'The libraries hold many book
By authors long since gone from sight.
Ton think, as o'er the list 70a look,
There should he nothing left to write.
So many men hare sought to teach
A wandering world the proper way,
You think in all this mase of speech
There should be nothing left to say
But as the leaves and blossoms die,"
Enriching soil whereon they grow.
So book and speech forgotten lie
And yet forever bloom anew.
Washington D. C.) Star
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The Llhrmtoni. By Taac N- Stevens. Price,
(I mk B. W. Dodg & Co., New York
city.
M Hh mawtfrful. bold sweep. ' Mr.
Pteiena, who Is the publisher of the
1'ut'blo. Colo., Chieftain newspaper, has
written a moet interest-combining novel
dt'pk'ttng the near future of American
politic. The days selected for illustra
tion are probably tho.se of 1112 or 1?K, and
the theme around which the story swings
is the. Government ownership of public
utilities. The hero, George Randolph, a
Congressman from New York, and the
principal Hsure In a new political party
'known as the. People's Alliance, is even
more radical than William Jenningts
Hi wan. Tho book, which extends to 252
pHKi. U so rilled with urpries that the
reader is kept guessing as to what Us
going to happen next.
Mr. Stevens commits the common error
of the Indulgent novelist who makes his
si ory -character speak longer and more
learned sentences than they would in real
life. This remark applies to the ouver
satiorw of Mrs. Gertrude Strong, the
owiht of untold millions of dollars, and a
woman whose picture resembles one of
the Gould family. Graft and 'corruption
in municipal, state and National poli
tics receive continuous ventilation, and
rHm; like a cloud of steady mofe from
a Chinese Joss-house.
"The liberators" begins in an Illinois
farmhouse, with patriotic advice given
by Colonel Payton Randolph to his only
son George. The Randolphs are descend
ed from that celebrated Edmund Ran
dolph, who, in the beginning of the Re
public, moved in the Constitutional Con
vention that the word "slavery" be
stricken from the proposed Constitution
of the United States. Colonel Randolph's
advice to hut son was:
Dktn't ever believe that a nation's fighters
art' greater than Its thinkers, or that a
man who lekds a regiment to battle Is
greuter than the man who has Riven the
men in that regiment an Idea that they
are willing; to die for. Tom Paine and
Franklin did at much for the Colonies as
any soldier of them all. No general f
ih Civil War ranks beside h comruander-In-chloi,
Abraham Lincoln. No generation
Is without its war. and ttioush It may not
be accompanied by trump and drum and
th rattle of artillery. It Is none the less
n ari a re.
Our forefathers believed that they -were
living the foundations of a government un
der which there should be equal rights for
nil and special privileges for none. But
already privileges granted by the govern
ment are menacing; our free Institutions,
an1 in your day a mighty contest is cer
tain to arise over the power of the people
to revoko these special licenses. I want
ou tn tnke your place in the world. When
the conflict is on there Is no place for non
cnmhainnU. 1 want you to enter public
It fe. but only in uch manner that you can
be of real sr ! to mankind.
Young Randolph enters Harvard CV1-I'-ge,
where he makes an intimate friend
or a fclKw-studont named Frederic
Ames, whoee father was the head of a
family estate that owned or controlled
all of the principal railroad and steam
ship lines in New York and New KnRland.
three of the great transconthirijtal rail
way linns, the rapid transit lines of New
York City, and street railways and light
, tiiR :ind water plants In some 50 other
American cities. Ames is evidently a
book-name for Vandcrblit. The head of
the Amc family, at the time the story
opens, is Charles Henry Ames, who is a
proud plutocrat, and looks upon America
as he mould upon an orange squeeze it
and then absorb it until all the juice Is
gone.
The two college students, Randolph
and Ames, spend a portion of one
Kastor vacation at the Ames house,
where they meet two of Frederic's
slsters. Margaret and Virginia, stu
dents at Smith College, Northampton,
Mass. Another of the house guests Is
Mrs. Strong, whose leading wish is to
be able to portray the utter serfdom
of Americans tu public life, and point
the road out of bondage for future
generations. Her talk approaches
socialism. The Ames family think
so much of young Randolph that they
take him with them to Italy ou a
pleasure trip.
Once Randolph accompanies Mr.
Ames to the American West to Inspect
railroad properties In which his patron
is interested, and a grower of peas
asks the traffic manager for the low.
est freight rate to Si .
"How many peas have jou raised?" asks
the traffic manager.
"About SiVO bushel. m -
"And w hat can you get for them in
S ?" ts asked.
"Three UolUrs a bushel."
"H.-w much did they cost you to raise?"
"Sixty cents a bushel, he replied, with
another glow of pride.
"Well, we h e no published tariff on
pea, in citrioatl Iota, and we shall hae to
i-nurse you 12 40 a bushel to carry them
to ."
The young man choked a sob and with
I h.nuid lwk dragged himself out of the
ro-MT!.
