Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 62, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1901 — Page 9

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'Part Two Pages 9 to 16 mid- five cents. Pit ICE FIVE CENTS. INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1901.

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WaiAJIATS GREATEST 'DIST'RI'BlTE'RS

France i i -i i rr 'Arn. WearOe HERB'S : . Ä simplicity the voofue cueviot; i : a . V held out XArics. This Products of

vvt , wv-uiiunu aiiu XlUltl XVci U.UU. U. 1CIU1U IU LAIC soft crepes, silky cashmeres and filmy voiles of France. Color likewise plays an important part in present style. Somber grays and browns have given way to reseda, rose, cadet, heather and other N... fresh, pretty tints. Will you see them? There's a window display JV: that sPeaks eloquently of what's within, and a partial price list here that reflects fairly well the probable cost of the most fashionable Easter gown you could choose.

i T-:f-t Thin, like nun's vcllinir, hut ; m i.itlir more sheer, a material yj ti .,t i r.s ni unlimited possibilities fori S) i ;..ti;.-'. tuckim: or draping green, rose. ! l r- n, t in, l-':v neh gray and reseda in two q-i.i!il M !h I i Ik-I u " wide, j r: 1. r. p. t i vely 81 ÜS and ijjll Crcpc appeals t( all. In wool our( showing embraces rose, re-1 5 1 1. !i ivy hlu , ead.l gray, cardinal, hcli-i.fr--I--, :.. t': qualities, m 4'-incn w: llii.a yard l.US und 1 ?;Ik atid V -)1 Cr: pe is wider and finer. Ai"":i- th- shadvS shown are heliotrope, i ii i'.i, in ay, bi own and coachman a yard SI TS

I he Treated Foulard t The Avrcs assortment embraces seventy- tfA

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it five styles which you may see

in Indianapolis. Kach is of our own personal selection from some one of the several

leading manufacturers of these ionable of summer silks. Is it

j j miss finding a design just to your liking? jjj Among the favorite colors are soft shades j of blue, brown and rose and the equally desirablc grays and greens the wide width in

t-r . Hi.. 1 üest quauiy, a yaru l'lain t il! ta ,-illcs, to match any of the ui'ove tints jul mot appropriate for lin-? ifvj 1 1 1 aüii', are priceil. .Tr;c

I jPhirt Waiirt ffioi) elites i Of the Finer T o r You won't properly appreciate the possibilities of the summer J) shirt waist until you've seen this collection of handsome materiil als. Xothinjr has been omitted which it was worth while secur-

in-, and there was a lot worth in and fancy Herman linens, In -5 dif-

f'Tcnt styles and two width, a I and washable, pretty, plain colors, SOo 7 y:ird riocandaocjeharviiy silks, in fancy effects through a On. hile stripes. In six color combinations, n C color range of blue, pink and i I : '!, n- w novelty, priced 50c) heliotrope SOc Turt. d b -ti-te. In two quatities and Is color S I'iques and linens, In every wanted style c i:idiin it ions, pried . HOc and S 51c( and a doz. qualities, a yd., üöc to rOc

Straight Front Corsets There used to be a deep-rooted prejudice against Her Majesty's Corset because it depressed the abdomen and made it possible for stout women to dress neatly and with comfort. Now everything is straight front, and the early wisdom of the makers of Hit Majesty's Corset is admitted. I it likely that there are any better straight front corsets thau Her ILijssty's, the original straight front? Gored $2.50 and 55.00 Regular styles t $2.75 up Princess of Wales, from the same factory $1.50

