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The evening times., 1902-07-22
SHALL THE NOVEL
GO0 A Reply to jules
By F. V. c.

The prediction that the novel will the course OF
fifty years be thing Of the past and viii yield to the da
statement public press if verified that
human nature undergone the period mentioned, con
siderable change
really presentation Of than FROM
reality of world IN itself; realm Of shadows
impaIpab delightful And this fictitious world intimately
find ympaties mcs sen6y
aroused intensely fixed and faculty of local color most
delightfully."- exercised
novel do those the drnra
lights and shades; the impressive contrasts
And throughout every there is the personal charm OF the
present this creative genius though invisible Ike
friendly magician transport the neno ends OF the
his eyes that view the and with
present the action hat myriad
contemplated; what and women that
with laughter as
they pIayed part upon scene! Shade Of immortal
more deb f than blood, vanish before the realty
that i and forgotten.
nj greet spirits that attend will future gneT-
au We Don Quyo the Count Of Monte CTo
Tom Gne to David Coppee are all
company oomcd2 And ~ Jules Verne you VINO
given fifty other living myths to hIt at
the possibility fsbtfu aentabe fatality much less pre-
diet YOU speak jest and knowing one OF
your little joke with pcster and pc
ure degeneration that know we'll will never
come about?
You seriously, NJ Verne; have greater ah IN
posteriy The world always stoe Even before the
who tales of romance for eager
could perhaps command the alternate tear and smile
that lies many book
the countless gentle aucies engendered during the
swept away fifty hundred to make way Tor
cold hard facts genuine reflect that shall
then no longer connected with very undesirable world
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A FATHERS
CONGRESS
The old-fashioned discipline
sometimes made outlaws; but an
outlaw IS better than sybarite OF a
hypocTite-
By L. L.

Chicago has proposed fathers congress- and some OF
proposition novel She suggests that there are
some qualities edasioned father which ought not to be %
nored debating mothers and educational con
ferenc subtle and scientific methods fail 1t may
still be we'll to the straphe odfashloned
father upon chduure bat took his boy into the
uoodshed dsobednee lying other cardinal @ and
there ehassed M
of this though the progress Of the
age wisely away from corporal punishment The great merit
of the family discipline apesors that it defne-a
quality sadly lacking much Of the eduure Of today
given plain rules which he expected to
obey dsobeence there which he clearly
understood definite duties perform, Of which
IN growing capacities Outside the lines laid down Tor
government practically free He could fishing after his
tasks done could whatever boyh treasures he had enter
prise enough considerable extent nde
pendent the greater part the time nobody concerned
about him. work his salvation All this
good Il liberty license and it did tend sfcon
of discipline the far preferable the
wrong kind which lays emphasis petty
things child pretend emotions which does
possess
The old-fasoned discipline made outlaws; but
law is better han ybarite d hypocrite-
The evening times., 1902-07-22

How do queens amuse themselves?
For, after all. they are women. and must
te amused some way. Bound as they are
by the many court rules of custom and
etiquette. they are barred from many
JOYS that are the bfrthrights of their
more fortunate, or unfortunate, sisters
But certain things they can do. and in
their various hobbies they display great
individuality and taste.
Queen Alexandra IS bitten by the pho
tographic mania She has taken snap
shots at everything from crowned heads
to pet dogs. She has any number Of pic
lures of various members Of her family
ind Of pretty scenes associated with
pleasant msmOries.
The Empress of Russia's main hobby
IS her husband, for she is devoted wife
end mother, bu: after that she has I
rassfon for caricaturiny and the collect
ing Of caricatures. There is danger in
such fad as this for an imperial per
son. and as a result few are allowed to
see her portfolio. Perhaps the only per-
son who has seen all her drawings is the
Gar
Saxony's Queen has made fad Of the
children of all classes Of society She
has founded or has assisted in the foun-
dation of a number Of schools, orphan
ages, homes and saitariums. and the
rising generation of Sexony Is tremen-
CousIy benefited by her exertiens-
Another camera fend is the Empress
Of Germany. She has taken photographs
Of everything that has interested her,
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ROf1ANCIN'
By JAMES wHITCoMB RILEY.

