THE' PITTSBURG ' DISPATCH, ' STJNDAX "JANUARY IT. ' I89a
IHECTJff CLUBS,
Island Home of an Organiza
tion Which Commands
3 Billion Dollars.
STOCKED WH ALL GAME.
-I Clubhouse of Oriental Luxury and
Many Rich Cottages.
JUST OFF THE VST OFGEOEGLA.
JL Wilderness Under the Southern Enn'
Changed to a Paradise.
TUSH OF HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS
rWBITTEN rOR THE DISrATCH.1
ATELVthere
was published
in these col
umns a sketch
of the gam
preserve of
the Cheat
M osnt a i n
Bportmen's
Association in
"West Virgin
ia, That is al
most exclu
sively a Pitts
burg enter
prise. The
organization
has the larg-
fewS hapsthe best
jspS'i i-w . tract of land
w- sr devoted ex
clusively io hunting and fishing in the
United States. The richest club in the
United States, probably, is the Jekyl Island
Club, of which H. K. Porter, of Pittsburg,
among others, is a stockholder. The coniol-
VIEW OP THB
idated wealth of its members aggregates
51,000,000,000.
A few years ago the attention of two or
three gentlemen of means and leisure was
called to the advantages of Jekyl an island
betweed St Simons and Cumberland on the
Georgia coast An isolated position and
fecial climate rendered it particularly suit
able for the establishment of a country club
and game preserve. This unknown spot was
then covered with a dense forest of pine and
a thick undergrowth of palmettoes. Birds of
brilliant plumage mingled their liquid notes
with the grant of the wild hog; while the
swamps and low savannas were literally
overrun with deer and wild cattle.
Krplcle With Historic Reminiscences,
r In historic interest thisfavored spot rivals
even Frederica, a town across the bay,
where General Oglethorpe built his first
stronghold against the Spaniards. The
island, which was named in honor of Sir
Joseph Jekyl, a distinguished jurist in the
time of George IIL, has been the scene of
many stirring events during the early
ttruggles between the Spaniards and En
glish. In 173S General Oglethorpe induced
his friend and junior in command, Major
Borton to locate permanently there. Ilye.
barley and other grains were then planted
and an orange trove laid out This flour
ished until the great freeze 100 years later.
A brewery, said to be the first on this conti-
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nent, was also erected, and a superior qual
ity of beer and ale furnished to the troops
jfcnd adjacent colonists.
) Toward the north end of the island the
ins of an old tabby house erected by Ogle
thorpe still remain, as well as those of an
old family mansion of ante-bellum days.
Under the early regime Jekyl became fa
mous for the quality of its crops, and when
in 1808 it came into the possession of the
Du Bignons, a distinguished French family,
it was the most envied spot on the coast
Admiral Du Bignon had been an owner of
vast estates on the Island of Martinique,
but when .Napoleon was exiled to Elba he
told out everything and moved his 1,200
Blaves to Jekyl.
Held for a Time by Freed Slaves.
"When the first gun was sounded in 1861
this retreat, though far from the noise and
Co mult of war, was fortified and held by the
Confederates. They were soon dislodged,
however, by the Union forces, who held it
until the close cf the war. During these
davs the island became . once more a vast
wildernes. For many years after the ces
sation of hostilities the negro slaves occu
pied Jekyl, believing it to be their property
jby virtue of emancipation. It was then
What fair Jekyl experienced a reign of
'terror. - -
Fortunately, however, Mr. John Du Ble-
non, a direct descendant of the old admiral,
reclaimed his inheritance and awoke the
negroes from their halcy onic dream of bliss.
,He immediately began the erection of com
fortable dwellings and restocked the island
with cattle. Innumerable droves of wild
hogs, rivaling in size even those of the
famous Black Forest, wandered over the
island, and many horses were caught that
had never known halter or bridle. Mr. Da
Bignon's task was not an easy one, but to
such a degree of perfection did he brine
Jekyl that it soon became one of the most
valuable properties on the coast
The Purchase or the Island.
It was at this juncture that Major N. a
Finney, a brother-in-law of Mr. Du Bignon,
and a prominent Union Clubman.lconceived
the idea of establishing a Southern Tuxedo.
A number of his friends became interested,
and when they learned the natural advant
ages of Jekyl as a winter resort and game
preserve a visiting committee was dis
patched to examine the site. Their report
was unanimously a favorable one, and the
necessary number of names was quickly
subscribed, negotiations then began for
the purchase of the island, which passed
out of the hands of Mr. Du Bignon for
5125,000.
A charter was obtained unJer the laws of
the State of Georgia. Some of the objects
and purposes of the club are clearly set
forth in the following extracts from its
charter: "To raise live stock, birds, game,
fish and shell fish, and to hunt, fish and
yacht on and in the vicinity of Jekyl
Island, in the county of Glynn, State of
Georgia, and in the waters adjacent thereto.
To maintain a race course on said Jekyl
Island, etc., eta" The first President of
the club was General Lloyd Aspinwall, of
New York. Upon his death Judge Henry
E. Howland, of the New York Supreme
Court, was elected.
The Membership and Finances.
The number of shares in the Jekyl Island
Club is limited to 100 at a par value ot ?C00
each, and the number of members is also
limited to 100, though one member may
subscribe for, hold and acquire any number
of shares. The annual dues are $100 on each
share, and the entrance fee is also S100. A
Jew davs azo one of these 5600 shares was
sold for J4.V00.
Any person 21 years and upward is eligi
ble for membership upon the acquisition of
one share of the capital stock, provided he
has been duly elected under the rules.