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LILLY & STALNAKER,

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QoCarts, Baby Carriages

Largest Line, Best Styles, Lowest Prices I-I AIL DEPARTMENT

Kipp brothers 37 South yverlclltn Street,

Pamüy Wsisihininig

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Displace Heavier ClothsJxJx ft

m A NOTABLE REACTION of dress. Too long- already

of the cloth gown and the severely tailored costume, of

too long has a mere matter of . against the annealincr bcautv

season of 1901 sees diminishing favor for the cloth TCnrrln

EfOlin-nnn u sorlof vollo rretcolor Interwoveu silk. The quality here, which was selected for manifest points of drcns;th and beauty, measures i3 inches In width, and comes In cadet, reseda, heliotrope, Kray, brown and coachman, at, a yard 81 jyfffffdf Is a canvns weave of select Ion? Über worsted, Is almost a open as eta in t no, but Is distinguished by a more brilliant surface. The color assortment embraces blue, gray, tan and reseda; price 81 r nowhere else most fash liknlv vou'll IF -4 ii.uu Plain color Jersey silks, highly approved for early spring shirt waists and ilress skirts, are r?C1.00 while. Mercerized canvas, as handsome 13 silk

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To be sold in the Month of March Cash and Payments Prices never before equaled. RANGE, with high Closet zni Reservoir, $28 Cash, $30 Payments $5 Down, $2 Per Week.

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OF WRy GOODS f aiminst the nrevailinir 3 has Fashion maintained 3) wool weight and richness of snftor and HninrW fah- S Albatros? Of this weave wo have sold more In the past three months than In the previous three years. A quality strictly all wool comes 33 inches wide in tan, cardinal, llilit blue, cream, pink, gray or rose, at COc Lansdotjnc Is one of Ameri ca's fabrics that is more French than a Frenchman. Its popularity for IX)l Is assured. W'o show now yellow, pink, gray, rose, light blue, tan, heliotrop, castor, navy, brown, cardinal, reseda, beijre and slate, surely a royal gathering, all at 81 'BtacK SilK Taffetas are cheaper. An Taffetas are cheaper. And Mi everyone is interested in latfeta. Dress skirts, petticoats, linings are all best made of this material. Ten cents a yard saved on Taffeta means many dollars saved in the course of a year. We announce: . Black Taffeta, the quality which wc have sold during the past two seasons at Söc a yard, this month rrc Mack Tatteta, guaranteed ns to wear, 15c a yard cheaper than we have been ablo to yard fHSc jj Guaranteed lilack Taffeta that is ns J handsome as it is good; priced.. OO f f Thö" (frenadlno showing Js complete. VS Grenadines by the yard, 1.00 to '.5(); in Ji pattern lengths, S16.Ö0 to $19.00. 'Sylvia9 'Belts The prettiest yet and the most comfortable. They conform perfectly to the fashion- Cf t-i j. i: i ? it auie waist line, uroauening; jx somewhat in the back and dip- "V 1 d. ping- most gracefully in front. & me iasiening is ine same as ti has become well known in Fos- jr ter hook frloves. and is drawn 0 together by fancy pendant laces, which add just an adequate touch of smartness. Of plain gros grain silk, tucked per pendicularly l.OO Of patent leather, with gold tipped lices Of real seal 1.5r5 Of satin or silk, of fine quality jjll.CJO Of alternate bands, of velvet and plaited silk JH.trr Queen Qua!- J its hccsJb The Man Who Drinks Is not a criminal nor a brute, hut a ick mnn. Ho in Just as slek ns any man could lo. He has that dIAa.e called alcoholism. His system craves alcohol and he cannot resist its craving. Now tho only way for him to top Is to take the This treatment drives out i)f the v.tern the drfire for drink. V It limit sleknesHor suflerin It tii'ilrsi liltit it'll i... ww ii iore h took to Vw Ul W uriiiMii. ii iiwiKi's tum x. u strong man w U a will of his own. Write for lnfonj:tloii t. rialuth ld. Ind.. or K)" ( 'oininerc alLlul) Uhiir., In.ItannpolK Ind., Teleplvme our Utter will i i- tnat(it ns tilctly conlhlcntlal. riidnth Id Is 1 4 miles west of IndlanaolN, on the Vandalla lialhvay. PRINTING, BLANK HOOKS, OFFICE SUPPLIES. Only IinMonTy re-C'atlns Machine In thcsuitc Journal Printing Co. H.c Mercantile tluM ami Üurrau Co., lrop. lt. XV. LOWKV, .MKr. i:. Jl. I.OWKY, Aßt. 228 West Maryland Street, Lone instance Thoncs V.k). IMHANAroi.ls TAILOR-MADIi GARMENTS MA Di; TO YOUR MEASURE AT FACTORY PRICES Ncw.sprlntr (joods now coming from our I'HUin. Cull und them. Oi:o. MKUUITT CO. Ketall and Mall Order iVpurtmmt, No. SU W. WuKtiinifton tst Indianapolis, Ind. Bcers.Wines, Champagnes, UllISKIES. (il.NS anJ BRANDIES. SEND TO Also, all klaij et UINEHAL WATCJtS. TeL 4J7.

