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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27. 1900
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BV FRANK P. MAC LEKNAX.
VOLUME XXVII -No. 258
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Ir less than two weeks the country
vill be reading stories of how It Jiap
pened. ; ' "
If the election, could be left to a vote
of parties, Mr. Bryan would have a. safe
plurality.
Chicago Record: Think of the nerve
of the campaign prophets in presuming
to tell what Kansas will do!
The campaign appears to be drifting
Into an interchange of abusive epithets
aXter all, in some localities.
The weather we are having while the
coal strike continues, is a case of
tempering the wind to the shorn lamb.
And the president of Argentina re
marked to the president of Brazil that
it was a long time between hugs.
Having discovered that they can ex
pect on help from Europe, the Boers ap
pear to have started in to help them
selves. John Sherman took no chances on a
contest of his will after his death. He
wrote it himself and he was a good law
yer. Ex-Gov. W. O. Bradley and Col. Ben
nett H. Young of Kentucky have just
indulged in a public interment of the
hatchet.
It is announced that Gen. Joe Wheeler
has at last consented to say a few
words in- behalf of a friend who is run
ning for congress.
People who are disposed to bet on the
Kentucky election, will do well to re
member that the Goebel law Is still in
full force and vigor.
Washington Post: The man who reads
his party newspaper exclusively and bets
his money accordingly is usually short
at the end of the campaign.
The man with a few hundred dollars
can not have fun with the owner of 15
cents much longer, by offering to bet on
the election at all sorts of odds.
If the assertions of partisans on both
Fides are to be believed, the Republicans
will buy the vote of Kentucky and then
the Democrats will steal it away from
them.
Perhaps in the future, women of the
Mrs. Hart stripe will place their accum
ulations of w ealth beyond the reach of
bank officials who have been robbed be
fore it is too late.
If Mr. Cleveland views the campaign
as distressing under existing conditions,
what would he call it if he were com
pelled to take the place of Col. Bryan or
Gov. Roosevelt?
The Turkish consul at New Tork city
has asked permission from his govern
ment to do newspaper work. If he gets
it, perhaps he will tell why the fcultan
doesn't pay that bill.
The Philadelphia Inquirer remarks
that "once the Democratic party had
the welfare of the country at heart."
This is worthy of note, because It is
the first time that an opposition organ
ever made such an admission. Perhaps
the Inquirer will be more specific and
tell us when it was.
As a reason for believing that Mc
Kinley will win, an eastern paper says
that "no war party was ever defeated
in time of war." No information is giv
en as to what war is referred to. With
whom are we at war? Not China, nor
the Filipinos. That question wu settled
long ago.
THJEE ARE OTHER FAKIRS.
There has been a great deal said about
Kansas being the home of the news
paper fake, and eastern papers have
printed a great many things emanating
from Kansas that would make Ananias
hang his head, but there are other "fake
factories" besides those operated in
Kansas.
In the New Tork World of October 24,
under a scare head, appeared, the fol
lowing: Special to The World. 1
Central Village. Conn., Oct. 23. In the
rural district of Waterford a couule. who
may be called Miss Green and Mr, Grun
diety. arrived at a clergyman's house and
asked to be married. The ceremony pro
ceeded to the question, "Do you take this
woman for better or for worse," etc.?
when the rroum replied. "No, I have
taken a sudden dislike to her."
After this answer the parties were re
quested to reiire for an expianatlon.
Friends' persuasion finally caused an
DCTwncnt for a continuance of the cere
nory. When the question was put to the
bride-elect, however, she pertlv replied.
"No, I have just feit a decided hatred fjr
him." and ail retired.
A week went by and thev appeared
again before the same clergyman. His
answer was brief but pointed7
"No, I can not marry you. I have
taken a violent disgust to both of you '
Exeunt all.
Those who attended the perfofmance
of Richard and Pringles minstrels in
Topeka last month may recognize the
purported news item printed in the
World. It is a reproduction, almost
word for ward, of one of the brief mono
logues of Harry Fiddler, one of the end
men of the minstrels.
It is not probable that in a Connecticut
fcamlet this negro minstrel Joke should
become a reality.
The Kansas fakirs will please take a
katk seat.
END OF THE CAMPAIGN.
