THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1900.
15
TEN BOOKS OF THE CENTURY
A Bmposlum Compiled by Men Eminent in
Literature and Education.
DIVERSE OPINIONS OF LEADING MINDS
An Inntrtictlre Itrvtoir of lloolii
Will eh Have MnM I n lliipiiorit tlTe
ThoilKlit Hinl Ai-tlvlllrn
of the Century.
At tho request of the editor of tho Out
look, Now York, to namo tcu books of tho
cmtury ending this month which havo
most Influenced Its thought and activities,
opinloiifl wcro prepared by ten men selected
for their eminence In literature and edu
cation, ntid aro published in thu current
lshiip Of tho ten contributors to tho
Bympoalum, tho opinions of flvo aro Riven
below, uamoly: James llryce, M. I'., uuthor
of "Tho American Commonwealth;" Kd
uard Everett Hale, distinguished minister;
Arthur T. Hadley, president of Yale uni
versity; 0. Stanley Hall, president of Clark
university; Thomas Wcntwortu Hlggln&on,
author and critic.
I'riitii .lumen llrycr.
It Is dimcult to namo any ten books as
liming been specially and conspicuously
Influential In forming or guiding opinion
during tho century now coming to Its end,
nod dllllcult fur theBu two reasons: In tho
first place, sorao of tho greatest thinkers
and writers who havo dono most to mold
tho minds of tflulr contemporaries havo
deno bo by their writings ua a whole, and
not by any ouo particular book which can
bo singled out from tho rest. And, sec
ondly, Is the criterion of selection to bo tho
direct and Immedlato Inlluenco of u book
upon thoso who read It within tho few years
aftor Its nppcarancc, or nro wo to tako Into
account ltu perhaps moro enduring though
less prompt and palpablo effect upon the
next or a subsequent generation? Dlfforont
conclusions will havo to be reached, differ
ent Judgments passed, according to whether
the former or tho latter criterion Is
adopted. In tho selection which I am going
to nibko I Bhall try to strike a balance, or
rather to arrango a compromise, between
the jo criteria.
The book which I put first, and which
probably everybody would put at leaBt
amoDB tho first. Is Dawln'a "Origin of
Bpccles," a treatise which has dono moro to
turn tho current of speculative thought In
general, ns well as to cast light on tho
most dllllcult problems of natural history,
than any other within tho last hundred
years.
Tho next two writers who seem to have
pountcd for most In forming men's minds
and stimulating thought aro Ooetho and
Hegel. It Is hard to select from among
their writings the two books which havo
gono furthest, and In the case of Hegel,
oral teaching was almost as Important as
published writings. However, ono mny
name Goethe's "Faust" and Hegel's "History
of Philosophy" as perhaps tho most widely
known and widely Influential.
Wordsworth's poetry has dono moro than
any othor to Insplro tho growing lovo of
naturo and appreciation of natural beauty
which belong to this century, and out of
his poems ono may tako "Tho Excursion"
as pro-eminent In doing this work.
In a different sphere, Mazzlnl's writings,
and particularly his "Duties of Man," told
powerfully on thought during tho forty
years which followed tho beginning of his
literary career.
Itarl Marx's treatise called "Das Kapl
tal" became, soon after Its publication, a
ort of blblo for the socialists of continental
Kuropo. Its "force Is not spent, nor can we
tall as yet bow far its doctrines may con
tinue to work.
Tho Roman Catholic rovlval which suc
ceeded tho revolutionary movement of tho
end of last century found ono of Its ablest
und most uncompromising theorists In De
Malstro. His book "Lo I'apo" Is perhaps
tho best embodiment of his doctrlnos. Now
almost forgotton, It played an Important
part In Its timo In propagating a set of
lows which havo had much currency In
Italy as well as In France, and have con
tributed to tho Catholic reaction In Eng
land also.
"Toequovlllo'a Democracy In America"
produced an Immense effect upon studonts
of tho political and social sciences when It
appeared, and that effect may bo traced In
English writers like John Stuart Mill and
Uagehot, as well as on Tocquevllle's own
countryman. So much of it has passed
Into our common thought that wo are apt to
forget how much wo owe to It.
Malthus (If 1 may Include a book pub
lished In 1708, but one that In reality be
longs to this century's history) appealed to
an even smaller clrclo of readers than
Tocquovlllo. But his book on "Population"
marks an epoch In tho science of political
economy, and had a mcmornblo Influence
not only upon economic students every
where, but upon legislation In England.
Proso fiction has been more widely and
powerfully employed as a means of enforc
ing theories regarding man's naturo and
octal relations' in this century than It
ever was before; so perhaps somo book be
longing to that class ought to bo Included
In such a list ns Is asked for. Among tho
groat vrltcrs of fiction tho first pface
probably belongs either to Victor Hugo or
to Count Lyof -Tolstoi, and If any ono book
W to bo selected as specially conspicuous
If the mail does not stop the coujjh
the coukIi stops the manj stops his ap
petite, Lis sleep, his pleasure and liia
work. So called "cough remedies"
sometimes relieve but they don't podeep
enough to cure. Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery cures coughs nnd
diseases of the respiratory organs per
fectly and permanently. It stops the
cough. It heals the lungs, stops the
hemorrhage, if the lungs arc bleeding,
and by purifying the blood nnd increas
ing the action of the blood-making
glands enriches every organ with the
good blood which alone will make a
good body.
