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, ) > . - BARGAINS iN 12,000 Dozen lleu ' ' , La(1ies' and Children's gall ; t.p.t. : ( Winter IMPORTED ' ' .
+ . 'l'ho llll' dst and finest stock nod rho
$ " lowest ' prices ' ' in ' Ouutlnt . , . .
DRESS That GOODS were ever and offered SILIS . U N D E R W E R fa KID ( Worth to i2/00 up ' )
40 PIeCeS . 75c'Silk for 18c This pmclmsc : Is the entire stock of 1\ Rhlllll island t tndcrwenr mill , up to nosy 111 the humt of a l'ccCI\'CI' III GLOVES ' \
Double width A tremendous bin' jo sold It 1111-thl entire shick-to us at 5. : on the dollar of Its actual \'ulnc. Its the Itu'gcst slnglc p11 r- r
Cashmere of Satin , China , " 'Su- amuse of Unlerlvcut ' ever recorded and by all odds thc gl'cat'st : sacl'llicl over Il1elll'I'c.I by 1man. .
Plain Colored I 0 rams . , Dcng-allnc , ufnchll'CI' . Hm the ercditors WII'I ChUllOI'OU ! : for their honey ami hall to hl\\'c it. C C C
C Moires and Futile C 5 9 15 9 8 , ,
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And tansy half wool ' enl 12 yards tu each . r E N ' 6. n At U"n C if' ' If } IlB m rrJHi11E f1R ' , , , , r i \
novoltlps ClIstOIllOl' ' L E S .
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inch N U & 0 it } ) liB ff' ' 'rhe entire 1.Ianlm11lt stock or a 111'001. , . y iau + x ; 1 ,
loan KJ
40 $ L00 ORES SILKS Ir S9C D m KtUr1'1 ' , in
VOOI . novelties . . U n'ij tJj ! IJ ; b ' \if \ ! ' 1 1 ! ! . n > > u"H [ ElR\VEAR . U [ j ER ' , m EC.l R . 1S11 I . eXl'lllsl\'e 1\111 1 glove ' store , Indlll1in + , . .
PI laid Cheviots . - - - - - - - - .1.hntloll rtubraldUrcd'bnci : glncH gloves . s , + 4
lCVlOts
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and pieces 1000 DOZEN W91 ! TI10UP Ladlcs' Hlbbcl1 Ladles' natural wool Slmttoll mon ( tlnl'tnh'es , In gray , brava ,
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. , All Pure MIENS WHITE GRAY UNDEItWEAR ) hlla'l. 1 111111 l white , i IImt j Foster hook . .
Fancy Cheat I . . rRWt\R ! \ ; I L
: , C pe1lt'nftR.'rn ! ' ' uc ! : Io\"es ; ron will lied lu filet all the high-
Mixtures SLS ( r . 'nn IQUnnJl 6n'nE \ nVHnAFJ ; 12'1c r + , it.lt fr , . .l f1 est , ! : llIlesorl\lllglo\'I'HlnthHcalots d , . , ,
29c
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lttnsoxttaheavy eottou- " .
' " r n. whidl , ' tomol'I'O\l' , "ac ' .
2 Cases . . " - ' 1 u h hT ! ! t ; 'o 1uarrow at iiUe ' l c , USe g ,
I'ibbcdnndOl'II.C1U. ) . . . . . . " - -2 f . .
all ' ' Double breasted , , heavy a ° + t J4I , , , L' ' ,
Strictly III GI'OS Grain 'l'afTotlls , Satins , bleak 5 ' ' ' , ' ,
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wbh'rlt
WOIt'I'1l ; o 'rlI jjc
Wool I St' d and all shades ! ; wm'th u dollar 110 yard , ; 'rayunderwcur. . . . . . . . 2 5 ® - , ! .
00 Striped ' . . ' , Fine cancels hair under C I.adles' heavy ribbed . . BAOQAIN8
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. . 5 . h rt > \1' ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . , ' . Ladled ( nbolutly I nil , /.1.\ /
DresS C UIDE/lV'JEIIII / wool bcal'lot I t7 , ' '
ess h'w . . , + ' \DIJ"S' \'KFTS
7picccs [ worth } $ I to $ C2- : ] Faa.y""loo'od unda'tvenr . " ' ' ' ' 'H1 l n ° ! elf IN' THE Bode ' ? Aeltoil cloth , very $1,39 i
7- : 1 : > - - , Ui1iJ.Hiia..R1& } stylish ; worth $5.O4 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Gds Elegant - 19 - - - _ .
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. Fancy T 49c . , . . IADms' I"INJ' ' ! . ' 1II'lm
Y JA'KI I 1'S
i 200 ) ices : SILKS Children natural cam- , , 3,98
, $
pieces gray IInlC ratio IIl1el ! mule III the ,
Irnportl.d Tnffeta "OHTII : tic . . UhlS 1VA'I'IRL'ItU01' I > > ' , . . . . . . . .
Irul\Orll'll high Iratlo ' ' Uhl\ ! latest style : worth $7.60.
4 ) nil wool novclty . . , - - - - , ' . . ms , , , . Cl I' S lair and white 1 merino COLLAHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .
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, POI' dresses and lI'a sts , suc I as IIIC a Lathe ( EYJllInu : or l,2. i . n- , , . _
l Dress 2 Silk , " 4 Inch Plaid SurahsdT inch block combed ? yurt Underwear 1Vurth C. LADIES' ALL \VOOi. Ktat
9 Satin DUl'h- derby ' ribbed Lades' I ! cotton heavy rib . , ' ; . , HalC lin0d SUY lIIallllolln JACKET sleeves , $4. 98. - ,
. . C UNDERWEAR ' " Light I colored I ! Sblrthc I I I 1 back worth , , . . , . .
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Qiso. aloe all \ ; \ > , OCl. ' : tIOOO
Goods WOOL \
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JII 20 9lI1ll1L'90f Satin I Rim- r . a : " 5 , 9 15 \Vm.th li ( lie " "III' 'd . 2 C \DII"S' J J \I-I . 'I' " "
dllfcl'cnt styles ' " 25 . C C C Made oC boucle cloth , Ierse ' ,
( dl\ICS well \ 5 _ FOI' meu" all . wool c . y'
\ ' ! u C 0 Best Standard Dress I ' tints covert cloth . rind astrachan '
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42 and 44 In. 1 ns5Udlllercut comhination" [ " . a . scarlet , undordvear ' . _ C I . I' . . . . 3 C quality cloth . extra worth t one , 0.00 . stYle . . . . . . , . UIIII . . . . $9 . ,
Mon's [ all
' en s a wool , doubVOI.tll tJOo 'OI.th 71c - -
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ported a changeable .
1'1I frotaa for -1i. , 10 breasted gray . tin Children's . all I 1 wool scarlet , all e Ht I. Dttt'v's : : . . , RI.EFEIt
wool , and . . . . .
Plain fancy trimming and wIIIst3 Also 01'0 derterar , mcn ' rill , . Det heavy Garnet Prints , 1 JACKETS ,
l Made oC chluchllIa beaver nml
. . . e wool and camels hair . . . . . . . . , , , a c
fancy colored .lII.11wltloan Chonoylkos. , \ - LnDIES gray go at. ' " ' ' " ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' 32C covert . extra hea98c ,
C Liningsouo Chaney wool , fleece lined un . t't'I"S'I' : : 2 ? , cloth heavy :
Dress Black China Sills \ , nit at 50c a J ' . derw'car , mon' Underwear \ , , olth Se. worth $2.50. ( ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Goods $ . black and Colored p 4r' , \llno camel hair 11 l Besthtli go hluo and white I , ITH m CAPES
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4 50 < \ < . Colored1 " ' and I''tl Pl'illt 41 Plush en pelsll'U'hall cape ,
' Dress Goods and - sims @C underwear . , men's SUITS. , goat ( . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . 2C French Cooke ) ' capes . , ao Inches ttt e ( '
! ' " , 100-Inch $7.50'
long worth
t DLA11'U trons hnpol.tcd l"I'onoh . . 9 ICe : i 25c ir & . ,1 : ! I , I , . . sweep . : : ; . . . ; ? , r.t.l , I V V'
U M U nI U U UJ . . In this purchnso .
. . . striped under- pm
fancy un ot.
, au inch wide l"J'cnch Percales - -
cat bar rtdn I Clot T. Ct 1. 111 fine J ijJ1J - ,
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GO pieces .Jj'ln ( l\IohIl l' and wool nn' , . _ quality Dross satins and Silks nt'e " to bo WCIII' , worth up to " wore limo , flllest lot I of , go at . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 C 1"In'NCII CAPES CONI1'UIt $4,98.
ties in all the new designs , had tomol'I'OW. $1.2.3. Ladio 3 : ! Combination Worth L ] c. 28 Inches long ! , worth $10.00. . . . ,
go on Sale Monday at . 0 Suits 0\01' put 011 the , - - ; . - - , . - -
' 1'he90 . " . . ' ' 9 GUINET 1'1110 ' Ucnl'iotta El . ECTIttC SEAL CAPES ,
"oodsL'O 1
osu row \ acv ' ' sold l
'I' eo C _ . For , marmot \ , In all wool , . Of' . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ASTltAClIAN CAPES
Sat
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. rot- _ lose thmttt Osa " , rd Black Gl'oa , Grain SIlk r and part I wool , hi.Boys and I GIrls , strictly aU 11'orlh' tmn : ' ; 3c ; . Z "l0 : : InehtJl " ! long ood1DUa Inchn I-Iwecll.$12 $ 50 ,
- - - - - Underwear " 1 ll1 wIth g oed ! Fatln : worh
51 . rook hea" ' " storm serge 22 Inch all purc $ ( llr . Satin Duchs8c , 15 n r \v C1C eluding all colors wool gray Underwear ; Jancy. t " 5 , OO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ! . . I . . . . . ,
in Kavy P.te and Black 21 Inch all silk . , C \ \ T orth and black . . Extra line quality double 1 _ _
Btl' u all rook Autcy black , ' _ ' " . mixed brown Underwear , nap Shakpr 1"111111101 " goo nt 51 C -500 , Nl1W-