One week more of -claiming everything
in sight; another week of figuring up
returns and making deductions; then a
day or two to explain "how it happen
ed" and the election of 1900 will be a
memory. To the crowd which finds It
necessary to explain "how It happened"
the result will not be a cheerful remem
brance, but one side must lose, so ex
planations axe necessary. After these
have been offered to a. long-suffering
public, the political headquarters will
close and the business of the world will
not be interrupted by state ante-election
excitement for two years.
The politicians and the people are very
glad the end is so near. Cp and down
the railroads and wagon roads of Kan
sas today there are traveling more than
200 men whose voices resemble the
sounds of a wagon crossing & low
wooden bridge and the sleep of their
wives is interrupted by hoarse mutter
ings about the "paramount issue;" the
"opposition is wrong;" "we've got 'em
licked," and other forceful expressions
comomn to a campaign. Fortunately
for the wives of the politicians the men
who are "saving the country'.' get home
only once in a while so thee is a chance
for rest occasionally, but the wife of
the Kansas politician sees less of her
husband than a doctor's wife sees of her
spouse.
Seriously, however, the near approach
of the election is a source of relief to
the people. Governor Stanley once said
there should be fewer elections in Kan
sas and he was right. The elections in
the fall and in the spring keep the peo
ple going all the time and leave many a
vacant chair by the family fireside the
year around.
WHY BIG CITIES GROW.
The census so far as it has been re
turned shows that the cities have been
grow ing at a much more rapid rate than
the small towns. This growth is of a
much greater pet cent, than shown by
any previous census.
There are several causes for this, one
of them being the natural tendency of
the people to flock to the cities, where
they think they stand a much better
chance of becoming rich than in the
small towns. Another reason, and one
that operates strongly in the case of
cities Is the fact that the railroads dis
criminate in their rates in favor of the
larger cities. There Is no other reason
that can be given that will explain why
Kansas City exceeds Topeka in the rate
of increase in population.
No man who has ever lived in a clean,
sweet smelling city would take up his
residence in a vile smelling, dirty, hilly
city like that at the mouth of the Kaw
unless he had to do so to earn a living.
If there was no railroad discrimination
it would be as easy to make money in
cities the size of Topeka, Atchison, Em
poria and Salina a3 it is In Kansas City.
No one who has lived in one of the
above mentioned cities -would leave
them to take up a residence in Kansas
City if he could make as much money
In the smaller city. Their schools are
better, they have better society, they
have no saloons, they are not filled with
cut-throats and gamblers, they have
more fresh air, the atmosphere is not
permeated with the odor of dead hogs
and frying grease, their police do not
control the elections, they have better
churches, and it is not necessary to be
rich in order to get a pew in one of
them.
The people who leave these towns and
go to the city of ward heelers would
gladly return to respectable communi
ties if they could make enough money
to live upon. And they would be able
to do this if the railroads would give
these cities the same rates that they
do Kansas City. As soon as this can.
be done cities will spring up in the state
of Kansas that will rival the city at the
Kaw's mouth. And they will be clean
cities, where a family can be reared
without fear.
KEEPING ENGAGEMENTS.
One virtue that is more honored in the
breach than the observance, is the mat
ter of keeping engagements and keeping
them promptly. Such remissness is both
a business and social evil.
It seems hardly necessary to plead for
punctuality in business engagements,but
thousands of dollars are wasted annual
ly in the salaried minutes that busy men
are kept waiting. Modern business
methods have practically, if not actual
ly, introduced a. new computation table
into commercial arithmetic, in which a
certain number of minutes equal so
many dollars or pounds sterling. That
time is money, is no longer necessary to
be demonstrated.
On its social side the evil of tardiness
presents a diversity of annoying phases.
Modern society, in its degenerate mo
ments, has given the custom of arriv
ing late vogue and the stamp of fash
ion, but it has never gained the fuU
approval of the most cultured. It is the
parvenu, rather that delights in creat
ing a buzz of excitement by breaking In
when every eye shall see, simply because
there is no escaping.
Ever since the new Auditorium was
opened, Topeka has been more than
ever annoyed by people who are remiss
in keeping their engagements in public.
For when an audience of several hun
dred people assemble it is just a3 much
a matter of keeping engagements on a
large scale, as if it were but a private
entertainment of thirty or forty guests.
