DOOGOOOOQOOOOOOOOOO Chat of Books Booth Tarkintfton's Ideas on Novels and Plays and Americans Abroad - ASon net on Mr. Roosevelt's De parture For Africa. 0000000000000000000 IT Is said that it was not entirely desire for dollars, to be had easily with a successful play, that led Booth Tarklngton lo write hia share of"The Man From Home." The Iloosier novelist-playwright, hav ing a lot of real American in him, was so angered by the snobbery and the toadyism of various alleged Americans he met In Europe that he thought he would "use the hammer" on them, and lie found the stage a better medium than book or pulpit. Tarklngton Is so disgusted with certain things he has seen abroad that he lias unbosomed himself with consluerable freedom In this fashion: "I'm ashamed of some of my fellow Americans. I am disgusted with the idiocy tliut possesses ceriaiu of them when they find themselves abroad. Un crowned kings we have been wont to call ourselves, and assi s topped with the fool's cap and bells is what those I speak of most nearly resemble. 1 speak of that class with more money than good sense; the class that by inference distinguishes Itself as the socially elect; the class we others have come to know as the idle rich; the class that makes hysterical attempts to misally its daughters to the morally strabismic and financially decrepit titular excres cences of the old world. One may live for a lifetime in a small city of the 'if, BOOTH TAIIKINGTON. United States among one's fellow conn tryrnen, but it is not until they are seen surrounded by the atmosphere of strange conditions that their true na tures appear. "Americans whose grandfathers fought tooth and nail for the abolition ol' mo narchical forms and fads maybe found prostrating themselves before a shal low paled holder of an Indifferently well polished coronet. Men who have brought up their daughters In the at mosphere of clear republicanism are willing to barter their hard earned dol lars and their children for a doubtful alliance with a certain section of a leisure class that can serve no useful purpose in this world. "If our stay-at-homes could see one half of what 1 have seen they would seethe with Indignation. For that rea son I have written this play in con Junction with Harry Leon Wilson. 1 do not write plays as a rule; I write books. But there are times when books fall of their purpose, when the best powers of description are unequal to the task the writer would demand of them." The departure of ex-President Roose velt to Africa was the occasion for the following sonnet from the pen of Julia Ditto Young, author of "Barham Beach, the President's I'oem:" Thy country blesses thee and sets thee free And speeds tier faithful servant on his way. Nor friends nor dearer ones dare bid thee stay. The lons aceounts are squared twlxt them and thee. But all hearts question: "Ah. how will It be. That far homecoming? Will the can non play And a wild welcome sweep him up the bay, Or will the ship creep through a sobbing sea?' 1 only neither hope nor fear—l know! Tusk, fanj.; and daw shall harmless pass thee by. And safe ihlne eager keel shall cleave tho brine. There is a debt of words thou still dost Fori: tten. trifling, but thou wilt not <1 • Til! Thou Irnst paid those two words, "riistei mine!" Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, who was recently appointed minister to Argen tina. is author of "Stained Glass Tours In France." At Yale Mr. Sherrill was a noted sprinter and athlete, and as a lawyer In New York he has been ac tively Interested in politics. Ills book on stained glass tours was the result of several years' touring in France. Before sailing for South America he saw through the press a now book upon which he has been at work, entitled "Stained Glass Tours In Eng land." Out of Line. An enlisted man at tho post at Fort Leavenworth was ordered to the range ft>r the first time for target drill. Out of twenty-one chances the newcomer made never a bit. "Oh, you dub.'" exclaimed an officer standing near. "You've missed the tar get every time! What's the matter?" "Well, sir," answered the recruit non chalantly, "the only reason I can think of at present Is that the person who set up my target hasn't placed it in a straight line from here." 0000000000000000000 Worth Reading The Work of T. A. Daly Ik Italian Dialect Songs and Poems Other News and Gossip of the Literary World. 