Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1895 — Page 4

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TWELVE PAGES In few States has A. P. A. Ism been mrae aggressive than In Massachusetts, yet the old Clerk of the House of Representatives, who has served ten years and who is a Catholic, was re-elected by n vote of 210 to 13 after that issue had been, made against him. v In view of tho fact that six important appropriation bills, carrying1 appropriations! for the support .of every branch of the government, have yet to be dlscu.'ised and passtd. Congress ought not to waste much time over a currency bill which docs not stand the ghost of a Chance of becoming a law. WBBBSBBMBSMIHBSBaSSHBHBSHRMiBVBSSSBSSBBSBBBBBBBMSa The claim that Bloomington is an excellent site for a State University betauso of the high standard of morality that prevails there is scarcely sustained by the charge that the city marshal has been accepting regular bribes from saloons and gambling places for immunity from disturbance. The, wicked capital is not as bad as that. At tho time when a few friends of education are demanding that the State of Indiana embark in a university enterprise which shall vie with Ann Arbor, Johns Hopkins, Chicago and Harvard, pome of those institutions are making strenuous efforts to obtain more students, and all of them except Harvard are cramped for means to carry out the designs of the managers. The Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor In New .York city having offered to expend $10,000 in wages for working at street , cleaning, more r than Ave" hundred cloak makers who have been on strike have availed themselves of the offer and gone to work. No strike in New York has ever received as much public sympathy as this of the cloak makers or better deserved it. After having an unbroken period of prohibition since 1858, Maine's State agency sold $338,S06 worth of intoxicants for medicinal and mechanical purposes, which means 50 cents' worth for each man, woman and child in the State. This looks as if the old-fashioned barn raising may have fallen under the list of mechanics made by the official dispensers of stimulating beverages. The dishonest contractors who have been putting off shoddy work upon the city In the construction of worthless catch basins have disgraced themselves nd their calling. The perpetration of such, frauds bv one contractor brlne-s 11 under suspicion and makes one won-' Ser if, the days of honest work are past. Jo bid for any public work should be received hereafter from the offending Contractors. Secretary Carlisle is not as sensitive Bs was Philip F. Thomas, Secretary of the Treasury In the latter part of James Buchanan'rf administration. Thomas was from Maryland, and when certain Baltimore bankers disparaged his abilities to the President he promptly wrote his resignation and handed it to Mr. Buchanan in person, saying that he did not care to serve in the Cabinet of a, President who would sit quietly by and hear him abused by his enemies. The Carlisle family do riot resign. The agent" who was sent to Washington by Western cattle raisers and exporters of beef to try and have removed the European embargo on . American beef reports that there is no prospect of any relief from this Congress. 4 The trouble grows out of the sugar schedule, axd while leading, members of both houses of Congress admitted that it ought to be changed, they assured him it was useless to expect it to be done this session. This simply means that the live stock Interest is to be -sacrificed, for the present at hsast. to the Sugar Trust. Meanwhile the live stock men have decided to bombard Congress with petitions in the hope that it may yet be shamed into doing something. ' . In a club in this city, not long1 since, one of the topics which came ujider discussion was the merits of what is known 88 profit sharing. Among those who spoke was a citizen who is an employer of hundreds of men and is foremost in movements to promote the public good. He did not believe in a: general distribution of any part of the profits of a manufacturing business, for the reason that many employes were more than paid by their wages. These are the men who have no interest in their work and seem to render the least possible service for the wages they receive. There are other employes, and In hl3 works they have constituted a large proportion, who take an interest in the affairs of the employer. They are alt ways on time and do not slow down their machines twenty minutes before the closing hour so as to have their work in a condition that they can leave the minute the whistle sounds. They are men ..who are Careful of tools and jna""" M In the use of material -spectlng, rr' v" be said.

who prize their citizenship, and none In the community carry it more worthily." The best mechanics and laborers, they are the best men In their communities.Such men, who have helped to make profits, It is right and prudent to remember at the close of the year by a share of the profits. As scales of wages are fixed for classes of workmen, the better men cannot be paid higher by special contract, but they can be recognized in a manner beneficial to both employer and employe. , In that Email assemblage, where a leading employer paid this high Jribute to the character and worth of a large part of the men he has employed for years, there was no representative of the employes to carry word of it to them a fact which made the tribute all the more valuable.

