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The state chronicle., 1892-01-23

NOTICE.. The Chronicle is daily
IN receipt of letters with no name
signed, and frequently money en-
closed. We MUST KNOW WHO
AND WHERE YOU ARE TO
GIVE YOU CREDIT.
The state chronicle., 1892-01-23

Plmples, blotcbes and sores and
their cause is removed by Simmons
Liver Regulator.
The state chronicle., 1892-01-23
TERMS-POsrA0E FREE

TERMS-POSTA4E FREE:
DAILY, one year, $500
DAILY, six months, 500
DAILY, one month, so
NKEKLY, one year, l.25
WEEKLY, in clubs Of 5, LOO
Liberal commission allowed to club
agents.
Sample copies furnished free on ap-
plication.
The state chronicle., 1892-01-23

Attention to the daily habits of
the young prevents suffering. Take
Simmons Liver Regulator.
The state chronicle., 1892-01-23
Be Not Imposed Upon!

Examine to see that you get the
Senuine, Distinguished from all
frauds and mutations by our red q
Trademark, on front of Wrapper
and on the side the seal and signature
of J. 81. Zeilin & Co.
The state chronicle., 1892-01-23
Wake Up

If you wake up in the
morning with a bitter or
bad taste in your mouth,
Languor, Dull Headache,
Dependency, Constipa-
tion, take Simmons Liver
Regulator. It corrects
the bilious stomach,
sweetens the breath and
cleanses the furred tongue.
Children as we'll as adults
sometimes eat something
that does not digest we'll,
producing Sour Stomach,
Heartburn, Restlessness,
or Sleeplessness-a good
dose Of Regulator will
give relief. 80 perfectly
harmless is this remedy
that it can be taken oy
the youngest infant or
the most delicate person
without injury, no matter
what the condition of the
system may be. It can
do no harm if it does 10
good, but its reputation
for 90 years proves it
never fails in doing good.
The state chronicle., 1892-01-23

Party faithlessness is party dis.
hOnOr..GrOver Cleveland.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

ruptcy. You want the shop and the shop
keeper, and streets Of shops with their
draperies and their habitants-the whole
city and the bay and the mountains begird-
ing it-and Fusiyama's white witchery
overhanging it in the speckless sky-all
Japan, in very truth, with its magical trees
and luminous satmosphere-with all its cities
and towns and temples, and 35, 900, 900 Of the
most lovable people in the universe.
Art in tho Poorest Homes.
once heard some one say on being told
Of q great fire in Japan: "Oh, those people
can afford confagrations; their homes are SO
cheaply builtp' 1t is true that the pretty
frail houses can be cheaply and quickly re-
placed; but that which was within them to
make them beautiful cannot Every object
in the poorest japanese dwelling is an OBJ
ject of art, even to the commonest article
of wood or baked clay; and every great fire
is an art tragedy. For this is the land Of
infinite handmade variety; machinery has
not yet been able to introduce sameness
and utilitarian ugliness in cheap production
Except in response to foreign demand for
bSd taste to suit vulgar markets), and each
object made by the artist or artisan differs
still from all others, even of his own max
ing. And each time something beautiful
perishes by fire, it is o something represent
ing an individual mood; it is an telegraph
of personality.
Happily the art impulse itself, in this
country of condagrations, has ghostly vi
tality which survives each generation of art
lists, and defies the flame that changes their
labor to ashes or melts it to shapelessnesS
The idea whose symbol has perished will
surely reappear again in other creations
perhaps after the passing of century
modified, indeed, yet recognizably of kin to
the thought of the past. And every art
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man was rather especially fond of him, but
YOU know that when man loses his JOB
and loses his ability to support himself, and
to pay his way as he goes, 1t makes great
difference in the way people look at him
and feel about him."
SIS that so? Is it SOP"
Barrow looked at Tracy in puzzled way.
"Why, of course it's SO. Wouldn't you
know that naturally? Don't you know
that the wounded deer is always attacked
and killed by its companions and friends?''
Tracy said to himself, while a chilly and
boding discomfort spread itself through his
system, Sin q republic of deer and men,
where all are free and equal, misfortune is
q crime, and the prosperous gore the un-
fortunate to death" Then he said aloud,
"Here in the boarding house, if one would
have friends and be popular instead of hav-
ing the cold shoulder turned upon him, he
must be prosperous.
"Yes,' Barrow said, ''that is so. It's
their nature. They do turn against Brady,
now that he is unfortunate, and thew don't
like him as well as they did before; but it
isn't because of any lack in Brady-he's
Just as he was before, has the same nature
and the same impulses, but they-well.
Brady is thorn in their consciences, you
see. They know they ought to help him
and they're too stingv to do it, and they're
ashamed OF themselves for that, and they
ought also to hate themselves on that ac-
count, but instead of that they hate Brady
because he makes them ashamed of them
selves / say that's human nature; that
occurs everywhere; this boarding house is
merely the world in little; it's the case all
oyer-they're all alike. In prosperity we
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

