Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 March 1898 — Page 3

A CLERICAL NOVELIST

ARCHDEACON BRAD?* THRILLING TALE OFI

WRITES A ADVENTURE.

Theory of the Author of "Mr. Isaacs" With Begard to Physical Exercise—A Guess at Bit Anoaal Income as Novelist and Lecturer.

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[Special Correspondence.]

Phii-adeij'hia, Feb. 28.—One of the moat interesting recruits to the ranks of historical fiction writers is the Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, Protestant Episcopal archdeacon of the state of Pennsylvania, whose first book, "For the Love of Country," a novel of adventure on land and sea in the days of the American Revolution, has just been brought out. The story is full of action and full of fighting, and, while it could not be disapproved of by the most captious stickleri for good taste, it is just the sort of production one would not expect from an archdeacon regarded in the abstract.

Its production by Archdeacon Brady, however, is not at all surprising to those who have personal acquaintance with that breezy, forceful official of the church. He began life as a naval cadet at Annapolis, where, according to hjs own statement, he was not overattentive to his studies. He became personally interested in the religious life soon after he left Annapolis and took up his studies for the Episcopal priesthood almost immediately. Upon completing these he was located in Kansas as a bishop's assistant, and in that capacity became acquainted with all sorts and conditions of men and suffered nearly all the experiences that acoompany poverty excepting that of starvation. He was made arohdeacon of Pennsylvania a little more than three years ago and is now located in this city, where he has shown marked interest in municipal and social problems as well as the performance of his ecclesiastical duties.

As a preacher Archdeaoon Brady is effective and impressive. In manner he is bluff and hearty beyond what is commonly looked for in a clergyman. In conversation he is entertaining, his flow of words being both steady and impetuous when be is talking upon a subject that interests iiim. In person he is of unusual size, his figure being so large as nearly to fill an ordinary doorway from frame to frame and from lintel to sill.

He is as fond of a joke as he is of a good fighting story, and he doesn't mind it a bit when the joke is on the archdeacon, either. His attention was drawn a day or two ago to the contrast between two portraits of himself recently printed in a literary periodical, one showing the naval cadet of 17, slender, well set

ARCHDEACON BRADY.

up and arrayed in a closely fitting uniform, and the other showing the middle aged archdeacon as he is, arrayed in churchly vestments. "Yes, I see,"said the archdeacon "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

The friend affeoted to be puzzled. "I would like to ask you," said the friend, "which is Dr. Jekyll and which is Mr. Hydo?"

At which the archdeacon laughed quite as heartily ns any one present. Archdeacon Brady is of Scotch Irish blood. His ancestors came to America in colonial times, and members thereof have taken part iu nearly every big con test iu which the United States has been engaged from the Revolution to the civil war.

F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, who departed a few days ago for the Pa ciflo ooast, there to continue the series of lectures and informal talks which was begun so successfully in the east, is one of the handsomest men iu the writing business.

He is more than 6 feet tall, his shoulders are correspondingly broad, his chest is deep, his complexion is of that healthy, ruddy tint which is seldom acquired by any one who does not spend a good deal of time upon the wa er and the giuw of his blue gray eyes is cle# and steady. While his face is that of a scholar aud his manner that of a polished man of the world, yet his general appearance suggests physical strength of such an exceptional order as could hardly be maintained without recourse to regular and perhaps severe bodily exercise.

A remark to that effect was made in his presence not long before be started west but, to the surprise of the speaker, Mr. Crawford stated that he had never engaged to any extent in regular exercise. Moreover, he declared with some positiveaess that be did not believe iu severe physical effort on the part of men who do a great deal of brain work, his theory being that muscular exertion can very easily be carried to such tut extreme as to become a severe drain upon the vitality, thus seriously impairing either the general health or the quality of the intellectual work. At the same time, Mr. Crawford by no means believes in bodily inactivity, aud he is strenuous in his advocacy of fresh air and plenty of it

Mr. Crawford'* own uniform and abounding health is an exceedingly good argument in favor of his notions.

The financial returns froxu Mr. Craw­

ford's work must be something well worth consideration. Of late years he has had his stories copyrighted in his own name, thus securing to himself whatever returns there are from serial as well as book publication, but at the beginning he sold stories outright. For the last one he thus disposed of it is understood that he received 10 cents a word, and this would fix the spot cash value to ite author of the manuscript of a Crawford novel at from $10,000 to $15 ,000. From the fact that he has never gone back to the old plan, but invariably publishes on a percentage basis nowadays, it may fairly be inferred that his later stories have averaged a somewhat larger net than the sums mentioned. Everything considered, it is probable that his writings, his readings and bis lectures return a yearly income at least of from $18,000 to $25,000.

