Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1902 — Page 14

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1002.

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Citizens of Knoxville, Tenn., are making elaborate- plans for entertaining Admiral bchley during his coming visit to that city. Some of the features decided upon are a public reception, a street pageant, a banquet and a visit to the early home of Admiral Farragut, who was born at a village near there. The occasion may develop whether the admiral Is willing to be exploited politically. Mr. Rollo Ogden, who writes In the Atlantic Monthly about Senator Marcus Hanna, should have a caro lest that gentleman should take a fancy to ask him in court if he can prove his charges, as Senator Piatt proposes to do In the case of William Allen White. When Mr. Ogden undertakes to tell Just how Mr. Ilanna epent campaign funds ho seems likely to be exceeding his personal knowledge. The United States Naval Register for 1902 , Ehows that the United States navy now comprises 225 vessels in commission or available for service, and eighty vessels under construction. The additions to tho navy during the present year will be one battleship, three protected cruisers, four monitors, sixteen torpedo-boat destroyers and sixteen torpedo boats. The growth of the navy is keeping pace with that of the interests it represents and protects. The advocates of the Nicaragua canal route, like the Journal's correspondent in yesterday's issue, rashly charge evil designs upon those who say a word in favcr of the Panama route. As many newspapers favorable to the canal have expressed the opinion that the merits of the Panama route should be canvassed in connection with the last offer of the Panama company, in order to secure the best route, such charges are unfair. The "Washington Post lectures Congre3 for Its parsimony towards the chaplains o the two houses, each of whom receives only &) a year. Capitol spittoon cleaners and policemen receive about the same. True, the chaplains duties are not onerous, but they have to be prompt, regular and unfailing. The meagerness of their compensation contrasts sharply with the liberal pay of many sinecurists about the Capitol who have political "pulls." Tno press dispatch describing the President's New Year's reception gave proper prominence to the distinguished representatives of all nations, who were gorgeous in uniforms and decorations, but it failed to mention four Indian chiefs from the far "West who were arrayed in buckskin, beads and feathers like those we read about. Only one of them could speak a little English, but when they shook the President's hand he grefted them as "my fellowAmericans." The action of the American Steel and Wire Company in announcing that a pen!on department had been created for the benefit of the C0,X) employes of the concern is sure to attract attention Several railroads have adopted pension systems, but this is the first large corporation to announce that men who have been disabled and grown old in its employ will receive pensions. It means that the managers of a great corporation have come to the conclusion that it is for their interest to keep good men in their service year after year by pledging them assistance when the years of usefulness shall b3 past. A clergyman in a "Western city has been collecting statistics regarding persons who have dropred away from the churches during the past ten years. He finds that out of 73 adults now living who ceased going to church during the period, 2C3 were originally poor church members, ranging all the way from notorious evil livers to Indifferent worldlings. Of the remaining 410 eighteen deteriorated morally since they left church, all of them being weak characters end easily led into temptation. Sixty-three persons have apparently led better lives !nce they left the church. The remainder of the backsliders, CC3 in number, are morally very much tho same as when they attended church. The presiding elder in the NKes (Mich.) District Methodist Episcopal Conference insisted that hereafter pasters shall cease to depend upon evangelists in revival move-

ments. Probably many other preachers than the Michigan presiding elder are opposed to the evangelist and employ him because people demand something sensational In order to create the excitement which seems so essential in a class of revivals. The best work Is done for the church and the cause which the church represents by no band wagon accompaniment. It Is done quietly and unostentatiously from day to day by the regular clergy. SCIENTIFIC TESirEItANCE INSTRUCTION. Two articles in Thursday's Journal should attract attention because of the subject to which they related and the source from which they came. The subject was school instruction regarding the effects of alcohol, and the speakers were Prof. W. O. Atwater and Prof. William T. Sedgwick. The former, a graduate of Yale College and of the universities of Leipsic and Berlin, is president of Wesleyan University at Johnsburg, N. Y., and for many years past has been employed as an expert scientist by the United States Agricultural "Department. Professor Sedgwick is a graduate of Yale and of Johns Hopkins University, Is now professor of biology in the Boston Institute of Technology and president of the American Association of Naturalists. Both men have held important positions besides those named, and both stand in the front rank of American scientists. Speaking at different times and places they both concur in the opinion that scientific temperance Instruction as taught in many public schools from text-books now in use 13 neither scientific nor truly educational, but on the contrary Is false, misleading and injurious to the proper teaching of physiology and hygiene in the lower schools. By "scientific temperanco instruction" is meant the instruction required by law in most of the States and supposed to be based on scientific, physiological and hygienic principles. Professor Sedgwick says that in compliance with the demands of a class of temperance reformers many text-books have been prepared and introduced In public schools whose teachings on the subject are scientifically false, and that many teachers go too far in the same direction. He says that in many schools unscientific instruction on this subject "has grown to such proportions and has gained such power as to dominate almost all instruction in elementary physiology and hygiene in America." Professor Sedgwick attributes this condition to the persistent and well-meant but, as h thinks, 111Judged efforts of temperance reformers who place sentiment above science and dogmatism above facts. Professor Atwater, taking substantially the same view, says: There Is "an actual conflict in progress between earnest moral reformers on the one hand and educators and scientists on the