ben a-kindo musin'. as the feller says
and I'm
About O. the conclusion that they amt
no better time.
When you come to cipher on It, than the
times we used to know
When we swore our first dog gOne-it''
gorto soIem' like and low!
You git my idy, do you? Little tads, you
understand
Jes' a-wishin' thue and thue you that
you on'y was a man
Yit here I am, this minute, even forty,
10 day.
And fergettin' all that's in 1t, wishin'
jes' the other way!
I haint no hand to lectur' on the times
ct demonstrate
Whur the toubIe is, er hector and domi-
neer with Fate
But when I git so furried and SO pes
tered-Iike and blue,
And so rail owdacious worried, let me
tell you what I do.
I les gee-haw the bosses, and unhook
the swingle-tree,
Whur the hazel bushes tosses down their
shadders over me,
And I draw my plug Of navy and I climb
the fence. and set
Jes' a-thinkin' here, Y grav-' till my
eyes Is wringin' wet!
Tho I still kin see the trouble o the
present. I kin see
Kindo like my sight was double-sn the
things that used 70 be;
And the futter OF the robin and the tee
ter O. the wren.
Sets the wiIler branches bobbin' "howdy-
do" thum Now TO Then!
The deadnin' and the thicket's Jes a bill
in full OF June,
Thum the rattle O. the cricket, to the
yaIler hammers tune;
And the catbird in the bottom, and th5
sap-suc2l On the cnag,
Seems ef they cain't-od-rot 'em!-jes
do nothin' else but brag!
The evening times., 1902-07-22
TIE OLD Ak
A BALLAD OF OLD-HOME WEEK.

A BALLAD OF OLD-HCME WEEK
DAN V, GALLAGHER in the "Repu5Iie-''
Ab CID ak. do you know me now?
How have you fa.s1 since I lett you
here?
Sill at your pest in the old woodshed-
Come. old friend. can you name the year
That sundered the ties when last ny
hand
CIasped you strong in a parting stroke,
Circled aIoft and we said farewell;
When I buried you deep in that block Of
oak?
Much have we changed since then.
know.
You IN your way and in mine
Rust now enfoIds you. Yet l recall
How in those days you were wont to
shine
As you carevd a way Tor the faithful
wedge,
While the pine logs quaiied at each rude
shock,
Yielding at last With mouTnful creak
To the tyrant ak and the chopping block.
was then but boy, you know,
II those happy days now long since fed
Yet I remember just how you looked
When saw you first in that old wood
shed
For the fish we're biting up at the lake,
And the logs were stout ones, you must
allow;
OH I hated you then with a deadly hate.
An! well, old ak, but love you now!
And once when showing an undue Haste,
And my boyish aim had proved untrue.
You taught me care in a summary way
By gashing ny foot till the blood came
through.
Yet you paid full we'll; for my revenge
Was a score Of strokes on a flint like
rock.
Till, tired at last, I laid you down
Battered and bruised on the chopping
block
Here is my hand on your blade again.
Your edge has gone this many day,
And confes5-yes, it must be so.
I too have changed IN that same way,
For have felt on the wheel Of time
IN this old world my share OF pain,
For it took the good which I had to give
And let the sears Of the past remain
Like you, Old friend, when you sought
the stone,
For useful life have I often pined,
But the years creep On and leave Us old
And thus with each succeeding grind,
! The temper fees from out your steel.
While I see old age in each whitening
lock:
TIL the luster dimmed I stand at last,
Like the worn-out ak on the choppinl
block
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By
2. R. TRIPLER,
Of New York

Time was wien socks were secrets. 4
lady had to go shopping TO see a pair,
and a whole nation was dlstraught with
doubt as to whether a certain states
man was besocked or not.
The sock was part of the first layer
Of swathing. and to display 1t would
be to shock society. Today it is faunt-
ed in ostentatious garishness CT re-
veaIed in quiet tints of better taste; but
in either and every case its former
discreet, modest bashfulHess is gone
Seek the woman" said yidocq- The
woman's hand Is in everything. II would
seem as If the last things in the world
a woman would be in must be socks, and
to imagine her hand in them is 20 let
-turvydom run riot But really
the woman IS the cause Of the debut
Of the sock, ard she has put her foot
in it. too.
What did the foolish men know about
the glory of ankle rainment until wo-
mans wit evolved the raindy day skirt?
Indeed. there vas school Of gentlemen
which politely held that ladies' could
not wear stockings; that they we're
floating serephim. graciously deigning
to let their depending robes touch the
man. trodden, vulgar earth
Curiosity is the mother Of experiment
The woman wanted to know. She de-
sired TO be sure whether Mr.. Simpson
and the rest of them wore EN- or not.
It IS a sad commentary on the boasted
masculine intelligence that it supposes
women 10 be aspirants to the imitation
OF male gsrb- The reverse is the case.
and has been since Eve made the first
petticoat Witness the kilt in the tunics
Of the ancient nations; witness the
adoption Of trousers from the fashion
OF the women Of the Orient; witness the
growing call for mems corsets; witness
the sock Of tcdav-
The women knew this. and so they
invented the rainy-day skirt. and shed
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ELECTRICITY A SUBSTANCE

