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BOOKS OF THE DAY UNDER REVIEW. Watson's "Life and Times .of Thomas Jefferson "?The Book is-Not So Well Written as His Story of France, but it is a Verj Eead able Book. "A CANDLE OP UNDERSTANDING." V Good Southern Story, in Which Con? ditions in the South Boforo tho War Are Truthfully Portrayed?" Tho Harvesters," by Aubrey Lanu- J ton "?An English Story, With the Scone Laid in Louden and Oxford Magazines of tho Month?Lite? rary Notes. LIFE AND TIMES OF THOMAS JEF? FERSON. Written by Thomas E. Wat? son; >' Published by U. Appieton & Co., Now.York. Air. Watson's "Story or Franco" is one of tho most fascinating books of history we have ever read, it is not royaim-d us accurate in all respects, ami son.e of the critics- are disposed to poKO fun at thy author, but it is a charming boou, and as sp.cy as a romance, ft was with no Utile Interest, tnerutoro, that we read his recent book on Tnumas jonerson, but the oooit, was laid down witn a sense of disappointment It is an intereslng book, for Tnoinas jetterson is altva?s interest? ing, but we lind In it l.ttio tuat Is-new. and very little of orlgiuadiy, elm or in the matter or tho style. The book Is more a running sketch of the stlrrfiig events of Mr. Jeuersou s tui,o than a biography, although Mr. Jefle.sou is, of course, tho central rtgu.e, ai.'d those events In wh.ch he took a conspio uous part are emphasized. Air. Watson wrltos from a Southern point of v.ew, and makes special mention of the part which the Southern States took In tho War of tho Revolution, resenting with a show of indignation the statement o? some of the historians' that tne South? ern States did not give a good account of themsolvwi in that struggle. He points out that in South Carolina, 37 Southern? ers out of every 42 enlisted and fought, and mentions by name the brilliant lead? ers and their achievements. He devotes a special chapter to Paul Jones, who. In his' opinion, has been too mucn neglected by historians; anuti.i chapter to George Rogers Clark; another to John Randolph of Koanone, and an? other to Burr, Adams and Ham lion. Speaking of Mr. Jefterson's writings, lie asKs why It Is that, "amid the re? surrection Of so many old publications, no trump, awakes to new life Jenorton s Notes on Virginia, and In this connec? tion, he says, "strike from it the dry statistics, cull Its choice passages, illus? trate it with scenery and portraits, pre? face it with a biographical chapter by way of Introduction, and the result would ho a volume which would del ght all lovers of literature. Some of its pas? sages are beautiful as descriptions of natural scenery; some are valuable as studies of political and economical. prob? lems: the''chapter o/rtho customs, '-jjcu Hardies and. race characteristics of ti.e Indians is deeply interesting; and its In? sight into the negro, as a man and an i?suo, is profound. Tho comments government on religious intolerance on militarism, finance, education, slavery and kindred subjects are In all respects worthy of the author of the Declaration of Independence." In conclusion, he refers to the religious conviotlons of Mr. Jefferson and thus sums up his creed: "He believed In God, one. not three. "He believed in a future life In which we should know those whom wo had known, here. He believed that rel.glon consisted In .being good and do'ng good. "He, believed In a benevolent design In creation. If he can be classed with any church at all, he was a Unitarian. He ?was certainly not mor,e orthodox than that. In one of his letters he calls hirn j-elf a materialist, contrasting h'mself ?with Christ wno was a splr.tual st. He re jeoted the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and the Holy Ghost "He classed Jesus with Socrates and other great teachers, regretting that he wrote nothing, and that we have to take so much of h*s 'doctrine on hearsay. "He (Jesusj ha^d no one to write for him as Socrates and Eplctotus, had, but, on the contrary, the learned men of his country were all against him, for fear that bis teachings might undermine their power and riches. His doctrines, there? fore, fell to Ignorant men, who wrote from memory long after the transactions had