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t' 1 ' v. h 14 THE OREGON SUNDAY , JOURNAL, , PORTtAND, SUNDAY- MORNING, JUNE .12, 1904. vi t ' l'. .: i't ''j ivit-t 1 I u WOMEN'S CLUBS WOMEN'S Edited by Mrs. Sarah A. Evans J T J L 3roro.riTOi.asiast?iro lin 1 1 : : III WORtf "I ft towns, and nlns cities In foreign cun , Work of Women's Clubs in Public Life. To those who have watched the progress of the woman's club more meat and have sen Its culmination at tha treat convention In Kt. Louis last month, its evolution would soeoi com plete, and that there could be no ques tion aa to whither it was bound and what its tendencies. The "survival of the fittest" would seem lo have been ar rived at and yet what constitutes club work, what are Its functions and what Its purposes and objects, are still con sidered of enough movement to form the baata of not only much discussion, but very positive action, by at leant on large club of Pittsburg. Ta, This club la one of the large ones of the city, a member of state and general federations, la credited with all the da. partment work In the club catalogue and has heretofore been an active factor in tha city. At a meeting recently a ' paper waa read by Mrs. Charles Gerwlg, a woman who Is not unknown in club circlet even beyond tha limits of her own city, on the subject of civic Im- provamsnt and entitled "For the Good of the Club." The Strong tendency of women's clubs during tha paat few years towards , movements for clvlo reform, Mrs. Gerwlg said, has been watched with , deep interest and sometimes anxiety by soma clubs and many club women. Work for clvlo improvement afforded an outlet for the energy of a large num ber of club members .who had the leisure and the desire to work In these directions. One of tha first results was voted In the increasing cost of club life; ; in the ordinary woman's club, and the constant demands growing out of the needs of one philanthropic object and another, thus necessitating the giving ; of entertainments, the solicitation of contributions from friends or of per sonal donations from the club women. . Mrs. Gerwlg made a plea for a return to tha original idea of the woman's clubs mutual improvement and social inter- . course. The club voted to confine itself hereafter to this Idea, leaving ita mem ber a free to engage in any of tha vari ous lines of philanthropic and public ' work undertaken by club women. , Commenting on this, a New York club woman says: :. "This Is interesting, but not alarming. There will be culture clubs, formed in the future ss they have been in the past, but few clubs tttat have taken up public . work will ever be tempted to go back to tha quieter, mora selfish Idea. Aside from the sense of duty done there Is an xoitement about the other form of club ' life that la attractive. It Is righteous . and wholesome excitement. and means the broadening and leveling of women's minds and sympathies. .Women have no proper measure of things, as a rule. They lack a sense of proportion, and this they get when they , begin to interest themselves in large social questions. , Along this line It will be Interesting , to note what Mrs. Eugenie M. Bacon, president of the Illinois State Federa- ; tlon, said in an address, before the ., Woman's Columbia club of the North western university settlement regarding ' woman's part, in clvlo betterment She said: "We are only asking that women con tlnua to be tha housekeepers of tha na- " tlon. We want to extend the house keeping out of doors. Tba most con' servatlve people admit that housekeep ing is tha province of womed, and good municipal economy is simply, good housekeeping. Every municipal question anects tba home directly or indirectly. Therefore, in presenting the questions of clvlo improvement the women's clubs are acting quite within woman's sphere. Women cannot escape the re sponsibility of bad municipal govern ment, because the law does not relieve them of the necessity of complying with tha law. "Woman's duty to the home is to se cure order, comfort, and loveliness, and may she not extend this to the common wealth? The beautiful is the useful There Is no beauty without cleanliness. Cleanliness, we all know. Is sanitary. And beauty has a market value. A beau tiful building Increases the value of the property around it and a building neg lected and falling to decay depreciates the value of surrounding property. "The work of civic improvement must begin with the children. It is all very well to teach them to salute the flag, but it is also well to teach them not to litter the streets. The streets we have always with us, and the flag only occa sionally. "Men never did enjoy house cleaning. so It is the women's duty to show their patriotism by cleaning up." Evidently the Pittsburg club has been attacked by a microbe heretofore un known In club circles and it la to be hoped that the attention there contem plate bestowing upon themselves will discover its origin and find the antidote before it destroys the life upon which it is feeding, but as the New Tork woman says, no alarm need be felt, for It will not be contagious and will only attack those clubs whose systems are so badly f , ..... 