THJ5 SUKANTON TKtBUNESATUKDAY MORNING. , SEPTEMBER- 21, 1895.
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Makers of Books.
Notices of Recent Interesting Volumes and
Chats Concerning Literary Men and Women
REALISM EXEMPLIFIED.
The merits and defect of Ernlle
Zola's realism are strikingly exem
ptlfied In the first of six short stories
which appear In a handsome volume
from the press or uopeiana Day,
Boston, under the title "Jacques Da
mour." When we shall have sketched
ths outlines of this story we will have
presented a miniature purview of M.
Zola's inspirations, methods and Held.
Tt toegin for in this little narrative
31. Zola does not let nis curtain drop
on the hero and 'heroine arm-in-arm for
their wedding Jacques Damour, A
chaner In metals, had, at 26. married
Felicie, a comely seamstress of IS. In
time, a son, Eugene, Is born to them;
nd nine years later, a sickly daughter,
Ioulve. After a score of yeurs of mar
ried life, they had by thrift, laid by
thousand francs and were doing well
when the war with the Prussians broke
out. A garrulous neighbor. Berru.
who, had he lived In America, would
have been a walking delegate, talked
socialism before Jacques and his boy,
Eugene, until both, the one In simple
Ignorance and the other In exuberance
of youthful enthusiasm, became so
cialists. With the duty of reorftanls
Ing society on his shoulder. Jacques
sptvdlly found himself too busy to work
for a living and wren the commune
came, had exhausted the family sav
ings and was Hat on his back.
At this point the youth Eugene Is
killed by the soldiers of the empire
and father Jacques swears to avenge
htm. For days the lights madly against
the government. Is taken prisoner and
exiled to New Caledonia. Here, after
two years, he escapes from the guard
with five companions. Three dead
bodies are found in a 'boat and one is
Identified as Jacques'. A death certifi
cate Is duly signed, sealed and delivered
to his sorrowing widow, but the Identi
fication was a mistake, and after years
of knocking about, Jacques returns to
Parts, finds the still comely Fellcle hap
pily wedded to a lusty butcher, and
take his leave of us as a laxy pen
sioner on the bounty of his daughter
Louise, who. In the meantime, has set
up an elaborate establishment among
the demi-monde.
This aimless story Is drawn with
masterly skill. With a single stroke
of bis pen M. Zola gives life and fulness
to his characters, of whom all are
natural and true to their environment.
The triumph of !hls art in this respect
Is not open to question. But despite
his marvelous power of portrayal, his
complete command of lnc'dent. dia
logue and focus, the reader lays down
CJ. Zola's book not in the least satisfied,
not In the least benefited, not In the
least Inspired. The picture Is perfect,
but what a dull, drab, unattractive
theme! Of the three men who In any
degree linger In the memory, one is
entirely willing to drink wine and eat
cake at the price of his own daughter's
dlshor or, while the other two are
vulvar, and commonplace. Of the
two women, one Is a fat dame
wli'i takes ' thin? as they come
find lets her daughter go her own
way; and the other is a cigarette-smoking,
puffy-curled damsel of the town.
Surely this Is line company for a genius
like M. Zola, who might. If he would,
set noble Ideals before mankind.
NEW STORV BY DOYLE.
When one has the naming of one's
own price for whatever one wishes to
produce. It l coocttlvablo that -the
temptation to overdo must be strong.
Great authors have found It Irresistible.
It conquered Scott, overmastered Lyt
ton. weakened Thackeray and made
even of the perennial Dickens a some
times sad spectacle of out-pumped
genius. Hence, therefore, one may not
quarrel with Dr. Conan Doyle for har
vesting the 33 1-3 cent-per-word crop
on his literary acres while the sun of
his popularity Is high 1n the heavens.
Yet it Is impossible to repress the
thought that the whirr of the Doyle
pen these days la a bit too boldly In
evidence; and his latest book. "The
Stark-Munroe 'Letters." which comes In
sumptuous binding from the Appletons,
Is not calculated to remove this Im
pression.
The letters describe the difficulties of
a young physician who, without money
or influence, sts . ,ut to set up a prac
tice, and as a cnlef circumstance In
this narration, depict with singular
success the eccentricities, complexities,
running and yet underlying meanness
of a highly successful quack whom this
young physician encounters and tries
to endure for a time. The character
sketching In this book Is In Dr. Doyle's
best vein, and will rest among his fore
most achievements. But the form of
the work is Infelicitous; the theological
monologues Into which the author falls
behind the shoulders of the titular
writer of the letters are sadly out of
place In a work of fiction, and the gen
eral thread of the story could much
more effectively have been manipulated
had Dr. Doyle used the direct method
of narration.
CUSTOM REVERSED.
In "Out of Due Season," which ap
pears as No. 1 In Appleton's Town and
Country library, Adeline Sergeant
boldly reverses precedents. The story
la that of a man, Gideon Blake, who,
when I .roduced to us. Is cross, dark
nd su iy, but who marries a hoity
toity y ung woman of the vapid blonde
persuasion and suddenly reforms. Af
ter bearing htm a child she runs away
with a handsomer man, whose life
Blake afterward saves In a railway
wreck, and In the final chapter Is killed
together with her husband, by the
collapse of a house, after he had rescued
her from a career of dissipation and
unehasf Ity 1n the alums of London and
patiently taking her 'back to his bed
and board. The character of Blake Is
food enough, aa drawn after his con
version, to serve with success as a
Sunday school model; but Mrs. Blake Is
a sad compliment to her sex, which,
nappy to say, has few like her.
