TJIE SCBANTON TRIBUNE -SATURDAY. MORNING,' MARCH 9.
1895.
Of and About the
Makers of Books.
Two weeka ago mention was made of
a serial publication by the J. 11. Millet
Co., Boston, entitled "Famous Consum
ers and Their Works." Of the thirty
parts 'of that pretentious undertaking,
ten lie before us ami call for notice ot
their; seope ami' quality of uuthorshlp.
The subjects comprehended v It Mill this
one-third 'portion' of the book number
Bixteeu; tle composers... fourteen and
the contributing? authors, eleven. Haeh
and .Haudel receive elaborate and
Demi-philosophical narratives from the
pen of the Uerman critic, Phllipp Spltta;
Cluck Is presented la careful manner
by Wllhelm Langhuns: .Benjamin K.
Wootf contributes a sympathetic bio
graphical sketch of llaydn, which Is
among the best executed of all the
biographies in the ten parts; Mozart
ami Beethoven both depend for their
correct representation upon the pol-
Hshed pen of Philip Hale, who, although
ccoi'ded k most dltlU'ult task, performs
tv satisfactorily; John Fiske writes en
tertainingly about Schubert; W. J. Hen
derson presents in succinct manner the
Ufe-story of the little known Luthvig
Spohr; Weber anil Marschner receive
scholarly treatment at the hands of
H. K. Krehbiel; Mendelssohn at the
hands of John S. Dwight: Hubert Schu
mann and also Hubert flans, at the
hands of Louis Kelterborn, and the
aketeli-of -Meyerbeer, which tills out the
tenth part, being uncompleted, does
not disclose its author's- signature.
There are. in addition t. these more or
less concise biographies two essays
concerning; Beethoven, one by Clarence
J. Blake, treating of his deafness, and
the other a masterly review of his
work as a composer, contributed by the
editor of the serial," 1'rofessor John
Knowles Paine. So much fur the liter
ary features of the work, the eminent
quality of which Is sufficiently guaran
teed by the names of the distinguished
contributors. Thece remain to be ex
amined the illustrations which are an
exceedingly valuable and instructive
feature, presented with a mechanical
elegance truly delightful to the lover ot
artistic printing and the selected
compositions which serve as specimens
of the various composers' best efforts.
'From the serial parts one cannot get
so clear an Idea of the discernment dis
played by Karl Klauser in his editing
of the illustrations as will doubtless be
ascertained after the sequence shall
have been properly adjusted in the
bound volumes. The first portrait pre
sented to us. in part one, that of Johunn
Sebastian liuoh, being th reproduc
tion of a steel engraving by Sicltllng,
after an oil portrait by Haussmann,
Would, for Instance, in the completed
volumes, occupy a place not far from
the middle if th- tirst volume, a fact
that will perchance help to explain the
djtlleulty of properly appreciating, in
the disconnected parts, Mr. Klauser's
fine Judgment and good taste. Hut these
are sufficiently In evidence, In every
number, to excite genuine admiration
for the care and thoroughness with
V-blcu-his jjor.ti.ua of UjsL-Work has been
- achieved. Without wishing to "fall to.)
deeply Into details, we proceed to note
some of the more striking pictures that
attract attention in the ten parts at
hand. The birthplace of Sebastian
Bach at Kisenach, engraved from a
photograph, calls up visions of in
numerable ancient Teutonic houses,
wide of gable and heavily coated, on
the sides, with plaster and whitewash,
that may be seen, In all their hoary
and solemn magnificence, throughout
mid-Oermany. An Ideal scene. "Morn-
:' lng Prayers In the Bach Family," gives
one perhaps a clearer insight Into the
modest piety ami quiet dignity of this
father of Gorman music than could be
. derived from any number of printed
pages of letter-text. Equally notewor
thy. In Its way, is the scene, also Ideal,
of "Bach Before Frederick the Great,"
commemorating a circumstance of
semi-romantic Interest. It will be re
membered that Bach, descended from
eight generations or more of obedient
and peaceful burghers, was. In his po
litical opinions, the very Incarnation of
loyalty to king and state. Great was
his pride when his son. Carl Phlllpp,
became established, In 1740, as chamber
musician to that queer but determined
old monarch, Frederick II of Prussia.
To Potsdam, one day In May. seven
years thereafter, repaired the famous
composer. Intent upon visiting that son.
Tt was the old king's custom, of even
ings, to gather round him his family
tfnS Intimates, and to entertain them
h'y his own somewhat uncertain per
formances on the flute. One evening,
Bach was Invited to be present , and to
p'lay, 'Wrth' what fervor he must have
' responded-can be conjectured when It
Is perceived in the picture how the old
monarch, after pacing, sword In hand,
to and fro on the platform behind the
royal clavichord,-suddenly stops, as If
transfixed, and gazes, a mute 'captive
to the overmastering genius of the
blind composer before him.
