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The evening times., 1895-08-15

For all future purposes the company that
viii operate between Washington and Balu-
more and the lexington and Belt lines
are all one and the same interest-all,
in fact, one big company, with one big plan,
the over-runaing OF Washington with the
death-dealing and street-destroying trolley
against which the people have so long
fought. 1t is rather peculiar therefore
that Mr.. s. II. Kaufman, president of
The Star Company, is q stock-holder iu ONE
branch Of this gigantic interest, and that
Mr. Moves, the editor OF the Star, n finan-
cially interested in another; while Mr..
schoepf is general manager of the bigger
branch, aud vice prestdent of the Eek
ington and Belt lines, and while Mr.. New
bold is president of the lexington and
therefore an officer. In the line in which
Editor Eoyes is fina ncially concerned.
All this may account for the readiness
with which Mr. Newbold's statements are
accepted and indersed 1t certainly shows
that the Star lie got q disintcrestcd party
in the fight which the people OF Washington
are making TO preserve their city from the
domination of a jheartless and cruel cor
poration. No attorney is honest who takes
his emoluments from both sides OF the case.
The evening times., 1895-08-15

Brightest and best is the Sunday
Times, 20 pages for 8 centsi
The evening times., 1895-08-15
The Latest.

Brightest and best is the Sunday
Times, 20 pages for 8 cents!
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ton, aud lastly began its plans for the
absorption Of the Capital City by the pur-
chase OF the lexington and Belt lines.
This syndicate was known as the Elkins,
wideuer & Dolau Company. but 1t has
appa arenuy died ont of public notice and
official coguizance as being represented
iu the two Washington lines.
Financiers are all familiar with the
methods OF persons holding stock who
wish TO conceal that fact from the public.
Many trust and other companies W Ill loan
money on railroad stock, and the plan is
then pursued by which the stock is placed
in the name OF the lender while the real
owner is, OF course, the borrower. This is
called in financial circles the 'hypothe-
cation Of stock" The real owner always
votes his stock as if it had not been hypo-
thecated, and as If 1t were in his proper
name.
The evening times., 1895-08-15

Brightest and best is the Sunday
Times 30 pages for centsl
The evening times., 1895-08-15
STIR's TROLLEY SCHEME
It Is Part and Parcel Of the Biz
Railroad Corporation.
ITS PUBLISHERS OWN STOCK

President Kaufman and Editor Noyes
Are Part Proprietors of the Belt
and lexington Lines, Respectively,
With Messrs. NewbOld and Schoepf.
The Star and Labor News
The evening times., 1895-08-15

Brightest and best Is the Sunday
Times, 20 pages for centsi
The evening times., 1895-08-15

The respect in which The Times holds its
ancient and esteemed evening contemporary,
the Star, has often bsen demonstrated in
these columns. further demonstration Of
it is made in to-day's Morning Times.
Heretofore the attitude of the Star on the
trolley question, even to the wellinfOrmed
Times, has beensome what tincomprehensible.
From a curious and mex plicable attitude OF
defiance and offcnse, it has taken up the
cudgels for the trolley people. become their
apolog ist and exposition, patted them on the
back, boastsd of its exclusive emonstratiOn
of their good intentions, and has declared
that it is pleased to believe that President
Newbold is entirely sincere, and that he
will not pernit himself to be stultified and
his promise falsified."
The milk In the cocoanut, the hand writ.
ing on the wall, the cold, simple fact at
the bottom of the whole matter has just
come to light, and The Times ackno Wedges
its stu pidity in having been blind to 1t here
tOfore. 1t 10 that the Star has financial
interest In the consummation of Mr.. New
bold's planE, which are undoubtedly the in
fliction Of the trolley on Washington; that
it's publishers are fellow stockholders with
Mr.. Newbold in the lexington and Belt
lines; and that as these lines are owned and
controlled by the traction company that
will run from Baltimore to Washington, and
overrun Warrington as IL hopes, the Stars
interest must extend to the larger concern
And be it known also that Mr.. Newboh
is the under dog az it were, for though he Is
a big figure head, his stockholding interest
is infinitesimal compared with that held by
the publishers Of the Star. The facts are
further down in this recital.
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AN IMAGINATIVE MAN.

