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Subscribers will please notify the of fice In every case where their papers are not Delivered Promptly, or when the col lections ?re not promptly made. Month of November CONTINUED. COMPLAINTS. Sworn, Average Daily Circulation THE JOURNAL 57,0(1 AN IN VITA TION is extended to all readers of The Journal to visit its Press Room, which is the finest in the west. The battery of presses consists of three four-deck Goss Presses with a total capacity of 144,000 eight-page Journals an hour, printed, folded and counted, - The best time to call is from 3:15 to 4:30 p. m. Inquire at the business office and be directed to the visitors' gallery of the press room. ' Professor Jenks' Idea. The weight.of authoritative opinion is coming to hold that congress has all the power, needed for regulation of the trusts without recourse to the tedious and un certain process of constitutional amend ment. Influenced doubtless by Attorney General Knox, the president who not longer ago than last summer did not have much confidence in legislation without in creased constitutional authority, seems now to be of the opinion that congress has not by any means exhausted it's con stitutional rights in dealing with the problem. In a careful article in the Outlook Pro fessor Jeremiah W. Jenks takes the ground that the constitutional question has been eliminated and that the only question now is, What action by congress will be wisest? Three general courses of legislation have been recommended by au thorities on the trust question: Attorney General Knox seems to favor an extension of the scope of the Sherman anti-trust act. The United States Industrial commis sion recommends the imposition of a t ax upon corporations or individuals engaged in an interstate business, and thereby se curing a supervisory control of such busi ness. ' " ". The plan advocated by James B. Dill and others of requiring the federal incor poration of corporations doing an inter state business. . i Professor Jenks seems Inclined to favor legislation which will put the "big corpor ations called trusts" as well as others do ing an interstate business under the con trol of the federal government, without imposing very many definite restrictions at first. He considers this proceeding , with wise caution, because it is so diffi cult to foretell how near any: law will come to working the results expected of it. Human experience is full of proofs that laws often strengthen a tendency or practice they are intended to Check or , abolish. Take the matter of local.or class discrimination in prices, which is a favor ite means of ruining a fmal competitor. There has been a general agreement in trust discussion that the practice should be abolished, yet Professor Jen ks raises question whether it might not in some cases injure a small business "to enact such- a law! H e illustrates his question with the following hypothetical case: A small ftouring-mill in southern New York sells flour, let us say. in its own town, in Oswego and Elmira. N. Y.,'hi Wflkesbarre and Scrantori, Pa., and in Phillipsburg and-Dover, N. J. it is en gaged in interstate commerce. It must sell in face of the competition of the great Minneapolis mills and of the so-called flour trust. Freight rates from Mimteap oils are substantially the same to all these points in them all flour of the same brand sells at practically the same price. The local New York milltr must meet- these prices, freights included. I n consequence, aa hi* freights differ, he sells to each town at a different rate. each differ. H e does not sell to all at the same rate and then add the freight, as does his great rival. If the law of no dis crimination is enforced on him in the1 same way as on the trustand the law cannot be a respecter of personshe is confined to his local New York market, cannot sell enough to keep his, mill run ning, and stops. The act indicated, rigid ly enforced, would close hundreds of small mills in all sections of the country, and would stop thousands of men in other lines. Yet possibly.his-may.be.a less evil than discrimination* of the .trusts. feut the more difficulties* that can be i pointed out the more urgent is the inltis- OF FOR *K.3WC W^ ?. MoLAIN, EDITOR * "*""" v His profits from, v's*ti CO. ~ In What Does a Peaceful Blockade Consist?Socafred Peacefur'Blookades irftne Past. : In the British house of commons yesterday Premier Balfour admitted that a state of-war existed between land and Venezuela, and that there is no such thing peaceful bJocTcade. This announcement wUT doubtless be Of ^tal'n great interest to the authorities at Washington, for, ass um ing that.there''Is such a thingas a1 tude of theVUntted States would be Very different towards it than towards a warlike blockade. The fact that the Vene zuelan navy has been destroyed in this case would seem to make it difficult to maintain that the blockade is peaceful,. If it is, it can be binding only on the ships and commerce of Venezuela, Germany and Great Britain. Nations like the - United Statesnot directly-int^restedjin thjr Venezuelan dis- - putewill refuse to admit, that .in a time of supposed peacev their commerce with Venezuela:can be interfered with. So 'far as the United States W'concernedv the.the.:i c.ortdltion mus t' be one of peace or war. If it b will insist on having all the'rights and privileges of peace for its citizens. It may not, therefore, accept Balfour's state