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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-11
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one-fourth million dollars was paid for
the Beatty oil gushers including the
property holdings in this section of the
Texas Western Oil Company, owners of
the we'll. The deal was closed by Chas.
~. Pullen. of New York. for syndicate
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bring in This we'll has daily pro-
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] New York.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-11

Dies Moines for the month of March
We're SEATS, against s2s,2OO for the same
month of last year, being an increase Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
LITERARY GOSSIP.

"Lazarre," Mary Hartwell Catherwood's
new novel, is to be brought out in England
next spring.
Marie Coreli lectured before the Edin-
burgh Philosophical Institution last week.
She is described as rosy and pleasant
faced, with fluffy hair. Her subject was
''Th Vanishing Gift" by which she
meant imagination. She declared that the
world was the baser now by the craving
for unceasing excitement and the indisposi-
ton 10 think.
John Luther Long. whose japanese story
Madame Butterfly" the playwright Bel
asco made an exquisite bit of stage
picturing, is at present collaborating with
Belasco on a long play, which goes back
to the lays Of Rome for its incidents and
setting. Meantime Madame Butterfly is
being set 10 operate music by an Italian
master.
In a preface TO the new edition of the
English version of Ibsen's Ghosts Mr..
William Archer reminds his readers that
that play was first performed in this coun-
try in May. 1882; that is to say. about six
months after it was published in Copen-
hagen. 1t was not produced in Scandinavia
till August, 1883.
Miss Frances Aymar Matthews, author
of the entertaining story My Lady Peggy
Goes TO Town just published. has for
some time been favorably known for her
literary work. She has been a contributor
10 the leading magazines. and among other
things wrote a pretty series OF short plays
for Harper's Bazaar. Miss Matthews was
brought prominently before the public a
few years ago. when she disputed with
Daniel FrOhman the right TO the play 9TH
Wife" which she claimed had been writ
ten from a manuscript she had submitted
that was rejected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
INDIANAPOLIS DAILY JOURNAL.
SPECIAL BOOK n u NJ B Z K

is laying posterity under obligations TO
himself. He is not, TO be sure, the only
American novelist capable of Interpreting
life as he finds it about him. but his long
and serious devotion TO practically one line
Of work. gives character and dignity to
his performance. His method is peculiar
but it is his own, and it cannot be denied
that it is very effective in his hands.
Charm. too, is often denied him by the
powers that preside over the destiny of
authors. but he has been faithful and dill
igent and honest, and the bulk OF his
writings and their consistency and integrity
will impress the critics of the future. 1t
is highly to his credit as a man Of letters
that Mr.. Howells has refused to follow
the w~ill-o-the-wisps that have fitted so
alluringIy Of late over the enchanted lands
Of romance, but has steadily addressed
himself to less SNOWY and remunerative
but more valuable and enduring work.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
Praise for ROOseveIt's Stories.

Boston Transcript.
There is a fable for critics in this naive
compliment paid by an old hunter to the
vividness of the Presidents style:
Brethren Of the Forest and Stream. IL
With the Cougar Hounds by our Presi-
dent, delay not in doing so. 1t will be the
best hunting trip you ever had. When | was
a boy / was preparing for a hunting trip.
which I never took, because I was taken
down with typhoid, and during the weeks
which followed / dreamed L was i'm the
Rocky mountains, camping in a snow
bound stream. I was continually chOpping
a hole i'm the ice and drinking the blue
black. delicious, icy water. | suppose that
when the doctor lost my pulse and my
breathing stopped and they thought / was
dead, | was only down on my stomach
drinking out of that hole in the ice, and
that when L got up / began breathing
where / had left off. 1t was only a dream,
but il was like heaven-and With the Cou-
gar Hounds was like dreaming it over
again"
When your temperature is 1O4 and the
nurse doles out "A carefully measured tea
spoonful of chopped ice every half hour.
and not a minut sooner for any amount
of pleading-to get then a long, unstinted
drink of ice-cold water from an ice-bound
stream When simple narrative make a
man feel like that. the ne plus ultra of
vividness has been achieved. The President.
we venture. will value this tribute far be-
yond the labOred efforts of more learned
reviewers. For why? Because the critics
will use other books, other authors, other
STYLES for comparison. while the less
learned. but more experienced old hunter
goes straight back 10 life. In an age OF
much learning. simplicity has its charm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
Inspiring