0000000000000000000 There has been a flood of dialect tales and poems, ranging all the way from good to the worst possible. In truth the thing has been overdone. Yet now and then appears a dialect book so true to nature and so charm ing that it makes up for the many dreary performances in the de-formed spelling line. One of these good ones Is T. A. Daly's "Carmina," just issued by the John Lane company of New York. Daly's songs In Italian dialect have gone through the press of the entire country. He does not make the mistake of being always humorous, though he Is a humorist of parts, writ ing skits on the Philadelphia papers. Many of his Italian songs owe their popularity to a tender pathos. The author's official name Is Thomas Augustine Daly, but he Is known as Tom all over Philadelphia and among the writers of humorous columns from New York to Los Angeles. Most of these young men who brighten the edi torial pages of our leading dailies are members of an organization known as the American Press Humorists, the or ganization whose prize Joke was ad mitting John I>. Rockefeller to mem bership. Of this aggregation Daly was at one time president, and when the joke writers had their annual conven tion at the Bellevue-Stratford In Phil adelphia he carried off the honors so well and did such a lot of entertain ing that they have since loved him only second to their pastor emeritus, Kobert J. Burdette. Mr. Daly Is editor of the Catholic Standard and Times, in which much of his best work has appeared. In reality he Is an American Irishman— that describes it better than the hack neyed Irish American—which makes his success in Italian dialect all the more surprising. He has already is sued one book under tile title of "Can zoni," which, with his work in the newspapers, has put him far and away in the lead of ail Italian dialect writ ers in tiie country. Ilis fame is by no means confined to the one Held, how ever, as his verse in straight English and In his inherited Irish dialect is also widely copied. The high esteem in which Mr. Daly's glimpses into the life of our American Italians is held is shown by the fol lowing appreciation from the pen of Julian Hawthorne: "His Italian studies," says Mr. Haw thorne, "are really marvelous. These Italians have a captivating and inter- T. A. DALY. estlng life and character of their own. only awaiting proper Insight and knowledge and human sympathy to be recognized as a valuable national pos session in our life as well as our liter ature. Mr. Daly brings to his task precisely the sympathy and Insight re quired. His art. like other tine art. eludes analysis. The thing is done, the effect produced, but how perhaps he himself could hardly tell. The spelling, like that of Thackeray's 'Jeames Yellowplush,' Is In itself a work of genius. liut the secret is not all there. The little stories or themes of the poems are charmingly apt and characteristic, but neither do they quite account for It. Somehow we are made to feel the very nature and way of thinking and feeling of the persons whom lie presents; not their national peculiarities merely, but their individual ones." Thirty years ago Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, now Mrs. Ward, wrote "The dates Ajar." As It gently op posed the stitT church notions of heaven then currently held it excited somewhat the same antagonism that mother Mrs. (Humphry) Ward aroused ten years later in "Robert Elsmere." Mrs. rheips-Ward has been publishing in H.uve. liazar a series of articles explaining Iter present theories on im mortality and the future life. She asks who now expects the orthodox heaven that shone In the mental eyes of our grandmothers or yearns to stand In a row with musical ghosts around a throne? If "The Gates Ajar" appeared as a new publication now. the author asserts that It would scarcely excite remark. Who antici pates a white robe, demands Mrs. Ward, and a palm branch and a hymn book, but who, on the other hand, does not anticipate the restitu tion of lost things? onnon unurcn iu do ii.uu .... An effort Is being made to build a suitable memorial church on the site of the original Shlloh church, on Shl loh battletield. now one of the most at tractive of military parks, says a dis patch from Adamsvllie, Tenn. It was on this very spot the bloody battle of Shiloh was begun on the morning of April 0, 18(52. It Is the purpose to build a memorial church to cost not less than SIO,OOO. The names of all con tributors will be recorded in a perma nent register and kept on exhibition In the church, which will be open to nil visitors red tourists. World's Fair in a Forest Ideal Location and Meritorious Features of the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition to Be Held at Soattle —The Show That Will Be on Time and Open the Door to a New World. By JAMES A. EDGEPTON. OF expositions there Is no end. Since our initial one at Phila delphia in 187U we have held them at Chicago, St. Louis, At lanta, Omaha, Nashville, Buffalo, Port land and Jamestown. We Americans have the exposition habit. It Is a good habit to have, since it Indicates that we are alive. These world's fairs may be described as the flowers on the plant of progress. After a period of growth we blossom out, so to speak, and Invite mankind to come and see us in our glory. Moreover, these fes tivals of