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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-27
SLAYER OF ss PERSONS.
The Ferocious Vncher Attempts to XIII n war
den who Entered Hts Cell.
speefal Gable pespnteh to TIE srS.

Special Gable Despatch to THE suS.
LYONS, Jan. 26.-vacher, the shepherd who is
under arrest on the charge of having murdered
thirty-eight persons within three years, made q
sudden furious onslaught on a warder last night.
As tho warder entered the cell occupied by
Vacher the latter sprang toward him.. flourish
ing a heavy chair. Before the warder could re-
treat vacher hit him with the chair. telling him
to the floor, and then almost beat him to death
before other prison guards could overpower him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-27
r. h. HArES's ExPENsIvE DOG.
His Estatc Must Pay 81. 500 because the Dog
Frightened q woman,

FREMONT, o., Jan. 26.-The Circuit Court
handed down to-day a decision in the case Of
Addie M. Smith against the estate of the late
Rutherford b. Hayes. Mrs. Smith received
permanent injuries in a runaway, the horse
having been frightened by a dog owned by tho
Hayes estate. She sued for see. 900 damages,
and. after q hard fought trial, lasting four
weeks, received $500 damages. The Circuit
Court affirmed the decision of the lower court.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-27
DesrGsoG Farm sausaEes

Made OF the tender meat OF dai7-fed, fat. young pork
ers, daintily seasoned with selected spices. Try 4
tWopound package. Beware of tmiiAttonS.-AaV
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-27

lrsS SI w. sls SiSs ~. u Sss SKI WIZ %sIs on Jan 81
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Recent Fiction.

"Dicky Monteith," by t. Gallon, au-
thor of "a Prince of Misehance." is a
story of average interest and rather
more than the average originality. The
author has undertaken to make his hero
out of a man who has gambled away
his own fortune and that of his young
er brother, and through the difficulty
of explaining this situation is led to live
a perfectly false and unreal life for
some months. The way of the trans
gressor is hard, even when managed by
a novelist whose pet character is the
transgressor There is nothing in the
career of Dicky TO disprove this old say
ing, except that he is more lucky than
the average culprit in being able to keep
up his deception so long as he does His
lot is made harder by the presence of a
bright and gentle-natured young maiden
whom he must not love, but to whose
charms he finally succumbs in spite OF
himself, after several chapters of con-
scientious torment. The character of
Dorothy Weston is very attractive.
though rather impossibly generous and
omniscient. The book is interesting and
well-written, but there is a tremendous
flaw in the hero's character. In spite
VI al "SL-ihediliIiS ehoTtS OF the nov
elist to bolster it up, the reader will de-
eide that Dicky Monteith is weak. A
novelist may choose a weak man for his
hero If he likes, but he must know that
he is doing it, and show that he under
stands the situation. The impression
given by Mr.. Gallons story is that he
means US to understand that his hero
is strong, and cannot quite succeed in
establishing the fact. which is very bad
for artistic effect. The book is published
by D. Appleton & Co., New York.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
The Last of Our Fighting Line

Perry and Porter and cambridge, hail,
Men Of an elder day.
Heroes who feared neither gun nor gale
Bold in the fiery fray,
Jones, the first Of sons OF the sea.
Farragut, bred TO the brine
Cheers for them all. but three times three
For the last OF our fighting linel
What did the valiant commodore do7
Swift at the peal OF
He sailed the Orient sea-drift through
For the Isle of Corregidor
Ran the forts with a laugh OF soorn
AT the dreaded Spanish mine,
And lay in the bay at the burst Of morn
The last Of our fighting line.
Olympia Boston and Baltimore
A gallant squadron they,
And they shelled the ships and they shelled the
shore.
And they silenced Cavite;
And while the shot went hurtling by
With deadly whir and whine,
He watched from the bridge with kindling eye
The last of our fighting line.
Shattered and sunk and beached and burned,
Woe for the ships of Spain!
Never a prov to be homeward turned
Over the restless main!
A glorious victory! What OF the cost?
Lo, not a single sign,
For not a man of the feet was lost
BY the last Of our fighting line.
Perry and Porter and cambridge, hail,
Men OF an elder day.
Heroes who feared neither gun nor gale,
Bold in the fiery frayi
Jones' the first OF our sons of the sea,
Farragut, bred 10 the brine
Cheers for them all, but a three times three
For the last of our fighting linei
Clinton Scollard, in the Independent.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
CURRENT VERSE.
Little Feet.

