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BOOKS OF THE HOUR
NEW EDITION OF ADAMS CLAW OF
CIVILIZATION AND DE-
CAY"
"AMYAS EGERTON, CAVALIER. .
UNITED STATES" BY GEORGE
IT. CURTIS.
'AMYAS EGERTON, CAVALIER
A TALE OF A HYPNoTrzED MUMMY
sFThe Golden FIeece''-ssTwO Queens
Holiday Books for Young Peo-
ple-Literary Notes.

The second edition of Brooks Adams
"Law of Civilization and Decay" has
just been issued. Although the. author
''takes the opportunity to say tina,
= such value as the essay may have lies
in its freedom from preconceived bias, .
the book is likely to seem to the
thoughtful reader an awkward piece OF
special pleading. Mr.. Adams treats OF
the rise and fall of nations from the
standpoint of their financial systems
and forecasts the fall of our civiliza-
somewhat similar economic causes. OF
all the other forces which enter into
growth and decay he takes small ac-
count, and, although he is wary of
making statements, the reader infers
that he anticipates that when our pres
ent civilization passes, there will be no
renascence for the race, since the sup
ply Of barbaric blood is practically ex
hausted. This pessimistic conclusion
apparently accuses nature Of working
for mans extinction or debasement,
since it is nature which produces the
economic brain" which Mr. Adams
finds to be the root of all evil. The
assumption that the supply of barbaric
blood is exhausted takes no account
of Russia, which is still barbaric
enough. according to the standards of
Western Europe, and the whole scheme
of decay as Mr.. Adams works it out
takes absolutely no account of the fact
that, though civilizations have risen
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replaces like amount OF pure sherry,
and thus, after a time, the decoction
becomes simply wine. Women smokers
outnumber the men in the proportion of
three to one. This is because, general
ly speaking, they have more spare time
than men. Could statistics be obtained,
they would doubles show that nearly
every member. Of the demi-monde was
a user OF opium in some form or other
Continued smoking so Weakens the
system that it becomes prey to dis
eases which would not otherwise be
contracted and which kill off the VIC
tim at an early age. Thus it happens
that big majority of these people
are under the age of tWenty-eight or
thirty years.
Next to New York, Boston contains
the greatest number of pipe fendS'
Of American cities-nearly as many as
Gotham. Boston also has the finest
Chinatown" in this country, and Chi
nese come all the way from San Fran
cisco to visit it. The custom or habit
Of opium smoking was introduced into
the United States when the Chinese
first began arriving in California.
Wherever they have settled tbs prac-
tice has manifested itself 1t is claimed
that in every city and town in the
dulged in. The habit costs some
thing, too. In the first place. a "1ay-
OUT or outfit will average S25. A
smoker will use from two to eight
drains a day, costing from 50 cents
to 81. Some of the more expensive
OF paraphernalia is made of gold and
cost from $500 up to perhaps $500.
Many smokers are constantly float
ing about the country, but whether
they carry a layout" or not they can
always find a place to inhale their
favorite drug. Provided they know no
one in a strange town. they find out
the place or places where opium is
hang around in the vicinity until
fellow sufferer appears to make a pur-
chase. An acquaintance is soon struck
up, and off they go to 'tllit her up
as they express it. There are what
are known as pleasure smokers"
meaning those who have not regularly
contracted the habit. but who smoke
for pastime only. They are called
suckers by the ''f1ends"
1t has been claimed for the Chinese vice
roy. Ii Hung Chang, that he does not use
opium. but the writer haDnens to know that
New York had to be thoroughly fumigated
after his departure account Of the almost
overpoWering odor of opium which perme-
ated it. Few Americans have ever attained
even a fair degree of proficiency in speaking
the Chinese language. Probably Americans
who have freGuented Chinese dens where
nDium is smoked know more about the
''lngo" than any other class OF their coun-
trynen. Smokers pride themselves in call
ing the articles Of the layout by their Chi
nese names. Thus the needle used in cook
ing the opium is the yen hook, the instrument
used to clean the pipe is the ven she gov,
the refuse or remains of the opium after be-
ing cooked are the yen she. the bowl Of the
pipe is the tow. and the opium proper is tho
yen hop. 1850
When a person feels yearnipg to smoke,
he says he has yen yen. -Ex-smoker.
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JUDAS OF DRUGS
1T FIRST GIVES IT'S VICTIM A KISS
AND THEN SURELY BE-
TRAYS.
TWENTY THOUSAND VICTIMS
OF THE OPIUM SMOKING HABIT
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
ALONE.
STRENGTH OF ITS CLUTCHES.
of the Drug as Popularity Sup
posed.
special Correspondence Of the Globe.

