Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1904 — Page 26

PART TIIRFF. ff Indianapolis Technical Institute Will Be Open for Students in September Six Arsenal Buildings in Fine Condition Will Serve Admirably for School Purposes... Plans o the Directors for the Trades and Technical Divisions. ..Girls to Have a Department

TUE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1A04.

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In the Literary World Something About Boohs, the Men "Who Write Boohs, and Other Matters Concerning the Literary Profession

IND words for editors have been wK 1 the rule of late, soys a writer in A k 1 a i r- i I.. i Mu 111, Il'fPMU.Ill, u editor's case.'" It may be that Leslie Stephen's touching account Of his work on the Dictionary of Biography has started the wave of compassion, or it may be that f"wr mnn iscrlpts than usual have been returned. At all events, in the columns of this magazine and elsewhere it has been said, and we think proven, that the editor is no monster, and some have gone so far as to credit him with good intentions, decent manners and a rough notion of what he wants. It is, however, a false peace, due solely to the animal spirits of a few happy contributors, meaning no more than if an inebriated charity worker were to toss a dollar to a tramp. The relation between editor and contributor is one of the "imperfect affinities" described by Charles Lamb. There are periodicals professedly founded on mutual love, but th- y are like those boarding houses which landladies advertise as "all one family" to be voided by any boarder who can climb a tree. Mr. Bliss Perry in a recent essay on the analogy of boarding houses to magaaines has said that as the landlady of the Atlantic Monthly he does not particularly like some of the dishes he serves. He thinks that would be too much to expect of any caterer and mentions a number of talented editors who in bringing contributors ami readers together suppress their private tastes. He might have added that the relation of caterer to green grocer, of editor to contributor, is apt fo be cold-blooded. And it Is well known to all who have read and bosrded that geniality is Injurious alike to editors and landladies, and that taking their work as a whole it needs more criticism than It receives. They He becalmed on the habits of their majority, and they need a blast from the discontented to make them go. Editors complain of abusive letters and unreasonable demands. Landladies tell you of vipers nourished at a table that, if anything. Is far too good. For all that, the honest grumbier is the ally of progress and the friend of man. Boarding up and down the world this many a year, worn to the bone with table talk, a veteran of counties-boarding-house engagements and contentious meals, we have learned that the comfort of the many hangs on the fury of the few. The wrth of the party in the third floor front, hideous though it be, tempers the wind to the shorn iamb in the back parlor. The malcontent shakes his list and the beds of the meek are made in the morning. Towels and food and heat are no mere products of the arts of peace. They are wrung by the fears of insurrection. It is the voice of Rienzi in his bathrobe, the oratory of some hallroom Hampden, that brings these things to pass. So it is with printed matter, whether it be a magazine or a dictionary of biography. It is absurd to -a m editor knows his business. Editors, landladies and kings never know their business, but the Wat Tyler of criticism helps them to learn. That is the main point ir the boarding-house analogy and Mr Perty left it out. Editors are far too sheltered as a class. Only a small fraction of the large volume of instructive denunciation and ridicule ever reaches them. An explo-.dve or sarcastic reader relives hisfeelings in private conversation, and that la aa far as it goes. Time and again on talking with editors you find them strangely unconscious of opprobrium. With certain editors it is unsafe to take it for granted that they know what the Joke Is against themselves. They would not even wink at a brotheV augur. The critics of Mr. Stephen's great work were often uttt rly unreasonable. No doubt he had ten letters blaming him for an error in a day of the week to ine that caught him in a glaring misinterpretation of a man wh ! work. No doubt he was deluged with complaints to the effect that Brown received two column, and Jones. Incomparably the greater, only one. while Smith, the ineffable, the peerless, was actually left otit altogether. Nevertheless, no work of that class was ever done In a sluggard's heaven of acquisence. and had It not been for the sens a lively, captious and watchful few even Mr. Stephen would have sometimes rlept. No puidk -spirited citizen should ever lost a chance to prick an editor or write ., letter about rapid transit and crowded trains. The Book We Read. Boston Transcript. In the current number of the Bookman appears a list of twenty-six works of fiction and each one of them has rounded the hundred-thousand stake in the race for the largest circulation. Some of them are in the 4M.000 class, and "David Harum" heads the procession with TiTT.OOO. All the wellknown names are included, those titles that We hsve all become perfectly familiar with. ven If we have not read the books, front the advertising pages preceding the reading matter in the magazines, where month aft. r month by the alluring aid of the miniature reproductions of their covers, we have been Impressed with the remarkable quaPtles of the books "as advertised." We have no intention of booming the truth that it pays to adv. rtise. though doubtle-- tone of the popularity of these "great works of Action" has been made, or t least fostered, by tin ir attractive announcement-. N"..r an . inclined to ompare the relative values of the books, as representing religious, everyday, or roman tic themes. What strikes us prominently bist nni i th. amount of optimisrn that thes books have s. ttt -oughoitf the land. That is approximatel what they add tip to. And if we reikon thn read r t.. ca h book, and then Bote that almost without exception the tone oi the books is cheerful. r idealistic, or of the "hard-tussi.-biit-er.'i-weU" variety, we must stand, not aghast, but strongly imyeeased with the fact that some twentv million r-ad-rs luv. a.