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PAGE TWO A Week With Bookmakers And Magazine Writers BY euaTargd (BOOKS REVIEWED Msrotz. by Jbbn Aytcough, N«w York, Th# 0 P. Putnam'* Son*. Pries $1 50 It iMmi difficult to bstlsv#, by ths countlss* tw'l'r* and not a f»*w ‘ xa/ t* fnf crltlr* who hsvs Approved thlt d#* ctrl*d)y unuaua! book, that It* writer lw<l xrsvs doubts, when sending tho irta.nu script to tho publisher, in r**ard to tha reception It would mwi. Ths*« doubt n, It seems wrrr founded upon * *»<* t*w *i*t Amorlcsn and Bnflsh rn would not cur* for ft story In which the point ftf vlow w«* wt th* remove from ihslr own. n story dron< hod In Catholic- Inn The publsher* know, how* v*-r. that tcadsrs cars for novety above nil things snd whan they found thl* BOvdty allied with a rare distinction In the mutter of literary stylo snd a very expeel.il y.\t (or charsrts?l Ration; snd, u^rlnk on thin belief. they proved their own KBlth In ths most substantial manner possible, snd poon thslr opinion Justified, for Urn book was instantly h success In »h* most d#*)rsble sen** of thst muehysbiised terra. The spiritual atmosphere «nd the phys* IrsJ environment of the story of the young daughter of a Hie llan noble who exchanges the exclusion of her life on hsr father's estate for the hardly more retired life of a convent, and then for the brilliancy of the great world, «ro not only tntsreetlngly unfamiliar to the average American reader, but the •pi sodes developed under these foreign con ditions nre all unexpected to a d'»-,t'« positively siartllt.g The narrative In terest being thus so marked, the honk make* an appeal, because of It, to many readurs Other than those wh*» value it bemuse of Its keen aitalytris «f «■ harder and Its strong moral purpose. Th« »'»- Uu>r is a perfect msater of "the happy phrase’* In description, whether «>f pk«c< or men. lit » few brief lines, h*> mun ages to convey a pletttr* of what h" describes as vividly as most writers fail btferly In doing For Instance, what could more oonvlnclngly portray the an cient home of the herotns’s family, in anu shout which her own life dmraa is enacted, than this? “The castle proved fully equal to all thet lisle had determined It must, and ought to br. It wss Immense, snd had been built at widely different times, by Architects who differed from one another lit every tiling but a fricnk disregard for convenience, snd a fixed regard f«*r strength. No one bed since tried to force It to be comfortable against Its will; It heel been often mended but neveT restored; and arano parts of it were rather iiiugiitfl<*nt. Again: "Thl Duke wns an eighteenth century looking person with a peremp tory courtesy suggestive of good Isreed- Ing that had grown too sttuU for him He hud been taught polite ness and It was his nature to b« civil, blit the trappings of civility were worn a little threadbare, and his large, dom inant friendliness had outgrown them. Nor did he owe much to the graces of costume, only s fool would have mis taken hint for a game-keeper, hut dur- Women. Their Work And Worries In The Ways of The World. For the cAugusta Working Woman Now that our AuttuatK wora#ti are, h-glunlng to return from tin- uinnn inln* and the aprtnica. unit «ill noon hav ethelr own houses In order. It In to bo hoped that they will aoott have j tlmo .th<- moat altruistic of them. to take up till* matter of n working homo lor girl* oonra-rntna which some In teieat a* «-xpro**--d in the Hprlng A* ,vot no detinue plan* have l><-«n formula led for thin tlialllutlon of which Augusta stands no greatly In need, and all tuiinncr of propo*ltt»n* are being given heed to. or at* tea»t rati for attention aa n |H>«*lhle wav of going to work on the great enter prise In fhla ronneetlon, then, of very great Interest |* a eommunlra tlon to an \merlean paper tunde hv a vtaltor In 1-ondon who recently via Had one of the large department * tore* that contain quarter* and food for the women employe*. These Lon don eataMlahment* are run by the flrga* for which the girl* work, and 1 tha whole thing I* on too l-lg a scale for any one atore In Auguata to tin dertak"; but aomethlug of tin- *atn« plan might be adopted by Auguata In general for the benefit of out ol town glrla who work lit our xtorea, tn our nffleea or tnlllluer) cetablb hiin-nl* The Anterlean vlaltor who wa»i • how n over the eslat-liahmant by the managereaa. a Mr* Painter, tell* among other fact* "We began with the kitchen of the houae We were tn. and on the Hoot below It wa* a large room, and the cook atood before the three huge oven*, moving oeeaalonaily from one to the other She opened the mis alve door of the neareat and I **» eight hundred