passed. "Nothwlthstand'ng these disadvant? ages, Jesus presented a system of morals which- If filled up In the spirit of the rioh fragments he left us would be me most perfect and sublime* that has ever been taugnt by man. , Whether Mr. Jef? ferson was acquainted with the system of morals taught among the Hindus long before the tlmo of Jesus nowhere appears. "It would seem that he compared the system of Jesus with tho moral teach? ings of the Jews, the Romans and the Greeks?not with those of anclont Egypt or of India. * . "He says, that Jesus, like other re? formers who try to benefit mankind, fell a victim to the jealousy and combination of the altar and the throne. Hence ho did not reach the full maturity and ene'gy of his reasoning faculties and his doc? trines were defective as a whole. "What he did say has come down to us mutilated, misstated and often unintellig? ible." Another dliapter, 1s devoted to Mr. Jefferson'6 political opinion and we are not surprised to note the fact emphasized that Mr. Jefferson was a "blmetallUt,"' "believing In the full and equal use of both gold and silver." Mr. Watson, doubt? less bel-ovos that Thomas Jefferson had he lived In 1S90, would have been in favor of the free arid unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to 1, but if so, ho arrives at his conclusion by a strange de? duction, for he mentions the well-known fact that in 1S0C Mr, Jefferson ordered the mint to cease coining tho silver del Jar, because as the sliver In this coin was worth more than a dollar, measured by gold, exporters sent it abroud to gat the profit. Henoe, as fast as the silver dollars left the mint, they became mer? chandise, to be shipped away from the country. How much more would g-..ld have been shipped under this rule, had we adopted free coinage, at a time when the bullion In a gold dollar was wotth tw.'co as much as the bullion In a silver dollar. . & j Mr. Watson lays stress on the" fact that Mr. Jefferson was opposed to bank^ note currency, and In favor of treasury notes, Issued by the government. Ha does not say, however, that Mr. Jefior pon's objection to bank-notes was that ho did not regard them as sale, but that ho feared that, under tho system, there would be disastrous Inflation. Me then gives ..no reader his own views on tho subject of "government money," arid makeo Mr. Jefferson agree with him, Says he: "Suppose tho government should put tno bum.er aside, call in tho bond, and Issue the note Itself, ,puttlng behind it the same law and credit which- upholds tho bond and the banker's ..note, would tho note pt tne government be less valu? able than the note of tho banker?" And ho adds: "Mr. Jefferson thought not So will every other citizen who w 11 consent to use his own eyes and his own brain." By which, we understand Mr. Watson to mean that tho government may set Its presses to work and make all the money that the country requires, without going to tho trouoio of gathering Into tho vaults a stock of gold with which to" redeern the notes issued! It Is hard to be? lieve chat Thomas Jefferson would hav? concurred with his biographer in that'ex- , treme view. Mr. Watson's new book is dedicated to William R. Hearst. THE HARVESTERS. By Aubrey lAns ton. Published by R. H. Russell. ,of New Turk. For sale In Richmond by tho Bell Book and Stationery Com? pany. Price $1.50. After reading "The Harvesters" one is Inclined to wonder If the title has any? thing to do with the plentiful harvest of wild oats which the characters In the book seem to be eagerly occupied in cul-* tlvatlng, to their own detriment and th* unhappincss of their connections. The scene of the story is laid mostly in Oxford and London; a minor portion re? verts to rural England. The period is that when George Frederick, Prince of Wales. wa3 setting the whole of the Brit? ish Isles by tho ears with his wild esca? pades and his utter lack of manly good qualities. The story Is one of beauty In distress, of an Innocent young girl who essays the most difficult, and, therefore, the most hcpeless of tasks, the reformation of a man addicted to Intemperance and extrav? agance. As a wife, she makes inevitable, mistakes, which are redeemed by patience and faithfulness. In