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Show jrjnTPARis MODEL. . I i eARAH - for brown who posed jAvnti Life-Cre- ated a .nre Story of Her of the Bot Once The Present Queen Where tatln Quarter Once Trilby ' feigned. toriginal"wasof the the;j love-- ly, spirituelle girl,; accurately pictured; in Jules Le Fevre's great painting, who; caused the student's riot in the Latin; Quarter of Parisj two years ago. On' that memorable oc- 1 casion this famous, model; to some ex-"rode! , like L(?v Godiva, on with chastity Sth clothed a steed,! of riding instead hut a cab with of roof on the che traveled her between dainty lips. a Cairo cheroot characterized which Ladys The modesty in was thej wanting adventure Godiva's gen-- " the and model the of proceedings Sarmes interfered. The students rose and for three days Paris In defense The damage was not was overturned. limited to broken heads. The model who caused the ruction isj probably one of the loveliest girls who ever lived in the Quartier Latin, whence Trilby came, and in many respects her! story is surprisingly like that of Trilby,; The girl is called Tvette by the students " 1 mm m iC- .- 1 1 4 1 X; cle:' r. . doer - ok i :el: ca; the wonderful hair Is the same. Jules Le Febvre is one of the great teachers of the Academy Julien in Paris. The school, is divided into two sides, and four, of the greatest living painters criticize the students' work twice a week, Le Febyre 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 nofa bit exaggerated. Wrestling between the male, models is .a favorite pastime. A ring is formed, aAd the students, shower coppers and silver In the center, 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 teacher's 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." A ma', Fifty-Fourt- h or less cf a library. Laden shelves GEEAT AGNOSTIC. fiank the landings of the broad stair- A way, and so on all he way up to the work room in the third story, where Mr. THE LATE PROF. HUXLEY AND Warner spends his morning hours and HIS SCIENTIFIC THEORY. does the best part of his work. Congress. ATTRACTIVE DOMESTIC ABODE Alabama again sends to congress her OF MR, WARNER. tried and trusty representative ' from the Fifth district, James E.jCobb, who has, done good service for: the people Bears Resemblance to "Ik Marvel" JOHN M. ALLEN. of his state in the Fiftieth, Fifty-firs- t, He Drifted Into Journalism by, Ac As a Member of Fifty-secon- d con and Fifty-thir- d Congress His Name Is cdent and Has Become a to Card gresses, says an admiring friend of the Familiar. congressman. Mr. , Cobb was born in Purveyors of Literature. John M. Allen of Mississippi has been Georgia in 1835; was graduated steadily in congress since the Forty-nint- h session, to which he was elected HARLES DUDLEY from the First district of his - native Warner is a writer state. Mr. Allen was born in Tishominwhom it' is not easy go county in 1847; was educated ln the Jto classify by any common schools and served In the Consectional term, or federate army throughout the war He any other term, for was graduated in law ln 1870 at th& ithat matter. He is not, strictly speakan ing, a poet, norwrit-ler a nor essayist, of fiction, although the genius produced which "The a and Garden" In Summer "My itStudies" distinguish might Backlog In any. self, one would think, If It tried. one of these special lines. Mr. Warner has preferred, however,; to "flock by himself" in matters purely, literary and has been conspicuously successful in following out that determination. He is certainly entitled to the distinction of being one of America's greatest, as well as most popular, men of letters. In certain of his meditative writings he: bears a resemblance to the genial "k Marvel," the author of "Dream Life." r JAMES E. COBB. Both of these men deserve well of the from Emory College in that state world, because their writings have alin 1856; was admitted! to the ways been of the positively hopeful andbar, and removed to Texas, In 1857; and cheery kind, something with the sunserved in the Confederate army from shine in them and the breath, of the fields and the woods. Neither have con1861 until he was made prisoner at GetALLEN OF MISSISSIPPI. ceived it to be' their duty to dwell upon 1874 1886 was he until tysburg. From University of Mississippi; in 1875 was poor diseases the of the one of the circuit judges of Alabama. body society, elected attorney for the First litic, nor to help so much as by a sin- Judicial district He has always been a Democrat. ' district of the state; served four renever-ceasing gle note to swell the was and then elected to congress. years, frain of O temporal 0 mores! It is a At the conFifty-thir- d for the ejection we have some pleasure to know-thahe received a large majority over gress writers of whom this can te