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THE SUNNY SOUTH
JUNE U, 190*
CONDUCTED BY R. W. McADAM.
Under the Lamp
With Late BooKs
UrJt>ER THE VIEPKLEUR.
EXKRAIi REX. J. VTT,-
joen, whose novel of South
African life ami adven
ture during the Boer war,
entitled "Under the Yierk-
kleur. - ’ has just been pub
lished by Messrs. Small.
Maynard <Sr Co.. is one of
one of the most interest
ing personalities in Amer
ica today. Although only
36 years of age, Ids ca
reer lias been full of mark
and public service both in
tnd in military life. At the age of
30 Viljoen, then a co
Bopr army repn sent-’
tianr.esburg In the Vol
lature of thp Transvaa
seen some service in
time of the Jameson n
of the fierce native
northern Tr.aav.i 1. *i
tnanded the Krug, rsdoi
cavalry of th* Boer a
break of the war with
was one of the first to
with his command, an
three years of the hi
fought with an ■ tt-mgy i
■won hint constant and
Finally, win a
general of the u
January. 1902.
ksr:
id
lint in the
city of Jo-
d. the legis-
had already
field at the
.1 during on-
which he corn-
corps. the
IV. At tl: on
Ingin ltd. Viljo.
•ross into Nat
through near
dv strug,
and sagacity whicr
d rapid promotion
1.11; i. comma ndan!
era -k
he
captured
vnal. Sent as a
Helena, lie wan
affectionate reg.i:
■who caine in cm
of these. Colono
lug the 3d BhilT
contributed an
Genet 1 V 1
■iscencas of the
•writing of which
during his capti
publication in 1
pronounced one
produced out of
I,' do
his close friendship with tlie great men
of Ills day.
Mr. Sedgwick lias recently published
a volume of notable essays which has
met with high praise (Essays on Great
Writers. Houghton. Mifflin & Co.), and
bis literary eareer promises to be an em
inently successful one.
A TEXAS MATCHMAKER.
By Andy Adams. Wliat the late Frank
Norris hoped to do for wheat Mr. Adams
plans to do for cattle, in Ills trilogy of
tin* plains. The present volume deals with
tile cattle on the ranch: ‘‘The Bog of a
Cowboy," showed them on the trail; and
a third volume will bring them to the
market. An old cattltman, holding a vast
range in the semi-feudal manner of early
j Texas ranchmen, is the matchmaker and
| the leading character of this book. The
narrator of the story is Tom Quirk, the
! hero of "The Log” and himself a sub-
; j. et of the matchmaker’s experiments,
i In the casual but vigorous manner of
I the cowboy. Quirk recounts ills brief
and stormy love affair. Ills rash at-
I tempt at an elopement,, and its disastrous
j e..ns-ijiipnt. .. He tells, besides, of tile life
I at tlie T.as Palomas ranch day by day;
! Its regular duties—the round up, brand-
itle shipping, horse breaking: its
gular amusements—dances celebrations
! nf the Fourth of Julv and San Jacinto
| day; its less usual events—wild pigeon
] and cougar hunts, tournaments and a
j long fight with drought.
As a true picture of a bv-gone life
J characteristically American, this book
[ will appeal to lovers of the outdoor
j world, and will satisfy, also, those whose
j taste inclines to a well sustained story.
| The striking illustrations by E. Boyd
j Smith are further evidence of this ar-
j list's skill in the western field.—Hough- j
ton. Mifflin .ti Co., publishers, Boston: ]
i SI.50.
mg.
cerebration, and the like, may all he re
duce*] to or fully explained by the alter
nate sex In us.
That there Is no line of demarcation
between the organic and inorganic world;
that, as shown hv Schron, there is life
in crystals, and no step in which men
tality, though in lower terms, does not
manifest itself.
That forces have developed themselves
from a primary force, and that there are
some of which we are as yet Ignorant.
That the law of growth is that of
accretion, or of attraction and repulsion,
beginning with any chance group of
molecules, guided by certain forces, as
seen in advanced organisms.
That senslvity Is a. force developed at
first by polorization of atoms, increased
by attraction and repulsion, was influ
enced by katabolism and anabolism, till
sensation (whose true being must he
found In tile origin of motion), step by
step. advanced to consciousness, and
tin nee to mentality.
That till effort to rise intellectually
above ordinary experience, or to wnat is
generally known as the supernatural,
should be limited to prayer to God, and
exertion and culture of our will.
‘1 here are no proofs of the existence of
God save on purely material grounds, and
from the conclusions of science, which
all point to it. Yet this proof can never
be absolutely perfected, because as man
advances in it lie is ever raising a higher
ldea.1 of divinity unto himself.