Harpers Magazine.
1t has come to be usual when there is a
great procession to bring out the boys of
the public schools and make them a part of
it. Their uniforms are incomplete. They
don't carry weapons, or if they do, the
weapons add nothing to the effect. They
march, usually. pretty well, but there is
very little pomp or panoply about them.
They are placed far down the line near its
latter end. and if the procession is a long
one they don't come into view until the
eyes are more or less wearied with watch
ing the long succession of regiments and
military organizations which form the more
Drlllant part OF the show. And yet when
the schOolbOyS come along in their belated
turn there is a notable quickening in the
interest OF the spectators. Far down the
line you hear cheering, vigorous and strong,
from crowds that a moment before had
seemed jaded. What's that?' You lean
forward and lock down the street. "Oh!
the schoolboys are coming!" And when
the front, and their best foot forward, you
cheer too, and if you stop it is because you
have TO set your teeth to keep your tears
back. A lot of boys; lots and lots OF BOYS
you? What stirs you? What is there so
moving about all these urchins? You don't
know. You only know that you al
ways have sensations in the throat
when the schoolboys go by, and
nave to wink and swallow TO keen
from being too visibly affected. You
see other persons using like measures of re-
straiDt. There's nothing sad about the
boys; they are in dead earnest, that is all.
Yet their youth touches us wonderfully.
They are the future, in~carnate, devoted.
They march to dooms of which we know a
little more than they. but of which neither
we nor they know much. What battles are
ahead for them! What destinations. re-
curing and inevitable. wait for those de-
voted legions. But they have no misgiv-
ings. The great horn throbs: the bugle
shrills; in step with drum-beats on goes
boyhood marching where God wills.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

The Journal has often maintained that
modest merit is sure of eventual recosnl-
ton. II is. therefore. pleased TO note that
Editor Fretz, Of the Garrett Qnd.) Herald
is coming to his own. In an issue CT the
Herald OF recent date is a communication
from a California correspondent contain
ing words of praise for Mr.. Fretz's literary
work, more especially his masterpiece In
prose and poetry. Benny, the Pythian OF
Syracuse. and Other Titles and assur-
ance that the author lis a natural genius
and his attainments nave made him popu-
lar, both upon the lecture platform and
among the Literati." The correspondent
further says that Benny. the Pythian."
etc, will tend TO habituate the mind OF
the reader for higher and nobler thoughts
and actions Congratulations. Brother
Fretz. Keep ADDING.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
HARRISON AND THE ANARCHISTS
In Late Ex-President's Book Remedy
for Evil Is suggested.
The Outlook.