-imilatcd ;'tt bast on optimistic attitudes of mind from th creations of contemporary American authors. optimism has been naturally a very Strong motive force m the world. A historian of literature or civilization will trace with much pleasure ami Ingenuity the progress of things as resulting from the combats of optimism at -1 . . ssirnnm. But of the two and we have to choose on,, view of things we are in -lined to cast th. vote detdedly for optimism 'Pessimism, like the poor, is always about us. We do not; In choosing optimism, champion sugar-and-water literature, summer nailing, the cup-and-sancer con.edy. the romantic novel as Our best forms of literature, or even the most helpful, 1,' the public can assimil t nore eerious literary pabulum. But. being Optlmisti. . we an eneouiaged at this norSBous output of optimistic fi tion. It la distinctly needed, or it would not be bought and sons um ed Some time ago we aided strongly with th. nhrarians that believe in th. open sh. lv s and a liberal supply of fiction. ..r which the public may make unrestricted use. These six million copies or mon mentioned . an- n i . may be I hard, or n ful belief we enjoy give us. or mat nction is needed; it jse the ecery-day life la" ao able, or because In our lnert "It's all coming out riKht" confirmation that the start's Of course. w- I d?. Ireumlng optimi: kind that the Ann l from its reading. W far more vital and m might be the subj. . ti ize the dangers of a i. but that is not the themes in life thought of these millions of readers, but to offset that luk

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we realise the fundamental emotions of love and hate and daring and sacrifice that are strongly woven Into all these stories. We know that in many cases the characters are romantic or strongly and heroically impossible, but It is also true that there are David Harums and Virginians and otber mouthpieces of genuine Americans among them that will atone for a certain lack of problem and psychology in many of the stories. In the midst of our present life, when labor unions and war and monopolies and Iroquois theaters, and our own small a hievements are all about us to worry our principles and conceptions of what is right and Just, there seems to be no doubt that we need a strengthening of our faith in others and in ourselves. We struggle mutely, persistently to preserve it, through church and Christmas, social service and "thinking it all over." The craving to "believe" manifests itself also, though in what proportion it Is Impossible to say, in this consumption of fiction. There is a reason far more serious than amtisement in the circulation of twenty-six books that aggregate nearly seven million copies. The Age of Romance. Youth's Companion. "Talking of novels." sale a young Journalist who had lingered after the club meeting with half a dozen friends, "reminds me of Ethel. I dropped in at my sister's yesterday and found Ethel who is twelve with her eyes red and swollen. I didn't like to make inquiries for fear it was a case of tamily discipline, but presently her mother turned to the child " 'Ethel.' she said, I really can t let you read '.'John Halifax" any longer, or you will have ho eyes left.' And Ethel lifted her red eyelids and stammered out. pleadingly, 'Oh, please let me. mamma! I'm through the crying part now. truly I am!' A ripple of laughter ran round the group, and then confessions began. One woman, a physician of high standing, acknowledged that when she was ten she had cried herself to sleep over the death of Uncas in "The Last of the Mohicans." Another, a brilliant society woman, said that she took out a certain old-fashioned Sunday-school book once a month regularly for a year for the exquisite sorrow of weeping over its heroine's pious death. "Scottish Chief." "The Old Curiosity Shop." "Little Women" and "Evangeline" had. it appeared, each claimed Its quota of tears; and when one woman declared that she "wouldn't not have cried for anything." the sentiment met with unanimous though merry acceptance. Although tear-compelling fiction was not to be recommended in unlimited quantities, yet the "sweet sorrow" of those blurred pages of childhood was remembered tenderly by these women to whom the years had brought griefs and duties that dimmed the power of romance. There are two sides to the question, of course there always are when there are not more. To become so absorbed in the sorrows and fortitude of some beautiful and unfortunate heroine that one forgets to set the table or darn the stockings has not 1 n unknown. Yet in general it is under the influence of these same heroines that the child, unskilled as yet in reading the secrets of the lives in her every-day world, begins crudely enough, but honestlj-, to build her ideals of courage, sweetness and patience. For after all not even a twentieth century curriculum can contain all the courses in the school of life, and many a child has for months or years a teacher not down upon any pay roll. The child does not speak of her often, but in her thoughts she is honored with capitals. She is She her Heroine. Mr. Joseph (nnrntl. New York Tribune. The scene of Mr. Joseph Conrad's new a. rSdory. Nostromo, is South America. It is said concerning this author that he was born in southern Poland and lived there through his childhood on a farm. He served in the French navy and was present at the bombardment of faracas; and when he joined the English men antile marine at twenty-one he knew not one word of En lish. His "dropping into literature" is thus described by T. P. 's Weekly: "He worked his way in a Lowestoft coal ing schooner from boy to able seaman passing from that by way of being night watchman in Sydney harbor to mate of a collier bound for Bangkok, reading Whyte Melville. Darwin, Kenan, Taine. Daudet. Dickens. Addison, Tennyson. Miss Braddon. reading omnivorously as sailors read, and nearly first of all the English Bible that was given him by a colporteur in Ratcliff highway. In his first voyage as an officer his ship was on fire (as we may read in Youth b and he saw the East for the first time as a boy in charge of a dingy. He sought for gold up Malay rivers in canoes; he commanded wool schooners on the coast of Australia; he was in charge of steam ers and caravans on the Congo. His health broke down. At a railway bookstall in Switzerland where he was making a 'cure' he saw the small yellow covers of a once famous series of English short stores. Th idea came into his head that he might write." The "(nil of the WIM." Philadelphia Press. "The 'Call of the Wild' is strong within some men." said a member o the OK i I . . I : . V, . . . M..K V.,. K n or i i ii 1 1 1 1 o 1 1 . oi . i i;o