"My hiiftaml had bten couching for years
nd people frankly tolil ine lhat lie would co
Into consumption," nntra Mrs. John Klilirmau,
of No. a65 jjth Jince, Chicago, lit. " He had such
terrible coWKWni spells, we not only grew much
alarmed, but looked for the bitrxlngof a blood
vessel or a hemorrhage at nlmot nuy time.
After three days' couching he k-um too weak to
cross the room. The doctor did him no good.
I Mated tliecuv? to a riruxit, who handed me
a bottle of Dr. Pierce' Uolilrn Medical Dlscov.
ery. My kilobaud's recovery was lemaikable.
In three day after he began usiug I)r. I'ierce's
Golden .Medical Discovery he wan up and
around, nnd In two more days he went to work.
Two bottles cured lilui."
Dr. Pierce's Heasant Pellets cure bili
ousness. They produce jiermaueiit bene
fit and do not re-act on the system. One
la a gentle laxative, two a cathartic dose.
for tho Influence It has had on men's
thoughts and emotions Hugo's "Ies .Mis
erable" would seem to havo the strongest
claim, though ns respects fertility of In
vention, cr exuberanco of humor, or fine
ness of treatment, other writers, Including
Dickens and Thackeray, may havo reached
as high a level.
It may seem strange that among the
books just enumerated there should be
none of Carlyle's, or Emerson's, or Hus
kin's, Apart, however, from the dlfllculty
of choosing a single work In tho case of
writers who have been cffectlvo by quantity
us well ns by quality, It Ib to bo observed
that nono of these three exerted any potent
Influence outsldu tho language In which he
wrote. Thero nro other writers besides
tho three famous ones I have named who
seem to bo excluded by this consideration.
I doubt whether any book In this century
(exrppt "The Origin of Species") has ex
ercised so great an Influence as was exer
cised In tho eighteenth cntury by the "Es
prit des Lois," the "Contrat Social," the
"Wealth of Nations" and tho "Krltlk dcr
rclncn Vernunft."
From Kilnnnl Everett llnlr.
For English and American roaders I think
tho list of men authors Is quite easily made.
So far as their names go, I should think
that, tho ten writers who have most af
fected tho thought and living of the last
100 years nro Goethe, Walter Scott, Victor
Hugo, Italph Waldo Emerson, De Tocquo
vlllo, Darwin, Hcnan and, with less cer
tainty, I think I should add John Ituskln,
Alfred Tennyson and James llryce.
To come to special books Is moro difficult.
1. Probably (loetho's "Faust." "Wilhclm
Melstor," "The Elective Affinities" and
"Tho Morphology" havo affected his time
more than his other publications, some of
which ho thought moro serious. Tho man,
for batter, for worse, has mado a mark on
tho century. Ono is glad to soo that tho
century is rubbing tho mark out, but, all
tho same, the mark was thero.
2. 1 like to remember that I bought "Tho
Origin, of Species," In tho first edition, In
London, In 1S59. I knew ob well then as I
know now that tho book ought to bo writ
ten, and It has rightly achieved Us own
reputation.
3. No ono In England would ncccpt Do
Tocquevlllc's "Democracy In America" as
ono of tho central books. All tho Bamo, I
think It Is. I think It rovoaled us to our
selves nnd I think the study of It has done
no end of good In Europo.
4. llryco's "American Commonwealth" may
be classed with It. This, however, Is still
beforo us. Mr. llryce himself saya some
whero In It that ho has never met any
European writer except one Swiss school
master who understood tho constitution of
tho United States. I have never read the
Swiss schoolmaster's book, so that I think
Uryco Is tho only person, on tho
othor sldo of tho water, who really
understands and comprehends about
America. Ho knows a great deal more
about America than half our statesmen do.
5. John Ituskln undoubtedly outlived his
reputation. I still think his book on tho
"Modem Painters" sent young men and
young women out from their houses Into
tho open air and mado them read clouds,
trees, vapors and mountains as they had
not read them before.
6. Emerson, bo far as preaching goes,
is the preacher to tho English and Ameri
can world today. I do not claim for him
that he Invented tho doctrine of the Im
manent presence of God. This Is the cen
tral doctrine of tho New Testament. But
I do say that we owe to him an Immense
advance In tho religion of our time.
7. Now, as to Scott and Victor Hugo.
It 1b the faBhlon lust now to talk of Scott
as If he were only a sceno painter or a
stage mechanic. This is sheer nonsense.
In an ngo which knew nothing of history
Scott mado dead people live and move arid
havo a being. In an age which cared -nothing
for history he mado men work out tho
traditions of four or flvo centuries. He
wrote better poetry than most people of
his timo, and tho literature and thought of
England, France and Germany are today
vastly largor because he wrote novels,
8. Of Victor Hugo, In a mitigated way, I
might say the same thing. For myself, I do
not read Victor Hugo, but people do read
him In France and In Germany, and I think
ho made a good many dead men take up
their bed and walk.
