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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-29
FACTORIES MAKE CITIES GROW.

The Greenville, S. c., News recently
had the following editorial para graph:
probably the largest number of i'm
migrants that has ever come into South
Carolina in one body since the days when
the first settlers came in ships, arrived at
Pelzer recently. The party was brought
in a special train of fifteen cars from
North Carolina, and consisted of 1,040
people, besides the children who did not
pay fare. They were gathered in three
COUNTIES in North Carolina and came di>
rect from the farms, and will work in
the cotton mills.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-29

Now THAT leap year is fairly with us
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-29

IT is said that quite a number OF
Georgians have gone to Cuba during the
the past few week to fight against
Spain.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-29

No FEWER than 100000 men. women
and children die yearly in India from
starvation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-29

we might remind the young ladies that
one STEADY at time is safe average
for any girl.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-01-29

CAN it be that Judge Bower is strad
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19

has been lively competition for the serial
rights of Captains Courageous" They have
been secured for the United States by the s. S.
Mcclure Company, and publication of the
novel will begin in the November number of
McClure's Magazine.
George w. Cable has not published short
story since 'The Taxidermist,' several years
ago. In the fiction number of Scribner's he
breaks his long silence with one OF the most
artistic that he has ever written, entitled
"Gregory's Island"
George W. Vanderbilt has imported from
Europe what is considered to be the most val
liable library ON forestry in the world, for his
Biltmore estate.
The little book on his mother, which ]. NJ.
Barrie has just finished, and which is to be
published by the Messrs. Scribner under the
title of tMarget Ogilvy," is not biography in
the ordinary sense, but gives aspects and Incl
dents in his mothers life In the style which
Mr.. Barrie's readers know, keeping close
throughout to facts. In the opinion of the
London Bookman, ait is perhaps the most
beautiful and exquisite piece of work he has
yet accomplished"
Messrs. Harper & Bros. have published "Mrs.
Gerald" novel, by Maria Louise Pool, with
illustrations by w. A. Rogers; new edition
OF Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain;
and Love is Spirit by Julian Hawthorne.
DR.. Eugene Coleman Savidge, author of ''The
American in Paris, I" will spend his summer in
Europe, where he will seek European perspec-
tive for his new work on the American revolu.
tion.
Lady Burton, in her will, appointed as her
literary trustees W. A. Coote of the National
Vigilance Society and Minnie Grace Plowman,
who are to continue the publication of her
husbands works; but she forbids any one to
print single immodest word. aud she espe-
cially charges her literary trustees not to
issue, or allow to be issued, one coarse word in
connection with her late husbands works.
They are to publish her autobiography, upon
which she had been engaged.
Vierge (who is called the father of modern
illustration) has made twenty five drawings to
accompany the opening installment of A. F.
Jaccacis amusing and picturesque narrative,
'On the Trail OF Don Quixote," which begins
in the August (ietion) number of Scribner's.
II will be continued through two more num-
bers, with abundant illustrations by Vierge
Among other books announced by the Mac
milan Company is a translation of a book by
A. P. Tverskoy written in Russian under the
title of Sketches from the United States of
North America" Readers of the Nation will
remember a letter published few weeks ago
from DR.. Leo Wiener of the Boston Conserva-
tory, in which he alludes to this author as
'tthe Russian Bryce" The titles of some of
the chapters include: "Ten Years in America -
'The Presidential Campaign of 1892" "My
life in America" Letters" "The Worlds
Fair" etc.
popular edition of the verse of Walt Whit
man is to be published by Messrs. Putnam in
London.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
THE REASON WHY
The Hero Loses Faith in God and
the Bible and Gropes in
the Darkness