The frontispiece to part second con
sists of the reproduction of a steel en
slaving of Handel by Slchling. nfter nn
oil portrait by V. Hudson. This por
trait Is said by admirers of Handel to
be the best 'me known. The face Is
large and florid, and It somehow re
minds one of 'the'portrnlt of J.imcs Kd
ward 'Oglethorpe- which stared nt one
from the school histories In boyhood
days. There are, In 'this pnrt, five
other portraits of Handel, reproduced
front noted statues or busts; one por
trait of Handel's father, who was a
valet and surgeon to the prince of Haxe.
Magdeburg; and "two or three views
of modernJe. Interest showing the Hun
del monument In Halle, Handel's house
In Loudon, and the commemoration of
Ifandel In Westminster abbey. More In
teresting than either of these In lh
London theater. In spiteful retaliation
TOP Hiima iwnr mnml rer,lCfto rr,tv lh
composer. It Is entitled the "Harmo
nious Boar" and depicts Handel, as a
repulsive beast, seated before the organ,
playing, while In the' background his
music causes' jackass to bray furious
ly. It Is singular that a man who, for
the great genius that he was, was In
character so noble, -dignified and truly
' benevolent, should be thus aSBnllcd. Of
all the great composers, Handel viands
forth pre-eminent for both nobility of
',. character and bullast of temperament.
He would have been a great man had
he net'er" produced a tone nor written
a note; great for-his high sense of
honor, his fortitude under adverse for
tune and -his lofty standards 'of, per-
sonal conduct; . Perhaps the very mn
Jesty of his -career has left little; room
for pictorial 'reminiscences. Certain it
Is that one Is -Inspired by the few Il
lustrations In this part to wish that
the collection hud been, If possible,
more extended.
5ome of the Latest Volumes
To Issue from the Press.
Several portraits of Gluck and Haydn
adorn the third pnrt, which Is notable
also for a tnll piece of most artistic
design, representing the fresco In the
Vienna Opera house which depicts
Uluck's "Arinlde." Parts four, five
and six are notubly rich In Illustrations,
beginning with a tall piece from the
Viennese fresco Illustrating Haydn's
oratorio of "The Creation," und run
ning through the pre-eminently -interesting
biographies of Moart and
Beethoven. The first portrait of Mozurt,
reproduced from uu original silver
crayon taken two years before the
composer's death by the daughter-in-law
of Mozart's friend Korner, Is be
lieved to be the most characteristic life
portrait remaining to us. Its strongly
accentuated features bespeak the ec
centricity, bordering on nuulness, of the
man. It will be remembered that at
the age of 5 years Mozart dictated
minuets to his futher, the Salzburg
violinist, one of which Is preserved in
this work. The earliest portrait of
Mozart shows him at the age of 6
years, a commanding youngster In
court dress. At ! he hud, boy-fashion,
grown lanky: nt 10 he looked al
most frail and at fourteen there was
evidence of the outcropping of the
man. Altogether these live portraits
form a most Interesting series of
"human documents." The 'house in
which the composer was born; also
the room, with its low ceiling, Its harp
sichord. Its corner bust, und family
portraits, are shown upon opposite
pages. Another view represents his
favorite concert piano (which sold after
his death for fc!"o und the splnnet or
small clavichord upon which he. com
posed the "Magic Flute," "Titus" and
"The Kequlem." A page reproduction
of a sculpture by Delafosse, showing
the senior Mozurt. standing violin In
hand, behind Wolfgang Amadeus, who
is seated at his harpsichord, while the
hitter's sister, Murla Anna, accom
panies with her voice is largely Ideal
ized, us is also the de la Croee oil study
of the Mozurt family pictured on the fol
lowing page. The picture of an unpre
tentious house in Vienna, In which
Mozart lived, with that Interesting fact
duly announced In great letters on its
dingy exterior; also one of the extreme
ly plain Viennese dwelling in which the
poor fellow died, conclude the more no
table of the Mozart Illustrations, un
less we except a curious comparison of
the composer's ear with the average
ear. showing as It does a most unex
pected difference in contour.
This brings us to the parts devoted to
that greatest of all masters of sound,
l.udwlK van Beethoven. The von
Klober portrait, made In 1S17, at the
time when its subject, then 47 years of
age, had just begun the composition of
the Ninth symphony, which he finished
six yeuts later, rightly occupies the post
of honor. It reveals the furious hair,
the violent face and the eccentric dress
of its subject with minute fidelity; but
una MtuUles it thse autwurd char
acteristics fade away and there ap
pears In their place the spirit of a kind
ly, magnanimous and withal affection
ate being, despite the fitful savagery
to which his caprices drove him. This
portrait Is. for us, the most Interesting
thing in the entire series. We prefer
It to the half-score of Idealized repre
sentations to which It has given origin,
and many of which are shown In this
work. Just as the life of Beethoven K
from Its kaleidoscopic variety of Inci
dent, by all odds the most Interesting of
all the lives of the great composers,
so this true portrait true, but not
harsh Is, in our Judgment, the superior
of all the likenesses of him that exist.
