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H • Z5he MaRing of BooKs “Oh, that mine enemy would make a book,” Conducted By R W Me Adam rs Under the tamp With Late Books LJ AVID GRAHAM PHIL- DIPS' “Fortune Hunter” is a story of what he calls "the society of the real New York—the three and a hnlf millions who work and play hard and live plainly and without pre tense, whose ideals center about the hearth, and whose ispiratlons are to re tire with a competence early in the afternoon of life, 'thenceforth placidly to the prosperity of their ohil- assist clren, and to have their youth over again in their grandchildren.” And a most realistic acid readable story does he tell of the »lti delecatessen merchant, Brau- ner, with Jits motto of "Work and home and love/’ and the good Frau Branner, and their beautiful Hilda, the catch of Avenue A. It is a community of honest, industrious and thrifty folks, and their wholesome, cheerful existence is pleas ant to coivttemplaie. In strong contrast is tlie case of Mr. Carl Fouerstein, soldier of fortune, as he calls himself, and un- sticcessftij actor, who maintains his ele gant and idle self at the expense of sim ple and kindly souls who are more than duly impressed with his distinguished ap pearance and the fall of yellow hair over his velvet collar. .Work ha s never entered into the plan of the imposing if Jmpecuinous Teuton of boastwl birth, and having exhausted every source of supply—borrowed of every gullible human being in sight- action of some sort becomes at last im peratively necessary. Accordingly he, like many other better men, turns to soft-hearted woman for sticcor in his drowning condition—women have always adored him—and begins to play his charms In those quarters where the game is clearly worth while. Brauner Is owner of tiiree Oats that bring in SI 1,000 ren tal, and a good business. Hilda, then, an undeniable beauty and a whole fortune In her charming self, may he the prize Mr. Fouerstein is looking for. He thinks so, until the rich brewer's daughter appears with her richer dower. Never burdened with troublesome scruples, yet too cau tious to throw away a chance even while grasping a better, the ardent suitor for whichever lady can show a father with the most available cash, loses no time, even while treating Hilda to the most entrancing and histrionic love scenes, in making the brewer his surprised father In law. Which complicates in more ways than one and brings about disclosures the most startling. Otto Hehllg, the sturdy young German who all his life has loved Hilda, but in her eyes has shown a very plain and "common” ' article as compared with the glided Feuerstein, now does some star acting which is the real thing, and Hilda awakened to bis worth is nothing short In her part. Incidentally the New York police are very neatly exposed and their high-handed dealings given a well-aimed blow. It is a well rounded story, told In the author’s clear, pleasant style, and with out being, at all pretentious, a very clever little piece of work. The Illustrations are by K. M. Ashe. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, publishers, Indianapolis. The Law Breakers. "The J<aav-birea.kers is the na.me Rob ert Grant has .given a compilation oif half a dozen stories which he offers in neat book form to the reading public, encour aged by its kindly acceptance of former works, and wit:'.! faith, it would a-ppear that there are still people who will read quiet narratives, which if they have lit tle to •commend them, certainly have noth ing to condemn. "The La.w-(breakers,” the first of the stories and that which gives to the book its name, points a very patent moral, and in a pleasant way. The second, "Against. .His Judgment,” we confess wo have not read. The third, “St. George arid the Dragon,” we were interested in after we had read it, for the reason that it administers a very wholesome rebuke tc the over-zealous representatives of the daily press, whose morbid appetite is fed in this .particular instance to the point of acute and congested s< nationalism on the tragic death of two lovers. When we come to think of it, we do not know, but t.iie message contained in this story is excuse enough for the hook's being. “The Romance of a Soul," it api>ears to us, had 'been been called "The Diagno sis, or the Dissection of the Intangible ■Member"—the author having a.botit as much right from our point oif view to lay 'bare the innerness of .poor little Miss Willis’ meager existence as have the med- j.