There have been so many grievances
and so many annoyances, both in the
Auditorium, in churches and places of
public amusement, of late, that it is
most refreshing to have one of them
make a stand upon the point of educat
ing the people to keep their public en
gagements as assiduously as those of
private life, by curtailing the privileges
of the late comera While the spirit of
reform is active, by compulsion, if the
lesson only makes enough of an impres
sion, and, by the force of example can
carry the observance of punctuality into
other public places, a long-suffering peo
ple will be profoundly grateful.
In four years the price of corned beef
has advanced from $1.15 a can to SI. 55 a
can. The beef market is controlled by a
beef trust capitalized for $100,000,000 and
making yearly dividends of $7,000,000.
SCARLET HALF A HUNDRED.
(Marshall's Band-1
From ye olden Boston common.
To the sunny Golden Gate,
On the avenues historic
Of the capital of state,
The music grand, triumphant.
Has told to hosts unoombsred,
There's not a band in all the land
Like The Scarlet Half a Hundred.
They've played the strains of Dixie
In the northern mountain land,
And the songs of Sherman's army
Where the Gray once made a stand.
Their music kndws no section,
And can it e'er be wondered
What placed the name on the scroll of
fame
Of The Scarlet Half a Hundred.
-PHIL. EASTMAN.
END OF. THE COAL STRIKE.
The end of th vast coal strike in
Pennsylvania seems to be at hand, and
citizens generally, regardless of politics,
are pleased with the. solution of this
great labor problem.
There seems to have been little doubt
that the miners were not receiving as
much in wages and powder at as low
rates as they were justly entitled to.
There is every reason to believe that the
terms agreed upon by the mine oper
ators will prove satisfactory to the
miners, and that the great wheels of
commerce in the anthracite coal region
"will again revolve, bringing renewed in
dustry and contentment. Empty coal
cars are being placed at the mines and
it is expected that upon Monday the
work of filling them up will begin.
The terms offered by the operators
differ in, different sections of the mining
region, depending of course upon the
nearness of the coal to the surface. The
offer made and accepted gives a general
average increase of 2V2 per cent, in
wages and a reduction in the charge for
gunpowder of $1.25 per keg. As an ex
ample, on the standard diamond car,
where the present price is 954 cents, the
new price would be 98 cents, and the
miner would get his powder for $1.50 or
$1.25 less than he is now paying.
The conduct of the miners throughout
this strike has been so exemplary and
their methods so free from rowdyism
that they have won the admiration and
fespect of the business as well as the
labor world.
Both the miners and the operators are
to be congratulated on the happy termi
nation of what promised to be at one
time a bitter conflict involving loss of
lives and much property.
ANOTHER STUMBLING BLOCK.
One thing after another seems to come
in the way of the enforcement of the
prohibitory law. If the public prosecu
tors are willing to do their duty then the
laws are defective. If the laws happen
to be all right then the prosecutor are
busy on other cases.
To the lawyer the technicalities that
frustrate the enforcement of the laws
may be easily understood but the peo
ple can not understand why the prohibi
tory law w hich has been placed upon the
statute books by the legislature can
not be enforced.
The latest stumbling block in the way
of the enforcement of the law is the de
cision of the court of appeals declaring
that the Topeka ordinance is unconsti
tutional. The decision is that the fix
tures of a Joint can not be seized an.l
that the offenders can not be Imprison
ed by order of the police judge. There is
a law against counterfeiting. A coun
terfeiter's fixtures may be seized and de
stroyed and he may be placed in jail.
Why not so with the offenders against
the prohibitory law?
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.
Every boy has it in for a rat, a spider,
and a hawk.
It took an Atchison woman an hour
today to buy three yards of "baby rib
boa." You no doubt often say you hate
conventionalities. Tou don't: you wor
ship them.
"Sometimes," we heard a man say to
day, "a man gets badly left." Nearly al
ways. A foolish woman never appears to
worse advantage than she does in a dry
goods store.
Most people receive so few telegrams,
that when they receive one, they expect
to hear of a death.
Every mother of a spoilt child, say3
proudly, as she "fixes" its clothes, "It's
a wonder it isn't spoilt."
A lot of silly people insist on killing
every good movement by overloading it
with well meant but faulty support.
The minute a girl is given an engage
ment ring, she begins trotting to the dry
goods Btores to look at lingerie.
"I believe," said a man yesterday,
"that offices ought to .be auctioned off:
they go to the highest bidder anyway."
A man who has been to a spiritualist
meeting, Is an unreliable in his state
ments as a man who has been hunting.
Atchison is full of men who cannot
understand why there are so many fools
who are not going to vote as they vote.
