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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-18
Both Were Killed.

Neenah. Wis. Dee. E-Jamss Christen-
sen and wife. while crossing the North
western railroad tracks. were struck ny
a train and killed. They leave . family
OF eight children
The times., 1898-10-30
LITERARY NOTES.

A new book, by Mrs. John King Van
Rensselaer,. bears the odd title of The
Goede Nrouw OF Mana-ha-ta at Home and
in Society," This being interpreted means
that the book deals with the domestic life
of the Dutch housewives in the early days
of New York. The author says: His
tory is generally written by men, who
dwell on politics, wars and the exploits
OF their sex Household affairs, woman's
influence, social customs and manners
are seldom chronicied, and are only to be
discovered underlying what are deemed
the important events OF life, more by in
ference than from anything that Is ac-
tually written about them. This conglom-
crate history of the lives of the danes
of Mana-ha-ta has been compiled with in
finite difficulty, owing TO the scanty data
that have been preserved concerning
them. 1t was customary to destroy all
letters that dealt with family life partic-
ulariy anything concerning the women of
the family, as II In their lives and daily
occupations there was something TO be
ashamed of. Volumes of letters and
trunks full of bundles nt old papers have
been preserved in many families. but in
all those that I have 'aboriously studied
l have not found more than dozen writ
ten by women; but those were filled with
interesting details. and were far more val
liable to the historian than those OF the
men of the day, which were on dry busi-
ness affairs that might have been of i'm
portance at the time. but are of no value
now"
The times., 1898-10-30
The Death of Childhood.

Love 5 pam IS chlldhoOd'S death"
Two walk'd through the lonely orchard-land.
Where beeches tapp'd and the grass grew high;
The twilight hush seemd 90 understand
That love and giadness were passing by.
The clover lifted their creamy crowns,
And left sweet incense upon her dress;
The huttercnrS shook their golden gowns
And tapp'd her shoes with bright caress.
He said: THE kingcups have lit your hair:
The foxglove's pink your sweet mouth lies;
The clouds have fashiond the robe you wear
And Eden opens within your eys"
dark face peep'd through the laughing leaves
Brown eys grew dim with binding dread;
And a look crept in that spring receives
When all its buds and its birds are dead.
He said: 80. fingers against nv face,
To rest in mine and 10 bless me soi''
And one girl smiled in her resting place.
And one girl sobbed as she turnd to 90.
bird few past, and us wings were shot
With all the colors that sun.et Knows,
The sky grew pale with for-get-me-not,
And stretch'd away into maize and rose.
The deep, soft calm that tie shldlws weave
Swept widely the orchard lawn;
But child heart died that SUMMER eve
As woman's anguish'd love was born
Edith Rutter, in the Pail Mall Magazine.
The times., 1898-10-30
Lost-Another Link.