The immortality of the soul depends on
the same conditions as the proof of the
existence of God.—Funk & YVagnalls Co.,
publishers, New York; $1.
! Literary Driftwood
prts
ia!
vlumes
of the
Ti e success of Gen.
1 . ok was highly . : • it.
ent excursion iiit>» t}.-
gi vos promise to becon
table successes of the
first edition of seven
having been required to
received by
Jication. Jt is doubt fi.
graphic picture of til-
the Boer farmers has
presented, ar.d in the
Incident it bears strong
of being in great degre
■While the simple lev
through it g ves a tir
that will relieve the t*
citing wat
hero of a lost cause ’
hearts of the readers.
presen
t lions
OUR BODIES AND HOW WE LIVE.
I ly Albert F. Blaisdell. In this revis
ion of Dr Blaisdell'is ‘‘Our Bodies” the
i.-xt has been thoroughly revised and in
many parts entirely rewritten. The au-
tlmr's intent has been to bring his well
iwn book fully into touch with the
' ili st and h <t scientific thought on phy
siology ami hygiene. Many of the spe
cial features of the older hook which
hove nu t the generous approval of teach
ers and educators everywhere since Its
first jiuldicalion have either been retain
ed or made still more effective. There is
the same simple and interesting style,
tl:
■ryd:
;fn! consideraii
c health, and
n tiie use of
in of proc-
tlie same
simple ex-
pub
mori
vividm
internal i
e antohio
life
will
eh
* phlc;
amat
d brim
tin
emphasis upon the
perimen t s.
In addition the revised book is fully
illustrated with engravings and line cuts
based upon original drawings and pho
tographs; and the mechanical execution
of the hook as a whole marks an im
provement over the older edition. Ginn &
Company, publishers, Boston: 65c.
KIN O’ KTAADN.
That the reading public relishes a taste
of freshness and the spontaneous and
unconventional is'shown by the fact that
over fifteen thousand <•
Day's volumes of poem-,
and ‘Tine Tree Ballads"
Mr. Day's new hook. ,
Ktaadn," just published
nard <t Co., jg a still mn
quant portrayal of New-
character and outdoor pictures,pieness.
In its conception and execution, jis
mingling of prose and verse stories,
This new volume js abs..Tm'e’j tnlque and
no one of the "Old
sent broadcast over
Magazine Melange
Among: th* spreial out-of-door features
in the Outlook's fifteenth annual recrea
tion number, in addition to the first in
stallment of Mr. Stewart Edward White’s
MRS. ATHERTON ON AMERICAN
LITERATURE.
(From ITanper’s Weekly.)
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton thinks that eon-
temporary American literature is a tame
and unprofitable product. She says so in
The North American Review, and sets
herself to explain why it is so bad. She
charges ie with misrepresenting its coun
try, and contrasts the boldness and dy
namic energy of the American race with
a literature “the most timid, the most
anaemic, the most lacking: in Individu
alities, the most bourgeoT.se, that any
country has ever known.” Tt might, she
declares, be the product of a great vil
lage censored by the village gossip. She
names Mark Twain and Bret Harte as the
two American authors who first showed
the shaping influences of a new nation.
They could have been born and nourished
nowhere else on the planet but (here, and
she wonders why they did not found
permanent and important schools, or at
least by their brilliant success remind
others that “oroglnality is the final and
supreme touch which secures an artist a j
permanent position on the heights.” She j T i
has Ihopes for the future. Our public
seems to her to be disentangling itself
from leading strings, and there are signs
that in another generation we shall have
discarded our puritanism and grown into
a broad, tolerant and no less virtuous
race.
perfect. ‘A very sound wine, very sound
Indeed.’ 1 have heard men say ns they
held it up to tin* light, handling it care
fully as though it were prieeless - in ex
actly the isaine way I have seen them
caress a hlue-and-white-plate. 1 have
heard intelligent men dilate for hours
upon the beauty and rarity of certain
porcelain which r myself have seen
Whistler buy at a }
tlie corner, or which had been pres nted
at our doors in company with a pound
of oriental tea.”
THE SOUL’S HOUR.
All day I have toiled in that busy mill
Where souls are ground and money is
made:
All day, till my temples throb and thrill
With the whirring grind of the wheels
of trade.
All day I have gripped die trenchant
steel
And grappled with columns black and
grim:
Till tonight I am faint and my senses
reel,
And the glory of God seems far and
dim.
o T have come to this quiet room
To sit in the dark and touch the key -—
To wake the ghost and the lost perfume
Of th»' soul’s dead flowers with my har
monies.