Young Randolph, after graduating;
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from Harvard, becomes a lawyer, and
receives an offer to become one of the
Ames counsel at a salary of about
$25,000 a year, but after busying him
self in securing legislation in the West
for Ames' properties, he discovers that
Mr Ames Is such a whole-sale briber of
Judges "and legislators that his soul
'revolts and he becomes an Independ
ent lawyer in New York City. In the
meantime he had. fallen in love with
Virginia Ames.
The great private public-service cor
porations had ultimately been organ
ized on the "community of interest"
basis until they were stronger than
the American Government. Both Re
publican and Democratic parties had
sold themselves to these plutocrats,
and the only hop before the plain peo
ple for liberty lay in the promises held
out by a third political party, the
People's Alliance. Randolph began to
be known as a master-orator and So
cialist, because of his success as one
of tho chiefs of the new political party.
The Alliance declares for Govern
ment ownership, and Randolph ad
dresses a meeting at Madison Square
Garden, New York, before 25,000 peo
ple. He is then a candidate for the
State Assembly and the avowed enemy
of special privileges. In the campaign
that follows the Alliance wins in New
Y'ork State. Tammany holds only two
districts in line, and all the others
give large majorities to the Alliance.
Every candidate for the State Senate
is elected and all but two for the As.
sembly.
In the next National campaign the
Alliance carries four states for Govern
ment ownership, and receives a popu
lar vote of nearly 3,000,000. The United
States Senate is still an impregnable
citadel of strength for the railroads,
and 52 railroad attorneys still hold
seats in that august assembly; but the
Alliance carries the lower house of
Congress by a majority of 20. The Al
liance introduces a bill through Con
gress fop the Government ownership
of railroads, and Congressman Ran
dolph makes the principal speech In
favor of the measure, on the (sixteenth
day of the debate, and argues after this
fashion :
The modern .barons, more powerful than
their military prototypes, own our greatest
highways and levy tribute at will on all our
vast Industries. And aa the old feudalism
was Anally controlled and subordinated only
by the combined efforts of the Kings and the
people of the free cities and towns, so our
modern feudalism can be subordinated to
th public good only by the. great body of
the people acting through their government,
by wise and just laws.
Randolph creates applause by re
marking that he had just used a por
tion of a speech delivered by James A.
Garfield June 22, 1874. An unlooked
for, but welcome, interruption is in
jected into the debate by the arrival
of a letter from the Ames interests, by
which Its Immense railroad properties
pass under the provisions of the Gov
ernment ownership bill.
And so American railways, after com
pensation has been given to the late
owners, become the absolute property
of the United States Government.
It is an intelligent story of revolu
tion, not by. bullets, but ballots.
Old Wivea for New. By David Graham
1'hilUpn. Price. Jl W. D. Appletea St
Co., New .Y'ork City.
One long chuckle, ending in a grin!
Surely not in the present generation has
one American novelist such courage as
that possessed by Mr. Phillips in thus
writing of tho relations of the sexes, and
laying ba with a surgeon's knife the
coarseness' of the unhappily married, to
whom divorce beckons like a ghoul sud
denly restored to activity. Not that I
think divorce ! immoral. There are cases
in married Ir'Ac where, because of suffi
cient cause -i r-ce papers are just as sa
cred as roiLi.aKe certificates, and where
moral lepers should be cast Into outer
darkness. Iove. shrieks when hate enters,
and God did not "join together" two pv
ple who never were ritted to live together
decently. I Relieve that such marriages
are Inspired, uy the devil.
But, one is disappointed after reading
such a cleverly constructed novel as 01d
W ives for New." to find divorce pictured
in so nauseating, salacious colors, and to
meet with so many is wear words. Clearly,
the novel is not for maids or innocently
minded boys, but for men and women of
the world. Sell? Of course, the book will,
and probably the more it is abused the
more eagerly will people buy it. Why?
It is so outrageously, brutally frank about
the inner lives of married people. "Damn"
is too often jsaid, lingerie is too prom
inently thrust before you. and subjects
that are usually forbidden are boldly
t h ro w n on the can va. Th e book is a
"shocker."
Aieu wili pity Charles. Murdock, the
abused husband, and women will naturally
pity Mrs. Sophy Murdock, the martyr
wife. So the world wags.
Sophy's first appearance before mar
riage haunts one A pale blue sun bon
net far away, down toward the creek
fence. The little bonnet, so blue, so airily
light, suggested a quaint boat adrift upon
that bright bronze sea; its occupant was
a small eweet face, like a flower afloat
in an azure shell. ... He did not kiss
her. Instead, each continued to gaze into
the other's eyea. The blazing sun stung
their vigorous young bodies; the call of
the birds seemed the passionate cry of
their hearts. Their lips met."
They are married. Years go by, and ft
eon and daughter grow up. Crash! Mrs.
