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INGELOW, JEAN. 



The right of the Ux commissioners to tax paid- 

 up life insurance policies and policies that have a 

 Mirrender value was tested in the Marion cir- 

 A as declared that there was no 

 law authorizing such a lax. 



The city of Muncie passed an ordinance for the 

 purpose of excluding saloons fr-.m the residence 

 |-.rti..n- of the city, which was to be operative even 

 in the caso ..f persons already holding licenses. A 

 saloon keeper who held city and county licenses 

 continued to keep his saloon in a location c< 



ill,* ton rdinunce and was prose- 



>n ai|H-al. the Supreme Court sustained 

 the city, holding that a license is a mere permit, 

 rerokable at the need of the public welfare. 

 Decisions hare been given in several courts 

 -t the garnishee law, declaring it unconsti in- 

 Political. The question of the right of wom.-n 



Mate was set tied again -t them 1 

 ;i.- Court in a division. March 'J. in the case 

 of a woman who appealed a suit against the elec- 

 I her precinct in I The 



n said, in closing: "Whatever the personal 

 views of the justices upon the advisability of ex- 

 :ig the franchise to women, all are agreed that 

 under the pros*-:, nion it can not be extend- 



to tl; 



A special election was held in the Fourth Dis- 

 trict. Aug. 10. for a member of Congress to succeed 

 the late W, <;. Holman. The Democratic- candi- 

 date, Francis M. < Jrirtit h. was elected by a majority 

 of 1.11 ; v.c. W. Lee, Republican, and Rev. 



M. W. Broader, Populist. 



IM.I lo. JEAN, m English author, born in 

 Boston. England, in is-JO: died in London., July lit. 

 1897. Few people in this stirring time have passed 

 seventy-seven years that were as little touched l,\- 

 outward changes of circumstance as did Mi-'* 

 Ingelow. She was so successful lv averse to pub- 

 licity that even the events of her life (if there were 



IXOELOW. 



any) nerer have come to the public ear. Her father 

 was a wealthy banker; her mother was from Scot- 

 land. They were people of cultivation, the father 

 being especially a student and lover of the best 

 literature. Jean was bashful and quiet. She pub- 

 lished a volume of poems anonymously, in 1850, 

 with the titii- "A Running Chronicle f Incidents 

 and Feelings." Her first acknowledged volume of 

 poems appeared in 1862. It found hearty recog- 

 nition at once, and placed her high in the ranks of 



contemporary poets. M. 



of unostentatious charity that which 

 gave : well as her worldl\ 



.ndne.xs consisted in the - 

 three times a week, of what she called 

 dinners." 



sons, generally selecting those who had just' i,,en 

 discharged from a hospital. 



gland has L he world during t hi- 



tury thrcv woman |oets of wide fame and of appar- 

 ently enduring reputation. < hie was an English- 

 in who gave back in h- r poetry the thought 

 and spirit she imliU-d during a life in Itah 

 other of them wrote, .luring a life in England, the 

 i and mystiei-m that was the blossom of 

 Italian heritage; tin- third was of English an<l 



.d passed her i| a \- in h< 



live atmosphere! lint in one thing 'these w: 

 were singularly alike. in the (futility of womanli- 



i the 1'ori 



Browning are perhaps the finest love poems in our 

 language, unless we except Shakespeare's soi 



.re masculine, hers feminine. Christina Boa- 

 id devotion in a ni-he wh. -re it appears half 

 saint, half woman. Jean Ingelow gives both emo- 

 tions free play in the clear sense of her sturdy race. 

 She is at all times sane and reasonable, which" 

 true of either of the oth- dicium "There 



is no sex in brain " is as unforttmate as it . 

 complimentary and untrue. Man should lie aide 

 to give to the world "f thought something that 

 woman can not, something that will appeal to the 

 well-constituted womanly mind as the work of 

 woman does not. Woman should be able t< 

 to the world something that man can not, some- 

 thing that in like manner awa -n-.- in his 

 mind. it is a way of believing or ju< 

 not native to himself. This has nothing to d< 

 the question which is superior. The judgment 

 passed upon woman's work is now uninfluenced by 

 Considerations of sex; but if that work shall to 

 any large degree lose the quality that sex environ- 

 ment can give to mental processes, the world will 

 be poorer for the change. 



The three poets just mentioned have dwelt 1 

 continuously upon love and faith. It ha- 

 woman's wo'rk to present the living ideals of these 

 two supreme passions from the Beginning 

 love and true faith, or evil love and err'i 

 faith. .lean I ngelow's teaching is wholesome, pure, 

 and attractive. She has nothing of the my-tic, 

 nothing of the cynic. Her poems are sweet at their 

 source and steady in their flow. In closing the 

 poetic philosophy of her poem entitled " Hi.: 

 she says in regard to the so-called conflict between 

 science and religion : 



Then all goes wrong : the old foundation* rock ; 



One finking with a pickaxe think* the nhock 

 Miall move the seat of God. 



A little way, a very little way 



I inf. the rind, 



And i they Kay 



tind. 



But truth i* snored aye. and must be told: 



There i* a atory lonjr In-loved of man ; 

 We mu*t -r it will not hold 



icli plan. 



And then, if" i',ntl hath >aid it." some should cry, 



We have the story from the fountain head: 

 Why, then, what better than the old reply, 

 first" Yea hath God said"? 



The garden, oh. the garden. rnuM 



Source of our hope and our most dear regret ? 

 The ancient story, must it no more show 

 man may win it yet I 