Inc OUTLOOK.
The breadth of ex-President Harrison's
craftsmanship has been acknowledged even
by his political opponents; but nowhere
has it been more stcikingly evinced than
in his address on 1.-THE Obligations of
Wealth. in his book. Views of an ex-
President" This address furnishes US with
ex-President Harrison's remedy for the
evils of anarchy, a subject which all
thoughtful men are now considering.
Ex-President Harrison was i firm be-
lever that the removal of the popular sense
of injustice was the only real cure for the
discomfort out of which class conflicts and
disorder arise. The chief injustice which he
believes the rank and file of the people are
emption of the richer people from their
share of direct taxation. The sense Of in
equality he said, produces a fierce and
unreasoning anger, creates classes, intensi-
hes social indifferences. No casuist." he
went on, 'can draw a sound moral distinc-
ton between the man who hides his prop
erty or makes a false return in order TO
escape the payment of his debt to the State,
and the man who conceals his property
from his private creditors" In forcing this
point home, he told of a gentleman of
prominence in a New England town who
had a reputation for philanthropy yet had
returned Tor IaAdtlOn SlUO,UUU worth OF per-
sonal property, though at his death his
estate proved TO contain six millions. This
gentleman" said ex-President Harrison.
who lived In neighborly relations to his
fellow-citizens. and discharged. apparently,
with kindness. all the obligations of citi-
zenship, had been every year of his resi-
dence In the town defrauding his neigh
bors by compelling them to contribute TO
the public expense a share that he should
in honesty and good conscience have dis
charged He was flching from every hand
that was extended to him in neighborly
confidence. His aims were Of other mems
goods" To prevent the continuance OF such
public wrong ex-President Harrison not
only demanded a new public conscience
which recognize obligations to the State
to be just as sacred as obligations to in
dividuals, but urged that better laws for
the equal taxation of the property of men
living shall be supplemented by taxes at
death by which the public may recoup the
sums unpaid during life. eff no other rem
edy can be found" he concludes, perhaps
the State might declare and maintain an
estoppel against the claim Of any man or
his heirs for property the ownership of
which he had disclaimed in his tax re-
turns"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

Suppose it is a novel that he is doing. Hav-
ing his plot well mapped out, he sits down
before his typewriter and numbers, ?, 3.
4 and 50 on-a great many large sheets OF
copy paper. Then he begins TO write as
fast as his fingers can move. not pausing
for a word, but, if he can't think OF the
right word, leaving a blank space Tor IL
and pushing on; and in from four 10 SIX
sittings his novel is finished from beginning
to end, and lies strewn on the floor. That,
maybe, will take a week. Then he begins
to correct, to polish, and this may take six
months or a year. The advantage OF Mr..
Longs method is that his novel, being
done in the rough in a few sittings, has
life in it. Furthermore, he does not lose
courage and interest amid the manifold
tolls and worries of polishing, as those
authors are apt to do who revise as they
go along, from the first chapter. and. may
be, losing heart, never bring the last chap
ter 10 an end. Mr.. Long writes Of Japan
like a native, but he has never been
there. His sister, a missionary, supplies
him with his local color.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

IL was inevitable that nature would speed
lily hide with heavy growth the mound
where he lies. That this is so does not
mean that he is forgotten. That cannot be
while his books continue TO be read. And
Stevenson himself would not have COM
planned had he known that he was to be
left alone. He had the precedence of it
when he wrote these lines:
Under the wide and starry sky.
Dig my grave and let me lie;
Glad did 1 live and gladly die,
And / laid me down with a will.
This be the verse yon grave for me;
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor. horne from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
Literature and Digestion.

The ingenious H. G.. Wells. In the current
English illustrated Magazine. thus dis
courses on the connection between dys-
pepsia and intellect:
1t is Imperative. IL you wish TO write
with any power and freshness at all. that
you should utterly ruin your digestion.
ANY literary person will confirm this state
ment. AT any cost the thing must be done.
even if you have 10 live on German sau-
sage, onions and cheese to do il. So long
as you turn all your dietary to flesh and
blood YOU will get no literature out of IL
1--WE learn i'm suffering what We teach In
song" This is why men who live at home
with their mothers, or have their elder
sisters 10 see after them, never, by any
chance. however great their literary ambi-
ton may be. write anything but minor
poetry. They get their meals at regular
hours. and done to a turn. and that plays
the very devil-if you Will pardon the
phrase-with ones imagination.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