THE ADMIRAL TINKER’S FRIENDS.
One of the disadvantages of creating a
lovable, childish hero, is that von must | f rnn
And here, alone, for a single^ hour
I can dream ar.d idle and drift away,
I ran touch the ghost of a passion-flower.
I can catch the gleam of a vanished
d a y.
stand a good deal of correspondence in
regard to him. Edgar Jepson is now pay
ing the penalty for having made so fas-
j‘einating a boy out of his “Admirable
j Tinker.” He has received scores of let-
| ters from people, young and old, full of
gushing admiration, not in this case for
I the anther, hut for the character. A
rather the lilies of
eng ago
That bloomed by the path where a baby
trod;
And love’s first roses, n- white as snow.
That are blossoming now at. the feet of
God.
The Mountains," which is illustrated by j grPat many are so!i( ’ Itol,s about Tinker s ( ^
seems sure po become one
Home" books to he sent hrr
the country and treasured as a r ■ il con
tribution to literature.
The hook is divided into six- sections,
five of these sections portraying each a
distinct phase of homriv New England
life. Tt is neither a bools of short sto
ries nor merely a volume of poetry, in
each section is a gener. > is number of the
authors 1. test and best poems arc woven
into a harmonious unity by a thread of
prose narrative, description or < at. so
that tlie Interest of tlie render is con
tinuously held: and the lights and shad
ows of tho life of simple count: - people
arc shown in such arti
these pages that tlie heart is
the tender sentiment of me v
ngraph even while the laugh still lin
gers from a page of rollicking humor.
FRANCIS PARKMAN.
The heroic career of Francis Parkman
is told by li.nry I). Sedgwick in a vol
ume based upon the historian’s diaries,
notes and letters, a nd pnrticuiarlj full in
FISHER’S OUTLINES OF UNIVER
SAL HISTORY.
By George Park Fisher, D.D., LL.I
j rofessor in Yale university. Half leather,
S vo., 705 pages, with numerous maps.
This standard work, now issued in a
new and thoroughly revised edition, .com-
) rises within a moderate compass a nar
rative of tlie most important events in
tie world's history, with their causes and
consequences. The specially significant
and interesting details have ben-singled j 10
:cr Tiiat. | , ,,t fnr treatment, as have the develop-
itcs of II >lman ' n - nt of science and literature. Tae ta-
“Fp in Maine” j hies of bibliography direct the inquiter
have been -old. to additional writers on tlie various top
i’s. Numerous clear maps and genoalog-
ieal tables furnish ample aid. This is a
book equally suitable for the student and
for the general reader, convenient tn
form, and presenting the results of thor
ough research and investigation by an ac
knowledged authority. jt is admirably
adapted either for continuous study, or
as a reference manual for consultation,
and should have a wide use. -American
Book Go., Ni w York and Atlanta; $2.40.
entitled "Kin
e vivid and pi-
England rural
original full page drawings by Fernand
Imngren, may be mentioned: A se r j es 0 f
rather remarkable drawings by Alilen
Pcirson, accompanying Rudyard Kip
ling's beautiful out-of-door poem, "The
Feet of the Young Men,” republished by
special arrangement with Mr. Kipling;
"A Day’s Fishing in Colorado,” by Dean
Hart, of Denver, with many fine photo
graphs; “The Great Horned Owl," by J.
M Gleeson, the well known animal ar
tist, with drawings by the autnor; “The
Angler’s Tournament,” by C. F. Holder,
describing with pictures me curious and
interesting fishing contests for prizes at
Santa Catalina Island; and a charming
study of dog character, "My Dog
Grouse,” by Professor \Y. E. D. Scott,
with a drawing by Bruce Horsfall. Among:
ur.illustrated features are ‘‘In the Time
of Opposition, by S. H. Howard, a sin
gularly vivid and vigorous story of the
rule of tlie Hudso.i way Company in the
fur country; three or four summer
poems; ‘‘Upstream,’ by Mary Waldo Hig
gin son, a. charming bit
river and country. There are special
portraits of Stanley, John F. Wallace (tlie
actual head of the force which will build
the Panamg. canal). General Kuroki, now
famous as -the leader of the Japanese
force, which defeated tlie Russians on the
Yalu, and Admiral Skrydloff, who suc
ceeds Admiral MakarofE.
future; and one man says, possibly out
of the depths of his own matrimonial
experience; "For heaven’s sake, don’t let
Tinker marry Dorothy; that will put tin
end to all his scrapes.”
The first idea of the character, Tinker,
Was suggested to Mr Jepson by his own
son. now about 6 years old, whose name
is not Hildebrand Anne, but Selwyn.