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COMMERCIRLSOPREMÄCY

HOW SlIALTf AVK It ETA IX Olli GREAT LEAH IX THE WORLD'S 3IAHKETS f Comparison of the Past and Forecast for the Future Indicate Possibilities Almost Immeasurable. "How may the United States retain her lead In the world's markets?" This question has been suggested to me, but It seems that it might more properly take this form: "How could the United States, except bygross neglect, fail to retain the lead In the world's markets?" The individual ' who deals in the articles absolutely required for daily life is sure of having custom, first, if he deals fairly; second, if he has not too many rivals, and third. If the class of goods which he has to sell Is as good as that which is offered by other people. Our condition as a nation Justifies this comparison. We are the greatest producer in tho world of practically all the articles which man must have for dally sustenance and comfort. We produce more of provisions and breadstuffs for food than any other nation; we produce more of cotton for clothing; more of iron ore and copper for use in manufacturing; more of coal for heating and ure in the domestic arts and industries; more of petroleum for light; have better manufacturing facilities; more ingenious machinery and skilled workmen than any other nation, and a more effective railway system for transporting these commodities, natural and manufactured, to the water's edge, and a great ocean on each side to float them to every part of the world. We have all the articles that the world requires for dally use; our rivals, though numerous, have not the facilities of production which, we possess; but, If we deal fairly by our customers, why may we not then continue to lead, and why should there be any possible failure in our continuing to lead the world In International commerce? National statistics of the production of great classes of articles accumulate slowly and travel slowly, but It is now practicable, to compere our own statistics with those of other countries for 1SLS and 1S0O. Our wheat crop of IS'JS exceeded that of any other country, being 673,000,003 bushels, while Russia, which came next In rank, had 4 ',000,000 bushels, our own being 23 per cent, of the world's wheat supply. Our product of corn, which Is rapidly gaining In popularity throughout the world, was In lfcOS more than ten times that of the next largest producer Austria-Hungary being In that year 1,024,000,000 bushels, against 101,000,000 bushels In Austria-Hungary, which took second rank as the producer of this Important article of food for man and animal., and our total production of corn formed 73 per cent, of the world's total of that Important food product. OTHER PRODUCTS. Our cxportatlons of provisions (by which term Is meant meats and dairy products) amounted In 1SW to $173,0"K),000, against 2,000.000 for the Netherlands, which occupied second rai.k as ah fcx'p"crter' of provisions."" Our cotton crop of ISO 3 was 5,530,000,000 pounds, against 1,100,000,000 pounds produced by Rritish India, which occupied second rank as a producer of that article, and we supplied over 76 per cent, of the cotton of the world. Our coal product in 1S00 was 217.0u0.ooo tons (of 2,210 pounds), against 202,0i)0,00ö tons by the United Kingdom, which occupied second rank as a world's producer, and our total formed 31 per cent, of tho world's production of that Important article, which has become an absolute requirement in every part of the world. Our production of pig Iron in 1SW was 13,4M5, tons, against 9.300,000 tons by the United Kingdom, and we produced In that year 31 per cent, of th'e world's production of this article, which Is becoming more and more a requirement in the industries and its relation to the conveniences and necessities of dally lifo. Our copper production of 1S0S was four times as great as that of any other country and formed 54 per cent, of the world's supply. Our petroleum production In that year was greater than that of any other nation, being 2,341,000,000 gallons, against 2,403,0 iO.OiiO gallons by Russia, and our total amounted to 40 per cent, of the world's product of crude petroleum, while the percentage of refined petroleum which It sup plies is very much greater than that of our chief rival In the production of crude pe trolcum Russia. Our railways aggregate in mileage six times those of the second greatest nation in railway mileage (Ger many), and form, In fnet, 40 per cent, of the entire railway pystem of the world, while our telegraphs are two and a half times those of the second greatest nation in telegraph mileage (Russia), and form 23 per cent, of the world's telegraph sys tem. Theso arc the facilities which we have for a great commerce. We produce more of all the articles which the world requires than any other nation vastly more and have a far better system of putting these articles into the condition In which the world requires them for immediate consumption, that Is, manufacturing; while for transporting them we have by far tho greatest land system and lack only the vessels to carry them from our ports across the great oceans which leave our shores on cither side and rtand ready to Moat them to the waiting nations of the world. When we shall have added to all of these won derful advantages which nature and the inventive enterprise and boundless energy of our people have given us the Mnglo remaining requisite of transportation facili ties from our ocean ports to those of other countries, we fhould have- no difficulty whatever In retaining the supremacy of the world's markets which we have attained In tho closing years of the nineteenth century; and It would appear that we could only fall In rctaltdng that supremacy through crlous neglect of tho great advantage which nature has given Ufl INSTRUCTIVE COMPARISON. Another means of estimating our prospective growth in commerce- as compared with other nations is to examine, our growth of recent years in comparison with that of the other greater countries, and if we find that the Uidted States has in those years gained perceptibly upon other countries and through that gain has assumed an Important standing among . the great exporting nations of the world, wo may assume that It U likely, in view of tho natural advantages above outlined, to retain that rank and even to continue, In part at least, the relative speed In Its race with other nations for the world's prize of international commerce. In ascertaining this wc must look to the figures which meas ure the commerce of the great nations of the world. In this study we may properly Include tho record of the last quarter century Just closed. If we find by comparing our exports during that time with those of other nations that we have made