Murdock degenerates into a waddling,
peevish, whining mountain of flesh; living
only to eat and find fault with her hus
band : and a confirmed sufferer to neu
ralgia and indigestion. She becomes as
sociated with ham and eggs and other
fried horrors for breakfaet. She is too
lazy even to wash her hair or bathe her
seh. Why? Hasn't she won a husband, a
sort of perpetual annuity and why should
she care for appearances? So she reasons
forgetting that it is far more difficult
to keep love than at first to win It. Her
husband keeps young and they distres
singly drift apart, though they keep up
the appearance of living together. She
consults Dr. Schuise, her medical adviser,
how to win back her recent youthful
looks, so that she etill may be physical I y
attractive to her husband. This is the
doctors advice: '
He looked at , her pityingly, dubiously.
"You'll have to change your whole course
of life. You and your husband have reached
the perilous period of married life among
the well-to-do. Things aren't as they used
be the husband and wLfe working; to
gether, growing old together, sinking to
gether Into the stupor of old age when
they ought still to be young. Now, one or
the other fs sure to keep alive, and the
one that dies rouat Inevitably be' sloughed
off.1' He ' was soliloquizing, unmindful of
her presence. "When It is the woman
that stays alive, the tragedy usually ends
or takes on another, a more acute phase
in the divorce court. When It's the man.
we don't know about the tragedy as often
men axe mora merciful to women than
women to men. In fact, mercy isn't a fem-
Inine quality. Nature made their nerves
eas sensitive than men's, because they are
chlld-bearcrs; so. they are naturally lees
sensitive about giving pain." He notfd
Sophy again. "But In your case " Ho
pa u ?ed, reflecting.
i ll do anything you say anything:" she
repeated.
"I doubt it frankly." said he. "But I'll
tell you what to do. Rouse yourself. Tako
an Interest in things In helping th3rt
about you. Make your house your own.' In
stead of a mere hotel with your house
keeper as manager. See that your hus
band is fd and clothed and made com
fortable to- the smallest detail. See to it
that there's a reason besides pious flap
doodle a real reason why your husband
should prefer to keep with you. Make It
absurd for him to think of replacing you
and trying again for comfort and com
panionship and love."
Mrs. Murdock Is too indolent to take
this advice, and complacently adds to her
fat probably becauso the Other Man had
not yet arrived in her life. Mr. Murdock,
who is a rich financier, says that too
many married women are worthless be
cause "unfortunately, there's no competi
tion among housewives." When the Mur
dock children are grown up, Murdock pro
poses to his wife that they separate.
BY ARTHI'R CHAPMAN.
WHEN Pat Garrrtt was slain a
short time ago by John W.
Brazel, a young ranchman,
near Ias Crnces, N. AT., one of the most
famous characters of Western frontier
days was stricken, from the cast of
life's drama. One miprht say tragedy,
Instead of drama, in Garrett's case, for
he had played leading parts in many
gTlm tragedies In the days when the
Southwest was outlaw-ridden and
when the task of exterminating the
deperadoes fell to him and was well
carried out.
There Is a saying In the West that
the man who lives by the gun shall
die by the gun. Though Garrett's life
in recent' years had been a life of
peace,' yet those who knew him best
say he had the gunfighter's premoni
tion that he would die "with his boots
on." Although Garrett's gunfighting
was all done in the interests of peace,
he was not absolved from the danger
that always confronts the man who
has made a record with the universal
weapon of the frontier. For, s soon
as one of .the frontier gunfighters
established a record as a dead shot,
there were always scores of men seek
ing to "get the drop" on him, for no
other reason than to gain notoriety
as the man who slew So-and-So, the
gun man. Wild Bill Hickock. the
greatest gun fighter the West ever
knew, met his death at the hands of
such a man in Deadwood, and only
Garrett's watohfulness and quickness
had saved him on many occasions. But
the day finally came when, like
Hickock, he relaxed his vigilance for
an instant and his death resulted.
A book might be made of Garrett's
career, for he was Intimately con
cerned in the bloodiest struggles that
this country has ever seen between
outlawry and law and order. Not until
Garrett with his own hand slew "Billy
the Kid," the most desperate outlaw
in the history of civilization, did New
Mexico begin to rise superior to its
bandits, who were more to be dreaded
than the Apaches themselves. It was
Garrett who stepped in and brought an
end to the Lincoln County cattle war.
a bloody feud that lasted for years and
created a reign of terror in a territory
as large as all New Kngland. One out
law after another met in personal en
counter, and always the lanky sheriff
came out unscathed, while his oppon
ent crumpled to the ground in his
death agony.
When he was 18 year old. Fat Gar
rett left his father's plantation in
Louisiana to seek his fortune in Texas.
He took up the life of a cowboy and fol
lowed this adventurous calling & few
years, traveling with the great trail
herds across the open range, and
undergoing all the hardships that fell
to the cowpuncher's lot in those days
at the beginning of the cattle industry.
In 1S7S Garrett penetrated father west,
and the tall, shambling youth, who was
six feet four, settled down as a cow
boy and later aa a ranchman near Fort
Suntner, N. M.