the end she lifts her husband from the slough Into which he hap fallen, but at what cost to herself, what anguish and what disillusion, no soul but her own can estimate. But when one elects to walk blindfold over red-hot plough-shares, It Is small wonder |f one's feet are maimed and seared In the doing of it MY OLD MAID'S CORNER. By Lillie Hamilton French. Published by the Century Company, of New York. For sale by the Bell'Book and Stationery Company. :J It la delightful to turn aside from much that Is false and meretricious In literary standards and chance upon such a pure and restful little volume as "The Old Maid's Corner-".-.& 1?- like passing from the hard'and"Blrlgr glare of the common highway into the .'cool and dim recesses of springtime woodlands, with the fra? grance of violets and wild honeysuckle borne In upon the senses, and the gray green shadows resting tired eyes and calming fevered pulses. ) "The Old Maid's Corner" is a corner where one loves to linger. The pages in which its story Is told will bespeak a place for themselves in the library of the womanly lover of what is truly good m books. The gist of a tender and beautiful phi? losophy Is embodied in the following sen? tences, which may be taken as a fair exposition of fuller development in other chapters: - - "One of the charms of "an old maid's ccrner is that to each newcomer the ground eeerns untrodden, unencumbered by other experiences with which those that each brings are to be measured. When one thinks a room is empty, one can talk about things Just as they hap l.ened, and so get nearer to the truth of them, as one does who discusses them in the open air. "The young who will bring into our lives the freshness and beauty of young hearts would not enter If they found the place full of ourselves. -We cannot do much for the world, we old maids, but we can do this: We can keep an atmosphere ubout us In' which the best of young hearts can grow." A CANDLE OF UNDERSTANDING. By . Elizabeth Blsland. Published by Har? per Brothers, of New York. For sale, by the Bell Book and Stationery Corn pay. Price J1.B0. Ono of the hardest things which self respecting Southern people have had to undergo since the Civil War has been the publication of many books written about their section of the country, Its manners and Its customs, by people who have known nothing whatever about the subject, upon which they entered with all the happy confidence which Ignorance generates and the numberless mistakes which Ignorance perpetuates.' When. If they could have asked, the greatest favor that could have been given would have been that they might have been left alone, .people of the South have been exploited Instead?patronized, pitied and sympathized with in literature. Their speoch, their unthrlft,- their narrowness, their prejudice and their Illiteracy have been the themes on which never ending false changes have been rung, until it has almost come to this, that the an? nouncement of a so-called Southern'ro? mance is all that Is necessary to put It out of favor with thost who anticipate In It only a repetition of what has been and must continue to be intensely dis? tasteful to them. Recognizing this truth. It seems all the mpro a grateful task to accord generous oredlt where credit is riohly due. Miss Blsland's new book. "A Candle of Un? derstanding," Is rightly named. Life On ' the big M sslsslppl plantation, the Joys j nnd pleasures of childhood, tho plantation ! work, the negro songs and superstitions, i tho pathetlo struggle and Its inevitable I All the Books reviewed above and as published .......on sale.. Miller ?