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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

Skweers wrote to the novelist from q country
district of England to protest against the use
of his name, which he had recognized even in
the disguised spelling of the story-teller. So
odd were some OF the names fitted by Dickens
to his creations. that it has frequently been
supposed the names as much as the characters
were of his own devising Sometimes they
were, but after number of very respectable
Chuzzlewits rose up in wrath at their name
being taken in vain the creation theory was
practically abandoned. To q far greater ex-
tent than among the English writers, the
French novelists and dramatists are compelled
to manufacture their names for the French
laws strictly forbid the employment, either on
stage or in story, of the name OF a living indi-
vidual who objects to its use in that way. The
French author is therefore obliged in self
defense to rely on his Imagination, and even
when doing SO he runs the risk of getting into
trouble, for only few years ago a French play.
in which the leading character was convict
who was designated by his prison number, fell
under the ban OF the censor, who compelled
the author and manager to change the number
of the felon, because an ex-convict, who while
serving his term had been known by that num-
Der, objected to its use as personally offensive
to himself. This may seem like straining
point, but in France law is law, and even an
ex-convict has rights which novelists and
dramatists are bound to respect The fathers
of dramatic composition could bring public
men on the stage by name and satirize their
actions, mimic their language and even copy
their peculiarities of countenance, attitude
and gait, but the sons must be careful. Bal
zac manufactured the greater part OF his
names, but even that fact did not save him
from trouble, and he was on more than one
occasion annoyed by finding that he had
unwittingly made name and created a char
acter. both of which fitted, as though made to
order, some irascible tellow.Gaul. The Chuz-
zlewits and the Nicklebys and the Fagans of
London relished no more than the Cleons OF
Athens the use of their names by imaginative
writers, and it is quite likely that after Caine
hears from the Storm family he will wish he
had gone further back into antiquity for q
name to bestow on his hero
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
BAD BOYS ADVENTURES.

THE GEoRGIE PAPERS-By George E. Booram
illustrated by himself. Published by the u 81
ogiIvie Publishing Company. New York
In the George Papers the author has col
lected mum Der OF sketches that he originally
sold to a New York syndicate and which have
been published in daily ana weekly papers.
1t is an excellent antidote for the blues and a
splendid book on which to spend bad hour
or more. 1t Is somewhat on the style of
''Peck's Bad Boy" but it is sufficiently new
and original to be interesting,
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
THE FLAG OF THE HELLENEs.
tBlue and Whitley

(Blue and White)
Fly, o our Flag, across the foam,
White angel 'twixt blue depth and height;
From heart to heart, from home TO home,
From Greece to where her children fight
Tell thou our brothers not more fast
Stand their eternal rocks than they;
The future presses back the past
And night is Fastening to the day.
Take thou our love to those dear hills
Where soul of man was yet ne'er cowed;
Where Greek hand Greek land tills,
Where chains are worn but heads unbowed;
Where still the selfsame fight Is fought
That once our fathers fought and won
When they the whole worlds freedom bought
Upon thy sands, o Marathonl
Our fathers-e'en the same that gave
The equal clasp of hand and hand
Who scorned the earthward bending slave,
And bade the man in manhood stand.
Fly, 0 our Flag, since thou canst fly
AS mans unconquered spirit, freel
Each sea-bird thou, against the sky,
And thou each sail upon the sea.
E. MARTINENGo CEsAREsEo
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
AN ACADIAN ROMANCE.

THE FORGE IN THE FORESTRY Charles
g. ID. Roberts. Lamson, Wolfe q Co., Boston.
New York and London. Price Sl oU. For sale
by A. NJ Robertson, Post street, City.
Nova Scotia, during the trying time OF Its
early domination by the English, while the
population was mainly French, is the scene OF
this we'll told story of adventure and love.
The bold ranger, Jean de Mer, relates the incl
dents in the first person. He is a French gen.
tleman who had been the owner of large es-
tates now confscated by the English, and
he plays the role of blacksmith to con-
ceal his identity, while his former ten
ants who love him, chivalrously pay
him rents as if no English rule existed.
His son Marc is the nero OF the story,
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
W.T. AND HuMOR.

