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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1899)
n rprr-m r ArvrrA IIATTA * lintr. nrTrcm .w r TrriTArm7.T ! ? n isnn. HILLIOXS IN GIFTS BYV01IES \ Lavish Lfb riHty of the Fair Sex Toward Pnilanthropio Institutions , ONE Mil LION DOLLARS A MONTH DONATED lllulirr Itiliii'Mtloii > lnl < i < HIP SfrmiK- OAIIIIMI ( | ( o I'cniliilnc S > niin- \ HN | Sums i\pcmlnl for lli-tnorliilN. Whllo Iho following la not a complete record of women's gifts for the cause of thnrlly during IS'i'i , it .approximate * ) the inngnlflcent sum of $10,000,000 , or over II- 000,000 every month Of this amount the largest elnglo sum Is Mrs Stanford's 110.- 000,000 , and Mrs Urndloy's $500,000 Is the next largest gift With the ending of the year and century ono may perhaps bo pardoned f r dropping Into slntlstles , statistics proving1 the splendid muulll"enro of American women to srhools , churches , art Institutes and phll- nnthroplo enterprises. To hark back n little , the total of gifts nnd bequests for the llvo } oais 1S'I3 through IS'i" In this countr } were more1 than MfiV eon 000 Hint Is gifts from private fortunes frr public ilfcr Of this $45,000,000 was given during 18'i7 In 181S In Now York Clt } nlone $2.1,000,000 wn given away in harlty During the snmo } cnr the gifts nf thirty-four women In the L'nlted Stntcs for higher education amounted to $3 , 1 10,400 , of this sum Corn J Flood gave the largest amount , or $2,000,000 , nnd Helen Gould , besides - sides her magnificent donntlf n to the govern ment , gnvo$37000 for educational purposes. I'or IMiicnlliiniil I'lirpOHCN. The record of gifts to charily nnd for cduuitloii.il purpose * bj women In this country for the } cnr now ending Is a noble one. one.Half Half n million d-dlars , given b } Mrs. hjdln Ilrndley of I'eiirl.a , 111. , le-adr the list H was presented last summer lo the Hradley Polytechnic Institute , and constituted her second donation , the first been ing a gift of the land on whlca the Institute wns built nnd the monc.v to bullil it That involved a sum ap proximating $2-.0,000 In addition Mrs Hradley has given to Pcorla 137 acres of laud for n park , she bus built a church , a homo for aged women and mnn } other smaller Iintltutlonn Miss Flood's prescntntlon of her father's ceuntrj place , at Menlo park , to the Unl- vcrslty of California made la l vear , bus been supplemented icccntl } by n gift of nioiipy The house1 nnd Its contents me valued at $1,000,000 , mid a ( net of ncaily 3'iOn acrns Is Included in the tinnsfer Another California , ladj has been munifi cent In her gifts , It is Mrs E B Crocker , who lias couvejpd to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks her homo In Snc- ramonto It Ib presented no n memorial of her husband , and Is valued nt $10000 Mrs rboebc Hearst and Mr > Lcland Stanford are constant ! } adding to their gifts to the uul- versltlcs the } have built up In California , tnd their benefactions go up into the mil lions Mr ° Stnufoid's latent contribution mudo dutlng the fciimmer v\as one of $10- 000,000. Mrs Enimons Blalnp of Chicago in May Bnnrimced that she would found a college of pedagogy , the Institution to be started with n fund of several hundred thousand dollars She has had this idea in mind soni joare , H being her desire to accomplish a juactluil grod for poor girls and h } giving them an opportunity to become teachers she bestows a permanent bonofU upou them. The jiow college of pedagogy , built and pndowei 1) } Mrs Hlalnc , will represent an outlay o $500,000 At the commencement at Vassnr college In June It was announced that Miss Katharine Tuttle had given n $10,000 bcholaishlp In memory of her sister and Mrs Cnrollm Swift Atw.ater of Poughkeepslo to build anew now Inflrmar } h id donated $8,000 Krom Mrs William Beldon Noble of Wash ington Harvard iiuivorslt } has icceivcd a gift of JJO.OOO , to endow a lectureship li memory of her husband , n graduate of the class of 1881.nothPr gift of $20,000 was received b } the university from the famll } of John Slmpklim , for the Laurence Scientific echool , nnd still another $5,000 from Mrs Frederick T Philips of Lawrence , R I The money is to establish a fund , the income o which Is to bc expended annually In the pur chase of books for the college library in the department of English literature. The gift IB in memoiy of thc < donor's brother. A new dormitory to bo erected at Welles'.e } college , nl a cost of $ fiO 000 , is the gift of JIrs Martha S Pomcroy of Washington Jlrs Irene B Lewis of Hamilton , N. Y , has rpcenll } made the gpncrous gift of $ " ,000 to Colgate unlverslt } , to found three scholar ships for the purpose of aiding } ouug men dtudvlng for the Baptist mlnUtiy In that In- Gtttutlon Miss Marie Hopper of Philadelphia has Klven $10,000 to Bryn Mavvr college for a scholarship foundation fund , I'or ( cut-nil ClinrKlfH. Mrs. Joseph Moffatt of Iosngelcs , Cnl. , has given pioperty to the value of $ r > 0,000 to the endowment fund of the National Florence Crlttenton mission a charity which wai founded sixteen jears ago by Charles N Crlttenton of Now York In memory ot his dnughtei For the maintenance of n home for con- Yalesccnts mid invalids at Snntn Hnrbira $80,000 