THE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 16, 190T.
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l"h Country- Home, by John Galsworthy.
91-00. Q. P. Putnam's Sons, New York
City. nd the J. K. Gill Co.. Portland.
When a tigress is placed in a eagre pro
tected with to tit Iron bars, and if you
are on the outside of those bars It Is ad
mlesable that you admire that tigress
to your heart's content. Tou can fall
!n love with her ej'es of -fire, stripes of
her tawny coat, restless sweep of her
tallt evident love she bears to her cubs,
the ivory whiteness of her teeth and
that which 1s called society, and also the
police, will not Interfere. But once at
tempt to fondle that tigress away from'
the restraint of those iron bars, and the
result will be disquieting. The tlsress in
Mr. Galsworthy's novel, "The Country
House' Is Mrs. Helen Bellew, who doesn't
live with her husband and whose reputa
tion would be improved were it wrapped
in asbestos. She is exhibit "A" and oc
cupies the center of the stage a good
rffsl of the time.
"The Country House" is a picture of
the aristocratic, idle-rich In England,
end the reading Is an intellectual treat,
t'ellcately veiled Batire, merciless dissec
tion of humbugs and giddy social but
terflies who would be all the better of a
chloride of lime bath, a dissertation on
the divorce question, a peep into the life
of the English landed gentry all ko to
make up a real treat in fiction worthy of
a novel like this which made a great
reputation 1n Great Britain before It
reached these shores. Mr. Galsworthy,
you have done something worth while.
nd your work chows genius from the
first page, yea, to the 307th. The writing
is easy and natural, just as If the char
acters were playing a part and the book!
a stage. The. humor s genuine, but
never loud.
The story opens with the separation of
Mrs. Helen Bellew from her husband.
Captain Jasper Bellew. Mrs. Bellew
had gray-green eyes at which the' best
people of her own sex looked with In
stinctive disapproval, and complaints were
general that nature had given Mrs. Bel
lew a too striking appearance. The
'country house" from which the title of
the novel 1s taken Is the home of Horace
Pendyce. lord of the manor of Worsted
Skeynep, and grosfp is busy because af
a house party given there It Is discovered
that Oeorge Pendyce, the eldest son of
Squire Pendyce, Is in love with the giddy
Mrs. Bellew. She Is pictured as being
bo beautiful that the hardened cabmen
stop their horses so that they can better
- admire her. Hut beauty is only skin
deep, and tho novelist is at pains to dis
close the cankerworm lurking beneath
the dewy rose. It's the old story of the
tigress In the rape. Safe to admire at a
ditcreot distance but Impossible when
once the Iron bars are removed.
Squire Pendyce is painted as a pompous
donkey, and a small god on tin wheels
becaiiHn he Is a landed proprietor through
the kindnrps of his father. His most
faithful companion Is a spaniel dog called
John, a creature with a long nose and
longer ears whom Pendyce had bred him
slf till the animal was not happy out of
bis sight. The rector of the parlsb, is
Rev. Husseli Barter, fond of port wine
and cricket, but otherwise the concrete
essence of selfishness. He is one of the
guests at this fated house party and
when about to enter the conservatory for
a breath of air, this picture startles him:
His attention- was arrested by the sight
er a couple hair bidden by a bushy plant
krif by side they ere looking in the moon-
Urht, and Jj knevr them" for Mrs. Bellew
and Qeoree Pendyce. Before he could either
enter or retire, h saw George seize her in
his arms. She seemed to bend her head
back, then bring her face to his. The
moonlight feu on tt, and on the full, white
curve of her neck. The rhetor saw, too,
that bar eyes were closed, her lips parted.
George Pendyce was a member of the
Stoics' Club, and the latter is described
in this wise:
Harder than for a camel to pass throufth
the ej ot t needle Is It for a man to bo
come a member of the Stoics' 'lub, except
ey virtue of a hereditary prinrlple; for un
W he be nourished he cannot be elected.
nd since by the club's flret rule be may
have no occupation whatsoever, he must be
nourished by the efforts of those who have
gone before. And the longer they have gone
Drore. me more nueiy he Is to receive no
blackball. Nature had devlved a mask and
shaped It to the highest form within th
rortals of the Stoic' Club. With this mank.
ha clothed the face of inn --wi n r mn
beard their poor squeaks behind that mask.
life placed, clumsy feet on them, she
George cam to tha club about 10 o'clock
to eat his breakfast and read the porting
the railway station appropriate to what
ever race meeting was in progress, or fall
Ing that to the cricket ground at Lord's, or
Prince's tennis club. Half naat A o'clock w
him mounting the staircase at the S to ion
to that card room where his effigy still
hung, wltti Us look of "Hard work, hard
work. But I must keep It going." At. S
o'clock be dlnd a bottle of champagne
screwed deep down into ice, his face flushed
with the day's sun, his ehirtfront and bis
hair shining with gloss. "What happier man
In all great London.
How Fool Pendyce slowly gets the idea
into his muddled brain that Mrs. Bellew
is not qualified to confer happiness upon
anyone but her own selfish self, and
how he grows to be a semblance of a
real man. is very effectively pictured.
Bivorce is just an incident In the novel.
It is talked of, threatened, and ultimately
allows itself to sink into nothingness by
the aid of several glasses of whisky.
Gillette's Sociai Redemption, by Molvln T.
Severy. $2-5. Herbert B. Turner & Co.,
Boston.