THE MAGAZINES.
Three notable articles appear (n the
Metaphysical (Magas ine for September.
The first Is by "Chelro," the celebrated
palmist, and la entitled "The Mind and
the Hand." It Is a spirited defense of
cheiromancy, along scientific lines. The
second, by Carl Le Vlnsen, called "The
(Moral Influence of 'Music," la the first
of a aeries of articles treating of music
both from a scientific and psychic
standpoint. As showing the enormous
capacity of the nervous system for re
ceiving Impressions of almost Infinite
degrees of force and complexity, and
so as a basis for his argument' that
the Impressions received through the
different senses are In all probability
com post' d of the same units, Mr. Le
Vlnsen compare light and sound. If
one were to rap IS times per second on
a table, the human ear could dlstln
uish eaoh rap from the others, but If
there were 17 rapa per second, they
would all blend Into one tone, and the
faster the rapa the higher the tone.
The highest A on the piano hat only
1,480 vibrations per second, and at 40,
M0 vibrations the sound becomes
Inaudible. When the vibration
reaches 458,000,000,000,000 times a
second, It can be seen; when It vibrates
7x7,000,000,000,000 times, It takes the hue
of extreme violet, the color that corre
sponds to the highest sound. Mr. Le
Vlnsen's deductions from these prem
ises will appear In later numbers. The
third article worthy of special attention
is W. W. Carrlngton s paper on "ivr
petual Motion," In which he proves
that no two definitions of what Is
meant by the title of his paper coin
cide, and avers that until the scientists
get together and agree as to what per
petual motion Is, they ought not to de
clare It an Impossibility,
In the September number of the
American Historical Register, Charles
H. lirnwnlng continues his very m
terestlng series of papers descriptive
of General Lafayette's visit to the
united States in 1824-25. The article
Is profusely Illustrated with portraits
and landscapes huvlng to do with that
memorable pilgrimage. Another paper
or uncommon Interest hereabouts Is
Mary Jenkins Klchart's story of the
"Traditions of Fort Jenkins," which
corrects several errors as to the true
history of the Wyoming massacre.
As described by Elbert Hubbnrd In
the September Vhllist ine, "The Pawns
of Chance." a new Chlcagoese novel
treating of Women with a l'ast. Is
truly a notable work, wherein the au
thor lays down the sliiKiilar pronosl
tion that society might easily avert
its large percentage of matrimonial
misfits if arrangements were made for
the seizing of wives by sheer lottery.
But apropos of all this. 'Mr. Hubbard
Is moved to remark, In a tone provoca
live of emphatic assent: "Just now
the stage uml story-book seem to vie
with one another In putting on arad
the Men and Women who Did for the
delectatloq of those who Have or May.
The motif In all these books and plays
Is to depict torturing emotions thut
wring and tear the hearts of these un
happy mortals. The (.'amp of l'hlllstla
does not boast that there are In it no
People who Did, neither do we deny
the reality of the heartaches and tears
that come from unrequited love and
affection placed not wisely. Hut from
a somewhat limited experience In
worldly affairs I arise to say thut life
does not consist entirely in these
things, and furthermore that the lm
portunee given to the Folks who Have
is quite out of proportion to their
proper place with the procession. There
are yet loves that are sweet and whole.
some; there are still ambitions that are
manly and strong. Let's write and
talk of these." The Philistine, by the
way, is still chic, sprightly, clever and
satirical.
MISCELLANEOUS.
'The Joneses and the Asterisks," by
Gerald Campbell. (New York: the Mer-
rlam Co.) Is described on Its title-page
as "a story In monologue." This Is not
quite correct. It is really a group of
sketches to be precise, there are four
teen touching airily upon topics or in'
terest to society from the viewpoint of
a well-to-do wife and mother who
"in the swim." There Is a good deal of
cleverness in these sketches and a Boo a
deal of shrewdness in Interpreting the
feminine gender; -but, for all that, there
Is a superfluity of froth.
From this same firm Is received a
dainty small volume called "Beautiful
Thoughts on Lire Internal, and being,
as Its title would Indicate, a compila
tion of what the masters of English
literature have had to say concerning
the mystery which men call death
The gathering together and arranging
of these brilliants is the work or Eliza
beth Curuton, and It has been well done.
e a
In handsome guise, from Copeland &
Day. Boston, comes "Robert Louis
Stevenson: an Elegy; and Other Poems,
Mainly Personal," by that rising light
in English letters, Richard Le Galll
enne. Of these thirty-five poems,
many are faulty; and one, beginning
From tavern to tavern
Youth passes along.
With an armful of girl
And a heart full of song.
has been sharply derided as being prob
ably the worst figure ever employed
by an English poet. But there are sev
eral verses In the little volume that be
speak a poetic temperament and, by
their grace and beauty of Imagery In
vite condonation of manifest faults.