'J '-I'd i'i r v r . ."A . ' .' '"t 4 i i c 'V -v . - 'VnjO ( MRS. CYNTHIA WE8TOVER ALDEN. out of order, and upon whom ths same commiseration would be extended we bestow upon the cancer safferer: "Poor thing, it is a relief to her to go." It Woman's Trade Union League Movement Up to ths Urns of ths American rev olution there were practically no wo men working outside the home. Weav ing and spinning of the linen, the cot ton and the wool was done in the home by the mother and her daughters. All the sewing, all tha canning and packing. Indeed, even the candles, that were the only lights most of the homes had, were "dipped" in ths home. Soma of us bars heard our fathers tell of helping to dip candles when they were child ren. In the mountains of Kentucky, Ten nessee and North Carolina I have seen these processes of home Industries still going on. You can aes In the window less cabin in ths mountains the "blue pot" for dyeing, the loom for weaving and the spinning wheel ready for the women when they have a moment of leisure from the cooking, sewing, nurs ing and farming. We do not long to go back to the cabin industries, picturesque as nil this sounds and interesting as It all is to those of ns who go to the department stores for not only the materials to be made into clothes, but for the clothes themselves; muslin. linen, woolen goods all "ready made' to fit each and all of us, whether we are 21 or 62 bust measure. We go to the store, Instead of the old-faahloned cellar for our canned tomatoes, peaches, pickles, mince meat pumpkins for pies like "mother used to make," and slowly but surely we are la danger of becoming "ready made" women with machine made homes. What will save our souls from bocom lng machine made? This la tha ques tion to be asked by all of us, but es pecially by those who have the leisure to work out answers to questions. Taking so much work out of the home has given to women of all classes more leisure. Even the working woman clothes and feeds her family on machine made goods. Also the woman who stays at home has had her leisure Increased four-fold by the same process. She has been given freedom to use this leisure as she chooses. Hundreds of her kind ho love to study, go to college, end 700,000 sre In federated women's clubs in this country. Many of these clubs are for self culture, but even this type of club has its committees for social service, and Is doing much to enlighten women north and south as to condl tions of labor. Through these clubs as well as through the powerful fed eratlon of Labor, child labor is becom lng a national question. Miss Jane Adams as chairman of a committee on child labor in the National Federation of Women's Clubs, Is bringing the sub ject to the notice of women through out the country, and urging them to help the labor unions in their effort to enact laws. What else can these women, whose leisure! Is secured by having their home work done by women In factories, do to help the cause of their proxies In the industrial world? Many of them wish to lend a hand, and many are waiting to become more intelligent on this whole subject which has overwhelmed us wo men in the past few years. The Woman's Trade Union league, or ganized In Boston at the time of the meeting of the American Federation of Labor, and sanctioned by it, ts one way of educating the women of free leisure, and of giving them an oportunlty to lend a hand In bettering the condition of the working woman. No one can live to herself, whether she belongs to a wo man's club or to a labor union. We rise or fall together. So let us in all practical, sensible; The "Silent Power in the June Election "Taxation without representation Is tyranny." This is the sum and sub stance of, and the only claim women should ever advance in their demand for suffrage. We believe If no other phase of the subject had ever been touched upon, women today would be standing on an snual nolltlral font lnar with man. Women have supplied the arguments themselves for their Opponents to use against tbem by setting up ths "purity plea." Sex plays a mighty little part In human nature, and opportunity of fers no greater inducements to a man than to a woman If ths power of resis tance is absent What women would do, or how they would develop under universal suffrage by universal, we mean, If ths world over women were put on an entirely equal footing with men Is a matter purely speculative. A few Isolated states of America to teatlfy to its uplifting and beneficial effects does not provs .the case, and while It will do nicely for ammunition to lire at ths doubters, It will, sometimes "kick back." and a Ions woman who has taken a brlbs be held up as a warning. Chivalry, courtesy, gallantry are all good words but only thinly veiled flatterers, that most any man can see through, and accomplish nothing. It is only on ths ground of Justice, based on business principles that women will ever be given the right at tha -ballot box, to say who shall tax her property and administer the government under which she has to exist. Ws use ths words "right to say" ad visedly; she does say, and most unmis takably at times, but when she does it it is under cover, with ths sense that she Is doing it stealthily and at ths risk of being called unwomanly, if nothing worse. This la degrading to ths "mother of men," whose highest' duty always has been and will always