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The herald., 1898-10-16

not the mechanical acceptance Of form,
not mere superstition that encrusts
an outworn creed, but q vital, uplifting
force, a power which fills their souls
with Imaginative warmth and fervor.
The worth of an experience is to be es-
timated by the emotional fire which It
kindles, and to the lives Of such women
the dull, colorless round of their daily
existence gives no real clue. There Is
the life of the spirit, and for them the
inner Is the only true life.''
Altogether this Is a strong book, and
especially interesting to anyone who has
made something Of a study of the social
and religious tendencies Of the times.
There is no better field for the study of
these questions, vagaries and all, than
Boston, with its intellectual hospitality.
Boston has always had a great deal on
Its mind. The affairs of the world have
always interested. and oftentimes
troubled, Bostonians. It Is interesting,
therefore, to look in upon the inner life
and learn the ways of great city which
has had so large part in all great re-
forms. and it Is rather comforting to
find that our older cities are In very
much the same condition that we find
existing here. We are all the Victims OF
certain men and women who rely too
much on their vocabularies and too little
on the saving power of common sense
and that old-time faith that always
makes for righteousness.
o O o
The first portraits ever taken of Mary
e. wilkins which she has ever liked will
be printed in the October Ladies' Home
Journal. There will be nine of them,
and they will show the famous New
England story-teller at home and with
her friends around her.
Prof. Frederick Newton Wilson of
Princeton university has Just completed
his work on Theoretical and Practical
Graphics." which is to be published at
an early date by the Macmillan COM
pany.
]. A. Altsheler's "A Soldier of Man
haitian" has been published in Australia.
Among the many favorable English re-
views of this novel has been a notice of
considerable length in the London
Times, which gives cordial praise to the
book. Mr.. Altsheler's new novel, "A
Herald of the West" which Will be pub
lished before long, is regarded as his
most important work.
The many readers who have learned
to value the fine literary art Of Maarten
Martens will be glad to learn that his
new novel. 'Her Memory" will be pub
lished In October by d. Appleton & Co.
tom Benton's Luck is the title Of a
new book by the author Of ION Many
Seas" and "The General Manager
Story" Mr.. Hamblen has written, this
time, an American boys story of stir
ring adventure by land and sea, with
the same freshness and graphic truth
fulness that have made his two earlier
books so popular.
"The New England Poets" by William
Cranston Lawton, Is the title OF book
to be published shortly by the Macmil-
The herald., 1898-10-16

is sometimes published. One of its very
liveliest books Of last year was miss
Archer Archer" a sort of three-ringed
circus among summer entertainments,
and this one has the same quality al
though the actors do not travel in pairs
and 1t has more sentiment and pathos
The story opens with scene in Will
lard French's "den," when Miss Beebe
called to interest him on behalf Of Miss
Gaylord, who was to come to Boston to
study music. HE has his faults; he
smokes a pipe. but he comes Of good
family" she says later to Mrs. Carruth
We must leave the reader to find out
for himself the plot and outcome of this
charming story. content to remark that
1t is one Of the books one can well afford
to buy and read.
o o .
A MAID OF THE FRONTIER. BY
Henry Spofford Garfield. Rand, Nc
Nally & Co.
This handsome little volume Is full Of
fight and fire. There is not good chance
to stop and take long breath in 1t,
events press SO hard, one upon another.
The shorter sketches are we'll up to the
main story in interest, and therA isl a
strain all the time to keep up with the
swiftly moving scenes. The author
uses some words that are little try
Ing. as when the horse which Anne rode
was superbly "muscled"; and few Tex
an faces were seen and few Texan topics
tapised." This is fine ALTERATION. but
we venture to say that never before
was tapis stretched out into a verb.
Q o O
THE PURITANs. BY Arlo Bates, au-
thor Of 1.-THE Pagans," 1.-THE Philis-
tines" etc. Crown 8vo, $1.50. Hough-
ton, Mifi1in & Co.
One thing can be said about this vol
ume-and 1t IL thing very pleasan and
gratifying to say-the style Of 1t Is well
nigh faultless. There is no flaw In the
plan Of treatment or in the smallest de-
tail of grammatical construction, and it
is real help to go through book Of
this sort.
: 1t must be said, too, that Mr.. Bates
has struck a somewhat higher note here
than In any former work; for, while 1t
is not a preachy novel, 1t cannot fail to
stir the moral sense. And 1t is a love
story. also. although the atmosphere is
cool, the sky gray, and the wind, q 60 ID
deal of the time, in the east.
The book seems study OF community
character and tendency, rather than an
incidental use Of persons and things
to make story. The author who intro
duces us to Mrs. Cores friends, assem-
bled to hear the Persian's discourse, and
tells US the plottings and strivings of
the Episcopal election and Of the Chris
tian faith healer, surely has something
in view Of more Importance than the
mere entertainment these events fur
nish. Maurice Wynne and Philip Ashe
are more than two young high church,
men who have become the victims of
Boston's occasional ethical designations,
and one feels that somehow their lives
are meant to be directly related to the
The herald., 1898-10-16
Public Pay for Party Service