nit- oiiir-i i nave a most gnawing desire right at this mo ment to go to Korea and see the fighting and get Into 'the strenuous life' over there. And I have heard a dozen men express the same wish in a sort of whis per with a far-away look in their eyes. We take out our tall in going on an nual hunting trips, but how can that compare with being in the midst of a wamse scene wnere men are me game that is hunted. I envy Pick Davis. John box. Marion right and the rest of thos, lucky war correspondents with my whole Sotll. . "The story of the disappearance of Laf cadio Hearne. the writer whose new I k of Japanese fairy tales is soon to appear in tnis country. oes not astonish anv one who knows him. and he is well known in Philadelphia Every now and then th. Bohemian in him gets the best of him and he simply disappears. It is the "Call of the Wild." No ti. are too sacred for him to break, and he is over sixty now At one time he driited to Japan and mar rled a Japanese woman. That was where I first met htm His father was an Irish man of good birth and his mother a Gn ek. When he was a lad .n u is sent to Ma-ii-.oth College, in England, but disappeared and lived a sort ot gypsy lite for years." 1 lie I rend llm.l.v T!. Mi.", Wcntworth Higginson. in th. Mar. h Atlantic. The only knowledge that involvs no burden lies, it may be justly claimed, in the books that are left unread. 1 mean thos, which remain undisturbed, long and per haps forever, on a student's bookshelves; t ks for whieh he p ssibly nomized and to obtain which he went without his dinner: books on whose backs his eyes have rested a thousand times, Mulerh and almost lovingly, until he has perhaps forgotten the very language In which th. are written. He has never read them, yet during these years there has never been a day when he would have sold them; they are a part of his youth. In dnams In turns to them; in dreams lie reads llehnw at::..

T has been definitely decided that the National Technical Institute shall have a department devoted to won. en. When the school was first planned this was hardly conaide red. but since such great progress nas been made in providing for boys, the direct ors came to the conclusion that some pro vision should be made for girls. Just what work the women will take has not as yet been considered and is to be left wholly to an advisory board composed of promin nt women. Who will be members of this w. man s board is not known, for .the directors have not made any selections, but have under consideration a number of women whom they will soon ask to serve on this board. The character of the woman's de partment has. so far. been indefinite, and nothing has bcu done but to discuss the matter; lately, however, the discussion has begun to take the shape of an actuality, and the work has been taken up in earnest. The only thing, however, that the directors are definite about is, the woman's depart ment will be to fit women to earn their livelihood in the same manner as the trade school of this institution fits men to earn their living, by thoroughly teaching them an occupation. It is already assured that the proposed department will have a large endowment. though the benefactor does not wish his name given to the public. The sum which he contributes puts it beyond a doubt that this now venture in the institution will be a success, and it is thought others will fol low with endowments when the proper time comes. When the department for women is opened the institution will be conducted partly on a co-educational and partly an annex system. It is now proposed to have the northern end of the ground, whifh lies along East Tenth street, reserved for the woman's building. There have been many inquiries as to whether or not there would be a girls' school In connection with the other, and many expressed their opinion by saying that, in an institution which will be as large as this and which will be equipped with every contrivance for learning all sorts of trades, there should be a place for girls to learn suitable callings. It was these opinions, coming in so frequently, that had much to do in influencing the board or directors to take the step in forming a woman's department, and before long the course of study the women will take will be thoroughly mapped out. It has been definitely decided by the authorities of the school that it will open Sept. 14. Many have thought that it would be impossible to get the scnool lu working order bv that time, but because of the build ings that were formerly used by the government when the place was occupied by the arsenal, this will be feasible. It was a great surprise to the directors of the Tech nical Institute when they came to investigate the buildings which it was thought would amount to nothing. Every one of them was found to be in perfect condition, and there will be scarcely any expense at all attached to repairing them. It will, however," put the institution to considerable expense to get them in readiness for school purposes, but the structures themselves could hardly be in better order and were found to be just what was wanted by the institute. SIX GOOD BUILDINGS. The buildings that are now on the old arsenal grounds are six. The main structure Is large and spacious and, like all of the rest. Is built of pressed brick. It is almost like a new building, for the government spent $80,000 on it for repairs shortly before the arsinal was sold. It Is thought now that this building, on account of its size, will be used for the machine department. However, the machine department will not be ready for students before next year, as it will take some time to equip and find instructors for it. In this building will be taught the machinist's trade, which is seldom given as a part of the course in trade schools. The one connected with this institution will be one of the few in the United States. The buildiug that was formerly used as the artillery hall is also in excellent condition and will be an admirable place for the teaching of buildiug trades on account of the large floor space ivhich is to be had. Then there is the new power house on the grounds, which was erected only a few years before the place was sold and which cost in the neighborhood of $30.o00. This, of course, will be very necessary for a school of this kind, because electrical power will be one of the chief essentials. The building at present is not fitted up with machinery, but contracts have already been let for putting in the power. When this is complete-d the place will be