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were not wholly convincing. And the
outlook for young Americans who have
a notion of trying TO get living by
pure literature" Is, says the New YORK
young Britons AS Professor Matthews
says, it is not so gloomy as IL used to be-
International copyright has changed the
situation for the better. Still, IL is so
gloomy that the friends Of a young person
who aspires to live by literature are jusu-
fed in regarding that young person as either
a genius or somewhat demented. The best
advice to be given to such young Amer
lean is that which was once, in fact, given:
Go into literature? Not If you can pos
sibly help it
Frank Frankfort Moore, who has earned
success as a writer of fiction by hard work
and persistence, has no sympathy with the
young novelist who is discouraged because
his second or third book does not bring
him fame and fortune. II published thirty
one books" he says, before the literary
public knew anything about me-" While
a journalist in Belfast, Mr.. Moore man.
aged to produce in twelve.years thirty-one
books for boys, rafting tales of adventure
discouraged, for he thought he should
know quite well when his time came. he
finished writing 81 Forbid the Banns." and
as he was leaving home for his office one
evening, said quietly to his wife that now
the story was completed, he should resign
his position that night and they would
move to London. lis IL good as all
that?" asked Mrs. Moore 81 think so,
replied her husband; you might read II.
Shortly after they went to London IN
few months the novel had been rejected
by seventeen London publishing firms
Finally some one was found to try IL. and
in the first six months Mr.. Moore's royal
ties amounted 10 e1,000
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once call him foolish--that those long. long
days spent in manual labor in the clean.
sweet air and under daily baptism Of
Gods sunlight were the amounting time Of
their lives. Then they were thinking the
thoughts and working out in crude form
the problems whose answers form the very
foundation and framework of their life
philosophical say nothing of the accumu-
lation of infinite knowledge that was to
serve its purpose in countless ways
throughout all the rest of their earthly ex-
istence. There is hardly another exper-
fence known that furnishes equal opportu-
mites for thought and wholesome impress
sions at the exact period of life when such
are absolutely necessary to the perfect de-
those who have passed through that trying
probation look backward and frame with a
beautiful gold molding those precious years
that appeared at the time to be wasting
If this statement is helpful to any boy
who is now impatient at his farm work let
1t have it's full effect. Let the boy remem-
Der where and how Ben-Hur acquired the
strength. patience and courage necessary
to win the chariot race and triumph over
his enemies. Let him look at his present
situation through the eyes of others, who
look upon him almost with envy, and be
patient.
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A society of New York women has been
formed for the purpose of improving the
speaking voice, with especial attention to
the eradication of the nasal twang. The
speaking voice of women certainly needs
improvement, but the nasal twang is hard
ly its worst fault. Its high pitch and
shrillness are greater and far more COM
mon defects Poor enunciation is also so
common as to be almost a characteristic of
feminine speech. If girls were required
to enunciate their words distinctly and in
moderate tone the nasal sounds would take
care of themselves, and sharp, irritating
voices would not be the order of the day as
the girls grew older.
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William F. Miller, manager Of the So
called Franklin Syndicate in Brooklyn.
which swiadled about 1900 persons out of
sums aggregating over 81, oOO, 900, has been
found guilty of grand larceny. Miller was
a teacher in a Sunday school, and in the
course of the trial 1t came out that his
swindling scheme was first preached there.
He told several of the young men and boys
with whom he had become acquainted
there that he had fallen into way of
making money easily, and that he needed
capital. He declared that he would pay in
terest at the rate of 10 per cent. week on
all money deposited with him, while guar
anteeing the return OF the principal. The
boys and young men were suspicious. but
Miller induced several of them TO place 81
apiece in his hands. and promptly every
week he paid 10 cents on each dollar. Then
some of the young men invested more mon
ey with him, and when he paid the prom
ised interest they began to talk about him
and his methods. Thus his scheme was
advertised and started. There is nothing
in this to the discredit of the victims, but
it may serve as reminder that persons
who use churches and Sunday schools to
be stealing the livery of heaven. etc.
