Re HAD A GIANT MIND
HENRY FIELDING ONE OF THE
WORLD'S NOTABLES.
/ ,
(The Onlf Authentic Portrait of Him
Now la Existence—"Joeeph A ml row*,"
“Tom Jones," end "Amelia," Ilia Im
perishable Work*.
OCARTH'S sketch
of Fielding la said
to be the sole au
thentic portrait;
and although It
does not date from
Fielding's lifetime,
biographers agree
an to Its truthful
likeness. It proba
bly depicts Fielding
, In 1754, the last
frear of his life. At tills date he was
broken In health and prematurely old,
bis magnificent constitution was
wrecked, and he wes a martyr to gout.
Of the handsome student from Leyden,
who burst upon London In 1728, full of
life and vigor, and eagerness for learn
ing, little survived hut that happy
cheerfulness, which, he said, ‘‘was al
wuys natural to me.” As ho grew
older his courage and fortitude became
tnore evident. His Intellect remained
clear, but physically he was a wreck.
One writer said:
"Considering the esteem with which
fae was held by artists, it was extra
ordinary that no portrait was made of
blm during life. He had often prom
ised to sit for his friend, Hogarth, for
whose good qualities and excellent
genius he had entertained so high an
esteem that be left In his writings
I " HENRY FIELDING. '
many beautiful memorials of his affec
tions.”
The best known of Fielding's works
•re ‘‘Joseph Andrews,” “Tom Jones.”
and “Amelia.” which have placed him
In the highest rank of British novel
ists. His greatest strength appears to
have been In portraying characters of
(hose of the lower order of society. Ills
-works display wit and vigorous and re
markable delineation, which unhap
pily Is sometimes marred by coarse
ness and vulgarity. All of bis works
have been translated Into the French
language. Lady Mary Montagu, In
•peaking of him. said: “There was a
great similitude between Ills character
and that of Sir Richard Steele. Field
ing had the advantage both In learning
and In genius, but they were alike In
wanting money in spite of their many
friends, and would have wasted it if
(heir hereditary lands had been as ex
tensive as their imagination.” In
Tantonshlro hall, Somersetshire, there
stands a bust of Fielding by Miss
Margaret Thomas, “which commends
Itself to our expectations and intelli
gence,” says Austin Dobson. “In the
reproduction she has sought to recall
not so much the doomed invalid of
the “Voyage to Lisbon," as the Field
ing of Bow street and "Tom Jones,"
to whom experience had brought dig
nity without embittering his Immun
ity. Her work Is Ideal In character;
it suggests thut mingling of humor and
gravity which was natlvo to the great
genius who was at once the creator of
'Parson Adams' and the energetic ma
gistrate and philanthropist who wrote
•The Proposal for the Poor.’ It Is a
splendid portrayal of a man who was
• contradiction of mugnitlceut and pit
ifully frail Qualities.”
)l»w /.<»!«* Ro««k
Some twenty-live years ago Emil
Zola was a clerk in liachette's (took
store on the Boulevard St, Germain —
passing rleh on 80 franc a mouth. To
day he la practically a millionaire. No
living French writer has amassed more
money than he from the products of
his pen. IIis novel# sett by fhe hun
dred thousand. On the first putdlca
tie* of any of hi* •lories by a news
paper he received the equivalent of
$1,000. ill* publisher subsequently pan
him double that sum for the copyright
of the work and gives him. moreover,
n splendid royalty on Its sale, it t* n i
wonder, therefore, that under thrwe
rtreumatsores the •Urn, raw booed
counter ■ lumper of a quarter of a cen
(ary ago should have developed int-<
(he portly, pleasant tanking “hour
geoln” of today Kv hangs.
(towers at tilaaer.
The mtu# 4*1 •»-. husthUm u
4)^4 ih«? 4I ii‘ t ill Itk# it|
4Willi «*'■* m W
tb« 1444, »lw4* IT* l4# tltnf 41k*4i
Wltll M. Mbit |U(«9|
with tang-ctemmed Bermuda |iitr*w.
with the emit**, tnlvpe. with the r.gu
Msspwrhst Ntet roses, with the saw*
ted Mtntean. with the d«»eert. an *»*
Uivtv* <4 pi»k rwsew. A touch of at
dittoes! satravneso • hr the maMtatng
wf the tattle service for «ourM 4
Hjggt vwml Fht<ngo Seen
FRENCH CHANCE THE1K IDEAS.
