Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1900 — Page 12

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Still, there are men belonging to both parties who would have a military post near Indianapolis If they could Induce Congress to vote It. The air Is getting thick with politics as election day approaches. A good many people will not be able to breathe freely until the day is over. It was the New York Evening Post, which would like to support Mr. Bryan if it could, that spoke of "Bryan's Insensibility to the disgrace" of dining with Croker. The world's wheat crop for 1300 Is estimated at 2,500.000,000 bushels against 2,623.440,000 bushels last year. And yet this mere fraction of 123,000,0 bushels Is sufficient to make the price for the year. The only prominent person outside of the Tammany organization who glories In 11 Is "William Jennings Bryan. Even Mayor Taggart makes haste to dismiss the Intimation that he has Croker money. The haling of Iliggins before the grand Jury may be the beginning of a work which will put an end to the selling of votes and Influence by persons connected with the city government. The general conviction Is that . the number of persons who are "oa the make" has Increased during the past few years. The revelations which the investigation of the "Wilhelm murder have brought to light show that Indianapolis has a class of degraded and vicious men who are not known except to the police. How many of them arc there in the city? Are they beyond the reach of religious Influences, or do those who are engaged in Christian work practically admit that they are beyond the reach of the gospel? It Is generally conceded by those who are qualified to judge that a staff appointment prevented Colonel James R. Ross from attaining the rank and distinction he would have acquired had he continued to serve In Indiana regiments. He possessed In a conspicuous degree the qualities of a first-class soldier soldierly tact, courage and steadiness. No man did more to build up the National Guard In its earlier years than did Colonel Ross. lie possessed In a high degree the winning quality of manliness. One of the lessons of the census figures of the 133 cities having a population of over 23,000 is that the smaller cities that have made the greatest gain In population are those which have become the seats of manufacturing industries. "When the figures of cities and towns having populations of from 10,000 to 23,000 are given, greater growth in percentage will appear. This means that the manufacturing Industries of the country are expanding Instead of being concentrated in a few cities and comparatively few hands. The end of the greatest strike in this century without widespread violence and considerable loss of life and disregard for the safeguards of law and order is cause for sincere congratulations and thankfulness. It would not have been possible ten, even five years ago. It has been accomplished by organization, and organization which respects the laws of the land. The lessons which the national officers of the miners' association have taught are of the greatest value, because they have proved that respect for law Is more effective la securing a desired reform than lawlessness. If those officers had preached hatred and class prejudice instead of standing for the rights of the miners they would have made? the anthracite region the scene of carnage. Since John Sherman died, papers that slandered him while he was bravely battling to bring the country to a sound currency are now speaking his praise. It Is tco late. Mr. Sherman, won his right to enduring fame In spite of their slanders and their Insults. He was able, fearless and Incorruptible when these editors were accusing him of conspiracies with Wall street and private banks. Now he does not need their words of praise to establish his fame. So far from that, all such praise proves the turpitude of tho.e who attempted to rob him of the confidence of the country when he was rendering It the greatest service that any man ever did in time of peace. The appointment of physicians to act as medical guardians' and health Inspectors In the public schools was recommended by the I leal t a Association at Its recent con Vitien In Indianapolis. The gentlemen

of this convention will be Interested In hearing that the Board' of Education of Washington, D. C, has recommended the appointment of eleven such inspectors for the schools In that city, each physician to be paid a year. This action will have to be ratified by Congress before it goes into effect, and the fact that Congress will also provide for paying the bills probably has something to do with the board's liberality. The school directors In most cities have to count the cost of such innovations more closely. SE3II-OFFICIAL STATEMENTS. Two or . three points in the speech of Secretary Root, last week, deserve more than passing notice, because they present facts of history which have been denied by those who have made themselves the champions of Agulnaldo. The American friends pt Agulnaldo, for Instance, have been constantly declaring than an alliance was made with Agulnaldo at the outset by Admiral Dewey. It has counted nothing with these admirers of Agulnaldo that Admiral Dewey, in the most positive manner, has denied, time and again, that no understanding of any character whatever was had with him. Now, Secretary Root presents a secret letter of instructions to a Filipino commission, written by the president Of Aguinaldo's Cabinet and dated Jan. 4, 1S39, In which the declaration is made that "the chief of the Philippine people has not made any agreement with the government of the United States." This should settle that point of the controversy once for all. Again, Secretary Root quoted from a letter of instructions to Agulnaldo's followers in Manila who were to prepare to massacre all Americans. This letter bears the date of Jan. 9, ISM. He showed that, in accordance with the instructions, the friends of Agulnaldo in the city began to remove their families and goods from the city so that they might not be injured by the inevitable fighting, which was begun the night of Feb. 4 by a body of Filipinos marching across the American lines in spite of the sentinel's call to halt, with the deliberate intent of carrying out the plan dated a month earlier. This statement, with the evidence, ought to satisfy those people who have been led to believe that the Americans began the fighting in Luzon. , Still another point of interest which has not been emphasized by a semi-official statement before is the evidence that Agulnaldo Issued a general order to his army June 27 of the current year, directing the commanders of guerrilla bands to attack the American outposts and detachments and to continually molest them for the purpose of affecting the presidential election and for bringing about "the fall of the imperialistic party." This documentary proof that the" fighting the past few months has been provoked by the antl-imperlallsts here ought to bring to their senses all good Americans who do not desire to give aid and comfort to the guerrillas who are killing American soldiers. Secretary Root also made it appear that the Tagal George Washington is not so much a patriot as a self-seeker, by calling attention to the fact that he sold out the cause of the Insurgents to Spain for 4400,000 In hand and the promise of 5400,000 more, and that the insurrection was in progress before the battle of Manila had ceased and after the signing of the agreement between Agulnaldo and the Spanish authorities. This statement has been made before, but Secretary Root quoted from the treaty between the Spanish and Agulnaldo. w hich contains proof of the agreement This ought to dispose of the claim that Agulnaldo is fighting for the liberties of his race.