The elegy on Stevenson Is already fa
miliar to many of our readers. It has
some fine lines, as for Instance the in
troductory stanza '.
High on his Patmos of the Southern seas
Our Northern dreamer sleeps.
Strange stars above him, and above his
grave
Strange leaves and wings their tropic
splendors wave.
While far beneath, mile after shimmering
mile,
The great Pacific, with Its faery deeps.
Smiles all day long its silken, secret smile;
Strange craft of words, strange maglo of
the pen,
Whereby the dead still talk with living
men;
Whereby a sentence. In Its trivial scope,
May center all we love and all we hope,
And In a couplet, like a rosebud furled,
Lie all the wistful wonders of the world.
Mr. Le dalllenne has a pretty trick of
versifying, but floes too little and too
much. It will be well with him when
he learns, in the language of Charles
A. Dana, to "stop the dribble at the
spigot and let the new wine ripen." ;
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AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
"The Days of Auld iLnng Hyne" Is the
title of Ian Macluren's new book.
Hall Caine will bs the guest of W. W.
Appleton while he Is In this country.
Andrew Lang Is engaged upon a biog
raphy of John Gibson Lockhart, son-in-law
and biographer of Sir Walter Scott.
The Liverpool Post says that John Mor
ley Is writing a .history of the present
century. The work has occupied his spare
t.mo for sevornl years.
Miss Lou!o Imogen Oulney's first at
tempt nt story-telling Is on the press of
Copeland & Day. Tt 4s railed "Lovers
Saint Ruth's, and Three Other Tales."
Harper & Bros, have In preparation a
uniform edition of Mnrk Twain's works.
The first volume, entitled "Life on the
Mississippi," will be issuod before the end
of the year.
"In the Fire of the Forge," Professor
Ebers forthcoming book, is a historical
romance, and deals with the life of the
burgher merchants of 1281 In the old town
of Nuremberg.
Mf. Qulller-Coueh 'n preparing to bring
out several books. These Include a collec
tion of short stories to be called "Wan
dering Heath," a book of "Fairy Tales Far
and Near." and a volume of "Adventures
In Criticism.'! (
John Vance Cheney has written a long
dramatic poem, whose heroine Is that
perennial darling of the poets, Helen of
Iroy. This, with a number of verses on
other classical subjects, he has Included In
a, volume, which in on the press. He cnlls
the book "Queen Helen and Other
Poems."
I MoClure's Magaslne for October will
have a new Drumtochty story by Ian
Maclaren that -is said to be the equal In
humor and pathos of anything in "Beside
the Bonnie Briar Bush.". It will also
have a new story by Anthony Hope about
the Princess Osra a slory of high play
with dies and swords. ,
T. P,, O'Connor Is about to bring out In
London a volume of "Some Old Lovs
Stories." The papers, collected therein
deal with actual romanees those of Abra
ham Lincoln and bis wife, of MIrabeau
and Sophie de Morinler, of William Has
lltt and Sarah Walker, of Nelson and
Marie Antoinette and of Carlyle and his
Wife.-'.'; v ' . '
The four-volume edition of Shakes
peare's Comedies which the Harpers are
about to publish will contain all the beau,
tiful illustrations upon which Edwin A.
Abbey has been engaged for some years,
In ttie course of this work -Mr. Ablwv tin
visited the places chosen by the dramatist
as the setting of his scenes, and has
made the most careful and thorough
studies. The folio of 1123 has been used
m preparing the text. i
HEM INCONSISTENCY.
From the Washington Star.
' "I'm sorry," she said gently, "that I
cannot be all that you wish In your life.
But I will always think of you as a very
uear inenu.
"Thank you." he said.
"And if there Is any way I can ever as
sist you by advice or endeavor, do not
nositate to call on me."
"That's downi'Iuht kind of you." he re
piled, greatly cheered. "You van help
me."
"How?"
"You see, so long as you have declined
to be mine, I thoUKht I'd proposo to Miss
Blnklns, and If you'll see her and put In
a good word for me, you know"
And that's why she Jumped up and Went
away huffy, and vowed she'd neyer speak
lo n.m again as long us sue nveu
STORIESUl' 01 R SENATORS.
What One of the Members of the Upper
llouso lias to Say Concerning Ills
Colleagues.
A senator recently chatted at Wash
ington with a Times-Humid reporter,
coiK-ernliiK 'his fellow-senators. The
following was the result:
"lVrhupa to me a interesting a
cl.ai'aUer aa there Is In the senate Is
IlLur. With his spectacles, his white
huir, his smooth, ruddy face, he Is the
exuet picture if Dlckwlck as drawn
by Cruikshunk In his Illustrations ot
Dickens. Hour Is always soft, plausi
ble and gentle; and yet 'there h) no one
lu the senate who has greater taste or
capacity to make life u burden to the
opposition. Fairt'lcularly Is this true in
reaueot of some particular senator to
whom Hoajr lia taken, we will say, a
political dislike; personal dislikes Hoar
does not ImJulee In,
"All through the tariff fight Hoar
took great delight in hanging on tilu
Hank of Mills and pinching him ana
nipping 'him at every chance that or
fered. 'Mills Is a splendid character to
annoy. He is Hpleiietlc, hot. easily
arouMed and excited and but little aMo
to defend himself while his temper is in
the saddle. Hour was forever, during
the dilute, sticking penknives Into
Mills .about a speech which the Texas
senator made in Massachusetts during
the last Cleveland campaign ; wherein
Mills had promised if the Democrats
siK'ceededthatt.'oul should bo free. From
first to last Hoar kept reminding MHIs
of tin Is -speech and kept that Irritable
statetwmin in a perpetual fume. -Hoar
would lug out the coal business by the
tail In this fashion: On one occasion
during the tariff debate theqe were but
six senators visible at their desks
Mills was the only Democrat. Quay
was raiiKing.
