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.Dawson's an awfully extravagar chap.
 "Yes, he is"
 Has he got much money back him 3"
 Pm afraid he has--more, in fac than he has ahead of him. ."-Harpef BaZar.
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\ Boarding House Episode.

q guess Pm q coward. the boarder said As he hastily pushed back his chair At the restaurant I'll breakfast instead Only the brave would tackle this fare. Chicago Daily News.
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\ Patriotic Ernnh-

Fair Ethel wore red. white and blue Until the war was o'er: 6ne loved her country not so much, But her soldier lover more. IN. '. Truth
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Chess Again.

Clerk-What kind of gloves walking gloves? s
 Miss Wayback-Mercy saAss don't wear gloves on my fess
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Drowned Out.

Oh. the trump of fame Is a megaphone,
 Which wonderful might can employ, But it's quite forgot when you hear the u
 Of tin horn attached to boy. Washington Star.
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Letting Himself Down Easy.

T think my old oYeFeoat will do till Christmas.
 Yes; and after Christmas you won't get one because it will be 50 near spring. Chicago Record
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The Tnrknr-

As he his gaudiness admfres.
 And struts and lets his cares relax, He mocks the farmer who perspires While humbly sharpening his ax. Washington Star.
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She CouId and She Would.

That, observed a friend of the fly, is a very superior woman can converse intelIigently, l bel on a thousand different topics.
 'Yes, sighed her husband-"ant does. ''-Tit-Bits.
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In the Big Raee.

The race IS not in every case
 Unto the swift, they say. And by that self-same token he That leads the fastest life may be
 Passed by the man who pegs aW' Chicago Daily News.
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A Club of One.

How do you keep so youps Lighthead?"
 Well. 1 never worry about r Free Press.
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He Mns q Poet.

The man who said that distance lent Entertainment to the view, I'll bet referred unto a bill
 That was shortly coming due. Ans wers,
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Lola-Tom is going to be an under taker- He says some one dies every time he breatbes
 Theone-Heavens! Why doesn't he use cloves ?-N. Y. Times.
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4 Sern.onette.

Whate'er betide, o murmur not Waste no good breath upon your To! while you grumble, fiieth tiIls., s., Which, we'll put in, might earn e'' Detroit Free Press.
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He-Oh, Mary! I can't hold on longer.
 Then wait till get out of way. No use losing q husband al new hat at the same time.-HaE Life.
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The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
"strange Creatures Loose"


The trouble with Mr.. Bryan and a num-
ber of other people who would he the first
to declare themselves Democrats is, that
they are too hopelessly ignorant to be
trusted with either power or responsibility.
They have seen Mr.. Mckinley go to work
to destroy the hideous structure of protec-
ton, which he and his friends have spent
a lifetime and much labor in building up,
and they have never uttered a word of COM
On the contrary, they have howled and
snarled at him. They know well enough
that the policy of expansion. If carried out,
would Kill protection destroy the basis upon
which the blood-sucking trusts monopolize
business and bring about the freedom of
trade for which the American people have
been praying. But because the unconscious
agent of reform happens to be the Repub-
lican statesman whom Providence has se-
these Democrats have not sense enough to
approve, but must actually oppose his labors
toward their salvation.
What, for heavens sake, has bitten some
of the old Democrats? Are they at last op-
posed to free trade? Do they wish to throw
bmetalEsm overheard? If they do not, why
in the name of political sanity do they an
tagonize expansion, which will actually
compel practical free trade and make free
silver something more than weakly sup
ported academic proposition?
Has il come to pass that leading Demo-
Gratis not only do not wish to support, but
deliberately aim to defeat the objects that
underly their party organization? 1t may
seem a strange question TO ask, but We are
compelled to ask strange questions. There
are strange creatures loose. We can call
two of them to mind right now, and both
claim TO be Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
The Land of the Pigmies.