But we must, hasten on. Beethoven's
modest birth-place at Bonn; his enter
tainment of Mozart by playing for the
latter on the piano"; an Idealized view of
Beethoven leading the performance of
one of his quartettes; a view of the
composer's latest and much disordered
studio In the Hchwarz-Spanler Jiouse
In Vienna. In which Beethoven -died,
also a view of that house's exterior; his
tomb in Vienna cemetery; life and
death masks, the former taken by
Franz Klein in 1S12 and the latter by
Dannhauser Irt 1S27, two days after
the composer's demise; and finally, th-?
Zumbusch figure of Beethoven on the
Vienna monument complete for us a
cycle of illustrations of Interest even
in excess of the readable, but necessari
ly abridged letter-text. Brevity of
spnee reminds us that we must now
pass lightly over the admirable illus
trations with which Professor Klauser
has Illumined the lives of Uchuberf,
Carl Weber, Mendelssohn and Hobert
.Schumann, and conclude this scant
notice with a word concerning the mu
sical selections made at the suggestion
of Theodore Thomas.
To Sebastian Bach. In hnnor of his
plonecrshlp among the great Herman
composers, Mr. Thomas has accorded
representation with no less thnn six
selections, namely: The prelude, In
F.-IInt minor, to the "Well-Tempered
Clavichord" No. 8; the fugue In K-llat
nwjor, No. 7; the nlto aria "Ah! Ool
gotha" from the Passion Music; tho
flnnl chorus from the Passion Music;
the organ fugue in (i ma'Jor and the
snrnbondo and gavotte from the Eng
lish Suite in O minor. Handel Is rep
resented by tho I lend .March; the
"Sampson" chorus "Fixed Is His
lOverlastlng Heat;" the aria from
"Xerxes'; My Plane Tree, and by the
recitative and siclliana from "Ialle
gro." To Cluck Is accorded space for
the chorus of Furies from "Orpheus;"
for the ea.itlna from "Semlramls"
Hear Is the Hour Advancing; for the
chorus from "Paris and Helene"' Take
My Offering; and for the aria, from the
same? work, Thou My Adored. Haydn
Is represented by the minuet from his
twelfth symphony; 4y the rondo from
his third sonata; by the soprano soli.
With Verdure Clad, from the "Crea
tion;" and, lastly, by the rantablle p
mcsto from the string quartette' In
K-shurp major, Tho andante move
ment from the string quartette In C
major, a scene from Act II of "Don
Juan," the soprano aria from "Don
Juan" Come, Shall I Tell Thee, and the
minuet from his symphony In K-llat
complete Mozart's all-too limited show
ing, whl as for Beethoven one geta
Just a taste, as t were, hi the cherxti
from the Seventh symphony, the Fare
well sortatu and the Introduction and
aria to Act II of "Fldollo." In the Quse
ftt Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn In
ess degree, and Hubert Schumann, ;the
editor is equally confronted .with the
dilemma of how best to) put a bushel
Into a pint measure; That ha, has suc
ceeded so well Is proof of his thorough
mastery of the. tusk's dilllcultles and
likewise of his superior discernment.
The proper .. judgment to pronounce
upon Mr. Thomas' editing of the music
numbers Is that froai an embarrassing
superabundance he Jias emerged with
creditable selections. ' 1 ' y
i
The Napoleonic revival continues to
supply a- lurge proportion of tho con
tents of our leading magazines. The
Century,- St. Nicholas and MeClure's
for March are Instances In evidence.
In the former, Sloane's excellent life of.
Napoleon Is continued; In the second,
there Is an Instalment of Elhrldgc S.
Brooks' lively serial, "A Boy of tho
First Empire;" and in the latter, Ida M.
Tarbell describes "Napoleon at the
Height of Ills Power." On the other
hund, the Cosmopolitan has had com
paratively little to say 'about' the great
Corslcun, In which particular It re
sembles Harper's. As an olTset to the
Napoleon craze, MeClure's Intends to
print u series of autobiographical, pa
pers by men who 'were eminent during
our civil war; und Seribner's hus ar
ranged for the publication of a 'serial
"History of Our Own Day," to be writ
ten by President Andrews, of Brown
university.