greater progress than others, and In doing so have taken a high rank as an exporter we maj assume that the growth is likely to continue In view of the fact that our supply of the world's requirements Is great

er than that of the other nations with which we have been In friendly rivalry during the period in question. The United Kingdom, Germany and France are the countries which we may include In consid ering the list of nations with which we are competing for the world's commerce. True, Netherlands and Belgium are accounted great exporting nations, but as a large proportion of that which they export comes from countries Immediately adjacent, and in many cases merely passes over their territory In seeking convenient ports for ocean distribution, they can scarcely be included in a study which relates to productive capacity and permanent supremacy in supplying the world's markets, especially In .view of their relative population, area and consequent producing power. Take the four great produc ing and exporting nations of Europe the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Russia It is easy to measure the growth of their export trade during the last quar ter century and to compare it with that of the United States. The United Kingdom In 1S75 exported domestic merchandise to the value of $l,0S7.0o0,0O0, and In 1000 Its exports of domestic merchandise amounted In valued to $1,418,000,000. She has thus increased her exports In the quarter of the century $331,000.000, or 30 per cent. Germany's exports of domestic merchandise in 1S75 were $007,0 0,000, and In 1000, bas ing an estimate upon the nine month'3 figures already received, amounted to $1,000,000,000, an increase of $303,000,000, or 61 per cent. France exported In 1S73 domer-tlc merchandise valued at $747,000,0o0, and in 1000 her exports, basing an-estimate upon eleven months figures already received", will amount to $7s3,0OO,0OO, an Increase of $3S,000,000, or 5 per cent. For Russia the earliest available figures for exports of domestic merchandise were for lsSl, when her exports of home products amounted to $2 17, 000, 000, and In 1000, basing an estimate upon tho latest available figures, will amount in round terms to $330,000,000, an increase of a little over $100,000,000, or 42 per cent, in the twenty years for which data arc available. The United States exported In 1S73 domestic merchandise valued at $497,203,737, and In 1000 the exports of home products amounted to $1,433,013,030 in value, an increase of $033,740,022, or 102 per cent. Thus, when we compare the growth In our exports of domestic merchandise during the last quarter century with those of the other great nations which may bo considered as friendly rivals in the contest for the world's commercial supremacy, we readily see that our growth has been far in excess of that of any other nation. A RR1GI1T OUTLOOK. It remains, then, simply to consider whether our producing powers are likely to continue, and whether we shall, while continuing to supply other parts of the world, increase or decrease in our power to supply our own wants. We have already seen that we are now producing more of the great articles which tho world requires than any other nation, and it may be said that our supply of those articles of coal, of iron, of copper, of a soil capable of PoducjDg..cotton, of. an area which will produce wheat and corn and food for live stock from which the provision supply is obtained Is almost unlimited, far exceeding at least that of any other part of the world whose producing capacity has been sufficiently developed to enable us to measure Its natural supplies. In the power to turn these natural products into the form required for consumption we are apparently at the very beginning of our career as a great manufacturing nation. Given the natural