web" Davis, assistant secretary OF the
interior, gets salary of $3.50 a day from
the government. "Web" is now CAM
paigning out in Missouri and purposes 10
keep at it until the close of the campaign.
He also purposes to keep drawing his sal
ary of $3.50 per day from the government.
This Is civil service reform under the pres
ent regime.-Wheeling Register.
The herald., 1898-10-16

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The herald., 1898-10-16

WHEREAS, THE LEGISLATURE OF
the state Of California, at its thirty-sec-
ond session. beginning on the fourth day
OF January, A. u. 1897, two-thirds Of ali the
members elected to each Of the two houses
OF said legislature voting In favor thereof,
proposed the following described amend
ments to the Constitution of the stats Of
California to-wit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-12
Causing His Arrest on Suspicion
of Train Robbery.
CASE OF POOR TRAY.
The Friend and Associate of
Suspicious Characters.
He Has Always Borne a Good
Reputation.

Kansas City. Oct 12--Jesse James, Jr.,
son of the notorious bandit, Jesse James,
O1issourfs pioneer train robber, was taken
from his cigar stand in the county court
house by the police last evening, and is
being secreted by the police authorities.
Two other men, whose names are not
known, and whom the police absolutely
refused to talk about, were arrested soon
after the police took young James into
custody.
Jesse James. Jr.. has been under the
surveillance of the police since the last
train robbery on the outskirts of Kansas
City. 1t was the robbery of a Missouri
Pacific express train near Leeds on Sep
TENDER "a
William Lowe, a Santa Fe switchman,
has been in custody since five days after
the hold-up. Lowe is a native Of . the
city. which was made notorious as the
hiding place of the first James gang
YOungers the Ryans and others of the old
gang, always found shelter in the Cracker
John Kennedy, the locomotive engineer
who has been twice arrested in connection
with the more recent train roDDerles IN
Jackson county IS also n35tlYe OF me
young Jesse James are 1rlenQs. ana
though young James has always borne
SURVEILLANCE with the others. The ponce
maintain that train rObbing will not be
has been a publication OF the Cracker
Neck district, and all their work since the
last robbery seems to nave been IN TINS
direction.
The police also have in custody. Bill
Ryan, one of the most notorious of the
old James gang. Ryan, like the others,
was reared in the Cracker Neck district.
It was not generally known that Bill
Ryan was in the vicinity of Kansas City
at the time of the robbery or since. The
police do not state where Ryan was ar
rested, but he is reported to have been
caught in Oklahoma.
Bill Ryan is about 81 years of age. In
1881 he was arrested in Tennessee, brought
back TO Jackson county, and convicted
here of completely in the robbery of a
Chicago and Alton train at Glendale in
1879. He was sentenced to 25 years i'm
prisonment, but soon after his incarcera-
ton the robbers friends in Jackson county
began working to secure his release, plead
ing that he was a broken down man and
could live but a few years Finally. in
1888. these representations had the effect
of inducing Governor Moore house to par
don Ryan and restore him to citizenship.
Ryan at once came back to Kansas City
and the Cracker Neck, but afterward he
went to the Pacific coast, and about a
year ago he was reported to be in Japan
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NAVAL HERO SAVES A LIFE
One of Hobson's Companions Bravely
Rescues a Fellow Sailor.