ment that a state.of^war-exists.ibu^.ae^y insist on-a formal declaration of war and refuse to respect the blockade until such declaration is made. Among the so-called peaceful blockades of history, says a correspondent of the New Y.ork Tribune, are: That of 1827, by Great Britain, France and Austria,'.of the coasts of Greece, occupied by Turkish troops that of 1831, by France, tion of legislation designed to regulate trusts. If we lack experience arid knowl edge in dealing with them, the sooner we begin to get those advantages the better. W e can't swim without entering the water. , -.' This idea of speaking ofy cities as feminine is all right as a rule, but it gets a jolt every time one tries ,fcg refer, to St. Paul as "she." In the interest of gram matical consistency and as a term of en dearment, we suggest a change. What's the matter with speaking of our' little neighbor as Pauline? "New Minnesota." .... Northern Minnesota continues to boom. A dispatch from Bemidji which appeared, on The Journal's northwest page yester day was enough to stir the blood of every old pioneer in the state and,make -him eager to rush to the f,ront. - . *! -,'( Thousands of people are pouring into Itasca and Beltrami counties. The lum bermen are merrily and vigorously assail ing the last of the forests, and the land hungry are pouring in to take possession of the good land Uncle Sam is still giving away in northern Minnesota. An especially interesting portion of the dispatch is the one that asserts that.the quality of the soil in northern Itasca county has b^cii misrepresented, that it is really excellent for agricultural pur poses and" "that the whole country is of such a character that ten or fifteen years of the saw mill, the stump pulller and the sturdy settler ought to ma ke of it a re gion as rich as Stearns or Wright county.'"' There is no doubt among the well-in formed- that the population-sustaining possibilities of the northern woodlands of Minnesota have been greatly underestim ated. Eventually most of the timber will be removed and hundreds "of thousands of people will yet dwell in a region that was once thought uninhabitable except for a population drawing its support from elsewhere. These lands are. now cheap because they Jiave to.compete with clear prairie land, but their proximity to market, their good Water, their abundance of cheap fuel, their unquestioned adaptibillty to some if. not all kinds of-farming practiced in this climate, should ma ke them in great de mand and lead to their rapid population. . Gertrude Atherton, the story writer, has been claiming the credit of having defeat ed the purchase of the Danish islands by the United States because she believed It to be a corrupt deal. When Gertrude finds that just what she claims to have done is constructively treason and that she is liable to severe penalties for her meddling, she may plume herself less upon "being a busybody. Public Examiner's Report. A study of the elaborate report of Pub lic Examiner S. T. Johnson shows that one of the most important state Offices is in the hands of a man of the active, original, creative type. There must necessity be so many regular channels of business, so much red tape, JSQ many forms, such a mass of administrative, de tail to attend to in most public offices, that a majority of incumbents are con tent to look upon themselves as mere wheels in the machine of administration, never dreaming that they should direct the machine and use it according to the varying necessities and demands of the times. . . . Mr. Johnson discusses too many dif ferent subjects to make It possible to undertake to comment on, his report in a comprehensive manner-but , therejare a few features - of it Which -wa, ,wisfj to. bfing to the attention of the public. ^ In the matter of the['taxation .of Rail way companies, Mr. Johnson has done an excellent' work in analyzing and investi gating their returns of gross earnings to the board of railway and warehouse com missioners. It appears that the rallway commlsslon had never gone behind the returns prepared by the companies. The legislature acted . Wisely in giving "Mr. Johnson authority to ma ke such investi gations as he has made. The examiner's reebmmendatiom that a=-valuation' of all railway properties in the state be rna4e in order that it can be determin^ ivhethf er the rate of taxation of' raiiway gross earnings is uniform .with, the rate -of dir. rect taxation of other property, is an. ex cellent one. W e are inclined to think, from some rough calculations,-that such a valuation would show that the rail ways are more lightly taxed than other corporations and persons. " .?-- ' It seems to us that Mr. Johnson's rec ommendations regarding banks and trust, companies are good. The suggestion that the banking law foe amended to allow state banks {0 ma ke first-mortgage loans on farms in this state to an' amount not to. exceed 30 per cent of the paid in capital of" the bank, is an- excellent one. I t would tend to put more money into circulation in the state and keep it from going else where for investment. The recommenda tion that the surplus of banks be exempt from taxation is good. , Mr, Johnson's course in "checking" all county officers Instead of only the treas urer and auditor, is commendable. The idea that county commissioners should be required to file bonds making them responsible for moneys illegally paid [the demand for oleo and'butterirre as such pacific blockade", the atti- ^pea TOj 1 UhUed out under their authority is "an excellent one. I t is also Weil to make it easy ior the governor to remove commissioners who do not toe the mark of strict integ rity and accuracy in their.use of county funds. The county commissioner is ay. very important official, who has hot hitherto been checked and safeguarded in propor tion to the importance of his office. The land dealers testified in the merger case yesterday that railroad competition means higher prices' for lands and that .railroad-"merger means depressed prices. Of course, but it Was necessary to have it stated in court that the fact might have, legal form and be made available before the court. -To-day's news- from the seat of the "pacific war" England - and Germany, .are waging against r Venezuela indicates that Venezuela is ready to take her medicine. The people of the United States will earnestly hope that such is the case, for once a war begins nobody can tell'what it will lead to or how soon na tlons neutral at the sta rt will be drawn into it. So long as we stand by the Monroe doctrine we cannot escape a fqel ing of .nervousness whenever an American and a European state come into conflict. of c the puzzle up to the governor, who Will' roll it along to the"court,'Whatever he does. Beltrami county is riot so tangled, because the canvassing board^has declared that under the law only one of the : three propositions" submitted to* its voters has carried, But an appeal from this decision may be made to the courts. One county division proposition at'a ought to he enough for any county. The division of Polk county reduces that county to a -symmetrical, faiB-sl2ed county, by taking off its eastern wing.' The Bel tra mi .division, creating Clearwater coun ty, is geographically absurd.- It, leaves Bemidji, the vcqunty seat 6f Beltrami, away down in one en4,p a^county big enough for a state. ' The democrats of the south.arc prepar ing to take control of the, democratic party and dominate the next democratic, national convention. And why not? The south furnishes the bulk .of the democratic "electoral' tyotes and'should 'boss the - -worlc of making nominations. It is the.same principle which would reduce the repre sentatldh of the ^outh in"' the republican national" convention 'to-correspond with the republican vote in the south, 'The nomination of a southern man by the next, democratic convention is not" an hriproha-' bjlity.and in view pf the scarcity of avail able: democratic - material in tljo" norih, might be Very good politics. _'-. The soutli has some able menon side. .. ..-.,'. - '- : "" "'- .-- "' - "" - - ""- - "- -i&'/^l The trouble with the - oleomafgarin crowd Is that they never know When they .are outlawed. . They .are now suspected of mixing oleo with good .creamery outr ter, the latter being of so deep a as to stand much mixture with the light colored oleo. A t the same time it* is worth noticing that it is maintained that of/ghe" Tagus , that of 183?,-by Great-Britain andj^France, of The Way Out. - - ^ It is* reported that the Venezuelans, while agreeing to the claims of the allies, desire to have Minister Bowen represent their country in the arrangemen ts that will have to be made with the. .aHles precedent to the full satisfaction of their demands, including the settlement of "de- tails of claims and the method of meeting them. ....-.- W e can see no reason why Minister Bowen should hot be authorized to dis charge this friendly 6fflee.'. H e seehis to have demonstrated the possession of a cool head and good judgment. His con duct so far has reflected credit upon the United States, and his performance of the duties of a sort of.mediator be tween the powers and: Venezuela would add to American prestige and 'offset in some degree such lack-of confidence in the Monroe doctrine as some offae.South. American states may have experienced through erroneous ideas as to its scope! inasmuch as one large, healthy gray wolf taxes the South Dakota stockmen" about $250 a year for support in the way of calves and lanibs, the logic of the stockmen, in reasoning that they can pay $10 for his destruction, is good.' County Division Tangle. .-' * Minnesota has had a large quantity and great variety of county division experi ence, but it has not yet learned dispose of county division- questions-wlth-' out legal tangles. A t the last election Polk and Beltrami counties voted on sev eraldivision questions, and no man can tell what is the result. Ultimately the courts will decide what ought to. be de cided by the voters. , ..'... Under the terms-of the law the state canvassing board has had to declare that three conflicting propositions for the d,i- ,-vislon of Polk county have been adopted by the voters. That is equivalent to say ing that the voters of Polk county have voted to create the same territorial area into three separate coiinties, under the three names of Columbia, Nelson and Star, with the three county seats of Mcintosh, Fosston and Erskine^which Is absurd. The board did the best it ..could and passed an d \-Britain, of Greek port^'that of %eS^pby Greafc Britain * of Rfp JaneifoL thAt'of UjB79jfl^y Ofcllevysjjji the cnafet Qf~ Bor.|", raiicer of part-s '& F&raiosa that-of - liVia^hat of 18&i,"by France ? - . - , __ , - ,,._ 188G. by Great ^Britain, Austria, Germanyf Italy1 d Rilssftf, of Greece, and that of 1897, by the principal powers of Eu rope,, of, Crete,.. , ^ , In the bloekade'of Mexica"n ports in i.838 Fpafioe took the4'' ground that vessels of a third power entering the blockade might tie-confiscated.'^.Wrlt&S&n ttrternatiiSia^ lk^vgjer^er^lly ciondemn/^hat -course. A t thfiHime'^bf thfe. Iilockade of L a Pla.fa in I84& by^Great Britain %nd Fi^hce|3Bord Palmerstph hnl.bss'iWar existe thc bloipiia,%rs ha no'rig-h t vStates.,/-isai^-ithat o Ip^feiJe^yWJth l\g vesselsdJojVd third^QJjnter' ord even,with' ' merchant vessels of'iheir 'dwii:Mags. IrGMie blockades of Greece in 1850 and in 18S6 Greek vessels only were detained. In .t^e/ btocHfd.e^f._.Cre only to the ships 6f~the six powers concerned, but also to those of a "neutral," if the cargo were destined for the Greek troops or the interior of the island. The United States refused to recognize .such a.s blockade.' V-he French applied an equally extensive blockade theory $p Formosa-'hv 1884, and the English refused to recognize it. FrKh'ce, of & Plata tha of 1850X by%Great by persons who know just, what, they are purchasing is. greatly in^ashig.. This in-, dicates that the prejiidice against the-sub stitutes for butter is wearing off. ,7President Nprthrbp approves football on the whole, after weighing against each other the game 's merits and defects. The president's views will coincide pretty well with* tho.se of moslt copi observers of the game. A communication printed In T h e J on r n a 1 yesterday brings the other side out very strongly^, but if everything in life that involves the i$k'of injury or death, is to be avoided, there will "be little busi-' ness or recreative activity in this world. : The lower house'v6f $500,000 with which to enforce the Sher man ahti-trUst'-a^tlfev'Btit: the' senate is yet. to be heard from..A^ senator remarked the other day that he had heard nothing about the trust question in Washington. W e suspected as much. * A Montana judge "has decided that own ers of mining claims \v.ithin the limits of forest reserves can cut off the timber on them. The forestK will last just as long under that decision as"' mining claims are not plastered all over tliem. r According to the interstate commerce commission, a law regulating railways that was thought pretty good fifteen years ago .is obsolete now. It appears that it is only tariff laws that are perfect in all times and all corulitipns never need^ any revision. .-.. The Nonpareil Man l..,.H.........^.V. TM1 IHjlilllllllB '"'"", Casually" Abserved .'Soswell Field .sa^rs'.tlaat Mr. Bae :,. the coal president, has proffered an invitation to thef poor of his parish, to come over to his .house -on Christmas -day and, warm , themselves by looking at his coal bin. It they accegfc tliey ar^cltkely to-have a quar ter deducted from stheir wages because of the entertainmont.vrpvided. _. ^. -: '*- :-: -.* l*---m~5t1i f - ...?- 4 i "' .. The ou-tsid/Sj.-presSi seems, rfcc- have an idea that the,,supr.eme court of ^Minnesota has decided that it is all right for a man to beat-his-wife. In many cases-.rjt might be .lawful, as St.,Paul says, but not ex-, -pedlen*, 1 s .-..-.: --,.-- -! - .-- Mr,,. Hill says that to-d ay "the young man . isr king". That is true, but on the Great Northern there is. a feeling that the old man is ace. .._'.. . Miss Roosevelt has seen her room at the WhiteHouse and denounced it as a "night mare in yellow and blue." There is one good thing about,a yellow and blue room. It.scares the flies,out.. how to An, actor at Denver suddenly lost hte memory because, the air was so rare. Many men have lost their memory of financial obligations:because of the rarity.of the The theory that baldness is contagious will keep a good many of us. who pride ourselves on our wavy ringlets, out of the the front, seats when the ladies caper on the stage. , * No tnore attempts.will.be made for the present to capture Boh Dunn and run him for governor by force.. Medical authorities state that the use of the salt solution or of oxygen will produce heartbeats after a man is dead. Lots of good that will do him. The Kansas City Star, speaking of the purchase of ^a Patch for $60,000, says that $30,000: a .front foot, is too much "to pay for any horse. M. J. Tierney, a traveling man who makes Sioux Falls his headquarters, tells the Press of that city about, a thrilling drama in real life which he saw recently on the stage at Woonsocket, S. D., where . , there was more seen than, the playwright j from the pen of a fellow Countryman "-The intended to put in evidence. The play was subject is treated from a new psycholo~- of the "BucKet of Blood" variety and Mr. ical point of view. The writer analvzes Pierney occupied a . "box" in the bald- the various traits, traces the growth of headed row close up to the . feetllghts. | character, th,e innermost motive The scene was laid in. a mountainous j badly fcim the democratic country. and ..shooting irons and bowie, knives were in evidence from the risingiPower fails and wherein lies.the peculiar of the curtain to the.going down ? the same. "The heroine," said Mr. Tierney. "was a married woman whose husband, a man of mature years, was one of the deck hands in the play, and the hero was a dashing young fellow who plaved with great spirit: The husband, happening to be on. the stage ih one of the scenes when the hero kissed the heroine in the play, got m ad and hit him on" the ear. The hero forgot his. lines and proceeded -to bat the husband over the head. . The fight waxed so hot that the audience began to holler for a. refereet and' several ladies left the house. It was. getlng real good, when SomeOrie with a little sense, of propriety. Ibwered the curtaiji, and a moment later the manager appeared.! before the foot lights" and announced hat it would be Ihm !fS1hee' ^ufi^ce ^ ut ^ & *t ? *e* \ ^ ^ ^ ^ SS^SlSten S ticuS nfffJl f r TK^iSii^ spot during thesef memorablleofdays wn*-32 2o i ^ a r ^ mellorwf drama1,, a prize fight and a domes- French warships. His literary success t,c : . s yellow ta ed ^^ content and in high1 ' How-it all came put back of the'eurtain. no one could'firi^ butand It is probably just" as well:'"'-' - - * - :.werc .V'The people of New York buy daily the milk produced by 140,000 cows. '--: .,rrf-P^ ' --. ... - - ~ *k,!"".." '^ r I &?. i ..outlined as "to look after luxuries, including music." :'" . ' "Yes," he said,-:."I'm ehairmar\. of i the committee on terrapin and seraphim." 1 ^hlng filed, outb ii n greaa t provokee d the jealousy o his nava sup e ^AJXTrMVERSldlT i T"rapln ana" Seraphim.At a recent meeting of graduates of Yale, in the class of .'^..resident hi'New York city, Walter Brooks was appointed chairman: of One of the committees' to arrange a class din ner at Ne$? Haven to celebrate the twen ty-fifth anniversary of graduation next commencement.:- ,His particular, duties 'congress has voted m-nvtrii iii mum ? a M l Books and Authors DICTATION AND DIFFUSENESS Herbert Spencer says that his own ex perience in dictating his books and arti clesa practice which he has followed fcince 1^70J-leads begeis 'large diff ustehess of langUagjeiwhich per&onal work with a,pen prevents,. H e -..^^.J", ,,,_ .:.' ^*buhd that Mpiad t.o "" CHARLES raNGSLJBY. -him Ho conclude that it, "'' i J cut out appuka,tenth If half the road was made of pie ...... The other half of bread. How very nice my walks would be, The greedy infant said. There are some of the old familiars in this collection but a great many new to the average reader. TOLSTOI AS MAN AND ARTIST. With an Es say on DoEtoievski. By Dmitri Merejowski. New^ork: G. P. r-iitman & Sons. For sals h y McCarthy. Price .$1.50. It is claimed for this book that it is the first complete story of the great Russian o f the greatrevealswhere reformer describes his meth - vBj pf the matter -on ac count of unnecessary repetitions in dicta tion: Repetitions are noticeable in his last book. "Facts and Comments," the last, which he expects to publish. Diffuse ness, however, is pptr a necessary "sequence of dictation: tifi- \ , , fuseness is congehi^ j^vsl tal with- many wrlt- ' agency is dictation, a pen or a typewriter. Mr. Spencer has naturally a large com mand of language, and redundancy woiiTd appear if he used pen and ink, or ham mered a typewriter himself. It is possi ble that a writer in the habit of putting, his. thoughts directly on paper through the keyboard of a typewriter might find them getting away from his control like an ambitious span of horses, If he is a rapid manipulator of keys. The mere mechanical excrtlonv however, 'Is not less thanin the use of the pen for-the neces sity of striking the right key entails more work on the brain and the muscles of the eye and hand than the continuous move merit of the hand from left to right does. There are comparatively few wrltefs who do not find, when they finish the manus cript or typescript of a story oi-' book, that they can cut out a considerable amount of unnecessary verbiage. The Hindoo, tale of the.king who ordered a ieduction*of the* size of the legal code of his kingdom, which was contained in volumes which required the services of 40 camels to carry them, and cut them down to a single han dy volume, apt for reference, has larg*j suggestion to all writers with a redundant style. SPAIN AND HER PEOPLE. By Jeremiah Zim mermaii, IX.D. Illustrated from photographs ' Philadelphia:- George W. Jacobs & Co. . . Spanish history and Spanish conditions are pf peculiar interest to Americans in these times because of the Spanish-Ameri can war. The author of this book has undertaken to pi*esent to the reader a view of that country acquired by his own per sonal observation. This is in one sense a book of travels, but more than that, it is an analysis of Spanish life and character. There are interesting and instructing de scriptions of the cities and provinces of Spain, some account of the Moorish inva sion and a discussion of the decline of Spain. The book will be found of especial value to thosec ontemplating a - visit to that country. It Is handsomely bound in red and gold. THE INGOLPSBY LEGENDS, R MIRTH AND -MARVELS. . Bs Thomas Ingoldsby. Esquire. Illustrated by. Herbert Cole. New \ork: John Lane. Price $1.0 . This edition of the familiar Ingoldsby legends is a handsomely bound volume In red and gold, graphically illustrated and altogether a very attractive volume from a bookmaker's standpoint. The Ingoldsby legends are classic and never Ipse their .cnarm. It is gratifying to have them in such beautiful and attractive dress. 4 SHERBURNE QUEST. By Amanda M. Doug las. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Minnoap - oils William Donaldson & Co. Price, 0 cents not. This is another of Miss Douglas' Sher burne stories, in which Honor Carew is the leading character. She marries her second cousin and goes baciK to Sherburne House, which her mother gave to the first cousin. Edward Sherburne is the hero of the story, and other characters familiar to the readers of Miss Douglas' novels, ap pear in this tale and add interest to the harrattve. f' :- A NONSENSE ANTHOLOGY. Collected by Coro l.vn Wells. New "Wirk: Charles Scribner & Sons. For Sale by McCarthy. Price $1.25. This is. as its name indicates, a col lection of nonsense and humor from all sources, old and new. Much of It Is an onymous, but in the list of contents ap F a r a good many nam es famous in liter . - ture. "On a topographical map of litera ture. nonsense," says the collector, "would be represented bya small and sparsely settled country, neglected-by the average tourist, but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travelei-s who so joui-n within its borders." This neglect is accounted for on the ground that the majority, of the reading world does not appreciate or enjoy real nonsense, and by the fact that they are not unable to dis criminate between nonsense of integral merit and simply chaff. Carolyn Wells collects her. nonsenst from Shakspere as well as from Burns, from old ballads written before the reformation to current and present day jingles and the absurdi ties of Gelett Burgess. Nonsense is af fected, however, by some verv sensible people. A competition was recently in augurated by the London Academy. Among the rhymes submitted were the following: : eVSr : NEW BOOKS. aiid it develops Itself whether the shows his intellectuas l od s an d greatness of the man. BRIDGE WHIST OR, HOW TO PLAY IT. Bv , Lemiard Leigh. Philadelphia Henry T. Coates , &- Co.. price $1. Mr. Leigh is an authority on whist and in this book presents a concise and lucid description of the game, and a better code of laws for bridge whist, the need of which has been recognized by player gen erally. THE LAST DAYS OF FEftlN. Translated from the French of Pierre Loti by Myrta L. Jone* Illustrated from Photographs and drawings by Jessie B. Jones. Boston: - Little, Brown & Co. ...... . The translator says that Lot! as Julian Viaudn in th navy as lieu tenant^ranksvasseaue. de His experiences i t a I spirts writte to the FigarFrench o from notes taken ta m& - - ' 'Air , nc d .when h was serving on board one the riors and some time ago he was abruptly retired. He secured reinstatement, how ever, and has pursued his literary work. His account of his experiences in China fs very familiar and personal In style, and it presents a vivid picture of certain phases'of China. H e writes as one' hav ing a deep interest in the subject at hand, and this book is of value as::'a'contribu- tion to thd large amount of writing: and printing done these days about dhlna.'f A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. Bv AVHiam Vaughn Moody aud R. X. LoTell of the University of Chicago. New York: Charles - Scribner's Sons. Minneapolis: X. McCarthy. Price $1.25. The authors of this volume are.assist ant professors of English literature, and of "English respectively in the University of Chicago. Their purpose was to pre pare a history of English literature within the apprehension of young students and hit*: III Way of a Guardian "(Copyright, 1902, by T. C, McClurer) My~":triendf,Thateller was. Very incpn aiderate^' ofiirty feeling's In the" time that -he chos/e for^his departure.' for worlds-* If*Jf could on ly^'l|?avfer waited) until -his. daughter EJlten wasVa-little bet-1 fier" able fp j%ke .QaxSe'iof Herself,^ J should have beefi saved a lot of worry and bother. As it was I had to postpone my trip-to Egypt for a whole month until I could get her settled with Thatcher's two maiden aunts, for of cOurae he had made me her guardian. The fact {fiat I was only thirty while she was fourteen was of no import ance, in hisreyes. " . - T When once appetite for wandering has laid hold on a man, he knows no time nor -place'to rest, so my year of travel dragged itself out to s&. Letters came at inter nals from one or the other of the aunts telling me that Ellen was well and happy. ,^9* 01^ ^^S^vias^e.- earlier years I had a IN THE HALL I CAME FACE TO.FACE WITH MISS ELLEN HERSELF, APPARENTLY IN A GREAT HURRY TO GET AWAY FROM SOMEWHERE. brief and very conventional note from the young lady herself thanking me for all that I had done for her, I suspeeted El len of symptoms of irony in those expres sions of thankfulness, for the only thing that I had done was to take myself off to the ends of the earth and leave her to the care of Providence and her aunts, not always synonymous terms. In the course of time I drifted back again to the land of the stars and stripes. My first days passed drearily enough. I visited my old club, but the best chairs were occupied by men who had been striplings when I was last in the land of civilization. My old chums had drifted away or into matrimony and only dropped into the club now and then to shed a few drops of pity on. their single brethren. Finally I bethought me of. my long neg lected ward and determined for the lack of something better to do to pay the child a visit, so sent a note to the aunts to ap prise them of my coming. I have received many severe shocks in my life and have, I trust, borne them with Christian fortitude, or at least with pagan stoicism. I have been turned out of by berth in an ocean liner in the middle of the night o shiver and scorch by turns in an open, boat in the middle of a sailless ocean, I have been held up and courteously relieved of all my valuables by Greek bri gands, I have even-withstood with equa nimity , the charge , o.f: a brigade of Swiss hotel keepers, but all.these were as a fall of dew compared with the suprise which I experienced when Ellen, my little ward, came into the parlor of the cottage to give me dutiful greeting. I had left behind me a scraggly little girl, awkward and frightened. I found myself shaking hands with a beautiful young lady, slender, erect, with a calmness and self possession in finitely greater than my own. In the days that followed my won derment only deepend. A French count marked genuine, the son and sole heir of a railway magnate, a mining, baron from Denver of slightly advanced years, but undiminished ardor, and a newly risen but still rising politician with his eyes on the United States senate and his feet planted firmly on more valuable real estate than the. finite mind could well comprehend were the major planets which constantly revolved around Ellen. Then there was a countless number of satellites, young col substantial enough to be a permanent basis for study, and, at the same time stimulate the voluntary and close ac quaintance of the student with the great writers of each literary epoch: The a u thors have, with excellent discrimina tion, chosen to devote something over half the book to the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A reading guide is appended which is in tended as a working bibliography. The portion on the eighteenth century, while hot as .elaborate as Edmund Gosse's his tory of that period, is in some respects more interesting than that work. New interest is given by the authors to the Anglo-Saxon and Norman-French periods and the history of the beginnings and de velopment of English literature is pre sented in a way fresher and more sug gestive than heretofore. FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS ABROAD. By Mar garet Sidney: Illustrated By Fanny Cory. Bos tou: The Lothrop l'tihllshing company, 530 At lantic avenim. Price $1.10. The ever resourceful author of the Pep per-stories, dearly loved by the young peo ple, takes Mother Pepper, who has become Mrs .' Fisher Dr. Fisher, Phronsie and Polly, Grandpa King, Jasper Parson and Mrs. Henderson across the ocean to Eng land and the continent and the story of their doings is very delightful reading. The author always gives us something new and does not dress up old Incidents which show through the disguise, but gives us new situations, new adventurss and new phases of the characteristics of the' young people. Francis Lynde^ in his new novel. "The Master of Appleby." has done for the Car olinas what Maurice Thompson in "Alice of Old Vlncennes" did for- Indiana. And it is interesting to knOw that it was through the encouragement and kindly ad vice of. the great Indiana author that Mr. Lynde forsook a business career and made the writing of books his life's work. Settlement work has become not only a science to those who have taken it up as their life-work, but it also forms a pleas ure as well as a duty to many people of wealth and culture. "Americans in Process." edited by Robert A. Woods, which will soon appear, shows the efforts on the part of a city to cope with the evils of the crowded districts. "The Handbook of Birds of the West ern United States," by Florence Merriam Bailey, which Houghton, Mifflin & Co. have just published, is Intended to,do for the western part of the United States what Frank M. Chapman's Handbook has done for the east. The success which "The Right Prin- cess," the first Christian Science novel, is enjpyjing has already led to imitations, and there is now at least one rival in this new field and more are promised. :.-.-. AMERICAN NIGHTS MENTS? * Doc Ames ought to tell -what he* knows in a book. It would be as interesting as the Arabian Nigh*'- ,- * ".\ - -. ..* Literary Notes. Little Falls Herald. X. By ALBEET FOSTER !,the lege fellows, bankers,, lawyers and naer .chants I-was" regarded as a fatherly* old chap whose favor was worth having only by virtue of the relation, in which I stood id the young lady in question. This was jgallbig to pie, as 1 was ready to take my oath that at least half of the idiots would never-see my age again. I think Miss Ellen divined my resentment or else the quizzical twinkle playing about the corners of her eyes belied her thoughts. I went prepared to stay three days. The end of a month found me still there. I had fallen head over heels in love with my own ward. When I had succeeded if diagnos ing the case to my own satisfactionand despairI concluded that I must take my self out of the way of danger. Accord ingly-! announced my intention at lunch eon -Ode day. The aunts were politely sor ry '.and I could almost have sworn that Ellen looked sad for at least thirty sec onds. After luncheon the aunts cornered me In the library and asked me flatly wh^t I thought about Ellen's matrimonial future. I protested that I hadn't thought about it. didn't know that it was any concern fy( a guardian's anyway. "Of course it's some concern of yours." said Miss Henrietta, the elder, taking up the last point that I had made and going through my argument backward, woman fashion. "She must marry, naturally, and she must marry well,*" meaning, as I guessed, that she must induce Dan Cupid to lead her in the direction of a well "Well, what do you think of the count?'