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TOE SUXDAT OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY
J. E. RALPH DIRECTS MAKING OF
11,100,000.000 STAMPS EACH YEAR
Head of Bureau of PrinUnc Handle. Bi Contract r. A- Vanderlip Heads Great Bankin Trait Distinguished
Chinese Visitor Leaves Other Men in the World'! News.
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Nfvx tork. Juir a spii.
Joxpt E. Ralph make H.VM.
tamp evrry year. Mr. Ralph ia th
had of the Iiurrau of r.nravlna: and
IT I ruin. For many year th tamp
rnntrayt was tlvn each yaar to a pri
vate buiinr concern In Naw Tork.
Dne day the head of the Bureau of En
gravlnc tle-lde) to put la a bid for
the work and It waa o much lower
than the other bM that It sot the
contract. It ha held It ever since.
Buiinesa is transacted between the da.
partments J'it a It ! between In
dlTlduala The Treasurr Iepartment
hill the rort office Department for Its
stamp work and the Poetofflce De
partment makes out a voucher which
eventually toc through the Treasurer
ef the I'nltrd States. Though he un
derbid the private contractor by a con
siderable amount, the director of the
eaarravlna; bureau Is maklns; money by
the printing of the stamps.
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Th orranlxlnf of the. National
1tjr Company Is the first step In th
virtual consolidation of banklna; In
terests coverlna th whole country.
Jndlrc-tly It will make th National
City Bank on of th greatest finan
cial powers In the world. Th company
has been organized under th direction
and control of the National City Bank
for th express purpose of holdlna th
stocks of other banks which, under th
MAYOR GAYNOR'S POLICEMEN FERRET
OUT ICE TRUST DOINGS QUICKLY
Wool IaTstiation Brings BerulU as Surprising as Pleasing to Residents of Kerr York Underworld Gets Shaking
Up An Industrial Object-Lesson.
FT IAOVT T. LONIROAX.
NT.VC TORK. July II. (ipclal.)
Mayor Oaynur s plan of sending
out a dosen cops to Investigate a
trust. maJe th whole town laugh, but
It produced results.
The Mayor's order commanded Com
missioner Waldo to send out "some of
your Intelligent men" to ascertain It
th Ice trust Is really keeping down
th supply so as to raise prices. Hsd
some Commissioners been In office, like
the late unlamented Cropsy. for In
stance, the execution of th order would
have simply added to th Jose. But
Waldo Is a man with great ability to
do things. t
t'nder his direction th police "c
partment began to revolve rapidly,
within 4t hours. Waldo was able to
prove that th trust officials bad rut
down th number of barges and wagons
they use. had secured 479 affidavits
from Independent dealers who had
been, or who claimed they had been
discriminated asalnst. and was In a po
sition to prove that there waa plenty ot
Ice in the houses of the trust up state.
This last plec of information tss
gathered by 10 policemen who. divided
into parties of two, took swift motor
boats and vlsitsd every icehouse along
th Hudson, learning at first hand ex
actly how much Ice was on hand and
what arrangements had been made to
transport It to the city. And Waldo's
men wer able to submit car, compre
hensive ' reports, such as the average
man In th street could understand, rind
wh.ch left the Ice trust gapping against
the ropes before It even realised that
Waldo was getting busy.
rabllc IJkr the Results.
This Is th first time on record that a
irmt has been Investigated by a squad
pf police, but the general public Is
mighty well pleased with what they
bae accomplished. And so Is Gsynor.
Th ordinary course of procdur
would hav been for blm to ask th
Corporation Counsel for advice in this
time of stress, with th result that
about the time the snow begsp to fly
th Mayor would have received a nng
wlnded typewritten eommunlcstioa to
the effect thst section 214 of th laws
of 1I?S. had It not bean repealed dur
ing the draft riots, would probably
hav afforded some relief, bat that
under th circumstances It would prob
ably be best to refer th matter to The
Hacu Tribunal for adjudication.
But Waldo dldnt quot any legal
authorities He Just wblxzed around,
and th trust Immediately began to
shoot lc Into th city under forced
draught. And that Is really the thing
the people were most Interested In.
getting Ire, plenty of it. and at the Old
rat.
restrict Attorney Whitman La quiet
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federal banklna; laws, th National City
Bank may not own. Its directors are
James Ptlllman. chairman; F. A. Van
derlip. president; and 8. 8. Palmer, a
director of the National City Bank.
