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NEW YORK. July 31- (Special.)
Charlea H. SherrtU Is the United
State Minister to the Argentine
Republic. He is figuring conspicuously in
the trouble between Bolivia and Argen
tine, the Interest of Bolivia at the Ar
gentine capitol having been placed in
his hands when the Bolivian Minister re
ceived - his passport from President Al
corta. In the final settlement of the dis
pute between the countries Minister Sher
rill is likely to play a very aotive part.
Baron Uchlda Is to succeed Mr. Taka
hira as Ambassador of Japan to the
Vnited State. He was formerly con
nected with the legation in Washington
and knows America thoroughly. He has
been connected with the Japanese Em
bassy at Vienna recently. It is believed
that if he succeeds Mr. Takahira, the
latter wilt be promoted to Baron Ko
mura's post.
Charles R. Crane, of Chicago, ia the
new Minister to China. He is a member
, of a manufacturing firm of which his
- father. R. T.- Crane, was- organizer and
head. He is especially well fitted for
the post because be has been in Russia
many times and speaks the Russian lan
guage. He Is also a good business man
and our business interests in China
promise to be Important. He has never
held office before,
It Is reported from Mexico that Presi
dent IMaa has notified General Bernard
Reyes that he must withdraw from the
contest for nomination for Vice-President
NEW CANDIDATE FOR HUGHES' OFFICIAL AX
But Delays Action on Crooked Official Till Near Election Smallneas of Belmont's Fortune Surprise Captain
Hains Develops Inventive Genius in Prison.
BT 1.IXVTD T. t-OTEROANr.
NEW YORK, July 31. (Special.)
For the second time In the life of the
present city administration a borough
president Is In danger of removal from
office, but', the average citizen simply
yawns an4 ejaculates: "What s the
user- For we all know that If
ernor Hughes Indorses he report of his
referee, Wallace MacFarlane. and ousts
President Louis Haffen, the Aldermen
from the Bronx will restore him to
office In Jig time.
When John T. Ahearn. president of
the Borough of Manhattan, . was
moved from office, Charles F. Murphy
ordered the Aldermen to re-elect him
and they did. In Haffen's case he Is
able to a-lve the order himself, and
there Is no reason to doubt but that
he will gladly follow the Ahearn
precedent.
The Governor has surprised every
body by playing very good politics In
the Haffen ca.e. Over a week ago Mr.
MacFarlane, who by tne way is a high
ly respected "Cleveland Democrat," re
ported that Haffen was guilty of mis
demeanor In office, and recommended
that he be removed. This decision
was reached after numerous hearings.
In the course of which it was developed
that Bronx Borough was run by and for
politics.
So People Won't Forget.
Much to everybody's surprise, the
Governor announced that he would not
pass upon the case until after his re
turn from Seattle late In August. Be
fore starting for the Exposinoa City,
the Governor said:
"L'pon my return I shall Immediately
take up this case. Considerations of po
litical expediency, I need hardly say.
are not regarded as relevant, the ques
tion being on the proof submitted as to
the truth of the charges."
All the same, delay at the present time
has a potent political effect, although
Charles Evans Hughes may not realize
It. By ousting Haffen in September, the
matter will be fresh In the minds of the
voters at the time of the November elec
tion. Were h removed now. they would
have just so much longer to forget all
about it.
Charles F. Murphy understands the sit
uation thoroughly, and Is urging Haffen
to step aside, and permit the election of
a respectable figurehead for the few re
maining months of his term. But Haffen
is obstinate and scents a plot to retire
him from politics. So he take refuge In
the statement that he is as good as
Ahearn and deserves equal recognition.
As he personally controls tha votes, the
selection of his successor ts a matter In
which he has the last say.
The case of Haffen. follomlng so closely
en that of Ahearn, haa called attention
to the urgent need of a revision of the
I -''it
at Meatico. The penalty Is the loss of
his position as the Governor of the state
of Kueve Leon. Dial Is the dictator of
Mexico and can do about as he pleases.
