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10 TALNAGE T4 TALKS WITH “CARP" Denies that He Tried to Buy the Place of Ohrist's Orncifixion. PALESTINE NO PLACE FOR RICH JEWS, The Success o Anccdotes He Preacher Talks of His nd His Lecture 1 o of ¥ Men Has Great mous Met, [Copyrighted 1691 by Frank G. Carpenter.) W Yok, Oct. 22, —[Special Correspond enco of Tik Bre.|--The pastor of the big gost church in the United States! A preacher whose sermons are road overy week in 15,000,000 familios ! An author whose dreds of thousands! A lecturer who is now series of talks| An intelicetual worker, the g whose b an produce from day the year round! This is the Rev. 7. DeWitt stands before the pooplo of the Uni in a8 many different lights as thero are varia tlons of the human mind. To many, ho is sincore, godly and genuine. To others, ho appears falso, sacriligeous and a humbug. 1f tho former, nderful if the lattor, he is certainly a most successtul humbug, and in either case he is by far the most interesting character in the American pulpit today. 1 called upon him at his home in Brookiyn the other day. had three hours of most iriteresting conversation with him. I went with him over his great taber- naclo and chatted wih bita upon many sub- jects, ooks sell by the hun offered 150,000 for o v matter of ain 500 to $1,000 a Taimage, who d States he is a most w apostl The Talmage Home, Dr. Talmage lives 11 a big four-story, brown stone house on the cos of South Oxford and Calvert streots, Brooklyn. It is in a good neighborhood aud the houso is porhaps the finost in tho block. Passing up broad, brown stoue steps, you enter a wide hall, tho floor of which is porcelain-tiled in blue and yellow. A black walnut staircase leads from tho right of this hall to the sccond story, and at tho loft, just opposite this, is the entrance to tho parlor, This pavior is about twenty- flvo foct lou, and thero is another smaller varlor soparated from it by folding doors, tho back. It contains as many curiositics 8s a museum. Beautiful pictures hang upon tho walls and an old master in oils ropr: souting Christ casting out devils hangs just at the loft of tho entrance. Tho floors are coverod with Turkish and Persian rugs, which Dr. Talmage picked up at Damascus a thetime be mwado the tour through the Holy Land, and there are swords from Cal tables from Constantinople, rare busts from and avticlos of vertu and curios from all parts of the world. On ouc wall thoro is & banuer of silk which a Chineso missionary sont to Dr. Talmago, and on a stand below it Is a pieco of elegant old lacquer from Japan. Thero are baskets from Alaska, pieces of stone from the Acropolis, sand from the base of the Pyramids, a chunk of stonp from Baalbee, aud pretty things from over whoro, The rest of the houso correspon to the parlors, and every articlo in it seems to have a history. Itisin this pavlor that Dr. Talmage ro- coives his visitors. He is besiexod with call- ers, and though he receives almost everyone, be has to guard his privacy. His workshop 13 at tho top of tho house, Itis @ big room furnished in the plainest manner and packed full of books. There aro books on the tables, in the cases and on the floor. Magazines are scattored here und thero, and tho tabies which tako up difforent parts of the room are livered with manuscripts, nowspaper clip- pings and papers. Nota half dozon men get into this don during the year. Dr. Talmogo restricts its occupants to himself and his pri- vate secrotary. The servants are not pormit- ted to clean it, and ut long intervals on is Mrs.Talmago aliowed in with her dust brash, “There aro no fancy books in this library, and tho newest copies are torn and matilated, In using a quotation Dr. Talmago tears out the paragraphs to which he refors and pastes them into his manuscripts to save tho time of copy- ing them. He does tho greater part of his work vy dictation. Ho dictates readily, and some of his best writings ure taken down by an amanuensis at tho rato of 150 words por minute. How He Looks and It was 1 the parlors that Dr. Tulmago re- coived me, and L noted that the step with which ho ‘entered was fivm and springy. Ho will be 60 years old in January next, but his hair is still brown, bis dark rosy faco shows that his blood is full of iron, and he says he can eat his threo square meals overy day ana enjoy them. Heisa big man and o strong one. Heis, I judge, about feet 11 inches, and ho woighs about. 