An Atchison married woman borrow
ed seven dollars seven years ago, and
hasn't been able to scrape it together
yet. r
A woman who lives In a rented house,
sent for the agent this morning, and in
quired, "What are you going to do
about the rats? They are becoming very
bad."
Every four years during an Atchison
man's long married life he has been ex
plaining how a president is elected to his
wife, but she does not understand it, and
never will.
A man who lately spent $5 on a slot
machine, and received nothing in return,
kicked the machine to pieces, and took
his money back. The owner of the p'ace
made no complaint: he knew the man
had a kick coming.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
A ship having two owners must be a
partnership.
Many a man stumbles over imaginary
things in his path.
A smile is cooler In summer and
warmer in winter than a frown.
The average politician is as tough as
India rubber and his conscience is more
elastic.
It's really surprising how much hap
piness cr misery lies in. the circle of a
wedding ring.
There are times when nothing speaks
so eloquently as silence.
The longer a man stands still the more
he doesn't want to move.
A woman may have a poor memory,
but she never forgets a compliment.
By the time the first baby Is a year
old it has a toy bank full of money.
Slow living and high thinking will
make better men than high living and
slow, thinking.
A goodly portion ot what the world
calls good luck is composed of nlnety
r.ine parts of ambition and one part of
talent.
A story first heard at a mother's knee
is seldom forgotten and the same may
be said of other things received at a
mother's knee which will readily recur
to the reader.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Experience is the best teacher, and the
most expensive.
No man is so absent-minded that he
wants t pay a bill twice.
Like lightning, the successful borrower
never strikes twice in the same place.
Blobbs "H says he would rather
fight than eat." Slobbs "I guess he
must be a pugilist." Blobbs "Maybe
he's a dyspeptic"
"Do you believe In heredity?" asked
the Serious man. "Well, I've known old
clothes to descend from father to son,"
replied the Cheerful Idiot.
Wigg "They say that for a Chicago
man he has remarkably quiet tastes."
Wagg "Quiet tastes! I guess you've
never overheard him eating."
Tommy "Pop, what's an optimist?"
Tommy's Pop "An optimist, my son,
is a msjv who could lose both leg3 and
have no kick coming."
Hoax "What makes you thing he's
a Republican? Why, he has even named
his dog Bryan." Joax "That's what
makes me think he's a Republican, I've
seen the dog."
Toungpop "Why so downcast?"
Newlywed "My wife threatens to go
home to her mother." Toungpop
"Humph! That's noting. My wife
threatens to bring her mother on to us."
Muggins "Henpeckke says he isn't
going to buy any coal until it comes
down." Buggins "Well, his wife usu
ally manages to make it so hot for him
that I shouldn't think he would need
any."
"Now," said the kindergarten teacher,
wishing to illustrate the five senses,
"what are our noses for?" "Please,
Ba'ab. dey bust be to catch cold id,"
sniffled the small boy at the foot of the
class.
The nervous man. threw down his paper
irritably. "There's that girl next door
practicing on the piano again," he ex
claimed. "Tou must remember that
practice makes perfect" remarked his
wife. "Tes; a perfect nuisance," growled
the nervous man.
HOW TO BECOME A GOLFER.
From Life.
A good golfer ia not only born, but
manufactured, and you should begin as
soon after you are born as possible.
If a man has a natural aptitude for
languages, does not belong to any
church, is willing to give up his busi
ness, his family and his friends, can
swear in all the octaves and has seen me
play there is no reason why he should
not be able to write articles about golf
for any magazine in a few years.
To begin with, you should learn how
to swing. Before you have learned to
swing do not try to hit the ball. Tou
will probably not be able to afterward,
but that is another story. Secure one of
my drivers the most expensive one is
the best and carry it around with you
wherever you go. While you are about
it you may as well get a complete set of
my clubs. Put them in a bag and never
part from them. They will give you a
distinguished appearance. When on a
car or ferry boat or the street the mak
er's name should always be on the out
side. After you have practiced sufficiently
with the driver and know, beyond all
doubt, that you will never be able to hit
a ball with it more than once in three
times, then take up the other clubs. It
is better not to learn all their names at
once, but one at a time. In this way
you will be able to fit a set of swear
words to each club as you go along.
No matter what kind of a shot you are
playing whether your ball is at the bot
tom of a duck pond or lodged in a tall
tree always fix your mind on some spot
where you are wiling to bet a thousand
to one your ball will not go and then do
your best not to put it there.
