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NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS.

81 must save this" So we say as we read in
our daily paper. 1t may be powerful article
on some political question or a new mayonaise
dressing. We cut it out, put it away some
where-when wanted it is usually missing,
says a writer in an English exchange
With most OF US it is perplexing question
how best to preserve these clippings. 1t re-
quires more time and patience than goes to
the average makeup to keep well-arranged
and systematic scrapbooks. Accumulated pro-
miscuously they are almost useless An
acquaintance of mine has solved the problem
most charmingly. During the years of her
long life (she has celebrated her golden we'd
ding) she has made practice of cutting out
enything of interest to herself and placing it
in that book in her library treating on the
same subject. Her large library has thus be-
come doubly interesting and valuable
These unassuming bits of paper often act as
side lights, illuminating and making clearer
the original thought. AS browsed among her
books I found in q volume of Tennyson a
sketch of the poets life, a clipping from Punch
on the occasion of his knighthood, little ex-
planatory note on the words 'bar of Angelo"
that helped me to read "In Memoriam" more
intelligentlY. In "Old Creole Days. was
sketch OF George Cable. another OF the French
quarter of New Orleans and criticisms favor
able and adverse to the writer. Hymns of
the Church Militant was nileQ Win tneSe
fugitive poems, often so beautiful in senti-
ment, that are read, admired and forgotten in
the course of the day. The dictionary and a
book OF quo tatlons were receptacles for clip
pings on the origin of words or phrases. Some
times these scraps were pasted around the
margin or attached to the top of the page, but
were usually lying loose in the book. An old
copy of Magnalrs Question had in it odd
tiles OF history.
A book on natural history was greatly in
creased in interest and in reading matter by
the host of gleanings relative to bird and ami
NAL lfe Parrot, snake and monkey stories
were there galore, but there was also much
relative to the less well-known branches OF
the kingdom. Every volume of an American
Encyclopedia was bulged out of shape by its
added wealth of information, the culled anno-
tations heing often fresher and more reliable
| than the main article. In taking down q
book from this library there is always the
pleasurable excitement of discovery. One
almost instinctively turns first to the clip
pings Where much reading is done they
might be in the way, but the books from the
bookcase are not usually the reading of the
family. Our systematic friend put few scraps
In the books most used, and her friends, ac-
customed to her ways, knew where to go in
search OF information. "Mother's scraps"
were whole reference library to her family.
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A CURIOUS OLD BIBLE.

James vincent Sr. of Tabor, Iowa. owns the
only copy OF the "Bug Bible" in the United
states. so he writes to Librarian Stevenson
OF the Allegheny Carnegie Library. There is no
direct ofter OF sale, but a suggestion that it
should be in some public library.
Mr.. vincent says the Bible was brought to
this country IN 1649, and that it is one of only
tour copies extant the remaining three being
In EngIlsh COLLECTIONS. He says it bears date
OF 1o4S ana mas the Introduction by Miles
Coverdale. His allusion to the queer transla-
ton of a word, which has given this RibIa the
name of "Bug," is correct, and If he states the
date accurately it is a more precious conv
than that generally called the "Bug Bible. i"
In the fifth verse of the NineIy-frst psatu, the
reading is, 'Thou shall not need to be afraid
for any bugges by night" whereas the autbor.
lied version has "terror" for "bupoes"--nos.
sibly a word akin with bogie and not an old
English plural for bug.
Then Mr.. Vincent alludes to this on rions
note of the editor to the third chapter of the
first epistle OF st. Peter. where the text al
iudes TO the wife, Sara: "And II she he not
obedlent and helpful unto him (he) enda.vor-
eth to beat the fear OF God into her head. that
thereby she may be compelled to learn her
duty and TO do it." Such were sixteenth cen.
tury ideas of disciplining wife
Mr.. Stevenson says he has no fund ayailabla
for the purchase of rare editions of the Bible
tor If once begun an approach to even a fine
collection would entail a large expenditure
The "Bug Bible" has its much better known
companions, all named from typographical
errors, as the "Vinegar Bible" which calls the
parable of the vineyard that of the Vinegar. !.
the "Placemaker's Blble," which contains the
spoils doctrine by making placemakers. and
not peacemakers, blessed and not least of all,
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gExgg,AARGARET HUNGERFoRD,