& Rhoads, Book Section. [POEMS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW Whatever your occupation may be, and however crowded your hours with affairs, do not fail to secure at least a few minutes every day for refreshment of your inner life with a bit of poetry.?Prof. Chnrles Eliot Norton. No. 19. -MAN'S MORTALITY. rn?iT5S t<?i2r}nf*??em J'sFV"*113' ?ttrlbuted to Simon Wastell. born la Weitmoreland, with It- * 1930' aho foll<>wlu? "tan*** M8 sometimes printod Like to the bobble In the brook, Uke an arrow from a bow, Or In s glass much like a look, Or tike a swift course, of water flow. Or Ilk* a shuttle In a wearer's bund, Or like tho time 'twutt flood and ebb, Or Uke the writing- on tho ssud, Or like the spider's tender web, Or Ilka a thought, or like a dream, Or Ilka a race, or Uke a goal. Or like tho gliding of the stream: Or like the dealing of a dole; Even such Is man,, who Uvea by breath, E-rcn auob Is man, whose brittle irate la here, now there, In life and doath. la alwaya subject unto fate. The bubble'! out, tho look forgot, The nrrow shot, the flood soon spent. Tho shuttle's flung, the writing's blot, The time no tliae, the web soon rent, ?The thought la paat, the dream la gone, Tba race aoon run.- the goal ?o00 won. The watcra glide, man's life la done. The dole soon dealt, man's life aoon done. Like tho lightning from the iky, Or like a post that quick doth hit; Or Uke a quaver In a song, Or like a Journey three days long. Or like anow when summer's come, Or Uke a pear, or like a plum; ? - Eren such la man, who heapa np sorrow, hires but this day and dlea tomorrow. The lightning's past, the post must go. The song Is short, the Journey so, / The pear dotb rot, the plum dotb fall. The snow dissolves, and ao must all. The story of Jonah and the gourd wlU be found In the book of Jonah In the Bible. IKE as the damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower in May, Or like the morning of, the day, Or like the sun, or. like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonah had: E'en such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out and cut, and so is done. The roso withers, the blossom biasteth, The flower fade's, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, and man?he dies. Like the grass that's newly, sprung, - , Or like the tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here to-day, Or like the pearl-ed dew of Slay, * Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of the swan; E'en such is man; who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life and death. The grass withers, the tale is ended, The bird is flown, the dew's ascended, The hour is short, the span not-long,- ?' The swan's near death, man's life is done. Poems you ought to know began In The Times-Dispatch Sunday, October 11, 1803. One Is published each. day. HANDSO vlE SCRAP BOOKS TO PRESERVE THE POEMS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW 15c Each. B^cL TIMES-DISPATCH BUSINESS OFFICE failure?these things are written of un? derstanding^. Thr brave old ante-bel'um days are known \ y by remote sugges? tion. The bareness a*nd poverty of the days that have come since are ennobled by heroic endurance and cheerful adaption to hard surroundings Miss Blsland has shown unusual acumen in her character delineation. The nice shades of discrimination and the Infinite variety of touch and treatment render her work as individual as the peoplo of whom she writes. With all her sectional fidelity. Miss Bisland's book has not a Jarring note of bitterness. She is remarkably just, even though one might judtfa that her heart turns always to her own, through prefer? ence and affection. The heroine of he rstory is a Misls sippl girl one, who has her, ambitions and wins her successes; then finds out that Instead 'of stage triumphs and the applause of the world, what she really wants la home?and her sweetheart. She says of herself: "I shut my eyes. I could smell the dawn?wind blowing across the casiB. I knew how it looked there at home in this tray light?that lonely, level land, with the ring of purple woods all round? and tho sound, like a sea, of cane leaves whispering and rustling against one an? other. I could feel the South calling me, as she calls the birds back to her breast across the continent. VDear Lorratnei He was the very type and figure of my own land?beaten down by defeat and hard circumstances,' all the old fire and unrulitiess crushed out of him, disfigured, old-fashioned, thin, but' resolute to atone for the errors of others, patient to bear his fate, and faith? ful to the land of his birth. A pretty fgure I, posturing for public applause, while my playmate was wanting mo and the South was calling me home!" The November Magazines. The November number of Scrlbner's Magazine contains a most notable article