-ul harpies to feed upon the bodies of such as have left us word according them that privilege. Miss Willis 'being gone, we should like to take up her cause anil have it out with the author as deserves. "An Exchange of Courtesies” is a sort o' "Nalboth’s Vineyard” affair. Money covets the land of those who have, be sides land, what money cannot buy. Two spinsters of pedigree and associations re- li'sc 'to sell out to a fabulously rich fur niture dealer, and 'he learns that there are things even ills millions cannot get for him, chief among them the good breeding which he is conscious he lucks, liut love, the leveler, finally intervenes in hio behalf when his son Is romanti cally .rescued from drowning by the •'•modern'' niece of the maiden ladies, and given besides his life the heart of his athletic young resouer, and, incidentally, and in course of time, the coveted acres. •'Across the Way” is another love story relating tho rather quixotic action of a charming little kindergarten teacher who, having been disappointed In 'her college t>v, tel heart, forswears matrimony and inat klnd In general, and at twenty-live knows she will nover marry. How she refuses to accept tho legacy of an eccen tric old man who wishes to provide her tv ith a daw,or In order mat she may mar ry. and how even without it and In spite of her avowed spinsterhood, she does y.eld to the doctor's importunities after all, makes a pleasant little story. And "The Surrender,” tho lust ot the number, is also pleasant and wholesome, setting forth the harmony which may exist In demestic relations where husband und wife are agreed on mutual interest, anCC slowing that even the strongest natural fcert may be sometimes better sacrificed to what brings sure competency and In dependence. The book is published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. The Fraying Skipper and Other Stories. “The Praying Skipper and- Other Sto ries” admits into the banks of bookmak ers one more light from out the shining world of journalism which has contrib uted so much talent to contemporary let ters. Ralph D. Paine, the author of these strong sketches, has had a career of w'Je opportunity — opportunity, by-the-w.iy, made by his own native ability. Pos sessed of a high ord< r of gifts he has since his student days at Yale done con spicuously good work—lie made his wav through college by writing. Immediately on leaving he accepted work on the staff of The Philadelphia Press, and mort of his newspaper connection was with t’ais piper and Tho New York Herald, until three years ago he began writing for he magazines. His special commissions took him to Cuba before and during the war, and to China at the time of the Boxer's uprising. He remained in Peking nearly a year, and two of the seven stories in the collection are laid in the old Chinese cl t y. “The Praying Skipper." "The Hast Pilot Schooner." 'Vaptain Arendt's Choice” and "Surfman Brainard’s 'Day Off' ” are all talcs of the sea: "Corporal Fnvee.icy, Deserter,” and “The Jade Teapot" are incidents of American sodier life in Piking, and “A Victory Tnforsoen,” the thrilling account of a race at Yale, aid the displacement of an oarsman and suc ceeding interesting events consequent On it. Mr. Paine was originally ifrom Flo— Ida, and this last and “Surfman Bral- r.ard's 'Day Off.’ ” connect, his far sou’h- ern home with the scene of his college trlijmphs. “The Jade Teapot" gives a vivid Idea of the sufferings of our soldiers in the etast. A young fellow from Kansas !s dying of nostalgia, and a letter from his mother comes telling that the home is about to be sold, which threatens to hasten his end. Fe-ling himself doomed lie wishes to entrust all that he has for the home folks to a comrade Just dis charged and starting for “Little New York"—a jade teapot which he has picked up, and transit not the value of. The tea pot in transit is sold for eight hundred dollars, and six hundred, the amount needed to lift the mortgage, cabled to the mother, an! the home saved. But the gem of all this line cluster, and. wo venture, one of the fittest short stories in existence, is that of the brave Captain Arendt and his “broken flower,” his wife, end the disaster which lo«e.t them the savings of twenty-seven years, the ten thousand dollars which was to buy the home across the sea where she was to get back health and—Joy of all joys—their separations need be fewer an 1 shorter. The fearful accident which sinks the ship and the heroic bravery of the noble, unselfish captain who realzes that he can snatch no moment to save his own treasure while there is yet a life unsaved on the deck of the ship, almost takes the breath, so realistic la the recital, so strong in simple grandeur. The book is an unusual collection of extraordinary merit. The Outing Publishing Company, New York. The July Magazines. An examination of The Red Book Mag azine for July leads to the conclusion that the interest of the stories in the is sue is no less great than the charm of the distinctly American canoe-girl whose portrait forms the cover. Some account of timeliness is taken in giving Henry Louis Mzncken's Fourth-of-July story. “The King and Tommy Cripps,” tile first place in the number. Poor little Tom my's patriotic attempt to celebrate his nation's natal day in a foreign land was marked by ill luck for Tommy, but all came