industry bring us together and get us acquainted. They unify our life, impart to us a common spirit and stimulate us to a healthy emula tion. The pessimist who grumbles that the era of expositions is over la a calamity waller and not a prophet, lie needs an injection of the sernm of construction. He has failed to catch the American spirit. The exposition has a legitimate place In our life and has come to stay. We are becoming more and more a nation of travelers determined to see the world. These fairs congregate the world for us In one point and show it to us In minia ture. Instead of requiring us to visit distant lands, they bring the distant lands to us. The mountain comes to Mohammed. Expositions furnish a cosmopolitan viewpoint, a universal education. They are panoramas of ad r, . I" •' « ' ' -lJ'- i fp ;'»• ! Sp V-w J 1 "fSB* *Vswr 5 {gr-rr'S I* 1 * vrnEsl iPMIi si LM /l9|teK*i(3s s, FOBEHJN EXHIBITS BUILDINC AND RABIES OF THE SIBKIIIAN VILLAGE. vancement, the progress of the world done into tabloid. It is fitting that the latest of Indus trial festivals is to be held on the shores of the Pacific atid that it is to be not a memorial of the past, but a prophecy of the future; not hung upon yesterday, but on tomorrow. For It is around the Pacific that tlie world's greatest civilization is to form. That has been apparent for fifty years. Dur ing the last half century an awakening of new life has touched all the lands bordering the great ocean. Around the gigantic horseshoe from South Amer ica to Australasia It has progressed, as though sonic world spirit had planned it from behind the scenes. It freed tlio l more than the management had called for. That is the Seattle style. During the past ten years It has grown faster than any city of Its size on earth. With such a town behind it the exposition cannot be other than a success. Another grateful departure in the A.-Y.-P. is that It Is going to open actually on the opening day. Some other expositions have opened when they were half done and did not get ready to appear properly in polite so city till a month or two later. Seattle nas advertised this as "the show that will be on time." That settles the matter, for Seattle makes good. When President Taft presses the button on June 1 he will start the machinery 'n a completed plant. That Is assured, for it is practically completed now. This houso will be bullded before the Bright and Hot. "Bmlth got off a bright thing the other day." "What was it?" "A lighted cigar some one had care lessly dropped Into the chair he sat on."—Lonion Fun. Disgusted. Loafer the First—l thought this yere unemployed fund was for charity. Loafer the Second—So It is, ain't it? Loafer the First—lt ain't. It means work.—London Sketch. date for the occupant* to move In. It will start right and depend on that fact to help It finish right. Still another Improvement over past expositions is the fact that many buildings are to be permanent. They will be turned over to the State unl- . verslty, on whose campus the fair Is | held. This saves a useless waste and shows good business judgment. One ! of these permanent buildings Is that of forestry, which is to be made wholly of logs from the gigantic trees of the northwest. Most of the other build- ! ings are In the French renaissance style. That of New York state Is a facsimile of the home of William H. ] Seward at Auburn. There Is also to j be a fine statue of Seward, the man j who purchased Alaska at a time when I the wise blockheads of the day grinned I and called It "SewW'd's Iceberg." Peo- j pie who look far ahead are always de- | rlded by those superior worldllngß who i cannot see an Inch In front of their noses. A Temperance Festival. A fourth upward step made by the Seattlo fair Is that it Is t« be "dry." The stale law provides that liquor J shall not be sold near the university, j and the law will remain in force, j though it Is not because of the statute j alone that intoxicants will be prohibit- j ed in and about the exposition grounds, j The new departure will be a recogni- ' tlon of the great and growing temper- j ance sentiment throughout the coun- i try. Thus the enterprise Is to be made ' a prophecy of the future in more ways than one. The experiment will be watched with Interest, and friends of temperance will doubtless see that the S fair does not suffer because It has de- J i throned King Alcohol and banished ! blm from its domain. Every exposition has had its mid- j way, where the barker barks and Co- 1 ney Island shows are in evidence. In ; St. Louis this was"the Pike." In 8e- j attie It Is to have a name still more j original, "the Pay Streak." Any one i who has ever traveled the midway and ] has seen the dimes and quarters melt- ! lng through ills fingers will recognize j ' the appropriateness of the title, j There are to be many other novel- j ties. For one thing, a