Where where is the time-honored apron,
The apron our grandmother knew?
1t was ample and checked, it was Tibbon-be-
decked,
Nav twas every known fabric and hue.
And the linen ones whittier than snowdrifts,
20 glossy with patience and starch!
Now where have they vanished or has Progress
banshed
Them all in her fu-de-siecle march2
Say. where Is that cute little apron
With pockets adorned with bowl
FIscinations untold did that small pocket hold
For the fingers and eyes of each bezu.)
Such dainty. such furbelowed aprons.
Each ruffiod or ribboned or laced
With strings most alluring, embracing, securing
1t safe to her trim slender waist.
All, where is that dearest Of aprons,
SO snowy so soft and so cool.
When mothers lap cured every sorrow endured
Every heartbreak Of playground or school?
II is folded in lavender. yellowed
With time and with kisses and tears;
Her sweet face recalling her fond cares falling,
1t summons from long, lonely years.
And where is that old-iashicned apron
The apron no new woman WEARS,
Since her smart tailor gown most correctly would
frown
On such feminine frippery and snares?
Then what earthly occasion 10 wear it
Would office or cluhroom allow?
NO Small hanOs Otta4LlnE, no nOHlt cares CoIl-
straining,
No apron strings tetheT her now.
Dame fashion. restore the lost aprons.
Make wonanly homclife the style,
Our ball gowns neglect and our tailors reject,
Reverse Folly's wheel Just 4 while
And bring back the old days when only
The home seemed the dearest, the best,
When Cupid completely each manly heart neatly
Bound fast with those apron strings blesti
Ella NJ Sexton. in the san Francisco Chronicle.
The times., 1898-10-30
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ever his signature because it exhibited an
American In a ridiculous light.
| This sort of thing is too small and too
puerile to consider seriously. Possibly
to give him the benefit of the doubt-Mr.
| Kipling wrote that story while feeling
very ill, and used it as a sort of escape
| valve. Possibly II was put on paper to
get IL off his mind, because 1t was doing
damage there. But in any case, the in
nocent and well-meaning reader should
be warned off that story 1t should be
kept strictly for medicinal use, and in no
case be administered without the exercise
of proper precautions. 1t is grave lndi-
cation that Mr.. Kipiing is becoming sub
ject TO intermittent paresis. and if. in
time, he reeains possession of his usual
good business judgment he may perhaps
dispose of II to some patent medicine
manufacturer. That would be fate ap-
propriate, harmless and inoffensive to the
public.
Once upon a time, in the days of his
youthful and callow observations of our
land, the author of American Notes"
remarked. apropos of a banquet How
on earth can a white man, a sahib of our
blood, stand up and deliberately plaster
praise on his own country?' Yet that
Is precisely what the author of 1.-The
Days Work" has been doing without the
excuse of after-dinner hilarity 1t is mys-
terious THE Bridge Builders" a cele-
bration of British engineering enterprise.
Is in point of order the first story of the
book. and from this tale to THE Brush
wood Boy at the end there is one con-
tlnuous laudation of the British man, the
British government, the British tradi-
tions and society and country and eli
mate
Why this aggressiyeness? Why this
laying on of glory with d trowel? Cannot
man love his native land without black
guarding all the rest of the earth? The
attitude of tribal braggart does not add
TO the reputation of Mr.. Kipling in the
least. and the effect of such a perform
ance on an authors creative power is too
SAD Tor contemplation. The author of the
Jungle Books - THE Light That Fail
ed and THE Seven Seas ought to have
something better to do than to stand on
Brighton Beach and yelp derlsion of the
American people across the Atlantic
ocean, with his reputation for a mega
phone. Mulvaney would be ashamed of
him; Dick Heldar would survey him with
silent contempt, and those good Ameri-
can boys, Harvey Cheyne and Dan Troop.
would hoot at him. He knows. perhaps
why he INDUCES in these gratuitous howl
lngs at America, but il is doubtful If
any one else does (New York: Double
day d Mcclure Company. S50)
The times., 1898-10-30
Sealed Orders.

Our life is like a ship that sails some day
To distant waters, leagues and leagues away;
Not knowing what command TO do and dare
Awaits her when her eager keel is there
Birth, love. and death are ports We leave behind
Borne on by rolling wave and rushing wind;
Bearing a message with unbroken seal,
Whose meaning fain we would at once reveal.
It may not be. But ever and anon
Some order sealed at first We ope and con;
So learn what next, 50 east or westward fly,
And ne'er again that port Of birth espy.
Where lies our course in vain We seek to know.
Go FORTH the Spirit says, and forth We go;
Enough that. wheresoever we may fare.
Alike the sunshine and the storm we share.
But still not knowing, still with orders sealed.
Our track shall lie across the heavenly field;
Yet there, as here, though dim the distant way,
Our strength shall be according to our day.
The sea is His He made ii. and His grace
Lu-ks in its widest wave its deepest place
Our truest knowledge is that He is wise;
What is our foresight to His sweet surprise?
j. W. Chadwick.
The times., 1898-10-30
CUnhENl' VEpc7.
The city of sleep,


Over the edge of the purple down,
Where the single lamp light CLEANS.
know ye the read to the Mereiful Town
That Is hard by the Sea of Dreams
Where the poor may lay their wrongs away,
And the sick may forget 10 weep2
But we-pity u.s. shl pity Us.
We wakstui; OH pity usl
We must 20 back with Policeman Day
Back from the City of Sleep,
Weary they turn fIom the scroll and crown,
Fetter and prayer and blow
ihty that go up to the MeTciful Town,
For her gates are closing now.
1t is their right in the baths Of Night,
Boiy and soul to steep;
Ee-pity us; ah pity US,
We wakeful; oh, pity US,
We must go hack with Policeman Day
Back from the City of Sleep.
Over the edge of the purple down,
Ere the tender dreams begin;
Look-we may -lGok-at the Merciful TOwg.
But We may not enter in,
Outcasts all, from her guarded wall,
Back to our watch creep;
We-pity us; ah! pity US.
We wakeful; oh. pity usl
We that go back with Policeman Day
Back from the City Of sleepi
-Rudyard Kipling.
The times., 1898-10-30
Andante.

