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Show the wonderful hair Is the same. Jules Le Febvre is one of the great teachers of the Academy Julien in Paris. The schriol is divided into two sides, and four of the greatest living painters criticize the students work twice a week, Le Febvre and Boulanger teaching one side, while Bouguereau and Fleury look after the other. When the professors are not present the students have rare sport during the rests. The scenes shown In Trilby are not a bit exaggerated.: Wrestling between the male models is favorite pastime. A ring is formed, aftd the students, shower coppers and silver in the centef, while the two men wrestle for the money, the winning man, of course, taking all. The sport has Its uses, however, for the students study closely the play of the muscles in violent action. But when the day arrives for criticism, and the card hangs, on the , entrance with the legend Le professeur est la, not a sound is heard, as every word from the teachers mouth is treasured as something priceless. Le Febvre is a favorite teacher with the students, as he is very strict, and believes thoroughly in the motto which is printed on the wall of the schoolroom: Cherchez' le Characture de la Nature. IR PARIS MODELJ. .aH BROWN who posed for laretta. ; . , ; j ner Of Strange Story ated Rife-Cre- Fresent Queen of the lltln1 Quarter Where Trilby Once Oncer-T- he ' Reigned. THE WAS original of the love- T spirituelle girl,! accurately pictured in Jules Le Fevres great painting, .who' caused the studentss riot in the Latin; Quarter of Paris two years agb. On; that memorable oc- casion this famous, model, to some ex-- 1 ly, 1 i rode like! Lady Oodiva, on with chastity, clothed fnrth riding a steed, W instead of roof of a cab' with; on the traveled ehe her between dainty lips.! Cheroot a Cairo characterized Lady which The modesty wanting in the and the gen-- ; model croceedings! of the rose students The darmes interfered. Godivas adventure was r. The damage was not was overturned. to limited bjroken head's. who caused the ruction is model The of the loveliest girls who orie probably hi the lived Quartier Latin, whence eter arid in many respects her came, Trilby is surprisingly! like that of Trilby story The girl is crilled Yvette by the students! Brown! but her; name is plan Sarah French she is, in spite of her English ' j ; o; f r; .1 name. She C: , presiding goddess of thej quarter, and is identified with is the student Fifty-Fourt- K Congress. ATTRACTIVE DOMESTIC ABODE Alabama again sends to congress her OF MR,. WARNER. tried and trusty representative from the Fifth district, James E. Cobb, who has done good service for: the people Bears Resemblance to Ik Marvel of his state in the Fiftieth,: Fifty-firs- t, He Drifted Into Journalism by Ac conFifty-secon- d and Fifty-thir- d cdent and Has Become a Card to gresses, says an admiring friend of the in Purveyors of Literature. congressman. Mr. Cobb was born was Georgia in 1835; graduated IIARLES DUDLEY Warner Is a writer whom it is not easy to classify by any sectional term, or any other term, for ithat matter. He Is not, strictly speakI an ing, a poet, norwrit-ler a nor essayist, hh J JhiHi 'I j, !f v f pg ' of i'r Aff.v. "I - t , u t- 1 i ' id, JiU lrrr though the genius which produced The My Summer in a Garden and Studies might distinguish ItBacklog one If It tried, in any would think. self, one of these special lines. Air. Warner has preferred, however, to flock by himself in matters pureljr literary and has been conspicuously; successful In following out that determination. He is certainly entitled to the distinction of being one of Americas greatest, as well as most popular, men of letters. In certain of his meditative writings he bears a resemblance to the genial Ik Marvel, the author of Dream Life. Both of these men deserve well of the world, because their writings have always been of the positively hopeful and cheery kind, something with the sunshine in them! and the breath of the fields and the woods. Neither have conceived It to he' their duty to dwell upon the diseases of society, or the body politic, nor to help so much as by a sinreg gle note to swell the frain of O temporal O mores! It is a pleasure to know that we have some writers of whom this can be said. Like many other successful authors, Mr. Warner found himself elected to the professional guild one day without ever, having seriously and deliberately proposed himself for such a