Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1901 — Page 4

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LOUIS-Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Rlggs House, Ebbltt House end Dillard's Hotel. Who ha3 any defense to make of the 53cent levy of the mayor just before the last election? Should Mr. Maguiro delay his letter of acceptance any considerable period it will be said that he is timid about indorsing the policy of Mayor Taggart. The Chicago man who announces that he has a perpetual light, better than gas or electricity, should secure hi3 fame by hurrying up his invention The letter of acceptance of Mr. Bookwaiter has made a very favorable Impression upon conservative voters. It Is the forecast of an administration of municipal affairs such as the larger part of the people of this city desire. The unexpectedly heavy revenues collected during July and August may lead to a further repeal of revenue laws by the next Congress to prevent the accumulation of a large surplus. Any sort of a surplus would surprise Controller Dunn. The Hon. Champ Clark declares himself a candidate for the Senate from Missouri. Ex-Governor Stone has already entered the list, and the recent Governor, who wrote his name Lon V. Stephens, imagines that he can fill the shoes of Senator Vest. During the eight weeks since July 1 the United States sold 50,07J.O) bushels of wnfal tff other countries. The sales during the corresponding period of last year were 24,640.003 bushels. If this pace is continued there will be no surplus of wheat a year hence. It is greatly to the credit of Vice President Roosevelt that during his visit to Illinois he not only refused to talk politics, but refused to lend himself In any manner to the well-meant schemes of those who wanted to use him for political purposes. Colonel Itoosevelt is attending to present duties. Secretary Root has cut down the estimates for river and harbor appropriations made by the engineers $13,000,000; unfortunately, the secretary cannot deal with the members of the House committee who have been traveling about the country seemingly In search of rivers and harbors to Improve. The holdings of small farmers who do cot ral?e breadstuff to sell embrace ninetenths of the tilled land of Germany, so that the high duty imposed upon wheat, rye, etc.. Imported, will be to the advantage of 307,000 farmers who own or till large farms. Upon all fhe rest of the people of Germany the doubled duly on breadstuffs win be an additional burden. It eeems not to trouble the rulers of Russia that a famine is Impending over a portion of that country half as large as Germany. The Czar visits German' and France in an ostentatious manner, and his counselors plan to extend the empire's borders and menace the remainder of Europe. Russia may cover much territory, but with its masses in ignorance and semistarvatlon It cannot be one of the powers that will dominate the world. A dispatch from the village of Hodgenville, Ky., says that Chicago parties are negotiating for the purchase of the Lincoln farm on which Abraham Lincoln was born, two miles from that place, as a site for a sanatorium. The farm has a very line spring of water, but the dispatch says, "The land Is rugged and very inferior, being of the red clay quality." Had it been choice land Lincoln's father might never have left Kentucky and tho son might never have become a citizen of Illinois. The Mexican government will provide Elaborate quarters for the Tan-American Congress, which will meet in the. City of Mexico In October. The indications are that all the American governments will participate, Chile having reconsidered Its decision not to participate. One of the more Important matters that will be before the Congress is the proposition to arbitrate all disputes between the different governments. The Pan-American Congress, at the present time, when there i discussion in Europe about the Monroe doctrine, is of un-u.-ual importance. One result of an anticipated shortage in the corn crop ha In on to cause quite a general discussion of the value of rice as a food. This in turn has caused an unexpected degree of p..pul.r interest in the Louisiana "rice kitchen" at the Pan-American Exposition, when- the !.-1 mode-s- of cooking il-e arid the nmiy toothsome dlsh'S that can he made of it am demonstrated In a practical way. Tin- i-hort.iK in the potato crop will not l.e as great as was cxpcted a few week"? afin, but as rice is an American product it should h.ive its rlac In the American dietary. The N--.v Orleans Tims-Democrat bus mine good words to tay fr th.- J-oul-i.iri.i cereal.

which, it says, is Retting the best advertisement now it ever had. It notes the singular fact that the consumption of rice per capita in this country has decreased In the past century, and that the American people use, to the family, only half as much rice as In the earlier half of the century. That is probably because it has been unreasonably supplanted by wheat and, to some extent, by potatoes. The Times-Democrat, speaking from knowledge, says the merits of rice as a food have not been overstated, and thinks it is now only a question of letting the people of the country know how rice tastes when it is properly cooked to bring It Into the favor it enjoyed a century ago. ' LAHOR DAY. Labor day is now one of the institutions of the country. If it were not sanctioned by national and state legislation the appropriateness of such a day would make it a popular Institution. It is an Institution of organized labor to which the people are under obligation for annual displays showing the progress which wage-earners have made in this country in a quarter of a cen