supplies, the coal with which to produce the power to bring them together and turn them into the finished product, the best machinery of tho world and tho most skillful workmen, and it would appear that the future of our manufacturing industry is assured. Rut when we add to this the enormous latent supplies of power In our great waterfalls and watercourses, and which we are now beginning to turn into account by creating with it a force clectricity-r-whlch may be transmitted on a wire to any given point where it is required for manufacturing, transporting, lighting and even heating, the future which opens before our manufacturing possibilities and probabilities Is immeasurable. When we consider further that we shall, In a few years, be producing within the United States many of the articles for which we are now sending millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars abroad sugar to supply our entire population, and, perhaps, that of other countries; silk and tea, if we but choose to utilize the climate and soil and conditions which nature has given us and which we have not heretofore utilized merely because other countries produced thesy articles more cheaply than our well-paid labor can afford to produce them wc may assume that as the years pass we shall be not only more self-sustaining and self-reliant, but that our power of supplying other parts of tho world with natural and manufactured . products will Increase enormously, and that wc may thu3 safely assume that our commercial supremacy and growth will be maintained. O. I. AUSTIN, Chief of the IJurcau of Statistics. Washington, D. C. CHAMPION DYM0KE. To the nlltor of tho Indianapolis Journal: In connection with the coming coronation of King Kdward VII and the probability of Farmer Dymoke's appearing in his longinherited role of king's challenger, the following excerpt from Harrison Alnsworth's "Tho Constable of the Tower," which covers a portion of the reign of Kdward VI, Is not without interest: "Of the royal banquet In Westminster Hall How the King's champion made his challenge thereat. "When the rccond course was served, which was yet more iMimptuous than the first, the grtat door of th- hall was iiK.Un thrown wide open to admit the Kind's champion. Sir John Dynvke. Armed, cap-a-pled. In burnished steel, having a plume of white oKilch featlurs In his helm, and mounted on a charger, trapped In gold tissue, embroidered with the arms of Kurland and France, the champion rode slowly up the center of the hall, preceded by a herald. The champion might well be rpiendldly equipped and proudly mounted, since, by his ottlce. he was allowed the King's best suit of armor, "save one. and the bot charger from the royal stables, 'save one,' with trapping to boot. "As Sir John Dymoke appro.iched the dais he was encountered by Garter King at Arms, who called out to him in a l.ud voice, 'Whence come you. Sir Knight, and what Is your pretense? 'That you shall hear anon, replied the champion, courteously. Ami, addressing his own -herald, he commanded him to make proclamation, who, after thrice exclaiming 'Oyeai: thus proceeded: 'If there be any person her', of whatsoever Mate or degree, who shall declare that King Kdward VI is not the rightful inheritor of this realm. I, sir John Dymoke. the King's champion, offtr him my glove, and will do battle with him to the utterance. As the herald concluded sir John took off his Kiuntlft and hurled It to the ground. This challenge was afterwards repeated In different parts of the hall. As tho defiance, however, was not accept d. the champion rodo towards the dais and üe-

manded' a cup of wine. A large parccl-gllt goblet, filled with malmsey, was then handed him by the chief cupbearer, und. having drunk from it. he claimed the cover, which, being given him, he retired." ELIZABETH NUNEMACHER.