"Hoar came In and beholding no
body to guard the Democratic side but
Mills saw at once a hole for coal an
noyance of the Texan.
" 'Will the senator allow me a mo
ment?' Hoar sweetly asked of Quay,
" Certainly,' responded Quay, who
was talking against time, and merely
to force certain schedules on cutlery
ana glass,
" 'Why, I only wanted to observe,
remarked Hoar, bending a benignant
eye on Mills, 'that now that the sena
tor from Texas is In sole charge of
this bill for the Democratic side. I
would like to ask unanimous consent
to take up the coal schedule and put
coal on the free list. The senator from
Texas will remember that during the
campaign of 18K2 he told the manu
facturers of my state In a speech which
he delivered at Boston that If the
Democracy carried the election, which
they unfortunately did. and elected
president and a congress, which they
unfortunately have, that he could
promise that coal would bo free-listed
I therefore ask unanimous consent that
this be done.
"Mills sat glaring like a wild-cat at
his tormentor, and aa If In a state of
tacit rage. Mills never said a word.
Hoar kept smilllng at him blandly.
After a brief pause Hoar resumed:
" 'As the senator from Texas makes
no objection, I ask unanimous consent
to take up the coal
" 'But I object,' shouted Mitchell, of
vregon.
" 'Well,' said Quay, who still had the
floor, and no doubt tl ought It a Rood
way to close an Incident which had
no purpose beyond that of nagging the
uemocracy. "I move you. Mr. PresI
dent, we Indefinitely postpone further
consideration of the tariff bill,'
"This necessitated a call of the sen
ate and bells went Jingling In restau
rant and cloak-rooms. About fifty
senators filed In, among the others
senator t'almer. who had evidently
been hastily torn from pie, as he car
ried a naky collection of piecrust on
his venerable beard.
"Quay's motion was, of course., voted
down, and he droned on with his In
terminable tlme-klller of a speech."
est
One on Senator Lodge.
"Lodge, the young one from Massa
chusetts, has, i more than any other
senator, a literary repute, lie is sup
posed to know intricately all about
Looks, and be able not only to read but
write them. It would seem that Lodge
is not always fair, however. In grabbing
credit In his behalf. 'During the pas
sage of the McKlnlcy bill I was a mem
ber of the housp. Some Republicans,
supporting the bill, had drawn a beau
tiful picture of the cottage and yard
and general home life of the New Eng
land factory hand. He was showing
what a Mousing a high tariff was to
the workman.
"Wilson, of West Virginia, now post
master general, was replying to this
picture-drawer. Wilson was reading
from Dickens 'American Notes,' and
his sketches an American life, a de
scription. of the cottage and life of the
New Epglund factory hand, to show;
that long before the war, and. In
fcrentlally. long before the war or pro
tective tariff, Dickens had found all of
these beauties In the home life of the
New England factory hand, which the
Republican was now trying to ascribe
to protection.
"Wilson wns doing first rate for hU
side, until nil at one. McKlnlcy, who
was lolling back In his chair listening
to him, turned to Lodge, wtho sat at his
elbow. "Cabot," said McKlnlcy, 'do you
recollect the year Dlckeno vlrfltod
America, and wrote tils "American
Notes'? I think It was at a time when,
under whig rule, we had a high-board
protective tariff.
"Lodge illdn t know, and McKlnlcy
dispatched him to the library to find
out. It was not ten minutes before the
erudite and learned Lodge was back
with the book, lie never went near
McKlnlcy, but. Standing in the middle
alK'le, craved permission to ask Wilson,
who was still talking, a question. It
was granted. Then it wins, Lodge pro
needed to confound and almost silence
Wilson by showing that Dlcken's visit,
when he made the New Ent land dis
coveries, touching the factory hand, ot
which Wilson had Just been reading,
was coincidental with a high protec
tive tariff whlttfi then, and had for come
years, pre va Wed.
"Lodge gained great celebrity at the
time for 'his prompt, full knowledge of
books. McKlndey said nothing, and few
peoolo know at Wit day of how Lodse
came to tree Wilson that day during
me tatim aeuaie. .
i i e 1
Ingallk Flaying of Voorhoes,
Speaking of Senator PefTer, reminds
me that no one expects him to tie tito
own successor. iMost senators think
Ingalls will follow him. And, by the
way, the senate would be glad to see
Ingalls come back. He was an Inter
esting character, and today were you
In behind the senate cloakroom doors
while gossip and reminiscence are float
ing, you would hear 'the -senators oft
and again telling stories -of. Ingalls,
what' he am, ana what ne said; and
scenes of the' senate In which Ingalls
took a star part.