thoroughly fitted out. What was formerly used as the stable, where the horses of the government were kept, will be transformed into a chemical laboratory. This stable is a large structure composed of brick and stone and is three stories high. The barracks. which is located near the stable, will also be converted into a chemical laboratory, as two buildings devoted to this use will be necessary. The architect is now drawing up the necessary plans, and he says that there will he knows what a differential equation is; "how happy could he be with either." He awakens, and whole shelves of his library are. as it were, like fair maidens who smiled on him in their youth but once, and then pissed away. Under different circumstances, who knows but one of them might have been his. but they have grown old apart from him; still for him they retain th- ir charms. He meets them as the ever04 lihtful but now half-forgotten poet Praed meets hi3 "Belle of the Ball" in later years; "For in my heart's most secret cell There had been many other lcxiprers And she was not the ballroom's belle Dut only Mrs. Something Rogers." So in my case, my neighbors at the Harvard observatory have solved the differential equations; my other neighbors, the priests, have read let us hope the Hein, w psalms; but I live to ponder am th books unread. The laMi l'n ue. It is "womanlike." we know. Yt when we pick up a book ". read but a page or so. Then we take a quiet look At the last iagt at the end And we fear no wild alarms That the subtle plot may send If "he" has "her" in his arms. Then we start to read again; t'huckle at the hero's woes. At his struKles all in vain; Iaugh because he never kno.vs That the damsel young and fair. Who his vows of love has spurned. Will at meekly waiting there When the Anal page is turned. And the villain all his fun Would be rendered flat and spoiled. All his schemes, so well begun, Would le very tamely foiled If he knew the secret, too Knew the truth his heart to launt; What the berobta would do. How she'd tell him to "Avaunt!" Often when the hero seems Just about to leave the raceThinks his hopes are idle dreams. And the OMi too gfreat to face; Or the heroine when she Wand r- numd. full of despair W turn t the end. and see How it winds up, happy, there. Father's rage, or mother's scorn; Scheming, shrewd adventuress; Make the hero all forlorn. And it's ticklish, you'll confess. Hut we inwardly advise: "Cheer up! This will soon be past!" For the lasi iage makes us wise There he murmurs: "Mine at last!" W. D. Nesblt. in Chicago Tribune. Half per Three I'.ditors. New- pa perdom. The statement frequently appears in the pr.-ss that George "William Curtis was editor of Mar: r'a Magazine. This is not true, thHiu'Ii Mr. Curtis for years conducted the "Kditor's Kasy Chair."' As a matter of history, Harpvra Magazine has had but three editors since its inception in lS5o. The first editor was Henry J. Raymond, who founded the New York Times one year afterward. He was sue. ceded by Dr. Alfred H. Guernsey, and Dr. Guernsey by Henry

be no trouble experienced in changing the structures for their new purposes, as they are of such a substantial sort and well built. There are also two very handsome residences on the grounds, which were formerly used by the army officers who had charge of the arsenal. These buildings will be used by. the school for recitations. The rooms in both of these residences are large and spacious and as trny have plenty of windows which admit an abundance of light and ventilation, they will make admirable places for conducting classes. It must not be thought, however, that be

cause there are six buildings on the grounds they are all that are needed, for several others will have to be erected. Plans are now being drawn for ttloKi. but it has not been decided to what use they will be put further than that one of them will be an auditorium situated nenr the center of the grounds and of sufficient capacity to hold a large number of people. Another, It is known, will be used as a library, and it will be constructed according to the latest and most approved plans. The other new buildings will be used in the school department and will be occupied by the students learning various trades. THE OPENING COUBSES. On account of the lack of room It will be necessary, when the school opens, to begin with Just one-half of the subjects which will eventually be taught. Altogether, the various trades that will be learned at the institution will number eighteen, but next winter only nine of them will be taken up and these will include only the building trades. To complete the course in this work will take ten months, which are divided into five months' school years. The trades will be taught the boys in a thoroughly practical manner and when a student comes from the institute he will be able to go into any shop and engage in a workmanlike manner in the trade he has learned. As an illustration of how these trades will be taught, the course which will be given those who will learn to be electrical workers can be taken. This does not include the science of electricity, but it teaches the students how to run wires, put in telephones and different instruments of that kind. This course is divided into four parts, the first being designated as bell work. This covers thirty subjects and begins by having the student name the tools and ends by having him setting telephones. The second part is divided into eleven subjects and is for putting in burglar alarms. The third is electric gas lighting, which has nine subjects, and the fourth is electric wiring and lighting; the last has thirty-three subjects, making in all eighty-three to be covered by the pupil in ten months. TiVre will also be a post-graduate course conducted by the institute and stuuents in all branches can take it if they so desire. Prof. Stanley Coulter, of Purdue University, has been chosen to the office of dean of the Technical Institute, and will accept. The board of directors think themselves very fortunate in procuring so able a man as Professor Coulter to fill this position. One of the unique features of the institute, and one which all of the officers heartily approve, is the manner in which scholarships are to be given. There will be no charity students in this school, that is, no absolutely free scholarships. The scholarships, which wilt tc numerous, will only be loaned to the students getting them. They will have to give their personal note, which will be due in ten years, and this note will bear no interest. When