FNGEE1ARGARET HUNGERFORD, better
4 AX4S known as "The Duchess" is dead.
A%E4S Mrs. Hungerford was born in Ireland
in 1859 She was the daughter of the late
Rev. Canon Hamilton, rector of st. Faugh-
mans Cathedral, in Ross, Cerberry, County
Cork. The Hamiltons were an old and dis
tinguished family.
"The Duchess was married first when quite
a young girl to a gentleman by the name of
Angles. After six years of happily married
life she was left q widow, with three little ones
depending upon her for sustenance.
She had written shor stories for her own
amusement in her younger days. But it was
not until she was compelled to support her
self and her family that she adopted novel
writing as a means of livelihood.
Since then. and that was twenty years ago.
she contributed TO the press no less than
two novels year.
In 1888 1.-THE Duchess" married Henry
Hungerford, the son OF q wealthy Irish land
owner, but her success as writer had been SO
marked that she still wrote on. At the time OF
her death she had accumulated quite for
tune and had a reputation wider than that oI
many better writer.
In her private life "Tbe Duchess Is said to
have been Q most charming woman. She was
surrounded by wealth and friends, and she
kept her beautiful home at st. Brendss, in the
county OF Cork, tull OF guests. AS writer
Mrs. Hungerford made up in quantity whai
she lacked in quality. Her writings are well
known, but their character is hardly to be
commended. They sold well, however. Her
first work, Phyllis" was condemned by the
English critics but eagerly read by the masses
Her last novel, Nor Wife Nor Maid," was
eagerly waited for, in spite of its very ques-
tionabIe tone
still the novels of The Duchess" cannot be
wholly condemned. While it must be con-
ceded that she took rather poor standard to
work upon, there are touches of wit, humor
and pathos in her stories which go far to re-
deem them from utter condemnation. Had
Mrs. Hungeriord been a highly educated
woman, with her natural brightness and in
genuity, she might hold far higher place in
the world of literature.
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the "wicked Bible" which leaves mot" out !