OSBORK SPEXCEK.

A WESTERN SWITCHBACK.

Wonderfnl Feat of Engineering on the Cascade Mountains. [Special Correspondence.]",:^

\SKTKOMISH, Wash., Feb. 23.—The ride by rail across the Cascade mountains at this point is worth taking. It is no ordinary engineering feat to get trains not only around but over these towering peaks. Nothing like it has

ON THE SWITCHBACK, CASCADE MOUNTAINS.

ever before been attempted. It is not easy for an ordinary passenger to "get on to the curves." The railroad runs upon every puint of the compass, and the mountains are terraced off in such numbers that they cannot be counted. Peak, glacier, canyon and waterfall intermingle to the bewilderment of the beholder. Coming in from the east, two giant engines are added to the train, one before the regular engine and one in the reatf Then the train is switched back and forth along the mountain side, each stretch of track, or "leg," as it is called, being from 200 to 800 feet higher than the one preceding. There are three of these "legs" on the east side before the necessary altitude is reached, and then a grand sweep is made for eight miles along the mountain side, followed by a sharp turn, which pierces another peak. Back tne train comes on the other side of the ravine only half a mile from where it started, but after an eight mile trip. Then comes the descent on the other side, where there are four "legs," or angles.

The depth of snow over this -entire convolution of track would simply forbid any attempt to traverse it in winter were it not for the fact that there is no wind whatever to drift it. I have seen 28 inches fall in the space of ten hours here, and last year it lay 28 feet on a level. The forests put on their white mantles early in December and do not take them off again until they are worn out by the sun in spring. The entire trip ocoupies more hours than it will minutes when the tunnel is oompleted.

It must have required a good deal of nerve and faith in the future of the oouutry to surmount the difficulties of this seemingly impassable barrier, but up this way everybody asserts that "Jim Hill," the moving spirit of the Great Northern line, is the greatest railroad man in the world. Be this as it may, his road enjoys the distinction of being the only one built to the Pacific coast without a land grant or without help from the government, the only Pacific line never bordering on bankruptcy, and the only transatlantic line paying dividends on all its securities. Mr. Hill's first railroad venture was modest. He built a line of 11 miles from St. Paul to St. Anthony. From thence he pushed steadily on across the great plains, with the Pacific coast as his goal. During the past 14 years he has b-llt a mile of track for every working day, until he controls more than 6,000 miles of railroad. He also controls steamship liues to Japan and China, as well as Hhers that ply between Buffalo and Tpiuth on the great lakes.

FRANK ELLIS.

Hairbrushes.

The brush trade is full of deception. An experienced hand will, by touch, tell if a broom or brush be all hair or a mixture, but if ever in doubt pull out or cut off a suspicious hair and apply a match. However well doctored, the deception will be shown at onoe. Hairs will burn, rolling up ball-like, with the well known smell of burned hair, while a vegetable substitute will consume,* leaving the charred portion like a burned match.

a Man Battue Canal.

Perhaps the greatest waste of human life ever recorded was caused by the cutting of a canal in China. The work was begun in 1835, and though the canal was 83 miles long, 80 feet wid« and 13 feet deep and passed through forests and marshes it was finished in six weeks from its beginning. No fewer than 30,000 men worked at it day and night, and ?,000 died of fatigue. tvz "I have used your Salvation Oil and say It Is the fittest thing 1 ever saw for all kinds of pains or sprains and can recommend it to any one. N. I*. Adams, 331 16th St.. Cairo, nb."

Asheville.

Only Through Gar Line it via Queen & Crescent Route and Southern R'y from Cincinnati.

POST LENTEN HATS.

Wonderfnl Creations That Delight tli* Bye—Some Uomq Gowns. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—-It is worth going through more than 40 days of Lent if one is to get a hat at the end of it like those I saw yesterday. There are felt hats of every shape and color to wear up to Easter, but from then on these dainty and delicate creations will be seen everywhere. One exquisite hat was of pure white milan braid, with a medium sized brim. Around the crown, which was rather high, was a full drapery of white silk mull. This serv*S more as a foundation for immense masses of small pink rosebuds interspersed with violets than anything. There must have been a couple of hundred flowers on this hat. The mass was built up high, but was not very compact. Other bolero shapes were of white braid, and the upturned brim had either a full shirring of crepe lisse, chiffon or silk mull along the edge, while the hat was literally piled with blossoms.

