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THE COURIER list ministers. In addition the former had won fame as a lecturer and a member or the Massachusetts house of representatives. The "civllwar was declared while young Andrews was preparing for col lege. At the age of seventeen he en listed in the Fourth Connecticut in fantry, afterwards known as the First "Connecticut heavy artillery- eH'.went In as a private and came out a secbnd lieutenant. He was mustered out of the service In 1864. In the siege of Petersburg, he sus tained Injuries resulting in 'the loss of an eye. He participated In several of the pitched battles of the Wilderness serving bravely and courageously. In 1870 the chancellor graduated from Brown university. Four years later he emerged from the Newton theological seminary and wns ordained a Baptist i clergyman. He was first made president of Denl son university in Ohio. In 1882 he re signed and went to Germany to study history and political economy. "When he returned he assumed the duties of a professorship in Brown university. Afterwards he went to Cornell and In 1S89 was made president of Brown uni versity. President Harrison appointed Mr. Andrews one of the members of the International monetary conference to Brussels in 1892. During 1896 he de clared that the free coinage of silver was a possibility and the trouble at Brown university resulted. Matters were amicably adjusted, a majority of the trustees, the alumni and the un biased press standing by President Andrews. He next went to Chicago as super intendent of the city schools. The re gents of Nebraska elected him chancel lor in the Bprlng of 1900 and he as sumed the duties of that position the following August. As an author Chancellor Andrews has achieved an enviable reputation. Be sides contributing to magazines he has written works on history, ethics, econo mics and finance. Politclally he is an Independent re publican. He believes In an elastic Interpretation of the constitution and ardently advocates International bi metallism. He holds conservative views on the tariff question and be lieves In a positive foreign policy. What the effect of the personality of Chancellor Andrews will be on the edu cational Ideals of the state only the future will determine. As an executive he has demonstrated his worth and fearlessness and another era of pros perity for the university seems assured. Pretty SoMbrctte Wants a Divorce BBBBBBBBBfltV Hi JJBJJKzSBJSJBJJSJJBjj'' JV VBBVBBV 4!l?BmPjKBsBpflK8 Virginia Earle, the actress, is the lat est of the footllght favorites to seek the publicity and relief of the divorce courts. Her husband, Mr. Frank Lawton, is an accomplished whistler and comedian. OBSERVATIONS BY SARAH B. HARRIS Prize Storks It is the old cry .for customers: "Roses, roses, why'U buy my roses?" And everybody loves roses, still the loveliest flower girl can not sell enough to keep her father from work. The Sunday newspapers are sold with pretty chromo copies of paintings. The coal-dealers, pickle and tobacco man ufacturers give all sorts of prizes for a. given number of coupons from pur chasers of their goods.. Merchants of one commodity sell their wares by giv ing away someuiing that another man makes his living ' by selling. In the newspaper and magazine world it is not the publication that gives the most news or the best stories and essays that attains the largest circulation. The publisher who offers the largest boot and circulates his offer most exten sively attains the largest circulation. It is said that the Ladies' Home Jour nal has the largest circulation in this country, and Munsey's Magazine is second. Yet neither Mr. Bok nor Mr. Munsey are distinguished editors, and both publications are mediocre. But Mr. Bok and Mr. Munsey have the gift of convincing people a large number of people that if they subscribe for either magazine they are getting a bargain. The operation of competition, the in crease in the number of competitors has developed the system of giving prizes. The buyer does not get any more for his money than he used to, or than he would if the system were not in use. He gets something he has not asked for as an inducement for him to buy what he wants, and the quality of the article he desires is in evitably affected by the cost of the prize which is given and therefore be yond criticism. There must always be a margin of profit, which is the differ ence between the cost of production and the selling price. Heretofore books have sold on their merits. Fortunately there are still people who like to read for reading's sake. There are others who must be coaxed. Authors and publishers need the coy readers and thus the prize sys tem has invaded storybooks. Eleven well-know authors, Stockton, Cable, Paul Leicester Ford, Robert Grant, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Sarah Orne Jewett Bertha Runkle, Ruth Mc Enery Stuart, Octave Thanet, Owen Wister, and one less well-known author, Charles G. D. Roberts, have contributed the twelve stories which have been collected and published by Small, Maynard and Company under the name of "The House Party." The tales are supposed to be told by the guests in a country house after