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n lulu' AI . mdny . at 50ez \ 50 Ii .fancggl.ilua $ , ( . . - . . . . . 50 , and..fanc y . , stri p. Under- \\OI.thlnc. . , , ' , f. 2 , ArhLE i t { 71)iU t KITS & . CAPES
' " ' fl.tel\ \ . 89eyard tll' brocade ht - y Such na Dr. , \\.1'1I:11t.8 hygienic UUllol'- Ladles' CornlJlnl\tlon Unlo . . . . . . , ' . . . '
regular ) . , o ! : . . \ . ! Gpit4 50c - - - ' . 500 new Barnnis JiicICc.l.'t 'hlft1 .CnIH I' . .eacb ,
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Satin and Grod wear , colorJaeger imported underwear , north lIollnl' .n" : : ; ; wcar , ' Double nap gray and brown ' n IIIIerl'nt 11 ' 1e-10 ! two u11kt . ' -made'lu nIL
Hun t'eds or ImpOl'tmllJlnek novelties In ( ; rata. 21illel1 -c real English Vicuna ! nnl , French cash- Lndle Conlhlni1tlon { Unionlults ! . Sanitary Flannel goes at 81 C' the t ! BI , \elfal \ cloths-fancy ; - . . and plain hl houclea 1 :
Silk and \Vool UI1I1l\JOhllil' Chntnollon mere underwear , in fact the highest worth 1L5. ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , J. , . . . . . . . 75c 1Vurth' 00. 2 clay erslan worsteds Iamb anti cloth doeskin worumho Ierse's-wlth . chinchuln. fat
and Noel very IItyllllh Dress and grades ( or all \ killll men's I underwear , Llldlecoill"llIatlou Unlon'Hlllts ripple back mandolin Coot ball ned ( draped '
patterns ) " , also ' 5d-in Mohair j \YUiRt Taffetas such liS handled In the finest exclusive : worth tl\O dollars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ; " , . . . . 9Sc pansy Swansdown FIUlllol sleeves . , together . . . . with un IlIIlI1en lot oC .
: slcillan8. 98 C In dark and evening shades. 3U inch mun'lI furnishing good stores and sold Idlllle + ' OOlllhlnnllon Union full : , Q p 2 9 C 3 9 C 49 Clancy ' Wl'Uppel'lI , CtC nt. . 1 0 C train plush.'elou t30.oo 10 ! ' : $7GOO elolh , go and nt fur copes : wortll.
Regular price , $1.60 go at wide whlto and cream BI\tlus \ all go at75e , for up to $ 'W5o ' , go at 1tJc. worth five dOUtn'Ii. . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . SI 98 Regular price ' 2..c. .
$12,50 $ $15,00 $ $17.50 $ $20.00 $ $22.50 $ $25.011 $
gi Ol > POSITlON ] TO REAUS [
School of Fiction Without Substantial
.A Public Favor
REALITIES TOO GRIM AND SORDID
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ltomnlltlrlH1I1 1'1'1'(1'1'1',1 11) the :1lnHI- :
rode , nl111 the H..nNonM 'rh..ror
-IIt'nIM thnt Stir the
IuujUnts .
At the session at the Federation at Women's
, Clubs recently held In Lincoln lhl following
% paper : dealing with the romantic and realistic
- schools ot llteraturo was prepared and read
by loss Irene Byrne ot Omaha :
The evolution at each century Is Incarnated
In n particular form of literature and the
form of our ago Is the 1\Oycl. There Is al- I
ways n harmony between the social moyo- i
meat , which Is the cause , and , the literary !
expresslot which Is the effect Thus Greece
In the heroic age wrote epic poem telling
low bravo men lived and loved and voyaged
and dIed , tolling ot a gallant lire and honest
purpose ; the mystical mldtlle ages left us n
poem ot heaven : and hell of darkness and
s death and doom ; Shakespeare the flower at
I tllo'1tenalssnnce ' : , gave liS dramas ! varied as
hUlllalllt . and the nineteenth century man
sClllls the nervous shiver of his ago thro' the
t rtdveh
But ICYDU think of the novel ns simply n
narrative , the main object ot which Is to
please , you have little Idea of the scope of the
modern art . Utile Idea at the potent ) force I
which fiction has come to be In the life of I
htmanlty
The novelist of tOday has complete freedom
In the choice ot his subJect and the manner
of Its treatment ; he IIIny adopt the novel as
Q plnltorlll or n pulpit , usa It ns a. means or
an end think of It us lIIerely vehicle for
conveying his theories of life and philosophy ,
or regard It Itself as nil In all.
The novel which ho gives us may be historical -
torical and critical , heavy as n German
treatise precise ns n column of statistics or .
It IIku Stevenson fancy has filled his eyes
with rainbows ho nay send warm blood Into
the dead chill and show us the shimmering
+ IJUrlllo hued 110nlbllltles of a life more ardent
a I sod vigorous : lu conception than our own
tame dull colored one.
And this Is what a large number of the
young men , the new writers / . have been doing.