Beginning to Feel Tbnt Their Girls Should
Learn to Work.
The Figaro has espoused the cause
of the downtrodden French girl—whose
convent education, dot and loveless
marriage have long been a source of
grief and sympathy to the liberty lov
ing and uninformed American. The
Figaro writer has been to England and
he has discovered the trained nurse.
Trained nurses In France aro nuns.
If a young woman of good family were
to enter a French hospital as a student
there would follow a scandal which
could be heard around the world.
French woman arc the most practical
of wives and mothers, but broken
bones and diseases are not considered
savory subjects for the consideration
of young women. The Figaro think:)
that this point at view must be
changed, and the writer even udmlts
that he knows of a "pretty young
French protestant” who has entered
one of 1ho hospitals. “And,” he adds,
"I have not heard that she has been
Insulted.” The writer urges the neces
sity of a practical education for every
woman, rich or poor, and says that
every girl should learn "those little
secrets which make home life happy,
and if need be to help earn broad.
Those secrets have not changed since
the days of Mme. de tyatntenon and
her school at Sant-Cyr. They are the
arts of the milliner and the dress
maker, not the humble drudgery, but
the part of the work which demands
taste, tact, education and artistic In
stincts. They are, If one wishes, deco
rative art, china painting, not the lit
tle daubs done for amusement, hut the
real workmanlike work which finds a
purchaser. They are the work of
stenography and typewriting, and the
hygienic science which prepares a
woman for the exacting duties of a
nurse. The young girl of the middle
class, rich or poor, should have a vo
cation. And she can have It without
running any risk of unpleasant experi
ences. Paris and tho provincial cities
are full of painting, singing and elocu
tion classes. The mothers who take
their daughters to these lessons have
no Intention of sending them to tho
school of Home, or of some day put
ting them on the stage. Nevertheless,
a girl can be taught the dsilicate and
feminine art of making and trimming
a hat without being obliged to become
a milliner. If she marries, this knowl
edge will be as agreeable to her hus
band as the reciting of poetry; and If
she does not marry and money Should
bo needed her skillful fingers will be
a sure resource. I rejoice In the
knowledge that these Ideas, so approp
riate In tho present day, are not mere
ly dreams. East winter I received a
call from a progressive woman who
proposed to open a school somewhat
like those I have described (cooking
and trade schools of Norway). I could
not Induce her to teach hygiene and
train nursos for the sick, but she prom
ised all sorts of wonders In the way
of tailors, milliners and decorative ar
tists. A letter received from her re
cently announces that she has already
secured teachers and that the families
aro beginning to Interest themselves.”
NEW FACE IN CONGRESS,
Kdiuoml II. Dills* to flepreient tli*
Third Now York District.
Edmond H. Drlggs, the silver Dem
ocratic candidate, was elected In the
Third New York congressional district
of Brooklyn In the recent election. He
Is the nephew of Marshall S. Drlggs,
well known In business circles In New
York. Mr. Drlggs Is 32 years old. He
was allied for several years with the
Shepard Democracy of Brooklyn. Mr.
Driggs became dissatisfied with tho
action of the Shepardlte leaders last
year and decided to become a member
of tho regular Democratic organiza
tion. He was a candidate for county
clerk. He failed to secure this nomi
nation, but showed sufficient stre®gth
to warrant the Democratic leaders in
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CONGRESSMAN lilt MGS.
giving him the nomination for run*
grvu In n diatriet uwnuulty Republican
by over l.ooo.
Vlte W«>4 t'ule tBOualry.