ANAKCIIY AND FREE SPEECH. One ,Mowbray, an English Anarchist, escaped the immigration authorities in disguise and landed in New York. After secreting himself for a time he began to preach the malignant heresies of the Anarchists. Not much attention was given to him in New York. This caused ' him to leave that city and go to Philadelphia, where. ;in the most vehement manner, he- proclaimed the necessity of war upon existing governments and institutions. If those who listened to him had taken his' advice Philadelphia would have been .the scene of pillage and bloodshed, in a- few hours. The police arrested Mowbray for seditious speech, and, upon examination, he was bpund over in $1,200 to appear beforeja higher court. By latest accounts, to use" the form of speech employed by those, who are always indignant at any act of authority by the officers of the law, Mowbray now "languishes in a bastile," which means that he is in a comfortable jail because no person having $1,200 worth,' of property will risk the losing of It by giving bond for his appearance in the upper court. . ' ", There seems no wrong about this. What the man said was clearly seditious, and the reason that he did not arouse sedition is because there was no considerable number of persons in his audience who desired to show their hatred for law and order by pillaging warehouses and dynamiting dwelling houses as a vocation. Doubtless there were those of disordered intellects present-who received his words as orders and his heresies as truths, and who went out of the meeting thoroughly convinced that, when occasion offered." they would assail the order, of. society by. committing a murder or throwing a dynamite bomb. If we hear within a short time of any fiendish attempts upon persons in authority in that vicinity, it is not unfajr to assume that the' perpetrator is a pupil of Mowbray and is practicing the lesson he learned from that foe of .orderly society. But now come the sympathizers with every rascal who violates the law, and in their organs and addresses ., denounce the arrest of this, apostle, of sedition as "an outrage upon the right of free speech." The more imaginative behold the dreadful "man on horseback" in the arrest of this unwelcome foreigner. If there should be a Populist mass meeting one of its resolutions, redundant in epithet... would be devoted to a denunclatlort of the arrest of Mowbray. The freedom of speech stops, a long way short of the preaching of sedition. That is not free speech which fills dis ordered minds with the impulse of nurder. That is not free speech in which men are told that society as it now exists must be broken up by bloodshed and pillage. It is Incitement to wholesale crime and to war on law and order. It is not free speech; It is the mandate to commit murder. Any speech which incites violence, lawlessness and murder is a crime, and to commit crime is in no sense the right of any person. There are even closer limitations to the exercise of speech than the advocacy of sedition. The man who assails the reputation of the individual or does injury to his property in a public print, or even by word, of mouth, may be taken into court, under the criminal laws, and. if found guilty, may be punished by fine and imprisonment, or such offender may be sued in the civil courts and made to pay heavy damages. Do those who denounce the silencing, of such wretches as Mowbray object to the restriction of free speech so that the individual may not be injured, and yet demand free utterance for a man who, by Inflammatory language, incites the ignorant to deeds of violence? A long sentence should be attached to offenses like that of which Mowbray is guilty. ; . OT AX ORIGINAL. 'INQUIRY. ; The Journal has received from an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas two questions upon which . he asks for "views." . The first question relates to the .concentration of vast wealth in the N hands ot individuals, whether it is; unjust or. detrimental. Whether it is unjust or not depends upon the conditions in each particular case. .The greatest of accumulations in this country is that held by the Astor family. ; The first of the family who came to this country became an enterprising fur dealer in .New York. Having the. . sagacity , to foresee' the New York of the future, Mr. Astor invested the profits of his enterprise in trade in' the lands in the suburbs of the then small city. Doubtless he was ridiculed by some of those .who knew of it. but he continued. Ha erected houses and block on these ; once comparatively worthless 'lands as the city grew, and the investment is yet the source of the large annual income of the Astors. For years the John Smiths, the William Browns and the Thomas Joneses .had the same opportunity to purchase and improve these lands; but they had no faith in the future. Perhaps the Kansas magistrate, who may belong to the party which has. seemed so hostile to invested property rights in that State that it. has checked its prosperity, may find an injustice in the Astor accumulations a ndVan element of detriment in the founding of the Astor library and of large donations by the ' original Astor' s successors to hospitals and other charities from a?art of this wealth. Many of ' the "vast accumulations" have not been so worthily made as in the case of the Astors. The period of railroad development has afforded great opportunities for the accumulation of millions- by men who havfe had the capacity, to plan and manipulate. They may not be the survival of the fittest, but rather of the strongest. They may have robbed their, associates and- sheared many flockV of "lambs." . but the whole the country at lare. end r "insularly the West, has be-T, ,t-. c;: :v -...'7.-.V-, i . : ; ,':' - . - ;

gainer by their accumulations of railroad properties. All the great railroad j

systems in Kansas represent such accumulations in a greater or less degree, but the people of Kansas are the greatest Indirect beneficiaries of such concentration, of capital in the hands of individuals, as' the Missouri Pacific railway, for Instance. The truth is that there can be no concentration of wealth in a few hands that is riot beneficial to hundreds of thousands, according to the size of the accumulation. To make a million dollars valuable to the possessor It must be invested in some enterprise which will cause it to be used to give employment and to - diversify and increase Industry. And it will be. found generally in this country that where there is the largest accumulation of capital there employments are the most numerous. 