davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
LIZZIE a pURLIc rRusr.

There is one condition precedent to
all the corruptions Of civic government
that has been overlooked, but which is
worth a few minutes consideration on
a Sunday morning. It is this The der
elicit police and other officials of the
great cities are not by nature worse
than other men. They are Just what
their parents and their associates have
made them to be, and these in turn are,
in a great degree. just refexeS of cur
rent methods and morals.
The boys of some of the readers of
The Sunday Inter Ocean will become
public servants. What training are
they undergoing at home, at school, in
society that will strengthen them to
resist temptations to dishonesty or to
malfeasance? What are the words that
are most often used as incentives to the
action Of a boy? Grit push, energy,
vim, dash, pluck, shrewfnes. These are
the qualities laid down as most admir-
able. Admirable, indeed, they are, but
not most admirable. Duty, honor, self
denial, patience, patriotism, stand for
nobler things. Do our boys hear these
words often enough?
How earnestly We commend to our
boy the study of the career Of some
man who began life with no money
and no schooling. but now is worth his
million. How seldom do we bid him
revere the life of Father Damien, who
renowned all that makes life pleasant
and gave himself to the service of the
lepers of Hawaii? How often do we
praise the successful, though unscrupu-
lous, dash" of some politician or mil
lfOnaire, and how seldom do we give
praise to the defeated man, who was
defeated only because he would not
trade honor for success? How often do
our boys hear us praise and praise as
if we were envious Of it, the smart
trick by which some public servant or
Spectator has fixed things to his own
advantage. though to the serious detr1-
ment of others, and how seldom do we
commend a man who like Samuel
Randall, or like Jefferson, or like Lin
coin, spent his life in public service and
went to his grave rich only in the graf
itude of his fellow beings?
Some can't phrases of virtue are used
at odd times. When a scandal of I'M
usual dimension is rife we shake our
heads gravely and say solemnly to our
selves and to our boys: "a public office
is a public trust" Do we ever consider
that the life of every man is in some
sort a public trust, touching in some
points upon the interest of the public,
tending in many of its acts any say
ings to the elevation or degradation of
public nnorals2 Do we ever teach our
boy that his life is a public trust? Do
we tell him that 1T IS impossible for
any one to live to himself alone, that
the world will be a little better or a lit
tie worse for the life that he spends
in ft?-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
WOMEN Make POOR DETECTIVES.
A Secret Service Man Says the OPP
posite Sex Make Poor Spies.
LFrom ne New York Herald ]

FROM the NEW 1OTh deT5lu
"Women are not good detectives" said
an experienced secret service man on be-
ing asked his opinion. ITO begin with,
there are many places to which woman
cannot go without exciting suspicion, and
this defeats her object at the outset but
beyond this q, woman is untitled by nature
for detective work.
In the first place she jumps at a con-
clusion, and acts on it in opposition TO
all human probabilities, possibilities and
reason As a rule woman does not
reason. She looks on a thing as she wants
it to be, or thinks it ought TO be- and viii
follow that theory. She is led by preju-
dices, favors or sympataies, regardless OF
facts.
"As a detective she is sometimes Il sue
cess in eLtrapping a man, but her work
generally ends ia blunder which be-
trays her. She is persevering only when
moved by passions. She does not look
at a case dispassionately. She at once
decides that he or she is guilty or innc-
cent, and works on that theory.
al woman enjoys the myterious, and
she is so elated at her position as de-
tective that she is unable to conceal her
identity, or the secret Investigations Of a
case.
Woven are even failures in running
down criminals of their own sex. A wo-
man criminal will mislead q woman de-
tectiye by working on her vanity, credu-
lily or sympathy, and, worst of all, if the
detective be attractive and the man
criminal handsome-well, a man is better
for detective work and, besides, a wo-
man will sell out case, and cheaply at
that, relying upon her sex to escape pun
iShnent if detected"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
BY L. E. cHITTENDEN.