tury. This may be said to be the fourth Labor day since a higher degree of prosperity came to this country. During these years organized labor has increased in numbers and Influence at a rate without precedent. Hard times and lack of employment seriously affect all interests, but none feel3 it more seriously than the labor organizations. Three years of unexampled prosperity will make the celebrations today the largest and most significant since the first Monday in September was set apart as Labor day. There have been seasons when the outlook of Labor day afforded nothing cheerful. Those were seasons of depression when every interest suffered, and labor most or all. It Is cause for congratulation that the Labor day of 1W1 has a most hopeful outlook, since employment is as near abundant as it was ever known to be, and wages, all things considered, are the highest ever earned. It is cause for congratulation that the Industrial condition of the country is so satisfactory. There have been strikes, and strikes are now pending, but the most formidable of them are not due to disputes over wages. There has not been during the year a strike due to an effort to reduce wages. Looking back a decade, the labor of the country must see that no part of tho people has been so favored in legislation as labor. The hours of labor are fixed in every important industrial State, prompt and frequent payment of wages is secured by law, labor has the first claim upon whatever is created by capital and toil, child labor is prohibited and law provides for the safety of those who work in factories. Great progress has been made by discreet leaders in elevating the condition of labor. In three years the coal-mining industry has been raised from the most demoralized condition to one in whicji both its labor and its capital work together successfully. The introduction of labor-saving machinery, increasing production to a wonderful degree, forces to the front the logical necessity of a shorter day for labor. Twelve or thirteen hours in a day have gradually given way to nine or ten, while eight hours is recognized by law in most States as far as law can have binding force. Under such conservative and intelligent leadership as labor has in most instances, the tight-hour day is not far away. There is and will be friction, but the mutual respect between the two elements of production appears to be increasing because both elements are more intelligent. THADCMAHKS. The framers of the federal Constitution showed wonderful foresight in some respects, but they could not foresee everything. They provided for the issuing of patents to the future inventors of the new republic, and of copyrights to its future authors, but they made no provision for trademarks. The Constitution gives Congress power to "promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited terms to Inventors the exclusive right to their discoveries." Under this provision the first Congress elected under the Constitution passed a patent law, and the country has never been without one since. Our patent system is one of the most extensive in thu world. Trademarks are closely allied to patents, being a sort of Individual grant an'd constituting a quasi monopoly for a fixed term. A trademark is the name, symbol, form or device used by a manufacturer or merchant to distinguish the merchandise which he produces or sells from that of others in order that such merchandise may be known as his, and that he may secure the profits arising from its real or alleged superiority. Trademarks were recognized at common law a long time before there was any legislation on the subject, and there is an immense number of common law trademarks now in use which are not registered at Washington. It Is estimated that thereare in active use in the United States over a million and a half trademarks and trade names, of vrhlch less than CT.OeO, or about 2 per cent., are registered at Washington. The right to the ownership of a trademark is a common law right and Is acquired by priority of use. Registration, however, enables the owner of a registered trademark to obtain evidence as to the time of its use by him, and Is a protection in many ways. The first law on the subject in this country was passed in 1S70. and the present system dates from that time. Any manufacturer or merchant may obtain a trademark for any article on complying with the conditions of the law, and, when Issued, the trademark becomes his exclusive property and may be defended at law against appropriation, imitation or infringement the same as a patent. The courts will grant an injunction on the application of any owner of a trademark to prevent another person from using or imitating it, and if the original owner has been injured he may recover damages. A trademark must be an original device, as simple or elaborate as ono chooses to make it, and Is registered and issued by the Patent Office on formal application therefor, accompanied by a copy of the device and payment of a fee of They run for thirty years. Th law says: "Nq alleged trademark shall be issued which is identical with a registered or known trademark owned by another, and appropriate to the same class of merchandise, or which so nearly resembles some other person's trademark as to be likely to cause confusion or mi.-take in the mind of tho public, or to deceive purchasers." This information is of practical interest heraus much confusion prevails now in business circles owing to the prevalence of two kind of trademarks, statutory and common law, registered Hnd unregistered. There I. nl-o a demand for better regulations and protection under the registry sys

tem. Several board3 of trade and commercial bodies have petitioned Congress for relief from the conditions which now prevail. The subject is one of great and growing importance to manufacturers. A NATIONAL DISGRACE. The Chicago Tribune has compiled some statistics of lynchings which in their magnitude and suggestiveness are appalling. When it is remembered that a. lynching is a cold-blooded murder, and that every one is participated in by a large number of persons, the statistics almost justify the Inquiry, are we a nation of murderers? The statistics cover a period of sixteen years, from 1SST to VkO, inclusive, and they showthat during that period there were ",516 lynchings in forty States. The only States that have not had a case of lynching since 1SSÖ arc Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Utah. It would be interesting to inquire whether the immunity of these States from the disgrace 13 due to the better enforcement of law, the better control of their passions by the people, or whether it is merely accidental. The lowest number of lynchings in any one year since 1SS5 was 107 in and the highest was 2CJ In 1S02. The year 1001 has still four months to run, yet the total number of lynchings and burnings at the stake has already reached 113. " Th-i completed year will show a full average. Of the total number of 2,510 lynchings, in sixteen years, 2,080 were perpetrated in the Southern States and 430 In the Northern. Of the victims, 1.C7S were negroes, S01 were whites, 21 were Indians, 9 were Chinese and 7 were Mexicans. Among Southern States Mississippi leads with 203, and among Northern States, It must be said to her discredit, i3 Indiana, with 26. New York had 