50 develop great heat and light. thus
giving rise TO the whole fascinating
vista Of vacuum discharges.
Nor is their wonderful activity con
fined TO the. fields enumerated, for the
whole phenomena Of magnetism are
based upon the eIectron. Whenever an
atom has high valency, such IS iron,
cobalt or nickel, it appears that the free
eIectrons which constitute these yalen-
cies revolve around the rest Of the
atom. These revolutions produce whirls
in the ether which are known as mag
netic dispIacements or stresses. or
lines Of force, and whenever a con
ductor''-that is. q body containing free
ly movable ions tsay one for every FIVE
thousand neutral atoms)-is moved
through these whirIs. the tons are set
moving in opposite directions with We
Iecity Of about one centimeter per sec
ond. and we have the whole phenomena
Of induced currents
The enormous rapIdity Of the magnet
ic revolutions may be judged from their
probable period. which is about one
trillionth OF a second in the electric
arc we have not only a great exchange
Of opposite ions. but this ionizing ac-
tion Of ultraviolet Highland EIsJeT
and Geitel have shown how this icniza-
ton action OF ultraviolet light may lead
10 the elucidaticn Of all the problems Of
atmospheric electricity. The latest in
formation. as recently supplied by Us.
goes to show that iontzation is constant
" going on wherever there is matter.
and that some bodies have the faculty
Of projecting either negative elecuons
/ or positive ions with some force. These
bodies. Ike radium. actinium and poIon-
lum. are then said 10 be radioactive.
HGrmuzescu has gone further and
proved that the elecJToE- revolving ia
Iac guets often shoot OF at tangent and
"eIectrify' a liquid in which they are
placed.-London Electrician.
The evening times., 1902-07-22

They's music in the twitter Of the blue
bird and the jay,
And that sassy little erItter jes' a-peck-
in all the day:
They's music in the flicker" and they's
music in the thrush
And they's music in the snicker o the
chipmunk in the brush.
They's music all around me! And I go
back, IN q dream
Sweeter yit than ever found re fast
asIeep-and In the stream
! That used to split the medder wllur the
dandylions gTowed.
stand knee deep, and redder than the
sunset down the road.
Then's when ben a-fshiu!-and they's
other feIlcrs. too,
With their hick'ry poles a-swishing' out
beyond EN-; and a few
Little sinners" on our stringers, with
their tails tiptoein bloom,
AS We danced EN- in our fingers all the
happy Journey home.
I kin see US. true to Natur'. thum the
time we started out
With biscuit and q tater in our little
roundabout
| kin see our lines a-tanglin', and our
elbows in a iamb,
| And our naked legs a-danglin' thum the
aperE OF the dam.
/ kin see the honeysuckle climbin' ur
around the mill:
| And can hear the water chuckle, and the
wheels a-gTowlin' still;
And thum the bank below II I can steal
| the old canoe,
And les git in AMI row It like the miller
used to DO.
wy, git my fancy focused on the past
so mortal plain
| I kin even smell the locus blossoms
| bloomin' in the lane:
And ] hear the cow-bells tinkliu' sweet
er tunes n money musk
| Fer the lghtnin' bugs a-blinkin' and
| a-dancin' In the dusk
And so I keep on mUsin' as the feller
says. till I'm
! Firm fixed In the conclusion that they
haiut no better time.
#, When you come to cipher on It, than the
old .Imes-and, I swear.
kin wake Gnl say '.Dog-gOne it," jes
es so1t 2s any prayer!
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upon the eyes OF their intended victim,
man. the eHuIgent glory OF their ankles.
He rubbed his eyes. Wc,1an really
and truly walked, This gaFDiture new
ly revealed was goodly in his sight.
He reflected that he, TOO. might be
thus dazzingly Graped. He made his
moan to the haberdasher, who smiled
approval. nodded more. sent wire TO
the manufacturer and hired more CLERKS.
The ruse succeeded. Painted Ike the
leaves OF autumn. garnished in all the
coIors OF the rainbow. appeared the
socks. in large exDanses between short.
cIose-reefed trousers, and the mouths OF
Oxford ties Eve had tasted another
fruit Of the tree of knowIedge.
But alas! She has given Adams ape
like initiative faculty an abnormal i'm
petus. That even she did not foresse-
What is next after pretty ankle-sheath-
ing2
Lace, perhaps. Then rain-day trou-
sers, perhaps. wide and capable Of be-
ing lifted deftly at street crossings.
Next, skirts?
softness and s.ghtliness Of inner raj
ment is for the female II makes her
feel womanly and improves her It
uakes man effeminate and spoils him
From the day Of the first sewing bee in
Eden until this July Of 1902. feminfnity's
intimate garb has been growing more
soft and slightly. And nan has been
initiating. It is now high time for the,
sweet sisterhood to consider whether
this evolution has not proceeded far
enough in his case
What can be done? The feminine
taste for pretty things IS Unsuitable
Well, let further improvements be worn
in the same secrecy which enshroud-
ed stockings before the invention of
the rafny-day skirt. and man may yet
be saved to be a joy and an ornament
to society in sturdy, though sockless.
msseu1inity.
The evening times., 1902-07-22
THE REBUILDING OF THE CAMPANILE