other regarding the method of teaching the youth of the schools the physical action of alcohol. A body of temperance reformers by extensive organized effort have se-. cured In almost every State in the Union legislation requiring text-boo. Instruction in temperance physiology in the schools. The same influence has been able to control the character of this Instruction by favoring certain text-books and opposing those which have not its approval. Unfortunately for science, pedagogy and morality, a considerable part of the teaching of the physiological action of alcohol is not In accord with the views of specialists or with the result of the latest investigations. Thus it has come about that there is In the United. States a great educational movement which is attempting to build up moral reform upon a basis of doctrine which scientific authority disapproves. Both gentlemen recognize that those who have brought about the use of this kind of text-books and this line of teaching are actuated by good motives, but they deny that good motives can atone for false and unscientific teaching. They both agree that the subject should be properly taught. "It Is right, of course," says Professor Sedgwick, "that pupils should be taught the dangers of alcohol and narcotics." "Scientists," says Professor Atwater, "are perfectly In sympathy with the object of temperance instruction, but are opposed to the present method of Imparting it." They both aver that the prevailing methods of Imparting this instruction in American schools Is educationally vicious and morally wrong because scientifically false. They think there should be a reform both In the text-books and in the manner of Imparting temperance instruction, and that the whole S3stem should be freed from sentiment and made to conform to truly educational and scientific standards. The statements and conclusions of such men as these regarding a matter of this kind should challenge public attention. The American people do not want their public schools converted into a propaganda for misleading or unscientific information on any subject, not even under the pretext of promoting temperance reform. No good cause can be permanently benefited by Instruction that is not scientifically correct. Education that proceeds from false assumptions or Is based on erroneous conclusions Is not true education. Both of the gentlemen above quoted wero of opinion that the time had come when legislators, educators and scientists should unite in bringing thi3 branch of popular education into Its proper relation with the schools. If the views expressed by them are correct, and they certainly ought to know whereof they speak, there is need of reforming a reform.

TIIE MONEY VALUE OP SCIENCE. Among the most interesting and valuable results of modern science is the utilization of blproducts and substances which were formerly considered worthless. By blproducts is meant the Incidental products yielded or the refuse left in producing something else primarily aimed at. Thus coal tar is a biproduct in the manufacture of gas from coal and in tho refining of petroleum. Formerly coal tar was considered worthless, but modern chemistry has turned it to important and valuable uses so that it is almost as important a product as illuminating gas. Among the valuable products obtained from it are paraffin, naphtha, benzol, creosote, anthracene, carbolic acid, naphthaline, a long list of beautiful aniline colors and saccharine, a substance two hundred and fifty times sweeter than sugar, which has become an article of commerce and Is manufactured on a large scale. It also yields some valuable medicinal remedies. This illustrates the lines on which modern chemistry is working and the kind of results it is producing, and is only one of hundreds of instances in which science has made important contributions to commerce. One that has been announced within a few days Is a new process of treating cotton seed which chemists and authorities on cotton say will add immensely to the value of the crop. Formerly and for many years cotton seed was regarded as worthless and was treated much as sawdust used to be and still is to some extent, though under the transforming touch of modern chemis

try even rawdust has developed Industrial uses. For a long time the entire product of cotton seed in the South went to waste. Now It Is the foundation of a great industry, yielding a very valuable oil and an equally valuable fertilizer and a highly nutritious food for stock. The manufacture of cotton-seed oil has become a great industry, and immense quantities both of the oil and the cake are sent abroad. The oil 13 regarded by physicians and experts as one of the best fats in the whole range of food products, and It is extensively used in this country and in Europe as a salad oil and in the manufacture of lard, butterine, etc. The present process of manufacturing the oil requires an expensive plant and several different mechanical processes. The discovery now announced is of a new process, chemical Instead of mechanical, which is expected to completely supplant the old one. A recent demonstration of the invention was entirely successful. An account says: It deals entirely with the cotton seed and covers all steps in its treatment from the time the seed leaves the gin after the cotton has been removed to its production into refined oil, making possible the abandonment of six separate operations requiring the use of a like number of intricate machines. It comprises the compete and perfect delinting and the hulling of cotton seed by a secret chemical process in twenty minutes, compared with the mechanical means and the hours required under the old process; the recovery of all the lint and hulls of the seed in perfect condition for paper stock of high quality, as compared with the recovery of only a small percentage in poor condition and worthless as paper stock under the old process; the production of refined oil from the seed in three operations, occupying an hour and twenty minutes, as compared with ten separate operations, occupying many hours under the old method. Heretofore the most difficult and expensive process in the manufacture of the oil has been the separation of the kernels from the hulls and lint adhering to the seed after it came from the gin. By the new process this Is done chemically much more thoroughly, in less time and at half the expense of the mechanical process. The discovery should give a new impetus to the cottonseed oil industry, which is more important than many persons are aware of, and should greatly increase the shipments of cleaned cotton seed to Europe, where it brings 310 a ton for manufacturing purposes. Such discoveries as this, which are being constantly made by practical chemists, show the enormous money value of science and how much modern Industries and commerce owe to it.