Wild parsnip blossoms are made into feathery tufts and massed high on one side or the other. There are pink flowers mingled with the white violets with everything and roses without number. There are dandelions.with a few flowers and many, of the delicate round.thistledowns and a few of the long serrated leaves to carry out the whole idea. One novel idea is to furnish, with this style of hat a sort of knotted or ruched neoktie of thin stuff to match that on the hatl The white double poppies are also among the prettiest of the summer flowers. Lilacs, particularly the white and pink varieties, are mingled with tulle, lisse and silk mull. There are magnificent chrysanthemums, almost natural size, for trimming these new hats. Branched multiflora and crimson rambler as well as climbing roses are oftener seen than the large pink and deep red kinds, though everything goes. While speaking of .flowers I might mention that all flowers that can be sewed quite closely to the gown are applied in that way for trimming. Violets, multiflora or "picayune" roses are particularly pretty on dancing dresses, like lace net, tulle and all those things that look so pretty for young folks. It is a comparatively inexpensive sort of trimming.

Blouses of every possible variety and kind of material are still with us. The plaid ginghams and the madras are nearly all made on the bias. Such materials as will take tuoking are tucked up and down or round and round. Silks and wools may be trimmed in any way that suits the wearer's fancy. The vest blouse open in front and out away slightly in the neck continues to gain favor. It gives a more dressy effect than others oan. Black velvet ribbon, wide or narrow, laid on flat and edged with a row of beads or with a tiny ruffle of narrow white lace, is very much liked and new.

Black velvet ribbons are very popular as trimming in more ways than I can mention. To imitate a tunic skirt they are often used. Sometimes one row only is put on, and the next one may have three or four rather narrower and made in double ruffle, single ruffle or plaited. The tunic skirt described last week has

OINGHAM AND CASHMERE HOME GOWNS.

taken public fancy, and one sees very many of them. A few of the cloth ones have cords stitched in like pipings in form of the tunic front

The new vogue for hand painted dresses is a costly one unless the maker is clever with her brush. Some have silk mull overskirts, and on them the flowers are painted, and others have the flowers painted on a silk or satin skirt, over which is worn one of some of the thin stuffs. The tints in the flowers Should be in light colors. Orchids, flow-er-de-luces, roses, poppies and apple blossoms are all well adapted. I saw one done with rich nasturtiums in all of the shades found among those flowers, and another where pink and white dogwood branches with their beautiful leaves are painted on pale blue satin.

Among the dainty new cotton goods for summer to be made up during Lent I saw a piece of thin, soft cotton in ivory white with stripes. These stripes are produced by the weaving of the threads closer and having one oord of the same down between the close and thin stripes. This is 48 inches wide and will sell for about 35 cents per yard retail. It comes only in ivory, but it is really beautiful for a cheap washable goods. Bibbed nankeen in its natural ecru is offered for shirt waists. A white organdie with lines of beading—not real beads, but the weave representing close rows of beads touching each other in close weave, with a high cord outlining each bead—makes another summer novelty.

The soft sea island striped ginghams axe exceedingly pretty and graoeful. A pale pink and ivory hairline stripe Was made into a blouse with a fichu ruffle to wear with a striped poplin skirt. Cashmere has turned out a favorite for pretty home gowns for occasions more or leas grand. A gray cashmere was trimmed with milliner's folds of gray satin. It was lined with purple silk. The yoke was of irideaoeot taffeta scalloped and trimmed with white lac®. This gown was exactly copied in cadet blue ohambray. Ours Hakpxb.

TEBRE HAUTE SATUEDAT EVENING MAIL, MARCH 5. 18»8.

Un coin's Care* In the Use of Words.

In the opinion oI the judges and practitioners with whom Lincoln was associated during his quarter of a century St the bar his most prominent characteristic was his rare faculty for detecting aud disclosing the controlling point in a legal battle. But not less than this was his clear, full, orderly and accurate statement of a case, always so fair and logical that it was often said that after Lincoln had summed up the important facts in a controversy there was but little occasion for argument on either side. He habitually employer! at the bar the same care and skill iu the use of words and the expression of ideas which he so often afterward exhibited when called to a higher field of labor, instances of which are seen in all his state papers and in the changes for the better which he made in the writings of his scholarly secretary of state, particularly in the correspondence relative to the Trent affair, which probably avoided a war with Eugland. A fine example of the grandeur of his diction is to be found in his Gettysburg address, which has a permanent place in the literature of the world.