Two Mite ieet, SO small that both may nestle
In one caresSing hand;
i~o tender feet upon the untried border
vi HES mysterious land:
Dimpied and soft and pink as peach-tree blossoms
In ApriPs fragrant days
row can they walk among the briery tapples
Edging the worlds rough ways?
These rose-white feet along the doubtful future
Must bear womans load;
Ans SINCE woman has the heavier burden.
And walks the harder road
Love, for while, will make the path before tbsm
All dainty, smooth and fair. ~
VIII Gull away the brambles, letting only
The roses blossom there;
But when the mothers watchful eyes are shroude,,
Away from the sight Of men,
And these dear feet are left without her guiding.
Who shall direct them then?
How will they be allured, betrayed, deluded
Poor little untaught feet?
Into what dreary mazes viii they wander?
What dangers will they meet?
viii they go stumbling blindly in the darkness
OF sorrows fearful shades?
Or find the upland slopes Of peace and beauty,
Whose sunlight never fades?
VIII they go toiling up ambitions summit,
The common world above?
VI IN some naIneess vale, securely sheltered,
Walk side by side with Love?
Some feet there be which walk Iife's tracks I'M
wounded.
Which find but pleasant ways;
Some hearts there be to which this world is only
round of happy days.
But they are few. Far more there are who
wander
Without hope or friend
Who find their journey full Of pains and losses,
And long TO reach the end
How shall it be with her. the tender stranger,
Fair-faced and gentie-eyed
Before whose unstained feet the worlds rude
highway
Stretches strange and wide?
All. who may read the future? For our darling
We crave all blessings sweet
And pray that He who feeds the crying ravens
Will guide the baby's feet
Elizabeth Akers@ Allen.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Quiet Ways Are Best.

What's the use of worrying,
OF hurrying
And scurrying,
Everybody furrying
And breaking up their rest?
When every one is teaching US,
Preaching and beSeeching US.
To settle down and end the fuss
Fer quiet ways are best
The rain that trickles down in showers.
blessing brings to thirsty flowers;
Sweet fragrance from each trimming cup
The gentle zephyrs gather up.
Nothing's gained by worrying,
By hurrying
And scurrying;
With fretting and with furrying
The temper's often lost;
And in pursuit Of some small prize
We rush ahead and are not wise,
And find the unwonted exercise
A fearful price has cost
IT'S better far to join the throng
That do their duty right along;
Reluctant they do raise a fuss
Or make themselves ridiculous
Calm and serene in heart and nerve,
Their strength is always in reserve,
And nobly stands each test;
And every day and all about,
By scenes within and scenes without,
We can discern, with ne'er doubt,
That quiet ways are best.
Baptist Argus.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
.eThe Land of Manana.v

Tales From the Land of Manana," is
a little book in q brilliant red cover,
written by G. CunynghamC Cunningham.
That is the order in which it's salient
points strike the prospective reader First,
the name, associated as 1t is with the
exasperating policy of our late foes; then
the size of the book, much smaller than
the ordinary novel, and its dress, which
is of vivid, burning red; then the n.y.
phenated and scientifically spelled name
of the author, which will not especially
commend him to American readers. On
looking inside the cover one finds that
there was a Sir w. ]. Montgomery Cum
ninghame who did something brave at
Sebastopol and won the Victoria Cross
and the book is dedicated to him.
The Land of Manana in this case is
Mexico, and Mr.. Cunningham writes from
the English point of view, which is rather
unusual in this connection. Thomas A.
Janvier has done some good work wiyn
the American in Mexico and Mrs Jack
son won fame with the portrayal of the
Mexican in the United States, but this
author makes all his "Gringos" English
men, and his book is the first book on
Mexico which approaches Mr.. Janvier' 8
work in interest or artistic beauty. The
only real fault that can be found with 1t
from an artistic point of view is that
some of the stories are decidedly reminis-
cent of Kipling's plain Tales from the
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
The Navy of Old snuin