'Wages are higher and the standard of living better. Then it should be remembered by those who are troubling themselves about the vast accumulation of wealth in the hands of individuals that it is riot so vast after all. Ten days after his death "the reputed forty millions of Senator Fair ; liave shrunk to eighteen, and as large or a larger shrinkage has been disclosed irf 'the fortunes of many of the alleged millionaires who have died in recent years. The other question is an inquiry- as to the amount paid people in foreign countries, annually as interest, rents and' profits on investments in. the United States, and whether or notnthe public interest would be promoted by an increase or reduction of this annual pay-" ment. The Journal is not able 'to give an "estimate of the amount of such annual payments. Whether or not the public Interest will be prompted, by an increase depends entirely upon the ,, use which can be made of-the borrowed. capital in this country. If there was a-sec-? tlon of Kansas the value of which would' be largely enhanced by the buildifig of a railroad, and the capital could lie obtained on more favorable terms in London or Berlin than in this country, it would seem the bettor policy to procure, that "accumulation of wealth" abroad. But, wherever such capital, for investment is obtained, it will be of .financial institutions which hold the accumulations of hundreds of thousands of people and whicfi-1 are useful in carrying forward enterprises because the aggregate thereof is vast and is controlled by a few personsELECTRICAL LOCOMOTION. Whatever may be the outcome of the electric railway linos now projected from this city to neighboring v towns, there can be no doubt that a number of such lines will be constructed in the not distant future." Electrical locomotion is in its infancy, and is likely to be developed to a surprising degree . during the next few years. It seems but yesterday that the first electric car was introduced, and now all cities and grow ing towns are traversed by electrio rail ways. An electric railroad, is projected from Chicago to St. Louis, another from Washington to New York, and no doubt tho next decade will see several long electric railways in successful operation. The intramural railway at the world's fair, which will be pleasantly remem-i bered by many readers ftf'the JoTiiniaiT demonstrated . the, efficiency er electricity as a means of rapid transit in large cities. The cars on this line were fortyseven feet long, with transverse seats for ninety-six passengers, and they were crowded every trip. Each motor had a dynamo of 522 horse power considerably more than twice as much as the steam engines used on the New York elevated roads. These motors could start their train of four loaded cars each and attain a speed of ten miles within twice the train length. This is much better than could be done with steam. This was a year and a half ago, and electric engineering has made much progress since" then. In view of the probability that within a few years a number of electric railway lines will be constructed between this city and neighboring ' cities and towns, it is worth while to consider the probable effect. The first obvious effect will be that which accompanies all rapid transit by suburban' lines, namely, a dispersion of population. Persons doing business in the city can live much further from their offices and places of business. This will have ' a ' double effect. Many persons now living in the city will move further out, while many who now live too far away to do business in the city will practically become a part of it. The suburbs will be extended, and, as distance will be reckoned not in miles, but in minutes, country residences will , multiply. Business will be benefited, a3 every line will open up a new country and bring new" trade to the city. The retail trade of the country for a" considerable distance' around will be practically absorbed by this city, where large assortments and sharp competition will offer inducements that dealers in small towns cannot compete with. The small towns and the country will receive benefits also; the comforts, conveniences and advantages of city life will be diffused, the average standard of living will be advanced, and the general welfare promoted. These results will not come immediately nor all at once, but they will be a part of the social evolution and advancement which the development of electrical locomotion will surely bring. TWO KI N ERA LS. Last week a distinguished ecclesiastic died in this citv and his funeral services were conducted with all the impos- , Ing ceremonies that the elaborate ritual of his church makes possible. There was a lying in state, there were masses of costly flowers, there were heavy drapings of purple and black' in chancel and nave and on the hearse that carried the outworn body away; there was a procession made up of a surpliced choir, bishops and clergy in church vestments and other dignitaries of church and state; there were sermon and prayers and stately .antiphonal services. There were also tears, but they were not for the Bishop, as such, but for the good,' gentle-natured man, the friend. and sympathizer whose 'face, strange with the inscrutable secret of death, lay beneath the coffin lid. He was deserving of all honor, but he was a man of simplicity and would not have wished the pomp and parade, for himself. But he was a bishop, and the pageantry, and ceremonial were tributes paid to" his ofuce as well as to his meVnory.. They were Impressive, and crowds who had no personal Interest in, the d"-arted Eournt opportunity to-" them. Ziczs who were ne'' irest.

those who truly mourned, ' were not affected by, the magnificence , of the observances. , 'In Ihe grief" o"f these last bittermo:nents they would perhaps have been glad to have their dead to themselves, to have turned the staring, inquisitive worldaway. and to" go to the grave free, from " the prying eyes of strangejs.- They would have waived all useless forms if custom would have permitted it. There was another funeral on Friday where the public was not a factor. In a neighboring, town a child died. The parents were too poor to buy a casket or to hire jcarrjages arid hearse. The father made withshis own hands a heat box in whiclv thebody of the little one, was gently placed; two brothers dug the grave in the cemetery and then drew the casket to the place upon a, sled, the weeping father arid mother walking behind. Even the burial was conducted by the family, with, no one present but the sexton, it was a great contrast to the other funeral, v but it was not. as one account 'describes it, distressing because of the lack of the usual accompaniments ;The ones who loved the chfl'd performed for: It all the last sad offices a memory that - will not sadden them in later"years; they were at liberty to indulge w their grief as they pleased, and upon the sacredness of such grief no stranger has a right to intrude. Mourners who have Inwardly rebelled at the cVstoms which put them on public exhibition and parade at a time of all others when they longed for seclusion will not look with compassion, but - with, a degree of envy upon the family which, by force of circumstances, was permitted to lay its own dead away undisturbed by irritating convention. Such enforced simplicity as that described is not, to be desired, but that there is room for reform in the manner of conducting, funerals will hardly be denied. A tendency in that direction has been observable for some years past in certain circles, but it has hardly reached the point which' good taste can commend. There are times in the career of a man or woman when parade and ostentation arid public ceremonial may be fitting, but surcly'such time is not when the. soul has gone and only the empty shell is left to'hdnor.1 ' In passing a resolution urging a general and thorough investigation of city affairs, the New Xprk Chamber of Commerce adopted-a report in which it fs said: ; - ' 1 ' The credit of this city, the Slate and the Nation are Hurferlnar in the estimation of fore-lun investor? by reason of the maladministration that "has for a quarter of a century characterized the government of the metropolis of the United States. American honor .is jeered and pooffed at in tho leadlnsr nioniy markets of the world because of . the reyealed character of our municipal rulers. ? j. . . " This does not letutc the case too strongly. The 'whole' ; American people and our national reputation abroad have suffered from Tammanyism. .