It la eatlmaled that 3.U00 to 4,000
ctmle of pulp «k»k! a tiny euter Into
the menuf-o ture of paper tn the lulled
| Statee. At the minimum, S.ooo eufda.
the total for a >«*r would be the nuot
i.utua amount of *00.<00 ivnln It la
' kaiv to Will It l.otm.-•o. If thia wo.»J
j were piled tn one i-onilltui.ua a>rtag it
would rntbe a wall lour ftm w d - and
four feet high a little over I All mi Ian
In length. It van be teen what n prod
la .MM) thing the wood pulp l« luors
i« and at w Ml a irem-adoo* rate It It
i**..uitng treea, mainly apruce Vet
i ad tbta w«e»d bt converted late paper
) wnteh. alter betM need. vanUMa (tew
I tight In a few data and g «« laa- k •«
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greataeat ot lifa la tttrUbt 0»Ra
A BRITON’S BACK DOW N
WOULD NOT MEET FRANK ON
FIELD OF HONOR.
On* of the Con»plcunu* of Knglaml'*
8!lmy Smart Set—111* Record In the
United State* a* a Dangling Crook —
Donating Drlag* Dligrace.
HERE will be no
duel between Sir
Robert Feel and tb?
Due Clemont de
Clrella. The Eng
lish baronet has
apologized, and
French honor is
satisfied.
Sir Robert Peel
Is a grandson of
the famous prime
minister of England who died In 18.»0.
He succeeded to the title os fourth
baronet of the name a little over two
years ago. While he is a little over
30 years old, he has already made him
self a reputation through two conti
nents -a reputation of which no one
but himself Is proud. Sir Robert be
longs to a "smurt set"—a very smart
set Indeed. Ills rapid career has plas
tered him all over with as many differ
ent kinds of social slime as the Inge
nuity of his associates could devise.
There Is hardly a folly with which lie
Is not personally acquainted, there is
hardly a vice which he Is not said to
have sampled. To the outer world of
piety he Is a hideous sinner. To his
own world of enjoyment he Is nothing
i/ui uii uiuuniufi iwui. i mtt.
fight a duel is not considered a strik
ing example of his folly. In fact, It
Is very mild compared with many of
tho little undertakings he has been en
gaged in. None of his friends seemed
very much alarmed when they heard
that swords were the chosen instru
ments. Some even said that the end
might possibly be a gain to tho world
in sharp distinction from the results
of anything else Peel ever did.
Sir Robert has at various times con
cluded that England was too narrow
for him. Twice he came hastening to
America to astonish the populace with
his brilliant worthlessness. Both times
he went hastening home again, chased
by public ridicule and paternal top
boots. And, strange to say, he never
wrote a book about America. Ills first
That didn't disturb Sir Robert. He
laughed and boasted that he had other
conquests on hand. Soon it was ru
mored that he was to marry the Jer
sey Lily, which, it is needless to say,
he never did. Then he went back to
England, where ever since he has
fished in the matrimonial market, to
the great amusement ol the fishes.
Sir Robert Peel was well enough
known to the world. Nobody wanted
to hear anything more about him. Per
haps that was the reason he concluded
last winter to write his autobiography.
But he wanted it to sell, and so he
called it a novel. "A Bit of a Fool”
was the title. ‘‘How modest he is.’’
called out' the reviewers with ono
breath. ''He should have named it ‘A
Colossal Chunk of an Ass.” They said
tho book was rotten to the core; that
it was putrid; that it portrayed tho
shocking Immorality of British socie
ty; that it was candor run mad, and
various other complimentary things,
all of which were so patently true that
they didn't bother the author ut all,
and contributed greatly to the sale of
tho excrescence. Sir Robert’s book
deals enttrely with his English experi
ences. Every character in it is a knave
—an almost impossible knave—except
one. That one dabbles In every kind
of knavery and vice which is offered
him, but remains to tho end the fool
that he was at the beginning. It is
needless to say whom it represents.
The fool, whose name is Manners, be
gins his life by an intrigue with an ig
norant girl, while he is still in school.
Later, he meets the girl in London,
where she has fallen to the lowest
depths. He gets her a position on '.bo
stage, where she speedily learns how
to swindle him out of vast sums of
money. He does not even know that
he Is being swindled until the final
coup comes. Then ho wander* into
"high life,” as he calls It, where he and
his sister are swindled In still more
complete fashion by another charm
ing pair of social exotics. He Is pleased
to be cursed by them when the work
Is done. Then he goes off—to get
swindled, and all but murdered, again.
So far the story of Manners Is said to
be but the life of the writer. In the
rest of the book he deals In romance.