on the work of Mr. John S. Saigent, the foremost painter of our own day and one of the greatest portrait painters In tho entlro history of Art. This Is tho first time that permission has been especial y given by various owners to reproduce any number of Mr. Sargent's portraits and drawings in a periodical, and offers an exceptional opportunity for a compre? hensive view of his work and a study o: his very Individual and distinguished methods. Mr. lloyal Cortlssoz writes ot tho artist's career and of the Influonces that have contributed to his success. The article" by tho late Noah Brook". "How We Bought the Great West," is a timely and authoritative contribution to the pToturesquo story of the great Loui? siana Purohase. The article by Senator Lodge on "The Sonata" Is an Intimate personal view of the duties and responsibilities of this tho most Important legislative body in the world. Mr. B. & Peixotto's article. "Through Bret Harte's Country," recalls with hu? mor and plcturo-qusness the oli'ef charac? ters and localities of some of the author's most famous stories. Mr. Andrew J, Stone, the explorer of the great ice region of the Northwest Coast, writes- of recent experiences la 'Camp Life in Arctic America." " The article on "The Literary Merit of our Latter-day Drama," by'Brandor Mat? thews, is a timely discussion of present day aspects of stage literature and a reply to those critics who. are inclined to find little'of worth In the plays.of recent years. The short stories of the 'number in? clude: "Ged," by Mrs. Ella W. Peattle. a story of the wholesome influence of a familiar contact, with natural conditions and the part played by a'very real boy; "Their Countrymen," an ' unusual love story of the Bqer War, by James Barnes; an amusing-bit of comedy. "A Syndi? cate Hero,", by .Cyrus Townsend Brady, Illustrated ?'. with . a number of '? full-page drawings- by Howard Chandler Chr.sty, and the unraveling of a very-droll situa? tion in "The Resource of Randall," by Dr. Henry C. Rowland. -' . ,-..-.).- The Century," The Century Magazine . for November opens with an article by Edmund C. Sted man on the New York Stock Exchange, in which "'Life on tho Floor".Is described. Other -/articles and stories" aro as fol? lows: Italian Villas and Their Gardens, Edith Wharton. Fable and Woodmyth; The Three Phoebes of Wyndygoul; The Grass? hopper that Made the Misslmo Valley; Tho Fable of the Yankee Crab: Ud to Date; Einost Thompson Seton. 'Fighting the Hudson; An Adventure In the Hudson River- Tunnel; H. Addlngton Bruce; Thackeray's Friendship with an Ameri? can Family; Unpublisned Letters to tho Baxters, by W. M. Thackeray; Introduc? tion, by Lucy VY. Baxter. The Marrying of Su3an Clegg; Anne Warner. The Lit? tle Canoe; Henry Wallace Phillips. Cole's Engravings of Old Spanish Masters; Por? trait of Pope Innnocent X., in tho Doria Palace, Rome; Painted by Velasquez; Engraved on Wood by Timothy Colo, A World's Congress of Llona: The Lion house in the New York Zooiog.cal Park: Henry' Fairfield Osborn. Tho Missing Exequatur; Benjamin H. Rldgely, Four Roads to Paradise, I; By the Author of "Sir Christopher," "White Aprona," etc.; Maud Wildor Goodwin. Chapters from My Diplomatic Life, III.; My Recollec? tions or B.smarck; Andrew D, Wh.te. The" Reggie Livingstones Country Life; David Gray. The Summer (of St. Martin; By the Author of "Hugh Wynrio;" S. Weir Mitchell. The Present Epidemic of Crime; James M. Buokloy, LL. D. Everybody's Magazine. Tho initial article in Everybody's Mag? azine for1- November Is by 1. K. Fried? man, In which the careor of John Alex? ander Dowle Is sketohod. . Among the articles and stories may be mentioned: ' Above tine Gold; A Story; William R. Llghton. The Man Behind the Mach.ne; Theodore Watois. Reform That Reforms; Alfred Hodder. Tho Princess and the Puma; A Stbry; O. Henry, Sucossfui Men Who Aro Not Rich: Frsnels Bellumy. Strange Gods; A Story; Edna Kenton. World-old Handicrafts: Andrew Appluton. Dramatists' Wives; F. Elderkln Fyles; Academv.THURS* *???6* HV?HBHI|| N|j.ht 0nlyi The Greatest Colored Comedy Ever Crcsentj i THE SMART SET. 60~PeOPLB-60 Prices, 85o,50o,7fio, $1.00. . ? With Portraits; S. It Kemper. The Reform of Sh un: A Story; Allen