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fBjj gSS3fi-"VBMIW-Pa n THE REPUBLIC: SATURDAY. JULY 25, 1903, H NEW PUBLICATIONS. S5S3-5-s5vvv?53 i5SSvSvSfe?3STitVsS5e,S:$tto SSi- pic Read's "The Harkriders" Reveals $ the Gharacferisfic Virtues and Faulfs of w this Irpi-atinS Author Other Publica tions o? Recent Datei j j ' " ' " . ' " ' v ' ' ' '". 1BOOKS 1 OP THE I WEEK. JrRk ST 1 3 S IMeCiiire s D X n 3 A a d 7 s 0 10 iH 13 13 15 IS J I A 5 of- at, pej rel hej Stel i tin KM Hi If 11U I of 1.0. Sill t an. tin to Of; cu flif pet no I t 3 tb bd 001 tbi su It to ta No magazine you can buy at any price will ao divert and interest you as the MIDSUMMER FICTION NUMBER OF McCLURE'S Great stories by Henry Harland, George Barr McCutcheon, Mary R. S. Andrews, Stewart Edward White, James Veber Linn, George Hlb. bard, O. Henry, and others. Any one of them is worth ser eral times ten cents, BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS By Jessie Willcox Smith At all News Stands 10 Cents or August KIIH-UIU' "" wJUWJiWWBBg iimiiiniii.uiu.-wzuiwJ'iSBBm MESSRS. L. C. PAGE & CO., Publishers, BOSTOS, MASS., Have Just Published: The Interference of Patricia, BT LILLIAN BELL. A Story "With the "American Girl" as Its Theme. Library 12mo. Cloth, J1.00. s BT CHARLES G. D. ROBERT& A Book of Nature Stories. J2mo. Cloth. $1.50. The Spoilsmen, BT ELLIOTT FLOWER. A Political Novel of Compelling; Interest Which Has Grover Cleve land's Indorsement, limo. Cloth. $1.00. To Be Had of All California and Back FT-can St. Lotus and $4& from Kansas City, account G. A. R. National Encamp ment, San Francisco, August S&jifa. Fe ALL THE WAY MEUhtful nmmer trip to cool California Brrocgh Southwest Land of Enchantment. "Personally conducted excursions -on cer tain days. "via Grand Canyon of Arlaonn, at alight extra cost. Ask for particulars of low California ex cursion rat from your home station. Jl. ANDREWS. GenT Agt, I AtcWson. Topeka h. Santa Fe Railway, f . K N. Fourth SU. St- Louis. Mo. Sm CHICHESTER'S ENOUSH Pennyroyal, pills iTV Ortalaal aad Oaly Ceaalaa. LIX. ArT,ialltU Ladlaa. " Unarclrt ft CHICHESTER! KNOLBH RED .nl Coll nrulll, hm eUd hk UoBrifclMB. Tatttt other. Benua Vaacaraaa Satotitatla. aad laUta tlaaa. S.j.f jwr Drafgln, ar arai 4a. la taap. ftt Partlcalara. TcaUnaalala ul BallertVrLaalaC"a utur.bj ra. an Mall. ie.eooTantKr.UU 1W Dnutaa- CkteharterrheailaaICa, niiia , k-m NEQRO BOY GROWING WHITE t Domes Jackson's Change of Color Pozzies Physicians. ; UWmi EfiaCTtiT. Oolunibia. JIo.. July SC-A negro boy who ! Is ""'' whits Is attracting a great deal t attention around New Frankfort. The boy, who Is 7 years old. Is the son of Jas. ; Jackson of New Frankfort. His mother Is a mulatto, while his father Is a full-blood negro of the darkest color. About two years ago a whits spot was noticed oa one of his eyes, and since that : time the lad's skin has continued to grow . white. Hla Ien and arms are now white. faly aatsxnaim i with the exception of a few small black I'H spots. His face Is entirely black, except sei around the eyes, where the skin Is very 1 -white, ea The .change In color Is steadily going on, Tnt and In the course of a few years, at the i present rate, the boy will be entirely white, da He has all the characteristics of the negro, . Including kinky hair and a wide flat nose Oiand thick lips. t Jf Several physicians who examined the llJt boy are unable to account for the change toL In color and say It Is by no artllldal 1 process. p Scsro Attempts Snlcldo In Cell. j,jT Ernest Harris, a negro, of No. ISO! Gratiot a street, who is charged with assault to kill. hO 'attempted to ccmmlt suicide In his jell at bechancing himself to the door with his sus .rWnrti.rs! Xurnkev Kaiser cut him down rnd me fOUr v.uuria jca.ciutt uiwiums vy he was taken to the City Dispensary. The Physicians at the dispensary found him un- i ljurea. KBC3 Ton, Pale and SparkU&s. Bottle Onh at tbelireweryfa St Louis, SOLD CVCKTWHERE. nnigmas, Local Dealers. BOOKBINDERS WILL NOT GO ON STRIKE. Miller "Will Return to W'orlc for Got- ernmeat I'nlon Surrenders to the Inevitable. REPUBLIC SPECIAL. Washington, July 14. After an exciting day the Insurgents In the bindery of the Government Printing Office ran up the white llagand surrendered. W. A. Miller, the assistant foreman of the bindery, who was removed by Fubllo Print er Palmer because he had been expelled irem the union, and reinstated by order of President Roosevelt, can go to work and there will be no strike. The law Is recog nized as superior to the regulations of the union. Assistant Foreman Miller, who has ben Idle since his removal from ofQce last May, returned to Washlrgton from Minneapolis this mornlna havlnc been informed that thn President had ordered his