i-onnd* of l*H>f In the form of Joint* hanging within, mail Ing and dripping Into a mighty pan which *»* bordered with ga* Jet* tn egeh one of the oven* the»e gigantic preparation* for dtnner were going forward Mr*. Palmer *ald only the beat beef wa* bought A mountain of trimming* «nd aoup bone* roae In the middle of the table upon which they had been cut ’• wo kettle* tit for a giant'* caatb- were tilled with boiling cabbage, and a bgabel ot pared potatoe* were walling under a lake of cold water "Beyond the kitchen there were room* where paatrv wa* being rolled out on black marble tables, where big round cheeae* war,. *tor< d. w here Ipwaa vegetable* wrr* tux-ught to In cut up. where tablecloth* and napkin* ware being darued and made road tor the laundry man to take Kverv thing waa a* orderly a* p< slblr amt Ut- helper* always glanced up to I \ Ing most of his waking hours h*s dressed llk*» one." We recogntre instantly the charm of the most pleasing mule character In the hook whan we read "It was his gift rather than his nek to excreta*- a bore, o ; bishop* dr. devil*, sno render them harrueUe, and even agreeable, people w*re always at their best with him, and he- had no objection to their being a number of quite different sorts of peo ple In tbe world. He did not expect them all to be made of the best material after the best models; he did not mind thHr being )*■*► h clever than himself, and even when they were uownrlght stupid, he good-naturedly allowed that perhaps they could not help lt.“ Tho heroine character, which domi nates the wnoe hook, and which Is as complicated as It Is admirable, cannot be described in a few flashes, any more than one of Ihe most notabo book* of the season can have Justice done to it 111 a brief review of this kind. The Land of The Living, by Maude Rad ford Warren. New York. Harper and Brother*. Price $1.50. It is In Chicago that there begins and ends tltls hlstaory story of mode rn busi ness and political life; hut the charm and the witchery of the romance that runs like a thread of gold through the greynfrtH of the practicalities so skilfully dealt with are entirely due to the fact that in the old gulden of an castle ( r uuihlliir Into ruin .< hul saw the lady of his dreams peeping nt him from be tween the branches of a peach tree, whose fruit wn* softly ripening against the ancient wall. To know Moira was to love her, even ihc most careless reader must feel this, and so It whs not to be wondered at that Hugh Mhi Dormstt worshipped her from thst first moment, seeing as b« did that In this lovely girl wss the or# hodiment of all his loftiest Ideals, nil bis most goiious purposes in ife. The way of love refused to run smoothly out in tit* great world where the boy struggled bravely to win his rightful place, strug gled against odd* thst w«'re almost over whelming bees US# he refused sll com promise, h* ing never content with the second best, hut a ways demanding tho highest moral status, the best In the wny of intellectual tichlevment. The great big, lovable and generous Irishman who gave him Ills start 111 life., nnd whose* example was an excellent one In .some reapeots, was not aw.iy* so certain In regard to the exact rightness of his own purpose 4, and so where he sometime* |#»d Hugh refused to follow, which rathpr complicated matters for them both, but which eventually hd to the glorious su preme boss. Many of ih** problems of life as It Is lived today In our larger cities are pow erfully dealt with In Miss Warren's at tention-compelling hook, snd for some of these she altemfH* to offer solutions, sometime ■ suc-ecssfuidy and again In a manner thst marks her as the somewhat Impracticable Idealist. At all limes, however. Is what she says worth con sidering. and Hie hook would hr* decid- i *mll« buck Into Mr*. Pulnmr'a kind I ••ye* Then wo went upstair* to the dormitories. |t wa* Monday morning, an Irving' h time a* could he taken i tor any oxhlblllon, all housekeeper* will admit. The carpets from most of | the room* had been taken up for their weekly treating outside gnd the floor* were fri-*h from their washing with a t'urbollr soap, but there w»s neither] tiresome disorder nor equally weary uniformity, railed order, In the donut lorlea through which w> went for nearly an hour. Plana never saw such rooms at Pobaon's. Those which had more than one bed In them were of good »ir.e. In many eases the length of th,> tnniae from front to resr. so that they had windows at each end Some of the largest h*d live bed* In them, not In row*, but disponed w-|lh «* great variety of plac 1 ing a* th,- space would allow, and 1 the fifth Mrs Palmer said she man | aged to havp unoccupied ll whs to j ibe an emergency