Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1891, Page 12

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A CHILD CAN BUY AS CHEAPAS A MAN LOT NO. 3. 250 pairs men’s laco and congross. a calf, Lon- don tip, solid, in and outer soles, worth $176. Co now at $1.20. 300 pairs Newark make of Youths’ button shoe® French calf, onk bottoms. sizes 11 o 134, regular price $3.50 , cut to 200 pairs Youths’ German Oil Gramn Bals, we guarantee every pair in every respect. At this sale they arc cut to $2.28. A. D. MORSE, 14th and - $2.95 $2.00 7 - mam Sts gonow For $1.88. We have cut the Rubber Boots for men, far that they are Chezaper than the Regular price $2.00, prices of all our Fine ladies and children sq Cheapest Quality. THE NOVEL OF THE FUTURE. Famous Writers of the Day Predict What Tt Will Be. REALISTIC, ROMANTIC, OR EROTIC? The Great Problem of the Literary World Handled by the Fore- most Writers of America and Europe. Tho greatest problem of the literary world of today finds itsolf in tho questions, “What will bethe future novell What will it be like! Who will writeity’ In literary circles 1t has been discussed over and over again; but up to this time the opinions of our fore- most authors have not been given. With this omission in view Tue Bee has gone to some troubloand expense in getting tho best fdeas of leading suthors which it presents in this lssue, Their opinions may not settle the question, but_they are of extraordinary in- terest and value: FROM NEW YORK'S FORI a The realism of toany will not last, and, in my opinion, will give way to the romantic school of fiction, which will be the fietion of the future. And the great novel of the fu- vare will be romantic, and not an ingenious treatment on science or religion. 1t will be & fiction pure and shople, u re- flex of Walter Scott and Fielding. Thackeray was o great novel writer, and timoadds to hus reputation. ln_the latter partof his life Bayard Taylor dined wit hackeray and his daughter, Anne. One of thom told Taylor that the day boforo they— the father and daughter—had eaten a white- bait dinner at Greenwich, when the daugh- ter, casting her eyes about her, -said: 0, father! here comes Barnes Newcomb. Thackeray wrote romantic ideal realism: and 80 true aud lifelike were his charac- ters, that today thoy appear (o us natural flesh and blood people whom we haye mei, Dickens’ chara wero mearly all caricatures, Sam Weller, Job Trotter and David Copperfield may have existed, but Dickens' other characters lived only in s grotesque imagination. was the master of Thackeray, but the pupil soon sur- passed his master; ‘and tho novel of the uture must_ be written by ono who believes in the methods_of theso two great fiction writers, aud who can excel them. We want writers like Jano Austen, Uhackeray, Scott and Fielding, and the docade or gencration that produces them will inaugurate the era of a healthy and great fiction that will far surpass aiy of the efforts of the so-called realistic schools, Ricnann H NRY STODDARD, THE CENTURY EDITOR § VIE WS, Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Con- tury, is in accord with Mr. Howells. He sald : “The future novel cannot escape the real- istie, the scientific habit and tendency of the modern miud ; but there are many kinds of realismu. Reallsm in fiction does ™ not necos- sarily mean either dullness or dirtiness, us cortain of its adherents scem to thnk it means. ‘The Future Novel,'if by that is meant. the highest type of the novel of the future, will, 1 think, be distinguished by ‘what may be called imaginative realism. It will be true, and therefore moral, Its author will be au artist. He will have the sense of Dbeauty, and will not bo ashawmed of it, NOKE THOUGHT THAN ACTION, The subject of the novel does not admit of short treatment, and I could not say in brief space what 1 think of it. Tmay add, how- ever, that it i my opinion that the preseut drift is rather to thought than action, That tho writers are trying some of thew in & %fl; chologicul way to'study interior rather tha extorior life.” 1 think we shall get truth w0 nature, but with more ideality than some of our novelists allow. 