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1* r»C Jx. J rV\^ °^ ie Hour«»t A book of some strength and con siderable art is "Diana Victrix," by Florence Converse. One says "art" ad visedly, for a story that can sustain itself through four books, in all 362 pages, following the fortunes of two sets of lovers, and leaving both matri mony and a bona fide tragical ending out of its staid consideration, and which yet manages to keep the reader's close attention throughout its course and then leaves him not quite dissatis fied with its very un satisfactory end- Ing, is surely not without a vital sort of art in its make-up. The story, how- {"*** W. T. SMEDLET ever, is not even in its texture and threatens at times to become monoto nous; indeed, the book holds its reader rather in spite of the plot than be cause of it. The novel's force is entire ly the result of the clever character drawing and the psychological develop ment of two people. The greater part of the book has New Orleans and its winter festivities for its changing, brilliantly colored background. A French family, strange ly composite, furnishes an animated little circle, and into its life are dropped two Northern girls, whose Boston lives had furnished them with no hint of what a more vivid, sensuous life may mean. These Boston women, younger than their twenty-eight years because of college idealism, beautiful and in tellectual, with emotional possibilities only partially locked away by genera tions of repression, are very convinc ing, and beautiful in their friendship. Fope Leo Very Feeble. The Roman Catholic World Stirred Over Consideration of X2C3b^-^^^ His Probable Successor. WWV)tftrOww , ROME, Oct. 17.— The Reaper Death stands with upraised sickle at the siu ■ of Leo XIII., sublime pontiff, pope of Home. This is the nineteenth year of the reign of this frail yet brilliant man, Whose marvelous intellectual powers have enabled him during his entire in cumbency of the papal throne to ful fill the multifarious duties of his king ly office while in a state of health ■which to most persons would have been a condition of almost chronic in validism. One hears the story of coming disso lution talked of upon Rome's stietts.dis cussed in the homes of the people and oven whispered in the Vatican itself, where in one of the plainest of the 11,000 rooms of the great palace sits the childish form of the pope, carefully guarded at all times by Pio Contra, the man who served Leo well when he was known to the world as Cardinal Pocci. Every day the pope is a little weaker; only a very little, to be sure, but suf ficient to make it a fact that when each sunset is over it is known that his vitality is not so great as when the orb of day rose. Everywhere the health of the pope is a matter of exceeding interest, but one must be here, in the shadow of St. Peter's, to fully appreciate what the news of his death would really signify. It means an entire change for men who have for nearly twenty years been wedded to a given policy, to an estab lished course, which, no matter how well it has served the church, must. with the advent of a new head thereof, be changed in various particulars, to adapt itself in some measure to the Views of the new occupant of what was once the most powerful throne in the once the most powerful throne the world knew. It has been the case for centuries that the occupant of the papal throne has been an Italian. Heretofore it has rare ly been thought of and never seriously guggested that a man of any other na tionality should really aspire or be bo bold as to even desire the great office. This time it is different. We hear two names, names which every Roman Catholic knows; those of Rampolla and Ledochowski. The first is that of the papal secretary of state, and the sec ond the name of the head of the con gregation of the Propaganda. Mariano Rampolla is cne of the most able men in the history of the Romish church. He is in his fiftieth year, tall, . The way these girls look on their own lives suggests the cruelest element in woman's present position. The ordi nary woman must not alone prove her self the ordinary man's equal, she must be his superior. Her father and brothers may have been content to go through college and be merely common place citizens afterwards, but she must distinguish herself in some way. Enid teaches and gains place as a lecturer. Sylvia is only convinced of her own salvation when she publishes a book! The Southern household is very charm ing. Jacques, a strenuous young Frenchman, is a clearly drawn figure that suggests a model in real life; his positiveness is the simple unit against which all the others are meas ured. The blind father is but sketchily handled, and yet the impression he leaves is complete; the step-mother is merely a pink and white nonentity, and the bright, singing little step-sister, Jeanne, whom Jacques would have hap pily made his 'wife had not love and fate intervened, is as sad as uncon scious gayety usually is. Jocelin, her brother of the beautiful voice, although