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THI? SrSPAT OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 12, 1911.
CLEVER FAKERS OF ANTIQUES
EVEN DECEIVE JNOTED EXPERTS
Russian Jews Pus Tears in Prodncinf Bogus Copies of Gold Crown, Comfit-boxes and Candlesticks Sold to
Wealthy Collectors as Corios Wealth Refused Through Religious Fanaticism.
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Inch long-, every feather Is beautifully
marked, and the eyes, which are set
with the tiniest green stonen. are a
marvel of patient workmanship. The
piece will probably fetch-$15,000 when
put upon the market. Felnblatt works
with Instruments so delicate that one
would think they would break under
the pressure of his flng-ers. The Kad
ildlo cost-him nearly a year's work, but
he did not appear to be very flourish-
nr. He and his family occupy a small
room behind the shop, and his dinner
consists of a porrldjfe-like mess of bar
ley and a piece of salted herrins.
The ajcent. of course, would not say
what the worker's share of the salo
profits would be, but Inquiries in the
neighborhood elicited the fact that the
Felnhlatts are poor men. and this In a
country where $.00 is reckoned a Kood
Income for a working ftoldsnilth. There
seems little doubt that the collector's"
money Roes almost entirely Into the
dealers' pockets.
1 remember once vlsltlns a very fa
mous faker in Odessa who got himself
much t.-ilked about because his spurlo'is
crown of a long-dead Pharaoh found
Its way Into the Paris Louvre. The
j J-ouvre committee had paid an enor
mous price for it. but the artist uvea
in two qua!!d rooms in a hack street
in Oilcssa. True, a Puns firm of gold-
I smuns. wnose snop w in i:ik nue u
la l'six. sent ror nun ana niicreu nun
a regular saiary of something like S.'iO
per week, but his works of art fetch
very many thousands.
The work takes so long that, were
it well paid, the dealers would make
but little profit. Keinhlatt. whose
house boasts no better Im-t.t than that
given by an oil lamp, never touches his
finer work after nightfall, so that a
vcHr for one small piece is none too
long.'
I lie faking of antique ana h stories!
furniture was formerly a profitable
trade, but the market Is not what It
used to he. The fashion now runs to
historical bibelots and relics, so that
dealers now make their enormous prof
its through work of the Kicff and
Odessa kind. Their rich customers are
also eager to buy candelabra or snuff
boxes with some sort of story tacked
to them. They would not look at the
very same pieces unless they were
hjimhimired Into believing- them old.
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'Kindness in us is the honey
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WARSAW. Feb. 11. (Special "Oh
Your cotlet-tors like to be hum
buisr.1. They are nattered to see
te papers record enormous prices paid
iy ISrm for some piece or other. They
must bare something old. they refuse to
look at the most beautiful work In the
ntM if It Is avowedly new. no matter
whether It be a randetahrurn or a coffin.
" My sork I as nne and dfllcate as any
lone th-e n years; but It has to be
lb!eil VIJ" to sell. American collectors
sre as ba.t a any In Ihl respect. l!tit
tffy pay bet."
Th speaker ! tione other than the
rerrl fjkrr In Russia, which means
lht yoij can ransack the world without
finding his match. More than one Paris
h.u-e his offered him a huge salary to
go and work exclusively fur them. Put
he p"fcrs to keep his Independence and
tk ks to his nwU'it home at Kieff. Let
him be known as Mr. Klenblatt.
This U one of ihe features of the "fsk
ir.g tr.lr. The beautirul bibelots which
rouecior t'naiy tM-iieve to baTe come
from some oM Krenrh palre or chateau,
are made la Kt-"rT. The mAgnlflcent Km
p:re writing table at whi.-h Napoleon Is
su po'-a t. ht tlashr oft a hasty note,
sr-t the b-'i W!n graceful curves on
wl:l'-h h:s nrt Umprcs Is surposed to
re res:e! are made in Warsaw: while
the rvli. s tif Kryp:ln culture brought
fr.irn Tti6n wltn the drwrt san-l still
,-li"lrc to t-'iem have brrn no nearer
Af't-a t: an the Russian port of Kia.
v . .c.-aue ti e men who work In
t:i-se tiivn are so clever that they de
reive im of tre rWverest experts. anl
vom cf tHetr work may even be seen In
Ihe museums.