An Aid lo ililiroHtli of Art. A group of artista.of this city has lately been spoken of .as the ' "Indianapolis school," because Of distinctive and admirable characteristics of its work. The' existence of such a school implies the possession on the part of these artists of sympathetic and harnonlous tastes and an ability to work alam?' the same lines and attain certain urn, results without destroying the indivjhrnHty of any one of the number. Tho influence" of such workers upon outsiders is much- greater than if each took his own Independent course unmodified by the tendencies of the others. Their artistic concord encourages other aspirants in the same, field, and they draw to themselves the laborers In different departments - of art work; they serve, in short, as a nucleus "around which the aesthetic interests Of, thV community form' and from which emanate those influences which create an "art atmosphere" a thing of slow growth irt th' hurrying commercial American life, but :.yet necessary to the highest enjoyment -f modern privileges. Complaint is . madeV' . by ' impatient critics that, in. this citytrihe growth of art is hopelessly slow, but a brief retrospect shows this to be. "Untrue. For instance, it would have been Impossible, ten years ago, to have produced here a work so admirable in every respect 'as Mr. Bowles's magazine, Modem Art., An editor competent to conduct' it might possibly have been found, but. home' talent e&uld not have produced the meritorious artistic and literary material which now nljsjts pages In such variety. The typography and other mechanical features whlchmake it such a delight to the-eye could not. have been done, probab!y,"'in any publishing- house in this city, but the printers' 'art '.has advanced also, "and under the guidance of one who has evidently made a study of what can be accomplished with type and ornament, goodpaper and Ink and careful pres3 work, the result is all that could be desired. Each issue of ModernArt'.is' an object lesson in printing, unequaled, by any periodical that has come under the" Journal's observation.; Its beauty in this respect and Its more distinctive' art. features have won the attention and praise of connoisseurs and critics both in this-country . and in England. The one thing that excites wonder is that such a publication comes from Indianapolis, which does not rank, as an art center. Possibly, when the newly-discovered Indianapolis school becomes better-known this mystery will be explained.. Whether Mr. Bowles obtained his inspiration from this echool or whether a similarity ; of tastes has drawn him to it, cannot ..be said, but at all events he must now -be. classed as an important member of the group composing the leaven that will, it may be hoped, finally permeate the whole lump ' and make this city an art center. Iri fact. ' Engineer Brown seems to have been the only official who has'gained by the investigation of the Council committee, and he has . gained because he has had an oppor tunity, to show in his testimony that he is the ready master of all the details of the work in his department, and to make it apparent to candid ' readers that the suspicions that the engineering of the city has been more expensive than it should be are baseless. There, was a feeling at one time that Mr. , Brown was devoting time that could have been more profitably expended in making the surveys and the estimates of the cost. of elevating the railway tracks a project whtch. It Is safe to. say, does not commend itself to over one citizen In five. The New York' Independent emulates the daily -press in its spirit of enterprise and disposition ; to "hustle" for Information suited to the taste of its readers. Its latest ' issue contains a review of the work accomplished during the past year by each of the religious denominations and their various branches. Brief articles containing the facts are contributed by some one in authority in each denomination, and statistics of membership showing- gains are tabulated carefully.,; This valuatie; religious showing involves a. great amount of correspondence and -much -labor, 'and is a very creditable piece of work. '?'.."' It was to be expected that the gossips would chatter, over such an event as the acceptance by Senator Hill of an invitation to dine at the White -House, but they do not stop with considering merely Its political belrinss; The Senator took Mrs. Hearst

In to dinner, Mrs. Hearst ia a rich widow and Mr. Hill is a bachelor, and the nimble

tongues of Washington - gossips have already married the pair and have contrib uted a goodly portion of her cash to his presidential campaign fund. As one In genuous correspondent puts it: "These cal culations may be a mite premature, but there is something , very beautiful , in the union of " $15,000,000 in cash to a good swinging presidential ambition." All of which goes to show that this Is a great country. Latest advices indicate beyond any doubt that thousands of people In several counties of South Dakota and western Nebraska are in a destitute and almost starving condition. Trustworthy persons who have visited the locality estimate that not less than 10,000 families are suffering for. the absolute necessaries of" life. Two crop failures In succession have reduced the peo ple to a condition of utter destitution, anl the winter finds them without food, fuel, clothing or money. Belief movements are on foot in Omaha, Chicago and other places, but in the meantime there is much suffering. Mr. Robert Fanshawe contributes some verses to Harper's Weekly, .which, there is reason to suspect, he wrote fn order to weave In a certain word. His theme Is flowers in winter." These, according to his statement, always bloom