2, Pennsylvania 3, Ohio 13, Illinois 14. The crime seems to be mainly confined to the Southern and Western States, though no other Western or Central Western State shows a3 many as Indiana. Discreditable as the fact is, it may as well be admitted and faced. The mitigating feature Is that there has been a decrease in the number of lynchings In the State In recent years, though there were five in 1S07 and three in 1300. These statistics and the general condition of lawlessness which they disclose are calculated to make law-abiding citizens blush with shame. More than that, they are an alarming indication as to whither we are drifting. In the hands of foreign critics of our. institutions they would be unanswerable. With what consistency can we talk about magna Charta, habeas corpus and trial by jury when we are hanging and burning men without trial at the rate of from 125 to 200 a year? With what show of reason can we maintain the superiority of .republican institutions when both the national and state governments are powerless to suppress lynchings? A well-known man In this city whose business makes it necessary for him to understand the condition of the corn crop, has just returned from an extended trip In this State and Illinois. His judgment after going through many corn fields and examining the growth Is that Indiana will have over half an average crop, and that Illinois will have three-fourths of a crop. A Chicago jobbing house which made a canvass of S00 counties In the States suffer

ing the greatest damage to the corn crop found that only 215 counties reported the outlook for business poor, while the others reported that business would be fair to good during the fall and winter. A gen erally better feeling has prevailed throughout agricultural sections the last two weeks. At a teachers' institute in Macon county, Missouri, a few days ago the question was put to 2! teachers, "Who Is the greatest woman in all history?" Queen Victoria led In the answers given, with Frances Willard, Helen Gould and others following in order. The prize was awarded to a young woman whose reply to the question was: "The wife of the Missouri farmer of moderate means, who does her own cooking, washing and ironing, brings up a large family of girls and boys to be useful members of society, and finds time for her own intellectual and moral improvement is 'the greatest woman in all history.' " The young woman had a good conception of what constitutes true greatness, and, happily for the Amer lean people, her reply fits a great many women in all the States. A letter from Senator Vest Is published, in which, after speaking kindly of Mr. Bryan, whom he regards as a good speaker but a poor leader, he says: Leadership is a peculiar and rare talent A man may be an orator, lawyer and statesman, but not necessarily a good lead er. Jefferson, Van Buren, Lincoln and Mc Kinley have been the greatest political leaders and managers in this country, and Mr. McKinley has never had a superior in mat regard. One of the most remarkable shipment ever made In the interest of International scientific research was made a few day ago from Warsaw, Ind. It was a consign ment of 1,500 turtle eggs from Prof. Eigen mann, in charge of the State University biological station at Winona, to the State University of Switzerland at Zurich where a study Is being made of turtle em bryology. Most people will consider that the De troit man who fasted forty-one days has done nothing to be proud of. The cham pion faster is even a bigger fool than the one engaged to eat a quail every day for sixty days. Among other preparations for the Czar's visit to Paris is a plan to replace the fallen leaves of the trees in the Champs Elysces with artificial ones of gaudy-colored paper Truly. "What fools we mortals be." FROM HITHER AND YON. The Old Ntyle. Stray Stories. Mr. Stuckup (.suddenly grown rich) The qutstion i.. young man, can jou support my daughter in the Ptyle in which hhe is accustomed to live? Your.g Man Well, fir, it depends on what period of hr existence you mean. Jlore Important. Philadelphia Press. Niblacli s'.julfullj ) O darling! do name the day and let it be fon. Miss Koy How impatient you are! Well, then le-t im say the first week in October. Ntblack O er really I er I'm entered for our club tournament at the Hootmon links that tcek. o Ocrniilon fnr Any. Chicago Tribune. Whil the church was locked up for the sum mer it a? occupied as a "lerr-in? place tramp, and on reopenirp th building it v an decided by th" trustees that it must be fumi gated. "Ilite ou pot any bi imrnne?"' a.ked the man wh had come to do the job. No. lr!" stiffy rerdied trie sexton. "This la a tntf rsaliat church." A Theory That United. r4ltimrre American. Helying upon the rid i;ig that the hortest s;iy to a man's hart was thtoj.h hl blomacM.

tht Fond Wife, wh'j wanted a new Worth gown.

regaled her husbard with costly viands for a month. Then she rnd hj- request. But the Hearties Wretch replied: "Can't stand it iow. The grocery and meat bill was too heavy this month." KnovrledK. Life. ? rir$t M. D. Waslthe operation a success? Second M. D. Oh, yes. The patient died, but we harned how he night have been saved if we had to do It over ajain. Itetributlon. Detroit Free Press' ".Since the nsflfiec. man has been making love to the fat girl, he i harder than ever." "Well, hasn't he been making himself solid? CANAL TO ARCTIC OCEAN. dvnntnKc of. Proponed Connection ivith the Baltic Sen. Engineering. The plan of connecting the Daltlc with the Arctic ocean by means of a canal is a very natural one,' inasmuch as there is no doubt that in former days there existed a waterway connection between the two oceans, of which the belt of lakes between the Finnish gulf and the Onega, in the western portion of the White sea, bears unmistakable testimony, these lakes being separated only b: low-lying land, through vwucii iuii a. nuinoer or. sman inns, considering the distance to be compassed, thft ennnl in mu .,.111 nrntuhlv nfTer but few difficulties, nor will the cost be uui 01 proportion. Apart irom xne commercial importance, a canal between the Ttnltie nnrl t, A I immense strategical value, as it will supply tne Russian fleet in the Baltic witn an independent means of exit In case of complications with the west European powers. The nolitfeal 1 m r nrt o nr-a. nf lieh m mn.il has been further enhanced by the new port oi viexanarovsk. which has Deen constructed on the A-arman coast in the Kola bay. This navar port can accommodate the largest