Copyright, 1885, by S. S. Mcclure, Linn
ited)
A professional engagement once de-
tanned me for some months in the city Of
San Francisco. In q, store under the Pal
ace hotel owned by an American who had
resided for several years in Japan,
passed many pleasant evenings eNamin-
ing illustrative specimens of Japanese art.
OF these made a considerable number of
purchases; among them a half dozen Of
the dagger handles formerly worn in the
hits of Japanese swords. These were Of
different and the finest bronZes, so eX-
uuisitely fashioned that each was obvi-
ously the work of an accomplished artist
Like almost every other specimen of ia
panese handiwork each handle represent
mythology or their history, As I wished
to have them used for fruit knives, it &C.
CURED to me to have a similar design
Upon making my wishes known to the
proprietor of the shop, he introduced me
to a young Japanese student OF English
who, he thought, would make the designs
wanted. After a few words of expplan-
alton, the. student took from the counter
q piece Of brown wrapping paper upon
which he made some rapid strokes with a
pencil. Within two or three minutes he
handed ME the paper with the inquiry:
lis it something of this kind you want
This is intended to represent a long and
happy married life"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
LIGHT FROM THE TURK.

Of late weeks the eyes of the civil
liked world have been directed toward
Turkey, and the result of the Arme-
MAN inquiry is anxiousIy awaited. Mr..
Gladstone has been stirred into his
lolden prophetic attitude, and protests
Iagainst the prosecutions nave
been uttered in various capitals Of the
old and new world. Much doubt, how
ever, is expressed as to the real facts
lof the situation, and some discern
therein little else than the seditious
plot of Armenian nationalist abetted
by Russian synlpa thiZers. Even in ear
lier centuries there was never any love
lost between the Turk and his Armen-
ian OF Greek dependent, Whose national
aspirations were usually a mask for
conspiracy and rebellion.
1t is unjust to decry Turkey at this
juncture as "a hotbed of bigotry and
intolerance The fact that the Turkish
ambassador to Washington is not d
Moslem proves in itself a, catholicity
which other powers might initiate
with advantage. But Turkeys tradi-
lions of Iiberality are Historical. When
Constantinople fell in 1453, in an age
when the church had taught German,
Latin, and Slavonic peoples that the
Jews should be degraded or eXteImin-
for the refugees and appointed Moses
Kapsoli as chief rabbi over the Jewish
congregations, who Were allowed to or
ganize and erect synag ogues through
out the empire. To the hunted jews
of Germany and France, Turkey was a
veritarble paradise. Was it accident or
providence that the lands of the sui
tan should afford shelter and happiness
to those for whom the church, with
here and there an exception, offered
the alternatives of the bath Of baptism
or the bath of blood?
Another historic contrast was af-
/ forded some decades later when Ba>
jazet II. opened his realm to The
fugitiYes from the Inquisition in
Spain and Portugal and threaten
with death any who should modest
! them. The poor refugees were received
with generous sympathy, and soon they
repaid the Turk for his humanity by
enriching and developing their adopted
country They were trusted 10y the sud-
tan as good and useful citizens. They
furnished a. long list Of court, physi
clans and Interpreters. Don Joseph
| Nassi and Solomon AshkenaM We're
| statesmen of International influence in
their time.
In an age, then, when favored sons
| of the church were rouSing the popu-
| lace to extem1inating the Jews as the
| best indication of religious zeal and
worthiness, a line of sultans deemed
it their duty to give the wanderers a
home and equal laws. And today, Tur-
key is true to its best traditions. None
Of its subjects stand in higher esteem
than its Jewish citizens, whose patri-
otism has been proved in battle as Well
as in civic life. There is civil and re-
ligious liberty in Turkey for all who
respect its laws-JeWish Messenger.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

which was in use at that time for all Jap
anese literature. In the farther eXamina-
ton of the pamphlet 1 became much In
terested. l learned from the owner of the
store that these wood cuts were a portion
of the sketches of one Hokusai, a Japan
of the present century These who have
been disposed to underestimate Japanese
art should study these specimens rs l did.
Hokusai was unquestionably the Cruik
shank of Japan. His pencil had all the
vigor and humor of his British brother
artist and was more faithful to the can
ons of art The man who could make a
spirited horse with four strokes of his
brush, as Hokusai did, knew that it was
the mission Of art to represent a subject
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