170 pounds. His broad shoulders have n slight stoop, but thoy are well padded with mus. cular flesh, and his arms look as thongh they could wiold an axas well as Giad- stone's. Ho was dressed in plain business clothes andil notea, us an hour or 5o lator we walked toward the Tabernacle, that tho high hat that ho wore was a_derby, and its num- ber, I judge, was about 5. Doctor Talmage converses ns well ashe proachos, His talk with me was full of bright sayings, It was perfoctly unconventional and simpie It covered a great varioty of subjects and I only give a tuste of its substance, "alks. Palestine and the Jdews, Referring to the Jowish troubles in Russin, T asked Docto Talmage it he did not think that the Jows would cv entually drift back to Palestine. Ho replied % A"L don't think the prosperous Jews of ©merica or Europe ought to go back to Pal- estine. Our Jewish citizens here baye all tho comforts of civilization, In Palestine they would find the land_and the people, so old in years, newer than the youngest parts of our'western frontier. The land offers no fleld for thoir undoubted ability, ana they would be surrounded by discomfort and misery. The futuro of Palestine, it seoms to me, i3 not desticed to come from the Jews. It is u flela for the work of all nations, and I beliove thatall the peo- ples of tho earth wve to unite in its improve ment. Tho country is, toy large extont, & desert now. Tho lands bétween Jerusalem and the Valloy of the Jordan ara as barron as the plains of Colorado, and in climving up tho hills of Judea you pass turough @ country whoro only ihe sparsost of vege- tation Is seon on the hilisides, and where the crop is made up of rocks. Theso hills, how- ever, show evidences that the land was once @ garden. Tho bills are torraced, and you s00 sigus of thom having been carefully cul tivated in past ages, 1 believe it will becomo A garden again. God's favorite figure is the cirolo, and Palestine is moving in a o back to its old beauties. Theso rocks which Iaid upon tho hills above tho Plains of Sharon where the Philistines lived aro lime- stoue. This atoue is disintegrativg, and bo- coming skelotonized. The lime i3 sinking into the soil and Palestine is getting by tho actlon of its climate what our farmors spend groat sums for to revivify their lauas. The climate of Palestine is changing, the rainfail §s Increasing, and at no distant date the and wiil olossom like the rose. As many of tho Jews in the Holy Land g their attention to agricuiture. They have experimental farms aud they are rais- ing foe crops, Tho Plaius of Shavon are today us fertiio as any part of tho state of New York, and the time will come when the barron hillsides of Judea will produce like our rich Lunds of Westehester county, o like the rioh valloys about Lancaster, Penusyl vania, or those which border on 'the Sciota 1n Oblo." “Will Jerusalom ever become 1 asked. *Yos," replied Dr. Talmage, “It bas grown rapidly during the past few years, and it Is airoady tulfilling the saying of thoe prophiet that It will sproad out boyond the walls aud will cover oven the Placo of the Ashes. Until now the commentators of the scriptures did not kuow how 1o interpret this para garaph. Thero was no evidence of any ashes About Jerusalem, sud they did not know what it mout. In the excavation, however, for reat clty THE OMAHA | the now buildings outside in the new part of | the town, ashes are being turnod up by the | digging for every foundation. They are being analyzed, ana aio found to be the ashes of wood and tho ashes of animals, They are in fact tho nshes of tno sncrifices of the Jows in the days of the past, which for 1,000 vears wern carried out of JSerusalom and deposited in that place. Jerusalom, in fact, is having quite a real estate boom. Tho lands about the ity have increased in valuo and there has on much building.” Did Not Actempt to Bu Calvary. ary, and that story that wbout Cal mpted to buy it of the Turks re is no truth in that," rephed D “iho vory idea would have been The Mohammetans wiill not sell tueir lands to foreigners, end there is o Mo hammetan cemetery on the edge of the spot whers Ch was crucified, and you 860 1t would have been impossible for me to have purchased it bad I wisned to do so. As to | that spot being the place of the erucifixion, however, 1 have not the slightest doubt tho morning 1 arvived in Jerusalem I went up *o the top of the house in which 1 was stopping and took a look at the Hols City. 1 had the Mount of Olives pointed oit to me and Mount Mariah, and without any. one telling me, 1 fixed upon this spot_as the place of crucitixion. Why, it corresponds exactly with the descriptions of tho biole. It is tho perfoct shape of a xreat skull, both in- sido and outside, and there is a spot on its top just large enough for three crosses, It 1 without the walls, and the biblo says that Jesus was taken outside of the walls' to be crucified. 1tis known that this was (b place of execution of malefactors for years prior to this time, and it would be_ the” nat- ural place for tho crucifixion. ~Besides it was on tho edge of the main road leading out of Jerusalem, and you remember that the bivle says that the people wagged their hoads at him as they went along. The spot which has been accepted as the place of cru citixion and over which the church of the Holy Sephulchre is built is in the middie of the city, and it must have always been a densely populated spot.”! Dr. Talmage and His L “By the way, doctor, did you of your ‘Life of Christ,’ whila you Pulestine “Yos,” was tho reply. “I worked at it as hard as you worked there during your trip as anewspaper correspondent. 1 found tho inspiration of my surroundings conducive to the work and I rewrote much that I had written before. 1 took my description of places from life, and I found it enabled mo to wake it a better book.’ ! me about tho book, doctor. Where did you get the titlo and is it a suc- coss ! “The story of the title, mage, *1s a curious one. 1 sought for a long timo for a title but could find none. ‘The Life of Christ,’ was too hackneyed. It had been used a number of times, and 1 wanted something new. Kor woeks 1 cudgeled my brains i vawn. 1 was thinking of it when I traveled in tho wost, and one day as I sat in the train approaching Alliance, O., like a flash came to me the words, ‘From Manger to Throne. ‘Pve got it at last,’ said I'to myself, and for fear I might lose1t, I took aut my note book and wrote it down. = As to the success of tho work, it promises to be more successful than auything I have ever written. Four huudrcd thousand copies bave beon subscribed for, and two hundred aud fifty thousand copies have been deli ered and paid for. This is a great many cou- sidering tho fact that the book costs from &4 to %20 per copy. I thiuk there is o doubt but that the circulation will reach 1,000,000.” “Tell me something of your other books,” of Chu writo were st much in replied Dr. Tal vo written for years,”said Dr. Tal- “‘and the public has always treatod me Wo wero counting up the other day tho books that huve been published over my name as author, and we find there are fifty of thom, and they are translated into nearly all the languages of Burope, 1 got a copy of & Scavdinavian translation of one of my books today. Of course I can’t read it, but I know it 15 mwe from my name as author on the titlo pago. Of these difforent books, 1 have - myselt published fitteen and have gotten receipts from them. The othor thirty-five have been piratedjin one way or another.” Money Making and the Pulpit. “Dr. Talmage,” said I, “you’ve been called a money-making preacher. ~ Do you think the making of mouey is incompatible with your profession “1r the making of money were the chief end of tho profession 1 would say yes,” ve- plied Dr, Talmage. *“And if it were not en- tirely subordinate and apart from it, I would also'say yes. But when the making of money comes entirely from work that does not con flict with the duties of tho pulpit, and that in fact aids on the work of the profession, I would say ne. During my whole life I havi made my preaching and my chu tho su- preme end of my work, dollar at the oxpense of my Tabors, and I have never tried to make money for money's sake, ‘The opportunities and the work have veen forced upon me. I have ac- cepted them, because in doing so I believe that I am at the same timoablo to do good. I refuse hundreds ot offers for literary work and lectures because I have not the time to give to them, and if, as is often so, iy prices forsuch things are called high. they ar forced upon no one and they are fixed in gen- eral not by me, but by bureaus and agents through whom such business is done for me, 1f 1 would, I could I believe have such en gagements as would net me $1,000 a day the year through, and I have now lying on my study table an offer of 50,000 for a series of lectures. 1 mever lecture for less than #00 or §1,000 a uight, and the latter is my rogular price for tho larger cities. When I cnarged §1,000 for going to Chicago not long ago to lecturo, the fact was mado a subject. of comment by some of the newspapers, who said that my action was a mercenary one. Why, [ cannot see. 1 did not ask Chicago to call me to lecture, and tho receipts of the lecture, which was held in tho Auditorium, were, 1 understand, £3,000 in excess of the amount paid me. I get num- bers of requests from small places offering mo #500 a night to lecture, and 1 nave toda; received such offers from Knoxville and Memphis. Asit is I can’'t accept many of these engagements, though I try to make one or two trips a year. Last year 1 did not go on account of the building of the Tabernacle, but this summer I traveled through twenty- threoe states, covered 20,000 miles and shook hands with at least 13,000 people." He Talks of His Work, “How do you do such an amount of work, doctor! Ploase tell me something of your weekly labors. " “My weeks vary so that I can hardly do that,” was tho reply. “I am engagod nearly v to speuk, lecture or preach somo. where. U'm editor of the Christian Herald and write three columns a woek for it. 1 write an articie s week for the Observer and every month 1 preparo un article for the Ladies’ Home Journal entitled, ‘Under my Study Lamp.’ Then I have my Friday night talks, my regular sermon, my calls ad my mail, which comes from'all parts of the world." “How do vou got your rest] ‘1 save time in every way possible. stonographers in my work and dictate ily and rapidly. I find my chief rest in a change of work and conversation at a din ner party, for instunce, gives mo now life and vigor. 