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The Washington times., 1903-03-08

pressing down on the engraved lines.
gives the impression-must be exact
But. more than this. is the part the
art Of linking plays. After each impress
sion the plate is taken from the press,
laid on a fat surface over a tiny fame,
where it receives tIe proper tempera-
ture. and the ink laid on. first in the
usual way. and then polished from the
plate by hand, so that only the thin.
clear-cut lines are filled.
The plate is returned to the press. A
young woman. the printers assistant.
has. in the meantime. picked up a sheet
of paper. laid it on a board, wet il down
with brush and clear water, and now
eenters it directly on the plate. Huge.
long spokes turn about in the strong
hands Of the printer. the plate passes
under the cylinder, and the sheet is
printed on one side
Defective Sheets Counted.
Perhaps it is defective. II so. it is
placed by itself. II not. a piece of it's
sue paper is laid over the printed sur
face. and the half printed sheet goes on
a pile with it's mates The press, how
ever. has done something more than
merely print It has registered the fact
that an impression has been taken.
AT the close OF work the number of
printed sheets, the number of sheets
spoiled. and those returned blank must
tally. and make up the amount drawn in
the morning. Should a sheet be miss
ing. the printer must pay the value
of the notes on it-$4. If in ones. and $50.
if he should happen to be printing
hves.
It is the policy OF she bureau that
each man shall do only a certain part Of
the work. AMI nothing else. This is es-
pecially so in the case Of the engrav-
ers. but It is followed out elsewhere
as well The bills are printed on one
side at a time. and each side is the
work OF a different man. In the case of
gold certificates, the bill passes through
the hands Of three printers-once for
each Of the sides. and once again foe
the black portrait and lettering.
Green Side Printed First.
The reverse. or green side. OF a bill
is printed first. It now goes, tissue
between each sheet. to room where
il is counted. in order that the printers
register, as shown by his press. may be
verified. As soon as the counting is
done the bills are placed on trays in
rack-like wagons and rolled into steam
drying frames. until the ink has had
thorough chance to set
They are wrinkly-looking enough,
these bills. not yet half finished, as they
The Washington times., 1903-03-08
Fine Art Printing.

Next comes the printing This is done
on plate presses. OF the kind used I'm
handling the very finest Of steel engray-
ings. which. in fact is just what
bills are. The adjustment and "overIay."
he preparation OF the cylinder, which.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-15

