms, stretebirg away to the smoky, desolate woods thai bound her world. Ev"ivthose solitudes would be grateful to her. There would be -white hillsides sloping under tho beeches' trailing limbs. Tner'o'i would the creek go wandering, loosed from f its bonds of ice. There, deep hidden I 1 ...t. An 4 1. 4 1 . ... 1 . - 1 ...... . . . . f I'lUCitlll IJIU naiUl lUUUJI r ICS Oil" IU u in find bunches of creen hiding the winter through, or even joung things sprouting ueneain meir covering: But the house, with its wearing duties, is her realm. For her no wild run overth frozen fields, with the breath of the wind nnoii her cheeks, and the snow-Hakes in her hair! And j'outh come back for a moment! into her heart, peeping shy by from her eves, j or trembling in smiles upon her lips. Not even the little world within a mile s radius is open to her. Children cannot wander through the winter woods, neither caul their mother be aught but a patient woman. Many a woman about whom the wild city streets whirl like the scenes in a delirium. rna3'.havo asked (iod. with sighs and tears, for a quiet village home liko that of her who casta her discontented eves across the tame old landscape, and ttm unspoken wish for a brighter life stirring j in her troubled heart, Suddenly, out of the twilight stillness, the church bell peals. Thank heaven. Sunday alternoon is over. To-morrow will bring its burden and its strength. Perhaps some sunshine, somo? friendly faces, bouio laughter. . 1 Havo" those whose lines are fallen in, J pleasant places more! Juliet V.Strauss. I Fkvrcart 24. ! The Virtual Kuler of Canada. Charles Dudley Warner, in March Ilarier. For many vears Sir John A. Maedonald ; has been virtually the ruler of Canada. He ; has had the ability and skill to keep his, party in power, while all the provinces 1 have remained or become liberal. I )e-j llAl-a liia aaii Sn.innnA ta A tl rt in lilt A PV fit CT ' to the national idea, to the development of the country to bold measures like the urirencv of the Canadian Pacific railway con struction for binding the provinces tocetlier and prnmotipir commercial activity. Canada is proud of this, even while it c ounls its debt. Sir John is worshiped by his rarty, especially by the younger men man of bold conceptions and courage, Hei is disliked as a politician as cordially by i hy the opposition, who attribute to him tli same policy of adventure that wasattributedto Beaconsneld. Personally he resembles that remarkable man. Undoubtedly Sir John adds prudence to his knowledge of men, and his habit of never crossinga stream till he gets to it has gained him tho sobriquet of "Old To-morrow." He is a, man of the world as well as a man of affairs, with a wide and liberal literary taste. The American Colony in Tarl. Letter Jn Philadelphia Telegraph. As the time approaches for the definite installation of the Harrison administration, the members of the American colony ini Paris are naturally becoming deeply interested in the question as to the new officials' who are to be accredited to this goodly city. I I think that the question is. more re-t plete with interest here than in any other J capital in Europe. In Berlin. Rome. Madrid I and St. Petersburg the resident Americans' are but few in number, and form out a limited and uninlluential association. In London the Americans mingle largely with English societ3 and do not keep together in a distinctive social group. But Paris has alu-ora lml liup1nctur if A m tri n v ho 1 II 11 T I Al a A 1JVI VIU'l' V iiv. - - - - - remain American in spite of the inllueuceof foreign skies and foreign associations. J Then. too. as a great educational center of ' art ami science, it calls together, under tho shadow of the tri-color, a noteworthy assemblage of- students of painting, and music, and medicine from our shores, who , are also awaitinir with eagerness the announcement of the names of those gentle I men and ladies who arc shortly coming to hold tho leading social positions here. Mr. Vanderbilt Got In. IiiLgor Com mental. A good Ktorv is told about one of tho Maine Central enffinecrs. Last summer, when the Vanderbilt car was at Bar Harbor, the manaser of the Maine Central sent an engine down there to take the car to Portland. Tho run was made in very quick time, ami at Brunswick the train stopped to take on water. While there Mr. Vanderbilt got out and said to the engineer that he didn't want him to drive so fast. The engineer, the veteran Simpson, looked at him a quarter of a minute, and then said: "1 am running this train under orders from Payson Tucker to be in Portland at 1:07. If you want to stop here, all right. If you waut to go to Portland, get iu.'' He got in,