AS A 31 ATTER. OF FUDLIC ECONOMY. People who see In charity movements only the relief of the poor lose sight of the equally important feature of so administering charity that the army of dependents is not increased by indiscriminate alms. They have not learned that indiscriminate relief prompted by kindness is the surest method to multiply paupers, since there is no human weakness that so quickly expands when encouraged as begging. In some townships in Indiana, through the weakness or demagogy of trustees, the burden of taxation for the support of what Is known as the outdoor poor has increased alarmingly under officials of that sort, and has fallen off surprisingly in the same townships when trustees succeeded who were firm' In their treatment of such people. Some years ago four times as much money was expended upon this class of would-be dependents as was expended last year with more than double the population. If the weak policy of years ago had been continued, Indianapolis would be burdened with ten times as many outdoor paupers as it now has. Under the present regime the making of those who would be dependent self-supporting is as important a consideration as the relieving of those who cannot care for themselves. In regard to the defective classes, those who are criminally inclined, the interest of those who obey the laws and must bear the burdens imposed by lawbreakers should be quite as important as the welfare of those who are caught in crime. The security of society and the reduction of the cost of supporting a criminal class are the first considerations. Punishment does not reform the criminal, and the fear of it docs not often deter men who have once been punished from the commission of new crimes. The aim of Intelligent legislation and effort is to rescue the criminally inclined. The reform school and the reformatory are designed to turn to better way3 those who would become recruits to the army of criminals. To this end the indeterminate sentence has been established by law. It is to deprive the ranks of criminals of recruits that the State is taking children out of the poor houses and putting them in homes. Just now effort is directed here to the saving of mere children from criminal lives. Judge Stubbs has begun the work In this city by holding a juvenile court for consideration of the cases of boys brought before him. His purpose is to prevent those of tender years from considering themselves as criminals and to place such restraints about them that thay will be rescued from lawless lives. The main difficulty with the judge who undertakes to keep boys from jail or the reform school is the disposition that can be made of them. It Is claimed that he can make parents responsible for the conduct of their children. As the difficulty, in the first Instance, Is the inefficiency and half criminal lives of parents, it Is found In many cases that the best thing that can be done for such children is to take them from their parents. Just now much is said regarding the saving Influence of the home. That depends upon the home. As the Rev. Dr. Bacon said last Sunday, there are huhdreds of homes which are tha worst places that children can be In. The first step to reform is to take them out of such homes. The question arises. What can be done with them when taken from their parents or those who shelter them when not on the street? The reply of those who assail public Institutions for children is, find homes for them. If this could be as easily done as is said It would be the bettet course to pursue. Unfortunately, there are few people who will take a boy from the kindergarten of viciousness into their homes. It seems severe to send such boys to the reform school when they are not guilty of positive crime. Wealthy men in Chicago have solved the problem by raising funds to establish a home for the vagrant boys of tho juvenile court There are men in this State who would have a home apart from the reform school for such vagrant boys as are rescued from criminal life In cities a home where they can be brought under control and prepared for homes. The aim of all these efforts Is, in part, to protect society by making' good citizens of boys who would, if left to themselves, become criminals. If there are people to whom the rescuing of human beings from vicious and criminal lives does not appeal.