About this time the Lincoln County
cattle war was raging in New Mexico.
This was a war between rival cattle
interests in the Pecos country, John
Chisum, a Texas cattle king, had set
tled at Bosque Grande and had gained
the enmity of surrounding ranchmen.
It was claimed Chisum was given to
adding the cattle of other men to his
herds, without authority and without
price. He had surrounded himself with
a bunch of cowpunchers who had crim
inal records In Texas, and who loved
nothing better than a gun fight. The
cattlemen opposing Chisum organised
themselves into a well-knit faction,
and began to fight fire with fire. They
hired cowboys who were fully as bad
and as eager to fight as were Chlsum'a
men. The opposing faction was known
as the Dolan and Riley outfit, and If a
D. & R. cowboy met a C,hisum cowboy
on the range there bullets exchanged.
Instead of civilities.
Soon it gat so that the cowboys did
not travel singly, but hunted each other
il v '
"What kill the goose with the golden eggs,
she reasons? Not much! Aloud, she says
to bim: "I haven't lost all my religion, if
you have, I still believe in a God and a
hereafter. Marriage is sacred to me. O
God! Is this man the father of my chil
dren, the man who used up my youth?
. . . I never felt at ease with you after
I came to know you. . . . It's only
among: the trashy and the sinful that di
vorce is tolerated.
Juliet Raeburn. a pure-minded woman,
comes into Murdock' s life, and in secret
they love each other. Murdock, who is
no saint, leaves his wife and the Murdock
divorce follows. Much mud is thrown
about, in which the idle rich and demi
monde figure, and Tom Berkeley, roue,
cornea to a fitting: end. Mrs. Murdock
marriea her ex-husband's secretary, and
Murdock after being a drunken hero is
rewarded with the tried-by-fire love o
one of the very few pure-minded women
in the book. She says to him:
It 1 men who cower before opinion.
But not women real women. When a real
woman finds her master, she follows him.
Mad quite mad. Do we not love each
other? You are angel and devIL both in
one. And I adore -you! .
Storie Retold- Edited by James
R. and Minna M. Kern. Price. SO cents.
The American Book Company, New York
city.
Most little folks, are familiar with
he German stories written by the
Grimm brothers fireside stories of the
common people handed down from un
told generations. The editors of this
little volume belong to the faculty of
De Pauw University, and they have
succeeded in presenting 13 interesting
stories in the German language, all
carefully graded, on the assumption
that the beginner is a child learning
that language. Questions are given on
each story, and the vocabulary is an
ample one.
PeraonaHsm. By Borden Parker Bonne.
Price, $1.50. Houghton. Mifflin & Co
Boston. Mass.. and the J. K. GUI Com
pany, Portland.
One of the Harris lectures delivered at
Northwestern University, consisting of
scholarly studies in metaphysics or
scientific research, the subjects being:
Common Sense, Science and Philosophy,
Problem of Knowledge,' Phenomenality of
the Physical World, Mechanical or Voli
tional Casuality. The Failure of Imper
sonalism, and The Personal World. The.
general reasoning is of the orthodox,
comforting kind.
Judge Three Legs and the Shanghai. By
E. E3. Shcasereen. Illustrated. The Iron
Trail Publishing Company. Minneapolis.
Minn.
Judge Three Legs was a rabbit, and a
noted runner, and lived in one of the
Da Rotas, while the Shanghai was a loco
motive engine, which he raced. Once he
raced in front of the engine and emerged
from the contest minus one leg. A pretty,
well-told story both for children and
adults. The neat illustrations are by Ida
A. Wolfe,
Erasmus: The Scholar. By Professor John
Alfred Faulkner. Price. SI. Jennings &
Graham, Cincinnati. O.
Forms part of "Men of the Kingdom"
series of books recognized for their
abiding interest and written by men of
admitted scholarly ability. Professor
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in small armies. No one knows just
how many pitched battles were fought
and how many cowboys died "'With their
boots on." At that time Lincoln County
consisted of about one-third of what is
now the Territory of New Mexico, and
all this vast empire was in a turmoil.
Everybody was mixed up in the war,
on one side orf the other. Politics
played its part, and one side would elect
a sheriff favorable to Its interests.
Immediately the other side would
choose another sheriff. Warrants were
but excuses for murder, and assassina
tion were too common to arouse much
attention.
Both sides had, at one time or an
other, employed a cowboy who was
known as "Billy, the Kid." Billy's
name was William Bonney, and he was
a New York street waif, who had
drifted far from home. He was pale,
slim, light-haired and high-voiced, and
murder was bis pastime. He had
broken jail several times when a mere
boy, and finally killed a blacksmith at
Fort Apache. He had killed several
men in wanton fashion, when he was
hired by the D. PL side in the Lin
coln County war. But Billy was a
"little too strong" for his employers,
and soon he drifted over to the Chisum
camp. Here he made a record by as
sassinating Sheriff Brady of Lincoln
County. This officer was on his way
to the court at Lincoln to secure war
rants for a number of the Chisum out
fit. As he passed the corral of a Chisum
lieutenant named McSween, be was
fired upon by Billy, the Kid, and sev
eral other Chisum men who were hid
den behind the logs. Brady and a
deputy named Hardiman fell dead, and
another deputy named Mathews was
wounded, but managed to prop himself
up and return the fire, wounding the
Kid. , . ,
The desperado's wound was not fatal.