TALES FROM TOWN TOPICs-Town Topics
publishing Company, New York Price so
cents. For sale by A. NJ. Robertson, Post street.
City.
Some OF the choicest smile-producers have
been selected from Town Topics and en-
bodied in this volume of $50 pages. The best
thing in it is novelette, by Joanna E. Wood,
called "a Martyr to Love- There are a great
number of short stories. humorous and
satirical sketches, poems. comic verses, skits,
burlesques and jokes possessing that brevity
which is the soul of wit
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

and interesting complications and adventures
follow from his falling in love with an Eng
lish girl. and from his arousing the enmity of
a plotting priest called the Black Able The
Vaccinations of this scheming, revengeful
and powerful churchman, who has a COM
manding influence over the Indians, and
whom the French leaders are compelled to use
as tool, throws a sort of fascinating dread
over the reader while al ihe same time excit-
ing sympathy for the lovers and for the brave
men he seeks to entrap. Marc comes very near
being made the victim of plot to get him ex-
ecuted as a spy. There is well-narrated epi-
sode OF an estrangement and a reconciliation.
The description of the great woods and the
rivers, canoes and savages of Acadie are ex-
cellent, and the love of the brave ranger and
the fair English girl is sweet to read about
There are a number OF spirited Illustrations.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
STORY OF REGRETTED ERROR.

KITTY THE RAG-By Rita. r. F. Renno & Co.
New York. Price, 81 25.
Rita has given an elaborate portrayal of the
effect OF single false step upon proud and
noble being. There are some passages in the
book which approach too closely the grandilo-
quent and thus lose much force upon the feel
ings of the reader.
"Kitty the Rag" is clever character study.
The priest In the story gives. brief outline of
such nature when he said to her: al know
that want, that restless craving for something
better. easier. sensuous and self-satisfying.
You have the woman SOUL Pray heaven it
may not lead you into error as it has led so
many" Some of the sermonizing is done
with considerable beauty OIL language
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
A REFERENCE-BOOK.

THE COLLEGE YEAR BooK-Compiled and
edited by Edwin Emerson Jr Stone q Kimball
New York.
This wellbound volume is an alphabetical
catalogue and description of all American
universities, colleges and schools of learning
qualified to confer collegiate degrees In the
selection and rejection of material for the
book the editor was directed by the standards
set by the Federal Bureau of Education at
Washington. 1t contains very concise in
formation about all these places of learning
their history, equipment, endowment, degrees
and instruction, tuition, scholarships and aid
societies and publications lists OF the officers.
etc. There is also complete athletic record
and a cOpiOns index
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

Amid surroundings, says Charles Miner
Thompson in his article on Mark Twain in the
April Atlantic, which were curiously Ameri-
can, if not especially apt to nourish literary
genius, Mark Twain, "a GOOD hearted boy" says
his mother, but one who, although "a great
boy for history" could never be persuaded to
60 to school, spent q boyhood which, it ap-
pears, was "a series of mischievous adven-
tures." When he Wsa u yeags old his tatheE
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
TALE OF THE ARMY.

FORT FRAYNE-By Captain Charles King. U. g.
Az pu' hshed by +. Tennyson Nicely of Chicago
and New York.
"Fort Frayne" is adapted from the drama of
the same name which was written by the
author in collaboration with Evylyn Greenleaf
Sutherland and Emma V. Sheridan Fry. This
is the first edition Of the work in paper. It
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
LITERARY NOTES.