not the most* attractive, is certainly the most important figure in the book; one can not but believe that the book is written to delineate his helpless moral degeneracy, his lovableness, contempti- I'leness and self-pitying tears, his glorious voice, just failing to lift him above himself and his weakling limita tions, his unutterable failure out of which the woman who loved and de spised him reaped her worldly and spiritual success. ("Diana Victrix," by Florence Converse. Houghton, Jlifflin & Co. Boston. ?1.25. For sale by E. W. Porter & Co.) Shakespeare's sonnets are again the subject of ingenious speculation. Seri ously and lovingly Mr. Edwin James Dunning approaches the master, and his earnestness is such that one blames oneself and not him for the smile that his extreme ingenuity arouses. Mr. Dunning's theory of the sonnets is that Shakespeare in them addresses an ideal, not a person; that the youth of the son nets is his higher self, and the mistress of the sonnets corresponds to the Queen of Love in "Venus and Adonis." The allegory is rather far fetched, and on the way is dragged through many tangles and places dark and strange; that it finally lives to see the light of publication speak loudly for its vitality. This idea is really not less sensible than many other theories that have been seriously propounded to explain away some difficulties in the sonnets, but when we stop to compare them the difficulties of the explanation are so much greater than the difficulties in the sonnets that in this choice of evils it is not hard to choose. We ad mit that we like to read Shakespeare's sonnets, as we like to read St. John's Revelations, without understanding the possible hidden meaning — fairly to luxuriate in glowing uncertainty. A certain debt, however, is due to any man who brings again before the pub- broad-shouldered, erect and vigorous. His present .position is due solely to his ability, learning and wisdom. To his influence, .more than all else, is due the present rather democratic course pursued at the Yatcian, and this fact has brought down upon his head what is known as the Reactionary party, composed of those who would not abate one jot or tittle of the methods which ruled at Rme centuries ago. Like all men of great mental strength he has many enemies, but those who have the advancement of the church closest at heart seem to favor him above all others. Cardinal Ledochowski, the second in order of mention, is by birth a Pole, and for many years a resident of Rome. He is a man of unblemished character, I majestic yet simple, straightforward and honest, anxious to receive light frurn all quarters in the fulfillment of his great charge and abundantly en i dowed with the good sense which recognizes that in dealing with the ec ■ clesiastical affairs of a country coni j raon prudence suggests that all infor i mation should be obtained from those. who are most competent to speak for ' the country in question. Upon these two men rests at present a beam of the light that falls from j the throne of kings, but, like the bee which flits from flower to flower witli | out settling, the ray varies so greatly I in its resting place that one' can never ; become convinced that either Rampolla ' , or Ledochowski have a distinct advan : tage. Still, it is the congregation of j the Propaganda Avhich will choose the successor of Leo XIII, when death claims him, and of this, as stated, : Ledochowski is the head. Rarely in the history of Rome has so ! great a proportion of the men who have made the present century history of the Romish church been assembled in the Eternal City. Rarely has there • been more auspicious time for such an assemblage. The Roman Catholic I world may rest assured that from the ■ existence of this fact they may wisely i believe that the successor of Leo, when ' the time comes, will be chosen with I | all the wisdom that an aggregation of I men possessing rare acumen will ren j der possible. Unless the situation ex ! periences a tremendous change, the I choice of the congregation of the Pro j paganda will fall upon either one of the two lieutenants of the present pon tiff whose characters have been de scribed. Leo XIII. is now in his eighty-ninth year, and though his physical powers are steadily waning, as is often the case with men of extraordinary intel lect, his mental powers seem to become j I brighter as the lamp of life burns low. Rarely, indeed, does he appear in pub lic, and never unless it is to participate In some extraordinary ceremonial at ; St. Peter's, the pontifical cathedral. In the years that have gone forever he used to take part in the service, but : now or rather at the last ceremonial he attended, he keeps utter silence, and with bowed head seems to be constant ly absorbed in devotional thought. The pope cannot even wear the papal Crown, so weak has he become, so that When, following the guarda nobile and escorted by his personal guard of ! princes and nobles, he enters the : cathedral, the famous triple crown, j worth millions of dollars, and