the student pays it back the scholarship will again be used for another poor boy. This will also have a tendency to put all the students on an equal footing and there will be no humiliation felt by any of them. The Bev. S. C. Dickey, president of the Technical Institute, was seen last night in his apartments at the Blacherne. He was asked by the interviewer what would be the effect of such a school as the Technical Institute in trade unions, and in reply said : "That is a question which has often been asked me and one which I have never been prepared to answer until I made a thorough investigation of the subject by traveling and visiting quite a number of trade schools. I can say that such schools will have no effect whatever on trade unions and. ir. fact, the unions are for the most part heaxtily in favor of them." "What becomes of the different things that are made in such a school?" asked the questioner. "The school," said Mr. Dickey, "will purchase all of its own materials to be used In the various shops, and whatever is built by the senior students is torn down by those in the junior class." Mr. Dickey waS asked if It were not an advantage to the younger students to tear down the work of their seniors and if it did not give them an insight into the construction of the different things made, and he said : "Yes; It Is a great advantage, and instructors in other trade schools say that students learn considerable in simply tearing to pieces what the others have built. THE BOYS TO BE REACHED. "The National Technical Institute," continued Mr. Dickey, "is solely for the 97 per cent, of boys who do not reach the high school and find it necessary to go to work. It will fit them in such a way that they are better able to cope with the battles of life and be on an equal footing with their fellow-men" "How is the school to be managed?" "This school in Indianapolis." was the reply, "is to have two departments the one technical, the other trade. The technical MMls Alden, author of "God in His World," and "A Study of Death." Mr. Alden has occupied the editorial chair of the magazine for about thirty-tive years. Before going to the Harpers he had taught, and had written editorials for the New York Evening Post and Times. He was first associated with the Harpen as editor of their Pictorial History of the Civil War and later was offered an editorial position on the Weekly. Mr. Fletcher Harper, who edited the Weekly, said to Mr. Alden, then a young man of twenty-six: "Do you think you could manage the Weekly?" And Mr. Alden replied with modesty and tact: "I think I could help you do it." He helped so efficiently that six years later he was made editor of Harper's Magazine. It is interesting to record that the first manuscript he read in his new capacity was a short story by Louise Chandler Moulton. Literary !te. Miss Mary Johnston, author of "Audrey" and "To Have and To Hold," plans to sail for the Mediterranean this month and expects to sp nd a year or more in Sicily. The last book of the late Charles Godfrey Iceland is coming out in London. It is entitled "The Alternate Sex. or the Female Intellect in Man and the Masculine in Woman." Mr. W. Clark Russell's new novel, "Abandoned," has a curious plot. It turns uion the aversion which a sea captain's wife conceives toward her husband on the very day of thcit marriage. Ancient MSS. are still to be found. The archivist of Montecassino has just discovered in that famous abbey a parchment containing historical matter of importance hitherto unknown, and bearing upon the Ieriod of the struggle between Gregory VII and Henry IV. Within the last few years a number of valuable books, most of them In a fair state of preservation, have been found in the book stores and second-hand stores of towns in Indian Territory. The lat' st reported is a second edition of Dean Swift's "Tab of a Tub." printed in Dublin in 17Ä. From St. Moritz comes word that Hall Caine, who fled to the Riviera recently to recover from nervous breakdown, is decidedly better. The novelist, however, is not yet up to doing any literary work, and the appearance of his new novel. "The Prodi i ! Son. ' is lik. ly to be delayed for quite a while. Dr. Samuel Smiles, the author of "Self Help'' and kindred works, is now very old. but he maintains his interest in literature. For a man of his venerable years to be still activi is indeed remarkable. In bis ninety-second year, he is aboirt to publish a new hook so far removed from those with whieh his fame is associated that it deals with the "relations between chemical constitution and physical properties." The estate of the late Herbert Spencer has been valued at something slightly over fyo.Ouu. So much fur the "returns" of

will be for graduates of high schools, academies and colleges, and will be similar to the Boston, Armour and Lwis Technical institutes. The purpose of the trade departments is to provide young men who have a bent for mechanics the opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of some trade that

will be to the posse-ssor the means of livelihood." "Will this system be anything like the apprentice system in shops?" No, the apprentice srstem. under which lads formerly learned a trade, is practically a thing of the past. Conditions are so changed that very few employers now care to assume the responsibility of teaching young men a trade. Few realize how difficult it has become for young men to obtain that careful and thorough training which is essential if they are to become me -hanices of the highest skill." Mr. Dickey was asked if there was any particular ajstesn to be taught in this school such as the "Auchmuty" system, which is very popular in trade schools. "It is not fully decided." he said, "but It is fairly probable that the system of instruction adopted by the Indianapolis trade department will be that which you have named. Under this system a course of Instruction is arranged by which both the practical and theoretical branches of the trade are taught, so manual trade skill is not only acquired, but the scientific principles that underlie the practical are also taught. In the training of young men for the handicrafts the combination of the trade school and the workshop Is best suited to modern conditions; the schools to give the young man a knowledge of howto use his tools, how to do the work and the theory of the trade, and the workshop to give him experience, facility and speed of execution." "How are the different courses of studies outlined?" "For each trade taught at the