war vessels, and Is. owing to the gulf stream, almost ice free. It goes without saying that the two the port of Alexandrovsk and the canal referred to supplement each other, provided the latter is made sufficiently wide and deep. From the Finnish gulf, the Neva, varying in depth from ten feet to twenty-three feet, leads to the Ladoga lake, which, by the River Tivlr, is connected with the Onega lake. The Tlvir is between 140 and 150 miles long, and is already, in its present state, navigable for smaller vessels. It can comparatively easily be transformed into a big ship canal. The Onega, which is in places 370 feet deep, is, in a way, already connected with the Arctic ocean by small lakes and rivers, the natural conditions being extremely lavorable for the making of a canal of considerable capacity. Only a small number of locks will be necessary. The terminus of the canal at the White sea will be at Sorozkaja, on its western coast. Th entire distance between St. Petersburg and Sorozkaja is very nearly fX miles, of which rather more than half viz., .W miles is through the lakes and 2D5 miles through rivers which are heing regulated. Through the canai the distance between St. Petersburg and t'ie port of Alexandrovsk, on the Marman coast, amounts to some 1.090 miles, whilst the distance around Scandinavia Is miles. Although it is no doubt principally political motives which have caused this canal to be constructed, it will undoubtedly also become an Important factor in commerce and prove an outlet for several of the towns on the borders of the White sea. It is also expected that n large portion o the grain traffic of the Volga district to the White sea will go to the canal, in preference to the present system of passing through Ladoga and various rivers and lakes, which system entails no small amount of reloading, etc. CLEVELAND'S SALARY DEMAND. Treasury Warrant the Ux-President Has "Sever Collected. Ney." York Times. Ex-President Cleveland possibly has in his possession a demand upon the treasury of the United States, and perhaps may at some time hereafter decide to present it for liquidation. It is a. warrant, made out by the treasury, for a balance of salary earned but not drawn by him. This does not intend to be a paragraph complaining of the indifference of the United States to its creditors, but something entirely different. The President gets his salary once a month. In order that he shall not get more than the 500,000 each year to which he is entitled, the checks or warrants are so made out, according to a table in the treasury, that in a quarter he shall get two checks of $4,ltG.M and for one month a check for J4.16Ö.C7. That arrangement would bring him out all right if adhered to. When Mr. Cleveland was President one of the clerks in the department of bookkeeping and warrants forgot that he had sent two checks for a quarter for $4,16J.G6 and made out the third for the same amount. When the discovery was made it was too late to withdraw the wrong check nnd substitute a new one. In order that the President should be fully paid a new check or warrant for 1 cent was made out and duly sent to the White House. Nobody in the treasury knows what become of that check after it reached the President. It has never come to the treasury. It may have been destroyed, or it may have been framed as a curiosity. Such small evidences of debt aro not entirely unknown in the treasury, for the assistant secretaries are still getting large salaries for devoting a part of their time to signing checks for amounts as small. When one has established his right to take money from the treasury, it is not hard to get it. In order that the books shall be right every cent nnd fraction of a cent must be represented by papers signed and countersigned by many officers. Mr. Cleveland's cent has remained in the general fund, to be used for purposes as the government needs cash to expend. It will accumulate no interest while in the treasury. tnpieninnt hut t'sefnl. New York Evening Tost. A will has been described as "a disagreeable reminder of mortality," but it is well never to be without one. The possibility of dying between wills is well illustrated in the case of the great composer. Johannes IirahrfTs, whose estate is now being contested in the Austrian courts. He had provided by will for the distribution of his residuary estate between musical foundations at Hamburg and Vienna. In similar fashion his collection of hooks and of autograph scores was bequeathed to the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. His rough notes were to be destroyed, as he was "anxious to leave no trash behind." In order to make some slight change in the will practically all the clauses were canceled, and death overtook him before a new draft was prepared. It seems likely that distant relatives will get the bulk of the property, except for such portion as they may turn over to the two musical societies as an act of grace. Thus a life purpose is likely to be wholly defeated. The obvious moral Is that any will is better han no will, and that it is wiser to stand by an imperfect disposition of one's worldly goods than to take any chances of their falling into the hands of the courts. The Lund of Syndicate. London Mail. "Germany has become the land of syndicates," says the report of the British consul general at Frankfurt. "Though some of the giant trusts of the United States may enjoy greater power than single trusts in Germany, there ran be no doubt that syndicates in Germany are more numerous than elsewhere, and that here the idea of syndicates has been curried to very considerable length. There hardly remains a branch of traue the members of which have not combined for the regulation of prices or even for the regulation of the quantity of out put. "The result is, of course, the impossibility of fair trade." Appalling; Thought! Philadelphia Record. The country has every reason to be grateful that Chauncey Depew was not born rich instead of poor. In a newspaper interview he says thit if he had been born to great wealth he would have been content to live in the little country town where he was born. "1 would not," he adds, " have gone into literature." It is appalling to think what a lo.-s it would have been to English literature if it had not been enriched ty the works of Mr. Depew! Word from Home. Kansas City Journal. Mrs. Nation seems to be attracting plenty of attention in the Ea-t. Kansas trusts that her visit there may be n long and phasant one t-spt i daily a long one.