This book. by Captain Guy Burrows,
deals with an interesting subject in an en-
tertaining and instructive way The author,
an Englshman, has been for several years
past in the service of the Congo Free State,
and his book is an account of some of the
more distant regions of that portion of
Africa and their strange inhabitants, in
cluding the pigmies found among many of
the native tribes The pigmies are a race
of very diminutive negroes who, without
any fixed habitation, move from one tribe
10 another, fighting, hunting or wandering
at WILL Their characteristics and habits are
fully described showing them to be
strange and interesting people. This, how
ever, does not constitute the whole of the
book which contains much other interesting
description of the country and peoples of
Africa. An introduction to the work is fur
nished by Henry M. Stanley, of African
exploration fame, who says: Captain Bur-
the first place. it is brief and gives us
very good idea of the lands haunted by the
pigmies, as well as the characteristics of the
larger Aborigines OF his marches
and countermarches he says little the in
cidents of his daily life he leaves untold,
and of his hunting exploits, haraSsments,
fevers, feelings and emotions he is unuSu-
ally shy. Captain Burrows has preferred to
treat only of the natives and their ways,
and l am bound to admit that l found his
book SO interesting that I read it through
size, Mr.. Stanley must have made a long
sitting The book is not SO much of adven-
ture as of facts and information. Harper
e. Brothers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19

Miss Margaret c. Gearing, sister Of AL
bert F. Gearing, Mayor Taggart's secre-
tary, who, years ago, was a teacher in the
public schools of Indianapolis but who for
the past fifteen or twenty years has been
resident of Denver, Col, has gained consid-
cradle prominence in the last few years as
an author, having written several very in
teresting books. She has recently sent to
press very attractive Christmas book, en-
titled, "Hasta Luego" (untE we meet
again. containing two short stories, HAS
ia ia Luego s.o Amigo Mio,,' q a. satire, and Out
OF the Silent Forever The book is print
contains fine autogravure of the author,
done by H. H. Gearing, a brother, sculp-
handsomely bound and sells for so cents. 1t
will be for sale in this city. The Poets
and Authors Club Of Colorado is also is
SUNG a book in which Miss Gearing also
will have a short story, THE Unmasking
of a Saint"
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
PERsECUTED WITH LOVE.
Queer story I'm Connection with the
Suicide of a Travelling Man.
VVahctar Ctitv ia SneciaI


Since Osborne Deignan quailed before the
bright eyes and rapturous kisses of the
L. l.. Gs of Stuart the fame of Iowa
girls has grown and the power of their at
tractiveness is said to be limitless. Ac-
cording to the latest story they are charged
with having driven a young travelling man
Ira Fits by name-to suicide by the over
abundance of their attentions.
The story goes that something like one
hundred of the girls from an equal number
of Iowa towns decided upon loving him to
death. 1t is not charged that this their
purpose, but the story has IL that the result
was he suffered from this embarrassment
until he felt life q. burden. and, after ar,
ranging for the payment of his board bill
and funeral expenses, took morphine, leav-
ing an abundance of reason for his deed
in the shape of a bushel of letters from
girls in different parts of the State all
breathing words of undying love and affec-
ton And Ii is said that he evidently took
a sort of grim satisfaction in leaving the
letters TO prove ii was not a case of un-
requited love on his part, but of love re-
ciprocated too much.
Some have concluded there is at least
room for the suspicion that the girls had
hypnotized him. A prominent physician in
another part of the State, who read the ac-
counts in the newspapers, declared their
pretty eyes might have hypnotized Fits.
Coroner Hall, of this city, who presided at
the inquest on Ira Fits at Williams, the
other day, persists in spelling this story.
and he has the records to prove the truth
OF his statements. too. The story has been
so widely circulated that there are many
Iowa girls Love Lorn Girls and those for
who say it should be denied. Iowa girls
are not compelled to love men who don't
want them" said one of the l.. L. G's to-
day. They can have their pick, and it isn't
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
Works of jane Austen.

Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. have begun
the publication of a complete edition of
Jane Austen's novels in twelve volumes.
The first two of these contain "Sense and
Sensibility," though why this order is chos-
en- is not clear, since pride and Prejudice
was her first novel, written when she was
twenty-one years of age. The controversy
over Miss Austen's novels will probably go
on while English fiction continues to be
read-those who like them liking them very
much indeed and those who do not seeing
no merit in them, neither side being in the
least influenced by what the other can say
Miss Austen writes of middle-claSs English
society as found in q village and country
neighbOrhood. Her people had no startling
adventures, but they had the happenings
that come even into commonplace lives
loves. disappointments, marriages, money
these are recorded so faithfully and skill
fully that their fortunes are stil of inter-
est to host of discriminating readers. One
popularity of Miss Austen's style is that
her story is told to q great extent by means
of Conversations difficult art and one that
greatly enhances the interest of fiction when
we'll carried out. AS a realist Miss Austen
was a predecessor of Howels, but unlike
this latter-day apostle of the realistic she
tales did; she did not analyze them. Sense
and Sensibility" and the rest differ very
widely from the popular modern novel and
1t Is perhaps this very difference that leads
many readers to turn to them with a sense
OF retreShment. The new edition is in very
attractive style and we'll suited in it's sim
plicity to the character Of the contents.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
The Heart of Toll.

The problems of the working people figure
in the half dozen short stories by Octave
Thanet published under the above title. This
writer shows a very sympathetic under
standing of the labor question as it seems to
those who toll and belong to unions and go
on strikes and as it SENS to the capitalist.
She realizes that the laborer and the en-
ployer are bound together by many human
ties, and are far less antagonistic than cir
cumstances sometimes make them appear.
Her stories bring out this common human
ity in clear relief. They are realistic tales,
and, unlike most fiction on similar themes,
are cheerful and hopeful in tone Apart
from their special interest as bearing on
live problems they are readable as mere
stories Published by the Scribners.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
Two Books by Miss Pool.

The late Maria Louise Pool was the au-
thor of quite long list of novels, none of
them of the highest grade of fiction, but all
with quality that made them pleasing to
many readers. In some respects her pic
lures of New England life and character
we're more true to nature than those of Miss
Wilkins, Miss Brown or. any other of that
school Of writer's She had also a sense of
humor which was frequently manifested and
was a saving grace in certain of the tales
that would otherwise have been too SOM
Der. A curious thing about Miss POOLS nov
els is that the same heroine under various
diSguiSeS figures in all of them. She is in
Variably one of the peculiarly fascinating
creatures that whether she be Willfully de-
signing or Sweetly innocent, wins her way
with men and women, but by force of her
emotional temperament gets herself into all
sorts of entanglementS. In Friendship and
Folly" (from L. G. Page q Co., Boston) one
of the two stories published since the au-
thOr'S death, the fascinating woman is the
villain, the woman who plans to take away
other Women'S lovers and succeeds without
trouble, even after she is herself married.
The author had evidently made a close
study Of a character of this kind and had
been much impressed by it. In "A Golden
Sorrow" published by Herbert S. Stone e.
Co., Chicago the pretty, amiable girlish
heroine possesses the distinguishing quail
ity that makes men and women alike her
worshipers. 1t leads her to grief but in
the final chapter she emerges therefrom.
Both stories have merit.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19

