People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — McClure's Magazine for July. [ARTICLE]

McClure's Magazine for July.

Most readers will be surprised to learn, as any one may from an excellent illustrated article in McClure's Magazine* for July, how the telegraph has now crept into the remotest crannies of the earth, and is transmitting its hundreds of millions of messages a year at a constantly lessening cost in money and trouble to the public. The same number contains a dramatic chapter from the history of Tammany—the automatic reign of Tweed, with all its barbaric and illicit splendors, splendors maintained by the theft of untoid millions of public money. An article by Sir Robert Ball, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, England, shows that recent scientific discoveries tend to support the theory that other planets, as well as the earth, maintain life. Hamlin Garland describes the home and studio life of Edward Kemeys, and relatives, mainly in Mr. Kemeys's own words, how, without instruction and under the irresistible uigency of natural bent, he became a sculptor of frontier life and wild animals. Portraits of Kemeys and reproductions of his chief sculptures illustrate the paper. Cy Warman, the poet engineer, describes a ride on the locomotive of a London and Paris express. Cleveland Moffett supplies. from the Pinkerton archives. a history of the stealing of an express parcel containing $41,000, and of the discovery of the thief and the recovery of most of the money after years of search and pursuit. A poem addressed by Edmund Gosse to Robert Louis Stevenson but a day or two before his death; Stevenson’s rare address of thanks to the Samoan chiefs who built him a road, and his will; and several excellent short stories, among them one by“Q” and one by Stanley J. Weyrnan - are the other noteworthy features of the number. The publishers announce with this number a reduction of price to ten cents a copy, or one dollar a vear.