riUtCC NATIONS IN TUE WORLD'S AFFAIRS. The announcement of the Anglo-German compact regarding the future of China insures apolicy for which this government stood long before the hostile demonstration of the anti-foreign element in that country. For years the United States has been opposed to the breaking up of the Chinese empire. At the same time the traditional policy of this country would have prevented us from embarking in any line of action more hostile to the partition of China among the European powers than a protest. A year ago the impression prevailed that all the European powers, except Great Britain, were Intent on parceling out the middle kingdom among themselves. Three years ago so strong was the conviction that China would be appropriated by Europe that Senator Teller startled the American people by declaring that the United States should enter into an alliance with Great Britain to prevent the partition of China and shutting out the United States from the commerce of the Orient. Since that date we have acquired title to the gateway to China, and other unexpected events have made us one of the nations which must be consulted when the disposition of those peoples, which are regarded as the wards of the dominant powers, is under consideration. It was the apprehension of the breaking up of China which led Secretary Hay to secure the "open door" treaty with the European powers, by which the United States was secured all the commercial advantages of all other nations In every part of China, whomsoever mlsht hold it. The "open door" policy was the American policy, and the American government was the first to declare for the Integrity of Chinese territory and the open door. When the American position was announced the powers did not accept It with enthusiasm. It was not the result of conference, and, what was more objectionable to the masters of diplomacy, it was made public, whereas the traditional diplomat would have held it a secret as long as policy required. But the point is that Germany and Great Britain have announced i compact which is Identical with the policy which the United States secured for itself so far as commerce is concerned, and for the territorial integrity of China, which was several months ago set forth as the American policy. The importance of the German-British compact as relates to its Influence upon world-wide politics cannot be overestimated. The union of Germany and Great Britain upon the Chinese question means that their policy will prevalL No alliance that can be made in Europe against Great Britain and Germany can be effective, particularly when the moral influence of the support of the United States is behind them. Moreover, the action of those two powers upon the Chinese question seems to Insure the peace of Europe. The disposition of China Las csemtd so difficult a problem to many tLzt tiers Trritcrs rrfco

are constantly seeing war clouds hovering over Europe have been predicting that the Chinese question would involve all Europe In 'war. Th? German-British compact spoils all such predictions. It may take a long. time to adjust the complications in China, "but the settlement will not involve Europe In war. It may be added that whenever the governments of the werld three progressive peoples the United States, Great Britain and Germany agree upon a policy It will be carried Into effect without bloodshed. These nations may not form an alliance, but they are very likely to see International problems In the same light, and in a light that will extend the blessings of civilization.