they should be alive to their own interests sufficiently to know that tho maintenance of a criminal class is expensive. If a city could be assured that criminals would accept the offer and lead orderly lives, It could afford to furnish all such homes and employment. Therefore, all well-directed efforts to reduce the criminal class to the lowest possible number are warranted by every economic consideration. It would be worth more than $1.000 each to the community to save boys from being criminals or other persons from being half paupers. JUSTIFIAÜLE DIVORCE. The Journal Is disposed to take a conservative view of the divorce question and to say that married couples had much better adjust their troubles and get along together somehow than to allow trifles to separat them; nevertheless, it Is free to admit that difficulties may arise which are destructive of all domestic harmony, and of which divorce Is the only solution. What woman, for instance, can continue to live with a man who will not permit his stepchildren to call him "papa?" Mrs. Riley, of Muncie, says that Mr. Riley forbids her little ones this privilege, and she thinks his course scandalous and reprehensible, and wants to be free from him. So she should be. Mr. Riley may not really and truly lovo the little darlings, who are none of his, but, having married their mother, he should dissemble. When he took her for better or worse he might have known that the stepchildren would be the "worse," and should have accepted them philosophically as a part of hi3 bargain. It has been charged against men In general that they do not really love their own children, but regard them with interest only as they do them, the male parents, credit and are a source of pride. If this be true It 13 naturally, therefore, something of an effort for a man to love his stepchildren; but having had the privilege of marrying a widow ho should consider that this extra effort is her due. When he falls It proves conclusively that he is not worthy and deserves to be cast out. In another case which has come to the Journal's notice divorce is assuredly justified. In this instance, which has come to light at Kokomo, the husband is the righteously aggrieved one. One matter of dispute between the young couple related to the observance of Sunday. Tho wife, being a Seventh-day Adventist, wishes to observe Saturday as the Lord's day, while the husband prefers to keep Sunday sacred. Now, this Is an unimportant difference which the two should have settled amicably; it is certainly no proper cause for divorce. But when the young woman sets her foot down and flatly declares that she will cook no pork nor will allow it to be cooked in her house, although It Is a favorito article of food with her husband, sho does very wrong. Her conduct is not only unkind and Inconsiderate to the man whose domestic welfare she has undertaken to look after, but is a direct reflection upon the judgment of the mass of Hoosier citizens and an unendurable slight to an important and highly regarded Indiana industry. Living right in tho middle of the great hog belt, her course is deserving of tho deepest censure. A highly respected and now departed Indiana congressman once enunciated the maxim that he who "does not like the smell of a hog is a leetle too nice to live." This rash Kokomo woman evidently belongs in this category. Although she is so strangely constituted that she does not like pork, and although she does not care to please her husband's taste, sheer patriotism and Hoosier loyalty should have led her to take Joy In cooking and serving the ham, the "side meat," the sausage, the chops and all tho other products so delectable to tho pork lover. No; an Indiana woman who will not serve pork on her table is lacking in some of the truest elements of Hoosier womanhoojl and will undoubtedly be frowned upon by tho Hoosier court when her case comes before it. There are some ills the Indiana man should not be called on to endure.

The statement made by a physician not long since that disease is not produced by filth will receive little attention, because, whether or not his statement is true, people know that disease and filth are inseparable, and that when filth is exterminated disease disappears. During the past few years the United States government, representing tho cleanliest people in the world, has been fighting filth to get rid of disease. When the American flag was placed over Havana it was one of the filthiest cities In the world, and yellow fever prevailed from one season to another. Infection from Havana was a constant menace to cities on the Atlantic coast. As soon as the city came, under American control cleaning up began, and the result is that yellow fever has disappeared. The bubonic plague was the scourge of the Philippines before American occupation, carrying off hundreds of people in Manila from time to time. Our authorities have taken It in hand, the city has been cleaned and war made on the rats, the greatest purveyors of the plague. There is reason to believe that the bubonic plague will not appear as an epidemic, except in the fears of those who believe that the United States should abandon the islands. Five years ago 1,300 lepers were reported in Hawaii. The last report makes the number KX), and the official in charge believes the disease is dying out because, under the supervision of American health officers, sanitary regulations have been enforced. So, wherever the stars and stripes has gone in distant lands, cleanliness has followed, giving a better chance for life. From present Indications the Cuban government will be established about next March 1, and tho withdrawal of American troops will take place as soon a3 possible thereafter. The resolution of Congress passed just before the beginning of the war with Spain declared "that the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exerclso sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over the island of Cuba, except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that Is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people." Under this declaration the United States will not be justified in keeping a military force in Cuba after the new government Is established any longer than is necessary to remove it. It is probable that part of the troop now there may be left at the naval and coaling stations secured to the United States by the Fiatt amendment to the Cuban Constitution. A correspondent Is in an excited frame of mind because the words "Intermural" and "Interurban," which he has had some occasion to look up, do not appear in his "seventy-dollar dictionary and encyclo

pedia," and In large capitals asks the Journal to tell him why. The Journal 13 unable to tell him why the words are not in hi3 dictionary, but can only say that "intermural" appears duly in the Century, Worcester and the Webster International. "Interurban" Is in the supplement to the new edition of the International, and is probably not included in the others because it has but recently come Into common use In connection with trolley systems. Each word made itself, it might be said, as circumstances called for them, from two other well-known words "inter-mural," between walls, and "inter-urban," between towns. An exchange which has denounced Senator Ilanna and caricatured him as all sorts of a corruptlonlst, now remarks that it Is evident that the people have been led to a change of opinion In regard to him that while he is arbitrary and dogmatic, the masses believe he Is patriotic and honorable. This means that Mr. Ilanna has lived down four or Ave years of the most abusive assaults ever made upon the character and aims of a public man who was not a candidate for President. The man who said that he would withdraw from the candidacy for the Senate if any man of character whom he had ever employed would say that he had not kept faith with him must have a good record. The truth is Senator Hanna Is deservedly one of tho popular men of the country. Doubtless the columns of reports, rumors and predictions which have been printed about the contest for supremacy on the Republican side of the Ohio Legislature were prepared without regard to the truth, but whatever conflict there has been ended In the success of Senator Hanna's candidate for the speakership by a quite emphatic majority. At no time was the reelection of Senator Foraker in doubt, but those opposed to Senator Hanna attempted to organize the Legislature by selecting officers for that body hostile to him with a view of defeating his re-election two years hence. The scheme failed In the House.