IlaQiIk-rafl I Pre-eretl.
when everything Is m
ey have preserved h,'ir
In in u age.
rhine-made. t
hantll.-rsft to ia evtent unkf.own In the
Western world. The -weler or silver-
xiiltn of Amen. and eland has lost
his cunning. Alar-Finery has gradually
1-prtvea him vt the use vf his ringers.
n.y In countries where Intricate and
.leluaie m'char.t al runtrlvance arg un
known can such work exist.
n ia year i, maket. out It Is so
we. I ii .ne In the end that you are In
cined to ak yourself if In real cud
uojrts dart" could have beaten them.
And et t:ie.. artttlcers are not Rus
sians, but members of those Hebrew
i-Kioniee hih have b-en established on
Kus!an soil fvr t enturiea. and have kept
apart from t.ieir neihlors preserving
t-ieir own 1 incuafe and customs. Tneir
hamiiwork Is full cf tl.at rstern deli
cacy and i carri.-l on with the patience
wht.-fi allows a nun to spend 10 years
on the rhtseltns cf one bos or the ham
nertng cf a sin!e stiver trav.
l rr "FeinMatt." whxse fake factory
I vi-ue, in KiefT. speaks scarcely any
Russian and no o:her Kurupan lan
Suage. so that cnveratlon wl:hi him Is
n,t very easv I nun icl. however, to
Ir.d out a o,l deal shout his methods
s weil as tnoae of others wl.o ply his
ri'l. Although he ts no linguist he lias
-nade one or two pl:rlmsbes to the mil
veums In Par s. Vienna and Herlin. where
1 lak-s g'. stoeg of tne gnuine
urine and t.is;,,rl,al relhs he means to
topy. rM.tir.lrg detailed drawings and
nrlnrvpr of them. He returns home
'uli cf Meas whw-h It would take a llfe
jme to carry out. hut which help lilm to
ork tp to the wishes of the big Paris
tnd rer'.ln r!ealrs when trey send him
sort! tKat m? rich eoilertor Is bunting
foe re: -s of s rertaln ace or monarch.
The l-i rer;al museums at St. peters-h-rrg
sre so ri"o.--fuil of wonderful
b-reor and Historical curies that Mo.
it's brother. Sjmul. has never been far
ther a.'..d Xur la ico.ratluaa 4 ;:
bsoi given the world a perfect copy of
the comfit boxes of Catherine the threat
which were sold to American collectors
as having come from the salon of a
ruined Russian magnate.
A dealer who knows both the sets
assured me that It would he Impossiblo
for an expert to distinguish between
those In the Tsar's private collection and
the copies made by Felnblatt. The dif
ficulty was to get exact rlmwlngs and
photographs of the originals, which are
In pure gold and supposed to have been
made In Paris after designs of a Rus
sian favorite of the Great Kmpreae.
Csar's Collection Open to Public.
Most of the Tsar's priceless collec
tions are open to the public from tlm
to time; but these boxes are kept
IVterhof. Aa luck would have It an
Eastern potentate tl think II was the
then Fhah of Persist was about to visit
the Tear, and Peterhof had been len
to him for the visit. workmen were
sent to do up some of the rooms when
the Shah left; fur they had Urn put to
use extraordinary even In Russian
eyeSL Felnblatt managed to get access
to the palace as one if the workmen,
when he was soon able to bribe a serv
ant to show htm the comfit boxes.
The art antlquartnn dealer for whom
he was working spent about to
STD4 In tlis bs-fure Felnblatt could ge
the ilrswlngs. but It whs all done at
last. The dealer supplied the gold and
the three bonrx.nnleres were finished by
the two brothers In three years. The
dealer got ll'xni for the biggest of the
set. What the other two biought re
malivs a secret, but it must .e remem
bered that the outlay was considerable.
The brothers Felnhlatt are. of course
artists. Hut they have their limitations.
To begin with they ha-, e as much
knowledge of the various fierloda of
which their models are suptnieed to ba
products as the village curiosity short
keeper In Kngfsnd has of the prints
which sometimes fall into his hands.
Thia Is easy to understand because they
know no other books than those of the
Old Testament. Their reilglous conser
tattsm forbids ttiem to learn any of the
languages In which the theories of ulhe
lots and other ob)ecta dart are set
forth.