CORRUPTING JURIES. A proposition to amend the Constitution of Kansas so that three-fourths of the members of a-Jury may return, a verdict is to be voted oh in that State at the coming election. It is not thought that it will carry, voters generally not being especially Interested In the questions Involved, while lawyers 'themselves disagree as to the advisability of the change. One Judge of much experience, who is opposed to the measure, is quoted as saying that the proposed alteration would afford but little relief. If there were a certainty of getting twelve honest men into the jury box there could be no objection to the three-fourths rule where there is a mere honest difference of opinion, but It is his belief that many men either lack sufficient intelligence to understand their duties as Jurors, or else have a very erroneous Idea of their duties. A "plugger," or corrupter of Juries, would, he thinks, have no difficulty in preventing a mistrial under the three-fourths rule, the only difference being that It would be at a greater cost than where only one Juryman was to be "fixed." This judge does . not cherish the common objection to the one' stubborn Juryman who sometimes overrules the opinion of eleven men, but holds that while he may be corrupt, he may, on Jhe other hand, be the honest man to save the case. "A majority is not necessarily intelligent or necessarily honest," he goes on to say, and uses this Illustration: "When God determined to destroy Sodom, and spoke to Abraham on the subject, it was agreed that He would riot destroy the town if Abraham could find 100 good men. Abraham got this, figure reduced to fifty, then to twenty, and then to five, the Lord promising that if he could find five good men He would withhold His destroying hand.' And old Abraham couldn't find five even. He called out Lot and his wife, and even she looked back. No, ono honest man sometimes saves a case by taking a' strong stand and explaining it to his weaker fellows." He says there is a great difference between circuit and federal courts in the matter of Jury "fixing." "When I go into the federal courts I never feel," he says, "that some deputy sheriff has plugged the Jury." He offers no explanation for this difference, though 'the probable and obvious one is that many juries in the lower courts contain eome "professionals," who seek' such duties for the sake of possible bribes, whereas federal juries are more carefully chosen. A good many persons who have not carefully considered the matter would be likely to hold that the three-fourths rule is desirable, but It is certain that there is another side to the question. THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. In the mere factof forming an organization the members of the Indiana Library Association showed themselves to be possessed of the spirit of progress, and of a wish to work for the interests of the public These members are for, the most part men and women actively engaged In library work In the cities and towns of the State. Some of them have had the advantage of special training for their work in library schools of the East; sqme, In addition to this training, have had years of practical experience. Others, again, especially those In charge of new and smaller libraries where trained service cannot easily be secured, are feeling their way along, guided by their own Judgment and such information as they can glean from the experience of others. Though, as with all other professions, the time never comes when the mo3t skilled and Intelligent librarian cannot learn something new in regard to the calling, or when an Interchange of professional views is not profitable, it is the less experienced members who should gain most from the meetings of the association. The library movemerit is but fairly getting under way In Indiana. In New England every town of any size, almost every village, has its public or subscription library as a matter of course; but In Indiana such institutions are only found In the larger towns, and not in all of them. The improved methods In the public schools, however, and the organization of literary clubs have created a demand for books of reference and for technical and literary works which must In time inevitably bear fruit In the establishment of libraries wherever are to be found schoolhouses and progressive women for, as a rule, the first steps In such enterprises are taken by women. Probably more ventures in this direction would have been undertaken before now but for a lack of knowledge as to tho methods of procedure and the character and cost of books needed as the foundation of such libraries. A practical result of education is not so much the storing of facts In the mind as the knowledge of where-to find the facts when they are. needed. This knowledge is of no value, of course, where books are not accessible, but a vast number of Intelligent men and women who have lived remote from large collections of books have but the vaguest ideas as to the means of getting at desired Information. They know it is in books, but do not know in what books. They are not even familiar with encyclopedias, because an encyclopedia is an expensive, work, not j found in every household, nor in every schoolroom, nor even In every community. Many of the questions that come to every newspaper which conducts a "query column" show the want of these useful volumes in the inquirers neighborhood, and, with other blind outreachlngs for information indicating the absence of books, are pathetic in a way. No one who knows books can look upon being without them save as a misfortune. It is as a school for persons seeking light In regard to the forming and operating even of the simplest libraries that this State association "of -librarians can find its greatest usefulness. What the experienced members should offer when they come together Is the fruits 'of their experience in practical instructions to the uninitiated. If the wpmsn la remote villages who have the wtzh to ca a fcejmrir.la ths wcrlx

Tcnew that thty could learn how to take the preliminary steps by coming to the meeting; if young librarians were sure of being told ' something about cataloguing, about reference work, about what books to buy in making a little money go a long way, about the many technicalities of the business, they would not mis attendance. The-association Is doing good work In keeping alive the library spirit and In stimulating even the older and better qualified members to their best efforts, but It has not yet reached Its highest usefulness. Indianapolis, having the largest and best-equipped public library In the State, is in good shape to serve as a center for this library movement. Its librarian and her staff are enthusiastic and ready to co-operate with outside workers in every practical way. The same is to be said of the State Library, except that its facilities are more limited. It may be that in time the association, with these Institutions as a basis for illustration, if nothing further, will make its annual sessions of such practical value that they will serve as a school of Instruction to all who wish technical knowledge.