An appropriate book for Christmas is s'The
Lost Word" by Henry Van Dyke, pastor of
a Fifth-avenue (New York; congregation.
and a writer whose appreciative studies of
Tennyson have endeared him to Worship
ers of England's master of verse melody
Mr. Van Dykes new short story is given
with chaste diction and style and, not
withstanding neither the theme nor the les
son is strilingly original. the story of itself
is sufficient to hold interest till the didactic
purpose is accomplished. 1.-The Lost Word"
is the old, old story Of youth discovering
the insufficency of life which does not en-
brace Christ, Mr.. Van Dyke. by way of pre-
ludes having given his hero an introduction
to godliness before he plunges him into
purely worldly delights. Preserving the
agreeable atmosphere throughout the story
the author does not carry his hero down to
sensuous or carnal depths, on the nine
teenth-century plan of purpose novels and
stories, but is content to show him miSer-
able after an eminently proper life, though
one OF elegant leisure, with his beautiful
wife. Atnenias, and his child. Hermas was
first follower of John of Antioch, the
golden-tongued Chrysostom. However on
the suggestion of demon in disguise, he
went back TO his home, fell heir to his
fathers vast estate and dwelt in luxury.
All this was IN Antioch, fifteen hundred
years ago. Conditioned on the assumption
OF this ease and dalliance was the demon
privilege of taking from the mind of Her
mas all recollection of the divine word
the name of the Deity. When a child came
TO Hermas and Athenas their hearts were
so full OF gratitude that they felt impelled
70 confess II to-but, ah, the word was LOST
Hermas's father. on his deathbed, had felt
the aching void and had called on his son
TO give him the name or Him of whom mer-
cy might be sought Here the son, in his
poignant grief unable to give his father
this consolation realized the torturine sac
rifce the demon had imposed One day
Hermas's child was hurt and hovered be-
tween life and death Then Hermas with
his heart nigh breaking. struggled in vain
TO cry the lost word, till John of Antioch
appeared, drove the demon away and re-
claimed his disciple
Zach page of the volume which is pub
ushed by Charles Scribner's Sons New
York. is set of by a decorative border in
inent figures
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19

This story is translated from the Swedish
Of Selma Lagerlof By Pauline Bancroft
Flach. 1t attracted much attention when
brought out in Sweden year or so ago.
and English readers who are seeking some
thing unusual in the way of fiction should
be interested in this translation, for it is
undoubtedly out of the ordinary line. The
scene of the story is laid in northern Swe-
den in the early part OF this century, but
the half-savage character of the persons
who figure in it suggest the early Saxons.
or even the people of the Niebelungen
mythology, with their primitive, lawless
passions. 1t is not a wel-rounded tale. be-
ing more like a number of short stories
treating of the same characters. The CEN
tral hgure, Costa Berling Is a priest de-
posed for drunkenness. He has some fine
qualities, though more weaknesses, and a
He becomes a pensioner on the bounty of a
rich woman, and alternateS from heroic
moods to those of wild recklessneSs. His
love affairs form the leading incidents of
the story. After numerous adventures of an
amorous sort, in the most of which he car
ries off the object of his affections by force.
he marrtes woman of gentle character.
and her influence redeems this man of bril-
liant parts. Together they engage in the
work of caring for the poor, and spend their
lives In self-renunciation. There are some
fine bits of description in the book as the
one picturing Marianne beating at her
fathers door in the icy midnight. having
been shut out by that stern parent because
she had smiled on Costa Berling at a ball
An atmosphere of ice and frost perVades the
book, and this, perhaps, proves the authors
art, since the happenings are in a region of
cold and snow Something doubtless is lost
in translation, but enough of the authors
1t is a striking if not an agreeable, story.
Published by IAttle, Brown & Co., Boston.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19

Miss Clara Louise Burnham writes sweet
ly pretty stories of people who move in
select society circles and have no very
startling adventures, but their fair share Of
sorrows and trials as well as of happiness.
Great Love" is a story of Boston life,
in which a wealthy society woman and her
daughter, both models of department,
young music student from Denver who
ing and >flirtatious married woman are the
leading characters. A wonderful voice, not
belonging to the music student, is an ele-
ment in the tale. A touching case of self
sacrifice, very unlike what would probably
have happened in real life, forms the climax
and is of the sort to bring tears to the eyes
of novel readers whose emotions are easily
stirred 1t is a book that is entirely safe
in the hands of young person. Published
by HOughton, Mif1in & Co.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19