"ingalls' assault on voorhees must
have been as dramatic an Incident as
any whereof the senate was the theater
since the day when Aaron Burr laid j
down Its gavel to kill Alexander Hamil
ton In a duet ait Weetwiwken. I was
not In the senate at the time, but I was
a member of the "house, and chanced to
be over In the senate chamber, having
a talk with Cullora. ' ingalls had or
ganised for Voorhees and meant to an
nihilate htm. ills desk was full to
the muzzle, so to speak, ot all that
was deadly and damaging In the case
of Voorhees. No one In the senate was
In In rails' confidence or knew what
was coming. It was as much a thun
der clap to the senate generally aa It
was to the unfortunate tall sycamore.
"I don't now recall what business
was before the senate; however, It was
of no thrilling moment. The first I
noticed ot an unsual sort was Ingalls
making some vivid assertions touching
Voorhees' attitude during the late civil
war. Voorhees retorted harshly; In ef
fect, and I don't know but in so many
words, called Ingalls a liar. This was
what Ingalls was after, and I'll never
forget the smile of self-satisfied cruelty
which shone In his face, as, still holding
the floor, he opened his desk and began
to arrange for the flaying of Voorhees.
Ingalls read letter after letter, pro
duced document after document, and
every one wus as the stab of a dagger
to Voorhees.
"It went on two hours, and was as
crushing a thing personally as I ever
saw huppen In congress. To this day
Voorhees Impresses me as having nev
er recovered his confidence. He Is
much softer, more careful, more guard
ed in what he says. He looks on every
desk as concealing u bomb, and evi
dently fears thut somebody else may
be tempted to remake the Ingalls ef
fort." SOME CURIOUS WACERS.
How a Sportive British Itorooet Was
Caught in the Toils of the Churh-Sir
Walter Raleigh's Bet with the Good
Queen Boss-Other Odd Cbanees.
From the Chicago News.
Betting Is a human weakness by no
means confined to the wagering of
money on sporting events. In all ages
It hus been common to settle points of
difference by a wuger or to accomplish
great teats under Mie penalty uf the loss
of a given sum. There's a man down
In Kentucky who vowed never to cut
his beard until Henry Clay was elected
president. This wus really a vow, but
It was also a bet. The man bet against
fate and fate won. A rash young
Harvard graduate recently went
around the world without a cent of
money In his pockets when he started.
It was given out that he had laid a
wagur of 15,000 that he could make the
trip without money. It has since
turned out that he was simply the
agent of a widely advertised article.
The old English law forced bettors to
pay their debts. A remarkable action
was brought In 1812 by the Rev. Air.
Gilbert against 'SlriMark iM. Sykes. The
baronet, at a dinner party at his own
house. In the course of a conversation
of the hazard to which the life of Bona
parte was exposed, offered on receiv
ing 100 guineas, to pay one guinea a
day as long as Napoleon should re
main alive. 'Mr. Gilbert closed with
Sir Mark and sent the 100 guineas and
the latter continued to pay the one
guinea a day for nearly three years.
At last he declined to pay any longer
and an action was brought to enforce
the payment. It was contended by the
defendant that he had been surprised
into the bet by the clergyman's hasty
acceptance of It, and that the transac
tion was an illegal one, seeing that
'Mr. Gilbert, having a beneficial Interest
In the life of Bonaparte, might. In the
event of an Invasion, use all his means
for the preservation of the life of an
enemy of his country. The Jury loyally
brought In a verdict for the defend
ant. Sir Walter Halolgh's Wager.
Another queer wager Is the one popu
larly believed to have been won by Sir
Waiter Raleieh from Onnon Pll,nhuih
on the delbata'ble question of how much
smoke was contained in a pound of to-
oacco. a pound or the article was
weighed, bumvd and weighed again In
ashes, and the question was held to be
satisfactorily settled by determining
the Welrht nf tha anwtlm nm . v. .
of the tobacco before being burned,
minus the ashes. The fact of the ashes
havlnK received an additional weight
by combination with the oxygen of the
atmosphere was unthought of by Eliza-
ut-ui turn ine Knignt.
An amusing bet for the small sum of
five shillings was laid In 1806 In the
castle yard. York, between Thomas
Hodeson and Snmiml ivt,u..kA.j
. ' . . inti.in uu an in
which should succeed In assuming the
most original character. iHodgson ap
peared aecoraiea with 10-guinea, 5
aulnea and irtilnoa mOoa a u ki-
coat and waistcoat and a row of 5-
guinea notes around his hat, while to
his back was fastened the words "John
Bull." Whitehead a ntinn ui,A n
woman on one side, one-half of his face
painieu. one silk stocking and slipper,
while the other side represented a
nearo In man's rlrean uitt Urmt .i
spurs. "John Bull" won the wager.
Thought Thor Were Bogus.
A ffentleman of fhf Inat ta.hi,v inM
a wager to a great amount that he
couiu siano ror a wnoie day on London
bridge with a tray full of sovereigns
fresh from the mint unit ha nrnidi. n
find a purchaser for them at a penny
apiece, inoi one was disposed of.