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The AVoman'M Hook of Sport. A significant feature of the so-called emancipation of women is the great increase in the number of those who cultivate outdoor sports for exercise as well as for pleasure. A generation or two ago it was considerei bad form for women to engage in such amusements. Now it is fashionable, and the really well-educated young woman of the period must count outdoor sports among her accomplishments. Nearly every woman's college now has a department in physical development. "The Woman's Book of Sports," designated in a subtitle as "A practical guide to physical development and outdoor recreation." is intended as a practical guicle for amateur sportswomen. Its author is J. Parmly I 'a ret, a practical writer on such topics. The book is an excellent guide for the feminine novice in sports, for each game is treated from the elementary standpoint, the first rudiments of skill in all being explained in a simple and direct manner. Golf, lawn, tennis, sailing, swimming, bicycling and basket ball have each their chapters, giving the condensed teachings of the best professional instructors. A unique feature of the book is the chapter on men's sports from a woman's point of view from the viewpoint of the spectator. Football, baseball, yacht rr.cing. rowing and athletics are all fully explained, so that the uninitiated spectator, either man or woman, may learn enough of any of these sports in a half hour's reading of its chapters to appreciate the game to be seen. The book is illustrated with half-tone reproductions in full-page size of instantaneous photographs showing the correct and incorrect methods in the different sports. In illustrating the drive in golf, for instance, three illustrations show the beginning, the middle and the end of the swing as it should be made, while a fourth shows the incorrect finish of the swing, without the "carry through." Other sports are treated in the same way. New York: D. Appleton & Co. The WiKdom of Ean. "The Wisdom of Esau" is a story designed to set forth the experience of the poorer people who went to Australia from England to take up land and thus escape the influence of caste. "Tolland," who is "Esau," left his home In England because he hated the landed aristocracy. He carried his hatred with him, to rind in Australia that money and family to some extent got the best land. This fact intensified his hatred. He was a complex character, a lover of poetry, who knew Walter Scott, and an idealist. He married a woman who knew better educated and more refined people than he a woman of remarkable power. No hard fortune could make them other than lovers, yet she was a gentle, while he was a fierce spirit. He did not like to have his wife meet the refined woman who was her earliest friend, because her husband, whom he hated, had obtained bv questionable methods hundreds of acres of the best lands. With the which brought 111 fortune, he grew more intense in his peculiar views. He was wrathful because his daughter married the son of the hated rich man, and in his pride refused her assistance when she needed it. He finally died after killing the rough but prosperous man who had been his foe nnd who held the mortgage on his land. The narration is cleverly handled and the character skillfully drawn, making the story one of more than ordinary interest. C. II. Chornley and R. M. Outhwaite are the authors and the Cassell Company, New York, the publishers. A Sunny Southerner. This Is a love story with a conventional plot and an ending that is pretty plainly foreshadowed from the beginning. The heroine, Honora Chiltern. is the handsome and intelligent daughter of a typical Southerner of the old school. When their family mansion is burned it turns out that she had been-smart enough to have it Insured, thus saving her lond but impractical father from loss. A New York architect comes to rebuild it, and also there comes a handsome young man in overalls, who mixes mortar in an unusually graceful way. Both of the men fall in love with Honora and she secretly favors the young laborer, who rescues her from an enraged bull and makes a profound impression by his gallantry. The supposed difference in their social position interrupts the acquaintance, and the young man temporarily disappears. Subsequently Honora goes to New York, where she becomes gay and fashionable. Of course, the young man reappears, and proves to be a wealthy and aristocratic gentleman who had assumed the guise of a laborer in order to get points for writing a book. His book, fur which he got the points while he was working in overalls, makes him famous, and a leading society woman ia New York pronounces him "quite the most important as well as the most charming young man that I know." He renews his suit, and he and Honora become engaged. It is a perfectly harmless story. The author is Julia Magruder and the publishers are L. C. Page & Co. The Seal of Silence. Tills is a posthumous work, the first and last novel of a young Englishman, Arthur It. Conder, who lived to read its proof sheets, but died suddenly just before it was brought out. The author was a college-bred man, graduated at Oxford, and was preparing for the rar, but his strong literary u-e led him toward authorship. This story snows that he had decided talent in that direction. It deals with the experiences and adventures of two cousins, respectively the son and adopted son of an eccentric person, who dies just before the story begins, and who is only introduced to disappear. The two cousins are the rival heroes of the story and rival lovers. The story opens in England, but shifts to South Africa and back again in a way that is made perfectly natural by the course of events. Tne plot is so intricate and the action of the story so rapid that it would be difficult to give an outline of it, but in addition to distinct literary ability it shows powers of observation and description and a sense of character quite surprising in the first story of a young author. The book has a fres.hr.ess, charm and refined humor which make one regret that the author did rot live to write more. New York: D Appleton & Co. A Duiighter of ew France. This story, by Mary C. Crowley, opens up a new field in American historical romance. it being laid in the early days of the French settlement of Detroit. Drawing from those treasure houses of French-Canadian his tory, Quebec and Montreal, it portrays the society of the city of Champlaln at the end of the seventeenth and tho beginning of the eighteenth century, and pictures the brilliant Gascon chevaliers, the gallant bieur Cadillac and his colony, who had laid the foundations of the present city of Detroit, with their sturdy oyageurs, couriers dc bois, sons of rroud seigneurs. and the women who loved them and shared their fortunes. The story seems to have been woven from threads of reality, and it loiiows with considerable fidelity the his torical and biographical records of the no rioci. which seem to have been carefully studied by the author. The half-savage scenes ana stirring adventures with which the story abounds are reliev ed by a pretty romance and some beautiful love passages. Boston: Little, Brown ci Co. The MamiRer of the n. A A. Harper & Bros'.' plan of publishing each month during the current year a new nov of American life by an American author is being carried forward successfully. No S in the list, issued in August, is "The Manager of the B. & A.," by Vaughan Hester. Jt is a railroad story of which the scene is laid in a little town in the lumber region of Michigan. The hero, Dan Uakiev, is th rnaniger of a small branch railroad, tho Buckhorn S; Antioch. whose paralyzed business he intends to build up. lie is a typical, energetic American, and the novel portrays his love ntor as weil as his stirring railroad career, both of which are cleverly told. The story has distinct individuality and maintains the standard set by the previous numbers in a scries of stories which are all good. J ii en lien. Two stories for boys by Allen Cnapman, entitled, respectively. "Bound to Rise" and "Walter Boring's Career," ate publish d in one volume. The first one tells howthree bright boys, brothers, born and brought up in the it y. and w ho could n..t obtain employment there, did weil and made money by going to the country and renting and working a small farm and flower garden. The second story is more stirring in incident nnd adventure, and relates the sträng- experience a boy h-d in tlcarinc his father from an uniust rharc

of dishonesty and how he himself became a famous sculptor. Both are good stories for young people. New York: The Mershon Company. The Nineteenth Hole. The third volume of Harper & Bros. uniform "portrait series" of short stories contains seven short stories and a farce by Van Tassel Sutphen. all of which are based on the humors and vicissitudes of golf playing and its facilities for romance and love making. The stories were originally published in Harpers' Magazine and other Periodicals, and tiny appeal not only to goir plavers, but to all lovers of a good .-tory for the story's sake. There is a colored frontispiece portrait of the author, and the binding is uniform with other volumes of the series and very pretty. Flosrera of lTclel nnd inrden.