has 'been left by Miss Anna S C Blake , her will being probited In April Ebo also left _ to the Cottage hospital $10 000 , to the Orthopedic hospital , Philadelphia. } iu , 000 , nnd to n Boston hospital n llko sum A noblu charity Is that founded during thp past few months b } Mrs Alfred Corning Clark , In memor } of her husband A mcrp vnlunblo and Plllclent form of chnrlt } does not exist In New York Clt } than the Alfred Corning Clark Neighborhood house , which titmnls in the very heart of the crowded lower east side Men's , women's , boe' and clrls' clubb , kindergartens , libraries , cnn- t-ervatorlcs and rcof gardens are Included In the work of the Institution a work which JH thoroughly npprc-clutod by the people In \\hcho behnlf it Is bplng done It has been rstablUhcd nnd endowed at u cost of about JIUO.OOO. a During last summer a new Uoatlng hos- rdtnl for St John's Guild was Iiulll 'hj Mrs Augustus O Julllard of Nuw York at n I ccbt of $ S3,000 It was named in honor of the donor the Helen C Julllard The Emma Abbott , another barge , built from the inu- iiltlieuco of the singer nnd n lined In her lionor , was also placed lu commission dur ing the hot weather Minn ( .ouM'ii OrnrroiiH } , ' Th : gcnproiiK and lavish gifts of Miss Helen Miller Gould are coupled with an unobtrusive and uoblr manner and such nn nbse-nco of display as IB rarply nift with This uncdtcntutlon makes It extremely dlfil- cull Indred Impossible lo do more than mention n gift 1'ero nnd thorn Sbo la sup- jioK'd to bo thu donor of $250,000 subscribed to build tbo new library for the University of the City of Now York Her gifts to Clmutauqiu have also bp n munificent lo the endowment fund of tbo University M Chicago sliii has rpctmtl ) contributed $25- (00 ( A * i co ml scholarship of JS.OOO to Vas- lar collegu was unnounccj at the commence- | mpnl In June thivse scholarships are given In nu'iuor ) of her mother Two scholar- eblps of $ b,000 each she has given to Mr MopO > 's Eiho-U one for the glrlc soml- nai ) an 1 one for the bo > To endow u frfo bed In perpetuit ) lu the Manhattan IJjo In nnd Ear hospital New York , $5,000 At cost of about $250 she provided for a floating hospital trip Inst summer. Tor cyclone nuffercrs In Wisconsin Julj C last she sent her check for $ ! ' 0 , In March the Countess do Castellan" ( Anna Oould ) gave $20.000 to a chlldr n > poclcty In Paris She IR to present n * plcn- , did hall to bo used for charity biznrs to. take the place of the building destrojed bj flrc , In which co many Ihes wore lost The site alone has cost $200,000 When the countess took posicsslon of her new home on the Avcnuo do Uols dc Hologno Inst i Christmas she Invited the children rf nil the workmen employed In Us building to n , Christmas tree and sent them home lad n with presents. ( ilfln from I'nN'iloniilile Women. Slnco her Iniab.ind's death perlnpi f-o largest check written by Mrs Ccrncl.m Vnn- dcrbllt for a gift Is that of $5,000 for the I'o- ' i lice pension fund , as n recognition of the services rendered b > the pollco force nt to 1 tlmo of Mr Vandcrbllfs funeral. I i To the King's DiURhters of Newport her I person-,1 check for $1,000 was lately sent , the amount to be used In mlnliterlng to the wants cf the slrk poor. Mrs Frederick Vanderblltlslted NCA"C I port eirlj In No\ ember to personally supervise - i vise the TI'anksgMng dinner which she hai' ' Bhcn for ninny jears to the nrwsbojs , o t- i blaeks nnd other poor bojs of that fashionable - i able watering place To defrn > the ex- penscs of the occasion she wrltcH her check i for $1.500 Mrs 0 II P Helmont's gift of $5fO to Trlnlt } Church Sunday school was usul In providing n Thanksgiving entertainment To the Nassau hospital , at Hcmpstead , h I. , Mrs. Uclmont. hna sent $3,000 Mrs. P A. Hnrper has given the same amount to the hospital. Tor "St Anthony's Bread" Mrs Frances Brockholst Cutting contributes $3000 a jear The charity was founded a } ear ago In memory of Mrs. Cutting's son , Brockholst Cutting The fund is for the sick poor within the limits of St Mnry's parish. New port , which Is more than half of the town , but the fluid Is distributed without regnrd to erred , color or nationality. St. Marj's Is a Roman Catholic church , and a requiem nnss Is celebrated for the dead mnn upon each anniversary of his death Ho died three } oars ngo O'lrlng ' thv jear nt nn outlay of about $1,000 Mrs Anson Phelps Stokes has con tinued her gifts to the home she presented to the parish of ttho Heavenly Rest , New York , a llhrnrv ami recre.atlcii house for the use of the crowded Italltn colony cen tered around Mulborr ) street The king nnd queen of Italy have recognised the chnrltnble work nf Mrs Stokes by sending their per traits. May last the now church of the Holj Trinity was com-ocratrd this Is the Hhlne- lander memorial , the church , morning chapel , parish house and clergy house being memorial gifts and costing well up Into the millions The famll } have reserved the right during ten je.ars of adding memorials in the form of windows The buildings stand upon the last of the Rhlnelatider farm , which has been owned by the famll } over 100 years Miss Elizabeth Plnnkiuton of Milwaukee gives $100,000 for a Young Woman's Chris tian association In that city