Fifty lots of ten acres each have been sur
veyed and laid aside for the private use of
members desiring to erect cottages, stables,
kennels and other improvements. In order
to be entitled to one of these lots the mem
ber must own at least two shares ot the cap
ital stock. Under this privilege many
members have erected cottages worth from
irttli.
oftrtmiilK'iuJilpi
CLUB HOUSE.
516,000 to 540,000. H. E. Howland, ofNew
York, is now President
Vf holecale Game Slaughter Itnled Oat.
That the directors of the Jekyl Island
Club are determined to restrict the slaugh
ter of game is shown by the following rules
and regulations for .the government of the
game department for this season:
The open season for the killing of quail
shall begin November 1 and close March IS;
pheasants, trom November 1 to March 15:
deer, fi om November 1 to February IB; wild
turkeys, from November 1 to April 1: rab
bits, from Novemtber 1 to April L Ducks
and Cher migratory Towl may bo killed at
nil times; also wild hops, minks, possum,
coons and bears The killing of singing,
plnmr.ee and cardinal birds, alo squirrels.
is prohibited. Xo boys under 10 shall be al
lowed to carry or shoot firearms, except at
target practice at the bntts, or clny pigeon
shooting, under the supervision of an officer
or member of the club.
During the season of 1S30-"91 a limit or 60
quail per week, also 13 cock pheasants for
the scaon, shall be placed on each share.
The penalty for shooting hen pheasants
shall be $5 Tor each bird. Each share snail
ba entitled once only during a season to
delegate to one guoat for ono week at a
time, without renewal to same person by
himself or any other member, full power to
s'loot in his stead; but if pertonall present
each member shall be entitled to invite not
j mora than two guests to shoot with him,
pi uv lueu nut iu imai Ecurooi a ii.emuer
and h-s cne-ts shall not exceed the score to
I which his share or nharea may be entitled;
out no memoer nau nave tne ngnt to trans
fer his shoGtirg to another member.
Deer sLall onlv bo still hunted with
out dogs. Each share shall be allowed to
kill three bucks (but no docs), and five wild
turkeys during the season. At least one
half or the came shot by guests and mem
bers occupying quarters at the club house
shall be turned over to the club, to be served
for tne use or all. The gun bouse will re
main closed on Sundays, and all shooting is
strictly prohibited on that day.
The duties of the head gamekeeper shall
be to take charge of the breeding, nreserva
tlon and care or game. He shall keep a diary,
in which he shall enter dally all matters
pertaining to his department; also a (tame
book, in which ho shall -enter everything
killed by each member or visitor.
Phensants Successfully Bred.
The experiment of breeding English
pheasants and California quail has given
most satisfactory results to tlio game com
mittee of the Jekyl Island Club. When
they first took possession of the island,
B 000 native quail, ICO pheasants and a few
Caliiornia quail were imported. The native
birds were turned loose, while the English
specimens were bred by the gamekeeper.
At the end of the first season more than
1,000 young pheasants were hatched. And it
lias s'lnce been found that theyaro breeding
rapidly in the wild state, something which
has always been deemed Impossible by the
English gamekeepers.
W. Nephew Eiitq, Je.
A Methodist church has been closed in
Vienna because one of the articles of its be
lief denounces masses as "blasphemous fa
bles and dangerous deceits."
DUTY OF THE SELLER.
Must He Tell the Purchaser Truth
Which Would Spoil the Sale?
TWO BUSINESS MEN'S OPINIONS.
The Employe Who Is. Required to Do Wh&t
fie Thinks Unchristian.
LAST Of MB. HODGES' TRADE SESSIONS
twain ja ros the dispatch, i
Concluding Paper.
One business man who savs that "no. one'
will deny that there exist unprincipled men
in all occupations," but who feels "sorry
for anyone who claims it for a necessity,"
writes as follows; "The honest merchant
marked his prices in plain figures, and all,
purchasers fared alike. This plan was so
fast destroying the trade of the unscrupu
lous dealers that they had to adopt it, and
to-day the majority of the retail dealers
have this system; we may say from policy
rather than from principle; but the result is
that the innocent nurchaser does not pay
the price of a good article for a poor one."
My correspondent mentions only the
retail trade. I understand that it is more
and more getting to be the custom irf all
trade. A fixed and honest figure for every
class of goods, with exactly so much dis
count for such-and-such an amount of pur
chase, and such-and-such a length of time,
with a possible variation according to the
rating of the customer's credit at the com
mercial agencies, the whole matter fairly
understood and lived up to, would vastly
increase the proportion of Christian dealing
in the business world.
The Growtb of Public Opinion.
The passing of such a law as the inter
State oommerce act, with Us brand of legal
criminality upon unchristian practices
heretofore countenanced by professing
Christians, shows the need of business
reformation, and indicates the growth of
public opinion in a Christian direction.
The formation of unions of employes, adopt
ing such a code of ethics as the one from
which I quoted last Sunday, proves a
recognition on the part of business men of
unchristian elements in business which
even the inter-State commerce law has pot
remedied, and evinces a determination with
out recourse to law, to do away with theso
evils in their own transaction of their own
business.
Several things ought, I think, to be re
membered in estimating the general moral
ity of business life. One is that there are
dishonest men In business as there are in
every debarment of human existence. And
it is the dishonest men who get their names
into the newspapers. The man who is
struck by the cable car attracts the atten
tion of the whole neighborhood. Thousands
of other people go by unnoticed. There is
the same proportion between the men who
deliberately lie and steal and the vast
company of .honest Christians who would
sooner cut off their right hand.
Many mistakes of Judgment.
Another matter which has been brought to
my observation is the great difficulty of al
ways distinguishing the right from the wrong.