f FAR3IERS INSTITUTES. Purdue University is doing good work id arranging for the holding of farmers institutes in every county of the State. All Intelligent, progressive farmers acknowledge the advantage of coming" together occasionally for interchange of views and discussion of the problems of agriculture, but in the absence of organization It requires considerable Individual exertion to make such meetings possible or successful, and It is only in an occasional community that a man Is found with sufficient enthusiasm to undertake the responsibility of getting them up. Such a movement needs the backing and stimulus either of formal organization or of an institution in sympathy with the farmer's work. This sympathy Purdue, being an agricultural, college, has, of course. Its purpose Is not merely to give Its students the advantage of scientific and technical discoveries bearing on the farmer's calling, but to disseminate such knowledge freely among the farmers themselves. Also, it hope3 for co-operation that In carrying on its experimental work It may have the benefit of the farmers' experience in similar directions. As a government experiment station it Is doing much servico to the agricultural interests of "the State, and the moro closely in touch with it the farmers come the greater will be the mutual gain. '7 These institutes are profitable, not only In a business but in a social vay. The great drawback to farm life Is the lack of social Intercourse. Anything that brings the farmers and their wives out of their homes .Into friendly communion Is to .be encouraged. If each of the county Institutes held shall Inspire those In attendance to arrange for llko gatherings at more frequent intervals in their respective townships or neighborhoods It will serve a good purpose beyond the original intention. The story that two men went through a German community In the southern part of the State taking the names of ablebodied men between eighteen and forty years of age, giving the Impression that they were enrolling those liable to be called Into the army, which was, given out several weeks ;ago, has fb'P jpeated. It can be believed that men will stoop to such miserable devices to win votes, but ' it seems incredible that in a State which has such an excellent system of public schools there are those who can bo duped by such a shallow device. ' Mr. Bernard Shaw, the versatile English writer, offers some unique views on the education of children. "Any person," he says, "trying to form ,the moral character ot children ought to be drowned." By way of explaining this remark he goes on to say: "All progress depends on one generation being better than Its predecessor. Therefore If there Is to be any progress at all, it must be recognized that the children know better than the teachers. All persons derive the most important part of their education from children. One thing every boy and girl should be taught Is how to jump on and off a tramcar without putting the driver to the trouble of stopping It. Then, too, one must know the alphabet so as to recognize the Underground railway station for which one is bound without having to keep questioning people." Mr. Shaw 1 will hardly find himself In demand as a lecturer before American educational associations or summer schools where teachers learn h )w to teach. The drift of the comments In the New York papers on Maude Adams's presentation of "L'Alglon" . is that it is a great drama very inadequately played. With an evident effort to be kind to the young actress those critics who have established a reputation for fairness, and whose opinion is worth having agree that she is quite unequal to the character she undertakes. And they also agree that no blame attaches to her, but to the managers who forced her, with her gentle personality and absence of tragic possibilities, into such passionate dramas as "Romeo and Juliet" and Rostand's "L'Alglon." ,But, notwithstanding what the critics say, the crowds go and applaud tremendously, and Miss Adams seems likely to repeat her financial success of the past season. Miss Mary Wllklns, the story-writer, has not yet announced her marriage engagement to her friends, it is said. On the other hand, Dr. Freeman, her fiance, is offering such voluble explanations of the several postponements of the marriage that he Is in danger of convejing the impression that she does not mean to marry him at all. A little judicious silence would become the New Jersey doctor. literacy' notes. Mr. Kipling's forthcoming novel, "Kim of the Rishtl," Is a long one. It is to run as a serial for eleven months, beginning with next January. It is understood that among the books upon which Mark Twain is at work is one upon "The Origin of Humor." This, it Is said. Is rearing completion. Mr. Thomas Hardy loves the serenity of that Wessex which he has made immortal. London sees him little. He and Mrs. Hardy, whose reading is so useful to his novels, go cycling along the roads of the Wessex which the author of "Tess" has made Immortal. Twenty years have been spent and also $1110,000 on compiling and printing the Brit--ish Museum Authors' Catalogue. It Is contained in four hundred ,volumes and seventy supplements and is complete up to the end of 1S99. Having ended this work, the staff which has been engaged upon It Is beginning the compilation of a subject index. This will occupy fully ten years. In a recent newspaper interview Mr. James Whitcomb Riley said ' that many talented writers failed of succes because they wrote for their literary friends and then wonder why their books do not selb Their literary friends do not buy books: they are given to thrm. They choull study tha public and wht it Traata, t3

thinks, and mingle business sense with their writing If they would be successful. Mr. George Glsslng, who is slowly winning recognition, reads -the Latin and Greek classics, and loves music. He has more, than once in his stories expressed a pious hope that the nether world may be redeemed by music Some of the most popular women who write take their recreation in music, Mrs. Craigie not only likes music, she has played in public. She was one of three clever ladie3 Who some time ago, played the piano-forte together, the other two being Lady Randolph ChurchilJ and Mile. Janotha. Young Mr. Burton Harrison, who is now a graduate student of Yale in English, win. write a history of the civil war from a Confederate standpoint. This, because of the fact that his father was private secretary to Jefferson Davis. Is a matter of ncte. Mr. Harrison should inherit literary aspirations from his talented mother, Mrs. Frances Burton Harrison, who Is a bright contributor to periodical literature. It Is said, however, that Mr. Harrison's ambitions have been fostered by his bride, who was Miss Mary Crocker, daughter of the California millionaire. .

