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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22

A glance at the last pages of the His
troy of Socialism in the United States" by
Morris Hillquit. confirms the impression.
gained before one has read it half through
that IL uses the term Socialism" to mean
the political Socialist party. The authors
evident purpose is TO exploit his party as
controlling factor in the politics OF the flu
ture. IL cannot be said that he has succeed
ed. He certainly does not convince one al
ready OF the opinion that the Socialist party
Is without political influence. present or
prospective. that such an opinion Is erron-
eous. Tho first $50 pages contain an inter-
esting and instructive account OF the diff
fsrent communities founded In the United
States during the nineteenth century. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22
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origin and development of the Shakers,
Harmonists and other sectarians and OF the
Owenites. Fourierists and Icarians are
traced. and the authors conclusions drawn
from the failure of these experiments COM
mand respect. IL they are not convincing:
The recital OF the early political history OF
socialism in this and other countries is also
replete with interesting facts though evi-
IDENTIFY strongly colored by the author s
views, and the book is well worth reading
by any one who is interested in socialism.
The Funk & Wagnalls Company, New
York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22
Among Ourselves.

Two small volumes, "Out of North Caro-
lima and Catherine and Her Surround
ings," by Sarah p. Morrison, a sister of
Mrs. ID. w. Coffin. of this city. have a
private interest for the Morrison family,
which went 10 North Carolina about 1850.
The books are historical. biographical and
genealogical, and contain information which
must be OF considerable interest TO men,
beers of that family and allied families. The
Publishing Association OF Friends, Plain
field. Ind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22

This is light-textured story built to en-
terrain. purpose 1t fulfills very satisfac-
toriiy IL the reader is in mind for this sort
OF entertainment. The pure, fragile bit of
femininity. Fifine. girl Of the watch
charm variety engages the superficial Mt
teatton through travels and a double
romance until her marriage. The story Is
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22

interest from the fact that it is true. 1t
is a tale OF the civil war. telling Of the
presentation by the regiment to its young
commander of a pair of revolvers. of their
capture by. Confederate cavalry under Gen.
eral Joe" Wheeler and of their return
under striking circumstances twenty-five
years later. F. Tennyson Nicely, New
York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22
The blood Lilies.

w. A. Fraser writes an Indian story some
what along the lines followed by Alfred
Henry Lewis. Imaginative and full of the
color Of Indian life, sufficiently episodical.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22
Memoirs of Monsieur De BIowitz.

NJ. Theirs called De BlOwitz his "affec-
tionate historiographer.'' The name was
well applied. For amiable. racy narrative
OF history and those more intimate personal
incidents that form the background of his
tory-history behind the scenes-M. de
Blowitz Is unexcelled. These memoirs are
full or the unpublished history OF Europe
since the Franco Prussian war and OF alb
sorbingly dramatic stories that could have
come within the experience only of one who
was terms OF Intimacy with the sover-
eigns and political rulers of the continent.
For a quarter of century NJ de Blowitz
played the double bill of diplomatist and
journalist, acquiring his widest reputation
as the Paris correspondent OF the London
Times. On many occasions the words of
the noted correspondent have stirred the
whole world OF intelligence. but never, says
the writer, did he ever violate his word of
honor To keep silence but IL one calls IL
an indiscretion to respect things that have
peen SAID 10 me, journalist, by persons
who have not taken the precaution 70 de-
mand secrecy: II ii be an indiscretion to try
10 ind out what IS going and TO tell
what one knows, TO inform the public of all
that ole has discOvered-why, certainly,
then Halter myself that ] have been in
discreet. boast OF il and il il an extra
reason for my being proud. consider that
q journalist Is, first of all, the servant of
his paper and Of the public. 1 consider that
he ought TO keep nothing hidden from them.
] consider that ali he knows. all he learns.
all he sees, all he hears and that all ne
feels belongs 10 his paper, and that there
Is only one law in the world which should
prevent him from speaking, which should
close his hps-the law OF honor.
have always told things when no imperative
obligation prevented my doing so. have
always told my paper and my readers all
that 1 knew because they had right To
know IT. And i maintain that journalists
who are silent when they could speak fail
IN their duty to the paper which they are
. supposed 20 serve and in their duty 10 the
public Tor whom they supposed to be
working. This expression explains the
success OF M. de Blowitz as a correspond
cerned with the large affairs of life and
those among general readers who care for
the unique Doubleday, Page * Co., New
York.
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Tine Irwin scyen-Shooters.

General Charles +. Henderson has writ
ten a fascinating story by the above title.
which derives not the least part OF its
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Leather Chairs and Couches, SIS
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Everything marked in plain figures.
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
Courts and Capitals
of the Old World
BY THE MARQUIsE DE FoNTENoY-
Servants as Actors.