In "S3 pages. Mr. Severy gives a review
of -the wrongs of humanity as they exist
toduy, and aa a panacea presents an In
genious socialistic theory of Government
propounded by King C. Gillette. The
first partial publication of what is known
as the Gillette plan took place in a pam
phlet entitled "The Human Drift." which
Mr. Gillette published in 1S94. Since then,
he bag added to his system and the Gil
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lette professors now think the doctrine- Is
about perfection. It is based on altruis
tic lines and assumes that once the world
is ruled by the Gillette plan all mankind
will then be one common brotherhood.
Mr. Gillette's system has apparently
borrowed ideas both from the Single Tax
proposition, and Socialism. He would or
ganize all mankind into a giant but inof
fensive trust and would make all work
play. He reasons that were the great
wastes of our present system eliminated
and effort rewarded upon a system of
equity, man would be able abundantly to
supply all his present needs by three or
four hours' work a day.
Mr. Severy explains the Gillette plan
of social redemption as follows: It pro
poses to bring about the amelioration of
the race by organizing a world wide cor
poration with an unlimited, elastic and
constantly self-adjusting capitalization
which shall always represent the exact
amount of the corporate assets, falling
as they fall, rising as they rise. In a
word, Mr. Gillette would give back the
earth to the inhabitants thereof and
would entirely abolish economic rent. Tho
plan can be adopted, Mr. Severy insists,
without asking for a word of legislation,
and without creating any new political
party.
The chief objection to be found with
the book Is that it is 6omewhat bulky
and lacks condensation. Although the
Gillette system is cleverly constructed. Ha
working would not bear the ultimate test
of horny-handed experience. For chap
ter after chapter, Mr. Severy follows the
favorite dodge of the dreamer. That Is,
he paints the black iniquities of this poor
old world and. then pictures the Gillette
system as a glorious vision of salvation
which recalls tho prophecy of Emerson:
My hope for the human race Is as bright
as the morning star. For a glory is coming
to men such as the -most Inspired tongue of
prophets and of poets has never been able
to describe. The gate of human opportunity
, is turning: on us hinsne, and the Iiaht In
breaking through Its chink; possibilities are
opening and human nature Is pushing for-
wara towara them.
Felicity, the MsJclna; f a Comedienne, by
- lara. iu. Iaughlfn. S 1.50. Illustrated.
Charles bcrlbner's Sons, New York City.
For want of a botter'phrase, the unox-
plainable charm of the theater coupled
with the joy of acting lives again in thesfe
pages. The actress heroine. Miss Fell-
city Fergu. is fortunate enough early in
life to be "discovered' by a veteran ac
tor. Phineas Morton, who makes her his
protege. The various steps bv which
Miss Fergus rises In her art to be
stage star are pleasantly told, along; with
a very enjoyable, human love story. She
marries her leading man and the mar
riage turns out to be uncongenial. A
deft, feminine touch is shown in convent
ently killing off the frivolous but likeable
husband so that the comedienne can mar
ry another man whom she ultimately dis
covers sne reauy loved.
On page 352, the text says: "Felicity
had never been much upraised or cast
down by press comments on her work.
The Old Man had provided against that.
The consciousness that there were not a
half dozen critics In the country who
anew a tune of what she herself knew
of. the things she essayed, made her In
terest in praise or blame very slight. The
Inexorable Judge for her, as for all ar
tists, was the dream of perfection Bhe
carried in her own breast"
Felicity is given to making long
speecnes in private life better sneeches.
it must be confessed, than are ordinarily
mei wun even irora cultivated people.
'ine novel, however, fills the bill for
stage-struck girls. It Is also the easily
understood, sugar-plum story to take
away with you on vacation.
rraetleal Health, by Leandr ETdmund
Whipple. 11.50. Tha Metaphysical Publish
ing uo. jsew xoric vJity.
From the viewpoint of allopathy, the
opinions expressed in Mr. Whipple's book,
wnere cures oy mental Healine- or met a..
physical philosophy are described, arouse
conflicting emotions, because the Whip
ple idea is opposed to .accepted materia
memoa.
Of late, however, literature describing
uie usa or me mma lor curative pur
poses In individual life. Is growing. And
here is a book intelligently written that
will give you varied Ideas on the subject
of curing what we call disease without
the use of medicine, on wonderful cure
being what Mr. Whipple calls "the spe
cific image treatment Here is a para
graph on thought transference and its
relation to mental healing:
All systems of healing by means of the
use of the mind depend upon- a transference
of thought as the necessary means of com
munication between the minds concerned in
the transaction. If no such action were
possible as a lawful operation- of tho mind,
then mental healing could have no founda
tion as a curative process. The reader will
probably recognize that If one thought can
be transferred to another's mind, then all
thoughts ara capable of such transfer under
the natural operation of the i.
Therefor. If the fact of transfer can be
satisfactorily demonstrated for any kind of
thought, we may readily sea that a thought
possessing healing power can be transmitted
from one mind to another. When such
thought Is received and accepted by the
other mind, it must become a tm. h.tH.
potion. "U6
Soli Culture Manual for 1907, by Hardy W.
Campbell, Lincoln, Neb.
In the semi-arid rear ions of h trct
those who believe In the Campbell method
of soil culture, or as It Is better known,
"dry farming' storing water in the soil
so as to Insure sufficient moisture for
good crops are numbered by their thou
sands. And by these enthusiasts Mr.
Campbell's name is as much esteemed as
those of Watt, Hudson, Ell Whitney or
Edison In their respective branches.
This is a new edition of a popular
manual which will be eagerly read" by
farmers all over the Oregon country, and
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indeed by farmers everywhere. Experts
nave even oeen heard to sav that West
ern Oregon, blessed beyond measure by
aii ana early Spring rains, would be
likely missionary field for the Campbell
system of soil culture during the long
ary spens each succeeding Summer.