1 romember the New Engiand dinner when Henry Grady mado his great speech. I sat betweon him and General Shermau and tho talk that night was ono of the pleasant est opisodes of my hfe. It was on offer- voscence alixir to my tired brain,and I srose from the tablo wonderfully refreshed." age on Genoral W. T. Sherman Tho couversation here took a shoot into rem- iniscence, and Dr. Talmuge spoke of Gon- eral Sherman. Said he *'1 noted your interview n of & week or 80 ago. You represent him vightly, The world aoes not know what a social und lovabie side there Is to his charac ter and the virtues of Goneral Sherman are not appreciated as they should be. I had close friendship with him ana I bave many letters from him. His bluffness und rugged good nature blinded people to his extraordi- vary litorary ability. His lotters were mod- ols "of wood diction. Kven his speeches, though be spoke extemporancously and some- times haltingly, were well worded, and there was 0o more delightful talker in private, I romomber & night I spent with him in St Louis. General Sherman was not well enough to attend my lecture, but he sent me % n0te asking me to come to his home attor 1 was through. I dia so and wo spent a long evoulug together, During this time he gave wo ideas of tho war that I nover had oeforo. He weut over. the whole of it eriticising this man and that nd glviug me much unwritten history, Ho uttered things which, had they been given to an uuscrupulous person, would have fur- nished big newspaper sensations and would I uso read- Taly ith John Sher- DAILY BEE. ave brought bigh prices in the literary nowspaper markets. He was a most lovablo man in his family relations gentle sido to his character which was very »wing Better, “Dr. Talmage,” sald I, “don’'t you think the world grows worse as it grows older “No,"" replied tho preacher, “I ao not. 1 think the world is growing better insteaa of growing worso, and [ am in all things rathor an optimist than o pessimist. 1 often hear the mechanical inventions, the reapers, the mowers, the electric wires, the steam on- wine, ete,, spoken of as the great wonders of modern times, The groatest marvel to m of modern times is the true Christian spirit which grows more from day to day. Our greatest wonders are our good men and good women, In the ages of tho past, thero W » great philanthropist in half a dozen cen- turics and for the next ten or twonty weu tions he was the wonder of histors people placed a_halo around his head and they worshipped him and wondered at him. Now we huve o great philanthropist in eve town and a dozen ery eity. It took 500 yoars to produco a Gcorge Peabody, and eter Cooper would have been an impossi- bility fu any other ago than ours, That man’s work 1s the wonder of modern times. His {nstitution has mothered o thousand other institutions. From his example have sprung hundreds of free libraries, hospitals nd schools and the work of charity grows an ever incroasing ratio as the times go on, " ni Wor “Look at the men and women of today,” Dr. Talmage went on. *Thero has nover such a generation. Take our women; a fow yoars ago soft flesh, a slender waist, a polite languor, a do nothing air, werce the ments of the so-called beautiful woman ow our girls vride themselves on being strong. The roses of heaith bloom in tu cheeks. They stand firm upon their feet and swing their arms from thoe shouldet They have strong frames and healthy, well trained minds. They are the of physical culture nnd every town has its woman's gymnasium. it 15 the same with our young men. We aro developing & stronger race and a better race This is mentally and physically. Tho ola saying that there is no royal road to learning is a thing of tho past. Our children have such a road and itis an asphalt pavement com- pared with the rough corduroy of my cbild- hood. When I was a boy children had to be whipped to make them go school. Now they if they can’t o, I spent my school days in a country school. We had 100 cnildren 1n ono room and we sat on rough benches so high that our feot angled _six inches above the floor. “The rod was not spared and the rule was one of tecror rather than kindness. 1 remember 10 school was always opened with prayer. The teacher pra He beld nis hands with his fingers spread wideapart over his oves as he prayed and kept his eyes on the school to seotuat tho scholars preserved a decent rov erence and attention, When he saw on of us doing otherwise he dropped his hand, suspended his prayer and came down and thrashed the offender, and then went back and finished the prayer. We had no music but the crying of the chidren when whipped. We had no drawing and our studies wern of the most arbitrary kind, forced out of us in the most arbitrary way." Free Thou :ht and Christianity. “How about religion and free thought, doctor,” said I. *“Tho churches seom’ to bo rrowing more liberal every vear. Infidelity i3 growing in all relizions the world over and the tendency seems to bo to tho breaking down of all “You are right in Our Wondi n ing that the churches are becoming more liboral,” roplied Dr. Tai- o are getting closer and closer to- gotaer every year, and religion is bocoming more and more a religion of sympathy and kindness. Wo have thousands of real Chris- tians now who hardly know they aro Chris tiuns. They cannot bo called intellectual Christians, and the purely intellectual Chris- tian, the Coristian of reason rather than faith, is of little uccount in _the world an bow.' He'isan icoberg and he is of good neither to himself nor to