HOW
Heading features in Madame for June
are “The Home Life of Lady Henry Som
erset.” by Jessie Ackerman; the first in
stallment of "The Flower of Andros,” a
new serial story by George Horton; a de
scription of the work that is being done
in training girls for home service, by W.
Frank McClure; “Progress Among the
Women of Iceland," by Jessie Ackerman,
and a number of short stories, as well as
tlie concluding chapters of tlie Daughter
of the Guillotine,” by Arthur S. Fforde.
BURGESS BROKE INTO
PRINT.
Gelctt Burgess, co-author with Will
Tirwin tof "The Picaroons” and “Tlie
Reign of Queen Isyl" CMcCIure-Phillips),
has siridentified himself with the amus
ing side of literature that no one would
STTspect he had made his literary debut
as a writer of melancholy verse. Rut
he did. In the following original man
ner he broke into print. When he was a
student at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, having engaged in a com
petition with a friend as to who could
while the most mournful poem. Mr. Rur-
I gess won the prize with some stanzas,
j which began: "The dismal day. with
of depiction of * dreary pace, hath dragged its tortuous
length along.” It was decided that this
must he printed. To effect this, Mr.
Burgess' friend wrote a letter to the
"Notes and Querit ‘ ” column of The Ros
ton Transcript, saying: "Can you tell
me the name of the author who wrote
the poem beginning ‘The dismal,’ etc.?"
The query was printed and the obliging
friend responded promptly with tlie fol
lowing answer: "The poem asked for in
query No. 2416 Is by Frank Gelctt Bur-’
gess. The whole poem runs as follows,"
and gave it in full.
Kate Masterson is probably the best
known of New York newspaper women
of the higher type. Her little sketches
| of men and things, her brilliant, half
satirical essays and her very original
“THE BEST FIFTY’’ BOOKS.
The choice, by the librarians of tho
state libraries throughout New York, of
"the best fifty" books makes an inter
esting list, covering a wide range of read
ing. For this list nfty-two libraries nam
ed Alice Hogan Rice’s "Lovev Mary;”
twenty-three Jean Webster’s "When Pat
ty Went to College;” twenty-one Frank
Bostock’s "The Taming of Wild Ani
mals." The final list is culled from tho
larger list which the New York state
libraries selects annually from the year’s
books. This year those chosen for recom-
than 10 per cent
ists In
bed by
would have been given it, or, if given,
would have been of benefit, is at least
open to question.
The purpose and nature of the book
may be judged from its preface:
I have endeavored in this book to set
forth the following views:
That men and women are. In strict ac
cordance with the opinion of the most re
cent physiologists, radically different as
regards both body and mind, although
social or domestic life has given them
much 1 ti common.
That in proportion to the female organs
remaining in man, and the male ltt wom
an, there exists also in each just so much
of their peculiar mental characteristics.
That this female mind in man, having
free access to the images stored in the
cells of memory, calls them forth In
dreams and reveries, the same being true
as regards the masculine mind in woman.
That this casts much light on the true
nature of tlie imagination, and all crea
tive action of the mind, involving origi
nality, as is explained in detail jn the
and such mag- I text.
scarcely a. par- ' That what has of late years occupied
ellel in the history of American letters. ; much thought as the subliminal self, tlie
Many personal letters are used to show ! inner me, the hidden soul, unconscious
THE ALTERNATE SEX.
By Charles Godfrey Roland. This work
i "tlie female intellect in man, and
to masculine in women," was completed
lly a f<-w months before Mr. Leland’s
■atli. and therefore appears without the , . , , ,
.i i.„r’s enrr.-etion That c„ch revision ! short stories, appearing in many of the mendatlon number les
best magazines and newspapers, have j of the total output. 784 titles having been
made her so popular that tlie announce- l selected from 7,865 books published. The
nient of her first novel has a peculiar j librarians throughout the state were then
interest. "Tlie Thirteenth Apostle" is,
it is said, a remarkably faithful and
realistic portrayal of certain phases of
present-day life in New York, as well
as a vigorous and unhackneyed story.
It appears in the June number of Tales
from Town Topics.
Us account of his youth.
Turkman's plan of writing history was
formed earlj , fix d in his
mind the scenes and figures which be was
to portray, and tl r as
is well known, was spent in the retire
ment of an invalid scholar's eliair. His
working time was frequently reduced ot
less than half an Jjour a day, yet tho
greater part of his career was one of
such tenacity o? purpose
nificent endurance as hat
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A comprehensive survey of the work
accomplished by tlie present congress is
one of the leading articles in The World
Today for June, written by James R.
Mann, one of the Illinois representatives.