BUBBLES IK THE AIR. The Zeat ot Departure. Full blithe cicada's voice In 'Tvakening spring; But, ah, in autumn hear the rascal sing! j Alons the Road. To disconcert the fates make thla thy way Whate'er thy work may be, pretend 'tis play. That TVew York Pnaslne Show. When Bryan dined with Croker at twelve a plate, oh, then, he pondered: "Will I ever see the likes of this again?" Not a Perfect Round Up. "There are no editors on that list of America's most famous men." "Is that so? Well, then. It Isn't a list of America's most famous men." The Other "WranRle. He brought up Indian summer, but as argument I dread, I frowned him down and asked If he thought frost made leaves turn red. Spotters. Don't seek your faults, 'tis waste of timeFor all around you, without doubt, Are folks who nurse one aim sublime To come to you and point them out. - Footuotes. Prosperity Is a merry-go-round; we can't all ride at once. Man yearns for novelty; but he won't take "the trouble to get up änd see the October sun rise. The world Is full of people who are smart, but haven't really got sense. The sawbuck sage says there Is something In all things if we can only get at it. October is the hardest month in the whole year; so much Indoor .work to be done, and so much outdoor fun going on. Viewed with a scientific eye, people In large cities act more like crazy people than the peop'.e lr. small towns. Man may depose his Ideal woman: but woman shuts her eyes and pretends even to herself that the ideal man Is still on his pedestal. It is well to respect other people's limitations until you have indisputable evidence that you know everything yourself. As a valuable campaign document the pumpkin pie has heretofore been overlooked. No philosopher carries out his own formulas; If he did he wouldn't have time to get them up. WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION. We are only children when wo are not acting. Until the Day Break. What the eagle falls to see the earthworm knows. Until the Day Break. If everybody could understand us, what Joy there would be In discovering our souls to those whom we love' Robert Orange. The best way for a woman to treat her soul is to realize that her soul and body belong together, and have to live together the rest of her natural life. A Furnace of Earth. We all think that every other nation would fain be English, but as all other countries have a like pitying contempt for us, there Is perhaps no harm done. The Isle of Unrest. Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoningnothing so slippery and reversible as what we call "logic." The truest compass of life is spiritual Instinct. The Master Christian. Beauty must be the first law of life to the sex that has not the privilege of choosing. Under the circumstances, it is surprising how much of plainness women have preserved. The Bacillus of Beauty. Whatever the history of tho French may be, it has never been dull reading, and France has shown the whole world that one may carry a brave and a light heart out of the deepest tragedy. The Isle of Unrest. Women In every disappointment always look for some future change of circumstance favorable to their wishes. No matter how nominal, shallow and delusive this faith may be. It sustains them through their worst trials. Robert Orange. The man's power goes Into the thing, he does, whether it is a word or a deed, and a deed once done is done to all eternity; that is how he gets his immortality, and is proved to have been good or bad. The Dishonor of Frank Scott ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The exiled and hopeless author of "Lady Windermere's Fan" now signs his literary output Sebastian Melnotte. Though Joel Chandler Harris has left the Atlanta Constitution, his family Is still represented on the staff, his son. Evelyn, being city editor, and his son, Julian, managing editor. G. W. Northrup, professor of church history and theology. Is seventy-four years of age,, but continues to teach and lecture as usual, and does not need any assistant in his constantly growing work. Bishop Potter, of New York, Is not a college graduate and though a learned man never attended any college. Yet his grandfather was a president and hU father and brother were vice presidents of Union College. Winston Spencer Churchill, the famous English newspaper writer and soldier, son of Mrs. Cornwallis West, will arrive in New York on November 8. Lieutenant Churchill will start around the country on a lecturing tour. Henri de Blowltz, the famous Paris correspondent of the London Times, although of Jewish stock, Is a devout Roman Catholic, and strenuously denies the recent, rumors of his recanting. His connection with the Times dates from 1S71. When Frank Leslie was dying he asked his wife to make every, effort to pay all his debts. These were extremely large, but Mrs. Leslie now announces that every penny has been paid. "During the first year." she says, "I lived in a garret, and spent only $30 on myself. But 1 have paid the debts." t Paris probably boasts of the most advanced appliances of the ga cooking Industry. In the Polytechnic School there !s a gas range capable of taking care of i legs of mutton. 110 fowls or 250 cutlets. In the Grand Magasln du Bon Marche there is a range nearly fifteen feet long, five and a half feet high and nearly three feet deep, on which CuO cutlets can be handled at one time. George Francis Train lives in a very small room at one of the Mills hotels !n New York, and has not left the building tor months.. He gets out of- bed every morning between 4 and 5 o'clock and spends nearly all his waking hours in reading newspapers. About 6 o'clock in the evening he is ready to retire for the night The former millionaire says that when -the Transslberian Railroad is completed he will "belt the world In thirty days." The total cost of the Buffalo exposition, exclusive of exhibits,: is now estimated at' Sia,C0O.CC3. Of this amount about CXCCyc will be expend?!" upca the lllixr-y. f.ts cum for tha Ilidrray la mere than t. r tctrj cert cf rc 3 very prctcntlrua crrjitl: ,