reinstatement. Miller went to the Government Printing Ofllce. where he asked to ha not to nnrV The officers of the union asked laavn tn m with the Clvll-Sirvice Commission a copy of tne protest embodj Ing charges against Mil ler, which had already been filed with the Publlo Printer, and which had been sent to secretary Cortelyou of the Department of Commerce and Labor. In the falsa hoD that It would be forwarded to Oyster Bay. xne Commissioners teld the officers of the union that they ceuld have nothing to do Rlth these charges against Miller. That was a matter which concerned only tho Publlo Printer, and If they had any complaints or grievances they must take'them to th (vr. emment Printing Office. ; Incidentally. Commissioner Proator gave the officials of the union some good advice. He told them that. In his opinion, the posi tion which they had threatened to assume of striking because of Miller's reinstate ment, for the reason that their constitution did not permit them to work with a man who had been expelled from the union, was ground on which no sane labor organization oould stand In view of the law. Commissioner Proctor also vouchsafed the Information that If the book binders did strike they would all Individually have to undergo a new clvil-servlco examination be fore being taken back. He pointed out to them that this was clearly the law, even if It was at variance with the rules of labor organizations. The committee had a cold' chill. When the offloers of the binders union emerged from the Clvll-Servlce Commis sion's office. Mr. Barrett, the head of the organization, said he did not think there would be any strike. In the meantime Miller had returned to the Government Printing Office, where tho certificate of his' reinstatement had been re ceived. He was told that he could go to work either to-morrow or Monday, or any time that he desired, and he announced his Intention of returning to his position promptly. The developments of to-day have been a complete knockout for the bookbinders' union and a vindication for the President. HANGING AT WASHINGTON. Benjamin G. Hill Killed His Wife Last Xovember. Washington, July 24. Benjamin G. Hill, who killed his wife last November, was hanged at tho United Spates Jail here to day. Hill was a Grand Army veteran. Blaze at Cairo, ICy. REPUBLIC SPECIAL. Henderson. Ky.. July 24 Cairo, this coun ty, was visited by flro This mornlpg. which destroyed the general stores of Lee Sights and Henry Hancock. The Post Ofllce was In Sights's store. Two residences also wpi a bunud. Tho loss Is J7.500. partially covered by Insurance. OHEMFAN natf; ANH GOSSIP i4iA.fAA.lS.a In Ople Read's latebt nocl. "The Hark rlders," (Laird & Lee. ChlcaKo) ho rcneali his fharaclcrlstlc faults nml -virtue:, as : teller of ttorles In which local color and natlte character are the dominant features. There Is at times a refreshing humor found In "The HarkrUler.V ami then, ng graatlngly, the iiuthor penult') IhiJ hu mor to descend to mcie burlesquu In lite effort after effect. The two Icaillns comedy characters, the Southern Kinsmen. Colonel and Major Ha-ltridcr, uro we.ll conceived nt the outset and win tho llkiiiK of the reader. After a little, however, It would seem that Mr. Read was developing tlum with one eye on tho stace. and tint his main con cern was to maltc them very much such a couple as the Judge and the Major, in tho old Frank Chnnfrau play of 'Tho Arkinas Traveler," who should appeal without fall to even the most primitive sense of humor on the part of the audience. Their contin ual repetitions of "Ah, my dear Major, tho very man I want to see," and "Always tho man I want to see. Colonel." Is the tort of stuff that very cheap laughs are made of. The story Itself Is of the South Immedi ately after tho Civil War and then tho ntm-Miit -i, &&pi&&jiZf'&r?'t ti iy -r r n ss?s 1 ilTHFiiir- 1" -- JACK LONDON. Author of "The Call of tho Wild." South of 1SS3, the year of tho war with Spain, and the scene la laid In Georgia. In the plot there figures an Interesting young woman who Is heiress to $300,000 left her by her father, the legacy beins secret until a certain time, however, and much of tho storj's romance develops around this figure. A vtry melodramatic villain Is en countered early In the book, one of tho good old sort of villains who stop at nothing In the furtherance of their maiic.ii scherivi and who would as soon murder a man as look at him. A young liurkrldcr and his friend, an officer In tho United States Army, may be duscrlbed as the hero and asstant hiro of the story, and the Spanl&h War creates opportunity for exploiting tlum more nearly along contemporaneous lines than Is com mon In stories of Southern life. The Irritating peculiarity of Ople Read