ist is ghostly worker Not by years of
cropping and pain and sacrifice does he
find his highest expression, the sacrifcial
past is within him; his ert is an inherit
ance, given with his soul; his fingers are
guided by the dead in the 6elineation of a
tiying bird, of the vapors of mountains, of
the colors of the morning and evening, of
the shape of branches and the spring-burst
of flowers; generations Of skilled workmen
have given him their fancy, their cum
ming, and revive in the wonder of his draw
ing. What was conscious effort in the be-
ginning became unconscious in later centu-
ries-becomes almost automatic in the liv-
ing man; and thus alone the faultless In
stinct of his art is comprehensive. And
thus one wster-color print by Hokusai or
Hieroshige, sold for cent, has more art in
it than many Western painting stored in
historic galleries and valued at the price
Of province.
Feet Fashioned by Nature.
And how beautiful are the feet of the
people? Whether brown nude statuesque
feet of laborers in straw sandals, or blue
feet of swift runners in digitated stockings,
or feet of children so pinkly pretty that
they somehow suggest the Transformation
OF flowers into flesh, or feet of girls in
snowy tabi, having the cleft grace of the
IceL Ol
satyresses. Never has the Japanese foot
been subjected to that infamous style of
foot-gear which has distorted and made
hideous the feet of Occidentals; it has re-
manned natural, supple, expensive, its
every pose is comely, it has the symmetry
of Japanese character
Of every pair of Japanese wooden clogs,
one makes in walking slightly different
sound from the other, as kring to krang, SO
that the echo of the walkers steps has an
alternate rhythm of tones On pavement
the sound obtains immense sorority; and a
crowd will often Intentionally fall into step,
with the drollest conceivable result of
drawling wooden noise.
Iera G yaate! 1 have been obliged to
return to the European hotel, not because
of the noon meal, as really begrudge my
self the time necessary to eat it, but be-
cause I cannot make Cha understand that I
want to visit a Buddhist temple. Now
Cha understands: my landlord has uttered
the magical words, 7ero y,atel
A Peak of White in Sea Of Blue.
turn a moment to look back through the
glorious light, Sea and sky mingle in the
same beautiful pale clear blue. Below me
the vast billowing of blush roofs reaches to
the verge OF the deep green hills surround
ing the city on two sides And in the back
ground, beyond the wooden green hills, rise
high serrated cool-blue mountains; and
enormously lofty above the range of them
towers an apparition indescribabIy lovely,
one solitary snowy cone, SO filmily e1quis-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
THE KING OF PARIS.
For Over Thirty Years N. Applaud
Knew No Law But His Own Will.
HE MADE THE CITY BEAUTIFUL.
ALI Public Works Above and Below Ground
Under His Control.
ONE MAN POWER WITHOUT ABUSES
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE D1sp.rcn.,

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH.t
PARIS, Jan 2s-"The greatest funeral
since Victor Hugo's," was what all Paris
said when on December II it followed to
the grave the remains of its late "king,"
Monsieur Applaud. the man who in the
last 81 years has transformed the city, until
by general consent it is the most beautiful
in the world. Paris was his kingdom. He
gave her his life. "For 81 years." declared
one of his eulogista. che worked without
losing day, to increase the beautifulness
and beauty of the city,"
In return she became his obedient mis-
tress. She promoted him until he held in
his hand all departments of public works.
Streets, parks, squares and gardens were
under his control. He decided where they
should be made, how they should be dec
grated. when they should be cleaned. He
looked after the lighting of the city. He
controlled the sewers and water works. He
was the final authority on all matters Of
municipal architecture. He was the pro-
jector and executor of the numerous historic
and artistic undertakings which add to
the interest and beauty of Paris. Nearly
6,000 men were in his service. His word was
their law, and, most remarkable, 1t was q
law honored and loved by all.
One Secret OF His Power.
He was allowed to keep his position be-
cause all the rest OF the Partisan world was
embroiled by exciting politics or by war
and was glad enough to find somebody who
would take care of the city without mixing
with the general turmoil. Born at Grenoble
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