right in the end—even for the king. William Hamilton Osborne’s story in the July Issue, entitled, “The Wicked Waste at Wilkinson’s" is concerned with a girl's extraordinary managment of a cotton mill in the face of strikes and trusts; and Campbell MacCulIoeh's ac count of “Trimming an Infant,” may, perhaps, deter other infants from being “trimmed.” Readers of magazines have learned to look to the far west for those stories of broad humor which make for laughter rather than for smiles. Such a one, perhaps, is “The Jilting of Mr. Dris coll” by Herbert Quick, who is well and widely known as the author of one of the season's most successful novels, it is a tale of cowboys, eggs and calves in which the three component parts become souflled to the end that Mr. Driscoll loses faith if not in humanity, at least, in two blue eyes. Three tales of deli cate, summery charm are "Otsugata-no- Gata,” by Isabel McDougal; “Miss Prim rose and the Patient,” by Marjorie Ben ton Cooke, and "The Chrysalis" by Jean nette Scott Benton. Further contributors to tlie Red Book Magazine lor July arc Harriet A. Nash, Charles Hanson Towne Hugh Pendexter, W. J. Lampton, Elea nor M. Ingram, Theodore Grayson and Eunice Ward. The magazine as usual is opened with twenty-eight exquisitely printed portraits of as many' beautiful women, and the two departments, "Pa risian Modes" and "Some Dramas of the Day” are contributed by Reutlinger and Acton Davies. Six articles of first-rato interest, six stories of exceptional quality, make up the bulk of the American Magazine for July. In "The Taming of Rogers," Sher man Morse recounts, in its full signifi cance, Attornoy General Hadley's suc cessful attempt to make Standard Oil obey the law. Hadley differs from many- public prosecutors In that he obtained his results by the simple enforcement of existing laws. "Reaping Where We Have Not Sown,” by Julian Willard Helburn, Is an Illuminating article on practical forestry as distinguished from sentimental preservation or stupid de struction. it Is splendidly Illustrated. The same writer, l n "The Quickening Spirit, ’ has assembled a number of in cidents Illustrating the "sand” and re sourcefulness of the San Franciscans in their hour of disaster. "The Confes sions of a Life Insurance Solicitor," by Wllllam McMahon, is a bena fide narra tive, written with on -xde-like humor. Another article of strong personal Inter est Is “The Single Woman's Problem," which tells of tin eduenlod woman's struggle to support herself and those dependent on her. “The Slave of Cot ton" Is the second article by Henry K. Webster on the south's great problem. "The Mystery,” by Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, Is continued, and among the fiction writers are Mrs. L. H. Harris, Gilbert P. Cole- ma.n W. H. Cline and John Fleming Wilson. The Pilgrim for July opens its four teenth volume with a beautifully- Illus trated and entertaining story in refer ence to a vacation retreat for our stren uous president, selected toy Mrs. Roose velt in the fastness of the Virginia mountains. "Two Famous Monaster ies" Illustrates In picture and story tho famous old Chartreuse retreat. “Out door Life for Women and Children” is a timely special article, attractively Illus trated, and “A Vanished Corner of Ca thay” tells of ’Frisco’s Chinatown, which will probably never be resurrect ed. The celebration of the glorious Fourth cannot be disassociated from Deeping with the day. A little excerpt from one of the famous addresses of Charles Sumner, "Our Nation and Our Flag,” “The Celebration of the Fourth" by Everett T. Tomlinson and "Home made Fireworks for the Girls,” all re mind us of the nation's b.% hday. Not to be forgotten ln this connection Is a patriotic story for tboys, by Frank 11. Sweet, entitled “Cuba Libre." Cycling Coming ln Again. Now that mild weather has set in. It Is surprising to see the number of wheels in use on the streets and pleas ant country highways. It begins to look as i' the pastime of bicycling will soon bo as jiopular as it was several years ago, when everybody who could buy, beg or borrow a wheel was out "on pleas ure bent." The Mead Cycle Company of Chicago, a firm who-have made a specialty of sell ing bicycles only, for a number of years, report their sales up to May 1st greater than the same months of any year in their history. The explanation of this statement lies in the fact that the low price at which this coneern is now able to offer high- grade wheels Is a strong inducement to the lover of this sport to again own a bicycle. Improved methods of manufacturing and a riper knowledge of the require ments have made it possible to produce better wheels than were sold during the craze at two or three times the prices now charged. For instance, a bicycle which then sold for $75.00 to $100.00 can now be purchased for S27.00. Not only arc the wheels better as a whole, but every one is equipped with puncture-proof, self-healing