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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
Literary Notes.

New York Tribune: THE crafty over
rated Ibsen is in excellent health, and has
finished the correction of the proof sheets
of two dramatic poems. so called. They
are the productions of his early youth, but
have not yet appeared in print"
Since lola started the Rougon Mocquart
series. the first of which appeared in 1871,
no fewer than 2,2s3,0O copies of his works
have been circulated. Ia Deback' en-
joyed the largest sale. with a2,0O copies;
Mana ran to 1873, coo; "Lourdes,' 149, coo;
"LAssommoir," 2.0O0; "Germinal" and
lie Reeve" 10000 each, and Rome" 1O0,-
900.
We have often protested. says a New
York reviewer, against the present fashion
of turning the English classics into school,
books, and are glad to note similar protests
in England. One commentators wonders
how many children have been disguised
for all time with the masterpieces of their
own language through having to study
school editions of them edited by ex-ex-
aminers."
Kate Douglas Wiggin has. recently estab-
lished a prize at Bowdoin College to be
known as the Hawthorne prize. for creative
work in English. 1t will be awarded each
year at commencement to the member of
the Junior Or senior class presenting the
best poem or short story. Mrs. Wiggin has
been engaged for the past two. years on
an anthology of verse for children, enti-
tied Golden Numbers"
An admirer once wrote to Lowell describ-
ing his autograph collection and conclud-
ing with the remark: II would be much
obliged for your autograph" The reply
came, bearing with Ii a lesson on the cor
rect use OF the words would" and
should" which deeply impressed itself on
the mind OF the recipient. The response
read: pray do not say hereafter 4 would
be Obliged il you would be obliged be
obliged and be done with it; say L should
be obliged and oblige yours truly. James
Russell Lowell"
Booth Harrington, the novelist, always, 1t
is said, sketches his stories In pictures be-
fore he writes them In words. and all of
his stories lie hidden away In picture form.
He is unwilling to show these drawings
even TO intimate friends. His publishers
have urged him to allow them to use his
own drawings for illustration OF his books,
but he would not hear OF IL. At last he
promised them one of the Vanrevel
sketches, but was canny enough not to
send 1t until too late for insertion in the
book.
Mr.. Edgar Saltus. who. as a writer of
novels, seems to have ended his career In
this country years ago. has lately, says
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
illustrated Novels.
Alden's London Letter.

Alden's London Letter.
A noticeable change in public taste is
shown by the fact that few novels are now
illustrated. A very short time ago every
novel was illustrated, as a matter of
course. To-day not one i'm twenty of the
new novels is illustrated. This is decided
ly an Improvement. There are few things
more impertinent than the average artists
attempt to portray the characters of q
novel. His conception of them Is hardly
ever the conception that the novelist has
of them, his only mission seems to be to
mislead the reader. If an author is a
really clever artist and can illustrate his
own books, the Illustration might be an
aid to the understanding of his characters,
but when a book is illustrated by an artist
who, as is nearly always the case, utterly
misconceives the characters whose por-
trait he attempts to draw, he only sue
ceeds in ~exasperating the reader. Let us
hope that 1t will be long before the prac-
tice of illustrating novels comes into vogue
again. The only reader who likes them is
q person who is so dull that he is incapable
of imagining the appearance of the char
acters concerning whom he is reading.
Such a person does not deserve to be con-
sidered.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
An Objectionable Word.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson. in New
York Times.
1 am glad to join in the protest of your
correspondent May Caroline Hyde against
the reintroductlon into American speech
and literature OF the word gotten" She
is obviously too young TO remember Its his
tory. 1 first heard it so long ago as 1sn on
a plantation in Virginia from my cousins
there, whom 1 visited one. winter. I noticed
dents, who were then numerous at Cam
bridge. Mass, where my birthplace and
home were In those days you could tell
infaiibly by this one shibboleth the North
ern or Southern origin of any one. This
was the case until the American civil war.
Almost all wars lead TO some interchange
of words between the two contending par
ties; thus there was an influx of Spanish
words after the Mexican war and again
after the Cuban war. And I have never OBJ
served that any Southern word except
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
A HORSES AFFECTION.
Ii Does Not Survive nltreatment-How
TO Train a Horse.

