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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08
NAPOLEON.
A LITERARY AND IcoNoGRAPHIc HIS
TORY.

lam Migan sloane. Phi. p. l.. y; d., Professor
Of History in p rs hH c emvrysCy Co.
This 10 the first Of four stately Volumes ard it
carries the narrative Of Napoleon's career only
so far as 1907 and the Venetian campaign Inc
period embraced is of the highest interest, COM
pretending as It does the picturesque early man.
hood OF Bonaparte and his dazzling exploits IN
Italv hut n leaves Professor Sloane not more
than launched upon his theme Pending the
cornn,ete publication in these volumes Of the pa
pers which have been running in THE Century
Ma en- zine" for two years or more. this initial In
stalment tacitly advises suspension OF Judgment
unon the history as whole. At the same time IL
shows clearly the conception which PROFESSOR
Sloane holds Of his subject 1t illustrates MS
method of developing theme as complex as IL Is
absorbing. and finally it throws flood OF ilgnt
upon q certain salient point in the modern WIFI
ing of history Addressing the muititudihous
public of a great magazine. this writer franKiy
adopted a method of presenting the materials OF
history which differs much from ,hose Ianliiia'
10 the austere prime Of his Muse. Once. as she
saw the writing Of history, II was matter Oh Ht'
erary genius alone. Now literature and art go
hand I'm hand and deck her statue in colors as
new as they are abundant Professor sloane mas
used his pen with ardor and with power Dut ne
would probably be among the first to ADMIT that
no owes much OF his effect to the illustrative
corps which has elaborated with MIN on nearly
every page Skilled draughtsmen have essayeo
to enrich his text with reconstructions OF inc
past Erudite collectors have ransacked Ola eai-
Ieries and portfolios for contemporary RECORDS OF
the Napoeonic The result Is mover con-
trtbution to historical literature.
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KfNSHTP.
BY Madison Cawein.

There IL no flower OF wood or lea,
No April flower rs fair as she:
white ancmone. who hast
The winds wild grace:
Know her n cousin OF thy race
Into whose face
presence like the winds hath passed.
There IL no flower OF wood or lea.
No Maytime flower. as fair as she:
o bluebell tender with the blue
OF limpid skies.
Thy lineage hath kindred ties
In her, whose eyes
The heav'ns' own qualities Undue.
There IL no flower of wood or lea,
No Juneday flower as fair as she:
Rose.-odorous with beauty OF
LIES first and BEST
Rehold thy sister here confessed!
Whose maiden breast
Is fragrant with the dreams Of love.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08
SONG.

BY William Theodore Peters.
Eve lost n little heart. sir.
think ! have:
I've lost n little heart.
Just near you.
why. I've found and taken It.
May ! keep II?
Here's another heart. ma'am.
Won't that do?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08

Herr Max Noidau, that divertins prr,s.. -
just made an admission which 10 cheerfui,v 49,
on to all those who feel inclined to adu,,r,.s ~
taliatcry whacks upon his offending hesA -,
nit" he observed to an interviewer thu oth.. -
that ind 1t exceedingly dinicult to corc.,.--ss
my mind" What golden opportunity NJ 80 ~
for the victims aforesaid! Hath not the Ma ,s
Of degeneracy proclaimed that one Of its r..s.
vious stigmata'' Is an inability to eoncert-s.~ "
mind? But It need not be expected thar H. ~, ...
dau Will submit to any bland explanation - -.
own degeneration. He Is as rampant al ever 40 -
new book Of his Is impending which will m.t. ~
cety squirm in Its place Having tucked All ~. ~
erary men safely away into asyums or ohS-.ss
the philanthropic doctor is turning his attent,o, -
the inanciers. They are all outrageous. az Co..
In his far-seeing eyes. He has written 49,
called THE Battle Of the Drones." The vor,S -
finance has become a curse to modern uss =. -.
pears. and the "drones" who make II ara % ~
shown up.
This Is beautiful. but why "drones"? Herr NJ.
dau has made his observations chiefly IN g.
Bourse OF Paris. but there IL not so very much e,s
ference between that seat Of enterprise ana c.,-
own Stock Exchange, and who ever heard AZ ~.
denizens OF Wall Street being called drones9 m.
thing Is absurd. but probably Herr Nordau v,,,
make out case. He has way with him vhen a
comes to knotty problems. He will solve anvth,n.
and no more hesitates to rush in where angels fes.
to tread than-one Of his favorite Degenerate -
He Is prepared to be copious, too, as copioua ~.
ever. Work does not brighten him. He expresses =
great contempt for "overwork" that busbear a.
the modern man. It all depends upon how yon
equalize your strains. says the doctor sentsn.
tiously.
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imaginative powers. He Is example Of what
hard working can do. When he was first heard Of
II was in a very modest way. but little by little
the fruits Of his scholarship have been recognized.
so that now he Is counted one OF the most
useful of English literary delivers and interpreter
1t should be added that some Of the critics have
fallen foul OF him for his recent edition OF The
Arabian Nights" In that his scholarship went
wrong here and there. and he has had to pay tho
penalty. But in the main his mistakes have been
few
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08