Siberian village I will show to civilization a really primi- I j tlve people. The human race Is sup- i posed to have had Its earliest home In | Asia, and it can readily be Imagined I that these Siberians have not changed J their modes of living since the distant days of the first man. They live In tents, kill their game with rude weap ons, allowing none of the blood to es cape, pray to the devil and propitiate him with blood offerings and slay their own hopelessly sick, aged and ' cripples. The village that has been j brought to Seattle had one child born | since Its advent. This young Sibe- I rian and others will be features of the | village. | Another unique feature Is a fox farm, the exhibitor being a tnau who | has actually started such a farm, on I which foxes are bred for their furs. "Seward's Iceberg." lvriia is the greatest spectacular fea | ture of the exposition Is a gigantic : cyclorama <• 112 Alaska. The enterprise I was originally started to exhibit to the i world the possibilities of Uncle Sam's arctic possession of the Yukon valley j both "ii American and Canadian terri tory. The popular idea of Alaska is a land of "cold aud gold." As a matter of fact, it is a country with great pos sibilities in agriculture. It is no far ther north than Finland, and the cli mate Is even milder than In the ex treme north of Europe. It Is now real ized that some day "Seward's Iceberg" may be the l»ome of prosperous mil lions, and It is for the purpose of has tening that time that the A.-Y.-P. was originally planned. Then the Pa cific Idea was added, aud all countries bordering the great ocean were Invited to participate. It will be a strange blending of tho polar and the tropic, of the Eskimo and the Tagalog. In it the American people will be given an op portunity to become acquainted with "tho little brown brother." There will be a Philippine exhibit such as never has been beheld at any other fair. This is likewise true of Hawaii, a section of one of whose famous parks Is to repro duced. Japan here will give by far the fullest display of her industries and life ever beheld at an exposition. In cluding not only the wonderful Nippon of today, but that even more romantic Nippon of the old days of the samurai. Essentially all the Pacific countries will be represented, as well as most of the American states and some of the European nations. In a scenic way the location of the fair Is ideal. It Is located between two lakes, giving it more than a mile and a half of water front. It Is liter ally a fair Id the forest, the buildings | arising in a picturesque manner among ' the giant trees of the northwest. After a visit Charles Dana Gibson, the art ist, enthusiastically declared it"the I most beautiful exposition ever plan -1 ned." The Mountain Climbers' Convention, j In the near distance arise the three great peaks Mount IJainier, Mount ! Baker and Mount Constance. One or I the other of tiiem is in constant view j from all parts of the grounds, thus | furnishing a combination of water. | greensward, forest and height' to charm the iover of nature. When to this are added the noblest effort of the architect and the pleasing effects of the landscape gardener one can begin to understand how It must have struck the creator of"the Gibson Rirl." No exposition is now complete with out balloon races, and Seattle will t«ave her speed test In the skies. A yet greater novelty Is a convention of the world's most famous mountain climbers, who have been Invited to come from all lands and scale Seattle's three great mountains, one of which. Mount Rainier, la among the tallest on the continent. C«use For Regrat. "I licked the stuffln' out o' Dick Smith this mornln'." "You biid boy! Aren't you sorry for itr "Yessum—nwful sorry. I Jest found out that he's i»oln' ter have a birthday party tomorrow." —Cleveland Leader. In the Toils. "Were you ever sent up Inn balloon, Sam ?" "No, sah. I's been sent up several times, but never In a balloon, sah:"— Yonkers Statesman. DAY OF OUR MOTHERS' Whole United States to Honor Them on Sunday, May 9. GO BACK HOME IF YOU CAN. White Carnations Will Bo Worn by All Observers—Sponsor For Celebration Is Mies Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia. Touching Appeal of a Mother Long ing to See Her Boy. Mothers' day, the second Sunday In May, will be celebratad this year In | every section of the United States. This year for the first time the deeds of our pioneer mothers will be given official recognition by the military of the United States. General Edgar Allen, Jr.. commander In chief of the Sons of Veterans, has been the first officer to recognize the merit of the I demonstration and has issued orders to bis comrades for R general observ ance of Mothers' day. In his notice General Allen says: "A ; great movement has been Inaugurated to do honor to our mothers. Our mothers are our best friends. No day has ever been set aside for the honor ing of their heroic deeds and memory. You will do honor to yourselves, your fathers and your mothers by observ ing this event in an appropriate way. No word of mine can ndd to the many laudable reasons why we, as Sons of Veterans,' shouid honor this event.