anyoe else. Yo speak of the growing infidelity among the olievers of other religions the world over. “Tho tondency of man when he gives up the God of his fathers is for atime to believe in no God whatover, and it is only after a timo that ho comes around to study and believe in anothor religion, ~ I bolieve that any rel- gion is Better than no religion and 1 buliove that tho Christian religion is destined to conquer the world. Pcople aresurprised that the church does not advance more rapidly. They forget that tho world has just been dis- covered. Our hemisphere is but a fow hun- dreas of yoars old, and Columbus only dis- covered 118 shell. ' Asiu ana Africa have beon practically unknown to us until now and they ure still toa great extent undiscovered. It is tho same with tho world in other respects as in its geographical ones. Wo aro just bo- gining to know it and its possivilitics. Mod- crn inventions are coming i to help us, and we aro now ready for the first time to begin to work in earnest. Tho railroad and the steamboat have boen invented to cavry us to our fiolds, and the phonograph has come in to do its share in the missionary work of the future. 1 beliove the phonograph s woing to be our greatest preacuer When the manager of the bo d of missions ean say *Send 300 sermons to as many towns and cities of Japan’ or ‘Send 00 lectures to out-of-the-way places in China, and see that a phonographic translation of that bright discourse against Buddhism is sent out to India,’ you will see the possi bilities. ““Phen our missionary scholars can do thew work surrounded by civilization and sup- ported by the best of (iod’s ozone. Now the climate and the hardships of life kill hun- dreds. “Thien wo can have a thousand men where wo have one now, and oue sermon can travel from one end of tho country to the othor and preach its mission to millions, Story of Gladstone and 1 ord Napier. “You say the world is growing bottor,” Dr. Talmage went ou. I tell you, the world is better than yon think. There aro spots of tho true Christian feeling and spirit animat- ing the darkest parts of our darkost contin- ents. I remember an incident that happoned not fong ago whon I was visiting tho great English statesman, Mr. Gladstone, ~ We were at Hawarden, It was just after his eightieth birthday, and we woro out in his big park runuing” together along the road Gladstone called it a promenade, but he kept me on tho trot to keep up with him, and he wed questions just as fast as ho walked. Ho kept throwing sticks for his dog to run after and bring back to him, and_ho would jerk out ull sorts of questions. ‘Do you see that fine sycamore therel’ ho would say I venture to say that you did not thing like that in the Holy Land, did you? At last tho conversation’ drifted into this very subject of which you are asking and Gladstono made the same remark that | have made to you, and illustrated it with this ory. Said he: On this very spot where we ire now walking, Lord Napier waiked with me shortly after his return from Africa, and as ho walked, he told me the story of & soldier who had had bis leg broken in one of tho skirmishes and who was being carried back with the army towards home, *As wo went 0n,’ said Lord Napior, ‘his leg ot worso and I'saw that he would dio beforo he ot iuto the ship. His only chance of salvation was immeaiate rest aud quiet. At this time we camo to a rude tent in which an old African woman lived. I besought her to take the man in and care for him and I offered bor what must havo seomed to_her a very large sum for such a_servico. Sho r fused to take the money though I urged her 10 do 50, aud when | was in despair thinking she would not take care of the man, she Iooked up at me and said, ‘whito man, I'don’t want your money, I will not take your money. 1 have enough. But I will take caro of this wan and do the best I can for him because, and here sho ralsed ber hands towards the sky—‘I bolieve in the great God above us.' *Woe left the man with her and herecovered.' ‘Whether this woman was & Christian o not, I do not kuow,’ replied Dr. Talmage, ‘or where sho got her Christianity, 1 do uot know. I only kuow that hLer spirit was a Christian ono, and had shono there brightly amid tho darkness of Africa," Talmage On Sensational Preaching. “Dr. Talmage, you have been acoused of belug a seusational preacher. Do you be liove in sensational preaching " “If you call sensational presching,” re plied the divine, “the strivivg after striking effects, morely to astonish the people or to creato s stir, it is wrong. But if sensational proaching is'the seusation arisig from tho presentation of truth, itis right. Truth 1s always surprisiog, and rightly preached, it ought not to fail to create & sensation, The oppouents of such preaching are often men who are as heavy in their romarks as s load of bricks, They are oo iazy oF 100 dull %0 rise T'he | SUNDAY. OCTOBER | out of the commonplace and they often vege ! tal and ho had @ | cdlo of the, dey rot. You ask as to pulpit oratory toag. I believe that our preachers are Improving in power as tho world goes on, Oifr seminaries turh out bet tor men every year, and