Is that ho has an Instinctive discernment for humorous character, and yet eeems to bo too lndoltnt to make the most of this raro and precious gift- In tho tlguro of tho quaint old negn.. Dominion; In that of tho rustic poet. Slab Parker of Washington Dis mukes, "tho most prominent cla -cater In tho neighborhood"; of the country maiden, Callle, wooed by the poet, there Is a plen tiful material, of which a more Industrious and artlstlcully conscientious writer would have mads the richest and most eatltfjlns use. But not so with Mr. Read. Ho treats hlb people Willi the broadest and most In dolent strokes, apparently content If they 'ecoro" a3 does tho burlesquo character cre ation of a vaudeville enteitammmt. The appreciative reader, peictlving the possi bilities of the characters and noting this careless handling of them, cannot but feel a bit resentful. It has long been proverbial, whether based upon the truth or not, that tho Southern gentleman of the old order of things was an extremely lazy and happy-go-lucky In dividual, and many Southerners hav o found reason to complain that novelists who write of Southern life exaggerate thesp traits and convey a false and misleading Impression to the public mind. Oale Read goes farther along this line than any other of hia school. His Colonel and Major Hark ridcr are about the most recklessly indo lent and helpless humans that one can find In all fiction. They make the reader laugh. It Is true, but at tho same time they pro voke a doubt that characters quite so ex treme ever existed In real life. "Tho Harkridera" is a story that will be read and enjoyed by thc who like tho sort of Southern story which Ople Read tells, but it Is not destined to attain the popularity of his two earlier and most widely read novels, 'The Juckllns" and "The Starbucks." One cannot but i escret tnat Ople Read will not set himself seriously to the task of making the most of his unde niable talents. He Is the possessor of nat ural gifts which would enable him to wrlto a "character novel" of genuine distinction. Alt AXC1EST CCnSE. This Is TVTiRt Attncuea to "The Crim son Dice," of Which a. Sew !ovelIat Makes a Thrilling Story. Mr. George Nox McCain has told a par ticularly lurid story for "the good old sum mer time" In "Tho Crimson Dice" (J. Mur ray Jordan, Philadelphia), with which the nerves of holdajlng readers are now to bo strung up to a perilous tension. It Is a talo In which horrors on horror's head ac cumulate. And all because one Jack Breslln, an -agnostic archaeologist, comes Into possession of a bronze box containing three crimson dice found in tho skeleton hand of a Cen turion of the guard exhumed In Pompeii. These dice. It is stated, are tho veritable ones with which the Judean Legion of Ro man soldiery cast lots for the garments of Christ. A curse of crime and bloodshed ac companies their use, and Breslln Invokes this cure by his recklessness. All sorts of things happen to him In con sequent, and there are several .killings shown to be directly duo to the. sinister In fluence of tho crimson dice. Happily for Breslln, however, he has a sweetheart, a devout Phllaaelphla Quakeress, who seems to figure In this story very much as a spirit of good opposed to tho forces of evil, and who exerts all her powers io save Breslln from the curse of the ancient "bones" which he accumulated in a diieful moment. It Is not fair to tell tho reader how the story ends, but when a sweet Philadelphia Quakeress sets herself to the task ol out witting a malign power, nearly 2.0rO years old and not up to modern tricks, with tho bouI of her sweetheart as tho stakes for which they are contending, the field Is open for some Intelligent guessing. "The Crim son Dice" will bo read to tho end by any strong-nerved person who once teglns Its perusal. OLD TniXTTY GRAVEYARD. "The Soclnble Ghost," a HomeiThnt Cn rlons Story, Finds Its Setting; In Tills Illatorlo Spot. It may be that when a New york news paper man. In order to grieve over a dis appointment In love, goes Into a secluded part of old Trinity Church graveyard late at night, tho ghosts of that historic spot are willing to divert his thoughts by ap pearing and making themselves sociable. At any rate this Is what they do In "The Sociable Ghost" (J. S. Ogllvlo Pub. Co., New York), which, the title page tells us, is a story "written down by Olive Har per and another." It Is a queer sort of Irreverent yarn, the reporter striking up an acquaintance with his first ghost by giving him a good smoke from his pipe and .the MFIVC. Ems ,- .. .). .a. -- . t . (tt BOOKS AND AUTHORS better part of tho contents qt a ffask of old whlMtv. After this. It lrelng a gala night for tho spooks tho enterprising news 1 ipit man la permitted to tltaro in