Have we new man to match the new
woman2 Certain indications in the litera-
ture of to-day prompt the conclusion that
we must have new man and that George
Moore is his apostle. He, Moore, has
given US several examples of the type in
his latest book, "Celibates," and now
comes R. S. Kitchens with another, even
more weird, more utterly new. if that
were possible, than the newest of Moore's
new creations. Mr.. Hichens, it must be
unde rstood, is the author of "Green Car
nations" q recent exotic which, published
anonymously, was for a time credited to
Oscar Wilde. Mr.. Kitchens is evidently
the disciple of the apostle of the new man.
1.-THE Imaginative Man" he calls his latest
creation, and he introduces him to US
standing in his young wife's bedroom,
watching the lady say her prayers.
81 wonder why she is praying?" Henry Denl-
son thought, still looking at his wife and
''Is it because she believes in God, or because
she wishes to sound me? l wonder
what she is praying about"
He moved step forward. as II to go softly
out of the room, then paused again.
81 wonder whether she is q Pharisee," he
thought, land for pretense makes long pray
ers? Or perhaps she fancies | have gone down
stairs. She cannot see; her eyes are blinded
by her hands. These private prayers are fas-
cinating-everything that is strictly private is
fascinating. The Bluebeard's cham
Der of the soul is, after all, the only room
worth looking into. have not quite
got into Ends. Bluebeard's chamber yet.
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also marked characteristics of Whittier.
The titles poet, seer and prophet were as
applicable to him as to Massey, although,
as Mr.. Flower points out, the latter pos
sesses less intuitional perception than did
Whittier. The book contains many quo
tations from Massey's poems, and will
prove for many readers their first intro
duction to the singer. AS mystic and
seer his interpreter is peculiarly fitted for
the task of presenting him to the Ameri-
can people, for Mr.. Flower is himself
thoroughly imbued with the spirit of mys-
ticism, the spiritual insight and the pas
sion for humanity that breathe through all
Massey's work. He has given us a book
of real worth and interest. There is not
too much of the reform element between
the covers of his book to detract from its
literary merit, while yet every page sug-
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a DEPARTMENT
,soF LITERARY APPRECIATION :

cared Tor our singing, and would have more OF
III, then you must follow us afield
For, after all, there's your place and ours
there you may hear the birds calling, and see
trees blowing, and know the great content of
the earth. Meantime. shut in the town, we
small blow our nickel pipe, to make you believe
~ Is reed, and that you dance, garlanded, to
It's piping.
Each issue of this paper has new title
page, drawn by some artist in the coterle,
Tor the original publishers have drawn
unto them the assistance of Florence Lund-
borg, Richard Redforth and Edmond
Cnarlroy: In addition to the odd things
SAID In this little book the weird style of
typography is diverting and apparently
attractive to the minds of critical and
literary people, for hundreds of letters are
being received each week asking what the
whole thing means and what is intended
to be made of this new venture in serio-
comic journalism. A few specimen pages
VIII be published to-day in order that the
general reader may obtain an idea as to
the style of the publication. Here is
characteristic contribution:
'sHE HAD KIND HEART" SAID vIvETTE. ''sHE
HAD GOOD HEAD, SAID 1.
The whole world was open, and We walked in,
smiling. There was no one at home but a
squirrel, so we sat down to.wait.
At last the people began to come back.
First, there was a lame old man with his foot
gone.
"Poor old mani" said Mamie, 'T feel so sorry
for you! Won't you take my foot?'
He was such droll man with Mamie's little
foot on him, but he wouldn't stay, and ran off,
shouting Then along came boy with his
arm in sling.
Cant you get good arm?" said Mamie
"here-take minep' So off went Mamies right
ARMAND how laughed at her!
Faith, I'm all one-sded, and you'll have to
hold me up said Mamie.
little later they :came, two by two, and
thick as spatters. and by noon there was moth
ing left of good little Mamie but Mamies voice
"Put me i'll your ear, so you'll not lose me, !"
said Mamie.
Then all the rest came too, for the cripple
man had told them, and "Oh, where's Mamie?'
they said.
''Teli them I'm up the tree" whispered Ma
mics voice.
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And in the COSMOPOLITAN for August