they will this yoar furnish the best crop of young men in their history." i Brooktyn Tabernacle. Leaving the house, we then walked around tho block to the Brooklyn Tabornacle. It is the biggest church fn the United States and is one of the fAinest churzhos in the world. Tts tower of red brick aand stone rises one hun dred and sixty foot from the ground und its four corners haverealumns which remind you the beautios of ths Kutab Minar. Its en- ices are of stone richly carved and it cov- ers more than a Kalfhero of ground. Stand ing i the gallerics,tho scone below mukes you think of the Coliseum at Rome, and tno Rgreat organ which stands onposite you is ono of the largest over made, It has four banks of koys, one hundred stops and appliancs, and its pipes pumber 4,500, Dr. Talmago stands on a platform with no desk nov pulpit in front of him, and ho addresses hore an au dience of 7,000 souls overy Sunaav. The church was almost completed whilo Dr. Tal mage was in the Holy Land. It was started after he left New York oo that tour. and its cost has been up to this time, $125,000. 1t is the third church which Dr. Talmage has built in Brooklyn and it is a monument wor thy of bis genius, tr CARPENTER, Beo bldg. Frask G, o~ - Dr. Birney cures eatarrh - - LITERARY NOTES. Henry Harland, who has written so much and so.4vell under the nom-de-plume of “*Syd. ney Luska, to have tired of the soubriquet, and is now using his own name upon his literary offorts. General Sherman's letters to his daughter, written from the flold during the war, aro among the most valuablo contributions that have vet been made to tho literatuce of the war and are £0on to be published. Current Literature each month publishes a famous chapter from the work of some stand ard author. In liko manner Short Storios makes a feature of a brief romance that has uneen notable at some timo in tho past. was the author of a work w mong the best books of the vear 1500. ~ Ho has now published throughi the John W. Lovell company, another work which is meeting with the ‘samo commenda- tion. It is entitled *“I'he Scapegoat.” In the November 1ssue of the Now gland Magazine, Walter Blackburn H makes a plea for'a world without books thinks that education is notan unmix blessing, as the ereater the intellizenco of in- dividuals and peoples tie greater s their capacity for suffering. Sined Bianche Willis Howar Summer,” her books have been eagerly. Hor new story, which is ning serfally in a London veriodical, issued in this country in a few months. Tt is entitied “A Battle and a Boy,” and whilo it 15 of a character to interest juvenile ronders, itis equally fascinating for children of a larzer growth. The passage of the copyright law has pro- duced one result at least which will please the g uding public. Enghish authors, in anticipation of the possibie passago of tho law, have been holding back their best manu- seripts in order to puolist. under protection, As a consequence, the Jast half of 1801 and the first half of 1592 will be full of these works which have been held in reserve await- ine the action of eongross. Octave Thanet has written a clever story for the November Lippincott's called *“The Return of the Rejected.” Tt tells of the travels and adventures of a manuscript which is submitted to all the leading magazines, The story is founded on fact, and fac-simile copies of several lotters of rejection from various editors arg reproduced. George (Al fred Townsend (Gath) also relates his experi- ence as a newspaper.correspondent. Very curiously,but littlo attention has ever beeu eiven in the magazinos to the frightful tragedies of the Roman Amphitheater, which were carried on throush centuries, and in which the lives of hundreds of thousands were sacrificed. C. Osbourne Ward, whose ook *“The Ancient Lowly’ last yoar excited so much attention, and who has made this subject his life work. gives an article in the Novembor Cosmopolitan on tho “Massacres of the Ronian Amphitheater,” and the article 15 illustrated hy drawings by Dan Beard and from famous paintings. The Buckeve state comes imposingly to the frout in the November number of Frank Les- lie's Popular Monthly. The opening page is adorned with a new portrait of Senator John Sherman, who contributes a scholarly and thoughtful paper upon “Ohio: lts History and Resources.” There are, moveover, thirty-five portraits of distinguished sons of Ohio, living and dead, and numerous inter- esting views. In this same number Clara Morrls writes interostingly about *“The Modern Emotional Drama and Its Expon- ents,” In the rorum for November Bdward A. Freeman, the English listorian, explains the political sitnation in Furope, pointing out the specific danwers to peace. Another remarka- blo article will appear in the same number on the armies and politics of Europe, from an American point of view, by William R Thayer, who vecords the results of studies recently made in Europe of the political and military situation. These two articles to- gether make a complete voview of the present Buropean situation. Wolcott Balestier, the young Americ writer who has coliaborated with Rudv: Kippling in tho novel “The Naulahka, which the Century will pring, is at p rosident of London, wnere he represents an American publisning house. Ho was bor at Rochester, N. Y., less than thirty vea ago, and he has lived and_attended school there, and at Baltimore. Washington, New York, Vermont and Denvor. His_college is Cornell, and ne studied law at tho University of Virginin. He was at one time on the edi- torial staff of the Rochester Post-Express The first number of The Californian, a new magazine rublished at San Franciseo. has made its appearance. Among the articles is one describing the new electric road of Prof. T. S.C, Lowe, the longest i the world, now boing built up the Sierras. The line is twelve miles long, passing over some of tho most romarkable scenery 1 America. The illustrations show tho famous Katon canyon the location of the two depots in the same day: the lowoer, abounding in ferns and flow ors; the upper, decp in the snow of an east ern'winter, showing that _in southern Cah fornin the tourist can pick oranges in the forenoon and order a sleizh by telophone and spend the afternoon in sleizhing. The old Arab university of EI Azhar,which was founded in the tenth century, and has constantly opposed an inflexible front to the advance of Buropean idoas, is today the most important Mohammedan colleza in the world Although it has no longer the 20,000 students who crowded its courts in the thirteenth and tourteenth centuries, there 1s still an attond ance of from 7,000 to'10,000--some say 12,000 and its pupils are sent out to every Mo- hammedan country, from the Soudan to India. A very entertainging account of this univorsity and the methods of instraction pursued within its walls will bo given by Constance Fenimare’ Woolson in an illus tratod paper on “Caipp in 1500, to appear in Harper's Magazine for November. A Study of Child Nature from the Kinder garten Standpoint, by principal of the Chlcago Kinde Ing school is now 4’ jts third edition. authoress has a kécii Jnsight into child natur which has been, , quickened by and constant ocontact with the ones in her . practical Kindergar work. In her excellent little book she has presented her ideas ifi 4 most chavining and systematic manner. The perplexities of many a_thoughtfyl, fond mot largely romoved hy its perusal, for sh gosts many practivad : methods of reaching the hearts and develeping the intellects of the littie ones. With“tha delicate touch of an artist Miss Harriséh’points the way bharmo. niously to direot the moral, physical and montal growth, and if every woman could bo lud to take instriction from her publication thore would be fewer weary b and heads and sinking hearts aniong the sweet mothers of America. [ispeciaily holpful and interestiug are tho chapters devoted to the training of the muscies. the affoctions, the will and that upon right and _wrong punish ments. The little work breathes tho spirit of Froebel, and wili increase tho intevest in kindergarten institution, which is so rapidly growing up in the homes and educational centers of our country. The book is pub lishod by the Chicago Kindergarteu college, Chicago, and is sold for §1 . el . Aro you a cruel man, or only & cbhump Your horse has chafod his neck until it is ab lutely cruel to wake him work, or he has out himseif on & wire or a nail. Now do you know that one bottle of Haller's Barb W liniment wiil nbsolutel ro brulse or old sorof Just try it. sooms was placed En- wrote “One looked for now run- will bo nds 9= 1801 —-SIXTEEN OF GREATNENS. Senator Plumb of Kansas at overy wedding, corn husking or barbecue to which ho 13 invited The aged Louls Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, knows English romarkably woll. [He learned the language while a prisoner, with only a_dictionary, a bible and a copy of Shakespeare to ad hun Ulysses Grant and Kobert K, )y are roommates at the Washington and Leo un iversity, Loxington, Va. Lot us have poncs A speoch General Curtis, now running for congross | nlistod of the Hois in the Watertown, N. Y., district when 10 years old at the breaking out civil war and camo out of it eminent six foet six inches in height Paul Du Chaillu, the African explorer, is o little brown man with flashing biack oyos, smooth bronzod faco ana ahouad as baid as a baby's, He a con firmed o'd bachelor, but has mauners that charm women Judge Culbertson, the Texas congressman, T ily replied to a tirade of abuse from an embittered constituent by throwing his arms around the man's neck and exclaiming, “Whar's tho nearest grocory!” This was 100 mu for the constituent. (General Boauregard appoared at a meeting of the I vs of the Confoderacy in St Louis ono day last wee The general ap peared to bo in excellont health, his snow white hair showing up in striking contrast to a hoalthy and ruddy complexion. Timothy Hopkins, the adopted son of the lute Mrs ~Searles, has a five acre patch of violets ut Menlo park, California, from whict he ships large quantitios of flowers to San Franvisco daily for six months overy year, and receives a handsomo roturn therefor, Prince Bismarck coutinues to flourish, not- withstanding rumors to the contrary. A re cent