tires, insur ing rides free from disagreeable mishaps. Another strong feature is the Coaster Brake, the greatest invention pertaining to bicycles ever made since the pneuma tic tire. This device enables the rider to coast down hill with the pedals mo tionless. To slacken speed or stop in stantly, all that Is roqtirrccr is to back pedal. One-third less pedaling Is needed, and the wheel Is under the rider's con trol at all times. The i.Mead Cycle Company ship wheels on approval for free examination and trial all over the United States. Canada and Mexico and is always ready to es tablish connections with desirable repre sentatives. ••• Odds and Ends. Ilisen Is said never to have written any thing unless he had a tray of little toys on the desks beifore him- Among these toys were a wooden bear, a wooden fig ure of Mephlstopheles, two cats, one play ing a fiddle, and some cotton flannel rab bits. The duke of Devonshire possesses Claude Lorraine's “Book of Truths.” It is worth six times as much as the "Maz- arin” Bible, the most valuable bbok ln the British Museum. The late duke re fused an offer of $100,000 for it. , Kate Douglass Wiggins, the authoress, has Just concluded a visit to the vice regal lodge, Dublin, as the guest of their excellencies, the earl and countess of Aberdeen. A i.'st of Ibsen's Important works In order of publication follows: “Catiline,” 1849; “The Warrior's Mound,” 1850; “St. John's Night,” 1851 ; 'The Banquet at Solhang,” 1866; "Lady Inger of Ostraat,” 1857; “The Vikings of Helgeland,” 1858; "Dn the Mountain Plains,’’ I860; "Love's Comedy," 1862; “The Pretenders,” 1864; “Brand," 1866; "Peer Gynt.” 1867; "The League of Youth,” 1869; "Emperor and Galilean.” 1873; “The Pillars of Society," 1877; "A Doll's House,” 1879; “Ghosts," 1881; "An Enemy of the People," 1862; "The Wild Duck," 1884; “Rosmerholm,” 1886; The Lady from the Sea," 1888; “Hedda Gabler," 1890; “Master Builder Solness," 1892; “Little Eyolf,” 1894; “John Gabriel Borkman,’’ 1896, and "When We Dead Awaken," 1900. Publication Notes. Professor W. J. Rolfe has written 8 long introduction to Miss Elizabeth Wil der's translation of Karl Werdcr's study of “Hamlet.” whicih G. P. Putnom’s Son» are about lo publish under the title o< "The Heart of Hamlet's Mystery.” This extraoixiinary piece of German criticism must now be regarded as one of the landmarks of the literature that is de voted to a study of the prince of Den mark. It 'has won over to its point of view Shakespearean critics of the first rank, among them Furness, Corson and Hudson. Werder advances, and, it would seem, triunmi-thantly champions, the theory that that Hamlet’s Inaction and procrastination were forced upon him by circumstances which were beyond his control. He vehemently denies and ut terly dismisses the theory that weakness' of will, or any sut»- iec.tive cause, paralyzed the hand of the prince. For Werder and for those who accept his conclusions this play is seen in a new light, it becomes a tragedy of fate, and can no longer be regarded as a tragedy of character in accordance with the views of Coleridge, Goethe and other critics. Werder’s essay, now for Hie first time appearing in English, will not fail to engage the attention of all students of Shakespeare In view of the hue and cry now being raised lor proper food inspection, the table regulations for the inhabitants of Atlantis in “Tlie Scarlet Empire.” D. M. Parry’s novel of socialism, are not with out interest. There the meals were served in courses, each course consisting of a sample of food, carefully measured out and weighed, so that no person had the fraction of an ounce more than an other. Minute rules provided for the amount of food to be inserted in the mouth at a time, and the manner in which the eating utensils should be han dled, and so on ad infinitum. Innumer able meal Inspectors were on- hand with alert eyes ever ready to detect the least infraction of the rules. All food came • from the government granaries and stock yards and was prepared In, the govern ment kitchen*. The hero made a great reputation by Introducing a bill ln the legislature requiring that food should be chewed nine times on the right side of the jaw and nine times on the left side. A competent authority on things Chi nese states that during the last iwo years China has made more real advancement tnan in the previous millennium—a judg ment with which Dr. Joseph Franklin Griggs, medical missionary at Peking for the Prebyterlan board of foreign mis sions, is heartily in sympathy. He calls the changes now in progress in China "a miracle of natural resuscitation;” and has prepared an authoritative account of these changes in the July Century under title of "China Awakened." Even Gabriele D'Annunzio s detractors admit that the famous Italian is a mas ter ln the' art of short story writing. “The Death Watch,” by D’Annfinzio, in July Young's Magazine, though it may substantiate the