Vanderlip Is a Chicago man who came
to New rork after serving as assistant
secretary of th treasury at Washing
ton and was made an officer of th
National City Bank. H succeeded Mr.
ftlllman as president of that Institu
tion recently.
James Stlllman. the well known
banker. Is chairman of th great Na
tional City Bank. H was Its presi
dent, but waa relieved of the active
duties of managing and retained In an
advisory executive capacity. He ts on
of the three trustees of the National
City Company Just organised.
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Uang Chung Ten Is an example ot
what China la doing to acquire th cul
ture and knowledge of th West. He
was educated at Tal and has been for
many years In the diplomatic service
of his country. At one time he was
head of the Wal Wu-pa or Forela-n
Board. Mr. Usng Is supposed to have
been In America on business connected
with th big loan to China. But h
ays he Is merely her on pleasure. He
will sail for Kngland In a few days On
Ms wsy hark to China Mr. Liang says
that If China can be let alone for 20
or SO years she will become a world
power, but If any effort Is made to push
ly, unobtrusively but firmly breaking;
bp th gangs which for years hav hsd
practically their own way In New York.
Whitman has been loyally upheld by
the Judge of Oeneral Session. They
divide the work this wsy: Whitman In
dict the gangsters and convicts them.
Then the Judges "soak" them. It Is
very simple and pleases everybody ex
cept th prisoners.
Th slap at the underworld really
began last November, when "New
burg" Gallagher, member of th de
lightful "Oopher Clang." waa convicted
of manslaughter In tn first degree. He
went up for nln years. Fight others
have been sent away sine, the total
sentences amounting to 11J years. This
Is expected to hold them for some time.
Also It Is dlscoursglng other young
toughs who might Ilk to lead bands of
desperados.
Jllng Ivradcr In Penitentiary.
Th most recent gang arrival at Sing
Sing la Johnnie "Spanish." leader of a
mob of thugs known as the Johnnie
Ppanlsh gang. The leader, with two
of Ms brightest lieutenants, called at
an East Side saloon, held tip everyone
In Wild West style, took all the cash
In the place, and then fired revolvers
for a few minutes. They have terror
ised their section of the city for a
number of years. When Johnnie was
convicted, a police officer who had been
active In the case smiled grimly upon
bearing the sentence of the court.
"There goes th meanest and most
cowardly thug In New Tork." he said,
"he Is the kind who would strike a
child and laugh at Its tears; who
would kick a dog and laugh with glee
as the animal yelped. He was brave
enough to enter little shops on the
Kaet (tide, strike a patriarch over the
head with th butt of his gun and rob
him. But he would not dare to venture
along Eleventh avenue or Into 8an
Juan Hill, and take his chances with
his fists."
And this is the epitaph ot a rang
leader. For Johnnie Spanish has con
sumption, and will never leave Sing
Sing alive, physicians say.
Rockwood'a Death Recall Ills lory.
The death of George Gardner Rock
wod th other day recalls the fact
that he mad th first photographic
cart e-de-visit Introduced Into this
country, th subject being Baron
Rothschild. Mr. Rock wood s early ex
periments date back to the time when
the dsgverreotype was In full vogue of
novelty, and were undertaken under
the tutelage ef Samuel F. B. Morse,
whea the Inventor of the telegraph
was exhibiting his primitive Instru
ments at the United States Hotel In
Saratoga.
Mr. Rockwond during his lifetime,
made Over 1S0.OOO portraits. Including
numerous celebrities.
Aa Impressive gauge of the rapidity.
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her development unduly It will result
in her ruin,
gome months ago a delegation of
American experts, headed by J. Morgan
Phuster. went to Persia to take charge
of th finances of the Persian Govern
menu This did not suit some of the
powers In Persia, and especially the
Prime Minister. He fought tne cnange,
But recently he has been persuaded to
acquiesce in It, and the Americans have
taken charge.