And in the Cosmopolitan for August
occurs this quatrain by John b. Tabb:
Twas all she could: The gift that Nature gave,
pa Inc torrent on, s OF her tIesses-did she spill
Vi passion heard his whisper, "Peace, be STILL"
The poet here seems little uncertain in
bis historic values, but the conception of
that torrent of tresses' spilled before the
Masters feet is certainly unique.
But words, words, of these our poets have
over many, yet, apparently, all too few.
Here, for instance, is Francis Saltus
writing Dreams After Sunset" like this:
When press unto mine arms with thirst of cap
The fond form my yearning senses idolize
The pale thought Of separation from such rapture
Comes to chill me with its terrible surprise.
And William Morris, whom we had fondly
hoped to trust, telling
OF Margaret sitting glorious there
In glory of gold and glory of hair
And glory of glorious face most fair.
In Harper's for July, Rosamund Mar
riott-Watson makes
The strong, living heart
Beat the dissolute dust.
And here is Rudyard Kipling's latest con-
tribution to the cup of our general woe:
We knowed too much to sufer-we was bloomin'
cunnn, too,
An a company commander up an lit us with lis
sword,
An some one shouted OOk III III COule W
Save-ki-poo,
An we chucked our rifles from us-oh, my
Gawdl
These selections were not made with
malice prepense. They are taken entirely
at random from the current magazines and
are given as samples of what our modern
poets are doing. We are taught that
toward the end of century we may look
for period of decadence in all forms OF
art. This, in fact, is what is meant to be
conveyed by that modern phrase-of-all-
work fin de steele. A contradiction is be-
ing given 20 it in certain lines, however.
At no period have we had such galaxy
of brilliant young prose-writers as are busy
in this last decade of the present century;
but if their work in our magazines is to be
any criterion, our poets are nothing if not
lin de steele Vapid, affected, initiative, it
would almost seem as though the verdict
of the Philistines had some justification in
the evidence and that the art of verse
making is an art of the past.
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ssShe's gone I'D the tree after more limbs"
said 1.
So they all went up the tree after her.
"Is the whole world up thereY said Mamie.
They're all up there said /.
"Then call them down." said Mamie, zone
by one"
"Do you like black eyes?" said Mamie.
Brown ones" said /, like yours.
''Ihen let her CO." said Mamie.
After while another came down.
''She has eyes like yours" said /.
They're prettierl' said Mamie, cor you'd
never have said that; so take them!" SO TOOK
hem away from her she came down the tree;
bat kissed her first for Mamie couldn't see.
CHOW, L II have mouth next" said Mamie.
(How she could have suspected don't know,
but she watched me with her two brown eyes
after that) 1t was rosy mouth, with pretty
milk teeth, that got for her. There was
nothing in the whole world like it.
CHOW, you're safe" said Mamie.
"Do you like light hair, or dark?" said
Mamie.
''Gold hair" said I, with spark in it," said
/; and they came down by dozens, and ran
any to suit her.
BY this time Mamie was too pretty. almost
kept turning, my head to look at her.
all go before night, and it's o'clock already
So Mamie grew and grew. The folk we're SELF
ish at first and stingy when l stopped them !;
but when they saw Mamie they, were, proud OF
her and they'd say, ooh, indeed, my hands are
pretty enough. Teddy always said sol" But
at first Mamie would refuse them and turn up
her nose. "Oh, please take them, dol" they'd
say. "Well, perhaps they'll do" said Mamie.
The very last thing was a little pink toe, and
Mamie was so particular that they were all out
of the tree, but three old men, before we knew it.
1.-THE sun is setting said Mamie; 81 don't
want their old toes; let them CO."
So when the whole world was empty again,
was alone with beautiful, beautiful Mamie.
ssrm afraid shall limp little, but I'm per-
fectly happy" said Mamie
The posters issued by The Lark adver-
Using It's several publications have been
even more peculiar than the regular edi-
ton of the paper.
LOCAL POSTERS AND OTHERS.
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wonder if there are headless creatures there
bizarre monuments OF her mental crimes? Let
us hope So"
Much after this fashion the creature
dodders on through the whole OF rather
good-sized volume. Henry Denison is
considered an odd fellow. His creator tells
us that she was man who considered it
almost criminal to be what men call "a