Special Correspondence Of the Globe.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-To those who
have believed that all American China
men were addicted to opium it will be a
revelation to know that this drug is to
the Chinese what whisky is to Ameri-
cans-a stimulant, a luxury, but far
from a necessity. Those who speak
with authority born of experience say
that only SO per cent of American Ce-
lestials use the stuff in any of It's
many forms. But there are fully 10000
white people in New York city alone
who do. There are all kinds of @fiends"
in this city, users of morphine, choral,
hasheesh, laudanum, cocaine, chloro-
form, arsenic and ergot, to say nothing
Of victims Of the new ''paraldehyd hab-
it," the substance Of which is a coal
tar product. But we have more opium
eaters and smokers than all the others
combined. Smoking it is the principal
way the drug is used.
While it is asserted that some of
New York's upper ten smoke opium
or 'hit the pipe" in their own homes,
the people most partial to the habit
are crooks, green goods men and wo-
men of the street. Outside of China
town." in therlower part Of the city,
the precincts most inhabited by opium
smokers are from Fourteenth street to
Forty-second street west of Broadway
(the old Tenderloin) and from Fiftieth
street to SEVENTEEN street on the West
. side. st-.-
Almost anyone can ten a person who
practices this habit at glance. The
face is drawn the complexion sallow
and the pupils of the eye are invariably
contracted whether exposed to the light
or the dark. The general effect of
opium, il continued is to render the
subject so that he or she takes a most
sanguine view Of everything 1t does
not hurt the brain, but rather sharpens
the senses Even it's enemies admit
that stupid people who use it become
much brighter. That it seizes it's vo-
taries in a clutch as relentless almost
as death itself may be guessed when it
is learned that, while every confirmed
smoker asseverates his wish to be
cured, but 8 per cent ara ever perma-
nently weaned from the allursments
OF opium. This is done chiefly by will
power, but as a substitute for the drug
opium and sherry are utilized. Two
drains of opium are q2issofyeds in a quart
Of sherry. The *fiand takes. a table
spoonful of this mixture three times E
day. For every spoonful he drinks ht
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J. and fallen, the round that the raca
treads is proved, to be a spiral and
each circle is higher than the last
Whatever his ultimate destiny may be,
man is certainly becoming spiritual
lied. The process is a slow one, doubt
less, and it may be that our own civil
1zation is by no means the fine flow
ering Of human life that we should be
glad to think it. But if we, too, must
pass it will be to make way for anoth-
er race whose ultimate expression OF
existence will be higher than our own.
History teaches nothing if not LIS,
and we are not to be robbed of the be-
lief by any sincere but limited mind
Of the second order, such as Mr.. Brooks
Adams apparently possesses.
- (''The Law of Civilization and Decay" Inv
Brooks Adams. New York. Macmillan &
20. ~ For sale by the st. Paul Book and
stationery company
IT is more than forty years since
the first volume was published of the
Constitutional History of the United
States by MIR. George Ticknor Curtis.
That work dealt with the sources, dis
cussions and early history of our
LuHdd4leuldl HdtlOUdl document.
Forty years has proved a long time
In the life of the nation, but it is even
longer in the development of the writer
CT history. Mr.. Curtis gave twenty
years of his later life to the task COW
cred by the second volume, which real
~ covers the evolution of the consti-
luton and its working in practical ap-
plication, together with the amend
ments and INTERPRETATIONS which
were made necessary by the civil war.
The writer's point of view in regard
to the great events grouped under the
now historic word Reconstruction
can be judged by his argument to show
that the fourteenth amendment was
not adopted in a manner contemplated
by the founders Of the government.
The author is probably right, but
neither did the founders of the gov
eminent contemplate the whole series
or events that grouped about the set
tlement of the slavery question The
g. final historian of the organic law of
this country will doubtless discuss. the
constitutional revolution in the gov
eminent Of the United States as more
significant historically, and more per-
manent politically, than the dramatic
events Of the rebellion itself 1t is a
different government for veal or woe
since the events of the sixties. From
a confederation of states has been de-
Veloped nation. Doubtless the proc
ess was not throughout self-consis.
tent The lawyer would think it
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-08
the gaunt hand of want has removed
thousands from Tta1v