re main, the rearing of honorable man and women for tha service of God and horns and native land. Her right to do her duty openly and above board; to assist In putting in office men who will pro tect her home and property from greed and rapaclousness, and who will not barter in tha holiest feelings and human sufferings, for his own pecuniary; bene fit sfre the rights God has given every Human bolng regardless of sex. It is no reform movement The women that have threatened a purity wave, the abolition of the saloon, the destruction of dives and Joints, if they only were given the ballot don't know what they are talking about, it the women or Oregon could march as a body to the polls at ths next election and vote, there would not be one less' drink of whiskey sold, not ons less vies or crime com' mltted. Woman's vote might for a few brief moments cause all these things to be done less openly, but that alone would not put them out of existence. but It would sound a note of warning that In a generation to corns there would be better men' and women, less material for vies to feed upon because . the mothers could do openly what they are very largely doing secretly, controlling out municipal elections, and doing It more and more at every voting season. Women, as a controlling power In politics, is rather derided by one olass of men who scorn to admit that there is any power outside the "machine," andj by another class, entirely denied, ex cept when they want to defeat an amend' msnt and parade woman's "silent 'but powerful influence," coupled with ths fear of her becoming unsexed. This "silent power," has been ons of the greatest weapons used against women's enfranchisement and ons of her humilia tions, realising as ths does that she must protect her homo and her family and her property rights under cover of airection and marital duty. That she hss retained her courage to fight and work under such conditions gives testimony to her ability to do greater things were shs given larger opportunities in ths open. That she does maintain bar courage, and that shs does fight and will remain fighting, was evidenced la ths last election. June 6th. We ars aware that ths statement we are about to make will be met with in credulity, and ws will ba told of "com bines." "machines" and "rings," but when Sheriff Storey went up to Salem at tha last -legislature and with tha connivance of Speaker Harris defeated the bill to transport ths inssns of Ore gon to ths asylum la a decant humans way, they set in motion a "silent power which thsy have both been mads to feel with telling results. When it waa proven that another candidate had pro fited by this unholy graft ths "silent power" was elastlo enough to embrace him in- its influence) with like results. Moral When tha women of Oregon espouse a causa that is Just, It would be well for its opponents to take Into con. aideratlon ths "silent power," or hasten to bring It Into ths open, where they may reckon with Its .strength. ' ' ' ' ' ' . 1 V y ;v"- - K v , . ..-.I ;; wsys work together for the good of all. MARY L. MCDOWELL. University, of Chicago Settlement Chi cago, 11L H H The Growth of the Sacajawea Statue Fund, In a New York caper recently, a writer, in giving a sketch of the oc cupants of the Fins Arts building in Chicago, has this to say of Miss Alice Cooper, who designed the Sacajawea statue: "Apropos of the tenth floor, there is I ne young sculptor there who is inter lstlns indeed. This Is Miss Alios . . i . . n. . cooper, once ine pupu or uormuu Miss Cooper Is a tall girl with smooth hair and rather a grave pair of dark eyes. She Is quiet and a good deal con centrated, and she receives her guests gravely, f rocked In long, white, rather seamless-looking gowns. Shs has a pretty fancy, and has made a "Frog Girl,'.' which brings up a drifting thought of Rautendeleln, and a "Zephyr" which is a gay and Innocent thing, con sisting of a half-grown child lying un clothed, In ths grasses, with wind tossed hair, blowing a thistledown. But Miss Cooper does other work work, Which is liked in ths villages where they desire statues of Important men, por traiture In clay, memorials of all sorts. She brings her imagination Into play. and redeems the most banal things with it I think she has a sincere sympathy with her subject, and that it gives beauty to subjects which otherwise would have none. At any rate, she is much occupied. Her reputation grows In the west She is an example of what singleness of purpose and hard work united to a fair talent can do." The final design for the statue has been received and is considered a re markably beautiful work of art so far as the committee has been able to Judge from the photograph of the clay In the rough and unfinished detail. By con noisseurs of Portland it is considered to far surpass any conception of Sacajawea yet presented. Its life and action is rarely achieved in clay and much greater perfection may be expected when it appears In finished bronxe. It Is considered beautiful enough to adorn the souvenir tickets which are to be given as a complimentary recog nition of the people who were public spirited enough to pay up their subscrip tion in full. Instead of taking advantage of the time limit. Secretary Keed is now at work upon them. J. K. Gill & Co. have, within the past week, placed a large order In Germany for colored sou venir postal cards to be adorned with the pictures of the various fair build ings and places of interest adjacent to Portland. Ten thousand of these cards will be of the Sacajawea statue. The last two contributions to the Sacajawea fund have been $12.65 from Condon, which has been raised by the ef forts of Mrs. Thomas Mlcklln, and 112.25 from an entertainment given in Marshfleld under the auspices of Mrs. McCormac, the vice-president for that town. A number of Individual mem bership fees have also been received. Mrs. Donald McLean, state regent D. A. R. of New York, writes that she has a nice little sum already collected and the roundwork laid for more liberal contributions among ths women of her organisation. - Thus the work progresses, slowly but surely, and when the time comes to make the appeal to Portland, the feeling Is strong upon the board that It would not be long till "finis" can be written at the end of the chapter. st It t To Keep in Touch With Industrial Conditions. The following resolutions were of fered by the national Industrial oom mltteee at the biennial convention and after being referred to the committee on resolutions were unanimously adopted: 1. That each club should nave a standing committee on industrial condl tions. S. That each club should devote at least ons meeting a year to the consid eration of some feature of Industrial problems. . That clubs having talks on cur rent events should Include events oc curring lh the 'industrial world, and at ths end of the year have a summary given, so that members could have a knowledge of local conditions. 4. That at annual meetings of state federations spacs on programs should be accorded for addresses on some phases of present industrial conditions. 6. That each standing industrial com mittee should prepare a schedule of laws relating to the employment of women and children In that state to send to the industrial committee of the general federation, and that each state federation should agitate for enforce ment of laws and for amendments lo laws, If they were not up to the stand ard of the Massachusetts labor laws. 6. That the clubr, should endeavor to promote the appointment of women as factory inspectors wherever women and children work in manufacture and com merce. 7. That the clubs should agitate for Juvenile courts and probation officers wherever these do not exist. In time these resolutions will be put Into letter form and every affiliated club or state federation will be sent a copy. The trouble is these communi cations come after the year's calendar is made up and the committee and pro gram work fully in swing. To then take it up means a readjustment of work with a corresponding confusion, hence It would be well for clubs to take Bpecial note of this action of the con vention, and without waiting for a di rect communication adopt the sugges tion so far aa It is consistent with their club work. tHH Astoria Woman's Club Has Fine Traveling Library. The Woman's club of Astoria, Or., which was organized in 1900, has as its stated object the "fostering of friendly relations, and securing of a concert of action in Intellectual, philanthropic and social activities." It has at present about 80 members. One of Its chief ambitions Is the ad vancement of the city, and the clvlo im provement committee is accomplishing considerable in Us work of cleansing and beautifying ths town. The club has an traveling library, consisting of five boxes each holding over 60 books, which is doing muoh good throughout the county. During the first three years, the de partments of ths club for Intellectual Improvement were art and travel, lit erature, parliamentary law, history and music. Good work was done in all these , classes, but this year parliamentary law and music were dropped and the club aa a whole, took up the study of civil gov ernment under the very capable leader ship of Miss Emma Warren. During the paat year, the following lectures were enjoyed by the olub mem bers and their guests: Rev. W, S. Gil bert, Mrs. P. J. Mann and Mr. Hugh Hurdman of Portland; Professor Schaffer of Eugene and Doctor Woods Hutchinson, secretary of the Oregon stats board of health. t It st Gambling in High Places' Shocks the Texas Ministers. xne -purity crusaaa, the laat con tortions of which Portland (purified. every sincere person believes) is Just recovering from, but still cognisant of many stings from feelings hurt and In Judicious advertising, was but a riffle on the surface compared with ths tear ing asunder of church and society Aus tin.i Texas, is having over fashionable gambling under the guise of euchre parties. The situation is this: Mrs. Baker, fascinating, vivacious little woman of artistic taste and attainments, and penchant for its commercial value, moved Into one of the highly fashiona ble residence streets, and next door to one of the religiously Inclined house holders with which the thoroughfare is occasionally punctuated. Mrs. Baker be came popular and at onoe grasped the opportunity to indulge her various fancies, and with a weather eye to business that the most saintly must ad mire, conceived the idea of giving semi- weekly euchre parties, charging a small fee of 26 cents and