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Holders of American Securities had
no tip from the King of Montenegro
that he was going to mass troops on
th Albanian frontier, causing stocks to
go down with a rush recently. The
Montenegro question and the Morocco
question promise International compli
cations of a serious character. At the
Instance of the Princess Malltza of
Montenegro, who married erne of the
Russian Imperial family, the Ctar or
dered the Turks to keep out of Al
bania A Montenegrin commissioner In
St. Petersburg has been actlna as
though he were a deputy Csar. There
Is no doubt Russia Is seriously com
mltted to Montenegro, and this may In
volve her with Austria-Hungary, which
has rights In that section. Altogether
there Is a lively mlxup. and the King
of Montenegro he wss but recently
Prince of Montenegro Is likely to be a
big figure In the public eye.
of modern scientific progress Is fur
nished when one notes that the span
of one man's lifetime may caver the
entire period of development from the
daguerreotype and the Morse tele
graph, to the Edison and the synchro
nised blograpb-pbonograph, the latter
being already In operation In a crude
'ay, with prospects of perfect worklrg
very shortly.
Aa Industrial Object Icwson.
That capital and labor can dwell to
gether In amity Is demonstrated by
the experiences of bosses and em
ployes of D. Saunder's Sons, manu
facturers of tools at Tonkera As a
memorial to the memory of the late
Leslie Sanders, a noted philanthropist
and head Of the firm. $36,000 was dis
tributed among 17 employes who
hav been at the one Job for 20 years
or longer. Flv who have worked In
th shops for 40 years or longer, re
ceived 12600 each, th others getting
$1000.
On of th beneficiaries, who has
been with the Arm nearly SO years,
when asked why be and the others
worked so long In the on shop, re
plied: "Our employers treat us as If we
were members of their own families.
They are white, all of them. You get
a square deal all the time, and, what
Is more, they are appreciative. That Is
the secret of long service."
These few remarks should give a
valuable tip to the Civic Federation,
which Is spending much money to Im
prove matters In the Industrial world.
Be whit with your underlings, and
Show that you appreciate good work.
Yonkers has at least one other
"model shop." the Smith Carpet Works.
When Mrs. Eva Cochran died recently
she left $1000 to each employe who hsd
been 20 years In the service of the
firm, and . 100 men and women bene
fitted by this gift.
How Safety Appliances Pay.
That safety appliances pay, was
demonstrated In the Subwsy the other
day, when an automatlo device saved
a tralnload of people from death.
A motorman tumbled to death from
the window of his cab, and no one
on the train saw him tall. But before
any further damage was done the train
earn to a halt.
On the subway cars there Is a but
ton or knob set In the handle of the
controller. To start the train, .the
motorman must first press down this
"dead man's button," and then swing
the controller handle around. If after
the power Is on, he releases the down
ward pressure of his hand, which
keeps the button down, the air brakes
are automatically applied and the
power shut off. In this partlculsr case
th train ran less than the length of
four cars before It came to a halt.
Th body of th motorman was found
"It was most unfortunate that the
man was killed but his death furnished
a practical demonstration of the alue
of our safety device," Is the way Gen
eral Mansger Frank Hedley of the In
terborough summed up the case after
making a personal Investigation of
the accident.
Residents of Queen's Borough are
beginning to find out that prosperity
depends to a great extent upon good
roads, and there Is almost a revolu
tion in that badly governed section at
the present time.
Throughout Queens County there are
many homes of wealthy men. and their
expensive establishments greatly add
to the prosperity of the borough. But
the rich men are closing up their
homes, selling when and how they
can. until the outward procession has
almost reached the dignity of a revolu
tion. Everyone knows the cause of this,
the disgraceful condition of the roads
In Queens County. Th main boule
vards, built at vast expense of the
cheapest possible materials, are worse
than cowpaths In th backwoods.
Twenty miles in Queens will rack an
automobile more than a Journey from
New York to Chicago, experts say.
A year ago there were fully five
times as many autos In Queens sa there
are at present, and this despite the
fact that th number of car owners
hss doubled. Th men with line ma-
- tit ,i.b im on the roads
cninve win iiv,. v.. .. .
across the river and are turning to
weetcnester t-oumr in
j ns result .- -
houses In Queens have been deprived
. . .1 .....nnnlA B V A fom..
or customer, inn u uca"?v,"'"
Is going' down fast. And all because
a few grafters wanted 10 gei nuu ray
Idly. Meetings of protest have been held
throughout the district, but with little
eriecw in cny uiuuuwc, . - -spend
any more money, realizing how
former appropriations have been wasted
and If the cash were set aside the
same old gang would have the spend
ing ot It- MO mere seenm i
or no relief for Queens In sight.