: Make a list of the books most widely read
and discussed and you will and a large pcr-
ceqt3ge written lJy men of whom the literary
world knew but little ten years ago : thaw
look at the books themselves and you will
find that In thl'm life has been viewed front
{ 1 Its picturesque rOlllalltio and adventurous
aides Their stories tell oC brave men and
i
1 fair women , who thrill and InspIre us by
showing what heroic things the human heart
can do ; they transport us to n new and \
Juarvelous world ot magic landscapes , where
llerJlslII seems natural , alll\ where we learn
that In sJllle of the desolatlllg monotony oC
things there lie within the ( Ihnllll of human :
achievement nobler deeds \ than we have : done ,
deeper emotions than 11'0 have felt higher
ideals at fallh-frlendshltl-than we have
reached . . anti as our life currents ebb or flow
In sympathy with the hopes and tears , the
desires and 11Isappolnlmenls of these people
, moat real tho' they have never existed we
life glad to know that back of the t 'eneee of
cIVilization the human heart can still thrlll
and throb , and that tho' we may not have
110uo so more richly ! endowed natures have
In their passionate love ot lICe warmed both
> hands before its lire and drunk deeply ut III
cup , whether for weal or woe.
Dot books lighted by huaginatlon and
warmed by enthusiasm , books ; < full of turmoil
and ebullition from which emerge men and
, women who , lJy reason of theIr genuine vital
force , show us that the race with all its com-
merclallsm and materialism , Is yet capable of
a large aTIII liberal sweep of emotion , such
books come from the realm oC romanticism
And l'oml1ntlclsm , we have been told by the
eminent " uuthoritl ° s " . Howells Doyeson Zola ,
la'dying ! of bloodlessness , of starvation for
tlio'storles upon which she feeds have been
so often tolll that they no longer nourish her.
What then Is the meaning of this sudden
Influx ot romantic novels ? Why Is It that
Stevenson Crockett Darrlo Anthony hope ,
Conan Doyle , Gilbert Parker , Stanley Wey-
man have suddenly attained such prominent
l lIoslllons In the world of letters and why do
they wrllll or Scotch raiders and French
Iingeonots ot Indians trom the new world
and gypsIes front the old ?
It Is because : there Is always a vital relation
between time deep , instinctive natural prefl'r
coca of limo reading public and the activity
of its writers , so when from no single personal -
sonal impulse but from 11 general movement
which could no more be helped than could n
change In the social or political world , men .
weary at the books In which there Is no ro-
Ulance , no poetry feel that In their own lives
the realllles arc too grim and sordid and ever
present to fill their novels to the exclusion of
all else , then these young writers spring up
In response to the demand of the hour as
champions of the new romanticism
For It Is not true that romanticism Is deader
or dying : neither has realism had , Its day
Each Is liS old as the world and each Is ever
young und appears In new strength ! and under ,
a new guise al each new literary period for
as art Is progressive It never Quite repeats
Itself and tbo' the strong , strenuous delight
In doing and daring which pervades the house
ot the wolf the refugees or Iddnal1e Is the
same as that which vitalizes old mortallly ,
" 93. " or Ihe ( robbers , yet the time spirit [
which haunls the books of CrockettVey -
man or Stevenson show that they have been
surrounded and governed lJy circumstances
different front those which hnprlsonec1 Scott ,
Hugo Schiller and the romanticists at an
earlier day and n different clime.
1"01' romanllclsm , which Is the form that
idealism In Ilteraure often takes . means different ( -
terent things In different countries different
things at different tines In accordance with
the school or tendency with which II comes
into collision. It cOllies usually at periods
when men , tired of plain , praclicm . l things . de-
mood ot art that It show them not only the
actual and present but the potential and l'as-
sllJle : when hungry for eloquence and thirsty
for poetry they turn to art for the Intellectual -
leclual excitement which cannot be found In
the dull anti conventional
Today It Is placed , In opposition to the
realism whIch has assumed , such varYing
phases . In the work at Zola , de Dalzae I'lau-
berl . Tolstol Turgeuet , Ilowells James and \
Garland , according , 10 the race and Individual
temperaments oC these aulhors.
Each man Is 11 product ot his own time and
If these men have preached the doctrine of
the Importance of the real facts of life If
they have formulated their creed In books In
which Imagination playa no part and < In i
which niceness of observation and minuteness
at analysis ! are the mbst prominent characteristics -
1slles. It I. because they have lived III an age
of Iclenllllo development and have been so
influenced by It as to think that science must ,
In its raped , growth supplant art the pho
togrllher : lake the place of the artist , the re-
tarter that If the ' novelist And It Is true
that u time \ which heels only the call of call ! .
blooded reason and which rl'fl\H' to take
oven its religion on trust , needs its novels to
bo built of sterner stuff than fairyland can
give : requires Its stories to be marked by
Melli ) ' to experlel'c and probability oC mo-
tive hut It Is not true that In learning 10
place a proper value on the things that we
can see . hear and taste on the mere pai-
pable that we lose all sense of the subtle
values ! of life end art : we do not believe that
the truthful U'elllment of material necenl-
tales tile omnlaslon > > ot the slllrlt element and
wo refuse 10 he thrilled and inspired by the
dull and commonplace as we are by the dra-
made amt unusual : ! . 'fltla the reonllits have
falll'tto \ comprehend ) \ ; In their efforts to
faithfully copy ' and reproduce the me around
thelll they have lost their arose ot proportion
and perspective : forgotten to subordinate the
weak and ' accidental 10 the strong antI essential -
sential and tram n vast mass of facts make
no selection of what Is vital and interesting ,
hut serve all Indlscrlminately As In the
IJllllat of Pasha Daley Ben : '
They bring us onions strung on ropes , '
And cold boiled beef and telescope .