Joseph Jacobs first into notice a. IN
editor Of books OF fairy tales, who cared NOR.
for the folklore at the bottom Of them than foe
anything else; himself Of Semitic origin, he has
written learnedly about the Jewish race. and he
has lately followed up all this with some essayn
Matthew Arnold, George Eliot and other written.
which show him to be critic OF considershae
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08

Mr. Crawford's "TaquIsara" has just ap !w nd n
two inviting volumes. The story starts wen svm.
has this much. at least. to engage the rea'. ana
na thics on the nrst pase-t Is an i'ana" -Sich n
thus carries one back to the scenes
Crawford has won his greenest lauren ~.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-06-24

Americans work so Systematically for
357 days of the year, barring Sundays,
that their employers are able to sell
nearly 10000 gross of fireworks at less
than one-half cent each, and are still
able to make a profit of twenty-five
per cent. on their output.
In this broad plain of Graniteville,
bound in with fence over which even
baseball crank cannot hope to look,
is succession OF frame buildings, be-
fore each of which stands a bucket
filled with water. The buildings are
separated so that if the contents of one
of them go up to join the elements of
air and fire, the water may be there to
help out the insurance companies. In
the midst of these there is little
more pretentious building called the
Office, and it is here that the Superin-
tent sits, like Pluto on his throne,
master of all these dynamic possibil-
tiles.
Some of these little buildings are
numbered and locked. They are the
powder magazines. Others are more
significant, because in them men and
large number of women are busy
filing pasteboord cylinders with e1.
plosives for July 4. 1t must not be
thought from this that gunpowder is
used for these things. Instead of it "a
mixture is used that is as fine as dust
in Broadway. 1t is explosive, Of
course, but it burns slowly and does
not smash things unless it is confined.
Everything from them up to the
eight ounce cracker that goes off like
six-inch gun are turned out here.
The pasteboard is made into little
cylinders and these are then taken to
one of the little houses, where boys
fix the American fuses, which give lots
of warning before they ignite the
cracker, so that fingers may remain in
tact. These lads plug up one end with
bits of clay and then pour in the eX.
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4 Cabbage Twelve Feet Tall.

A correspondent of the San Fran.
cisco Examiner, at Berkeley, Cel..
tells OF monster cabbage which was
grown from seed sown by Samuel
Wakeman, of Berkeley. The stock of
this plant is twelve feet four inches
high.
In 1886 Mr.. Wakeman brought a
small quantity of kale seed from the
Isle of Jersey. He kept some OF the
seed, and gave some to the Agricul.
tural Department of the State Uni
versity. The remainder was dis.
tributed among Eastern friends, many
of whom have made inquiry as to
where more of it can be procured. In
the university grounds and in Mr..
Wakeman's garden are growing sev.
eral stocks of the plant measuring
eight and nine feet in height, but the
specimen now on exhibition in the
Berkeley store is the record breaker.
Its wonderful growth was attained in
nine months.
The sprouts of the kale are edible,
and taste much like those Of the cab
bage. However, in its native habitat,
the Isle of Jersey, its leaves are used
to feed the diminutive cows that haGo
aided to render the name of Jersey o
farmyard word all over the world.
The California experimenter finds that
the succulent green leaves are much
relished by chickens, and point in
favor Of the plant is that it produces
green leaves the year around.
The stock Of the Berkeley mon.
strosity is rs large as q mans waist at
the root, and tapers gradually to the
seed branches, ten feet from the
ground. To this height the stem has
been stripped of its leaves. rendering
its resemblance to q hickory sapling
very remarkable. The top is sur.
mounted by feathory punches OF small
yellow flowers.
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NUGGET OF GOLD WORTH A MILLION.