At the recent exhibition of pictures by
Charles Dana Gibson among the most popular
were those illustrating "Urban Dialogues, !"
just published. Mr.. Gibson and Mr.. Shipman
worked peculiarly well together, as the stories
contained in the book are all sketches of bits
of New York life.
In the April number OF Current Literature,
George w. Cable, who has recently assumed
editorial charge OF that excellent magazine,
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
IA LOOK INTO THE GuLFn

IA LOOK INTO THE GULF"
looked one night. and there Semframis,
With all her mourning doves about her head,
Sat rocking on ancient road to hell,
Withered and eyeless chanting to the moon
Snatches of song they sang to her Of old
Upon the lighted roofs Of Nineveh.
And then her voice rang out with rattlfng lp-irh
1 The buges they are crying back again
Bugles that broke the nights of Babylon
And then went crying on through Nineveh
Stand back, We trem bling messengers OF ILL.,
rush out with my hair unbound to uueli
Insurgent cities Let the iron tread
OF armies shake the earth. Look, lofty towers:
Assyria goes by upon the wind
And sos babbles by the ancient road
While cities turned to dust upon the earth
Rise through her whiriing brain 10 live again.
Babbles all night, and when her voice is dead
Her weary lips beat on without sound
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
BY A CALIFORNIAN POET.

In the current Scribner's the Californian
poet, Charles Edwin Markham, has notable
piece of work which he calls "a Look nto the
Gulf"
1t is an unusual and powerful piece of poetic
imagery, such as this writer often gives. In
1t he has made Semiramis, the ancient Queen
of Nineveh, stand for the picture of all life
built up upon the desire of self, gone to pieces
in the awful wreck of time, yet beating on
after death in the terrible fulfillment of It's
choice in life
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

went through nine editions in cloth binding
in one year. "Fort Frayne'' is an interesting
story OF army life charmingly told.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

new one-volume edition of Boswelrs
johnson" now preparing in London under
he editorship of Percy Fitzgerald, is to have
feature unknown hitherto in the literature
of the subject. There is to be e biographical
dictionary of all the names mentioned In the
ssIjfeD
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

The life OF the late Lord Tennyson. by his
son, the present Lord Tennyson, is fnis shed
and on the press of the Macmillan Company.
1t will be published on October 8, in two
largo volumes. illustrated.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28

DR.. Nansen has been unanimously nomi-
mated as professor of zoology at the Chrlstiania
University.
The Churchman has lost its editor, the Rev.
DR.. George s. Mallory, who had built up the
paper from small beginn ings.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-28
MARK TwAIN'S EARLY LIFE.

The Spectator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02
"rhs New Nabobo %

The popularity Of farce comedy
has been heightened greatly in the
past few seasons by strong variety
attractions that have taken hold on
the public and caused q decline in
prosy drama. And why? Because
the irratic public wants amusement
and deprecate the necessity of study
at the theatre. When Henshaw and
Ten Brock came before the pu bile
in farce comedy some seven years
ago they gave bright, breezy. lively
performance that proved q success,
and in doing SO Immediately made
friends with theatregoers. This
season, which will be their last as
farceurs, they will make the attemp,
of their lives to duplicate and excel.
If possible, any Of their previous
efforts as funmakers, and to accom-.
plish that end have had The New
Nabobs' entirely revised by Edgar
Smith, author Of line Merry World. +"
Like the old wagon. it has beer
painted up brighter than when new,
and is now making it's final run
across the country. With q score OF
merry makers it will amuse the tired
business man, the overworked arti-
san. the leg-weary clerk, and the
thrifty housewife. and will succeed
in making them forget life's trials in
its whirl Of satisfying fun. Henshav
and Ten Brock have been Justly
named 1.-THE millionaires of fun" q,
they make fun for the millions. A,
The Burtis tonight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02

Centuries ago, people used to fear
what they called the pestilence.
"Black Death" was the most terrible
thing in the world to them. They
feared it as people now fear the
cholera and yellow fever. And yet
there is thing that causes more
misery and more deaths than any of
these. 1t is SO common that nine
tenths OF all the sickness in the
world is traceable to it. It is mere
ly that simple, common thing con-
stipation. 1t makes people listless,
causes dizziness, headaches, loss of
appetite, loss Of sleep, foul breath
and distress after eating. The little
help needed is furnished by DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One pill
is a gentle laxative and two q mild
cathartic. Once used. always in IA
vor. Hyou are careless enough to let
an INSCRIPTIONS druggist cell you
something on which he makes more
money. it is your own fault if you do
not get well. Be sure and get DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Send 81 cents in 1-cent stamps to
Worlds Dispensary iMedical associa.
ton. Buffalo. N. Y. and receive DIR.
Pierce's LOGS page Common Sense
Medical Adviser" profusely illus.
trated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02
TOLD IN POLICE CIRCLES.
- PHI Green Leaves Home because He
DteIikes nis StepfatheP.