giving a piece of her own beautifully hand painted china as a prize. To keep them strictly within the charmed circle of Tilirh society" invita tions were issued, and nobody admitted without ons. The result was, that as the fortunate winners displayed their exquisite bits of china to their friends, envy took posses slon of their hearts and before Mrs. Baker realized it women were falling over themselves to be introduced to her, in order to get invitations' to her "afternoons with the nope of being a prize winner, and she and her china closet were doing a land office business. The various churches finding their aid societies, auxiliaries and all afternoon services deserted, ' determined to take a hand, too, so arranged a prayer meeting of a special nature, with Mrs. Baker's next door neighbor, to be held on the same day aa one of Mrs. Baker's "af ternoons." The fashionable street was agog; every curtain raised Just suffi ciently to accommodate the tall of some body's eye, and every woman, Invited to neither, behind It to manipulate the eye. , Carriage after carriage rolled up toi MRS. FANNY HARDY ECKSTORM, Author of "Ths Penobscot Man." Who Formerly Lived in Oregon City. , ths horss block, which stood on mutual ground and when ths dust rolled away, it was spades against ths dsclc that Mrs. Baker's party was running full handed. Ths next Sunday tha storm broke; from ths pulpit of every church roUsd forth denunciation of fashionable gam Ming, names were freely used and per sonal recriminations wsrs indulged in to an extant that would bars put Portland to ths blush for timidity in her most lurid moments of purification. Things have gone so far that legal proceedings are talked of and the end is not yet Personality in any matter, whereby public morals or government are to be improved Is a grievous mistake, and loses ths reformers ths sympathy and support ths good work is sntitled to, In this case ths ministers havs been caricatured and ridiculed while the "plucky little woman" has received the plaudits of ths onlookers for ths "fight she has put up." In this they are Joined by the semi-rellglous suchrs de votees to support their own questiona ble conduct, and the matter has mors of a demoralising effect than otherwise, and a righteous protest has been dl verted from its channels of usefulness. Ths ministers undoubtedly havs the right on their side. To paint china and sell It for the money It brings, or is worth, is also legitimate, but to Invite a lot of women to pay about six times Its value for the privilege of coming Into a game. . where ths wheel of for tune, good luck or a skillful manipula tion of the cards don't be shocked, for the woman who plays for It at all Isn't far off from ths other puts It Into their possession. Is gambling, pure and simple, end carrying with It Just ths same demoralizing elements that char acterize the slot machine, the roulette wheel or the faro bank. Card playing Is not a high grade amusement even when "sclentlflo whist" Is chosen. The manner of leading, play ing and ths mild exeroise of memory to know what has "been played, lend It a certain skill, but no science, for an acs will take a king every time, no matter how It's played, so it is very largely a game of who happens to get the cards, if you are playing an honest game. It hasn't even the saving grace of the ex ercise that Is derived from a gams of croquet, and except for those wJho feel that time Is longer than eternfty and they want to get rid of a lot of It, there Is no recommendation for cards for pleasure, while there may be no great harm In them, either; but whether they are played for a cut glass vase, s hand painted chocolate pot or e, lace handkerchief or some other prize of greater or less value In a fashionable home, or for $5.00 worth of chips at the Portland club, matters very little In the moral aspect of the case, and as an Austin minister said: Social gambling Is ths most Insidious form of the vice. It throws ths glamour of respectability over a great evil, which is none the less an evil because prac ticed in modified form." tun International Sunshine Society and Its Wonderful Leader At the annual meeting of ths Inter national Sunshine society, of which Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden is president- general, which was held at the Waldorf- Astoria In New York In May, fully 3,000 members were present Including dele gates from every state in the Union. Two days of the session were devoted to business and the third day was glve,n over to an excursion to Sea Cliff on Long Island where they were delight fully entertained by prominent club women. At tha buslnsss meeting Thursday morning it was announced that 2,626 towns were interested in the Sunshine work, the middle ' states leading with 671 cities. Canada la represented by 77 tries havs Sunshine organizations. The revsnua of cities is led by Brooklyn, followed by New York. In four years New York has contributed mors than $5,000 and Brooklyn soma 14,600, which Is a much larger proportloa c , Mrs, Alden, who was ths originator of ths society, still continues its honored head, and in all probability will so con ttnus as long as shs Is physically abls to wield ths controlling powsr, which means an immense amount or most un selfish and devoted