question architects whether
Camapf the modern fashion in
shall resemble the
decide
employ
alleged
that the foundations
sub and that the city
unuhstan-
that the solid Of
snry employed realizing their designs might well
hand itself being trustworthy
their rworks e anything like
imitation Campanle with
in
be this
building
day is constructed in an archaic fash
ion from Nothing that the Cam
an Ought the
conform 10 the
It knoy but the sentiment Of the
artists seems to be n solid
The evening times., 1902-07-22

Many and woman in distress-fnancia dis
ress-has received temporary and often permanent re-
ef fre the pawnbroker he IS commonly referred
to my uncle" TIE little pledge for small loan has
than one occasion given and comfort to The
sick and needy It IS mistake to suppose that cnly
sports and gamblers and spcndtfts have recourse
the paylbrokers. On the contrary, have dealings
with people IN all walks Of life.
Another popular error Is this: Many persons have
idea that more than af Of the articles pledged with
US are rever redeemed The facts that full "a per
cent of the articles placed with redeemed and 80
per cent seldom remains IN keeping than thirty
days at a time
One can never tell at what moment he may become
suddenly IN need cf money, and this applies to people
who are generally regarded as well fixed Under such
circumstances two or three hours delay may fnan
eal ruin. In such the pawnbroker acts the part
Of fesayer, for, with security, loan be obtained
Immediately and at a rate of interest nest reasonable
Ter the circumstances.
There are many weli-to-do people who make prae-
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ODD PASTIMES OF EUROPE'S QUEENS

and her collection Of pictures is unique.
When she returned from the Holy Land
4 series of the pictures she took was ex-
hibited as magic lantern slides and were
pronounced very valuable and interest
lng from m chronological standoint.
Queen WilheImina's hobbies are skat-
:ng and riding. but from childhood she
has devoted herself to raising poultry.
Her collection of chickens embraces al
nest every known variety, and her sue
cess In raising chickens Is remarkable.
The Queen of Norway and Sweden.
outside of her family and public life, is
devoted TO religion The Queen Of Greece
is 3 yachtswoman- The Queen Of the
Pelgians is faddist on horses. The
Queen Of Italy has chosen shooting and
automobiliag as her principal fads.
Queen Charlotte of Wurtemberg has
taken up with the woman's movement,
and is working hard to secure better
treatment and wages for female work
ers PorturaFs Queen, who is said 10
te the busiest woman in Europe, Is an
expert physician. and has raised her fad
to the dignity OF profession
Regarding Carmen sylvia" Queen OF
Roumania, her fads end hobbies are so
numerous that it would be hard to Sc
lect one and say It was her principal in
| terest. But one practical result OF her
work has been 10 revive among her own
reopIe a love for the old legends and
folklore OF the country that she now
calls horne.-PhiIadelphia North Ameri-
can.
The evening times., 1902-07-22

Ehe generation of electricity consists
in splitting of an eIectron from the
atom. The electron then produces a
stress in the ether similar 10 that due
to g NEGATIVELY charged body The
remainder Of the atom acts as pos
itively" charged body, though we do not
know as yet whether the positive charge
IS due 10 a special positive electror OF
not. II It is, We have not yet succeeded
in isolating the positive electron, but
Il is supposed 10 be about ten times
heavier than the negative eleetron- In
any case. VIC have here an elementary
negative charge Of about one-ten-bil-
Honth OF the absolute unit and an ele-
nentary positive charge Of the same
amount. These elementary charges at
tract each other and repel similar
charges They car associate with clus-
ters Of neutral particles 4 negative
electron thus associated with ordinary
matter becomes a positive ion" Con
duetion consists Of the wandering of
positive ions down the potential gra-
dent. and Of negative ions up the po-
tentiaI gradient.
This wandering can take place in met
ais. It then produces heat by collision
with the molecules Of the metal, and a
magnetic field by the motion Of the
charges. In a liquid the energy Of mo-
ton IS consumed IN the splitting up or
'ionization'' Of neutral molecules Every
current OF heat IS associated with a
transportation Of ions. and here the
whole field Of thermo-electrieity is en-
tered In the vacuum tube ions move
with less restraint. Negative electToas
are shot of from the cathode with the
velocity Of light. or something very
nearly approaching It and where they
strike upon q solid they produce explS-
sive ether waves Of remarkable Denc-
trating power which are known as Ro-
eatgen rays. Where they hit gaseous
particles they ionize them, and IN doing
The evening times., 1902-07-22
THE PAWNBROKER A
FRIEND TO SOCIETY
By BENJAMIN HE'D.