Success. .
The affections OF a horse are not inferior
to his intellectual qualities: and. especially
if made a pet. he becomes very fond of his
master. In case of separation. he remem-
bers him for years. But his affection Is
different from tina of a dog. which con-
tinues TO love his master. even though the
latter abuses him greatly. Rough, unkind
treatment will quickly estrange the anec-
ton of a horse. Good horse sense discov-
ers no particular reason why a horse
should be devoted to a master who hapitu-
ally maltreats him.
The intellect and affections Of q horse
point out two things so important to q
trainer that he must bear them In mind
until they become fixed habits of thought:
L. Never, under any circumstances. al
low a horse to successfully oppose his Will
to yours. III YOU do. he will remember 1t
and (reasoning by experience) try IL again.
2 Always keep his affection. III he dis
likes you, he has no wish to please you'
and, IL his obedience is always p~eriunceory'
you will make but little Roadway In train
These two points assured. he will almost
invariably try to do whatever you REQUIRE
of him-if he only knows what 1t is
The principles involved in the training or
horses are not hard of comprehension or
many In number; and, III you once grasp
them thoroughly, you have the key to the
situation, so to speak, in your hands. IL
then becomes a matter of choice with you
how far to carry the training of. your horse
whether to teach him just a few simple and
entertaining things (Which, for an amateur
is, perhaps, wisesD. or TO undertake ms
higher education
The first thing needful is to understand
thoroughly the nature of a horse, and the
way in which his mind works. The intel
lect of a horse does not differ from that OF
a man in kind, but IL does differ. very con-
siderably, I'm degree. Hence. as we would
naturally expect, he reasons far more from
experience than from observation. A sim
pie illustration of this Is found in break
ing a colt TO halter. When first tied, IL is
with a rope that he can not break. though
he invariably tries to-. Convinced, after
several attempts. that he cannot do this.
he gives IL UP for good. and subsequently,
when tied by a smaller cord. IL does not
occur TO him that he can break IL. So,
during his whole life. he reasons from that
first experience. and permits himself TO be
tied by a halter that he could snap like a
thread, il he but knew IL. An old horse.
IL is true, sometimes becomes a halter
puller; but this again IL reasoning by ex-
perience; for, some day. he unexpectedly
and unintentionally breaks a weak halter,
and this teaches him that all halters are
not alike Consequently, the old rogue will.
thereafter, try the strength OF every halter
that is put on him.
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Eugene Field on Book Plates.

Love-Letters of a Bibliomaniac.
AS for myself, 1 urge upon all lovers of
books to provide themselves with book
plates. Whenever 1 see a book that bears
its owners plate I feel myself obligated to
treat that book with especial considera-
ton. 1t carries with il a certificate of its
masters love; the book-plate gives the vol
ume a certain status it would not other
wise have. Time and again 1 have fished
musty books out of bins in front Of book
stalls, bought them, and borne them home
with me simply because they had upon
their covers the Dook-plates of their for
mer owners. | have a case filled with
these aristocratic eStrays, and I insist that
they shall be as carefully busted and kept
as my other books; and / have provided in
my will for their perpetual maintenance
after my decease.
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Haunted.

