The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-03
Among the MonthIies.


There comes to our table for June new
venture in the magazine world. While
its house Of publication is hardly stones
throw from our own publishing house. and
is. therefore. a western product, It Is an up
to-date venture of regulation size, clean
print, finely illustrated and attractive IN
every way. Carriers Monthly, by John
Carter, Wichita, Kansas, one dollar a year
in illuminated cover is cosmopolitan mag
azine in style and contents, containing ona
hundred and seventy-six pages Of stories.
poems. historical sketches and local write
ups. among which is a paper on the In
dan question by Captain A. E. Woodson.
L. s. A, finely illustrated; a sketch on
pioneer life by the Hon. John Speer; From
Wilderness to Metropolis. by Noble Prem
tice; A Model City by Colonel E. c. Man.
ming; Oklahoma's Normal School. by Edwin
W. Doran, Phi D.; The New Kansas, by J.
Kansas Morgan. All of these articles are
profusely illustrated This June, and first
number of Carriers, which lies before US
has the appearance and all the character
istic ear-marks of an eastern city produc-
ton. OF the more particular coEmenda-
tory features Of this enterprise we will
speak later After the first excitation Of
establishment which will be experienced by
everyone on first catching a glimpse Of this
pretent.ous publication from the borders
of civilization will come the question, men
tally or expressed: Car such a magazine
fnd living support in such fieid?" Mr..
Carter proposes that the magazine Itself
shall answer affirmatively. In the mean-
time no one should fail Of buying the first
number OF this new Wichita venture, the
price being the popular one of ten cents.
There is greater concentration Of wealth
in the state of New York than elsewhere,
the average per inhabitant being 40 per cent
over that of the Union at large. This is
partly shown in the prodigious value OF
house-property, including public buildings.
which averages $50 per inhab-tant II the
state Of New York against $40 for the
whole Union. The six middle states taken
collectively give an average OF $3.50 OF house
property per inhabitant. which Is double the
ratio found In Great Britain, and hence 1t
may be affirmed that the people Of these
states are. on the whole, the best-housed
community in the world.
The average wealth per inhabitant has al
most quadrupled in forty years, marvel
lous proof of the progress Of these states.
and unparalleled in Europe; for McCulioch
lays it down that only prosperous nations
can double their wealth In that interval
The accumulation In the middle states per
inhabi;ant has been 5000 per annum higher
than In New England. and exactly double
the average accumulation yearly in Great
Britain in the interval Of 1Seo-9o. Agricul-
tural wealth forms only Is per cent Of the
total in the middle states, whereas 1t is q
per cent in the whole Of the Union.-From
4,
States" by Michael G. Mulhall. F. s. s., in
North American Review for June.
Elihu Burritt, ''the Learned Blacksmith,
was in many respects one OF the most note
worthy characters that New England has
produced during the century. The extent
of his linguistic attachments. self-sustain-
ed as he was without the privilege Of the
schools, was something remarkable and al.
most incredible. But he was not simply
machine for learning languages; he was
man of a most virile mind, Of great public
spirit and Of worldwide sympath:es. His
labors in behalf Of cheap postage and OF
international arbitration were more fruit
full than the labors of most anybody else
in his generation. and in this time when
the cause Of international arbitration is
to study Burritt's life again. Miss Ellen
Strong Bartletrs article upon him in the
June number of the New England Maya
zine is most opporture, and will be widely
read. We do not know Of any better popu-
lar account, and it is rendered the more
valuable by the hne portraits Of Nr. Bur
rift which accompany It. the views Of his
various homes and haunts, and the curious
fac-similes OF many Of his productions.
Warren +. Kellogg, Park Square. Bos-
ton, Mass.
The National Magazine, in its May num-
Der. presents a remarkable array OF inter-
esting articles. DR.. Edward Everett Hale's
Some Recollections Of the Century.
which is now IN the second chapter OF its
serial form, very naturally takes prece-
dence, in view OF the interest which at
taches itself to anything Of a reminiscent
nature, coming from SO gifted pen.
with the Fur-Seal Hunters" by W. G.
Emery, illustrated from photographs ia
ken in the northern ATTITUDES. furnish
very attractive account OF this industry in
the Alaska regions. A notably timely
sketch is one entitled Armenia and its
People" written by a refugee. which pre-
sents with striking photographs recently
taken in Armenia, an excellent description
Of the condition of this much-talked-of
country.