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A Belgian chemist of renown has writ
ten an elaborate paper in which he un-
dertakes to explain why water is blue or
of shades of blue that are greenish in tone.
Inasmuch as there is considerable local
curiosity as to what makes the water in
the basins Of the soldiers monument foun-
tains appear of a blush green it may be
well to set forth the Belgian theory.
Briefly, it seems. according to this emf
nent authority. that water is not blue be-
cause it contains blue particles, but be-
cause it is blue in itself. In other words.
it is blue because it is blue. This is what
some persons who do not pretend to be in
the least scientific have said all along
about the water in the fountains. and they
will be gratified at having their position
sustained.
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The monuments which a people erect to
commemorate great events and to keep
alive great characters can be classed
among the methods of education. Com
paratively few people read history, and
many of those who do are melted to do
so by spirit of inquiry which some object
like a monument has aroused. Pictures
of Bunker Hill monument have undoubted-
ly led thousands to seek the cause of it's
erection, which involves the whole story of
the war for independence. The Washing
ton monument will always awaken an in
man who was first In war, first in peace,
and first in the hearts of his countrymen'
to be held in generation for ages. The
statues of Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and other
great men which are scattered
over the country will ever be object
lessons. The Indiana soldiers and sail
ors' monument, already famous through
out the land, Is perpetual object lesson.
No one visits indianapolis without view
portions. and this leads visitors, If unin-
formed, to inquire why State built it.
People coming to the city on excursions
usually make their way to the monument.
The thousands of children who see it ask
of parents and others why it has been
built, and will give those whose duty it is
to answer questions no peace until, in some
form, however imperfect, they are told Of
the cause of its building. The same is
true in less degree of the thousands Of
soldiers monuments throughout the coun-
try. When it is recalled that many hun
dred thousands of people come to this
country who have little or no knowledge
of it's history, these monuments and
statues must stimulate inquiry, which will
be sure to furnish some information that
will be useful
The latest project in monument building
is that which will mark the grave of the
mother of Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer
county. 1t is hardly possible that any in
telligent person will ask what is the use
of it. If there should be such, the remark
of citizen, who is we'll known in Indian
apolis, is an answer: when was fifteen
years Of age" he said, 81 was employed as
laborer grading the railroad running
through the region where Lincoln was a
young man. / heard the settlers talk of
him; I walked about the country where
he spent years, and it came to me that If
Lincoln became so much of man under
such conditions, there something bet
ter for me than railroad grading" The
monument over the grave of the mother
of Abraham Lincoln, near the hamlet of
Lincoln City, will emphasize the fact that
the formative years of Lincoln's life were
spent in southern Indiana. The beautiful
grove in which the monument will be
erected will be the meeting place for gen.
erations, at which the pathetic story of
Lincon's early life will be told and be-
come a perpetual inspiration. People will
go thither because the greatest of Amer
leans once lived and toiled in that region.
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LIGHT FOR THE ELECT.

Times change and tastes with them
even the tastes of artists, which are sup
posed to be based on certain fixed laws
or principles not always clear to the less
enlightened laity. In letter from Dussel-
dorf. in another column, the writer, Mr..
Richard Lieber, grows enthusiastic over
the admirable results of new departure
in the way of arranging pictures for a
public exhibition, made by a society of ar
lists there. Instead of crowding the paint
ings upon the walls of one or two rooms
without regard to the harmony Of themes
or coloring, or the especial needs of one
or another as to light and with the rooms
themselves otherwise bare of adornment
these Dusseldorf artists furnished a num-
Der of rooms in attractive style and then
hung the pictures in the same manner they
would have done in their own homes-that
is, with a view to bringing out the best
points of each. The effect, according to
Mr.. Ieber. justifes the pains taken and
proves the plan to be one worth following.
