Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1898 — Page 3

BANGS GOING ABROAD

AUTHOR OF "A HOUSEBOAT ON THE STYX" WILL TAKE A VACATION.

He Is a Quiet Man, Wbo Indulges In No Affectation and Works Sard—Ida M. Tarbell, the Young Woman Historian.

The John Brown Kevival.

[Special Correspondence.!

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—John Kendrick Bangs, author of "A Houseboat on the Styx," is going abroad for a little while. He will sail from this port for London on Feb. 28 and expects to be away two or three months. He has many friends on the other side wbo will no doubt pat forth all sorts of exertions to make his transatlantic stay a pleasant one.

When yon come to think of it, John Kendrick Bangs is probably a little more deserving of a vacation than any other American engaged in the literary business. Besides being aprolifioauthor he holds down one of the most difficult

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editorial jobs now extant. So far as humor goes, ho is a genuine Pooh Bah in the big publishing establishment on Franklin square from which the Harper periodicals are put forth, for he writes a part and edits all the fun that goes into the Editor's Drawer of Harper's Monthly, the famous last page of Harper's Bazar, and the niches reserved for jokes in Harper's Round Table. It must be wearing indeed to pass npou so much and such varied material for laughter.

Yet Mr. Fangs is not in any sense a proud man—quite the reverse. Moreover, bo is easily accessible to contributors. It is true that yon must at*first have the services of a native guide, so to speak, to onable you to thread the devious ways leading from the street to the third or fourth story, whence you cliinb the outdoor winding stair to the editorial floor of the Harper shop. But when you have reached its level there are few formalities.

The floor is a big one, without partitions save in two corners. In one of the two little rooms these partitions oreato sits tho editor of the magazine in the other the editor of Tho Round Table. The desks of the other gentlemen who edit for the Harpers are in the one big department loft. Mr. Bangs sits in plain view of tho visitors' entrance, so that thire is never any uncertainty as to whethei he is in or not. If he is, he will see you at once unless he is extremely busy.

His way of disposing of contributions is decidedly businesslike. He reads them while you wait, putting aside what ho likes and handing back the re* mainder. When you go out, you know just where you are. There are no delays and no lost manuscripts in his department.

Oils) of John Kendrick Bangs' peculiarities lies in the somewhat unusual fact that ho looks like his published portraits. His beard is heavy and black, but he keeps it trimmed extremely close. He dresses in brown mostly. He talks like a business man and injects few or no witticisms into his conversation. He likes baseball, among other things, and he commemorated a game between the marriod mou and tho bachelors of the Harper establishment last fall by apiece of rhyme of so many stanaas that it made a good sized pamphlet when printed for privato circulation. He is person ally very popular among his fellow workers.

Miss Ida Tarbell, who edited the Dana reminiscences now running through one of the magazines, is one erf the most systematic literary women in New York. Soon after her graduation from college she joined herself to The Ohautauquau Magazine, and her services in the organization of the staff and the various departments of that periodical were of the most valuable sort

After a considerable period of bard work she went to Paris both for recreation and study. History aud biography were the subjects in wfcich she was most interested, and she was so well introduced and was so well prepared for her work that she was afforded unusual facilities in the libraries of the French capital. Better yet, certain social doors that remain closed to many Americans were opened to her, and among the acquaintances she was thereby enabled to form some were with persons who oould assist her materially by offering valuable suggestions. Perhaps it was some one of these suggestions that started her to look up material bearing on the life and times of Mme. Roland. At all events, she ran acrow much that was new aud important in that direction, and the remit was the prduotion of the Tarbell book on "Mme. Roland and Her Times," which seems likely long to remain "the las* word" concerning this distinguished Frenchwoman.

The "Life of Napoleon/' which followed some time later, was a virtual outgrowth of Miss Tarbell's Mme. Roland studies. The young woman's fit* new for the production of historic manuscript was ao thoroughly shown by the manner in which she handled the story of "tbe Little Corporal" that aba was aaked to write ftrst the Lincoln life

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whi ib bears her name and then to edit the Dana papers. Mention of Miss Tarbell's contributions to the Napoleonic and the Lincoln revivals brings to mind the fact that a revival of interest in tbe career and achievements of John Brown of Ossawattoinie is now well under way. It appears to have been started by a series of articles from the pen of Will M. Clemens, now running through a well known monthly.