Faulkner occupies the chair of historical
theology in Drew Theological Seminary,
and he is of the opinion that probably
only two other literary men were ever so
popular as Petrarch-Eras ruua and Vol
taire.. An illumining picture of Erasmus
is given for his work in the revival of
letters and toward a more complete un
derstanding of religion and philosophy, in
one of Europe's dark ages. Erasmus was
bora in Rotterdam, Holland, sbout the
year 1466 and died in 1536. ' By many
students Erasmus is remembered as one
of Luther?s opponents in the work of the
Reformation. The creed of Brasmu is a
curiosity neither Catholic nor Protestant.
Othello, The Winter's Tale, sad the Tens
pes. By William Shakestare. Edited
by Charlotte Porter and Hlen A. Clarke.
Thos. Y. Crow ell & Co- New York City.
Three -companion books which nat
urally fit into one's library, and which
will easily hold an honored place
among Shakespeare reprints. They are
carefully edited with notes. Introduc
tion, glossary, lists of variorum read
ings and selected .criticism. The edi
tions go back to and reproduce the fa
mous first folio text of 1623, the one
which gives Shakespeare In the orig
inal spelling and punctuation.
Five-Minute Object Sermons. By Rev. Syl
vanus Stall. D. D. Price. $1. Vir Pub
lishing Company, Philadelphia. Pa.
A welcome reprint of 43 little talks,
first published and sent forth 14 years
ago. Eminently suited for young chil
dren, and will be found valuable in the
nursery or Sunday "school room. Such
heart-to-heart object lessons am ''The
Oyster and the Crab," "A Broken
Chain" and Husks" will even captivate
adults;
J. M. QUENTIX.
IN LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP.
Bright and Interesting accounts of days
spent out of doors In fishing and tramping
or in other things dear to the hearts of
those who love the woods are given in
Henry Van Dyke's "Days Off." The book
will appeal to all who feel the need of a few
"days off" In the big woods and keep them
ever young.
A book dealer in London has discovered
a copy of a book by Desiderius Kraamus
"Chrhnlanl Matrimonii Instltus." It Is a
first edition and contains marprnal. notes
believed to be in the handwriting of Henry
VIII. The book beara the royal arms and
the statement that it was bound for King
Hfmry Vlll.'s library. The handwriting re
sembles that of the King.
The current number of the Century in
cludes Anne Warner's "-Seeing England With
Uncle John, Agnes McClelland Daulton's
"Frit si," and "The Four- Pools Mystery."
whose author Is not announced. Before
writing these new Uncle John sketches, the
author .went over the Itinerary set down
therein-" Liverpool. Carlisle, Edinburgh. Mel
rose, Newcastle, Durham, York, Lincoln arfd
Oxford and many of the funny Incidents
there described entered into her own experi
ences. fc
.
Margaret Cameron,' who bae Just pub
lished her first book, be-aring the piquant
title "The Cat and the Canary," in private
life is Mrs. Harrison C. Lewis. Although
now a resident of New York, she is one of
the many writers who have spent, most of
their life on the Pacific Coast, especially In
California. The special literary province of
Mrs. levis from the first- has been the
funny situation in the short story which has
a delightful social environment, and Intro
duces agreeable men and women of the sort
most commonly met with. Mrs. Lewis did
not begin to write for publication until she
. -
however, and he served with Chisum a
year or two longer, taking part in the
desperate battles at Lincoln which ended
the war, about 50 of the Chisum outfit
being securely intrenched in McSween's
house. Here they were besieged two days
by a small army of D. & R. retainers, and
most of the Chisum men were killed in
a charge, after the building had been
fired. The Kid' escaped by rolling into an
irrigating ditch, in which he crawled to
safety. After the war the Kid acted as a
sort of outlaw free lance. He was partic
ularly bitter against his former employer.
Chisum, claiming the cattle king owed
him money." He made a vow that for
every man or steer of Chisum's he killed
he would knock 5 oft his account. He
killed four or five of Chisum's cowboys,
and always sent word that the sum of $6
had been deducted for each main slain.
"If I kill you," he sent word to Chisum.
"the account will soon be squared."'
In addition to Chisum's men, Billy had
a long list of murde-rs for which he had
never been called to account. Once he
killed four Mexicans at a water hole,
"just to see them kick." Generally he
worked alone, but sometimes he led an
outlaw gang, including such desperadoes
as Dave Rudebaugh, Billy Wicon and
Tom Pickett. His name became a syno
nym for terror in the Sonthwest. There
is a well-authenticated list of his murders
which shows that he committed 21 kill
igns before he himself met -death one
murder fr each year of his life.