II is not plan original with
the Dusseldorf artists, however. Who
ever has visited the famous Powers
gallery, of Rochester, N. Y. (gone out of
existence, we believe, since the death of
Mr. Powers. two or three years ago., will
remember that it was arranged upon pre-
cisely the same plan. One floor of large
business block originally planned for Of
fees and with a large number of rooms,
for of r,fc
The rooms were furnished with rugs.
draperies, chairs, tables, ETC., and the
paintings were hung on the walls as they
might have been in the private house of a
man with the means of gratifying taste
for works of art. The general effect was
residence, and to the average visitor was
pleasing, though not all the pictures might
have been to his liking For that matter
the average visitor Is likely to find many
pictures in any exhibit beyond his power to
appreciate. But the artist fraternity
sneered at the Powers gallery and what
they called its inartistic arrangement.
There should be no other furnishing in
| the rooms than the pictures to divert
the eye of the visitor from the chief OBJ
| jects of interest. they said. Hangings in
the doosways. lace curtains at the windows.
tables. chairs. bric-a-brac were an atrocity
| not to be tolerated by correct taste. they
| insisted. and so the Powers gallery con-
| tinued to BE spoken OF with shrug OF the
| shoulders 81 those who assumed 70 know
s4~hee go whafss IN tho oonfhef1o 11no.
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Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, ardent suf-
fragist and editor of that organ of equal
rights, the Woman's Journal, confesses that
she employs men as household servants
and finds them more efficient and satisfac-
tory than women. Miss Blackwell's enemies
are saying that this proves her to be dis
loyal to the sacred cause of woman, but
her champions say not so. They aver that
she is consistent in her action, since she
shows her belief that man is competent to
fill any inferior position and that woman
should go up higher. Perhaps, after all.
this is the solution of the servant-girl
question-that men shall go into the
kitchen.
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Julian Ralph's book on Great Britains
campaign against the Beers is to be issued
Immediately in London and in New York
Mr.. Rider Haggard is to appear in a new
role. having been engaged to act war
correspondent in South Africa for the Lon
don Express. a new daily newspaper.
Mark Twain is likely to remain in Lon
don until the appearance of his two new
books, which will be published during the
summer. One of them is a collection of
short stories and the other is made up of
literary and miscellaneous papers.
William Dean Howells, the novelist, does
all his own writing. He has little faith in
the typewriter at first hand, but all his
manuscript is carefully copied out by one
of these machines before Ii goes to the pub
Usher The original manuscript Mr. How
ellis keeps himself.
The Publishers Weekly is authority for
the statement that for his new novel Mr..
Kipling is to receive the largest sum ever
paid to an English writer of fiction-a sum
described equal to the annual salary of
a Cabinet minister" Evidently his pub
fishers have no faith in the truth of the
talk of his waning popularity
Miss Mary Johnston was educated at
home by her grandmother. who was a
Scotch woman of rare force OF character
and afterward by governesses. Her health
has always been too frail to permit her to
be sent to school. Some years ago she
spent summer in Europe, and from 1898
TO 1897 her winters were spent in New York
receiving medical treatment, and IL was
then. on the couch of invalid, in the
winter of 1896, that Prisoners OF Hope
was begun For two years she patiently
kept at the story, writing with pencil and
pad upon her knee. Ito Have and to
Hold was written in birmingham. in 1885,
49, The title of the latter novel is taken
from the marriage service In the Book of
Common Prayer" Prisoners OF Hope
found its title in a verse of the book of the
Prophet Zechariah. From childhood she
has been an ardent student of Virginia
colonial history. and the earlier years of
her life were spent among the scenes de-
scribed in her stories
Mr. James Payn wrote series OF arti-
cles a good many years ago for the pur-
pose of showing that person OF average
brains and an average education could
make A. good living 1t literature q he
uae likely to mali at anything elss. They
nE<1c)oo WoEo an - - that-but they
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-22

It is given out that if the United States
government should undertake to compel
Turkey to pay what it owes Americans
whom its people have despoiled that the
Sultan will incite rebellion among the Ma
hometans in the Philippines. He is the
head of the millions who hold that fanat-
zeal faith, and that fact has saved Turkey
from the punishment it deserves at the
hands OF civilized nations. Because of the
millions of his followers i'm India Great
Britain has not incurred the dispeasure
OF the Sultan. There is reason, however,
TO believe that when the Sultan is con-
WINGED that the United States will send
warships to lombard Constantinople he
viii find the money to pay the claims of
this country
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The country boy who has left his school
and gone back to the drudgery of the
fields for the spring and summer perhaps
feels that he has been cut OF from asso-
citation with his feilowmen, and that he is
to be a sort of hermit and a respectable
social outcast for another whole season.