Questions of casuistry come up in every
business office every day. They have to be
settled immediately. Some sort of rough
and approximate judgment must at once be
rendered. Sometimes that judgment is
against equity and Christianity. But I be
lieve that in more than nine cases out of
ten the man who is in a respectable busi
ness acts as he honestly thinks just and
right
Two of my correspondents, for example,
Sropose almost the same case, and decide it
iiferently. The case is the amount of in
formation which the seller ought to give
the bnyer in a bargain. One writer who is
one of the wealthiest and best-known citi
zens of Pittsburg, mentions that "we can
withhold truth on proper occasions without
falsifying. A reasonable construction of
the principle," he says, "when applied to
business transactions, requires us to regard
those with whom we deal as our equals, as
having equal ability and better opportunity
of knotnn? what best suits themselves. We
are tot therefore bound to become their
guardians, or to advise them as to what we
consider their best interest in the transac
tion! The Seller's Doty to Himself;
"Duty to ourselves dispenses with this
where it would conflict with our own inter
ests. The healthy application of the prin
ciple requires no such transcendental
morality even where, in our own opinion,
it would be better for our customer not to
make the deal. "We would often be mis
taken; he might be shrewder or know more
than we, and society prospers better to let
each attend to his own business and judge
what is to his own interests. At the same
time," adds my correspondent, "we are
not allowed to hold back the truth in a
manner calculated to mislead or deceive.
The nurchaser. under such circumstances.
' deals at arm's length with the seller, and
cannot complain alterwara tnat ne was
cheated in case the transaction- does not
turn out as he expected." '
On the other hand, this is the way in
which that bargain appears from the point
of view by the man who lost in it "The
object of business," says this correspondent,
"is to gain, and if the profit and loss show
balance on the wrong side, the business
must be abandoned as a loss or sold to some
one else. Now it may be doubtful morality
to sell to another "what you won't any
longer own, because you can't make it pay
and perhaps the buyer can. Jt is not lov
ing him as yourself. But in bnsiness that
is none of your business. He looks out for
himself the law presumes he does and the
law provides a remedy through its courts
only when the buyer happens to have been
a lunatic or other such incapable person, or
when the transaction was effected under
clear misrepresentation. The shrewder
man trains bv his weakness. The sensation
is not pleasant when you realize this at your
own cost, and you never feel quite the same
towards that man afterwards."
The Ethics or the Csse.
How, there are the two sides to that bar
gain. And there are the differing views of
two honest men as to the Christianity of
that transaction. I confess that my sym
pathies in this matter are with the second
.writer. . The first position lends an easy op
portunity to the heresy of Cain. "Am I
my brother's keeper?" is not a question to
which, when put directly, anv ot us would
like to answer J'no." I doubt the Chris
tianity of treating the buyer as an equal I
cannot imagine the Lord Jesus as a carpen
ter at Nazareth treating his customers
barely as equals, and throwing all the blame
of a bad bargain on their shoulders. I am
sure that he would treat men not as equals
(that is the language of contention), but as
brothers. And I know'of more instances
than I like to think of where men treated as
equals by Christian men, shrewder than
they were, have come out of their losing
bargains, having just the feeling of which
the second wrfter speaks, and having it not
only against the man who took their money
in that perfectly legal way, but against the
whole Christian religion which he repre
sents. Hard bargains at arm's length have
kept hundreds of men out of the Church of
Christ
I have spoken of the dishonest minority
who have to be remembered in estimating
the morality of business life. I have
spoken, also, of the difficulty which even
the honest man finds in his endeavor to give
a right solution to his. daily problems in
ethics.
Trials of the Honest Employe.
I desire now to express my sympathy
with the man in the subordinate position
who finds his conscience quicker than his
employer's I mean the man who is sent
out to lie, or the man who is instructed to
attach the wrong labels, or to misrepresent
values. I have been told by some men who
are eminent in business life that in their
experience such men do not exist It has
been represented to me; and the argument
is certainly a persuasive one, that if a man
were to instruct his clerks to lie to his cus
tomers, or to take money out of their pock
ets, he would be simply giving them les
sons in dishonesty, and would have no rea
son to be disappointed If they applied these
lessons to his own disadvantage. Evidently,
if a man will lie to a customer, he will just
as easily lie to his employer.
The business man who told me that busi
ness men are missionaries of absolute right
eousness had in view the scrupulous honesty
which a good business exacts from all who
are concerned in it And I agree with him
that association with some of tne
upright, honorable, immaculately just
and Christian business men or tnis
city would be in itself an educa
tion in ethics, and a training in all that is
best in religion, that could not be eaualed
in any parish church in Christendom, in
the concerns with which these men are asso
ciated there is no constraint put on any
man's conscience.
Bread Sometimes Depends on It,
Nevertheless, I know it to be a fact that
in reputable industries in this city men are
set tasks that cannot be done with the hon
est truth for a witness. And I say that I
am sorry for the men who are given these
tasks to do. Their daily bread depends upon
their obedience. "When they think of pro
testing they remember their families at
home. And very often the matter is only
one of these questions of casuistry, these
fine distinctions between the transcendental
and the practical in eth'cs, which the man
at the head has simply happened to decide
in a way which does not meet the under
man's approval. His conscience is quicker
than his chiefs. The employer honestly
thinks, perhaps, that this "questionable
thing is ntrht.
Now, what shall the man do? A good
many times he puts aside his scruples, per
suades himself that his employer must bear
the blame, thinks, perhaps, that he has a
foolish and misleading conscience and goes
and writes a lie. But, according to the tes
timony of the best men in Pittsburg, the
great majority of business men want to do
that which is unquestionably right They
are all agreed that it is better to be honest
than to be shrewd. They maintain with en
tire unanimity that such a reputation is the
best capital that a man can put into his busi
ness. The Cure for a' Troubled Conscience.
