The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-08
SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES.

Contributors to the September Philistine
are Evaleen Stein, Walter Blackburn
Harte, May Louise Ship. Kate Miner,
Robert George, Chambers Calvert ana
Emma Carleton.
Miss Sarah Barnwell Elliott, whose novel,
Jerry" attracted some attention few
years ago, has begun a serial story in
Scribner called 1.-The Durket Sperret "a
story contrasting the Tennessee noun
taineers with the university types at SuWa-
nee.
Among the notable features in Harpers
Weekly of Sept II there will be an illus
trated account of the University of Cali
fornia by Samuel E. Moffett tracing its
present Extraordinary development, and an
illustrated article on Kansas City as "a
great grain and cattle market, by James
Davenport Whelpley.
Among the features of the September
Cooley is a paper on Women in Religious
Ministry"-the development in this drec-
ton during the last half century being the
special theme. An article by Paul Cessna
Gerhart tells what are the requisites of a
mandolinist. Carrie Hunt Latta, the In
danapolis writer. contributes the first
chapter of a story of Quaker life entitled
THE Temptation of David.
Miss Frances Courtenay Baylor has an
article in Lippincott on European house
keeping 1t tells the old story of an econ
omy of which Americans know nothing.
practicing, to some degree at least. To
emphasize the lesson she tells of an Amer
lean family of four who, after seven years
of experience in England and France, live
comfortably on 81 200 a year, and present
a far better appearance than half the fam
lilies they know who are spending $4,000.
In the September number of the New
England Magazine Mr.. Eugene H. L. Ran
dolph the editor of one of the well-known
college publications, has an article upon
leges," in which he gives an excellent ac-
count of the origin of the societies and de-
scribes their place in the college life of
to-day His article is enriched by pictures
of many of the best society houses in a
dozen or more of our college towns.
Brother Jonathan and His Home is the
subject of the opening article in the same
number. the article being from the pen of
Rev. William Elliott Griffis. Brother
Jonathan was Jonathan Trumbull the
great Governor of Connecticut in the time
of the revolution, the stanch friend and
supporter of Washington. who gave him
the title His home and the center Of the
state government in his time was the old
town of Lebanon, Conn.
McClure's Magazine for September con-
tains a practical and useful article on
Life in the Klondike Gold Fields 1t en-
bodies the personal observations of a
pioneer who has lately come out. bringing
a fair fortune with him, and it tells how
the miners enter and work their claims,
how they live. how they govern them
selves what kind of men they are. and
how they pass their leisure time. 1t tells
also what is the best way to the Kion-
dixie what the best equipment for the jour
ney and a years residence there. and what
promise Of prosperity the country actually
offers The article is fully illustrated from
recent photographs. The magazine also
contains a new ballad by Kipling-a dra-
matte persondcation of English rule in
Egypt. There is also humorous
story by Robert Barr reciting the dis
Of
by kindly but ingenious ard resolute
cowboy.
Octave Thanet has very clever election
story in the September Scribner. A ma
tionar politician figures In 1t, also a
local man Of a certain city-a man who
is very rich. very respectable. very much
in earnest, and In politics only because he
was citizen who had opinions, not be-
cause he wanted an Office. They were dis