0. The value of Alfred Tennyson's book,
"In Memorlam," will be stated In different
ways by different people. For me, I am
very sorry that his Bon has over written his
father's lire. I think bo has lifted him
down two or throe Bteps on the pyramid on
which ho had a right to stand. Fanny
Kemble onco said to mo that she was glad
she did not know more of the personal life
of William Shakespeare, and I think she
was right. At all events Hallam Tennyson
has mado a' sad botch of It. Ho aceniB to
havo said to himself: "I havo a thousand
pages and my father lived eighty-two years.
Eighty-two Into ono thousand goes twolvo
and nlnoteen-hundrcdths times. Go to, I
will write twelve and ntnetccn-hundredths
pages about each year of his life." He has
thus succeeded in making his father, I do
not say vory human, but very earthly, for
which I am sorry. All the same, the "In
Memorlam" exists, a tribute, heart
wrung, from a great poet on tho death too
early of a dear friend. Wherever the book
Is, and wherever anybody reads It, it lifts
that somebody from the world and the
things of the world, and I suppose that Is
what poets aro meant to do.
10. As to Renan, I do not say that his
"Life of Jesus"ls the most Important book
In tho uplifting of the gospel study In this
century. But It Is the book which haB
awakened the most thought and Is moat
widely known.
From Arthur T. Hadlrr.
Tho bookB chosen In answer to this ques
tion must be selected for tholr results
rather than for their merits. They should
be the ones which havo had tho largest
measurable effect on tho world's thought
and civilization.
A standard of this kind shutsiout a num
ber of works which havo high artistic val
ue, but whoso Influcnco has been eomewhat
Intangible. Tho poems of Wordsworth and
Browning, tho nools of Scott and Thack
eray, of George Eliot, nnd perhars oven of
Baliac, fall under this had. Few pooplo
would deny that "Mlddlemarrh" was a
grentor work of art than "Uncle Tom's
Cabin," but "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had a
historic, power which "Mlddlemarch" did
not nnd could not possess.
Our standard aUo shuts out those books
whoso influence was fragmentary books
which only contributed a small part In a
lnrgcr general movement. The namo of
Tyndall Is Identified with tho doctrine of
tho conservation of energy, and the namo
of Flaubert with tho development of mod
ern realistic fiction, but there Is no ono
work either of Tyndall or of Flaubert which
accomplished enough In Itself nnd by Itself
to claim a placo In our list.
We aro compelled also to discriminate
ugalnst thoso writers whoso Influence lay
In a direction counter to tho general trend
of tho century, and was neutralized by the
logic of ovents. Neither Victor Hugo In
flctloi, nor Newmnn In theology, nor Marx
nnd Ocorgo In political economy, have had
tho power which they might have obtained
If they had been working on tho lines of
progress Instead of athwart them.
Finally, wo must excludn the books of
men like d'Annunzln and even Tolatol, be
causo their work Is too recent for us to ob
tain a proper measure of Its Influcnco.
My list, as thus restricted, would fall Into
two groups, one of which belongs to tho
period from 1S0I to lS2i, and tho othor to
tho period from U19 to 1863. The first
group consists of "Napoleon's Civil Code,"
Goethe's "Faust." Hegel's "Encyclopaedia
of th Philosophical Sciences," Schopon
haurer's "World as Will" and Frocbcl's "Ed
ucntton of Man." The second group In-
Admission to the Bar
OMAHA, Dec. 1. To the Editor of Tho
Uce: Your editorial In last Sunday's num
ber on "Loopholes in Bar Admlsslcn," while
very tomi llmentary to the commission and
suggesting much food for thought, Is, as I
think, In error with reference to the ad
mission of graduates of the law school of
the State university.
Of course If that Institution Is being made
tho means of admitting persons simply be
cause they hnve attended upon Its course of
study nnd use Its privileges for the sako
of tuition, such prlvllcgo should be cut off.
A prlvllego fraught with opportunities of
unloading on tho people of the state and
its overworked and poorly paid courts
Ignorant and unqualified parties who desire
the name and privilege of n lawyer, with
out a proper knowledge of the principles
of tho law or a proper sense of Its duties
and responsibilities of a practitioner, should
be canceled, nnd that Instantly. If the leg
islature had not an almost unbounded right
to say who should be ndraltted as attornoys
and counselors of Its courts It might well
be doubted whether the attempt to confer
such special privilege upon ono particular
rchool was not In plain violation of tin
fundamental law against grants of special
privileges In uny case.
But In tho case of tho university, Ua
teachers nro well known lawyers of tho
Btate, men of established learning and
character, who nro within tho Jurisdiction
of tho HUpremo court and amenable to Its
disciplinary powers If It bo ascertained
that they nro abusing tho privilege grnntcd
them. My observation has been that good
nchools are less likely to pass unqualified
persons than many of the courts.