French. The Freclpltaate Mr. Sralf: A Story; Ruth NotUeton. How Jim Brltt Passed His Bill; A Story; Alfred Henry Lewis. - ? i- The Hookman. "Chronicle and Comment" in the No? vember number of the Bookman is ut.usu ally rloh and racy and this" in unc? tion: Charles Reado's Opinion of Himself, and His Op nlon of George Eilct M. The Revelation of Herself. (Part I). Mary Farley Sanborn. The Men at Sea. Stewart Edward White. Airier! and Louise, Countess of Albany. (Illustrates). Frederick Paronulll. Prison Journal sm. By No. 1500. The District Attorney (Fiction) Church? ill Williams. Five Books of the Day. Reviewed. The Reading Public. Frank Moore Colby. Rudyard Kipling* Poet. Harry Thurs? ton Peck. ? The Sustained Effort and Some Recent Novels. Frederic Taber Cooper. ..-The Drama of the Month. Frank Moore Colby. byiiie Reminiscences of William Ernest Henley. By on Old National Observer, Art Magazines Some of the good tnlngs In Pearson's Magazine are: Mrs.' Adrian C. Hope's Pastel Portraits, illustrated by repro? duction from portraits. .,. The Electoral Commission, an interest? ing bit of history from the diary of & Sen? ate page, David S, Barry, The Duel Between Don Q. and- the Dark Brothers of the Civil ? Guard, a complete story.' K. and Hesketh Prlch ard. The Marvels of Fruit Breeding, the evo? lution of new fruits from the crossing of old . var.efles, Marcus Woodwaid, Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, Cyrus Townsend Brady. Chapters xlx-xxi. 11 lustrated by J. N. Marchand and Will Crawford. Life In Metals, A. Sarah Kumar Ghc-sh. Tho Pariah, a story, T. Jenkins Halns. James Cardinal Gibbons, William P. Symln. i The Ivory Casket, a story, James Work? man Holding the Mirror up to Nature, secret of Mr. .Harrlgan's successful portrayal of East Side types, Edward Harrlgan. Her RigBt to Choose, a story, J. P. Setouri. The Blograph .Theatre, Gellett Burgess and Will .rw'n. (One of the stories of the San Francisco Picaroons.) A com? plete story. Lady Ella's Marriage,' a story, Owen Oliver. Books and Authors, Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's book. "The Mother of Washington and Her Times," is now definitely announced by The Mac mlllan. Company for publication on No? vember 4th. Its pictures of social life are new,'It Is said, because they portray the manners arid usages In the part of Virginia in which Mary Washington lived, not the oft-told ones of-Tidewater Vir? ginia. " We are told that the origin of Washington's name is given for the first time. Mrs'.- Pryor has studied Mary Washington and her times for so many years that she writes "less like a histo? rian than like an" eye-witness. History In her hands becomes warmed Into contem? porary chronicle." The book will be very fully illustrated. ;??????'?? Miss Anne Story Allen, author of "Mer? ry. Hearts," recently published by Henry Holt and Company, Is a New Englander by birth, ., Manchester-by-the-Sea being her native" town. She has lived in New .York for go long, however, that the tie of sentiment Is the only claim that Massachusetts now has upon.her. She devotes herself to writing. A small fox terrier Is-her constant., companion, and ls~v according,,to her mistress, "the .hero "lne of almost, the first stories! ever wrote.: and quite the-first to be accepted." Miss Alien says it is almost Impossible for her to write a story without putting a dog In somewhere. ? ? \: ? ? ? - v>Edwin Markham . says of ' "Barblzon Days," -by. Charles Sprague: Smith: "It Is a brilliant book full of freshness arid golden gossip. This V book - * makes live for us and breathe that .Immortal group about the Inn of Barblzon, whose only rivals are the nimble wits of tho Mer? maid Tavern'and the nest of singing birds at .Concord." ?'? ?"'