script Of the novels was not in Sir Walters
handwriting. In the second article he dis
cusses the question from the standpoint of
internal evidence and Of Sir Walters other
works. and concludes that he could not
possibly have written the Waverley novels.
The following hints at the writer's inside
Information on the subject:
Only a few days ago it was positively as
serted in one of our daily papers that the
claim set up for Sir Walter Scott was
now almost universally admitted in Great
britain. So far from the literati In Eng
land now entertaining the opinion attrib-
uted 10 them, We have every reason to be-
lleve from the complexion Of the English
had with several intelligent persons late
~ from Great Britain, that they have
nearly all given up the point. One gentle
the idea of Walter Scott being the author
OF the Waverley novels has been for a con-
siderable period abandoned in that capital,
and that any one venturing TO hint even at
the probability Of the thing would run the
risk of being laughed ct"
In view of all the facts and Of his per-
sonal, inside or the subject.
the writer concludes that Walter Scott is,
in no sense of the word, entitled to be con-
sidered the author of the Waverley novels"
and that they were undoubtedly written
by the unfortunate and prescribed DR..
Greenfield" In reprinting the articles the
Post editorially recommends them to the
perusal of those who may feel DESTROYS of
arriving at some conclusion respecting the
real author of the far-famed novels, "as to
whom much curiosity prevails, and little
of a CafiCfapfnru natfIra fG Ennu-n in this
country All this appears very amusing
from our point of view, but it was a very
interesting discussion at the time and one
Of the best-kept secrets in the history Of
literature
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

The Seton-Thompson Thompson-Seton
puzzle is becoming more confusing than
ever. Just as we were getting into the
way Of saying Seton-Thompson instead OF
Thompson-no; Thompson-Seton in place
OF Seton-Thompson; anyway. whichever 1t
is-aIong comes the gentleman and says he
wishes still to be known to the public as
Thompson-Se- no. Seton-Thompson. and
will so sign his name. but his intimate
friends will address him by the other title
Now. II you know what he wants, please
follow Instructions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

a pilgrim TO Robert Louis Stevenson's
gave writes 10 a New Zealand paper COM
planning that the place is quite overgrown
with weeds. and will perhaps some day be
hard TO discover. A report Of this con-
dition having been made by a recent Wis
itor TO the British consul at Sydney, some
men were sent 10 clear the spot. but IL
is again in need OF attention. This sort
of thing was TO be expected. Ii was Stew
enson's own wish that he should be buried
at the top of this Samoan hill. 1t is a
spot difficult TO reach at any time. remote
from the busy world, and likely TO be Wis
tied only by chance travellers. His fam
lily. which was with him only because the
balmy airs Of the South seas made life
easier TO him. could not reasonably have
been expected 10 remain In the lonely place
when he was gone. and did not remain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

The divorced wife Of a Boston man says
OF her ex-husband that she knows he Is
the author Of a certain novel published
ANONYMOUSLY. because pages and pages Of
the book read precisely as he used to talk
during the time she was compelled TO listen
10 his conversation. 1t is plain enough
Why a woman with such a malicious dispo-
sition happens to be divorced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

The announcement is made that the cata-
logUe OF books for 1912. issued by a GER
tain publisher. weighs four pounds. Ihls
viii bring deeper gloom than ever TO the
heart of the book reviewer. especially when
he reflects that with the increasing output
OF the literary machines next years eata-
Io0r1e may weigh ten mounds.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
Author of ..Mndame Butterfly

Philadelphia Record.
When a writer's style is charming it is
interesting To know how he works. John
Luther Long. of this city. has a charming
style, and works in a peculiar amer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

With this, for the present. let Us pass
from the unread books. 1 have found them
well worth reading. and most Of them
have read and re-read. II you shall pick
up any OF them and find pleasant hours in
their oerusal. II Will serve 10 call 10 your
attention that the books which have tho
largest sales are not always the most worth
reading. PAUL MASQ&
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

About the South Seas (and I mean by
this all that part OF the ocean lying south
OF a line drawn from Hawaii 10 the south
coast Of China, and between Christmas
island on the east and Ceylon on the west)
there is an indefnable atmosphere OF mys-
terry that those who know it best realize
most. Into IL men go and never return:
yet out OF IL come voices telling this or
that OF them. from points thousands of
miles apart and with hardly the mn
cation betwesn them OF the shadow OF ON
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-29
NATIONS HAVE WAR CHESTS.
Vast Sums In European Treasuries
Laid Up for Times of
Strife.