the "Wicked Bible" which leaves mot" out
OF the seventh commandment
In 1877 there was held in South Kensington.
England, the Caxton memorial celebration in
honor of the four hundredth anniversary of
Caxton's printing press. Part OF the exhibition
was devoted to Bibles, and therein was bug
Bible OF 1851. 1t was known rs the Matthews
translation, pseudonym for John Daniel, and
the text was that of Coverdale, the first trans
lator of the complete Bible into English from
the "Douche and Latyn." But the bug error
is also in the Matthews edition OF 1549. 1t was
in these days when the common people dared
not possess Bible, and William Lyndale was
strangled to death. But what this Caxton ex-
hibition solved was what, as a literary mys-
terry, had ELECTED inquiry for three centuries.
"Where was tho Coverdale translation
printed?" 1t was settled to be Antwerp, Bel
gium, and, curiously enough, that is where
Mr. Vincents Bible was printed.
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great care to show what has been the effect of
the action of the various political parties and
are as full and complete as it has been posi-
BILE to make them. The statistics bearing on
the financial question are ample. A concise
history of all our financial panies, with their
causes, is also given. The Cuban war and
the Venezuelan dispute are continued from
the almanac of last year.
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER ALMANAc-Price
25 cents. This is record of historic and sta
tistic facts for the Office, home and farm. 1t
contains record of current events expressed
in a very condensed way. calendar OF gar
dening operations is among its features, and
statistics of crops, maps and population OF
Congressional districts, finances of foreign
nations, statistics of American industries and
much other information
THE Los ANGELES TINES YEAR -BooK-The
Times Mirror Company, Los Angeles, Califor-
mia. Issued quarterly. Price so cents per
year. This is California reference book an
encyclopedia of information for residents ana
tourists. Besides presenting statistics of a
general nature it furnishes a comprehensive
epitome of facts relating to California. Among
the general features are answers to thousands
of questions that are constantly being pro-
pounded.
THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC-The Tribune Asso-
citation, New York. Price 25 cents. For sale
by the San Francisco News Company. This is
q political register. Ithas condensed informa-
Iion about National party conventions, poll
tical State platforms, acts and resolutions of
Congress- postal, divorce and ballot-reform
laws, copyright, trademarks, pension statistics
and much else.
THE ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH ALMAEAC-Priee
25 cents. This is cyclopediG of historic,
statistical and political facts, and its special
feature is weather forecast for every day,
based on the theories and discoveries of the
late Professor John H. Mee by Professor C. H.
Lillingston.
THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ALMANAC
Price 25 cents For sale by the San Francisco
News Com pany. This is a book OF information
Greater New York and Long Island. 1t con-
tains number OF splendid maps
THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS ALMANAC-Price 25
cents. This. in addition to much general in
formation, contains a complete and detailed
register of the governments of all the States,
particularly OF Pennsylvania, Delaware, New
Jersey and Maryland.
THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD ALMANAC - For
sale by the San Francisco News Company.
This contains besides concise general facts a
number of pages about the American turf,
aquatic events, baseball and general sports
The PUBLIC LEDGER ALMANAC-For sale by
the San Francisco News Company. This is q
very small one with much condensed lorna
tion about Philadelphia, printed on nice
smooth paper.
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couragement Won Bulow owed so much in his
youth and early manhood. There are many
revelations of precocious talent in other direc-
tions than music, and the biographical details
illustrate portion of the arIists life of which
little has been known.
Many books have been written of life at sea,
put with the exception of one or two notable
stories they are the work of literary men who
however brilliant as writers, have used their
materials at second hand. "On Many Seas, -
recently published by the Macmillan Com
pany, is written by sailor himself and in its
passage through the press has been allowed to
lose nothing of its intense and sailor-like vi
tality; and this quality is the keynote to the
book. The author has written of his life and
exploits, good and evil, as the tale of them de.
mand and he has told it with the dramatic
skill of the born story teller.
While Harry Furniss, the able English car
toonist, is now on his second visit to this coun.
try those who hear him lecture and those
who lack the opportunity will be equally priv
ileged on reading his book, "Flying Visits
(American Publishers Corporation, New York,
cloth $1) series of articles, illustrated by
the author, giving in delightful manner the
humorous Impressions received by him during
a travel of 1000 miles in sixteen weeks in the
British Isles. Nearly every page OF his book,
which is both descriptive and instructive, is
provocative of laughter, and the $50 engrav-
ings supply excellent illustrations of the text.
An English critic, speaking of William Sloan
Kennedy's new book, "Reminiscences of Walt
Whitman" says: ut is manifest that the in
terest in Walt Whitman is deepening and that
far different estimate is being placed on the
good gray poet by our best writer's than that
with which Whitman's own countrymen at
first saluted his strange muse. Perhaps he
has suffered almost as much from some of his
undiscriminating admirers as from his avowed
enemies. American men of letters forty years
ago, with the exception of Emerson, could see
nothing in the new bard OF democracy, SO that
Whitman was fain to traverse alone his own
grand and rugged way"
George w. Cable, au thor of "The Grandis-
simes," "Old Creole Days" 'sDr. SEWER" ETC.,
has recently made arrangements whereby he
is to become the editor of Current Literature
Mr.. Cable has been living in Northampton
Mass, for several years and has been absorbed
in the starting and spread of the shome.
culture" clubs which have become widely
known OF late. With the exception
of AN occasional appearance on the
lecture platform, he has had little
time left to him for the relations with the
public at large which have made his name sc
familiar to all. Under the arrangements
which he has now made, he will have por
tion of his time for his imaginative writing,
and will take more special charge in Current
Literature of department. in which it is his
purpose to chat in q familiar manner with the
readers upon literary, artistic and other
topics of the day. His interest in the home
culture move me mt viii not be lost, though he
will be unable to participate actively in the
management of it,
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said her prayers were not answered. She had
been praying for a Newfoundland puppy for
ever so long and the puppy had never come.
She is allowed to wear short dresses until she
is 16 years old, and then, when she is put in to
skirts, she weeps because sho can't even
jump off gate. When her father tells
her to choose profession she elects for first
choice that he will be a veterinary surgeon
and for second choice owboy of the prai-
ries Her father tells her Ih.se professions
are closed to her, and next she wants to be an
acrobat. Finally, her loving parent COM
promises by sending her off to school
to learn TO be a teacher of physical cul-
ture. The tomboy develops into wonder
fully fine woman, and after marrying man
utterly unworthy of her she gives up her
whole life to nurse him when he has made
hims elf helpless by dissipation. The book
ends with the. singular sentence, "And her
heart was satisfied because she had flung all
hopes OF happiness away"
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The Quest.