They can therefore onlv copy, but
cannot create. But thev nave a very
lively Idea of the wonderful beauties of
King Solomon s Court and of the ves
sels of gold and sliver which stood In
the Temple at Jerusalem. And the
dealer was probably rlitht who said that
these men make a perfect cult of their
work into which they put an enthusi
asm almost amounting to religious fer
vor" To these very Intelligent workers,
whose Idea of the world's literature Is
bounded by a perfect knowledge of but
one book, the most beautiful book per
haps that the world has ever seen, he
said, "their work Is no 'fake. but a lire
sacrifice. And the room In which It U
performed becomes a temule of beauty."
To visit this temple of beauty was
mv burning ambition for some weeks-
Hut there were many obstacles, because
men like the Felnhlatts do not mix
with the outer world and are by no
means willing to talk of their work.
At last, however, an opportunity arose.
ne of these arents whom big dealers
periodically send round to Russia ar
rived on his half-yearly tour of Inspection.
Kkrr Arc I!iMinier4
Itealdes visiting the avowed fakers.
these men roam about the towns and
villages, finding out from the factors
where some country squire has good
old furniture or putures or bronxrs to
11. Ruaelaji bronses of a couple of
hundred ytoxs ago were as beautiful
as their gold and silver things, and the
agents are gradually buying them
up. This particular agent said he was
going to Kieff to see the relnblatts
and would take me as his interpreter.
One condition, however, was that I was
not to disclose Fcinblatt's real name
or the agent's. So to Kieff we went.
The "temple of beauty" I had heard
so much about Is a dirty little shop In
the quarter of the town entirely Inhab
ited by Hebrew colonists. The place
was once a small dwelling-house, for
the shop window is only one window
of an ordinary sitting-room. Its fellow
having been turned Into a door. The
shop Is not more than 10 feet by 8, and
contains a dirty counter where a small
glass case displays one or two cheap
watches and the sort of sliver trinkets
peasants and servant girls buy In those
parts. The window shows more watches
and trinkets, and carelessly placed
amung them Is a large old Russian
drinking cup with a bird-claw feet and
beautifully chacd bowl. It looks at
least 300 years old. and has the old
Russian silver mark. It serves as a
sign by which forelirn dealers know
that this miserable little shop contains
possibilities.
Of course, the old silver cup waa
made and chiseled by one of the Feln
blatts. who sit at work In a small
room behind the shop. The table they
sit at Is crowded with small tools and
hammers used In their trade. One or
two rows of bottles filled with washes
they concoct stand on a shelf on the
wall behind. These concoctions ara
carefully guarded secrets, and nearly
every faker has his own. They give
the gold or silver that look of old
metal which so many collectors think
Indispensable to curios, though many
Imperial museums have lsrge staffs of
cleaners who polish the oldest things
so that they -are always as bright as
the day they left the beater's hands.
With constant cleaning the faker's
washes also wear off. Just like the
bona fide, accumulated dirt and stains
of centuries. Stronger washes are used
for relics supposed to iave been dug
out of temples, and the fakes are act
ually kept under the earth for some
months, only to be dug up when there
Is a market for them.
Hut the Klcff brothers do not go !n
for this kind of work, which Is car
ried on to a huge extent In Odessa
and the Crimea, These lsst neighbor
hoods are excellent ground for the an
cient pagan relic fakers, because they
are dotted with real old pagan mounds
where chiefs and Kings were burled.
Though all the real relics have been
dug up long o, the faked ones are
put In their plnccsj and dug up In the
presence of rich collectors.
"tlnblu, I Seen.
Only Moazer "Felnblatt" was seen.
He sat. aa his Kaslern custom. In a
long black coat and a black cap. He
greeted the dealer with Asiatic reserve
and dignity. He waa Just finishing
one of the- most delicate pieces of gold
work I have ever seen. In Russia It is
called a kansldlo. and consists of a
cup-shaped box about five Inches high.
The work Is of the finest possible fili
gree, cut out of the solid metal and not
made of wire. In these boxes aromatic
leaves and spices used to be burned, so
as to perfume rooms. Peter the Great
had a large collection of them, and tiie
Felnblatt s Imitation will go Into the
market as one of thia collection. The
pattern consisted of small birds on
branches. The Idea Is. of course, an
Eastern one. and Peter got his from
Turkey or Persia. They are no longer
made In the general way. and are much
soiiKht after by collectors.
Although none of the birds on Fcin
blatt's Kadildlo are mora than one-half
HIOUItAPHT.
his
Correspondence; with a memoir by
slsier Madan-.e l Purvllle. 2v. 1S7.
Kdlson Kdlson. his life and Inventions;
by K. I- lr and T. O. Martin. 1910.