And , balls ot string ant shrimps und guns ,
bals
And chops and ! tacks nor , hats and buns.
They bring uM white kid gloves and pals
Ant candlesticks amid potted qualms .
Ant capstan bars and scales and , weights
And ornaments for empty srates.
and expect us to bo as grateful as I they
appealed to the almost universal love tor the
marvelous and strange . which Mr. Howell
declares Is characteristic of only primitive
natures-the young and the savag But
surely the pitiful awe and care , of l Q \manlty. .
the desire for justice , the hope that' there Is
1 purpose In life beyond what wo can see the
belief that the men of today , like the men of
all time are capable of strong self-sncrll1ce
and unselfish living , oC heroic deeds and
noble thoughts : surely these are not charac-
lerlstlc at undevelol1ment. of youthfulness or
I so 'outn hi a glorious fault and one we
would all have. And yet these yearnings for
what Is hIghest ant best , the longing to
cherish time dreams of our youth even after
the ardor and fire have died out of than to
hold 10 our kinship with the infinite and keep
the light that never was on land or sea . these ,
with the desire for the expressions of the
deep primitive passions which never fail to
touch humanity deeply are . say their opponents -
ponenls Isfy. , what the realists have failed to sat-
Devoting themselves to their realities
known tluo' the senses they have neglected
the no less real tho' elusive verities ot the
spirit [ : describing the surface and superl1clal
elemenls ot life . its appearances . they have
failed 10 speak to the highest In man-to
arouse those Indefinable emotions which
emolons
Novals calls the anonymous feelings oC the
soul.
soul.Their
Their theory Is that the novelist's duty Is
to portray und reproduce the life at his time ;
not to let his personality color the facts
which be wishes to recordbmt to 11alnt them as
they arldnll. drab dreary CO\CII.g himself -
self not with the plot for there Is none : not
whim the selection at his subject or characters -
ters for the '
more eonlnon and general the
story Is the better It Is then typIcal , but with
the manner of its treatment for to write
badly Is the greatest crime ot which they can
conceive. Ant In part they have done a good
work : they have given us pieces of faithful
portraiture . they have striven to do away
with the reproach Implied In Emerson's
words : "Jlfe les about us dumlJ : the day
as wo know I has not yet found a \'olce. "
But In their efforts 10 be precise al I exact
In their eagerness to avoid the delicate exag-
gel'aton by which pictures of life gain color ,
sound perfume , they have too often selected
the mean and sordid the dull ali dense , and
shown us only the terrible InelerlhtP s of
life . the dreary days leading nowhere . the
dead motives . the unfulfilled longings without -
out showing the other side of the picture
where "I.lfe behind Its accidents stands
strong and , self-sustaining , the human fact
transcending all the losing amid the galln . "
Ot course 10 man can put the whole of life
Into a play or a book but the realism which
leads its advocates to select the sad and shallow -
low and petty , unlighted by the idealization ,
of life and sentiment found everywhere , Is
grossly nnlrue. The battle between the soul
at man and , its environment the strife be
tween time Inward desire and the outward ne-
ceslly , often results In the conquht of the
hgh c. ' , finer elements by the baser but not
always , and life may be broadening and
deepening In its elect , as well liS corroslVA
and corroding. In applying the scientific
melhods to the literary analysis of man amid
nature , making their work as far as possible
impersonal , they have Ignored the tact that
In all the great masterpieces the personality
ot the creator dominates , no mater what
torn I has taken , as I means of expression
that the pets have set their own hearts 10
amusic and that the great paInter have put
into their pictures a somelhln whIch the
realty had not and that this something Is
what distinguishes the great achievements
from the mediocre. "Oh the little more and
how much It b. and the little less and what ,
'
miles away " They have made the fatal mistake .