position.' As a boy on a New England farm he devoured all the books that came within his reach, and had his dreams, as such a boy might be expected to have, of writing a few books himself some day, A little later, while attending school at Cazenovia, N. Y., he showed, a clever hand at composition and attracted the attention 0f his preceptors on that account. His guardian intended him for trade, however, and for a time he was employed in such eminently practical duties as belong to a clerk in a drug shop, and then in the Afterward he entered Hamilton college, from which he was graduated in 1851. He of paper with rhymes, essays and romances, and was always active In the debating society. never-ceasin- filled-ream- A . s , 8 J S i S S'" k ? a Hi :Td'v SO. i Os n V Af - v.a' t X, r f ; i i 0J.; ; i ? ! J- "t ;i vi li , m '.i" i, ! J j jx 'a k'vi i' x-i- r i f . ? XteSzL. I GREAT JOHN M. ALLEN. As a Member of Congress His Name Is Familiar. John Al. Allen of Alississippi has been steadily in congress since the Forty-nint- h session, to which he was elected from the First district of his native state. Air. Allen was born in Tishomingo county in 1847; was educated In the common schools and served In the Confederate army throughout the war. He was graduated in law in 1870 at the t l" A I;...- ' V,r,sf n ' v , It S'S ' r V t i u i m ' ! V sl c I i iper-eolor- a to the artists and She has the hair, which Henner and Constant love to paint, and rything .r labors pertaining and pleasures. ed ji: ; d skin which ,f esquisite milk-whiU accornPanies auburn hair. Her Ssscs are so wonderful plentiful and that she herself with from nape to ankle. Pses principally in the Aca- - ? te can-envelo- iC 3 U1 p Beaux Arts Juliens and. for the great French painters.1 ivatejy 3 Le Febvre is especially partial to aRI she has posed for a number ,r - hi great works. It i3 interesting to Saon on opening day and he in perhaps a .r:2e ' n s same-mode- l large canvases. the studio is a beautiful lUre to look upon, but when she Academy one would hardly Ler, as she has the most ;'U3 taste fu dress. The writer saw ! Chce In the Salon, looking at a pic-hich she had just posed.- She aa enormous an almost te kitchen hat, with garden represented Her dress was a composite of olferino and a few other vio- Lh . .a .3 I . y. - f t I f rs which positively put ones o edge. With her red hair, the t;iJfib!e gave one the impression y 4 I taken a set palette with :a colors on it and used It as haf1 :.F; ' -- t:f of her costume. - Euj.t be nearly SO by this time, constant cigarette smok-(vilife have not been able, k to mar her beauty. Her eis due- partly to the fact that circus rider in her young days ! X.3 kept her skill by acrobatic A were the marvel ,o the stu- - 3, M -- - trter, h b that t L" the world with sdng, but his own life was a prolonged lamentation ; a wail of discontent and despair. In his later years misfortune led him into excesses which are so often the refuge of the weak, and he was wont to quench his thirst by the proceeds of impromptu compositions, some of which were producamong the most popular of hiswe listen tions. How little we know, as to the melodies which catch and bewitch us, out of what heartaches and fierce wrestling with eager appetite and fierce temptation they may have been born. New Gold Fields.- Familiar Face In Congress. n Joseph G. Cannon, the member from Illinois, has represented the Fifteenth district of his state ever since the Forty-thir- d congress. He is a lawyer, and was states attorney in Illinois from 1861 until 1S69. Last fall f well-know- - North America is likely to find a powerful rival in South Africa In the Item of gold production. According to the most reliable figures, the product In 1893 and a half milwas about twenty-eig1894 was it nearly thirty-nin- e lions, while in dollars. of Experts who millions of South Affields the gold have studied is beannounce that that country rica facmost one of the Important coming in ore is matters. The monetary in tors and forms many places exceedingly rich, abounds and and veins, streaks pockets, Pyrite pebbles are In pudding-stona mixed with the gold, and there are large quartz. Very veins of more atwithout and attracting quietly tention than is necessary, mining par. CANNON OF ILLINOIS. ties" are being made up and preparaof which Mr. Cannon wa3 to the Fifty-fourt- h tions are in progress by means furwill fields rich a these of congress by large majority over the product extenand for his basis