tice Of storing their handsome overcoats with rs just
Tor the summer months. They perfectly willing 70
pay small interest just to have their taken
care of.
Many men who comes to Washington at a change
of Administration with the expectation CT receiving
some irst-cass appoin;-e Ghe Government service
has called on US to berrow money some article Of
jevelry for the purpose Of leaving town. When they
reach home, as rIe, the first thing they Do is to remit
the amount cf he lean and have their goods shipped
10 them
We have in our safe pair Of opera glasses winch
were pledged for 425 just twenty-five years ago The
owner pays the interest regularly every month. The
opera glasses are worth that now but the
values their association and is conteed pay the in
terest knowing that he redeem them at any time
he so desires.
1 could mention number of such eases The pawn
broker really the friend of the poor and the weOdO
much moro so than the broker. The business Of
the 2awnbroker an honorable and has down
to us through the centuries.
The evening times., 1902-07-22
A TRUSTS SONG
By NAGDALEN ROCK.

A:ar from Ireland's hills and Wales,
Ger pavements dark with spot and
stain
hastened till I heard a strain
Of melody. then once again
I stood in dear, familiar daIes.
Within its cage a tharstIc salg.
And for a few brief moments
space
Transagured was that squalid
place,
I felt the pure winds fan my face;
Around my feet the cowslips sprans-
I saw thick mists CT bIuebelIs rise.
White daisies and primToses fair;
The Wild marsh-marigoId grew
there;
The scent Of gorse was in the s'r:
I heard the Iove-Iorn culyer's cries.
I saw the blue smoke curling high
From cottage homes, the wide
boreen.
The brooklet. with its hazel screen,
And every welI-known place and
ECeue
I used TO love IN days gone by
AM all the busy passing throng
Had forms and features dear to
me;
That -ity highway seemed to be
More tair than famous Already
By magic of a thrush's song.
The evening times., 1902-07-22
Religion Of the Future.

As we interpret the signs of the time,
men are quietly gathering their forces
for religious renaissance that is 10
herald a faith as much larger and deep
er than Christianity as that was in its
turn greater than the Paganism which
It supplanted. It will carry forward
much of the old-just as Christianity
borrowed without stint from Paganism-
But II will not be Christianity, because
It will imply a new attitude. new
catholic aIl-embracing recognition Of
human excellence.
It Will be based on a perception OF the
human unity underlying all ereeds and
races. It will have nc ieslousies and ex-
The evening times., 1902-07-22

From time to time, in our larger
cities, hotels and apartment houses
and tenements have been burned with
great loss of life, aHd II has been
found by more or less perfunetory in
vestigation that these buildings were
SO earelessly constructed as to be mere
ire-traps. Erected expressly for the
housing Of hundreds Of human be-
inss at q time, they have been 50
scamped IN building that IN case Of
p ere gaining any headway at all,
great less Of life was inevitable They
are hardly better than masses Of tin
der. Usually this IS owing 10 the
use Of inferior material by raseaIly
contractors or unscrupulous owners
but it Is also due IN some measure to
the ignorance of the architect who
makes the plans. When q large
building IS so planned that there Is
a natural chimney in the middle, up
which the roaring flames may sweep
and around this oPen space, be II
elevator shaft, ro+mda or what not,
the staiTways wind. it does not take
a prophet to see what viii happen #
a fire breaks ont in the middle of the
The evening times., 1902-07-22

ciUsions in the interests Of q special In
depreciation OF the world, but will be
tolerant and hospitabIe. 1t viii not
worship Christ; it VIII honor aud revere
him. He will be received ST last into
that great circle OF human brotherhood,
that large communion Of saints and
league of heroes. not to eclipse the
lesser members OF it, but to give added
iustre 10 them,-Ethical World,