MODERS FABLES," by ücorc Atfc.

THE MODERN FABLE OF CYRIL, THE WOULD-BE, WHO GOT HIS WISH AND A1ET ONE AFTER THE SHOW.

J Copy light, 1800, by Robert Howard Russell.

Once upon a time there was a Tender Boy who was half way between knickerbockers and the University Glee Club. His name was Cyril and his Folks lived in the first Stone Castle at the light as you entered Easy Street Cyril's Governor was a two-handed Fighter, who had an office in the Street given over to Tickers and Blackboards and Good Things. The Governor had gone to the Mat and been through the Ropes and taken the Count several times, but he was Game and would not be denied his share of the Loot. By the time Cyril was old enough to smoke Egyptian Cigarettes without getting dizzy Cyril's Governor had so much money that he could use It for filling Sofa Pillows and washing Windows. To a Young Man in the habit of buying 21 Meal Checks for $3.75 It would seem that Cyril should have been very happy. The House was full of Servants who tried to anticipate his slightest Wish. He had Cameras and Ponies and a gauzy Canopy over hla little Bed and more than a Gross of Scarf Pins. He had obedient Tutors to come to the House and try to pump knowledge into him without any Effort on his part If he complained of a Headache or was Peevish at the Breakfast Table his Mamma knew there must be something wrong with the City Air, so she would take him under her Wing and away they would go to the Adlrondacks or the Sea Shore or Europe. Cyril had been to Europe twice, and to prove that he was a Bright Boy he could tell the rame of the Ship they had come back on, and he knew that the Hotel In Paris began with an R . Although the Earth and the Fullness thereof were laid tn front of Cyril, and although Papa applied the Squeeze to the Little Fish every Day or two to get more funds with which to buy Tutors and Automobiles for him, the Boy was not Happy. ,He had no end of Trouble. As an Example: Sometimes he would work for an Hour to get his Bat-Shaped Ties Just right, so the Ends would Balance, and if he could not do it he would feel Moody and Discouraged, and the tears would come to his Eyes, and he would think that the Fates had conspired to lay Tribulation on his Young Shoulders. Or he would put on a pair of Passionate Hose with the stripes running up and down, and he would go out with his Trousers reefed up, so that all might see, and he would meet another Boy whose Socks were Checked, and he would wonder if Perpendicular Stripes had ceased to be the Thing. The Clouds would gather over him with not a Rift to let the Sunshine through, and he would regret that he had been Bern. Perchance he would see on the Drive a new style of Cart several Feet higher than any of his; and he would bite his nails and feel sure that the other Boys were trying to Humiliate him. And he had more than his share of Grief and Disappointment when It came to selecting Hat Bands or making the Tailor get the proper Bell Effect on his Coats, so that they would stand out all the Way around. However, the One and Consuming Sorrow of his Young Life was that he had never met a Real Actress. He had purchased their Photographs, and he had even gone so far as to send Flowers, but he had never actually met one, so as to have her Speak to him. That was what he wanted. One of his friends, named Paul, had ridden cn a Train once with a Company playing "A Runaway Girl." and had opened a window for Virginia Earle, who had thanked him with her own Lips. Consequently Paul was the genuine It when the boys got together In Cyril's Den to look at the Pictures and talk about which one they liked Best. Cyril dreamed one Night that he had Lillian Russell riding with him in his Stanhope, and that Edna Wallace Hopper and Madge Lesslng stood on the Corner and threw Violets at them as they rode past, and that all the other Boys were shriveled with Envy. When he Awoke he was so Blue he had a notion to leave Home and so that by. comparison one may gain a very fair idea of the work which Buffalo Is carrying rapidly to completion. A beautiful landscape comprising, 23) acres, half a mile wide and a mile and a quarter long, is devoted to this wonderful enterprise. J. M. Barrie, the novelist did not shine conspicuously in many of his classes when he was a student at Edinburgh University, but In regard to metaphysics he had one notable triumph. He convinced a medical student the most unimpressionable of all human beings that he (the embryo sawbones) had no actual existence. "He got quite frightened," said Mr. . Barrie In relating the incident, "and I can still see his white fac(j as he sat staring at me in tho gloaming. This shows what metaphysics can do." It Is said that the wife of the present Khedive of Egypt Is unusually happy among Eastern women. In being the only and beloved wife of a husband whose greatest pleasure Is to gratify her wishes. She is by birth a Christian, with all the beauty and spirit of her people, and is thoroughly European in all her tastes and mode of living. European governesses educate her children, European servants fill her house, she wears none but European garments. She emulates the European In everything, even to the point of obtaining an education for herself. Success is like a load of hay; One has to climb to get on top. And then If he attempts tp ride With idle legs hung o'er the side, There comes a jolt, a clutch, a slide And down he goes, kerflop! Chicago Times-Herald. In letters large the name Is writ Of him who owns the show. The actor's name in smaller type . Though he may make It go. The name of him who staged the piece Is printed very small. While what the author's name may be. One cannot learn at all. Detroit Journal. Literary Xotes. Chicago Times-Herald. These are busy days for the authors. Ople Read has taken something- for that tired feeling, and Is going on the stump for McKinley. Mark Twain has talked for nothing at a New York charity bazaar. William Dean Howells will occupy the "Easy Chair" for Harper's and write with a quill pen In future. Frank R. Stockton has a sore thumb. James Whitcomb Riley denies the report that he once played football under an assumed name. Lilian Bell's cable address Is "Bellbogue." New York. We have been unable to learn why. Mrs. Paul Leicester Ford Intimates that whatever her husband's practice may have been la the past, he will not go outside of the family for his heroines In the future. Henry James indignantly denies that he is going to reside in Boston. Mary E. Wllklns Is going to get married as soon as she finishes a novel that she now has well under way. Some men have fame thrust upon them. Frank L. Stanton admits that he still has the S3 cents he received for his first long poem. - Mfcrle Corelll says It's" a lucky thins for IlCil Caine that he isn't a woman. wvi. uuj n iiuu a siory to be entitled "A Gentleman From Kentucky." II has rigged up a study in a distlllsry, fcr tt purpose of ctttmj local at-