The Lincoln County war, with afl its at
tendant banditry, was at its height when
Garrett was elected Sheriff of Lincoln
County. The law-abiding citizens liked
this tall, quiet, determined man, and con
cluded he could bring order out of chaos.
And the manner in which Garrett went
about his duties showed that he knew full
well the meaning of his oath of office. He
knew there was a den of rattlesnakes to
be exterminated, and that the work could
not be done gently. Sometimes he did
had arrived at young womanhood, when her
sparkling stories soon became known to the
magazines, and appear now from, time to
time.
May Sinclair, who of late has been turning
her hand to short stories for the xnagaxines,
h to publish, another novl soon. Miss Sin
clair is one among the many writers who
are In London at the present time; but the
greater part of her work ia done away from
the capital, in a small, rambling country
home near J?idmouth. one ef the more silent
suburbs of South Devon. The new novel by
Miss Sinclair will appear In the early Spring.
.
"Serapniea, the neroine of Justin. Mc
Carthy's new novel by that title, and Duchess-of
Bapaume in the story. Is a fictitious
portrait of Watteau's Duchess of Bapaume,
whose portrait by him in her bridal gown
is hanging in the Louvre. The painter him
self 19 represented In the romance as drawn
to hl vtvaclou young subject by one of
those tentative, ideal attachments which are
characteristic of the artistic temperament.
.
One of th genuinely American books
which- hay come to have a nub lie value at
auction Is the first edition of "Salama- '
gunat; 'or in wntmwnains and Opinions of
Launcelot Lang staff. Esq." This was the
.joint work of Washington Irving, of his
brother Theodore, and James K. Paulding,
and was published first In I SOT, and taken
over by Harpers' in the days of their early
history, in "Salamagundl" was not a
book at all in the beginning, but a period
ical, and the published volume comprised
the- first two series of the paper,
To those who make the mistake of believ
ing that one primary characteristic of a best
seller Is that It shall b written In a hurry,
it may be of Interest that "Ancestor" oc
cupied Gertrude A the-r ton Interna ittemly for
the greater part of 10 years. "Ancestors'
Is sharing London favor at present in com
pany wfth 'The Secret Agent" and "The
Broken Road," and over here has been re
cently announced for a new edition. The
author left London two weeks ago, and is
now settled in Munich, where he will re
main for several month to come.
There, seems to be an unceasing variety of
opinion as to Just what sort of book "the
great American novel," when It comes, will
be. Foreign opinion on the subject, while it
is exceedingly diverse, has it least a claim
to independence. Down In Mexico the title
Ls being claimed for "The Settler," by Her
man Whi taker, a story which deals with
Western Canada and tho frontiersman's life.
Mr. Whltaker ha lived this life- in the
North as it is described In his book, but he
Is also well acquainted with the South, and
Is at present living at piedmont. Cat. "The
Settler" first appeared as a xerial in the
Pacific Monthly.
Arthur A. Denny's "Pioneer Days on Pu
get .Sound" will be reprinted unde the edi
torship of Alice Harrlman, of Seattle, and
will be ready for sale about March 20.
About ftOO copies have already been sub
scribed for. and the editor In preparing the
new edition, has had the assistance of
George H. Hlmes, of this city. It is expected
that 850 copies will be printed from type, on
high-grade, deckle-edge paper,, numbered
and signed, and that no more copies than
these 850 will be issued from the present
reprint. Every resident of "old" Seattle is
sure to b interested in this record of pio
neer day.
"The Greater Mischief," byMafgaret West
rup. one of the recent books published, is
remarkable as being one of the few Eng
lish Rtories which bear even a remote- re
semblance. In method and conception of
character, to American fiction. Miss West
rup's heroine Is a distinctive and very Eng
lish creation; yet she is a reminder of the
New England maids of Mary E. "Wilklns
Freeman, and In her childhood she recalls
the little-girl characters of Anne Hamilton
Donnel. The Puritan temper is one of the
most English things we have in this coun
try, and the author of "The Greater Mis
chief is to be congratulated upon her per
haps unconscious discovery in her own land
of a type that la dear to American hearts.
not bother to provide himself with a war
rant when going after a "bad man." His
six-shooter was warrant enough for all
practical purposes, and results were what
the occasion demanded.