cot Here and there a trunk st-x-d at the foot of a bed. a* at IVvbaon'a, but only w-fien the owner preferred to keep It there | Hoorn* in which such boxes could be stored were on every floor Most of the room* had only two ! bed*. « number h*d but one. and at every landing wo entile upon what had linen the side rooms of the or Iglnal private houses out of which the*-- dormitories hav> been made, and In each of these there was hut a single tied They were the award, hy right of the older employe* of the house or of thone in the more re. ! sponsible positions "Passing from floor lo floor we gianced In at apotleas bathrooms and jtrod dean uncarpeted staircases The j sitting rooms were evidently a pride of the manageress The head* of the department* had one to them selves |ln the large! general ones there was a piano and sveral wide tables, one with a red cloth at which member* could read or *ew the others hare |*o that they could he used tn the evening* for cutting out work The tracing wheel* had made what seem ist the eourw,. of railway* or rrlsa , crows roads all over them Two flat | Irons atood ou the mantelpiece In one { s os th->* r-Hin - Mr* Palmer appeal 'ed amused when | noticed them"; Wf let them do It,' she »atd, "either' | pressing new work or Ironing little 1 'articles they have washed out In their I bon Is or the hathv-m It d-»e* no l harm." She look me Into an adjoin 1 | tug room w here games are played, a . bagatelle hoard as large as a billiard 1 1 tab!,- and arrangement* (nr ptngpong | edly worth while from the views It ro fearlessly expresses even If It did not have unmistakable value aa an exquisite romance. Author of the Circular Staircase. The Circular Staircase, by Mary Robert Rinehart, Indianapolis. The Bobba- Merrlll Company. Price $1.50. We doubt If even a mystery story was written from quite the same standpoint as that adopted by this writer who make* so convincing the remarkable events she describes by having them re lated by a maiden la ay full of common sense and unconscious humor. Her sane wholesome, intensely practical way of looking at everything robs her terrify ing experiences of all elomnls of tho melodramatic, and makes her ''’participa tion In tho mysteries of the house boast ing the circular staircase the moot nat ural thing conceivable ns it Is Always the esse In the real life, hut as writers never or seldom, realise, every tragic episode Is softened by something that appeals to ons’s sense of the ridiculous, or by a touch here, a word there, that are at least humanizing in effect. Never, for one moment does the reader’s Interest In the* Involved plot faitsr; and yet th**re Is not a ohaiaeter In which there are no paragraphs over which there is a lin gering for the full appreciation of some delicate piece of Irony, some subtle hint of the absurd. In other words, while the story pleases, It Is Its maner of telling that charms. The author lias scored ,i distinct triumph in an altogether orig inal field, and other work from her is eagerly anticipated. Th# Firing Line, by Robert W. Cham ber*. New York. D. Appleton and Company. Price $1.50. Nothing that Mr. Chambers has yet done has aroused such intense Interest and tirade so powerful nn appeal as this latest book. Naturally, the newest novel by a nran who Is so widely recog nized as one of the foremost of our mod- taking up a good deal of the spare.! and ntie told me that In the sloppy l winter evenings when they did not care to go out. as of eourse they usually did In lino weather until 11,1 w hen the house closed for the night, they often had whist or bridge, dress Ing for th,. occasion and she assured nie looking very pretty. There is no supervision over lln-lr spare time, e\ eept that they must be In by U, and on Saturdays they generally go away out of town to their families or friends, coming back on Sunday night hy II so that they should surely In in London and ready for their work next morning •'Hroakfast" Is at 7:.'tn. Dinner is taken tn separate parties, one at 12. thp next at 12:11*. the third at t: 2<l, each being allowed forty minutes. They are changed about as to hours, those dining early one week taking a later hour tb-‘ next. The house com putes that the food nnd service can be paid for at ten shillings a week aplec,. tabout two dollars and a half), as the numbers are so great. Count ing both men and women there are between nine hundred and a thousand of th-- assistant* who live In th-- com pany's houses Mor-- than that num ber live outside. The rent of the houses, which are clos,. bv the bust ness buildings, varies from three hundred and fifty to four hundred pound*, or from alx-ut It 750 to H.onn. About forty girls board in one house, and at the lesser rent this would mean that she paid less than a do I lar a week for her room, though there I* some graduated scab- tn this Ti gard w hich was not explained to me The first year of her work she t* given a vacation of two week*. The second year thl* i» extended some what and the time given for absence with pay increases with the period of service during th,- whole course of the connection of employed and etn plover "Every morning a( !