the gaunt hand of want has removed
thousands from Italy.
Great Britain has had it's share CT
famines, and ljieven as late as the
twelfth century 10000 people starved
in Londop. The Irish famines in the
eighteenth century were the most nota-
bic of these, but the worst that has
occurred since that great one follow
ing the war with the Desmonds was
that of 1901. The foundation for this
was laid in the severe winter of 1893
when the potato crop was entirely de-
stroyed. BY the succeeding January
restitution was widespread and ragged
with dire intensity. The effects were
shocking. Although vast numbers Of
the Irish peasantry found their way
to America no less than 100000 died by
inches, the victims of starvation. The
death list was further added to by the
merciless enforcement of the laws, for
hundreds Of hungry men who stole
bread rather than starve We're prompt
ly hanged. Then came the typhus
fever, which doubled the number of
victims, so. that by, the fall of 1S41
more than 100000 of the Irish people
had died most wretched deaths
These scenes have been duplicated in
somewhat lesser degree on several
subsequent occa Sions, and it was al
ways the failure Of the potato crop
which did the mischief. Instead of
drought, however, as in India, it was
the cold and rainy season that killed
the crops. In 1855 the Irish famine
was due to the potato blight, which
was felt to some extent in this country
and. Canada al This famine cost the
British government over $55, 000, 600 and
the United Estates, besides sending
millions of dollars in private subserip-
lions, ssent two warships loaded with
provisionssT It was more than two
years before Ireland fully recovered
from thisiq famine, for as late as 184S
100000 persorss or about one in every
seven, We're reqeiving aid. The famine
results, but 1T was bad enough.
Russia. too, has had it's great fam
Ines, and the terrible sufferings of the
cars sub5eCtStin 1928 are recent
enough toTbe. remembered by every one
But India has been the famine land
from time immemorial. When nature
smiles and thsF rains come in their
season, there. IL no more fruitful soil
than that Which lies south of snow
capped HimalayaS. AT it's best India
Is paradise, and the human increase
is almost as great as that which the
soil produces in the grain. But when
the sinoon is dry, then the face of the
country changes, and death mows
down millions. s.-s
By encouraging irrigation the British
government has done little something
to ward off famine and by extending
the transportation system the means
of fighting starvation and disease have
been increased, but still, in spite of all
that has been done or can now be done,
many thousands OF natives will prob
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-08
WANT AND WOE ARE AGAIN
THREATENING UNFORTUNATE
INDIA.
eFAILUREDE5 THE WHEAT CROP.
1T MEANS DIRE DISTRESS TO THE
SIxTX MILLION OF HIM
DOCS.
How India gIreIandg and Russia Have
y e 't7 Suffered in the
4 Past.