For nearly three decades John Brown lived in Akron, O., where Mr. Clemens was born and where he was intimately acquainted with several members of the Brown family. Clemens first thought of writing a life of Brown when only 20 and confided the idea to Jason Brown, a son, who not only revised the chapters as they were written, but has also furnished many documents bearing on his father's life and work, several pictures not before published and a mass of information that oould have been gathered from no other source. It is therefore probable that the present work will illumine many points in John Brown's career that have hitherto been obscure to the world at large.

Dr. Willard C. Gore's papers on student slang, which is being commented on in the literary journals as "good, but hardly confined to slang produced by tbe student mind," contains the following "Let her go, Gallagher—an expression signifying a readiness to prooeed."

This clumsy definition would mightily amuse tbe Gallagher whose achieve ment gave rise to the now famous pbraqe. I don't know where be is at this time, or whether he is alive even, but I very well remember watching him at a billiard table in Buffalo some years ago and hearing his backer urge him almost tearfully to "let her go, Galla gher." I also remember that he did "let her go," to the utter defeat of his opponent and the dismay of all whose bets were laid on the wrong player. Gallagher was a St. Louis newspaper man, and his specialty'was reporting horse races. He was a good reporter, too, but his skill with the cue was greater than his skill with the lead pencil. DEXTER MARSHALL.

HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS.

Leigh H. Irvine's Plan of Government Aid For the Unemployed. [Special Correspondence.]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.—The oity which gave birth to the Henry George philosophy and the idea of establishing single tax societies all over the world is now launching forth another economic propaganda which promises to be unique and farreaching.

Leigh H. Irvine, a well known writer and lecturer on economic topics, is the founder of anew society, the motive of which is to try to induce tbe federal government to establish anew state for the unemployed. The founder of the plan is a man of 35, a university graduate and for some years a lawyer at Kan

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sas City. Ho is not a socialist, though ho says there should be a state modeled somewhat after the style advocated by socialists. In an interview the founder of the new cult, which has been taken up by one or two congressmen, said: "It has long been admitted by economists and statesmen of nearly every school except that of Herbert Spencer that it IB tbe duty of tbe state to care for the defective, delinquent and dependent classes. The general system now in voguo is the almshouse plan. This is bad. "I simply hold that it is the duty of the government, under that olause of the- federal law whioh gives it a right to provide for tbe general welfare, to start a state or national colony for the worthy unemployed. I think this is a practicable idea and that it can be done within a few years. I would have the general government say to every worthy American citizen: 'You shall not be hungry and unclothed. We will allow you to eulist in tbe great army of industry. In exchange for a few hours of your time each day we ask you to serve the government in such a way as we designate. We give you and your family a home. Yon must enlist for two years and when yon leave yon will be paid your pro rata of tbe total earnings.' I firmly believe that if this government were to set aside a few million acres in half a dozen different parts of the oountry, indorse the plan with money enough to go at farming and village building in a businesslike way and give the worthy unemployed the services of skillful managers as well, it would solve the distressing problem of homeless men and women. It would give little children bread and a plaoe to sleep, aa well as schooling. To say that some such series of coloniee would not become self supporting under the proper discipline and federal control is to affirm that the fertility of this great country, backed by brains and money, is not sufficient to support the population."

Sir. Irvine is about to abandon all his other labors and devote himself entirely to advocacy of this idea. %a^irp

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THE NEW PLAIDS.

Some Axe Startling, Others Are Elegant,

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[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Had any one predicted a year ago that plaids would be so generally liked, in so many varieties of material and so many designs and for so wide a range of usefulness, that person would have been laughed to scorn. But now we have plaid silk, wool, velvet, satin, velours, gingham and poplin, to say nothing of tbe barred organdies and other white stuffs. While everything is not plaid, there is so muob of it about that one must admit its prevalence, if one may so term it, and I think one may, as it has broken out in so many spots like a contagious disease.