claim of decadence and ultra-modernism brought against D'An nunzio, Is nevertheless a brilliant, force ful story. “The Woodkind Elf" is the title of a new juvenile by Florence A. Evans. It Is a series of Ingenious stories told by a sprite to a little girl lost in the woods. Ho explains numerous wonderful things— Why snakes shed their skins, why seals wear furs, why cat tails grow, how wo come to have the morning glory, why In dian pipes grow, how the darning needle got its name, why wishes no longer come true, and so on through the 11s'. These are just a few of the pretty tales the author has so cunningly woven around the life of the forest, thicket and sea. She has a way of telling the stories that will delight the fathers and mothers no less than the small folk at their knees. The artist, Carroll B. Williams, has suc ceeded in catching the spirit of the stories, and his illustrations add much to the charm of the book. The Saalfield Publishing Company .Akron, Ohio. In imagination children are perhaps more resourceful than their grown-ups, and one of the chief stimulants in aid of this pleasing trait has been the col lections of fairy tales gathered together by Brimm and Andersen. Miss Tappan in her new book, “The Golden Goose” (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) has sot forth in charming simple English a number of the old Scandinavian legends which have a common source with many of the tales of these classic story tellers. Besde the title story may be mentioned “The Stolen Princess," “The Simple Minded Giant,” “The Black Fox and Red," and many others. The. publishers have printed the volume in a large at tractive type and have provided many text illustrations for ihe children’s pleas ure, and to encourage them to read by themselves. roaches in English postoffices increased until it reached the maximum recorded since tlie day4 of Rowland Hill. So suc cessful werO the British postoffice au thorities in breeding roaches that the services of the professional had to be called in twice as often as they were before the postoffice went into the busi ness. This could not last. Somewhere, some time surely in the dark byways of of ficial life there must be found a man fit to grapple with any problem, no matter how Immense. This much de sired individual happened along about a year ago. hence the retirement of the •professional to the undisturbed enjoy ment of his well deserved. Inasmuch as no drug or other admix ture seemed to have the power to make the cockroach lose its 'Hne power of dis cernment in the matter of the difference between plaster of parls and sugar, It would seem to be worth while to in quire by what sense or senses the dis tinction was made. FINALLY MIXED BY MACHINERY This led to the discovery that the cock roach, while It might be very clever lit some respects, has its limitations in the matter of differentiation and that if the sugat and the plaster o: parls were ab solutely alike in everything but taste it vould swallow 'both. Microscopical examination of plaster of Paris and sugar led to the discovery that what is known as icing sugar exactly re sembles plaster of parls in the size of grain, the weight and the color. This was tried, but the result was only partly satisfactory—enough, however, to show tha*. the secret was portly solved. The problem seemed to be to mix the two so thoroughly that they should be ab solutely inseparable. This was done with machines, which sifted the two pow lers i: to the same receptacle with perfect equality, half and half of each. When this scientifically prepared mix ture -was taken to the proving grounds a ml spread upon the floor there were no live roaches left in tiie morning. Bo. a., there were no protessional there to clean up, the place was a sight,' three tratrowfuls of absolutely stone dead cock- re aches being carried out of the place be fore business opened. ior thirty years they had been paying *25 a night for every postoffice that had t > 'be cleaned out, just 'because they aid not know that little secret. OFFICIAL COCK BOACH KILLER TO BRITISH GOVERNMENT AMASSES FORTUNE Continued from Fifth Page. not what to use. but how. to make the inr»ct swallow it. To make it swallow the sugar was easy. Why was It that the roaches would swallow the plaster of paris laid out for them by the professional and would not touch that offered them by the government? ROACH POPULATION GROWS ENORMOUSLY. Muture deliberations led him to* the conclusion that the reason was that tne cockroach could distinguish belween plaster of paris and the sugar and that the professional must possess some se cret drugs which he mixed with the other ingredients in such a manner a’ to blind the cockroach's fine sense of discrimination in such matters. This led to a long series of experi ment « during which the number of cock THE MOTH AND THE FLAME. (From the Scientific American.) Why does a moth fly towards a flame? Because it is