take at assuming that theirs Is the only point
of view ; If they and the rpat of humanity
lifter It must be because humanity Is In the
wrong . and have insisted so strongly on the
sacredness oC plain unvarnished facts that
they have forced the reacfonlst Into the
other extreme where they rebelliously cry
out that fiction should pt not facts brit
tanlasles , thaI It should not sadden and
! leaden and depress , but enthuse , Intoxicate
and enraplure . '
Facts , say these , tho' t Inestimable value
to the historian , are but the tools , th@ equipment
mEt ot the novelist , who should give 10 us
what the history ot a fragment of life denies
poetic justice : who should reveal not only the
worM without . but the vision within . paint-
Ing not the bare realties of life as It Is , but
the glories of life lS It Might be For as
Dramles says : "The warm heat of the masses
wishes to believe like a child . to feel the
Imlght's enthusiasm , the n nk's ecstasy . to
rave poetically . to dream melodIously , to
bath In moonshine to hear the grass grow
and understand what the birds say. "
And 10 the light goes on 'ni It Is not likely
that eiher side will convilci the other for
between Howells , with his. somewhat arrogant
declaration that there Is no art so exquisite
as the art of pailtlll facts exactly as they
are , no fiction except that ot facts nIcely observed -
served , there lghly digested ahd fallhfuly recorded -
corded , and the man whQ bgllevcq that the
real truthulness oC all worKs of art Is so
purely In time imagination ! that time artist
arlst
lever represents the trut ! but an idealized
Image ot a truth there can , o but little sym-
palhy. Between Hal C lno's Impassoned (
cry of "Fiction Is not nature , It Is not char-
actor . It Is nol Imagined history , It Is fallacy
lacy poetic fallacy . pathetic fallacy , n beautl-
ful'lle , a lie that Is lt once false and true ,
false to fact true to faith , " ) and noye 'n's
calm acceptance oC the realistic In literature
as a higher order than the romantic or traditional -
diional , there Is a gulf which neither cal
hridge and Stevenson , who believed so
strongly that aclous speak louder than
words , could never bring tllmsel to the point
ot view tram which action and emotion appear -
aJ-
pear unseemly 41.,1 where In Salntbur"s
words originality is regarded a a mark of
bd taste and Insufclent culture. Bat there
are 01nong us those who feel that the lan
who realizes In a work of art an Idea personal
to himself Is an artist , no mater to which
school he belongs and so'e \ can enjoy both
the daintily fine touches of the writer . who ,
by careful analysis and dissection of motives
has shown us a Slls Sapham , and the virile
strength of those who from the swing and
swirl at action have conceived a David Bel-
tour or a Patrick Heron , for we feel that life
Is too broad and deep . human thought too
progressive , to be bound b ) any alI form of
expression and we cannot agree with the
disciples of realsm that It Is the anal and
most complete contribution to literature any
moro than we can believe that romanticism
alone could satisfy all sorts and conditions
ot men Each I needed for a complete ex-
pession ot the life of today and time touch
oC truth should be found In the books of each
school-Ihe realist can map out the existence
of the average man the , romanlclst pIcture
the concentrated electric lte whIch comes
.
to the exceptional man , and both should ac-
knowledge the supremacy ot the purer Ideal-
Ism whose apostles finding truth hal ) way
between rte two antagonlt't fatu and ! fancy ,
and unable to beatl In the narrow bounds
set by realsm. paint life artistically and sig-
nificantly , presenting all whit the Ideal sympathy -
psthy ot a poet who COII" ' not to copy but
to Interpret nature , and feel It his business-
"to paint no more of body than shows 50ul"-
"To bring the invisible full Into play Let the
visible go to the dogs , 'hat inatter7"
For the object ot art I. not Invitation , but
creation . and time master bit literature shoullt .
sound all Instrument In the sympathy of I
)
humanity , strike all chord " ot the harp of
life . revealing to us things that we do not
see In things we look al every day. '
le should have both Ihe clear sight of the '
leer and the divine ulenu pa or the prophet
who through the web oC q and elmamo ' ann
sorrow which 1 world or f'anec : inc chang
weaves . nd& the balance oC justice struck
sOlewlure , see not only ! tit lte achievement .
ment but the noble cent ' peons . which never
finding adequate cpreSI.n hero strengthen :
, -
our b'le that there must bo a heaven for
their conmpletlon For all creation Is a mystery -
101) ' . and Iho' we have made great strIdes
In knowledego . no man has yet answered the
questions at the sph'nx to the satisfaction of
all other men . and outside the smal tern .
tory oC clear daylight fact which wo have
wrested from 'time unknown , there arc yet vast
realms ot darkness of which we know noth-
Ing , but think much .
And the man wlmo when he has described
the falls , the wounds , the \'all hopes the
cruel events whIch at times darken the joy
of humankind , feels that he has shown all ,
cannot touch us so deeply as the one who ,
although ho 11X not quite recapture time
first line earel s ' rapture of the times when
all the world was young , can still bring our
hearts Into our throats with the very Joy ot
life and thrill us with , a delight so exquisite
that I verges on pn \ by teaching us 10 feel
limo sense and significance of things , the soul
of the universe ns Ieal Celt It when he wrote
the poem which may well serVe as the watchword .
word and rallying cry of those who are lead-
Ing the opposition to realsm.
RELIGIOUS.
The Jesuits have purchased the fatuous
palace 10ndragone. near Frascati Italy , tram
Prince Dorgheic , for $80,000 , I will bo used
as -n institute.
Rev. Charles Otis Gull and his wife will
shortly leave New York for the Chlneso
mission l1eld. Mr. Gill was captain ot the
Yale foot ball team In IB89 , allli rowed In the
victorious Yale crews ot that and the Iwo
previous yea\ : He has been engaged In
home mission work for several years
Rev . Dr Dmnn , rector of St A ne9' parish .
New York Is one oC the wittiest divines In
the Catholic church When asked what he
thought of the movement to rename the
.
EpIscopal church he saId ! : "It's rather Jail.
I should Ihlnl" , 10 baptize the child of
Henry VI H. "
Rev . Dl' Talmage of Brooklyn has accepted
the cal to be eo-putor ot the First Pretbr-
lerlan church of Washington He I 10 lJe
co-pastor of limo church of equal authority
with Dr. Sutherland and probably will preach
one-halC of the sermons , beginning Sunday
evening . October 21.