*' The sponsor for this celebration is Miss Anna Jarvis of 2031 North Twelfth street, Philadelphia. The first effort to call the attention of the entire United States to the proposed celebra tion was made one year ago. Like many home products, It received great er recognition In other parts of the country. Throughout the south and w T est the idea spread with wonder ful rapidity until mass meetings and public demonstrations of other kinds were organized and held before large audiences. Necessarily of a sentimental origin [ and meaning, til© celebration assumed Its most significant aspect in the state j prisons and penitentiaries. The grim walls of Leavenworth. Cherry Hill,' Sing Sing iiml Nebraska prisons lost j not a little of their sordidness, and ! hearts that had not been otherwise j accessible were touched, maybe only for the Instant in some cases, but even 1 the shadow of the mother thought that ' fell left an Impression that prompted I the men to look forward to the cele bration this year. More than that, j white carnations—the symbol of the j day and that which it celebrates—are ! to be given to the men. Letters from j prisoners to governors of their states ' asking for just an hour's relief from j the discipline governing them have i met with approval, and services will ' be held in ilie stone corrid< rs and in j the prison yards. Miss Jarvis has been the recipient of ' many touching letters. In a feeble j hand that spoke volumes of sorrow j and trial a woman, who simply sign-1 ed herself "His Mother," told a typical j tale of a broken heart. In her letter ! this woman praised Miss .larvis for ; her "godly thought" and said: "I have I a son and- three daughters. They are all good to mo. I want for nothing, as I need but Igtle. 1 am very feeble, and I kuow that I have not much longer to live. He writes to me, and i when he gives me an address I write to him. He is so kind to me. He sends me money and everything, but will not come home. He Is wandering all over the world, and I want him to come to his home if only for one utght. If I cotild only see him and tell him how I love him I should feel that all the good ness that Ood intended for me in my old age was mine. Ido not want his money. I am saving it all for him. ' But, oh, if he would only come to me I before I die I should be so happy! Please pray for my boy with me and ask that he lie sent home." In this spirit, which surely appeals to every man and woman, wear a | white carnation on the second Sunday in May and keep in your heart the thought of your mother, no home if you can. if you can't, hold silent com munion with her. for her thought will surely be of you. Miss Jarvis' original Idea embraced ; the simultaneous observance In every part of the world of the love and rev erence which all men and women owe their mothers. The white carnation was especially choeen because of Its whiteness, which stands for purity; Its form and fragrance, representing beauty and love; Its wide field of growth and lasting qualities, symbol izing charity and faithfulness nil a true mother's} virtues. Savages. In the New Hebrides are many Is lands whose Interiors have never been visited by Europeans, for the simple reason that to attempt to do so would be to court certain death at the hands of the treacherous and vindictive na tives. A little to the north of Assam, too, almost within sight of the tea gardens and the pretty bungalows of the planters, is the country of the Padamltes, wherein no white nan has dared to set his foot for at least 500 years past. Punishment and Crime. "She seems to b© having a pretty good time now that sho and her hus band are separated," whispered the three girls In the corner as she en tered the room. "I don't blame her." said one, *'He beat her, didn't he?" They looked her over again. "Well, 1 don't blame him for boating her," the third declared, "If Rhe dressed Uke that. That red Is awful."—Ex change A Dangerous Subject. Professor Henry Druuimond when » boy discovered that he could hypnotize people. At a birthday imrt.v a little girl declined to play the piano. Drum mond happened to catch her eye ano said, "Play." To his surprise she ros. at once, went to the piano and played At another time he hypnotized a bo. and gave liini a poker for a gun "Now," said Druiuuiond, "I'm a pheas ant. Shoot me." The boy did so, an> Drummond fell to keep up the illusion whereupon the boy, seeing the "bird move, was about to hit it over the hea with the poker. The hypnotlzer ha just time to stop the magnetized sports man.