The Bookman.
IT was a miserable mistake to send a
JOYOUS. freedom-loving man like Bret Harte
to a narrow-minded, money-making place
like Glasgow, where humor and beauty
are alike regarded as wicked. He hated
the town and he hated his duties. and ne
always slipped off to London and Paris
whenever he could. He had left his wife
in America with his sister. But the real
Bret Harte never appeared in London
again: both person and appearance
changed; he put it down himself to two
accidents that happened to him-frst. he
met Oscar Wilde, and Immediately went
and had his hair cut; and, secondly, In
showing a friend how to pull the trigger
of a gun with his toe he shot himself In
the mouth, and, though not seriously IN
jured. the lips never had the old mobility
which had given such charm to his story
tellins, and his smile, After five years of
Glasgow, Bret Harte settled in the north
of London with his friends, the Van de
Yields, and though he sometimes appeared
at the Academy private view or like places,
he dropped out Of the old gay circle in
which he had shone for those brief few
months, and gradually retired more and
more into private life. Then came his
death last year at the age of sixty-three,
then the news that he had left but some
$500, and finally paragraph stating that
Mime. Van de Weld had erected tomb
stone to his memory in Frimley church.
ward
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such sisterhoods In connection Win me
Episcopal Church I'm the United states
The Office OF deaconess was introduced MO
the Methodist Episcopal Church in ,SSs:
the General Assembly OF the Presbyterian
Church took similar steps in 1859. A num-
Der OF Congregational churches have also
revived the Office They look after :hc sick
OF the parish. visit the poor. ETC.
=
VIII you inform me OF Thomas A Edi-
sons early life2 p Have his inventions ma
terially helped mankind?-A. b. G.
Born In Milan. O.. Feb. Il, 1877. his FAM
lily took him TO Port Huron. Mich. when
he was seven years old. and here the rest
OF his boyhood passed While a newsboy
on the Grand Trunk Railroad his spare
time was occupied in reading and boyish
experiments with printing presses and cleo
trical apparatus In 1862 he published
weekly paper. doing the printing i'm a
freight car that also served as his labora-
tory. For saving the life of child he was
taken into the telegraph Office at Mount
Clemens. He became a notably rapid opera
tor. but was full of mischief. fond OF ex-
perimenting and often breaker Of his en-
ployer's rules. While still an operator he
made his first important invention, an au-
tomato repeater. 2. Yes. indeed He stands
out conspicuous as one who more than any
other Of his day has turned scientific dis
coveries to practical uses; as a scientific
discoverer he does not rank so high.
What was the popular vote by States IN
the presidential election of ls60?-J. II. NJ.
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les agriculture languishes for want OF
hands bar the thousands OF Idle hands con-
fned In the ghettos risk life and liberty
when they attempt 10 work for a living In
Gods free nature. At the same time they
are forbkdden even TO aspire TO govern
srlent or municipal jobs, high or low, even
zfhs city knackeries. certainly the lowest OF
Institutions. viii not employ person with
hooked nose. or ore who cannot produce
baptismaI certificate Likewise is artisan
ship closed to these wards of the nation;
sfhey can neither engage in manufacturing
nor in factory work. Commerce. finance,
rrm-se1hRg, kosher butcheries alone are
cpen.-to them. but commerce Is dead
finances are not for the homeless and for
funeless and starving people cannot indulge
even In meat or rum"
81 After three months haggling the" Min
sistry OF the Interior has formulated a ukase.
permitting the establishment of loan and
auxiliary funds for the Jews under the fol-
lowing conditions:
First-Two-t thirds of the officials must be
Christians.
4 second-The board of directors must be
christians
& Third-Loans can only be granted on
property within the city limits. AS Jews are
not permitted to possess landed property
secret holdings should be confiscated when
offered for mortgage.
Il OF course, these conditions are deliber-
htely imposed to forestall the establishment
OF the institutions alleged to be planned.
The government, 1t seems. has only one
use for the Jews: To starve them. Dead
Jew-good Jew is the official motto. A
Jew courageous newspapers pointed out to
the government that the clause anent
Christian directors made the funds i'm
possible, some Of the communities have
only Jewish inhabitants outside the mill
fary. These papers were promptly sup
pressed, and the order of the Ministry
stands. And thus the Russian Jew ques-
Con is Iegislated out of existence slowly
tut surely. VASSILI.
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ZangwiII's Personality.

G.. B. Benign, in March Critic.
What is your Christian name. Mr.. Gang
will?' once asked kindly old lady, who
was unaware of the authors nationality.
Madame" he returned, with a whimsical
twinkle in his eye, IT have no Christian
name" And, without seeing the joke. the
old lady still goes about. deploring his
parents incomprehensible forgetfulness. /
oDce sent Zangwill portrait Of himself to
sign, and it came back to me with the fol-
lowing inscription at its foot:
"Can this be I?-Zangwill."
Countless stories are told of his wit, par
ticularly when exercised on the subject or
the drama. Some one had quoted the say
ing that the ancient Greeks could make
drama out of two boards and passion.
Zangwill retorted that all we now need is
1.-TWO sticks and a wardrobe" and that
"eyery actors motto appeared to be that
the part is greater than the whole
Zangwill has many personal peculiarities
ton as regards dress. At garden party
given by a well-known literary agent his
attire consisted of black frock coat, tight
mel trousers, which had evidently seen bet
ter days, black felt Homburg hat, and
crimson tie. In the course of the afternoon
a legend obtained among the guests to the
effect that distinguished woman novelist
had been seen in Bond street the previous
day choosing the said crimson neck1e
She remarked that it was for Zangwiil, ana
she thought that crimson would best SUIT
his ''rich, dark, Eastern beauty"
Zangwill, for man of such subtly In,
tellectual parts, can, on occasion, descend
! to the most boyish frivolity. The daugh-
ter of a certain rabbi was told that she
was to sit next him at dinner party: For
DAYS beforehand she trembled with mingled
anticipatory delight and dread, and sought
to sharpen her wits by dwelling on every
learned subject, possible or Impossible,
which she thought he might be likely to
talk about Imagine her amazement when,
as soon as dinner had begun, Zangwill
pocket and began telling fortunes with 1t,
talking the whole time nothing but the
most irresponsible nonsense. She said art
erwards that she felt very like the slri VINO
was taken in to dinner by Tennyson, and
hung with trembling rapture on the IN
spired words which were to fall from ms
lips. 'I like my mutton In chunks, SAID
TennysOn.
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TOOK A DRIVERS PLACE.