Many years ago. amid wholesale de
rision, Mr. Campbell insisted that science
In soil culture and the more perfect adap
tatlon of his scientific methods in farming
would result in doubling the crops in th
great semi-arid belt of America. In later
years he has held that crops have not
been one-fourth of what they should have
been. Today his doctrine is that there Is
no conflict between scientific soil cul
ture and irrigation, because the one sup
plements the other. Arguing that more
scientific methods of farming exist
Europe than in this country. Mr. Camp
bell gives the estimated acreage value
per acre of machinery, teams, buildings
and appliances in these countries: United
States, 9; England, S40, and Germany,
from $50 to 5100.
Mr. Campbell's method to insure phe
nomenal crops in semi-arid regions lies
In the proper fitting of the soli by chang
Ing the traditional methods of plowing.
harrowing and tilling of a farming popu
lation. Special disc-harrows and subsoil
packers are spoken of. But It would not
be 'Air in this brief review to give Mr.
Campbell's exact system of forcing
crops, as by so doing it might detract
from the sale of his valuable book.
The Campbell method has changed and
Is changing history.
Prophet's T-anding, by Edwin Asa Dix
SI. 50. Charles Scribnor'a Sons, New Tork
City.
Pictures country life In Connecticut
with unusual grip and charm. The story
chiefly concerns Joel Harney, depart
mental store proprietor, who by tinscrup
ulous methods makes himself richer by
driving his competitors .out of business
and ruining others.
Blr. Potter is known as the prophet
of the vicinity, and in a speech to his
townspeople, in which he accuses Harney
of being unfair to Tils reiiowman, tnes
statements occur:
Do tv condone or condemn? Bo we ad
mire the prosperous, even though tliey be
the unscrupulous? This little country of
Ours has nvr faced, a graver Issue, nor
one that means more to the Inner life and
soul of Its people. I see perils ahead for
this nation. The lust for power and wealth,
If unchecked, may overpass all bounds. The
time may come when It will no longer work
within the forms of law, as It "has hitherto
been content to do. It may dare to defy
the law. I picture increasing wealth work
ing increasing wrong robbing and at the
same time corrupting. Xep tender the
national conscience that this thing come
not to pass.
The Events Man, by Richard Barry: $1.23
Moffat, Yard & Co., New York City.
Has all the throb of battle in it. In
breezy, unconventional language Mr,
Barry tells the adventures of Stanley
Washburn, war correspondent and writer
of cable news for a syndicate of the chief
American newspapers, during the recent
Russo-Japanese War. His story, which
Is of the strongest possible interest.
told in this book as he himself told it to
Mr. Barry, one Summer in the trenches
of Manchuria. It Is a tale of a real news-
getter, who, on the Chicago Daily News
dispatch boat "Fawan," literally got the
news of battle which the world was wait
ing for, at the peril of his own life.
Mr. Barry writes so naturally that on
reading his book you seem to see him
sitting on a chair and hear him tell
the eventful yarn which will never grow
old wherever warriors meet.
Seventy Tears Toung, by Emily M. Bishop,
91.20. B- VV. Huebsch, New York City.
It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who ob
served: "It is better to be 70 years young
than 40 years old." To those who are
supersensitive, growing crusty and un
lovable, and who think they are getting
along In years this book will come as
a glimpse of sudden sunshine. It delivers
a sermon of optimism and ever tells "of
a bright tomorrow. Its counsel is wise.
J. H. Q.
IN LTBBAAT AND WORKSHOP.
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Robert Hunter, author of "Poverty." I
now studying social conditions In Berlin
preparatory to the writing of a book to be
called ".Battia Against Misery."
"The Events Man," by Richard Barry;
'Felicity." by Clara E. Ldiughlin. and "The
Unseen Jury," by Edward Clary Root, were
received through the courtesy of the J. K.
Gill Co.. this city.
Bernard Quarltch. the famous boob.
buyer of London, says the largest single
amount paid in the history of the firm was
t0ti. wmcn na gave not very Ions- aeo fo
William Blake's original drawings to the
Book of Job "drawings which, like so
much else, ara now in America."
There are apparently a surplus of thrills
In "Hate of Evil," a novel by Keighley
Snowden that Is to be immediately issued in
London. Its central character Is a vicar,
ho. swearing himself to celibacy, breaks
his vow and leads a most exciting career
in which his arrest tor murder and tha
burning down of his church are bv no
means the least of his tribulations.
Oelett Burgess baa owned up to his ambi
tion. "It isn't." be said, at the Booksellers
dinner, "Henry Romeike'a press clipping
bureau the author wants to watch lfa tha
little high scnooi gin in uei aiomes, with
tha pig-tall braid and the box of caramels.
who looks over your pages to see how much
conversation there If, goes home, pins a
blanket over her transom aud reada till
4 Jl. M."
In World's Work for July there is an in
structive article by Edgar Allan Forbes
on "The Story of the English in Egypt; How
Lord Cromer and His Assistants Have Built
Up a Prosperous Coun t ry In the Lan d of
the Pharaohs." This article Is lilnustrated
with unusually interesting photographs
h owing tne great work that Is being dona
by tha bridge-builders; also show leg tha i
condition o f certain parts of Egypt before
and. after Lord Cromer'i regime.
In Helen Green's new storybook, "At the
Aciors- oaraing Mouse," the narratives
are written in a truthful snirit. but hao-
pily breathe no "reform" disposition to mar
the pleasure of the reader In the author's
exquisite numor. No bitterness shows U
seif. and each and every .character in Mrs.
oreen s book receives full justice in thla
record of their daily lives. So humorous
are ine aeiineations tnat many have doubt
ed that they cam c from a woman's pen.