> 30 a doctor come* to one of th,- sitting rooms, and any girl Who does not feel well goe* to him for treatment or advice If »h,. I* reaUv 111 he goe* to her In the same doctor's room, as the girl* call tt. Is a library which tills the greater part of one of the walls." HOW A GIRL DEFIED SHERIDAN S ARMY. Prom "The Sears ot War In the Shenandoah." by John D. Wells. In the August Metropolitan Magirtlne It Is related that the army, headed by Sheridan and hi* staff, left Win Chester hy the valley pike early In the morning, the column moving to ward Stephens City Just as day was ! breaking the staff reached tha toll- 1 gate and waa much discomfited to And THE AUGUSTA HERALD <rn flctlonlst* would receive the most | * ordlal *of receptions; but there is a j * y < -special reason for the continued suer-egs of "The Firing Line" that Is non I «■-xlstenT in connection with Mr. Cham ber s other novels. He has always told I us of the most delightful men and wo- J men Imaginable, but for the most part they have been cut by one pattern and made of one single fine material, a. fact which ha# given those who profess not to admire him so very greatly an op portunity for uiylng that he handles on ly society puppets whose movements are actuated neither by nature nor art. but by u strange commingling of convention ality and its defiance. Now In "The Firing Line” Mr. Cham bers has unquestionably created a man, not b» tho person of his hero who Is rnadd*s ingly commonplace and hopeless ly conipbic* at, and who even loves In an ineffectual kind of way—but in the pre sumable villian whom we hate in tho beginning, but the development of whose strange, atnost Incomprehensible, char acter gives the book Its chief excuse for being. Louis Malcourt was a sef confessed failure, whose erratic career j spelled disaster for more than one man I and woman who came closely Into his life, yet with all his weakness he pos : exsed a certain strengtn that enables { him to wring for others at least triumph j out of apparent defeat. What was the ultimate outcome of the problem of life for him himself the reader In this sec tion cin only surmise, for It was not within the author’s power to tell. And in this connection, one has the feeling all along that in the creation of this par ticular character, the matter was taken entirely out of the hands of Mr. Cham bers. It was as though he had planned to have the course of true love run a little roughly for Hhiela and HamiL tho two select ones because of the other wise somewhat unimportant existenec of Louis Malcount, w»ien suddenly that remarkable personage took matters Into his own hands and became the domi nant character, entangling tho threads of the plot and making of the story something far stronger and In many re spect* liner than anything that has here tofore been published under the name of ono of the. most widely read novelists In tho United States. Quito asided from all this, tho lovers of Robert W. Chambers will find In "The Firing Line," all those elements that have endeared him to them In other work. Here we have the rich and tho prosperous and ths beautiful and the fashionable exploited as only Chambers knows how to explain them. Here we have various phases of love dissected and held up for our admiration as scorn In all their beauty or hideousness. Hero we sen ail the luxurious backgrounds furnished by nature in Southern Florida an*l irtoney In New York painted with most vividly colorful figments. Here also Is just the right degree of the sporting element Introduced, some thing that counteracts In a degree the languous atmosphere of the place which is the scene of the story. Permeating It ill is of course that sensuous love of beauty which Is Chamber’s most marked cnaraoterlstlc and which Is wholly ad mirable when confined to the expres j sion of nature’s mood, hut which is just ] a little dangerous In Its undeniable fas- the toll-pole down and guarded hy a young and beautiful girl, Charlotte Hillman, famed locally for her girlish charms. Even the war-hardened Sher idan seems not to have been proof against the persuasion of a pair of ; black eyes and a pretty face, and vvlVen toll was demanded, straightway i produced the tithe, setting an example •that was followed