Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1901 — Page 4

THE IXDIAXAPOLIS JOüRXAL, SUXDAY, JUXE 16, lOOl.

MR.A.C.HARRIS HEAR

A DHLIfillTI'l L GLIMPSE OF THE aim ito-ni c;.itiA i:.miihi:. In nn Eni). nn erntlnnal Style the MpraUrr Ilntertftliictl Iii Audience. WORD PICTURE OF EMPEROR a 3ioAitc ii i.oyi.d am hi:sjpi: ti:i nv ms mimects. Political anil Indiit rial Statu ill the Country Iieueil Ma tiy Anecdote. The first of a series of summer "evening:" was given in tl.e beautiful assembly hall of the Columbia Club last ni:?ht r.n l the large attendance and interest indicated that the entertainment commltte.; had doliberated intelligently. An exh'.l irating quality of fruit jdinrh was 4-rved. The guest of honor and orator of the occasion was the Hon. Addison C. Harris, ex-United Ftates minister to Austria-Hungary. Mr Harris discussed in tne most entertaining style of oratory the easy conversational the Austro-Hungarian empire und managed to Rive a vast amount of information In a short space of time. Mr. Harris said that the word Austria means lexically "The Hast Land" or "The Easy Country." and that it is not so called because it is in the eastern part of Kitrope, but because in early times it was the eastern p;rt of the German empire. He said Austria's area is about the same as that of the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with a population of 2T.fton,0 in round numbers, while Hungary is of the same size, with a population of 20,fi0,fo. He paid the two countries are united by an agreement to have the same ruW and to divide the expenses of government. For a time this division was on the basis of Austria paying fif rer cent, and Hungary SI per cent., but a wrangle arose several years ago and the Emperor asserted his prerogative by announcing a method of division, in which both countries acquiesced without a. murmur. Mr. Harris said Austria is divded into provinces, and these In turn into counties and the counties into townships, freely speaking. COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP COFNCILS. He said that the country had cour.ty and township councils before they were heard of in Indiana. He never heard of any peculation or improper conduct in kowl management of public affairs as Ions as he reelded In the country. Each province has a legislature, and the government of Austria has a congress quite like the British Parliament, in which every archduke, certain bishops and archbishops and certain nobles or landholders and about one hundred and fifty others more or less ie entitled to seats. The 1.1) "others more or less" are men who are appointed lords or senators for life by the Emperor because of some fpecial service to the state, either in tho law, army or in the arts or sciences. Certain universities have representatives, and certain landholders may elect or send representatives, a kind of "rotten borough" system. Other representatives are selected by boards of trade and still others are elected by the people, not directly, except In the cities. "In the rural districts," said Mr. Harris, "the idea prevails that a man Is not competent to make a choice for himself, and in every ö"0 voters a man is selected and those men select members for the lower house." In the House of Parliament there are 3-1 and in the House of Commons members. The speaker said that politics is "played in the lower house, for election expenses are high and the money must be made back somehow, hence It costs a great deal to get a measure through that body. Hungary, said the minister, consists of practically one state and two provinces. There is a Parliament. Speaking of the Emperor, Franz Joseph, Mr. Harris said he possesses the highest esteem of everybody in the empire, although he is Emperor of Austria, and King cf Hungary, and in Vienna one cannot talk about a king or in IJuda-IYsth about n emperor. "Everybody has the greatest confidence In hi;? integrity, trtth and statesmanship,' said the speaker. Mr. Harris Fpoke entertainingly of the diversity of races and languages in the Austro-Hunga-rian empire. He paid there are ten cur twelve million Germans, a number of Bohemians, Moravians, Hungarians and people Of the Slav race. PARABLE EASILY UNDERSTOOD. Mr. Harris said Ji Chicago newspaper man once asked ior an interview on the subject of the endurance of this empire, containing people of so many different race. He refused the Interview, hut related a parable of an old structure standing between two massive, perfectly-constructed buildings. "How can it fall?" asked Mr. Harris, "it cannot go in either direction." "Oh." said the newspaper man. "you mean Germany on one side and Russia on the other?" "Just exactly what I mean," replied Mr. Harris. Referring to the Hungarians, the speaker Faid that for a thousand years they have preserved themselves just as pure as the Hebrews, a Hungarian always marrj Ing a Hungarian. Reverting to the F.mieror. Mr. Harris paid that be Is almost as democratic in his habits as the average American. He goes about the streets of the imperial city attended only by his adjutant or secretary, and speaks to his friends with perfect cordiality At Ohristmas time the Emperor goes shopping and buys presents for the household, just as men do In this country. Owing to the industrial part of his talk. Mr. Harris called attention to the fact that Austria has but one seaport, Trieste on the Adriatic, and hhowed that because goods have to be hauled 3 miles over mountain ranges by the European method of transportation. Importation is pretty expensive. "Austria produces every kind of product that we do." he said, "exc-pt cotton. They produce more wheat than they consume, because Hungarian wheat Is sold In London. Budi-Pcsth. 