The Century for March contains, In
addition to Us Napoleonic literature ami
niiscelluny, three notable studies of
givut men H. E. Krehblel's paper on
the Belgian violinist, Eugene Vsaye;
Thomus Commerford Martin's study of
Professor von Hclmholtz und an instal
ment of Nouli Brooks' reudable series
of recollections concerning ante-bellum
and war-time publics. We perhaps
should mention a fourth urticle, in
recognition of the interest newly awak
ened umong Scruulonlans by reason of
W. Hudson Hhuw's lectures on Venice
Mrs. Harriet Wuters Preston's Illus
trated letters of travel entitled "Be
yond the Adriatic," which take one to
lstrlu, the one-time home of the ven
turesome Dalmatian pirates; to Karn,
the lagoon republic's first territorial
acquisition, and to other places invested
with unique historic, and artistic Inter
est. With respect to. Us illustrations,
the Ma,rch Century seems even better
than usual, which for this journal. Is
saying a great deal. St. Nicholas,
which may be looked upon as the Cen
tury, Jr., hus for Its March menu an
acceptable variety of good serial stories
and Juvenile poetry, by competent au
thors;, a. diverting Journey of Buhner
Cox's Inimitable Brownies through
Texas, and an exceedingly Instructive
There Is no reflection more discouraging
to the conscientious writer for newspapers
than that his best as. well us his worst
efforts are, to ull upieurances, doomed to
less than five hours' life. 1 hope this
time to be pardoned for "tulklng shop" to
those not employed In my kind of shop;
for I fancy that what I shall have to say
may not be wholly devoid of Interest,
even to laymen. It will not be my argu
ment that the making of u newspuper re
uuires u better quality of brains nor that
It exacts u larger nieusnre of preparation
than go to make the successful sermon,
the successful store or the successful con
duct of u law ciue or a disease. Too often,
the equipment of the newspaper worker
Is notably Inferior to the equipment of tho
preacher, the merchant, the lawyer or the
physician. The one point which 1 am de
sirous of emphasizing -is that, whether
well or Ill-fitted for his task, the man
who helps to make a newspaper puts- his
labor into a thing that lives less than one
fourth of a single day. Can we wonder
thai sometimes, in a mood of discourage
ment which even the Incessant velocity of
the chase for news urtd novelties cannot''
forever ward off, the writer for the press
for the moment loses faith In his vocation,
and lets slip' a chance to cast the best
thoughts within him before the stamped
ing throng?
The artist who paints a picture, be It
good or bad, does something which car
ries a message down to remote genera
tions. The author who puts Into a boon
the honest energies of a disciplined mind
is limited, ns to his power of influencing.,
men, only by the longevity of bis- lan
guage und nice. The oomposPr who-ex-presses
by notation' a new thought or u
reul emotion cunnot feel thut his work
has been thrown awuy. The preacher
who siieuks the truth talks to all eternity.
And even the lawyer who conducts a case
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Do not be induced to
sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by
Brander Matthews.
The March Cosmopolitan leans some
what heavily toward European themes.
The post of honor is given to a profusu
ly " Illustrated article descriptive of
Mont-Salnt-Mlohel. Then Fr. Th. Sis
son occupies a number of pages with a
running narrative of biography and
gossip, about ' the famous models of
Paris. Next to that, Ernest Daudet,
under the title "A President of France,"
nddH to the now rapid apotheosis of the
assassinated executive, M. Sadl Carnot.
An elaborate article on tho Observutory
of the Vatican, with another concern
ing "A Portrait In Bruges" carries the
European tendency to an unusual ex
treme. These various transatlantic
subjects are good enough, in their way;
and the literary and pictorial charm
connected with their exploitation goes
far to reconcile one to the expatriation.
But are (here no longer any topics of
Interest In America?
Conun Doyle appears twice In Me
Clure's for March, the first time In a
brief story,- of course well-sketched, of
the Franco-Prussian war, und aguin
with a sprightly essay on Alpine travels
on ski. It Is pleasant to observe that
while the gifted Conun Is making hay
without waste of sunlight, he does not
deteriorate In consequence thereof. But
the urticle In MeClure's which will com
mund the greatest avidity Is Mr. Glad
stone's paper on ''The Lord's Duy," und
the Illustrations which will trunscend
u II others in point of Interest ure those
Instructive "huinun documents" which
photograph the great Englishmnn, ut
ull the way from 0 years of uge to 83.
The March Chautauquan contains
much thut Is entertaining, as well us a
great ileal thut Is Instructive. A pen
picture of Chauncey M. Pepcw, for In
stance, contributed by a well known
journalist, Franklin Morris, puts one
into a better understanding of this
versatile American und pleases at the
same moment. A study of the royal
family of England, with portraits, -offers
diversion for the curious; while In
the line of more serious reudlng, Dr.
John H. Billings accounting of "The
World's Debt to Medicine" and A. E.
Daulell's description of the under
ground railway In London are Valuable
oontrlhutlons. The Chautnuquun, from
month to month, is-ulways Instructive
und well edited.