Gaynor to Abolish Tolls.
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mayor uui " . . . ....
pull with the auto owners by decreeing
mai i ii a tun, vii in p. . - - - j - -city
shall be abolished. He takes the
ground that tne oriages snuum .
T - .v. -.---- an rea-arda the
ICC tl a in 1 ' ' T i
toll as "an annoying and unjust Inflic
tion. The to-.i aniuum bhiuoicu ...
last year from all classes of vehloles
was only $274,000, and this, the Mayor
believes, can be raised more readily by
direct taxation.
When the pioneer span, the Brooklyn
bridge, was opened, car passengers paid
. u. Vn. root nanpnapr3
live cents a unci " ...... - - .
had to pay a penny. Later the carfare
was reduces, to two noes mi
wnua in i vii .
duced to five cents for 25 tickets. In
the course or years mis iouv "
. . w.. ..hi.),, of all kinds and
wipea duu bui - .
descriptions, even bicycles, have been
compelled to pay. now mis i t.
wsVAJT with.
A minister has eome out of the West
to preach in a Bummer amusement park
here. And his venture seems to meet
with success.
This pastor is the Rev. Dr. Francis
Edward Smiley of Denver. He can be
found every night at Palisades Park.
Just across the Hudson, entirely sur
rounded by rollercoasters and barkers
of various ainas.
... l . 1 1 outdoor eosnel.
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says Dr. Smiley. "We must go to the
people with our services, mcj
longer com m --
other days and generations. This, I
am convincea oi anor j
gel leal work.
"Broke," Father and Son Go
Home by Ox-Team Roiite
Loss of Wife, Danghter ! Fortune
Marks Expedition From Missouri
la Search of Wealth.
BOZEMAN, Mont. July 22. Special.)
Driving an old-fashioned ox-cart cov
ered with tattered canvas and drawn by
a yoke of long-horned oxen, Abraham
Redden, formerly a farmer of near Jef
ferson City, Mo., and more recently a
miner of Goldflelds. Nev passed
through Boieman a day or two ago en
route for the old home in Missouri. The
only other occupant of the ramshackle
wagon was Edward Redden, the 18-year-old
son of the venerable driver.
At the rata of eight miles a day, they
.are making their way overland to the
southeast, hoping to reacn jeuersou
City by early Fall.
The old man was not talkative, but
was finally Induced to tell the story
leadlnr un to his present condition and
circumstances, a tale full of pathos and
quaint humor. He owned a prosperous
dairy farm and stock farm In Missouri
until the Fan oi isva. wnen n waa in
duced to sell his ranch and Invest the
proceeds In the stock of a mining con
cern at Thunder Mountain, Idaho. He
had never been out of the state of Mis
souri and bought the stock on the rec
ommendation of a chance acquaintance
who had become a promoter.
$14,000 Lost on Stock Deal,
pw... t. V, ln,t til Ann In this deal.
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. i j Mtjt In., h.art mnA when the
neuuen uiu mwi " .. . -
Goldflelds excitement began, he deter
mined to visit that camp and try his
IUCK. MS naa SlUUU leit anu wim una
is outfitted at Jefferson City and
iim.i. on, with his m-lfe. daurhter and
son In a wagon behind a team of mules.
They reached uoianeias a iew
nnntha later. Redden staked Out a
couple of promising claims, one of
which he sold later for $5000. Then
again hard luck overtook him Just when
It seemea ne wouia ruirwo ms
tune. HI wife was stricken with
fever and died. The daughter followed
the mother within six months. Discon
solate Redden s little pile soon d win
ed away, ine muies naa uicu, uui
the old man still kept the "prairie
nkiuin.r" which had borne his family
.k. mlnln. nmn of Nevada. The
son was growing to young manhood and
the father woraea as a mucaer wucii
evar he could get a Job and sent the
son to school. .
Oxen Seen red on Trade.