Mllford Recollections nf a literary life;
and selections frcm my favorite poets and
prose writers. 1SH3.
BOOKS IN FOREIOX LANGUAGES.
Hrehm Fram nordpnlen till eqvatorn.
Bull Folkelive bllleder. 2 v.
Prondale Montmartre; comedle en quatre
actes.
Nantel I.e fleurs de la poesle ratiarlienne.
Itivoire & Ucanard Mon ami Teddy.
Wcissman Bizet, mit xahlreichen noten
bellagen. PESCRIPTION AND TRAVEU
Bronson The ren-blooded. 1910.
Bronson Reminiscences of a ranchman.
Uio.
Kdwarries l.lfl-luck on southern roads,
191.
Sutherland The teaching of geography.
lv.
FIXE ARTS.
Bnlley Nature drawing from various
points of view. CI9I0.
Frederick The wash method of handling
water color, clsoii.
tiathorne-Hardy The salmon, with chap
ters on the law of salmon fishing; hy l
Ii. Pennant and cookery by A. 1. Shand.
189K.
Humwrll Ivks to pick, key at rear; a
book of charades. 1909.
Hicks A simple treatise on architectural
perspective for beginners. 1909.
Rnxors My voice and I. nr. The relation
of the singer to the song. 1910.
The riherwIn-WUIIams Co. Your home
and its decoration. 1910.
Short Iherammergau. 1910.
Spalding's official bowling guide. cl909.
Wagner Siegfried; a dramatic poem, free
tv translated in poetic narrative form b
Oliver iluckel. 1910.
FICTIO.V.
Benneuo-Burled alive.
Brown The screen.
Cooke The power snd the glory.
Orey The heritage of the desert.
Mitchell The Guillotine club, and other
stones.
Walk Paternoster ruby.
LITERATURE.
Anderson filxty composition-topics for
students In high sohools and colleges. Clf)94.
Mackaye Ode on the centenary or Abra
ham Lincoln. 1909.
Maeterlinck Mary Magdalene; a play la
three acta 1910.
Sharp Mctorlan poets. 1891.
hhoemaker oV Wood Treasury of humor.
comnrlslng the newest and choicest humor
ous pieces in prose and verse. C1893.
Street A book or essays. 190Z.
PHILOSOPHY.
Corlat Abnormal psychology. 1910.
Wenxlaff The mental man; an outline of
the fundamentals of psychology. cl9u9.
RELIGION.
Allen From poverty to power, the path
to prosperity and the way to peace. c!907.
liiatctirora-'-'iod ana my netgnoor. lvio.
Gnlrdner Echoes from Edinburgh. 1910.
1910.
timlth Religion In the making: a study
of Biblical sociology. 1910.
World missionary conference. 1910. Re
ports of the commissions, with history and
records of the conference. 9 v. 1910.
SCIENCE.
flmlth Man. the primeval savage. 1894.
tttep Wayside and woodland ferns: a
pocket guide to the British ferns, horse
tails and club mouea. 190s.
SOCIOLOGY.
Ohomley aV "Outhwalte The essential re-
nrm: land values taxation In theory snd
practice. 19l9.
lould A concise niatory or xreemasonry.
Johnson What to do at recess. cl9in.
Hatnabal Sarasvatl The high-caste Hindu
woman: with Introd. by the hoard of man
gers et the American Itwmabl Association.
.Sew ed. clJOl.
USEFCXj ARTS.
Bauly aV Pollltl Woodwork for schools
en sclent inc lines; a course for claas work
or private study. I't. 1. 1909.
t olllngwood The business nen. lsio.
Crocker a; Arendt Electric motors. 1910.
Iiussar Fungous diseases of plants, wltn
barters on ploslology. culture msthods and
echnlque. el9U9.
Kilns wny a boy snouia learn a.iraae.
90.
Laughlln The complete home. 190,.
I or snd Old age deferred. 1910.
Mathews How to succeed In the prac
re of medicine. 190S.
Mitchell Doctor and patient. Ed. 5.
lo.
Moore Mechanical eneineerlng and ma
il trie, shop practice. 1904.
Rlcnarus Lutticnlrs, the science ox con-
trollsble environment. 1910.
Ritchie at Caldwell primer of hygiene.
1910.
Helden Rlementary cabinet work for
manual training classes. cl909.
- hewell jfe TiUon Poultry herald manual:
a guide to successful poultry keeping.
cl.