Among present-day American novelists,
Robert W. Chambers stands alone for popu
larlty. success and faithfulness-to-life In
depicting the wave of society folks of the
iiue-ncn in is is particularly noticea
ble in his recent novel. "The Fighting
Chance." His newest book Is "The Younger
Set." An Industrious writer, he has a long
list of books to his credit and the wonder
Is that bo young a writer has been enabled
to do so much work that has made its mark
in the literary world.
The historical novel still has its allure
ments for William Stearns tavt. In "A
Friend of Casar" he sought Rome for his
tccne ; in "God Wilis It" he led us t3
"France and the Crusades;" in "Belshazzar"'
he unfolded some of the secrets of Persia;
and now in " A Victor of Salamls" we are
in the midst of the heroic days of Greece
and surrounded by the picturesque figures
of famous Gn-ek heroes. He calls the story
"A Tale of Days of Xerxes, Lconidas and
Themistocles." and he pictures events in
which those heroes played so valiant and
so historically important a part.
"Carmlchael." the first novel of Anlson
North, recently published. Is making a de
cided hit in Canada. The Canadian critics
are declaring, that in "Carmichael" they
have a book which has struck the keynote
of Canadian literature. "Carmichael" is
the story of farm life in Canada, and is
a faithful portrayal of the life and charac
ter of people which we in the United States
know little about. The romance of Dick
and Peggy, the bitter family feud which is
eo pathetically knit Into the romance, rep
resents a story of unusual Interest.
Ferris Oreenslet, author of the "Life
of James Russell Lowell" and "Walter Pa
ter," is now. with the sanction and co-operation
of Mr. Aldrich's family and friends,
collecting letters and material for a "Me
moir of Thomas Bailey Aidrich." He hopes
to have It ready for publication In the Fall
of 1008. The Ponkapon edition of Aldrich's
complete works, in nine volumes. "Is also
In preparation. It will be handsomely Il
lustrated, and issued In the same size and
style as the "Rlverby" Burroughs and
"Walden" Thoreau. It will be sold by sub
scription only, and will be the definitive edl.
tlon of Aldrich's works.
In May Isabel Flsk'a new book of mono
logues, "The Talking "Woman," is some
thing more than a book which displays
humor of striking Individuality; the baste
strength of the book Hes in the knowledge
of human nature which the. author con
stantly displays. It is humorous, and ai
Witys at the bottom is the human nature
which makes It real. The monologues cover
a wide variety of life; we Bee the mono
logulist on an ocean liner, making an after
noon call, caring for a neighbor's child, dis
cussing hej doctor; at the theater, depart
ment ntore, health resort, at her own home.
And everywhere she is amusing and inter
esting and true to life.
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A London poet. Alfred Koyes, In hij re
cently published "Dramatic Opinions and
Essays," has felt called upon sharply to re
buke George Bernard Shaw. Mr. Noyes,
reviewing Mr. Shaw's two volumes of play a
from "the seat of the mighty." declares
that these two volumer of vulgarism re
quire straight speaking from any critic who
has managed to retain the slightest respect
for English literature. It would be unkind
nesg to cut his capers short too soon, it
thy amuse btm. But it Is our duty to th
great and famous dead, to th duty of all
sincere critics, with a respect for our lit
erature, to say, that Mr. Shaw's caneis are
vulgar, fatuous, and extremely wearisome."
Although Martha Evans Mardn, author
of that fascinating book of nature-study.
"The Friendly -Stars," is now a resident of
New York t where she loves to watch '.he
stars from the roof of a lofty apartment
house overlooking the Hudson), and spends
her Rummers in New Jersey (where she
studies the stars from the "porch of her
Summer home Or from points along th.
wooded ridge on which it stands: she is on
of the numerous Indiana-born writers who
have won distinguished success. &he wa
born In Terre Haute, and educated at that
te Pauw University to which Indiana is so
loyal. She then lived for a number of
years at Richmond and Indianapolis. She
married an Indiana editor, and hr father
was long known as the oldest in service of
all Indiana editors.
Dr. W. A. P- Martin, author of "The
Awakening of China." is one of the few
Americans who are adepts not only in
(peaking, but writing the Chinese language.
rr. Martin has been Identified for years
with the Chinese Missions rv Societies, he
has bfen president of the Tung Wen College
of Pekin, alo of the Imperial University
of China; was present during the entire
seige of Pekln In 190O, and was made Man
darin, receiving the Red Button bv special
decree of the Emperor. Dr. Martin has
written In the Chinese lanzuar hooks on
Christianity, philosophy and International
ww, wnirn nave become standard works.
He Is also known in American literature
through bis numorous publications of which
"Cycle of Cathv" and "Iyr of Pathv" r
best known to the general public.
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The London education commltte vnni
Mrs. askells "Mary Barton" removed as
undesirable from the schools, but It passes
w i th approval th e novels of Mrs. Henry
Wood. In Manchester the school managers
want tn edition of TClngsIey's "Westward
Hoi" in which Salvation Teo's eulogy on
tobacco Is Omitted. Apropos of this, the
Manchester Guardian auotes from Trevel-
yan's biography of Macaulay the following:
miss Hannan More was fond of relating
how she called at Mr. Macau lay's and was
met by a fair, pretty, slight child, with
bundance of light hair, about four vears
of ago, who came to the front door to re
ceive her and to tell her that his parents
were out. but that If she would be goo.l
enough to come in he would bring her
glass of good old spirits. Jt was a proposi
tion which greatly startled the good lady,
who had never aspired above rowslln winn.
When ouestloned as to what he knew of
good old spirits, be could only say that
Robinson CruBoe often bad some."
