The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07

pose is Ito give good, wholesome I.tere tLra
10 the masses. and perhaps the masses
are yearning for just such hterat IRE as IL
presents.
There is nothing more interesting in the
September Century than brief account of
the gold fields of Guiana. by Thomas Dali
gleish. The article would be more complete
and satisfactory if the author had included
the main street of Georgetown. as shown
in an illustration Mrs. Pennett makes a
reada bic chapter of rather hackneyed ma
terial In her sketch of summer in south
ern Spain.
Because the currency problem is an eco
nomic one. and not a subject for mere par
usan controversy. it is discussed I'm all in
dustrial rs well as in political circles The
engineering Magazine (New York; for Oc-
nober OPENS with paper by j. Selwyn
Ialt on the free-silver poison. His argu-
r.sHt Is lhat a Initiated currency produces
national decadence. Other subjects treated
~ are: Gas VS.. Electricity, Direct from
SSoai'. The Underground Topography OF a
CITY, The Less Known Gold Fields of
EE.Uioi,ao9; The Economy of the Modern
6ngine Room. Railway Pooling and the
Line, Line or Industrial Interest in Electricity@
sca ne harmony of Architecture and Land
IISS,pe OK, Modern Machine Snop
economies and The MANUFACTURE and
Use OF Brick for Paving
An interesting article on the tin supply
Oh the United States is found i'm the Ma
t'ohal Magazine formerly the Bostonian)
In the course of it the writer saws: "A
small duty to keep out tea dust and other
low grades highly adulterated would Droh-
ably prove beneficial Tea dust the Lowest
grade n o can readily be purchased in Asia for
112 cents per pound. but when sold AT retail
costs much more. In former wears ,nue6
OF OF TINS cheap dust, being barred out of
England. has been shipped to Russia which
taxes the best and the poorest grades OH
tainable in the Asiatic markets Tea buvers
oTa AZ, ~ Is Impossible TO secure the very best
fnfa -
because Russian buyers. seeking tea for.
IN ofi1cial classes. pay high IS $40 ana
quantity OF which is very limited
The Lotus. the Kansas City magazinelet
edited by Walter blackburn Harte. an
nounces that the special aim OF the editor
VIII be Ito gather into it's pages all the
most talented. original and vigorous writer's
OF this generation in America and with
TINS TINS corporation to present every month a
thought and literature One of these
vigorous writer's discusses the recent flood
ton to Maclaren that his Characters ara
STUFFED with all the virtues There i.
NOT ne says, "a single peccadillo to divide
in this whole villageful of souls They are
quite intolerable in their impecca biIty. and
more unbelievable in this particular than
in their narrow complacency in the verify
OF election and damnati ton" This is :,
sound criticism. but the popularity of these
stories may be explained by the fact that
y
cadent world in which man is uniformly
vile. my
w. j. Dawson adds another to the in
Vulnerable eulogies of Stevenson. and con-
tributes to the Bookman discourses on the
religion of the departed novelist as set
forth in his books and his life I'm the
truest sense" he says. Stevenson was an
entirely 'pious man. He knew what it
meant: as he has put it, to go up the
great bare staircase of his duty. unheeded
ana undepressed.' In the trials of life
unusually difficult. and pierced by the
spears points of the sharpest limitations
ne preserved a splendid and unbroken for
utude. NO man ever met life with a higher
courage; 1t is safe to say that man less
courageous would not have lived nearly so
long. There are few things more wonder
iul ana admirable than the persistence OF
his energy; ill and compelled to silence. he
stlll dictates his story in his dumb alpha
bet, and at his lowest ebb of health makes
no complaint. And through all there runs
plety as invincible as his fortitude: GER
tain gayety of soul that never deserts him:
faith in the ultimate rightness of destiny
which holds him serene amid a sea OF
troubles"