81 am rich! |" he shouted. Then he
proceeded to take specimens of the
ore from dozen places on the boul-
der, staked out his claim, hurried into
Rossland, arriving late in the after
noon, and recorded the claim. The
next day he had his specimens assayed
BY different experts, who found that
the ore ran in value all the way from
S43 to S5S to the ton.
When he told of his great fortune,
there was wild rush to the place. A
surveyor accompanied Nelly to his
bonanza, and after making measure
ments, declared that the boulder
weighed approximately 10000 tons,
and that, in round numbers, it will
prove to be worth 81, 100000.
The miners argue that there must
be more gold where this came from,
and the mountain side clear above the
timber line is being rapidly staked
of, and miners are focking to the dis
trict from distant points, confident
that the story of Cripple Creek is to
be repeated. Nelly was originally an
Ohioan. He bas been prospecting for
twenty years, but never "struck it
rich" before.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Pains.taking is gains-maklng.
Book borrowers are generally good
book keepers.
The man who sits down to wait tor
q golden opportunity to knock at MS
door will need thick cushion on his
chair.
The trouble with the man who is al
ways talking about what he'd do II he
had plenty of money, is that ne never
has any.
Such as thy words are, such will thy
affections be esteemed; and such will
thy deeds as thy affections; and such
thy life as thy deeds.
The true way to be humble is not to
stoop till you are smaller than your
self, but to stand at your real helght
against some higher nature that shall
show you what the real smallness OF
your greatest greatness is.
It is always hard to go beyond your
public. If they are satisfied with
cheap performance, you will not easily
arrive at better. If they know what
is good and require it, you will aspire
and turn until you achieve it. But
from time to time, in history, men
are born whole age too soon.
Leave children an accumulated Tor.
tune of memories and inspirations and
examples and hopes, so that they are
rich in brain and heart and soul and
service. Then, if you happen to leave
them a fortune besides, if they have
all these, the fortune will be shorn OF
its possibilities of evil, and will be.
come m instrument OF higher and
nobler good.
There is always room for man oi
force, and he makes room for many.
Society is O troop of thinkers, and the
best heads among them take the best
places. A feeble man can see the
farms that are fenced and titled, the
houses that are built. The strong man
sees the possible houses and farms
His eye makes estates as fast as the sun
breeds clouds.
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She felt the rector's burning eyes upon
her and she heani the hOarSe words With