their festivities. Ho meets many representatives of old New York families, ns well as a number of visiting ghosts who are homeless be cause of being ousted from tho cemeteries in which tho hid been burled, tho ground being needed for tho use of liif-y and btrcn uoiis living folk. This Is tho one pieach ment of tho htory, a protest against dis turbing the bones of tho dead, and with this evceptlon there la a comedy atmos rhcro sought to bu Imparted to "Tho So cliblo Ghost." It Is difficult, however, IP get any real fun out of ghosts. As a novelty, this story will, perhaps, ap peal to readers. It Is copiously Illustrated. The literary stjle of the authors Is faulty and hero Is much evidence of undue hasto In the story's preparation. "TALES FROM WONDERLAND." Rndolph nnnmhnch of tho Thnrln Blnn Torest, Tells litem and They Are Translated for American Chil dren. "Tales From Wonderland." Issued from thi press of A. Lovell & Co., New York, Is n little and unassuming volume. Intended for children, but Its contents are a treat, nevertheless, for older persons whose hearts have not jet lost all chlldllk"ne3S. The stories in this thin volume were writ ten by Rudolph Baumbach, poet and novel ist, and tho "Wonderland" in which their magical events are supposed to have taken place Is tho Thurlnglan Forest of Central Germany, near which Rudolph Baumbach has lived all his lifo. They are taken from a volume in the Camelot series, translated by Helen B. Dolo nd adapted for American children by William S. M. Sllber. Lllght In number, these slmplo and old-fashioned tales constitute n mine of trcisuro for jouthful exploration. Rudolph Baumbach reveals a gift in this not bj- nny means insignificant department of literature which suggests Hans Ander sen in its sweetners, simplicity and sinceri ty. Tho Germans lead the world In tho tell ing of such folkloro tales, anyway, and the llttlo volume now under consideration 13 a worthy contribution to the world's Mock of fairy legend. American children will doubt less welcome "Tr-Ies From Wonderland" with enthusiastic acclaim and demand more of Baumbach's work for their delectation. And not a few grown folks will enjoy these tales In company with the children. IMIERITS THE "WANDER-LUST." Albert Sonnlschcn Clime of a Race of Dnnlsli V orld-Kumucrs. Albert Sonnlshen, tho author of "Deep Sea Vagabonds," was born with tho desire for adventure In his blood.and declares that the. lovo for wandering if hereditary, qulto as much as the love for art and things similar. "My forbears were eueh gad abouts." he tajs. "that It would be a won der of wonders If I also did not like to be moving around the world. Not one of my male ancestors on mv father's side died In the land of his birth Denmark. Two of my paternal uncles died in Australia, one In a skirmish with bush rangers and the other captain of a South Sea trading schooner. A third fought In tho Union Army under Hooker against Bragg, under whom his brother was serving. A great-granduncle commanded a small privateer during Napo leonic wars, and did some rather promis cuous plundering of shlp3 on both sides of the controversy. At tho age of ninety-six. the interesting old rogue could play leap frog with the boys. "On my maternal ride there Is the famous Australian explorer. Luchardt, who traveled across the Australian continent and was lost with his whole expedition of twenty men, turning up. alone and demented, twenty jears after. My father fought In Bragg"s army In tho Civil War, but went West to Salt Lake with the Mormons. He split with this party on religious grounds and made for the coast, finally becoming Danish Consul at San Francisco." It Is not to be wondered at that MY. Sonnlschen's own career has been teeming with stirring Incldenta He spent two years In the Philippines, whore he was taken prisoner and held for ten months. His new book treats of his exciting experiences as a sailor on ships of various nations before the Spanish war. Including a ship of Dal matla. tho oldest of tho maritime nations of Christian Europe. NEWS NOTES AND GOSSIP OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS. The August Century will contain the opening chapters, of tho Hon. Andrew D. White's "Chapters from My Diplomatic Life." dealing with the Minister's first mis sion to Germany, 1S7S-1SSL The Ambassa dor found in those two years that his du ties and pleasures gavo him experiences sounding almost everv note from the sub lime to the rldlculoys. and brought him Into close touch not only with such per sontges as President Hayes. Secretary Evarts. Beaconsfleld. Browning and the Emperors William I, Frederick and Wil liam II. but with all kinds of Americans In all kinds of predicaments. Thomas Dixon. Jr.'s. "The Leopard's