Wagers have sometimes taken a grim
fortn. Tt Ifl Pfwlttahlv rannnlail ! Im
the last century a wager was laid for
one of a party of gay revelers to enter
csimuieicr aooey. ai me nour or
millnlirht Via u-au in n ... ,W
vaults beneath the abbey; In proof of
his having been there he was to stick
a fork Into a coffin which had been re
cently deposited . there.- He accom
plished his object and was returning
In triumph, when he felt himself sud
denly caught and was so overpowered
hv t.rmr t h n f ho fall lit a -......., uu
e - ' - i. .iin
companions not being able to account
iur nis nnsence lounu mm in mis con-
nltbin Tha fnrlf whlnh ha V. ,1
ened Into the coffin had caught ind
pinned his cloak and so occasioned a
ill 01 terror wnicn nearly proved ratal.
HOW WORDS If AVE CHANGED.
Vlllla formerly meant a farm, not a
house.
Dulsy wns orlulnallv the eva of dav.
or day's eye.
uirl formerly signified any youns per
of either sex.
llaic onee meant an old person, whether
male or female.
Gallon was orlKtnnlly a Ditcher or Inr.
no matter of what size.
Polite at first meant Polished, and was
applied to any smooth, shining surface.
Voynge was rormerly any Joiirnev.
whether by land or sen It illd not matter.
Good-bye Is an abbreviation of an old
English form of purtlng. "God be with
yon until we meet."
Moonstruck is borrowed from astrology.
It formerly described one. driven mad by
sleeping In the rays of the moon.
Shrewd once signified evil or wicked.
Thomas Fuller uses the express:on, "a
shrewd fellow." meaning a wicked mun.
A vaaaboml was or.n iia Iv only n trav
eler or person who went from place to
place with or wlthont a definite object.
Peck first meant a bnsket or reenp.
tftcle for the grain or other substances.
Ths expression at first had no reference to
size.
Acre once meant any field. 'It Is still
used with this significance by the Ger
mans, who speak of God's acre, alluding
to the cemetery.
Stnrve was ones to die any manner of
rtrnth. Wycllffe's sermons will tell how
cur st starved on the cross for tne re
demption of men."
The word miscreant formerly rignined
only sn unbeliever, - an Infidel, Joan of
Arc In the literature of her life tlmt,
was called a miscreant.
Meat ones meant eny kind of food. Tn
one old F.nsllsh edition ot the Lord's
prayer the woll-known petition Is ren
dered, "U.ve us tms nay our aauy meat,
Town originally slicnlfled a farm or
farm-house. It Is used by Wycllffe In this
sense, "and they went their ways ons
to h i town, another to nis merchandise."
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Uniformed colored porters are In charge
of day coachts to show fell attention to
the passengers on the Nickel Plate Road.
Men of Renowe in
European Affairs. .
Some Idea of Michael Timothy Healy, the
Energetic Factional Irish Leader.
From the Times-Herald.
'London, Sept. 4. Now that Justin
McCarthy haa virtually relinquished
the leadership of the Irish 'Parliament
ary party, much interest attaches to
"Tim" Healy, his spectacular opponent.
Htaly is the most fractious and bril
liant demagogue who has yet figured
In the house as a professed champion
of Irish Interests. Americans will re
member him as a delegate with T. P.
O'Connor to the land league convention
of America, held at Chicago In 1SS1,
When the Sum of tur.O.OOO was voted to
assist the Irish movement. He was
then a man of 27, but already an ac
complished orator, with a wealth of the
wit, lire, pathos and pugnuclty of his
race. He spoke for the league in many
of the chief cities of the United Stutes
and Canada, everywhere producing an
Impression which abundantly Justified
tho confidence of those who had In
trusted him with the task ot arousing
American sentiment.
Mr. llealy's Career.
Michael Timothy Healy Is his full
name. Bantry, In Cork, saw his birth
In ISCifi, and his arrest twenty-five years
later for a speech held Indictable under
the famous Whlteboy acts. 'He escaped
conviction, however, for this, and In
the late autumn of 1880 was re-turned
unopposed for Wexford borough. He
speedily distinguished himself In par
liament by his zeal for Irelund and
his facility In debate; and In the pass
ing ot the land act of that first year
of his membership personally carried
several Important amendments. Among
these was the "Healy clause," which
provided that no rent should be allowed
to the landlord on the tenant's Im
provements. Karly In 1883, after his return from
his American tour, he was cited before
the queen's bench at Dublin, on the
charge of a seditious speech. He re
fused to give ball to be of good be
havior, and, In default of this, was
sentenced to six months' Imprisonment,
four months of which he served before
being released.
In 18S4 he was called to the Irish bar
and ever since then has conducted a
practice at Dublin which might have
become very lucrative had his politi
cal aspirations and engagements al
lowed him to give it proper and system
atic attention. It was in those days
that he wrote his fiery pamphlets
'Loyalty Plus .Murder," which was a
startling expose of Orange methods,
and "A Word for Ireland," which was
and Is one of the most reliable and ex
haustive histories of the Irish land
question.
iHealy's experience in parliament
rrom 1888 to lsau was ultra-sensational.