It is probable he is discouraging the am
bition of Reyes because ho believes Reyes
wants to succeed him as President. When
present city charter. As It Is now, a
Borough President, who is backed by the
Aldermen from his section, can laugh at
attempted discipline. The Governor can
remove him as often as he sees lit, but
the Alderman, having the power, can
promptly re-elect him.
The probabilities are that the next Leg
islature will provide that a man. removed
from office by the Governor after charges
and a hearing, is Ineligible to hold tha
office again during the term for which
he is elected. This would prevent any
more scandals, like those of the Ahearn
and Haffen cases.
Bolmont Not So Very Rlcn.
That rich men are not always as
wealthy as they are given credit for his
again been established by the proving of
the will of O. H. P. Belmont.
Mr. Belmont was one of our showy
millionaires. He'served a couple of terms
in Congress, was a prominent candidate
for Vice-President on one occasion, and
was popularly supposed fairly to ooze
money. He married Mrs. W. K. "Vander
bilt after she secured her divorce and
thereby became the stepfather of an
English Duchess. During his lifetime had
you questioned any well-informed New
Yorker, you would have been told that
Belmont was worth from 135,000,000 to J50,
ono.ooo. The appraiser's report, filed In the Sur
rogate's office the other day, showed that
the exact value of his property was $1,094,
9a5. And It was all in cash and securities,
excepting three pieces of real estate at
Hempstead. Long Island.
On the other hand, take the case of
Morris K. Jesup. ex-president of the
Chamber of Commerce. He was a modest
man, quiet In his tastes- and his habits,
and was only regarded as comfortably
well fixed. Tet he left an estate which
has bedn appraised at fl2.S14.894.61. Of
this the widow receives $9,617,091, while a
round $1,000,000 goes to the Metropolitan
Museum of Natural History, of which he
was president.
No New Torker ever believed that Mor
ris K. Jesup was as wealthy aa Oliver H.
P. Belmont. Yet the former's bequests
to charity were more than the entire es
tate of the yellow Journal's pet million
aire. Halns Has Healthy Brain.
Captain Peter C. Halns. V. S. A., now
on detached duty in Sing Sing, seems to
take kindly to prison life. Having plenty
of time on hand, he has turned his atten
tion to Invention, and has perfected a
street-cleaning apparatus which, when
worked out. Is expected to be worth many
thousands of dollars.
Halns. who feigned Insanity prior tc
and during bis trial, speedily recovered
his senses when sentence was pro
nounced. He Is a civil engineer and.
recognising his abilty in that Una, the ,
the time comes Diaz will undoubtedly
name his own successor.
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Russell A. Alper, of Detroit, Is the first
American to order one of the Wright
flying machines. Mr. Alger has always
taken a lively Interest in aeronautics and
sport. He Is the son of the late Senator
Alger of Michigan. He is a member of
the Aero Club of America and It is un
derstood that when the Wrights make
a delivery of their machine he will bring
It to New York to test it at the Aero
Club's field at Long Island. This field,
which Is at Hempstead Plains, has a
stretch of more than 1009 acres.
.
James M. Beck, chairman of the Aero
nautic committee of the Hudson-Fulton
celebration committee, sailed last week
for Europe to make' final arrangements
with several foreign aeronauts for their
entry in the world's 10.000 Fulton flying
contest. After arriving In London no
will confer with British flyers and then
go to Paris, where he will meet Cort
landt Field Bishop, president of the Aero
Club of America, who has been interest
ing prominent foreign aeronauts In the
New Tork-to-Albany flieht. Mr. Beck
was born In Philadelphia In 1S61 and was
admitted to the -bar In 1684. He was as
sistant Attorney-Gewral of the United
States from 1900 to 1903. He has argued
many Important cases In the Supreme
Court including the Neely Case, and the
lottery cases.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke has gone on
a long vacation to recover his health. It
is feared that the climate of the United
States does not agree with him and that
he may have to resign his position at the
head of the Metropolitan Museum or Arc
He denies that he has any such inten
tion at present. Sir Caspar has exer
cised a widely-felt influence In art cir
cles and if he should leave New York
he would be greatly missed.
prison authorities placed him in charge
of the draughting department connected
with the penitentiary sheet iron and tin
works. Among the articles turned out
In the prison are dumping carta, garbage
collectors and other apparatus usea in
cleaning streets. The Captain had not
been long at work when he suggested
many improvements. So impressed are
the prison authorities with the Captain's
plans that they have given him every op
portunlty to put his Ideas Into execution
and have provided him with several
helpers.
