The times., 1897-05-23

last, when we neighbors know that every
reading Baltimorean is primarily interested
In the affairs next door, /. e., Washington.
They send forty trains Il day over mere,
they have newspaper offices as large here
as at home, and in a dozen ways theymani-
fest an unsuitable interest In our affairs.
Louisville is supposed to be presently in
terested in ..Margaret Ogilvy' Your
correspondent is deceiving you. II he
wrote vivaciously he would acknowledge
that 1.-The Battle of the Bays" has larger
interest for all Kentuckians than any other
book Youcan tpit English mothers against
horse races In the Blue Grass region.
Depend upon it, both st. Paul and Mime
apolis are buying up whole editions Of The
Wisdom of Fools" blissfully unconscious
that each believes herself readagof the 9th
err Humor this wounded pride which sores
us in our exclusion and admit Washington
to the lists OF course your valued returns
from Indianapolis, Providence. Rochester,
Toledo and Worcester are OF vastly more
Importance, but we offer you the advantage
Of m approx ximately permanent list. AT the
top you may keep always "Officeseeking
Made Easy; or Offices Not Under the Civil
Service" 10 cents at any news stand; and
in second place Kate Thomas Washington
Etiquette without which no society
lady" whether she be the wife OF a mem
ber from Arizona or Michigan, would feel at
all secure In the third place you could
safely place that valuable archaeological
classic. the Congressional Directory, and
fourthly the Elite List. Portion the rest as
varying months indicate between kipiing
and Laura Jean Lbbey. Barrie and the
nrt-ln
IT. indeed, as has been lngeniously suH-
gested, there is a geography or literature
and New England belongs to Mary r.
wilkins, Canada to Gilbert Parker, Wiz
gipia TO Thomas Nelson Page, Kentucky
to James Lane Allen, the Tennessee moun-
tains to Charles Ecbert Ciaddock aud
lowiands to Opie Reid, Georgia TO Joel
Chandler Harris, Louisiana to George w
Cable, the Missi ssippi Valley to Mark
Twain. the Rockies 10 Bret Harte, then is
Iowa Thanetland.
Octave Tbanet has written faithfully
and ch arrningly of the prairie town
peon,e She has brought them the nd
miration of readers, and she has disclosed
To her readers the primitive but honest
and admiIahle natures of her people
book. '.The Missionary Sheriff This is
a collection OF six stories about Amos
Wickliff. They have a plot value only in
a remote sense, for they are, primarily,
studies OF the character OF a man VINO com
bines executive ability with strong
will. and a very gentle human nature.
Each OF the stories is focus on some one
OF his peculiar characteristics All or
them are written with exquisite efficacy,
even in treating the apparently rough ma
ture of new community peace officer.
But IL is in the discovery and evolven'cnt
of the softer aud more human side of
rough mans nature that furnishes the
original charm OF the WORK
In the first story, The Missionary Shef-
iff,'' he has under his charge young man
with q black criminal record. But the prs
oner hasa mother; the sheTifrdiscovers this
still eXistant tie, and, with quiet but tren-
chant methods, he works upon the flaity
OF the man to change his heart. There is
delicious humanity and exquisite pathos
in every paragraph In His Duty he is
about to arrest man for crime committed
long before. when ne suddenly discovers
that the man has earnestly reformed.
The other stories are, by name: The Cab
met Organ The Hypnotist," The
Next Room and The Defeat Of Amos
wickIiff'' : The oefeat is the conquest OF
love. tNew York: Hsrpers. Washington:
Wood ward & Lothrop)
Not only those few whose pl iasant privi-
iege it was to be present at the intellect
ual fetes OF the sesqui-eentennial of Prince
ton University, but those as well whose