inquisitive, was the rather puerile answer given by the great Ro manes. Because of some inexplicable In herited instinct, was the reason advanced by other naturalists. Because it is the nature of the insect, was a third and equally unsatisfactory reply. One reason was a s good as another, but that of Ro manes undoubtedly carried off the popu lar palm. Perhaps we owe it to him that a moth and the flame have pointed many a moral and adorned many a sad tale of curiosity tragically satisfied. The investigations of Prof. Jacques Loeb bid fair to relieve the moth of the moral burden that has rested on its wings. Prof. Loeb has proved very con clusively that a moth, in common with many insects, flies toward a flame for the same reason that some plants turn th'lr leaves toward the light. "Helio- troplsm" is the awesome name in which this tendenenoy of plants and animals rejoices. It happens that there are two kinds of hellotropism. If your moth or bug flics toward the light it is positively he- liotroplc; If, like the earthworm, it shrinks from the glare, it is negatively heliotropic. Plants, too. may be classi fied Into these divisions. Just as some flowers open only by day and others only by night, so some moths fly only by day and others only by night. The results of Prof. Loeb's experiments explain with astonishing simplicity the causes of a June hug’s merry antics as well as the apparently aimless move ments of squirming, new-born vermin. In sect.-, it seems, move in the direction of the light rays that fall upon them. Change the position of the light and the insect change-.- its course likewise. But the light must be of a certain intensity to produce a very mark'd effect. Sup pose that in your experiments you ex cised your hug to diffused ligut. He would move toward the light, to be sure; but h f would creep toward it rather leisurely. Expose him to a bright glare, however, and he will hasten toward it with cheerful rapidity. That is why winged insects flutter gayty about in direct sunlight. Curiously enough, the influence of light is limited by atmos pheric temperature. From the circumstances that insects tend to arrange themselves and to move in the direction of light it would almost follow that their structure must have something to do with their h<liotropism. And such Prof. I/oeb’s experiments prove to be the ease. The head of an insect Is much more seniltive than the tail. Here the omnipresent skeptic will prob ably remark that an insect sc s with its head and not with his tail, and that Ro manes may be right after all. But such notoriously blind animals a-" the earth worm and other eyeless creatures are far more responsive to light at the hrad than at the tail. The mere possession of sight cannot, therefore, account for the earthworm's avoidance of light or for the mruh's apparent liking for it. Sometimes it happens that an insect is stimulated by light only at certain pe riods of its existence. In winged ants, for example,, the period coincides with the tirhe of the nuptial flight, in plant lice with the appearance of wings and in some larvae when full growth has been attained. Occasionally catterpillnrs may crawl toward a flame, while the butterfly to which it gives rise may be repelled by light. What is tiie cause of this curious ef fect? It must he confessed that science can give no satisfactory explanation. We might Just as well ask. What is the cause of gravitation? The phenomenon is exactly the same as that which is produced In plant life. And that in ani mals It cannot be due to the nervous system is evident from the fact that leaves and branches have no nerves. To he paralyzed by light, to be con fined to a certain path or to be incar cerated ln an impalpable luminous pris on would seem a serious limitation in the search for food. Yet it so happens that hellotropism may actually assist an In sect in its struggle for existence. Cer tain caterpillars Just after they are hatched and when they are ravenously hungry are compelled by the mechanical effect of light to crawl to the tips of branches, where they find their first nourishment in tender buds. After their first meal the caterpillars lose much of their sensitiveness to light. Their helio- troplsm explains what has heretofore been vaguely attributed to Instinct. Prof. Loeb even ventures the suggestion that the periodic migrations of many animals such as those of birds of passage, may also be explained in part by heliotropic irritability. NOTICE. If one of our readers has a copy of The Weekly Con stitution of March 6, 1905, I will thank him to send it to me. I need it for my bound files. T. J. Kelly, care Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. SUMMER SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST! $750.00 Cash to Constitution Agent’s. Contest Opened May 1st, Closes October 1st, 1906. Creat Distribution Among Subscription Workers. 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