Hloss The automobile; Its selection, care
and use. 1910.
Smith Everyman's book of the dog. 1910.
Wing Alfalfa farming In America. 1909.
ADDED TO REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.
Detroit Publishing Company List of pho
tographs. 2 v. c-1903.
Colbert Elw-ln March case of poltergeist.
19 10.
lioogvllet Elements of Dutch. Ed. 7.
rev. and ens. from Dr. F. Ahn's Concise
grammar of the Dutch language, 1909.
Kent Mechanical engineers pocket-book.
Ed a. 1910.
Michaels Principal automobile routes of
the United States and Canada, v. 1. cl909.
Stewart at Clarke Book selection. 1909.
Wisconsin. University of Extension di
vision. Commission plan of city government,
Ed. 2. J910.
ADDED TO CHILDREN-8 DEPARTMENT.
Aleott Louisa Alcott story book; ed. by
F. K. Coe.
Babes In the wood.
Beard Little folk's handy book.
church Home-animals.
Davidson The Bunnlklns-Bunnies in
camp.
JHmerk Dick among the lumber -Jacks.
Grettls saga The story of Gretllr the
Strong; by Allen French.
Howard Hanhury cross stories.
Jekvll Children's gardens.
Tomllns.in Light horse Harry's legion.
Gates. Mrs. J. (8. Little Girl Blue lives
In the woods till she learns to say please.
Hlgglns, M. M. Little gardens for boys
and stria
Jackson. G. F. Pretty Polly Perkins.
Morley, M. W. Donkey John of the Toy
Valley.
Tnmllnson. E. T. la the bands of the
redcusia.
The Readjust meat, bv Will Irw in. X1.U0.
H. W. llueljsch. New York City.
Will Irwin is chiefly remembered for
the finished quality of his literary style
In "The City That Was." an epic which
appeared in the New York Sun news
paper, depleting the oltl San Francisco
before the earthquake and tire. ' So far,
he had been known to us, and very
favorably, for his detached work. Now,
he appears as a serious, dignified novelist
of unquestioned talent in "The Readjust
ment." which, like "Tho City That Was."
harks back to tho San Francisco before
the tire, the center of the FaclHc Coast
easy-money-w ell-spent Bohemianlsm that
often meant dissipation, unshaved chins
and linen of doubtful cleanness the at
mosphere which passionate poets de
scribe as "color."
As a picture of realism. Mr. Irwin has
done his work well, and ho is always
graphic anil interesting. Often, he does
not point the way to higher things, but
there is no doubt that the people he so
well describes have really lived the lives
pictured In his paces. Those who knew
San Francisco of the era described, will
have no dlflicully in Identifying Madame
lisel's Hotel Marseillaise, Sanguinetti's,
the Cafe Zinkand, the Poodle Dog and the
Chinese restaurants. 3an Francisco "be
fore the fire' is becoming to be as his
toric as tho South was "befo' de wah."
The hero of the novel Is Bertram, or
Bert. Chester, a student at the Univer
sity of California, the son of a Tacotna,
Wash., wagon repairer, a young man who
Is a football hero and is free-and-easy
in his manner of loving young women.
He Is a sort of budding professional
heart-breaker, and as a Summer ranch-
hand he makes the acquaintance of Miss
Kleanor Gray, the niece of Judge Tlf
fany and wife. Chester leaps into local
fame bv subduinir a runaway bull. It wa
in this manner tnat Chester begaff to
make love to Miss Gray: "A girl alwaj
thinks that everybody Is looking at her.
And I've wanted to tell you something.
You've got awfully nice eyes. They're
better than pretty. . . . Why can
I come to see you sometime in the even
Inn? I don't ask it of many nice girls.
Miss Gray was conscious of her unusual
interest In Chester, but managed to es
cape to tho other guests before her ad
mirer could make any more declarations
Chester was making rapid headway
with Miss Gray, when the latter one
evening: saw a gay crowd of ranch help
come from Judge Tiffany's camp. Ono
couple lingered behind, Chester and a
intiirhlna- voune woman. 1 nis is wnai
Miss Gray heard Chester say: "No,
won't hurt you. I'm as gentle a little
kisser as you ever saw."
"Aw, you're too fresh." came the
voice of the girl, but as they drew Into
deeper shadow, she was not pulling
awav from him.
