Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-05-26

children and babies Is fad in English
yagabondage. Eidenburgh. Mr., Flynt
says, 10 one Of the best cities for beg
ging that he has ever visited.
Many interesting things about Fran
els Scott Key-the author of the Star
spangled Banner-are contained In
pamphlet which may be obtained free,
from the Key Monument association
of Frederick City, Md, by sending one
2-cent stamp for postage. This ASSOC
citation is raising funds for suitable
monument TO the poet, and they sug-
gest. that In the sehc Ii ana every
where upon or before Flag Day Dune
14th), this subject be suitably recog-
nized. Contributions. however small.
are asked for. Every one who loves
the Flag, ought to have some small
share In building this monument. The
governor Of Maryland has strongly en-
dorsed the movement. The names of
all contributors Will be preserved in
the crypt of the monument, and pub
lished without amounD in the history
of the monument when completed.
The subject of municipal government
has been receiving SO much attention
from the Annals OF the American
Academy, that no one Interested In
any of its phases can afford Is do with
out this journal. In the number for
May there is n contribution from Prof
John II. Commons. of Indiana unlver-
sity, advocating state Supervision for
Cities" The Notes on Municipal Gov
eminent in this number contain an
analysis OF the Fourth Annual Message
of Hon. T.. S. Stuart. the retiring may
or of Philadelphia, review of the po-
litical situation in New York City, an
analysis Of the ''Valedctory Address"
of ex-Mayor Matthews, of Boston, O
resume of the Massachusetts Board Of
Railways, discussion of the new char
ter submitted for San Francisco. and
Commission on the "Unihcation of
London" philadelphia, 81
A new story by Rudyard TIlpllng, re-
lating the adventure of an American
in England; a fantastic Tale OF Re-
venge" by Robert Barr; and n brave
story of adventure by Stanley j. Wey-
man, akin in its time and setting to
Mr.. Weyman's popular novel. "A Gem
tleman Of France in themselves give
the June number OF McClure's maga-
zine special destination. But there is
no lack OF other significant matter.
What men and machinery accomplish,
and how they are sometimes blown to
pieces, in the du Pont powder mills;
anu INV NAlelA EAultlluDuh dEBItEd-
ton" Of tents and wonders, the modern
circus, gets planted 1 tnhe fields at
daybreak and crammed into the cars
at midnight, are the subjects of two
Illustrated papers by Cleveland hof-
fett. The conferences between Gener-
ais Moltke and Wimpffen, and Napo-
leon III. and Bismarck after the battle
Of Sedan, to settle the terms Of the
French capitulation, are described by
Archibald Forbes, who, as a London
war correspondent, was on the ground,
and himself saw most OF the scenes of
which he writes. Some very interest
ing pictures accompany the article,
while with 1t is published letter from
General Sheridan TO General Grant.
written q few days after Sedan, and
giving his observations at that and
other battles of the Prusslan
war, and regarding his Judgment that
the American armies had shown great
err SIKH In our own recent war than the
French and German armies were show
Ing. "Napoleon's Relations with the
United States" by Miss Tarbell. which
shows how, with the most friendly and.
aVowedly, even loving. attitude 70 the
United States, Napoleon diligently
played 1t against England; an account
of Grants weary search for military
employment at the outbreak of the
war, and his beginning with very
AatAAAtAN wv N94lABH anu 1DlOntl NC
cures account Of THE Night at Har-
risburg," in 1861. when Lincoln was
making his secret journey to Washing
ton, TO avoid the possibility of assas-
sinatlon at Baltimore Ia journey which
Colonel Mcclure himself helped to ar
range, and on which he saw lincoln
off), are all notable papers. An Illus
trated paper on Sardou describes him
in the way of daily life, In his own
home, and tells how he goes about to
make one OF his unfailing successful
plays. John Ernest Mccain contrib
utes a very sweet and clever poem.
s. s, MCCLURE, Ltd.
No. 30 Lafayette Place, New York City.
John Muir, the California naturalist
and geologist, has written for the June
Century an account Of the discovery of
the largest glacier in the world in
Alaska, which bears his name, Mr..
Muir made his voyage at the begin
ming Of the winter season, and was
accompanied only by missionary and
party Of Alaskan Indians. They
wera called uron to endure many hard
ships, and not a few dangers. Mr..
Muir thinks that the rate of recession
or the glacier is much more rapid than
Is generally believed He holds that
the great Glacier bay is entirely the
growth Of this century, as vancouver's
Si"It, Haue hundred years ago, has
no trace Of 1t.
The June Atlantic contains INSTALL
ments OF the two leading serials by
Mrs. Ward and Gilbert Parker, also a
snort story of frontier garrison life
by Ellen Mackubin, entitled Rosita'
Another bit OF fiction OF unusual char
acter and interest Ia, Through the Win
dows; Two Glimpses OF a Mans Life.
Lafcadio Hearn contributes delight
tul paper entitled In the Twilight OF the
Gods, which, with Mary Stockton Hun
ter's poem, A Japanese Sword-song.
Ewes this issue a distinct flavor Of the
readable papers upon Mars, discussing
In this issuethe Water Problem,
Other important features are, Remin-
iscenees Of Christina Rossetti, by Will
lam sharp; the completion of a Weak
on Walden's Ridge, by Bradford Torrey
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