This story, which Is entirely true, is
particularly Interesting when read In
connection with the testimony of the
learned physicians who gravely examined
Halns in the Queens County Jail before
his trial and found that he was a broken
down Imbecile, all of which would go to
prove that a term In state prison Is a
wonderful mind cure.
A novelty In protection against death
Is the Ethiopian Life Insurance Com
pany, Just Incorporated at Albany with a
capital of $100,000. Its founders say that
It Is the first negro stock corporation of
Its kind In the history of the state, and
the first negro corporation with a capital
of Its size in the history of the United
States.
The incorporators also say that there Is
such a prejudice against the negro being
admitted to Insurance companies man
aged by whites that their company will
be patronized by members of their race
all over the United States. The new con
cern has already made a flourishing start.
Grave-Digger's Romance.
A little "clothesline case" in a Brooklyn
Police Court the other day revealed a ro
mance of so unusual a character that all
of the metropolitan papers took notice
of it.
For Charles Kramer, the hero, won his
bride in a most unusual way. He fell In
love with Mrs. Theresa Furman when she
visited Evergreen Cemetery to weep over
her husband s grave. Kramer is the
senior gravedigger there and saw his
way to make an Impression. So. as he
says, he was "very nice to the grave."
kept the grass beautifully, looked
after the flowers and made Furman's
resting place the show spot of the ceme
tery. The widow appreciated his atten
tions to the dear departed, his suit pros
pered and In course of time he proposed,
she accepteod and they were married.
Here was all the material for a novel
along new lines, but trouble was intro
duced by Kramer's step-children, two
husky young men who frowned on the
aged gravedigger.' and loudly cursed htm.
When they took to throwing bureau
drawers and baseball bats on his head as
ha returned home nights, he finally de
cided to tell his woes to a magistrate.
and the boy were haled to court. They
promised to behave themselves, and there
the matter rests for the present.
John D. Rockefeller Is giving away his
property, but no great public excitement
has been caused thereby, for it is still
In tha family.
John D. Dodging Inheritance Tax.
The aged multi-millionaire plans to
j divide his realty holdings among his heirs
Deiore nis aeam, una uiereuy prevent ine
state from benefiting when bis will shall
be probated. His latest transfer was the
house. No. E West Fifty-third street,
which he gives to his daughter Alta, the
wife of E. Parmelee Prentice. It Is val
ued at $250,000.
The champion "mean man" has again
been found, but this one will probably
wear the laurel crown for some time. His
name Is Henry Eckhard. and his wife,
Mrs. Minnie Eckhard, of wark, N. J.,
haa Just secured a divorce on the grounds
of cruelty and desertion.
In her testimony Mrs. Eckhard gave
her husband a mighty bad character. She
swore that he developed a habit of mak
ing a count every day of the number of
potatoes, eggs and other articles of food
she used for the family, and If she cooked
one more egg or a few more beans than
he thought she should, he would penalize
her by withholding money from the next
week's household expenses. The suit
was not contested, as Eckhard's acquain
tances have not seen him since last Oc
tober, when he deserted his wife In
Newark.
"Baf Nelson's Busy Day.
Bo he discharged the prisoner, who left
the courtroom in tears. What Francis
Graham will do now It Is Impossible to
say, but if he secures a knife he may
commit murder. For It Is mighty tough
If you cannot even go to the penitentiary
when you want to.
In the old days prizefighters In the in
tervals between ring battles stood around,
boasted, drank and talked. Nowadays
they are as busy as professionals or busi
ness men.
Battling Nelson Is in town after his
nfth round trip to the Coast since Janu
ary 1. He dropped In on a local news
paper office at 8 P. M., and admitted
having had a fairly busy dey.
"Oh, he said, "I was pressed a bit to
day, but I got through It all right. Don't
you know that with subways and steno
graphers and elevators and all these
things a man can do a lot In New York
In a day? I reported myself ready to
box at the benefit for the Home for Crip
pled Children on Monday, and then I
closed a contract with the biggest news
concern In the world for the handling of
100,000 of my books.