"Fresh as a daisy." said the voice of
Bertram Chester. Followed a struggle
a faint "stop, stop" In the voice of the
girl, the sound of gross and heavy klss-
in?.
This Don Juan behavior of her swain
filled Miss Gray with contempt and she.
made him understand that everything
was over between them. Miss Gray was
the daughter of a San Francisco news
paper reporter who was generally drunk
and latterly died, more or less nquor-
mad. to the great thankfulness of all his
relatives. He had worked on the wnale
newspaper.
When next Chester and Miss Gray
met. thev came face to face in a Ma
dame Loisel's French restaurant. Ches
ter had then graduated from college and
had vaguo leanings toward the law. Of
course, he was volcanic In his love for
Miss Gray, when he was not engaged
in making love to her chum. Miss Kate
Waddington. Chester works for Judga
Baldwin In the tatter's law office, at a
salary of $12 per week.
Really. Chester, his love-making and
his slang are amusing. You never know
what Is going to happen next, be is as
the sailor who has a sweetheart at every
port at which the ship touches. How
Chester works himself into a state of
frenzied love over both Miss Gray and
Miss Waddington, Is among the season's
literary novelties. How Chester makes
his final choice of the girl, is worth
knowing about. His mode of selection
Is commended to tho cautious investi
gation of all aspiring bachelors.
One Way Out: A Middle-Class New Eng
lander Km i grates to America, by William
Carleton. tl.-O. Small, Maynard & Co.,
Boston.
It does one good In these days of
people "weary of the high cost of liv
ing," and when one meets with clerks.
bookkeepers and office men generally
"out of a job," and disheartened at
say 3S years old to look upon them
selves as business failures, to get such
a steady flow of business optimism
and helpfulness as reflected from this
sturdy American novel "One Way Out."
It Is the one honest. Industrial novel of
a decade, one calculated to make peo
ple think, a trumpet call to all workers
who are not mere machines, one novel
so peculiarly valuable that it is not du
plicated elsewhere In American fiction.
The germ of the story originally ap
peared as a sketch in one issue of a
weekly magazine of wide circulation,
and the recital proved to be such
a vital, human document that It caused
almost National Interest. The sketch
referred to has been rewritten and
lengthened and the result is "One Way
Out."
Tliirk of the industrial problem: Wil
lip.m Carleton, 38 years old, whose
great-grandfather was killed In the
Involution, whose grandfather fought
in the War of 1S12. and whose father
SiK-rinred his health in the Civil War,
is a clerk or bookkeeper In the em
ployment of the United Woolen Com
pany, at a moderate salary. He has
a wife, Ruth, and one son, Dick, the
latter a schoolboy. Carleton was just
an office plodder anil when counting
machines and the formation of hoy
clerks made possible an office shake
up to lessen wages paid out and effect
an economic saving, Carleton was asked
to resign to make way for another
but cheaper pen-pusher. He had lit
tle or no money, belonged to what he
called "the middle-class hell." paid rent
for the suburban house he and his
family occupied and owned his furni
ture. What was he to do? He an
swered dozens of advertisements call
ing for help of all sorts, and even made
personal calls asking for "nice" jobs,
to be told that he was "too old" at 38
years old to be hired. It was then
that Carleton realized that he had no
real trade, that pen-pushing in a gen
teel office Isn't a trade. So he deter
mined to emigrate, rather than starve
in aristocratic poverty. He had no
relatives on which to call for assis
tance. Selling his furniture for S600,
Carleton said "d n the neighbors,"
and moved with his wife and child to a
city flat of four rooms in the student
district, where the rent was 3 per
week. The city looks like Boston,
Mass.
Carlton easily secured work as a
day laborer, digging In a subway for
$1.50 per day of nine hours each. He
made up his mind that this was hi
work by which he and his family could
subsist until his chance came. Mrs.
Carleton economized and proved that
she was a born housekeeper the
menus that are printed in the novel
show that. Carleton went to night
school, where he acquired an Indus
trial aducatlon as carpenter, mason
and bricklayer, being In the meantime
promoted to be foreman of his gang
at $15 per week. Ruth paid $3 for
rent, $5 for household expenses, and
placed $7 in her ginger-jar or home
bank. Dick, the boy, earned $40 for
his 10 weeks' work as newsboy In his
Summer vacation.
Carleton was slowly emerging to his
ultimate goal, and he became a con
tractor and builder on his own account
an employer of labor.