PI months ago he traded a one-
eighth Interest in a partly worked out
mine for a yoke of oxen. Thus his
worldlv possessions were reduced to
the old wagon and the oxen, and Red
den determined to visit the old scenes
In Missouri. Accordingly, he and his
son struck out from Goldflelds early in
March and have been traveling toward
the East ever since by easy stages.
Their wants are few and they manage
to subsist on little. Mr. Redden says It
Is his boy's ambition to get a position
In Missouri and work with the idea of
buying back the old home.
Tha sight of the dilapidated prairie
schooner drawn by oxen attracted a
crowd on East Main street, where
father and son had driven to repienisn
their larder.
'We mav look like tramps, but we
are not objects of charity," proudly
answered the old man when the pastor
of one of the local cnurcnes proirered
financial assistance. "We have a little
money, enough to hold oat until my son
ran get work back home.. I have
friends there. For myself, I am gett'ng
too old to be of much use. but the boy
Is well able to take care of his old dad.
Yes, I have had my share of hard luck,
dating from the time when I sold my
farm to Invest In mining stocks, but
we must learn to take the bitter with
the sweet In this world."
The old man whipped up Uie creepy
xen and the cfdwd on Main Street was
left gaping at the dust-covered schoon
er as H bumped along In an easterly
direction.
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"Science is the real
put honesty above hypocricy; mental
veracity above all belief. If will teach
the religion of usefulness. It will de
stroy bigotry in all its forms."
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In re moll; A Biographical Appreciation, by
Herman K. Kittredse. Illustrated. I2.jO.
The Dresden Publishing Co.. New York
City.
"And so I lay this little wreath upon
this great man's tomb."
v, ... n.iiuif waH, nf Introriuntlnn
greet the reader's eye as he scans the
title page of a book wmcn is prooamy
the fairest. best-Informed estimate yet
published of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll,
who was one of the really great orators
of the world, a man who has been called
"the Shakespeare of oratory," a brave
soldier and a great and good man in
spite of the fact that he was an ag
nostic
Very few. If any, of our public men
have had more adjectives levelled at
them than Colonel Ingersoll. To read
such a liberal book, Is an education, and
i. I. , I. a moat fllnmtnlnr hifir
hnnlr. nf tlltt l-Onf k'fPTI Sllch bOOkS OUt
of the way of young people? Well, will
not these same-young people, aiir mcj
leave the safe, old home nest, meet with
..iLmiinni nf n frnoRl if. doctrines ut-
tered in far cruder, more ignorant vein
than Ingersoll scornea to uaei amu
books of liberal thought are best left
. A i.. innimiMit nf the Individual Will.
This Is a big world, there is surely
enough room in it tor us aii, ine gusuei
of toleration Is a sane one, and it Is at
least wise to know what tne enemy a
attack is.
a. n tii. entrlt Af live and let
live. Ing-ersoll has been abused as a
heretic, unbeliever, freethinker, infidel,
iconoclast, disbeliever, atheist and ag
nostic yet ne was an apostie iur ncc
dom, a prince of orators, a good citizen,
I V .1 .. r. .1 fathar ThoflA VllA Irft
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best qualified to speak, say that his
home life was tne most loving, most
humane they ever knew.
T. a. I .. . ...... I r, rr a nhwnrA thftt Mr.
Klttredge has been so much Impressed
with the styie ana spini oi wu iuci
soll wrote and said, that his pen, or
typewriter, has unconsciously followed
after the style of the great master. A
remarkable tribute to fidelity. Mr. Kltt
redge has written nothing offensive.
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ltles. and has performed the task as
signed tO mm Wlin conauiimmm i---Ingersoll's
life Is given, along with ex
tracts from many of Ingersoll's best
speeches and letters, criticisms on style,
effect and belief, and above all a dis
tinguished word portrait of Ingersoll
the man. I once heard Ingersoll speak,
about the year 1593, and can vouch for
what Mr. Klttredge has said about th
orator's charm of style. Two other
orators who approached Ingersoll for
charm and magnetism of language wers
Bishop Phillips Brooks, of Boston, and
Bishop Gaylor, of Tennessee.
It is more sensible, more lasting to
remember and read what Ingersoll has
left us In the way of education, of lib
erty, than to read his attacks on God
end the Bible, and to only remember
Ingersoll by the latter trend of thought.