There came a whisper in the night.
A little cry across the years.
And / who heard, In deep alright.
Awakened with unnumbered fears.
TT Is some deed that / have done,
Some sin ! wrought long. long ago;
But hush, am I the only one?
Then wherefore am 1 troubled so?
''For all men do some evil deed,
And all men faltef-some men fall;
Do ghosts of Selhshness and Greed
Come back, o God! to haunt them all?
..Mayhap some waywardness was mine
In vanished days; mayhap I fell.
Must l now drink the bitter brine
Must 1 see eyes that CLEAN from help"
Then came a whisper through the night,
A little cry across the years.
And I who heard. In deep alright,
Listened with wild, unnumbered fears.
ct am the ghost OF that pure deed
You might have done. but did not do;
am the ghost Of that good seed
You might have sown when Life was new.
and this Il Is that haunts you now
That deed undone. that seed unsown;
Too late. too late. to take the pillow.
The Spring II gene, the May Is nown!'
And this / heard amid the night
And when the dawn came. silver white,
was companiened with my tears.
-cAarlss H Towne.
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the New York Commercial Advertiser.
been discovered In England. where he is
being taken much more seriously than was
ever the case here. His novel, Mr.. In
coufs Misadventure." is to be republished
in London. and some on has actually COM
piled a book entitled The Wit and Wisdom
critical preface" Just how critical the
preface Is may he gathered from the last
sentence in 1T, which reads as follows: NJ
Edgar Saltus is a great Englishman or
laf+arC
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Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
The youth had adopted the pompadour
method of combing his hair and his father
didn't like 1t. The latter had an idea that
there was only one sensible and manly
way to comb the hair, and that was to
part it N the side-either side. Every
thing else was dudish and affected In his
opinion. Only a woman was privileged to
take liberties with old-established methods.
young man. he said. as he looked the
youth over. 'you look like a fool
There was no discussion, and shortly
came in.
Its startling" he said. by way of
pleasant comment. "how much you resem-
BILE your father"
$50 he's Just been telling me-" an
swered the youth.
The old gentleman looked hard at his
son for a moment.
well" he conceded at last. al guess
your brain hasn't been affected by your
fool notions of hair dressing as yet"
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Atchison Globe.