Hachiman. he became very celebrated
warrior afterward, and wors-hipped as
God Grand old man is his vassel; this
boys mother being queen. among her
rogu She gone to Corea and overturn all
the people
This interesting statement seems to
imply not only the existence of a Japan
csc Gladstone, but gives us a remarkable
forecast of Japan's course of action at
the present day. I may appropriately
close these quotations with a reference
to the modest figure of q woman, stand
ing upon the shore, gazing pepsively out
over the calm illimitable ocean, defined
by my young friend as 'All the world at
quiet
[ am acquainted with no collected de-
signs of any artist, living or dead, which
in many points are comparable to those
of Hokusai.
I suppose there are more than fifteen
hundred in my collection, which is not,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
A DRAWING BY HoKusAr.

His drawing explained itself. A high
way ran in graceful curves from the fore
ground into the seeming inf1nity. Upon it
were two tortoises slowly travelling in the
most affectionate and placid manner away
IN the background. L expressed my de-
light, assured him that the sketch was
Just what wanted, and asked him to e21-
ecute five others, each on a different sub
ject, which he promised to DO before the
HE He kep ttit his promise. On the following
evening he brought me the six sketches.
They were drawn with the, pen, on a
have since examined them. say that the
hand Of the artist is apparent in - every .I!2
line. The designs We're used as intended
and 1 am very certain that the bride who
received the knives had no more artist
gift On her wedding day.
Rare Japanese Pamphlet in AZ San
Francisco shop.
In the show window of the same shop
Law an open pamphlet, exposing two
pages of curious wood cuts. They We're
printed on only one side of the thin paper
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

downs are part of a castle. Very striking
is 'Treasoner called Masakado, and ia
nous warrior, loyalist to his majesty. His
name is Guam. Having been detracted by
wrong fellow. he quit to mountain, and
soliciting Gods aid
At the. head of many soldiers, who
carry a huge bell, is Famous man Hi
desto, coming back from sea. Palace
A wild-eyed person is '.Aya-no-bubOne, ."
poetess of the old time" An ancient
octagonal building is 'Erecture that
contains sacred book brought from
China by before;" meaning, presum-
ably, that the structure was built before
its removal from China A mighty bell
bell, engraved with image god or god
dess;, four below fellows also imagine
COnnubial felicity is expressed in God
and goodness we'll fit between wife and
husband
Omitting many, perhaps equally Curl
Gus, will present the Small boy called
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

o,tt!" Famous clery., name is Kukai,
and other famous clergy's," is followed
by .Imagine God and Godnes."
"Famous poet" (poe.) comes next after
a sketct, in two sections. The uppar IS
"H1gh-class officer and prince, name name;
OdoDomya Two below men, philosopher
and poet" Another is, "Fiigh-class wife
aud had high officer The next IS also
in two sections. Upper shows how to
arrange soldiers in front OF batueheid;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

