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BOOK REVIEWS Forty Years of Active Service. By Charles T. O'Ferrall. Cloth; hand- I ome binding. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, Broad way, Fifth avenue and Twenty - third street. Price, $2. Col. O’Farrall was a Governor of Virginia, a politician in the best sense, a judge and a Confederate veteran. His book, according to the title page, i? some history of the war between the Confederacy and the Union and the events leading up to it, with remi niscences of the struggle and accounts of the author's experiences of four years from private to lientenant colo nel and acting colonel in the cavalry ot the Army of Northern Virginia; also much of the history of Virginia and the nation in which the author took part for many years in political conventions and on the hustings and as a lawyer,' member of the Legislature of Virginia, judge, member of the House of Representatives of the United States and Governor of Virginia. In this work the author has drawn graphic pen pictures of his contem poraries in public life, and has quoted copiously from their brilliant speeches on the floor of the House of Represent atives, especially those pregnant with sarcasm, humor and wit. The young man entering politics can take this volume as a handbook, and with it he can begin his public life with the knowledge usually acquired only as the result of many years of experience. It is a condensed history of many of the important political questions that have been presented to the American people for solution in the past forty years, and is of as much value to the Republican as to the Democrat. The book from the first page to the last has been written in the spirit of fairness, good nature, and with the desire to avoid arousing sectional ani mosities. As the author says of the whole work, it is “written in the spirit of a fraternal union of the two sec tions of our once divided but now re united land.” The History of North America. Guy Carleton I.ee, Ph. D., Editor in chief. Cloth binding: gilt tops; rough edges; illustrated. Philadel phia: George Barrie & Sons, 1313 Walnut street. This history of North America may justly be regarded as one of the most remarkable works of its kind, ever pub lished. Few persons can realise what is in volved in the preparation of such a work as "The History of North Amer ica.” It is, however, less difficult to realize the spirit of enterprise that must influence the publishers of such a work, to whom the question “Will it pay?” must present itself with in vincible force. The final difficulty was removed by the acceptance of the re sponsibility of publishing by the firm of George Barrie & Sons, Philadelphia, whose select editions cover a wide range of literature and are familiar and treasured friends in the libraries of two continents. We are now' in a position to pass judgment on "The History of North America,” for four volumes of the se ries are before us. The first of these is entitled “Discovery and Explora tion,” and presents the reader with a review of the status of geographical science and navigation in the Old World; traces the causes and influ ences that led to the turning of the prows of the venturesome mariners to the unknown West, and reviews the traditional and recorded visits of the ancients and the "Pre-Columbian Voy ages"— ihe missionaries, the Norsemen, with transcripts from the Sagas as to their journeys and settlements in America. The original voyage of Co lumbus is given at length, and, al though it occupies so considerable a part of the volume, its peculiar inter est is such that we would not have it NICHOLS The Shoe Man Is showing a complete line of Xmas Slippers. A pair of them will make any one a nice present. fya # \ Stands without A an ** ' Price $5.50 & $6.50. The place to buy your Evening Slippers. curtailed; moreover, it is a feature so unfamiliar that it gives an additional value and interest to what is other wise of rare worth. One cannot read this journal without a feeling of in creased reverence for the great ad miral as we follow him in the difficul ties and dangers which beset him. as we read of his mighty faith and hopes; of his frequent discouragements; of his accomplishments in his incalculably immense gift to the world: of his final neglect, abandonment, and belittling, which he records in the tone of a heartbroken man. In succession come the narrations of the daring Spanish adventurers who pursued his work and explored the Gulf of Mexico and the land to the south and west; the voyages and dis coveries of the Cabots from England, who pierced the mystery that shrouded the northern shore of the Atlantic and traced the land southward: those of the Cortereats, whose daring resulted in the loss of their leader, but was of much added interest and knowledge of the New World; and of others, who, defying dangers, sought the shores of America in their endeavor to find the waterway they believed to exist as a route to the