Walter A. Dver. manae-fnr editor -.f rnnn.
try ii fe in America, has just married a
New York lady Miss Muriel Worthington.
Bud" Is the story of a ouaint and lto-
gether lovable little Chicago girl who is set
down In an old-fashioned Scotch village.
There is tha constantly delightful contrast
between the clever breezrnss of the Amer
ican girl and the slowness and conservatism
of the Scottish town, and the delectable
contrast between Scotticisms and breezy
American colloquialisms. In fact, the whole
Idea of the book is something new this
u or Bcomsn material combined with
American. The author is a Scotchman. Kii
Munro, a Glasgow editor and author, and
" yresciiiB uriiftiium people, as Xnose
among whom tha lot of the clever little
American heroine Is cast. There is Daniel
i'yce, neery uan. ' tne lawyer. Iovh
all. charitable, vet hidlnr his chsritv. The
is nis cnarming sister jteu. i hre Is the
drony humorous conception of the servant
Kate. There is the oueer cow-herd, with
his bell-mouth trousers.
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Mary K. Wllktns Freeman finds' H nleas.
ant to look back over her literary career.
for she Is one of the few writers who h
had unbroken success from tha beginning.
one uf-n.rn.il. m gir. writing snort stories
and poems for Juvenile publications. Her
first "grown-up" story, as she calls it wa
entitled "Tha Old Lovers, and she sent it
to Harper's Bazar.
i ne editor noticed tnat the wHt nr
unformed and apparently that of one who
was still but a girl, and began reading the
manuscript with small hopes of finding It
worth while. But its "humor and pathos
were so effective that her doubts changed
to enthusiasm, and the story was at one
accepted. .
Other stories were then written an nt
o the Bazar, and before lonr the nam f
Mrs. Freeman or, rather. Miss WUkins as
she then was began to appear In Harpers
Magazine.
Since then her success nas been constant
and cumulative, and critics agree that her
most recent dock, - ty tne j,irht of h
Soul." marks another distinct step forward.
"The Crnle f the Shining Light" is a
new seafaring novel, and one of its enjoy
able characters is simple-hearted Moses
Shoos, who was always going a-courting,
only to be disappointed. "Never a strange
maid camo near but he would go shyly
forth upon his quest, persuaded of a grate
ful Issue."
And here Is a delicious picture of him and
nis way:
Ay. lad; I m told trier's a new baa-rare
come t Skipper Eli's for a bit of a cruise.
L caugni a oasnrui zrasn mount inr to hfa
ears and the rumble of a chuckle in his
throat.
Sheva came from Tail Pine Harbor"
said he. 'with a cask.o liver: an I'm told
she've her heart dead sot on matrimony."
iarry num mwa r
'No. lad: 'tis not she. She've declined.
Las Fall. Dannie, bein' wind-bound in a
asterly gale, I cot chad she at Skipper Jona
than Stark's. No; ahe've declined.'
"Tig Maria Long, then.' said X.
'N o, tad ; sh e' ve declined, too
'Elizabeth Wuttr
She've declined.'
'TIs not the widow Tootle!
'No, she've declined,' he answered, dis
mally. 'But,' he added, with a sudden ac
cess of cheerfulness. she come wonderful.
near it. T was a close call for she! She
'lowed. Dannie, that an my beard had been
red sae might ha went an done it, takln'
chances with my wits. She might, says she,
put up with a lack o wit, but a beard o
proper color she must have for peace
mind. You sees. Dannie, bam Tootle had
red beard, an' the widow 'lowed she'd feel
strange with a yellow one, bein accustomed
x tne otner ror twenty year, bne-ve aeeuneo.
'tis true; but she come wonderful near t
say in.' the word. 'Twaa quite encouragin",'
he added: then slebed.
" 'Tou keep on. Moses, said I, to hearten
mm. an- you li manage 11 yi.
" 'Mother' he sighed, 'used t 'low so.'
Marjorie Bowen's real name, according to
tne Bookman, is Gabrieiie vere Campbell
and she belongs to the . clan which visited
such severe vengeance upon its hereditary
enemies, the Macdonalds, twa centuries
ago. Miss Bowen. or Campbell, has dls
covered certain documentary evidence prov
ing the massacre which forms the theme of
her latest story, which in this country Is
cauea "ine Master or stair- ana in Eng
land "The Gien o' Weeping." The chief
causa of her substituting this story for
"The Leopard aud the Lily." so much ad
vertised, was the approaching sale in Lon
don of a letter containing the order for
me ' Massacre or uiencoe, dated February
14. 1032. This letter, which was found
amongst old papers In Australia, was writ
ten by Major iun cannon to Captain Robert
Campbell. That the old feud stilt exists
was demonstrated to Miss Bowen by an ex
perience at a ball. When she commented on
the fact that the best dancer in the room
had not been Introduced to her she received
this reply: "Oh- yes, he s the best dancer
nere, and we wanted very much to present
him to you, but. of course, it was out ot
the question, or possibly you do not know
tnat ha is a Macdona'd."
a a
One of the most interesting of present-day
novel-writers la Florence Morse Kingsley.
She is the wife of a minister, Rev. Charles
R. Kingsley, who presides over a union
church at a charming little town on Siaten
Island. A colony of literary and artistic
folk have gathered there, and, although of
creeds" various, they united in asking Mr.
ivlngsley to act as pastor for them.
The Kingsleys have two sons at a uni
versity, and a daughter at Wellesley. whero
Mrs. Klngsley herself was educated. But,
although the mother of a family. Mrs.
K Ine:.- ley writes with all the buoyant llght
Bomeness of youth, and her friends like to
caV that It Is because she looks young
ana tee is young and keeps young, tier lat
ent book is "The Princess and the Plough
man."