No little amusement has been created
by the proceedings of the theatrical
manager, W. T. Mcclellan, against the
Marquis of Anglesey. and especially/by
the cross-examination of the laher,
during the course of which Ii was
brought to light that members of the
very large servants hall at Anglesey
Castle were liable to be called upon to
take part in the plays and tableaux pro-
duced in the private theater which is
one of the features of the castle
Thus the housekeeper, who rejoices in
the singularly appropriate name of Mrs.
Player. seems to have played the role of
Juliet to Lord Anglesey's Romeo, and
other domestics gave similar evidence,
while the practice of the marquis to in
wife entire theatrical companies touring
in the neighborhood to spend a few
days at the castle as his guests, paying
them for their performances each even
ing while there. has contributed to give
his house parties an extremely mixed
and somewhat Bohemian flavor, so
much so indeed that the castle and its
Inequalities are in rather bad odor
with the territorial magnates of the
neighborhood.
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
The Modern IndiVidualiSm.
A Proper Understanding of "The Dec
laration" Needed.

Somebody recently quoted Glad
stones saying that the nineteenth cen
fury might be summed up in the
phrase "Unhand mew The move
ment toward individualism has GER
tainly been strong during the past
hundred years, but there is something
left yet for the twentieth century to
do. Too many Of the "come-outers"
of the latest generation fancied that,
having won their own independence
Of established traditions, it was their
duty to make other people come out,
toO; and thus they went to work in
good faith to establish a tyranny Of
opinion quite as calling as that from
which they had been delivered.
We need general understanding
Of the first principles of the Declare
ton of Independence rather badly
yet Each man has a right 10 life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
s. long as he does not interfere with
some other persons privileges in the
same line. No man has a right to
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
Modernized Islam.

Islam, at any rate the orthodox
branch thereof in Egypt, is becoming
decidedly modernized, and relieved OF
it's more fanatical features. Thus the
Sheik Mohamed Abdul. grand multi and
chief of the immense Moslem university
of Al Hazar in Cairo, where more than
ten thousand students from all parts OF
the Mohammedan world receive theolog-
zeal instruction, and are taught the
principles of Koranic law. secular as
we'll as ecclesiastical. each year, has
Just been paying a visit OF several
weeks to England, where he was re-
ceived with the utmost distinction by
the university authorities at oxford and
Cambridge also by the Archbishop of
Canterbury. as well as by the chief dig
nitaries Of the government. leaving
England highly gratifed with the well
come which he had received, while
those who had entertained him received
the Impression that he was thoroughly
alive to the necessity of intoxicating a
more enlightened conception of the doe
trines of the Prophet
at the same time We hear Of the Khe-
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
Education of a King.
Why Book by the King of Italy Was
Not Published.

In view, perhaps, of the projected visit of the
King Of Italy to Paris-now, alssi certain TO
be postponed-M Maurice Muret gives US an
count of his upbringing which should undeceive
those who think that the life Of a king of to-
day is a bed OF roses Colonel Oslo, his precep-
tor used TO make the future Victor Emmanuel
III begin work at G. taking for all nourish-
ment cold bath and coup Of bouillon II he
were late, he went, says NJ. Muret. without the
bouillon, but not without the cold bath.
This Spartan regime produced constant colds
in the head, Of which the master insisted on his
pupil taking notice. for the eminently prac-
teal. if remote, reason that if Italy were to be
invaded it would never do for the heir to the
throne 10 be found doctoring a cold in the
head. Then he was made TO learn English,
French, and German until he could speak all
three as well as his native tongue, Latin
which. to make his task lighter, Queen Mar
gherita learned along with him-and mathe-
MATES, in which he showed great capacity,
but. oddly enough no Greek
This with daily riding lesson and the prep
aration necessary for his examinations in the
different grades of the army through which he
passed, took up all his time, and left him little
leisure for the gentler arts. Yet he read some
poetry, and adrnires Dante, though not Ari-
osto, mis- sole defect, according 10 NJ. Muret,
being a lack Of imagination. After a youth 50
spent, it would be odd If he had any.
After all, however, the best education.
whether for king commoner, is travel and Of
this the then Prince Of Naples had his full
share. After his grand tour" which nova
days includes both the near and the far East,
he produced the usual globe-trotter's diary. in
which he pointedly refused to say anything
about the present state of Merv and Samarcand;
because, he said. if he described them as they
were it would be offensive 10 some Of Italy's
allies, while if he described them as they were
not it would be offensive TO his own respect for
truth. Perhaps il was for this reason that the
book was never published.-PalI Mall Gazette
The Washington times., 1903-08-29