It seems, then, that the best advice that
can be given to any clerk, or to any employe
whatsoever, when he is told to do what is
against his conscience, is frankljr to say so.
He is to take it for granted that his employ
era desire to do the very most Christian
thing they can. To bring his conscientious
scruples to their notice is to pay them the
highest tribute of respect, and also to com
mend himself in the surest way to their es
teem. If, however, this does not prove in
actual experience to work, the meaning is
that the young man has the misfortune to
serve dishonest men. And that means that
he is engaged in a business that is bound,
sooner or Fater,to come to a disgraceful fail
ure. The law of certain retribution for dis
honestyis just as sure as the law of gravita
tion. The sooner he gets out of that falling
building the better.
But if he has to face starvation! If he
has a choice to make between a lie and a
loaf of bread, if he has a choice to make be
tween pain of body and pain of soul, he
must make it No one need expect to find
it altogether easy to be a Christian In the
past men have often found it necessary to
choose between being Christians and being
put to a painful death. And they have
made their choice. Many a man has died
rather than lie. All honor, now and for
ever, to the noble army of martyrs. Still
that army marches on. And day by day,
good men and brave men, of whom the
world is not worthy, are found willing to
enlist in the great fight of the hosts of God
against the armies of the devil, and to en
list for the whole war, come what may.
Unnesty and Success Go Toeether.
And so the answer to the second question
of my letter, must a man. in order to be
successful, lie or steal? is "No," and "No"
a thousand times repeated. The empbatio
testimony of business men who have suc
ceeded is that genuine honesty and genuine
success are married together, and cannot be
divorced either in this world or tne next.
As for the third question of my letter,
touching the duty of the preacher, I have
tried to follow the good advice of my corre
spondents ia the writing of this sermon;
Our Lord, being asked to settle a disnute
about a questionable transaction, declined.
Into the addition ,nd subtraction of the
dollars and cents of that matter, he refused
to enter. He contented himself with laying
down a deep and eternal principle, which,
applied, would settle that and all other like
questions. "Take heed," he said, "and be
ware of cpvetousness, for a man's life con
sisteth not in the abundance of the things
which he possessetb."
How that meets this whole difficulty, and
settles it not by any outside influence, not
by law, not by arbitration, but by a chance
in the man's own heart I ' The surest way to
get all business conducted on Christian
principles is to get all the business men
converted to Christianity.
Be loyal to Christ with all yonr heart.
Set His example before you as the unfailing
pattern of your daily life. Meet the daily
problems of your business as you honestly
think He Himself would meet them, if He
sat in your place at your office desk. Try
to live in Pittsburg as He lived in Caper
naum, true as He was, honest as He was,
loving God as He did and loving all your
brother men with that genuine love "that
you would like to havev Christ find in yonr
heart, and you will conduct your business
yes, and succeed in it to the uttermost on
Christian principles.
Geoege Hodges, i
QIXT DECOBATED GLABi
A Bosa Bowl In a Style That Is Just Com
ing In and Is Pretty.
CTTBITTEIT rOB TITE DISFATCB.J
The new glass that one finds in all the
shops in such exquisitely artistio shapes
has a gilt decoration, more or less elabo
rate, according to the size and quality of
the piece. This new ware is really a re
vival of a decoration that has its periods of
being fashionable just as laces do, and
silk fabrics and bonnets and dozens of
A Bote Bowl
other things. And now the gilt pattern is
seen everywhere on glass.. It is on wine
sets and vases and scent bottles and finger
bowls; it is more effective than the etched
glass and less expensive than the cut glass.
It forms therefore a convenient compro
mise between the two. The illustration
shows a Tose bowl in the new decoration,
and in an unusually graceful pattern. In
stead of being round the bowl is oblong,
and the upper part, which has a band and
pattern in arabesque of gilt. Is fluted.
Electricity In Calico Printing.
An opportunity, which It Is to be hoped
will be seized by American electrical In
ventors, Is afforded by the offer of La Soclete
Indnstrielle deMulhousaof aprlzo for the
application, In any form, of electricity to
calico printing. All applications for the
awards should bo sent in on, or before Feb
ruary iB, 1899. - " "
-"Triir
ART GEMS OF JAPAN.
Sir-Edwin Arnold's Bevels in a Won
derland From the Orient
INTENDED FOE THE CZAREWITOH.
The Wood-Carving Has No Duplicate In the
World's History.
AIT raFOBTUIf ATE HEGLECT OP WOMEIT
WBITTX2T ros THE DISPATCH.
HOUGH Sir Edwin
Arnold has come out
of Japan to let the
light of Asia shine
through our American
darkness, his interest
in all things Japauese
is keen and lively. A
good part of his few
spare minutes in New
Tork have been spent
in a room, looking out
upon Fifth avenue,
that is crammed and
crowded with the
choicest specimens of
Japanese art ever yet
brought away from the land of the chrysan
themum. No reasonable human creature
could well quarrel with his taste. Beyond
question it is a mightily fascinating spot
fairyland dashed with the Arabian Nights
and smelling to heaven of incense, of sandal
wood and attar of roses.
Things happen in this world in extremely
odd sequence. America would never have
seen these marvels had not a Japanese
fanatic attacked the Czarewitch and turned
him back before reaching Yokohama, where
the flower and glory of Japanese, art, both
ancient and modern, had been brought to
gether to win his royal approval. If he had
been left to keep the even tenor of his way
there would certainly have been new splen
dors in the palace of the White Czar.
Nothing More Beautiful From Japan.
