The times., 1897-11-07

SOnpHNyt ana JiIe tOHipdlly llsAo oclcSttNSS
on watch to see that the young men in
these responsible positions are not getting
into temptation.
Suppose FOR instance, q young man gets
smitten with thea trical beauty, and treats
her to expensive champagne suppers night
after night. He does not know that quiet
little ran, who is having time or his
owrin the corner is observing him, and that
IL he continues his treating on scale which
his salary does rot justify, he is liable to
have no salary before very long. There
is man on duty all night long at these
all-nigEt restaurants for precisely that pur-
pose, and it is the same way with every
place in which young man is liable 10
spend too much money, And it is thus
known to his employers whether he is
pouring out more cash than he owns, or
not.
1t is ratler disagreed BILE system, but in
a civilization in which defalcation is as
comIncn as 1t is In ours, something has to
be done
A vigorous protest against the billboard
is registered in the town of st. Paul, Minn.
st. Paul, il appears is made hideous with
long lines of flaming and glaring and
otherwise offending posters, in all the
colors OF the rainbow and several tints
never undertaken by the Creatoe. Uni
yersity avende (saYe the MARK is one mass
Of bad art and pictorial noises of loud
tone. More than this, the exposed sides OF
empty buildings are rented ana covered
with hadvertiseIaentsor patent medicinesand
theatrical performances, and canned goods
and catsup bottles. The Minnesota town
THIS IS sad for st. Paul, and it is not neces
sary to Iaehtion towns nearer home which
are In something the same fix. The cciored
supplement fever seems to be injecting our
civilization to a consideTa bleextent. Every
thing is made TO Contribute more or less
TO the mission Of the poster, except the
gravcstones in the cemeteries, and perhaps
when some enthusiastic bill-poster dies
he viii give orders TO have his grave deco
rated III this way for the honor OF his
calling. IN Berlin, we are told, there are
none of these specimens OF audible and wau
paper art. There are round white pillars
erected at intervals along the public
streets OH which are pasted black and
white notices OF moderate size. Persons
are generally seen in little groups around
these notices, for one must get quite near
al OACCi W tfdN liaelil dl dli. Jul HlJie ID
to make notice that can be read while
the cable car is going by. But then, we
are not the patient German.
One of the especial advantages Of Kip
ltng's RecesSionap' is that he wrote It
so soon after lie wrote THE Vampire
II it had not been for that the rag-and- bohe
poem would have had several more vol
urnes Of comments from the critics. But
now they are engaged in pulling the Re
ceRsional" TO pieces. and adfuiring 1t and
fussing with it, and somebody, by dint OF
much hunting, has found a chance to call
out plagiarism" It seems that whereas
one line in Kiplings poem reads: Dominion
over palm ana pine.' this stanza occurs in
Emerson's 'Woodnotes''
And will swim the ancient sea
To float my child to victory,
And grant 10 wellers with the pine
Dominion Der the palm and vine.
Notwitiista nding the connection, which
is different, and the line, W hich differs by
| one word, these hyperGitical critics In
sist that Mr.. kipling mnst have DELHI
| erately sat down and copied that line in
| his poem from Emerson, and that, there
| fore, he IS a plagiarist. OF course, what
| they say does hot matter very much, be-
| cause il does not mean anything. They
/ 10 not seem TO see that to man OF any
! respectable amount or genius it would take
| as much thought to get that one line in
! there so that 1t would read all right, as
| it would &c put in an entirely original line
| What they are after is originality. Why
| don't they &C and make an original criti-
eism. for q change? This howl of pla-
| giarsm goes up at intervals in regard to
most authors of any prominence. People
who have nothing to do but to hunt out
| possible similarity OF phrases; who have
/ retained their little schooiboy ideas OF
| literature, think that If the same lines
| occur In two great authors work it proves
| beyond GCubt that the one who wrote
last was too lazy to originate part Of
his work, or toe dishonest to mind stealing
! it, and so copied the other mans phrase.
! as ar indolent schoolboy peeps over an
| others shoulder and steals the answers
| in an examination. As a matter of fact,
| the same cause is liable 10 produce now
| and then tfIe same effect. Emerson W ant ed
/ one phrase TO fill out his verse; he found
a musical one. Kiphng anted u phra ase
i to fill out his verse; he also found mu-
| sioal one; and the two happened to be
! quite similar. This would undoubtedly Y
| have occurred II Kfpllng had never heard
| of Emerson. 1t has occurred in hundreds
| of cases, and hundreds Of howls have been
/ raised for as little cause. The same no
| ton Is likely 10 occur to two minds, and
! it may even lie worked out in an almost
/ precisely similar way, If the two people
are at ali alike, or under the same in
| fluenceg, or If both follow a fashion Of the
day in litel ature. Sometimes a bit Of
verse is read and forgotten, and comes
rack to an author years afterw ard in a
vague way, Which leads him to take it
! for his own. though this is extremely
rare. But deliberate plagiarism on the
| part of an author big enough to get into
| print is almost never committed.
A Chicago man is catching microbes.
! Not in his system; that is not the idea;
the Chicago man has no more microbes in
| his system than any other man who drinks
| Chicago water. He catches them scien-
| tificallg, with Fly paper. He goes out and
hangs his fly paper on a lamppoSt, and then
| while the unsuSpecting microbes alight.
| He has Caught as many as 800 microbes
in three minutes while haunting a bicycle
stand. Some Of them may have been moral
microbes; that is, microbes that feed an the
| morai Faculties and make a man swear