The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-23
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benefcent service. into power often op-
pressive and malign. " Is so essen
TALLY monopoly that an attempt to force
IL under the law OF competition must re-
suit in economic wreck and moral ruin.
and being quasi-publsc In It's nature tha,
government must either own or firmly
control II. The final solution IS Of
course. apparent-'-Government ownership
and control Of the machinery OF trans
poriation Is the only logical solution Of
the problem
AS whole the book Is very readable
and presents some of our present prob
lens In very just and moderate way.
ISLANDS OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS
NJ NJ Shoemaker. BY G.. r. Putnam's
Sons Price, SIS
Mr. Michael Myers Shoemacher in his
last work entitled Islands of the South
err Seas, has written a very readable
book of travel. The author Travelled in A
!elsureiy way through Hawaii, Samoa
New Zealand, Tasmania Australia and
Java, and while he makes no pretense of
writing profound book from a historical
or political standpoint. he has succeeded in
giving the untraveled American an inter-
esing account or those distant islands m
der the Southern Cross and their strange
people.
Fully one-third of the volume Is devoted
to Java. Mr.. Shoeaachers description OF
this land of the sun. with its curious Dutch
and Malay types, its luxuriance of animal
and vegetable life. its magnificent ard
unique temples of Boro Bodo, with IT'S
endless and superb carvings. It's stately
Buddhas, is graphic and minute: and If il
is not so artistic as Miss Scidmores work.
1t Is realistic and contains many interest
ing facts about the country.
Tasmania, with her gloomy history. is
treated or at length. A graphic picture il
given of the prison horrors of Port Arthur.
which was the scene of Marcus Clarke's
His Natural Life" Another chapter de-
scribes Point Puer formerly the children's
prison, the records of which show plainly
That we need not look back to the Middle
ages for examples of inhuman torture
The chapters on Australia furnish fresh
information OF that country. The absolute
separation, politically and commercially.
between the colonies leads the author to
think that there need be TO fear of any
revolt OF these colonies from the mother
country. New South Wales is free trade.
while Victoria has a stifY protective tariff.
From Melbourne TO Sydney is only $40
miles, yet at the frontier all passengers
and baggage must be changed. as the two
roads are OF different gauge. The book
contains many illustrations produced from
, photographs.
THE ENCHANTED RURRo: Stories of
New Mexico and South America.
In HIS preface TO his new book ''The
Enchanted Burro.' Mr. Lummis says: 1t
is given unto many 10 know enough by n
few days in a Pullman or a hotel Ger even
reference library at home) To make a
book about a country. But not unto me.
It has taken more than dozen arduous.
costly years 10 beat into me what little
hope to know about cur frontier and Span
ish-Ameriea. To learn new languages and
study Innumerable old documents was but
one side of the task; everywhere ard
among many strange people. il was also
necessary to become one OF the family
/ to share their speech and their ideas. their
| pleasures and their hardships-in a word
/ to live their life.'
| Mr.. Lummis is deeply versed in things
| Mexican and in the legends OF the early
! civilizations in the far West. Fourteen
stories make up his latest book. "The En-
chanted Rurro:" viz: The Mummy
/ Miner Peru,. "A Boy of the Andes"
/ PERU. "A Daughter OF the Mlsti''
] PERU, The Witch Deer" New Mexicol.
"Fellpe's Susaring-on' PERU. Andres.
| the Arriero" uBolivial. our yellow
| Slave" THE Peak OF Geld New Mexico
| 'Pablo's Deer Hunt (New Mexico). Can
/ deiaria's Curse" CNew Mexico The Hah-
/ Il OF the Fralle" PERU, The Great Magi-
/ cian. The Balso Coy OF Lake TI;i-caca"
| IBoliyia).
These stories are fun OF the charm OF
/ novelty for the reader. and yet al the same
: time the scenes in which they are laid
/ have been so thoroughly assimilated ny the
author that he does not dwell up3n or
even remind one OF their strangeness. as
I one 70 whom the country is f0rsign. Mr.,
/ Lummis IL a firm believer In the legend 81
the Mesa Encantada' in New Mexico.
which is briefly that this great "eachanted
lakeland" that towers 500 feet above the
plains. was Inhabited axes ago. and he has
reiterated his belief that Y the rock was
scaled and searched. evidences of hum m
haoltstIon would be found. And now
Prof T. W. Hodge. of the Smithsonian
announces that he has scaled the 'en-
chanted mesa and that he found album
dant evidence Of humln habltation. bring
ms back stone axes. arrow points frag-
meats of bracelets and potsherds tn sup
port Of his tale. Mr.. Lummls is highly
eiated accordingly, and viii doubtless
write some more good stories about the
enchanted mesa and the vanished city
which may have stood upoH IT'S wind,
hcieats.
TALES OF THE REAL GYPSY. By
Paul Hester. Doubleday n Mcclure
20 stpa,
}Iait dozen "Ta'cs ot the Rea
Gypsy are given as by Paul hester. lf
/ volGme bearing this tstie. The S1yi@
Is the mixture OF Romaay and EDglisa
/ wor3s made familiar by BARROW. way Is
it aha; 10 writer on gyrsy Ufe ever let'
pass aa opportunity 10 use Sypsy we've
/ sn place Of am Eng'ish ore. Fer instance
/ IN ais preface Mr. Nee.er teils us "a,
3 snail search fog certain th.r-s with
isass hearts aaa wHae sc sails ovt'
the drorns JoSetrcr sth3ush he mlgH