J - PHI Green Leaves Home because He
DisIikes hss Stepfathsr.
x Joseph Green, smart loolin,
chap Of IA years, was given lodging
at police headquarters last night. He
was lettering about the Rock Island
depot and Officer Newcomb sent him
to the station. Joseph says his folks
reside near Kaukakee. and that he
left home because he disliked his
stepfather, Marion Pontius. and he
came on to Rock Island expecting to
find family named Hollowell, VIII,
he said are friends Of bis m ,ther.
Joseph was given breakfast at the
station and then went his way
Browner & Cos. grocery store on
Fifth avenue was entered last night
and about two hundred cigars aud
40 cents in change taken.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02

Away.
II you want to quit tobacco using
easily and forever, be made we'll,
strong, magnetic, full of new life and
vigor. take No-To-Bac, the wonder
worker that makes weak men strong.
Many gain ten pounds in ten days.
Over 400. 900 cured. Buy No-To-Bac
from your own druggist. who will
guarantee . cure. Booklets and sam
Piles mailed free. Addres Sterling
Remedy company. Chicago or New
York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02
Old People.

Old people who require medicine
to regulate the bowels and kidneys
will find the true remedy in Electric
Bitters. This medicine does not
stimulate. and contains no whisky
nor other intoxicant. but acts as q
tonic and alternative. 1t acts mildly
on the stomach and bowels, adding
strength and giving tone to the or.
gans, thereby aiding nature in ti--
performance of the functions. Elec.
trio Bitters is an excellent appetizer
and aids digestion. Old people find
it just exactly what they need. Price
50 cents per bottle at Hartz & Ulle.
meyers drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02
Bnsklsn's A-r,c. saIvs

The best salve In the world for
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores, tstter, chapped
hands. chilblains, corns and all skin
eruPsions, and positively cures
piles or no pay required. 1t 10 guar
anseed to give perfect satisfaction. OF
money refunded. Pfioe Is cents per
boz. For sale bv Harris 4 Uliemegss
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02

Cascarets Candy Cathartic. the
most wonderful medical discovery OF
the age, pleasant and refreshing to
the taste. act gently and positively
on the bowels. cleansing the entire
system. dispei colds. cure headache,
fever, habitual constipation and. bill
iousness. Please buy and try . boz
Of c. c. c. today; 10. Is. SO cents.
Sold and guaranteed to cure by al
druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
viii cure bind. bleeding. liberated
and itching piles. It sbsorbs the
tumors. aliays the itching at once.
acts a. a poultice. giving Instant re-
lief. DR.. williams Indian Pile ONT.
ment is prepared only for piles
and itching Of the private parts. and
no'hing else. Every box 10 guaran-
teed Sold BY druggists or sent BY
msil for 80 cents and 81 per box.
WILLIAMS A'F'G. Co, Props Cleve-
lasd. Ohio. For sale By I'll drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02

Feb. Dora Daebelliehn to Min.
ME Kelting, lot 9, Daebelliehn's sub.
div, mel 6, II, 1w, 81.
Minnie Kelting to Henry Daebel.
liehn, lot 9, Daebelliehn's subdiv.,
mel 6, IL, 1w, 81.
Amelia Nesselbush to Antonio Mes.
selbush. tract by metes and bounds,
IL, 16. CIV, $500.
Gottlieb A. Hoch to Charles C.
Groeger, part lots z and 10, block 20,
Chicago or lower add. Rock Island,
"a, $50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-02

just try . ~ cent box Of Cascarets,
the finest liver and bowel regulator
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-27

exist in our supply of the material
for either domestic or foreign con-
sumption. That we shall fail to meet
all the demands that may be made
upon us is not likely, however; for,
with the improved methods that have
come into use within the recent past,
our furnaces are capable of turning
out enormous quantities Of the metal,
and it is safe to say that, should they
be hard pushed to keep up with the
demand, there would soon be gen
eral enlargement of the furnace ca
pacity. 1T is not even among the
possibilities that there will be any
shortage in the supply, though one
authority has raised the cry because
of certain existing conditions, but
which, when taken in connection
with others that are as palpable,
leave little basis for his conclusions.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-27
enough.