contain- Ing precious stones that are famous everywhere, is carried before him on a red cushion by some one of the j nobility, who has been given permission ; to perform this service as a reward for some good deed performed either on behalf of humanity cr in the interest of the church itself. During the cere monies of later years the pontiff has walked with exceeding difficulty and has seemed greatly relieved when hi gained his seat upon the pontifical throne of scarlet and gold which stands upon a platform carried by long poles, upon the should-ers of the stalwart Swiss guards, so familiar to every visi tor to the Vatican. It is a most impressive sight, this visit of the pope to St. Peter's. Under the dome of this most famous of all cathedra.ls hundreds of thousands of persons may assemble. It is one of the grc-atest spectacles upon which human THE SAIiXT PAUL GLOB®. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 18&7, lie eye the sonnets; even Shakespeare lovers axe sometimes blind to the im portance of this part of the master's work, — an importance difficult to over state — and if to give an allegorical meaning to the sonnets will make them any more popular we shall be glad to give it credence. ("The Genesis of Shakespeare's Art," by Edwin James Dunning. Lee & Shepard, Bos ton. $2. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery company.) The authorized edition of Marcel Prevost's "Letters of Women" Is pub lished by Meyer Brothers, of New York. The book is translated by Mr. Arthur Hornblow, who allows himself privileges with the original and, we believe, discreetly leaves out portions of it altogether. Even as the trans lation stands the book Is likely to grate on Anglo-Saxon traditions of morality and dignity — with the true Anglo-Saxon one of these terms infers the other — aaid a very conservative FREDEIUC HKJIINGTON reader, judging that which Is left out by that which is left in, will be as grateful for the omissions as for the book itself. From a very slightly dif ferent point of view, however, it may be justly said that many of the Amer ican novels deal with just as delicate material and handle it with consider ably less tact — but perhaps the tact is the very thing that Saxon readers look upon as questionable. The frag ments of letters and diaries, clever and acute though they are at times, in their translated form have nothing very remarkable about them. ("Letters of Women," , by arcel Prevost. Translated by Arthur Hornblow. Meyer Bros. & Co., New York. " For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery company.) The last book we shall have from William Hamilton Gibson has just been published by Harper & Brothers. It i 3 a collection of magazine articles gathered together under the name of "My Studio Neighbors." There are eight of these papers written and il lustrated in the familiar way of one who is on intimate terms with his neighbors, whether or not he approves of their method of housekeeping, and the flowers and insects, as Mr. Gib son has described them, are the more fascinating, perhaps, because this is the last time we shall see them eyes may rest, to view the throng with in the cathedral as the pontifical pro cession bursts into view. A low hum of greeting is heard as the throne of the pope appears, the canopy of gray and white silk supported by the six teen chief canons of the church. On either side are carried the four cele brated ostrich feather fans, mounted in red and gold and embroidered with the papal coat of arms. Following this cnmes a band of musicians sounding silver trumpets, and then appears the college of the cardinals, the congrega tion of the Propaganda, gorgeous in scarlet robes, with pages bearing the trains that extend for behind, like the beauties of some rara birfl of plumage. To view the pope at a distance, which the majority of the spectators on such an occasion are forced to do, it seems aln. ost like, mummery, for the pontiff appears to the eye as but a child swathed in robes of state. About him i» wrapped a gold embroidered white robe. Front his shoulders falls a cloak of scarlet satin, lined with ermine, while upon the head of the pontiff rests the- mitre that was presented by Em peror TVilliam, of Germany. And the jewels that decorate him. A rare treat indeed would a simple survey of them be considered by the noblest connois- through his happy, sympathetic eyes. The book is beautifully bound, and the cover design one cannot let go with out comment — so dignified and exqui sitely simple is It. The book Is sug gestive of the coming of the holiday season, when it will surely be among the books oftenest chosen for Chrlst mas gifts. ("My Studio Neighbors," by William Ham ilton Gibson. Harper & Bros., New York. $2.50. For sale by the St. Paul 800ß and Stationery company.) The third volume of Gibbon's "De cline and Fall of the Roman Empire" has been issued from the Macmillan press. Prof. J. B. Bury, of Dublin university, }g the able editor of this edition, and," as was stated in these columns when the first volume was received, the editing gives every proof of scholarship and an exact compre hension of the scope of Gibbon's work. The publishers have done their work in a like spirit of perfection. We know of no gther edition of this famous work so timed to meet the demands of taste and scholarship. ("The Decline and Fall of the Roman Em pire." by Edward Gibbon. Edited by J. B. Bury. $2. MartKlllan & Co., New York. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery company.) "The Folly of Pen Harrington" la an end-of-the-century novel, by Ju lian Sturgis. The plot has some move ment, the characters are volatile and shadowy, the " atmosphere a trifle turgid. Pen Harrington is an inde pendent, warm-hearted young woman, not as convincing to the reader as she might be, but very important in her own set. This set of hers is a very ad vanced and radical London clique — smart withal, and delightfully well groomed. Latch keys, clubs and labor problems are some of the im portant subjects close to the heroine's heart, and her followers — they are le gion — make her interests theirs. The book is not remarkable in any way, but will serve to spend a spare hour or two. ("The Fol'.y of Pen Harrington," by Julian Sturgis. D. Appleton & Co., Town and Coun try Library. 50 cents. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery company.) A new and startling use for super fluous American wealth has been sug gested by Mr. Louis Tracy in "An American Emperor." A claimant to the French throne is the heroine of this highly-colored romance, and an Amer ican millionaire is its hero. In order to gain the empty hand of the ex alted heroine the ingenious hero ex pends his fabulous wealth in buying up the entire French nation and thus he makes himself Its emperor. The plot, sensational as it Is, is tame In comparison with Its embellishments; and for people who enjoy this sort of thing the book holds many delights. ("An American Emperor," by Louis Tracy. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. |1.73. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery com pany.) "The Story of Japan" as prepared for school use is one of the most ar tistic and desirable little volumes that has come to our desk. A revolution has certainly .taken place in school book covers as. well as school book contents; the c&axmlng and character istic design used for this supplemen tary reader makes it a desirable addi tion to the library table, and any child who would not .wish to find out if the rest of the book matches the cover would be as lacking in taste as curi osity. The "story" itself makes good the BEST PORTRAIT OF POPE LEO XIII. seur of them all. First of all, shining upon the outside of the white gloved right hand is the pontifical ring, which for twenty-six generations has been worn by the pope of Rome. A cross of superb diamonds hangs upon the pope's breast, and the scepter which signifies his authority is a marvel of the jeweler's art. All this upon a form shiuaken to childlike proportions, the form of an old, a very old man, who seems to be all in readiness to trust himself to the skill of Charon at any moment. This is the ceremonial side of the life of Leo XIII. It is by no means repre sentative of that which he leads from day to day. Simplicity is his watch word, and well does he observe it. He rises at 6 o'clock each morning and at tends mass ill his private chapel. Scmetimes he lears'a second mass and occasionally one of 'his chaplains cele brates a mass of thanksgiving. When the hour of 7 arrivef his simple break fast as served^ himt This consists of milk, coffee an<s c-oldi bread. This meal at an end. the pope imme diately devotes^iiimielf to the consid eration of such correspondence as his secretary may navetplaced before him. Fie is system 4£sel£ in method and movement and" in this way manages to promise of its exterior, and grown-up young peopl» will find In It muoh to Interest them. The history of Japan is treated sketchily, the people and civilization are Illustrated by quaint legends and modern instances. Pen and Ink and half-tone pictures, sug gestive In treatment of Japanese art, are generously scattered through tha text. ("The Story of Japan," by B. Van Bergen. American Book company, Chicago. For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery com pany.) Literary Notes. Those who enjoyed the Lark will be In terested to hear of a new journal under the guidance of Mr. Gelett Burgess, whose orig inal "Vivette" storiea, enlarged and rear ranged, are now in press. This unconven tional editor, with the co-operation of Mr. Oliver Herford, the clever Illustrator, and Mr. James Jeffrey Roche, poet and humorist, will shortly startle the New York reading public with a four-page weekly sheet bear ing the somewhat appalling title of L'Enfant Terrible! The editorial nursery la a certain restaurant in this city, where these nursery men meet for a weekly dinner, and then and there produce the entire contents of the forthcoming number, verse, prose and pic tures, which, we are told, will surpass all previous escapades of the kind.