for "her." "And I," he says in the fourth and final stanza: "And I. who think upon their bliss To have her near them every hour Iiong for a metamorphosis, . To be, like one of them, a- flower." It isn't every poet who could handle a metamorphosis like that, and the Harpers owe him an extra large check for hl3 skill. The New York compulsory education law went into effect In the 1st inst., and with the opening of the schools "to-morrow the days of juvenile truancy will end. The law requires the parents or guardians of all Children between the ages of eight and sixteen years to send them to school, and imposes a penalty for failure to do so. The police In all cities and towns are required to report to the school authorities the name and residence of all children whom they find out of school in school hours. Governor Pennoyer may, be a crank and a wild ass of the plains so far as politics goes, but Williams College will not speak lightly of hjm now that he has made it a gift of $35,000. The offering Is in memory of his son," who died there last year, and the income is to be used for the support of needy and deserving students," preference being given to those from Oregon when such are in attendance. The South Side has an able champion In Commissioner Meyer, of the Board of Public Works, and if what he affirms in regard to the attitude of the poople of that side toward public improvements is true, the people of the North Sido will do well to follow their example. The Rev. Myron W. Reed has been elected chaplain of the Colorado Senate, the Populists having a majority in that body. He had been defeated for chaplain of the House the day before. . IIUUULES IN THE AIR. The Excited I'opulnco. They howled outside the palace gate, They clamored loud for blood; Said they, "Oh, if this reign, keeps up, Our name will soon be mud.", No Reform. He hasn't tried to make amends, He hasn't changed his ways; He still calls on his lady friends, And stays, and stays, and stays. ........ v , Sudden t'hansf. "What has come over Mudge? He used to be one of the most peaceful msn on earth, and now he is continually swearing that we ought to go to war." "He was examined for life insurance a few days ago, and the result showed that ha would not be fit to go into the army in case of a draft." Of Great ItniiKe. "This here paper," remarked Mr. Jason, elevating his voice above the clatter of the supper dishes, "this here paper tells of a tenor singer whose voice has a greater range than any the reporter ever heard. I bet he couldn't beat the hired man we had when I was a boy. I've knowed that feller to be heard three mil3s when he was callin' hogs' of a still evenin'." LITERARY NOTES. Mr. John T. Morse, jr., who wrote four volumes in the series called "American Statesmen," is preparing a memoir of Dr. Holmes. Mr. Crockett's new story, "The Men of the Moss-Hags," which is now running as a serial in an English paper, is soon to be issued in this country. The Spectator, in a review of "Ode3 and Other Poems," by William Watson, says: "Mr. Watson has taken his place on a level with Matthew Arnold and Tennyson, if not with Wordsworth. "Lucas Malet," Charles Kingsley's youngest daughter, Mrs. Harrison, the author of several well-known books, has sailed for India on a six months' tour, in company with her sister. Miss Rose Klngsley. The author of "Ideala" and "The Heavenly Twins' is seriously ill so ill that her doctors say that nothing but complete rest and change will do her good. She has been ordered to give up all work and to travel; and It is possible that she may turn in this -direction. The novelist" B. L. Farjeon is, of all the Dickens school, the one who follows most closely the master's path. He was once a journalist in New Zealand, but an encouraging letter from Cnarles Dickens induced him to return to England, where he has produced twenty novels. A German critic calls attention to the curious fact that of the thirty or more novels and romances written by Rudolph Lindau only five have their scene located on German soil. The fourth and fifth volumes of his works contain chic-fly stories of foreigners living in the open ports of Japan. Milton's' L'Allegro, II Penseroso, and Other Poems make up No. 72 of the Riverside Literature Series which will be published by Houghton. Mifflin & Col in the middle of Jaunary. This book is made more valuable by the fact that it includes all of the poems of Milton required fof admission to the leading colleges of the country. Mr. Edward Eggleston, in reading the first chapter of a story at an "Uncut Leaves," recently held at Sherry's, New York, remarked that it might fairly be called a fin de siecle novel, as the century would probably end before he had finished it, and might also be regarded as a posthumous work, as he would , probably die before it was published. Alphonse Daudet 13 thinking of visiting England next summer. He has never seen the country, and fears that the six hours' voyage from Guernsey to Southampton may be a severe trial to him. He doesn't speak English, but can read and understand it. Since he has been ill he has spent whole afternoons in - listening to afriend translating popular English and American authors of the day. t - . Mr. Andrew Lang received fronj It. L. Stevenson, a week before the novelist's death, a letter In which, the latter, showed for the first time a certain anxiety about himself. He said that he was haunted Dy a dread of paralysis, of a lingering mental malady, of living on. no longer himself, like Swift. The most unhappy fate for a man of genius, it is good to know that Stevenson escaped. Frank Dempster Sherman, who for one ' reason and another Is Included among" the "prominent authors" , in New York. Is a professor of mathematics in Columbia College. ' What he makes out of literp ture would probably not much more than keep him m cigars, tsranaer ataitnews is professor In English literature in the same Institution. Matthews is rich, having inherited a fortune from his father," and his position ia merely a means of occupying