Iowa City. Iowa, Oct 12.-Osborn
Deignan of Iowa, who was one of Hob
sons companions in the sinking of the
Merrimac is the hero of another adj
venture, with an unpoetic ending.
however. A letter to his mother re-
ceived here today, is dated United
States steamship Resolute, Brooklyn
navy yard, and reads in part as follows;
I'VE were taking steam launch
aboard and when we got it above the
rail the boat and the two men who were
in it fell to the water. The boat was
heavy and sank out of sight for a
minute, but then came to the surface.
"One of the men escaped without
scratch, but the other received internal
injuries. When I saw the launch fall
I rushed to the ships side and was just
in time to see the two men come to the
surfa ce. I saw that one of them was
bleeding at the mouth, so I threw off
my shoes ard jumped in after him. He
retained consciousness, however, until
we were aboard again. I had my new
uniform trousers on when I jumped
overheard and I took them off in the
water In the pockets were a gold
watch and chain, gold and silver coins
and some of my other possessions.
lost them all, about SS5 or $50 worth of
property and coins together. I am that
much out and that will postpone my
Through for another month or two
Deignan also tells his mother that his
application for change of rate and pro-
motion to the post of master at arms
has been rejected by the department
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CIVIL SERVICE IGNORED.
Government Employees to Be Allowed
to Engage in the Campaign.

Washington, Oct. 12.-It is quite evil
dent that the administration will apply
no check to the government employees
who desire to get out and work for Re
publican success at the polls this Mo-
vember The famous Cleveland letter
of 1886 warning federal employees to be-
ware of offensive political activity is
to be a dead letter this fall.
From talks with the heads of the va
rious executive ep rtments 1t is learned
that not one of them intends to issue a
circular placing restrictions on the
movements of government clerks, and
postmasters, collectors of customs, in
terna1 revenue collectors and other
officials will be allowed full swing.
Several of the higher officials have
already set an example, for As
sistant Secretary of the Interior Davis,
Assistan Secretary of War Meikle-
john and a number of others have al
ready announced their intention of go
ing upon the stump.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Vanderlip about summed up the situa-
ton when he said today, in answer to
a question as to whether his depart
ment would republish the Cleveland
letter of 1885: I'VE do not propose to
issue any Democratic circulars to our
employees. If we intend to say anything
about the election we will frame our
own notice. However, we have not CIV
en- this matter special attention and you
will be safe in saying that the treasury
department does not intend to hamper
any employees who desire to participate
in the coming elections"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-12
AFTER STANDARD TRUST.
Ohio Supreme Court is Trying to
Punish Oil Magnates.

New York, Oct. 12.-Once again the
law is to grapple with the Standard Oil
trust. Allen T. Brinsmade a special
commissioner, is in New York to take
the testimony of John D. Rockefeller
and others who have been cited to ap-
pear and show cause why they should
not be punished for contempt of the
Ohio Supreme court. This contempt
consists of the Standard Oil company
refusal to cease to be a trust.
Attorney General Monette has asked
the court to cancel the charter of the
Standard Oil company, and in accord
ance with its usual custom the mono
poly mustered it's millions of dollars
and its influence for defense. Threats.
promises and cajoleries were employed,
but the Ohio officials seemed to resist
them all and the Standard Oil had to
face the question in court.
Mr.. Brinsmade is at the New Amster-
begin Tuesday The officers of the Stan
dard Oil asked the commissioner to hold
the session at the company's offices, an
invitation he declined The attorney
general who has caused the great trust
so much trouble is to represent Ohio
and Edward B. Kincaid will assist him.
Virgil P. Kline of Cleveland, o., backed
by whatever New York lawyers the
trust thinks it needs. will try to keep
Mr.. Rockefeller out of jail, and nobody
is posting odds that they will not sue
coed.
Mr.. Brinsmade says he will summon
John D. Rockefeller first of all. On his
answers to the pertinent questions of
Attorney General Monette depends the
further course of the investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-12
HAS LAFAYETTE'S TROWEL
R. L Carlton Offers It to Lay Monu-
ment's Corner Stone.