work. Mrs. Alden's deep sympathy with women of ths everv-day typs has been ths secret bf her succsss in not only this particular line of work but In what ever shs has undertaken. Born to the nsosssity of earning a living, and with an indomitable perseverance and energy, shs mads herself a powsr in whatever wsjk oz lire ths pursued, and with herself raised ths standard of Its ex cel lenoe. Recently ths has given to ths world of wags sarnsrt a little book sntitled "Woman's Ways of Earning Money." ons of ths most practical, common-sense works of that kind- that has svsr been published, but Just what might bs ex pected from ons of Mrs. Alden's ac quirement a It ' la written not on theoretical bases but , upon actual ex perience. In every department or path which of fers an allurement to women who have to task a living, or desire to Increase thslr lnooms ths strong undercurrent of advics Is to "find ths occupation you are bast flttsd for." This has probably been ths secret of her own success In the Sunshino work. Her strongest sympa thies wsrs for women who through 111 health wsrs sxcluded from nature's sun- shins and into their life shs has en deavored to bring ths sunshine of human lovs and comfort t H st Alpha Literary Club of Baker City Builds a Library: Ths Alpha Literary club of Baker city was organized January 27, 1901, and was sdmltted into the State Federation In May, 1201. This club was started with a membership limited to 20, the aim be ing mutual Improvement In art and liter-, aturs and the founding and maintaining of a public library, of which Baker City stood sadly in need. Our linss of literary work have been along English and American literature, with soms side lines of domestic science and civic improvement. Ths year 105 is to bs dsvoted to Oregon history and literature. Ths Interest and enthusiasm In ths work of ths club has grown to such an extent that it' was deemed ad visable to change the membership limit, and ws now havs an activs membership of 46. In ths second year of our organisation. the public library was definitely started by means of a library association- with shares at $6 each. Ths sals of these. together with entertainments, have en abled us to purchase about 2.600 vol umes. Our latest venture being the compiling of a cook book. Two thou sand volumes are being printed, and from the nroceeds of this, ws expect to , very materially Increase the number of our library books. Through the kindness or Mr. jrouman ws havs always had a room free of charge. The library is now self-supporting through its membership cards which are sold at the low price of $1. Upon the completion of the new city hall we are to move Into commodious quarters, donated by ths city. The constant growth of the library is very gratifying to the club members, who have so faithfully worked toward this end, and they now have the pleasure of seeing their Ideals fulfilled, in a measure, at least, and the future of Baker City's publlo library secure. st H at The Artistic Needle Workers' Club of Marshfleld. The Artistic Needle Workers' club Is becoming one of the powers for civic betterment in the town, going to work quietly and systematically to do tha thinss that seem to them most neeaeu. and using their endeavors and money where it will havs the most tening ei- fect. The club was organized in November. 1901; its purposes and objects Deijig civic improvement It has at present 25 'members and Its president is Mrs. Hat- tie E. McCormao. The first club effort was to give a "loan exhibit" at which $27.60 was raised for a school library. Recently they headed the list with a donation of $100 .for the Marshfleld board of trade. Five dollars was con tributed by the club to the Sacajawea statue. The school grounds havs Been Improved, and flowers planted at an expense of $34. The next work to be taken up Is to assist the Volunteer Fire department In furnishing a club room for their- owro use. . The social side of club life Is not forgotten, and once a month a feast is spread, , when all ths " good things pro vided are enjoyed. An annual picnic closes the club season.. , . ' f 1 1 : : "' GOSSIP OF SOME CURRENT BOOKS t "When Wilderness Was King" I saw a dot upon the map, a house-fly's filmy wing They said 'twas Dearborn's picket-flag when Wilderness was King. I heard the block-house gates unbar, the column's solemn tread, I saw the tree of a single leaf its splendid foliage shed To wave awhile that Ausrust morn above the column's head; I heard the moan of muffled drum, the woman's wall of fife, The Dead March played for Dearborn's men just marching out of life; The swooping of the savage cloud that burst upon the rank And struck It with its thunderbolt in forehead and in flank. The spatter of the musket-shot, the rifles' whistling rain The sandhills drift 'round hope forlorn . that never marched again. Benjamin F. Taylor. ; Around this scene Randall Parrish has woven one of the most remarkably strong - stories that has ever grown out of the '"- est, gaining a place for "When Wilder ness Wat King" rarely enjoyed by writ rs of a land where history Is still mak ing and time has not cast its glamor over Its events and actors. . It is written autoblographically, and ' while one recognizee the strength, cour age, intelligence and nobility of character, it Is so subtly woven with modesty and Xinconsclousneaat i self .in .th telling : tio susplclotr of "forwardness creeps Into ' ths conception of the hero's character. John Wayland. the hero, Is the son. of r Major Wayland. a bravs old veteran, and has been reared on a quiet farm with out friends or companions of his own age. ..:".v whole1 life had been spent in the - '" --.