Upon my lips there fell, when first the night
Pales in the highest heaven, seeing day
Far down the fsthomless eastern depths
away
Pales with a fearful JOY, dread delight
Upon my lips, with wakeful watching white,
There fell u kiss. One instants space 1t lay
Soft as rose leaf that the west winds fray.
And then my eyes awoke to dazzled sight.
The warmth, the tender impact and the thrill
Burnt on my lips, and the calm pulse of
Sleep
Awoke and quivered quick in soft surprise.
From that day forward knew love!
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Love and the World.

uOVS ana IRS WOIIO.
Dear, do you sigh that your love may not stay
with you,
Laugh with and play with you,
Weep with and pray with you,
All his life throughP
Think, my heart, if you never had found
me,
Crept through the cere-clothes the world has
wound round me,
What would you do?
Wide is the world, and so many would sign for
you,
Long for and cry for you,
Weep for and die for you,
You being you.
I, only am the man you could sigh Tor.
Live for and suffer for, sorrow and die for,
Twenty lives through.
Think Had missed you'll The world was so
wide for US,
Traps on each side for US,
Nothing as guide for us,
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Death an Epicurean.

Death loYeth not the woeful heart,
Or the soul that's tired of living.
Nay, it's up and away
With the heart that's gay
And the life that's worth the giving.
Seldom he stops where his welcomes sure
Where age and want are sighing.
Nay, it's up and away,
For he scorns to stay
With the wre tch who would be dying.
All, it's youth and love and cloudIess sky
The epicurean's after.
Nay, it's up and away
When the worlds in May
And life is full of laughter.
JEAN WRIGHT. in February Lippineotts.
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LITERARY NOTES.

E F. Benson's volume describing life at
Cambridge is to be issued this month by
Messrs. Putnam. It's title is "The Babe, B. l."
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is now writing q
romance in verse. 1t will be of considerable
length and will be published some time
during 1897.
Two more of Laurence Hutton's entertain
ing handbooks, Literary Landmarks of
Rome" aud Literary Landmarks of Florence, {"
are soon to be issued, with illustrations, by
the Harpers
The Macmillan Company announces that tho
compilation of an encyclopedia of American
Horticulture" has been begun under the edi-
torial supervision of Professor L. H. Bailey of
the Cornell University.
"The True Life of Captain Sir Richard F.
Burton" by his niece, Georgians NJ Sisted, is
likely 10 prove one of the most striking and
interesting books of the year. 1t will be pub
lished shortly by D. Appleton & Co.
writer in the Bookman states, on the
authority of correspondent in India that
Rudyard Kipling's stories are fairly popular
in the barrack-rooms in that country, but his
barrack-room ballads and other poems are not
cared for
Professor Keasboy's long-promised, volume
on 's1he Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe
Doctrine" will appear soon. It is a compre-
hepsive political history of the various pro-
iects of interoceanic transit across the Ameri-
can isthmus.
The new novel by sienkiewicz, entitled "Quo
Vadis. !" is in its sixth edition. though it has
been issued only about two months. In many
of the cities of the United States 1t is said by
the Bookmar to be the best-selling novel now
in the bookstores.
Godey's Magazine for February is especially
strong in the variety of its topics. Its make
up is also very attractive, the reading matter
being interspersed throughout with illustra-
tons, among them several full-page portraits
or types of handsome women.
Several new volumes of Scottish stories and
idyls are in prepare tion, q circumstance
which, in conjunction with the fact that over
10000 copies of "Kate Carnegie" Ian Mac
laren's latest work in fiction, have been
already sold, indicates that as yet there is no
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-31
ALMANAcS FOR 1907.

THE DAILY NEWS ALMANAC AND POLITICAL
REGIsTER-Compiled by George E. Plumbe
The Chicago Daily News Company. Chicago.
This is complete political year book. The
election tables in it have been prepared with
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-31
STORY OF sELF.SAcRIFIcE.