Except ns to persons who nro duly ad
mitted and qualified practitioners In tho
eludes Salnto-Bcuve's "Mondays," Mrs,
Stowe's "Undo Tom's Cabin," Spencer's
"Principles of Psychology," Darwin's "Ori
gin of Species" und Kenan's "Life of Jesus."
Tho absolutely sure names In this list are
Goetho and Darwin; tho most doubtful ones
seem to me to bo Salnte-Beuvo und Kenan,
whoso Influence, though widely spread and
profound, was essentially transitory. Much
Is to bo said for tho substitution, In place
of either, of Balzac's "Corned lo Humalnc."
From 1. Stanley Hull.
I am glad your request Is for "ten books
which I think have been among tho rao3t
Influential of tho century."
1. I should placo first Darwin's "Origin of
Species," which In a way Implied his later
"Descent of Man," because tho wholo evolu
tionary movement took Us rlso from these
moro than from any others.
2. Hegel's "Logic" deserves a placo, be
cause In It culminated the thought of a
mua who dominated all academic depart
ments during tbo second quarter of tho
century, and Its Influence Is still potent In
England and America.
3. StrausB "Llfo of Jesus," bo far as It
drew the conclusions of tho Tubingen Bchool
nnd stirred religious and theological
thought profoundly, should be Included In
an Inventory of Influences, although the
morlts of tho book Itself would not Justify
a placo in this list.
4. Horace Mann's "Educational Reports"
are the fountain-head of a reform that
gavo us the graded school system, as It
now exltis, although his views are now
somowhat outgrown.
G. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was another of
the most effective books of the century.
6. As a specialist, who may be pardoned
for what Is perhaps an overvaluation of
things In his ken, I should place Helm
holtz's work on "Auditory Sensation."
This analyzed what had hitherto been
thought to be an undecomposable clement
of tho human soul, by methods tho logical
perfection of which has rarely been equaled
and Is worthy of a man to whom a col
league, Klmself eminent, paid perhaps the
greatest compliment which ono savant
could rendor another in saying that during
his best years almost his every serious
thought was a new contribution to the sum
of human knowledge
7. With somo hesitation I would add Car
lylo's "French Revolution," which has not
only bo stirred the soul of two generations
of readers, but, taken in connection wit)
his style and the subject, brought out the
dynamic power that directs human history
and makes It so different from the record
of man's plans.
8. Goethe's "Faust" Is a work that looms
up, as I read It year by year, as a monu
mental landmark.
9. It Influential' books may be stretched
to Include all a man's works, I should place
Wagner In this list, because he ro-edlted
tho myths which constitute tho best part
of tho ethnic bible of his raco and brought
them home to the heart by tho charm of a
new musical method.
10. Lastly, I wculd add Ibsen as the dra
matist of tho future who, I think, has dono
more than any man now living to exalt the
work of tfio artist, who creates, over that
of tho professor, who merely knows, and
whose Influence Is likely to silence those
who expound the doctrine of art for art's
sake In a way to exclude It from ethics,
where man'B supremo Interests lie.
I find many othor names, Niebuhr, Theo
dore Parker, Humboldt's "Cosmos," Schlel-
ermacher, Emerson, "Lycll's Qeology," "Les
Mlserables," Dickens, Herbert Spencer and
others, which have claims to which tho
above are preferred only with tho greatest
hesitancy.
When, in the year 1819, the Comte do
Ealnt-Slmon was tried and barely acquitted
on the charge of having asserted In a
pamphlet that tho deaths of authors, artists
and artisans wcro more Important to tho
community than those of kings and bishops,
ho set an exaraplo which we must perhaps
follow; and we must look In literature or
art or science for tho leading figures of tho
last hundred years. As a literary man, I
naturally begin with literature.
Setting aside Qoothe, who belongs rather
to the previous century, I think that one
must go back to Scott (1) as tho lending
Influence of the first half of tho nineteenth
century. If ono wero to suggest Byron, for
Instance, there Is tho fact that Byron him
self called Scott tho most wonderful writer
of the day, and pointed to his novels as
a new llteraturo In thomselves." Scott
taught us the vast rango of fiction; thu
bieadth, even If not the depth, of It; and
that Ideal characters nro as substantial
to tho Imagination as renl ones. He
charmed all mnnklnd, and Coleridge, who
was probably moro the antipodes of Scott
than any man In England, found Scott's
novels tho only books he could read In ill
ness, S
Yet when wo turn to Heine (2) wo come
to tho man above all others who has Influ
enced, moro than any English writer, tho
modern stylo In literature. Ho alone proved
It possible to bo French and Oerman In
one, to mingle tho brilliancy of ono nation
with tho penotratlng thought of tho other.
One may grow tired of Scott, although
never for n long period, hut ono may read
Helno over and over Ip.-lsflnltely, whether
in German or In tho admirable translations
of Leland, and find unabated attraction In
his mero style. In this work he shares with
Scott the scepter of the flrst half century.