Spots" has the distinction of being pub lished twice In Germany. An edition in Kngllsh has Just been Issued In Lclpslc. a translation Is ready at tho press of Fred erick Rothbart at Munich, and other pub lishers abroad. It Is reported by Doubleday. Pago & Co., are seeking the rights to the book. Doctor Dixon's new novel, "The One Woman," Is Ehortly to nppeirlln several foreign translations. Tho novel appears August 1. and the publishers say tho ad vance orders have piled up very high. The Irish 'literary revival has been of lato catching tho Interest of the American public Last month, under tho auspices of the Irish Literary Society, three of Mr. W. B. Yeats's Irish plajs were performed at the Carnegie Lyceum in New York. The Evening Post styled tho performance "something entirely out of the common run," and went on to say that "It was ani mated by a purposeful and intelligent spirit, and It appeals strongly, if not ef fectively, to the literary, artistic and Ima ginative sense." Two of these thre plays aro to appear In a forthcoming volumo by Mr. Yeats which Tho Macmlllan Company will publish In tho autumn. A most unexpected amount of Interest has been shown In the first play by Mr. Yeats, "Where There Is Nothing," which appeared a few weeks ago. Tho at tcntlon cald to It has been out of all pro portion to that usually paid In this coun try to dramatic publications of any kind. Tho Society of Masquers of London, the object of which Is to give performances of plays, masques, ballets and ceremonies, and "to produce only such works as con vey a sentiment of beauty," Is to present some of Mr. Yeats's plays, also others by Marlowe, Congreve, Sophocles, Ibsen and Maeterlinck. Tho author of the amusing book of "Per verted Proverbs" (Harpers), who writes un der the nom de plume of "Colonel D. Steam er," Is Captain Harry Graham, the well known ald-de-camp to the Governor Gen eral of Canada. He Is the author of "Bal lads of the Boer War." and of several books of humorous verse, "The Babj's Baedeker". among them. Andy Adams's "Log of a Cowboy" (Houghton. Mifflin & Co.) Is another Illus tration of the saying that authors are born and not made. His field In literature Is practically as yet unscratched. so to speak, and the remarkable feature of his writing Is Itself unstudied realism. Like Bullen and Hamblen, he Is an instinctive writer. The few friends to whom he read his early sketches remonstrated: "But, Andy, that's NEW BOOKS RFfriVFn. 2 too abrupt an ending." "I can't help It." was tho answer, "it occurred that way." As an example of tho humor of President Lincoln, the following letter to a New York firm who app'lcd for Information concern ing the llnancl.il standing of one of his neighbors Is given in Llnpincotts' "True Abr-iham Lincoln." recently published: "Yours of tho 10th received. First of all, he has a wife and biby; together they ought to be worth JJCO.COO to any man. Sec ondly, he has an office In which there Is a table- worth $110 and three chairs worth, sy, tl. Last of all tlrnre Is In one corner a large rat hole, which will bear ooklng into. Respectfully, A. LINCOLN." "What was Mr. Wordsworth like In per gonal appearance?" Canon Rawnsley onco nsked nn old retainer, who still lives not far from Rydal Mount. "He was a ugly faced man. and a mean liver," was the answer. "Ay. and he was a deal aboot t' roads, ye Mia." One might have thought the late poet an ugly customer of desperate life, or a highwayman of vagrant habit. All thnt was really meant when translated was that ho was a man of marked features. 4 ' '. '. . -- ALBERT SONNICHSEN, 'Author of "Deep Sea Vagabonds." and led a very Blmple life In matters of food and raiment. Canon Rawnsley's new volume of "Lake Country Sketches" (Macmillans) opens with an amusing chap ter of "Reminiscences of Wordsworth Among the Peasantry of Westmoreland." Some very funny Ideas the peasants pre serve of him; jet when translated from tho quaint and curious Westmoreland dialect into modern English Eome of them throw a deal of light upon the man and his habits. The August Issue will be the fourteenth fiction number of Scribner'6 Magazine, and it will be made notable by the begln lng of Edith Wharton's short aerial "Sanc tuary." her first story of any length since tho great success of "The VaUev of Deci sion." Walter Appleton Clark w 111 llluatrata each number. An Interesting bit of history lies behind the labor conditions among the miners In Colorado, as shown bv Frank L. Nason In his "Blue Goose" (McCIure, Phillips & Co.). Mr. Nason was for a while a resident In tho Colorado mining district, and had ample experience with labor troubles. The "red" element in the mining districts of the West, he declares. Is directly connected with the "Molly