Dshop Vincent , In an address 10 the memo
hers of the Geneee ( N. Y. ) Methodist con-
ference advised young minister to ride the
bicycle saying : "I thInk nothing has done
so much for our young people ns the bicycle.
I has saved them from falling into many
bad practices and built up their constitutions .
nt the same Iliac. I hope you all have .them.
I not get one. "
The Rev . Dr . D. McConnell of Philadelphia -
phla spent his vacation In Europe on I wheel
riding 3,000 miles In England , France . Belgium -
glum and Germany lIe gives this advice
to those who may contemplale a similar lour :
"You can see Eur9pe very cheaply : but , remember -
member , keep I'IY from time big hotels and
from places where the usual crowd of Amer-
lean travelers go. They skin Americans of
every dollar they can possibly get. "
A the llnnespols convention of the Epla .
copal church official notice was given oC the
embezzlement of $41,000 ot the funds of the
American Church Missionary socIety by
Henry A. Oakler , the former treasurer , and
Rev. Wiiam , \ . Newbold formerly secretary -
tar ) It had , been hoped [ to avoid all public
reference to the affair , but this was found
ImpolsllJle. The amount taken by Oaldey
has been computed to be $21,823.43 and by
Newbold $19,034G. from September I , 1881.
English clergymen's salaries are not ss
high a Is commonly believed . In Crockfortl's
clerical directory for this year statements or
the actlli , value ot BG3G benefices out of 13-
243 In England are given or these 638 are
worth $500 a year or less , 2.18 more $1,000
or less 4,219 less than $2,000. 192 less than
$3,000. 13 less than $4,00. 43 only $5,000 or
lees , antI 23 more than $5,000 , G being above
$ ,500. and , put one of these $10,000. The
nominal value In the case ot the other 4.801
benel1ees Is , for nearly 3,000 less than $1.50
and for 1.000 more leas titan $2,500. In ad-
diton to his laconic however , the Incumbent
ha the use ot I house , and In the country ,
at least , ot a garden.
POSSIBILITIES ! > OF IRRIGATION
Transforming 1 Desert Waste Into 1 Fruitful -
fnl , Populous Roeion
THE MAGIC OF ARTIFICIAL MOISTURE
.
tiVondcrs ' \'ron/ht I ) f'rlj'ntol II
Cu iiforulu-Solt 'I'letcied with
:1lonltnll : Sh'l'nmN Smiles
ni Abundance .
- I
Some years before the building at the !
Southern Pacific railroad . writes Kirk Mun- '
roe In Harper's Weekly I was one oC sn
exploring party that struggled across the
burning deserts ot southern California , from '
the Colorado river to the Slerrns. Never
can I forget the sufferings ot that journey ,
the agony of three days and nights without
water , the intolerable glare of shining sands
that slipped from beneath our feet or were
driven hither amid thither In stifling clouds
hy blats of furace.tl.'mllereJ winds , the
quivering heat ( waves time lying mirages that
tormented us with time visions of Tantalus
time awful silence and \ the ever present evidences -
dences ot death abounding on all sides
Horses and lules perished , wagon after
wagon was abandoned , and men well-night
lost their reason as limey plodded mechan-
Icnl ) on through that Gohenna oC sand , sunk
tar below sea level ralnless , treeless alI
verdurelces save for sparse bunches of sickly
sage or thorny cactus In 'the distance
gleamed peaks ot time San Jaclnlo and San
Bernardino mountains Belween them lay
the San Gorgonlo pass , the goal of our fierce
desires and tainting hopes-a place of which
we had been told lS one of rustling palms
and lving , springs.
From that day the experiences of those
weeks on the Colorado desert have been as
a nightmare , amid when recently compelled
to traverse the same desert for a second
time . though I might now 1J0 whirled over
its sands In 11 parlor car . I still looked forward -
ward to the trip with dread.
As the train crossed . the summit ot the
pass : and ! I' led swl ! ) down its eastern
slope a heated blast of kiln-dried sir , sweep
Ing up from the desert gave warning that
the Inter still existed In all its untamed
savagery and that beyond the narrow thread
ot steel that spanned It sulTerlng and death
still lurked In Its pitiless sands. The air of
the car became stilling and the heat almost
intolerable. In spite of closed doors windows
and , 'enllators dust filtered in . until one end
ot the interior was barely vllllble from time
other A'men ) after weary mies of this ex-
perlenre , the limit of endurance was nearly
nearl'
reached the train suddenly dashed Into a
place of dense shadows and came to n halt.