Satturday Reflectioirn
or the doctor who treats a disease hus a
week or a month In which to prepare his
phia- or concoct his curatives. But the
newspuper man, mayhap born of the same
kin us the artist, the author, the composer
or the preacher, hus before him a uiurgln
of leas, than sixteen hours, if he eat anil
sleep, ill which to do work that Is :io
sooner dono than It Is dead; und must,
over Its corpse, proceed to a second edi
tion I make no allusion, In this article,
to. the question of puy. The newspuper
worker who Is worth more than he Is get
ting for his work will eventually get
more. But whether he receive the pay of
a puuper or u prince, it Is nevertheless
true thut the, labor for which he Is paid
disappears with- the dew-drop and yet It
has to be repeated without respite for at
tendance ut its funeral.
There are Journals which believe In leis
ure und encourage wholesome thinking us
a pre-requlslte to writing. These Jour
nals, when printed daily, perhaps live
longer than five hours per- duy. At a
stretch, we may siiy that they live seven.
But the extra two hours is a poor offset to
tho fact that live persons read the live
hour paper where only one reads the
seven-hour paper. It would be Just as sat
isfactory to the publisher, who Is usunlly
a business mechanism, to print a seven
hour piier ns to print one of the five
hour type, if the profits -were us lurge.
Hut, In this country, they are not. The
profitable American newspaper, from the
standpoint of the Investor, Is not that
Which uses the best brums under the best
of conditions so as to get the best Intel
lectual results. It isithe paper which most
consummately tickles the mob, plays to
tho gullerles, antl "catches on.". There are
Incidental, or ruther nccldental, excep.
tiohs; but they only prove the rule. The
Imperial American public edits editors the
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AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
' Georges Ohnet's new novel bears tho
title of "The Woman In Gray."
H, L. Stevenson's posthumous novel,
"St. Ives," Is to be published, by Stone &
Kimball.!
Count Tolslot hus finished another work
which Is culled "Priceless Wealth and
All tho Trouble Attuehed to It."
Hermann Sudermunn's novel, "The
Wish," bus been translated for tho Apple
tons. HtiilcrniHiin Is the German Ibsen.
Mr. and Mrs. Chnrles Dudley Warner
will spend the winter ut Florence, Italy,
where they will be tho guests of Profes
sor Fluke.
The late Sir John Heeley left at his
death sufficient material for a volume to
bo entitled "The History of English For
eign Policy."
HoWfllH suy that if it were not for An
thony Trollupe's ubseneu of humor, ho
would "otherwise make bold to declare,
him tho greatest of English novelists."
Paul Bourgut will bu received Into the
French Academic. In April. The "Immor
tals" will ulao elect successors to Jjurny
a ml Lesseps, Jules Lemullre Is a candi
date. A citizen of Constantinople has been
banished for life to an usl in the desert
of Suhura, for translating Into Turkish u
portion of Scripture referring to the com
ing of the kingdom of Christ.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward's new novel, "Tho
Story of .Bessie I'uHtrell," detils with an
episode of village life In one of the EngllHli
nilillund commies. The serial puhliculluu
will be begun in the May number of tho
I'onihlll Magazine.
The Nation uuys thut the statement that
Bryce's "Commonwealth" Is under the
ban of the censor In Russia is untrue.
"The fact Is thut the work was translated
and published there, in IVi'J und IMW, In
three volumes, the edition consisting of
LIMO copies,"
"llllltry, a Parody on Trilby," by Mary
Kyle Dallas, la perpetrated by tho Mer
rlam I'ompuny. The "three inusketis'i'-i"
of Hu Muurler's story ure here metamor
phosed Into the Giraffe, the Ludy if
Shallot und Little Heckle, urtlst malls
who fall In love with the wonderful tues
of the mule llllltry.
lnsteud of England having vanquished
Scotland, I'uledonla seems to have con
quered Albion. Since the days of Scott,
Dr. Johnson's land of oatmeal has sent
London many of her great heroes. The
late Hubert Louis Stevenson was followed
by llurrle, of Thrums, next by Mlnlstei
Crockett, of Galoway, und then llev. Ian
Mucluren Watson. The latest is John
Davidson, who has been styled "the l'oet
Laureate of London."
same as II bosses congresses and presi
dents. It knows what it wants, and it
takes measures to get It. Sometimes,
when considering the kind of newspapers
that it most energetically demands, I am
led to believe that the quickness of the
newspaper's death is not un unmixed evil.
But It is ever a poor consolutlon for tho
men whose labor goes down In tho dally
chaos.
There Is a brighter side to this gloomy
picture. To the conscientious newspaper
worker it fully balances the account.
While tho conditions of the 'business keep
that business from overshooting the heads
of the masses, under penalty of financial
loss, the very existence of the business
foretells public Improvement. Men who
read poor newspapers today will wunt to
read better ones tomorrow. There Is no
such thing us standing still in America.
Besides, In uu individual sense, tho writer
who daily addresses ten of thousands,
even if he Is compelled ,y the circum
stances of tho case to iu so Imperfectly,
wields, if he be an honest man, un ag
gregate temporary inlluenee In excess of
the most popular pulpit. He controls one
of tho Irresistible forces of the day. It Is
a, force which would to some extent disap
pear If the paper would cease to be print
ed every time the sun rises. Hut for all
that, it is an imperial force, Incomparably
the greatest In the land, and the very
consciousness that one has something
to do with Its wielding constitutes, to the
trim newspaper man, golden rcpuyment
for the Innumerable "slings and arrows"
of his otherwise "outrageous fortune."