Two of Ingersoll's best-known ora
tions, one spoken at the grave of his
brother. Eben Clark Ingersoll, and the
other on "A Vision of War." Tou will
possibly remember having read One
paragraph of the former address: "He
r . on life's hlerhwav the
nwi hi. . . -w- -
stone that marks th highest point: but
being1 weary for a moment, ne iay uuwu
by the wayside, and UBlng his burden
... . fell Into that dreamless
iur j,... , .....
Sleep that kisses down nis eyenus ".
While yet in love with life and rap
tured with the world, he passed to si
lence and the pathetic dust. . . .
Were every one to whom he did some
loving service to nrlng a blossom to
his grave, he would sleep tonight be
neath a wilderness of flowers."
Doubtless there are many young peo
ple in the Pacific Northwest and else
where who have never read any mes
sage that Ingersoll has left, and con
sequently do not have any Idea of his
marvelous power to clothe every-day
thoughts In sublime language. Here is a
sample of Ingersoll's style in speaking,
taken from his lecture on "Shakes
peare": ,
Shakespeare was an Intellectual ocean
who." waves touched all the .hore. of
UiouVht. within which were all ths tides and
waves of destiny and will: over which
swept sll the storms of fate, ambition and
.. Pn 'wh,cn el1 tne s'oom and
darknesi and despsir and death and all the
nllent of content and love, and within
which was the Inverted sky lit with the
eternal stars an intellectual ocean toward
whirh all rivers ran. and from which now
the Isle, and continents of thought re
ceive their dew and rain.
Or take a few Vrorde from Ineersoll's
"A Vision of War":
These heroes are dead. They died for
iiwty they died for us. They are at rest.
They sleep in the land they made free, under
h. flag they rendered stainless, under the
olemn pine., th .ad hemiecss. the tear
ful willows, and the embracing vines. They,
redeemer. It will
Robert G. Ingersoll
sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds,
careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each
in the wlndowles. palace of rest. Earth
may run red with other wars they are at
peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar
of conflict, they found the serenity of death.
I hav. one sentiment for soldiers living or
dead: Cheers for the living; tears for the
dead.
Incorrect Statements have been print
ed In the past as to the scenes around
Ingersoll's deathbed. Here is our au
thor's account:
"Do not dress, papa," said Mrs. Inger
soll, "I will eat upstairs with you."
Oh, no." replied Ingersoll, "I do not
want to trouble you."
Mrs. Famell, Mrs. Ingersoll's sister, then
remarked: "How absurd, after the hundreds
of time, you have eaten upstairs with her. '
Colonel Ingersoll glanced laughingly at
Mrs. Farrell as she turned to leave the
room, and then Mrs. Ingersoll said: "Why,
papa, your tongue Is coated I must give
you some medicine."
He looked at her wun a smiie anu
"T am better now." and as he did so. closed
his eyes. Ingersoll was dead. The light of
a hemisphere was out.
It Is considered remarkable that the death
of Robert G. Ingersoll (due to angina pec
toris, the same disease which caused ths
death of the other orators. Sumner and
Philips) should occur on the anniversary of
the death oi Kobert uurai.
The raknowa Isle, by Pierce De Conlevaln.
1.8S. Cassell Co., Limited, New Tork
City. t
Translated from the French by Alys
Hallard. this account of a lively French
woman's brief visit to England is a
revelation of positive humor and bricrht
observation that la refreshing. The
pages are 434, and the excellence of the
descriptive, analytical work Is uniform
throughout.
The author. In her book, appears as
a novelist who visits the Barings at
the letter's society home at Wimble
don, England. The title of the book Is
thus explained: "The unknown Isle!
It Is not, as might bo supposed, in the
Pacific or Arctic Ocean, but Beven hours
and a half from Paris, via Calais-Do
ver. On a clear day. Its white cliffs
can even be seen from the French
coast. This island is England, the
body with many arms of the great
British Empire. Steamboats so Daca
wards and forwards between it and us,
we are united by a cable, we are In
communication with each other, but we
are not yet In communion. For the
majority of the French people it Is ter
ra incognita. They neither know the
language nor the true cnaracter oi us
Inhabitants. Its history nor its mera
ture. For years past, they have gone
on reTjeatinar the words whlcn naa lin
gered In uncultured minds, without
asking themselves whether such words
were true or whether they had ever
been true. Our neighbors, the inhabi
tants of the island, did the eame with
regard to us. We have slandered each
other mutually, wo have flunjr insult
at each other like two childish nations.