Turning now to poetry, wo see that
Wordsworth (3), whom Southey patronized
and Byron ridiculed, was creative In tho
best senBe, because ho created his own
famo, IIJn rango was limited; he thought
that Goethe's writings could not live bo
causo they were "not holy," and he pro
nounced Burns' "Scots Who Hae" to be
"wash" nnd "stuff." Nevertheless, he led
his age, and modified the standard of Eng
lish poetry for all coming time. Next to
him. were the list to bo larger, I should
place Shelley,
When wo turn to tho abstract philoso
courts of other states the legislature has
not only prescribed their qualifications for
admission to tho bar of the supremo court,
but alto tho manner in which their knowl
edge of tho iitw must bo acquired, to-wlt:
cither by two or more years of careful nnd
nttenttvo study In tho office of some duly
admitted practicing attorney of this sate,
or by regular graduation from tho law
school of tho stato university. The first
of thceo two classes of students must pass
tho examination of tho commission ap
pointed by tho supremo court, and tho dlfll
culty might ns to tho second-class well be
obviated by requiring them to also bo ex
amined by said commission, as has been
suggested by you.
A change Is needed In tho statutory pro
vision, whereby parties who aro practi
tioners In other states may on their re
moval to this state bo admitted to prac
tlco In our courts without an examination
Into their knowledge of tho principles of
tho common law, Persons who will not
ilcvoto tho time required to bo spent In tho
ofllco of ono of our lawyers or to go through
tho university, go to other states whoro
a specified timo or courso of study Is not
required and nn examination eltlicr not
required or made a farce of, and aro then
entitled to admission hero simply on proof
of their former admission and present good
moral character. All BUch persons should
be required to pass an original examination
beforo being allowed to practice In this
Btnto. A still better courso would bo to
vacate all licenses to prnctlco law by a dato
certain, und regiant them under certain
well defined restrictions, and then only for
a limited time.
WINFIELD O. STIIAWN.
phers wo must dismiss Kant, llko Goethe,
na belonging rnther to the previous century,
and namo by preference Hegel (1), tho last
of tho great quartet of German metaphysi
cians, and tho ono whoso leadership has nt
nuy rnto been most influential over mtnds
In ttati country. Turning finally to those
who havo dealt with social questions, It
seems to mo that Robert Owen (C), as tho
direct sotirco of tho modern co-opcratlvo
method, must bo named in preference to
thoso who, llko Saint-Simon, first launched
socialism Into tho air.
Passing now into the second half of tho
century, tho namo of Darwin (6) of course
leads all others, and nearest to him comes
Emerson (7), not meroly from depth of
thought, but from tho oxtrnordlnnry way
in which his Influence has permeated lit
oraturo, bo that ono may pick up a book
that seems wholly rcmoto from him In tone
and theme and still find htm unexpectedly
quoted. Neither Carlylc nor Ituskln Is in
this respect now to te compared with him.
Fiction has now largely taken possession
of literature, and It the ultlmato aim of
fiction Is, as It should be, to creato the
characters which como closest to naturo,
tho flrst rank must bo given to Tolstoi (8).
In tho case, of other literary artists wo are
grateful If wo find In a novel ono single
character which seems alive, and even
those who, like Jane Austen, aro especially
gifted with this vitalizing power, too often
lavish It on very commonplaco subjects,
IwhercaB when Tolsol unlocks a human
heart, the process, though often painful,
is always profoundly Instructive.
I should place Hawtborno (9) next to
jhlm, or In ono respect above him, as work
ing in a higher atmosphere through the
construction of types and figures which,
though never actually human, take an un
equaled hold on the Imagination; and I
should close with Browning (10), as sur
passing all other poeta in wealth and In
range,, and as equaling tho highest, some
times, In roolody. In general, as to this
last, Tennyson surpasses Browning, yet
seems thin by comparison, and does not,
so far as ray own cxpcrlenco goes, retain
so Inexhaustibly his Interest for the reader.
To sum up, my list of tho leading intel
lectual Influences for tho last century would
be ns follows: For tho flrst half of tho
century, Scott, Heine, Wordsworth, Hegel
and Owen; for the second half, Darwin,
Emerson, Tolsol, Hawthorne and Brown
ing. MINATUHKS IJf PEN AND INK.
Germany Is rapidly becoming a nation of
whisky drinkers, according to tho report of
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Wilson.
Moro distilled spirits aro exported from this
country to Germany than to any other for
eign country. Tho Germans, apparently,
are partial to bourbon whisky In preference
to rye. For the year ending June 30, 1000,
411,489 gallons of bourbon and 137,678 gal
lons of rye whisky wero sent.
When Minister Wu, suite and all. was
last In New York ho visited, among other
places, a nowspapcr office. At one of tho
desks in tho city room sat a woman renortor
hard at work upon a "hurry" story. She
knew nothing of the intended visit of the
Chinamen and her surprtBo may be Imagined
at the patter of cushioned feet and the
rustlo of silken skirts. She looked up and
saw planted before her desk twelve Bmlllng
ceiqstialB MlBister Wu at tho head, the
others In Indian file behind him his every
gesture and motion being faithfully copied
by them, Just as the chorus copy tho prin
cipal In a Chinese comic opera. Long and
earnestly did Minister Wu smile Into the
eyes of the woman reporter at her desk be
fore him. Then he deliberately picked up
the sheet of "copy" from under her fingers
and read It through. Replacing tho sheet,
he resumed gazing Into her eyes. Then,
with a smile that showed he was paying her
tho highest compliment In his repertory,
and with a fascinating little halt between
each word, Wu said:
"I-do-not-bollevc-that-you-are-a- woman.