First Pat went after Billy the Kid, and
to the amazement of the Southwest
brought, the desperado back in irons. The
Kid. with a bunch of "bad men," had
been rounded up near Fort Sumner and
had finally surrendered to Garrett's possef
after the new Sheriff had killled two des
peradoes named O'Foliiard and Bowdre. A
mob tried to get the Sheriff 's prisoner and
lynch him, but Garrett hustled the Kid
into a freight-car, while Billy was plead
ing for a gun. and announced that he
would kill the first man who made a move
to take his prisoner. The Sheriff's firm
attitude awed the crowd until finally the
train pulled out. Billy was put in jail and
sentenced to be hanged at Lincoln. He
laughed In the face of the Judge who
pronounced sentence on him. A few days
later, when one handcuff had been re
moved so he could eat, he struck down a
Deputy Sheriff named Bell who was
guarding bim. and then drew the man s
revolver, killing him with it. Amhher
deputy, who was eating supper across the
street, heard the shot and dashed toward
the Jail. The Kfd was waiting for him.
and killed the deputy as he started up the
stairs. Then, coolly walking out of the
jail and making a blacksmith file off his
leg chains, the Kid mounted a horse and
rode away.
- When Garrett heard of the murder of
his two deputies he said little, but his
eye was ominous. He started on the
trail at once, and hung to the Kid like
shadow. The Kid was afraid of Garret?
and used every" trick and wile to remain
In hiding. Garrett, accompanied by two
deputies, went to Fort Sumner. They
arrived at night and made a careful re
connoisance. Garrett finally went to the
house of an old resident named Pete
Maxwell, intending to ask him if he had
seen or beard anything of the Kid. The
deputies sat down on the porch, in the
moonlight. Soon a slim young fellow
came rapidly to the house and entered.
The deputies had not the faintest idea
that the youth was the Kid himself. As
he entered Maxwell's room tho Kid
asked him. In Spanish, who were those
men outside. Then, realizing that some
body was sitting at the foot of Maxwell's
bed, Billy drew his revolver and asked,
as he tried to penetrate the darkness,
"Quien esT" (Who is it?) The instant's
hesitation was faatl, as Garrett, recog
nizing the high-pitched voice of the Kid,
had flashed out his revolver and fired.
The Kid's weapon spoke at almost the
same instant, but it was caused by his
convulsive plunge forward in his death
agony, as Garrett's shot had gone through
his heart.
If it had not been for Garett's quickness
of perception in recognizing the Kid's
voice, as well as his quickness in draw
ing and firing, he would have been added
to the desperado's victims.
At the time Garrett captured the Kid
he did some remarkable shooting. The
outlaw gang was "holed up" in a eaiii.
There were two horses tied in front of
the building. Garrett . shot one of the
animals, causing it to fall so it blocked
the door. Then he shot the rope that
held the other horse to the doorpost.
These shots, when the circumstances
were considered, were nothing short of
marvelous.
Garrett killed upwards of half a dozen
men who had been concerned in the out
lawry in Lincoln County, and made the
"bad men" hunt other quarters. Peace
was restored when be finished his term
of Sheriff, and he "ranched it" for awhile.
In 1884 be organized a company of Texas
rangers and broke up a bad gang of cat
tle thieves. Then he returned to New
Mexico ranch Ufa and served as Sheriff
of Dona Ana County for two terms, mak
ing: a fine record. In 1901 President
Roosevelt appointed Garrett Collector of
Customs at 1 Paso, in which, office he
served four years;
Such, in brief, is the remarkable career
of Pat Garrett, who did more than any
other individual to bring. law and order
to the frontier. The stirring .chronicles
of the Southwest hold no personal record
more creditable.
Greatest Women
Criminals .
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lesser crimes which shs was continually
committing to cheat the insurance com
panies. When" justice stepped between
her and her plans, she would effectively
do away with those who administered
Justice. Mrs. Martin's brain is as free
from the taint of -mental decay, except
for her perverted consideration for hu
man life, as are the brains of the men
she sought to kill.
"Mrs. Martin's not crazy." says "Baby
John." "She's Just naturally mean In her
heart. She'll have her way or she'll kill;
but you can bet she's not crazy."
The beginning of the end was really .
the Ogden incident. Judge Ogrien through
previous transactions with Mrs. Martin ,
had been disqualified to sit in the trial
of a case brought by the woman against
the Westchestershire Fire Insurance
Company upon the company's refusal to
pay the loss on a. smatt cottage be
longing to Mrs. Martin that had burned.
Arson was suspected, but there were no
means of proof. "Baby John" now ac
knowledges the crime. In the trial of
the suit Judge Sargent, of Santa Crux,
was substituted for Judge Ogden. The
evidence caused the jury to decide thn
suit against Mrs. Martin, althougb she '
had made a great personal legal tight in
court. The case was soon forgotten,
along with hundreds of others in which
Mrs. Martin had figured.
In the following March the explosion
at the Ogden home occurred. There was
never a suspicion cast upon Mrs. Martin.
It was thought that the fqiends of some
man whom Judge Ogden had sent to the
penitentiary for a long term were seek
ing .revenge. The Judge? of the Alameda
County fcourts offered J10U0 reward for
the capture of the perpetrator . of the
crime, and this action now disqualifies
all of them for sitting in the trial of tlfe?
case against Mrs. Martin when she -shall
be brought to Oakland to answer for the
Ogden outrage. Plenty of corroborative
evidence is now at hand, and at last
the authorities feel that a woman, more
to be feared than any other criminal tlicy
have dealt with since the days of the
bandit Joaquin Murietta, will be finally
disposed of by a long sentence behina
prison bars.