school." said Mr. Dickey, "a course of instruction is prepared which outlines in detail what work the student is required to go through and the order in which the work is to be performed." "The first exercises given the student are extremely simple, are they not?" was asked. "Yes, at first the student is put on work that is very simple, but as skill and a workman-like use of the tools are acquired he is advanced to tasks that are more difficult and complicated until he is made familiar with the various branches of the trade." A PRACTICAL INSTITUTION. "Your aim, of course, is to make the work as thoroughly practical as possible?" "The work given the students will be thoroughly practical; there is no" doubt of that. The scientific instruction imparts knowdedge of the trade that is of the highest value and is given by means of carefully prepared lectures, manuals, diagrams and experiments. Mechanics of high skill and long experience, with adaptability to teach, will be employed to act as instructors, and each student will receive Individual care and attention. Careful explanation will be made of every step of the course, and the instructors will be found constantly among the students." Mr. Dickey was asked if there was not p greater advantage in learning a trade under the present trade' school system than under the old way of gtring into a shop as an apprentice to leara it. "A comparison between the present day method of learning a trade in a shop and the trade school system." he said, "clearly shows the advantage which the latter offers young men. In former times a young man was employed simply to make himselt useful about the shop, and neither the master nor the workmen had the time to glv him the instructions he should have received. What knowledge he obtained the lad himself acquired by observation, and as a result of the neglect of proper teaching his progress was slow and he often gained a limited knowledge of the trade. In the coming technical school every endeavor will be- made tb advance the student in the trade he is learning, and by reason of the Care that is devoted to his instruction, in a very short time he understands how to use his tools and is capable of doing work that makes him of value to nis employer." "Is there to be a night school connected with the institution?" "It is planned, said Mr. Dickey, "to have both day and evening classes. The day classes, which, as they are open to the beginners as well as to those who are working at a trade, will make it possible for young men who reside in distant localities to obtain the advantage of the school. The experience of trade schools is to the effect that the student can complete, by attendance upon day classes, a course of study in one-third the time which he can by attendance upon evening classes." "What will be the requirements ot a student entering this institution?" "The only requirement of the student entering the trade department will be that of good moral character, an ability to read and write, and a written statement of his purpose to be obedient to the rules of the institution and diligent in acquiring the trade he is to learn. "Another thing that I want to impress upon the people of Indianapolis, and specially those who live near where the institute is to be located," concluded Mr. Dickey, "is that we will have no dormitories and consequently the students will have- to find places to sleep. As many of the students will not have a great amount of money it will be necessary for them to find boarding places that are reasonable as to price. We want every one who has room to take some of these boys at as reasonable a rate as possible., and in this way many people will have the opportunity to help the institution in its work." philosophy. On the other hand, the late Henry Seton Marriman left a fortune of more than $250.000. He left a legacy of 125.000 to Evelyn Beatrice Hall, "in token of my gratitude for her .continued assistance and literary advice, without which I should never have been able to have made a living by my pen." Mr. Herbert Spencer's autobiography will appear in May. He calls it "a natural history of myself,'' which will certainly prove to be a misnomer. The only natural history which any man ever wrote of himself was "Rousseau's Confessions," and that was not truthful enough from beginning to end to deserve such a title. But Mr. Spencer's autobiography will be interesting and valuable even if it is not scientifically true and exhaustive, and it will be looked for with unusual interest. Miss Hildegarde Hawthorne, whos newbook, "A Country Interlude," is published this spring is a daughter of Julian Hawthorne and a granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. She was taken abroad as a baby and lived in England and on the continent for a dozen or more years. Since then, she has led a more or less wandering existence, mostly in America, but sending two years in the Island of Jamacia and another year In Prance and Italy. Miss Hwthorne is nowliving at Vonkers on the Hudson, and the ceM of her story is laid at a country place on this river. She has previously been known through her short stories and poems which have appeared in many of the leading magazines. If Japan has not alwjays been discriminating in its tastes for American aud English literature, it at least is far ahead of us in one regard, if a writer in the March Critic is to be believed. He says, until recent renn at least, novel writing bai not been looked upon as a respectable profession in Japan; that the public would not permit it to DC called "gentleman's work.'" and that it was regard, d "an unpardonable diversion of unworthy nrodlglea." Herein, it must be believed, is to be found one of the chief elements of Japan's strength and greatness. Strong and able-bodied men have not been permits d to write "best sellers" and still be called gentlemen; nor gentle girls to write $1.50 shockers, and still be called ladies. The J oil I o iin I .print Of hand -made pai-r. deckle-edjte. And clothed in cruah.-d Ivsnt. am I. A numbered copy, with a pledge That twenty-tiv 's the world's supply; Tet high uHn the shelf I pine. Day in. najr out. and year by year. Untouched by him h ealfel me 'mine.' lake any conn. -ion Klzevir. I'.ut he. in runty parcfunent clad. A battered vuicrfint. foxed and fla'd. IIa all to make him prou.i and Riad. He- not for show, he's kept to read. Ft him there's camaradci i . The easy chair, the glow Ins; log-. While 1 must sleep, content to be An item in a catalogu A. H.. in the Critic.