A source of amazement to continental
politicians is the facility with which
Great Britain obtains the money to
carry on the South African campaign.
Even our severest critics acknowledge
that in no other country could the
many millions already voted have been
obtained SO readily.
This is all the more wonderful to
them when they remember that in the
sense they understand it England has
no war chest to fall back upon. The ex-
PLANTATION is simple enough. England,
being the richest country in the world,
her credit stands high, and she is able
to raise vast sums at moments no.
tice, says the London Daily News.
The case is different in France, where
they have something like 10000, 900
worth of gold and & 5O,o00,00o worth of
silver ready for war time. The Austro-
Hungarian bank possesses about G 30.
100000 for like purpose, while Ger
many clings TO the old-fashioned sys-
tenn of maintaining an actual war chest,
containing. E6,o0O,0O0, at the fortress
of Spandau. 1t is also estimated that
Russia has ready at least C 100, 600. 600.
Financially, Europe is prepared for
the day that pessimistic prophets say
is drawing nigh-the day when wild
war shall run riot throughout the east
ern hemisphere. There is at least & 1885,
100000 waiting for the time when the
war clouds shall gather, and in great
war it is tolerably certain it would all
be sDent
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-29
WOOD LOOKS LIKE METAL.
A New Process by which strength
and Hardness Are Given TO
the Fiber.

A European scientist has discovered a
the appearance of metal. Outside of
the added value for decorative purposes
which this may give, the advantage to
be derived is not clearly apparent. The
wood is said to be rendered exceedingly
hard and strong, although it is equally
uncertain what part of the process may
be assumed to confer these desirable
qualities upon wood which was soft
and weak before treatment, says an in
dustrial exchange.
The process is described as follows:
The wood is first soaked for three or
four days in a solution OF caustic alkali
at temperature of from rs to 80 de-
grees centigrade, and is then trans
ferred at once to bath of hydrosul-
phate of calcium, to which saturated
solution of sulphur in caustic alkali is
added after "a hours. The wood re-
mains in this bath, which is kept at a
temperature of from 35 to 80 degrees
centigrade, and finally it is soaked for
about 80 to so hours in solution OF
acetate of lead. The wood is then dried
at a moderate temperature and may be
polished with burnisher of hard wood.
In this case it can be made to acquire a
brilliant metallic luster and if the sur
face is previously rubbed with piece of
lead, tin or zinc and glass or porcelain
burnisher is used the effect is increased.
The wood treated in this way resem-
bles metallic mirror.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-01-29
CROWDING INTO THE CITIES.
Rural Districts in England Are Rap
idly Being Forsaken by
the People.

The depopulation of the rural dis
tricts of England is beginning to cause
serious concern to the government.
From statistics recently collated it is
learned that in 1901 36 per cent. of the
population lived in towns of 1000 in
habitants and upward, whereas in 1891
Ga per cent. of the population inhabited
towns exceeding 1000 in population.
The rural population in 1891 on 81 ST.
600 acres was only 1854, 900 persons out
Of a total population of 29,0o2,525 1t
will be seen from these latter figures,
says n London exchange, that less than
one-fifth of the whole people live in the
country and are engaged in rural occu-
pations. Lord Avebury, in commenting
upon these figures, ascribed the de-
crease Of rural population to the failure
of the country schools to foster interest
in country life and objects. There have
been other causes at work, however
The great development in the pleasures
and recreations of town life, the in
creased interest in politics, agricultural
depression, miserable labor wages and
last, but perhaps not least, the local
tyranny of squire and parson, have con
tributed to this result. 1t is perhaps
yet to be seen whether the development
of local government will have the de-
sirable effect. of making country life
more interesting and tolerable.