by his staff. "But." said Sheridan as he passed ! through the gate, i cannot vouch for ' my army.” The the common When the common soldiery rame |'he girl again lowered the toll bar ! and demanded toll. This was m< t by jeers from ihe soldiers, wher-- ; upon she wisely raised the guard. All day the dusty trooper* passed through hind all day Charlotte Hillman stood |at her post. For every ten soldiers I who passed the gate she cut a notch In the toll-pole. Early fled beyond j the Blue Ridge w ith the remnants of Jhls disorganized army; In the Val- I b-y of Virginia, Lee. beaten back by Grant's overwhelming numbers, gave lup Ihe fight; In Ihe Southeast Joe Johnson tired the last burlesque shots and ponce came again over the North and South. Then, when relation* 'with Washington had been re-estab [liahed and the administration's policy 1 was one of magnanimity. Charlo'te 1 Hillman counted the notches In the j toll pole and sent her bill to Wash jlngton. And the bill was paid. THE CARE OF CHILDREN. The ills of children In summer are 'mostly those of the digestive tra-t. It ts natural that thi* should be so, since the organs of digestion in a child are those which are foremost in development. Indeed at the time of ! birth they are the only ones prepared .(or work Since the child must be j nourished and grow, It is necessary that Ihe part of Its economy devoted to nourishment should take the lead of all others: and if anything occurs .to ui-set the system tt ls quickly • shown by the disturbance* of nutri tion. R> far the greatest number of children lose their live* from the diar rhoeas and cholera Infantum, which | arc more rife lu summer than at any i other time of the year The first thing lo Impress upon those who have care of children tn summer Is tha* all disturbance* of their stomach and bowel* in hot weather, even If slight, need Immediate aiteutton and are threatening. I hesitate to advance any home medication for the summer diarrhoeas of children, lest th - ad vice, which must be general at best, be- depended upon and valuable tltue! cination when It deals with the emotions The story gains In power markedly towards the end, and the third to the last chapter, In which Malcount sends his lawyer a remarkable document. Is something to he long remembered. With The September Magazines What’* In McClure’s. General Kuropatkin’s Memoirs of iho Rnsso-Japannse war, which were suppressed by the Russian authorities lurnlsh the leading article in the Sep tember McClurefs. General Kuropa - kin makes striking charges concern ing* the cause ot the war, and remark able revelations concerning the great policies of tbe Russian Empire. The fiction in the number is unusually di versified and attractive: Henry Gra ham's story of Charlotte Corday has e fine roman’ic appeal; Gertrude Hall’s, “The House of Music,” Is .t love story of unusual quality and in sight. In the September Century. An important article In the Sep tember Century will be a discussion of “The Future Wheat Supply of the United States,” by Edward C. Parker, assistant in agriculture at the Agri cultural Experiment Station Univer sity of Minnesota. He urges that the United States has much unoccupied land available so- wheat production, that large yields of wheat may be maintained on old soils by means of systematic crop rotation, and that, most impotant of all, the limit of ag riculture’s present possibilities will be set aside by a new limit set by each succeeding generation—therefore the possibilities in increasing the world’s supply of wheat, well as that of the United States, are mani fold and impossible of estimation. The September American Magazine The September American Magazine is fairly alive with good reading. Charles Roman leads off the number with “The Wonderland of Delirium." It is a record of the peyonal exper iences of the author, who. within the past year, lived through eighteen days of delirium in a*Washington hospital. As a psychological document it is a story of surpassing interest, and as a piece of writing it is comparable to De Quincey’s "Confessions of an Opium Eater.” Octave Mirbeau’s character sketch of Emperor William is equally in teresting. No such brutally frank and convincing picture of the emper or has ever been published in Am erica. Not tl*e least remarkable fea ture of the article is the story told by Prince Bismarck (when under the influence of wine) of how Emperor William showed his authority over liis mother the day he came to the throne. A mass of new material is also presented about the empress, who is regarded by many who are close to her as “the most boresome person in the world.” be lost before the doctor ls summoned Since most of the sickness