A second edition of this work, by F. Schuvler Matthews, first published six years ago, contains all of the original mat ter, with some valuable additions m the way of photographs from nature shewing the habital likenesses of some of our common wild flowers. The text is descriptive f familiar flowers, givJ A. Cb IU i 1.0 4H-'V & - Ing their botanical classification and names, as well as their peculiar cnaracu riMu s. and the illustrations are very num-rous and exceptionally good. The latter Include over i drawings and twelve orthochromatic photographs irom naiuie. D. Appleton te Co. Current Period leal. Harper & Brothers will publish within the next few weeks "Cardigan." being a story of the early New York frontier, by Robert W. Chambers; "The Right of Way." by Gilbert Parker, and 1-lood Tide." by Mrs. S. P. Greene, author of "Cape Cod Folks," and "Vesty of the Basins." The September number of Table Talk contains an article on "Mushrooms, Their Food Values and Toisonous Properties," which goes into the subject exhaustively. It tells how to detect the poisonous ones and how to prepare the good one. it Is written by Dr. E. Elmer Heeler, an eminent authority on this subject. The September number of the American Federationist, the official organ of the American Federation of Labor, contains a variety of matter bearing on present labor conditions and of especial interest to those who celebrate Labor day. Among other things is a resume of the work accomplished by the Federation during the past year. "Sherlock Holmes" has been resurrected by A. Conan Doyle and reappears in the pages of the Strand Magazine for September, in the first chapters of a serial story. His duty in the story is to unearth the mystery of a hideous and bloodthirsty hound supposed to be of supernatural origin. Mr. Holmes seems to possess all his old-time shrewelness. A notable feature of the Ladies' Home Journal for September , Is a number of characteristic letters written by the. late Louisa M. Alcott to the boy who was the original of Laurie in "Little Women." Greater interest attaches to these letters from the fact that the famous author was not greatly given to personal correspondence and nothing of hers in this line has heretofore been published. Mrs. E. L. Voynich, author of "Jack Ray mond," is the subject of the monthly por trait and biography in September Book News. "Up at the 'Lotments' is a short story taken from "Pastorals of Dorset," by M. E. Francis; "The Meanest Man in America" is a chapter from C. F. Pidgin's forthcoming book, "Blennerhassett;" Dr. Talcott Williams has his usual talk on the more important new books. The August and September Issues of Music (Chicago) will be combined in a single number, which will be ready on Sept. 15. Thereafter the monthly Issues will appear on the 5th of each month. Be ginning with that number, the price of the magazine will be reduced to $1 a vear, instead of $3. Mr. W. S. B. Mathews, the founder of Music, will remain editor, and will devote to the magazine a larger por tion or nts time. Ainslee's Magazine for September has for frontispiece "The Beach Service o" the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association." illustrating "The Biggest Camp Meeting in the World." "Chicago, the Most National City," is a fine article, profuseJv illustrated. The "Great Types of Modern Business" series is this month devoted 'to hotels, with illustrations from photographs. There are short stories bv Abraham Cahan, Robert E. MacAlarnev, Ada Woodruff Anderson. Rodrigues Ottoler.gui. Thomas P. Montfort, Joseph C. Lincoln and others, besides some good poems. John Oliver Hobbes's new novel, announced by the Frederick A. Stokes Company, is entitled "The Serious Wooing: A Heart's History." In it are set forth the evils of the marriage of convenience. The utter unscrupulousness of the modern English society woman striving to marry off her family well, and the wrongs that she will inflict for the sake of social advancement, without a qualm of consci nee, are said to be depicted with an unsparing hand. The plot of the story is simple, the" movement is rapid. The text is sprinkled with epigrams, as might be expected. The Critic for September contain? a caricature portrait ot James Whitcomb Riley. Its literary features Include a paper by' Lewis E. Gates on Professor Salisbury's "History of Criticism." He considers Saintsbury's method of treating his subject and the functions of criticism in general. Havelock Eilis writes of "The Progressive Movement in Spain." Gerald Stanley Lee's second paper in his series on "Literary Drill in College" has for it theme 'The Best of Culture." Among the illustrated articles is Mr. Henry Shelton's review of "The Comic Paper in America" enlivened by many rare covers, title-pages and cartoons. William Archer's "Real Conversation" is with W. S. Gilbert. The special features of the September number of the American Monthly Review of Reviews are a sketch of the naval record of Admiral Schley, by Park Benjamin; an illustrated article on automobile-making in the United States, by J. A. Kingman: an analysis of the steel consumption bv Talrott Williams; a study of Dr. Robej't Koch and his theories on consumption bv Dr. Hermann Biggs, the bacteriologist- a s!utch of the late Prof Herbert B. Adim by his former colleague at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Richard T. Elv. and illustrated articles on "The Economics of Cattle Ranching in the Southwest " by Robert M. Barker, and "Kansas After the Drought," by