"The Postal Scandal Fiasco” is treated
In sarcastic vein by Congressman Charles
E. Littlefield. An eyewitness of condi
tions in Japan at the present time con
tributes tin interesting account of the
conduct of tlie “little brown people”
under the exigencies of wartime. Top
ics alive with interest are treated by
various writers under the beads: "The
Modern Steerage, The National Bureau
of Standards,” of which most people
know little, and "A I.and Where Banana
Is King.”
The interest in all large cities regard
ing the rapid transit problem will at
tract attention to the article by Freder
ick W. Coburn on Boston’s solution of
j that question, and Rutledge Rutherford's
I on ‘‘The Chicago Freight Tunnels.” The
I sympathy felt for the ill-treated Jews
| in Russia will, arouse interest In Sig-
| mu.nd Krattsz’s description of anti-Semit-
i ism in the different European countries,
j An investigation- into tlie evils connect
ed with employment agencies Is recount-
, cd by Frances Kell or, who was a par-
1 licipant in the experiences she relates.
At this season, when the newly-
i fledged ministers tire leaving their sem
inaries, Shailer Mathews’ article enti-
' tied “The Making of a Minister," is
I particularly timely. Apropos of vaca-
! tion season, changes in country ]jf e are
detailed by Percy Holmes Boynton, and
described by William Macieod Ralne.
"The World's Oldest Forest Reserve” is
James K. Hosmer continues "The Great
River" series by an account of "The
I Mississippi Valley in War."
asked ito choose fifty each from this.
A GOOD WHISTLER STORY.
In his biography of "Whistler as I
Knew Him,” just published by the Mac
millan Company, Mr. Mortimer Menpes
tells a curious story of the famous ar
tist. At the little breakfasts which he
used to give in Paris and in Iondon he
was sometimes forced to be very eco
nomical. "He often said to me: ’Look
here, Menpes, I wish you would go and
buy a bottle of eighteen-penny white
wine from the Victorian Wine Company.
We will decant it carefully, and, what
with my brilliant conversation and the
refined atmosphere of the studio, these
men will never know whether It is good
or bad. Somehow men understand red
wine. If you give them a cheap vint
age, they recognize vinegar; but with the
qualities of white wine they are not so
familiar.’ So it proved always to he.
This eighteen-penny white wine was pro
duced at the famous Whistler break
fasts, where it was pronounced to be
Ob, stainless lilies, and roses white!
Oh, passion-flower, with y.. it r petals
red I
iu are mine once more fnr an hour, to
night.
Tho’ tlie heart be dumb and the years
he dead.
Oh. scented isummer of long ago!
Oh. vanished day with your gleam of
gold!
Oh. blood-red lips and bosom of snow!
You are mine once more as itt days of
okl.
Just for tonight, for at early dawn
I am hack to tlie grovel of greedy lust;
YYhere the wheels of traffic go whirring
on,
And souls are ground into golden dust.
—Albert Bigelow Paine In La.lies' Home
Journal.
A REAL PICTURE OF GENERAL
BEDFORD FORREST.
Tn “A Little Union Scout,” by Joel
Chandler Harris, is given the first real
full-length picture of General Bedford
Forrest.. tb„e noted confederate leader.
Forrest had many enemies, and ho has
borne in some quarters the reputation or
having been a good deal of a butcher in
the way he carried on war. .Mr. Harris
has seen tho other side of Forrest, and
shows him bluff, rather severe, hut still
good-hearted and kindly. Tlie Illustra
tions iu the book, in which Forrest ap
pears, were drawn from photographs of
him obtained by the artist. George Gibbs,
after a good deal of research. They are,
probably, the only authentic pictures of
him ever drawn.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of
“Human Work” and “The Home” (,\lr-
Clure Phillips), has just been offered an
important, editorial position on Tho Wom
an’s Journal. Mrs. Gilman has a tre
mendous following among people in
touch with advanced thought, and her
books have aroused animated discussion
throughout the world between the con
servatives and the radicals. Mrs. Gilman
Is a granddaughter of Lyman Beecher,
and, therefore, comes naturally by tier
faculty for telling people wnat she thinks
they ought to hear. Her birthplace was
Hartford. Conn., and her career as a
writer and lecturer began in 1890: since
when her reputation through tlie transla
tion of her boolas into almost every
foreign language has become Interna
tiona 1.
^ Publication Notes
Messrs. Ilenry Holt & Co. frankly ad
mit that the sales of “The Lightning’
Conductor” (which they are just print
ing for the seventeenth time) have sur
passed their most sanguine expectations.