"I went over the monthly accounts of
my ranch at Obar, in Mexico, and my
vineyard of 100 acres In Southern Texas,
and arranged transportation for my
brothers, who are in the University of
California, for a trip to the Alaskan cele
bration. Then I took lunch, canned a
dozen automobile agents, had my lawyer
look after some moving picture contracts,
hustled up to the races, taking in an In- ;
ning at tne roio tirounos on my way,
dined, called on my newspaper friends
and am now bound for bed."
John L. Sullivan's comment on the
above might prove of Interest.
President Tart's Personal Touch.
Washington (D. C.) Dispatch.
President Taft, when he talks to a pub
lic man, especially one of the old-timers
with whom he is well acquainted, has a
way of putting both hands on the shoul
ders of his visitor In the most brotherly
end affectionate fashion. It proves more
effective than the use of the Big Stick.
Tbe day goeth a war, for the shadow
Somewhere there is a sea whose breast
Knows neither ebb nor flow of tide,
No breezes blow from east to west,
Yet it is long and deep and wide;
It lies in an eternal calm,
Above its deeps no ripple plays
Nor any zephyr drifts with balm
The sea of wasted yesterdays.
It holds the hulks of high emprise
That lacked the helmsman's guiding hand,
The dreams of men accounted wise,
The hopes of men accounted grand ;
' Its bed with dreary wrecks is strewn
Wrecks of fair craft that left the ways
But foundered in the full of noon
The sea of wasted yesterdays.
The derelicts of all of time
Roll idly on this sunless s ;
Unfinished song, unwritten rhyme,
Tales that would thrill men wondrously f
Neglected talents sunken deep
- That neither pride nor shame can raise ;
All these the sea will hold and keep
The sea of wasted yesterdays.
And hidden in its sullen heart
Are kingdoms that were never gained,
Are marvel-works of greatest art
And genius in oblivion chairied;
HorizorSess this dead sea lies
Blurred by a dull and sodden haze
That bars the glory of the skies
The sea of wasted yesterdays.
And thousands turn them day by day
To look back, sighing on this sea.
What does it hold of them? you say.
What does it hold of you and me?
Have you no wreck hid in its deep
Where neither storm nor sunlight plays?
Have we no ruin that it keeps
This Sea of Wasted Yesterdays!
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A HAIR-RAISING 5TORY"
Dyke's Comers. By Rev. E. Clarence Oak
ley. Richard G. Badger, Boston, Mass.,
and the J. K. Gill Company, Portland.
"Dyke's Corners IB deader than tha
buryln' ground, fur thet does hev some
hope of a resurrection day."
6o begins a new American novel in
which dry humor and really excellent
character drawing predominate, a novel
which has a local interest because its
author. Rev. E. Clarence Oakley, is a
clergyman in Oregon City, Or. At the
present time I have no data showing how
much literary work Mr. Oakley has done
In the past, but even If he had not writ
ten anything else besides "Dyke's Cor
ners" he would have established his
name as a novelist worth while, one who
adds a charm to American rural life and
throws a halo around "the simple annals
of the poor." Mr. Oakley might exclaim
with the poet. William Cowper:'
Nor Tural sounds alone, 1ut rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit and restore
The tone of lansuid nature.
For "Dyke's Corners" 1 rural and
smacks of the country. It busies itself
with the love affairs of John Adams
Beardsley, better known as Beardsie, the
village photographer, a man, at the open
ing of the story, of 30 years of age, but
who had the appearance of being 50 years
old. "He went shuffling negligently
across the diagonal path from the store
toward the tavern: his hands behind his
back, his shoulders stooped, his eyes va
cantly on the ground. He was whistling
to himself, quite In tune."
"Jes" look at Beardsie," eald the cob
bler, "he alius walks ez though he was so
lame all over he didn't know which way
ter limp."
The chief trouble with Beardsley was
that he was about the last man with
whom a girl would fall In love, and he
was painfully Ignorant of the ways of a
maid with a man in short, he didn't
know women. What a pretty girl like
Miss Florence Hardman could see in him
of the ere ning are stretched out.