.,.a
inierogiypn or ideograpn mas 1een e'oifeu
INTO tnlng OF peauty lnoescrloaoie'
consists enly OF certalh numoer oi
orusn strokes; put IN eacn stroke there Is an
unoiscoVeraple secret art OF grace, proper
aon' imperceptipie curve, winch ac'uah!
makes 1t seem alive, and bears witness tnat
even during the lightning moment OF its
creation, the artist felt with his brush 1or
the ideal shape of the stroke equally along
us entire length, from head to tau. but
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

beside the establishment of a manufacturer
of sandals-these display no discord of posi-
tion.
Everything Japanese Is Tasty.
Nothing, however odd, is repulsive or
ugly. nothing. All that is Japanese is del
jcate, tasty-even pair of common wooden
chopsticks in band with delightful lit
tie drawing upon it; even a package of
toothpicks of cherry wood, bound with a
paper wrapper elegantly lettered in three
different colors; even the little sky-blue
towel, with designs of flying sparrows upon
it, which the jinrikisha man uses to mop
his face. The bank bills, the commonest
copper coins, are things of beauty. Even
the piece of plated colored string used by
the shopkeeper in tying up your last pur-
chase is pretty curiosity. Curiosities and
dainty objects bew1lder you by their very
multitude; on either side of you, wherever
you turn your eyes, are countless wonder
full things as yet incomprehensible.
But it is perilous to look at them. Every
time you dare to look something obliges you
to buy it-unless, as may often happen, the
smiling vendor invites your inspection of
so Gany varieties of one article, each
specially and all unspeakably desirable,
that you cannot choose, and depart out of
mere terror at your own impulses The
shopkeeper never asks you to buy; but his
wares are enchanted, -and if you once begin
buying you are lost. Cheapness means
nothing but temptation to commit bank
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
CONSOLATION FOR '0PKINs.

The Chaplain Wasn't at Hand, 30 the
Orderly Took Up Bis Role.
WRITTEN FOR THE pIsPATcH.l
Po' 'Opkins was sick in q hospital. In
the morning the Orderly said to the Chap
lain: "Sir, po' 'Opkins is dead"
"Why did you not call me, should like
to have given him few words Of consola-
tion?"
ct did not think it worth while, 80 con-
soles i'm myself"
"What did you say to him7"
"'Opkins,' says I, you're mortal sick.
"Yes,' says e. "Opkins,' says ], you
can't Pope to get WE'LL
"T don't suppose can,' says ..
"'Opkins, says I, you're got to die
"T suppose so,' says e.
""Opkins, says I, you can't 'ope to 60
to heaven
SCI don't suppose can,' says'e.
""Opkins, says I, you'll 60 to the other
place.
I suppose so,' says e.
"'Opkins,' says I, you ought to feel
very grateful that you're purwided for
that you ave somever to go to- and e
turned his face to the wall, and went 'ome
'appy.'"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07