For here are bronzes, brocades, temple
tapestries, carven ivories, gold and silver
lacquer, Cloisonne, Satsuma, miraculous
crystals, more miraculous inlaying and en
amels. "When Sir Edwin said warmly,
"Nothing more beautiful ever came out of
Japan," none with eyes to see could rea
sonably gainsay him.
Asked to say what in his opinion was the
distinguishing characteristic of Japanese
art. Sir Edwin replied, glancing all about
him:
"Only a land peopled by artists conld
have sent out this. There everybody, high
or low, has some trace ' of that instinctive
comprehension1 of perfect work which
makes its possessor feel at first sight su
preme artistio excellence of any sort As
far as the East is from the "West, so far are
Japanese canons and schools of art from
those which we follow. But nothing is
ugly or commonplace in the humblest
Japanese home. From rice tub to" hairpin
all is beautiful and becoming. What else
can you expect of a people whose national
passion is finish in manipulation and nat
ural besuty? Do you know that the Gov
ernment maintains seats along the highways
so placed as to command any especially fine
prospect, and that in time of the 'cherry
viewing' the great spring holiday, tho by
roads are studded with official notices of
where you may see the loveliest prospects
or finest clumps of plum or cherry blos
soms? In the same spirit, the peasant
whose wife sets a flowering plant upon the
Tansu nourishes his eye with its beauty
even more than he would nourish his body
with fish and rice.
' Patient Hands and Trained Eyes.
"This artistio genius runs through all
their craft Their commonest domestic
joinery ha3 the same Jewelers' work com
pleteness as this gold . lacquer cabinet
modelled after the shrine of Iyemitsu, one
of the most famous in Japan. To their
patient hand, their trained eye, substance
matters nothing. All the thousand parts of
it were shaped first from wood, fitted one to
another as nature fits petal to flower, every
joint made smooth and fast, covered then
with fine clay, coat on coat, each one rubbed
down as smooth as paper, then lacquered
many times with rubbings between, dusted
thick with gold, lacquered ten times more
with the finest transparent gum and again
rubbed down to a surface of glass. Besides
all that, see the ivory carvings, the different
lacquers, dark and light, that give depth
and dignity to frieze and base. A village
might have been builded with less time and
effort If it was a Japanese village, though,
you would see all through it the same un
utilltarian love of beauty for beauty's own
sake, the same perfect finish to all and every
part.
"To me the most wonderful of all things
about their art is its dual quality. In much
of their work the microscope can find no
flaw. Instead it brings to sight invisible
beauties. Yet if they so will the impress
ionist school is as nothing beside them. One
sweep of the brush, one turn of the dex
trous wrist and you see 20 leagues of blue
distance or a bird's wing in the act of beating.
Where the National Snpremacy I-Ie.
"Therein, more particularly, lies the
triumph of the Japanese designer. He
reigns supreme and unapproachable in a
realm of flowers, leaves, birds and general
ized creatures, upon which his fancy may
work its will. What surprises me is his
manner of dealing with the human figure,
especially the female one. He lacks neither
power nor observation. Anybody must
concede thus much after one look at the
wrestlers over there in the corner. There
is life; strength, hate in every line. In
stinctively yon catch your breath at sight
of them, listening for their grasps as they
tng and strain, yet they are mere hollow
figures carved out of wood and colored to
the life. Indeed, carving, especially wood
carving, seems to me the field of Japanese
supremacy. Certainly nothing known to
me in Europe from Grinling Gibbons' mas
terpieces to the best things in our day
comes anywhere near the ashievements of
superior Japanese workmen.
"Yet no Japanese artist, be he painter or
carver, can make a female figure even half
expressive of the grace and beauty that
daily pass before him. Maybe it is because
Japanese beauty is delicate and little
varied, rather than striking. More proba
bly, though, it is,- I think, because of
woman's status, that of a traditional infe
rior, albeit she is, if fairly judged, perhaps
naturally the most modest, the most gentle,
the best mannered and most self-respecting
woman in the whole world. While nobody
is ever brutal to her, she is systematically
set aside, as a thing of no moment
Can't Produce a Woman's Pace.
"Possibly that is why, graceful and fairy
like as she is in her swathings of soft crape,
she has never inspired a Japanese artist to
faithfully represent her charms. This group
of ivory carvings sufficiently demonstrates
the failure. You find in them poise and
pose, a faithful, rendering of the least fold,
the texture even, of kimono and obi, which,
worn as a Japanese girl con wear them, are
the most artistic garments in the world, but
above them doll faces without character or
expression. Contrast with their vacuous
lines the life and spirit of the dog she holds
in leash, the exquisite efflorescence of
the flower ball she is bearing to the temple,
and sav if the carver was not strangely in
sensible to his glorious opportunities.
"Contrast, too, these rats gnawing and
rollicking through a vard-long radish. Each
is as individual in character, position and
action as though he had sat for his portrait.
Wherever you find him It is the some. The
emblem of plenty, he is the favorite motif
alike for the carver and the worker in
metal. So, too, is the group of three
baboons to the Japanese mind the, concrete
expression of that silence which is golden.;
'.si-
Whatever the figure, whether human or
bird or beast, the craftsman goes over it
with incredible patience, with instructive
skill, with the nicest observation of nature,
and by use of file and graver reproduces ex
actly the texture of skin or hair or feather
to be indicated.
The Skill of the Carvers.