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was a mystery. The two characters of
Florence and Beardsley are skilfully
handled, and only in a few instances does
the novelist show his Inexperience as a
writer of readable fiction.
It appears that the town of Dyke's
Corners Is located somewhere In New
York State:
liyke's wasn't any "Corners" at all, un
less one were to remember the Insignificant
lane which crossed Main street next to the
tavern. They called that spot the '"Square,"
and retarded it the center of the village,
though as a matter or fact nearly all the
buildings strung themselves out to the
northward along Main street. Only a dozen
or so were there to string, 'and modest af
fairs at that. The tavern was the braggart
among them, standing on the northwest cor
ner of the "Pquare" and making pretense
of being somewhat. Good reason It had. as
It -was the ehly two-story structure in the
community: moreover, it had a bar that
acknowledged no commercial peer In the
county. The gnawed hitchlng-rall gave In
contestable proof of Its popularity. Across
from the tavern was the blacksmith shop.
Its generous doors swung wide open the
year 'round. Tavern and shop monopolized
the whole male population the bibulous
taking one side of the street and the loqua
cious the other.
' Beardsley's one great invention In his
business of photography was a "magic
box,'"! by which he believed the camera
could be made to give a truer picture than
It usually did. He hoped to catch the
colors of nature and print them on the
negative. Thus, when Mrs. "Maiier"
Jones, the shrew of the town, called with
her husband to get her picture taken she
did her best to smile and otherwise look
agreeable, "but it required effort." Her
husband "was a subdued rather than a
quiet man." Beardsley secretly placed his
magic box on his carneri and the de
veloped picture showed af '.erward "Marier
In the kitchen, on a hot, hurried day, in
all the confusion and rumple of a cross
morning. The same hideous scowl that
disfigured her face through all her work
ing hours, and some that were not work
ing; the same sour disposition that spoilt
home and children, and would have spoilt
Josh, were he not mercifully endowed
with a good nature that nothing could
destroy. The picture Marier held In her
hand was terribly realistic: there she
stood true to life angry, ruffled, shrew
ish."
What a dreadful magic box! A had
young man, Mr. Darby, "from the city,
had the temerity to love Florence.
pretty girl 'of 18 years old, hut when
Beardsley sprang his magic box on the
said Darby, the negative showed Darby
wearing a dissipated look and a strange
young woman by his side.
When Beardsley went to a party given
by Florence's parents he carried with
him his violin, for he was to supply
dance music for the crowd and- it is re
lated "his bushy whiskers he tucked into
his breast and buttoned his coat snugly
over them; he raised the fiddle to his
chin and held the bow for the first long-
drawn note." Beardsley became nettled
at Darby's presumption in loving Flor
ence and Darby was not slow In seeking
ways . and means to anger his elderly
rival. The latter walked to "the city'
to .discover something discreditable about
Darby and lived at a lodging place where
the beds cost the guests 10 cents per
night. He bung around a saloon to which
was attached a free lunch counter and
by the aid of a tramp named "3horty
Bill" he was guided to the place where
Darby was, very drunk.' A free fight
ensued, in which Beardsley Just escaped
without serious bodily harm. Darby's
stock as a lover was thereby decreased.
Florence Hardman is drawn as a girl of
whims and fancies and uncertain temper.
It Is doubtful If she Is worth so much
devotion. BeardBley didn't understand
her and on page 1S7 we learn that "he
certainly could not read the alphabet of
woman nature. Once Beardsley said:
"Some women are born old maids, and
likewise a few men. I'm one." When he
formally spoke to Florence about love
she grew angry because of his clumsy
reference to it, and she stamped around
like a tragedy-queen at a dime theater.
Afterward Florence saw her error and
sent him this affecting note:
My dear, good friend and lover forgive
me! I was wrong, wrong, wrong. It was
all so strange, and seemed all so unfair.
it may be so still, but 1 do not care. I
love you. I do not despise you. if you
can forgive me, coma and tell it to a very
penitent girl.
Here Is where the story could be Im
proved. It Is a relief, however, to know
that the troubled lovers are happy after
ward.