1 do not think you rep- resent life truly if you see it out crudely, Somo ideal interior is absolutely necessary, Cuances Dubiey” WARNER. AN EMINENT SCHOLAK'S VIEWS. The poet, the dramatist, the movelist, dis- . pose the elements of human nature in ail sorts of newshapes and coliocations in or- der toplease, to arouse or instruct us, If L am not mistaken, poetry and fiction generally must be led to deal more and _maore, in ever- succeeding age, with the motives, the senti- ments and passions of mankind—not, indeed, in a_scientific or metaphysical manner, but 1, their actual concretef orms. This is a fleld very much overlooked by the ancieuts and left over to the moderns to cultivate. I am convinced that poets who would do in these times what the older poets did in their days must strike out a path different from that in which the ancients walked. The nove)ist has, it seems to mef already en- tered on this path, He has described human nature, or at least cortain moods of it--its passions, foibles, consistencies, aud consist- encios—and so his works have had a popu- larity in these latter days far exceoding that in the past. Poets are read very much in proportion as they deal with mankind. The poetry of Shakespeare ranks higher, T sus- pect, in this age than that of Milton, and this waitly because tho former exhibits human nature in almost every variety of attitude. I believo thatas the world advances in edu- cation and civilization, -and = eutertains a ater mumber and variety of thoughts on all subjects, and is susceptible of an everincressing range of emotions, poetry must take up the theme, the workings of human vatre, and mule this its favorite subject. [t is & mine of which the ancients gathered only the surface gold, but which is open 10 any ono who nas courage and strength to pene- trate into its depths and thence to draw ex- haustless treasures, As the most inviting of all topies to thepoet I would point to the human soul, to its convictions, its doubts, to its writhings and struggles, i _boyhood and hood, in idleness and {n bustle, to its ing motives, its desperate fights, and its crowning conquests, JaxEs McCosit, DISHOP NEWMAN'S HOPE, The novel is the mirror of the day. Society is composed of grand divisious; cach section will have is novel expressive of the moral trend of the majoriiy. Now andthen a dom- inant thought fills the public mind and in- spires the novelist, There has been a great morol uplift in works of fiction, and this will continue. Fiction may be the medium of truth and beauty, and herein bas alarge sphere, and should be recognized of the church, My thought is, that as the world grows better, as knowledge is dffused, as the spiritual gains the mastery. the novelof to- morrow will be on the spirit-world, whither our friends awaitus, JoirN P, NEWMAN. CHEERFUL, BUT NOT FRIVOLOUS. 1 think the novel of the future will contain no theology, 1o politics, no indetency or pro- fanity, no “ism” of any sort. It will have draniatic, not sensational situations ; neither murder nor divorce will enter into’ its plot; neither will it oo padded with long descrip: tions of scenery or tedious moral reflections. Its boroes and heroines shall be arawn truly and made so individual that readers shall romember them as triends, and they shall be high-minded, nobie, and charming, butuot prigs or impossibilities. The novel shall be cheerful, but not frivolous, so that it may be a delight to the sick and _sad, and honestly religious enough for Sunday read- ing. The villain of the plot shall not bo made fascinating; and the book shall end in a satisfactory yet mnot unnatural manner. But this novel will not sell; and it will not be written before the millenium arrives! Rose Teriy CoOKE. THE GREATEST NOVELS TO COME. Idon’t think the world’s best novels have ctbeen writton at all Certainly not the est English novels. Greater novels have been written in English than are now being written; but if I know anything about the sigus of the future of this great modern art, anothern generation of writers will produce greater English novels than this_one has or is likely to. Grokos W. CABLE. wow FAYOR OF REALISTIC NOVELS. Ifound William Dean Howeils has high hopes of the coming novelist, **I stiil bo- lieve in tho realistic school," be said, in aa- swer to the question. “Not 50 much will de- pend upou ingenious plots butupors thostudy to furnish material for the future novelist. The man who lives in a country can write more truthfully about it than & forciem fven inthe United Stateswe have eminent fiction writers faithfully depicting the scencs. and modes of life in the sections where they were raised. . It scoms to bo a logical deduction that if the romantic school is dying oit, and the realistic coming into vogue, the latter will certainly be the novel of the future. A fic- tion that is natural and portrays characters true tolife will grow in favor.” KATE FIELD DOESN'T CARE MU I think only of the present. The field of fietion is largo, but in the aunals of literature only those writers live who deal with the time in whicn they lived. They wrote about the customs and manners and the social lifo of the dayin which they lived, and those who portriyed the chaacteristics vest are now considered the greatest writers. If the future uovel mirrors whatis, then it will be great: but if it is thelromanco 'of antiquity and Illiad of Helens and Parisos, fiction will certainly bo deteriorating. Sociology naturaily ought to enter largely intothe novel of the