Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-06-16
MAGAZINE NOTES.


sThe Reflections of A Married Man"
are brought to close in the June num-
Der of the "Scribner," and there is nice
little stage moral at the end to give the
proper tone, before the curtain is rung
down. The story has been readable and
rather amusing; but the nearer Mr.. Rob-
ert Grant keeps to the surface Of life the
better are his results, and so when the
married man and his darling" get to
philosophising upon ellie, death and the
vast forever" they have to betake them
selves to the stills Of platitude to keep
their heads above deep water.
The problem that offers so many diff
culties to the philanthropist who wants
to lessen the misery among tenement
house jewellers in New York is very in
diligently discussed by William T. Els
ing, in the same magazine. Mr.. Elsing
has worked for nearly nine years among
the people whose condition and needs he
SO wisely explains. The unsensational
and earnest way that the case is stated
will interest many who were not before
interested; and in the article are practi-
cal suggestions that must be helpful to
those whose energies only need, direc-
tion. Another philanthropic article is
the one called, "The Drury Lane Boys
Club" by Mrs. Francis Hodgson Bur-
nett. To this boys club in London Mrs.
Burnett has given library in memory
of her little son, Lionel, who died re-
Gently. The article begins as if it were
intended for mentally sick persons or
young children, gradually drops into
words of more syllables, and developes
into wandering narrative of how Mrs.
Burnett furnished the library and pre-,
scented the gift to the boys. That Mr..
William Elsipg, who worked for nine
years in the slums Of New York, is much
less prominent in his article than Mrs.
Burnett in hers, recalls the sailors
homely adage that different ships has
different ways" "Historic moments
A memory Of the Chicago Fire" gives
graphic picture of that terrible event. In
collecting just such scraps of history,
written by eye witnesses, the magazine
Of today finds it's highest function, and
the help that it will lend to the coming
historian is inestimable, "On the Great
Cattle Trail" is just such another article.
A1tboucl, - .1~au " ~ Ioar <h< tro no <,f Tho
eye witness SO plainly, it still has strong
local favor and enriches US with pic
ture of a past that can never come again.
The vast herds of thousands Of wild
Texas cattle pouring along the trails from
Texas to the shipping points in Kansas,
hundreds of miles away, following the
deep worn chocolate-colored trench over
the green prairies, and the leaders main
tanning day after day the same position
and followed in the same relative order
by their infinite retinue, is something
that many living men remember, but
that no living man will see again. The
description Of the stampede is graphic,
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turned the vast panic-stricken herd more
and more until finally the leaders circle
back to the heels of the last Of the flying
herd, and the whole great furious
horned host pounded round and round
in a wheel until they were utterly ex-
hausted. The very word milling is
picturesque as used to describe this
frantic grind. 1t is pity that the
writer, Charles Moreau Harger, did not
treat the whole subject more from the
standpoint Of the picturesque We might
easily have spared the earlier and statis-
tical portions Of the article. Archibald
Lampman, the Canadian poet, contrib
utes poem on "The Return of the year,"
which is pretty, but echoes with the
notes OF earlier poets. We hear Words
worth in many lines.
The Overland Monthly" for June
opens with an article upon "Kilaeu,"
the Hawaiian volcano, just as the June
Scribner opens with one upon the Sicilian
volcano of Mount Aetna. Each article
explains the phenomenon OF simultane-
GUS eruptions in volcanoes as being due
to under ground communication. Are we
to account for their simultaneous editorial
eruptions upon the same hypothesis?
The "Overland's" illustrations serve the
real purpose of illustrating the text, and
give as good an idea as black and white
could Of the appearance Of the molten
lake Of lava in the crater. Several OF the
illustrations of the island are very pretty.