Prof. F. W. Blackmar. Next to the Harrison reminiscences of George Eliot, mentioned elsewhere, , the most readable paper in the September Harper is the paper on "Prague," by Arthur Symons. Those who have read Marion Crawford's novel. "The Witch of Prague." will recall that remarkable book in reading Symons's descriptions. Other serious contributions include a paper on "The New German Navy." an account of "Our Last Cannibal Tribe." a scientific dissertation on "Cathode Rays," and a viewof "Embryo Americans," as they appear at a Lcipsic railway station. The -fiction includes the first installment of a threepart serial, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelp and a short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Howells. in the "Easy Chair." discourses pleasantly of libraries and reading. Funston's exclusive story of the capture of Aguinaldo Is the leading feature of the September number of Everybody's Magazine, but there are a number of other good tilings. The "Average American," by Henry Gannett, describes the typical citizen of the United States according to the figures of the 19vO census. "The Greatest Tunrv-I in the World." by Eugene P. I.yle. ih scribes tho construction of the Simplon tunnel through twelve and a half miles of rock. Dr. ('. Hart Merriam. of the Fnited St-ten Biological Survey, describes the "Hirtn of an American Volcano." B. p. Benson.-author of "Dodo." explains the "Soc ial V iluc of Golf." In "The Survivors" Maximlli m Foster contributes one of the best of his picturesque nature stories, describir.g the last bison h rd. Th re are s ral short stories, including a trapping tale by Ch:-rM Major. Those who are s-pedally IntrrcHed in education will find two papers in the Septembr Forum on that subject, nan-el, "Tho Ideal School as Based on Child Study," by President Hall, of Clark University, ami "The Evolution of th- American University." by F. W. Clarke, who has been a member of the management oi government exhibits in six expositions. Edu.otid Wood asks the question: "Can Cubans Govern OjhaV" He thinks they cannot. "The Mode! Factory Town." iii the opinion of Leonora Beck Ellis, a .Southern woman. Is at IVIzer, S. C, one of the cotton-manufacturing towns that have sprung up in the South within a few vears. "The I'tllization of Waste,": by Prof. Ptr T. Austin, shows how nearly kUiii and science arc bringing: ua to th

point where nothing will be wasted. Ben

jamin Taylor fhow?, to hi ow n satisfaction at leat. that the British Empire ; a wnnic hoids th" commercial advantage that it wen a eentury agV People who have visited the Pan-Ameri can exposition and those who have not or may be intending to do so will nlike find th souvenir September number of the Cosmo politan attractive. Fourteen writers were sent by the Cosmopolitan to the Pan-Ameri can to study the most interesting fcatuic with a view to preparing a souvenir that should be excellent from both a literary and an artistic standpoint. To "Mr. Dooley" was committed the ease of tho midway. Judge Robert Grant went from Boston to give a birds-eve view of the exposition in his own particular style. Albert Shaw and Nicholas Murray Butler Studie. i the value of the exposition, and Its educational influence. Charl s Y. Turner. to whom was committed the color-s heme of the Pan-American, explains the methods by which he has produced such marvelous results. Arthur Brisbane takes the Incubator Bay and Niagara Falls? for his sub ject. Director General Buchanan contrib utes a very interesting paper m the organization of the exposition. l'rotessor Pupitt. Col. David Potter Heap. Ella Whc. 1er Wilcox, Lavina Hart. Julian Hawthorn and John Brisben Walker are among others who consider the various phases of th exposition. Under the direction of th edittrs of the Cosmopolitan, 1"3 photographs v ro prcpand showing every variety of an iiitecture and every phase of life, not neglecting the midway, at th Pan-American. Those are all included ia this nunibtr. The most interesting feature of Harper's Magazine for September is Frederic Harrison's chapter of reminiscences of George Eliot. He knew her intimately and though what he says may throw no new light on her character, yet the fresh glimpses of her are attractive. He has this to say of hii first meeting with her in a small company of friends: "I listened with lively Interest to the words of one who was already famous, who from the first moment impressed every one witli a sense of grae thought, high ideals, and scrupulous courtesy. She had not a grain of :-elf-im-portance in her manner, and took quite a simple anl modest part in the general talk, listening to the brilliant sallies f Georg Lewes with undisguised delight, respecting Congreve's views as those f a trained historian and scholar, and thowing me the kindly welcome of a gracious woman to the friend of her frhnds. I remember an argument in which the engaged me, wherein I thought, as I still think, she was mistaken. She maintained, apropos of a re view of troops she had lately seen, that 'the pomp and circumstance of glorius war was more conspicuous in our day than it was in tho middle, aget. Having ome knowledge of mediaeval art, Italian warpalntlngs, and illuminated Froissarts. I ventured to doubt. The company seemel to think me bold in venturing to differ from her opinion on a matter of local color. But she did not think so herself; and nothing could be more graceful than the patience wih which she listened to my points." With the I'nblhiher. "The Owl and the Woodchuck." by William