She is an ardent assistant to her husband
in his church work, and teaches a class in
the Sunday School, connected with It. She
is a thorough optimist, and holds to the
L cheerful creed that one is pretty sure to get
what he ardently longs for. "Girls, be care
ful what you wish, for," she likes to telL her
class, warn ins: ly. and far more in earnest
then In playfulness; "be careful what you
wish for, because you are going to get it.
a
There la one quite minor point I ven
ture to seize upon in connection with Pro
fessor Raleigh's Shakspere," writes Clem
ent K. Shorter in the Sphere. "It Is that
he persists in the bad practice that has
been, encouraged by Swinburne, by Sydney
we, ana otner authorities, or spelling
thakspere'B name wrongly pedantically
wrongly. We all know that the word must.
have been derived from 'shake' and 'soear.'
but there Is no more sense, as Dr. Furni
vall long since pointed out, in spelling
inaKspere s name .snake-ppear tnan in
spelling Dr. Furni vat's name Ferny-vale
or Mr. Swinburne's 8 wlnc-bourne. More
over, of the five extant signatures of Shaks
pere s that are undisputed the three
his will and the two on his Blackfrlars
mortgage not one baa an 'e' after the 'k,'
and three have no a after the second e.'
Of course. ShakBpere was no better than
Queen Elizabeth and all the other men
and women of his time In his charming
recklessness as to the spelling of a nam
or of any other word. But when added to
the arguments I have brought forward you
have the merit of brevity, surely there
nhould be no question as to tha utter foolish
ness of spelling Phakspere's name in the
lengthy and pedantic form adopted by
Professor Raleigh." .
The reader who approaches Russian lit
erature for the first flme through the me
dium of Ivan Turgenieff will be at once im
pressed by ltsnaivete, by the childish sim
plicity of Its ploM, and by Its exact and
complete descriptions and analyses of char
acter, says the Boston Transcript. Turgen
ieff, despite" his long residence In "Pans,
wan always a Ruwuian and inevitably a
Slav, and be writes ot another civilization
end In other terms than our own. He in
terprets, as Henry .Tames has said, "witn
wonderful vividness the temperament of his
fellow-countrymen." He was & thoroughgo
ing representative of his race and none was
better equipped than he to give literary
expression to itj unique peculiarities. "He
was born essentially impersonal," says Re
tiHn. "His conscience was not tha of an
Individual to whom lia-tWre had been more or
less generous; It was In some sort the con
science of a people. Before he was born
he had lived for thousands of years; in
finite succession of reveries had massed
themselves In the depths of his heart. No
man has been as much as he the Incarna
tion of a whole race; generations of ances
tors, lost in the deep of centuries, speech
less, came through -him to life and utter
ance." It is of course needless to say thnt
no one who wishes to follow and under
stand the course of nineteenth century Eu
ropean literature can neglect Turgenieff
either as a novelist or as a short-story
writer. ,
NEW BOOKS RECErVED.
"The Life-of Bishop Isaac Wilson Joyce,
by Wilbur Fletcher bherldan. $1. (Jennings
Graham). "The Sons of the Seigneur." by Helen
Wallace, Sl.fiO. (Outing Publishing Co.).
"The Unseen Jury," by Edward Clary
Koot $1-00. (Stokes Co.).
BACK TO STEAMBOATING
Kansas Clty Merchants Work for
lro-iver Railroad Kates.
(Kansas City Cur. NewYork Sun.)
"If the plans of Kansas City merchants
who are not satisfied with the rates
charged by the railroads do not go awry
steamboating on 'the Missouri, long re
garded as a lost occupation, will be re
sumcd.
The Missouri has a reputation for being
a BteamMoat graveyard. In one bend of
the river not far below this city eight
steamers went down In two years in the
palmy days before -the railroad.
The river channel is always shifting.
and this leaves sand bars-and snags to
catch even the most skilful of pilots. A
man may be thoroughly familiar with
the channel on the down voyage, but by
the time he pets back on the return the
main stream may be running a quarter
of a mile distant from its old bed.
Steamboating received its deathblow
when the insurance companies refused to
issue risks upon any of the boats. In
asmuch the boats cost all the way
from (40,000 to 175.000. no one has been
found to engage In steamboating ,on the
Missouri in uninsured vessels, although
under the old freight and passenger
schedule it required only about four
round trips to get back the first cost of
the boat.
There is still a big fleet of boats going
out of St. Louis every week. Kansas
City whoesalers have been trying to in
duce some of these steamboat men to
run between Kansas City and St. . Louis,
but they won't do it. They advise the
Jobbers to buy a boat and operate it.
Several years ago Kansas City Jobbers
got uneasy about the railroad rate sit
uation and started three boats In com
petition. The railroads reduced rates as
long as the stockholders kept the boats
going, but when they tired of a losing
investment and sold out. rates began
again to creep upward.
The new plan Is to build but one boat
and use that as a club not only to make
the railroads reduce rates, but also to
keep them down. As long as rates were
satisfactory the boat would remain tied
up. When they went upward the boat
would be put into service.
Just now the men behind the project
are figuring- how to fix it so that they
can't lose. Under the three-boat plan
It was often found that stockholders ln
Fisted upon loading them up with their
own low-rate freight and letting high-rate
freight that belonged to others lie upon
the wharf.
Engineers have been at work and have
reported that the Missouri Is not so dan
gerous as it once was. Navigation has
Improved, boatmen know more and are
less reckless, and the engineers have
found ways to avoid the treachery of the
river in many instances. There is seven
feet of water all . the way from Kansas
City to St. Louis, and a SCO-ton boat that
would draw 26 Inches of water when
emptv and no more than six feet when
loaded would fill the biiL
Regulate "Fortune" Tellers
Portland Should Protect the Public From Dis
honest Practices of Parasitic Professionals
BY VT. J. HAVLOCK.