'You are people without any morality,
without decency.' they shouted to us
from the other side of the straits. 'Tou
are hypocrites, whlted sepulchres, ego
tists," we replied from this side. And
every day some of these projectiles, in
the form of adjectives, caused wounds
in patriotic love and vanity; wounds
Which heal with great difficulty."
It had better be explained that "The
Unknown Isle" is an appreciative esti
mate of England, far different from
the brlmstone-and-pepper humor once
displayed in the satire, "John Bull and
His Island." At the same time, "The
Unknown Isle" deals with the aristo
cratic and middle-class types of English
society, people who do not seem to nave
to work too hard, or at all, for their
living. They Just exist to be polite, to
say "How do you do?" and to take tea
and cakes, in the charming perfumes of
English rose gardens. The working;
classes, or that submerged tenth, that
hand-to-mouth type that so powerfully
compels the sympathy of merciful econ
omists like Lloyd George these are
missing In the estimate. The scenes
oanlcted are nearly all ro:e -colored
ones, and the reading Is like munching
sugared bon-bons. ADOve ail, mere
lives the picture of rest and cultured
o,.it usually associated with the up
per-class English life. The so-called
"American invasion" that custom of
tnarrvina- our millionaire girls to de
cayed or needy English aristocrats is
lightly touched upon.
To Pierre De Coulevan. woman, the
Isle she writes about Is Englur.d, and
the claims to existence on mat tsie ot
Scotland and Wales, are not considered.
Khe thinks that the Saxon ana tierman
races are eminently masculine, and that
the Latin and German races are emi
nently feminine yet it is not uninten
iionniiv that Providence has p'aced the
English and French opposite each other.
V.nrh has what the other nas not. ror-
elarners are unanimous In their admira
tion of the DTencn crown, ana it cer- .
tainly is refined, eleg-ant. courteous and
gay. When one mingles with '.t tor a
few minutes, one is affected magneti
cally by its excessive nervosity. From
no other crowd does so much electricity
omanate. The English crowds have
fists. The French crowd has claws,
and one feels that these claws wouid
be used on the slightest provocation. I
cannot say that our working class 13
strong, patient and good: but I will say ..
that It Is wonderful. All classes of so-
ciety produce refuse and dress. In
France, the dregs of the first strata
are perhaps, less thick than those of
the same strata In England. They toip
tain more femininity, more subtle poi
sons, but also valuable ferments. W hen
they have been worked afresh by di
vine agents. I am sure that they will
both give various resultants.
Conversations, social duties, dinners,
love-making, the bring-ing together of
estranged couples, church worship, and
the numerous incidents affecting; a so
clty home like the Barings, principally
make up -the book with touches of
charming yet critical
alL Side trips are taken to JLondon,
Bath. Bristol, Wells and other places.
Only one dark picture is presented, that
of Lady Rose Moster. a daughter of a
Duke Ladv Rose, who lives apart from
her husband. Is a hopeless drunkard
and consumer of cigarettes, and her
deathbed scene is a powerful appeal for
temperance In living and cr,(JucL
It is stcnificant that over 120.000 cop
ies of this book have already been
printed In the French.
The Vlslonlng. By Susan Glaspell. $1.35.
Frederic A. Stoke. Company, ew lorK
City.
An Army girl. Kate Jones, idle, ro
mantic and good-hearted, is resting after
a game of golf at an Army post on an
Island in the Mississippi River, when
she sees a girl about to drown herself.
Quite an original start for a novel, is
It not? Ann, the rescued girl, comes
into Kate's life when the latter is get
ting blase, and the telling of it all is
marked by that mingled pathos t, co or
and humor In the management of whlcn
Miss Glaspell is more than ordinarily
clever. The field she has chosen for her
own in this novel is in a measure hardly
known to the majority of nvel,re4"9
-the American Army posts of today.