go on the Stage, Just so that he cou'.i b near them. But Everything Comes to him who is on the Lookout. Cyril became acquainted with the Treasurer of a Theater at which I intense Effingham was appearing n "Tie Cash Girl," and -one Day tLe Treasurer happened to ask Cyril If he would i ke to drop In at Miss Effingham's Aparirr.cntt some Night after the Performance. Cyril almost Fainted with Joy and tcid the Attache to name a Night The Treasurer sali he would speak to Miss Effingham. Cyril did not touch the Ground at a.U when he went home that Day. He had seen Hortcnse on the Stage many a time. She was a vivacious little r.lcr.ie. Just as saucy and scarnpery as t-he couli be. All the Fellows had her Picture. And he was going to Sup with her alUr the Show! He wondered what Paul would tay to that The Night was Set Cyril did not dare to let his parents know cf the proposed Racket, so he said he was going to a Party. Ho touched his Father and Mother and the Coachman for Money and emptied his Savings Bank, and got together Hü in case they had to send out t&r more Champagne and Cigarettes, lie knew It was going to be a Wild Revel, for he had heard the Stories. In his limited Experience he had learned that the Nicest Families often break Glafsware and do tho Cake Walk when they set together after the Theater, and he toured that if Respectable Society Paople went aa fas as that, then the gay ProfestiucaU would probably turn Filp-Flops over th Piano and use an Axe on the Furniture, lie was In for a Terfect Tear, but he knew he would have to see it through, so La could Tell about It afterward. On the Appointed Evening he wore Full Dress, because In all the pictures of Ilea about Town talking Late Suppers with Footllght Favorites he had noticed that the Long-Tailed Coat went. That Evening he was In Front at the Theater, and as he watched Horter.se Effingham nit and twitter and win the Plaudits of the discriminating metropolitan Audience ho kept thinking to himself, "Little do these People sitting around me suspect that I am going to take Supper with her. It seemed almost too Good to be True. Cyril and the Attache of the House had to walk around for a while after the Show, to give Hcrtense time to get off her MakeUp and arrive at the Flat Th n they went up and when they rang the Bell Cyril could hear his Heart beat He expected to have his hat kicked off just as he stepped In, but he didn't propose to Let On. They were welcomed by a pleasant little Woman with Dark Hair. Cyril caught the name as Mrs. Miller. She said her Husband would be out in a Minute. After che went away the Friend explained to Cyril that Effingham was her Stage Name, and then Cyril began to understand that Mrs. Miller was Hortense and that the Wig makes a Difference. She came back with Mr. Miller, whoa Cyril recognized as the Leader of the Orchestra, Aslo, there was a Tall Boy cf about Cyril's Age. Mrs. Miller said it was her Son, who was home on a Vacation. She hoped that he and Cyril would be Great Friends. Mrs. Miller told Cyril she knew his Father quite well, as he had handled several Investments for her. She said he was a Lovely Man. Then she asked Cyril wheh he liked better, Hall Calne or Marie Corelll, and he said he thought both of them were all right He was lucky to be able to say that much. He didn't know whether he was On Foot or Horseback. After that hey had a little Lunch of Crackers andfnice, rich Milk. Cyril was the only one present who wore Evening Clothes. Mrs. Miller's Son showed Cyril his Book of Kodak Pictures and they had a little Music, and then It was Time to go Home. Mrs. Miller asked Cyril if he had Car Fare and he told her he had. He still had Si. He went home feeling Puzzled, bat IteMORAL Don't believe all you Hear, spec tabic. He was full of Milk.