Through the genoroim gift of $50,000 fn > m a woman re siding lei New England , Bishop Grnfton ofFend Fond du I ic , Wis , recently announced that the Indebtedness on the cathedral had been wiped out nnd the school fund augmented The $21,000 raised In England for the hos pital ship Milne , to be dispatched to South Africa , received so many noble contributions from American women that the sum may Justly claim a place in this list InOIIK > II'K Will * . Olfta bv bc < quests have abounded during 1809 A quarter of a million dollars was left by Mrs. Eugene Kelly to build n lady chapel for St Patilck's cathedral. Now York , and to provldo n fund for the sick poor. Of the Barone"e de Hlrsch's $100,000,000 left to char ity , $1,200,000 comes to America to the De Hlrsch's foundation In New York. The Clara do Hlrsch homo In Sixtjsecond street , founded about two jears ago by the baroness , receive * an additional legacy of $250,000. The will of Mrs Caroline L Macj , who founded the Macy Memorial Art school In Now York , bequeaths $200,000 to the Teach ers' college and $ r > ,000 to the Presbyterian hospital. Mrs. E. A Stevens of Castle Point , Hoboken , left generous bequesth to Holy In nocent church , which she was malnlj instru mental In establishing. A fund of $3,000 Is to piovido coal for the poor of Hoboketi , fiee or at cost price $12,000 Is left for other church charities. To the Church of the Holy Communion , New York , Mrs Caroline A. Cisco leaves $10,000 To the Mlsslonarj MJ- cletj domestic and foreign Mrs Enillle A Mntthlcn , $5,000. About $80,000 Is dis tributed among New York charities by the will of Mrs Caroline E Holllster Generous legacies making u total of $20,000 were also left by Mrs Mary K Hart of Troy , N Y Mrs Foils R. Brunnot of Alleghany City , Pa , bequeathed by will , probated In November , $123,000 to m | = slons The Into Mrs Harriet Frotlilngham Wolcott , step mother of Governor Roger Wolcott , dis tributed by her will , probated In April last , $3.r ! > 00 to various charities , among the num ber the Massachusetts General chapel , the Hampton school , Virginia , the Hcnnetl In dustrial school , Boston , and the Tuskegco Normal and Agricultural Institute St. Hnrnnbau hospital , Newark , benefits to the value cf $1,000 and a f.haro In the residuary estate of Mrs Eliza Wells , who also left $1,000 to the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Children. By the will of Mis. T W Hobblns , widowof the late Congressman John Hobblr.fi , her estate Is charged with the payment of many charitable legacies By the death of Mrs Elizabeth Thompson In July the pe > or seamstresses of nhlnobeck- on-Hudson find themselves heirs to an pslalo of $300,000 , which is to be equally divided among them It JUhT MICE 01,11 TIM IIS. lo slioodnur Heal ! ! IICH on nn Arl/oiiu eMi ( Mi I rf\ There was a tragic ending of the perform- j | . . nnro of "Don Caesar" by "The Three Musketeers" company , In which laul Oil- ln nioro In leading man , at the opera house In u Phoenix , Ariz , lust Saturday night nn In thefourth act ono mem- by ln > r of the company , In accordance with the lines of the pin } , opened llro on a group of enW other actors The flro wns returned by bnlf W dozen other pistols and tbo ensuing scene co of confusion wna ono lei Paul Gllmoro and David Halbcrt fell to nn he. floor In u manner which could not be on mistaken for n pleco of acting The ) were be seriously but not fatally wounded. bewl Meanwhile tbo leaden missiles rattled po about the stage nnd In various pails of "T the opera house The audlenco of about ov 4,000 persons stampeded , yelling "Fire1" Murder' ' " and everything else calculated to are create a panic In tbo midst of the excite ment the lights went out and women cl screamed The crowd In Its hurrj to escape from the building packed at the doors and o\erythlng bad quieted before a majority of tbo people could force themselves out The pistols used were 3S-callbe r and they had bwn carried by the troupe for some are tlnii' When the performance was about re-ady to In-gln It wns discoerfd that the company's supply of blank cartridges had and been exhausted. What a clerk declared to cess bo blank cartridges were purchased and used In the weapons The ) bad the appear- Saw nrvrp of bvlng blanks , but hidden at a j Hi depth behind each wad wns a ball of lead ' In Ton or tueho "f tint * ' balls hu\o sinre been fir dug out of the walls of the opera bouse . - Onu Nightly coughing and that torturing ticl.le ( tit the throat are Invariably topped by I and llpau's mentholated cough drops , only live ' log cents at druggltts , self NOTED NOVELS OF THE YEAR Works of Fiction tint Hnvo Tickled the 1 ! Fancy of the Efaling Public , COMMERCIAL SIDE OF THE BUSINESS Kvli ! iiorillimrx I'linuliirlt ) > nt n True Tc t f Merit or l.iiNtlnu Suot'csn Heiil sis. Not el * of ( lie 1 Imvo always had T theory tlmt no one should buy n book , or nt any rate a novel , until _ Ik. l-ns been published for at Icaal a jcar . , writes Harry Thurston 1'eck , editor of lllc Daokmnii , In the Independent. There are so many mtirncs which one Is urged to read . , or nhlch nt the moment of readltiR Impress ; . . one as belni ; very KOOI | , an to make It Impossible to decide at that rarllculnr