Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-10-04

lsof q Bachelor one Of the most attrac,
tive electric articles, showing modern
applications Of electricity to war, on land
and sea; the end Of Stevenson's great
romance, ssThe Master of Ballantrae;" an
unconventio travel article on Iceland;
the second lnstalment Of Harold Fred.
eric's romance Of Colonial New York;
with other interesting fiction and poems
Most of these articles are richly illus
trated.
DR.. w. w. Keen, the distinguished
Philadelphia surgeon, will contribute
to Harper's Magazine for October a
paper upon Recent Progress in Sur
gerry" in which he points out the
Of medicine. He maintains that sAmerica
can rightly boast Of playing the chief
role in !effecting the change that has
taken place."
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aPenslons for All' is the title under
which Gen. M. M. Trumbull will give a
severe lashing to the treasury raiders in
the October Popular Science Monthly. ,
The writer was q general in the civil war,
and is anxious for the honor, as we'll as
the due rewards, Of the former soldiers,
and he expresses the fervent wish that
the "pension temptation" may not
.tchange the character or diminish the
fame Of the Grand Army
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A new serial story entitled, "Heron's
Wife," by Eta W. Pierce, is begun in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. The
color, picturesqueness and dramatic
force Of this novelist have already given
her reputation as sort of American
Ouida-a reputation which this latest
work from her pen will fully sustain.
The literary and artistic features OF this
number of the magazine are even more
profuse than usual.
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The Rev. j. Snyder, Unitarian
preacher in st. Louis, undertakes to ex-
plain in the Forum for October, the
singular fact that there is not a prejudice
among any European people against the
negro as negro, such as is evident
in every part of the United
States. He thinks that this prejudice is
more or less natural in the southern
states where the negroes were slaves, but
he can find no satisfactory reason for it's
existence, in an equal degree, in the
northern states where slavery has not ex-
listed for long period, or in the western
states where it never existed at all.
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Ex-Postm aster- General Thomas L..
James has prepared an explanation of
needed postal reforms, which will appear
in the October Forum. Mr.. James de-
clares that the railway mail service is
twenty years behind the times and ought
to be very greatly improved; that small
Offices near to one another ought to be
consolidated under one management, SO
as to save expense; and that ocean post
age ought greatly to be cheapened. SEN
ator Cull0m of Illinois, will have an
article in the same number on "Protec-
ton and the Farmer" to show that the
farmers are benefited by 9 protective sys-
tenn more than any other class. Mr..
AluWoAN Wdh0AOAuS Mo4UeI Ol luo
Australian parliament, who has been
elected and defeated many times under
the Australian ballot system, will con-
tribute to this number an explanation of
the practical workings and Of some de-
fects Of the system which has been SO
much discussed in this country. Prof.
William T. Harris, United States COM
missioner of education, writes critical
examination of Edward Ballamy's
Looking Backward
The article in the October Popular
Science Monthly that will attract most
attention is the one that heads the list,
Pensions for ALL" The writer, Gen. M.
M. Trumbull, is anxious that the sspen-
sion temptation" shall not bring dishon-
or upon the Grand Army, and he gives
the treasury raiders a lashing which
ought to make them vince. The number
is marked by the great variety Of its con-