SOME MODERN METHODS. 'A Circat KIk. IrresponilMc 'oIe nnd Wlint It Does. This is one of Pourke Coekran's picturesque expressions. If I recollect right, he was speaking on the trust question at Chicago, and remarked in substance, "The discussion of this problem is embarrassed by a great big. Irresponsible noise." New, this same noise is a fact to be reckoned with, for good or bad, in a dozen different forms. Take politics, for example, and especially political leaders of whom Quay and Piatt are excellent illustrations. Roth of these great bosses are the centers of unlimited abuse at the hands of either party. Rut when facts and specifications. Instead of "a big, irresponsible noise," are called for, they are both lacking. What has ever been proven against either of these gentlemen except success? Each is at the head of the machine in his own State and manages it with consummate ability, just as Morton did in Indiana and as Conkling in New York. A couple of years ago Wanamaker succeeded in getting Quay indicted for misuse of the public money of Pennsylvania. There was a great deal of good, honest envy at the bottom e f the persecution and Quay was at first weak enough to delay Its investigation. Rut he finally met it before court and jury. There was so little ground for the accusation that it miserably failed the jury was hardly sent out of the box. Now the same i? true of liatt. What has not been said against him and what has ever be-en proved? It Is well enough to remember that no second-rate man can control the politics of a great State. So to do is an unmistakable sign of mastership. "Your scoundrel or ours?" ence growled grim old Thad Stevens. Ret us turn to some Democrat's illustration, for this same "great big, irresponsible noise" is not all on one side. What has not been said about the three great leaders, Cleveland, Hill and Rryan, but what has ever been proved against either of them? Fifty years hence Cleveland will be written elown as one of our great Presidents fully the equal of Old Hickorj-. Ex-Governor Hill never makes a speech that he does not say the last and best word upon his side of the case. Why talk about Rryan, as he is already a piece of ancient history? 1 should hardly dare to hold up Croker as a noise victim. He evidently is New York's answer to Flannagin's great question: "What are we here for, If not for offices?" Are there no Crokers In Philadelphia or Chicago? How about Cox, the Republican boss of Cincinnati? If he Is not of Croker's size, i is because Cincinnati is as a rushlight beside New York city. If there is anything which the human family delimits in, it is a scapegoat. Every town or city has a few men and women who are, by common consent, the victims of this "big, irresponsible noise." When asked for facts, clamor Is cheerfully taken for substitute. How many thieves escape by reason of their vigor In crying "Stop, thief!" And how untrue this "big. Irresponsible noise" IS wherT we' consider a certain class of ladies! As a rule, the mother-in-law is the mot useful and often the sweetest member of the household, yet so much uproar is made over ner, that the wonder is that any mother permits her children to marry. Some of the dearest women in the whole world are the unmarriedvoluntary or involuntary yet they, as a class, are universally and maliciously maligned. The term "old maid" is pure viclousness. Another que-er phenomenon In noise is the eagerness with which the human family tumble over each other to hear or read the platitudes of famous or even notorious people, who have been advertised by this same "big, irresponsible noise," while no one pays any attention whatever to the solid wisdom of an obscure man. It is the name which Moats the speech or book not the book or speech which Moats the name. Tho public will drink In so much pure nectar, anything, no matter how foolish, which emanates from a celebrity. What trash, mixed with superb work, Tennyson and Rrowning have given to the world as poetry. One-third of Shakspeare is pure bombast, and to think of the dreariness which Kipling, now that his reputation is beyond question, sells by the yard and calls fiction. Noise is the root of notoriety. Everybody loves this hazel brush called notoriety, which grows at the foot of the big oaks of fame and seek Its welcome shade. As between publicity and property, the majority of the human race prefer the former and will resort to any means to get talked about. There are three classes of bread-winners who have a dead-sure Incomethe photographer, the newspaper editor and the compiler of county and state histories. The number of men who will pay KO or $150 to see their "mugs" put into a cheap, trashy book, which nobody ever reads Is simply amazing. And tho appetite for printed newspaper noise made up of wood pulp, Jack knives and lamp-black is stronger yet. All this Is the abnormal side of a legitimate appetite. Publicity is Indispensable to success. The professional man must pet his skill before the community, and this is done by noise, and Is just as Indispensable as advertising to the merchant or patent medicine man. The re Is good Riblo authority for this. "No man lichtet h a candle and hideth It under a bushel." The average human, howeve r, a more concerned with the height of the candlestick than the slzo of the light. A good, big, generous llame Is quite Indifferent to can 11 sticks and has no particular fear of snufTers-lts size and heat are a sufficient protection. Some happy people are born with a genius for public posing. How do they manage to keep themselves so persistently In the blaze of notoriety? The answer cannot be given In words. They are born that way. Just as one m.in has the j;lft of oratory and the other has not. They know Just what to do to attract the reporter's attention and to keep In touch with the editor. This Is the cheap substitute for scholarship, statesmanship and solidity, and the pity of it Is that It Is so successful. Notoriety, howevir, Is not a bad asset to have. There Is money In popularity. For that reason It Is dally and hourly purchased ut the costly usury of self-respect. Noise the mother of easy places and soft snaps both in church and ftate. This Is the open secret of the fury with which the human family pursues It. It Is noise of the right kind und In the right place which wins and the noisy, apparently, possess the earth. Here, again, Is some good Rlble language: "To htm that hath hall be given, to him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." That Is, the noisier the man or wornan, the more he or the gets and, vice versa, the quieter the less. . How u great subject like this grows under one's pen! The skirts have hardly been touched in the foregolrg lines before the "bo brief of all newspaper writing calls a halt. V. P. UALDWXN.