his time and giving him a purpose In life beyond the production of short and agreeable tales.-' , r' "r .-.. ' ;.'.,.!.. Miss Christina Rossetti 1 belonged .to a'

brilliant family, none of whose members she resembled In her literary product.' No Italian influence was visible In her vese. No sensuous feeling suffused It. Some of her religious verse was severe in its simplicity. Pure fancy distinguished her greatest achievement, the "Goblin Market," which will long survive In anthologies, although it has been rather overestimated because of its verbal dexterity. Mrs, Flora Annie Steel, who is pushing Kipling as a writer of sketches and stories of Indian life, is the youngest of a family of three sons and two daughters. Mrs. Steel's husband- is a retired Indian civilian, and more than twenty years of her married life were spent in India.. , She has acquired five of the nalive Indian dialects, and can thus pursue studies in folk-lore which even learned philologists, who .know only the written languages, could not accomplish. After an experience of forty years as a teacher of English literature and subjects included therein, Prof. Hiram Corson, of Cornell, has given expression iu a little book, soon to be published by Macmillan' & Co., to what he understands to be the true aims of literary study. What he especially insists upon is, that literature be studied as literature; that a true literary education must be induced on the basts of literary-masterpieces in their absolute character; and that all other features of literary study must be subservient thereto. A writer in Macmillan's Magazine thinks that It must be a common experience with us all to look back with something of wonder, even humiliation,, to the things In literature'or art we once thought exquisite and of highest worth. The oratory we once sat under, the music we once sang or played, the engravings we used to buy and hang on our walls when we were eighteen (and infallible), how poor and cheap they often seem after a quarter of a century or so, during which we have read more, thought more, used our eyes more, drunk deeper of the "still sad music of humanity." Harold Frederic says in his London letter: "Th j principal literary announcement for the new year is of an English edition of Balzac, running to thirty volumes at least, to be translated by George Saintsbury. This result of his being thrown out of work on the Saturday Review will be welcome because he is ns strong In French letters as he is weak in English public affairs. For pome reason the American translation of Balzac, made by Miss Wormeley, though extremely good us a whole, has never done much here, perhaps because it Is too delicately Bowdlerized. There Is a taste in the British mouth just nw for strong meat, ant I gather that the new English Balzac will not err on the side of prudery." A HOLT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Charlotte Fowler Wells was the first woman publisher. She has been in the business since 1811, and is still at it in New York. It is said that the receipts from Sardou's new play, "Madame Sans-Gene." have already amounted to more than half a million dollars. Father Schleyer, of Constance, In Baden, the discoverer or founder of Volapuk, the "world-language," has been mado a Monslgnor by the Pope. Young lady physicians are multiplying throughout our country, and, as a result, it is said, the young men are becoming more sickly than they used to.be. Herbert Spencer said in a recent interview that he makes a point of giving his digestive organs as little to do as possible, and that in this way he has succeeded in attaining a ripe old age. "What Is known as a good dinner," he added, "would kill me outright." George Wilkinson, one of the most noted designers of silverware in this country, dropped dead in Elmwood, R. I., the other day. He was to the medal industry of the United . States what Josiah Wedgewood was to the pottery industry of England a century earlier. A writer in La Medicine Modern asserts that sedentary occupations predispose to tubercolosis more than any others. Italian and English statistics show, he says, that there are 439 deaths per 1,000 from this disease among the students, seminarians and young clergymen, while farmers, boatmen and mountalners enjoy almost complete immunity from it. In his new biography of Bismarck H. Jahnke relates what precautions the Chancellor used to take to prevent his letters and dispatches from being opened. He would go into some small stationery store on his dally walk, ask for a package of cheap envelopes, put in his letters, and then beg the clerk to address them, as it would be too much bother to take off his gloves. The Philadelphia Ledger tells of a bachelor and spinster of Cape Cod who were engaged to be married for forty-three years. At the end of that time the engagement was broken off because the man pulled a corkscrew out of his pocket with his handkerchief, a mishap which drew from the adored one the remark that she was glad the discovery was made, as she had her suspicions for thirty-five years. The only child of Lillian Russell the ample and dazzling and much-married is a slim young person of nine years, with snapping black eyes and dark hair. She has, it is said, as strong a will and as entertaining a character as her mother. On one occasion it is said she made a cat walk up and down the piano while she practiced, because