Through it all shines the figure of
Mrs. Carleton, the good wife. God
bless her type! It has made America,
and we can't have too much of it. One
reads, with misty eyes, of the sterling
worth of this good Ruth, the home
saint.
Of course, the author makes things
pleasant for the Carletons. Carleton
and his gang digged in the subway
steam shovels do that work now. The
Carletons had no strikes, no accidents,
no sickness. Probably they had per
fect health because they led carefully
planned, hygienic lives. But such
rosy view does one good.
fied to hear coming from her lips tlra
sound of a frog's call, "co-ark!" This ia
caused by the ghost's magic.
Several of the attaches of the opera
house die suddenly, and one scene
shifter, Joseph Bugnet. is found
strangled in the underground portion
of the house which the ghost claims
for his own territory. Once, when
Christine is singing, in full view of her
adoring audience, she disappears on the
stage as if she had suddenly vanished
into air.
What had become of her? The demon
knows, and that is the kernel of the
tale. One who once saw him with the
death mask off, said: "Imagine, if you
can. Red Death' mask suddenly coming
to life in order to express with tha
four black holes of its eyes, nose and
mouth the mighty fury of a demon;
and not a ray of light from the
sockets, for. as I learned later, you
cannot see his blazing eyes except in
the dark. . . . And when I turned
away my head and begged for mercy,
he drew it to him, brutally twisting his
dead fingers into my hair."
Raoul and a Persian search for the
demon in hi-3 underground chamber of
horrors and the explanation of it all
Is sane and possible, after all.
Colonel Todhunter of Missouri, hy Rioley
I. Saumters. Illustrate,!. The Bobbs.
Merrill Co., Indianapolis. Ind.
Colonel Thurston I.. Todhunter is.
Kentuckian born and Missourian hred,
the product of Cavalier ancestors in
Virginia, and he is a picturesque na
tive American worth knowing. He it
also a sparkling humorist of a dry.
chuckling order who has many amus
ing adventures worth reading about
Mr. Saunders has succeeded in fashion
ing a portraiture that ought to bo anr!
is of permanent value. Here are se
veral of the Colonel's sayings:
"I'll be eternally condemned, stilt, if T
care the snap of a whip for a winnin' thai
wasn't the result of tho hottest fiKht w
knew how to put up, suli." "The next tiling
to livin" victorious is dyln" game, sun."
"You can't curry no hor?e by ftandin' off
and lookln' at him. sun. "Wed he a
mlKhty scrubhy lot If we weren't alwais
ready to wrestle our hlamedest for what
ever's worth having In this world, suli."
Old Lost Opportunities has beat moro can
didates for office than all the men that
ever ran on the opposite tlcKei. I rion i
know notltln' mote trlflin' and Insignificant
than a bottle of soda pop that wont riz.
The Teddysee, by Wallace Irwin. T." cents.
Illustrated. B. W. Tuebsch. Xew York
City.
Wallace Irwin is now established a
one of our greatest humorists in verse,
and "The Teddysee" will add to his
fame in this direction, for tho little
book will cause it to receive lively
comment both from Mr. Roosevelt'9
friends and enemies. The verse is "af
ter" that of a more celebrated poet, and
these homeric lines, describing Mr.
Roosevelt's alleged wanderings, aro
sure to be read with the accompani
ment of laughter. The illustrations
are cleverly done.
Voices of the Wild, hv F. Marie Cameron.
The Peace Ptie 1'retu, Seattle. Wash.
This woman author has written a
little book with language so beautifully
fashioned, and bringing an atmosphere
of peace and poetry, that it reflects
honor on the whole Pacific Coast. The
pages are only s, a clear case of qual
ity before quantity, and the main Idea
depicted is a humanitarian plea for all
homeless wild creatures, especially
deer and birds. The animals and
flowers are made to talk, and the re
sult Is a most interesting literary pre
sentation. The Toil of the Arctic Seas, by Deltus M.
Edwards. Illustrated, i'.jtl. Henry Holt
& Co.. New York city.
One of the best books published for a
long time on this subject. It tells the
story of the human side of the struggle
for difceovery in (he Far North, pictur
ing the lives and achievements of Barents,
Bering, Hudson. Franklin, Hall, Nende
mann, De Long, Tyson, Kane, Haves,
Greely and the latter's rescue; Nansen,
Duke of the Ahrtizzi, Peary, etc. Tlie
book U finely illustrated and its style
Is so graphic that It reads' like a novel
yet it deals .with facts.