You - aro - a - man - dressed - In - woman's
clothes." J. D. Curry, a farmer living near Bololt,
Wis., and his son Clark, aged 14, were held
up In their stable by throe masked robbers,
who, after tying them with straps, went
Into tho house, whero Mrs. Curry was over
como by beating her on tho head with the
butts of their revolvers. Had It not been
for tho family cat Mrs. Curry would un
doubtedly havo been murdered. Tho ani
mal tipped over somo plants In an adjoin
ing room ns the robbers were attacking
Mrs. Curry. Tho men rushed Into tho room
and Mrs. Curry mado her escapu to a
neighbor's. She got tho men to return
with her, but tho robbers had fled. Tho
dcrperadocs had threatened to burn Mrs.
Curry alive If sho did not give them $100
they claimed was hidden In the house.
An American art student lu Paris Bays:
"Thero are more wrecks of young lives and
young nmbttlnns In Montmartro than In any
other quartor of the globe. Fellows who
fancy they are destined to become great
artists havo tho illusion knocked out of
them, but thoy refuso to Ieavo. They are
there from all parts of tho world, stranded,
hopeless beggars, living no ono knows how,
and shunning their follow men, Onn caso
In particular caught my attention that of
an Kngllshmnn named Jones, let us say.
His father Is an evangelist, who rame over
to America several years ago. This follow
poses as a mlsanthropo of tho most pro
nounced typo. Ho associates with nobody,
tnd his only companion Is a llttlo blncic
dog, Ho will live for days on bread and
milk In order that ho may buy meat for his
dog One night I was with a crowd of other
sttulcntB, and wo passed him In the street.
Ho turned, glared at us and hissed: 'I hate
them! I hato them!' Then ho sat down
on the curb, with his dog In his arms, and
burled his faco in Its shaggy coat."
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PBNING OF TOY
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dance. Most of these unique creations of foreign skill and ingenuity are to be seen only here, and
many of them aro sure to be sold early. There's a decided advantage in first choice. Our inex
haustible supply of inexpensive toys and dolls offers many surprising money-saving values in
fact, anything and everything that a chihVs heart could yearn for is here.
if tMi if u
l-t "A,'" ITTk sired. Although our
Sc. f. I KB. Thoso wishing house,
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Writing He&lcs
nnd Hi-easing
Tables
i n.llnct' Wrltlnir 11iV mmln of sol
id oitk. neatly carved nml nicely
finished, very special 5
ut only
Very pretty iptartersawed oak,
hand polished writing tlexk, lui-s
French shnio legs. Illti-d with solid
cast trimming", lnrgc drnwer under
writing 11(1. Inside neatly divided
liitn iHitmiiirtmctits for
wrltlnir materials Extra special
at, only
Ulrd's-eyo mapV Writing IJesk, has double bulgo front, Is
rlehtv h.nnl rurved und llnulv nollshed. very pretty design
with French nlmpo k-g, solid cast drop
niuiuies, price
Ladles' Desk, mado of select qunrtcrsnwtd
mahogany, hnnd p' Ishcd, H handsomely
under wrltlnir lid. 11ns very pretty beveled
interior in conveniently iirraiigeii. pccmi, eunor univu.. v- j
Pretty qunrtersawed nnk Dressing Table, largo size, tup hlehly
lintul niiilHltnl. tin Mlintwil French hovel mirror- stvclnl nt 17.io.
Intprlnr mnvmilpnt 1 v nrrimi?pil. Hneelnl.
46 patterns of dressing tables In oak, curly birch, blrd's-ovo
maple nnd solid mahgatiy ranging In prlco nt $6.50, J7.M), $9.00,
112.00, $13,60, $18.00 and up.
Morris Chairs
Morris chair mado of
solid oak frame, has
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adjustable buck, ro
verslblo cushions cov
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velours oholco of col
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tersawed oak or birch mahogany, hand pol
ished, very rich, heavy design. Cushions
nro hair filled, upholstered In tho best fig-
ureu vciuuih, i'iiuii;c ui tuiuio
unmatchable at our price. JL1 JJ
Massive design frame Morris chair made of
best figured quartcrsawed oak or birch ma-
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well filled hair cushions, covered In tho
highest grade or voiour, cnoice ,
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HBMCIOUS.
A road Is being constructed, pnspoulo for
carriages, between Jerusalem and Nazareth
by tho Turkish government.
About 3,(00 ministers took part In tho con
summation of tho union of tho Free and
United I'resbytcrlun churches of Scotland
a few days ago.
Trinity college, Washington, D. C, tho
first Catholic; Institution tor the lit idler
education of women, was dedicated with Im
posing ceremonies on November 21.