Women who pay taxes in Annapolis, Md., were lately permitted to vote there when the question of public improvements was an Issue, and the plan worked so well that a movement Is on foot to secure a law granting the same privilege to Baltimore women. If the ballot ever comes to women It is likely to be in this way. Women who become property owners In their own right at onc begin to take an Interest in the outlay of publio funds, as well as In the payment of taxes Into the treasury, and as such women are everywhere Increasing in numbers they must sooner or later be listened to. What Is the matter with the Frenchmen who sail the high seas? It Is not so long since tho civilized world was horrified at the brutal treatment of the passengers of La Gascogne by the officers and crew when that vessel was wrecked off Newfoundland, and now on the Pacific coast tho Frenchmen manning a sailing vessel have shown a similar lack of the instincts of humanity. With proper effort on the part of that crew it seems likely that all loss of life on the Walla Walla might have been prevented. There is nothing doing of very great Importance in the world at large just now, but that circumstance does not prevent Indiana towns from having the liveliest kind of times. An intoxicated man "toting" several quarts of nitroglycerin about the streets gave an unusual stir to Anderson life, as related in yesterday's Journal. Down in Paoli a young woman was with difficulty prevented from horsewhipping a man and thereby proving herself a perfect lady, but the disappointed populace which turned out to see the fun was. soothed by the banishment of the man from among them on the charge of beating his wife. Who says life outside of a big city is dull? The Boston Transcript says that the "Arthur Fullerton, who has succeeeled M. De Blowitz as Paris correspondent of the London Times, is William Morton Fullerton, a native of Boston, graduate of Harvard, and a gentleman of broad culture. He was formerly literary editor of the Boston Advertiser, later a leader writer on the London Times, and has done some excellent magazine work. He has been the working head of the Times's Paris bureau for about ten years. Many years ago a dog belonging to Rutherford B. Hayes, ex-President of the United States, feloniously attacked and bit an Ohio woman of whose appearance or actions he disapproved for some reason. The woman sued the Hayes estate for $10,030 damages and the case has been in the courts ever since, terminating at last in a verdict of $0,400 for the plaintiff. The Ohio woman still lives, however; "the dog it was that died." And such is life. Pennsylvania papers are telling about a mule which, after being Imprisoned in a coal mine for three weeks, was taken out and found to have turnetl from an intense black to a gray. It was recognized as the same mule by a strawberry that is to say, by a brand on its left hind leg. Coming from Pennsylvania papers, this story must, of course, be accepted as authentic. Andree Joullin, member of the French Academy, has just returned from a sojourn among American Indians with a lot of canvases which are said to be "full of the atmosphere of the tepee." They are full of a pretty rank atmosphere, then, and should be hung on the outer walls for a time. Sir Henry Irving Is quoted by a Kansas City paper as saying "'Ello! 'Ow's hevery one?" to the people in the hotel office, and then 'asking his valet, "Hare me rooms ready?" Can it possibly be that this great man kncw3 himself as 'Enry Hirving? A cat's board and keep are worth $1 a month, according to the decision of a St. Louis court. This is Important information, now that animals are cutting such a figure in literature and life. Speaks Up for Stevenson. London Letter In Philadelphia Press. Andrew Lang comes to the rescue of his old- friend Robert Louis Stevenson this week In a newspaper article that is uncommonly interesting. It Is a pity that lack of space will prevent anything more than a taste of its quality. "I do not want to erect an Immaculate clay-cold image of a man, in marble or in sugar candy," says Mr. Lang, "but I will say that I do not remember ever to have heard Mr. Stevenson utter a word against any mortal, friend or foe." He had a tendency to what Mr. Lang calls inopportune benevolence, and that reminds the critic of a choice story that did not get into Graham-Balfour's biography. "As a little delicate, lonely boy in Edinburgh, Stevenson read a book called 'Ministering Children. I have a faint recollection of thiä work concerning a small Lord and Lady Bountiful. Children, we know, like to 'play at the events and characters they have read about, and the boy wanted to play at being a ministering child. He 'scanned the whole horizon for somebody to play with and thought he had found his playmate. From the window he observed street boys enjoying themselves. But one child was out of the sports, a little lame fellow, tho sen of a baiter. Here was a.