— Critic. The November Century will contain what la practically the authoritative statement of <he sultan of Turkey regarding the treatment of Armenians by his government. It is in the form of an Interview with Hon. A. W. 1«r --rell, lately United States minister at Con stantinople. During a conversation, which lasted more than two hours, the sultan told the story of his relations with the Arme nians, desiring that It should be made known to the people of the United States, in ac cordance with that desire Mr. Terrell con tributes this article to the November Cen tury. McClure's Magazine for November will con tain three chapters from Mark Twain's forth coming book on his recent journey round the world. They are the only portion that will be given to the public in advance of the book Itself, and are said to have all of the old Mark Twain flavor, v.ith something added. They have been very fully illustrat ed for McCiure's by A. B. Frost anl Peter Newell, who, for kindly, genuine and yet fanciful humor, hold much the same place among artists that Mark Twain himself holds among writers. Still another evidence of F. Marlon Craw ford's great popularity as a novelist is to be found in the fact that three weeks before the day set for the publication of his new book "Corleone," h!s publishers had received orders to twice the number of copies which they had ordered printed for the first edition, so that they were obliged to give an additional print ing order; that is, practically to order the second edition of a book three weeks before a single copy of it had been delivered. Walter A. Wyckoil's most interesting narra tive of his experiences as a la-boring man describes in the November Scrlbner's his work as a "Farm Hand" in Pennsylvania. That there is work of this kind for those who want i + is evident. "But surely," I said, "more men apply to you for work than you can possibly employ." .He looked at me with some wonder at my ignorance. "For a y long time I have bsen looking for a man to help me," he said. "I'm growing old, and I can't do the work that I once did; and if I could find the right man I'd keep him the year round and pay hini good wages. But the best young fellows go to the cities, and the rest are mostly a worth less lot. There's hardly a day in the year when I haven't a Job for any decent man who'll ask for it." With the November number, St. Nicholas begins a new volume, and enters upon its twenty-fifth year. Two new serials are be g"un, and others ara promised for succeeding numbers. Frank R. Stockton has the first of a series of narrative sketches be will con tribute on "The Buccaneers of Our Coasts." Mr. Stockton writes this in a characteristic and humorous vein, dubbins Christopher Col umbus a grand master in the gentle art of accomplish far more than many people who are blessed with comparatively good health, and at no time does he seem or is he hurried. He is. a firm be liever in the maxim that haste makes w£.ste and well does he. live up to that belief. The consideration of business over, or rather such as has been sub mitted to. him for settlement, the pope rests for a time. As the clock strikes 10 each morning tht: secretary of state appears, and fol lowing him come such further attaches of the Vatican as the pope may consider it advisable to see. All these matters occupy the remainder of the morning, for whether those who wish to see him be great or few, the pontiff will only admit a certain number during a given period of time. Those whose business is least important must wait. Nothing is permitted to interfere with this pro gramme. At dinner the pope's almost ascetic method of satisfying the physical man is again apparent. Always soup — be cause that is so nourishing— there is besides, macaroni, which his Italian birth and. surroundings have made in dispensable, roast beef or mutton well dene, and a vegetable. Then comes fruit, for the pope is a firm believer in the advisability, of all persons, young jTHIS^E^MEUP-! j piracy. He throws no glamor about the lives of these adventurous sea-rovers, but he tells of many of their exploits as they have been recorded by Esquem-eling and other veracious historians. W. O. Stoddard, who wrote the favorite serial, "The Swordmaker's Son," a couple of years ago, begins a romajice of the days of chivalry, "With the Back Prince." The number opens with a poem by James Whitcomb Riley, "Mieter Hap Toad," in his most characteristic majiner. On, Our Book Table. From the St. Paul Book and Stationery company: Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston— "Aaron in the Wild Woods," by Joel Chandler Har ris, $2.00; "France Under Louis XV.," by James Buck Perkins, 2 volumes, $4.00. R. F. Feuno & Co., New York— "When the World Was Younger," by Miss If. E. Brad don, $1.25. From the publishers: Little, Brown & Co., New York— "The Ad ventures of Mr. Verdant Green," by Cuthbert Bede, $1.50; "Flint." by Maud Wilder Good win, $1.26; "Miss Belladonna," by Caroline Tickner, $1.60; "Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast," by