THE CAREER OF CANDIDA = By George
Pasteu. D. Appleton d. Co. New York. Paper,
80 cents For sale by William Doxey, Palace
Hotel, City.
Candida is introduced to US when she is a
little eight-year-oid girl, in the act OF rebel
lion against saying her prayers, because she
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-31

CLEVER VERSES BY RHyMSJERS OF THE DAY,
Yet l and you

Yet and you
Found life's great treasure, the last and the
first, love;
Lies little things, time and space, do their
worst, loYel
What, after all, can they do?
Pail Mall Gazette.
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AIIu kVIII
By day search, and nightly vigil keep
For her revealed TO me in such strange
wise.
BY the late H. C. BuNNER in the February
Scribner's.
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Two more of Laurence Hutton's entertain
ing handbooks, Literary Landmarks OF
Rome" aud Literary Landmarks of Florence, "
are soon to be issued. with illustrations. by
the Harpers.
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The Macmillan Company announces that tho
compilation of an encyclopedia of American
Horticulture" has been begun under the edi-
torial supervision of Professor L. H. Bailey of
the Cornell University.
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decline in the demand for literature Of the
Kailyard school.
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E. F. Benson's volume describing life at
Cambridge is to be issued this month by
Messrs Putnam. It's title is ''The Babe, B. AZ
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"The True Life of Captain Sir Richard F.
Burton" by his niece, Georgians M. Sisted, is
likely TO prove one of the most striking and
interesting books of the year. 1t will be pub
lished shortly by D. Appleton & Co.
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Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox is now writing a
romance in verse. 1t will be of considerable
length and will be published some time
during 1897.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1897-01-02
THE MARYVILLE TIMES.
FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES.
Interesting Information Concerning New
Years Day.

Interesting Information Concerning New
Years Day.
The Mexicans celebrated Now Year day
with human sacrifices
Jan. l was made the beginning of the
Legal year In England in 1854
Sweden did not adopt Jan. / as New
Years day until the year 1853.
The legislative union of Great Britain
and Ireland took place OH Jan. !, 1901!
Jan. was made New Years day in
France by royal ediet in the year 1864.
On New Years day in ancient Egypt
there were PROFESSIONS in every temple
The month of January Is said to have
been named by Numa Pompilius In 672
b. C.
The emancipation proclamation of Abra-
ham Lincoln was issued Jan. /, 1868.
The New Year in Sparta was celebrated
by the conservation Of youths to- military
service.
The American Indians had sort of
New Years festival celebrated with feast
ing and dancing.
In Siberia the state prisoners of the car
are allowed "a rest and holiday on New
Years day.
In the sixteenth century the common
New Years gift Of q tenant to his land
lord was fat capon.
The wassail ale CT merry old England
was made of ale, nutmeg, toast and roast
ed apples
The present system of beginning the
new year WIKI Jan. was adopted in Scot;
land A. D. 1900.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1897-01-02
The God of the Seasons.

On one of the seven hills of Rome there
is spot where it Is said St Peter was
cruoiGed and over this spot is built lit
tie temple in his honor The hill upon
which is reared this temple was named
after Janus and called Janiculum-
changed in these later days to Montorio,
or Gold mountain. Janus founded city,
and after his death he became god in the
popular fancy. To him were dedicated
tenn lcs for heather worship. He was the
god Of the seasons and is generally repre-
scented with two faccs-tho one dark and
gloomy, as an emblem OF the history of
past ages, tho other bright and smiling,
as a symbol of a promising future. Some
times four faces are used, representing the
four seasons of the year. In his hand he
holds Us many rods as there are months in
the year, one of which BEERS his name,
January The temples erected to him had
four doors and three windows each. The
doors represented the seasons and the win
dows the three months in each season.
Pictures of Janus arc frequently used in
decorating New Year cards, stories and
magazines. Exchange.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1897-01-02
Dreaming tho Well.

In Banff and Aberdeen shires the custom
of "creaming the well' at midnight is still
observed The water drawn then is used
for washing the dairy utensils, and the
cows also drink of 1t. This insuros success
in the dairy. Sometimes grass or moss is
thrown on the water, indicative of pro-
spcctive good crops #
All needlework, knitting and hand work
of all kinds must be finished with the old
year, or the mischievous members of the
family put 1t up the chimney and blacken
1t. Much fun and laughter arise over some
ones frantic efforts to make up for lost
time, but all to no avail, for as tho clock
strikes ~ and the happy New Years greet
ings are exchanged the unfinished task Is
seized and summarily disposed of.-Se-