thoroughly good fellow" Fortunately,
however ''this last insult had not yet been
offered him. Sometimes he had waited
for it with dread, but it had never come.
His personality had guarded him from it,
and for this he was thankful"
Anything that this charming character
understood becomes to him an object of
| loathing He is married to a dear little
| girl who adores him. So long as she puz-
zles him he is interested in her, but few
months after marriage came the fatal mo-
ment when she felt inclined to seize Enid
| by hers soft white throat and cry, You
| fool, why have you allowed me to under
stand your
They go to Egypt. He breads to see the
Sphinx, lest this famous mystery shall fail
to impress him. He is agreeably disap-
pointed, however, and falls in love with it
if one may use human language in re-
counting the vagaries of Mr.. Hichens' Gre
alton He is fascinated, held. He neglects
his wife, eschews the society of his kind
anu Sp60QS I'LL Ills IllSllbo uluCI ILC opciI VI
that ancient face of stone. When the time
comes fDr their departure he sets trap be-
side his wife's bed, falling into which she
sprains her ankle, and their stay is thus
prolonged.
There are some side issues to the tale--a
dying, consumptive boy, gone mad over
the sensuous pleasures of Cairo-and his
mother, who. seeing him going the pace
that kills, dare not check him. Denison
and the boy visit famous dancing apart
ment in the city, and we are treated to a
vision of mysteries that recalls recent
structure upon the measures of our modern
poets, which characterizes them as ''erotic,
neurotic and Tommyrotic. The book
comes to no definite end. Our last vision
of the young wife reveals her wandering
about in the night in search of her Grant
spouse, who is bidding farewell to the
Sphinx-for they leave, at last, on the fol-
lowing morning. That is all.
1t has not been our pleasure as yet to
come across the new man anywhere out
side of book, but the type is becoming
numerous to the verge of nausea in the
work of certain London school of literary
dabblers. 1t is possible that his advent
may bring surcease from the new woman,
but what price to pay for that immun-
ity New York: ID. Appleton 81 Co. For
sale by William Doxey.
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make an announcement, and of no further
value beyond the object which it was in
tended to serve. They have been as bar
rem of beauty, as guiltless OF artistic effect
as that early effort in Hogarth's famous
picture of "Gin Lane" with its naive au-
nouncement that gentlemen and others
can get drunk for a penny, dead drunk
for tuppence"- clean straw" in the latter
case being Furnished for nothing"
1t is desirable thing that the desire for
beauty should express itself in the
making of the common things of every
day use, and it is, therefore, a healthy indi-
cation, this sudden poisoning out of our
mere advertising notices into things of
beauty. 1t has moral as well as an
esthetic significance that forms of grace
and artistic loveliness are in demand to re-
place the outre monstrosities that have
heretofore done duty as bushes for what
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ever sort of wines advertisers have had to
to offer.
THE CALL has been pioneer among the
newspapers of this coast to adopt n artis-
tic form of poster in announcing its Sun
day edition, and the brave young warrior
who bears upon his shield the programme
for each week is in active demand among
collectors of these works of art.
There is deep significance in this beau
tiful figure that has become as it were THE
Calls presiding genius. He is the cham
pion of the Pacific Coast. He stands for
war to the knife and no quarter against all
evils that threaten the commonwealth, for
clean journalism. for pure politics and the
defeat of swindles, jobberies and corrupt
is unfinchingly set.
Another artistic and appropriate poster
announcing local publication is the
dainty design issued by the publishers of
The Lark. The dainty little chap tuning
his pipe is the very subtle essence OF
that spirit of matchmaking and Joy for
which alone The Lark stands. 1t is the
Lark himself piping to US from the morn
ing meadows.
Not so happy is this latest effect from
the publishers of the Overland. One is
puzzled, studying the grewsome figure, to
decide whether it is a prophecy or rem
iniscence. Whatever its significance, it is
not lovely object and suggests desire
to attract attention rather than to produce
an artistic effect.
There are many other poster-makers.
but few specimens must suffice. The
Echo of Chicago is reaching out for talent