"To see the students of the art school at
Sractice carving is among the world's won
ers. Sitting flat on earth with a bit of fir
wood before them, their hard palm for mal-
iei, using gouge and graver, tney Dring oui
delicious pictures in low reliet Now it is
feathery sprays of young bamboo, now
flights of wild fowl over lakes and rice
fields; now cherry or plum gardens, all
wreathed in bloom; or Fuji San is seen
afloat in a sea of cloud. The wood seems to
grow plastio at their touch, yet all this if
merely college exercise, repeated most days
of the year. ,
"It is such training continued through
centuries that makes possible most things
nere on view. That tall bronze, for example,
with its wealth of scaly, many spined
dragons, or the golden bronze censerwith
silver dove a-perch on the lidt Five and
30 years back it swung dally on the limb of
a big, crooked pine that overhung the Sho
gun's temple. The Shogun is a memory
now. So, too, are many of the Baimios,
who used to feast from sets such as this of
six and thirty gold lacquered dishes. To
the same old Daimios belonged those big,
round incense pots, whence came day and
nightly clouds ot sweet smoke to lap "their
pious souls in Elysium. In those days, too,
those precious temple tapestries hung high
on the walls.
The Former Japanese Gentleman.
"Every Japanese gentleman rode a saddle
very near as weighty as himself, and carried
pipe, pouch; inkhorn and medicine case
Bwung to his girdle by cord or chain with
an ivory netsuke togglewise at its other
end. He carried also a sword, a merciless
keen blade, two handled, with no guard,
and a Bcabbard of bronze or ivory, upon
which a poem or legend was pictorially
carved. His harikari knife was less than
half the sword leneth. but as hichly orna
mented and even more carefully guarded.
' T?n wn. ?f rrl !. lost Aoni-f nf r.ntl.TnnTl
if fate or the Mikado frowned?"
"All this the author of the "Japonica"
doubtless knew betterthanany other Anglo
Saxon. That he said nothing of it was due
perhaps to his wrapt and wondering look at
a tall jar in cloisonne work, where pink
plum blossoms straggled in heavenly fash
ion over a ground often derest gray. Step
ping back a pace and shading his eyes with
one hand he said slowly:
" 'Never, I think, did human hands create
such quiet but satisfying beauty. It is the
finesse of toil which produces these broadly
harmonious results. What a feast of color
from surfaces polished like a lily leaf I OH
things are not best in cloisonne. Sixty
years ago its tints were dull and leaden.
Now with the gold stone ground, jewels are
not more splendid, the colors of the dewy
dawn no more tenderly translucent'
Marvels In Copper Beating.
"Each of these magnificent pieces is a
creation. To realize it fully you must see
the artist at work. First the sheet copper is
beaten to shape, next he traces in the pat
tern, leaf flower, bird or landscape, then it
goes to the cunning artificer, who spends
weeks, may be months or years, in fixing
over each line a thread of fine gold wire,
bent exactly to its curve. Enamelling comes
next, figure and ground are filled, fired and
rubbed down five times before it reaches the
polisher, from whom it passes on to the
show room.
"Cjoisonne, like most Japanese work. Is
a thing of infinite pains and patience,
though certainly 'the end crowns the work.
Namikawa, of Tokio, is a name that should
live. Of course to feel its value entirely
one must know his Japan more than super
ficially. It is much the same with pottery.
Old Satsuma, rare and precious to any col
lection, is trebly so to him who has slept,
eaten, dreamed in the shadow of Fuji San.
Much of the later Satsuma is superlatively
excellent, though lacking somewhat of the
sharp, clear outline and angles of the best
old ware. In Awata and other marks the
modern is preferable to all but the very
choicest old, though a good piece of any
age will not disgrace a cabinet
Embroidery Is a High Art
"Embroidery in Japan is not an accom-.
plishment It rises to the ranic ot serious
art, which, like all the rest, is in the hands
of men. Sometimes a dozen work for vears
upon a single screen. I saw one in Yoko
hama in which there was used above JG,000
worth of silk, gold, silver and pearls.
With us, very costly things are sometimes
the merest rubbish, artistically considered.
It is not the case with this needle painting,
which had rise perhaps in religion and has
come to be somewhat of a religion in itself."
Then the "Light of Asia" wandered back
for a last contemplation of his beloved
wrestlers, and did homage to the seven gods
of Japan in old crackle, and to the 16
forms of Buddha spread over a delicious
ivory screen. Beyond it the eye lost itself
in the rich hues shed by intricate traceries
of gorgeous brocades, of more gorgeous
kakemonos and caught the pellucid gleam
of carven crystal among the bronze and gold
lacquer. A little way off a bit of enamel
showed white and gray doves, life size,
against the sky of spring. Another had a
gold fish and sea wrack afloat in a clear
blue sea.
Els Opinion of Japanese Art.
Tall jars, taller bronzes, filled all the
floor space left vacant by the glass cases
fall of carvings, bits of old bine and older
precious lacquers. There was a small ar
mory of old inlaid matchlocks, pistols long
as your arm, queer clocks, prayer mills,
prayer gongs, bits of clouded Chinese porce
lain ana real oiq ivory craccie, wiin Doxes
of every sort ever shaped since Pandora was
sent down from Olympus to plague hapless
man.
Saturated with Oriental magnificence, the
interviewer tiptoed np to the Light to ask,
"Sir Edwin, which do you feel most deeply,
the art of Greece or that of Japan?"
With a bow the Light answered, "There
is one glory of the sun and another glory of
the moon."
Notwithstanding, the interviewer is still
in the dark. S. L. T.
TRIMMINGS WITHOUT HATS.
A NewBrnnch of the Milliners' Trade That
Women Should Welcome.
rWBITTElf VOB THE DISPATCH. 1
Women have a great many ways of "poss
ing" the impossible, but one of the things
that is de
nied to most
of them is
to make a
home - trim
med hat that
will look
like the
work of a
milliner.