of the nature which we are considering is brought about by improper diet, it will be seen that its regulation is of the utmost Importance. The younger the baby, the more liable he is to suffer from these attacks. With a child, every month since its birth ! successfully passed inereases its chances of life. The baby, therefore, must be fed with the greatest care. Regularity of times of feeding is ex ceedingly important, hut mostV-ssen tlal of all is the cleanliness that : should bo observed. The milk should I he pure, and all the utensils employ ed should be kept perfectly clean. • Breast-fed Infants should not he wean, ed In hot weather. Mother's milk will often mean the saving of the life of the child.—" The Care of Children," In The l-adies' World for July. OILCLOTH ON TABLE MAT. I have covered the silence cloth • with white oilcloth and hound the I two edges together with while tape. | This saves washing the cloth and ; keeps it in it* original state, and also saves the polish of the dining | table, which I* often harmed by the spilling of hot dishes. A great eon : venience In this arrangement Is that the tahlerloth can be slipped on with jout sticking to the padding beneath. AN EYE ON THE FUTURE. Tommy - * maiden aunt had rail 'd attention to some of that young man's misdemeanors, thereby causing hint to be punished. Tommy ponder •ed a while, then asked, "Papa, will ! little sister Gladys be an aunt to j ray children when I am a man?" "Yes. Tommy." answered his father, jmurh Interested. "Why do you ask?" 'Cause she might as well get married and have a home of her own, for I don't Intend to 'low any auni* jto stay around my house, making trouble for my children."—Woman's I Home Companion for August. Car Sicknes*. Seasickness gnd also car sickness S <both *team and electric) can he I avoided by the liberal eating of well (salted popcorn. Thl* has been tried many times, with sucre**, and is t very simple remedy. A Substitute for Scouring Soap. When entirely out of scouring soa-i I have found that common baking soda sprinkled on a cloth 1* very es . flrlent tn denning marble basins and I bath tuba. DO YOU BELONG TO THE YVant=Advertising “Four Hundred” IIN AUGUSTA? If you could make a list, in this city, of the four hundred peo ple who make the most effective uses of the want ads., you ‘would have a list of the most alert, thrifty, practical, up-to-date, prosperous people in town. No other test would so surely include the people who have most to do with the practical things of the city’s daily life who promote its activities—who boost and boom it—who create all about them that optimism which makes for healthful activity in all lines of buiness. If YOU belong, already, to the city’s “want ad. four hundred,” you are prosperous, enthusiastic about life and the business of the day, and are “making money.” You are in touch with all of the little opportunities to “earn a dollar” (or a hundred dollars) which come to the careful reader and answerer of the classified ads., and you turn naturally and quickly to the use of the small ads. whenever you want anything, or have anything to sell. As in New York society, the “400” consists of at least a thous and people, so, in this city, the "want ad. four hundred” may be stretched into an indefinite number. Perhaps, if you “wake up” promptly you may become the four hundred and first member of the "want ad. 400.’ Herald Wants Reach the People You Want To Reach* Bn | p 1/ Red and Buff, Dry Pressed IT* I v i\ a nd Common Building LARGE STOCK. PROMPT SHITMENT. Georgia-Garolina Brick Company Howard H. Stafford, President. Write for Prices. AUGUSTA, GA. Have a Rummage Sale of / Your Own. This is serious— At this glorious springtime thoughts of new things are uppermost in one’s mind —not in clothing line alone —but throughout the household a general replacement takes place— What becomes of the old stuff ? Piled away in garret or storeroom most likely— and forgotten. Why, if you would go through the basement or storeroom of the average family today you would find an “accumulation of discards” from years back. The strange thing is that hundreds of people want the very thing for which you have no further use. It’s easy for you to find a customer, too— Glance at the Want Columns in today’s paper see which want you can supply—then write the party. But if you can’t find a party who can use what you want to sell, make a list of what you have and put it in the Want Golumne yourself. But took at thf Want Ads. first. READ BY EACH AND HERALD ADS. ARE EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. AND THIS IS WHY HERALD ADS. ALWAYS GET RESULTS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER la