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Br Nancy Katherlne Burney. HOW do little children of the Portland poor amuse them selves the sad-eyed babea of want where do they spend their brief playtime? If theae questions had been asked a year ago the answer would have been: In the streets and back alleys and alon the waterfront. If one named all the place where children shouldn't play It would ive a pretty toad Idea, where they did spend their play time. Where alse should they got Of course, the plasm blocks ware there, as green, per haps greener, because the children ahunnad them, than two of those blocks are now. But a plasa block did not than make an exciting playground there was nothing there but grass and trees, and the children ware told not to climb the trees, and. anyway, the loop" waa alwsys watching. A few, a very few, had paid memor able vlaits to the City park, and re turned to flaunt their superior advant ages of travel over their less fortunate friends, and to regale a special "gang" NEW BOOKS tstlt -I8TORT OF NORTH AMER ICA" Volume XVII, edited by Or. Ouy Carleton Lee. "The Rise of the New South" By Philip Alexander Bruce, corresponding secretary Virginia His torical Society. In the editorial introduction Dr. Lee aays: "The subject of the south since the Civil wsr is an inspiring one. The years offer such examples of heroic effort, such persistent struggle, such triumphant result, that the historian finds himself tending to ma exaltation of mind thmt requires the sternest con trol to reduce to matter-of-fact state ment The author ' at the present volume has felt the inspiration mnd tbs necessary repression incident to his division of Hhe history of North America. Himself a native of the south mnd in close touch with the tremendous advance that has axel ted well-nigh as great admiration as did the heroism of the south la the Civil war, an active participant. Indeed, In the movement that has made the south of today, he is particularly fitted to write on the sub- Ject assigned him. His personal ow ledge has given him the point of view of the southerner, and the train ing in analytical lnvestlgsUon which enabled him to produce the histories as sociated with his name has caused him to expand his field of observation to all accessible data." Thus the editor. Introducing the au thor, forecasts the value and authen ticity of the work and stimulates an Intereet In the reader which Mr. Bruce has found no trouble In holding through oat the volume. The period to be cov ered la this portion of the work be gins Just after the decade of reconstruc tion. The last federal aoldter was Withdrawn from the south In 1S7, but as the euthor says: 'The calamitous Inheritance from devastating wsr, and political regime even more destructive, eould not terminate all at once: the poisonous growth that had sprung up eould not be cut away In a night, nor eon Id the- malignant Influence spread abroad die sway In a day. A decade was to paas before the noulh would give unmistakable signs of a new birth of prosperity la every department of In dustry. The period between 1 810 snd 11(0 is the most remarkable In Its re cent history, for It wss In this Inter val thst ths southern state reslly shook off for the first time the frightful after effects of the years of war snd recon struction." The author dees not confine his his tory to this period, however, as hs brings It up to date, but uses It rsther as the birth period of the New South." The feature thst will give thin volume Its greatest permanent value as a ref erence book le the exceptionally clever manner in which the author has classi fied and systemstlsed his material. In this age the reader, or even the aver age student, hss not time to delve through psgee of miscellaneous matter to find Oae fact or comparative figures. when a history or book of reference material so arranged mat the under Its own specific heading. or tne wnrx is aouniei. rnis hss rlmrscterlsed every ma . with the population, the iithor makes a csreful resume of THE with tales of their wonderful adven tures there. They told of live animals and real flowers and swings real swings, where yon could awing as long aa you liked "fer nothtn'"; but even thla Garden of Eden was not without a snake; you could only look at the ani mals through the Iron bars of the cages: the flowers of wondrous colors ware not to be picked: and you could not tit on the soft lawn and eat your luncheon, for numerous signs warned you to "Keep off the grass." People's Institute's Work. And than the People's Institute took the matter In hand and aaked the park committee to grant two plasm blocks for a children's playground. '1 he two blocks across the street from the cus tom house were obtained for the pur pose and 1800 was appropriated to flt them up for the especial use of the children. The People' Institute agreed to engage a superintendent for every afternoon during the . winter and for all day during the eunimer and a apecial policeman was to be Win duty there from AND THEIR complex problem of ths south, past mnd present, wltb mil the elements mad con ditions which hmve brought It to Its present status snd showing Its economic relations with present problems. The resources of the south mnd their de velopment are then taken up under va rious heads, as 'The Product of the Farm" forests, sea, mines, hand and machine, and one or more ohmpters are devoted to each. Then we find the growth of cities, exports and Imports, financial mnd transportation facilities, educational, literary, social and political conditions, mnd the work concludes with m general summary of the whole. Much of the early part of the book la nec essarily statistical, but la of Immense value mnd full of Information. la presenting the educational side of the south we cmn notice. In view of well known facta made public largely through the Southern Industrial Educa tional association that the author is something of an apologist, for In every case where truth compels him to give figures snd facta not complimentary to the aouth, he finds excellent cause for their existence mil true, but lamentable, mad yet given with such genulns con viction that conditions mad not ths peo ple are to blame for them. In speaking Of the Invasion of the south by the compulsory school law, Mr. Bruce Jars a sensitive nerve In Oregon, when he say a: "Missouri mnd Oregon are the only American communities sit uated beyond the borders or the south which have so far failed to adopt-a com pulsory attendance law." Oregon has not failed to adopt m lmw a wall as In corporate m olmuse In Its child labor lmw, but has never succeeded In .making It strong enough to be enforced by an ad ministration thmt didn't wmnt to en force it. The chapter devoted to literature casts a lass brilliant light on southern achievement than on mny other sub ject ths author presents. "Except Poe, who is aow Justly considered with Haw thorne to hmve been one of the only two imaginative writers whom the TTnlted states has produced, the south had not author who compared In genersl rep utation with Longfellow, Emerson, Low ell, Holmes, Bryant, Motley and Pres cott," says Mr. Brace. 'Neither does he see any In the new dispensation ap proaching them, though he considers Sidney Lanier's "Marshes of Glynn" the nobleet poem thmt hss been written In the United States since the ead of the war. Even In the field of literature which the author does net attempt to favorably compare with other sections at any time he has m hopeful word, for he saya: "There are now at play In the larger centers of southern popula tion influences that are certain to Im prove the literary taste of men sad women capable of fine literary achieve ment" In the aoclal condltlone of the aouth wa find almost ths romance of history, so charmingly has Mr. Bruce written of the old plantation days mad the pathos of ths evolution to d resent conditions If tbs south has not given us It quota or romance writers it has given us mors than Its share of of romantic material, and thus history very vividly aeta forth the conditions of ths south, past mad present, snd shows us the truth In the msny fanciful settlnga It has furnished the novelist. This volume hss toe same OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY 11 m. to t p m. Two of the old cheerless plasa blocks have baan transformed and the chil dren or the poor have m real play71 givwiiw, " i ' u i v (lie vnii . 1 1 1 1 ii and do them "fer nothln'." When the playground was first started the children were distrustful of such good fortune, but the ones who did venture through the gates of the girls' block, which was fenced In, came back With such glowing accounts of the new playground and the lady who was alwaya there- and who told beautiful stories of the things that might have happened If fairies and gnomes 'bad their way that the heroines of tripe to the City park were deserted and the "playground kids" became the notables of the hour. Little by little the children gained confidence: nothing waa expected of them beyond having a good time and playing fair, so the "playground kids" gained In number mad Importance, until every spare moment was spent there and their old bugaboo, the "cop," be came their beet friend and was often PUBLISHERS chronological table as thoss before it, and has a great number of handsome Il lustrations, none of which la subject to criticism save the portrait of Andrew Carnegie, which seems Incongruous, and omn only be excused as the donor of sev eral monumental libraries which Illus trate his generosity to the south. The portrait of Booker T. Washington Is much more significant of ths new south, as It speaks volumes for Indus trial and race development, while the other savors of benefits unearned. On m general aummary, however, one cmn not fall to be impressed at the magnifi cent manner In which the author has handled, a difficult subject, with Justice at every point, and yet with that in spired admiration which Is Illuminating and helpful. George Barrle Sc Sons, 1113 Wall street, Philadelphia. "Brlar-Pmtch Philosophy" By "Peter Rabbit," translated by William J. Long. Aa one turns almost nauseated from the overabundance of fiction, yet too weary from the wear and tear of the world to read Its science and philosophy, or even Its ponderous literature, one may aeek the philosophy of "Peter Rabbit" mad learn the sweet remsonmbleness of hu man Ufa as well as the sweet reason ableness of animal thinking." It Is a rare book In Its restfulness, and the wholesome outlook It gives one on life ofall kinds and Its possibilities. It la not, as ons might Infer from its title, an animal story, or book for children. The character of the "Babbitt" la simply assumed In order to look at every doubt ful question in an Impartial way. The author rides no hobby, he challenges no controversy, and he Insists upon no sci entific theories; he simply takes the "Rabbit's" view of animal mnd hummn life m'nd works It out with sweet reason ableness, y To be sure "Peter Rabbit" explodes some of the established mnd most deep ly grounded scientific facts regarding animal life and habits, but it is done In such a quiet, convincing wsy one hardly observes the rupture. If Mr. Long's book was, however, but, m treaty on ani mal life It would be Interesting, but It Is much more, for It brings the hummn mnd four-footed animals so near together that the characteristics of the ons merge Into the other, and the gap be tween them perceptibly narrowa. The human traits of animals has been m fmvortte theme with several well-known writers of recent years, some of whom endowed them with , human attributes and proved their tbaorlea by the poasl bllltles that have been; developed by training. The "Rabbit" does exactly the reverse; he takes the animal In his natural atate, and the man in bla artifi cial state of being, clothed and housed, and polnta out the resembling traits, showing how the human animal has grown away from nature, while the other animal remained, and then adorns the comparison with the most Irresist ibly charming philosophy which Is sometimes humorous, but which Is oftener given with m greet pathos that carries It direct to th heart Could anything be more touchlngly beautiful than when the "Rabbit" say ing ha will consider the subject of snl msl demth In another meditation, continues: "Just now, It 1 enough fo our purpose to remind you, ss one of your own naturalists has suggested, that all animals have a strange con sciousness of a Journey from which appealed to for the time of amy, es pecially on school days. Where the Little Girls Play. The girls' playground Is furnished with every variety of swings, and spin ning Jennys and see-saws are there for those who prefer m more strenuous amusement. The younger children have aand boxes, where they can build cas tles mad make plee to their hearts' con tent. Next year It Is hoped that money will be forthcoming to build a pavilion where the institute classes may be Held. The boys' block Is not fenced, si-, though It should be, In order to keep the men from bothering the lade. Around, the whole block la a race track, and there Is m handball court, horiaontal and swinging bars, climbing pole and swings, mad theae make the time pass agreeably for the little fellows, who without the means of using their sur plus energy In harmless sport, would probably find themselves la the Juve nile court much oftener If It. were not for the playground. The children who play In the plmaae they will aot return to their accus tomed haunts; and stnos they lovs the accustomed haunts they put off the Journey as long as possible. When the time comes. If they are not hurried swiftly away la the meantime, they go quickly to a good hldlng-placa and lis down to sleep, still thinking to put off ths Journey. What follows ths sleep we do not know. Our first sleep Is per haps ss great a mystery as our last. To sleep st all, to lose consciousness of the glad bright world In a mass of darkness and dreams, would seem a terrible thing if we had not grown ac customed to It when we were too young to think So with this laat slsep whose long silence pussies urn We expect to awaken and nature has never yet de ceived ua Therefore, we sleep at last, aa we have lived, gladly and witflout anxiety." Mr. Long has shown m wonderful breadth of observation and hla pure simplicity of style makes his writings almost classic. In tone the book Is ele vmtlng and Inspiring. No one could read It and not be better morally and have purer thoughts, snd a book that will do lifts without leaving an aftermath of huge question' masks) when It la preach ing the philosophy of human life and love deserves a permanent place In the literature of the age. The book Is handsomely bound snd Illustrated. Olnn A Co. Price $1.80. "The Upper Hand" By Emerson Olf ford Taylor This is a tale so full of hate and revenge It almost seems to be long to s psst age. and without a re-' deeming moral to lighten It somber ef fect. Squire Warden was what he pleased to term himself, "m respectable member of society." He wss scrupulous In all the observances demanded of that position, careful of his appearance, and regular In hla habits, ana exceedingly proud of hla ancestors, and felt It his duty to become as rich ss possible, with little regard as to how the money cam. In achieving his wealth two Instances came to the notice of the villagers of Klngsford; one when he made the will of Ztbm Wilder mnd the money earns to himself Instead of to m worthless son, Jsmes, and the ether when he foreclosed and took the mill property away from shiftless French. The story Is one of mystery from be ginning to end. It opens with the meld finding Squire Warden one morning In a disheveled condition, the room In dis order and the squire suffering from s severe bum on the wrist, and m tiny girl, the permanent guest of the home. Instead of unraveling aa the story goes on It becomes more and more complicated, and when trouble arose at the mill with young French as leader and a certain Captain Bsssett appears, a little light begins to break, but the cruelty and Inhumanity of the man who had the upper hand makes a story al most repulsive and hardly credible, while It le neither elevating nor educa tive; but It haa the merit of being Inter esting and without a page that oan be omitted without losing the thread of the story. A. S. Barnes eV Co. Price tl.it, The second of Lmngdon Warner's papers on Khlvs, la the October Cen tury, a description of "Khiva From ths Inside," haa reproductions of a number of photographs made by Mr. Warner during his sojourn In thst almost for bidden city. These are probably the fir at nlcturea evar made In that ramnt and JJtU kown spot, where Mr. MQRWIWQ, , OCTOBB1 under the care of the People's Institute live close to the realities of Ufa, and often the superintendent Is startled at some of the woaldly wise sayings of these young old babes. They always enjoy the etory hour, although they prefer Mother Goose 'and tattle Red Riding Hood to more classi cal tales. Little girls lug big bmby brothers to the playground to spend the afternoon, and children of all agee make their way to their own plasm block. Saturday afternoon the playgrounds are usually crowded. One UtUe fellow, who was barely 6, and so was allowed to play In the girls' block, was doing his best to do the high lump and amuse his youngser sister at the same time. After swinging her In one of the basket swings until his little arms ached, he said disgustedly: "Aw, shut up, cmn't yer, mnd watch brother Jump.".. Nothing Could Escape It. Although oae youngster had m pretty good opinion of providence, he had m better one of the mutomobtle. He was WORLD'S CHAMPION BULLDOG OWNED BY WOMAN St St K (By a Buff Corresnoseset. ) WHT English women who ex hibit dogs for prise at shows should affeot bulldogs, the most homely-visaged of the canine species. In preference to any other type, must ever remain a psychological pussle to the mere man. The most suc cessful exhibitors of bulldogs In England are women. Mrs. Edgsr Waterlow has Just achieved a world's record with her Nuthurst Doc tor, which at ths London Bulldog so ciety's show has Just registered his eighteenth championship. Moreover, these championships .have been won la m fair field; not by the too frequent pro cess of following the same Judge round the country. No less than 11 different Judgea have accorded championships to Nuthurst Doctor. He has won more than 500 prises. At this lsat show he was mwmrded no less than It "specials." So far as show purposes are concerned, Ths Doctor" as hs Is fondly called by his legion of admirers la the monarch of bulldogdom. His supremacy In ugli ness there Is none to dispute. Money could not buy htm. His fair owner has rsfused 18,000 for him. She is m wealthy woman, and has gone In for breeding bulldogs aa a hobby, and to win prises by exhibiting them. A slender delicate looking little woman, without the faint est suggestion of anything "sporty" about her. she Is about the laat person In the world one would set down as the owner of the world's champion bulldog. "At first." she told me. "I was disposed to take up horse breeding ss a hobby, but you cannot keep a foal by your side continually, and somehow I always wanted something that I could look after personally mnd make a companion of. My husband made me a present of a couple of bullpupe, which we nsmed Nuthurst BUI snd Nuthurst Doctor Nuthurst after our place In the country. Bill was the one I fancied, and Mr. Waterlow paid If pounds (171) for him. The seller was anxious to get rid of his Warner's adventures wsrs decidedly un usual. The Delineator.- The October num ber make It one of the greet magaslnee of the country, few of whloh compare with It in variety and quality of the articles presented. The Countess von Arnhlm, who 'is Elisabeth of the German Garden fame, begins a aortal thla month, and the etory by ths Wil liamsons goes merrily on. Besides these there are several short stories. All the departments, suck aa kltchsn, dress and fashions, art and literature, are well sustained, with several new features added. POISONOUS BEANS Their Importation Prom Java Stopped by the French. The Importers of dry beans at Mar seilles, where thie trade le consider able, are much agitated In consequence of the Interpretation placed on the fact that oertmla livestock U various parte 1MM. bout to cross the street with a com panion, when they saw an automobile coming full apeed up the street. "Gee, let'e hurry across." said the older. "No, we mustn't." said the other, go ing back to the walk In mil haste. "I'll bet God hlsself couldn't get out of the way of that thing." One of the most pathetic things Is the love that the little girls have for flow ers, mnd their extreme Ignorance about them. One afternoon In the story hoar the teacher had m bunch of violets which she divided among the children. "Is they euro enough flowers T" one little girl asksd In awe-struck tones. "No, course they's not." replied sn older girl scornfully, "they's Just goods with 'fumery thrown oa 'em." It le the endeavor of the institute workers to get the children into the Institute classes, mad what la of stUl more Importance and really harder to do te to get them to consent to take m bath at the Institute. - Rosle was ssked when she had taken a bath. "The doctor made my mamma give me m bath after I was alck with the smallpox." "Why, how long ago was fbatT" asked the superintendent. Immediately fearing contagion. "Why, that was when I was t: I'm now, going on It." said Rosle. calmly. - A dm or two after Roele had been given her first bath in four years, her mother appeared at the Institute ar rayed moat gorgeously In sn evident attempt to Impress i tt women In charge. brother also, and offered him for 10 pounds (160) at which price my husband bought him mainly that BUI might have soms ons of his kind to frolic with ss hs grew up and not feel lonesome. "BUI died young, and the dog bought for a mere song to provide him with a playmate haa lived, as you know, to beat, all championship records, and Is today worth a small fortune. Tet I hmve always believed that BUI, had he lived, would hmve proved the liner dog. But after Bill went I transferred sll my af fections to the Doctor. His' looks as Is always the case with bulldogs when properly treated belle his character. He of Europe died after eating Javanese beans. In a lsttsr addressed to the minister of commerce by the president of the Mareelllee dry vegetable and grain syndicate It la stated that the mayor of Havre has interdicted the sals and de tention or beans from Burnish. Java and ths Sunda Islands snd elsewhere. Several ether severe snd Important sim ilar measures are reported to have been taken. The president of the syndicate, Mr. Plassa. says: "A alrlgls fact has given this alarm to th public- and It Is not imputable to Burmah beans th importation In 1JS at Rotterdam ef 1,000 bales of East India beans, generally denominated Java beans. Four cases of poisoning were established after their arrival. "In November and December other ac cidents were reported smong the horses, cattle anftV, hogs In three localities In Hanover. Another case was established In Scotland clearly due to Javanese beans At Psrls some horses died from the same cause, end In the Euro some barnyard animals were poisoned. These scotdents in France were caused fn re ality by beans whloh could hot be cold I "'TsB 3gMBl asmser Enough for Life. She wanted m bath mnd was most effusive In thanking them for the transformation in Roele. She took m bmth mad appeared promptly the next morning for another, and continued this program for four days. Then she stopped coming, mad the mttendsnts think she fancied that she wss bathed enough for m lifetime. A small boy when asked about bath ing looked very much frightened, mad replied thmt he did take m bath once, but it nearly killed him mnd he didn't want to try It again. All nationalities meet on the play ground, and though they are generally unable to understand a word of each other's conversation, they manage to play together, the more peaceably per haps on account of the Impossibility of argument. Many kinky-halrod. dark-skinned lit tle tots enjoy both the playground and the institute classes, mnd ma usual with thla race they take mm especial Interest In religion. Two little colored lads who had been sttendlng Sunday school were arguing ma to whether there were may "nig" children In heaven, oae Insisting posi tively thmt there mere not mny there. "Haw, course they is," said the Other child triumphantly: "didn't you hear the Sunday school teacher tell about nigger Demus he other day. an' he's In heaven." The argument was olosed. All the work the People's Institute Is doing is good.but nothing it has ever done gives more Joy to the hummn heart than has the providing of the playgrounds for the little children of the poor. is aa gentle mnd playful as a kitten. For all the blue ribbons thst have been tied to his collar he Isn't a bit stuck up, and haa no Idea that he I th finest bulldog that ever faced' a Judge. Only once hae he shown any temper. That wa when a postman tried to hit him with a stick. The postmsn missed, but the Doctor didn't, and that postman nsver tried to hit him again." The Doctor la only five years old, but Is already the grandfather of several prise winner. There are. now 23 bull dogs st Mrs. Waterlow's kennels, most of them the Doctor's progeny. for alimentation In Holland, Germany and Scotland" Mr. Plassa explains thmt th further Importation of these beans will be fought by hi syndicate, and that the Burmah beans have never given cauee for complaint or administrative meas ures. "We are persuaded." ha writes, "that ths sdralnlstratlon will maintain rigorous measures only against Java beans, alone dangerous and destructive. We are at your disposition to submit type aamplea of Burmah white beans to the lntereated service. The Impor tance of the Interests engaged la so con siderable that a prompt decision should be forthcoming." "Tea," sighed Mrs. Lapsllng, "Sopb rony suffers terrible from neuralgia. The only relief she ever gets Is whan she has sn epidemic inserted In her mrm." From the New Tort Ttlbaas. The aettlaeftles "esaaot ge to the mam.' sera the Coses Isaorgents. True, bet ttey pa nriti isai we BBB