For at least live hours each day he is the
king Incognito of republican America
often ill-paid, not Infrequently ill-dressed.
but still a king, whose anonymous scepter
sways the destiny of nations. The Intoxl
id lion of authority Is his ever uccesslbl
balm for bruised self-esteem.
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Purified Blood.
failed to afford much relief. A few moot hi
ago I commenced taking Hood's Barsnpar
rilla and the trouble has entirely disap
peared." Mrs. II, W. Hubunell, Lyon
Brook, Oxford, Now York.
Blood Poison.
"I became poisoned with ivy. It would
break out on mo, spring and (all. I'hnd
doctora but waa not relloved. It would
breakout into Bores and pimples on mo
and form scabs. It it bad not been for a
neighbor recommending Hood'a Harsapa
rllla to tne I do not think I would bo alive
day. I used two bottles last full and three
to his spring and it has cure me."
Francis A. Payette, Mtshawaka, Ind.
A Baby Boy Cured.
"I hnvo used several bottles of Hood'a
Sarsaparilla (or my little boy, three years
of uge, who has been troubled with ecr-ema
very badly. It has entirely cured him,
therefore I recommend 'it to all mothers
who have children suffering Iroinecr.cmn."
Mrs. Peter A. Johnson, Cranbury Sta
tion, New Jeraey.
Hood'a Barsaparilla is sold by all drug
gists, flj six (or f5. Preivared only by
C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. It pos
sesses curative powers '
Peculiar
To Itself
lye
Woman's Claim for
' ; . . i : -. t
The Right to
" Arguments in Favor of the Extension
Of the Suffrage to Women.
At the last semi-annual convention of
the Lnxernn and Lackawanna county
Woman's Christian Temperance-union,
held ut West I'lttston, Feb. 1,4, Mrs.
Franc T. Vail, of this city, read a paper
on "Woman Kul1rai?e" which has
elicited much praiseworthy comment.
The text of thut paper is subjoined:
When the lonely murlner -has been
tossed weary hours on the foaming bil
lows of the deep, the lirst appearance
of deur sky Is Improved by un effort to
ascertain his whercabouta und bear
ings. Let us In like mun ner endeavor,
by u few minutes' study of our govern
ment, to ascertain our position us
women on the .troubled waters, of the
present political sea. Looking back over
the history of the world we find that
whenever evil has reigned until cor
ruption has reached un extreme point
some new force hus been raised up to
combut It. Kvery where in the political
realm we lind corruption, spoils and
bribery, extortion und fraud, Impurity
ami false standards. Injustice and the
subtler forms of tyranny.
Politics, Instead of being a science,
bus become a game of chance a gam
bling pool In the hands of the unscru
pulous am designing. Intemperance
und other evils prevail to nn alarming
extent, nd patriotism seems about lo
expire. The present condition of our
country demands a new force or ele
ment in politics. It needs purification
und if this cannot be. bud by the in
troduction of the refining and elevat
ing influence jf women, then our repub
lic will shun the fate of the Uonmn
empire, which fainted to death through
its own corruption. Cod says: "The na
tions that will not serve Me shall
perish." We have reached our extreme
point us a nation, and woman Is the new
force that shall combat the corruption
of our social ns well as political life.
"When the enemy shall come in like
a Hood the spirit of the Lord shall lift
up it standard against them." May not
the Christian motherhood of this land
have come to the kingdom for such a
time us this'.'
The Lord's Heservcs.
flod's reserves ure the home-guards.
Woman with her Irresistible vitalizing
and regenerating power sounds the
trumpet for the nation s redemption
through lier ballot, but the world puts
up its hands to shut out the sound.
She pleads with the "powers that be"
to place, in her liunds the weapons with
which to combat existing evils. Fur
years woman has been slowly develop
lug her mental powers and assum
ing her enlarged responsibilities conse
quent upon the progressive steps of our
national civilization toward the stan
dard of Cod-given equality and indi
vidual rights, Irrespective of race, color
or sex. The wider opportunities given
to women have undoubtedly changed
woman's position. There is no use ig
noring this fact. Her eyes are opened
to the great questions that agitate the
nations of the world.
A wealthy Knglish lady married n
poor man. At his death she fell heir
to her own property through his will,
with a proviso that she never marry
again. The absurdity of this situation
and others quite similar regarding tn
ownership of children have amused
much indignation upon the part of
women. Home Is, Indeed, the proper
sphere for woman, and we are told by
men in high places that our highest
aim in life should bo a bountllul re
production of the race: and to the Lulla
by song of the cradle and the never
ending stitch of the needle must an
holy ambitions be sacrificed. But no
true man, who is abreast of the times
and allows the nobility of his nature to
assert itself, will ever speak thus of
us who arc tho crowning excellence of
creation, and whose lives are so often
jeoparded and even sacrificed for the
perpetuity of tho race.
i he Influence of Home.