Cha has already succeeded in winning nv
affections. Why? The first sensation of
having human being for horse-trotting
between shafts like horse, unwearingly
bobbing up and down before you for hours
is alone enough to fill the European heart
with compassion, And when the humsn
being, thus trotting between shafts-with
all his hopes, memories. sentiments, suffer
ings, happens TO possess the kindliest I'M
aginable face; the gentlest smile. and the
ability to return the smallest favor by a
look of infinite gratitude, this compassion
becomes transiigured, becomes sympathy.
In nv own case the feeling is that pity
which is akin to love-provoking unreason-
able impulses to selt-sacrifce for Cha's
sake. think the perspiration must have
something to do with 1.-THE perspiration
of Cha He is always mopping his face
with a little sly-blue towel, having fig
ures of flying sparrows upon it, which
towel he carries wrapped above his wrist as
he runs.
Like World of Elves.
Perhaps the supremely delightful i'm
preston of the first day is that of the gen.
tleness of populsr scrutiny. Everybody
looks at you curiously; but there is nothing
disagreeable or hostile in the gaze; most
often it is accompanied bv smile or half
smile; and the ultimate effect of all these
kindly, curious looks and pleasant smiles is
to make one think of Fairyland. Note
well-this observation is almost hackneyed;
many and many another writer describing
the sensations OF the first day in Japan has
spoken of the land as Fairyland, and of the
people as fairy folk. But there is Q psyche
logical reason for this singular unanimity
in this choice of terms to describe the, i'm
pression-in this use of words signifying
conditions and creatures supernatural and
ideal To find oneself suddenly in world
. where everything is upon smaller and
daintier plan than with us-a world of
lesser and kindlier beings, ali smiling at
you and seeming to wish you well-a world
where movement is slow, soft, gentle-a
world where sky, land, life, and all things
are totally different from aught elsewhere
beheld-must indeed realize, to any i'm
sgination nourished with English folklore,
the old happy dream Of world of elves.
Wherever else 1 have seen period of
change from romantic past to practical
presents in Louisiana, as in the West
Iudies-I have seen the decay of things
beautiful and the ugliness of things new.
What of these I may yet see in Japan /
know not; but here in these streets the old
and the new mingle so marvelously well
that the one seems only to set off the other.
An electric bell in some tea house, with a
Japanese inscription beside the ivory but
ton; shop containing sewing machines
next to the shop of merchant of Buddhist
images; the establishment of a photographer
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS caAPrEE%
Etc, Etc.


ing he an
dby wkins
which he calls Rosore a sellers Lady Ho
herap
This suits the y0g Plans and %
Toeyand INDIE
board
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dark blue which dominates in popular
costume. rules also in the color of shop
dYarcries, though there is thin sprinkling
Of black and white and brighter blue and
vine color also (no greens or yellows). You
must note that the frocks and robes of the
passing people not only harmonic marvel
ousy with the draperles, but are likewise,
70 some extent, lettered with the same letter.
Ing.
English Letters for Jap Writing.
No arabesques ever invented could pro-
duce so exquisite an effect: these ideographs
SO modified for decorative purposes, have
grace and speaking symmetry of lines,
which no design without a positive mean
ing could ever give. As they appear on the
back Of a workman's frock, pure white on
dark blue, and large enough to be read at
2 very considerable distance Indicating
some guild or company of which the wearer
is member or employee, they make the
coarse material seem splendid as the attire
Of prince.
And, finally, there will come to you, sud-
denly as revelation, the conviction that
most OF the amazing picturesqueness of
these japanese streets is simply due to the
p-otuslon OF Japanese characters in white
black, blue, crimson or gold, decorating
everYthing-eyen surfaces of door posts and
lintels and paper screens Then, perhaps,
FOR one moment YOU will imagine the effect
Of English lettering substituted for these
magical characters; and the idea viii give
70 all your aesthetic sense, strangely brutal
shock, and you VIII become, at once and
forever, as 1 have become a sworn enemy
of the Romaji-kai-that japanese society
founded for the supremelv ugly purpose of
introducing the use of English letters in
writing japanese.
An telegraph does not make upon the
Japanese brain any impression similar to
that created in the Occidental brain by
letter or combination of letters-duIl in
animated symbols of vocal sounds To the
Japanese brain an telegraph is vivid pict
ure: it lives; it speaks; il gesticulates. And
the whole space of a japanese street is full
of such living chsracters-fgures that cry
out to the eyes-words that smile or GRIM
ace like physiognomles.
Beauty of the Japanese Letters.
What such lettering is, compared with
our own Ifeless types, can be understood
only by those who have lived in the further
East For even the printed characters of
Japanese or Chinese imported texts give no
suggestion of the possible beauty of the
same characters as modified for decorative
inscriptions, for sculptural use, or for the
commonest advertising purposes. No rigid
convention fetters the fancy of the cali
grapher or designer; each strives to make
his characters more beautiful than any
others-and generations upon generations of
artists have been toiling from time imme-
mortal with like emulstion-so that through
centuries and centuries of tireless effort and
vondrous patience of study, the primitive
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see and hear and feel as much of this beauti-
ful new world as possible!
Surely there is some charm in the very
air cool with the GOODNESS of Japanese
spring, in the month of cherry blossoms-s
charm due perhaps to softest lucidity rather
than 10 any positive color-an atmospheric
Iimpiditv indescribable, with only a sug-
gestion of blue in it, through which the
most distant objects appear focused with
amazing sharpness. The sun is pleasantly
warm. as in Mexico; the Kuruma Cor
iinrikisha) is the most cozy vehicle imagin-
able, and the street yistas-as seen above
the dancing, white mushroom-shaped hat of
your sandaied runner-have q fantastic
Rllurement of which you are sure you can
never weary.
BewilderineIy, stupifyincly Novel,
It is at first deliciously odd confusion
only, as Won look down one of them,
through an interminable futter of flags and
swaviug of dark-blue drapery, all made
beautiful and mysterious with Japanese or
Chinese lettering, For there are no i'm
mediate discernable laws of construction or
decoration; each building seems to have a
fantastic prettiness of its own-nothing is
exactly like anything else, aud all is be-
vii3eringly stupifyingly novel. But grad
ualiy, after some hours passed in the
quarter, the eve begins TO recognize in
vague way some general plan in the con-
struction Of these low, light, qucerly-gabled
wooden horses. mostly unpainted-with
their first stories ali open to the street, and
thin strips OF roofing slcping above each
papeE-screened balconies of narrower min
Isture second stories
You begin TO understand the common plan
or the delightful tiny shops, with matted
floors raised high above the street level
aad the general perpendicular arrangement
of sign lettering, unduiating On silk OF
eolored cotton, or cleaning motioniess on
giided and lacquered sign boards. And you
will also observe that blue, the SAME rich
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lite, so spiritually white. that but for its i'm
memorially familiar outline one would surely
deem it shape of cloud. Invisible its base
remains, being the same delicious tint as the
sky; only above the eternal snow-line its
dreamy cone appears, seeming to hang, the
ghost Of peak, between the luminous land
and the luminous hesven-the sacred and
peerless mountain, Fuji-yama
And suddenly a singular sensation comes
upon me as 1 stand before the weirdly
sculptured portals-a sensation of dream
and doubt L know that less than season
ago the faith of the Buddha existed for me
in records only, in texts translated out of
old dead tongues, as something astronomi-
cally remote from my own existence. And
now, with the sudden consciousness of hav-
ing thus swiftly traversed, as If by super
natural power, the space of 20 centuries,
there comes to me in q new, strange way
the knowledge of my own ghostliness, and
thrill, exquisite, indescribable, as though
some viewless, infinite, tender Presence
were wrapping me about-the Soul of the
East. LAFCADIo HEARN.
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II. CouId y. of Some uss.