He thought vigorously and thoroughly, but di$ ndt speak quickly. In reality his heMbation was only the result of his great care always to know his ground: His habit was before speaking dr acting'to deliberately look through, around and beyond every fact, statement or proposition involved and subject it to his wonderful powers of perception and analysis. This required time, but it madei him successful in every important undertaking. While he thought much, he could not truthfully be called a great reader. He knew thoroughly the. works of Coke, Blaokstone, Stephen, Chitty, Starkey and later Greenleaf's "Evidence*' and Story's "Equity." He gave but little time to searching for precedents or studying what is called case law.—James L. King in North American Review.

a Barnato Story.

It is said that when Barney Barnato gave a picnic at the opening of the Johannesburg waterworks he related an incident that had happened to him in London some time before. A seedy looking man, describing himself as a journalist, called on him one day and offered to cut out from papers, etc., all the complimentary things said about Mr. Barnato. The genial man of millions saw that the man was "down on his luck" aud engaged him on the spot at a salary of £15 per month. This was quite characteristic of Barney's sudden and irresponsible freaks. At the end of six months the man, who had been paid monthly, again called on Mr. Barnato and presented a huge bundle, of dippings from newspapers, asking whether he should continue the work. "No," replied Barney, "but I will engage yon for six months at the same salary to one out all the nasty things you can find said about me." Another six months elapsed, and onoe more the indefatigable paper clipper turned up and reported his'work to be finished. "Well," ask Barney, "where are the results of your work?" Hero Barney assumed his gravest aspect as he repeated the man's reply: "1 have not been able to bring them in. There are two cartloads outside. "—Westminster Budget..,,,,

'j4 Be. Natural.

If a woman cannot seen: man for a lite mate by being herself, living her natural life, she would be far better off to remain single to the end of her days. The cloak of deoeption universally worn by young women as well as young men during courtship cannot be continued through married life when together. The strain would be too great and the mask must and is thrown off and trouble begins. Each one finds that the other is not what he or she seemed to. be. What she or he in reality was would be just what some other young man or woman would want, for there is a Jack for every Jill. When deoeption, lying or false swearing is resorted to for material gain, it brings in its train its own punishment every time.—Philadelphia Times.

^Bow to Stop Sneezing and Coughing.

Most of us have no doubt experienced the discomforts of beiDg seized with a fit of coughing or sneezing at the most inconvenient times and places, and it is not usually supposed that any exercise of the will power can be made efficient in checking either a cough or a sneeze. Dr. Brown-Sequard, however, in one of his lectures said that coughing can be stopped by pressing on the nerves of the lips in the neighborhood of the nose, Sneezing may be stopped by the same means. Pressing in the neighborhood of the ear may stop coughing. Pressing very hard on the top of the mouth is also a means of stopping coughing..

The Farmer In the Lighthouse.

A farmer bad secured an appointment as lightkeeper in a Maine coast lighthouse. The first night be went on duty he lighted up promptly at dusk and at 11 o'clock carefully extinguished the lamp. The next day, of course, there was trouble, and when he was taken to task he replied that he supposed 10 o'clock was late enough to keep the light going, as he thought that all honest men should be in. bed at that hour. —Boston Herald.

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The editoi ial columns of the Northampton (Mass.) Daily Gazette give the particulars of the remarkable cure by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, of Hon. Charles

Editor J. C. Gere, of this leading news*paper, personally investigated the tacts of this wonderful cure, and his widely-read editorial states the details of the cure exr actly as they-occurred, giving Hon. Mr. Crouch's own words. |J|

Following is the editorial in full: Learning that a great cure had been effected in the case of Representative Chas. S. Crouch, of Northampton, Mass., by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy', a reporter took occasion to call on Mr. Crouch and talk with him about it, and among the thousands of testimonials given to this world-renowned medicine, none will be more widely read or give greater weight than this one coming from so noted a man as Representative Crouch.

Hon. Mr. Crouch said Last spring I did not feel In my usual health felt as tired in the morning as when I retired had no energy nor ambition to go about a day's work no appetite with which to regain strength and energy. In this condition I worked along from week to week, thinking that after awhile matters would right themselves and I would feel like myself again. But to the contrary, I grew worse. "Knowing that Dr Greene's Nervura was not a patent medicine, but a medicine put up from a prescription discovered by the doctor in his private practice, I resolved to try it. The first bottle helped me so

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An Honest Corset Talk

There are degrees of excellence hi Corsets, as in in else. Smut* a re 1 ood, otners re better, 'but—

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All old style corsets pomcm tbl» most annoying weakness. Not a woman In your community bat will acknowledge the truth

of

this statement.

By a disconnection at the waist line, and elastic gores at sides, the cause of breakage Is removed, and at the same time the Corset retains its symmetrical proportions Bring convinced of Its superiority over other corsets we Introduce It to the buying public. When next yon boy a Corset try the CKK8CO.

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