Home is the first thought of wife and
mother. All things are secondary to
that, only ns they bear direct influence
upon the home. Out of the home the
state Itself is created, and since the
smaller makes the larger, the larger
reacts upon the smaller. And when
through the misrule of professed Chris
tlan men public evils become rampant,
then women see and' feel Us effect upon
the home life, and then docs she realize
that there Is a limit to her influence,
but none to a licensed evil. The ques
tlons of the duy are nil moral ques
tlons nnd every one of thorn Is in poli
tics. Hence, every woman who enters
uuon reform work of nny kind becomes
ns a rule, a suffragist. For she soon
sees that laws hamper ami handicap a
woman in her righteous efforts to keep
home sacred and pure. They prevent
her from performing her greatest duty
to Ood. to her family and mankind.
Now, every human being has a right to
Work out his. or her own destiny, sun
1cct onlv to those restraints of society
which are applied to all alike. No one
class has a right to restrict the lives
of onc-hnlf the race to any particular
work. The .women of ls!)r are not nn
like those of 17?r. They could make
anything from a bonnet up to their
own destiny. So can we! (Jive us one
half "the tools now used by men nnd
we will not only make our own -destiny
but that of the household nnd nation.
They sent forth from their flrc-sldes
niinutc-incn who carried, muskets and
bayonets. We send .forth pure mnn-
hood nnd Intelligent womanhood, armed
with noble thoughts nnd principles that
shall vet become nn established sys
tem. The ballot seems to be the golden
key to opportunity, and Just ns It Is nn
advantage to men It will be to women,
nnd It Is not so much a woman's ques
tion us It a human question. .
"Then call them out, the home g'uhrds.
who keep the llrcslde altar.
Their hands are clean their hearts are
pure, with sin they dure not palter."
AVe often nnncnl to ministers of the
Christian faith to help on the cause of
righteousness, but many of them In
sist upon preaching on the fate of Lot's
wife, while we who huve put our hnnds
to the floor much prefer tn hear a ser
moll on a wife's lot. ' Some persons
think women so Inferior to men. Hut
Dr. llnshford says: "It takes an Im
mouse niuouut of Ingenuity to make out
woman's Inferiority J'rom the, simple
scale of creation presented In (lode
word. Since womnn was not made In
Hum's Ininge, neither was the dominion
of the world committed to him mono,
The record snys: "In the Image of tiod
denied He him; mule and female
created He them.' And Ood said, 'Let
them have dominion over all the earth.'
We, therefore, believe that ull women ns
all men. nre created free nnd equal."
Illshop Vincent snys: "Woman's In
fluence Is enormous, and If she uses It
wisely she needs no additional power."
He . has evidently lost sight of one
fact.' that woman's Influence (under
present conditions) is like the sign over
the door Ot certain business firms:
i ,
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ItflOWV A- CY. l.lmllpill'
I. v. a. -
Ari 'mm co of 'experiment Is' worth it
ton -of theory to a woman. And such
women generally know whereof they
speak. Mothers have always had . the
privilege of giving precept upon pre
cept. Fathers have always had the
privilege of carrying out the precept by
example, whfch la alwaya Very effec
Vote.
tual. The mother tries to teach her
boy that he must be pure and temperate
and honorable. That boy goes out
from his mother, und the first thlntf
no meets wim neutralizes and gives
the lie to all his mother's teachlnKS. Ha
says to himself, "Why, mother says so
and so," but he finds men In high places
violating all those teachings, and he
begins to conclude that his mother does
not know much about It. From that
minute that boy discounts his mother's
Judgment, and though she must still
nave u hold on his affections, she does
not liave a hold upon him in any other
way. I here is where you wrong us.
gentlemen, and cripple us in training
men who will make the statemen of hla
nation.
Other llistinguislmd Testimony.
Solomon says: "Train up a child in
the way he should go und when he is
old he will not depart from It." Solo
mon knew that a mother's training was
limited and a child, no matter how
well trained and how well disciplined
by its mother, would In nine cases out
ten, if of the mule sex, do Just as
father does. Hut when he is old und
the harvesting time comes he naturally,
turns to Cod and mother.
Hlshop Vincent also says: "Woman
cun. through the votes of men, have
-.-ry right to which she it entitled."
In order to be able to Judge Just what
right we are entitled to, we must
suppose him to be a strong believer In
the transmigration of the soul, and
that in some unknown past (perhaps
the dark ages) he was once a woman
with all her attributes. Kxperlenced
men and women who have labored for
years to secure present improved laws
for women are not found declaring that
women get everything they ought to
have?. We have tried persuasion. There
is nothing about it we do not know.