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cnance. Alter sum- .-st. .w0 nnt ened his heart, put on his cap. walked out a refined little ngure-approached the oo ject of his sympathy and said: W U 1 : ou let me play with you?' 'Go to h- "id the democratic offspring of the baker. "That he was self-conscious and -aw himself, as it were, from without .that he was fond of attitude (like his on braj admirals) he himself knew well, and doubt not that he would laugh at bimsen and his habit of 'playing at' things after the fashion of childhood. Genius is the survival into maturity of the inspirations of childhood, and Stevenson is not the onl genius who has retained om childhood something more than its inspiration. Other examples readily occur to the memory in one way Byron, in another Tennyson. s THE HUMORISTS. Suffering. Judge. Mrs. Crawford I suppose you suffer a treat deal from your dyspepsia Mrs. Crabshaw Not half so much as I did when my husband had it. Nothing: New. Ycnkers Statesman. Fatlence I see this man Marconi, vrho Is experimenting with telegraphy, has a fiancee. ratrlce Falls back on the old-fashioned spark, after all? Then He "Went. Chicago News. Borem (11 p. m.) A great many things go without sayir.g, Miss Cutting. Miss Cutting (suppressing a yawn) Tes; but they are less tiresome than things that say without going. Collapsed Buildlngr. Brooklyn Life. "Kape alive, Mike! We're rcscuin ye." Voice from the debris Is big Clancy op there wid ye? "Sure he is." "Ast him wud he be so kind as t'step aft the roolns. I've enough on top av me wldout him." The Way vrlth Most of Us. Washington Star. "Which season do you prefer," asked the "friend, ''summer or winter?" "It all depends," answered Mr. Sirius Barker, as he unwound a muffler from his neck. "In summer I prefer winter, and in winter I prefer summer." All Alike. Chicago Post. They caught the little one punching the baby in the stomach. "What are you doing?" demanded her mother. "Jes' wanted to tee if It worked the same way that my cryln doll does." was the reply, as she gave- the baby a Jab that made it howl. "They're all alike, ain't they?" A Modern Carol. Oh, let us all be Joyous While we may. Though the scientists annoy us Every day. For they agitate the topic Of these creatures microscopic Till we're getting misanthropic, Old and gray. So now to drown our sorrow Let us try. Lest some microbe on tho morrow Should draw nigh. tL.et the song and dancing thrill us. Let's forget that a bacillus Hopes with all his heart to kill us By and by. Washington Star. WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION. Good cooks are more in demand than saints these days. Tho Tempting of Father Anthony. Sentimentally Impracticable, like a mugwump, or a white-ribbon woman in the lobby. Shacklett. Like everything else, poetry loses Its holy beauty and directness when it is turned into a profession. Orloff and His Wife. At the age of sixty to marry a pretty girl of seventeen is to Imitate those fools who buy books to be read by their friends. Her Grace's Secret. When a man lives a while In his own soul he becomes aware of the existence of a certain spiritual fact that gives life all Its dignity and meaning. King Midas. One can have a smattering of Greek and Hebrew and get some good from them; but a smattering of science is the most dangerous thing in the world. Shacklett. The past gives us regrets, the present sorrow, the future fear; at eighteen one adores at once; at twenty one loves; at thirty one desires; at forty one reflects. Her Grace's Secret. A man I knew once 'e's dead now, poor chap, and three widows mourning for Mm said that with all 'is experience wimmln was as much a riddle to 'im as when he fust married. Light Freights. Knowing that a tune was a spiritual mystery which Providence did not permit ever thoroughly to penetrate, he only sang when ho thought himself alone, and in a subdued 'murmur. The Debatable Land. I never was a scoffer at the virtues of fine clothes, and distrust him that is. So long as one is sure of one's tailor one's soul may take care of itself. The grace of a good coat is communicated to its wearer. Love's Itinerary. Of course, it's the being short that sharpens people. The sharpest man I ever knew never 'ad a ha'penny in Ms pocket, and the ways e had o' getting other chaps to pay for Ms beer would ha' mado Ms f orten at the law if 'e'd only 'ad the eddication. Light Freights. Every man who has fought with life, who has been vanquished by it and who is suffering in the pitiless captivity of its mire is more of a philosopher than even Schopenhauer himself, because an abstract thought never molds itself in such an accurate and picturesque form as docs the thought which is directly squeezed out of a man by suffering. Orloff and Ills Wife. LITERARY NOTES. In the death of "William Ellery Channlng the country has lost a poet of some distinction, though of Imperfect accomplishment, and one of the few remaining survivors of the group of men which Included Emerson, Hawthorne and the others who have made the town of Concord forever memorable. As the copyright on Darwin's "Origin of Species" is about to expire, we have, says a London writer, the rather funny spectacle of two rival editions of that lean