Do not pinch your ball when you are
making an approach shot- Tar and
feather it, or, better still, if there is no
other player near to see, and your cad
die is hunting for mushrooms, take the
shot over again.
Putting is one of the most important
parts of golf. Tou can lose more strokes
on the putting green if you try hard not
to than anywhere else. Always stay on
the putting green as long as possible af
ter you have holed out- Talk it over
and explain how near you came to the
colonel if you had not made such a
blankety-blank idiot of yourself. The
other players back of you, who have
been waiting, will appreciate this. It
helps them to keep an even temper,
which is necessary to a good golfer.
Never try to put a twist on your ball
with your club. Try to twist the club,
and if that does not work hang it on the
ground, knock it up against a tree or
hammer it across your shins. Remember
that it always costs more to replace a
club than it does a ball, and one of the
reasons for playing golf at all is to see
how much money you can spend in a
given time.
Never be discouraged ' because you
happen to start out well. Sometimes a
man can keep it up for three or four
holes more.
Above all things do not lose sight of
the fact that golf is the most important
influence of your life. When you are not
playing talk about it. Tou will be sur
prised how, in a short time, everything
else will assume its relative value and
golf will be to you in its true light the
only real thing in the world worth living
for. .
It Happened in a Iru Store.
"One day last winter a lady came to my
drug store and asked for a brand of cough
medicine that I did not have in stock,"
says Mr. C. R. Grandln, the popular drug
gist of Ontario. N. Y. "She was disap
pointed and wanted to know what cough
preparation I could recommend. I said
to her that I could freelv recommend
Chamberlain's Coutrh Remedy, and that
she could take a bottle of the remedy and
after giving it a fair trial if she did not
find it worth the money to bring back
the bottle and I would refund the price
paid. In the course of a day or two the
lady came back in company with a friend
in need of a cough medicine and advised
her to buy a bottle of Chamberlain's
Couh Remedy. I consider that a very
go d recommef.d-iti n for the remedy." It
is for sale by all druggists.
BOOK yOTES.
"Between Boer and Briton, br Edward
Stratmever. Cloth emblematic cover. Il
lustrated" by A. Burnham Shute. Pub
lished by Iee & Shepard, Boston.
This oupbt to be the juvenile of the
year, although it will, of course, be hard
to come up to the OJd Glory" books. It
enters an entirely new field, and one on
which the eyes of the world are centered.
It relates the experiences of two boys,
cousins to each other, one American and
the other English whose fathers are en
gaged in the Transvaai, one in farming"
and the other in mining: operations. The
scene opens in Texas on a cattle ranch,
from whence it is transferred to South
Africa,, where the cousins meet. "While
the two boys are off on a. hunting trip af
ter big game the war between the Boers
and Britons suddenly breaks out and
while endeavoring to rejoin their parents
the boys find themselves placed between
hostile armies, and their thrilling experi
ences are brought out in Mr. Stra temey
ers best style. (Through Kellam Book &
Stationery Co.)
The popularity of the clever 'Frenchman,
"Monsieur Beaucaire," has exhausted thd
supply of copies of the book, McClure,
Phillips & Co., the publishers are now
printing another edition of ten thousand,
and the work will again be on sale in a
few days. Fvlchard Mansfield Is preparing
to present "Beaucaire" on the stage, fol
lowing the production of his Henry the
Fifth. The work of dramatization has
been done largely by Mr. Tarkington., the
author. It is not generally known that
Mr, Tarkington gets his name, Booth,
through relationship to the famous fam
ily of actors. This fact may explain the
dramatic instincts that Mr. Tarkineton
possesses in so high a degree and which
are so cleverly exhibited in his romance
of the French prince who masquerades as
a commoner.
xTodd. Mead Co., announce a work on
The Chinese Problem," by Chester Hol
corabe. author of "The Real Chinaman."
Mr. Holeombe was connected with the
"United States Legation at Pekin. China,
as interpreter and secretary and in other
capacities, from 3S71 to and since that
time he has been concerned with extensive
commercial and financial questions in that
country. In his new book he deals with
the peculiar character and condition of
the Chinese which have produced the pres
ent uprising.
"Rival Boy Sportsman," the third and
concluding volume of "Deer Ixdge Ser
ies," by W. Gordon Parker. Cloth. Pro
fusely illustrated with pen and ink draw
ings by the author.