said. Like many other successful authors, the Populist candidate. Mr. Warner found himself elected to PRESS THE SAFEGUARD. the professional guild one day without ever having seriously and deliberately Frank Expression from proposed himself for such a position.' Thoughtful Leslie's Weekly. As a boy" on a New England farm he is the fashion with some It that'eame withdevoured all the books people to berate the press as in his reach, and had his dreams, as such a boy might be expected to have, ministering to sensationalism and las Inof writing a few books himself some clined to encourage rather than to hold ithe disturbing forces in socieday. A little later, while attending in check is It ty. (destructive, these persons say, school at Cazenovia, N. Y., he showed rather than constructive; it has no a "clever hand" at composition and atfor established forms and no retracted the attention of his preceptors for sacred the gard things of life. There on that account. His guardian intendare to which newspapers undoubtedly ed him for trade, however, and for a time he was employed In such eminent- these criticisms justly apply, but as to majority of journals they are ly practical duties as belong" to a clerk the great without wholly justification,, says in a drug shop, and then in the Leslie's Frank The press in Weekly. Afterward he entered Hamilton this is conservathe' supreme country college, from which he was graduated tive force in the of affairs, palladium 1851. in He; filled reams of paper with the and the liberties of the: peorights rhymes, essays and romances, and was ple, the foe of injustice, arid the potenalways active in the debating society. tial 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 drder. 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 the influence of American newspapers has not been asserted in behalf of sound and just, conclusions. . i 1 . " . Reward of Genius. The men who write the songs which are sung' around the world do not alwaysvery, seldom. Indeed profit by their peculiar gifts. There died the in a charity ward of one of New York's city hospitals a composer and song writer whose songs were once on every lip, but whose life had been other-da- ; . silly-mind- ed rev-eren- 6e - post-offic- e. ttmsmtmsSf 1 I . NFIWjM : jjii'' J P'1 w,- tfSi",; -- " - !') It (13. .3 i 'i t ' 'I'll? " piiirf ail JM- - i ' " mmim.i L'l'f,.W,tf-,- . at-k- !: rv"v- - ,tJlriXt T,' . .... - ... f.V: pertaining to the artists and iir labors and pleasures. She has the d hair, which Henner and jjfcnjamln Constant love to paint, and :e exQuisite milk-whiskin which -- tea accompanies alburn hair. Her jesses are so wonderful plentiful and wo? that ehe canenvelop herself with flem from nape to ankle. vette poses principally in the Aca-- ; 23ue des Beaux Arts Julien's and. avately for the great French painters. Le Febvre is especially partial to an3 sile has Psed for a number If his great works. It is Interesting to the Salon on the opening day and cognize the l in perhaps a cozen !Verything ; rt it b'-- I- ; ; "PPer-colore- te ; j : j - C--i I 'es ; ,ser ; same-mode- eat ' eta' ' large 'canvases. , wvtette in th studio is a beautiful rCv rf. t0 look uPon hut when she e Academy one the world with scing, 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, t.ome of which were producamong the most popular of hiswe as listen we little know, tions. How beand catch which melodies ; to the witch us, out of what heartaches and fierce wrestling with eager appetite and fierce temptation they may have been born. Familiar Face in Congress.. Joseph G. Cannon, the well-knomember from Illinois, has represented the Fifteenth district of his! state ever since the Forty-thir- d congress. He Is a lawyer, and was state's attorney In Illinois from 1861 until 1869.! Last fall ! wn . ; ' New Gold Fields.' find a powNorth America is likely to In the item Africa South in erful rival to the According of gold production. 1893 1' 'I wish ' - . ht I h- - our,8 c.ir.-- I e. gold-bearin- i J- - ; 2 deter-minative- JAMES B. away great-Englis- . at h East- bourne, England,, was one of the ' men of the century. inventor of ag- nosticlsm, or, rath- -, er, of the term ag nostic, which re--mark-able . i - e he-Huxle- y called himself, dealt matlc religion the, severest. blow It ever received. I don't know"' was his favorite expression whenever-"anquestion Involving the supernatural order or supersensory matter 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-mannedog--perha- ps 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- - "When 1 reached Intellectual ma turlty," 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 was the answer, until' at last I ready 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-goopeople agreed was the one on which I differed from them. thing: They were quite sure they had attained' 'gnosis,' had more or less solved' or-panthei- quite sure I 'had not and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. So I took thought and inr vented what I conceived to be the ap- propriate title of agnostic. It came-intmy head as suggestively antithetic-tthe agnostic of church history, to know so much about things of which I was Ignorant."" The word agnostic comes from aj Greek meaning not. to know, and: its appropriateness as applied to all who-agrewith Huxley in refusing to admit or even deny things unknown or unknowable by scientific tests will be easily admitted. About theology or revealed religion this sole response always was "I don't know." "You can't; prove it." "It mav be so. but I can't believe it." "My reason rejects it." "I don't know" and "You don't know there is no possible basis on which either you or ,1 can arrive, not merely, who-profess- ed the-ver- y :rb -? re-elect- ed or ; - - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, even at. any but att any certainty, i. 11. - ra-- - uonai anu aumomauve 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 caa-bmaintained the very! foundations o. which rest the doctrines of man's creation directly by the hand of God as a. perfect being, vertebrate, rational, and fully endowed with free will and underA 1 SI 1 1 1 e standing, are swept aside .as delusion-o- f the past. But on the other hand!, there is unmistakable evidence of a world-wld- e halt of all in this red-hpursuit things with a scientific stick, so to speak. Men are beginning to ask themselves to what good end will th'.s pursuit lead? how will the human race be benefited that they are descended reptiles, birds,! or monkeys?" What compensation will be offered for the loss of their belief In. revealed religion and especially in a beautiful hereafter? Is it not better to 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., 1 whence we came. An admirer of Huxley once reprimanded his negro slave for devotion to the Christian religion. "I don't see why-yoare so determined in this matter,' he said. "There Is getting to be entirely too much of this Christ business on this plantation. You ought to know anyway that there is no hereafter." the slave replied: "I dunno massa, 'bout dat, but I look at it ir& dis way if I belieb on de Lord as in de Bible an': do what it saysw I'll be a bettah man while in dis world." There is a heap of truth in the slave's-defensof dogmatic' religion as against scientific theories. That religion makes-bettemen and women is Belief in evolution cannot accomplish, that much. It ia only the religion of Well may men ask. the wrong-doe- r. what good purpose will such a belieC ot by-learnin- g from-fishes- , nd e ; u To-whic- h it-say- s e r self-evide- . '. nt. AMBASSADOR EUSTIS. free expression of opinion ia servei; where try , Tas Prof. Huxley was born in the a sacred privilege. French regarded and- at Ealing, Middlesex, England, Exchange. bentnri Kcriv final VXXOXCl.J CU bUC fWVUM... How He Won the Bet. of his mind even when at school in hi spirit of indeA European regiment stationed - at native place. His sturdy to investigate: Umballa, India, had a colonel whom no pendence and proneness while he pur were greatly strengthened one had ever seen laugh. in London... medicine of A private of this corps, while a pris- niAfi thft study so while he was acting oner In the guard-roofor a military and still more on H. M. S. "Rattlesurgeon naval as offense, bet; the sergeant of the guard Pacific and Torresv. five rupees that he would make the snake" In the South commanding officer laugh when he was Straits. To enumerate all the honorable positaken before him. would require tions filled by Huxley In due course, after reading the more IOOe than an article of this decharge, the colonel asked the prisoner: scription would admit. One after an"Have you anything to say?" all the honors possible to a. "I won't say anything more about it, other fell to his lot, and In each he sclentlst sir, if you won't," replied the private. the most remarkable ability displayed The grim. face relaxed, but with the and originality of thought. In 1876 ' chuckle came the decision: visited this James country. H. RandalL barracks. to "Fourteen days confined year-1825- . m j : y r. EUSTIS. James B. Eustls, the American minister or ambassador, rather to Paris, has lately become the subject of considerable! gossip in diplomatic circles in Europe and America. It is generally conceded that Mr. Eustls is not a model ambassador. An ambassador should never express an opinion of his ownl He is simply the instrument, the mouthpiece, of ithe government which he represents, ilt seems that Mr. 