Those who are "groping about" in a ''maze
of error and uncertainty" left by early re-
ligious teachings; who are sadriven to think,
powerless to decide fearful even of their own
thoughts-have a 365-page novel written for
their special benefit by Ernest E. Russell The
author expresses his conviction that it is the
"honest course, the proper, safe, patriotic hui
name course from the standpoint of the high
est public good,' for men who have become
convinced of the untruth and evil effects of
any religious or political or social tenets, to
come out and say what they think, to the end
that all mankind may the sooner reach the
truth that leads to the noblest life. To that
end Mr.. Russell, so he says, has written the
"story OF fact and felton," entitled "The
Reason Why" There is nothing new to be
learned from the book. Paul Granger the
hero, loses faith in God and the Bible and
spends much of his time in the effort to make
others think he does He tries his hand at
politics, but makes failure oft He thinks re-
lgion is supers tition, and finds society full OF
diseases, religious and political, and his rem
edy is a condition of Incorporation, wherein s'if
man work not neither shall he eat," and where
Luxurious idleness shall not ride upon the
shoulders of patient toll" Mr.. Russell deyotes
about 365 pages to the diseases, shortcomings
and errors of humanity and one paragraph to
remedies. 1t is hard to see where the book
will assist anybody who is ''groping about in
the maze OF uncertainty" And while the au-
thor may be honest in the convictions
which he expresses through the mouth
of Paul Granger, he certainly doesn't shine
as writer of a purpose" novel. The book is
a tiresome affair, as may well be imagined
1t is to be hoped that everybody who thinks
he is right and that all who think otherwise
are wrong, will not follow Mr.. Russelps ex-
ample and rush into print about it. 1t would
bring about confusion and might precipitate
another holy war, thing to be deprecated.
Paul Granger was evidently intended to typify
those who are tdriven to think, powerless to
decide" There might be something attractive
about hero who was able to think and to
decide, and thus be of little real use in
the world. The book gives never pointer,
unless the cooperation idea be the pointer,
on how to "reach the truth that leads to the
noblest life," and the author doesn't satisfy
us on the score of what the noblest life really
is. New York: Ernest E. Russell, publisher
price. 81.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
Know edge Up to Date.

A small work of uncommon interest and
value is ''The Living Topics Cyclopedia," Z"
which now costs, complete to date, the small
sum of 81. 1t is unique publication, and its
free specimen pages are worth sending for It's
latest issue gives the most important facts cup
to date" concerning, among hundreds of other
important subjects, such titles as Cuba, Cur
rency IA diving topic,' indeed), Debts, Ma
tional and foreign; East Africa, Egypt, Elec-
tricity, England, Engineering, France, German
Empire, Gold, Greece; also concerning the
States Delaware, Flcrida and Georgia. In gen.
eral, the object of the work is to answer the
questions you would seek TO solve by consult
ing your cyclopedia were it cup to date, :"
which no cyclopedia is or possibly can be, be-
cause of its magnitude and cost. "The Living
Topics" being a small work and treating only
OF "living" topics, is continually in process of
revision, new edition being published every
month. After you have paid for one edition
you are allowed 10 purchase later ones within
a year thereafter at about one-third price. and
thus keep your knowledge cup to date" at
tri1ing cost. Address the publisher, John B.
Alden, 10 and IL Vandewater street, New York
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
"From Whose Bourne. -

Robert Barr has given the world novelty
In the way of mystery stories in his new work,
'From Whose Bourne" 1t is a romance in
which spirits living in the world beyond the
grave as well as persons in this world are per-
picked in their efforts to unravel the secret of
q death by poisoning, and being well told has
more than ordinary interest for readers who
delight in mysteries.
William Brenton, citizen of Cincinnati,
feeling himself indisposed after a dinner party
at his house, goes to his room, and after taking
q slight dose of medicine goes TO bed. In a
short time he is conscious of what he considers
to be dream, in which he appears to be stand
ing in his room and looking down upon his
dead body on the bed. 1t develops that this
consciousness was by means a dream.
Brenton was really dead. His spirit was taken
in charge by denizen of the other world and
duly instructed in the conditions of life be-
yond the grave. He was informed that how
ever much he might be interested in the per-
sons and business he left behind earth he
could no longer communicate with the one nor
aff ect the other.
Devotedly in love with his wife Brenton in
spirit form fingered about the city where he
had lived, and thus learned that he had died
! by poisoning and that his wife was arrested on
the charge of having murdered him. Then
begins the double play to unravel the mystery.
| In the land of spirits Brenton meets spirit
who has formerly been q Chicago newspaper
man, and the two by thought transference sue
| ceed in interesting bright reporter in the
! case. Furthermore they obtain the assistance
of the spirit of Vidocq. The reporter on earth
and the detective in ghostland differ in their.
! judgments as to the guilty party, but agree
that the Cincinnati detectives are wrong in sus.
pect1ng the wife.
To those who are familiar with mystery
stories it goes without saying that all the
guesses are wrong, and while the solution is
little bit improbable, it is not enough so to
mar the effect of the tale. The story is short
| and can be read easily on summer holiday.
New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.l
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
The Iron Pirate.