It has proved so excellent a romance of
travel that the publishers are credibly
informed that numerous book r^a.ders are
making automobile tours with it as a
sort of guide book. over the Klveria.
route, so tellingly sketched in it. Rut it
does not seem likely that were this its
only feature, the novel could ever have
reached its present popularity, which
nn st be largely due to the Anglo-Ameri
can love story told t/y its Anglo-American
authors, to iis humor, and to its “auto-
mobilious interest.’’ Tho Messrs. Holt
have contracted with tlie authors, Mr.
and Mrs. C. N. ‘Williamson, for their
next automobile romanc
pect t<i publish early in 1905
,. Th< , Wreckers,” by Stevenson;
b r ' ' . Fnd ” by Justus Miles Fnr-
man—I Woman Intervenes,” by Grant
Tib,;- "The Bostonians.” by Hem"
an d ■ ■ without Benefit of Clerg:
‘ ‘ ’ curious thing about it
f/ that'’the titles fit. Another curious
thing 1, that in suite of its chapt’’’
headings "The Grafters, i- not at a
a "bookish” book. The ot.lv lamp of
which it smells is the locomotive bea .
light. „
McClure, Phillips & Co.
have added
fin an
Dr. G* e T. Moore, of the United
States department of agriculture, has re
cently accomplished one of the most
needed and stieeessful works of the cen
tury, in dealing with the pollution of
drinking water supplies by algae and
other plant organisms. The need of a.
preventive or cure has been long too
well known In many of our cities. The
adequate and at the same time economic
method has appeared only after Dr.
their group of studies of haute finano
-Trusts of Today,” by Gilbert Holla.:
Montague. Tt Is a careful • digest ■,
specific facts about the financial manage
merit the dangers and the advantages
trusts, with full information as to t
remedies for trusts already tried or pro
which they ex- | nosed. . T - .
♦"Foundations ol Mot
title of a book which has grown out of
series of twelve lectures delivered in rh
1 'niversitv of London, b\ Dr. Em:: K
’Plie Macmillan Company has just i
lished it. The author’s attempt is t
sketch the main facts and tendeneb-
European history that, since the yea
1756, have contributed to tlie making
j the present state of politics and ci 1 .
i zation. His main object t troug.io .l
"to indicate not only the body of
I cn'iiera.I facts, but more particula.rl> i
Moore’s untiring energy and repeated j their meaning." The book is p;
experiments expended on this problem.
His sucecss, ti#>, is to a large extent du«
to the able labors of his assistant, Mr ;
Karl F. Kellerman. The method, follow- j
ed, without going into details, is a treat- i
nient of the Infected waters by varying j
solutions of copper sulphate. The whole
problem is covered in bulletin No. 64,
bureau of plant industry, of the above
department.
Funk & Wagnalls Company have pre
pared f"r the St. Louis exposition a very
elaborate exhibit of their publications.
This has boon divided Into two sections,
one being placed in the Palace of Liberal
Arts and the other one In the palaco of
Education.
Mr. Robert E. Speer is prepaying for
publication through the F. H. Reveil
Company. "Missions and Modern History:
A Study of the Bearing on Christian
Missions of Some Great Events of the
Nineteenth Century.” The book is to be
In two volumes, and discusses among
other great movements the Tat-Ping Re
bellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Emanci
pation of Latin America, the Transfor
mation of Japan, the Armenian Massa
cres and the Going of the Spaniard.” The
work is a new departure in missionary
literature, and, on the face of It, a pow
erful argument for continued missionary
endeavor.
A new device in chapter nomenclature
has been Hit upon b.i Mr. Francis Lynde,
the author of that vigorous novel, "The
Grafters.” He christens his chapters—
or, at least, many of them—after the
titles of well known stories, such as
"Ashes of Empire,” by Robert W. Cham-
with facts a nd meat, and few rte
liant historical essays have apt
the last decade.
It Is an outgrowth of the Bacon
pea re controversy. Many Bacon
more sceptics have affirmed l
facts recorded of Shakespeare
contemporaries are scanty, and
career Is clothed in a mystery t
titles wild attempts at solution,
the utter falseness of this com P
Hughes collected all the
Shakespeare penned in early i:
then enlarged the scope of hi:
ing so that it might form a Cm
history of Shakespearean home,
to our times. The proof is ce
tiiat we know almost as mu<
Shakespeare’s life as we do ah*>u
any other Elizabethan dramatist,
isting in itself, the volume is at
lant contribution to a never-er.d
cusslon.