Of course, Mr. Oakley, as a clergyman.
has a -Church in the novel, and one of his
best hits Is where he describes Beardsley
bashful entering EJder Wiikins'
church and seating himself beside his
Florence. The congregation stared and
then understood. The choir was singing
at the time. "Oh. beautiful daughter of
Jerusalem! Thy king Cometh to thee,"
Warbled the fat. little soprano. And wnen
she saw Beardsley sit beside Florence the
little soprano grew faint, for she too
loved the photographer with the bushy
whiskers. The preacher's sermon was
about love, and one hymn began, "Love
divine, ail love excelling. It was a love
service, appropriate to the occasion.
Beardsley, bewhiskered, wrapped in
Idealism and unconscious poetry, and
country-bred, may have his Drototvrie In
more than one Oregon village. He is a
creation worth having, new In the sea-
eon's fiction.
Aleotaol, by Henry Pmtth Williams, M. D .
I L. D. 60 cents. The Century Com
pany. Nw York City, and the J. K.
Gill Company. Portland.
Dr. Williams has had long and varied
experience as physician. psychlarist.
criminologist, pathologist, sociologist, his
torical investigator, writer, editor and
business, executive. He Is, therefore,
fitted peculiarly as an authority on the
harm done to our race through the deadly
of alcohol. He does not preach a
sentimental temperance sermon, but gives
stem medical facts. His little book is
based on articles on the subject, articles
which appeared recently in McClure's
Magaslne, and attracted so much atten
tion from thoughtful, persons ' over the
entire country, that many requests to re
print what be wrote Into book form were
received from temperance organisations
and other societies, because of tle good
such a wise message would give.
Here are some of Dr. Williams' Ideas,
as gleaned from his book:
I am bound to believe, on the evidence,
that if you take alcohol habitually, in any
quantity whatever, it Is to some extent a
menace to you. I am bound to believe,
in the light of w?-.at science has revealed:
1. That you are tangibly threatening the
physical structures of your stomach, your
liver, jour kidneys, your heart, your blood
vessels, your nerves, your brain;
2. That you are unequivocally decreas
ing your capacity for work In any field,
be it physical. Intellectual, or artistic;
3. That you are In some measure lower
ing the grade of your mind, dulling your
higher esthetic sense, and taking the finer
edge olT-your morals:
4. - That you are distinctly lessening your
chances of maintaining health and attain
ing longevity; and
5. That you are entailing upon your
descendants yet unborn a bond of Incal
culable misery.
For- every Individual that dies prema
turely of a disease directly due to alcohol,
there are scores of individuals that suffer
to a lesser degree from maladies which are
wholly or in part of the same origin, but
which are not directly fatal.
persons under the influence of Intoxicat
ing quantities of alcohol . . . show
1. Marked impairment of those powers
of Inhibition and self-restraint that we call
volltlonary control or will-power;
2. Serious modification of the capaolty
to make sound and logical Judgments; and
S. A dlatlnot blunting of the moral sen
sibilities. For every patient that suffers complete
mental collapse as the result of alcoholism,
there are scores of patients that ara the
victims of epilepsies, neurasthenias, neu
ralgias, choreas, and palsies of alcohollo
origin. For every criminal that aloohol
sends to prison, there are scores of per
sons whose moral delinquencies,' induced
or emphasized by- alcohol, are not of the
Indictable order, yet are a source of suf
fering to their friends and a detriment te
humanity.
As a mers business proposition: Is your
glass of beer, your bottie of wine, your
high-ball, or your cocktail, worth euoh a
price?
Travels From the Grandeurs of the West
to the Mysteries of the East, by Chari-
. ton B. Perkins. Illustrated. S3. The
fhaxlton B. Perkins Company, San Fran
cisco, cal. and the J. K. Gill Company.
Portland.
Quite a work of art and observation.
In 1S2 pages, Mr. Perkins gives a per
sonally conducted tour starting from the
west coast of America and proceeding to
Honolulu, Japan, China, Philippine la
lands. Cochin China. Siam. Straits Set
tlements, Island of Java, Burmah. India,
Ceylon, Ejypt, Europe, New York City,
etc. The story la printed on thick cream
paper, and the illustrations are many
and very pleasant to the eye. Each
Journey Is described under a separate
head and the story is notable for well
arranged facts as well as Interesting de
scriptive matter.