Chicago, Oct PA silver trowel once
used by Lafayette in laying the corner
stone of a monument erected in memory
of De Kalb will be made use of in put
ting into place a similar part of the
shaft soon to be dedicated to the
French patriot in the Petit Picpus GEM
etery in Paris.
Secretary Robert J. Thompson Of the
Lafayette memorial commission re-
ceived a letter yesterday from Robert
Lee Carlton of Columbia, S. C., owner
of the historic implement, who sug
gested it might most appropriately be
used seventy-ive years later at the
dedicatory exercises of the structure
designed to perpetuate the fame of it's
original wielder The suggestion is
so good that there is not the slightest
doubt it will be adopted.
It was in 1924 that the patriotic citi
zens of Camden, S. C., started building
a cenotaph to the memory of De Kalb,
the patriot, who, after having given
valuable assistance to the colonial army
finally died valiantly fighting on the
field Of battle. The aged Lafayette
was at that time making his second
visit to America. The citizens of Cam
den asked him to help dedicate the
monument to De Kalb, with whom he
was most intimately associated and the
silver trowel with which he put the
corner stone in position has ever since
been treasured as a Valua BILE heirloom
It's present owner, Mr.. Carlton, Is editor
of a South Carolina periodical called
the State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-12
KAlSER'S TRIP CUT
To Ten Days Owing to TrOu-
blOus Conditions.

Berlin, Oct. 12.-With touching unanim-
ity, all those organs of the metropolitan
press who are known to receive their in
spiratiOn from the government Insist to-
day in the most positive manner that the
Kaiser's sudden resolution to cut short his
oriental trip by almost two months, and
not to absent himself from Europe for
more than ten days or a fortnight at the
longest, is not due to the troubled aspect
of the political horizon, yet everyone is
aware that the contrary is the case.
In fact, the assertions of the Semi-Off-
cial newspapers that the political drma-
ment has never been more free from
clouds than just now excites ridicule, SO
palpable is the falsity of the statement.
Aside from the Phil ppine question, VIII ch
remains as menacing as ever, the news
from France is such that it may become
at any moment necessary to mobilize a
German army corps on the frontier. In
fact, Paris is known to be on the eve of
revolution. and there is no knowing what
insane form the popular outbreak, who
is considered by all here as imminent on
French government may see in a fore gn
war the only hope of saving the republic
from its international enemies, or else the
fighting in the streets of Paris may de-
velop into attack on the foreign en-
basSies.
If ever the political horizon was somber
and threatening it is just at present, and
people of every class are unanimous in
asserting that the hour is too critical for
any ruler to absent himself from the helm
of the ship of state.
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FITZSIMMONS REFUSED.
Dog Eats at Wa1dorf-Astorta But
GiIseY House Bars Pugs.

New York Oct 129Y 9s9T T.: dog once
9Wne4d BY PugIlst Robert EltzsltnIn09s
where he is an honored and respected
was denied a plate of soup al the GIlsey
from the cafe BY Proprietor ]. H. BresIn.
AS an American citizen with rights, Fitz
says he will sue the hotel for damages.
Not knowing that the Corbett-McCoy
nix-up had rendered pugi1ists persona non
grata at the Gilsey, Mr.. FitZsimmons en-
tered the hotel yesterday, purposing to
take lunch while waiting for friend.
AS Fitz tells it, he entered the cafe
shortly before 3 O'clock and was cordially
received by a waiter who respects pugn-
''Give me some mock turtle soup" said
,Twenty minutes passed. during which iSa
champion He called the head waiter.
Where's my soup?'
serve " You Gf here. replied the R head waiter
What" said Fizsimmons, in a voice
that attracted other diners who never
'That is the order from the Office" con-
tinued the head waiter. You are not to
Overcome with embarrassment, the man
who couldn't get the soup sought the Of
did not know, Fitz asked for the manager.
I'm the owner and proprietor of this
hotel. What do you want?'
Fitzsimmons spoke quietly put az lengtR
''That's rights the hotel owner said. ct
don't want you nor any of your profession
in my house,
Wen, this is hard luck replied the
champion. i've always acted the gentle
man in your house and in other hotels, too.
1 don't understand why you should treat
7 don't care what you are or what you
have been. I don't want you or your pro-
fessiOn here
Il am very sorry SIR the pugilist said,
in courteous accents that my brother
prof, SIS on2ls sh I'D act so disg acefu ~ as
to bring disgrace upon us all Never have
1 acted that bad in my life, and I never
honest, sober man and an American citi-
zen to be driven from public dining room
for the faults of others. Good day, sir"
Inside of ten minutes F'itz had the
names of a dozen witnesses who will go on
the stand and swear that he was clean,
well-behaved, respectable looking and
hopelessly sober. He then hunted up
Martin Julian and told him to see a law
yer at once. At the Gilsey House it was
said they would try to struggle along
through the winter without the aid of pu-
priliStS
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PIES, ETC.
Ice Cream and Delicacfes Added
to the List
Of Things Responsible For Sick
ness Among Soldiers.
GEN. GRAHAM TELLS
Of His Experience In Com
mand at Camp WikofR.
Makes No Mention of Pop and
Bananas.