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 Madrid. Mr. Eustis has consequently been called upon to explain himself. He replies that he meant just what he said and ia willing to accept the odium attached thereto. He knows, of course, that the " As-ith- ly The American Ambassador to Paris Wno Recently Offended Spain. ; most reliable figures, the product in and a half milwas about twenty-eige lions, while in 1894 It was nearly thirty-ninwho millions of dollars. Experts Afhave studied the gold fields of South berica announce that that country is facmost one the of important coming tors in monetary matters. The ore 13 in and forms many places exceedingly rich, abounds and and veins, pockets, streak3 are pebbles pudding-stonPyrite in mixed with the gold, and there are large g quartz. Very veins of more atwithout and attracting quietly mining partention than is necessary, and CANNON OF ILLINOIS. , preparaties' are being made upmeans of Mr. Cannon wa3 to the Fifty-fourt- h tions are in progress by fields willwhich furrich these of congress by a large majority over the product nish the basis for Important and exten- his opponents. sive mining operations. Dear Friends. Celia Mr. Flitter is such pleasant Ostrich Plumes. x twenty-siostrich company! But theji he says such hateIn each wing of the to ful things! lie actually had the audacgrow maturity long white plumesthe male these are to tell me last evening that he In ity months. in eight i gentleman. the female didn't "think you were stylish. in pure white, while thoseThe feathDelia You call that hateful? You short :,r'c illustration of Lauretta, the shade to ecru or gray. .r each has idealized the model some- - ers are plucked for tips, and wing should hear a few of the things he says e about you! Boston Transcrlot. of these. tl.e type is mat qZ Sarah and furnishes seventy-fiv- would - iltif AS BIie nas ine hardly most oiou3 taste m dress. The writer saw Pce ln the Salon, looking at a pic- t vvmcn she had - V posed. She an ormous hat, Just with an almost cn ,itclien garden represented Uo Her ires3 was a composite rr.:'Zoriof ,a' EM erino and a few other vio-t- -colors,. which positively put one's n edge' With her red haIr. the to ;emble gave one the Impression a';i "i,;"8 ha'' taken a set palette with colors on It and used it as tCc;U(ie of her costume. "V must be nearly 30 by this time, f.vr . '.'J.,years' constant cigarette smok- a wild life have not been able, mar her t)eauty IIer fe ' l? du& Partly to the fact that 'vV It a circus rider in her young days ' keFt her skill acrobatic ;?;a3 tnat were the marvelby ; ,of the stu-- v quarter. Little is known of her hut there is an' established that ::rr;ri her grandfather was an '"-'r- 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 accomplishment, and a congressman a star of considerable magnitude. Tis dream of glory was. not fulfilled; his health was poor after graduation, and in order to restore it he went to Missouri with a party of surveyors. After this adventure he studied law and practiced a little In Chicago, but at last (though 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 Nto his own paper, not of an editorial character, that Mr. Warner finally found himself numbered among the successful authors of his day. The chapters of "My Summer in a Garden" were originally a series of articles writa thought ten for the Courant, without ' 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 Mr. 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 at 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. Mr. Warner's home in Hartford Is within what might be called a healthy walking distance ,of the Courant office. It means just that,, for Mr; Warner life and gets as much of loves out-doit 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 owner's 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 decorative art Is there, though under a rational restraint. A chimney piece of oriental design rises above the fireplace of the music room set with antique tiles brought by Warner from Damascus. Other spoils of travel are displayed here and there, with pictures and engravings of the best. The house is. "all of books.- Every part of 'it 5s more I putt. the scientist,, who recently passed.' i j Www .sntwm. of Belief in, Evolution? Dogmatic Religion Neesd No Defense Results of Belief in. Revelation. Huxley, : , Come ROF. THOMAS' ; . . . i. t sat !. What Good Would . from first to last a bitter struggle. His first composition, which brought the but her name is plan Sarah Brpwn.j publisher a fortune, was sold for $15. French she is, in spite of her English For another, of which half a million oaine. copies were sold, he received $200, while shp is the presiding goddess of the! the publisher cleared by it $50,000. So student quarter, and is identified wlth it was all through his career; he filled l Sig HOME OF AN AUTH0K. JAMES E. COBB. Southern Leader In the |