mo- mom ! just , the ( iiiesilon of their Intrinsic merit ; Looking bark , howe\er. o\er one's reading for n tx.chemonth mid oxerclslns a ccrtnln faciiltj ofTompnilson which conici from . having read a good deal In the lomntn past ) ( | | , the real books of ei.e-h ycnr will be found to have shrunk In number to a very few . , for after n > car man } cltvei trllles will ua\e , been forgotten ntid ninny more serious productknH will ha\e assumed a relntlvo position before one's critical Judgment far different from that In which the mood of the moment , or some cap- tUatltif ? trick of stjlo. or some fellcltoiiK choice of subject liucsted them Vlth a tem porary Importance. It IB only oiico or twice In many > cars that a rc-illy great work of fiction IB born Into the world i\ery month brings to the read ing public ehonls of books , mid those whose business It Is lo write of books must write of these and discuss thrm i seiloufl > , and weigh and criticise Some of M them are \ eryldcl > read , still others nre both widely read and nrc widely talked I about , but aftei a cortnln tlmo has pas"d I the great majority of them arc neither reid I nor talked about They h-uo served their purpose , they ha\o pleased or amused or shocked a hundred thousand icidcrs , but no one goes back to them again It l as ImposM slblo to reread them as It is to laugh again at the Jokes In ' last j cat's couilc pipers Tlic > are dead , for thoj do not belong to the annals of tine lllenttire I wonder how many copies of 'Tailed Hack , " or "The- Hcavcnlv Twins , " or "Trllb > , " are now sold In a year Earh one of these Immensely pop- ill , r novolfl iiad , nt the time of Its \ogtte , an apparent importance grcatoi than the Im portance of "U.nld Ooppcrfleld , " or "Van ity Pali , " but II was an Importance of the moment only They were clever novels , but they weto not literature. ( Jrt-jit Sellers. The jear now ending has wltne'sed the publication of several novels each one of which attained to an c\traotdlnaiy populai- lt > , as attested bj thclt silcs Of "David Ilarum" there were sold perhaps 400,000 copies , of "Richard Caivei" no dnubt as man > more. Of "Janice Meredith" there wcro sold I'.OOO copies In two \\eeks , and the book has since its first appearance found purchasers at the rate of between 2,000 and 3,000 copies evorj day of the week. So far as the commerchl Bide of the question Is concetncd , It Is safe tp say thit the records of no vear have ever included such remarKalit ( ble statistics , for not meiclj one or two , but half a dozen , novels by different authors have met with an almost en.ua ! popular suc cess When wo come , however , to take a retro spective glance .it these extiaordinary "sell ers" ( to use the publishers' favorite word ) , and to consider how far their success hab been based upon unusual merit , It has to be confessed that nf all the novels of the 30.11 there is only one , or nt the most , not more than two , which are llkel > to be read by any one In particular a vear from uow And to give a sweeping Judgment such as this is not to bo dogmatical and critically supercil ious , though perhaps for the moment It ma > appear so A moment's reflection will make the truth of It quite evident When anyone begins to olasslfj the novels of the world they will bo lound to fall undot a compara- lively feu divisions as to subject as to nan- ner and as to the ebpcchl school of fiction to which each of them belong. In each class the world possesses a few great mas terpieces which have stood the test of tlmo and which all men equally regard as repre senting what Is best of their own kind New- many books are written every joar , and thej are often ab y written , full of interest and deserving nf the sort of favor which they win But after the novelty of them has de parted wo till unconsciously compare them with those books of their classes which are not merely good , but which nro ad mittedly the very best , and then the final judgment Is not by any means the same as the Judgment which Is nebulously formed while the render Is still Ifoldlng the volume in his hand It Is soon recognbed that alrl though the popular book Is good it Is not the best of lib kind that has been written And so the masterpiece icsumes Its old proim eminence , the clever Imitation Is not read again , and ns soon as a sMIl newer replica I I appears the Immediate predecessor is forca gotten Merit In tlie , . Appljlng such a standard of comparison and Judgment to the best novels of the pros0 ont jear ono mny serenely disregard the test that Is commercial nnd misleading nnd con fine one's self to a consideration of Just how- far each of them approximates In merit to those works of genius which. In the differ ent departments of pure fiction , afford us an accepted and enduring standard of Compar ison If we extend the term "novel" so ns to let Include collections of short stories I should eaj that thorp Is Just one work of firtlon be longing : to the present joar which Is equ il o the \crj best In Its own ciass , and this Is Mrs. IMlth Wlinrlon's "Oreiter Inclination " The lahs which It represents has to do with the psychological study of social conditions and of the problems that nriso In the more Intlmatp relations of nie i nnd wonlen