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Official Closing of Winter Leads to TalK About Weath

Though the Season "Was Unc ,ually Cold There Is No Reason to ThinK Climate is Changing... A Glacial Theory

up i . : e .! A Vioo 11 UlllCiai ClOMHH Ol WUOCl lino I I taken place. It occurred on the Si I . . m , rri. . . v. - . . u 1st oi Marco, liieie iui oe .unci cold days during this month, and even next, but they will not be recognized as part of the winter, for the government says that December. January and February shall constitute the three winter months, and If there are any cold spells before or after this they are not counted in as part of the winter, but only as extremely cold days in either spring or fall. This last winter has been one of the coldest that the local weather bureau has had to deal with for a number of years. No one who has had to go out of doors much this winter but has realized" that it has been very cold for three months, but the temperature has not only seemed cold, but it has been officially cold, and there is a decided difference between mere personal impressions and official figures in the matter of the weather. It is remarkable when the two are sometimes compared what a great variance is manifest. As an instance of this, the other morning the city was shivering with an arctic temperature. As a- matter of fact it was not unusually cold for a winter morning, but the fact that the wind was coming from the northwest and was blowing what cold there was across town at a forty-mile clip, pressing it against the chilly faces and through every crack and barrier of warm clothing, made it seem fifteen degrees colder than it really was. Ther have been many such days during the last winter, but then there have been quite a number when every one, indoors and out. realized that It was cold and needed no official figures from the weather man to prove it. The weather bureau has been established thirty-three years, and there Is on record just one winter colder than this last one, the difference between the two being very little. In the winter of 1885-86 the mean temperature was 23.6. and this last winter it was 23.8, which made a difference of two-tenths of a degree. That was all that kept this Winter from being a record breaker, and as it Is it will give the "oldest inhabitants ' something to talk about until the next record-breaking winter comes along. The old weather prophets have been reciting tales of the cold and hardships that occurred In the winter of 1885-86 ever sine:that year, and because several of the previous winters have been exceedingly mild many of thorn thought that a change of climate was taking place, and that this whole part of the country was getting warmer; but the cold weather of the three last winter months, which started alon in November, exploded this idea, and thos-e who predicted the change of climate had to look for excuses for the return of the cold weather. Another thing that made this winter so disagreeable was that it was very stormy, and there was snow on the ground the greater part of the time. There is an old saying that is familiar to everyone that on whichever day of the month the first snow falls there will be that number during the winter. Just the exact number that was to occur this winter is rather confusing from the fact that each one who made a prediction has a different number, and on inquiry among many of the old inhabitants it was found that the snowfalls would be between twenty-five and thirty-nine NOW the question is, what constitutes a snowfall? Is it every time a few flakes fall from the sky. or does it take a whole day of snowing to make one snowfall? WHAT A SNOWFALL IS. W. T. Blythe, who has charge of the local weather bureau, when asked how many snowfalls had occurred this last winter, wanted to know what the questioner called a snowfall, whether it was a mere trace of snow or a day's snowing. The government does not recognize a snowfall unless when it melts it will be equal to onehundredth of an inch'of rain. To get this it generally take a whole day of snowing. so practically a snowstorm that lasts twenty-four hours is looked upon as a snowfall by the government. There were twentyfour snows last winter that the government recognized as snowfalls, which is an exceedingly large number for this locality. And the falls of snow altogether, counting traces which the average person would think was a snowstorm, were thirty-eight, so the man who prophesied thirty-nine (amc very near getting it right. December of last year was an exception from the fact that It was colder than that month generally is. The mean temperature for December last winter was 24.2 denwnan, which is considerably below the normal average, and therefore it was the coldest December that the weather bureau has any record of. The same month in the winter of i885 was much warmer, the mean temperature being 32.2. This winter's Decembt r average was rive degrees lower than that ot the same month in the preceding year, 1902, which was on the whole a rather mild winter. The warmest December was in 1889, which was a comparatively warm winter. The mean temjerature for that month during that year was 46.8. January, which is always known as the coldest month of the year because it is in the middle of winter, had an average temperature of 22 degrees. This, however, was not the coldest January that has ' b.-.-n known, for it had one predecessor which holds the record. In 1893 the mean temperature for January was 17.9, which is the coldest month on record. In 1875 the average temperature of this month was lower than during last winter. That year Um mean temperature was 19.8. A year ago the mean temperature enme up to 26 8 In thirty-three years there have been eighteen Januaries where the temperature has ranged between an average of 22 to 2S degrees. This is a lower temperature" than any othei winter month has for there have only been fifteen I'ebruarles in which the range of temperature was between 3o and 29. and of this same month there were seventeen where the average was between 30 and 39. In 1SS2 the avemee temo.o ..t or.. I of February was 42 degrees. In January mere nave oniy oeen twelve in thirty-three v.ar.s where the mean has ranged bet we. n I 30 and 38 degrees. In the month of Decem- ! her the records snow warmer weather and I there have been twelve Decembers where the mean temperature was between 24 and 29. while there have been sixteen with an average temperature between 31 and 3. FKBRI ARY S TKM PKRATI'RK. February, for the first three weeks, was going ahead steadily as a record-breaker. Then three warm days occurred. They w. re not summer days by any means, but th.y were warm compared to what had been. These days were the 21st. 22! and 23d. which brought the mean temperature for the month up again toward average figures. Aft-r that tame another bojd wave, ao that February averaged very well with the other winter months. The m. an temperature was 25 degrees, so it did not turn out an abnormally cold month, although it was cold. The difference between last winter and the other cold winters was. so say the weather bureau men. that it was pi i tit ally one long cold wave. Heretofore. while there would be one or two days with