She felt the rector's burning eyes upon
her and she heard the hoarse words with
which he turned to her:
How am to live my life alone?"
She longed for the power to comfort
him. yet all the sympathy she couid eA.
press seemed to hold the mockery OF
easy consolation.
There are the children, she said in
a low voice. -Four loving little hearts
TO make your life less lonely. And there
is Gcd. He sends the cross, and He
sends the strength TO bear 1t. We see
so dim!y. What seems so hard to US is
often kindness from our Fathers
hands. We must linger here in suffer-
inc and tribulation, but for her the
crown has come before the cross had
grown TOO heavy. Father, teach our
hearts to say Thy will be done.
Leaving the echo Of her prayer be-
hind her, Margaret joined Brian, with
the four grave faced children. upon
whose childish minds the intangible
shadow and silence had made such SOL
emn impression.
She found it hard to meet the pathetic
inquiry of those baby eyes, and she was
quite relieved when she could give her
new charges into the kindly care OF the
surprised Mrs. Davis. After this, she
went to bed and slept for the remainder
OF the day, and when dinner time ar
rived her incli nations were so decidedly
against rising that she could scarcely
force herself to dress and Join. Brian.
He'll find me rather doleful at best"
she remarked to the heavy eyes and
pale, tired face which looked at her from
the mirror. Il suppose I must try to be
cheerful.
But her short talk with Elsie, just be-
fore dinner, did not tend to brighten her
spirits.
The child had spoken so earnestly OF
the great care her mothers death had
left upon her, and expressed such a pa
thetic wish to grow bigger so that she
could help papa more, that Margaret
found it hard to answer calmly with
those earnest eyes upon her.
You may be little, Elsie, yet you can
help papa even now. These little feet
can be tireless in his service, this dear
face may always wear smile for him,
and this tender little heart may love
and comfort him in every trouble"
Little people, and big people, too,
can only do their best"
Poor little tot, commented Brian,
when Margaret repeated this converse.
ton after dinner. Let US not think OF
them any more tonight, Margaret. Let
US try to be happy. I am so sorry our
Christmas has been clouded. I got you
this little remembrance, and I really
have not had chance to give it to you.
only a remembrance" she asked.
taking the exquisite little jeweled pin
from his hand This is fit for q prin-
cess. How it flashes in the light. 1t
dazzles me. IL don't know how to
thank you, and I have nothing for you,
Brian"
TTo BE CoSTISUED.l
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plosive, which has the same color as
Uncle Sllass duster, and then they are
ready for packing. These firecrackers
don't have Chinese characters on them.
But on each, in plain New York dla'
lect, is a warning how to hold them
and when to let so. You do anything
else at your OWL risk.
The Roman candles are made the
same way, save that much more care
is taken with them. They are packed
with hydraulic presses, and the globes
of various colored fire which are sent
over your lawn or into your sweet
hearts window curtains are little
cones that resemble yellow and blue
clay, which arc so sensitive to heat
that the mere placing of them IN the
pastcboard cylinder sometimes fires
them prematurely by friction.
Most OF the set pieces and the rock
cts are loaded at the outset as the
Roman candles are, the system being
practically the same. Yet with oil the
apparent danger the factory has not
had m explosion for several years,
and insurance companies have conil-
dcnce enough to risk 500, OOO IN
policies on the place.
Onc of the most interesting divisions
OF the work of preparing for the eagle $
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Bad.Tempered Swans.