* grown bank account. asked Miss Angela, the younger. I re plied that I would rather not' think of him if she didn't mind. I didn't object to counts for people who liked to spend their money that way, but I preferred men for myself. Miss Angela sniffed and. asked my opinion of the offspring of^he railway magnate. I replied that I con sidered his whole claim to the respect and gratitude of mankind to lie in the fact that he was not twins. Two of a kind, of that at least, would have been alto gether too much for a long suffering world to bear. . The mining baron, as I in formed the good ladfes, might much tet ter be preparing for the next world. *The aunts sniffed in chorus. "Then what do you say to Mr. Caw- cus?" inquired Miss Henrietta. "Politics isn't bad for a man if he is well shod and doesn't mind muddy'roads, but the woman who travels with him is apt to gex splashed a bit." Another sniff from the aunts. h The other candidates were trotted out in turn, and all seemed to me equally un desirable. Apparently the aunts were sur prised, for after they had gone over the most likely' Of the applicants only to find that my: opinion of them grew steadily more unfriendly Miss Henrietta turned upon me with as near a glare as her re gard for the observances of polite society would permit and remarked in an icy lone: "Well, Mr. Crossley. it would ap pear that your regard for the other mem bers of your sex in the capacity of hus band for your, ward and our niece is every low. Perhaps you are thinking of apply ing for the vacancy yourself." This was a bombshell with a venge ance. I eyed her sternly for at least iten seconds. Then I said, with polite em phasis, "Madam, it is little hort of an in sult to accuse me of so far presuming upon my relations with your niece as to fall in love with her." After which I bowed in my very best manner and went out. In the hall I came face to face with Miss Ellen herself, apparently in a great hurry to get away from somewhere. I stopped and stared at her. She stared back and tossed her head. "I wouldn't stop here if I were you." she said. "Some one might insult you by thinking that you were talking to me." ."Ellen, .you^ heard," I gasped. -She nodded. "Then youyoulistened " "At the keyhole? Yes," .she replied calmly. "Since it was my future that was being discussed it seemed to me thaI had a slight intei-est in the matter. But! I never expected"here she began to bristle up again"I never exected to hear a man say that it was an insult to be told to have it thoughtthat hethat I"\ Actually there were tears in her eyes. This would never do. "But. my dear girl, don't you under stand that I was only trying to conceal the fact thatwell.that I am already your slave." The last words came with a rush. "There it is. Now it's your turn to be insulted." She looked down and then up at me. "If your love is an insult." she said very slowly, "I think that the best that I can do is to accept the insult, don't '-you?"-1 And I agreed with her. *iext, ENTERTAIN- AMUSEMENTS The Grace Cameron Opera company will begin an engagement of three nights and Saturday matinee at the Metropolitan to night, presenting for the first time her the comic opera success by J. Cheever Goodwin and William Furst entitled, "A Normandy Wedding." Included in Miss Cameron's supporting company are Joseph W. Standish. Stephen B. French Jr.. Syl van Langlois, Genevieve Reynolds, Daisy, King and a large and well drilled chorua.1 Few of the so-called comic operas pro duced in recent years are so near the gen uine thing as "The Prince of Pilsen" which is unostentatiously called a musical comedy. "The Prince of Pilsen" is a clean and wholesome performance and with the delightful melodies and the gor geous costumes and mountings it is one of the greatest successes the musical stage has known in years. "The Prince" it scheduled for local appearance at the -Met ropolitan all of Christmas week,-opening next Sunday evening. The big laughing success 'tHarjpy Hooli gan" coming to the Bijou next week, with its cast of great artists, is a watering torrent of all that is gorgeous, amusing, merry and melodious in farce comedy.tFun reigns supreme, yet you find time to sat isfy, the eye with the beauty of the scenery and the kaleodlscope color in the magnifi cent costumes and wardrobe. "The Fatal Wedding." the current at* traction at the Bijiu is meeting with muellj favor: two large audiences saw the play] yesterday afternoon and evening and ga evidence of their feeling by enthusiasts afternoon and evening .and gave evidence of their feeling by enthusiastic applause. On Saturday afternoon, the final matinee performance will be given. One of the largest Thursday matin'leau diences of the season witnessed the Ferri production of "Ten. Nights in a Bar-i Room." at the Lyceum to-day. For Christ mas week,. the Ferris Stock compapy will b e. seen In a new eom'edy-dfama "The Plunger." Dick Ferris appearing I n th. character of Digit. New Year's.week the' Ferris company will remove to the Met-' ropolitan for one week, where it will present "Graustark." this change being caused by the booking of "Ben Hur" at the Lyceum. '"'-' IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Foyer Chat. St. Cloud Journal-Press. W e stop the press to announce that Dr. Babcock. while claiming all the vp.tes h needs, is not yet ready for a caucus.-". SUFFICIENT. ' " Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald, wl. "But if you love me. Madeleine, why. set the happy day two years away?" ' The maiden bowed her head m blushing confession. . . "Because, Horace, it will take me fully that long to use up my monogram station- ery." - -v , ... - S %tfK vi, "' ^ij - A