Mr. Parker's previous books, "Six
Toung Hunters," and "Grant Burton,"
have attracted much attention from their
spirited treatment of out-dor life, whole
some tone, and fine illustrations. Tn this
story Grant Burton, hero of the previous
Volume, returns to school vastly improved
by his experiences. Through his leader
ship another club of enthusiastic young
sportsmen is formed, not hostile to the
first, but in friendly rivalry, in pursuance
of which they engage in a series- of con
tests, including a hunting match, a fishing
match, boat race, etc. An excellent idea
of amateur sports is given In a way that
could be done ftnly by one thoroughly
conversant with them. This third volume
is a fitting climax both In subject matter
and illustrations. Sixty-two pen-and-ink s
full page in part are scattered, through
the book. Price SI. 25.)
"Spanish Highways and Byways" is the
title of a book by Katharine Lee Bates,
which the Macmillan company have on
the press for early publication. Miss
Bates went to Spain soon after the end
of the war, and wandered throueh the
land with her eyes open for the mere out-of-the-way
and characteristic scenes of
country life. Her summer was spent in
rough picturesque travel through the
Basque Provinces, Old Castile, Asturias
and Galicia, and her book has an account
of the mediaeval celebration of the feast
of Santiago which is of unusual intere-t.
The illustrations are of many quaint
country people and their customs, fiestas,
carnivals and beautiful examples of archi
tecture. "Through the Tear "With Birds and
Poets edited by Sarah Williams, wrh in
troduction bv Bradford Torrev. Coth.
Richly bound. Gilt top. Illustrated. Pub,
lished by Ln?e & Shepard, Knston.
This anthology by Mtes Williams forms
a splendid collection of the best Ameri
can poems relating to birds, classified ac
cording to the seasons of the year, and
subdivided by months, each division hav
ing an illustrated title page showing some
of the birds appropriate to the time of the
years indicated. Twelve fine half tones of
the best known birds, one for each month,
add richness and value to the work.
More than fifty birds are here celebrated
in song, not a large number of course,
but it includes many with which the read
ing community in general has little or no
acquaintance. Most of our best known
American authors are represented in these
poems of bird life. The book will thus
appeal equally to lovers of birds and lov
ers of the best works of our great poets,
since 99 of our poets are represented and
242 poems or extracts of poems given, the
whole making a book of 350 page?.
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Mr. Clifton Johnson's new volume Alnng
French Byways." is a book of Ftrolling,
a book of nature, a book of humble peas
ants life, intermingled with the chance ex
periences of the narrator. It has little to
do with large towns, but much with rural
villages, farm firesides, the fields and the
country lanes. The attractiveness of the
book is greatly enhanced by the illustra
tions, which include an unusually large
number of very beautiful full-page half
tones and many drawings in the text.
The Macmillan company will issue this
book in a uniform style in a box with
"Among English Hedgerows."
"Randy's Summer," a story for girls, by
Amy Brooks, illustrated by the author.
Published by Lee &Shepard," Boston.
It is refreshing to turn from juvenile
war books and startling stories with sen
sational plots to a pleasing, wholesome
tale of genuine girl-life, especially if the
book be an exceptionally pretty "one. as
"Randy's Summer" certainly Is. Miss
Amy Brooks, the author, has illustrated
books for others, and gives ten speci
mens Of her very best work to beautify
her own book, which, we are happy to
say, is good enough to deserve It. "Ran
dy," the heroine, is a pretty country girl
of fourteen, and "Prue," her dear little
mischief-making sister, who occupies al
most as prominent place in the story as
Randy herself, is much younger. The
story of their summer !s one of plain,
wholesome life, with sufficient incident to
sustain the interest, and drollery enough
to -amuse. A young lady from "the city,
who is, however, vastly more worthy ard
useful than the typical "summer girl," is
a -very prominent character, and by her
skilful efforts, brings better enjoyment to
the community than they have ever
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Florida Water Turkeys.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Comparatively few aquatic birds, ex
cept those which are migratory, are re
markable for power lof liight. Indeed,
they are apt to be deficient in that re
spect. . On the other hand, birds that
are strong: of wing, such as the lark or
hawk, seldom go near the water, except
to drink. There are, however, a few
winged creatures that possess both traits
to a remarkable degree; and a group of
them, secured by rrank M. Chapman
with great difficulty in Florida, consti
tutes one of the new acquisitions of the
American Museum of Natural History,
in West Fevf nty-seventh street. The
group includes two full grown speci
mens and our or five nestlings. These
are shown, with a nest, in a glass case
like that in which Mr. Chapman ex
hibited a number of pelicans last year.