AtCHISUH 0IODt.
Let's see, what is the age and condition
Of the average woman patron of the Ii
brary? They are all chasing The Rescue,
a book In which a man of thirty falls In
love with a woman of forty-seven, and.
after giving two-thirds of his income TO
get an objecting daughter married and
out of the way, gets the mother to marry
him. She is seventeen years his senior,
but a little thing like that makes no diff
ference when a soul has found its mate.
and feathers that it has found it's mate. it
never looks at the teeth. We hope the
popularity of the book does not indicate
that Atchison women of forty-seven think
it proper to marry men of thirty.
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gotten" travelled northward after the civil
war ended. For myself I wish IL had never
migrated, regarding II as a step backward,
not forward, I'm the simplifcation and in
sweet voices Of Virginia women cannot
quite Justify IL.
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Insure with German Fire Insurance of
sadiana. General Offices 20 South Delaware
street Fire, tornado and explosion.
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Henry B.. Fuller, In Chicago Post.
The number of people who make a good
living by literature, says DR.. Van Dyke, is
still very small. He cautiously refrains
from guessing how many there may be
for he does not wish to precipitate a long
and general correspondence. but he thinks
it safe to say that there are not two score
in America. What a slight burden, he re-
minds us. is the support of some three
dozen authors among a people numbering
s~eventy-six millions, Your share or mine
In the burden is just one-half Of one-mil-
lionth part of an author.
So much for the defense of the three
dozen successful writer's. But something
might have been said in praise of the three
th~ousand-or thirty thousand-unsuccessful
ones. To write an unsuccessful book re-
quires just as much time and thought and
labor as to write a successful one-or more,
as it sometimes seems. The unsuccessful
writer works on without an assurance of
praise or profit-or, rather, in many cases,
with the certainty of the complete failure
of both.
1t costs money to bring out the success
full book, but it costs money to bring out
the unsuccessful book. The profits from
the first, unless intercepted by publisher
and middleman. go In part to the author;
those from the econd-which for obvious
reasons, cannot TAX the form of returns
and 'royalties"-go altogether to the allied
trades engaged in the actual manufacture.
The author may receive no percentage and
the publisher no profits, but for the canny
people who do the practical. mechanical
work of book-making the spring never
runs dry.
The author may perish in the Sahara of
neglect and unrealized ambition, but the
paper maker and the composition and the
pressman and the binder always sit in the
cool shade under the palm trees. and the
illustrator, the advertising agent and the
salesman are never far away And all of
them drink with copious and incessant
draughts from the fountain that the au-
thor-the obscure no less than the cele-
brated-has caused TO bubble up from the
barren sands.
Do not despisc. therefore, the least sue
cessful of the clan. 1t costs just as much
to set up and stereotype a fzzle as it costs
TO set up and stereotype a triumph, and ii
is the lonely and exasperated writer, toiling
i'm his village garnet or in his third-fioor
back hall bedroom, who causes joy to cir
| culate on Saturday night through the COM
posing rooms and binderies of the metrop-
oils.
He is a kline of involuntary, l~eft-handed
altruist. The good that he cannot divert
toward himself he bestows upon others.
What his publishers lose on him they make
up on some other writer, and ofttimes
they are glad to have him on their list
whether he sell or no. for he gives tone
to the poor, common things from which the
real profits perforce must come.
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Handwriting Boycott.
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Newspaperdom.
We hear a great deal nowadays about the
progressiveness Of Americans. and espe-
cially the position away out in advance of
the rest of the world occupied by American
Journalism, but 1t has remained for an edi-
tor in slow old London to be the first to
make an announcement which some shrewd
observers have lately come to expect. This
English editor lately astonished his read
ers by printing the following notice at the
top of his editorial columns:
mo manuscript not typed will be even
considered"
1t has therefore come to this, that In the
Office of at least one great newspaper a
poor article that is typewriter will receivs
more attention than a good article whlcn
is written with the pen. In fact. the latter
as the editor announces, Will receive no at
tention at all.
The rapid growth in popularity of the
t%ypewriting machine among authors mas
been largely due to the marked preference
of editors for typewriter manuscripts. In
deed, some young gentleman with more
ingenuity than genius early discovered this
fact, and reaped a harvest by dlsposing OF
third-class manuscripts that were peauti-
fully typewriter, while the illegible works
of genius were returned to their authors.
Stern necessity, If not actual starvauons
finally compelled Genius to learn typewrlt-
ing, and now a very large number OF the
best authors turn out their manuscripts
i'm this form, either by dictation or by do
ing the work themselves, or by letting
somebody copy their screeds on a typewrit-
ing machine.
Nevertheless, a certain proportion of the
manuscripts submitted to editors to-day
continues to be written with the pen. TINS
proportion, however, is steadily diminish
ing, while the typewriter manuscripts In
crease in number and In clearnesS. winch
is a great Improvement.
The step which has now been taken by a
London editor has for a long time been re-
garded as inevitable by those who are
watching the course of events. Five years
from now, ii Is predicted, every leading
newspaper in the world will have a some
what similar announcement hoisted at the
top Of its editorial columns along with the
usual statement that stamps should be in
closed.
OF course, this will be somewhat rough
on starving Genius, who may not have the
price of a meal, much less the price of a
been all the capital needed to put Genius
in the way of earning money, that being
enough to supply him with pen and paper
sufficient to produce, say, IS worth OF
poetry, were he to borrow ink at some
hotel and walk to the editorial office.
AS a typewriting machine costs anywhere
from $50 to 500. Ii Is hard to see what
Genius is going to do when the handwriting
boycott begins. Perhaps a new kind of lit
erary Spectator may spring up Who for
a share of the profits out of the poetry,
will permit Genius to use his typewriting
machine.
The London editor, it is said, has given
Instructions to the clerk who opens his
mail to return all manuscripts written by
pen or pencil at once accompanied by a
notification that only typewriter manu-
scripts will be read.
The Washington times., 1902-02-15
LADIES TO ATTEND DINNER.
Change in Plans OF Entertainment
at German Embassy.

