The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-11


the reign Of Solomon. The series began
with the July issue of the magazine.
In addition to the articles translated from
foreign periodicals the International Maya
zine (Chicago) now offers in each number
chapters of social and political gossip con-
tr1buted by various correspondents. 1t also
contains q summary of Matters Dplo-
matte at Washington from the pen of Mr..
A. j. Ealford.
None of the backgrounds of the civil war
has so many monuments and memorial
structures as Gettysburg. A description of
this field, its cemetery and its most prom
inent memorials-there are 32S monuments
IN all-appears in the October Cosmopolitan,
written by John B. Mcpherson. The illus
tratiOns are striking
A member Of the Vassar graduating class
of 1897 contributes to the National Maya
zine for October an account of life in that
college which has the merit of both ac-
curacy ard loyalty. The illustrations are
pleasing. Among other features of the
number is paper by Mrs. Ellen M. Hen
rotin on Women in Finance"
a Romantic Wrong Doer'' is what Edgar
Fawcett very aptly entities his historical
sketch of Aaron Burr in the October Cos
mopolitan. Great an offender as he was
against honor and the moral sentiment of
his time he was a picturesque sinner, and,
something of the charm that encompassed
his remarkable personality to the end of his
lAAS Stlll CltIlSS 10 MS memory
Herbert S. Stone & Co. publish two PEE
riodicals now. the Chap Book and the House
Beautiful. The later they have recently
bought from Knapp e. Co., who started it
year ago. It's publishers believe that the
name Of a magazine dealing with house
decoration is obvious and they hope that
with the improvement and enlargement
which they are making of the House
Beautiful it's future is assured.
The first number of new magazine for
children, to be called Little Folks, will be
issued the last of October by S. E. Casino,
of Boston. AS it's subtitle states, it will
be IAN illustrated monthly for youngest
readers. Mr.. Charles Stuart Pratt and
MRS. Ella Farman Pratt who are to create
and edit the magazine, will embody in it
many plans and ideas which are the out
growth or their twenty years experience in
shaping the childrenS literature of Amer
lea lin Wide Awake, In Little Men and
women, in Babyland. etc)
The Eclectic for October contains a long
list Of readable and timely articles from the
best foreign sources Among the principal
ones are: France, Russia, and the England
Of Of the Jubilee" THE Uses of Humor;"
Guidesi3 'Psychical Research and an AL
Maiden Speeches." Mrs Oliphant; . ''Au-
tumn Days in Islay;" " The New Sayings
Of Christ" An Unnoted Corner of Spain;
The Unrest in India; Twenty Years of
Cycling ION Conversations" Duplicate
Anecdotes "Wolmer Forest" Peter the
Great Mr.. Barnato;' Antarctic Elk
ploration."
The New England Magazine gives it's
place Of honor this month to Booker Wash
ington, his portrait forming the frontispiece
and an account of his work in the Tuske-
gee Institute being the opening article. In
the same line is A. d. Mayo's paper on
South. "A Baby Community is the title
OF an article giving an account OF curious
enterprise in New Mexico. In a hamlet
to which the founder, a wealthy reformer
with ideas, has given the name of Shaalam
the experiment is being made of bringing
up colony Of children to be the kind Of
men and women he thinks ought to people
the earth. The children, their guardians
and teachers make UP the community; the
little ones, VINO are waits gathered from or
phan asylums, being unbiased by notions
previously acquired, are to be trained to
fraternal and socialistic methods and prin-
ciples, and will, 1t is thought, be so well
grounded in these views that they will never
care to adopt others With children to the
manner born the founder believes communal
life will be the natural way and Individual
ism be wondered at as remnant of bar
barism.
In an article in the Arena on suicide the
writer, G.. B. Newcomb, says: eve often
speak of life as a hard taskmaster and as
something we would be glad to have done
with. We call it an illusion and dream.
But we are beginning to learn (and every
discovery OF science emphasizes the 1act)
that dearh is the only ILLUSION" and that
life in ever-varying form goes on forever.
We cannot put it away from us. No man
can be really burned drowned, frozen or
buried. He may change his garment, but
he must live on. Through all experiences he
comes unscathed untouched and conscious
still. Doubtless among the greatest sur
prises that await us in the future is the
realization with a clearer vision than we
possess to-day that life is infinitely kind
and tender and wonderfully wise in its
adaptation of our experience to our necessi-
ties. We shall yet admit that it has been
a skillful surgeon performing the necessary
operation as gently as we would permit, and
alternating to the utmost the pains of the
sufferer Life itself inficts no pain upon
US. All suffering comes from within. 1t
proceeds from the inharmonious conditions
of our own SOULS