PcarSon'5 WcekIy.J
Theatrical Manageable, therel What
are you doing with that pistol?
.Disconsolate Lover-Going to kill my
SELF
Theatrical Manager-Hold on minute.
If you're bound to do it won't you be good
enough to leave = note saying you did 1t for
love of Miss Starr, our leading lady? It's
. dull season and every little helps
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
Getting Even with Each Other.

"You have 50 much address can hardly
be expected to compete with you," said the
letter to the envelope.
'tNow, don't get excited replied the
envelope, ''becausc you know you cant con-
tain yourself."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-07
ONE DAY IN JAPAN.
LafcadiO Hearn Finds 1t a
Little World of Smiling,
Gracious Elves.
EVERYTHING is ARTISTIC.
Different From the Maehine-Made
Civilization of the West.
THE RESTFUL BLUE EVERYWHERE.
Delicate Art Perceptions Manifested in
Street Lettering.
TIE PLEASURES OF THE JINRIKISHL
EVERYTHING is ARTISTIC.
THE RESTFUL BLUE EVERYWHERE.
Delicate Art Perceptions Manifested in
Street Lettering.
he PLEASURES OF THE JINGIKISHA
-wRIrTEN FOR THE DISPATCH J

HE ecstasy Of the
first sunny day in this
Orie t-so long
dreamed of, so much
read OF, yet all un-
knownl-the delicious
surprise of the first
journey through Jap
anese streets; unable
to make ones Kuru-
ma-runner cOmpre-
hend anything b u t
gestures, frantic ges-
lures to roll on, any
where, everywhere,
since all is novel and
unspeakable pleasur-
alla. iaeiriDr ou1v IA
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4 NOVEL CALL BELL

1t Is Made of Silver and Two Little Mon
keys Mako tho Noise.
Among the novelties in New York resi-
dence is combination call bell made of
silver. There are really two bells, with