Harold Neldlinger and Walter Bobbctt. will be Issued from the press of RandMcNally on Sept. 1. It Is a combination of prose, music and pictures, and is intended lor children. "Rugs, Oriental and Occidental," is th title of a volume announced by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Its author. Rosa Belle Holt, has made a close study of tho subject and is said to have produced an interesting and useful work. Walter Barr, author of "Shackbtt," a novel just published by the Appletons, and which is said to be quite out of tho common, is now a resident of Iowa, but was educated at De Pauw University and later did newspaper work at Grcencastie and Cedumbus, Ind. Hall Caine has never made it a. secret that he gets his plots from the Bible, and for the new novel, "The Eternal City." the American edition of which has just be, ri issued by D. Appleton A: Co.. he has taken for his them' the story of Samson and Delilah, with the effort, box ever, to nika his modern Delilah sympathetic to tk reader. It has been gen rally known that Agues Rcpplier has been for some time engaged upon a volume devoted to the cat. which was to bear the felicitous title .if "Th Fireside Sphinx." The vu'urr.o i.- at last completed and will e included anion sr. Messrs. Houghton. Mithin Co.'s tall publications. In it the author has traced the history of the "suave arid puissant c-u" fruin its first appe:iance by tiie Nile down to the present day. Maximo Gorky, t:V J.r.I.in, is evidently to be one of tho muc h-ta lked-of writers. It is generally believed that this apostle of vagabondage is at Ids best in short stories. A collection e,f these, under the title of "The Orloffs." will therefore be published this autumn by the Messrs. Putnam. Th translator, Mrs. Montetiore, works directly from the Russian and the translation is said to bear evid nee of her thorough sympathy with the Russian autlur's work Little, Brown X: Co. have in prejmratioa the twenty-fifth thousand of Sidney Mr. Call's novel "Truth Dexter." The demand for the book this past month ha been greater than at any time since its first publication. "When the Gates Lift Up i inir lleaK" Pa in- Erskine's powcrlul Southern novel, has just gone into a new edition. Maud Wilder Goodwin's "Sir Christopher." and Mary Catherine CrowJey's Detroit story. "A Daughur of Nev? Franco." ar; also v ery su s!ul. both being in their sixth editions. George Horton, editor, essayist and novelist, widely reccgni. d just now as th author of "Like Another Helen." will brin. ut this fall. undr the t i 1 1 - of "Modern Athens," a book embodying a brilliant picture of the capital city of modern Greer and life there in all its t ha.- s. Xo on- is better equipped for such a work than Mr. Horton, his long residence in Athens in th diplomatic service having steeped him iti the necessary facts, atmosphere- and perspective. The book Will bo produced by the Seribners in an atractlv manner, bcli.? in size and style somewhat -Imilar li Marion Crawford's "Constantinople." M?ssrs. L. C. Page & Co., Boston, announce, the following we.rks f nVtion for Immediate publication: "Captain Raven shaw," by Robert Neilson Pt phi ns, author of "An Enemy to the King." "Philip Winwoo!," etc.; "Her Washington Ilxp'tiences," by Anna Farquhar, author f "Her Boston Experiences, i'he D vii s Plough." etc.; "Back to the Soil." by Bradley Gilman, author of "The Drifting Island," etc.; "My Strangest Case," by Guy Boothhv, author of "Dr. Nickola." "That Beautiful Wldto Devil." tc: 'Marvin of Harvard. ' by K. W. Kauffmun. literary d,tor tli Philadelphia Press; "A G.-ritlewur.an of th Siurns." by Annie Wakcman. It was after the publication of "Th Dnistr" that IL.ll Caine m -do hi apearanre ji" a dramatist. Mr. Wilson Barrett, who had lead the book, tolegraphej to him to ceitne up and eliscuts its dramatization. Mr. Caine started, but wan forced to have the train at Derby, owing to a terrible I'og. Per ten day. lie stoppe aj a little inn near Derby, the "Ba ac Walton in Dow Dib-. waiting for the fng to lift u d In r' It was that b- wrote ii nr;tft of his play. "Ben-rny-Clire ." widen waa produ'-rri by Mr. Wilson Barr tt at th i'rirn ess Theatc-r, lyin.i-n. on Mi', 1 1, All Mr. Cain 's subsequent dra r.ut ! oric !:;; bren dono in eoliahor at Ion with Mr. Wilson Barrett, with th- ..' -xe-ept j.,n "The Christian." Mr. uine h.,s had one great disappointment j,, n)J dramatic work. He was corn missioned by Sir Henry Irving to writ- a play on Mahomet. be.t th- ouj. rv jn the pr.-s was so ureal that Sir H.nrv was compelled to giv- up the ld-.4 of ;;r ilp( -'r. tin- play. B was accept) In Ann-ri-a. but bis not y-t been Mag.-d. "The i.trnal City." Ml. Caine s lat.-rt no. (. h., jut ben published by I). AppUton iv '. V Hatch of "I'npfr l oun." "The Mystery .f the C'.a-pe d Hi.-. '.." by Guy Bootbby. i-or. t -tins nn lueni-o' pice of e. t.-cthe work. D. Apple'on ,v Co "The Step-Mother." by Mfv Alexander, is a story of absorbing interest, the centra! tcatnre b ing the skill v. itb whidi mo: ber-in-la w won f-.r a sea th- l---. e of ha lather. J. B. Lipph cott i'mutciv. "Dzang" is the title of a :;el devoted t-T the strange adventures of Mr and Mr.-. Alton Loring. They ate h!!--e-dy and the stl "f tellinc N bed AMhwr I.. Bozzell is the author and th.- P. T e nr. .- n Needy Company the pul ;-l:i r. "A Royal Exe-tia i g.-." by J. M i. -Laren Cobban, Is a story in whi h Urown Prince of Bet tea teme enamored of the daughter of a Briti-b !on-l ,u tie- r. ;ired Uat and resigned Im big! p.-;ti"n to marry