American publishers, and declares that he has "a style which is peculiar to himself." Hobart Chatneld Chatfleld-Taylor will spend the winter in the East because he can get away as well as not. Joel Chandler Harris, who has never witnessed a theatrical performance, threatens to see "East Lynne" this season if he can work the box office for a pass. Robert Herrick, author of "The Web of Life" and other stories In which he mentions the names cf many Chicago street?, has refused to be interviewed on the use of slang in the college classroom. Professur TIerrick, like Iser, Is rolling rapidly. Hamlin Garland has succeeded in writing a sixty-page description of a farmer's wife washing dishes. A Wisconsin poet who is not represented in Stedman's Anthology has bought a copy nt that work. Henry Harland Is writing a story la which Napoleon figured as one of the central characters. Henry always , was a great fellow for trying new things. Edwin Markham Is getting out a new book of poems on labor and buildiis? a 12.000.0) house on Fifth avenue. New York. Maurice Thompson Is learning to whistle "Oh, don't you remember Sweet Alice, Ben Boltr The Latest Discovery. Harper's Weekly. Another discovery, which is-important If true. Is reported from Paris. We are told in the New York Sun that two French chemists, Drs. Dcgrez and Balthazard, have learned by accident that bloxide of eodium will purify air so that it may t breathed over and over again. The discoverers, the story goes, scaled up animals In air-tight receptacles, along with lump? cf bloxlde of sodium, and. found that they breathed indefinitely without emKirraf?ment. Then they put a diver's helmet lined with b'.oxlde of sodium, on a man, snd found he could, stay under water na leng as he chose without fresh air. The chemical explanation of the phenomenon is that bloxido of sodium absorbs the carbon from cavbonlc-acld pas urA s"ts !ra pure oxygen. This sounds a little likt the inventions that ingenious writers ue to adorn tales of the nmote future, Lut It is gravely told in a veracious new?rapt-r. This bloxlde of sodium, if it id al.' It is cracked up to be, will be grat stuff for divers, and' for submarine boats, and for miners, and hospitals, and rlum tenement houses, schools, theaters, and all crowded places. In Every IVetvapaper Office. Philadelphia Record. In every newspaper office there are two or three clannish young men who a?r,r6 to literary honors. They chafe under the restrictions which the iron-clad rulv of the office impose upon them and siqh for the laurels cf authorship. As a rule they are very young men, who tell each other that they are too good for mere newspaper work. They long for the lime when they will be in a position to do what they rail "serious work," when magazine eiitors and book publishers will eagerly 5cvk the results of their Inspirations. They fail to ne that ln?tead of graduating Its men into th field of literature the modern newspi!er Is gradually drawing to Itself men from the tield of legitimate literature. The natural inference Is that more money may be made from newspaper writing than from any other kind of composition. Julian Ralph, Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane and Harold Frederic art? Instances of literary men who have always been glad to do newspaper work. Others who hav quite desertt-d the field In which they havi won a certain measure of f;ime to d? newspaper work almost exclusively ar Julias Hawthorne. Kdsar Taltus, Edgar Fawcett and Ella Wkrtl;r Vtlrcz. And thers art nnv ncra.