Washington, Oct. 12-Major General
William NJ. Graham was the only wit
ness before the war investigating COM
mission today. He was first commander
at Camp Alger, Va There was, he said,
only one railroad running into the camp
and the station was about one and a
half miles distant. He thought the wa
ter supply was sufficient when the camp
numbered no more than five regiments
of troops, but as the troops increased
it became necessary to dig wells. There
was delay in digging the wells, forty of
which were sunk, one for each regiment.
The supply then was ample for all pur-
poses except bathing.
1t was his impression that there had
been some complaints of sickness on ac-
count of the water famine, which had
continued from the 10th of May until
the 25th of June, with varying degrees
OF intensity, but he had been through
campaigns before in which the water
supply was not equal to that of Camp
Alger. He was inclined to attribute
much of the sickness at Camp Alger
to the fact that the soldiers insisted on
taking the water from the little streams
running through the camp. There had
been considerable typhoid fever at the
camp, but it did not originate there,
and the first cases were isolated. Dur
ing his entire stay at the camp less
sick. There were siXty-nine deaths,
five being those of officers. Much of the
sickness in his opinion, was due to
delicacies sent to soldiers from home,
and he had issued an order prohibiting
the sale of ice cream. pies, etc, in the
camp.
When typhoid fever began to be con-
sidered an epidemic, he issued strict or
ders for the detailing of guards for the
care of the sinks, making any neglect
an offense punishable by arrest.
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a. See me about storage.

sleep from which she has just awakened
Her strange case attracted much atten-
ton, and every train brought from one to
q dozen strangers to see her. Physicians
from this and other states, mesmerists,
faith healers, hypnotists and curiosity
seekers hocked to the town. All sorts of
methods failed to arouse her.
Three days ago Mrs. Ravens rubbed her
eyes, sat up in bed and looked with as
constituent al those around her She in
sisted that she had gone to sleep only the
evening before, and even now she cannot
realize that she has been dead to the world
for such long time.
While her body has been lying in the
little cottage in wyoming her spirit, as
she believes, has journeyed through space.
She has Travelled in dreams with strange,
prehistoric people through the ice fields
Of Greenland and Alaska and the noun
tains of the west She tells remarkable
stories of her adventures, and 1t is diff
cult to convince her that they are not
real
Mrs. Ravens is 80 years old. She was at
hieted with melancholia before her sleep
began.
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NEW SATIRICAL COMEDY.
Manners of Good Society"byReginal
de Koven and Chatfeld Taylor


Chicago. Oct. 12.-Hobart Chatfeld
ChatfieId-T Taylor and Reginald de
Koven have nearly completed a satiri-
cal comedy to be called. THE Manners
Of Good Society,"" and it is practically
assured that Julia MarlOwe will be seen
in this, the first joint production of the
we'll known novelist and the equally
we'll known composer.
Mr.. FrOhman directed Mr.. Edwards,
his representative, with Miss Marlowe,
to call upon Mr.. Taylor and inspect the
comedy with a view of it's use by Miss
Marlowe. He did so, and in his judg-
ment the piece is peculiarly well
adapted to meet Miss Marlowe's desire
of long standing for a purely American
comedy by native author. The play
will be read to the actress next week,
and she will pass final judgment upon
its fitness for her uses.
Mr.. Taylor and Mr.. de Koven met last
winter at Aiken. S. c., where they
were spending a vacation, and the sub
ject of a literary partnership being
preached, they undertook to construct
two plays, Mr.. de KoVen writing the
scenario and Mr.. Taylor the dialogue.
THE Manners of Good Society," is the
first fruit of their cooperation.
So congenial did the gentlemen find
KoVen went on the road with 1.-THE
Conquerors" Mr.. Taylor accompanied
him, continuing in the intervals of
travel the construction of their second
play. Mr.. de Koven will come to Chi
cago late in October to complete the
last act of the piece in which Miss Mar
lowe is interested.