the "wrong notes would bring mamma into the' room," and the small nuisance would have company. - For "the fauteuils. left vacant in the French Academy by the demise of M. Drury and Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps some dozen candidates, including M. Zola, have entered. Of these, M. Jules Lemaitre, it is pretty well understood, will succeed Mr Drury, having, . among other things, his predecessor's recommendation to back him; and M. Barboux, the barrister who defended the elder P 'essepsin the Panama affair, is belie to have the best chance of filling his client's seat. And now the re itions That we'll not keep we know Will be used in making pavement Where they never shovel snow. Chicago Inter Ocean. "Out. damned spot,", he cried, . And railed against his fate; He had drawn a ten when he needed . A nine to give him a straight. Town Topics. You can judge a man's religion By his walk from day to day; When he's dead you have to judge him By what other people say. Ram's Horn. SUUKUS AND PATCHES. What I aspire to be, and am not, comforts mc Robert Drowning. ' If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it. Fuller. The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfu!ness. Montigne. Every thing a man likes to do a woman can prove is wicked. Atchison Globe. The world is not so much in need of better preaching s it is of better practice. RMirs Horn -- ' - Mrs. Bloomer is with the saints, but her works, though divided, go marching along. Cincinnati Tribune. Bobby Why dsesn't the clock strike thirteen, pa? Papa-Beeause, Bobby, it hasn't the face to do it.-rJudge. . Also there is a strong, desire on the part of all that Grehcm resign or be kicked out. Philadelphia North American. ' Ned The womin I marry must be an ideal housekeepei.' Ted Youil suffer less with a practical one. old man. Vogue. Faith Don't yoi love the early poets? Morton (managing editor of a magazine) Yes, I do; they're alt dead. Harlem Life. As the thermometer went down in Florida the oranges went tp. and the Northern markets wid pay the difference. Philadelphia Press. . A contest of brairi? may not be as exciting as one of muscle, bir It is vastly more creditable to institutions of learning. Kingston Freeman. , . As Jackson Day ap;roaches the Democrats are again reminded t the fact that they once had a anliel part'. Philadelphia North American. - We . hear very , littb said ' of the "rockribbed Democracy" tlese days, though the ribs can be seen -ve-y- distinctly. Kansas City Journal. ': - .'-'-: '" '""- , . The ChlneHe may ; 'at least, comfort themselves with the refle'tion that they have done as well as-the democrats. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . I , : , I wonder) why it is tut Palways feel' the moat like putlu naonnvia tbs hat. when xnv

pocketbook is at home In my other britchs. pocket? Sila Gauderfoot. , " TEN MINUTES OV MUKTAb TERROR . I was traveling for a Boston touse, nald the drummer, and stopped Iut one Saturday night In the town of C- in southern Indiana. After registering at the principal hotel Tasked the elerk If there was a barber shop connected with the house. Ho said no, and that owing to the lateness of the hour (a quarter of 12) I had but one chance to be accommodated, and a slim one at that. He explained that all the shops in town except the one "alluded to closed at 10 o'clock Saturday night, under union rules. The solitary nonunion place was run by an obdurate colored fellow, he said, who usually closed at midnight. He added . that the "city regulations" prohibited all from opening on Sunday. As my beard had already a three days' growth, I felt that I must see a barber that night, and sallied out to find the nonunion shop, which the clerk said'was three blocks down street. I found the place still open and the barber alone.' He was snoozing in his chair, and when my somewhat sudden entrance aroused him he tumbled out hastily and stared at me as if he thought I ' was a burglar. He was a stout, burly fellow, black as my Derby hat, with a thick neck, heavy jaws and savage look, I accosted him in a friendly way. and asked him If he could "fix me up," though his ferocious aspect made me almost regret that I had, come. He grinned good-naturedly, and in a by no means harsh voice said he thought he could, and motioned me to take the chair. I did so. Before beginning work on me he pulled down the shad..' belonging to the only window in the shop and adjusted the lights. Accustomed as I had been to all sorts of accommodations, as well as meetug all kinds of char acters, I at first took , little note of the dingy shop and its Ishmaelitlsh workman. But when he stood close to me, strapping his razor and furtively "sizing me up" with his big. rolling eyes, I felt Just a slight tremor of fear, 1 hardly knew why. While he was thus engaged I took occasion I suppose by a kind of self-defensive instinct to remark to him that I had just registered at the Blakely House, and had been directed to his Kiiop by the clerk. This bit of information, I thought, would give the fellow to understand that my early return would be exptted at the hotel. He merely . duplicated his former grin and said "Yessa'." When he began lathering my face I reflected that I had no real cause for precautionary action, and felt ashamed of my momentary cowardice. I observed ot onoe that he was a skilled, "artist." Illn broad, fat hands were as soft as a woman's, and his touch as gentle. H handled his razor like a true mechanic, and I soon nettled into an easy repose, us if soothed by the manipulations of a real mesmerist. My eyes were cloned, and I think I must have been half asleep, when I suddenly became conscious of a change in th negro's behavior. This occurred when he had me about half shaved. I opened my eyes Just a little, with that Intuitive caution which usually, comes to us with the realization of pren ent danger. In a moment 1 was wide awake and fully alert to all that was going for