They under
stand just
Zocpa or a Sat. ho w it ough t
to look, but .when they come to work ont
their understanding through their fingers
the fingers show their lack of education and
fail to give those deft airy touches that lend
the proper air of distinction to a piece of
headgear.
A shrewd milliner in New York has put
forward the first bit of renl helpfulness to
women who must do their own hat trim
ming, but who are, nevertheless, not desirous
of having that fact proclaimed to the world.
In his showcases he has for sale great knots
of ribbons and velvets of all hues made up
with the very newest twirl and twist, se
curely stitched and ready to be fastened on
the hat or bonnet Some of them are de
signed -for the only decoration, and some
need feathers or other ornaments to com
plete them. The illustration gives one of
the simplest It is a large bow of old rose
ribbon designedto form the only decoration
of a child's hat
Any enterprising woman shonld be able
to work up enough of a demand in her own
town, and of her own milliner, for this co
operative industry, to compel the milliner
to make it quite as much a part of her busi
g$Rf'
sometimes ii to sell hats withonttrimmings.ironger than that. What an inspiration It
ness io bcii trimming wihiuu uais as it
sWr(ymm
WBITTE2T roa
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'BY MARK TWAIN,
Author of "Innocents Abroad," "Tom Sawyer," "Huckleberry Finn,1
Etc., Etc
BTNOP3I3 OP PREVIOUS CHAPTEBS.
The story opens with a scene between Lord Berkeley, Earl of Eossm ore, and hla son
Viscount Berkeley, in Chalmondeley Castle, England. The young man has studied the
claims to the estate made by Simon Leathers, of America, and become convinced that he ia
the rightful heir and his father and himseir usurpers. He announces his intention to
change places with Leathers, whereupon the old lord pronounces him stark mad. A letter
arrives from Colonel Mulberry Sellers, of Washington, announcing that, by the death of
Simon Leathers and hi brother at a log-rolling in Cherokee Strip, he has become the Eart
or Hossmore and rightful heir to Chalmondeley Castle and tho vast estate. Colonel Seller
and his contented old wife livo in an old frame house before which hangs a sign announc
ing that ho is an attorney at law, claim agent, hypnotist, mind cure specialist, etc., eta.
HU old friend, Washington Hawkins, arrives. He has been elected delegate to Congress
from Cheroke Strip. Tho Colonel has invented a puzzle which he caUs PIar-In-CIo er.
Persuaded by Hawkins ho applies for a patent and accidentally runs across a Tankeo who
agrees to give him 5 cents royalty on each ono sold. Then the news comes that Simon
Leathers is dead and the Colonel lays his plans. First he establishes tho usages of nobility
in his home, which he caUs Bossmoro Towers.
CHAPTER V.
O answer to that
telegram; no arriving
daughter. Yet nobody
showed any uneasiness
nor seemed surprised;
that is, nobody but
Washington. After
three days of waiting,
he asked Lady Boss
more whet she sup
posed the trouble was.
She answered, tran
quilly: "Oh, it's some no
tion of hers, yon never can telL She's a
Sellers all through at lea3t ia some of
her ways; and a Sellers can't tell you before
hand what he's going to do, because he
doesn't know himself till he's done it She's
all right; no occasion to worry about her.
When she's ready she'll come or she'll
write, and you can't tell which till it hap
pens." It turned ont to be a letter. It was
handed in at that moment, and was received
by the mother without trembling hands or
feverish eagerness, or any other of the man
ifestations common in the case of long
delayed answers to imperative telegrams.
She polished her glasses with tranquility
and thoroughness, pleasantly gossiping
along awhile, then opened tho letter and
began to read aloud:
KianrwoRTn KEEr. Red Oxxnm.Tr Hall,
Kowina, Ivakiioe COLLEGE, Tnursday, J
Dear Precious Mamma Eossitobe Oh, the
Joyof itl you can't think. They bad alwaj s
turned up their noses at our pretentions,
you know; and I had fought back as woll as
I could by turning up at theirs. They al
ways said it might be something great and
fine to be rightful shadow of an earldom,
but to merely be shadow of a shadow, and
-wo or three times removed at that pooh-
ooht And I always retorted that not to ba i
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fatties, i am aorsa-io shake
able to show four generations of Arneriean-Colonlal-Dutch-Pedler-and-Salt-Cod-JlcAllis-ter
nobility might be endurable, but to hate
to confess such an origin pfaw-fewl Well,
the telegram. It was Just a cyclone! The
messenger came right into the gTeat Itob
Koy Hall of Andience, as excited as he could
be, singing out; "Dispatch for Lady Gwen
dolen Sellers!" and you ongbt to have seen
that simpering chattering assemblage of
pinchbeck aristocrats turned to stone! I
was off in the corner, of course, by myself
it's where Cinderella belongs. I took the
telegram and read it, and tried to faint and
I could have done it if I had had any prepar
ation, but it was all so sudden, you know
but no matter. I did the next best thing: I
rmt mv handerchief to my eves and fled I
;nhb!ntomvroom.dronninirthe telegram ,'
as I started. I released one corner of ray
eye a moment jnscenoagn to Bee ine nera
swarm for the telegram ana then continued
by broken-hearted flight, Just as happy as a
bird.
Then the visit of condolence began, and I
bad to accept the loan of Mis3Augusta-Tem-ploton-Asbmoro
Hamilton's quarters be
cause the press was so great and there isn't
room for throe and a cat In mine. And I've
been holding a lodge of sorrow ever since,
and defending myself against people's at
tempts to claim kin. And do yon know, the
very first to fetch her tears and sympathy to
my market was that foolish Sklmperton girl
who has always snubbed me so shamefully
atid claimed lordship and precedence of the
whole college because some ancestor of hers,
some time or other, was a McAllister. Why
it was like the bottom bird in the menagerie
pnttinc on airs because it's head ancestor
was a pterodactyl.