important opponents. nish the sive mining operations. ht CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. But he had no idea at this' time of becoming a professional author. He turned his eyes Instead toward public seemed to be a great life; speech-makin- g a congressman a and accomplishment, star of considerable magnitude. Tils dream of glory was. not fulfilled; his health was poor after graduation, and in order to restore it he went to Missouri1 with a party of surveyors. After this adventure he studied law and practiced a little in Chicago, but at last (thorigh not until he was 31) he took up journalism as a profession and here found his life work. An old friend, Joseph R. Hawley, was then, as now, editor and proprietor of the Hartford Courant, and young Warner was called to the place of chief editorial writer on that journal, and there he remains to this day, after a continuous service of over thirty years. It was through occasional contributions 'to his own paper, not of an editorial character, that Mr. Warner finally found himself numbered among the successful authors of his day. The a of Summer In Garden My chapters were originally a series of articles written for the Courant, without a thought of further publication.' It was in response to numerous suggestions coming to him from various quarters that they were made Into a book. The extraordinary favor with which the little volume was received was a surprise to Air. Warner, who insisted that there was nothing in It better than he had been accustomed to write. He was much disposed to view the hit he had made as an accident and to doubt If It would lead to anything further in the line of authorship. But he was mistaken. The purveyors of literature were after him ait once. That was in 1870. Since then his published works have grown to a considerable list and there is time, if fortunately his life is spared, for a good many more. Air. scientist, . at East- bourne, England, was one of the remarkable men of As century. ithe Inventor of agnosticism, or, rather, of the term agwhich he nostic, himself, Huxley dealt dogmatic religion perhaps the severest blow It ever received. I dont know' was his favorite expression whenever any question involving the supernatural order or supersensory matters was involved. In his work on Christianity and Evolution he has summed up in a few paragraphs his position on. this subject in a very clear and forcible-manner- . When ALLEN OF MISSISSIPPI. University of Alississippi; In 1875 was elected district attorney for the First Judicial district of the state; served four years, and was then elected to congress. At the election for the Fiftythird congress he Received a large majority, over the Populist candidate. J . reached intellectual maturity," wrote Huxley in the volume referred to, "and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, a materialist or an Idealist, a Christian or a free thinker, I found that the more 1 learned and reflected the less ready was the answer, until at last I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of' these denominations except the last. The one thing In which most of these good people agreed was the one thing-owhich I differed from them. They were quite sure they had attained a certain gnosis, had more or less solved the problem of existence, while I was quite sure I 'had not and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. So I took thought and in vented what I conceived to be the ap propriate title of agnostic. It cams into my head as suggestively antithetic-tthe agnostic of church history, who professed to know so much about things of which I was Ignorant. The word agiostic comes from a Greek rb meaning not. to know, and' its appropriateness as applied to all who agree with Huxley in refusing to admit or even deny things unknown or unknowable by scientific tests will be eas--i- ly admitted. About theology or revealed religion this sole response alYou cant ways was I dont know. prove it. It may be so, but I cant believe it. I Aly reason rejects it." dont know and You dont know; there is no possible basis on which either you or ,1 can arrive, not merely. 