frivolous of works at 25 cents each Whether the populace is rushing to buy them or not is a question on which there is no evidence yet. A copy of the very scarce first edition of Pope's "Rape of the Lock" was sold at auction in London the other day. it was uncut and contained the frontispiece and five plates by Guernier. It was knocked down to a well-known dealer in th Ilaymarket for $200. A bound copy of this exceedingly rnre book was sold less than two years ago for J27. " . That is a curious story which comes from Russia o. the banishment of the popular novelist of the masses, Maxim Gorky, from St. Petersburg to Xijni Novgorod. He took a ticket for Moscow, but the government accomplished Its end without givin him the advertisement of a scene bv Vuietly uncoupling the carriage he was in and attaching it to a special engine which whirled him off to the far East. Thoro is said to be much searching of spirit in Chicago over the question as to the possible originals of certain social literary and esthetic types presented in Air llen,-FFlilIeVS ne7 b00k- "Under the Skylights. It is understood that Abner Joyce, one of the characters, has been identified by certain Philistines as anamuZ picture of a certain well-known American novelist who Is more or less associated wth Chicago. Augustine Birrell, in his "Miscellanies" says that he does not value overmuch the opinions of a man's near relations concerning his character. And as an instance of such an opinion he cites that astounding remark of Joseph Bonaparte c once? ? Ms brother Napoleon: " Mio was ' o "S tnis ; sapient though not hereditary monarch 'not to much what I should call a grcat a . ood man.' Mr. Llrrell also gSS

faith in the vcmge historian. Ho re

claims: "Historians! Th' ir ran..- i ;. ::. Unless they have good styu.-; t!iy are s hard to read, and if th y have- good 1 -: - they are so art to lie." The New York State Library ha? un !: taken a very commendable work for th. benefit of blind people. It is h.ning c:rtc!n carefully chosen books 'emb--vr-i for tr blind, and these bo'-ks it will Pan to f.:rS readers throughout the State, -uitv.jt charge for transportation. A rrp.? ,-. ccme to Mr. Howeils and to hi? publishers for permission to so einbo-s 1 j t r.ity Friends and Acquaintance." Tbo r--.-r, of course, ha? been cheerfully pr.intr.i. "The American lady who t-!g:.j hers'lf 'Octave Thanef is a little weak in 1. r geography," Fays a London critic. ".-;. Is quoted as saying that, wanting n r ;- donym, sho saw the word 'Th-iut' eba!V.- 1 on a railroad truck and at onee 3 it as Fuitable. 'Anyhow, I adopted it e-n t'.. spot, because it mljiht Scotch ( t Ii r-- i -. I believe, an Lle of Thanct). or It m!;V.t ) -French.' Let her hunt up the map of Upland and turn .to thf county of 1C-rit. t:.. land of the cherry. There sho will find r Thanet at its eastern extremity, for It in neither Scotch nor Frc nch." Tho Swedish Academy's award of thNobel literary prize to M. Sully-Pr-:3-homme causes .sharp criticism in Sweden, where Tolstoi has a strong following. A self-constituted committer of forty-two writers and artists is sending an nddre5j to the aged Russian prophet in which it :3 declared that the committee scs in Mm "not only the most venerable patriarch i modern literature, but also on-3 of ths gratest and profoundest of poets, one who, in our opinion, should havo obtained tho prize." This committee of outsiders p.s on to express as poor an opinion of th-j Swedish Academy as Daudet had of the French Academy. "W. E. Henley speaks again of Stevens :n in the Sphere: "Last week Mr. Grecnwo! asked me a question: Did the late R. L. S. (I cannot, with the shrieks of tho Eaniar Log still shrilling to the empyrean. I "nt not be more particular) look as elsh in Ufas he looks In his portraits? Therq enn be but one answer: He did not. In th photographs we havo of him there Is nothing perforce of tho brilliancy, tho cor. tl mobility, the Impudence ('tis tho foIp worl which his features wore. As for the 'changeling let Mr. Greenwood turn to the eight and twenty volumes of the Edinburgh edition. If the changeling were ever anywhere at any time he will certainly ba there." Mr. W. D. Howeils in the course of a recent article In the North American Roview has the following reference to th new Russian novelist: "Maxim Gorky's wholly hopeless study of degene racy in th life of Foma Gordyerff accusr-s conditions which we can only imagine with difficulty. As one advances through the moral waie of that strange book one slowly p-rch'b that he is In a land of no ure. in an ambient of such iron fixity and inexorable bounds that perhap Foma's ilünn ? s t o rot through vice into Imbecility is as wisas anything else there1. It is a book th .t saturates the soul with despair and blls! it with the negation which scim:- th" ;.!y possible truth in the circumstances." The sale of Dickens in England, even to-day. Is probably Frcatr than that cf a good many well-advertisc-d minor novelists of the moment. Strangely cr.ouch, it seems to be actually increasing. Th. re are nine new editions of Pickens on th market now. although the oipyri.irht on "A Tale of Two Cities." "Great Expfetatior.s." "Our Mutual Friend" and "The Mystery cf Edwin Drood" has not yet explrx-d. The t tal sales of Dickons have been far Kr at r than for any other English novelist, Seit coming second on the 1 i t. ami Thaclv ray probably thirel. As a result of the l:ck boom, if such it might to called, say? a London letter, George Giving is busy at his retreat in France with an abrMci edition of Forster's frank and much-criticised "Life of Dickens." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Gen. Cassius M. Clay is living at his home near Richmond, Ky., alone, ccn refusing to hold any communication with hi-? neighbors. His house is literally a gold mine for the collector of antiquities. Mrs. E. Burd Grubb, of Edgcwatcr Par-:, N. J., has had conferred upon her by the Queen of Spain the Order of Noblo Ladies of Marie Louisa, an honor which no American woman has ever before enjoyed. Louis Sherry, the New York caterer, has Just paid an election bet. lost to Maurice Grau, by giving a dinner to sixty of the manager's friends, which Is said to have cost more than any similar affair ever hold in New York. J. H. Sharp, the noted painter of Indian heads, has sold his entire collection to Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, who will send them to the University of California in furtherance of the chair of Indian research, which she has founded there. Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw met the Governor of Iowa, now appointed secretary of the treasury, when they both became interested in the Methodist Sunday school at Dcnison. Ia., in 1S74. They were married throe years later and have three children, Enid. Earl and Erma, the eldest of whom is just out of college. An unusual Incident occurred the cthr day at the University of Euda-Pcsth. A confirmed lunatic from the local asylum appeared in charge of his keeper nn I aske i to be allowed to pass his examination. ' found examination work quite cni; i:i a J. passed very successfully, and return -i to his asylum again with lihs diploma as a professor. Sara Bernhardt says that "the seer' t of her endurance is that she never rests. "Fatigue," she adds, "is my stimulant. In.tp.! of pulling mo down it spurs me on." Sh goes to bed at 2 o'clock in th? morning invariably, ami always ri.es at t. As fr.r th" usual prescriptions for the preservation rf health, they receive scant attention from her, sho says. Henry Shaw, a Yale man. brings from Paris a story of how he secured tho autograph of Emile Zola, the French novth.-t. He wrote a letter to Zola complaining of tinonpayment of a bill for some wii.e wh- h Shaw claimed to have furnished. By tl "' next mail he received the covet ! Utt. r. ia which the author strenuously denied having purchased the wine. Of the new Cabinet counting Messrs. Payne and Shaw as already in it it Is a rather peculiar fact that no two mcmb- rwere born in the same State. S-en tary Wilson was born in Scotland and canu to the United States when seventeen ya:s old. All of his colleagues are nativis :' this country. Shaw was born in Vrir, .'.t. Hay in Indiana, Root in New York. Kr.x in Pennsylvania. Long in Maine, Hitdü k in Alabama and Pftyne in Massarhu.- tts. Ail but Knox and Root are now credit d t other States. A new story is being told of the days when Mark Twain was a hack-writer in San Francisco on a weekly salary represented by one figure, Bret Harte ai:i Joaquin Miller serving on the same statf with like pay. A woman of means wht patronized Bohemia an.l gave the imp. -cunlous struggle rs many a good din'; r. Faw Mark Twain, thinly clad and imp. rfectly shod, standing with a ciar ! x under his arm and looking hungriiv in . t a confectioner's window. The patrone -f letters asked what was in the box. " h " drawled the humori.?t. "I'm moving agair.." The value of William Marconi, the Inventor of wireless te lepra pliy, as a gr. .t public attraction has not escaped the ma:.ager of a lecture bureau. The in vent rr !..; received an offer of Jli. a 1 ctute : r twelve to bo delivered by him in the I r.lt- I States. In eleclining the offer Mr. Mar : i said that his hopes and amMtb.r 'r b -yond lecturing at evm $l,e.) a nicht H'is at present neglecting vhrt "uistara e wireless telegraphy, in which mcn. v cars be made immediately, for the n:n..W . : enveloping transatlantic work, and he snvs J1 ls nt? time to put into any more talking than is absolutely necessary at prcfe:.. When Sou.-,a. now famous the world over as king of march music, landel in the; "home of the free" he carried with him a valise on which was marked in plain l,tt r, 4 4V . .... John Phijlrso. U. S. A." Time pass, d a:. 1 ,,,t.o? f isu,nn' Italy commenced to gxv lus.cai and also to b. . n.-. . ., .nw.,.t ir thl m rin.: S3, the stor' eocs. that he oxul tho?sre for a name more marly UKe tnose of the people of which he was on b choice Philipso sounded out of phue doing service for a man who had imbib-i American beliefs and customs and wh,e destiny was closely linked with tho "Stars and fc tri pes" forever. A member of th nana to which he belonged nnal'.v made a suggestion. It turnetl out to be a happv one, and was adopted by the master 'f the baton. The suggestion was this- To s name Philipso add the U. S. A. lMvide the one name into two words, nnd there wa tno fcmooth-soumling and easily pronounced name of John Philip Sousa,