- r ' " ', ' "backwoods" among the hills and In the forests of his father's farm; his em ployment the caring for the cattle and following the plough, thus he becomes a cautious, thoughtful, industrious man, endowed -with all the knowledge and tricks of the woodsman and as quiet and stealthy as the Indian on the trail. From this quiet, uneventful life the youthful hero of the story was called to take part in one of the most dramatic Indian wars in the history of the west. A friend of Major wVland sent a dying request that for old-time friendship's sake his daughter, who was to be left alone at Fort Dearborn upon his demise, be sent for and made a member of the major's family. With the request came a hastily written postscript stating that the girl had become an orphan, and the dt-mand made upon friendship became Im mediate. John, being the only available person, waa sent to what is now the city of Chi cago then Fort Dearborn to bring the child home to his father's house. It Is far too good a story and too sweet and pure a romance to be spoiled by the comments of a reviewer, for those who have the reading of It yet In store and a rare treat it will be for i them but aside from this feature the work has much Intrinsic worth in its historical Character, with strong dramatic scenes in Indian and garrison life. Some good character sketching is also an attractive feature, portraying the 'Indian in his good and bad traits, as well as the selfish ness and stubbornness of .the officers at the fort. . - In Bhort the book throughout la thrilling. Interesting and Instructive, with a deep note of coming promise for the future of America as a field from which to call rich, romantic and historic ma terial for Just such writers as Mr. Par rish to work into permanent and abiding literature. The book Is unusually attractive in binding, being, of course, natural linen and embellished with a more than ordi narily handsome and appropriate design. One of the most striking features of the book Is six beautifully and highly colored illustrations, which give a richness and caste to the book quite out of line with what is commonly called "the current books." Initial designs of a unique pat tern give a qualntness of appearance to the book I hat Is good to look upon, and on the whole make one feel the price of the book is way below the value of the pure enjoyment one gets out of it. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Price $1.60. , "The Ark of 1803" By C. A. Stephens. This Is just a bit of history of the Louisiana purchase times, when to take wool, cattle and fowls, brandy and, all other products of the upper Mississippi to the New Orleans market meant months of hardship and toil with a risk to life -and loss of property we can but little realize today and would know nothing of tomorrow, if it were not for Just such books as "The Ark of 1803;" but it was the pioneers of those times, daring everything, risking life and all that was dear,?? open up .the country and force its trade down through the Mississippi to New Orleans, that created the agitation which showed to our statesmen the necessity for the pos session of the country, and brought to an issue at an opportune, time the pur chase of the Louisiana territory. The "Ark" was built at Fish Creek, a settlement near Marietta, Ohio, and taken to New Orleans, and the story of the bonk consists of tha trln down the river with its Interesting incidents, its mishaps and even the pleasures gotten I out of a perilous Journey, but It Is wholly history which confirms the old comparison between truth and fiction. The city of Cairo at that time con sisted of a' big flat boat, and the heroes of "The Ark of 1803" played a trick upon the "city" that would do credit to the college boys of today out on a "lark." These same heroes arrived in New Orleans just in time to see, as the author says: "The tri-colors of France slowly lowered and tha stars and stripes raised until they met midway of the flagstaff, and were saluted. Then the ilag of the United States arose to the accompaniment of a great oheer from the thousands of boatmen and soldiers, and Now Orleans was an American city for all future time." It la in this clear dramatic Btyle the book s written and the story told. It would be well for every American ooy to read the book and con well Its lessons of patriotism and devotion and faithfulness to duty with which the pages are replete. The book is well and attractively bound, and in good, clear, readable type, making It the boys' ideal book. A. S. Barnes & Co., New Tone Fries $1.26. "The Penobscot Man" By Fatuiie Hardy Eckstorm. In the above story Mrs. Eckstorm does not make her initial bow to Oregon. While not of Oregon, but of the strong, masterful Penobscot "race of which she writes, she was one of Oregon some years ago, when, -she resided in Oregon Ctty mild " wroTeso charmingly of Oregon birds, and