Indies. Space will not permit us to follow in the track of Cortes in his conquest of Mexico, nor in those of Ponce de Leon. Narvaez, De Ayllon, De Soto, and the many others whose expeditions are recounted in the pages before us; nor the ac counts of the indigenes they encoun tered; nor those of the French naviga tors, Ribault, Verrazano, Laudonniere, and Cartier, and their fateful colonial ventures; the exploration of the Cana dian river and its tributary lakes; the discovery and exploration of the Mis sissippi by Joliet and Marquette and Le Salle. The enterprises of Gilbert and Raleigh; the discoveries of Hud son, Block, Christiansen and May; the thrilling adventures of Champlain; and the story of the daring adventurers who penetrated Che mazes of the froz en Arctic and delineated the north ern confines of the American continent —these are all traced in the volume be fore us, in a series of narrations which for interest cannot be excelled. There is a pecliar fitness and charm in all these narrations, which have been told largely in the words of the actors and spectators of the events related. The text is a most valuable contribution to history—to many it will be a revela tion—while to all it is a source of readily available and trustworthy in formation on one of the most impor tant branches of American history. In the second volume, entitled “In dians in Historic Times,” we have a work of unusual value. The author, Dr. Cyrus Thomas, and his collabora tor, Professor W. J. McGee, are men who for their close study of the sub ject in question have acquired much more than national reputation-—one cannot read the volume without being impressed with its exactitude, thor oughness. and completeness. The various tribes that once peopled the northern section of our continent are traced as to their sources, their cus toms, their organization, their systems of government, their intertribal con flicts, and their relations with the intruding whites. An ample narrative is given of the conflicts of the pioneer Spaniards who invaded the domain of the Indians in Mexico, Florida, and the South; of the French and English in their respec tive spheres of influence; of the end less intrigues between the Europeans and the Indians in the course of the long and bitter struggles for political and commercial advantage on the part of the rival European colonists and settlers; and of the red man's long protracted contest with the settlers and colonists. Indian diplomacy and savagery in all their degrees of bar barity are told in this volume, and the various agreements and concessions that have gradually shorn the Indian of his empire and placed him la a posi- SAYANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1004. tion of guardianship. A valuable fea ture is that which treats of the Indian ethnologieally, and of his influence on civilization, as well as that which sets forth Vi- policy of the United States governnuat toward the indigenous population. The third volume, "The Colonization of the South.” is a masterly setting forth of a series of the most fascinat ing stories in the nation's history, and it is told in such a manner as to hold the reader's willing attention. Be ginning with the Spaniards in Florida, the relation of their adventures, the vicissitudes of their fortunes, their overthrow of the French Huguenot colony, are given with a wealth of incident and with a sharpness of out line and transparency that present a most aninfated and intelligible picture. The story is made clear in every fea ture by concise statement of the Eu ropean conditions in so far as they are the causative influences of New World movements. The interest of France and Spain in the South wanes, and in its place we Wave the story of the planting of the Anglo-Saxon in Virginia, the pathetic account of the first settlements at Roanoke, the fight with nature, growth of British insti tutions, the struggle with the proprie tors, home life, internal dissensions, representative government. Indian troubles, the nascent spirit of rebel lion manifested in the case of the Stamp Act; thus the foundation and upbuilding of the Virginia colony are placed clearly before the reader. Caro lina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida have a similarly comprehensive pre sentation; while the story of Louisiana is given in terms that cannot fail to interest the reader and amply reward him for his perusal. The romance and matter of fact of colonization find their fulness of expression in this fioMMCZ £ /T MAYBWCJT book. It would be impossible here to voice a just appreciation of this vol ume, which from the first page to the last bears unmistakable evidence of the writer’s keen grasp of the peculiar conditions that co-operated to form the characteristic South. The romantic and the realistic, the chivalrous cava lier, the proud, boastful Spaniard, the courtly and insinuating Caul, the pa tient and persevering Swiss, the un swerving and tenacious Scotch-Irish, the stolid and