The plaidB begin with the neat and fine and also very Frenchy pinhead checks in black and white, blue and

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white) brown and white, and gray and white. These are very pretty for all sorts of ordinary requirements. Trim med with velvet ribbon or black braid ing they are refined and always elegant and are much affeoted by young ma trons for marketing dresses and by young ladies for tasteful gowns for home wear. After them come the shepherd checks, always in delicate colors, all so mixed that one can scarcely tell "which is bow," but the result is worth all the pains. Shepherd oheoks and plaids are very "suitable, for young persons and are always nice for anybody. But the new plaids leave those old standard patterns far behind. Some of the new plaids are startling, others are most elegant in color and design, and still others have every possible color and cross stripe that could be wrought into them.1

There are some new' plaid poplins where the whole design covers one yard and a half. This is done so as to leave certain parts of the pattern to form borders at the bottom and on the bodice and over the front breadth. One in this style was of gray and brown with narrow lines of yellow and red. These were arranged so as to leave part of the stuff in brown and gray with the colored lines only one way. That brought it into a sort of border, and that was adjusted to be a trimming around the bottom of the front breadth and up the front. The rest of tbe skirt had the plaid cut so that it all came bias. Tbe blouse had tho plaid straight, with the border at the top. The caps had the border. The sleeves were bias. A pretty yoke of gray silk was studded with fancy spangles in gilt and made an effective finish.

Another plaid was taffeta silk, dull, dark green with over lines of red, white and emerald. This was made into a blouse of a very novel design. The neck was sloped away ttad then left open all down the front, the open space all being filled in with pale pink silk mull, shirred across. Two fine ruches of the same went around the neck and down the front. The two sides were caught together with ribbons of emerald hue tied in small knots. The belt was of this same ribbon. Below the belt was a basque portion cut bias and edged by a ruche. The slaves were bias, but the plaited caps and the blouse were out on the straight. This fancy for having different portions of a gown or garment out in two ways, so as to show the plaid straight and bias, admits of many striking effects. Even the now parasols are cut so that one piece will be on the straight and the next bias, and so on alternately.

A fine gown of dark brown tufted wool with lines of white, gray, green and red, all in light shades and only

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showing in the tiny tufts which form the plaid, like so many stitches, is new and stylish. This is cut so that all of it comes on the true bias, which means a great waste of material, but the effect la much more pleasing. This dress was plain as to skirt save one row of fine "figure eight" soutache around tbe bottom. Tbe bodice was tailor fitted and had a small postilion at the back.

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Musical lady.

"Do they play tbe piano much at your house?" "No but I have it* toned several times a year—my wife likes to bear it so orach.Fliegeode Blatter.

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Elusive Jack Rabbit.

The jack rabbit is a prairie institution tbat gives the settlers' dogs plenty of exercise. When tho settler sees a jack rabbit for the first time—starts him up suddenly on tbe prairies—he imagines that by a quick movement be can lay his hands on him. The rabbit is awkward, appears to be lame in every joint, holds up one foot as though it pained him and altogether creates tbe belief tbat he. is a dilapidated wreck of an ungainly animate thing. The settler is surprised that he cannot grab him. The settler's dog also is confident that he can quickly make an end of the rabbit. He bristles, runs leisurely toward the rabbit, doubles his speed, doubles it again, triples tbat, quadruples the whole, when, lo, the rabbit disappears. There is some flying grass, a vanishing streak of light, a twinkling of two prodded feet extended rearward, and he is gone. Tho dog sits on his haunches and concludes that it was a dream and that he did not see a rabbit at all.— Christian Work.

The Tobacco Plant's Sensitiveness.

A curious fact is the tobacoo plant's habit of erecting its leaves at sundovrn! and dropping them at sunrise. Of course it is only possible while the plant is immature—while the upper leaves are not more than two-thirds developed— but it is so marked as to make a wide difference in the looks of afield at evening and 12 hours later. And theresuits are so beneficent as to make it seem the result of reason, for if the dewfall is heavy it all runs down to tho stalk, trickles down to the root and thus fortifies it against the blazing sun while if the leaves remained in pendu lous spread the moisture would either drop from their points beyond reach or else evaporate in the morning sun.— New York Commercial.

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A blow of tbe sledge, and the grilled door of the cell gave way "1 am innocent," he shrieked, thi rope about his neck "before heaven, innoceut!"

Ah, at last they hear him! "Yes," they exclaim, "be must be innocent, or the law would have saved him from us."

Passion bad shriveled up and vanished at the touch of logic.—Detroit Journal..-

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