? Miss. Florence Converse, the. author of "Long Will." to be. published by Hough? ton, Mifflin .and Company,- was- born in New Orleans in tho year 1871. She Is an M. A.; of Wellesley College, .holds an editorial position on "The Churchman." and for five years has Uved at Denlson House, the Boston Co"p?o settlement. . Her book. "Long Will," Is a romance Of the fourteenth century, with the "Peasants' Revolt" for Its theme. ? ? ? Miss Mary HUnter Austin, who wrote "The Land of Little Rain," lives at In? dependence, where her husband Is a gov? ernment land-agent. She has a houso by the rill. of Pine Creek, looking toward Kersarge. and tho sage brush grows up to her very door. ' She Is fairly on the edge of Death Valley, and her compan? ions are. "principally Pluie Indians. She is a sort of friendly goddess of the hearth to', these Indian women, encouraging them In the making of their beautiful baskets, and urging them to keep tho old patterns, the olrt dyes, and the careful ?workmanship. Years ago she was a good shot, but as she prew morn acquainted with the ways of the "wild folk" the thought of shooting them went against her conscience, and now she rarely uses a pun. Sho has been writing only four or five years. An Editor's Prinunclam,?n,o. Tho present editor of the "Custer Coun? ty Clarion," in assuming the manage? ment of that paper, says in his saluta? tory: "Our main ; object In coming to Arapaho Is to mnko *omo money. Wo have been In the newspaper business for a number of years, and while wo have had lots of fun. we haven't laid up many treasures on oarth, and have heen too busy to pay a great deal of attention to our "account In the other world, so we may say to you confidentially tlv>t wo aro confounded poor. We want to mnko a living and lav un a little money, and that Is why we are here. "Now, as to the kind of newspaper we will run, our first olm always will be to print the news, and In doing so we shall aim to tell the truth as near as Is consistent with good health, except In wedding and funeral notices. When a couple got married, no matter how homely or frowsy the bride may be, she will appear In these columns as a' model of beauts-, style and female lovoll noss and a general social favorite: and t'-> groom, who roally cuts mighty little flguro at A wedding anyway, will bo mentioned as a caoabla and promising young man, etc., although he may not have money or credit enough to buy tho necessary flannels for the first baby. When a man tiles, ho will always have been a good father and kind husband? unless he happens to he a bachelor?a pillar of the community and one whose loss will be irreparable,"?Kansas City Journal. Stopplrg a Leak. He was taking a country cousin around town, showing her the sights, aiul in 1j!b efforts to appear as the "real thing" was particularly lavish with his tips, says the New York Press, No one who waited on them got less than a quarter for the most .trifling service. 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When the waiter brought tho cheek for their dinner tho man laid a dollar bill on the plate, and thla also the girl promptly "lifted." But bo saw her do It this time and (whispered: v'What'i tho matter? Don't you think I gave him onouvh?" 'Oh, yes," she said, sweetly; "but as I took the others, I thought I'd take that, too. I hate to see good things wasted." Whnt Shall V\o Eat? A writer In tho Ootober 31st Issue of Harper's Weekly makes a plea for the scientific regulation of food. It Is a strik? ing fact, he points out, that science, which has weighed the moon and meas? ured the orbits of the planets and split the atom Into electrons, has not yet been able convincingly to tell man what Is and what 1* not his proper food. And fypewrlters- j|IJ KJnds Ail standard nmkis ?old, etohaugad, repaired ami rBiiloiliin.Mil.iirn .M.iny ti>od .i? n.>"r. l, at uiauuCictur. en'prioabl Don't bur until rougatiamplaaof writing oh our*? unprajudittM adrlo*. Machiueiithipiivdonap orovul. SOtlTllEHN STAMP 4 6T.VH0NKBY CO., VHouo ISM. fcniii. b) if . 1-voK.nlt M?lu, Richmond, V*. yet It Is evident to overy Intelligent ob. server that a. very large proportion oi men and women are poisoning them salve* every day, ruining their oodles and their minds, shortening their lives, and bring-. Ing upon thomselvea pain and misery through outing ana drinking substance* and quantities that are not fitted for human assimilation. "Reformers are at work everywhere, but the reformer who oould. with authority, show humanity what it should eat and drink would sure? ly do more good than a whole army at wlsouores tinkering at the effect* ot the evil. What the world needs Is an author? itative science of food."