ward, though I was cureful not to betray It by any outward sign. I first noted that he was not ho cool and sf If-possessed as ha had been. The change Irt his demeanor w abrupt enough to attract immediate attention. I noticed with growing alarm that he would stop shaving me, hold his gleaming razor over nie and stand glaring at my throat for a time, as if undecided whe. her to slash my Jugular and be done wit i it or to go ahead and dress me decently for the funeral. Then he would mutter something in a hoarso whisier and presently resume his task. But his hand was unsteady, and he got on slowly with his work. Now and then he would turn front nie and Jerk open a drawer in his cabinet, then close it with a suddenness that made my heart thump like a tom-tom. 1 wa.f now thoroughly frightened, though I felt a sense of helplessness that, was nearer paralysis than desperation. At one time, -when he turned his back, I conceived the idea of Isaplng from the chair and making a break for the door, but before 1 could form the resolution Into shape for action the rascal was at my face again. His mutterings became more- frequent, but were as incoherent as ever. 1 had about made up my mind that the man was crazy, and that he was deliber at;ly planning to murder nie. In a moment all the stories I had ever heard about the devilish cunning and superhuman prowess of madmen flashed Into my consciousness. The case looked both critical and hopeless. I knew it would be the sheerest folly for me to expect to cope physically with tho big ruffian, armed as he Aas, too, with the most dangerous of weapons. Every timehe touched my face I expected with a sort of nerveless resignation to feel the keen edge of the razor on my throat. At last I felt that 1 could endure the suspense and terror no longer. The n?gro had gone over my face once and was preparing to give the finishing touches. I imagined that another minute's delay would find me flopping about the floor like a Thanksgiving turkey with a mutilated guzzle. All this time I had kept up the outward s?eming of-perfect self-control, which properly interpreted, was abject and helpless fright. I was on the very point of making a sudden dash Ahen the fellow stunned me into dumb astonishment by breaking into the following speech: "Say, boss, listen what I tole you. I had a young coon in de shop to do de whisk an' brush act, an' he was no good, an' I fired 'im dis mo'nln'; an' I jis dis minute 'skivered dat de cussed nigger hez stole one o my bes' razo's. But laws," bursting into a laugh, "hit's too lata to cry fo' spilt milk,, 'cause he done tuck de fust train for Injinopiis. Well, hit all goes in a lifetime. Dar you are. sah." I crawled out of the chair half dead, and managed to pay the fellow and get away from the shop without shoving him th3 mental condition he left m in. I wouldn't have let him know it for 0. J. C. OCHILTREE. A NEW YEAR'S T1IOLGIIT. Someone on New Year's day asked the meaning of a peculiar rustling noise, and was told that It was caused by tha turning." over of so many new leaves. Possibly if that person had repeated his question the following day the answer would have been that It was the sama leaves turning back again. We might alter' one of Solomon's famou3 lines to read, of the making of resolutions there is no end, and add to it, perhaps, of the keeping of them them is no assurance, because of the truth that instinct is always stronger than resolution. It certainly is true that with the. same pertinacity that money burns In a child's pocket until he spends it. so desire, or some equally selfish thing, hammers away at our resolution until it is broken. A tired worn an said once, "If we could only throw ourselves asvay like broken china when w have spoiled ourselves, the back van! of creation wouio De run of the pitiful flindersof us." But then, fortunately, or unfortunately, according to the point-of view, we cannot throw ourselves awav, but are obliged to pick up the "pitiful flinders of us" and put them together the bet we can. And it would be amusing, were it not so pathetic, to see ourselves doing this and even taking a kind of pride in our cobblerlike skill. After all, the man was not far wrong who transposed Paul's words like this: "Faith, hopa and charity, but the greatest of these is hope." MAYW. DON NAN. Luxurious Trump. . ' Philadelphia Times. . There appears to be fashion and perktd'c--lty in crime and craziness, and ever since that tramp was foun.l tn in i! 1 1 curs nouse naraiy a day goes by withort some wanderer or suspicious character being found in bed somewhere in a re wc table household. Doubtless this is, m a Urge mef;,Urfth'faUot netful servant! It Is hard to see how these outcasts an.i Keit,?,tors'cou1,1 aUl aceess to thi m,r C U!d Parts of a household withwga,tv.careiessneS3 or-collusion on the ?f TtthJ rvants. Unfortunately som -hie 5e8t ome3tJcs are easily deluded where there is a man in the case, and touched byjsympathy, has admitted some Scalawag Who. under nr.. nrn.onor. other when her back was turned, has guded to the upper part of the houae and hidden himself with no good intention. More .1 i . a,'ituus roooery nas been exPlained ln tnU way, the girl only admitting her share In the matter when - thoroughly Scared OT cerhana herself tnn.Mo.l " ;.: " Won Tlmn Trln. -Chicago Mail. - ; ' " 5 ysecretary J. Sterling Mort6ii With his theonejan , his. egotUw1, " ' setting to b .' SU ' "' luui .Gdoi'KO

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