in every direction. 1t has given promi-
nence to tie productions of Landers, Sloan
and MAXWELL. In its issue of July 1 the
Echo said I'VE draw attention to the
new poster that we issue this month by f.
A. Nankivell, San Francisco artist for
whom we claim great possibilities. In this
particular poster there is graceful beauty
of line and a sketchiness that reminds one
of Van Beers. We venture to affirm that
this poster of NankivelPs is hereafter to be
reckoned with in any summing up of
American posters"
SOME RECENT VERSES.
Several years ago the editor of we'll
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strictly utilitarian age, wherein nothing
counts that does not bring substantial re-
turns in current coin of the realm.
Be that as it may, there was never a
period when more attention was paid to
producing beautiful effects in the mere
utilities of life. 1t is principle in archi-
lecture that we may ornament construc-
ton, but must pever construct ornament.
This principle is now receiving attention
in other fields of art. and nowhere does it
better apply, nowhere is its application
more pleasinglv conspicuous than in the
up-to-date poster Until within year or
two past poster has been regarded as an
essentially utilitarian object, intended to
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Artist Joseph D. Strong is an ardent adj
mirer of Professor Charles Warren Stod
dard, poet of the South Seas. The artist
and the poet are fast friends. In the ex-
uberance of his affection Mr.. Strong has
for month devoted eight hours day to
sketching the poet in his different moods
and poses. For the time being he has
turned himself into a picture-making Bos-
well. Wearying of more sedate methods
of treatment the artist yesterday ventured
on a gentle and appreciative caricature
The original drawing fell into the hands of
THE CALLS art director, and is reproduced
on this page to-day. Only the bonds of
brotherly love would justify the taking of
such liberty with poet. The response
bility for the cartoon rests with the artist
Modern poster-making has become an art,
and bookish people have added to their
other isms the fad of collecting posters.
In this City the mania has taken deep
root and is raging nightly.
Book-buyers this week have had wide
range OF acceptable volumes from which
TO choose.
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has heard the larks glorious burst Of glad
melody would dream of calling it chant2
Who, indeed but modern poet?
In the Chap Book for June 15 Louise
Chandler Moulton, who ought to know
better, speaks of Lord de Tabley, whom
she halls as poet who "does not appeal,
as did Burns, or Whittier, or Longfellow,
to the ordinary reader" as singing:
song of dust for waning years,
A solemn song in sackcloth clad,
Whose chords are wet with poignant tears
And its pale singers lips are sad.
Mrs. Moulton must answer against two
counts this time. In a recent issue of the
Century she has a sonnet in which she
asks, tragically:
Shall lie down to sleep, and see no more
The splendid affiuence of earth and sky;
The proud procession OF the stars go by;
The white moon sway the earth and WOO the shore !;
The morning lark to the far heavens soar:
The nightingale with the soft dusk draw nigh?
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poet implying that she ever did see on

poet implying that she ever did see on
New England soil,
The morning lark to the far heavens soar;
The nightingale with the soft dusk draw nigh.
We are not yet done with the Chap
Books poets. In the issue for July Is
Jean Wright is eased of a plague called a
song, which is sung as follows:
The tickle wind blows west and east,
Love blows as the wind blows
The tickle moon is loves high priest.
Love blows into the heart
Sweet love, sweet love is lightly won,
Love blows as the wind blows
Sweet love, sweet love Is quickly gone,
Love blows into the heart
Aprirs made Of shine and shower,
Love blows as the wind blows
The north wind frights each timd flower,
Love blows into the heart
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THE LARK-A PUZZLBR.

San Francisco is enjoying the distinction
in the world of letters of producing a
unique publication. 1t is called The Lark,
and our Eastern cousins, up to the present
time, have not been able to make out ex-
actly what it means. This little publica-
ton, established by Bruce Porter and Ge-
lett Burgess, is written in such a bantering
tone that the sedate wits of New York,
Philadelphia and Chicago have not been
able to make out whether it is in earnest