Among those birds which stay at
home, especially the most domesti-
Gated, there is often an exhibition OF
unkindness seemingly unaccouI table.
The graceful swan, e. g., is one OF the
most ungracious in its ways. Not only
Tin the breeding season. does male
bird resent the intrusion of strange
gentlemen, but it will spend the day
in driving off from its domain any un.
lucky geese, which might be plainly
assumed to have no designs upon it's
domestic arrangements, and have, In
deed, no desire bey ond that for COM
Portable wash and swim. 1t will also
pursue even the most innocent of new
born ducklings while they unwittingly
rejoice in an early taste of their COM
men element. But this is not all.
When an only child has passed out
of the cygnet stage of life, and grown
to full physical, if not mental. ma
turity, father and mother swans have
been known to fall upon and deliber-
ately beat it to death with wing and
UGhh. unfS oS1h SSSo "e AASe@hSS
of this. The gratitied parents swan
gracefully about the mere in which
they lived, while the great white
CORPSE of their son lay, battered and
dead, upon the shore. The following
year, after another had been born to
them, and in infancy carried upon his
mothers back, they began to treat
him so roughly that, not being pin
nioned like them, he wisely flew away,
and we saw him no more. Curiously
enough, geese which have experienced
rudeness from swans in the lusty
spring have been known to retaliate
in the calmer autumn, when the
ferceness of their enemy had become
mitigated. have seen a gander leap
upon the back of once arrogant
swan, and after period OF enforced
impotent enmlty, pound away at it in
the full enjoyment OF gratitied revenge.
-Cornhill Magazine.
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treme courtesy. Boys cut the pieces
of tissue paper the exact square, by
machine, and then force the centre
Of the square through the holes of a
brass rack. Then lad drops some of
the illuminate in the bottom of the lit
tie bag there formed, and another boy
fills the little paper up with gravel.
Then the racks are handed to girls,
who brush paste over the tops of the
papers and twist them tight into little
points so that the gravel cannot fall
out. This done they are packed in
sswdust, ten in box, and are ready
for you to awake your neighbors.
The one really dangerous place at
the factory is the laboratory where is
made the illuminate of silver used in
the torpedoes and percussion shells
and caps of all sorts. Muslin and
cheese cloth is used here for tops OF
tables, covers for boxes and every.
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woods, the strips should never exceed
three inches in width. With prices
for material and labor as reasonable
as they are present, there are few who
cannot afford its luxury of q finer
floor in few of the rooms.
The constant growing popularity OF
rugs and art squares for the dining
room and library has made hardwood
floors almost necessity for these two
apartments at least. 1t is true that
the ordinary matched pine floor may
be stained and shellacked with good
effect, but there is never the satistac'
tion that comes from q floor that is
meant to be seen.
Expensive marquetry floors, beauti-
full in themselves, are not required.
There are few more satisfactory and
attractive floors than those that are
well laid in thoroughly seasoned
maple. These are reasonable as to
first cost, and they are readily kept in
good condition. One advantage they
have over the beautiful oak floors is
that they do not become so CLASSY
smooth. They do not require such q
high polish as the oak, and conse.
quently have less of menace for fragile
bones. 1t is by no means necessary y
for the best effects that floors OF this
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Saved BY His Boot Heel.

J.B. OFT, brakeman. on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, was caught
under bad wreck which occurred ct
Alberton, Md, Wednesday night. He
was held by the left foot under the
truck of fat car loaded with coal.
After hard labor with hammer and
chisel, the oak timber of the truck
was cut away sufficiently % release
him, after an hours confinement in
his perilous position. OFT bravely
held the torch while the trainmen
worked to release him. DR.. William
B. Gambull, the company's surgeon,
made an examination, and, to the sur
prise of oil, Otto was found to be but
slightly injured. His strong boot heel
had protected his foot from the crush
ing force of the enormous weight rest
ing upon it.-Baltimore Sun.
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New Way OF Making Wire Nails.

A contrivance has been patented for
making wire nails on a cut-nail ma
chine. 1t is easily attached to COM
mon machine at a cost of less than
SIS. It consists of an arrangement of
dies into which the wire is drawn, and
the nail is made by quick pressure.
While this pressure is in progress, the
head and point forming the wire for
another nail is shot through to the
dies, so that the rapidity of manufac-
ture is equal to that of the ordinary
cut nail.
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MILLION DOLLAR NUGGET.
A Gold Miners Wonderful Find In
British Columbia.

British Columbia.
A prospecting miner returning,
wearied and disgusted, from an unsuc-
cessful season stumbles across boul-
der so rich in gold that in an instant
he is millionaire. It reads like q
fairy tale, but it happens to be true.
There is satisfactory evidence of the
truth of Martin Neilly's wonderful
find. 1t was on Monday, April 81, that
Nelly was returning to Rossland,
British Columbis, after an unsuccess-i
full prospecting trip in the Salmon
River district. he had reached the
Columbia River at roint about six
miles north of Trail Landing, B. c., at
about noon, and, selecting a site on
the bank OF the stream at the foot Of
Lookout Mountain, sat down to eat
his dinner. As he munched his hum
BILE food he noticed large boulder,
half buried in the sand in dry Dor.
ton of the river bel, not far from
where he sat.
When he had finished his meal, he
walked over to the boulder, examining
itin a casual manner, and then, as his
experienced eve detected signs Of 1.-THE
precious metal for which he had vain
Iy sought for months, he attacked the
great gray mass with his pick, work
ing with feverish energy. he almost
swooned when a fragment of the rock
came away, showing distinctly the
traces of gold and copper. g..