of the world The criterion by which Mrs Wharton must bo Judged Is the criterion established Mr Henry James In his earlier works , such as "Tho Point of View , " "An Inter j national nplsoae" nnd "Tho Pupil , " and Mrs. Wharten has no need to shrink from this comparison She Is no Imitator , jet her del icacy of touch , hpr penetration , her subtlety nnd her o\quislto fell Itj of phrasing remind ono Irresistibly of Mr Junes nt his eiy best It Is situation rather than Incident for which Mr James nnd Mis Wharton iilIKo possets a cur'ously ' unerring instinct , and In "Tho Greater Inclination" this Instinct Is Of everywhere nppaient Such perfect lltorary ' j I cl workmanship Is seldom seen In books that t I 0 written In the Kngllsh language , nnd 1 c\ Mrs Wliarton's pages ue\er lose their fns- dilution ! , even though they mny bo rend a bcoro of times Tlu book has met with much to appreciation from the critical portion of the public , a widely popular success It could not have , for Its beauties and fellcltlre , which give so much pure joy to ( he discriminating , | ( far too dellcato und subtle for tbo per- ] , ceptlon of the uiunllshtened D A DUUiK-llj ( iiiiiil Hook II one that well deserves Its great sue- j U1 Is "David Ilarum , " which belongs to the I B' class of utorlcd In which Mark Twain' * "Tom 1 I'1 ' > or" and 'Huckleberry Finn , " and Mr j ' Howell's "Silas Lapham , " represent approx'o | ' Ini.ite perfection David Harum , In the w place in true In the second place , It IB go-iilul in the third plact It IB wholesome. II cun banll ) all it literature In the highrl seiiBU Apart from the central character m his quaint monologue * It Is mere notliw Even In the utterance" of David him- 1 si , the author Mr Weetcott , ilau occasion. It ' S borrowed prettj frerly from other I jonrroi , and on MID whole the novel ln the . snine relation to literature ns "The Old I Homestead bears to the drami Novorllie le I * , with these limitations , tne 'nook ! > rloin and , vigorous and amusing , nnd It has the ad- dltlonnl merit of being thorotiKhl } nnd un- errlnglj American In the pherc of the hlflorlcnl ronunre three novels have run neck nnd neck In the race for popular favor. The o nrc Caskobci den's | "When Knighthood Was In Plower , ' Mr Winston ' " ' Cnurs-hlll's "Richard Cauel' I and ' Mr Pord'g ' Janice Mrrfdltli " It Is I rather dinicult to deoldo upon the relative merit of each "When Knighthood Was In Tlower" moves swlftlv nnd sureb along to Its finish , never dragging nnd never dlapcai pointing "Hlchnrd Panel" is admirable and oven distinguished In Its tvlp tlnugli some modern locutions occasional ! } niter through Into the author's assumed clqht- ccnth-century stjle , nnd the first Inlf of the ( novel Is undeniably ton slow In Us develop ment Mr I'ord's " " i "Janice Meredith" Is well- , I11 nnd flrmlj compacted nnd Its narrntho i : os ono along easllj and eitreh , thrush , the stjlu Is sometimes sllp-shol and unfin ished The populnrlU of all three o' Ih'sc books has been \crj great and shows a I he-\lthy tone In the public mind Of cojrs' jflll , of them pale Into Insignificance bolide Tharkern\'s "Helm IJsmomV but the last two may claim equal rnnU with "Ko-nn i Doone. " and the first with some of Iliilwerl I Ilion's rather > rococo bits of hlst-rlcnl rom manre. ; I j I The ' cln of morbid psvchologv has been worked with remarkable power and Mlccess ' by Mrs Henry Dudcnej In "The Maternity of Harriott Wlckcn , ' nun \cry feeblj and Ineffcctuall } b > Miss Ucntilce Harmdcn In "Tho 1'owler. " The former book Is almost woithy to bo ranked with Hard > 's "Judo , " the latter , with an Immensely Interesting thomr > , Is In Us execution beneath contempt lloth looks are studies In degeneracy , but 'Mis ' Dudeney writes with a strong mnsMi- ] line grip on her subject and with n glcim 'hero < nnd there of rcul humor , while Miss I j Harrnden Is mlsslsh nnd theoretical to n de- giro \ "Tho 1'ottler" dcalh with the th me I of f pscblc.il seduction , and In the hinds of L profound psjchnloglst like Dilzac It would 'iha\o been n startling nnd epoch-making book To the biinie class of books bc'onsrs Mr Hcnrj James' no\cl. "The Awkwaid Ago , " which dlsereetlj skirts the edges of forbidden subjects and which Is i miracle of subtle .suggestion nnd fertile allusion entiled to the vanishing point , so that It icpresonts the apotheosis of his peculiar style , > ct , as a whole , the book Is unrcidible The only important representation of the realistic novel that the jear has seen Is Mr Xorris' "McToaguc " Thin book contains In many places some verj vigorous and Indi vidual writing , while the fcoidldncua nnd brutalitj of the life which It depicts show that Its author has fully mastered the le- allstio formula Nevertheless this sort of thing IIOH been so much better done b > Zola and George Moore and Olsslng that 'Mc- Teague ' will find few leaders after several months shall have passed The socialistic novel Is best represented by Mr Uichard Whltclng's "No 5 John Stteet , " which Is very readable if one studiouslj omitH all the author's Intercalated comments on tbo Inequality oC out existing conditions The stoiy , ns n storv , dealing with the ex- peilmentnl residence of an English gentle man In ont of the