This ornithological novelty is various
ly known as the water turkey, the snake
bird, the darter and Plotus Anhinga. In
size, general coloring and the roeessi.m
of a broad tail it strikingly resembles
the farmyard turkey, though possibly it
is a trille smaller. Its neck is much
longer and more slender, too. This part
of the creature is curved very much
after the fashion of a swan's neck, end
is strongly suggestive of a snake when
its body i immersed In the water. The
web foot, compact under plumage and
fondness for diving ally it closely to the
loon. The water turkey will often swim
'for long distances with every part of
its body submerged except a small por
tion of its bill. Thus it posseses all the
marked characteristics of a typical
aquatic bird. Yet it will perch on the
branch of a tree. Just as a hawk does,
and, what is even more singular, it will
poise itself in the upper air, like an
eaete. maintaining its position apparently
without a flutter of its powerful pin
ions. The swiftness with which It attacks
its prey accounts for the name darter,
and for the retention of what it once
captures it Is pecuHarily qualified by
fine serrations near the end of Its slen
der bill. The latter is also employed, it
is believed, to peck out the eyes of feath
ered assailants. Herons have been
known to serve an eagle in this manner
when the bird of freedom waa too
aggressive. Still, it is only during the
brooding season that the heron and
water turkey develop such savage dispo
sitions. Another Illustration of the doubla
character of this queer bird is its nest,
which shows & comparative high order
of architectural skill, whereas aquatic
birds usualy have only the most rudi
mentary of nests.
The genus Plotus Is found only in
warm countries. There are two; or three
species found in the old world. The An
hinga is the only American species, and
its habitat is the vicinity of the Oulf of
Mexico and South America. Even in
these regions it is not any too abundant.
To capture the specimens which have
been mounted for the Natural History
museum. Mr. Chapman was obliged to
push his way up the St. John's far above
navigation.
The ornithological branch of the zoo
logical department of the museum has
of late given attention to the t.irds to bo
found wKhin fifty miles of New York
city. Popular education on this point
was appreciably promoted last year by
the arrangement and display of speci
mens, with special reference to the
months and seasons. The work ia now
t
being extended In order to illustrate th
nesting habits of these same birds. The
nests of between fifty and a hundred
species will be shown. These vary
greatly in size, material, textile skill and
contents, and constitute a particularly
popular and fascinating study. Th lo
cation of the nest, whether upon the
ground, in a sand bank or In a tree, is
also to be indicated. The value and in
telligibility of the exhibit will be en
hanced by accompanying photographs,
one, two or three of these being devoted
to each species. Many of the pictures
were obtained by Mr. Chapman hlirwlf.
Those who have read his "Jiird Kt utiles
with a Camera" know how succeaaful
he is In auch investigation.
Reviving- th Shawl.
From the New York Sun. J
All sorts of old fashions are revived,
but the shawl seems doomed to jerpet
ual burial. It ia said that Queen Vic
toria has a stock of India shawls which
she bestows as gifts upon her ladies In
waiting, but the shawl never experiences
even partial resurrection.
Long after the shawl went out of
vogue the garment was still worn by a
few old women, but now it is rarely
seen on feminine shoulders. Yet the lace
shawls that women have nowadays as
heirlooms must have been remarkably
graceful and richlooklng draperies, f"r,
of course, they were merely ornamentHl.
The India shawls were msrvelously
beautiful and rich in orlenfar color. One
lasted a woman for a lifetime and paw
ed to another generation. Nowadays a
woman must have coats long and short
for walking and driving, golf capes,
traveling wraps and party cloaks.
There is reason, however, for the psss
ing of the shawl. With the exception
of the lace and fine silk shawls, the form
of the wearer was absolutely Indis
tinguishable, which state of things
would never become popular even as a
fad In thse davs.
The automobile coat w killed be
cause it had no waist line.
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Bo Bon Dishes, Gold-Lined.
Tooihpuk Holders, Gold-Lined.
Ptiff Boxes, Gold-Lined.
Spoon Trays, Gold-Lined.
Card Trays, Gold-Lined.
Tobacco Jars.
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