T
HE people of our city who ctand
for morality, must view with
more or less satisfaction the re
sults of efforts for improvement in
this line, and whether or not there will
be a change In our municipal head at
the coming election, it la to be hoped
the good work will go on.
However, with due consideration and
approval of 'what has been accom
plished thus far, I wish to call atten
tion to an evil In our midst that for all
around dishonesty and graft, ls no
less intolerant and abominable rthan
other evils which efforts have been
made to eliminate.
Our city is infested with a horde of
transient people who practice reliev
ing the public of their (In most cases
hard-earned) money,, under the pre
tense of being able to read the future.
In all the various ways and by all
methods known.
This article will refer mainly to the
male portion of this class, though the
females portion Is not less undesirable,
they will receive the clemency accorded
their sex; and what I shall say will not
be based on supposition, but on invesi
tlgatlons made at some expense and by
much effort. These people are, as a
class, rovers; only remaining in a field
so long as the pasture is good; have
good physiques, apparently well fed,
thoroughly able-bodied and live quite
luxuriously and seemingly could skil
fully manipulate a pick and shovel, to
which vocation their ability, if directed
in legitimate lines, would assign them.
Their charges for telling their client
all he has done and all that he will do
in this life, is $1 to $5, which they will
Inform him Ls paltry In the extreme,
considering the immense expenditure
of mental force and nerve tissue re
quired to accomplish this remarkable
task which consumes from five to
fifteen minutes' time. The task over,
they Inform the client that he is very
fortunate in coming to them, for there
Is great success In the future for him,
but they have discovered that he is
environed by an evil Influence which
will prevent him from ever realizing
tnw success unless It is, removed,
which they can do, but as the case la
a severe one. it might require consid
erable time and the chemicals (?) re
quired are quite expensive.
If the client yields, the. faker Is then
American Folly in Local Affairs
Proverbial Shortsightedness in Municipal Matters.
BY W. I.. FROST.
H
AVIJG noticed in several of your
recei t editions references to the
question as to whether the policy
and influence ot National politics may
rightfully be intermingled with local
affairs, I herein take the liberty of ex
pressing to you as concisely as possible
my personal views on the subject.
It seems to the writer that we as a
race are proverbially far-sighted; that
we perceive in National affairs that
which is best and right, while in local
affairs we are proverbially blind. The
motto of Puck, "What fools these mor
tals fie," has always appealed to tha
writer, and in reference to the two sub
jects which I shall use as illustrations.
it almost seems as though Puck might
with propriety insert a certain expres
sive adjective in the motto, which out
oT consideration ior delicacy I will not
name.
Did it ever occur to the reader that
the relation between our National pol
icy on the liquor question and that of
our State and local policy ls one (I
tnink 1 speak not too strongly) of ab
solute insanity. It is a fact known to
every student of political economy, to
every business man and legislator in
our political economy, that we as a
nation, that Uncle Sam, our dear and
respected father, derive a larger reve
nue and thereby support more of our
honored institutions from the manufac
ture and sale of intoxicating drinks
than from any other one source of In
come, internal and foreign tariff not
excepted.
Now let us look for a moment on the
local side of the question. Since the
year 1850 my native state, Maine, has
had upon her statute books an absolute
prohibitory law, placed there through
the influence of one Neal Dow, a re
formed drunkard, whose name is still
held in reverence by all who draw their
skirts aside when our humbler sister of
ine sum passes by: bv all the tall
hatted deacons who walk up and down
the aisle on Sunday to collect in the
shekels of their admiring -parishioners
in order that they may advertise their
business on Monday and thus fleece
tneir humble flock out of what the
priest might perchance have left them.
My native state, Maine, the northeast
ern cornerstone of our nation, has ever
since stood upon this corner and held
up her hands In holy borror at those
who did not follow her example; her
attitude, with several marked excep
tions, has ever been, "I am more holy
than thou."
jmow let us consider the facts. Ever
since a ooy at scnooi i have felt an un
conscious rebellion at this hypocrisy of
my native state. I was even ordered
from the house of my favorite aunt be
cause I loyally stood up before Ymr for
my convictions, claiming that prohibition
was irrational, and ungodly. In the
slums of Maine more "cut-glass whisky,"
poisonous to the system of the strongest
man, is sold than in .any other state of
equal population; more drunkenness is
seen upon the streets of the larger cities
of Maine than in any other cities of
equal population in our Union. In order
that this may be carried out, our officials
must be corrupted and our schools must
be deprived of any revenue from this
damnable traffic.
One case to the point I wish to men
tion. A cousin of my own, one of the
most upright and honorable men that I
had ever met, was elected Sheriff of a
county which contains two of Maine's
largest cities. His honest Intention, when
elected, was to do the will of the people
an obey the laws of men, but. he was
hounded to death by the discordant in
terests pulling him first this way and
that until nearly crazed and absolutely
penniless because of the cruel methods
which had been used to break his will.
He was forced, for th sake of his wife
and children, to accept a bribe from the
dishonest liquor Interests In order to
keep the wolf from the door. This case
is typical, and I can name and prove a
score such which came under my ob
servation during my four years at Bow
doin College, during which time I lived
either in Lewiston or Auburn, Me., or
in Portland, the god-mother of this beau
tiful city.