foulest of London's slums. is strong and stirring , and cantninn mnnv little touches which show Mr. Whltelng to be not onlj a skillful writer , but a man of wldo leading In very many literatures , ancient and modern As a socialistic novel , how ever , it Is of no importance when compared with so brilliant n piece of writing as Bella- mj's "Looking Bickward" Mi. Harold Frederic's posthumous novrl , "The Market Place , " givesivld study of the modern financial world , and for a time Its. narrative of a great operation In stocks carried out with Napoleonic energy and au- dacltj of the self-made , overbearing , unscru pulous , virile hero Is thrilling , but the tale runs on beyond Its natural climax and dis solves Into weakness nt the end Neverthe less the best of It ! f equal to the best that Mr Frederic wrote in "Theron Ware" anil Its perusal Intensifies the general regret over Its , author's death nt the very moment of his llterarv maturity Of "Stalkj & . Co , " which has lately ap peared In book form , It would bo unnecessary to say anything at all were Its author n less distinguished literary personage than Mr. Kinl-ml Kipling , for the book Is an exem plification of everthing that Is least admir able In Mr Kipling's manner , unrelieved by any of his finer touches It is oven hard to read a criticism that has never before bean evoked by any of Mi. Kipling's work The truth ' Is that there Is beginning to bo vlslbln a very ominous deterioration In the character and quality of all that ho has lately done His ! poem , "Cruisers , " was ns fiat ns anything that Mr. Alfied Austin ever wrote His latent "war poem , " with Its staccato ending , " "Pay , pay , pa } , " does not , with all Its "go , " rise : above the level of one of Mr. Gilbert's "patter songs" Mr Kipling , In fact , has cither already written too much or else ho hna resumed his lltcrnr } labors too soon after his recent Illness. Ho ought to recognize the fact that ho has reached a point In his career nt which a little more inferior produc tion will very seriously compromlso a uniquely brilliant reputation. If I wore asked to group the best six novels of ( the jear In the order of their true Im portance fioni a lltorarj- point of vlt-w I should tot down the list as follows 1. "Tho Greater Inclination , " bj Hdlth Wharton 2 "Dav Id Harnm , " by C N Wcfltcott. " 3 "That Maternity of Harriott WIcken , " by Mrs Dudeiipy. 4 "nichard Panel. " by Winston Churchill ' 5 "Tho Market Place , " by Harold Trederlc C. "When Knighthood Wns in Dow or , " by IMwln CiiHkodcn invcic n\\viv's srrrnsson. SI Vliout ( lie Nu Clilof of ( lit- co WIlllU'llHCO llllllllllN , Green Cloud , pretender to the chlcftnln- gr eMp of the Wlnncbago Indians , bus gl\en i Hi to Thomas R Roddy of Chicago a belt of : j fo white waninum , slgnlf\lng pence , and urth | iciidercd lo him all claims to the position of pc head of the tribe The Irishman will be In- en stalled as chief with big ceremonies when i Ai the council of thu trlbn calls lilm at the i A lirbt of the jcjlr , IJH n Clileago letter w It was Ulaek Hawk's will that Ills friend In and ndvlser , Roddy , known to the WlnnoIJi bngoH , Sioux and Chlppeunfc as Whlto I3ufw folo , autcewl him and when the old chief m went to the happy bunting ground enrly In i , n September Hodd ) became the actual head I ' nl thn tribe , but ho v\as not InstnlliHl Green i I th Cloud , leader of the part of the tilbo which i m | posed Hlack HawK , wanted to be chief , | i I" e\on though he Is the friend of Hoddj The i \ chierrt of the tribe made no decision , but last week Green Cloud presented white wampum Itoddy and the council will call Its now thief or Ilcddy , who is a Email , daik Irishman , will still live In Chicago during thu win- , to lets , but In the summers hit \\lll take up11'1 ' his | abode in the lands oAtho tribe around I" Hlack Hlver I'.ilU. in Wlwonsln , and rule I " Ho is a quiet man and has acquired the ' J" ludlnn trait of solemnity and ono looks for gruuttt ' of approval or disapproval rather a than for words from him He has beei ) the i co actual leading spirit among the Wlnnebagoia i ' " jears , even whllu UlacK Hawk , the " " wisest of recent Indian ruleri. , lived 1Uo Installation ceremony will bo beld In , of the council lepeu of tbo tribe and the warIn riora who llvo In Nebraska an well as the in men of the Hlack Hlver Tails Bi-tilemeiu. bj will attend The ceromoti } has been the cs same Mure the trlbo bus known Its history Ki ta a religious dance , not as the word dance be Is \ used rommonli hut Is n ppremom which Mr Uoddj sinjs Is like the IniMnilnn nf theMnsins ( Mr Iloddv sa > Mn onry exists nmong the Indian tribes and existed before Columbus discovered America He sijs he adhr ficen the Mn onlc degrees up to the unIte Arch degree given In the Indian I' dRes None but niMtibers will bo admitted to thi > council tMit when Ho1d > tak < a his oath I of office The ccremonv of Installation begins nt stiu rt of one dnj nnd ends at the next : going do\\n \ of the sun The waulors clad In their finest clothes each cnrrjlng A medicine bug made of furs nud covered with beads ; , march ! solemn procession striking the ' ' ( cnndldatp with their medicine bags nnd chnntltiK Occasionally they scpntnti * e-ach