over all Northern India hangs the
dread shadow Of famine. Here in this
land OF plenty, where we hear SO much
ABOUT over-production and glutted
markets, where potatoes and apples
rot because it does not pay the farm
ers to ship them, and where we often
use corn for fuel, it is hard to realize
what widespread misery and whole
sale death can follow in the train of
crop failure. But no native of India
rails to comprehend the meaning of the
reports which have recently reached
US. even on this side of the earth
The cable dispatches which tell us
that the crops in large part of the
Northwest provinces, in Oudh, in the
Pun1ab and two districts Of upper
Burma are seriously damaged mean
but little to U.s. But when we learn
tnat the full import is that $4,000, 900
people are in danger of starvation the
situation assumes serious aspect.
Drought, a long, terrible drought, is
the cause. For many months the pitt
less Indian sun has burned f1ercely in
the orassy sky and the earth and all
green things have been baked until
the surface of the country is brown
and dusty The summer. rains which
should have followed the setting in of
the monsoon, did not come as usual,
and the88wheat and other grain crops
witheredand died long before the har-
vest TING came.
Wholly DEPENDENT, as they are, upon
the annual gsbonnty of nature. these
teeming millions Of people could only
watch with helpless horror the fields
grow scar and brown, knowing that
they had no resource to fall back upon
when the crops withered. Who can i'm
aglne the agony Of mind with which
they saw the famine stealing upon
them? Sixty millions of them there
are, andtwefve months must come and
go before the ripe grain can be gath
cred from another harvest field.
In the Northwest provinces and
Oudh there is a population Of more
than 100000, equal to the population
OF the whole German empire and de-
pendent upon an area Of land lust
one-haf the size In the Punjab, which
is just about the size of Nevada, there
are over s20,Q06,000 people. The whole
famine district has a population al
most equal to. that of the United
States, butts area is just about one
tenth as Agreat s1s
Historians estimate that the world
has seen no. less than $50 might fam
ines, and they begin by counting the
great famines in the time of Abraham.
Hundreds Of years before Christ Rome
shad its famine, and in modern times
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ably die of hunger within the next few
months. The man on whose shoulders
falls the responsibility of fighting death
for the helpless millions in the famine
districts is the Earl of Elgin and Kin
caroline. He Is descendant of Robert
Bruce. and his father before him oc-
cupied the post of viceroy and gov
ernor general of India He has held
Office only since 1893, but this is not his
first famine experience.
Alfred R. Rowley.
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On Our Book Table.

From the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company:
Harper Bros. New York Limitations. I"
by E. F. Benson. SIPS. Impressions and
Experiences, by w. D. Howells S1.50. "a
Rebellious Heroine" by John Kendrick
Bangs. SIPS.
H. s. Stone Co. ga Child of the Jago,"
by Arthur Morrison. s1.5O. I'm Buncombe
County" by Maria Louise Pool. SIPS.
R. F. Fenno & Co. New York. "Rcbert
Urquhart," by Gabriel Setoun. 81.
Lee & Shepard. 1.-THE Rosebud Club" by
Grace LIE Baron rs cents.
Merimee. 81.
A. C. McClurg & Co. Chicago. s.From
Avalon by Emily Huntington Miller 81.
"Pierette," by Marguerite Bouvets $1.25.~
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vietoria.s aueer Hobby.

The paper ON which letters to the queen are
written must not be folded. No comnunica-
ton which bears evidence Of having been
creased will ever find its way into her
majesty's hands, The proper method is to
write on thick glossy paper, and to dispatch
the missive in an envelope which fits it. Any
folded communication never reaches the queen,
for the simple reason that she won't look at it.
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Atmosphere Imposition,

Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Weary Waddler-Say. Mosey, we've got to
git out of this here climate to once.
Mosey Mogalong-Wot's the matter with 1t I?
Weary Walker - It's this blasted atmos-
phere.~s They ~eaH 1t humid. That means It's
full of moisture
Mosey-<5TeHs wot of 1t?
Wearyti'Why, great Caesar. man, we're
takin baths every hour an not KNOWN it.
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wildcat and schooIma'am.

Susquehanna penn Spec. New York Press.
AS Miss Fielding schoolmistress at Pleasant
Mount, Wayne county opened the wood
shed door before opening school on Friday
morning, she was startled to see a good-sized
wildcat spring from a woodpile toward the
door, which shut. Miss Fielding ran
toward the door for the purpose of letting the
animal escape, when the cat attacked her.
rected blows she killed the animal which
weighed forty pounds. Miss Fielding was not
iniu
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About Books