Better than “the books of yeste
which start out with great sales a
drop to nothing, are tho books f<
there Is a continuous demand, ;.
year—like Kipling’s .Jungle Book-
stance, of which the first one 1
printed twenty timei and the
Jungle Book twelve times, and
maud is constant. John Luther
’’Madame Butterfly,” now sev<
old, has been reprinted twice in t
ent year, and it is said that Mr
McEnery Stuart’s “Sonny,” i
1397. was printed far the four tee:
in February, 1904, ami that it
yearly sale of at least four t
copies.
STANLEY
TURN OVER, TIME
FROM THE IBENCITE PARADISE.
| (From The Boston Transcript.)
! Johnny—Pa, what is a dramatic recital?
j Wise Pa—A dramatic recital, my son,
; is where a person bores a lot of people
i l»y repeating what he can remember of
'some play or poem that nobody ever
cared to read.
I Johnny—Then it isnt exactly an enter
tainment. is it?
Wise Pa—An entertainment! Mercy, nol
It is Mi art exhibition.
When Nature Hints About the Eood.
When there’s no relish to any food and
all that one eats doesn’t seem to do any
good then Is the time to make a turn
over In the diet, for that’s Nature’s way
of dropping a hint that the food isn’t the
kind required.
“For a number of years T followed rail
road work, much of it being office work
of a trying nature. Meal times were our
busiest *uid eating too much and too
quickly of food such as is commonly
served in hotels and restaurants, these to
gether with the sedentary habits were not
long in giving me dyspepsia and stomach
trouble which reduced my weight irom
205 to 160 pounds.
"There was little relish in any food and
none of It seemed to do me any good, it
seemed the more I ate the poorer i got
and was always hungry before another
meal, no matter how much I had eaten.
‘‘Then I commenced a fair trial of
Grape-Nuts and was surprised how a
small saucer of it would carry me along,
strong and with satisfied appetite, until
the next meal, with no sensation of hun
ger, weakness or distress as before.
“I have been following this diet now
for several months and my Improvement
has been so great all the others in my
family have taken up the use of Grape-
Nuts with complete satisfaction and
much Improvement in health anti brain
power.
“American people undoubtedly eat hur
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digestion and therefore need a food that
is predigested and concentrated in nour
ishment.” Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Greek, Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous iittle
book, "The Road to Wellville.”
GENEVA’S GIFT TO
WEYMAN.
Stanley Weyman chose for tho scene of
his last novel. “The Long Night.” the
city of Geneva, and thereby gained him
self the eternal friendship of the people
of Geneva. Tt is testimony to the fidelity
of Mr. Wyman’s story that the leading
citizens of Geneva have united in pre
senting him with an illuminated anti In
scribed address and a hast of Calvin.
1 he Long Night ’ is now being tran
slated into French for the special benefit
of the people of Switzerland. McClttre-
Phillips. the American publishers of “The
Long Night,” state that it has made a
greater success than any of Mr. \\>v-
man’s previous books.
CONRAD IN TH.E CONGO FREE
STATE NAVY.
Few people are aware that the Congo
Free States had such a thing as a navy.
It has, and its navy, small as it is, fur
nished Joseph Conrad, the author of
"Romance,” "Youth,” "Falk,” etc., with
his unique experience in command of a
naval vessel. The little tinplate affair of
which he was captain and admiral and
possibly mate also, plied up and down
tlie Congo and kept in subjection with
its small guns the swarthy natives on
the banks. Mr. Conrad was not able to
hold his exalted position very long, for
fever struck him low and he was obliged
to return to England. But during his
term of service he gathered many im
pressions which he has sent down in
Heart of Darkness,” the second in the
series of tiiree tales which make up his
book "Youth.”
MADAME ALBANESIS HOME.
Madame Albanesi, the author of “Su
sannah and One Other” tMcClure-Phil-
iips), used her own charming Kent home
as a background for part of her story.
She calls her place Frognall Farm. It
lies about 6 miles from the picturesque
town of Canterbury, and Is but a short
drive from the English channel. It is
an ancient, roomy house, about tiiree
hundred years old. standing in typical
Kentish surrounding—wide-eaved burns
and «heep folds, bowery orchards ana
broad meadows. It was these meadows,
indeed, that inspired the opening chapters
of “Susannah; ’ for, having risen at dawn
one midsummer morning, just as her
heroine docs, to gather mushrooms, Mad
ame Albanesi says that, as she stood
watching the sun rise, she developed the
whole scheme of her story which she out
lined on paper after breakfast that same
day.
The Crisis
(James Russell Lowell.j „
Once to every man and nation comes the
moment to decide
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for
the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God’s new Messiah,
offering each the bloom or blight.
Parts the goats upon the left hand and
the sheep upon the right.
And the choice goes by forever ’twixt
that darkness and that light.