In a new preface to his novel, ''The Iron
Pirate Max Pemberton takes occasion to re-
mark that he is able to answer those critics of
the first edition who disputed the scientific ac-
curacy of the theory which would seek to drive
a ship by the gas-engine. Professor Kennedy,
he says, has now admitted not only the posi-
bility, but has proclaimed the probability of
gas marine motor in the future. "The
Iron Pirate" is a ship run by gas motor, and
in its career OF piracy in the nineteenth GEN.
tury it wages war against the telegraph,
steam and the navies of the nations; escap-
ing from tight situations by marvellous bursts
of speed. We have gasoline launches in this
country in considerable number, and they are
a very common sight speeding through the
waters of San Francisco Bay. What is being
done so successfully on small scale can
doubtless be done on large scale, and before
the next century is very old the trip from
New York to Queenstown may be made in
about half the time now required for the voy
age all through the agency of the gas engine
and gas motor. The present edition of the
work above mentioned is in the Globe library
series 242. [Chicago: Rand. McNally & Co.,
publis hers; paper, price so cents.l
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
LITERgRY NOTES
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves
Last Essay Was a Letter
to the Public

Stephen Fiske, who probably knew Dickens
as intimately as did any American, has been
induced 20 write of "The Personal Side of Dick
ens'' for the September Ladies' Home Journal.
Mr.. Fiske often spent seasons with the famous
novelist at Gad's Hill, and his article will de-
scribe the incidents of these visits, Dickens
home life, his methods OF working, and his
pastimes. 1t will possibly surprise Dickens
friends to learn through Mr.. Fiske that con-
siderable portion OF his library was made up of
dummy books, which, however, offered the
author target for some of his delightful satire
in giving them titles, and afforded his guests
great amusement.
Hon. John w. Foster will entertain Ii Hung
Chang in September, when the latter visits the
United States on his return from the corona
ton of the Gar General Foster is an intimate
friend of the Viceroy, ana 1t Will be remem-
bered that he served as his confidential ad-
wiser during the peace negotiations with Japan.
For the August number of the Century Gen.
eral Foster has written sketch of the life and
character of Ii Hung Chang, whom he ranks,
as did General Grant, among the greatest men
of the century.
The last thing written by Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, only a few days before her
death. was a loving acknowledgment TO the
public for fond remembrances and tokens and
expressions of affectionate esteem, on her
eighty-ffth birthday, which she sent to the
Ladies' Home Journal In the next issue of
this magazine it will be published in fac
simile II reflects the beautiful nature of the
gifted authoress, and by her death has become
her last message to the American public.
s. 4. Crocketts sThe Grey Man" will be pub
lished in London early in September by Fisher
Unwin, who is preparing a first edition of
25 900 copies.
Cassell & Co. will publish in the early
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19

, autumn fine art memorial edition of Mrs.
Beecher Stoves immortal work "Uncle Toms
Cabin" with upward of 100 original illustra-
tions by the scandinavian artist, Jenny
Nystrom-Stoopendaal.
ssThe publication of Dr. Byington's "The
Puritan in England and New England" has
been postponed until the autumn. The author
is member of the American Society OF Church
History.
A third edition of "The Courtships of Queen
Elizabeth has been issued.
Bennett Burleigh has written an account of
his travels in Ashantce and Madagascar, which
Fisher Unwin win publish. The book is en-
titled 1.-TWO Campaigns"
Mr.. Gladstone's new book has just been pub
lished by Henry Frowde. In the first part OF
the book, which, as q whole is entitled,
studies Subsidiary TO the Works of Bishop
Butler" Mr.. Gladstone treats of Buffers
method and its application to the Scriptures
of Blu tiers censors, of his mental qualities, OF
points of his positive teaching, of his theology
celebrity. influences, etc. The main portion
of the second half deals with the question OF
"A Future Life," with a history of opinion
thereon.
Herbert Spencer is completing for autumn
publication the third volume of 1.-THE Prinei-
pies of Sociology" which is to include "Pro-
gressiye Institutions" industrial Institu-
tions" and Ecclesiastical Institutions" The
last mentioned has already been issued in
',part" form. In the first volume of this great
| work are included "The Data of Sociology y
1.-THE Inductions of Sociology" and Domestic
Institutions;' and in the second Ceremonial
| Institutions and Political Institutions" Mr..
Spencer in the winter proposes to revise ''The
Principles of Biology"
Among the important scientific books pub
lished by the Macmillan Company is a trans
lation of Professor Won Zitteps Textbook OF
Pal@ontology." by DR.. Charles R. Eastman,
Ph. D., of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass
Rudyard Kipling is now putting the last
touches on 5O,00O-word novel; dealing with
the Gloucester fishermen and their life on the
Great Banks. 1t is written from close personal
study of the scene and the people. Itis Ameri-
can in its characters and its plot seafaring and
adventurous. 1t breaks entirely new ground.
| The title is Captains Courageous" There
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
The Vrooman Act.

The consulting engineer of the Merchants
Association of San Francisco, Ernest McCul-
Tough, has written book entitled t'The Vroo-
man Act" giving the forms and proceedings
under the street laws OF California. The au-
thor has been a practicing engineer in this
City for nine years, and for the past three
years has been Street superintendent and
Town Engineer of Sausalito. The volume is
the result of his experience and study of the
workings of the Vrooman act, under which all
street and sewer work is done N California
municipalities. Directions are furnished as to
the proper proceedings to improve streets and
as to the proper recording, posting, advertis-
ing, etc. Forms are given which have stood
the test of the Supreme Court and sample pages
of books of record are shown. A digest OF Su.
preme Court decisions is given at the end of
each chapter on the subject of which each chap
ter treats. The digest enables attorneys to-
quickly look up references. The book will be
of service to all parties who have to deal in
any manner with the improvement OF streets
aud laying of sewers in the streets of the towns
and cities of California. "The street law of
this State,' as the publishers observe ''is not
the plainest thing in the world, and the prac-
tice given in the work is that followed by the
oldest cities in the State and in accordance
with Supreme Court decisions" [San Fran
cisco: Edward Denny & Co., publishers. In
cloth binding, 81; sheep uawl binding, $3.l
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19

only another Indian shows him the course in
rough draft upon piece of bark Even those
of them who cannot write display marked
ability in communicating with each other in
the woods They telegr aph by means of smoke,
and 1t is astonishing how far off they can scent
it-aIways for a long time before they can see
1t or could hear a sound from its vicinity.
If they expect to be followed by another
party they stick piece of wood in the ground
upon portage, slanting it in the direction in
which they are travelling. Those who find it
VIII know by its degree of inclination whether
or not they who planted 1t are travelling hur-
rledly. If it be in summer a small bough or
piece Oh shrub is fastened to the stake, and by
the extent to which 1t has become withered
those who find it will know when it was placed
there. II hunter, as very often happens, has
10 make de tour or remain behind his squaw
In search OF game, she will occasionally indi-
cate the route she has taken by sticks place. d
III the ground, to which she has attached a
| small portion of her skirt"
Mr.. Chambers, like true woodsman, writes
/ ss eloquently of the forests as of the game
| they shelter He makes an earnest plea for
the preservation of the great forests of the
north. surely he says, sit becomes every
| true lover OF the woods to raise his voice
| wherever the opportunity offers for their pre-
| servatlon. Settlers and others in this new
world are too apt to regard forest tree as an
4 OASHs' -SUI IL QOWn is the DdLlAS W. J
| eumbereth 1t the ground?' l would that all
| such would bear in mind the quaint remark by
an old writer on forest trees quoted by Evelyn,
| Trees and woods have twice saved the word,
first by the ark, then by the cross, making full
amends for the evil borne by that tree In Para
disc by that which was borne on the tree In
Calvary
After that quotation it is not surprising TO
see Mr.. Chambers pause in his narrative long
enough to give us this outburst from an Old
and once familiar song:
A life in the woods for me,
A camp by the crystal stream,
Where all is fresh and free
And pure as a maiden's dream;
Where the birds their revels keep
And the deer go bounding by;
Where the night breeze rocks to sleep
With its sweetest lullaby.
Some notice is due to the form in which the
work has been published. 1t is a most ex-
ceIlent piece of bookmaking and while the
copy before US makes no pretensions to an edi-
ton de luxe 1t is nevertheless so beautifully
illustrated with picturesque views of rivers,
rapids and forest vistas as to be a
volume attractive for its beauty well
as for its contents. 1t will undoubtedly
lead many people to make the trip to
the fisherman's paradise, and even those who
cannot go will find no better pleasure than in
making the acquaintance of the Ouananiche
through these delightful pages.
New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by Rob-
ertson, 126 Post street; price 50.
JOHN McNAUeHT.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
The Overland.