visitor to tho prince at Varzin writes “On the day of my arrival he was two hours in the saddle, and during the afternoon he inspected part of the estate, the drive taking up four hours In his'villa up in tho hills Salvini dines at 6 and fiuishes his o ing meal at 10. Bud ding tragedians will pad with wond that his dining hall is 10 feet square, aud that tho trophies of his American tours in the shape of statues, pictures, medals, plate and jew elry are vaiucd at £100,000. Colonel John A. Cockerill, having given handsome monuraent to the Ordor of Elks 1n St. Louis, ovidently belioves that “ono good deed descrves another,” as ho has offered to present the cities of New York and Brooklyn with two bronzo or stone drinking fountains to bo placed on the Brooklyn bridgo, one at cach of the two towers, v Solon Chase, the votoran apostle of fiat noney, is_postmaster at Caase’s Mills in Maine. Somotime ago an ispector callod at Solon’s off and, a’ter looking over the book, inauired of the postmaster where he Kept the government funds, which the law requires must be separate from the other. “In ny pocket, by (r—d.” was the immediate reply of the famous ‘‘financier.” Henry Geor is so enthusiastic a iever in bicyeling that he urges it upon people who visit him with much more versistoncy than hie shows in the propagation of nis own so- cial theories. Many of his friends among men have been induced by his example ta practice the art; he has persuaded his whole family to learn to ride, and he has begnn proselyting among the womea and children of his aequaintance, ‘Threo sons of the author of “Pickwick” are still Jiving, Charles Dickens, his father's namesake, is editor of All the Year Round ud is known to American_audiances for his adings from his fat works. Alfred sou Dickens is a merchant in Mel id the youngest member,of the fam- Bil Lytton Dickens, is a sheep farmer and a new member of the New South Wales parliament, Frank B. Sanborn, the philosophor, is a man whose name 1s ot often teard by the world these days. Yetin Emerson’s timo itest and bost beloved of the e of scholars and poets who eathered about the Concord sage. Sanford still live: in Concord, and is identified with tho modern school of plillosophy there. Ho is o tall, nder man, and when ho appears in Boston is couspicuons for a broad brimmed soft white hat and a big red flowing cravat. e bbb Dr. Birney cures catarch. INDUSTRIAL Edison is worth $3,000,000 Edison employs 200 women. ‘We rur 35,000 locomotives. aphing in colors goos, forging is a success, San Kraneisco has 5,000 Japs. London has 1,000 idle printers. We support 325 electric roads. Srandy 1s made from potatoes. Corsets employ 10,000 persons. Berlin printers want nine hours. Pittsburg boss printers organized. New York has 600 union furriers. ron will be melted by electricit Unelo Sam has 70,000 boe growors, Kome will be hghtea by electricity. Railway bars aro olectrically weldad The K. of L. has reachod avoting ago. Arizona has a woman mining expert. Toledo has a free employment bureau, New York sewing girls are organizing Women work in Houtzdale (a.) mines, Pittsburg job printers want nine hours. Toledo has a German carpenters’ uuion, Grand Rapids will make paver mateho: Dr. MeGlynn got a purse on bis birthday. Texas colored cotton pickers have a union. New York cooks and stewards aro organ- izec Tacoma oxhibits a 16,000-pound coal. Halifax painters struck to union. New York K. of L. protest against lavor. War weckly. Kansus City, Kan., is to cotton mill New York buttonhole makers won a fiftoen weoeks’ strike, “Tho Southern at £20 per mouth Phe Waltham wages 20 por cent Miss Branu, the organizer of barmaids, has peen exiled The New York I, of [ lectures and entertainments, Four dramatic companics in New York arc composed of labor union taleoy Chicago will have an electric unicycle rail- roud to make forty miles an hour Compulsory voting has been added constitution of the Cigarmakers' union Tho newest patent given toa woman has been for tmprovement 1n steam boilers and furnaces St, Louls K its of Labor Amorican tin, because tho on striko. Two-thirds of 3,000 Elgin watch works ar organizing. Now York book and job offices will be or ganized. Burial ground for ( Protestant printers has been purc Creosoto works for rende against the toredo will probably San ¥rancisco at & cost of about he grand trustees of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who were removed from office by Grana Mastor Wilkinsou months ago, havo secured & temporary junction An air ship which is to be tried by Henri of the school of uerostation eredited with proposin; Mozambique by this balloo T'ho late interaational con fort has already lubbed the with which 10,000 to 1l 13 we cussed as availuble pot for transmission. Alumi noted traveler and Beo bldg. TIrS picce of maintain their [talian department clerks will bo paid have a $1,250,000 Pacific employs Chinamon Watcl company has cut the German schiool provides to the will boycott uLiou tin men are seonle employed in the women, and thoy are oneratos hydrogen gas Comte, the directo Paris. 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