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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15
"ORATORIOS."
THE WAY THEY ARE WRITTEN by oNH
WHO HAS SET THE THAMES AFlhE'

NEW POEMS BY Francis Thompson DuoueO'A0'
PIP. lS9 Boston: Copeland q Day
In "My Lord the Elephant" the sublime Mu'
vaney tells how he played an "oratorlo upoi,
the brain pan Of an elephant with the oul. en.
Of a musket We are reminded OF the in0'u0">
by the New Poems" Of Mr.. Francis Ihoip'o.''
a writer over whose works his countryh'e" 40
London have chortled with emotion NeVer-ho'
never--was there such a poet. some VI '"eN'
declare. 1t Is easy to believe It Never a' any
rate since Mulvaney woke the echoes Win inc
m,Isket aforesaid. There is something akin u
his performance in Mr.. Thompsons eAtlaoi
binary doings. There is the same uncouth lui''
there is the same quality OF primitive rap'uie
there is the same exquisite absurdity. III '"'
more there is this difference When Mulvaney
wished to put all the passion or ms situd'.o
into his "oratorio." when he wished to let MS
Pegasus know the complex intuiticns which leu
him to desire a footing upon the earth ins'ea'
of 4 bright place among the stars Of eterhity'
he concentrated his tangled inspiration III one
Resembling thump; he showed himself very
high priest of simplicity. When Mr. Thompson
hungers to tell the world that bit OF earth OUT
side his study window is not at all excited, thae
it does not Wabble. that it is hopeleSsly' uhut'e'
ably anchored to its foundations, that in Snort
it does not move. he proceeds after tbs fashiOh'
The hill, which sometimes visibly is
Wrought with unreSting energies
Looked idly.
Now how in the name of the stone age, can
hill be wrought With energies. unrestinS or
otherwise and what manner of thing is NH
that looks idly? Plainly there is something
wrong here. or course there are shiDboleths
and a man is bewrayed as much by his sno
rance of one as by his fuency in the use OF the
hoe
of this sort in his mind when he exciaims:
o Nature, never-done
Ungapedat PentecOstal miracle
We hear thee. each man In his proper tongue!
But at least Mr.. Thompson ought to help US
out; he ought to play the part Of the poet, which
is that Of the intermediary between nature and
ourselves. Instead Of that, he leaves us de-
spairing Of the truth We ask for bread and he
gives US apocalyptc phrases
Utter stagnation
Is the solsttial slumber OF the spirit,
The blear and blank negation Of all life
he tolls rs. but we may sink down into it for
49, the h,.p he will lend What does lie care
about our solstitial slumbers 50 long he may
wrcak himself upon impassioned 'oratorios"?
1t is like a new Lewis Carroll. Is there any
thing richer in his wonderland" than the spec
tacle which Mr.. Thompson encounters in his
Land Of Luthany"?
There was never MOON
Save the white sufTicng woman:
Light most heavenly human
Like the unseen form Of sound
Sensed invisibly in tune
With sun-derived stole
Did inaureole
All her lovely body round:
Lovelily her lucid body with that light was
interstrewn.
This we venture to say, Is pure nonsense. No
doubt meaning lies at the bottom Of it. No
doubt Mr. Thompson knows what he is talking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15

ting Off the heads Of the Streltsy at the rate OF
two hundred day Is figure to loathe. Peter
the Great. introducing sheep into provinces
which had never known that animal, must
necessarily be rcvered by the thousands who
to-day shepherd some Of the biggest flocks In
the world. And for his brutalities he got, like
every criminal. his reward. He murdered his
son. Alexis, in order to secure the succession to
his adored child. Peter he tortured the son Of
the faithful EudoXia I'm order to crafty the
fathless and unspeakabc Catherine whom he
had put in her place. But in less than year
after the murder of Alexis the little Peter Pet
rovitch. GATHERINGS son, was In his grave, and
the Car had gained nothing. History is i'll
written that inspires VindictivenesS, but NJ.
Waliszewski is hardly to be blamed if he wakes
a kind of satisfaction in Peters discontinue.
our author Is on the whole, remarkably i'm
partial historian. The great Car keeps his
greatness in these pages. but H. keeps also the
traits which conflict with that greatness All
his brutality. all his cruelty al veness. all
his savagery we see clearly in this portrait. 1t
makes him hidcous, but, in conjunction with the
tremendous strength of the man, ii makes him
a fascinating figure. Lady Mary Boyd has
made an excellent translation which would have
been improved by more careful proofrcading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15