1 am told, is the second f.our-manufacturlng city in the wot Id. Minneapolis being lirst. You g; into a cafe in Hudi-Pesth in the morning, and all the brokers come in to get their coffee .md cigars, and what tbey want to know is the price of wheat in Chicago arid New York, because the Hungarian market is controlled by the London market and the London market is controlled bv the American mnr. act. AGENCY FOR REAPERS. Mr. Harris said that the McCor.nick peoit reapers anu mowers in jiungary, and 4..tjo0 of the machines are In operation every narvest season. The fields in Austria are teo email for the use of such Implements. The Hungarian wheat field Is the finest o! In the world, the richness of it being due tr the act that it lies in the delta or bottom lar.d of the Danube river. The wheat drills are only fot.r inches apart. Instead of eight, as in this country, henee they get twice as much wheat. As illustrating the general prospeilty of Hungary, Mr. Harris said the best ounlltv of lauds re worth about JlX) or per acre. Austria is similarly well sltm.ted. Mr! Harri sail the proprietor of the hotel In which he and Mrs. Hurrls resided Informed hhn that he had pal 1 for the ground on which the hotel stoe.d at the rate of $1,'V) per thirty-nine Inches squat e. "The Austrian people are all well-to-do," said the cpeaker, "their farmhouses are peat and

clean. Everything indicates thrift. I never saw a barefooted child or a boy without a book In the country. In a district In New York, about two squares from Broadway I saw raggeder children and greater evidences of poverty than I saw in Vienna or In Buda-Pesth." Mr. Harri3 said that both Austria and Hurgaty are about the size of Texas, support 45.CG0.Hij of people and raise c;:Mle. horses, sugar and wheat to sell. An interesting condition was found in the presence of individual merchants, such as tailors, shoemakers, blacksmith?; wagon makers and mall sawmills, such as wer universally seen in this country forty or fifty years ago. Hungary is a great country for wood and woodworking, said Mr. Harr'?. He called attention to the exhibit of Hungarian sawlegs and lumber at the Paris exposition. He declared that more horse? went from Hungary to South Africa than from th'.' United States. ARTICLES OF EXPORT. He raid the princ ipal articles of exportation are Bohemian beer, Bohemian glass, ladies' fans, hand-carved umbrella hantl'es, leather pockctbooks and card case;. He used to frequently visit a certain shop in which there was a fine stock of leather articles, among them beautiful hand-painted pecketbeoks. When he a-sked the dealer where he disposed of all these fancy articles he was informed that Marshall Field and 'John Wana maker took ail he could have made. A good deal of coal is bought troiu abroad, particularly on the seacoast, -since it is cheaper to import it than to pay fcr hauling it from the. far interior. Mr. Harris said there is a great field for American manufacturers in the AustroHungarlon empire. Hitherto these men have- been careless about pushing their goods. One Chicago man sent the minister a, little circular advertising a mine pump, arid suggested that "some money could be made out of the article if it were properly hindltd." A characteristic remark of the speaker was that while the Austrian farmer dots not "ride on a two-wheeled plow with a sunshade over him and an electric lan playing on his heated brow, he does raise lrotn the soil just the? kind of things the yuil loves to produce when it is properly tilled." Winn the speaker announced that lie was going to talk a few minutes about fishing a shout of approval and ;i roar of applause greeted tin- statement. lie described in his Inimitable style his farewell r.shing tilp, on which Mrs. Harris accompanied him. Atter catching enough fine trout to fill his creel he felt a. tug at his elboi'and heard Mrs. Harris saying: "Come en now, we must start for home." A PARTY OF PILGRIMS. "Just let me make one more cast," he pleaded. As he was about to make the cast he heard music ami chanting, and, looking up to the road, by the side of which he was fishing, he saw a party of pilgrims. The men and women in the party at once ceaseel their chanting and watched the fereigner make his cast. When he succeeded in bringing in as handsome a trout as human eyes ever rested on, full fifteen and a half "inches long and flecked with many of the colors of the rainbow, the male pilgrims too off their hats and shouted in mighty accord, "Hoch! Hoch." Mr. Harris closed his entertaining talk with a few personal remarks about the Emperor and reiated Incidents of his last meeting with the venerable monarch, who is the oldest in the world, having ascended the throne in 184H. He Is now seventy-one years old. a man of medium stature, heavy gray whiskers, worn in imperial style, has a mild blue eye, a prominent nose and a very long head. The Emperor's manners are. of course, military, said Mr. Harris, since he is essentially a soldier, always wearing i uniform of some kind. He never goes out without his sword and gloves. Mr. Harris related his last conversation with the kindly monarch, but re-quesie-d that it be not published.