Nikola Tenia has decided that tho true
solution of tho problems of llfo to which ho
hiiH devoted so mucn Hiuuy ami inougui
must bo found In tho principles of tho
Christian faith.
Itev. Dr a, Campbell Morgan, tho re
ported successor of Dwlght 1. Moody, Ih
pastor of the Nw court Con
KrcKntfonnl
church, London
Ho Is tho sou of a Baptist
minister, and, nlthouKh only 37 years old,
lias been preuchlnK stneo ho wua u boy
of 13.
The proRresslve party In tho Roman
Catholic church Is rent' o under tho con
tinued and dominant inlluenco of tho
ltnllnns. With u population "f only 20.0iO.-
M), It Is claimed that Italy has mow bishops
and archbishops than nil tho rest of Europe
with Its iso.iw.wu Jiomnn caiiioucs.
Tho Independent states that ono of the
most Hlunlncunt facts of tho timo Is tho
nttentlon belni; kIvcii In Kuropo to tho iiues
tlon of Sunday rest for employes. Three
years ni?o un international couuiesa on tho
subject was held at DrussclH, followed this
year by another In connection with tho
i'arls exposition.
I .a GururchU Cattollca states that during
tho potlilcato of I.eo XIII KS7S to ltn) no
fewer than 1.14 of the cardinals have died,
Only four still live who wero his fellow
rardlnuls under his predeetHsur. lius IX.
Tho normul number of tho coIIuko Is
seventy, but thirteen of tho seats ure at
present unoccupied.
Tho pastor of an eastern church stnted re
cently that certain teachers In his Hundiiy
school wero paid for their services. Accord
ing to the iMHtir the prima requisite of u
capublo teacher Is tll ability tn tell stories.
That Is tho form 111 which moral lessons can
best be conveyed. And good story-tullers,
ho concludes, ure alwuys worthy of their
hire.
Rev. A. J. Ilachmann of Schnefferstown.
I'll., hns for twenty-two ycarB presided over
seven country cuurciics. uurinK iub mm
. lstrutlou ho lm murrled 1,174 people,
"OU are cordially invited to call and view our immense and complete
lines of dolls and toys of every sort, kind' and description, including
the choicest productions of tho leading toy makers of America and abroad.
This season we have put forth great efforts to make "Toy Headquarters"
more interesting and attractive than. ever. Novelties from Germany, France,
England and, in short, the toy centers of the world are here in great a bun
t .v t?nT.m.V TltTYMUH. flirt- tin a Pi mniln
stock s full of new llolldny novelties our
rurnisnmg koto win mm unr miv
luvuiiu tw. u..v . ......
Turkish Chairs
nnd Rockers
Over stuffed leather rocker, substan
tially mado with best springs and
upholstorlng Special 1mH
m ibJ
Vory protty Turkish leather Hockors,
diamond tufted back, full roll edge
pleated puff front,
valuo at
fi fj
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carved with claw foot, upholstering of best
genuine leather, pleated tutted back and ruffled
puff front Special aluo at
" " " ' "
golden, oak or birch
curved, lorge drawer
mirror top. JtiQJL
either flnlnh.'-' I!
Statuary
and liric-a-Hrao
Tho largest assortment of
theso goods ever brought
to tho city, Imported di
rect by us, priced nt one
third and ouo-half less
than regular. Handsomo
novelties in Austrlun pot
tery, roso Jars, vases,
and pitchers
ut $1. 7Go und.... 3 OO
Very pretty novol pieces In Egyptian art
waro and "Austria Royal Sexo." TheBO
goods are extremely nanusoino ana are
very pretty in their shades of decoratlvo
colors, Largo cxqulslto assortment of
bronzes Imported Japaneso and Chinese
vaBcs and art goods. Wrought iron and
gold cnndlo sticks and ornaments, Theso
goods nro wormy your inspection ana wo
Invito an early call.
1414-1416-1418 Douglas Street.
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and indiscretion. A Nerve Tonic and
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By mail 50c per box, 6 boxes for $2.50,
with our Bankable Guarantee Bond to
baptized I .H10 Infants and 00 adults,
preached 3,742 sermons, lectured J.800 times,
otllclnted at 977 Interments, pnld 23,110
pastoral calls, traveled 00,000 miles to meet
his appointments, has contributed 5,312 for
benevolent objects and $20,000 for coiiureyu
tlonal purposes.
IIIhIioii Kin of tho Roman Catholic dlonusn
of Marquette has ordered tho priests of hjs
uioccmo 10 preacn ai least two sermons a
mouth In tho KtiKllsh language. The order
Is a hardship on pomu of thu priests who
speak only French, but the wisdom of tho
order Is not questioned. Tho Idea of tho
bishop is to reach as many of the people nn
possible In tho laiuuiiKo which they beta
understand, und the order will bo to thu
grunt benellt of thu children and younger
members of tho Parishes who eonernllv
Hpeak uud understand English.
TIIU OI,llTI.MKItH.
Henjamln D, fitlllmun, the oldest llvln-i
ale graduute. Is also probably the oldest
practicing lawyer In tho country. Ho is i)o
and lives in Urooklyn.