In an interview with Mr.. Sidney Lee. in THE
Academy" there are some interesting notes on
the preparation of The Dictionary of National
Biography" He describes remarkably sys-
tematc undertaking. The great book has been
printed with regularity unsurpassed in the his
tory of publishing. one point especially appeals
to the reader who wonders how the countless
contributors contrived TO got their articles into
such admirable shape making them neither too
long nor too short. Mr.. Lee says: Mr.. Leslie
Stephen wrote the life OF Addison as the model.
We used to send it to early contributors in
pamphlet form. but this became unnecessary
as the work proceeded. What we wanted was
a succinct, exhaustive and intelligent state
ment Of the facts Of mans life Invested of
every faint Of Partially. We wanted only q
minimum OF criticism. One OF my printed in
structions Is this: No inventory of domestic
virtues should be attempted l preached brey-
ity in and out OF season" But Mr.. Lee did not
practise 1t himself upon one important occasion
He made his life Of Shakespeare $4,000 words
long. Mr.. Lee says that the idea OF the Die
tionaIy" originated with Mr.. George Smith
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-15
A GREAT AUTOCRAT.
THE FOUNDER OF MODERN RUSSIA.

PETER THE GREAT. BY X. Waliszewski.
Author Of The Romance of an Empress, etc
Trans atcd from the French by Lady Mary
Boyd. With Portrait Octave. PIP. X, 562. ID.
Appleton a 90.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

The Phoenix Republican publishes what it is pleased to call "The Cover nor's Reply" to Buckley O'Neill's ar raignment of the governor for ratiiy- ing the prison labor contract. It is 8 weak attempt at impugning Mir. O'Neill's character and avoids an ex- planation of the salient features of the contract between the territory and the State of Arizona Improvement com pany. The governors attitude to the public appears to have radically changed since he got into office. Prior to his confirmation he was sensitive to public opinion. Now he is impertur- able. His change of front reminds us of the boy on the eastern shore of Maryland who was one day seen driv- ing & cart toward the beach, and was accosted by a gentleman of an inquir- ing turn of mind who asked the boy where he was going with the cart. The boy replied civilly, "To the beach to get load of fish," Returning with his load, the same gentleman remarked, "Well, you got your fish," when the young hopeful retorted, 'I don't know as that's any of your damned business. !" 
 Governor McCord has got his fish.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

Next years Klondike travel will be large, says the Mining & Scientific Press. The Canadian Pacific Railway company has already undertaken sur veys from Fort Wrangel, the mouth of the Stickeen river, 600 miles from Vancouver; thence by steamer up the Stickeen to Telegraph creek, 175 miles; then by railroad to Lake Teslin, 150 miles; by Lake Teslin, the Hoota- linqus and the Yukon rivers to Dawson City by steamer, 600 miles. An expe- dition is being made mp ii Chicago which will use the path traversed by the Hudson Bay company for nearly a century from Edmonton, N, W. T., by stage coach to Athabasca landing. thence via dog and cayuse along Mac kenzie river to Fort McPherson, on the Peel river.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30


 It is well-established fact that cop per held in solution in water can be easily obtained by using iron as pre- cipitant, but as precipitating copper in solution with iron is comparatively slow and in many instances costly, g moro active and less expensive pre- cipitant was much in demand. The Mining and Metallurgical Journal says that Mir. Thomas Wren, late of Eureka, but now of Reno, Nev., seems to have solved this problem beyond 8 doubt. He has made the question study and after repeated and numerous experi- ments with different substances, has discovered that copper in solution in water can be readily thrown down with alkali. It is claimed that alkali will precipitate the copper at once, while iron requires from twenty-four hours to several months-depending upon the amount of iron.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

As per program there was meeting at the territorial penitentiary on Tues- day. Governor McCord, Attorney General Frazler and Superintendent Darlington, for the territory, and ex- Senator Ives, Gsnetal Manager Baker and Chief Engineer Norton, for the State of Arizona Improvement com pany, met to perfect arrangements for the turning over of the territory's con- victs to the canal people. Little of in- terest transpired at the meeting, and the result has been widely exploited heretofore. The company will get the convicts under the provisions of the original contract with but one or two slight and immaterial alterations, and propose to very soon begin work on their mammoth enterprise. A large amount of machinery is already here and will soon be transported to the heading of the canal, where the big shovel will be built. Yuma Sun.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

The publishers of the Graham County Bulletin announce that it will soon be enlarged to afive-column eight page paper. A new Babcock cylinder press has been ordered and the Bulle- tin will have one of the best equipped printing offices in the territory. The enlargement of the Bulletin will be in- augurated by the publication of Q sixteen-page holiday number, to be issued December IT. The enterprise of the Bulletin Publishing company is commendable, and we wish them con- tinued success.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30