wife of u Transfer Man Drove q Team
Through Mobs Of Strikers.
Kansas City Times. -eS
The sight of a young and well-dressed
woman perched high upon the seat of a
heavy transfer wagon, piled with freight.
was one of the Incidents Of the strike of
<fhe truck drivers which caused hundreds of
persons to stare In the West bottoms yes
terday afternoon
Thewoulan was Mrs. George Evans, wife
Of the proprietor of the American Transfer
Company. She took the place of one of the
drivers who had become frightened by the
sthreats OF the striking truckers surging
about the wagons. The American Transfer
<Company was one of the companies which
refused to discontinue business because OF
afternoon there was some freight belonging
TO the Western Grocery Company, which
was to be shipped from the Santa Fe Depot
The driver OF the wagon was new man
ana becoming frightened by the threats of
the strikers feared TO venture OUT Mrs.
Evans learned OF the situation. Determined
z tnok her place beside the driver for the
purpose. she said. "of protecting him."
- The drfve to the depot was without incl
dent, but on the return trip, while driving
down Santa Fe avenue toward the barn,
near Ninth street. a crowd of strikers col
lected about the wagon, cursing and shout
ing "scab." Some of the men attempted to
cut the traces, while others took hold of
the horses bits and stopped the team.
Without the least sign OF fear Mrs. Evans
dashed them across the hands until the pain
compelled them to let go their holds. The
Wagon then proceeded to the barn without
further molestation.
Mrs. Evans was then notified that an
: American transfer wagon filled with freight
ESlonging TO the Swofford Bros Dry Goods
Company was without a driver at the
Frisco depot. She hurried down TO the
. depot and mounted the drivers seat. From
that time until after 5 o'clock in the after
: noon. Mrs Evans drove continuously. max
ing several trips, unaccompanied. to and
from the various freight depots. On none OF
. these trips, however. beyond being occa-
sionally called '.scab' was she further in
terfered with. and all along the course, as
! the determined little woman bravely guided
the heavy transfer team in and out among
: the numerous wagons and over the railroad
: tracks hundreds stopped on the. sidewalk
and crowded 20 the windows of the various
i buildings and gazed admirinsly after her
& Business men who stepped out of their Of
fees or met her as they passed tipped their
hats respectfully and applauded her cour-
age. Occasionally some urchin or man
would call out "scab" as she passed along
but Mrs Evans would only look straight
ahead. while her face famed red. Not until
the last team had been driven into the barn
cid she rest.
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Other Books Than Fiction.
The Lamp.

The Lamp.
Certain newspaper prophets now have 1t
that the great vogue of the novel Is over.
that the day OF big sellers is done. that.
in short, ''the public has sickened of it's
gorging OF fiction and has turned. penitent-
ly. to serious books meaning thereby
books of every sort other than fiction. But
have the serious books been Npeglected
during this popular fiction craZe?' By no
means, and the Inference follows that peo-
pie must have done vastly more reading
than usual to consume this enormous in
crease of fiction. or there must have sud-
denly developed vastly more readers. Pos
sibly IL was the new readers that pur-
chased the new fiction. II may be that the
fiction has something of the nature of a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-15