EXHIBIT OF MARINE VIEWS. .Mi Sunn n Krtchnm Picture nt the II. Lieber Cnllery. Miss Susan Ketcham, an artist, of New York, has on exhibition at the H. Lieber art gallery four pictures, representing her latest work, and some of her best work. Three of the pictures ar marine views, which Miss Ketcham particularly excels in. Miss Ketcham has put much thought into her marine pictures and is looking forward to the time when she may paint marine pictures altepether. At the present time sue h.;s a studio in New York! and has won ejuite a reputation as a portrait painter. The largest of the group of pictures is called "The Incoming Tide." and it is full of the motion of the ocean. The scene Is an inlet on the coast of Cape Ann. with large rocks, against which the waters are .-1 -lashing. The whole scene cannot but impress one with the mighty power of the oeean. and one can catch an occasional glimpse of a distant sail against the sky. The light on the rocks is also noticeable in the picture. "A Smiling Sea" Is another marine view and shows a scene which the name exactly suits. It Is a bright, clear, sunshiny day, and a pleasant picture to look upon. There are a tew rocks, and the regular, perpetual motion of the water is very noticeable. Another picture is called "The Coast of Maine," another bright picture with a sail against the sky in the background, the sky perfectly clear and the faintest mist from tue water as it splashes against the rock in the f oreground. A water color in the exhibit Is called "Mount Wnshingtcn." the scene taken from tite Presidential range of White mountain?. The sky is clear, with just a suggestion of cioud. and the artist has caught the- litcht on the mountains in the background. The foreground is -the valley, with clusters of green tree tops. Miss Ketcham is here to arrange her annual summer sketching trip to the coast of Maine for art students and pleasure seekers. The party will leave Indianapolis July 8 over the Big Four to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, down the St. Lawrence by boat to Montreal, through the White mountains to Portland. Me. Prout's neck, eleven miles from Portland, is the stopping place selected by Miss Ketcham. Prout's Neck is an ideal place for artists or pleasure seekers. The return trip will be made via Boston. Albany and Buffalo to Indianapolis. The fare for the round trip is $10, tickets good until Sept. .R KEEPING tJP THE RECORD. More llaxiuc Concern Incorporated In Till Mat. The National Fireproofing Company, of this city, was incorporated yesterday by the same men that incorporated the Pioneer Fi reproofing Company of this city a, few days ago. The capital also is the same. SU, and the directors are identical in both companies, the list bIng Charles Martinda'.e, Almanzor H. Hutchinson and John T. Martindale. Both companies state In their articles thnt they are organized to do a general contracting' business in addition to making iireproofing. The Eversole Iron Company, incorporated yesterday, was organized to acquire a patent taken out by Oscar '. E'-'-r-otv of Fort Wayne, covering an improvement In burners. The capital of the company is J.im, and its plant w;lt be locaut. i. ,wbarh. I ml. Tne directors are Oscar P. Eversole. Fort Wayne; C. H. Lawton, Wabash, and O. W. Klare. Wabash. The Farmers' Mutual Telephone Company, with a capital of ?2.om. will operate exchanges In Hancock. Henry and Madison counties, maintaining headquarters at Shirley, in Hancock county. The Pfau-Bauer Harness Company, of JeiTersonville. is capitalized at $1.0om. and the directors include Clarence E. Pfau. Charles V. Bauer, lieorge Hau, sr., and William C. Pfau. The Western Paving ami Supply Company (formerly the Watson : Perkins Company), of Chicago, complied with the foreign incorporation law yesterday by filing articles, stating that S:.' of its $'O0.0 0 capital Is represented in this State and designating its resident airent John D. Thomson, formerly a clerk in ex-Senator Ferdinand Winters law office. CIinrKr .jtnlnt l'nrkf p Emory. Parker Emory. living at 1315 South East street, went yesterday to the horr.e of his inothrr-in-la w. where his wife, from whom he is separated, lives and threttened. It was claimed, to kill her. A few days ago he chased a young man whom he saw talking on th street with his wife several squares, and as It was said he eirew a revolver a charge of drawing deadly weapons was added to those of assault ar.d battery and disturbing the peace. Knill C. Hntniinii Appointed. Emil C. Rnssmarn was yesterday appointed a member of the County Bonn! of Review, bv Judrr Allen, of the circuit Court, to succeed Thomas Maddep, who declineel t f rv.