But the ger reatest triumph of all was
guess. But you'll never. This is It That
little fool and two others have always been
fusiing and fretting over which was enti
tled to precedence by rank, you know.
They've nearly starved themselves at It;
for each claimed the right to take prece
dence of all the college in leaving the
table, and so neither of tbem over fin
ished her dinner, but broko off in the
middle and tried to get out ahead of
tho others. Well, aftor my first day's grief
and seclusion I was fixing up a mourning
dress, yon see I appeared at the public
table again, and then what do you tblnkT
Those three fluffy goslings sat there con
tentedly and squared up tne long famine
lapped and lapped, munched and munched,
ate and ate, till the gravy appeared in their
eyes humble, waiting for the Lady
Gwendolen to take precedence and move
out flrst, you eeei
Ob, yes, I've been having a darling good
time. And, do you know, not one of the.e
collegians has had the cruelty to ask me
how I came by my new name. With some,
this is dne to charity, but with others it isn't.
They refrain, not from native kindness, but
from educated discretion. I educated them.
Well, ai soon a I shall have settled up
what's left of the old scores and snuffed up a
few more of those pleasantly Intoxicating
clouds of incense, I shall pack and depart
homeward. Tell nana I am as fond of him
as I am of my new name. I couldn't put it
THE DISPATCH
was! But Inspirations come easy to him.
These from your loving daughter.
GlVJ!lX)LE2r.
Hawkins reached for the letter and
glanced over it
"Good hand," he said, and full of confi
dence and animation, and goes racing right
along. She's bright that's plain."
"Oh, they're all bright the Sellerses.
Anyway, they would be if there were any.
Even those poor Latherses would have been
bright if they had been Sellerses; I mean
full blood. Of course they had a Sellers
strain in them a big strain of it, too, buV
being a Bland dollar don't moke it a dollar,
just the same."
The seventh day after the date of the tele
gram Washington came dreaming down to
breakfast, aud was set wide awake by an
electrical spasm of pleasure. Here was the
most bcautilul young creature he'had ever
seen in his life. It was Sally Sellers, Lady
Gwendolen; she had come in the night. '
And it seemed to him that her clothes wers
the prettiest and the daintiest be had ever
looked upon, and lhe most exquisitely con
trived and fashioned and combinedas to
decorative trimmings and fixings, and
melting harmonies of color. It was only s
morning dress, and inexpensive, but he con
fessed to himself, in the English common
to Cherokee Strip, that it was a "corker."
And now, as he perceived, the reason whv
the Sellers household poverties and sterili
ties had been made to blossom like the rose,
and charm the eye and satisfy the spirit,
stood explained; here was the magician;
here, in the midst of her works, aud famish
ing in her own person the proper accent and
climaxing finish of the whole.
"My daughter, Major Hawkins coma
home to mourn; flown home at the call of
affliction to help the authors of her being to
bear the burden of bereavement She was
very fond of the late Earl idolized him,
sir, idolized him "
"Why, father, I've never seen him."
"True she's right, I was thinking of an
other er of her mother "
"I idolized that smoked haddock; that
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bauds wixu aiAJOB hawkihs.
sentimental, spiritless "
'1 was thinking of mvselfl Poor noble
fellow, we were inseparable com "
"Hear the manl Mulberry Sel Mnl
Bossmorel Hang the troublesome name, I
can never if I've heard you say once, I've
heard you say a thousand times that if that
poor sheep "
"I was thinking of of Idon'tknow who
I was thinking of, and it doesn't make any
difference anyway; somebody idolized him,
I recollect it as if it were yesterday; and"
"Father. I am going to shake hands with
Major Hawkins, and let the introduction
work alone and catch np at its leisure. X
ub .n : T.ri
m"w u.u ":'Z ""."'.","..-'?,"
Hawkins, although I was a little child when
I saw you last, and I am yery, very glad in
deed to see you again and have you in our
house as one of us;" and beaming in his face
she finished her cordial shake with the hope
that he had not forgotten her.
He was prodigiously pleased by her out
spoken hearticesss and wanted to repay her
by assuring her that he remembered her,
and not only that, but better even than ha
remembered his own children, but the facts
would not quite warrant this; stjll, ha
stumbled through a tangled sentence which
answered just as well, since the purport of
it was an awkward and unintentional con
fession that her extraordinary beauty had
so stupefied him that he hadn't got back to
his bearings yet and therefore couldn't ba
certain as to whether he remembered her at
oil or not The speech made him her friend;
it couldn't well help it
In truth, the beauty of this fair creature
wa3 of a rare type, and may well excuse a
moment of our time spent in its considera
tion. It did not consist in the fact that she
had eyes, nose, mouth, chin, hair, ears; it
consisted in their arrangement. In trna
beauty, more depends upon right location
and judicious distribution of features than
upon multiplicity of them. So also as re
gards color. The very combination of col
ors which in a volcanic irrnption would add
beauty to a landscape might detach it from
a girL Such was Gwendolen Sellers.
The family circle being completed by
Gwendolen's arrival, it was decreed that
the official mourning shonld now begin;
that'it should begin at 6 o'clock everjr even-
ing (the dinner hour), and end with the '
dinner.
"ItVagrand old line, Major, a sublime
old line, and deserves to be mourned, for,
almost royally, almost imperially, I may
say. Er Lady Gwendolen but she's gone;
never mind; I wanted my peerage; I'll fetch
it myself, presently, and show yon a thing t
or two that will give yon a realizing idea of '
what our house 'is. I've been .glancing 1
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