 While in the strict sense of the word it is true that La Fortuna has not as yet proven that she will go down, still the fact that at 800 feet the largest body of ore yet seen is in sight, and ore of great value is first class indi- cation and one not ut all discouraging to the owners. Last months output was almost S40,000, which, consider ing the fact that the company carries but about 70 men on the pay roll is remarkable. Two or threo greater monthly clean-ups have been made than this, but $40,000 is somewhat above the average. Sua.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

The Calumet & Hecla Mining con- pany's 1O4th dividend, of $10 per share, payable October l, will make $40 thus far in the calendar year 1897, and carries the total payments of that company across the $50,OO0, 900 mark, $50, 1850, 900 being the total amount thus disbursed, it now being exceeded in this regard only by the Comstock, Nevada.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

the validity of the recent law of con gress assuming to legalize the bond issues, and under authority of which the Yavapai bonds were funded, should be upheld. Then it would be perti- nent to raise the question whether or not the railroad company complied with the conditions of it's contract with the county. From the fact that the railroad was built and operated for period of six years and half, or longer, 1t is assumed that the company did fulfill the conditions imposed. And taking this view of the matter, the grave, if not fatal, error of Yavapai county was in not enjoining the re- inoval of the property of the railroad company from the county, through the sale and removal of which the county lost all benefits, supposed or real, ac- cruing from the construction of the railroad, and all hope of recovering any part of the money granted as a subsidy. A contract implies valuable consideration on both sides. A rail road is supposed to be Q fixture, to be maintained and operated as such, not for few years, but continually, with out limit.
 Those who contend that the Yavapai co lnty bonds are legal obligation lay gr eat stress on the assumption that the purchasers of the bonds bought them in good faith, that they are innocent parties" and that their rights should be recognized and protected. This posi- ton is wholly untenable. Persons buying property, whether real estate or bonds, closely scrutihize the tenure or validity, as the case may be. If real estate, the purchase is made only after an abstract of title has been pro- cured, showing that it is without flaw;
 
 if bonds, then as to their legality, the authority under which they were issued, and whether all the require ments or conditions pertaining to their issue have been complied with. The law under which the Yavapsi bonds were issued has been declared by the courts of Arizona and by the Supreme Court of the United States to be void. By the decision the holders of the bonds can not plead ignorance, or that they bought the bonds iu good faith, and they have no recourse upon the county.
 Whether the recent act of congress legalized the bonds is & question to be judicially determined. The Supreme Court of Arizona discredited the con gressionsl enactment by refusing to mandamus the funding commission to fund the Yavapai bonds, and in view of the position taken by the court on the question, nnd the fact that the suit to decide the legality of the bonds was set for trial September 25, Governor McCord certainly acted with undue haste in funding them.
 The bonds, if declared binding, are obligations upon Yavapai and Coconino counties, but the funding of them makes Arizona underwater for those counties, and, therefore, it is ques- tion which concerns the people of the whole territory.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

According to the corrected duplicate assessment list of Graham county for the year 1897 the assessable property amounts to S2,00S, 419.8s. which will bring a revenue of $76,320.12. This lifts the county from a fourth to n third class county. Guardian.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30
BUSINESS POINTERS.

If you want clothing made to order and guaranteed to fit at REASONABLE PRICES, call on me and l can please yoa. New samples just received.
 G. s. VAN WAGENEN. Why bother with your subscriptions when Eugene Middleton takes sub scriptions for any paper or book pub- lished at publishers prices. When in want of good whiskey call for Tom Howe.
 G. s. VAN WAGENEN,
 Sole Agent for Globe. Don't send away fer your job print ing. We do high grade work at most reasonable prices. Call and see our samples.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

Mrs. s. A. Kell, of Pomona, Cal, had the bad luck to sprain her ankle. 'T tried several liniments," she says,
 "but was not cured until I used Cham berIain's Pain Balm. That remedy cured me and l take pleasure in rec ommending it and testifying to it's efficacy" This medicine is also of great value for rheumatism, lame back, pains in the chest, pleurisy and all deep-seated and muscular pains. For sale by H. 0. Hitchcock, druggist.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

Dr. G. W. Vickers, of Prescott, waa last week appointed territorial auditor vice c. P. Leitch resigned. The auditor by virtue of his office is also a member of the board of control, chair man of the territorial board of equali- zation, member of the territorial loan commission, and bank comptroller- the most numerous office holder in Arizona.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30
THE PRISON LABOR CONTRACT