by the fewest lines, and in the simplest
manner. Possibly this was the reason
why became SO much interested In this
Single pamphlet that ] promptly commits
stoned the shop keeper to procure for me
the other numbers of the series of twelve
to which he had informed me this one be
longed. In a few days he gave me the
welcome intelligence that he had succeed
ed In flling my order.
HOkusai a Very Interesting Charac-
The striking character of these draw
ings necessarily excited an interest IN the
life history of the artist. Through inquI-
ries made Of the proprietor of the store,
Rokusai was a celebrity in Japan, and by
no means without honor in his own coun-
try. He appears to, have had his full pro-
portion Of the quaint PeG T 17s on f ar
most picturesque and howery quarter of
Yeddo. His family name is not definitely
known, for he is said to have assumed
many different noms de pinceau TO es-
cape the importantly of curiosity hunters,
and with the same object to have changed
his residence monthly.
The name Hollusai, by Which ne IS COM
monty known, is said by some to mean
Genius of the North" and by others,
Studio of the North. the latter refer-
Tg to the i9e9ti9n Of his his T To Of @
years, and was buried In the buddhist
temple of saikiodje in Yeddo.
II remained poor all his lie, Tor ne con-
fined himself to depicting modern subjects
in a strictly realistic ,nanner-a kind OF
art not fashionable in Japan at that date,
Consequently his pencil earned FOR MN
only small prices. He was distinctly the
artist of the people. among whom ms
sketches We're exceedingly popular FOR
they exhibited in the most vigorous and
lfe-like manner all the. homely aVocafIons
and amusements, the. familiar pets, HOY ao,I.
erS and pleasures of the common folk
Very naturally among the rich and cul-'
tured diamois, 1t was not considered an
evidence of taste to adorn ones walls
With the hakemonos of Hokrsai.
Most OF his designs and paintings were
made especially for the engrdVer, on thin
sheets of Japanese paper, intended to De
fastened upon the wood block. and neces-
sarily destroyed in the execution. we see;
therefore, today very few of the original
paintings, although the number executed
by him must have been in proportion to
his prolific work in other directions
A Man Who NIatured at Fifty and
Was in His Prime at Eighty.
The history of this remarkable man
until his middle life is practically d
blank. His powers appear to have ma
tured late, and in consequence, TO nave
experienced no decline with years, rather
continuing in the process of development
until his death. All that can he aScer-
tanned of his earlier productions. is that
they were principally designs for wood
cut illustrations to short poems, New
Years cards, etc, and that they att
tracted but little attention. In his
Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

conception and deIicacy Of touch he is
outclassed by many of the more highly
artists. But in his own line, the accur--
ate and life-like depicting of actual
scenes and objects with the fewest pos
sfble strokes, Selling the essential char
acteriStics of each with unerring pre-
cision, Hokusai stands unrivalled.
Many a delightful evening have I
passed, in my library, examining the
pamphlets which [ secured during my
think that most of them belong to the
MangWa series. but others seem rather
to be a collection of his designs for
screens, pottery, lacquer, etc. On first
shop under the Palace Hotel, [ became
naturally anxious to understand the
meaning OF many of the designs, the sig
nificance Of which was not apparent to
that the young student that had made
the drawings for my knife blades, was
sufficiently well Informed TO understand
the meaning of the pictures, and as he
was studying our language, the exercise
of 'translattng into English would be use
full to him. A short trial convinced me
of the young mans competency, and 1
asked him to take all the numbers to
his rooms, and at his leisure to write
above each wood cut his understa landing
of its import, as explained in the Japan
csc characters accompanying the de-
signs.
He expressed serious doubts as to his
ability to do this. He knew well enough
what the pictures meant In Japanese. but
he was almost certain that he could not
write it in. good English. He knew cur
grammar fairly we'll, but he had ascer-
tanned that farther knowledge and much
practice were Indispensable to enable him
TO put together the words he found in The
dictionary. l encouraged him, assured
him that I would not be critical and
finally induced him to undertake the
work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
CRUIKSHANK
OF THE JAPS.
An Artist Who Matured at
SO and Was in His Prime
at 80.
GREAT TRUTH TO NATURE
HohUsAI is A VERY INTERESTING
CHARACTER.

1t is Reported He Could Draw With
Anything,''An Egg, a Quart Bottle,
or His Thumb Nail, ana Could Use
His Left Hand as Well as His
Right'-Rnre Pamphlet Found in
san Francisco.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

by night to the gate of the city, who
laid outside the gate a letter for the
duke, and in the letter was written:
God chooses the hand. All is we'll
And Count Antonio abode still an
outlaw in the mountains, and the
Lady Lucia incurred in the city.
tTo be continued)
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