Maguire" movement, which terror ized the coal mining regions of Pennsyl vania a couple of decades ago. "When the 'Molly Mngulres' were broken up," he sajs. "the disorganized fragments drifted to the Cocur d'Alene districts In Idaho, and In augurated there the samo reign of terror enacted In Pennsv 1 vanla. But they over stepped themselves, and the gang was brok en up again by the Federal authorities. The leaders and many followers went to Colora do, and one of the largest mining centers Invaded by them was that of San Juan County, In which the scene of the "Blue Goose' Is laid. They continue there In their old game of stirring uo trouble." Curiously enough since tho book was written thero has been a strike In the district, somewhat similar In Its features to that described by Mr. Nason. Charles H. Haswell. author of the famous Mechanics' Pocketbook, who was recently described as "a lively boy of M." Is now the oldest living member of the Volunteer Flro Department of New York City, which ho Joined in 153. Even so far back as that he was old enough to follow the business of a professional accountant. Le is still em ployed by the City of New York as consult ing engineer. He makes frequent visits to his. publishers, tho Harpers, who have re cently Issued the sixty-ninth edition of his Pocketbook. Mr. Hamilton W. MabU writes In The Outlook about Mr. Jack London's "The Call of the Wild" that the book Is likely to make a deep Impression by reason of Its power and Its unusual theme. "It tells, with Intimate human association, the story of a great and noble dog that Is stolen from a ranch In Southern California, carried to Alaska, slowly changes his nature under brutal treatment, moves further and further away from civilization, and at last consorts with wolves nnd becomes a creature of the w lid as hl3 ancestors were before him. This remarkabla story, full of Incident and of striking descriptions of Ufa and landscnpe In the far north, contains a deep truth which Is Imbedded In the narrative and Is all the more effective because It is never obtruded." Tho July number of "Medical Talk for tho Home" Is full of Interesting matter, beginning with an editorial In which the ptrpose of the magazine, that of Interpret ing to tho people tho literature found In medical journals, read only by doctors. Is set forth. Among the many readable arti cles of this Issue are "The Suppre-slon of Disease." by Doctor Joseph Enk; "Motive, Vital and Mental Temperaments," by Doc tor J. D. McFadden; "The Body's Renew al," by Charles Melxsell; "The War of tho Druggers: Proprietary and Officinal Reme dies"; "The Science of Massage-," by R. J. Bernhardt; "Our Attitude Toward the Doc tors," and many other thoughtful contri butions. In addition there Is a plentiful and varied offering of Information relat ing to questions of health, the suppression of dlseaso and tho care of tho sick. C. S. Carr, M. D.. is the editor of "Medical Talk for tho Home." which Is published at Co lumbus, O., and has attained a wide circu lation. PANISH TREATY HAS EXPIRED. Islands Cannot Be Sold to Any Other Power. Washington, July 21. The treaty provid ing for tho acquisition by the United States of tho Danish West Indies officially died to-day. If Denmark should conclude to sell the islands to the United States It will be possible to revlvo the provisions of tho-treaty which has Just failed. Meantime tho position of the State Department Is comfortable, for, having done Its part to ward completing the bargain, the American Government, of course, could not sanction the talo of the Islands by Denmark to nny other Government. 3J50 Terre Dante and Return Via Big Four, 8:2S and Uj. m. trains Saturday, August 8. Tickets Broadway and Chest- nut ttxnd Union Station. O ' ' . . ' -- ..... a 1 Ibuim Motnei'm Young married women must remem ber that the experience of maternity should not be approached without careful physical preparation. A capable mother must be a healthy mother; the birth of til first child is an especially trying experience, and natnre needs all tn help it can get. Correct and practical counsel is of the most vital im portance to the would-be mother, ilra. Pinkham's advice at such times, together with Lydla 33. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, hava guided many a young woman through this trying experience with tha nappiest possible results. Her advice is that of a mother with an ex perience with thousands of Buch cases; and given entirely free. By special permission wo publish the following three letters, show ing the absolute necessity of proper care and advice at the time of maternity. That of 3irs. Sexton illustrates the dangers of maternity. That of Mrs. Hanson the suffering during the period; and that of ilx Massey the troubles that may beset a j'oung mother after child-birth and they all illustrate tho wonderful value of I,ydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in such cases. ,, (Irs. Lilie Sexton, Ashland, Ky., Boyd Co., says: , "Dear JIe3. PnnntAM: I wrote to you'in Sept, 1800. I had been married two years and had two miscarriages, ona'nt six months and one at seven. My organs were very weak. You. advised mo to use Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and I began at onco and used 13 bottles. " In June, 1B01, 1 again expected to become a mother, and now I hata a flno baby girl, two months' old. I took the Compound all tho time during preg nancy. 1 cannot praise your remedies enough." Mrs. Karianna Hanson, Box 343, Worthington, ilinn., says: "Dear lira. Piskham : I feel It mv duty to send you my sincere thanks for your kind advico and for the rood Xiydia E. Piukhain's Vegetable Compound and your letter of advice have done me. " When I wrote you I did not see a well day. I was to become a mother, and had headache, dizziness, poor appetite, was nervous, had pains and cramps in abdomen and swollen feet. " After following your advice I soon began to feel better. "WTien I had taken four bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's vejretable Compound I felt real well. My baby when three months' old weighed over twenty pounds. " I cannot praise your wonderful medicine enonirh, nnd would advise all suffering women to write to you and use Xiydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." firs. H, n. riassey, Sulphur Springs, Texas, says: , " Deab Mrs. Prtkham : I will tell you what I think about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I think it is a wonderful medicine. I believe it saved my life. " When one of my children was just five weeks old I took a set-back and cams near dying, I was in bed two weeks. The doctor attended me about a week and I got no better. Mr bowels would nearly kill mo at times, only easy when under tho influence) of opiates. It seemed at times there wera knots in my bowels as large as my fist. I had such pain in my left side. I suffered as much as I did when my baby was born. " I got a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound one rening, and by tho nest day I was nearly easy. I will always praise your medicine." Sorely stich endorsement should dispel donbt from the minds of all hesitating women. After reading such letters, If any woman Is willing to remain sick, we can only say it is her own fault and she deserves to suffer; for the medicine that has benefited these women ana a nun urea tnousand S5000 FORFEIT If we cannot forthwith prodacs the original letters and itgattareaof bore testimonials, which will proTe their absolute renninrness. lydla E. Plnkham Medicine Co., Iran, Maja. POLICEMEN USE THEIR COATS TO SAVE MAN FROM DEATH. Core John Steele "With Garments to Extincnlah Flames Wliick Envelop Ills Body. Patrolmen Farley and Kowe of the Cen tral District, tvlth their coats. exUnguMhed the burning clothing of John Steele, at Cen ter and Market streets, yesterday afternoon, but not untU he had been badly burned. Steele lives at Ko. 14 Center street. A gasoline stove In his house exploded and flames shot to the celling. Hoping to save the house and furniture, Steele picked up the stove and started to carry It from tho house. As he'neared the door gasoline was spilled on his shirt and caught fire: Instantly flames enveloped his body and head. Screaming with pain, Steele started to run north on Qenter street. Policemen Farley and Rowe saw the danger. As they ran to Steele's rescue they drew their coats from their backs. At Market street the patrolmen overtook Steele. Bearing him to the ground they covered him, despite his struggles, with their coats, and put out the lire. Steele was hurried to the City Hospital. Doctor Brown found that one of his ears had been nearly burned from his head and that his hair had been singed off. His face was scorched and his eyes so badly blistered that he may never be able to see again. Policemen Farley and Rowe sustained slight burns on the hands In extinguishing the flames. FINDS OIL NEAR FORf WORTH. A. P. Langston Tests a New Oil Finding Instrument. RKPTJBIJC SPECIAL Dallas, Tex., July 21. It Is reported per sistently In Dallas that oil has been dis covered a fow miles west of Fort Worth. A. P. Langston, who owns a patent oll-flnd-lng Instrument, was sent to Fort Worth several dajs ago by a number of St. Louis capitalists to make tests with his patent, and It Is reported that his investigations were more than satNfactorv A. P. Lancaton lives In West Dallas, on the Fort Worth road, nnd could not bo seen, as he Is away making tests, but his son, Warren