My second subject must be briefly
stated. Again our far-sight is conspicu
ously true, while our near-sight, as be
fore. Is akin to blindness. On the stock
exchanges of Chicago. San Francisco,
iiew York and London the chief com-1
subjected to by far the sreatest mental
strain experienced during the entire
procedure, by his effort to estimate
his victim's ability to pay. I misht
add, however, that in this particular
they are very proficient, evidently hav
ing given this branch of their occu
pation greatest attention, for they
seldom hit wide of the mark. The price
for this piece of chicanery ranges front
$10 to $500. dependent upon the client's
ability to pay and his willingness to be
robbed.
As a class, these people are morally
and financially Irresponsible and have
no Interest in th-e welfare of our com
munity, yet they are permitted to prey
upon honorable industry, while legiti
mate business 1 hold rigidly hi check
and responsibllty required I say their
practice is illegitimate because all
transactions where the value received
Is not equivalent to the consideration,
are legitimate, unless otherwise mu
tually arranged and agreed to by the
parties thereto: that there la no value
conveyed In the transactions referred
to, ls evident.
It It is claimed their practices are
legalized by virtue ot their compliance
with city ordinances, etc., then, since
discrimination is a serious evil, license all
illegitimate practices. If this form of
graft cannot be restrained or eliminated,
then- there is nothing to be said; thin
claim, however, does not harmonize with
what has been dryie by other cities.
I believe that 1 express the sentiments
of a large majority of our citizens by say
ing that this Imposition upon honorable
Industry ought to be eliminated. If not.
that public justice demands that mea
sures be taken to make these people
financially responsible for service ren
dered. This could be accomplished by
requiring each individual to make a cash
deposit, this money to be used in re
imbursing clients to whom they had ren
dered services that proved false or other
wise fraudulent. And, if this fund be
came exhausted within a fixed time limit,
restrain them from further operations.
But, since our state law offers no protec
tion to the victim of misrepresentation
unless the evidence is in writing, which
is to be regretted, as this condition places
a premium on the crime- of lying require
them to UFe printed blank forms ap
proved by City authority stating the kind
of service rendered and the amount re
ceived for the same, failure to properly
execute and serve to every client, to for
feit their right to practice. . .
However, other cities have disposed of
like problems satisfactorily, why cannot
Portland?
merce of this country Is carried on
through methods which can be designated
only as gambling. The writer believes
this policy to be good and rlnht, needing
much, horever, to be purinV-J. Watered
utock and Harriman methods must he
eliminated, and then the laws of Ood
and nature may be allowed to work free
ly, and we shall then see that no busi
ness transaction,, however small, takes
place through chance, but occurs in ac
cordance with the immutable law of
cause and effect.
Now one word relative to our local at
titude in this matter. I refer not to tha
local attitude of the city of Portland.
Or., but to tens of thousands of cities
and several states between the shores of
the Atlantic and those of the Pacific. We
throw out slot machines, prohibit honest
gambling of every description, scatter the'
red-light district all over our city, and
force all classes here represented to pay
tribute to brutal policemen and dlslionest
officials. What is my remedy, do you
ask? After 4 years of honest study of
the commercial, economical and political
Institutions of our country, I am fully
convinced that the only way to stop
graft, greed and hypocrisy is to do in
our local an in our National affairs, have
a clean, open and therefore honest city
government, and' elect such officials as
shall be willing and able to provide the
same.
Portland, Or.. June 10.
BREAD , LINERS UNWILLING
Two Out of 500 Decline Work in the
Country.
New York Press.
An artist who formerly had a studio in
the Fleischmann building, at Broadway
and Tenth streets, recently purchased a
country place in Connecticut., His experi
ences in trying to get a steady and re
liable man one who would stick to his
Job to shake the furnace In Winter, mow
the lawn and hoe the vegetable garden in
Summer were varied and manifold and
altogether unsatisfactory. He had It
firmly impressed upon him at last that
to get "help" in the country was no
small undertaking.
Then he thought of the "bread line"
which formed each night under the win
dows of his old studio in New York the
line in whicn hungry men waited for
hours to get the dole of bread which
kept them from starvation. Mr. Fleisch
mann. the founder of the charity, once
said that he was sure that none bnt
deserving men men who really needed
the food were his beneficiaries. "When
a man will stand for two or three hours .
waiting In a line for a loaf of bread."
the philanthropist had said. "It ls a pretty
sure sign that he needs it." This was the
light in which the artist had been accus
tomed to view the members of the brea4
line and he glowed with philanthropic
fervor as he thought: "Now here is a
good home and a good Job for some poor
and deserving devil. Why did not I think
of it before!"
So he went to Captain Henry, the offi
cial of the Fleischmann establishment
who supervices the bread line nightly,
and stated his case.
That night there were GO) men In the
line and Captain Henry went along it an
nouncing to ail that a good job was wait
ing at Daren. Conn., for any one who
wanted It. Of those 600 men only two ex
pressed a willingness to accept the offer,
and one of these was not over-enthu-eiastic
about it. Ail the others declared
that fhev wanted a job. and wanted it
badly but not In the country. In short, of
the W. 498 preferred to sleep in the parm
or cheap and crowded lodging-houses, to
live on charity or by begging, to endure
hunger, rags and misery In the city rather
than go to com tort ana pienxy in
country.
The man whom captain Henry cnose m
the two who did volunteer' has so far
proved all that his employer could wish,
and has shown no Indication of a desire
to return to the old life of the city.
Whlpsawed.
Indianapolis News.
Ufa ls never altogether
GoM or bad:
So. let's not strain at the tether.
Some folks may be liko the weathei.
That we've had.
But there's one thing that does turn us
Almost sick.
When we muil still feed the furnace.
While we pay the ice man, durn us.
Why, we kick.
Samoa exported, in 1905, twenty-seven
ind one-half tons of cocoa beans.