Come all you sailors of the southern waters,
You apparitions OF the Spanish main,
Who dyed the jeweled depths blood-red with
saughters,
You things of crime and gainl
Come, caravel and pinnaee, whose daring
Rose the low purple of a worlds shore;
Come from your dreams OF desperate seafaring
And sun your sails once more.
Build up again your stately height, storm-har-
Santa Maria. crusted with salt stains;
Come quick, you black and treaeherous craft
that carried
Columbus home in chains!
And out of all your angry flames and flashes,
Proud with pride that only homeward
yearned
Swim darby up and gather from your ashes,
Your ships that Cortes burned!
Comb, prows whence climbing into light deifc
Undazzled Balboa planted DER the plain.
The lonely plain of the unguessed Pacific,
The standard of great Spain.
In Caribbean eoves dark, vanished vessels,
Lurking and hiding thrice hundred years,
Figure again your mad and merry wrestles,
Beaks of the buccaneers!
Come you that bore through boughs of dripping
blossom
Ogegon with his headsman and his priest,
Where Limousin with treasure in his bosom
Dreamed, and in dreaming ceased
Banks at whose name today the nurseling shivers,
Come, with the bubble-rafts where swept
down,
Along the foam and fall of mighty rivers
To sack the isthmian town.
Through dusky bayous known in old romances
In one great furtive squadron move, you host
That took to death and drowning those free
lances.
The Brethren of the Coast!
Come Drake, come Hawkins, to your sad en-
ployer,
Come L'Olonnois and Davia again,
Come. you great ships of Montbar the Destroyer,
OF Morgan and his men!
Dipping and slipping under shadowy highlands,
Dashing in haste the swifter fate to meet,
Come from your wrecks on haunted keys and
islands.
Cervera's valiant fleet!
Galleons and merchantmen, and sioops OF story,
O, silent escort, follow in full train
This passing phantom of an ancient glory,
The Navy of Old Spain!
Harriet Prescott Spofford, in the Criterion.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
All the World.

All the world is full of babies,
Sobbing, signing everywhere,
Looking on with eyes of terror,
Beating at the empty air;
Do they see the strife before them,
That they sob and tremble so?
Oh, the helpless. frightened babies,
Still they come and still they 60.
All the earth is full Of children,
Laughing over little joys,
Signing over little troubles,
Fingers bruised or broken toys;
Wishing to be older, larger,
Weeping at some fancied woe;
OH the happy, helpless children,
Still they come and still they go.
All the earth is full of lovers,
Walking slowly, whispering sweet;
Dreaming dreams and building castles
That must crumble at their feet:
Breaking vows and burning letters,
Smiling lest the world shall know
OH the foolish, trusting lovers!
Still they come and still they go.
All the world is full OF people,
Hurrying, pushing. rushing by,
Bearing burdens, carrying crosses,
Passing onward. with a sigh;
Some. like US, with smiling faces,
And their heavy hearts below
OH the sad-eyed, burdened people
How they come, and how they go.
All the earth is full of corpses-
Dust and bones laid there to rest
This the end, that babes and children,
Lovers. people, find at best
All their fears and all their burdens,
All their sorrows. wearing So
OH the silent, happy corpses,
Sleeping soundly, lying low.
Indianapolis News
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Longing.

OF all the myriad moods OF mind
That through the soul came thronging,
Which one was e'er so dear, SO kind,
So beautiful, so longing?
The thing we long for, that we are,
For one transcendent moment,
Before the present, poor and bare,
Can make its sneering comment.
Longing is Gods fresh, heavenward will
With our poor earthward striving;
We quench it, that may be still
Content with merely living;
But would we learn that hearts full scope,
Which we are hourly wrcnging,
Our lives must climb from hope to hope,
And realize our longing.
James Russell Lowell
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
The Flight of Youth

There are gains for all our losses.
There are balms for all our pain:
But when youth, the dream, deuarts.
IL takes something from our hearts.
And il never comes again.
We are stronger and are better
Under manhOod's sterner reign;
Still we feel that something sweet
Followed youth with flying feet,
And it never comes again.
Something beautiful has vanished,
And we sigh for it in vain;
We behold it everywhere,
In the earth and in the air,
But il never comes again.
New York Tribune.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
Woplan-Like.

eco FORTH" she said unto her knight,
''My gage upon thy arm
Mayhap may give thee strength in need,
And keep thee safe from harm.
"And when the foe is pressing on
Where blades are flying free,
Strike, for thy honor and thy king,
st. George, and strike for me-"
She bravely spoke, and forcing back
The sobs that upward crept,
With smiling eyes she watched him ride.
Then, woman-like, she wept.
Philadelphia Times.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