We had reached Indlo , aa veritable an oasis
as exists In allY desert ot the world , the home
of waving palms and double rows oC tall
foliage trees , beneath which the tracks ran I
ns through I green tunnel a place ot vines
and flowering shrubs of singing birds and
whispering wlnds-alJove all . n place 01
plashing waters and delicious \ coolness . A
broatl-verandsed Inn offered hospitable doors ,
and a dimly lighted Interior that seemed al-
most .dal , after the recent glare of Ihe
desert \ On the dining table were fruits and
vegetables front an adjacent garden After
dinner the refreshed travelers still had
time to examine time great artesian well that ,
from n depth ot CIO feel , pours forth 3COO
gallons of water per hour lifts It twelve feet
above the surface and \ has by Its magic created
this spot of charming verdure amid those
savage wales of sand. Not tar from the
well stands a group of sup rb fan palms , one
ot which only eleven years old . lIIeasures
, twelve and I hal tee about its trunk at I j
- - . . - - - . - - . _ , _ . _ , - - - - - - - - . . . . . . . . -
point two feet above the ground. Half a mlle
away Is a line vineyard , Irrlgalel by means .
or a wlmlml that lifts Into tanks the sur-
face water found throughout this region at
an , average depth of twenty feet Alfalfa .
the great forage crop ot the coast rows.
hero wIth n rank luxuriance wherever water
can reach it . while all fl'nll and \'egelalJlel
can bo ripened ut least one mouth earlier
than on the western slol1e of Ih' mountains.
\Vhlio 1nlio thus present a striking ex-
allllc of what lay lJe aecoml1lshel throuI
!
artesian irrigation oC limo prolific desert.
sands , another phase of water magic and
on a far grander scale , may w slullld on tho.
same Californian Journey at time southern end
at the great San Joaquin valley . In and alJout.
the fiomrlshfng city of Bakersl1oll. The explorers - ,
plorers of thirty years ago found this section ,
of commtry time "Ker ] Dell , " as I Is called .
almost as desertke as that bordering Iho ,
Colorado . Its midsummer aspect was that
of a vast plain parched and lllerlng wllh
heat its scant vegetation burned to n crip ,
and Its wastes of sand and sage all the moro
dreary I ) comparison with time recently
recenly
traversed oak groves of Tehlchlpa. Through
It , to Le sure flowed the Kcrn river clear
cool and inexhaustible , with its source la
the everlasting snows oC Mount Whitney , but
beyond a narrow fringe of verdure Its In- .
l1uenco was unfelt.
Hy an Inlelgent system of consorvation.
and , distribution this same river today 1s
male to irrigate alll give redundant me to
over 400.000 acres oC adjacent lands . and so
to transform limo seming desert into one or
time most fertile and prosperous sections at
the stale Tlis greatest Irrigating proposl- ,
lon of the country has ? been accomplished by
the digging oC Iwenty-sevl'n laln canals , .
] having an aggregate length at :10 : miles ,
and 1,100 manes of large laterals , the whole
system having been conslructed lt a cost of
,000.000. _
The largest and most important of all these
canals Is the Calloway . which Is hy Itself 1 ,
river 120 feet wide and six feet deep. Through
sixty-live large IlslrlbutarLes ana , network
at slllaller ditches Iho water of this one mnal'
Is spread over 200,000 acres ot thirsty Illnel.
I Is not only the largest , but Is also the'
oldest canal of time ayatem . amid whim lIs.
shining reaches , sweeping curves , time turn-
Ilng fails at Its many dh'erlon weirs , Its
cool stretches oC densely wooded bunks , its
bordering miles of rich pasture lands tenanted
lJy thousnnds oC sleek cattle . and its count-
less orchards and vlneynrds , all In vigorous
fruitage It presenle a marvelous and tas-
clnatlng abject lesson In the
leson possibilities and
and
results of irrigation. .
The Kern river drains over 3,000 square
miles oC mountain waleralmed . from which It
Is bountifully supplied the year round.
Throughout the section oC ,
secton country 10 whlcl
Its overflowing waters are diverted Iroutl
Is eliminated from limo '
elmlnated farmer'l calculations.
le lay count with certainty upon water
enough h 10 raise his crops and cloudless ski.
beneath \hlch 10 harvest them . On skle\
rJaled , : and once desert lands ho lay cut fvl'
CrOP ot alfalfa In I single season . with a.
total yield ! oC from eight 10 twelve Ions per
acre alI selling readily for $ G per Ion In the
stucl These stacks arc In themselves won-
derful sights to an eastern farler , containing
as they do tram 400 to COO tons of hay each
and ( built up by means oC great derrick plch-
forks oppr ted by hone power.
Although sOle GOOOO acres of Irrigated
lands are gIven over 10 alfalfa , and other lum-
mense areas are sown In wheat which ls
harvested by huge reaper and thresher combl-
lalln machines drawn hy thirty or more
horses , the leading Industry of time entire see-
ton : I horticulture. Peaches pears prunes ,
apricots raisin grapes sod figs flourish Incredibly -
credibly In its warm , light . and wel.wnlered
soil 'he I1rst.nale,1 , produce an average
avera/o
) 'lld of 1,000 boxes per acre. 'fhese sell
readily In eastern markets fur $ leI box ,
on which the freight charge l f5 cents.
Prunes average 100 pounds 10 the 5-year-oh !
tree , and these are worth from 12 tu 20 cents
I per pound In the orchard. Already the raisins -
Ins ut this locallly are favorably known and
I consumed throughout the length and breadth (
of Slim United Rtates . and with the Increaed
transportation facilities recently promised 10
I auured. this favored section , its future prosperity - - Ia ,
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