CITY LIGHT CONTRACT

THE SPECIFICATIONS PREPARED BY i:.";i.i:i:it ji:ii Ilonnl of Public Work Will Advertise for Iiltln Within the -ct Ten Dnyst. NO MORE MOONLIGHT SCHEDULE TIIK Srnt'lI-'ICATIOXS CALL FORBIDS U. LKHITS. la Other Wuj They 1)1 tier from the Old OrderCity .ow Pay for l,i:U7 Lights. The specifications for the city's new electric light contract prepared by City Engineer Jeup have at list been revised o the satisfaction of the Hoard of Works and bils will now be advertised for within tne r.ext ten days. The new contract is to take effect at the expiration of the city's contract with the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, on the seventh day cf July, 1003. The specifications for the new contract differ in several important particulars from the specilications which governed the letting of the present contract. In the firt place the new specifications stipulate for a minimum . service of iiftten hundred arc lights of nominal two thousand candle power each, and as many more lights as the city may from time to time require. This is Just double the amount of lights contracted for by the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, eight years ago, when it absorbed the rights and franchises of the Brush Electric Light Company and obtained its present ten-year contract, which expires in 1003. At present, however, the city is paying, according to the books of the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, for 1.217 lights, or 477 lights more than when the company first took the contract eight years ago. The rapid growth of the city and the ever increasing demands of citizens for more lights has convinced the Board of Works that it would be Impossible for the city to get along with less than LS'") lights by the time the new contract goes into effect. NO MORE MOOXLKIHT SCHEDULE. Probably the change which will be most welcomed in the new contract by citizens generally is the elimination of the moonlight schedule. Fneler the present contract it is optional with the Hoard of Works whether the lights are kept burning every night in the year or only on the nights when there is no moon, the Light and Power Company being bound to furnish the lights at $03 each in the first Instance and at $3 when the moonlight schedule is observed. There has been almost universal complaint against the moonlight schedule, and the following clause in the new specifications will meet with the approval of every citizen in Indianapolis: "For said fifteen hundred arc lights for street lighting it shall be agreed in said contract that the successful bidder shall maintain the same lighted from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise every night during the contract term." Another featura of the new specifications is the reservation to the Board of Works of the right to stipulate in the new contract that the maximum charge for incandescent electric lighting shall not exceed 10 cents per one thousand watts. Under the present contract with the city the Light and Power Company could charge what It pleased for Incandescent lighting, as there is no maximum price stipulated. The company has never charged Its patrons, however, mote than 30 cents per thousand watts. PER CENT. OF GROSS RECEIPTS. In the new specifications the Board of Works requires every bidder to state the rate of per cent, which, if his bid is accepted, shall be paid to the city from the gros3 receipts of the public and private lighting supplied under contract. The board retains the privilege of accepting such proposed payment or deducting an equivalent percentage from the contract rate at which the lighting is supplied. This differs from the old contract in tint the board arbitrarily required the Indianapolis Light and power Company to pay tho city ä per cent, of its gross receipts. The specifications under which the contract to the Light und Power Company was let provided that the contract should not be for a longer period than ten years, and those who are opposed to long-time contracts may find some cause for complaint in the following clause of the newspecifications, which will iermlt a new contract to be made for an indefinite number o years: "And it shall be provided also that the contract term for said lighting, and for unv franchise granted by si id contract, hhall be for ten years from the 7th day of July. 1113, the period of the expiration of the present contract with the Indianapolis Light and Power Company; unless, from the character of the lights, system or systems, material and workmanship proposed, and the leim offered, it shall he deemed fta the best interests of said city and its Inhabitants to contract for a longer period, in which event such period shall be stated in such contract." . BOND OF ?2a,W0 DEMANDED. The specifications provide that each bid on the new contract shr.ll be accompanied by a bond of $25.0o0, to he deposited with tb.e Hoard of Works as security for the faithful performance of the contract. The