future, a8 it does now in somenovels, Mrs. Humphry Ward has depicted a religious phase existin; at the present, and other writers deal wit! other problems of the presont. But strange and unnatural fiction, & mere caprice of the author's imagination, will have no permanent; place in literary tiction. A rich mind can fancy many thrilling and romantic episodes that occurred s thousand years ago, but the man who wrote in those early times, if he depicted what he saw and knew fithfully, will live asan author aud be read when the modern writers of romantic antiquity are forgotten. So the fature of fic- tion can ouly be truly estimated and guessed by the future of the countrys T amneithera prophet nor the daughter of a prophet : therefore, what profit to talk of the future! I am deep in thenow. All 1 know is that I'd like to be the author of the novel now ! Kare FIELD, THE AUTHOR OF ‘‘HELEN'S BABIES." The coming novel will be among stories what the thoroughbred is awmong horses—a careful combination of desirable qualities, some faults which are now common being ruthlossly extirpated. It will notbe didactic, for all readers dislike to be lectured ; it will be realistic, for writors will have learned, by the results of many experiments already made, that the majority like most to read of what they already know. It will be humor:- ous, if the author has any honor in him— no other quality 15 popular in fiction. Tt will be written sometimes by a mau, sometimes by a woman, but often, I helieve, by collab- oration of authors of both sexes, for vefore the ideal novel appears all writers of flction will bave learned that no man or woman knows well more than oue sex. Better than all, when it purports to treat of love, it will not give us half veiled passion or appetite instead. At present it is raro luck to find a geauine loye story in ahandful of novels; the nearestapproash toit, as a rule, is thetelling how a couple, drawn toward each other by mere sexual attraction, learn afterwards to respect or otherwiso think of each other sufficiently to marry. Further than this the author goeth not—apparently through lack of knowledge of the sentiment which he has pretended to portray, althongh millions_of people who never write have Jearned’ by long, personal experimce that the extrome devotlon, _sweetness, romance, strength and puzity of love follow marriage instead of preceding it. The coming novel will not find sexual love the ouly sentiment upon which a story can bo based; it will recognize the force, value and interest of ascoreof others and exploit them to the gratification and uphfting of .covntiess readers who now complain that thére are no new stories worthy of attention, Dropping prophecy, at whichat best T am only & superb bungler, allow me to record the fervent hove thatthé coming novel will be written by those who have something to write about—not merely those who know bow to write, Jonx HapBERTON. A LIVING NATUBAL NOVEL. If the sigus in the literary atmosphere are 0 be trusted the coming novel will not be a “She," mor a tiresome conversation which makes you suspect that the author is paid by fad development of charsater. As tiue goos by the. romantic school will, in my opinion, find less favor with the reading public. The home of the realistic novel will be in the United States aud realism will be tho style of flction in the future. We have many novel puases of life and character lu this cuntry | the word, nor & romance which, if not exactly immodest, is 50 near the border lana that it s hard to discern the boundary line between decency and indeceney; but & story whose plot s natural and healihful, whose men and ‘wouen are like those we daily moet, and Wwhoso tendency 18 10 raise the standard of morality than to lower It. T My 3. Hors, EDGAR SALTUS' € R VISION, In the novel of the future it_is pormissible to fancy that the author will be too wise 1o w be oceasionally stupid. He will leave yentionality in- the skirts of the surplics Goethe dernanded more light, ho will need more air; not the atmosphere of a seraglio, but some broad plateau where the lungs are invigorated by that mother of realisim, na- ture herself. He will study thocrowdand its emanations, the unit ss well, and then from his knowlectge of nature and his knowl- edge of man, he will be ablo to explain the multiplicity'of the ego, tho variable influ- enceof surromndings, the change of views that ensue. Behind the visible act will bothe analysis of the invisible cause. the co-ordina- tion" of contradictories, the inevitable de- duced from chance, And this soclearly yet 50 _objectively, that the reader who picks up the book as he'might enter a fancy ball, sud- denly, through tho mere force of accumu- Inted triftes and unobserved offects, will ind himselt among men and women who no | longer seem, but are; who appeal