Edmund H. Garrett $2.00. Herbert S. Stone & Co., Chicago— "What Marsie Knew," by Henry James, $1.50; "Hap- and old, supplying themselves freely with edibles of this nature. The pontiff is by no means a teetota ler, although his consumption of stimu lants is confined to a light red wine that comes to him from the South of France, where it is prepared by the nuns in a convent. Its flavor is de licious, and yet its' effects are never deleterious nor does it stimulate to a degree that in the slightest unpleasant ly affects the nervous system. It is during this hour, that of dinner, that the pope listens to the reading of the newspapers by one of his secretaries. It is one of the rules governing the life of the pope of Rome 1 that he must always dine alone. He can, if he chos es, have some one in the same room to converse with, but never to dine. Even his own brother, the late Cardinal Pec c!, of whom Leo XIII. was very fond, never took dinner with him because of this rigorous rule. It was Leo's pre decessor who said: "What a pity it is that the pope cannot be as little of a human being as the church considers him." Dinner at an end, and alone but for the presence of his faithful servant, Centra, the pope drops asleep some times for an hour, but never less than half an hour. Then comes the recep tion of the visitors, those who have no business to transact. Tuesday and Fri day the ambassadors who are credited from other countries to the court of the Vatican are received, and at other times such visitors as the pope may consider it wise to admit to his pres erce greet him. After the last of those to whom permission to enter has been given are gone, he goes for a walk or a drive in the garden of the Vatican. Few people know, and yet it is a fact, that outside the Vatican grounds the pope never goes. There is no papal law concerning snch action on his part, but. it is believed that the appearance of Leo in the stroets of Rome would create a riot and perhaps a revolution. Feeling runs very high between the Catholic and anti-Catholic partisans, and therefore it is considered the part of wisdom that the pontiff should re main in comparative seclusion. Within the Vatican grounds is the diive of a mile, a winding carriage road, the carriage used being one that Pius IX. utilized. It is a great, old- I Stunning Fur 1 i ....©ollarettes | | Call or Write for MgßpßHßßSjlffi^v^^'a A Complete Di- rrs our Big l;lus= J^^Tr»¥nßß*igß^|?Vl rectory of Lat- trated Fur Cat- | fc^4jadMi^|^jiMM est Styles and 2^ alogue. 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Y-.I The Soo Line will sell you through berth tickets to the W. C. T. U. Con ventions. Tickets for Buffalo good for stopover at Toronto and Niagara Falls. For tickets and particulars call on Soo Line Agent, 398 Robert Street, Ho tel Ryan. fashioned affair, drawn by two long tailed black horses that amble about in as gentle a fashion as the greatest of invalids could desire. Frequently the pope leaves the carriage and walks among the flowers and shrubs, of which he is extravagantly fond. If there ever was a pontiff who was near to nature's heart it is Leo XIII. When the drive is over the pope re turns to the Vatican, and presently takes a glass of milk or a cup of broth with a cold roll and a glass of wine. It used to be the case that in the evening the pope would devote much of his time to writing, or the considera tion of official matters, but now that the hand of old age rests so heavily upon him, he retires very early and one of his secretaries reads him to sleep. So runs the day of the head of the Reman Catholic church. An unevent ful one perhaps, it seems, but yet al ways fraught with tremendous impor tance to some one. Nowadays the pope seeks to carry out his programme, the one that he haa followed for nineteen long years, but he does not always succeed. Contra pic-ka him up and carries him about as lr he were a child, and he is allowed to make no movement that would weaken him in the least provided hu man agency is able to act for him. It ia doubtful if there has ever been a case where such tremendous effort has been put forth to prolong a human life. Every physical law Is strictly obeyed. Everything is done that th« pope may' live. And yet. in the face of all this, there can be no doubt that Leo XIII. is slowly dying. .MB. CONSIMPTIotf Cl RED. An old physician, retired from practice, had placed in his hands by an East Indian mis sionary the formula of a simple vegetable rem edy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Asthma and all thro<it and lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for nervous debHity and all nervous complaints. Having tested Its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, and desiring to relieve human suffer ing, I will send free of charge to all who wish It, this recipe, in German, French or English, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail, by addressing, with stamp, naming this paper, W. A. Noyea. 820 Powers' Block, Rochester, N. Y.