The brilliant series of works on French
history by Imbert De Saint-Amand is con-
tinued by the publication of THE Court of
the Second Empire" the period covered be-
ing the three years from the conclusion of
the Crimean war to the Italian war of 1859.
The author follows the course of public
events in brilliant chronicle of the treaty
of Paris. the baptism of the Prince I'm
perial, the coronation of the Car Alex
ander IL. the attempted assassination by
Orsini and his fellow-conspirators of the
Emperor Napoleon and the diplomatic
war for Italian liberation. The secret his
tory of this movement, contemplated by
Napoleon as soon as the Crimean war had
closed, and pursued by him with equal skill
and success, is also strikingly unfolded. The
author has a remarkably graphic style, COM
binng the realism Of contemporaneous mar
rative with the dignity of history, and his
books run from beginning to end with the
steady movement of an even-floWing stream.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
sHoPL1FTING LADIES.
Suspicion often wrongly Directed to-
Innocent People.
Philadalnhia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
In New York, where they do much that
they ought not to do and leave undone much
that ought to be done, SHINING by omissions
and commission, they have discovered the
lady shoplifter.
life of the Nation, situate on Manhattan ISL
and, is told yesterday that the wife of q
clergyman and the wife of bank officer
were under arrest for stealing from de-
partment store. 1t appears that nothing
serious happened in the Police Court, and it
is not in any way important what may have
occurred there. The real thing is the sin
of stealing or the worse offense of being
suspected of and charged. with it, and the
ladies who were arrested may well serve
for a lesson at this Christmas season.
No longer ago than yesterday, in this city,
in an important shop, the daughter OF a
was approached by department store de-
tective and asked to come to the private
some serious-faced men who charged her
with stealing pocketbook. She denied
the, charge. and said she. had only one
then opened, and found within 1t the price
mark of the store Almost overcome by the
situation, she declared >that she had lost
yertently, making an exchange in error.
They sent to the counter and found the
pocketbookS, some of which, like the one
she had taken by mistake much resembling
1t. There was this difference, however; In
her own purse was $500 in currency, a check
of her fathers for 81, $50 which she was
instructed to pay into city bank pair OF
diamond earrings worth a considerable sum-
glove buttoner and a powder rag.
Obviously no thief would have made such
an exchange, and the lady was permitted to
go with many apologies. But what fur
ther did she carry with her? Perhaps with
Christian forgiveness and out of a gentle
heart she tried to excuse the offense, but
somewhere in her reserves of human nature
must have lurked a desire for big brother
or staiwart lover to thrash that store de-
tective till he looked like an omelet. 1t is
no doubt true that there is much shoplifting
done by people OF respectable appearance
and some little by people holding respecta-
BILE positions in society, but to prevent these
kleptomanical movements the merchants
place every visitor to their shop under an
espionage, which, If reasonable as an act
of protection, is sometimes infamous in its
workings.
The case we have just recited is an actual
one and it is not one of a few. The store
detectives must give evidence of their vigil
ance, and their zeal has led to such epohav-
rassments on the part of innocent people,
that the security they furnish to their en1-
ployers against theft is not to be balanced
by it, In New York, as here, and as in
every great city the stores do, of course.
lose much by shoplifting. No shopifter can
be too careful. An act of purest inadvert-
ance may be msconstrued, and the floor
detectives are watchful for chance to earn
their salary.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19

of all. They are sexless. spiritual and
graceful. Fra Angelica,s angels, which, be-
ing feminine invite criticism, Leonardo da
Vincis angels, which almost grin, and the
lovely children that Correggio has repro
duced - these and many others are por-
tTayed, the excellent illustrations aiding the
student in obtaining a discriminating ac
quaintance with these birds of Cod" as
Dante called them. Michael, Raphael, Ga
briel and the other archangels. particularly
Gabriel, reverenced by Christian, Jew and
Mohammedan alike. come in for considera-
BILE attention by the author. With Ruskin 5
thought in mind that the noblest use of the
Imagination is to bring to sight things be-
longing to our future state or invisibly sur-
rounding us, the author thinks it well worth
the while to study the angels. Love in
Art" by Mary Knight Potter, published by
the same firm, is companion book to the
one above reviewed, and is in every way
worth commendation to lovers of art and to
those who wish to have an intelligent con-
ception of the great things on canvas. In
a different field. the writer has followed the
same general scheme as the author of ''An-
gels in Art" Both books are valuable con-
tributions to American literature bearing
on art.