to him, for whom he suffers, aud for whose miseries he would devise a cure. Briofly, the novel of the future will not be fiction: it will be a sentiable psychology for the useof the idle, one that isdictated by the heart, one that whispers to the reader and disturbs him, and leads him uncorsoiously into that temple which Marcus Aurclius erected o compas- sion, to human kindness and_ abnegation of solf. EDnoAk SALTUS. MAX O'RELL PREDICTS THE CHARACTER NOVEL. The future novel will be, in_my judgment, nalytiosl and depict character.” What is more interesting and entertaining than the study of character! Zola s notthe model to think of for the future, but Duudot has, of all modern French fiction writers, the pecu- liar gift of depicting humorous characters, The chavacter in the novel of - the future will be a psychological stady. As for the rolig- 10us and the political novel, they are merely fads of today, and I do not’ beliove in them. They will be very short lived, and form no part of the great future for pure and lasting tiction, Wo have in France seen the various stages of progress through which fiction has passed At oue timo classical fiction and drama held the sway. Corneilie and Raciue, with their blank vorse plays, cltivated a vearning for the classics. Vietor Hugo dispelled the idea that romance had no field whateyer, and for a decade or 50 his school was all the rage. and roalisn was litro- ¢ writors with marked a writr that will live. He tried, and succeeded ina 1 and keenly alive and en rapport with the broadest ‘sympathies of humanity. Many other French writors are great, and will live many years, i Now in England mechanics delight in seoing plays that exhibit dancing or something that does uot appeal to fntelloct. In Frauce the top gallery gods anderstand and enjoy tho psychological stully of a chacactor in a play. And so I think, the great psy chological novel of tho futuro will be prodiced in France. A novel that has ' story and nothing olse to recommend it canuo Lastboyond a few years. Therois nothingmore 1nteresting than the study of man. The analytical process of working outa homorous or even & tragical character requirestalentof the highestord or, The tendeucy of the age requires that kind of fiction, and the handwriting on the wall shows that we must expect the great futuro novel to be founded on the same lines. Mix O'Revr. CHARITY. All men are asses, truo enough ; We run from small to smaller, Some strut and try the rest to bluff— The shorter haté the taller, The rich, with contumelious mien, Are fawned on by the ladies, While we poor devils turn pea-groen, And wish the knaves in hades, The groatest man that ever lied Aud maudled o’er bis toddy, Was no whit better when ho died ‘Posn if Be'd been—-uobody. gkt Skt De Witt's Litue Barly Risers. 8est little pill ever made, Curo constipation overy time, Nonoegual, Usethem uow. GEN. GREELYS INSULATORS. They Made Good Hornets' Nests, but De- layed Weather Roports, WHEN "'OLD PROBABILITIES' WAS YOUNG. Fakes of the Pike's Peak Signal Oficer—How Weather is Made— Captain Harry Wright's Indian Scouts. ‘“Howdo wo make your weather? Why, [thought every ono knew that So much hias been said about the signal service that it would be hard to tell anything new. How- ever, ashort sketch of the mauner of collect- {ug information and making predictions may proveof some interest, so follow me closely and Pll tell you what T know of it, together with some anccdotes and incidents.”” The speaker was a gentleman who for years hus been connected with the signal ser- vice department. horo are in the United States and Can- ada 142 signal stations from which semi-daily telegraphic reports are sent to Washington. These telegrams are sent in cipher, aud give the reading of the barometer, the maximum, minimum and exposed temperatures, humid- ity, velocity and direction of the wind and the clouds. *“I'ne work of makiug weather forecasts iy in charge of Captain H, H. C. Dunwoody, First artillery and assistant to the chiof sig- nal oficer. Captain Duuwoody is an ablo officer and his average of vorified predictions is hign. ““Obscrvations are takenat the same mo- mentof time-7 & m. and7 p. m, Washing- ton tme—throughout the country, and usually the telegraph reports for the 1 p. m. observation atv alliu tho chief ofice by 10 p. m. ora little later, when the work of prepar- ing the forecasts for tne coming twenty-fouy hours is begun “A great Canada oceupic in Captain Dunw dispatches are ap of the -United States and one_wholo side ot the wall ody’s office. As the ciph translated thelr veading is placed on little tags, which are hung on brass hooks placed over tle name of eich station. One by one these tags_are written and placed 1 position and by midnight that partof the work is completed. N ext comes the ruuning of the isobare and isothermat