datucs in n separate spot. During the dancp ' the men bow to earth nnd roll ns If In ' abject tetror ( Chief ( noddy's tepee In Chicago Is n bentn I tttul little lltit at 6026 Iiiglesidfl n\Ptiue , Just off the Mldwnj. The Hat is furtilslii'd ptct- tlly ; and filled with costlbrlcnbrae nud priceless ' relics of thc > Indians He has the greatest collection of wnmpitni belts In ex istence The llrst bolt William Penn g.ixo the- Indians the belt given to the first lllack Hawk | , uncle of the chlrf whom Uoddj will succeed , nt the end of the wnl In 1SS2 nnd . dozens . of other bells nro owucd bv him Ilesldes wampum. Chief Hoddy holds n won derful ( ) collection ef copper work nnd the , relics of dead chiefs , the propertj of the Wlnnelngos , Hoddv j was bom fortj jears ago at Pcotln His fnthor wns Patrick Hoddv , a native of Ireland , who wns ft trapper , trader and l tcrpreter nnd n great friend of thp - | 1 bngos When White Iluffalo was five vears old ] his father removed to Hlack Hlvcr Tnlls nnd Iho lad wns raised among the Indians. Ho lenrned the Inngunges of the Wlnne- baKix nnd Cblppevvas almost befolo be lent nod English , and when 14 jears of ago was nn Intelprotcr Young Hoddj beeame pecull.irlj popular among the Indians of Wisconsin and Minnesota seta Fourteen joars ago ho succeeded In establishing frlotidlj relations between the WIntiebagos Sioux and Chlppowas Heguvo a great dance and the three tribes were represented im i. or TIM : s IIM % tlie'C.lft Problem Is So\ril | on ( Insiiorex of Ilike IJrle. The con pallor In her honip , observes the Clovolnnil Plain Dealer In reporting the proccoMlngsverbatim Ho "I want to tell jou that I nm ut- tcrly discouraged ' Slip "Deir me' You talk like mlsflt parson In nn unsympathetic pulpit. Whit Is { ! tbo tiouble' ' HP "It's the Chrlhtmns season. I nm ovpnvhclmod bj It. " She "Now jou talk nftor the fashion o [ a n clerk lu the only toj stoic In town , do on " He "Well , 1'vo rummaged the stoles np nnd down to ing to find n gift for a person I am verj anxious to please" She "How romantic. Old person 01 jonng' " ' Hobout jour ago , I think" She"That would Imply tint I am of doubtful aip " He 'Would It' Well. I cin't doubt vour word lint this person for whom I have ransacked the shops " She "This exacting she " Ho "Did I saj die' " She "Would jou ransack for a he' " HP "I fancy I wouldn't Wpll. she I admit It already ha-i everj thing that heirt could wish I 1me seaiched the stores through nnd can't find a novelty that would clmrm her " She. "Ho\v dreadfully blase she must be"Ho Ho"Hut cm jou blame her' At last I ga\o up In despflr I nnld of course to myself It's no ute There Is 'but ' one thing I posse-ss that would prove a novelty to her and so I have come " She ( qulckls ) "To consult me ? " He "To offer jon mj heart" A brief silence She"Let ns be frank vvltb each o'hci You have teiidcicd mo what jou nre pleased to term a novel gift. Hut aic jou quite sure it was yours to give ? " He"Hli' ' Whj not' " She"H was a generous thought that prompted It , Hut In this practical world it Is always well to ask for abstracts of title. " Ho : "What do jou mean' " She "Well , I fancied that in the multi plicity of my treasures I alieady pos sessed " He "My heart' " She "Your heart " Ho"Edith" ' She- " " She"George ! They clinch. < > r MAIVPviM'Nf ; minim. lias I'niil Deiirlt for Her Territorial | 'I > MN < < N | < > IIN. Empire Imp los the domination by ferro of one race or nation over other races and nations , with more or less unwillingness on the part of subjects so dominated , bajs the Chicago Chronicle Imperialism menus therefore , the maintenance of expensive and dcmornll/lng armies for the double puipoto of maintaining and extending one's eon- quobts. Napoleon's "expansionist" Imperial ism kept Franco nnd all EuropeIn com motion for fifteen years nnd caused the waste of oceans of blood and treasure Similarly the extension of the HuBslan empire till it covers 8,000,000 square miles nnd of the British empire till It covers 11 000,000 square mlicH has resulted In numerous wars , great nnd small , cltbci In bubdulng the nations to bo incorporated or In conflict with rlvnl cm plres that threatened Imperial Interests England's war record during the so-called "peaceful" reign of'Queen Victoria Illus trates the Inccnipntlbllltj of wide empire an ! perpetual ponce In 1838 thorc was rebellion " Canada , In 1SIO thcie wns n brush with China nnd another with Egjpt , In list- oc curred the first Afghan wai 1S43 was the joar of the Scindo und Mahralta wars. In 1845 nnd 1848 thoio were wnrs with the ! Sikhs , In 1850 the Kuflli war began in 18 > J i there was wnr In Burma In 1SD3-5 the more | considerable wai with HuiHn occurred In 1857 there was wnr with Persia and the , greut Indian mutiny wns to bo bUppreBBcd , the second Chinese wai didiil tn 1SGO , to Im j followed bj the Maori vvnr In 181.2 , 1SC3 saw the Ashniitee expedition , In 1&G7-S the PX- penslvo wnr of rescue with Abj .lnla was carried on , lu 1873 there was n second Ashantoo war , in 1878-SO occurred tbo second Afghan wat nnd the Huluvar , In 1880 there was war with the liners of the Transvaal 1SS2 Arnbi Pnsha was to be put down nnd Kgjpt recovered , from 1881 to 18S9 there worn < numerous bloody