even after returning to her native land of Maine, turns lovingly to Oregon and the friends she made while dwelling among them and to whom she hopes to return, for a visit; ; during the Lewis and Clark fair. All this should lend in terest to the little Hook of stories she has Just sent forth, "strung," as shs says, "like beads of remembrance, upon ons thread of which ws who love it never tire the river." True stories they are of ths Penobscot river and the "West Branch Drive," with neither names or places disguised; told simply jsu the author has heard them in her childhood and womanhood from the lips of the participants. One can read between the lines ths real love of the people and how near to her heart they lie, from the tenderness with which she handles their sternest char acteristics or most glaring faults. The forests of Maine, ' with their tumbling, turbulent streams, admit of little romance, but as the men who have been reared amidst these austere surroundings stride down and into the outside world the wonder Is often ex pressed, from whence they came, and why these powerful giants. "The Pen obscot Man" explains much or this. The stories deal with the great log glng industry, its hardships, its In creasing toil and the manner of men It tends to create. It treads an entirely new field of story telling and has cre ated a new and wide interest in a noble race of-mea who are living their lives of duty fulfilled, and facing death as but an Incident of creation. Thero are lCLOf these charming stor sle, each a gem in the rough, but pol ished to .exquisite brightness by Mrs. Eckstorm' ready pen. We predict that this first book Of. stfirles, in ita f rash ness of location and 'subject, has opened up sn avenue to greater Interest In ths dwellers bf the Dins forests and granite crags. , It will do more than this; It will crystallize into permanent form- many of ths incidents , in the lives bf these me,n who have gone to make up ths his tory Of their stats - which would pass away, or be remembered only as improbable tradition. . The book Awill find ready sale and a host of readers" among the sportsmen who have. made it quits the fad to seek the ! woods and streams of northern Maine for their summer outing, and who will no doubt greet with kindly re membranes mors than one of Mrs. Eck- storm's heroes. Ths book Is neatly and suggestively bound. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. Price $1.26. 'Ths Long Night"- By Stanley Wey mait - When the author chose Geneva as the scene for his last novel he thereby gained for himself ths eternal friend ship of the people of the Swiss olty. It is testimony to ths fidelity of Mr. Weyman's story that the leading clt Izens of Geneva have united In present ing him with an illuminated and in cribed address, and bust of Calvin. "The Long- Night" is now being trans lated into French for the special benefit of the people of Switzerland. McClure, Phillips A Co. the American publishers of "The Long Night" state that it hat made a greater success than any of Mr. Wyman's former-works. "The Mountalns"--Stewart Edward Whits. The issue of Ths Outlook dated June 4 Is its fifteenth annual illustrated recreation number. As is 1 usual with ths Outlook, this Issue, in addition" to the regular editorial and interpretative treatment of news events, important public questions, and current literature, contains a group of out-of-door articles, ths majority of them carefully and fully illustrated. Tha most notable among these articles in this year's recreation number is ths first installment of Mr. otherwise ( Stewart Bdward White's aerial "The , Mountains." This may be called a com panion series to Mr. White's "The For est," which was published last' summer. "The Mountains" describes and pic tures the author's experience. In explor ing and camping out In a section of a California Sierras ' very little known. Like "The Forest," It not only abounds In practical suggestions for camping and woods life, but is Infused with a spirit and lovs of nature. "Ths Blood Lilies"- By W. A. Fraser. While rather a peculiar title, and not ex actly attractive, except through Its un naturalness, ' the book itself proves neither peculiar or unattractive. In fact there is a poetical imaginativeness, which the title holds to some extent, running throughout the book. It, how ever, is a stirring tale of the northwest; realistic to a degree and dealing with that time about which so manv stories are now being written, when the Hudson Bay Fur company held empire over the vast ' region known as the northwest There Is no period in the ' history of America so rich In legendary romance as the days when the factors Of this company held semi-feudal sway, in bar- bario splendor over that boundless country. Mr. Fraser deals with the French and Scotch element that en tered Into the lives of the traders, but the jcentral figure Of ths book is the Indian boy "Mas-kl-sls," ,whoss story is a sadly pathetic one.vwtth a treat lesson -70T the misdirected kindness of the white man to ths. savage child of nature. The characters throughout ara cleverly drawn and tha nature pictures so skillfully presented ons never misses the love-story which is absent. ' Ths book contains tome rich humor, - and (Continued on - Page Seventeen.) , 1,