members of the Board of Works and City Engineer Jeup, being more or less imbued with the idea, of municipal ownership, ha.e. as though it were an afterthought, added to the specifications a clause authorizing the purchase of the electric lighting plant bv the city. It provides that the successful bidder on the new contract shall niatve provision whereby the city, at any time within eighteen months prior to the expiration of the contract term, if a new contract shall not then have been awarded for r. further term, shall have an option to become the purchaser of ail the tangible propertv of the electric light company, constituting its electric lighting plant and sstfm. by payment to the company owning the same of the fair market value ot the property. In case the city and the company shall not be able to agree as to t'.e fair market value of the property the same shall be determined by three citizens of Inaitnn, who shall be freeholders and oters. one of whom shall be chosen by the rnavor of the city, one by the company and the third, a nonresident of th city, shall be chosen by th person who shall then be the Judge of th" Circuit Court of .Marion county. In the event of the purchase b the tltv. the purchase price shall be payable by the city either In cash or its equivalent' in negotiable bonds bearing 4 per ml. interest. . in the old contract, the new specifications provide that all wires, cables, ducts and appurtenances shall be placed under round within the territory bounded on the north bv North street, on the cast by East street, "on the wes-t by West street, and im the south by South street. IN FAVOR OF FRESH BLOOD. The object of the Hoard of Works, as hns cften been stated by members and other city officials. In letting the new contract two years before the old contract expires Is to allow sufficient time for any prospective bidders besides the Indianapolis Light and Power Company to erect a new plant. The board realized that if the new con-" tract was not let until within a short time before the obi contract expired th city would be practically at the mercy -jf the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, as It would be impossible for any . outside company to submit bids on a" contract which it could not hope to fulfill. Just how many bids xvill be submitted on tbe new contract Is as yet only a matter of apecu-

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lation. but it is absolutely certain that the Indianapolis Lipht and Power Company will have at least one formidable rival in tho Home Heating and Lighting Company, which obtained a heating and lifhtins franchise from the city last September. It is rumored that several foreign lighting companies intend making an effort to secure the contract, but this is as yet a matter of conjecture. Superintendent Wynne, of the Indianapolis Light and Power Company, said yesterday that hii- company would bid on the new contract, but that in the event that it did not get it the company would not be disappointed, as it.V public lighting contract with the city had. never made the company any money. "It has been said." continued Mr. Wynne, "that in the event this company did not get the new contract it would dispose of its plant to the successful bidder. You may say that the company will do nothing of the sort. We will maintain our plant and tne!eavor to increase our commercial business that is the only part of the business that ever made us any money, anyhow." GROWTH OF ELECTRIC "LIGHTING. The growth of the electric-lighting husiress has kept pace with the growth of the city. About eighteen years ago the rionccr in the electric-light business in this city the Jlrush Electric-light Company established a small plant In this city and for ten years supplied all the lights that were deemed necessary with three circuits of forty lights each, a total of 120 lights. They were scattered from Shelby street and the Reit Railroad on the south to Meridian and Sixteenth streets on the north, from the licit Railroad and Washington street on the west to Noble street en the east, and during all of that time there were few complaints made to the city olhclals. When the Indianapolis Light and lower Company absorbed the old company It built an entire new plant and strung 750 lights over the city during the lirst year. In the last eijiht years lights have been added at the rate of fifty or sixty every year, until to-day the city is paying for 1,27 lishUs exclusive of those in the parks. Complaints are daily filed with the Board of Works by citizens who want more lights, and the demand for them has become so f,eat that a member of the board expressed the opinion the other day that it would take nearly two thousand lights to supply the demand. 