His hero develops some slight con
stancy. He ceases to argue that he
can truly love a dozen women at once.
He becomes devoted to one woman who
says she loves him. The story ends.
This is the story that Sir Robert
A
SIR ROBERT PEER.
adventure tn this country was with a
bungling confidence man who had ex
hausted the cheap victims and proved
Incapable of conquering the richer
ones. To him Sir Hubert was a shin
ing mark, and the combination made
greut sport for the public when the
facts got abroad. Sir Hoiiert was
beautifully plucked by his llfth-class
acquaintance, and If the police had not
got wind of the transaction iu time
ho might have gone home with .to
feathers left for another fly out In'o
the world. Ho Is said to have settled
with McHermott. th» swindler, by a
compromise, which was quite proper
for him, his friends thought. Ity and
by Sir Hubert came back to ‘America.
This time he wanted a *lfe. The mar
riage market had bee.t well looked
over at home, but no wealthy girl
could be found who was either so ig
! (uiraut as not to have beard of him or
i su< h a fool as to accept biro. \m~r
Ira furnished • «r»at Hell. He re
! an acquaintance with Mite Kit
tle Hanford, granddaughter *d the pres
ident of lh* Adams Krpr»»s t'umpenv.
tie won the promise of her land.
H he had been merely a hbvve ami
I K(l| „ (mg he would have severed both
haad at d fort use Hut he h-wtvj
| thruuah the aewvpspeis of hU success
ful courtship aad almost tn lh i asms
breath bragged el hte conquest over
■ me fair Idly langiry. whom he sail
| he had tahen Irom her long, fstihful
• adorer, that ha might squeader UsMf
,.B ha« at Moats t'a»b> and bsrta tut
j waa Mi much for the grandfather tla
: hte had the Htltteh geattemaa down
! fiatrs nnd the girl who had Ml •»
aahwtuaate aa to encourage him r*>
! fused evsr ta •*- him egstn,
I
tells about himself. He appreciates
himself. Nobody else does. Sir Rob
ert I’eel is reported to hnve au income
of over $115,000 per abuum.
DIMENSIONS OF THE PLANETS.
New lleleriulimtlune Made l»y l'rof.
Ilaritaril with the l.it'k Teleec«»pt*.
Dunns (he years 1891-95 l’rof. E. E.
Barnard, then at the Lick Observatory,
made a series of mlcroinetical meas
urements to determine the diameters
of the planets and their satellites, the
results of which are published together
fur the first time In the current num
ber of Popular Astronomy. The more
important of these new determination*
are as follows:
Planet*- Mercury, 2.785 mile*; Ve
nus, 7.*28 mite*, Mara, equatorial, 4,353
miles. Mar*, polar, 4.311 tulle*; Cere*,
' 1*5 mile*: Pall**, 304 mite*; Juno,
lls mile*. Vrata. 243 mile*; Jupiter,
| equatorial. W.IW mllea, Jup'ter, polar,
M.&Tu miles, datum, equatutlal. 78,479
! Mllea, datum, polar. 89.7*1 mile*
ring*, outer diameter. I73 8t# mllea;
I rind*, inner diameter, 119,970 mllea;
i'oi.hI'i DivlsU n. width. 2.330 mllea;
I ran us 34.300 mile*. Neptune, 33.9UO
d*t*lllte* Jupiter* I. 3 M3 mllea:
Jupiter * If. l.cl > miles. Jupiter * III,
i t,M mllea. JupIteC* IV, 3.313 mllea;
JupHer'a V in'imslsll. loo miles,
datura *. Titan. 3.799 mllea.
Thr** ub*er«a* >owa. a* l*r«f Barns rd
remarks, wakes Pi**u* Ur«er Ikaa
Neptune. *hi«b U contrary to tbe *••
•rally aoynd results It t* also t*
k* noted that Barnard makes Ike dtam
star of Mate about l*s mil** gtaaiaf
than tbs determination* of Mr P#r»i
til Lonetl 4.313 mil**
COUNT LYOF TOLSTOI.
THE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND
HIS WORKS.
The World llai Profited by HU Stand
for Higher CWUlMtlon HI. "Anna
Karenina” the Most Valuable of llli
Literary Prod act Iona.