Herr Won Holleben, the German Ambas-
sador, has about completed arrangements
for the dinner to be given at the Embassy
in honor Of Prince Henry.
As originally tanned there were to
have been fifty persons at the dinner, and
of this number cAe half were to have
been prominent officials who rank after
the President OF the United States.
There will as now arranged be sc 7enty
two persons at table. The banquet Will be
served in the ballroom OF the Embassy.
The table Will be in the form of horse
shoe, President Roosevelt sitting at the
right OF Prince Henry. Directly opposite
the President and the prince will be the
German Ambassador, with Miss Alice
Roosevelt at his right. Mrs. Roosevelt
will be escorted TO dinner by Prince
Henry and will sit at his left.
President Roosevelt viii Immediately
follow the prince, escorting Lady Paunce-
fote.
The German Ambassador will escort
Miss Roosevelt.
The German Embassy will be repre-
scented by the Ambassador. Count
Quadt, and Naval Attache Lieutenant
Commander Won Misunderstanding.
The other guests will be the Cabinet
the British Ambassador and Lady Paunce-
fote, the French Ambassador, the Rus
sian Ambassador and Countess Marguerite
de Cassini the Mexican Ambassador and
Nine. Azpiroz. The one Minister PIeni-
potentiary. who. with his wife, Will be
asked TO this dinner will be the Austro-
Hungarian Minister and Nine Won Hengel-
muller Admiral and Mrs. Bobley D. Ey-
ans, General and Mrs. Corbin, Assistant
Secretary of State and Mrs. Hill. and sew
eral of the United States Senator'S Will
complete the list Of dinner guests.
sThe change with regard 10 inviting
ladies TO the dinner was determined by
Emperor William. as he specially wished
to have the Presidents wife and daughter
at the banquet. In order TO accomplish
this 1t was necessary TO invite other
ladies.
The Washington times., 1902-02-15
THREE FOR GOLDEN EAGLES.
Won the Set From business Men and
Take Fourth Place.

With every man on the Golden Eagles
bowling team rolling over 500 totals and
the team totals approaching record marks
it was little wonder they defeated the
Business Mems Club last night three
straight on the Eagles alleys. With such
bowling no team in the city would have
Jared better than did the losers.
Both sides bowled in steady, consis-
tent way, but with entirely different re-
suits. The Business Men failed to get on
any speed, and they failed to reach the
800 mark by forty pins.
The Eagles work at times was of the
sensational order. Brown bowled go,
which was the high single score. Brandt
had PCS, and led the evening with 1872 %
as high average. Ludwig had 204 single
total, and came next with 1856 average.
Stitt bowled an average OF 1s3 and Brown
lS1, and Colt would have had a good
showing except for some bad splits in his
opening game. Brown, Slit, and Colt
bowled games without a break
Kidd led his side in average and had 191
as high game.
Some OF the spares made were of the
unusual order. Ludwig had one of As;
Colt, $40 and Brandt. $50.
This triple victory puts the Eagles in
fourth place and within hailing distance
of the jolly Fat Men.
The scores:
The Washington times., 1902-02-15
GERMAN ADMIRAL'S
VISIT TO HOBOKEN
DEED OF PARTITION FILED.
Disposition TO BE Made of Estate of
William p. Shedd.

deed of partition for the estate of the
late William P. shedd has been filed with
the Recorder of Deeds. The deed sets
forth the conveyance of the real estate
as follows:
To Alice l. Bennitt. lot 105, Hillyer's
subdivision of square 1876 04l4 Fifteenth
Street northwesU part of lot &c, Shedd's
subdivision OF square 1876 Q52S o Street
northwest. To Kate C. Evans, lots 81
and IS, and part of lot 80, Shedd's sub
division of square 1875 Q513 and 1515
Rhode Island Avenue northwest. To
John l. Shedd, parts of original lots l
and 2. square 210 (1402 Fourteenth Street
northwesD. To William A. Shedd, lots
40 and IL. Shedd's subdivision of square
l95 Q519 Rhode Island Avenue north
wesD; part of lot 81, Shedd's subdivision
of square 1875 G5S2 o Street northwesD.
To Katie s. Smith, William A. Shepherd
and Harry W. Shepherd, lot 100 Hill
yer's subdivision of square 1876 GAP Fiji
teenth street,, and part of lot 81, SheGd's
subdivision of square 1875 1526 o Street
northwesD. To Margaret f. Holton, part
Of lots l, >. 20 and 80. of square 80 Q307
ii Street northwest), ands part of lot /,
square 247 CLOG Thirteenth Street North
vest. To Samuel S. Shedd, parts of lots
30 and 40, Shedd's subdivision of square
l95 d517 Rhode Island Avenue north
wesO, and rart of lot 65, Shedd's subdi-
vision of square 195 G53O Street north
west. To Frances C. Marin, Alice c.
Sherburne and Robert C. Noerr part of
original lot 1, square 247 u104 Thirteenth
street northwest), and parts original lots
,, % and 30. square $50 QSO9 H Street