industrious German, are all passed in review' and the separate influences that each has contributed to the making of a great nation are terse ly but Instructively woven into a gen ii .il story. The clash of the pioneer traders, the intrigues and counter in trigues of the opposing nationalities in their relations with the Indians, the early struggle of the settlers, the par ticularistic conditions of the colonies, all these and much more have been given their due place, and the lines of cleavage, as well as the points of com Uncle Mingo on the The Chadwich Case. By W. T. WILLIAMS. “Bat Chadwick case up Nort’,” said the waiter, “is sho one ob de mos' re markables’ cases <fat has ebber come under my observation.” “It is rudder peculiar," said Uncle Mingo; “an’ een applyin’ de word ‘pe culiar,’ I wants to s’plain de correc’ meanin’ ob de rtame een dis case. It come from de Latin word ‘pecu,’ mon ey, an’ de French word ‘liar,’ de tran substantion ob wich I don't need to dwell upon at dis time, bein’ werry ebbident.” "Wen de paper fus’ start to talk 'bout de case,” said the w*alter, “I didn’t pay no ’tention to it. Derefo’, I ain’t sho dat I got de right idee on de subjec’. How did it start?” “You kin sarch me,” said Uncle Min go; “blame if I know. I don’t know de start ob de business, an’ I don’t know de finish.” know de finish neider.” "Wot I want to know,” rtaid the waiter, "is how did de lady git people to len’ her so much money?” “As to dat,” said Uncle Mingo, “you ain’t de only feller who is een de dark on dat pint. An' wot’s mo’, I reckon de fellers wot done de lendin’ Is won derin’ dat same way mo’ (fan anybody else. "I spec’, dough, it happen sumpln’ like dis: “One day, way back yonder, de lady fin’ she stan’ een need ob a little ready money for w*arious small expenses, sich as de house rent, de cook, de washer woman, de gas bill, an’ so on. So she go to de bank an’ try to borry fifty or sixty dollars. “ ‘Sorry, ma'am,’ say de Wank man; ‘We is werry anxious to 'blige you, but de trut’ Is de bank Is sca'ce o’ ready money to-day, an’ It's quite im possible to furnish de ’commodation.’ "So she had to sen’ de house gill roun’ to her uncle's wid de clock an’ de parlor lamp an' a few udder sich tings, an’ by one means an’ anudder mortage to scrape togedder de neces sary fun's. “Bumbye she read een de paper de ’count of a case ober een Europe how easy a smart lady had work de rich fellers an' de barks for millions an’ millions o’ dollars, or wotebber dey calls dem ober dere. Dat set her to studyin' an’ ruminatin’. " ’Wot a fool I Is,’ she say to her self; ’here 1 Htan’s like a bump on a log, resortin' to all kin's of ’sperl ments to raise a few dollars, an’ Jis look at dis udder 'oman! l'se sho,' she say, 'dat I is lots mo' better look in’ dan wot she Is, judgin' from de picture; an’ I likewise flutters myself I has got mo sense. 1 hasn’t been go ill' 'bout de matter right.' ah* say. “Mo she eoncoe' her plan, an’ itnml gllly perceed to execute de same. “Fus', she go to work an' make ur de mos* templin' an' Imposin’ lookin’ package you ebber did see. Hhe gedder togedder a (jnsepln, a can-opener key, two beer bottle stoppers, fo’ toba<-ker tags, a ole las’ year almanac an' de adwertlatn’ sheets of one of de New York ftunday papers. Deae she wrop up werry neat an' careful wn a nice ■ lean piece o’ yaller paper, tie It up werry particular wid pink string, an' mon interest, traced and interwoven into a story that is fascinating while being instructive. It is always in forming and ever interesting. It is easy to discern that the author's work is one of complete familiarity with his subject and love of it. My I-ost Fifteen Years. Mrs. May 'brick’s Own Story. By Florence Elizabeth Maybrick. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Cloth; price, $1.20 net. It is unnecessary to identify Mrs. Maybrick. Everybody knows of her. For fifteen years she languished in an English prison for a crime which she says she is entirely Innocent. Stripped of her fortune, stripped of her children, Mrs. Maybrick returns to her native America and tells her sad story, a story full of the most intense, personal interest. She has written with her own hand a book giving for the first time her side of this awful tragedy. It is a most deeply interesting story from beginning to end. Only a frag ment of this thrilling history has been told in the newspapers or magazines. In her Foreword Mrs. May brick quotes from the sketch of her ancestry written by Gail Hamilton, which proves that she is descended, on both paternal and maternal sides, from good American stock—the Thurstons, the Ingrahams, the Phillipses and the Holbrooks of New England, and the Campbells and Chandlers of Georgia. The story is told without affecta tion, and is a powerful narrative. Some extracts from it follow: Mrs. Maybrick was condemned to spend the first nine months at Wok ing Prison in solitary confinement. "I followed the warder to a door, perhaps not more than two feet In width. She unlocked It and said, 'Pass in.' I stepped forward, but started back in horror. Through the open door I saw, by the dim light of a small window that was never cleaned, a cell seven feet by four. “ 'Oh. don’t put me in there!' I cried, ‘I can not bear it.’ "For answer the warder took me roughly by the shoulder, gave me a push, and shut the door. There was nothing to sit upon but the cold slate floor. I sank to my knees. I felt suffocated. It seemed that the walls were drawing nearer and nearer to gether, and presently the life would be crushed out of me. I sprang to my feet and beat wildly with my hands against the door. ‘For God’s sake let me out! Let me out!’ But my voice could not penetrate that massive barrier, and exhausted I sank once more to the floor. I cannot re cnll those nine months of solitary con finement without a feeling of horror. My cell contained only a hammock rolled up in a corner, and three shelves let into the wall—no table nor stool. For a seat I was compelled to place my bedclothes on the floor.” After giving a graphic picture of the deadly routine of this period, when even the daily exercise Is taken in a stone-flagged, ugly, walled yard, "more like a bear-pit than an airing-ground for human beings,” Mrs. Maybrick digresses in a characteristic manner most significant of her altruistic spirit, in order to voice some heartfelt ob servations on the indefensible cruelty of solitary confinement; “Solitary confinement is by far the most cruel feature of English penal servitude. It inflicts upon the prisoner at the commencement of her sentence, when most sensitive to the horrors which prison punishment entails, the voiceless solitude, the hopeless mono tony, the long vista of to-morrow, to morrow, to-morrow stretching before her. all filled with desolation and de pair. Once a prisoner has crossed the threshold of a convict prison, not only is she dead to the world, but she is expected in word and deed to lose or forget every vestige of her per sonality. Verily, “ ‘The mills of the gods grind slowly, But they grind exceedingly small. And woe to the wight unholy On whom those millstones fall.* "So it is with the Penal Code which directs this vast machinery, doing its den seal It up wfd green sealln wax, Wen she git It all tlx up It was a mighty fine lookin' package, specially after she had write on de outside een blue Ink, $5,000,000 eenside. Handle wid care.’ “Takln’ dis precious package an’ also a few udder papers een her han’ satchel, she dribe roun’ to de bank, an’ ax to see de president. Cose she was fix up werry elegant for de ’caslon. "‘I would like,’ she say, ’to be ’eommodated wid a triflin' loan on dese notes,' handin’ out a few papers holdln' de nnme ob de rulers ob finance. ‘Likewise,’ she say, ‘I will, to show how much trus' an' confidence I has een your honesty an’ sharp bus iness 'blllty, entrus’ to your keepin’ dis little bundle ob securities. “She han' ober de beautiful package wid de mystic wrltln' carelessly wis lblo on top. “De bank president mos’ fall down een a fit, he was dat flabbergasted. “ ‘How kin I ebber tank you suffi cient. madam,’ he say, ‘for sich a con vincin' proof ob your wnlued confi dence. an' esteem? Likewise, wot kin I do to ’commodate you dis mornln’? You done me de fabor,’ he say. ‘ob re markin' dat you wish to git some com modation; kln'ly drop me a hint ob how much you 1* goln' to be generous 'bough to permit us to advance you?’ " ‘O, not much to-day,’ she say, kin’ o' careless like: ‘my needs is not werry urgent. I guess,’ she say, ‘two hundred an' fifty tousan' will do for dis 'csslon.' “ ’Wat!’ say de president, ‘not mo’ dsn dul ? Is you sho dat sich a triflin' sum will be sufficient enough to meet your ’qulrements?' '* 'Yes, ’nough for to-day; you see/ she say, wid a sweet smile, ‘I kin’ call again!’ " “Now dat nhe has git een sich trouble,” remarked the waiter, "won’t do ole man hurry home to see her troo? 1 notices de paper any ho io ober eon Europe aoinew'ereo." “O yes. he’s aimin’,” gald Unci# Mingo. “He Is werry anxious an’ Im patient to hurry. He say he ain’t mads no ’rongomvnts yet, but dat he Is link. In’ ’bout sailin’ een de rose ob a week or ten days or so Kbbidetiily he is convinced oh de tint' ob de 010 Say In/ 1M mo' has’s, da ' m speed.' " SUGGESTIONS TO BUYERS OF XMAS GIFTS. When Buying, See and Get Useful and Appropriate Presents We are offering some very good bargains to the Holiday Shopper during the coming week throughout alt our De partments. Especially would we call your attention to our fine lines of Johns Brown's Famous Linens. These goods are the best of Irish manufacture. For this week we offer a full-size cloth worth $4.00 for $2.98 Extra Heavy Satan Damask Our regular SI.OO grade, for this week only at 75c Short lengths in colored and black wool goods for suts and skirts. If you call early you can secure fine pickings in this lot. Goods worth 25c to $2.50 the yard at Half Price Furs Choice line of these popular goods positively at Half Price