Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-10-05
4 Remarkable Book

Wit. bv Harry Julian, II mo. 2?c p.
Truth Seeker Co., Publishers. - Iafay-
cite Place, n. y. For sale bv T. C. Van
Epps, Olympia.
This is book that sho;:ld he read
amid the halmy breezes Of Autumn al
ter the sun has passed the meridian
and tn. temperature has moderated
sufficiently to keep the animal spirits
in check. 1t is a rosv-tinted and rose
scented record OF love in the tropics.
Its style is as light at the fleecy clouds
of summer sky; its diction Il COM
pound OF honeyed sweetness and pun
gent satire, traced with Il hand SO gen
tie that the most subtle mind can
scarcely discover the bitter from the
sweet.
The principal characters in the story
are Tom, Dick and Harry, three Coy
eminent clerks still in their teens
whom the remorSeless wheels Of time,
geared doubtless with political motive,
had thrown from its periphery. These
youth with a united capital oil a few
hundred dollars 20 to San Francisco
and thence on a voyage to the Sand
wich Islands. Their ship is wrecked
at night and they find themselves on a
coral reef in water to their chins where
they remain till dawn, in the depths
OF dependency and salt water. In
the morning they wade to the shore OF
a mysterious isle. and were immedi-
ately taken in charge by three beauti-
full maidens, clothed simply in the
garb of nature. These maidens al
though but u or l6 years OF age,
seem to have been on the lookout for
husbands, and after the very matter-of-
fact way of casting lots for choice of
the sea-sonahlc gift, lead the ship
wrecked youth to the chief of the is
land, which happened to be one OF the
Aliunde group of the Southern Pacific.
Here they are surrounded by people
of wonderful physical development.
The men seem to be endowed with all
the attributes of manly strength and
vigor of Appollos, and the women, the
graces and beauty of the world-famed
Venus. They wore no garments other
than girdle at the waist, did no work
except what exertiOn was necessary to
gather the bread-fruit, cocoa-nuts, pine
apples and figs, or to cook the fowl
and fish that existed in bountiful pro-
fusion. All seemed contented, and
into this happy family the three
youths were admitted as members, and
forthwith married to the pretty girls
who had already each claimed her own.
After they had settled down as staid
husbands they were taken to Lama
COLA, another island, the seat of en-
pire, and from this on the fact becomes
apparent that the book is satire to
some degree, on occurrences of our
own Government The election Of a
great Chief, and the manner in which
the will of the people is subverted is
shown in story in Il manner that re-
calls the main features OF the electoral
count of 1876 with irresistible force.
The religion of the South Sea Is
landers is also brought out in deep
colors. One of the shipwrecked youth
was a Jew, another a Catholic and the
other Protestant. Each deems it his
duty to convert the people to his be-
lief, and their interview with the priest
of Koro-kama was productive of u
greater change in their own senti-
ments than any prospect of his con-
version to either of the dogmas of civ
ilization.
The book will create sensation. 1t
is more satisfactory than the works of
Haggard as it deals in possibili ties, if
not probilities, and il better inasmuch
as it affords material to "point IL NOR
al" if not adorn tale"
On the first page Of this number
appears the second Of our series Of
cartoons representing political subjects
now before the people. "Dodging the
Issue" needs no explanation. The ar
fist has grasped the true spirit of the
whiskey plank of the Republican plat
form, and poor old Uncle Ben seems
to have caught a Whit of it too from
the rapid strides he is making for terra