lin b is douo by redand blue tape, Wh having thejsame mean barometric re the same mean temperature work of m itions offic traces eful the movement of a st since the last réport, estimates its vl ascertains 1ts direction and then sends the warnings o valuabloto commorce, “Cyclones, sand storms, cold waves and in fact all possible information pertaining in any way tothe work in hand is to be found on'that great cnart, By states and sections of country the forecass are mado for all the country Gastof the Rocky mountains, and at 1 o'clock euch morning the resuit of Captain Dunwoody's calculations aregiven to the papen “Special telegraph _reports are often sent to tho chief office in Washington,when in the judgment of the observers their in formation Would be of value to_the indications oficer. “Chus tie official sin the chief signal ofice aro kkept constantly posted asto the meteorologi- cal conditions of the entire country. “The Pacific slope is & separute division, with Lieutenant John P, Finly in charge. Allreports for thatsection of country are sent to the headquarters on the coast.” Oneon Greely, “There is @ good story told on General Grecly, thechiel of Lhe signal service,” con- tinued the spealer. ‘A number of years ago ~Old Probabilities, then s lieutenant of the Fifth cavalry was stationed in Texas, Whils there he wis ordored to build 150 miles of military telograpn line. Greely decided to purchase & new kind of insulator, & sort of wh he plo adug aud located the T begins. out ulture and thing worked wolland the lientenant was congratulating himself onthe successof his work, “All &t once tho line would not work at all, A couple of line ropairers started out to find the ciuse. The first pole they tackled was theirlast, for a swarm of hornets emorged from that insulator prepived to resist all comers. As the swarm sottled down about the two mon they ran, and as they ran the swarn_increased and followed them nearly into the fort. The line was robuilt but tho ordinary glass insulators were used. *To this day thoso linemen have nover for- given the general.” A Pike's Peak Fake. “Byer seo Pike's peak! Never, “*Well, there's afunny thingout there. At the station on Pike's peak hundreds of visit- ors annually waste any awount of sympathy over the littls gravestone near the entrance to tho building. A former observer procured thelittle marble monument aud erected it; told ull comors that his little baby had been 50 horribly mutilated by rats one night that it died andlay buried there, Of coursothero was ot a particle of truth in tho story, but the observer thought it agood joke to hear the women mourn over & gravestone which never marked a grave.” A Tale of Hardships. “Do we have to undergo any hardships at the fron tier stations? “Well, I should say we did. “Licutenant John P. Finley nad quite an adventure list winter while on o tour of inspection through the west. Starting oarly one morning with @ guide he intended to make the asceut from the Half Way nouse to the summit of Pike's peak by night-fall. About noon & blinding snow storm camo up. The wind swept in great fierce gusts down the slopes ne carrying them with it and completely obiit: “vating the trail. The guide bowildered and nalf frozen, acknowledged that he was lost. “All at once a great mumbling was heard, a snow slide,”” screarned the guide, and sure enough, crashing, dashing down the mountain sido, notfar away cune a great avalanche, “Iney had broken through tho stool waist-deep in snow, wlh mass under them bogan (o moy thought. his last hour had come. reasou they did not slide far, and lato that night reached the station on the summit, where Fliniey was detainod for over a woek by the storm. No, sir; the lifels not aiways a’pleasant one. “Good night Harry Wr A good stor crust and| slowly the and Finley For som cht's “Thraillers. is told on Captain Harry Wright of my v ment," an oficer of the now famous Tenth ¢ to tho writer, It was down in New Mexico, and Captain Cooney then of the Ninth, but iow a majc of th 'ourth was the ranking ofticer. He nas the reputation of heing a first class soldier and had it then; ne also had, and still has a brogue. Chief Vic wis mak ine thin; 'y wterestimg for settiors and soldiers alike, when Licutenant Wright was given control of ten Tndian scouts, Oue afternoon Captain Cooney Licuwenant Wright aud said to him: “Musther Wroight, ye wili plize detale six asy Injuns fer gaard duty tonight. nado & man on th' otuer soids avth sent for St my men know nothing about guard protested the lieutenant. — “I'hey nlistod scouts aud trailers. 1 1 division head- 5 in which their duties are specifically u are not serving at division hidquar- v now, Mr. Wroight' said the captaiu, ‘an ye'll plaze maie the de-tale ateh your earliest couviy neince,” ‘But these men are s only comprehend th the liou tenant. “Thrailiors, is it! remarked the cap “Mr, Wroight, 'ye will plaze come wid me HBrown ! (o his orderly) bring a couple of tiut pins aud an ax.’ “The procession of three marched to the place where tho captain wanted Wright's outs and trailers; e duties,’ lusisted men to do duty, and then Cooney said: *Brown, dhiroive a tint pin in there (indicat- wng) an’ now (walking 0 @ point about 200 feet away) dhroive the other wan heer, Now, Mr. Wroight, wau_ of yure min will thralll fram thish pin till that pin, and whin ho gits till that pin he'll thraill back agin, Thin whin he has thraied bickwards and shoet iron, cone shaped affair. The line was completed aud fors couple of weeks overy- forwards fur two hours, he'll be relaved by avother uy yer thrailers, " EDUCATIONAL. Miss Aston, who has been blind sinco her bul?»‘hnml has just entered the Melbourne university at the age of 17 dian office in Washington has de- cided to introduce kinderiarten training and materials as a part of its school system, With its five facultics and the high school of pharmacy, the university of France counts in Paris more alumni than any other in tho The seniors 1n law of Cornell have recommended to the faculty mencement orator Governor Hon, Datiel Dougherty Col. Henry Watterson oration before the Washington and Jefferson literay societies of the University of Virginia at the annual joint celobration on Juno 30, Rev. W.J. Holland, for the last seventeen years pasior of the Bollefield Presbyteria church of Pittsburg, has been elected — prosi deut of tho Westorn' university, the foremost educational institution of western Penusyl- vania. The number of students at the Princeton theological seminary this year 13 174, dis- tributed ns follows: Graduates, 13; seniorsy— i middlemen, 50: juniors, bi; specialist 4. Of these 43 'aro graduatos of the colloge. “Tho seminary will close on May Toxas hus a school fund of $22,000 besides nearly 80,000 acres of land, whieh when sold at from 82 to# an acre, asis now being dono, the state will have a' permancnt school fund'of $100,000. The consttution provides, howover, that tho income ouly of this sum is to be available, Hon. Kemp P. Rattle, president of the state university of North Carolina for fifton years, has tondered his resignation, o tnke fect’ August 15, His sssor will be elocted in June, President Battle has ac- tho new chair of history just estab- lished at the university with un endowmont already amounting” to $1,000, Senator Leland Stanford and wife havo been visiting ex-President White of Cornell, Mr. Stanford sad that he was in Ithaca in order to study the methods used in Cornel Hols making a_special study of the Amer can colleges and will adopt " the best of tho methods in organizing the new university ho has founded on the Pacific coust. Prof. James Stewart, a distinguished Low of the Royal Uuiversity of was ono of the hurch university for com- Foraker and is to deliver the Pel- Ircland, died last of tho whom (i th him to h sity. When barely ho obtained his dogroe of M. A. In University of Aberdeen, Scotland, his o place. After mne vears' co as & ministor of the Anglican ehurch, ame a convert, in 1549, University of Notre Dame presents 1y on tho Sunday of mid-lent to somo a medal known as r the honor was Dougherty of ainal New found th eighteen y the the Lactare medal. onferred upon Hon Now York, through Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia. Among the distinguished peo- pld who have been thus honored a Gilmary Shea, the historian; i eral Newton, late chiof of eng Mr. Kiely, the New York architct William J. Ouahan of Chicago and Miss Eliza Allen Starr. Forty families of the Indian prisoners held at Fort Bennett, have petitioned_the author- ties at Washington to be placed on farms under the supervision of Farmer Holl uost will very likely be granted 50 their children will be brought unde jurisdiction of the Indian school at P 5.D. Superintendent Davis went to Fort Bennett to arrange for this contingency, will rosult in alarge ac »ssion to the number of his pupils, ‘Fhere .coat present thirty-two scholars eurolled, with accomm dations for about one hundred Some time ago William Foulko acoopted tho presidency of Swarthmore colloge, Ponn sylvania, Owing to the sad doath 'of his brother-in-law, Arthur M. Reoves, who was killod in o railiay accidenton the Panhan- dle, all arrangements have ceased and there is much uncertainty about Mr. Foulke's ac- tion. It was decided that the insuguration, which was to take place on March 10, would have to bo indefinitely postponed, and now it is rumored that Mr. Foulke, owiig to the in- creased duties which bis 'brothor-in-law’s death cast on him, has rescinded his accept- ance. Talk about, foroign champagnes, try Cook's Extra Dry;, 1t Is superior o two-thirds ot the fmported wines, e e —~