Careless seems the great Avenger; his
tory’s pages but record
One death-grapple In the darkness ’twixt
eld systems and the Word;
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong for
ever on the throne.
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and,
behind the dim unknown.
Standeth God wirliin tlie shadows, keep
ing watch above his own.
tuid have rushed
lese nre brushed ■
at the time sh
elusions. Put t
tlie colil hand of the philosopher
w isc:
"Of course, ns we were frequen
| together people drew their inf
Very slight evidence usually stiff
world for positive conclusions, a
j the evidence seemed strong. Nn
therefore, quite definite st.iteme
came current. There were repor
I was in love with her, and that i
I about to be married. But nei
I these reports was true.”
Succinct and to the point, but r
nently illuminating. It almost fot
to the eonelusisn that the phi!
was Indulging in scientific expe
with tin' snsceptibilitk of
chronicler of so many fern
that his intentions were not
be considered in ltqiirgen! =
wholly "honorable.”—New Y<
Telegram.
lin
nk
they
Count me o’er earth’s chosen herr
were souls that stood alone.
While the men they agonized for hurled
the contumelious stone.
Stood serene, and down the future saw
the golden beam Incline
To the side of perfect justice, mastered
by their faith divine.
By one man’s plain truth to manhood
and to God’s supreme design.
Re
light of
eding fe
Tolli:
burning heretics Christ's
t I track.
Calvaries ever with the
cross that turns not back;
And tiie mounts of anguish number
how each generation learned
One'new word of that grand Credo which
in prophet hearts hath burned
Since the first man stood God-conquered
with his face to heaven upturned.
For humanity sweeps onward; where to
day the martyr stands,
On the morrow crouches Judas with the
silver in his hands;
Far in front the cross stands ready and
the crackling fagots burn.
Willie the hooting mob of yesterday In
silent awe return
To glean up the scattered ashes into his
tory's golden urn.
Spencer’s Auto
biography
Herbert Spencer's forthcoming autobi
ography promises to be a most interest
ing human document, judging from the
brief extracts that have been permitted
to see the light. Nothing, perhaps, is
more interesting in the life of any man
than tiie part his emotions have played.
Tn the average men nothing else is of
interest—if the novelists are to be trust
ed. Even the vulgar amours of the great
Napoleon—he that had "words in him
like Austerlitz battles”—prove vastly
more diverting to the ordinary reader
than his greatest deeds. That Spencer,
too. is likely to prove diverting when
his emotional experiences are under con
sideration—though in a wholly- different
manner—is shown by his direct, one is
almost tempted to say naively ungallant,
remarks concerning his relations with
George Eliot.
That they were a little out of the or
dinary, hinted of the “flowery paths of
dalliance” to an extent almost inconceiv
able in the author of "First Principles”
anti the "Synthetic Philosophy,” seems
borne out by such surprising relations as
these:
"Striking by Its power when in repose,
her face." Spencer writes of his great
contemporary, “was remarkably trans
figured by a smile. The smiles of many
are signs of nothing rfiore than amuse
ment; but with her smile there was hab
itually mingled an expression of sym
pathy', either for the person smiled at or
the person smiled with. Her voice was
a contralto of rather low pitch, and I
believe naturally strong. On this last
point 1 ought to have a more definite im
pression. for in those days we occasion
ally sang together; but the habit of sub
duing her voice was so constant that I
suspect its real power was rarelv, if
ever, heard. Its tones were always gen
tle and, like the smile, sympathetic.”
Fancy Sportcer harking back to the
smiles of yesterday—and singing!
Naturally, it Is hardly surprising that
those who were aware of this intimacy
scurry- o’er
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(From Tho New York P in
The little gingham aprons that t
wear.
Those dainty queens of sunny- d y.
yore—
One was a-rent where flowers t tn
through
Upon the bare feet paddling in f- d<
No bannerets of glory evej -
Fashioned hv the cunning ha' d
skill
Can ide the signal flag I'll ne'er
No silken sheen and satin
Displace the modest, sometime, t '
ed thing—
The little gingham aprons that
wore.
Ah! queens bey-ond the ransom a
king!
All' vanish gingham aprons of ’
yore!
Dear little gingham aprons of th
Of sandy paths and primrose--
ways;
There is a glory in each string
check
Heart gathers from the flotsam ;■
wreck.
They- used to
stile.
They, used to sway upon the i
vinh swing.
Ah, me! there was no sophistry or
In e’en a puckered ruffle or' a s
I close my- eyes—and see the
train
Anon come trooping down the
shore;
The bare feet paddle in the dew
And flowers drift through the
the briars tore.
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