diviah Of Egypt, who has been spending
the summer at Sorrento. driving into
Naples in order TO meet her husband al
the railroad station. her face uncovered
save by the ordinary veil, such as worn
by European and American ladies, and
with nothing in her costume to indicate
that she was a Moslem princess. The
Khedive and his consort greeted each
other at the railroad station at Naples
much in the same way as any other af-
fectionate couple, and then drove of to-
gether to the Hotel Royal des Etran-
gers.
The Khediviah Is her husbands only
wife, and was originally a slave present
ed by the Khediviah mother to her son.
1t was after she had given birth to g
couple of little girls and a boy-the lat
ter now heir apparent to his fathers
throne-that the former 'odalisque" was
raised by the Khedive to the rank Of
full-fiedged Khediviah. first held by the
consort of the late Khedive Tewfik, who
also had but one wife. Old Khedive
Ismael had no less than four full-fiedged
wives. who were known as the first.
second. third, and fourth princess. none
of them being accorded the title Of
Khediv.ah
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
What Is, Is Best.

l do not ask that life should be
4 bed % ease;
am not like the child. who wants
Each toy he sees.
And yet tbs hard. | think, sometimes,
To see and know,
When life seems full OF bitter things,
The why tits 50.
lis hard 10 watch the ones we love
Grow sick and die
To lay them in the grave and make
No moan or cry.
Yet those he loves God chasteneth,
Sc we are told;
And each in some way doth believe
The story old
That in this world what is, is best;
Although We see
A thousand ways in which we think
'Twould better be
To have what we have longed for, but
'Tis all in vain:
Each one must learn through care and grief,
Sorrow and pain,
That God some trials sends TO each
That one and all
May come 10 him for sympathy;
May heed his call.
Come. al! ye weary ones. 10 me,
For here Is rest, -
And all would fain believe
What is. Is best.
Thus. though. like others. / should lka
At peace 10 be,
l only ask that lie, in time,
Will give 10 me
4 faith so sure, love so great,
SO strong and true,
That l may look TO Him for help
In all | do.
Content 20 know, at last for me
VIII come sweet rest:
When LIES hard lesson has been learned,
What is, is best
-Estelle Lehman. in Boston Globe.
The Washington times., 1903-08-29

harbor prejudices and determinations
the result of which is the hampering
of his neighbours liberty. He cannot
Insist that because he is democratic IL
his views, his neighbor shall also be
democratic. He may personally en-
JOY the company of men far below
him IN education, or essentially diff
terent IN some other respect from
those invited to the house of his
neighbor; he has no right to insist
that his neighbor accept them as
guests.
On the other hand, the more con-
sentative neighbor, while he has per-
feet right to stay away from places
where he may meet distasteful COM
pany, must not go further than this.
He must not try to carry his social
p1ejudices into business life. He
must not try to force men out of the
business community because they are
personally obnoxious to him. In
short, he must recognize the fact that
as he has a right to the free develop
lnent of his own individuality, so has
his neighbor, and This is one of the
last and most difficult lessons for the
human race TO learn.
The phrase ''De gustibus non est
disputandum" is generally translated,
'There is no accounting for tastes; !"
it might more justly be interpreted,
'"There should be no disputing of
tastes" in other words, every man
has perfect right to his own taste,
in social, religious, political and liter
arv matters. If we are to have true
liberty we cannot have mob law; and
since it is peculiarly of the mob
that most of its individual members
think and act on lower plane, while
thus Joined, than they would when
acting independently, the chances are
that the people, as a whole, will reach
a higher plane through individuallsm
than they ever would if Obliged to
move In a solid mass.
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
Pennsylrania STATE Convention.

Chairman Hall, OF the Democratic
State committee of Pennsylvania. has
issued the formal call for the State con-
vention to meet in Harrisburg on Sep
TENDER . The meeting will not be an
important affair. as only candidates for
minor State Offices are to be named, and
IL makes little or no difference whom
the Democrats select, as they have no
possible chance OF carrying the State.
The slate already made out contem-
plates the selection of the Hon. Chaun-
cey F. Black. of York. as permanent
chairman of the convention. and the
nomination of State Senator Arthur G.
Dewalt, OF Lehigh county, for State
treasurer. and Ex-Judge Calvin Rey-
burn. Of Armstrong county, and Repre-
sentative Robert S. zimmerman, OF
Montour county, for superior court
judges.
After passing few resolutions con-
demning Governor Pennypacker. his
libel law, and the entire State Republic
can administration. the convention will
adjourn, and when election day comes
the ticket will. OF course, be overwhelm-
ingly defeated. Really, there isn't
much lin it, for the Pennsylvania DEM
ocrats-
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
Commercial Terms.

What is meant by domestic exchange"
Buying discount . selling premium G. r.
Exchange is the process OF settling
accounts or debts between parties at a
distance without sending money, by ex-
change drafts or bills of exchange.
A in X owes B in Y; C in Y owes
D in A like sum; B in Y draws
bill of exchange on A; this C buys and
sends 10 D. who collects it from A
Domestic exchange is exchange available
l. he United States, as against foreign
6&rh2nge, which is available between the
UT,itei States and a foreign country.
II huying exchange it may happen that
re supply is greater than the demand /;
'hIs the seller, desirnJo. of getting his
n oney, would sell at 1Ocount. If the
supply did not eq9as 80 demand. the
seller could get more IES3 the face value
of the draft. selling at premium.
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
Plays for Amusement.