He may have felt as other boys have felt
under similar circumstances, that he is
doomed to waste another summer on the
farm: that he is out of active touch with
most of the rest OF humanity. and there
fore making no progress toward the graft
fication of whatever his ambition may be.
But the history of the past has been that
such boys one day discovered that the
days. weeks and months spent in compare
tive solitude on the farm. associating with
the dumb beasts that could and would
listen With apparent sympathy to the ex-
petition q TIE boylrh ~ eostles 40 nsvsx
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anthropic experiment.

The cordial, one might almost say en-
thusiastic, reception of the Prince of Wales
on his return from the continent shows
something more than perfunctory loyalty
on the part of the British people. 1t shows
that the prince is personally popular. and
that If he lives TO become King, as from
a human point of view he is likely to, he
will have something more than the mere
lip service of the British people. He is not
great man and he has made some mis-
takes. but he is an Englishman of English
men, and in recent years his conduct has
been all that could be asked of one in his
pOsition
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Over 100000 of Mrs. Hetty Green's
enormous fortune Is invested within a
hundred feet Of New York's city hall
BY the bequest of Miss Anna III. Man
Providence is TO come into possession OF
about $4,000 for the maintenance of Roger
Williams Park
D. A Tompkins. a cotton-mill owner OF
Mississippi. is TO give $4,000 for the con-
struction at Jackson, Miss, of the textile
school authorized at the recent session OF
the Legislature
Bishop Hurst, the chancellor of the Amer
lean University at Washington. announces
two gifts by President Mckinley 10 that
institution. one present and the other pros
pective- At the present time he gives SlsvV0
TO the university.
The will of Mrs. Mary ]. Furman. which
was admitted to probate at Nashville
Tenn, on Saturday. leaves her estate. val
bilt University. Ii provides that buiiding'
to be known as Furman Hall. shall be
erected on the grounds OF the university
at a cost Of 100000.
Eleven American women artists have
been invited to send work TO the special
exhibition TO be held In Earl's Court. Lon
DON Cecilia Beaux Is one of the commit
tee Among the contributors are Mrs. J.
Madison Tailor. Mary r. Bon.alL Saran
Whitman. Pauline Doane. Emily Sartain
and Alice Barber stephens.
Queen Victoria has approved the grant
to the famous tenor. Sims Reeves, OF
civil-list pension OF flo0 year in recog-
milton of his eminence singer. For
long time past Mr.. Reeves has been con-
fined TO his bed, and his state or healtn
does not warrant the hope that he Will
ever be able 10 work again. He is an oc-
togenarian.