Japanese and Chinese Paintings I'M the
British Museum" Mr.. Anderson tells US
reer, was the publication of the Mangwa,
or rough Sketches in 1872. These COM
prise most extraordinary collection of
strong and masterful, though, as the
name implies, often rough delineatiOnS OF
natural occupations and sports, famous
Psychological and historical personage6,
birds, insects. animals of all kinds, in
characteristic attitudes and surround
dngs, musical instruments and utensils
OF every variety, many interesting
scenes from natura history, together
with great number of grOtesque and
comic designs in which the art of the
master is perhaps at its best
An immediate popular celebrity fol-
lowed the publication of this remarkable
without number, many of whom
did not hesitate to use one of the two
Character cllal forming the successful ar;
lists name, adding to it some individual
and Characteristic sign of their own.
The MangWa'' were in great demand as
copies for art students and artisans, 1
and it is interesting to discover in much
work of today, the influence of the mas
ter showing through the sometimes sue
cessful, often crude, work of his would
Hol8usai Could Draw With Anything.
1t is reported that Hokusal could
draw with anything, "an egg, a quart
and could use his left hand as we'll as
his right. His personality was a most
agreeable, one. He was witty without
being malicious, a very close and keen,
though kindly observer, and, as Mr..
Anderson says, "A Veritable cyclopedia
of folk lore and legend" 1t is certain
tl1a.t his life must have been simple;
healthful and abstenious, for he retained
his remarkable viSor of constitution to
the day Of his death. AT the age of
90 he wore no glasses, and was, as indie
dFatiC .tN~xr
youthful days. Only two years before
his death he published a manual of in
stT'uction, which was equal to his best
efforts.
An interesting glimpse of the person
ality of the man is afforded by the fol-
lowing literal translation of a curious
note written by himself;
have been possessed with a mania. for
DRAWING, the forms, OF objects. When l
was We'll on for 50, I had published an
dissatisfied with all 1 produced prior to
the age of 20. 1t was at the age of 79
that came near to a compre hension of
the true form and nature of birds, of
the age of 50. 1 shall have made much
progress, at 80 years I as Shall touch the
bottom OF things; at 100 years 1 shall
have decidedly attained a state superior
fndef1nabie; at the age of ITO, be it a
point, be it a line, all Will be living. /
ask of those who will live as long as
do, to see If | keep my word
Written at the age of rs years. by me,
formerly Hokusai, now Gonaloijo- Rodjin
the Old dotard of drawing.
How well is eXenplified in these few
words the resolution, the force and the
tireless activity which find their constant
expression in the work of the master
hand!
Lifeliiseness HoIzusai's Strong Point.
I As a colorist, pure and simply, Hokusai
does not rank high, while in grandeur Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
a NATIONAL HOTEL.
MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND IS THE
FAIR LANDLADY.

The President and His Wife Today
Keep House in Very Much More
Splendid Style Than Did Mrs.
Abigail Adams, the First Chate-
lain Of the White House.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03
Some Picturesque Annotatfons of Ho-
Luaai.

A short time afterwards. with much
trepidation, he returned the numbers to
me with his annotations. He had wrought
so faithfully that it would have been
cruel to show any doubt of his success.
I praised his work with warmth, though
confess it was not easy for me TO pre-
serve a sober Countenanceg as I hastily
locked over some of his titles They NAV
not seem 50 comical to others as they did
to me. I think they are worth reproduce
ing here to illustrate soma of the anoma-
lies of our English speech and the difficult
ties they present to an intelligent Japan
csc student who is endeavoring to study
our grammar as defined by Lindley Muir
ray: 1.-THE art of writing and speaking
the language correctly"
His photography and etymology are usu-
ally accurate. He had apparently no use
for the article, definite or indefinite. But
some of his combinations were excessively
amusing; his formation of the feminine
often curious, and his transportation of
letters most comical in it's results. The
value and interest of my copies of Ho-
kusafs work are greatly enhanced 10 me
by these accompanying explanations of
my young translator, a. few of which
will quote. He defines d pleasant faced
person driving out a most ill-fa-
vored individual as New Year Custom
saying Happiness come in, unfortune go
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03

complete. 1t docs not comprise 100 views
eff F'us Yama, one OF his best known
productions, nor many other of his most
characteristic works. Yet it comprises
representative of the whole field of
nature, history and a broad area of
imagination.
An excellent gas has been made fror,
resin.