Kx-Senator Ilonry Ii Dawes is now
In Ills &5th year. His health Is
good, ho Is out of doom overy day and his
mind is as rleur, his Interest in events us
keen and his talk uu brirht us when lit
left tho senate.
, Miss Knto Miller of Fredericksburg, I'll.,
Is probably tho oldost factory "girl" In the
1'nlted states. 8ho recently colebi uteri her
Slst birthday, and for tho hint twenty vars
lias worked In tho same establishment. Hho
never mihsc.i a day, turns out a full ciuotu
of woik, computing with girls sixty yearn
her Junior.
Twenty-one persons died In MnssuchusettH
Inst year iiged 1W years or mart'. Sixteen
of tho twenty-one wcro women three of tho
sixteen trover having been married, Klgnt
of tho twenty-one wcro born lit Ireland,
threo In Canada nnd three In other fonlgn
countries leuvi'ig eevrn nntlve born, six f
whom wero of Massachusetts nativity. Tho
olrie.H was two months over lot) years,
John A. Johnson, a miinufnctuier of Mad
Isrin, Wis., bus ufTered J 10,000 to I ho Hoard
of Supervisors of Iinito county, Wlsroml'i,
for the purpose of erecting and maintaining
n homo for uged people. In addition to thu
regular method of entering the home, by
thu payment of not ltru than 200, Mr
Johnson has conceived the Idea of Issuing
admission policies snnilnr to Insurance poll,
ties, which may be taken out by pophi In
youth or middle ago, to provide for tholr
support and comfort In old uge, or which
unw t-ltt .111. ...... i . i . .
regular baslnes goe on uninterrupted.
lumgn u no uieir irnuiug with us aa wol
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37-
Extra largo assortment of large, easy, comfortablo Turkish rock
ers and chairs, mako your purchases whtlo tho Block Is com
plete and goods will bo held tor Holiday delivery If desired,
Hampers and
Scrap Uaskets
Large, elegant new stock
on snlo Monday. Very
pretty fancy shapo hamp
er, decorative colors,
extra valuo .
at l.GO
Very largo assortment of
fancy shape decorated
haim. t. i each, -v-v
only tf,UJ
Scrap Baskets at 19e, 2Gc nnd 35c. Fancy
color nnd shnpe scrap baekcts, new novel
designs
ri"i ! Or
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mny be taken out by any ono for tho sup
port of a friend. t
Elizabeth Cooper Mclntyre. daughter cl
Francis Cooper, a sea captain, and widow
of John H. Mclntyre, long Mnco denri, was
burn November 21, Mi, ut Third and Ilrown
strei'tH. Philadelphia. Tho centennial of
her birth was celebrated on tho 21st Inst.. In
her native city. Bho has been the mother
of twelve children, t whom nuvcn iru
living. She has twolvo grandchildren llvlim
und twenty-two great-grandchildren,
( ovMiiii ai,itii:h.
There are other things that Europe has
to fear bcsldo trade competition. An Amorl.
can ;irl employed In one of tho departments
at the World's) fair, l'urls, received 117 pru
poals of mnrrlagc from men of fourteen
different nationalities.
Tho Kentucky girls certulnly know how
to bet. One of them won a man on th
election, und she naturally oxpresses her
self as particularly well pleased with her
w'nnlnirH. llelng slnglo nnd of marriage
able ago she Is not ut a loss to know whut
to do with him.
Rev. 1,. K. Ingram, a Protestant mis
slonnry located at Ooxaco, southern Mexico,
went to Laredo, Tox., to bo married to Mlsii
Franc Rattluy of London, who came to this
country to meet her tlunco. The ceremony
was porformeil by Hev. Mr. Rommcns of
Ixirnn, III. The bride traveled G.txiO miles,
tho groom 1,200 miles nnd the clergyman
l.fiOO miles to the placo of mi'otlng.
Tho editor of tho Fulrfax (Mo.) Forum In
serts this notice In his paper; "W. II.
llumbaugh, J. P. All kinds of marrlagui
performed while you wait. Magazines und
old books bound In tho best manner. All
long-standing uccouutBftXi-ept thoso
uguinst this paper collected In rag time.
Orders for good iirliitlnc executed promptly.
I Information on legal inatttrs Imparted at
cost. Subscriptions taken for tho best
newspaper In the English language, Try
our triple-knot murrlago ceremonies. Satis.
I faction guaranteed."
Tho vulmi of tho masculine heart is to be
fstubllshfd by thu Sangamon county (III,)
I court, flcorge Wcgcrsteder has asked dam
ages In tho amount of I2.WJ from Miss Hetty
Long for u broken heart and considerable
sums expended lu railroad tickets, Mr,
Wegorsteder doubtless oxplultiH that his
tickets wero full prlco and unlimited and
l that he did not buy commutation tickets
' because lui exported commutation at the
other end of the route, That he was dls
r ' ' 'n hl rnlr iatlnni serves only to
emphasize the varying emotions und In-
'mammy uf the tumlnlno nature.