1-1. K. Clnypnol IJefore Hoard. E. F. Claypool appeared before the Hoard of AVorks yesterday to defend his "action in making an 'excavation under the sidewalk of his building at the southeast corner of Washington and Meridian streets, without the board's permission. Mr. Claypool intended to put a barber shop under the sidewalk, and tb.e Hoard of Work:, after hearing .Mr. Claypool's explanation yesterday, decided that as he had already made the excavation he could use the space unrier the sidewalk with the condition that the stairway which led from the sidewalk to the basement should be abolished. Mr. Claypool has arrived at the conclusion that the barber shop will be of little use if there is no way lor the customers to get down to it. Lights for First Wnrd. Th members of the Board of Works yesterday visited the First ward to investigate the need of additional electric lights. Councilman Neley says the citizens in his ward have been complaining for more than a year, but that he has never been able to Induce the board to order more lights. A PERFECT ROMEO. Mr. CillbcrC Impressions of John Wllke Rooth. Scrlbner's Magazine. ILit the most perfect Romeo, the finest I ever siw. was Wilkes Booth. He was very handsome, most lovable and lovely. He wa3 eccentric In some ways, and he l ad the family fallings, but he also had a simple, direct and charming nature. Tho love and sympathy between him and hH mother were very close, very strong. No matter how far apart they were, she teemed to know, in some mysterious way. when anything was wrong with 'him. I? he were 111. or unrtt to play, he would often receive a letter of sympathy, counsel and warning, written when she could not possibly hive received any news of him. He has told me of this himself.' No. I never felt that H madness that carried him

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2288 NEW into the plot to assassinate the President. I know from my own limited experience l.cw high feeling could run in those days. A man lived so wholly with pe-ople who thought as he did that anyone on the other side was hateful to him. Whatever drew Wilkes Booth into the plot, it was not quite e:are-deviltry. And if the lot fell to him to do the thing, I feel sure that he went tlirougji with it without a backward thought. He had that kind of loyalty, that kind of courage. Perhaps the devotion of a high-strung Nihilist, who believes in his cause, comes nearest to expressing it. I ought to say that this is just my fancy trom having known the man. THE LAXKY STL YE. -Men Are FiiKliiif? It Accessary to Cnltivnte It. New York Mall and Express. Men had to come to it in order to win back the disdainful favor of that daughter of the gods, the long-legged American girl. It is refreshing to note that they have come to it in such thorough-going fashion, to read in the Tailor and Cutter, that "that tailor will produce the most stylish garments who can give his customers a long and lanky appearance." Let the artist ot the shears do his best to introduce the new and leaner lines of beauty. The masculine tigure Is more stubborn than the feminine, which indeed seems able to grow out or grow In to accommodate any mode, but something can be done to overcome even its rigid tenoencies. Something ought to be done. There may be nonsense and delusion in the current artist talk about the beauty and shapeliness of bone, but there can be no cavil about its superior claims as compared to superfluous llesh. The lanky style represents a higher type than the bulky or square or conventionally military ones. It is the style of the Crusader and the Saracen, of the knight and the troubadour. Waiving, for the once, that favorite repository of precedent, the "Creek god." it will be admitted that the swif t-footed Achilles was a liner figure of a man than the beefy Ajax. It will be admitted that the lithe thoroughbred is a nobler beast than the massive Percheron. For love and war, for work and play, the greyhound type of man has the advantage, lie does not grow short of breath in the interchange of blows or of vows, he docs not succumb to sunstroke on the streets, he does not have to sit down and rest on seconrl base when he hits the ball over the fence. Falstaff recalled with regret the days whn as a paere he could wear a lady's ring for a girdle. But something must be done by some one besides the tailor. A London periodical has discovered that one-third of the NewYorkers of middle age are unduly developed in the abdominal region. He who would look lank3" and trim and knightly, like a gentleman of the Elizabethan period, may not devour goose liver and terrapin ad libitum and souse them with Madeira. He will do well to avoid the "strong-man" systems which lay on unnatural collops of muscle by bpef-maklng exercises. Rut he must run around a block occasionally. Tili: CHEMISTRY OF TEARS. Their Vsc Is to Wnsh the Eyes nnil Not to Civc expression to Emotion. Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. Tears have their functional duty to accomplish. Hire every other f.'jid of the body, and the lachrymal gland Is not placed behind the eye simply to till space or to give expression to emotion. The chemical properties of tears consist of phosphate of lime and soda, making them very salty, but never bitter. Their action on the eye is very beneficial, and here consists their prescribed dutv of the body, washing thoroughly that sensitive organ, which allows no foreign fluid to do the same work. Nothing cleanses the eye like a good, salty shower bath, and medical art has followed nature's law In this respect, advocating the invigorating solution for any distressed condition of the optics. Tears do not weaken the s'ht.. but Improve it. They act as a tonic on the muscular vision, keeping the eve soft ar.d. limpid, and it will be noticed that' women in whose eyes sympathetic tears gather quickly have brighter, tenderer orbs than others. When the ptipim are hard and cold, the world attributes It to one's disposition- which is a mere figure of sreech. implving the lack of balmy tears, that are to th cornea what salv is to the skin or nourishment to the No. The reason some weep more ensdy than others, and all more rerulily than the sterner sex. hes not its influence in the strength of the tear gland, but in toe poMMjn of a more delicate nerve y;frn. The nerve fibres about the glands vibrate more easl.y. causing a downpmr from , the 'ry ' ac. Meu ere not near so serialise !q ermtlpn;

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'3 PHONE. their sympathetic nature the term is used in a medical sense is less developed, and the eye gland is. therefore, protected from shocks. Consequently, a man should thank the formation of his nerve nature when he contemptuously scorns tears as a woman's practice. Between man and monkey there is this essential difference of tears. An ape cannot weep, not so much because its emotional powers are undeveloped, as the fact that the lachrymal gland was omitted in his optical make-up. SCULPTORS' "GHOSTS." What Is Said of the Work of Artists Who Live Abroad. Brooklyn Eagle. Not many years ago a certain sculptor had a way of exhibiting his finished work to his friends, but, happen in when they might, they never saw him in the lim; fienzy of execution. True, his work was cften shown, even in different stages, a large screen being removed, after some little delay, for the visitor's inspection cf the always hidden work. Just when I;. was, or how It was. or who it was does not matter, but one day some one Inadvertently stumbled upon the "ghost," a real sculptor ghost who was actively at work cn the American sculptor's work. And It was an Italian ghost, who wonderfully resembles one of the greatest of present-day Italian sculptors. The caller asked: "Now, did you do that?" mentioning the work on which the sculptor had gained his reputation. "No," said the ghost keeper. "Did you do that, and that, and that?" mentioning others. "No, F did them." It is a well-known fact among artists abroad that both American and English sculptors have taken prizes on work which foreign sculptors have executed for them. Money does not run In the studios of the oht world, and fame can be purchased easily. It is openly stated in Italian Bohemian circles that the Art Students' Academy in Home was established by an American. One of the palaces of the Internal City was bought ami a fund set aside producing a salary for the professorship of $5,Uou, which incumbency is now niled by a man of no art attainments and who uses his ofliee solely for social purposes. It works very well. for. as there are no pupils, the "professor" is not called upon to profess anything relating to art. and he preserves an amiable exclusiveness by having his servants admit only those wha call in carriages. nd If the carriage is liveried Its occupants are eligible tcj dinner invitations. In fact, there is little sincerity in the regard of the expatriated American artist abroad: he is regarded as little else than a fakir by the foreigners, and is under suspicion of being a "ghost keeper" by his own conferees in his native country. Labor is cheap abroad; models are cheap, bronze work and marble cutting are cheap, and w orkmen whose superior . talents may be appropriated without question are obtained for one tithe of the amount the expatriated sculptcr wrests from his American patrons through political machinery. If there are members of the committee who have the giving of these big commissions, who are not iiapcecable. the fortunate sculptor may very easily express his material appreciation of successful influence and still have a larger surplus than if he had done the work In America by his own labor. It is not very hard to find a remedy for all this. Let the American committees who have the responsibility of selecting a sculptor or an artist for public work put in tncontract an Iron bound clause thru the wor is to be done on American soil by American labor. Thn it will not take very Ion?: to learn beyond all epie-tion who American artists really ate. There are enough of thern to take care of all American a war dr. Rut there are few of them among the expatriate:?, and It seems opportune