He was almost continually In evidence,
and by his Impassioned oratory and
nervous personality offered the strong
est possible contrast to the calm and
Imperturbable Parnell. When the Par
nell commission was Instituted to In
quire into the allegations contained In
the "Parnellism and Crime" pamphlet
that Issued from the office of the Lon.
don Times, Healy was among the ac
cused persons.
Ills Hatred of Parnell.
There are numerous explanations
given of the beginnings of his implac
able hatred of the great Irishman
whose fall In 1890 shattered the hopes
of the Irish party, but this at least Is
beyond dispute it was not until Par
nell's social errors came to be matters
of common report among his followers
that Heoly beenme actively and public
ly Insubordinate. There was friction,
but not mutiny. However cordially he
may have disliked Parnell. he did not
embarrass htm by public display of
hostility until a court of Justice had
proved the Irish leader guilty or aauu
ery with the wife of a man who had
trusted him Implicitly. When the
Damocles sword, long suspended over
Parnell's head, fell.iHealy took a promi
nent part In the deposing of his old
leader. No man was more Insistent In
Ireland and at the house of commons
upon Parnell's retirement. He was
the most violent of the forty-five who
withdrew on that dark Saturday, Dec.
6 18H0. from a prolonired session In
committee room No. IS at the house and
passed the memorable resolution terml
natina Parnell's term of chairmanship
of the Irish parliamentary party and
electing Justin McCarthy in his stead.
Parnell's misguided and pathetic at
tempts to resume his old position as
leader of the Irish people. If not of
their parliamentary representatives,
excited Healy to a terrible pitch of rage.
He denounced tho fallen staitesmun
with a virulence unparalleled In the
history of Irlt'h factions, end was cnler
ly responsible for the agitation In tihe
home country which culminated In the
protest agadnt't Parnell. elgni'd by four
archblstiops anil eighteen 'bishops or
the Roman Catholic church.
It was the mvage ferocity of Healy
quite as much as any other factor
which l.rove Parnell Into a premature
grave tn 1891. The 'Parnellltes have
never forgiven his unnecessary and al
most Inhuman violence toward a man,
who, whatever his social wrongdoing
and weakness, hnd done more for the
welfare of Ireland than any other man
of his generation.
Civil Dissension Follows.
WMh the withdrawal of Parnell's
powerful hand of restraint, the fac
tional hates in the party broke out
Into open war. Two camps formed
one containing Ilealey, Arthur O'Con
nor and theUr following, and the other
containing John Dillon. O'Brien, Sex
ton, T. P. O'Connor end theirs. From
Uliait day to this the Wntory of t'he Irtish
movement In parliament has been a
tilptnry of the mutual defamation ot
Irlih representatives. In this misera
ble business of hurling foul epithets no
on lus beaten the record ot Timothy
Healy. He in rather more decent than
Tinner, who Is constitutionally and
habitually vulgar, but he Is much more
virulent.
Healy Is unquestionably a mnn of su
perior nientml gifts. If his judgment
and discretion equaled his Imagination
and energy he would be quickly singled
out as the natural leader of the Irlnh
mutionnllrits. but even his most ardent
admirer. Arthur O'Connor, would not
Kty much stress upon llealy's mental
equilibrium. Ills ambition is towering;
his fuith In Ida stars amounts to fatal
ism, llnfortunaifvly, Just when he had
succeeded In the debwtc on the address
In making a favorable Impression and
in convincing his associates that he
l,ud at lant determined to ndopt a more
rational n.'j.nmr, he spoiled the whole
by cn-oprTaflng with Tanner In the dis
graceful bchavCor which secured the
la'.''.f r's double, suspension. Tanner's
vagaries are by no means confined to
tvliH't appears In the reported proceed
ings of the house, flic Is guilty of even
worse offerises; and Healcy's willing
ness to collaborate with him In any
tarf IculSr .Is viewed with surprlrc even
by those who most keenly resent his
ordinary audacity. Tannerlsm Is a sort
of a hist ditch of political disrepute.
Contest with Justin McCarthy.
llealy's struggle with Justin Mc
Carthy Is apparently to be as fierce
and unrelenting as that waged with
Parnell. It was expected that he would
be severely disciplined at the caucus
of the Irish nationals held Immediately
alter tne opening or parliament, but
that little operation did not take ulace.
On the contrary, he narrowly failed to
beat his opponents badly, and actually
succeeded In making the outcome of
the controversy seem a drawn battle.
The caucus refused to publish the cor
respondence In relation to the Tvrono
and. Perry seats, which Healy said
were to be sold to the liberals on condi
tion that the latter paid all registration
and election expenses. It refused also
to reaffirm the censure which Mc
Carthy had pronounced upon Healy in
the Freemun's Journal; and bo far frpm
the latter being turned out of the Irish
national party, as 'McCarthy had ex
pected, he and his followers were given
an 'influential representation in the ses
sional committee which shapes the
party programme. 'Mr. .McCarthy took
this so severely to heart that lie was
Bald to have declared his Intention to
resign the chairmanship of the party
during the recesM.