OUNT Lyof Nlcko
laivlteh Tolstoi, the
most prominent of
the Russian novel
ists, is also o so
cial reformer. His
great ancestor was
Peter Tolstoi, the
friend of Peter the
Great. The author
of "Anna Kareni
na” Is now nearly
70. "Anna Karenina” is pronounced
Tolstoi’s masterpiece. Of Anna herself
George Meredith says she is the most
perfectly depicted female character in
all fiction. Tolstoi believes in the
literalness of the werds of Jesus. He
holds that the only rule of life Is the
precise living up to the maxims of the
Sermon on the Mount. As a youth
Tolstoi attended the University of Ka
zan, and at the rge of twenty-three he
entered the army and went with his
brother to the Caucasus. He fought
in the Crimean war, and at Us close
resigned his commission ond devoted
himself to literature. One of his ear
liest works, "War and Peace,” is
moat appraised by Russians. It deals
with the Invasion of Russia by Napo
leon. Since he brought out “Anna Ka
renina” In 1876 Tolstoi has given him
self up to social problems, with the
COUNT LYOF TOLSTOI.
hope of supplying mankind with a bet
ter moral and religious philosophy
than that which now obtains in the
world. “Kreutzer Sonata" appeared in
1890, presenting a certain theory of
morals which so shocked some emi
nent Christians in America that it was
“raided" by the authorities. In 1892
Count Tolstoi finished his autobiog
raphy, which, with his diaries, he de
posited with the Kumyanzoff Museum.
Strange Marring* Cuntonm.
According to a writer in a Calcutta
publication, the poorer classes of the
Siamese people need no priest for mar
riage. They elope, and return three
days after, begging for tho parents’
blessing, which is a mere formality.
They are now husband and wife.
Among people of the higher classes
the marriage is conducted with nu
merous preparations and ceremonies.
Polygamy is common among the no
bles, and the King himself sets his
subjects the example; he has two
Queens, termed first and second queen.
The queens must always be very near
relations of the King, his sisters or
half-sisters being preferied. But be
sides the queens the harem wall in
close several hundred women. The le
_1 !_ „ .1 *1_
Kadavas—a Kunbi caste in the Bom
bay presidency—are driven to devise
in order to evade the enormous ex
penditure of properly marrying a mai
den such as would do credit to a
mediaeval lawyer. When a suitable
partner cannot be procured for a girl,
she is married to a bunch of (lowers,
which are subsequently thrown down
a well. The girl thus become* a wid
ow, and can then t>e married by a far
cheaper rite. Or a girl Is married to a
man who Is already married, and who
promises to divorce her Immediately
after the marriage ceremony Is con
cluded. The girl Is thus reckoned as
a widow, and can then he disposed of
| economically to any one who may
ehoose to marry her.
Ilrath of Honorm'a ... (ilante**.
Probably the tallest wofuan in Atner
i lea has Just died In the t'lty of Mas*
I Ico. ller height was « feet 9 Inches.
I she was born In the State of Suin.rn
! snd was In no wav remarkable evwpi
| for her unusual height. Knr th* last I
ten year* she has b**u a familiar fix j
I me on the strees of th* capital of !
; Mexico, a her* she sttractml a great j
i deal of attention from stronger* and
j travel*.** an t was pi'in-e l mu to th*m
i with pride as one of th * ruriosbt a o' I
j the nation by the cilia* na She died |
at th* ag* of ti leaving a husband an l |
j thee* children. Il«r nun* «** Mag
dalena t’butn iih* was ssriucktid .
and talked th* Spanish l ingua** will* 1
digbutty, but th* lam* of har *t*a was j
S Widely hwowi _
11 v«uil« **-• Pekneea
the smuktag paraphernalia ««# th*
beautiful Natali*- •* queen af darvta. j
u ,4 th* n -<*4 elaourat* sad saagatg -
: coat d**‘ rlptton She kwuws that j
■ ausay pc*f*r «*u* brand of to'utevo in .
4 aawther. hut tb*» as* ail squally ,
plrwr-T* to her **»• eat* k«* anything ,
••at m har and t* vary tar** qnantt !
. urn Es-dmng*
CHARLES A. DANA.
Had Much Sentiment and a Sincere sym
pathy for the Under Dog.