THE PRISON LABOR CONTRACT
 Prison lnbor has been disturbing question in almost every state in the Union, at one time or another in their history, and while no satisfactory solu- ton of the problem has been reached, yet the experiences of those states which have tested the several systems most in vogue are valuable guides for states for the first time taking up the question of the employment of convict labor. With almost all systems yet tried there has been moro or less irri- tation arising from competition with free labor, although this evil has been greatly exaggerated. The contract system has proved to be the most pro- fitable, but interferes with the disci- pline of prison and with reformatory measures which the state attempts at the same time to enforce.
 The lease system has proven still more unsatisfactory and it is singular that Arizona, with so much valuable information to guide her, should have adopted the most objectionable system that has yet been devised, and which after thorough trial, is being generally discarded owing to the many abuses which inevitably grow up under it.
 There is an ethical side to the ques- tion which outweighs the consideration of mere profit to the state. Convicts should not be looked upon simply as beasts of burden, but human beings, whom however depraved, the state is under moral obligation to do what it can to reform. Arizona has not only ignored this plain duty, but has abso. lutely forfeited the hope of making the prisoners self-supporting by leasing their labor for long term of years at Q nominal rate of wages payable in promisory notes (shares in prospect i've canaD which may never have any negotiable yaluo, and during the entire ten years through which tho contract with the State of Arizona Improve ment company is to run, the territory is required to feed, clothe and guard, and move the prisoners employed at the pleasure and direction of the canal company. There can be no doubt but that the expense of maintaining the convicts under the contract will be largely increased, and prove very bur densome to the territory. Had the territory insisted upon more equitable wsge-not less than S12 or Sl.5 per day-and required portion of it to be paid monthly or quarterly in cash, and exacted from the canal company a sufficient bond for the fulfillment of the contract, less objection would attach.
 But still better would it have been had the territory adopted the system now in vogue in New York, by utiliz- ing the prison labor in the manufac- ture of goods required in the prison, at the insane asylum and in the manu- facture of such articles as there would be demand for and which would not come into competition with goods now manufactured in Arizona At least portion of the prisoners time could be employed, and the income derived ap- piled to the support of the prison.
 The more the contract ratified by Governor McCord is studied, the more objectionable it appears, and the greater the suspicion that from its iu. ception it was a job.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

Special prices to wholesale buyers or boarding houses to defy all competi- tion; lowest prices, fair dealing, polite and quick service is E. F. Kellner & Co.'s watchword. Compare their prices with those you pay elsewhere.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

No goods will be charged at these Reduced Cash Prces
 Terms: Strictly c. o. D. and no Bookkeeping
Arizona silver belt., 1897-09-30

We will convince patrons that this change IS a Mutual Benefit and desst till the Cash Basis prevails Cash Customers need help pay other bad accounts
Evening journal., 1897-05-01
WHAT THE YOUTH NEEDED.
The Order was Given by the Man Whom
He Made Tired.

Now and then Chicago draws n chap
pic in the great shuttle of life. The other
day one arrived hero from an inland
town who had a few points to spare in
his trunk.
He took mp his residence in an aristo-
cratic family hotel, where lie appeared
religiously each night at a o'clock
dinner in the evening dress Of q second
class swell. This was all very commend
able and cleanly, and not at all extraor-
dinary where so per cent Of the men
did the same thing.
But the good impression awakened by
the chastity of the newcomers appear
ance in the ineffable bosom and tie was
obscured by his attempt to order his
dinner in as much French as he deem
ed would be intelligible. The sorority
of his final order for demitasse
was good for all the surrounding tables,
if not for the buffers pantry.
AS the first week rolled on the young
man grew more Frenchy, more mellow,
more metropolitan in spirit, and on the
occasion Of his first evening at home
made his way to the smoking room.
where he arranged himself dangerously
and picturesquely in an easy chair
Near him was the station Of a small
colored buttons.
"Garcon Garconm called out the
oriental one, but little William stood,
with his heavy, seallike eyes rolled up
ward and his great paws crossed sol
emnly over his brass buttoned jacket,
regardless and needless of tho over
whelming honor being done him.
"I say, there, garcon, won't you
bring me-ah''-
"Some brains, William, for this
chap, growled an apoplectic man Oh
the other side Of the room. Chicago
! Trihuup
Evening journal., 1897-05-01
They DO Not Mind The Pennies.

Experience has made the men of the
fruit stands overcautious in handling
coin above the size Of 10 cent piece.
The larger pieces they will test upon the
pavement or sink their teeth into in
tentative fashion. 1t is to be noted,
however, that whenever a customer
makes a penny purchase they pocket his
change without scanning it-aimost
hastily indeed There is deep reason in
this procedure.
For one thing, nobody counterfeits
the cent piece; it is too cheap. For an
other thing, the fruit dealer knows that
no coin of smaller denomination is pass
ing into his hands For a third thing,
and this is the most important, there is
always a chance that the customer is
deceived himself and is handing over a
nickel, a dime or one of the minor gold
pieces, under the impression that he is
paying but penny. If be looks satisfied
and starts to go away, he is not likely
TO be called back 10 get the change. Oc-
casionally some such involuntary wind
fall comes the way Of the fruit man. -
New York Mail and Express.