a pf o longed rain has made outdoor sports and diversions impossible. Paul Lei cester Ford has written the introduc tions to and connections between the stories. It Is a Decameron where the stories are actually told by different authors. The effort at Identification is interesting and stimulates discrimina tion. But the stories are good enough in themselves for a public which has not been spoiled by prizes and bar gains. There can be no dispute about taste. The anatomy of one man's eye is like that of another, but one man selects a woman for her beauty whom another man considers ugly. There are even some people who consider the "Venus de MIlo uninteresting. It is a fortu nate provision, this diversity of taste. Otherwise there would be much more quarreling and dueling than there Is now. The book called Sylvia In which the publishers, Small, Maynard and Co., have printed twelve Ideal heads- is cal culated to establish for the moment what the American taste in women is. The plan is ingenious and comprehen sive. Sylvia Is supposed to be the most beautiful woman in Europe, and Blashfield. Blenner, Champney, Louise Cox, De Camp, Elliott Gilbert, Herter, Hutt, Stevens and Wenzell have con tributed their conceptions of what is the most perfect feminine beauty. Helen would not have been a belie in this century. The forehead and the nose on the same line are not popular except on coins and medals. Gibson has had much to do with forming the taste and In this collection of twelve heads there are two "Gibson" girls. To be sure one of them is drawn by Christy and one by Gilbert, but both is in the Gibson style. He Invented It, and it rightfully bears his name. It is likely that these two will receive the largest number of votes. The contest is to be determined not by a fallible committee but by the votes of all who participate in the contest, which means that the head receiving the largest number of votes will confer twelve points upon everyone who choses it. The next popular will have the value of eleven points, and so on. The contest will settle what is the most popular type of beauty for the moment. Three years from now some other type may be the Ideal. The story is a love story whose heroine is said to be the most beauti ful woman in Europe. It is not wildly exciting. For those troubled with br somnia It is a reliable and Innocuous remedy. A Bull Terrier A Bar Sinister, in the March Scrib ners' by Richard Harding Davis, is the story of a dog and a gentleman. "The Kid" respects himself, is careful of the feelings and rights of others and is not puffed up. The dog tells his own story. We are In. the mood for animal stories. The mood has been cultivated by Seton-Thompson, Rudyard Kipling and others. So Mr. Davis' biography of the clever, brave, devoted bull-terrier is, among other things, timely. Of all the breeds the bull-terrier Is the most like folks and has humanized himself to a marvelous point. No man can get well acquaint ed with another man's dog, especially with another man's bull-terrier dog. He is reserved, not suspicious and snappy like the black and tan, but he is dignified and even haughty, and if anything on four legs that barks has a right to be proud of his intellect and character it is the right kind of a bull terrier pup. His devotion to the mas ter who has chosen him from all other pups is to the death. Such a dog lays aside reserve in the presence of the one man who is to him the source of light, food and intelligence. He gives him his confidence. Mr. Davis has a bull-terrier himself. Otherwise he might have chosen a stupid New foundland which is supposed to pos sess life-saving sagacity. To write such a story one must possess literary pow er but besides and indispensably one must have owned for a number of years a good bull-terrier. Mr. Davis has earned and received his confidence. The Bar Sinister is not the happy In spiration of a moment but the result of an intimacy, very much to Mr. Davis' credit, with a high-bred bull terrier. The pup remembered his mother and insisted on his folks' receiving the for lorn black-and-tan whom the "Wynd ham Kid" rescued from a desperate fight. It is doubtful If even a bull terrier knows his own mother after he has been separated from her. But of course this "mother" interest Is the" romance of the story and when his long-lost mother turns up again her heroic son sitting on the front seat of a dog cart with a stylish dog overcoat on is not ashamed of her, bedraggled, muddy and unmistakably black-and-tan though she be. The meeting is the climax of the story arid Mr. Davis is devoted to sentiment Without the re- liss Li (Studio, Room If ( urowneu woes . LeMona In Drawing, Palntiaf, ryrogntpBv, wooa utmnf, is--, prored China Kiln, China deoo 1 rated or fired. Studio even Moadur.Taeaday. ThtiMaaM atul VlUa aftaMMtBa 2 to 6 o'clock. Saturday moralBgt atoll. TS -fc"S x N DR. BENJ. P. BAILEY, Residence, Sanatorium. TeL617. At office, 1 to 4, and Sundays, 12 to 1 p. m. DR. MAY L. FLANAGAN, Resldenoe,218o.llth. TeLSCOi At office, 10 to 12 a.m.; 4to6p.m SuBJajri,4toJ0p. b. Office, Zearung Block, 141 So. 12th. Tat 61s. LOUIS If. WENTE, D. D. 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