He knew good writing when he saw
t and also good verse, and he liked
doth, not as a merchant likes goods,
hut as an artist loves art, says Mar
ker's Weekly. There never was an
;dltor more inspiring to his subordi
nates. His taste was a literary stan
dard that was respected from San
Francisco to Kastport. Very possibly
Ihe best days to have known Mr. Dana
is an editor were the o’.d days when
the Sun was still a four-page paper,
which swelled to eight on Sunday*,
ind when the staff was comparatively
small, and every line of space counted.
In those days certainly the Sun office
was a fold where art was loved for
irt's sake, and where aspiring talent,
uncertain of itself, found recognition,
guidance and opportunity. In those
Jays, as ever since, Mr. Dana was liked
and admired and respected In the Sun
office, and persons there, as elsewhere,
with whom he had close personal re
lations formed strong attachments to
him. It was said the other day by a
man worn in his service: "He w.u
like a great tree, and I have been
glad to feel his shelter.” That Is a
sentiment about him that many per
sons have shared, and not without
reason, iie nail much sentiment anti a
sincere sympathy with the under dog.
If the worm would turn he would back 'v'
the worm. Ho loved to see the weak
grow strong; he loved to see the course
of true love triumph over the tradi
tional obstacles. He strode through
the world shaping his own course, but
a great charm about him was that ho
never walked on stl-'t and was never
disposed to shut himself off from his
follows and coworkers, but was both
easily accessible to any one who had
any claim on his attention and very
courteous and agreeable to his callers. l
Usually in his office he did not stop **
work to talk, but went right on read
ing bis proof-sheets or with whatever
he had In hand, while he gossiped with
a visitor or discussed his errand.
ORICIN Or A NCI ENT ETRUSCANS
Why Alt Sorts of (fneer Theories Were
Entertained.
We know leas of the language used
by the Etruscans than of many other
details of their existence—only enough
to be assured that It was an exceeding
ly primitive type, says Popular Science
Monthly. It was constructed upon as
fundamentally different a Bystem from
the Aryan tongues as is the Basque, It
seems to have been, like the Basque,
allied to the great family of languages
which includes the Lapps, Finns and
Hungarians in modern Europe and the
aboriglno-s of Asia and America.
These unfortunate similarities led to
all sorts of queer theories as to the
racial origin of the people, as wild,
many of them, as those Invented for .
the Basques. It never receurred to any ■
one to differentiate race, language and
culture one from another, distinct as
each of the trio may be in our eye?
today. If u philologist found slmiliar
lty in ligulstic structure to tho Lapp
he immediately Jumped to the conclu
sion that the Etruscans were Lapp? ,
and Lapland the primitive seat of the T
civilization. Thus Taylor In his early
work asserts an Asiatic origin akin tc
to the Finns. Then Pauli and Doecke.
for a time independently traced them
to the same Turanian source.
AN HONEST BALLOT BOX.
A ballot box which will absolutely
prevent fraud is a recent device. It
was tried in Philadelphia the other day
with more or less success. The box
is a sheet-steel box 12 by 8 Inches and
24 Inches deep. In operation the ballot
is placed in the opening at the front
of the machine and then the knob on
top next to the operator is pressed
down, which cancels the ballot and at
the. same time grasps it.
A handle at the rear is pulled out,
Till; tsttw tj.si.iAM tu
drawing the ballot In along a track
and registering Its number upon g dial
set In the top. The handle la then
pushed back, which cause* a bell to
ring and the ballot to drop to the bot
tom The boa la tben ready fur the
nest tote.
Wuus'i hoe IJrtaede.
At the Jubilee ftwililue* of King Oa
rer uf •ttmtea and Norway one of the
features that spp«*trd must to tatsrest
him was tbs tshUditou of tbs female
Ore brigade of KuuUlaeea (here are
ISO of these youag women, fr » Jw to
S» years eld, dimmed by a male mat
r who Is mairisd iu<* .
aged awl • men ”
are said to he the mpial of any uf Umir
m> giHue compefitora. Tksy am* >a
full uniform to go through the eioto*
lpern beneath King Ihwar'a window*,
at « ih * * **»«d great m jtmtuw
—- Ne« York Tribune
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