The responses to the many petitions
we have presented to state and munici
pal authorities has omri been: "You
can't vote, ladies, you can't vote."
Kvery interest of society und of the
individual will in the end be better
shielded if mothers especially have the
franchise, one plank will be more
prominent in our platform than ny
other an equal standard of murals for
both sexes. The common sense of the
civilized world is working round to
woman's suff rage.
lir. Huckley seems to have more fear
of the excitement connect' d with poli
tical work upon woman 'nun the possi
bility of her becoming jnsexej r mus
culine. He forge's thut the women of
the Methodist church are the most
active and take a livelier interest in
the affairs of the nation than any other
class, and us for excitement, they en
dure any amount of it and come out
clear-headed.
Gladstone says: "Woman will lose
her delicacy if in polities." Hut Mrs.
Gladstone, with his approval, preside
over a woman's club whose chief otij.-ct
Is the promotion of the Liberal party.
Women Greatly .Misunderstood.
We arc greatly misunderstood be
cause we desir'- the ballot. We are re
garded by conservatives among our
own sex. and most of the male contin
gent, as aggressive creatures, devoid of
all those divine qualities which consti
tute female loveableness. What a ter
rible mistake. Many suffragists are
thedointiest bltsof femininity your eyes
ever beheld. Such Lucy Stone was,
and Kachol Foster Avery Is. A posi
tive will allied to earnest efforts does
not make a woman coarse, vulgar or
masculine.
Here are some "clear-cut, rifle-shot"
FenUnecs setting forth our reasons for
belief in equal riphts:
We need the ballot so as to be able
to do our part in municipal house clean
ing. Wo need it to close the saloon, the
gambling den, the house of infamy.
Nothing will so protect our boys as the
ballot in our hands. We need it to
build walls of protection around our
girls; to change the infamous age of
consent from 7 to 18 years.
We ought to have it because bre wers
antagonize it and Frohibltlonlsts stand
by it. How significant!
Uecatise men establish saloons and
dens of vice, and perpetuate them with
their ballots, and it is time we had
something to counteract it.
Because it is only simple justice that
we should have a voice in the laws
by which we are governed and by
which we nre punished. When a man
asksmelf hedoes not represent his wife
at the ballot box. I simply ask him if
she has so lost her identity that he
could be hung In her stead if she com
mitted murder nnd if she must attempt
to enter heaven on his passport. If
woman's chance of getting there de
pended upon man It would be very slim.
All you nevd to prove it Is to attend
prayer meeting.
Because we would take the sceptre of
power from the hands of politicians
and place it In that of patriots.
Because men know everything except
that which women know better.
Because laws of marriage and divorce
arc made by men.
Because no law bearing outrageously
upon the moral well-being of women
nnd girls was ever changed by men
except under great pressure.
Because It would protect us mentally,
morally und materially.
"Womnn now is rising
Beliaiit. ready, strong.
Villi earnest heart and hopeful,
To riKht nil seeming wrong;
Help solve life's darkest problem.
Make smooth the mush, hard way
In which so ninny stumble,
So many so astray.
"Our faith, so broad and cheering.
Makes darkest paths seem brlnht: ,
Its hois- nnd love unfailing
The whole bread world should llsnt.
We would Imparl Its spirit
To all along life's way
Its blessings scatter lively
Thus honor this, our duy.
.
Watches Instead of Medals.
Swiss firms huve n. contract with t'no
Japanese war office to supply a sulll.'lent
number of watches for one to w given to
every soldier who bus served In the cam
paign when the mikado reviews his vic
torious troops at theclose of the war. Tln
watches, which will take the phioo or war
nieduls, are to cost $1.W apiece.
Till: WORLD OF LABOR.
New Vork has saloons.
Purls supports 32.0H) bar-rooms.
African ruilrouds cover 21.687 mllcn.
llockefeller's dully Income Is $41 ,'&,
London has 10.000 piofessloiuil musi
cians. 'Rubber wns llttlo used, except for eras
ing, until PCU 300 years ufter Its discovery.
Tho ciinnl connecting tho Hultic with the
North seu, llfly-nlne miles In length, is
now finished, except a few minor detulls.
Bread as a dully article of food IS used
by only iiIhuU one-third of the l.WO.OOO.ooO
that constitute the present population of
the earth. '
From' 69.000 to 70.000 tons or Ice liava
been harvested at Neenuh, Wis., th larg
est quantity ever harvetsed In tho history,
of 'that city.
jTwenty-four years ago electricity as a
mechanclul power was unknown. Now
J!mi,oio,ooo are Invested In vurloiis kinds of
electrical machinery.
Indiana's natural gus supply will be ex
hausted In less than four years, accord
ing to the annual report Just mudo by tho
stale gus Inspetcor. Ho estimates that at
leust $:o,000,0uu worth ot ttui has been
wasted In Indiana alone.