A London cable says: "Rudyard kiplins
has been doing much since his arrival IN
South Africa to prove that his affection
for Tommy Atkins. 50 apparent In his
writings. Is genuine Several times he has
visited the hospitals and amused the
wounded soldiers with stories and CONVEX
sation On q number OF occasicns he has
taken armfuls Of hooks and popers for the
men to read Lance Corporal Harris. Of the
Esssx Rsgiment: I'D h's r1ss1 n,nd .' AM
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There is a prospect that fierce war will
be waged at the coming convention of the
National Federation of women's Clubs, at
Milwaukee. A tendency to rebel against the
mandates Of the general organization has
manifested itself in Indiana club circles, as
noted heretofore in the Journal, but more
open revolt is in progress in Chicago. The
members of the clubs there have been ask
ing each other what is the benefit of be-
longing to the federation, anyway; and,
not being able to find any appreciable good.
have resolved to take action. The Hull
House Club settled matters by sending a
curt note withdrawing from the federation
on the ground of excessive taxation and a
lack of effectiveness and cooperation on
the part of the national body. There is a
disposition on the part of other clubs to
approve this action, and not a few of the
leading members are free to say that the
federation is a cumbersome intricate con-
Germ whose chief services are to hold num-
erous conventions and accentuate the
financial side Of the work The drift Of talk
in other clubs than that of Hull
House is In the direction Of follow
ing it's example and drawing out. or of go
ing to Milwaukee and making a fight for a
complete reorganization and simplifying
of the machinery of the national body. An
element headed by Mrs. Love- now presi-
dent of the organization, opposes such ac-
ton, and, as one Chicago woman puts it,
"the fight will be bitter" Evidently, ac-
cording to indications, the national politi-
cal conventions this year will be tame af-
fairs compared with the club convention.
and women who enjoy scrap" need have
no regrets this year that they are not in
politics.
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Perhaps this was because Mr.. Powers was
not himself an artist and his personal
taste for paintings was somewhat crude.
but it seems now that he had. after all.
at least a glimmering of the right idea.
1t appears, too, that 1t is well sometimes
for individual taste to assert ITSELF even
If conventional rules are disregarded. Such
a course affords variety. at least, and may
result in teaching something to the elect.
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A dispatch from Hamburg furnishes an

A dispatch from Hamburg furnishes an
interesting illustration of German methods,
both in government and education. 1t says
that on account of the great scarcity of
German laborers the Prussian government
at Potsdam has issued instructions to the
schools by which the children attending
the grammar and middle schools are to be
allowed to be absent from morning school
during the May bug season The children
are to be employed in clearing the royal
forests of the insect pest that annually
causes great destruction among the trees.
The children will receive compensation for
their work, but they must attend after
noon school. The school inspectors have
been informed of this decree that they may
see that the afternoon attendance is not
missed. Nothing of this kind could be done
in this country because the government
does not supervise the forests nor the
schools nor engage in May bug hunting,
but it is not a bad idea. 1t gives the chill
dren a forest outing at pleasant season
of the year, which Is feature of Ger
man school training, utilizes them in a
useful way for small wages and does not
interfere materially with their school work.
Between forestry and entomology the chill
dren will probably learn more while bug
hunting than they would in school.
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A list is published of forty-seven we'll
known men who have been chosen to select
pames for the panels in the New York
University Hall of Fame. which is to be
built by Miss Helen Gould. The list of
judges thus far chosen consists chiefly of
college presidents and professors, with
only a few publicists, editors and authors.
The names of Grover Cleveland and Theo-
dore Roosevelt are among the publicists.
AS only men who have been dead at least
ten years can be honored with place in
the Hall of Fame the judges will have to
wait their turn. The present list includes
prominent men from Ohio. Michigan and
Illinois. but none from Indiana Perhaps,
when 1t comes to be extended. those who
have IL in charge will discover that Indiana
also has some educators and publicists
who. If not great themselves. are at least
pretty good judges of greatness in others.
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ment-" II no member is required to ac-
cept it and no minister is compelled to SUBJ
scribe TO 1t all, then I'm what does its spe-
cial value consist, and why such a COM
motion when Briggs, or McGifrert, or
a Hills ventures to question some of its
tenets? Apparently IL. is TO be regarded as
innocuous and almost dead letter when
the brethren are coming into the fold. but
as rock-bound and iron-riveted when they
wish to break loose