What is the recipe for making the mucilage
used on postage stamps? MAJDE
Take gum dextrine, two parts; acetic
acid, one part; water, five parts. Dis
solve in water bath and add one part
of alcohol
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

Which gets the most salary, Dewey, schIey or
Sampson? q.
They are all three rear admirals on sea
service and fare alike. The salary is
5000.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

The New York Advertiser says of the
novel Via Lucis," which has been her
aided as the work of young girl just
about to enter a convent:
Since its appearance 'eyia Lucis'' has met with
very diverse treatment. From some quarters ii
has received high praise, enthusiastic critic
going so far as 10 find resemblance to the style
of George Eliot; while on the other hand it has
been denounced as having ali the immortality and
of the genius Of the author OF ''Trionio della
Morte." The truth, usual. lies somewhere be-
tween these two extremes. "Eia Lueis' is not
likely TO replace ''Romola'' or 1.-The Mil on the
Floss in our affections, but at the same time we
fail to find that it contains anything dangerously
subversve OF public morals. II is not in the least
an epoch-making book but simply distinctly
readable story, containing clever feminine
syehology-obviously the work of impetuous,
hgh-strung young woman, who like her heroine
takes life very hardly
The theme OF 'via Lucis'' is one which would
appeal 10 Mrs. Hwnphry Ward-a girls struggle
between the conflicting claims of the world and
the church. Arduina d'Erella is girl OF a ST ange
passionate nature, which a morbid, unhappy
childhood has tended TO intensity. Her convent
education leaves her in a state of exaltation
which she mistakes for a special vocation for
monastic life, but which is evidently nothing
more than transient manifestation OF highly
neurotic temperament, and which quickly turns
into thoroughly human passion for the first man
who pays attentions to her.
1t happens that the priest, who is her father
confessor, is stronger personality than her lover,
she ends by choosing in favor of the convent,
while the lover marres a friend of Arduina,
shallow, colorless creature, who soon releases
him by dying
Artistically speaking the volume should have
ended here. Instead, we have material for
whole novel crowded into the last fifty pages.
Convent life evidently did not bring the peace
she sought, il we may judge from the following
close to a conversation which she had with the
mother SUPERIOR:
''Hell,' she cried, in shrill voice eff that
thing were true, all the rest would be true as
well. Oh, for the certainty of having q Hell to
go top
So in the end she breaks her vows and leaves
the convent. and marries her lover after all. And
even then she does not find peace as the readers
who have the patience to read to this point may
find out for themselves.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

The September number of Scribner's is
packed full of good things In the first
place. 1t is one of the best war numbers
issued by any magazine. The first four
articles are short papers by weIl-known
men, on their personal experiences and
observations in the Cuban campaign. The
Rough Riders Fight at Guasimas," by
Richard Harding Davis, is a vivid and
forceful account of that gallant fight.
Then follow "A Wounded Correspondents
Recollections of Guasimas" by Edward
Marshall How the Spaniards Fought at
Caney, by Joseph Edgar Chamberin.
and An Artist at Ell Peso" by Howard
Chandler Chrtsty. Marshall, the plucKy
correspondent of the New York Journal. Is
probably the only man who ever got shot
through the spine and turned his impress
sions into good copy The quiet, fear
less spirit of the man breathes through
the simple words of his story of the fight
Chamberlin was also wounded though
less seriously, and was in the thick of
the fighting for some time while Christy
who writes the third paper, was by no
means out of danger. This is literature
which is unmetaphorically born on the
battlefield. The other war article in this
number Is descriptive paper on "A War
ship Community" by w j. Henderson
Richard Hovey also writes an ode ''The
Call of the Bugles," and "Mutfnv on the
Flagship is story of the navy by Anna
A Rogers. Octave Thanet contributes
one of her stories of manufacturing life
In the West The Conscience of q R,,si-
ness Man," which is as good as ANYTHING
she has ever done
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

Which has the largest trade in Samoa, Ger
many, England or America? w. G.
A single German firm at Apia, in Upo-
lu, does more business than all the Brit
ish and American firms put together.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

Miss Braddon has written new nsNel
which is now appearing in England as a
serial in The Ladies' Realm. The title of
the story is In High Places"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

,, = nat IS the exact date that war was deeIared2
When did the President issue his rsf caI1 Co. 80
troops? - 0a-- SID sIr ."e
war began on April p. On April % the
president called for 125. coo troops. ON
Monday, April Is. Congress passed a res
oiution declaring that war had existed
since April 81
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
where vas the oririnal 60,

Where was the original Ericsson monitor buiIt?
AT Greenpoint. N Y. (now part OF
Brooklyn), in 1912. by c. S. Bushnell.
j. A Griswold and ]. F. WinsIow sbe
cost $275,00O
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28
LITERARY NOTES.