to call a halt on "ghost" labor. The modus operandi of political sculpture of the past decade Is a matter of record, always a pleasant one to recall, and It is but fair to say that it is not representative. n Slnng; for Her. Chicago Becord-Hrrald. "No. really." she said to her confidential friend. "I can't stand for people who use slang. It seems to get on my nerves. That's one of the reasons I always hate to see Will Bos worth hack up to our door. It Just seems as If slang was the only language he ever succeeded In making connections with. Honestly, he Is the slangiest ever. "After he had been In to throw a leg over the arm of our easy chair n few times I caught myself thinking In slang, and mamma got to worrying so about It that I simply had to pass him up. Now, Will's a nice fellow and all that, but let him get started tllkjru one and you come up

1 mr J e.V TT groggy after every round. It might be all right once in a while, but you can't stack up against that sort of thing all the time without getting leery. "Still. 1 don't know. Sometimes I'm half inclined to think I hit the air when I told Will not to come any more. Charley Pelham's the only proposition except Will that I'd care to consider, and I don't know I can't help thinking every little while thnt Charley's pretty near a dead one. Say. must you go? Awfully glad you came. Better put up your umbrella or the rain won't do a thing to that lid you have on." A FA.MOIS OLD HOSTELHV. Inn Imiuortiillycil by Port t'p for Sale. London Mall. Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round, Vhorc'er his stages may have been, M-ty sigh to think he still has found His warmest welcome at an inn. It was at the Red Lion at Henley that Shcnstone scratched with a ring upon th window pane in 1711 the above testimonial, which has since become a classic. Yesterday, at the auction mart in Tokenhousa yard, the plate was put up for sale before a motley assembly or bald-headej old city gentlemen who looked thoroughly competent to withstand the temptation of allowing the historic glamour which surrounds the place from running away with their business instincts. But they were vastly interested in the late of the ancient hostelry, and when Mr. Edwin Fox ascended the rostrum and commenced the usual Introductory oration the loom was full to overflowing with a crowd which was largely composed of spectators nerely. Despite the knowledge that among others Shenstone had written there. King Charles had dined and dined well, too. on fourteen of portly Mrs. Dixon's c hops at one titling that the great Duke of .larller-ugli had often lodged on his way between London and Ulenheim. and. to come down to mri modern times, that the place had recently hten re-equipped an l redecorated, there was but poor-spirited hiddioK. "Nothing has yet been contrived by-man by which so much happiness is produeed as by a good tavern or inn." wrede Johnson after visiting the Ited Lion, i.nd the auctioneers, feeling, no doubt, that such happiness was above rubies and prccioos Mones, Ifought the estate in t hmsel v-s fr ;5';..?. the bidding not having gone higher than atnre Widoiu. Detroit Journal. It is a wise provision of nature that children mostly grow up before their mothers have time to master the principles of pedagogy .ufliclently- to make any Intelligent application of the raine. FOOD FOR MEMORY The Kind that llnlld up the Brain. It i." hiiftl to believe tli.it certain kinds ol f c or will strengthen the memory, and yet, upon the condition ft the brain depends the character of the n.ind. and its power to rcmenil r. ar.d to exert its If In various ways and a healthy train can only be maintained by well-yelect-d lord. Now we know that djily use of the brain it;-, s up certain parts that ire thrown out through the p.ij-es to the outer surface ot the skin. This waste is natural and mcst be mane up H 11:11 fut.fi. Crape-Nets Food was made especially to rebuild the br.-i:. and nerve e;-.t':s. An cvperien.o In Chicago will illustrate. Mrs. J. II. Bah. r. M's South Paulina street, writes, "1 had a terrible siege of gastritis, my Momaeh iefa-rd evciyuiin in the way of food until 1 got 11 ! I t Crape-Nuts. It wa j-rfet tl w v"::.;-rf ui and marvelous to ;:ee the d!:f.re I began to improve at ot.o -. I v.Uhvd myself about that tirr.e and to.md thht 1 ha J III pound to my credU. 1 g I in v.clgh:, strength and ht..llh steu-Illy and rap4i.ly, and now weigh l' pound ant im strain and in better he alih than ever in my I'.fe. , "I have lately hr.d -en riuuthV course of vo.'al Iretruition an J ae memorized Is songs r.n 1 nu; t ( f the s.'v.mpaniir.tP.ts. hesims :evc:al piano pieces. When I stalled in ii scc.aed dihicidt tu r.-icrr o-L one. but my rreniory has been growing bet. ter every day -rd l now nr.d It ei?y to commit to memory without dir.iculty. . have taken ro meln ire. but my stc 2j diet of Crap-Nuts I-o-d h'is sivtn Uli strength, health r.d rnemor;,"

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