The marquis likewise admitted while
on the witness stand that he was mot
an actor" explaining: You know, 1
only act for my amusement"
While many people are disposed to re-
gard this pronounced fondness of the
marquis for matters theatrical as ex-
cencricity bordering on insanity, it is
only fair to him to remember that he
was entirely brought up amidst theatre
cal environments, the premature death
Of his mother, together with the conduct
Of his father, having rendered it nee
essary that he should be intrusted 10
the guardianship of his mothers sis
ter, who is married to Cocuelin Cadet,
the famous French Partisan actor. who
was a second father to him. undoubted-
ly influencing the bent Of his character.
The marquis is separated but not di-
vorced from his wife, who is likewist his
first cousin, their legal differences in
the divorce court-which, to the disap-
pointment of the curious were heard in
camera-being characterized by the pre-
siding judge. Sir Francis Jenne, as the
most extraordinary and unique that had
ever come before him during the course
of his long career on the bench The
marchioness lives the greater portion
of the year with her mother, widow of
the late Marquis of Hastings. and sep
arated from her present husband, Sir
George Chetwynd formerly OF the jock
ey Club.
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
ClaDtrap Sentiment.
Inspector Snowden Ashford and the
Local Architects.

Building Inspector Snowden Ash
ford thinks that the employment of
any architect, not resident of Wash
1ngton, in the construction of school
buildings for this city, is unwise. He
bases his objections ON the ground of
personal interest" and the "delav in
cidental to dealings with an outside
architect"
Here is the Philistine in full cry!
What is the important point to cor
slder-the interests of the communl-
ty. or the interests of local architects ?
Should the city be compelled to ae
cept an inferior building in order to
keep an incompetent architect from
starving, or should it acquire a build
ing which not only meets every re-
quirement of a modern, up-to-date
school house, but which will at the
same time reflect credit upon the IN
telllgence, taste, and culture of the
community, by going, if necessary,
outside the District for an architect9
To this question, in our opinion, there
can be but one answer.
Washington can boast of architects
Of the first rank. They know a great
deal, but they themselves would be the
last to assert that they know it all.
They would be the last, also-thc
really competent ones, at any rate
to shut out competition from the out
side. On the contrary, they invite it.
And, we may add, they don't fear it.
The city, we repeat, has no interest
II keeping poor architects alive. 1t
has an interest-a very keen one-in
securing the best plans possible for
Its school buildings. Inspector Ash
ford should pocket his elaptrap SEN
timent and put his thinking cap on.
That IS, if he can.
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
A Royal Promoter.

King Leopold, with the object of In
has large real estate interests, which
were badly damaged by the new law
putting an end to the gambling that
formerly attracted such large crowds to
the place, Is now according to polo a
degree of favor and recognition which
1t enjoys from no other sovereign He
has laid out a fine polo ground on some
Of his land at ostend. has originated the
foundation of a polo club, under the
Craftsmanship OF the Comte de Merode
with himself as honorary president, and
has even ordered a special polo ground
to be laid out for the use OF the members
OF the club. when in Brussels. in the gar
den OF his suburban palace there at
Laeken
He also caused a number of we'll
known polo players 10 be invited to Ost-
end the other day from London and
Paris. several Americans being among
the number, under the pretext of con-
suIting them about the new Belgian polo
club. and gave special luncheon and
reception In their honor at Ostend. Mrs.
Robert Goelet, OF New York, occupying
the seat on his right hand at the table.
I may add that the King has likewise
laid out and maintains at his own ex-
pense an eighteen-hole golf course near
the sea at Ostend-
The Washington times., 1903-08-29
Candidates for Governor.

The struggle for the nomination for
governor on the Democratic ticket IN
Missouri is becoming heated. and IL is
causing much dissension. Representa-
tive W. d. Vandiver, of the Fourteenth
District, who has an enviable record liz
the Fifty-hfth, Fifty-sixth, and Fifty
seventh Congresses, was a prominent
candidate until he learned that States
Attorney Folk, who put so many OF the
ST. Louis boodlers in jail. had decided
10 try to get the nomination Then he
retired. remarking that he had no desire
to get in the way of a cyclone. The
other prominent candidates. however. re-
fused to retire, and as there are seven
OF them, exciting times are expected.
The Republican who is likely to face
whoever the Democrats nominate Is John
H. Boutwell,, of Sedalia- He is regarded
as a strong and clean man He has been
a member OF the State Legislature sew
eraI sessions and, like Folk. did much
toward exposing the boodlers.