1 . PRESS THE SAFEGUARD. Frank Thoughtful Expression from Leslies Weekly. It is the fashion with some people to berate the press as ministering to sensationalism and as inclined to encourage rather than to hold in check the disturbing forces in society. It is destructive, these persons say, rather than constructive; it has no reverence for established forms and no regard for the sacred things of life. There are undoubtedly newspapers to which these criticisms justly apply, but as to the great majority of journals they are without justification,, says wholly Frank Leslies Weekly. The press in this country is the supreme conservative force in affairs, the palladium of the rights and the liberties of the people, the foe of Injustice, and the potential ally of every realy deserving cause. Justice Brown of the United States Supreme court expressed this fact none too strongly when, in his recent address to the students of the Yale law school, he said that the bar and the press are the great; safeguards of liberty and that the newspaper is Indispensable to the maintenance of the social order. A striking proof of this statement Is afforded by the recent triumph over municipal corruption in New York and other cities, which was due primarily and chiefly to the vigorous and determined course of the press in advocating reform. There has not been in our later history a crisis of any sort, involving high moral or civic issues, in which thb influence of American newspapers has not been asserted in behalf of sound and just, ' silly-mind- e. ng re-elect- ed B. ed the-ver- ly or EUSTIS. The American Ambassador to Farls Who Recently Offended Spain. James B. Eustis, the American minis- ter or ambassador, rather to Paris, has lately beeome the subject of considerable gossip in diplomatic circles in Europe and America. It is generally conceded that Mr. Eustis is not a model ambassador. An ambassador should never express an opinion of his owm He Is simply the Instrument, the mouthpiece, of the government which he represents. It seems that Air. Eustis some time ago expressed (to a Paris reporter), sympathy for the Cuban revolutionists, A Paris paper published the interview and it was also published in Aladrid. Air. Eustis has consequently been called upon to explain himself. ' He replies that he meant just what he said and is willing to accept the odium attached thereto. jHe knows, of course, that the odium does not extend beyond diplomatic circles. In other words, he reasons that the common people of all countries, Spain not excepted, believe as he does about the trouble in Cuba. His declaration has certainly made many friends for him in his own coun- - THOAf AS HENRY HUXLEY, at. any certainty, but even at any ra- tional and authoritative opinion. There Is no doubt that Bonnet and Darwin by their theories of evolution are responsible for this loosening of th bonds of faith, for if their theories can-bmaintained the very1 foundations on.. which rest the doctrines of mans creation directly by the hand of God as a. perfect being, vertebrate, rational, and fully endowed with free will and understanding are swept aside as delusion-othe past. But on the other hand, there is unmistakable evidence of a World-wid- e halt in this red-hpursuit of all things with a scientific stick, so to speak. Alea are beginning to ask themselves to what good end will this pursuit lead? how will the human race be benefited by learning that they are descended or monkeys T' reptiles, birds, ' Wliat compensation will be offered for the loss of their belief religion and especially in at beautiful hereafter? Is It not better tv leave these sweet, comforting belief, unshaken? We have woes and sufferings enough without robbing us of what seems to be the one great consolatory-hopof a blissful hereafter. It is to the front that men should look. It matters more where we are going than, e f ot , from-fishes- , . e whence we came. An admirer of Huxley once reprimanded his negro slave for devotion to the Christian religion. I dont see why-yoare so determined in this matter,' he said. There is getting to be entire- ly too much of this Christ business on this plantation. You ought to know anyway that there is no hereafter. u To-whic- 35 V '- N 'AY; AMBASSADOR EUSTIS. try where free expression of opinion ia regarded as a sacred privilege. French Exchange. How He Won the Bet. A European regiment stationed at Umballa, India, had a colonel whom no one had ever seen laugh. A private of this corps, while a prisoner in the guard-roofor a military offense, bet the sergeant of the guard five rupees that he would make the commanding officer laugh when he was taken before him. In due; course, after reading the charge, the colonel asked the prisoner; Have 3rou anything to say? I wont say anything more about it, private. sir, if