A party of coal miners had a con-
fiict with a sheriff and some deputies
at Latimer, Penn, recently. The Of
ficers fired into the ranks of the min
ers and about twenty of their number
were killed and large number
wounded The governor of the state
was Immediately notified and the
state militia were dispatched to the
scene and placed on guard. Until re-
Gently the miners had been quiet and
had not made much disturbance, but
they are short of food in many sec
tions and are becoming angry and
riotous and while they have had the
sympathy Of the public on their side
their depredations will cause it to
turn. These men have perfect right
to refuse to work if they wish to but
they have no right to use force in
stopping others from working, and
when they do this they make them
selves liable to the law
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-27
OUR FOOTHOLD IN SAMOA.

The Berlin newspaper which says
that President Mckinley believes his
predecessor left the administration Of
Samoa too much in the hands of Ger
many and England is probably correct
in it's assertion. Indeed, that prede-
cessor openly urged Congress to take
steps for withdrawing altogether from
the share of the administration which
belongs to US under the Berlin treaty,
and from the treaty itself.
There is no doubt that the Berlin
agreement, which in some respects
was experimental, can be improved,
and perhaps there is ground for the
report that the President desires our
consul general at Apia to suggest i'm
provements. But it will be observed
that the purpose attributed to the
President is ssto restore fully Ameri-
can influence" This is quite a diff
ferent aim from Mr.. Cleveland's,
which was to throw up the obligations
which we had assumed jointly with
England and Germany, and leave the
natives, who have always counted on
our friendship, to the tender mercies
of these two powers.
We should be glad to learn that an
American warship had been ordered
to visit Apia. There seems to be no
special disturbance there now, but as
our flag has not been seen on war
vessel there for wears call from
such a vessel might assure the Sa-
means that we have not forgotten
them. Apia is not a long run from
Honolulu, and while Hawaii, of course
absorbs our chief attention in the
Pacific, we may well have little re-
gard for the group in the South Seas
N. Y. Sun.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-09-27
DEVELOPMENT OF THE BANKS
OFFER.

If the recent expression of the Bank
of England of its willingness to carry
one fifth of it's reserve in silver under
conditions that threw all the risks and
responsibilities on others was ''trial
balloon" sent up at the request of the
British ministry, the protest of the
great meeting of London bankers re-
Gently, leaves no doubt how the wind
blows. The protest was vigorous and
indignant and affords gratifying evil
dence of the sensitiveness of the Brit
ish financial public to anything that
seems to it to suggest, however re-
motely, danger to the national credit.
The proposal Of the bank smacks to
outsiders of a carefully arranged pro-
posal to do something without doing
anything-of project fixed up with
the ministry to please the eyes and
disappoint the lips of bimetallists.
That it is so regarded in France is
made manifest in the comments of
the French press, whose editors see
clearly enough that an agreement
which does not bind the bank to
shoulder the costs and risks of the
experiment would leave the situation
just where it found it, if accepted. To
use colloquialism there are too many
strings" to the proposal, and they
are too evident to make it acceptable
to France, which when it approached
England may have hoped that the lat
ter would express willingness to
withdraw the half sovereign from
circulation and substitute for it an
equal amount of silver coinage.
France has not for many years coined
the five franc piece, the equivalent of
nous quantity of silver it would like
to see in more active circulation
If England would use more silver it
might assist France, but the holding
$25, 900, 900 in silver by the Bank of
England, and only SO long as such an
accumulation should be convenient,
would not meet the situation or af-
ford any relief to the French French
financiers are among the ablest of
their kind. They are shrewd observ-
ers and close students of monetary
movements. It cannot have escaped
their observation that the treasury of
the United States purchasing hum
dreds Of millions of silver failed to
steady the price. Therefore they
stand in need of no demonstration