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the temperature ranging several degrees below zero there would be an Interruption of a few days of warmer weather. This last winter, however, was one continual stead) pull, but the only day that the temperature remained really low was on Jan. 27. when the thermometer registered 7 below zero. On Feb. 4 the mercury went down to 3 below, and on Dec. 26. the day after Christmas. It registered 4 below tero. Of course these are official figures and will be. disputed by the person who has a thermometer hanging on the front rorch. which he consults every hour during extreme w-eather. tor there is considerable difference between the thermometers that the government has at the weather bureau and those owned by the average person. Thos of the government are up high, where nothing interferes with their registering what the temperature really Is. while the other, down on the street, or on a porch, may be f-o situated that the wind comlna from only one- direction will hit It directly and thus make the mercury fall a degree or two. As far as cold days are concerned, several during previous winters have been considerably colder than any day of last winter. An instance of this was on Sunday. Jan. 15, 1S3. The temperature on that day reached 16 below zero and practically stayed there all day. That was during the time that natural gas was used exclusively, but It was not equal to the occasion on that day. It was necessary for a numlcr of churches to dismiss their congregations on account of not having enough heat to warm the bt'ildlr.gs. and there was great suffering among people of all classes. That winter, as a whole, however, war a comparatively warm one. anp that spell of weather, which came in January, was the only one of any consequence during th" whole winter. There have been several other times in the last few years when the thermometer went to 10 and 14 degrees, but did not remain there more than a day. In fact, it seems that it is during the mild winters when these extremely cold days occur, but warmer weather Renerally follows. DR. CLARK'S THEORY. An Interesting theory has been advanced in the last few weeks by Dr. John Mason Clark, paleontologist for the State of New York, who contends that we are yet In the glacial period, and that we can expect such relapses into cold weather as we have Just experienced almost any winter. He says, in support of his theory: ''Man is still living in the glacial period. The prevalent idea that the ice age was a remotely distant epoch in the earth's history, that it disappeared long ago and was followed by changes which tremendously modified the face of nature In the latitudes of this country, is a very Imperfect one. "We are not exactly living about the edge of an ice cap. but we are certainly living within the sphere of influence of the diminished remains of the ancient glacial sheet. "To-day from Greenland to New York harbor eastern America is In the grip of the ice as never before during the memory of the living. Last summer was cold and so was the summer before. It Is natural that apprehension should be often expressed that the climate of these latitude is actually changing for the worse, but It la probably true that this is the ordinary and normal oscillation in temperature periods which accompanies the tapering-off of a longer-continued period of refrigeration. "Northern latitudes during the culmination of the last Ice age were sheeted for thousands of years, and It takes long to effice such a condition. Though, with the breaking-up of the ice sheet and the withdrawal and disappearance of the local glaciers resultant floods and concomitant changes in the elevation of the land produced the effect so profound as to actually give birth to our present topography, yet we are to-day in the midst of these proC'SSeS "The ice age prevails and the northern ice cap has not reached its minimum. There is plenty of evidence that aiacial man tili I exists in New York.'" In a thousand years or so Dr. Clark thinks that it ought be perceptibly warmer here both in winter and summer. Another Interesting theory of the paleontologist Is that if we had a series of volcanic eruptions such as occurred in the West Indies two years ago one effect of them would be to wafm the atmosphere considerably. "When Pelee and La Soufriere went off a couple of years ago," he said, "a remarkable feature of their discharge, especially at Pelee, was the outpouring of tremendous quantlttb s of asphyxiating gases, chiefly carbondloxid. It was this that caused the terrific destruction of life. Such discharges of carbon-dloxid into the earth's atmosphere help to make the earth warmer and if there should come soon a season of general volcanic activity throughout the earth wo might reasonably look for a change in climate not only warmer but more equable. A series of volcanic cataclysms may therefore warm up the climate at any time, but otherwise we can hardly expect to get perpetually warm or to escape the probability of more such winters as this for a good while yet." THOMAS JEFFERSON'S MISTAKE. Mr. Blythe, of the local weather bureau, is very skeptical about the causes of cold winters and says that they are only natural and that there are no atmospheric changes taking place, neither does he put any faith in the glacial period theory that Is expounded by Dr. Clark. Mr. Blythe thinks that it is all in the natural course of things, and he says the causes of different changes in weather are so obscure that it is a very difficult matter to tell just what they come from. When asked if there wai anything in the claim that Is often made that the climate is changing he said there was not. and that we now have the same old climate we have always had. He contends that if we have two very warm summers and winters together people begin to think that the climate is getting warmer, and if the weather remains cold, as It was last summer and this winter, they immediately come t. th. conclusion that the climate is getting colder and that it will n t be many years until we will be all dressed! in bear skins and living in fbx like the Eskimo. He further said: "The weather bureau combats the theory that the climate is changing, although it is a very popular fallacy and has been so for more than a century. As long ago as Thomas Jefferson's time this b-llef was popular, and in regard to it Mr. Jefferson said: 'A change of climate is taking place very preeeptlbly. Both heat and cold are becoming more moderate within the memory of even the middle-aged, snows are less frequent and less deep. They do not often lie below the mountains more than one or two days and very rarely a WOffB. The snows are remembered to hae t- n formerly frequent, deep and of long continuance.' " 'The elderly inform me.' continued Mr. Jefferson, 'that the north used to be covered with snow about three months in the year.' "Three or four years ago." continued Mr. Blythe. ait.r having the above question investigated with reference to all parts of the globe where records are kept, and particularly to the statement of Mr. Jefferson, which I Just quoted relative to the i limate of Virginia, the Weath. r Bureau authorized a statement of which I will read a part: Jefferson and his neighbor w. r- nilstak. n. Never during the period of authentic history has snow ..vnvd the ground in Virginia three months n-r year three .ara in Secession The old inhabitants of Jefferson's time were like those of to-day they remember only the abnormalities ,,f the cim.ate of twenty-five or fifty yenra before and in comparing the unusual condin. ns of Ion ago with the average of the present the were deceived." "This is the way it Is at the present time. continued Mr Bvlthe. 'there is aeettieelj no chanw taking place in tha climate, and as I said before we are having the same old climate that our grand. fai a and tlwu aucvjturs t:.j