Byron's great-granddaughter, Lady Mary
Milbanke. will soon make her first appear
ance In literature with little book Of
verses. entitled Fair Children"
site has been secured for the memo
rial to Sir Walter Bessnt in st. Paurs
Cathedral. The work of the sculptor.
George Frampton, is nearly finished; An
thony Hope and Austin DObSon will Jointly
devise the inscription.
Books by two eminent Oxford scholars,
Prof. William Sunday and DR.. Edward
Morse. are about to be published through
the oxford University press. Professor
Sundays book Is entitled Sacred Sites Of
the Gospels" while DR.. Morse's relates to
Dante, a subject on which he is an author
ity.
George Henty, the wel-known writer Of
boys books. made the statement, shortly
before his death. that he had received a
great many more letters from girls than
from boys. He was puzzled rather to &C
count for this. as his books were not at
posed to be fond of. 1t may possibly be
accounted for by the well-known dislike
boys entertain for letter writing.
The unchanging keenness of the popular
interest in Dickens is illustrated by the
fact that when various Dickens relics were
exhibited in the old English city of Bath,
some weeks ago, between 5000 and 1900 peo-
piS NiSitcu tuSul WItllll d lew DAYS. "A
larger exhibition of such relics. including
the novelist's writing table and chair, is
to take place In London this month A
large collection of the original drawings
which George Cruikshank and "Phiz" did
for Dfckenss books will also be shown.
The Dickens Fellowship" by the way.
already has 1000 members.
Mrs Humphry Ward is fairly hand
some woman-her photographs do not do
her justice-and not Bougereau himself
could paint her dazzling skin of milk and
roses .tints.- which, despite her matronly
years, Is still innocent of wrinkles. Mrs.
Ward Is as considerable of her complexion
as Duse is OF her hair. She writes, winter
and summer, in fair weather and stormy.
beside an open window, for she well knows
human cuticle. When big novel is on and
hard work is the order OF the hour Mrs.
Ward lives a good part of the time on bread
and milk only, and those of the freshest
quality.
Not the most careless observer can fail to
note, on meeting the widow OF Robert Louis
Stevenson, who was rather a famous beau
ty in her youth. that she assumes none of
the airs of faded debutante. She is an
elderly, dignified gray-haired woman, who
dresses for comfort and not for style, and
cherishes no vanity whatsoever except for
her tiny and most exquisite feet. AT all
times she wears the daintiest OF high-heeled
black satin slippers with ornamented toes
and silken hose Of the most expensive
quality. Bet Mrs. Stevenson's charming
little feet give her no more innocent pleas
IRE than Mrs. Humphry Ward derives
from her wonderful complexion, or Mrs.
Edith Wharton enjoys In her stunning
Paris gowns.
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Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Words change their meanings with con-
slant usage; dictionaries should. at least in
some manner, attempt to follow them, but
do not That is an axiom Of common
knowledge recently well illustrated in the
employment of the word "lurid' by we'll
known man of letters who has been accus-
toned to criticise the newspapers for what
he conceives to be their looseness in the
matter Of English. The author in question
spoke Of 'lurid-gray day." It is doubtful
whether an appreciable percentage Of his
readers understood his meaning: whether,
in short, they would not have defined
'Iurid In the manner of nearly any one
else, as suggesting something glaring,
vivid, intense, rather than something dull,
wan or pale. And yet, from the point of
view Of the average photographer, the au-
thor's conception of the meaning of the
word was quite correct and that of his
reaoers would have been altogether wrong.
Inree American-made dictionaries agree
pale. gloomy, dismal, having the Character
OF light that does not show the color of
objects. In botany and zoology. having a
dirty brown color, slightly 'clouded'' All
quote writers to their purpose, and one
goes so far as to grant, because of the
words derivation from the Latin 'luridus''
dinate significance "of the color or appear
ance of dull smoky flames, lighted with a
ghastly glare, combining light and gloom"
But the third alone gives the hgurative
meaning, CHASTITY, sensational" and the
direct one, giving CHASTITY or dull-red
light. or made visible by such a light: by
extension. giving an unearthly or CHASTITY
light of any kind"
Thus 'lurid" Is one of the many words.
such as 'livid.' which have come. in the
popular mind, to an almost complete reyer-
sion OF their original meaning. They are
first associated with phenomena which
they no doubt correctly described i'm iso-
lated instances, but the general Character
OF that phenomena being in the majority of
cases the opposite of the specific meaning
intended, the minority is forgotten and the
phenomena so affects the senses as soon
through the given word, to convey to the
mind a significance absolutely contrary to
the original definition. When Matthew
Arnold in Bladder Dead said that
THE sun went lurid down.
he certainly meant that it went down
gloomily, duly, forsthere are natural condi-
lions in which fire and sunset are lurid in
the exact or dictionary sense of the term
But ninety-nine out Of hundred sunsets
are not thus lurid and ninety-nne out of a
hundred poets use the word without further
distinction. so that the average person
who appeals to the senses and daily use
associate the word with the most striking
features of the phenomena in general; a
| sunsets burning brilliancy of crimson and
| a conf1agration's vividness of flame III GER
tain purists persist in sneering at the news
papers popular and modern use of the
word they should at least grant that the
dictionaries should note this general meta
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INDIANAPOLIS: PHILADELPHIA.
Frank Comments and Comparisons
= Made by Newly Arrived Resident.