George Moore is now at work upon the
sequel to Evelyn Innes," and thus far
all the reviews and critics have united
in condemning the idea. The book is to
De called Sister Teresa" which gives
an dnkhng of what Evelyn did when she
finally settled the trouble between her
conscience and her emotions The trou-
BILE with writing a sequel to a book like
Evelyn Innes" Is precisely that no one
wants to knoY what she did "after.
ward" or rather each reader likes to
answer the question for himself. Mr.
Moore's novel resembles Stockton's IA
nous story, 1.-The Lady or the Tiger. -
IN that its interest is almost wholly
psychological ut centers on what the
heroine is, not on what she does: and
Wnen the reader has made ND his mind
that her character is one thing. 1T is
disappointing to find in the SEQUEL tina t
she did not do what he Thought she
would, and he must reconstruct his idea
OF her from the beginning. Particularly
provoking is it in the case of such char
acter as Evelyn Innes.
Mr.. Jeremiah Curtin, who has trans
lated so many of Sienkiewiesz's novels. is
said to be able to speak eighteen Ian
guages.
In the month of September Short Stories
issues its one hundredth number
As might have been expected. Mark
Twain has found a way to come out
ahead of that books that have most In
fiuenced me" bore. They asked him tina,
question not long ago, and he said thai
he would give the list with pleasure
This was it:
"Innocents Abroad "Roughing It.,
Tramp Abroad" 1.-THE Prince and the
Pauper, 'Huckleberry Finn" TON
Sawyer" "a Connecticut Yankee a,
King Arthur's Court Personal REM.
niscences Of Joan of Are" "Pudd' nhead
wilson. Following the Equator" and
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

IT has long been known that in Greek
temple architecture the measurements are
throughout slightly irregular The line
which seems TO be horizontal has a
slight upward arch. which corrects the
appearance of sagging. Seemingly verti-
cal lines are out OF the perpendicular.
In a recent series of seven articles, pub
lished in the Architectural Record, 1t has
been pointed out that similar irregularl-
ties. though not exactly on the same prin-
ciple, exist in some medieval architec-
ture. In England the cathedrals seem to
be mainly free from these variations but
in the cathedrals of Siena Pisa, Gre
mona, and other italian cities, there are
deliberate variations intended 10 heighten
the effect upon the beholder, to give an
impression of greater space, or to en-
nance the architectural beauty of the
building. These observations suggest that
Americans still have much TO learn in
national architecture. Hitherto we have
been striving for mathematical exactness.
Our artists and architects will be obliged
to learn the lesson of the Japanese-ar-
tistic irregularity.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

Writing in the School Journal, Eliza
beth S. Hyatt gives some amusing remi-
niscences of Will Carleton as school,
master. He engaged in this business in
Lenawee County, in southern Michigan,
near his home. The teacher who had the
school before had come ruefully out of it.
In fact, the big boys turned him out,
made a bonfire of his books and long
linen buster he wore TO protect his clothes
from the pervasive chalk dust, and de-
clared that that was the last teaching he
should do in that district. The school off,
Gals meekly acquiesced and looked for a
new teacher. The interest of the small
fry in the personality of the teacher was
intense, for without his protection they
had to submit to more or less bullying.
and were not allowed TO slide on small
pond in front of the schoolhouse. When
they saw the new pedagogue they glee-
fully whispered to one another that 1.-The
new teacher was taller'n Bill Welch, and
ever so much stronger. He proved both
tall and strong. And he was not locked
out of doors.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

VIII You kindly inform me which nation CAMEL
It's point in the war Of 1872 between Great Bri.
an anu TINS eountryF Y Y. T.
Neither side. really. The treaty Of Ghent.
signed on December "a, 1914. was absolute
~ silent on the subject of maritime rights
and the impressment of seamen sriu Inc
English stopped impressing our sailors
after the war.