battles with the inulidlstfl , In 1SS5 llurma was annexed nftei brief war , In 18-8 occurred the furmld 'able vvara that resulted in the downfall of the khalifa nt Omdurmnii and of the mad mullah nnd other tribal loaders in northwest India This record omits Innumerable minoi v\aib In west Africa , In I'gunda. In Deludes i tan , lu Matabelrlnnd npd olhei parts Of the slxtj-two jiars of Vlctoila's reign thlrty-Mx wore marked with wait ) of gioatir Cl less magnitude , at times t o or three , wars being in progress at the game tlmo Ai many points throughout the glebe doc * . the nriilsh empire como In contact with con | dieting Interests that It Is ulmo.M literally tiue that the doors of the Hrltleh Temple of Janus are never shut This docs not imply that the IJngllsh aie particularly aggressive people On Iho contrar ) , their commercial and Industrial interests predispose theiu to pc-aco Hut i frequent wars nro Inevitable In Idints o' empire ; r pi < lall ) when one t HUbJi in an alien races or whin exputiBion luiim < n . J Into < ontfl < t with baiburoun | ii | il 4 i n self Lontiul Hi bn'u 'li' ' I in i J > au-j IlinitlllK Ith lf 10 hi ! ) 01 K 1 llJrt escaped the lOnstan n K ' jr o n n England Is oxponwl but no ttia' ' ni lu e ( begun to nceX adviuiurca our rca aau tuva i 'conip ' In contact with numerous alien ho' ' ttle races our risks nrc IndpfinitcU tnul- Hpllpd Omitting our domestic wnr/ , our on' ' > wnrs hive been with England In 1M2 , with Mexico In IS 1C with Spnln in 1W aivl with thrrillplnos In ISOi-M , Die Inst two being ! duo to the new lniporl ll m It nnv be nlllrmed. In fnct , that bill for oui IIP * 'policy ' of expansion the L'nlted States wo I'd ' bp prnctliili > exempt from thr rl l s of for elgn wnr to which othei great untliiis nrp exposed | The evil of the new jollcj lln not nloiu1 | In the fact tlmt II Involve * us now in nn Intomilnnblp nnd cotlv ; conflict with the rillplnos , on thp othrr side of the globe , hut ' that , , it contains the germs of otheiind igtenter | | , conlllcts in thp [ utiire , | Doc * tour linn ! uclu-f Ask vour dingiest for Wrights Pmngon Headache- , and Neuralgia. Cure Ti > It 23c OMXIIV ( illMMtU , \IIICirr. . Conilltlnii nf Trnite unit ( iniKiilliin < < on Maple mill I'nne.t I'lniluee , I'GGSllei olpts HOit fro li stork , Kc sr.n i'ofi/i in-choice to f mv 'lo due Ks 7 ( , UPPMO ve. spring chlikriH fiV , lu im OP , looste'ls , | ' , iv LIVE rol'I/rUY lion" , 5o ; ipilng i UlcK- PIIS . ii.T/tc. old nnd staggv roo"tii , U ili.iks , 1,1 gio p , ( , ! * , ( liirkovs \ , "j HI Tl I'll Common to full , IC'jr iliodo nJ'il' ' "PP'intor , "be , KiitliciPd eienniirv i "preJlIONS-l.H , . , I1Pr dor , 7r.c I VIIAKS-ChoUe , ! < c- (5A Jin " Prnlrle cli'pkens. ' pet do V' TO i RIUIISI { . ' ] $ > quail , ppr iloz . fl v , mnllarils ' iJIOflftlSS , liluovliit J l , Jl 75. irriH-n vvlnu tonl. * I Xijil 50 , mlMd dunks JlVKjK | ) , l\STiitri ) .Mpdluni. poi1111 , IV titid ard " , per i in. > , bulk stindiid per gal $12" ) oxltii - ole'i t" , pi r i-nn , 'We , ixtn spli-ctM per gnl , $ lfO , New Yolk rount per _ ean , 37c , New York counts , per li > > 1 HAY rpluiid pholPC , J650 , mldl-ind' ' oil > li e , M. lowland , oholie $5. IVP sti ivv Pholic W "ill. No 1 porn 27e , No ! vvlilo , oaf , 2Jlt < ciarked eoiti , pel ton , J12. cum' nnd iiiits rluippod , pei ton. JI.'uU brnn , per ton , } tT , Bhoits ppi ton J14 swiir : : i-pTAToils-ivr bbi Illinois ? 1. lorsijs $0 , lingo libN , Xobraskii , J2 7o ' ' ' I'Ol'A'IOES-Per Im , Pholev , 30n too CA Hit Ui- ! Tot Ib , iV.e. llulland seed ' erntp , } 2 50 t'KANHKHHIIHol ! & . Hugle , per bbl $ G "iO , , Ioi * < ovs. Jt 23 ONIONS 'Ilpl.itl vvnj , jollow , C3p , rod , 75 Cl Sic CKMJIlY-I'pi do25ff30c. . California , " ' i r bum h , 13 i TfltNU'S-Itntnlngns. poi Ib . Ii4c , Cana dian , I'tftll o N vVAinilt'HUSS IVr IG-Ht P.I PS , Jl to MfSllHOOMS-Por Ib box , f > 0o ' 1 OMA'IOUS riorldn , DPI U-basket crate I rut * IT" IS Choli'p wostPin shipping stock $ ) 1X (3 ( VIper Ni w York slot k. $3 "ity I 00 IS-'allfoi nbi Emperor. $ J , i ntavv poi small bi Kol ISc , Mnlagii grapes per bbl , $7iM79no I KOPH'Al , riHTITS OHAXGES Me > xlrnn , PPI box $3. C'il- Ifoinln nivols jior box , $1 " > 0'i.1 ( "S M3MUNP CTllfornln fancv , $ I2. > 5IV ( ) , ebokc C'allfotnn , WWiQIOT. Messlm , ft Wij. IION13Y I'or Jl-'vitlou case , $1 S' l 50 NU Ib llli Korv mil" , large , per bu , $1 , shell Iwrks $1 J5Jil 15 FIGS Cillfoi nla lipis , per 10-lb bo\ , $1. Calirouil.i carton per 10-lb box , $1 10 MAPI.,1 : SI C.AIl Per Ib , 9c. HIDES , TALLOW , ETC HIDES No 1 t'li-Pll hides S c , No J green hide. , 7'-c , No 1 suited hides , lOc , No : Milted hides , IP , No 1 veal onlf , S to 1. lls Si No J venl uilf 12 to H Ibs , S ( . i \ 1,1.0 \ \ OIUASE , mv Taiiovv. NO 1 , 4c No 2 3'iC , rough , 2c , vUille grease , 214f | | > 14 < jellovv ind brown grease' , 2Vs Genuine r e i i TI Tr TTin Little Liver Pills , Must Bear Signature of See Poc-Slmllc Wrapper Iklow. Tory nmall and as ea to take ns ungor. FOR HEADACHE , FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS , FOR TORPID LIVER , FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIH. THE COMPLEXION _ . 29 eJntJ CURE SICK HEARACHE. 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