70 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
- Having been bona fide resident or your
city for five days, previous to which my
homo was In eastern Pennsylvania, / note
certain differences between characteristics
Of the keystone and the Hoosier States.
Your people. for example. seem to possess
the happy faculty OF minding their own bus
{bess. for note that they do not stare at
etrangers-a habit much in vogue in
philadelphia. / was certainly surprised at
the business activity of your city, also its
splendid looking business houses and its sol
idly paved streets in the business portion
OF your city. One thing noted as l was
passing through your streets was the alb
eehce OF awnings In front of business places
and think IL a great improvement over
fhiladelphia In that respect. Then, too.
osmuch as you have heated cars, thing
Unknown in the Quaker City. The motor
are much lower-about one-half as much as
charged I'm Philadelphia In the latter
place cents IS demanded for ride and
transfer, while here you obtain the same
privilege for four cents: furthermore,
think better speed is made here and fewer
delays.
Your city is indeed beautifully laid out,
With its lawns and shade trees and cement
walks and Is in striking contrast with the
seonsested condition of Eastern cities.
: And now, having thus spoken of the ad-
tdiatd-fS your city pOSSeSSeSs pdIuOn uic
for reminding the authorities of your city,
rs well as the residents thereof, that lndl-
annapolis Is behind In the matter OF mail
service. AS understand. the United States
government pays for the distribution or
mail, there can be no good reason why In
Gianapolis residents should be put on with
two deliveries OF mail and Philadelphia get
1--we. II, as / am told, Indianapolis has but
D405 letter carriers. it is only a logical result
mat she has poor mail service, and Senators
Fairbanks and Beverage should see to 1t
that we get better taken care of.
Another thing learned is that tenants have
to pay the water rents; yet rents are as low
In Philadelphia as here. and there owners
phia also pays for the taking away Of ashes
from her houses, and this duty is performed
once a week. Indianapolis water is better,
much better. than the Ashbridge admins
0atson water of Philadelphia, but Philadel-
Dhians are hoping for better things In the
f4nture. May the Lord have mercy upon
her, -s--s
Finally, there is another thing, gratifying
to me. and that is the fact that Indianap-
oils has so few policemen, for five days
residence on East Fifteenth street has not
disclosed the presence of a single officer
anywhere in sight: in Philadelphia you see
them once and awhile in all parts Of the
city, yet burglaries are of nightly occur
score of robberies are told of by the papers
3requeptly. 4 think your newspapers are
up TO, and perhaps above, the Philadelphia
papers in their standard Of excellence. Phil
3delphfa suffered a loss when Col. A x
Mcclure retired from journalism.
REUBEN M. MERCER.
Indianapolis, March II.
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Mrs. Wards Profits.
Literary Bulletin.

Literary bulletiu.
The amount of money Mrs. Ward received
from Harper's Magazine for the serial
rights of Lady Roses Daughter" is an in
teresting subject of current comment. Miss
Jeanette L. Glider, an experienced literary
agent, surmises that, as the book rights of
the novel also went to the Harpers, in ac-
cordance with an infiexible rule of the
house, Mrs. Ward could have received no
less than So, 600 for the serial rights. Add
ing to this her royalties on the sales of
the book, which, she says, promise to be
enormous. it is estimated that Mrs. Ward
will reap a tidy profit of over S15O,OOO on
Lady Roses Daughter" No living author
has ever received as much. Miss Glider
asserts that there is no doubt that Mrs.
Humphrey Ward Is the best-paid of living
novelists." The Harpers, following their
custom, are reticent as to the figures In the
case.
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New York Times.

New York Times.
The danger OF writing your autograph in
your new book OF poems and giving it to
your friend is that the friend may. in your
own lifetime, send the signed book to the
auctioneer's and receive more money for 1t
than you got for the whole edition of your
poetry. Such an incident we find recorded
in the London press. the poet In question
evidently is not important" enough to
please the multitude. but his handwriting
on fyleaf in one of his own books is &C
counted valuable by collectors. Few poets,
we fear. have sufficient philosophy to view
such an incident calmly.