Here is how one of the characters re
plies to criticisms on that Army: ,
. . But we of the army learn ofte n t
of .omeht?mes8 rTj5 !
of It all too little now. I sometimes
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the frontier service, which made the Ve.t
of today possible. Recently at a dinner I
t1vepr'1aand0TagmW.o1r,ry- to" .ay' o?lX" gSpf
S-i.5.ho"f 8ltyh.t0arX.fSher was" w
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rmyl .
,. MnrMt. a review of
iters is v...
Army and forestry service conditions. (
. . . Right there's the cunerenco
our service5 and this forest service Ths x n
where they're democrats and we re IO,ss.V .
LooTat the difference In the spirit of th.
ranger and the spirit of the Z0"' A
not because they're whipped Into line and
bullied and snariea . - ------ lhey.re
ser on a common ground. And whyt Be
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Because the work's the thing that co unts.
You'll see what It's done tor Fred The boy
has a real dignity: not the stilt-necked kind
he'd acquire around an army post, but tne
dignity that comes with the consciousness
Sf being, not in the service, but o service.
"The Vlslonlng" is sure to attract
young women. It has Just enough of
that spiritual equality In it to provoke
the reader Into a determination to read
to the last page.
Mark Twain's Letter to the California Pio
neer.. 50 cents. Dewitt & Bnelllns. Oak
land, Cal.
This almost historical letter waa
written by Mark Twain from Elmira,
N. Y., October 11, 1869, in reply to an
Invitation from the New York Society
of California Pioneers, to attend a ban
quet to be given about that time to
visiting members of the Society of Cal
ifornia Pioneers of the Pacific Coast,
and was recently found "poked away in
an old scrapbook." It Is stated that the
letter has never been published in
connection with any of Twain's pre
viously published volumes. The period
described In the letter Is 1863 when
Twain had his "ups and downs" In the
mining districts of Nevada. As such,
the letter has valuable significance
and ought to be highly prized.
Mount Hood i Our Indians' Fah-to. ByMary
AHce Congdon. Illustrated. The Gibson,
Publishing Company. Portland.
A little book which suggests a souve
nir for a keepsake, or a gift to send
to absent friends. The pictures show
Mount Hood scenes in variety of shapes,
and the message is in fine poetic form.
The book has an excellent typographical
appearance, and the poem starts thus:
O mighty mountain! with thy snow-crowned
bead .. .
Uplifted to the stars, have we well read
The tale untold enfolding thee around, -l-nsyllabled
and whlsperlefs. devoid of sound,
Can w. thy wondrous hieroglyphics tell?
Need w. some old-time necromancer s spell
That w thy past may bring to light once
more
And add thy story to historiclor.T
Woman and Labor, by Olive Schreiner. SI. 25.
Frederick A. Stoke. Company, New York
City.
Mrs." Schreiner has been well called
the writer and prophet of adorned
prose, and never has she written moref
powerfully, more eloquently than Jn
this new book. She admits that wo
men's present unrest and entrance into
the working world are due to an un
sound basis of life, and asserts that
the present aim should not be a de
mand for women's rights, but an insist
ence for the higher appreciation of the
sacredness of all sex relations. In
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Lovely Peggy, by J. R. Crawford. J51.S5.
Tale university res, jew xi,
Based on the love romance of Mar
garet Woffington and David Garrick,
this play of three acts appeals by its
dainty charm and literary, constructive
ability. The play was held ineligible
o. ! iwnril In the Yale University
Dramatic Association competition of
1910-11, because or tne iaci tnai m
author was a member of the university
fantiitv Tt Ir now Dublished, in re
sponse to requests made by Yale men
all over the country.
Thorpe's Way, by Morley Roberts. $1.20.
The Century company, fiew mm -nj.
As delightful a novel as has appeared
this year. The scenes are English.
Thorpe is a social Insurgent, and his
i 1, i vmrtrc, hunk to the ace of
the cave man, but he is worth know
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Fanny.
The Daring Twins, by I. Frank Baum. SI.
Illustrated. ine xteiuy x xrii.iuii v.uin
pany, Chicago.
No Tairy story. The twins are Phil
and Phoebe, and the recital of their
home life is well told. The book Is for
young folks, and has a good tone.
JOSEPH M. QUENTWi.
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