A welcome notice Is given of this city,
along with several pictures, and Port
land's population Is stated to be 285,000,
with the added Information that It is
growing "at the enormous rate of nearly
2 per cent a month." It is also said that
the "scenery of the Columbia River is
equal if not superior to the scenery of
the Hudson River." This Portland artlclo
Is written by B. C. Giltner. The article
describing tho Grand Canyon of Arizona
deserves special mention for Its concise
handling of a thredbare but artistic topic.
And then on the Orient but really the
book calls for so much that one scarcely
known when to stop. It Is like one
great, picture gallery of foreign travel,
a show book to place on your parlor
table, and also valuable enough to be
consulted for reference. T-he copy now
being reviewed Is bound in blue silk
cloth and stamped In gold. The copy in
leather binding costs JS.
This Misery of Boots. By H O. Wells. 50
Cents. The Ball Publishing Company,
Boston, Mass.
Curiously enough the odd title attracts
you. What? Is the distinguished author'
of such scientific books as "In the Days
of the Comet" and "A Modern Utopia"
willing to discuss such mundane articles
as boots? He begins by telling you that
a considerable part of his childhood was
spent in an underground kitchen where
Instead of seeing the heads and bodies
of people he saw the soles of their boots.
He then discusses the manufacture of
boots, especially tbe sources from which
the raw materials are obtained, and then
branches into what Is the real purport
of his book Socialism.
Very clever, indeed. It's like the bit
ter pill of childhood with the sugar coat
ing on the outside. You first tasted the
sugar, expressed your approval, and
then. Mr. Wells preaches confiscation
of property, a revolution, and admits that
he does not care what has to go In the
process. He Is very frank.
The Sunday School: How to Start and Keep
It. Edited by Edwin Wilbur Rice, D. D.
25 cents, cloth. American Sunday School
Union, Philadelphia, Fa
A crystallization- of the practices and
experiences of a century of Sunday school
work, told in a book of 104 pages; a book
designed for rural Sunday schools. In
every way helpful.
JOSEPH M. QDBNTIN.
FOUR MEN ATTACK COUPLE
Brutal Assault by ConI Miners Is
Reported From Staffordshire.
LONDON. July II. (Special.) An
amazing outrage upon a young couple
was reported yesterday .to the Stafford
shire police. It Is stated that late on
Wednesday night a young man named
Samuel Baggaley, who lives at Bundley
street, Burslem, was walking along a
road near the racecourse pits at Burslem,
in company with his sweetheart. Miss
Mary Pickerlll, who lives at Cobridge,
when four men. supposed to be colliers.
suddenly attacked them from behind.
Three of the men dragged the girl away
from Baggaley. Baggaley struggled with
the fourth man. and was getting the bet
ter of him when two of his friends came
to his assistance. Baggaley was then.
so he states, struck on the head with a
piece ' of iron and rendered uncbnsclous.
His head was badly Injured and his cheek
cut.
While In a semi-conscious condition.
Baggaley declares that he was carried
by the men who had attacked him some
distance and thrown onto the railway
lines. Two hours or so later he was
found lying across the metals of the
North Staffordshire Railway. He sug
gests that the men, thinking he was
dead, probably placed him across the
metals in order to convey the impression
that he had been knocked down by a
passing train.
Miss Pickerlll, in telling of tne case.
said: M
I had a stone In my shoe, and we were
stooping down to get It Out when four
fellows came along. We did not know
them, but they rushed up to me, and
three of them pulled me away from
Samuel. I screamed, and the tallest of .
the men told another one to put his hand
over my mouth.
Finally I escaped and ran to Grange
Farm, where I rested up against the
wall. I don't know If anyone gave chase.
but I managed to get home, and then
dropped on the sofa unconscious."
The girl, who is still evidently suf
fering from nervous shock, stated that
she did not then know what the men had
done to Baggaley. The efforts of the
police to discover the authors of the out
rage have so- far proved unsuccessful.