It was in 1S94 when"Baby John" was an
infant In arms, that Mrs. Martin first
used the boy in court as a means of car
rying out her designs. She claimed that
he was a nephew of Henry Martin, of
Weaverville, and that he was entitled to
the J300,000 estate left by that hardy old
miner. Attorney Delphin Michael Delmas,
who defended Harry Thaw In his first
trial, appeared' for the estate. Mrs. Mar
tin's claims were disproved and the case
was thrown out of court.
Probably her most notable appearance
in the scene of criminal activity was in .
1902 in San Francisco, when- she held, the '
police and detective force of that city In
suspense for weeks by the promulgation
of some theories in the famous Nora Ful
ler murder mystery. Her apparently care
ful reasoning was thought by the police
to be the thing that would lead them out
of the dark in a case where they were
completely baffled. Thus she toyed with
the entire police department in one of
the most sensational murder cases that
the West,has ever known.
Some or hep exploits have given her an
international notoriety. Last year she
went to New York and made the claim
that "Baby John," whom until recently
she had always garbed in Lord Fauntle
rov costume, was the son of the Princess
Chimay Carman, who was formerly Clara
Ward, of Detroit, Mich. As the guardian
of the child. Mrs. Martin sought the Ward
millions. Her suit was finally dropped.
She afterward charged the wife of Janezl
Rigo, the gypsy violinist, with slander.
Mrs. Rigo was formerly Mrs. Casper Em
erson, of New York. Nothing ever came
of this first attempt, but Mrs. Martin had
planned to try again to secure some part
of the Ward fortune.
But the rope has been run. Mrs. Mar
tin's last support having given, way under
her, she Is hopelessly alone to make the
biggest and most important court battle
of her career. She denies the charges,
but the written proof of her' schemes is at
hand. She moans and feigns illness in
her cell in the Weaverville jail, for she
seeked to create sympathy for herself. If
only she could know of the futility of this
subterfuge, of the hatred of the people of
Trinity County for her, she would snuggle
back behind the last flicker of that old
defiance and she would set her back to
the wall, flashing fire from those quick
sharp blue eyes at the pack of the law
that is upon her. '
"She doesn't know how well off she is
in that Jail," says District Attorney Hall.
"If we were to give her liberty now and
allow her to walk the main street, she
wouldn't live to reach the station. Some
one would surely shoot her."
Chief of Police Adelbert Wilson, of Oak
land, for 37 years a student of the crim
inal and his ways and regarded as an au
thority, says:
"Well, at last It seems that Mrs. Martin
has played her string. Her plotting is at
an end and I know many persons who rest
easier because of this fact.
"To me she Is the most remarkable
criminal of the age. Madame Gould, of
Monte Carlo simply murdered and took
what she' thought the surest means of
concealing her crime, as did Emma Le
Doux. at Stockton, In this state, when she
killed her tormer husband,' Charles Mac
vicar, and placed his body in a trunk for
shipment to her mountain home. Annie
Ross strangled her victim and Mrs. Cor
delia Botkin is well remembered all over
tho world, although she sought only to
take one or two lives In a family and call
it a job.
"Not so with Mrs. Martin. Her opera
tions would never have ceased if she had
been successful. She Is not insane. I know
her too well. She Is the smartest person
we have ever had to deal with around
this office."
Mrs. Martin's power to terrorize is gone.
The granite walls of the Weaverville Jail
will hold her until the gates of the state
penitentiary receive her.
HOTEL CLERK
Continued from Page S
foolish English clothes," said the
House Detective.
"We're all slaves of some sartorial
tyranny or pther, whether we get our
disease out of an almanac, by the light
of a log fire at night, or buy them in
direct from a high-priced specialist on
Fifth avenue," remarked the Hotel
Clerk.
"The main difference is that out in
the provinces they don't off after new
tailor-shop goods every time the cal
endar moults a page. They seem to
stick closer to the old idols. A high
ly shellacked white shirt with a white
tie and a diamond stud that's the
gambler; same with the tie but with
out the stud that's a local pastor:
same with the tie slipping around un
der the ear and a marbled design of
tobacco juice on the , bosom that's a
member of the Legislature; same with
no collar, no tie, no stud and craving
a trip to the laundry that's the man
who cleans up aronnd the place for
50 cents a wtek. Why," Larry, th
wardrobe is everything in the country,
when it comes to dressing a part. The
average politician in a back district
can lose nearly everything else and
still hold bis own and a little bit of
somebody else's if he clings to two
things."
"Wot two are them?" asked the
House Detective. ,
"They're his real vital organs," said
the Hotel Clerk. "One's his voice, and
the other's bis Prince Albert coat."