What Every Singer Should Know, by Millie
Ryan. $1. Franklin Publiahine Co.,
Omaha, Neb.
A modest, merliorious account of what
a young singer ought to Know, the advice
given being well worthy of consideration.
Of course no mere book can take the
place of a personal teacher, one who
mantis and listens and corrects; but
there are many boys and girls living
in districts far removed from the educa
tional advantages of a city. To such, this
little book will be an eye-opener.
A Fleshless Diet: Vegetariunisin as a Na
tional Dietary, by J. L. Btlttner. M. D.
el. US. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York
City.
Dr. Btlttner is a Yale man with posi
tive convictions on the subject at issua
and .in this clearly expressed book he
shows some marvelous results accom
plished by fleshless diets.
JOSEPH M. Ql ENTIN.
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston
Leroux. illustrated in colors. $1.
Tho Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis. Ind.
Brilliant, haunting and yet tinged
with so much of mystery and shiver in
it that the reader is startled-in spite of
himself, this novel of the Paris Opera
house Is worthy in every way of the
clever author of two previous suc
cesses. "The Mystery of the Yellow
Room" and "The Perfume of the Lady
in Black," stories marked with strong
detective instinct.
The Phantom of the Opera" is really
the work of a genius, it Is so terrible
In Its realism and daring in Imagina
tlon. In this respect it is on
par with the most weird of Poe s
grim tales, and goes step with step
when measured by the most puzzling
detective tale that Conan Doyle invent
ed. The bold Illustrations, sparkling in
color, are drawn by Andre Castaigne,
and are worthy of the novel. The lat
ter deals with a shade, ghost or devil
that lives under the Paris Opera-house
a place In which there are 2531 doors,
7593 keys. 14 furnaces and 450 grates
to heat the house; gas pipes, which
f connected would form a line nearly
16 miles in length: nine reservoirs and
wo tanks holding 22,21':: gallons of
water, distributing their -contents
through 22.829 2-5 feet of piping; 538
persons have dressing rooms, and
where the musicians of the orchestra
ave a foyer with 100 closets for their
nstruments. There are now thre
metropolitan tunnels under the build-
ng, which is 19 stories high and has
five cellars. So. you see, there 1 plenty
f room for the most enterprising
ghost to play his pranks.
The name of the ghost is Erik, and
he is known as "the angel of music."
He wears a death's head mask to con
ceal his ugliness, and appears at the
most unexpected times throughout the
theater. He seems to disappear at will.
He reigns by reason of the terror he
creates, insists on box No. 5 for his
own use. and a liberal pension from
the management.
Christine Daae, a beautiful-looking
prima donna at the opera-house, at
tracts the ghost and he invests her, by
his Influence, with almost magic power
to sing. She is loved by the Vicomte
Raoul de Chagny. Another prima
donna. Carlotta, insists on singing in
the opera when the ghost wants the
part reserved for Christine, and when
Carlotta sings, in spite, she Is horri-
EYES RED, WOULD
BURN AND Tl
Grew Constantly Worse. Could Hard
ly Work Any Niore. Used Cuticura
Remedies, and in Six Weeks
She Was Cured.
It is just a year ago that my sister cam
ever here to us. She had been here only a
few weeks when her
eyes began to be red,
and to bum and sting
as if she had sand in
them. Then we used
all of the home rem
edies. She washed bei
eyes with salt water,
Used hot tea to bath4
them with, and band
aged them over night
with tea leaves, but
all to no purpose. She
went to the drug store
snd got some salve,
but she pew constantly
worse. Hie was scarce.lv
able to look In the light. At last she decided
to go to a doctor, because she could hardly
work any more. The doctor said it was a
very severe disease, and if she did not follow
his orders closely, she might lose her eye
sight. He made her eves burn and aDDlled
electricity to them, and gave her various
ointments. In the two and a half or three
months that she went to the doctor, we could
see very little improvement.
"Then we hr.d read so much how people
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we would try it, and we cannot be thankful
enough that we used it. My sister used tha
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only with Cuticura Soap, and at nislit after
washing, she anointed her eves very gently
on the outside with the Cuticura Ointment.
In one week, the swelling was entirely gone
from the eves, and after a month, there was
no longer any mucus or watering of the eyes.
She could already see belter, and in six
weeks she was cured." (Shrned Mrs. Julia
Csepicska, 2005 Utah St., St. Louis, Mo.,
Aug. 25, 1910.
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