you wont, replied the with the The grim face relaxed, but chuckle came the decision; "Fourteen days confined to barracks. . m I dunno. the slave replied: massa, bout dat, but I look at it ja dis way if I belieb on de Lord as It. says in de Bible an do what It says-Ilbe a bettah man while in dis world. There is a heap of truth In the slaves defense of dogmatic religion as against scientific theories. That religion makes better men and women is Belief In evolution cannot accomplish that much. It is only the religion of Well may men ask. the wrong-doe- r. what good purpose will such a belief-servl -- AM I lt Warners home in Hartford is within what might be called a healthy Courant office. walking distance ,of the . for Air. Warner means It out-do- just that, life and loves gets as much of it as he can while attending to his regular duties. His residence is planned on the large and hospitable style of the colonial times. Its'interior is genial and attractive of Itself and its owners presence makes it still more so. A cheerful drawing room opens into a wide, bright music room, making with it one shapely apartment of generous proportions. The furnishing is simple but in every item pleasing. The hand of modern decoDear Friends. rative art is there, though under a raCelia Mr. Flitter Is such: pleasant tional restraint. A chimney piece of Ostrich .Flames. x rises above the fireplace twenty-sicompany! But then he says such hate- oriental design room In each wing of the ostrich set with antique music the of He to actually had the audacmaturity ful things! long white plumes grow Warner tiles from Damasme to tell by are brought last evening that he ity in eight months. In the malethethese cus. of are disOther travel were think spoils female in you didnt stylish.! pUrr. white, while thoseThe short feathhere and and You with call that Della there, played hateful? You pictures shade to ecru or gray. Is house of The best. the a eacn of few hear should th? engravings and he things says vin, tips, ers are plucked for It more is of of ill books. f Boston Transcrlot. e these. about part you! of Every furnishes seventy-fivgold-beari- away called JAMES i r fci ,. English who recently passed conclusions. , V M R OF. T II O M A S Iluxlcy, the great the deter-minatlve- ' Wliat Good Mould Come of Belief B Evolutloii? Dogmatic Religion Nefil No Defense Results of Belief ia. Revelation. al- fiction, post-offic- e. -- or less cf a library. Laden shelves A AGNOSTIC. flank the landings of the broad stairto the way, and so on all ihe way up work room In the third story, where Air. THE LATE PROF. HUXLEY AND Warner spends his morning hours and HIS SCIENTIFIC does the best part of his work. THEORY. . "? 1 h Reward of Genius. The men who write the songs which are sun around the world do not always very seldom. Indeed profit by their peculiar gifts. There died the other day in a charity ward of one of New Yorks city hospitals a composer JAMES E. COBB, and song writer whose songs were once on every lip, but whose life had been from Emory College in ithat state the was admitted' to from' first to last a bitter struggle. His in 1856; first composition, which brought the bar, and removed to Texas, in 1857; and publisher a fortune, was sold for $15. served in the Confederate: army from For another, of which half a million 1861 until he was made prisoner at Getcopies were sold, he received $200, while tysburg. From 1874 until 1886 he was .the publisher cleared by it $50,000. So one of the circuit judges of Alabama. it was all through his career; he filled He has 'always been a Democrat. three days Paris and-fo- r defense; in HOME OF AN AUTHOR. JAMES E. COBB.! A Southern Leader In the self-evide- nt. e. Prof. Huxley was born In the year at Ealing, Aliddlesex, England, and displayed the peculiarly original bent;e of his mind even when at school in spirit of indeplace. His sturdy to investigate-werand proneness pendence he purwhile strengthened greatly in LOndon,, sued the study of medicine while he was acting and still more so on II. Af. S. Rattleas naval surgeon Pacific and Torres. South the snake in Straits. To enumerate all the honorable positions filled by Huxley would requir than an article of this de more would admit. One after anscription other all the honors possible to a great, scientist fell to his lot, and In each he displayed the most remarkable ability-anoriginality of thought. In 1875 h. visited this country. James II. RandalL 1825, his-nativ- e d : |