; You almost invariably depend
S on finding the latest books on
; our New Book Table, and at
s special discounts from publish
! { ers' prices. Any of the following
81 are well worth reading:
Taquisara,
By T. Marion Crawford,
The Gray Man,
BY S. r. Crockett.
The Wizard,
By H. Rider Haggard.
Mistress of Brae Farm,
By Rosa Carey.
A Book of Martyrs,
BY Corneia Atwood Pratt
Sir George Tressady,
BY Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
Sentimental Tommy,
BY J. NJ. Barrie
Kate Carnegie,
By Ian Maclaren.
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William Doxey, the San Francisco publish
er, best known in the East, perhaps, by the
fact that the Lark" is issued from his
house, announces for immediate publication
1.-The Itinerant House and Other Stories. i"
by Emma Frances Dawson, and Tales of
Languedoc,'' by Samuel Jacques Brun, one
of the Leland Stanford professors The
book will contain more than forty illustra-
tons by Ernest Peixotto, whose work COM
Dimes vigor and delicacy in a remarkable de-
gree.
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1t carries the hero of the preceding
volume, Dick Lyon, into stirring.
scenes at Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing,
and Corinth. The main incidents are
historically correct and the keynote
OF the tale is patriotism.
con the Staff" by Oliver Optic Boston.
Lee Shepard. $3.50. For sale by the st.
Paul Book and Stationery company
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Party Treason.

Cleveland Leader. .st s-1.ss5 ..ag ssiaa-E
.sRide a binyole." exclaimed the newly
Matched Populist. tIadeed Il do not.
should consider it treason 20 my party.
''Why SCI" asked the seorcher In surprise.
why. I read in the paper the ether day of
fellow who was thrown from his bicycle and
got lock-jaw in consequence. Think what
that would mean tn. a. Popuiist-"
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In Deadly Earnest.

Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Officer" said the excited little man. 1.-TWO
fellows have just begun to talk politics in
my hotel. and want you 70 step them be-
fore they get to fghting'' H4AT
Sure" said the policeman. What makes
you think they will fght?' --'"-- -''''+
They are boilers from opposite parties.''a Al
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Let's outt Worrying. Now.

That the earth is solid right to the center,
with the exception Of lakes and reservoirs
of molten matter below the crust, has been
demonstrated by the recent researches of Lord
Kelvin and other authorities.
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Among the features of the November Out
ng are. Football of 1885, by Walter Camp;
Athletics of 49," by w. B. Curtis, and
me Story of Penny Pencil, by S. A.
Wedderburn.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-08

Edward Arnold will publish in November
Life, the Accuser," by the author of "A
Superfuous Woman
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-08

Harper's Weekly dated Nov will contain
the first chapters of new short serial of
Scotch life, entitled Lady Love- by S. R.
Crockett author of THE Gray MAN. and
The Raiders There will be four-page
article, profusely illustrated on historic New
York houses. Bostons subway. by which the
street car traffic in the business portions of
the city is to be put underground. will be
described in text and pictures. The great
naval sound money parade in New York har-
Dor will be depicted.
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Notes.

The Macmillan company announce .'Guesses
at the Riddle of Existence" by Prof Gold
win Smith.
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The Midland Monthly contains an inter-
esting account of Joaquin Miller's Mountain
Home 'sThe Western Association of Writ
ers. and ION Foot in Egypt and Palestine -
"The Effect of Republican Victory. -by T.
G. Plat. is the leading article in the No
vember North American. DR.. Charles Tnwing
writes Of the influence of the College in
american Life;W S. HARDWOOD of what
the Country Is Doing for the Farmer the
Bishop of Albany of 'Some Later Aspects of
Woman Suffrage Sir Charles Dixie of
Election Trials in Great Britain Col War
ing of Government by PARTY" and the
minister to Siam tells 1.-THE Plain Truth
About Asiatic Labor"
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~ ~ The latest production Of the in
tffGashfe Oliver Optic is entitled ION
The STAFF, 3" being the fourth OF '"The
Blue and the Gray on Land" series.
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The latest issues in the Temple
Shakespeare are Venus and Adoniels''
and THE Rape of I.ucFece." The
fTontispiece Of the lattersis an etching
of Shakespeare from the Heminge and
Condell monument by G.. ]. Allen,
While the former contains a charming
view of Charlecote.
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CThe Temple Shakespeare-"yenus and
Adonis.'' The Rape of LucTece." IS cents
each. The Macmillan company. For sale
by the st. Paul Boelk and Stationery COM
pany.)
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C'Poems OF William Wordsworth" Vol.
VII. Edited by w. Knight. The Macmillan
company. S1.5G. For sale by the St. Paul
Book and Stationery company