WOMAN'S LIFE IN CHINA

IV IIEU IIOIHS OF ACTIVITY IT IS YEItY MICH C 1HCT.MSCIU11EI). Mi? I n I'ond nml I)pvIp1 Mother, nnd Knjoj to the End the Love nnd Heicet f Her Children. Corrrsjorirtfie of the InJiar:asjol Journal. SHANGHAI. Jan. 2). Woman In China enjoys the distinction of having escaped the admiration of foreigners. Her praises are unsung in the verses of other lands; she is not enshrined on the canvas of those whose ideals of outward being the world has adopted; she has flashed no wit upon the page of romance or dazzled it with her beauty. Everybody has agreed in letting her alone from the ankle? up. as though her only possible claim to consideration lay in her cramped and tortured feet, which everybody pities, and about which nobody ever does anything except pass resolutions. Even at home she is under initial disadvantage. She starts in life handicapped by her 5cx. No family ever wants a baby girl. When the women go to the temples they always pray for boys and buy boy Images in the hope that the gods will remember and favcr them. If a girl results, she Is tolerated rather than enjoyed. While hardly out of her babyhood her feet must be swathed. If she belongs to a proper family. As she grows her liberty is restrained. She knows nothing of life outside the home wr-Il except such glimpses as she may catch from a window, or from a covered chair Irl which she may occasionally be carried to visit families in which there are other unfortunates like herself. Thus she remaln3 a prisoner until ready for delivery to a husband she has never seen, henceforth becoming the slave of himself and hts parents. A brood of her own s-prings up about her quickly enough, and by the time that process ends she is a grandmother. Life becomes easier for her ns the children mature, for the wives of her sons must be her handmaids, and the children are bound to provide for her comfort as the most sacred of their obligations and to respect her authority as long as she lives. Modern credulity is taxed to reconcile a life so circumscribed with a conception of happiness as free agents understand it. The dilliculty lies in the appreciation of environment. A Chinese woman knows no life but this. Her aspirations are restricted to it b3 traditions and customs that seem to her as immovable and as Impenetrable as the walls that hedge in and defend her city. There is no one to suggest other thoughts to her. The minds against which hers brushes have limitations as narrow as her own. She usually makes the bert of her lot cheerfully, and turns out a fond wife and devoted mother. Of her wifely duty she is rarely forgetful. A womanly Instinct to please prompts her to make herself attractive to her husband. lleartbreikIngs may not always be violent when the man strays abroad and returns with other women for his household, but. they are ofter. pathetic. Yet custom permits and the wife must bow, whatever her feelings. Her main comfort is that additional women cannot be wives. She is alone in that relation. Secure in her place, she has an Innate sense of its superiority and of the dignity that betits it. Hence It happens that wives are tolerant of the others and often provide for them when husbands die and rear the children they have borne. SOME COMPENSATIONS. This sketch of life, as found among those of good estate, in character as well as means, is analogous to a summary a r plying In Western homes where conscience joins with custom