Choice line of La dies’ and Gents’ Handkerchiefs in Silk and Linen. utmost with tireless, ceaseless revolu tions to mold body and soul slowly, remorselessly, into the shape demand ed by Act of Parliament.” Mrs. Maybrick especially deplores the debasing effect of the harsh prison regime upon young girls. “The conviction of young girls to penal servitude is shocking, for it de stroys the chief power of prevention thnt prisons are supposed to possess, and accustoms the young criminal to a reality which has far less terror for her than the idea of it had. Prison life Is entirely demoralizing to any girl under twenty years of age, and it is to prevent such demoralizing Influence upon young girls that some more humane system of punishment should be enacted.” The example of Mrs. Maybrick her self is an instance of the ability of a mature woman to rise above the debilitating Influence of prison life, yet only by the exercise of most reso lute determination and severe disci pline. “I felt it would be a humiliation to have It assumed that 1 could or would deteriorate because of my environment. I therefore made it a point never to yield to that feeling of Indifference which is the almost universal outcome of prison life. I soon found that this self-imposed regimen acted as a whole some moral tonic, and so. Instead of falling under the naturally baneful In fluences of my surroundings, I strove with ever-renewed spiritual strength to rise above them. At first the dif ference that marked me from so many of my fellow prisoners aroused in them PI IJh ■ * AWAY ABOVE BIG SPRING BIST CO.. SAVANNAH. CA , Distributor*. 500 Separate Skirts The grandest of all bargains. Will be offered this week In separate skirts. Just think of it, our $7.00, SB.OO and SIO.OO Skirts for $4.98 Estate Daniel Hogan something like a feeling of resentment; but when they came to know me this soon wore off, and I have reason to believe that my example of unvarying neatness and civility did not fall In In fluencing others to look a bit more after their personal appearance and to modify their speech. At any rate, It had this effect: Alyesbury Prison Is the training school for female wardors for all county prisons. Having served a month’s probation here, they are recommended, if efficient In enforcing the prison ‘discipline,’ for transference to analogous establishments In the counties, it Happened not Infrequent ly, therefore, that new-comers were taken to my cell as the model on which all others should be patterned.” MOVING OF MONUMENT* TO TOM PAINE. lteenlls the Steeling of the I’Htrlot's Hones ut New Rochelle. New York, Dec. 11—The city au thorities of New Rochelle have moved the Toni Paine monument, which for seventy years has been a landmark of North street, to a location. Ow ing to the widening of the street Into a boulevard the monument will be set back about twenty feet, where it will stand on the farm given the author of the “Age of Reason,” by the state of New York. The change was made under the di- "Blf • C INCINNATI* o * # Something Nice for Xmas Would be a, nice All Linen Nap kin, three-quarter size, the usual $1.50 quality, for this week we run them for doz. SI.OO Most complete line of Gent's Fancy Ties to be found in the city at 25c and '-Hl* 50c Our stock of Xmas is unmatchable, consist ing of Dolls, Mechanical Toys, Fancy Articles, etc., from 5c and Up Few more of those Elegant Values in Ready-Made Waist Goods that sold for $2.50 and $3.00, for 1.69 Fringed Towels, 40x23 inches, Satin Damask; our 35 cents values; for this week only at 25c rection of the commissioner of public works, and required several days, as the monument weighs several tons. Great care had to be taken not to break the bust, which surmount it. The monument is set In a concrete foundation, surrounded by anew iron fence. Strange as it may seem, Paine’s bones do not rest beneath the monu ment. Twenty-two years after he was burled the bones were stolen, pre sumably by William Gobett, the Eng lish agitator. It Is stated that Cobett went at night with two colored men. and under the pretext that he was to take the body to England to bury it iri Westminster Abbey, dug it up and sent it away in a covered wagon. Maj. Andrew Coutant of New Rochelle, a former friend of Paine, was passing at the time, and saw the men’at work with lanterns. He notified the New Rochelle constables, who pursued the wagon to Harlem Bridge, where they lost track of It. Numerous theories have been ad vanced as to Oobett’s motive In steal ing Paine’s body, and as to the subse quent disposition of It, According to one story, the people of England re fused to allow the body to be buried In Westminster Abbey, and Cobett, to avoid arrest, threw It into the Thames. Others say that the body was exhibited in a museum, and still others say It was taken to the East Indies. The Paine monument is visited annually by thousands of tourists. The followers of the great patriot hold annual memorial service there, Usually on July Fourth. 33