Langston, a deputy under District Clerk Jones, at tho Courthouse, ad mitted that his father had been to Fort Worth to locate oil. He said: "My father Is working In the Interest of a St. Louis concern, the name of which I cannot glvo at this time. He spent keveral days in the vicinity of the rity, and he is saUsfled that there Is oil there in paying quantities." It Is said that the natent has received a thorough test by tho St. Louis men, and they have undoubtlng faith In it. Somo time ago Langston, Sr., tested his Inven tion In West Dallas, for tho benefit of tho St. Lould men, and again in the Corslcana oil fields. Several barrels of oil were burled In the Trinity River bottom, and Mr. Langston was led within a half mile of the location nnd told to And them with his instrument. Within a short time he had the oil lo cated. Not being satisfied with this test, tho capitalists told him to go with them to Corslcana. When they arrived there, he was told there were two dry oil wells In the fleld, and he was requested to find them. He accomplished this test without a mistake. The ground around the dry wells had been previously saturated with oil ip order to throw him off the track. Accepts Nashville Call. REPUBLIC SPECIAL Nashville. 111., July 2t The Reverend J. C. Ambacher, pastor of the German Even gellcal Lutheran Church of Mascoutab, has accepted the pastorate of the Nashville Lu theran Church. He was called several weeks ago, but ha refrained from making a de others win surely help you. cision until the matter was decided by his congregation. A congregational meeting of the Mascoutah church was held and Mr. Ambacher was released from his charge. Ho Immediately notified his congregation that he would accept the Nashville charge, and notltied the local congregation to the same effect. Mr. Ambacher Is to succeed the Reverend Mr. Brauns. who Is to taka chargo of the St. Matthew's Lutheran con gregation or Philadelphia. Mr. Brauns will preach his farewell sermon next Sunday, McCANN'S CLOTHES NOT FOUND Prosecuting Attorney Thoroughly Searches Bonfils Quarry. Prosecuting Attorney Rowland L. Joxo stoa of St. Louis County Is satisfied that ha will have to look elsewhere for the clothes of James P. McCann, who Is alleged to har been killed by "Lord" Barrlngton, than la the Bonfils quarry, where the body of the murdered turfman was found June S3. Yesterday, In company with Attorney V. A. Heldorn, he conducted a personal search for the clothes, but could not find them. At the time the body was found there was about six feet of water In the quarry. The body nas nude, and It was then supposed that the clothes had been weighted down and thrown to tho bottom of the quarry to render Identification of the body more dif ficult. Deputy Sheriff Bellalrs of St. Louis Coun ty made several efforts to empty the quarry and hunt for the clothes, and anally gave up when informed that It would be drained by naturo In the course of a month. There Is now less than a foot of water la the quarry, and if the clothes wero there, Johnston says, he could have found them. 1. Seymour Barrlngton. the bogus "lord In the Clayton Jail, who Is charged with the murder of McCann, Is recovering from his Illness, and unless he suffers a relapee will probably be able to go to trial next Thurs day, the day for which his preliminary hearing Is set. No torture compares to that of a Rhto matlc Prescription No. 2SSL by Elmer A Amend, quickest relief of all. Reserve Agenta Approved. REPUBLIC SPECIAL. Washington, July 21 The Comptroller of tha Currency to-day approved the designa tion of the Planters' and Mechanics Na tional Bank and tho South Texas National Bank, Houston, as reserve agents for tho Sour Lake National Bank, Sour Lake, Tex. A ccrtillcato was Issued authorizing the Neodosha National Bank, Neodosha. Kas., to commence business, with a capital of JOO.OOU. C. M. Condon, president; A. M. Sharp, cashier. Warrant Issued Against Locas, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Dalton vesterday.afternoon Issued a warrant charg ing Bert Lucas of No. 2X3 Stoddard street with assaulting Max W. Meyer of No. Wl Morgan street with intent to kill. Meyr was shot In tho hip at Delmar and Academy avenues Wednesday night. Lucas was ar rested Thursday nirfht and admitted that ha fired thu shot. lio stated that he shot Meyer because of an alleged Insult to hla wife, nearly a year ago. FOR TORPID LIVER. A torpid liver deranges tho mI iiflir' ojawiij( oiiu produces SICK BFAnArHF, Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Rheu matism, Sallow Skin and Piles. There is no better remedy for tbeso common diseases than DR. TUTTS LIVER PILLS, as a trial win pro, Take No Substitute. : Ot tv-. t Xcw-S life-. .TSL.lJrLit-;j E T t- - -3lj