On Monday McCarthy Issued another
manifesto against Healy. This time
It was an appeal to the electors of
South Kerry to support Farrell, the
candidate chosen by the regular con
vention, and to oppose Murphy, who Is
a Jleulylte. The appeal denounced
Murphy's candidature as "treason
against the. party discipline," and bit
terly scored Healy. This has Intensi
fied the animosity of the pugnacious
Dublin lawyer, who says he has not yet
reached a point where he will count
himself drummed out of the party of
Irish nationalists. The result of the
election is the rt'turn of the McCarthy
candidate and the overthrow of Healy's
nominee. What effect this will have
upon him remains to be seen. He has
survived worse rebuffs. His persever
ance Is remarkable.
It Is doubtful whether even a coali
tion between the Redmondltes and the
Dillon-McCarthy faction could disci
pline "Tlm"Healy.
TIME AND SPACE.
Of all human conceptions, perhaps time
is the most common. Yet, when we an
alyse it. how bowildertng the task be
comes! We can penetrate the beautifully
crystalHned uhumuers of the snowfUke
and there read the story of its wonderful
formation. In geology we can recall the
Ke of rock formations and by the aid of
that tnost fascinating of all sciences,
astronomy, we ure enabled to tell, with
an astonishing degree of accuracy, the
distances to all the members of the solar
family. But, In our efforts to measure
time, how fruitless the result as we gaze
Into an unbounded, unfathomable sea of
nothingness!
We say that time is measured duration.
If so. when did this duration begin?
Did time begin umld the throes of crea
tion's birth? We look backward through
the generations of human history, to that
mystic point, "the beginning" and the
mystery begins to increase. In all prob
ability the earth could not have been a
lit abode for senlient beings more than ten
thousands of years. What was hark nf
, this? A timeless blank, (ncomprehensl-
hie! VA pnnnnt an, in.l lt .....k-
scale its height. We are tossed, without
"ai guiding star," upon Its shoreless
ocean. With our mental horoscope we
scan Its horlion, but the mists of its end
less future obscure our vision. Astron
omy divides Ua present. GeoloKy partly
reveals Its past, while theology throws no
light upon lu end. There always has
been and, nt present is, and ever shall
be, a past, a present, and a future. Theie
Is no true eternity, save for the Uncreat
ed, Self-existent Ood. His presence fills
all time and space. All intelligences must
be I mlted to time and space, and be sub
jects to Its never ceasing flow.
The Archangel Gabriel was caused to fly
quickly and touched Daniel at the time
of the evening oblation; showing that he
could act In one place at a given time
only. After our immortal spirits shall
have been liberated from their pr-sent
environments we shall still be subjects of
time. We read In the "Book of Revela
tion that the angel shall stand upon the
earth and sea and swear that there "shall
be t:me no longer." This does not ref--r
to time, abstractly considered. The fol
lowing paragraph explains Its meaning:
"In the days of the voice of the seventh
angel, when he shall begin to sound, the
mystery of God shall be finished." This,
then. Is the time of redemption, the
mediatorial dispensation Bhall be ended
and exist no longer. Time shall continue
to go on forever and ever.
Whatever means were employed to meas
ure time or space, they ever remain the
same, unfathomable, wonderfully grand
yet real mysteries. Time and spare are
synonomous terms; they shall ever re
main hidden from human understanding.
What Is space? The profoundness and
illlmltnblllty of God's universe baffles the
human mind in its effort to analyze it.
All the members of the solar system are
so near to us in comparison that we can
put our hands upon the planet Neptune,
which Is only twenty-seven hundred and
fifty millions of miles away. Suppose
that a telegraphic message' was sent to
the nearest star upon the day of Oeorg
Washington's birth, speeding uninter
ruptedly at the rate of eight thousands of
miles per second of time, we would today
only receive the return answer. This dis
tance Is only twenty billions, two hundred
and e'.ght thousand millions of miles!
The electric current is too slow to assist
us In reaching out to the uttermost
bounds of space, or. to a point where our
Imagination can find a resting place.
Suppose we send a telegram upon th
swift winged messenger of light, traveling
at the Inconceivable rate of one hundred
and eighty-three thousunds of miles per
second, It would take elcht minutes to
reach the sun. and -three and one-half
years to reach the nearest star. There
are stars of the tlflh and sixth magnitude
and. visible to the naked eye. which wouid
require one hundred and fifty vears for
their light to reach us. What, then, must
be the distance to those far off worlds of
the sixteenth magnitude whose light
starteil upon Its sidereal Journey before
the birth of the human race, and Is Just
now shedding the silvery rays upon us!
Can it be that, at this distance, we would
be any nearer the end of space than we
are at present?
The wildest fllRht of the im.iirlniitlnn
cannot cross this limitless gulf nor hol-e
this hidden mystery. This contemplation
fills us with a deep sense of reverence
"Oh, where la this vast boundless region
of spnee.
Can we look and the hand of our Maker
not trace.
If we ride with Aurora, where beauty
appears,
Or tread with the comet, the Journey of
years.
Should we not find, wherever we trod,
That nature's upheld by the hand of her
Ood." W. D. Owen.
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