In the Overland Monthly for August Rounse-
velle Wildman, the editor, contributes under
the heading of "We;l-worn Trails a beauti-
fully illustrated article on the Yosemite and
Big Trees, while Theodore S. Solomon, the
Overland's author-explorer. continues his pop-
ular articles on the "Unexplored Regions of
the High Sierras,' and Mrs. Robinson has a
sketch, 'The Lost Arrow," which has to do
with the customs and conditions of the Yo-
semitic Indians before the arrival of the white
man, thus making distinctively Sierra num-
Der for the magazine. Beginning with the
August number the new educational depart
ment is placed in the hands of practical edu-
Gator, Professor A. d. Coffe.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19

The Duke he was wise, and he wiped
out the stain,
And placed the Duchess at ease;
He drew forth his sword from its scabbard
and said,
Down, fellow, upon your kneesl
"By stroke of this sword make you a
knight,
And with knightly honors endow;
AS you are a headsman, your name
shall be
Sir Headsman of Bergen, vow."
So the headsman became nobleman
then
My Lord of Bergen, pardi-
A naughty old race, it thrives on the
Rhine,
In marble tomb sleeps he.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19
Seven Times Around Jericho.

The drink question is one that never downs.
The tariff and financial issues may drown its
voice with oratorica1 thunder in big campaign
years. but the temperance revivalist will come
up smiling when the election is over, and will
be heard as clearly as ever when the political
firing has ceased. People who are at loss for
discourses on the temperance question while
the platforms are occupied by the brilliant
representatives OF contending National parties,
have an opportunity to get the benefit of the
most recent discourses on temperance themes
in "Seven Times Around Jericho" printed in
a book OF "a pages, and being the most stir
ring public lectures of Rev. Louis Albert
Banks, D, D., pastor of the Hanson Place NJ E
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. The book is espe-
cially commended to pastors of churches, who
will find wealth of suggestions for temper
ance sermons DR.. Banks is also the author
of "The Saloon-keeper's Ledger" book that
commanded wide attention in religious and
temperance circles. His new work is worthy
addition to the literature of good cause.
New York: Funk & wagnalIs Company, pub
fishers; price, rs cents.l
Messrs. Stone & Kimball VIII bring out in the
fall the College Year Book giving not only the
names and addresses of all professors and in
structors OF American colleges, but the chief
statistics in regard to each and a complete
table of the Greek letter and other societies
as well as collegiate athletics.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19

DR.. Hubert Parry is revising his work on
"rhe Art OF Music LOT new edition, which
will appear shortly.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19

hand him, with it, a botanical analysis of the
flower"
Verify, America at large is awakening to a
just appreciation of California's favorite bard.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-19

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In the Castle of Dusseldorf on the Rhine
There was a grand masquerade;
The waxlights were cleaning, the dancers
danced,
And gayly the music PLAYED.
The beautiful Duchess was dancing, too,
And loudly she laughed and long;
The beau who danced with her was supple
and slim,
Gallant and graceful and strong.
A mask of black satin he wore on his
face,
From whence he merrily gazed;
Like naked blade, from its sheath half
drawn,
His eye on the Duchess bIazed.
The light-hearted throng was happy and
gay
Whenever the two danced near,
And Carl and Louisa applauded them
With many clap and cheer.
The trumpets chimed in with a Changing
tone,
And the viols droned away
Till at last the dance had come to an end
And the music ceased to play.
81 pray that your Highness will let me go,
For must HE home apace"-
The Duchess laughed loud, "You cannot
go hence
Till have looked at your face"