—Pearson's Weekly. HONOR FO3 HEROISM France to Fresent Gold Medal to San Francisco. STRICKEN CITY THAT REVIVED. French Ambassador to Deliver Latest Medal In Series Marking His Coun try's Friendship For United States. Will Commtmorste Sister Republic's Grief and Appreciation of Courage. M. Jusserand, the French ambassa dor to the United States, has written to Secretary of State Knox a letter tehii'g of a gold medal which Franco wishes to present to the authorities In San Francisco to commemorate France's '.rief o*wr the earthquake and fire and her appreciation of the hero- Ism of the resurrection of the city fol lowing the disaster. The ambassador tells of receiving from the [ T nlted States government a medal commemorating tie old Franco- American al ii'nee just at tile time the fire was destroying San Franci •<>. At that time the ambassador expres.il the hope that one of the next medals to be struck and added to the series exchanged between the two countries would be on account of the San Frar elsco earthquake. The ambassador says: "The words which I spoke thus spon taneously and under the influence of the emotion caused by that event turn ! Ed out to agree so exactly with the sentiment of my country that the gov j eminent of the republic at onee appro priated them as its own. it conse quently decided to justify them wlillo | at the same time the Inhabitants of tho devastated region wer-- 0:1 their part setting ritxjut to rest' re th.'lr city to its original beauty with the very en ergy and success which It bad been so ; easy to predict. ) "In conformity, therefore, with th® wish which I toofc the liberty to es -1 press u medal Is to be added to the | series of those whfch have marked from time to time ever *nee the earll ! est days of American Independence thfv i persistence of the sympathies which | arose at the very beginning between our two countries—from the medals which commemorated the epoch of tho ! alliance and of freedom down to the : one which a popular French subscrip tion enabled to be struck on the tragic ' death of Lincoln and to the one finally 1 which the American republic offered ! to my count ry. : "This medal was ordered by tU« j French government of Louis Rottee, J winner of the ancient prize of Koine : aud one of our h"st known medal de | signers. On one side Is allegorically ! represented the eli "112 San Francisco j laying aside its sin "d and Issuing i forth from the ruins, wire on the oth ' er Is France presenting n branch of laurel to America. The inscrlptit i calls ! to mind that the medal la offerer', to the American people and the city ot' San Francisco as a token of sympathy and admiration by the French repub lic. "A single specimen In gold has been struck, and I have received orders from my government togo and deliver it In parson to the authorities of Sail Francisco I therefore appeal to your excellency's kind offices In Informing the raid authorities of the ln. truction** which I have received. It is my inten tion. if suitable to them, to start about the middle of next mouth and to d(*. liver the souvenir to them between tho 20th and 25th of May." Old Wheel of Fortune, In the village church of Bear Pont-Croli, In western Brittany, In a very good specimen of the now rare "wheel of fortuue." It is made ot wood, with a row of bells on Its outer rim and pivoted between a couple ot rough beams, altogether very primitive workmanship. By means of a cord at tached to a crank the wheels can Li made to revolve and set all the bells a-jangllng. I have often heard that the peasants believe that it has mi raculous power of healing when rung over the head of a sufferer who has placed a sou ia the box to which the rope is padlocked. 1 received remark able confirmation of this belief, foi while making a photograph a well to do sailor's wife and her husband came into the church and looked round. The woman asked me If I thought there could be any truth In this belief, as her child was very backward in learn ing to talk. Her nurso, who came from those parts, had advised her to bring the baby and ring the bells of Comfort over his head, when he would be sur« to talk. As she was passing she had looked into see if it was worth trylngl —London Chronicle. Bird Sanctuary In Town Corimcn. The growth of the garden < ity, Letch worth. In England, threatens to driv* birds to more secluded spots To pre vent this the directors propose to con vert Norton common. In the center of the town. Into a bird sanctonrv Here weeds, grasses, berries and fruits of various kinds which are nleasing to birds will be cultivated, and part of the common will bo fenced In for nest ing. ammo if A Reliable TO SHOP r»T all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd Central Job Work. Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, Furnaces, eto. PRICES THE LOWEST! QMLITY THE BEST! JOHN IllXSOtf NO. 1W E. FEOKT 81,