In regulating social and domestic conduct. Circumscribed though the life of Chinese women may lx- and differing so sharply In detail from accepted standards elsewhere as to make it seem almost intolerable, It has compensations of some weight. The privation, drudgery and subordination to which Chinese woman is subject corre when she has youth and strength and buoyant vigor.' As theso depart and she needs relief social and family custom provides it. and with advancingyears her eares lighten, her comforts , increase and her afternoon Is pillowed for her. When one at home looks after parents it It .a matter of special nnd admiring comment, as though tho leniit, while not undeserved, was yet ennf rred by favor and was specially meritorious. In China no merit attaches to a duty so ebious. If children failed to make comfortable thJ declining years of parents they would be disgraced. Ancestral worship Is dictated by motives that have; rvgard lor the welfare, of ancestors immediate and living, as well as for remote ones, and no obligation Is so sacredly held or to faithfully observed by the people at large. Theirs Is a religion that pays practical honor to age. Each generation knows that tho sueeeedlng one will care for it while living and revere it when I dead, as surely as the planets move. In spite of limitations, Chinese woman is quite human. Uy foregoing tho pleasures of courtship and selection she does not, as a matter of course, shut her heirt to romance. When at her marriage the gates of the world open to her a li'tlo wider than before she puts her sharp little eyes to the uses for which they were Intended. If they are looking for a 1'rlnce Claiming and they fall and linger on the husband to whom she Is introduced there is occasion for thanksgiving. Should they light elsewhere, love may lind a way and sandil a promoter even In China. It happens, also, that ndld and yielding disposition In a newly wedd'd pair is not Invariably more irol ouijced In the woman. Wl en ot.c of that sex Is assertive the Imagination Is taxed to bejlev thnt she is the subject party. Man Is, of courn-, tupreme, bit he rot In frequently llnds It p-dMc to declire himft if or.ly In a figurative way and for p:aclteal purposes to appear to U- submlc-lve. i he national costume, which put the trousers, on woman and the frocks on man. In China does not nlways setn misplaced. The Chlneso do not thtnk It worth whi'o to name a girl. Sh' Is Sister, and goes by number. If her mother glv.'s her u pet appellation that is tlulr dear rucret. Tho husband never Uarns of lt.: T htm she 3 the Chinese t-qulvaK nt for HI There or Oil Say until the babies arrive when she Incomes Chang's mother, or Is otherwise indirectly designated. That does not bother her, for h knows no other glil except the owner of a crtalu number In erne man's home. Yet mother Is a t rtn of love and power. A man may do much ns he dkes In regard to hts wife, .but. though he be gray and bent, he cannot, embark In avy enterprise or undertake a Journey, If his mother Is living, without hrr conceal. Sons will once in a while get u refractory Western notion into their, heads and Imagine that, since they are middle-aged nnd have for many years kept the pot bulling fur a Urge domestic t -tab'.lshmrnt. - .ley need consult no wishes but their own. It in the power of mother to cause the arrr of euch a sapfor disobedience and to In '

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