Your fingers sweep the keys, and then
BY river reach and iris fen
The long dead days come back again
Smile on me once again, and so
Watt me on music soft and low
Down the far fields Of long ago.
Where lonely sunsets blow and fade
For one whose haunted heart has strayed
At evening to the upland glade.
Where he can hear the wild geese cry
Across the solitary sky,
And the cold sweeping winds go by.
With broken words that laugh and weep,
Like some one troubled in his sleep
BY visions of the calling deep.
Strange forest -girded lakes, whose moods
Lie hidden in far solitudes
Where no irreverent foot intrudes;
Black tossing rapids, through whose roar
A vague great voice forevermOre
Goes echoing from shore to shore;
All phases of that wilderness
Whose close communion used to bless
My boyhood in its Loneliness;
All these across my spirits ken
Sweep by on waves Of sound, and then
sharp sweet chord-they fade again.
The wandering ghosts have found their tomb;
And here. within this shadowed room,
Your gold hair glimmers through the gloom.
William Carman Roberts, in the Independent.
The times., 1898-10-30
Night.

Deep in the starry silence Of the night
Bresthes low the mystery Of Life ard Death
While DER the darsentd waters VANDERBILT
A yoiceless spirit veiled from mortal sight
Upheld. EMBODIED in the encircling height
OF heaven, the hushed Earth softly draws hei
breath,
And in the holy stiffness listenoth
To sweeping wings Of flr-of worlds in fight.
Beauty ascends in elemsntaI prayer;
Lifted in worship. lost in wonderment,
join in Nature's night antiphOny
That yibrates in the calm and sentient air;
And through the veil Of darkness am content
To touch the garment of Eternity.
katherine Coolidge, in Atlantic Monthly.
The times., 1898-10-30
4 Second ThouRht.

Several years ago Mr.. Jerome X. Jerome
wrote three books which have furnished
much innocent amusement to the great
middle-class public. For this he should be
entitled to a certain amount of credit.
since, to borrow wisdom from Dickens,
people must have wrinkles. and It is much
better that. they should wrinkle up their
eyes in grins than have the malady in
less attractive forms. One of these books
was called idle Thoughts of an Idle Eel
low" Floating on the airy and fanciful
nothingness of reputation evolved fran
The times., 1898-10-30
Recent Fiction.

Moran of the Lady Lefty is story
by Frank Norris, of San Francisco, and
was originally published in the New York
Sun. 1t is not a long story, but possesses
the rare merit of novelty. 1t is safe to
say that there has been nothing in Ameri-
can fiction just like this tale of adven-
ture. The novelty is not in the style but
in the subject. The heroine, Moran, is
Norwegian girl of twenty-five. who has
followed the sea with her father all her
life; who fights, swears and sails ship
like man, and very rough man at
that. and who is, in short, simply re-
incarnation of an ancient Viking woman.
The times., 1898-10-30
The Latest From China.

Ching -a-ling ng-a-ching-ching,
Mighty lotta fun;
Catchee littee Kwang-Su-
Gottee on the lun!
Longce coma mamma,
Savee muchee how.
Quickee catchee pigtail.
Makee mighty low.
Ola mannee Ii Hung
Wearee yelly coat,
Plenty longee feather
Lookee like goat.
Ching -a-ling-a-ching- ching,
Gettee lotta fun;
Maybe lttee Kwang-Su
Makee mamma lun!
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The times., 1898-10-30

= How many negro Representatives have we in
Cong essf pnI rrrs an
There is only one. He is Mr.. George
Eenry White. and represents the Second
North Carolina district. He is a LAWYER
by profession
The times., 1898-10-30

What is the length Of the Russian road across
Siberia? , What is the origin Of the Rcd Cross
Society and what is its modus operandi? 8. Tell
me. if possible. the ancestry of Gen Lawton, ths
fighting general? Is he South Ca,olinian?
More than 400 miles. 1t begins at the
European frontier on the Ural Noun
tains. and runs to Vladivostock. .. The
so-called Red Cross is really the Inter
national Order of the Red Cross. II
originated in 1868 when NJ. Henri Du-
nant a Swede, called a convention at
Geneva to discuss the formation of re-
lief societies to help the wounded in war.
The meeting was successful. and all civ
iIized nations. except our own Chen in
the middle of war; joined The Amer
lean society was formed later. and, We
think. is not affiliated with the Geneva
society. though it works on the same
basis. only more extensively. The for
eign society confines its work solely to
the wounded in war: our own has helped
the yellow fever sufferers. cholera suf-
ferers flood sufferers. and the Armenians
and reconcentrados in Cuba. II is de-
pendent on voluntary contributions, and
receives in war time no assistance from
the Government. Its method of working
is to get what Is needed where it is need
ed as soon as possible, and unite the red
tape afterward. s. Gen. Lawton, o. 9.
V. lieutenant colonel. U. S. A, is an
Ohio man; we do not know his ancestry.
Levy.-By the census of 1890 there were
2.7s4.S94 inhabitants of this country OF
German birth C. NJ. A.-At the time of
the Maine disaster, the Vizcaya was on
the ocean bound for New York city. Bet
tors.-Lignum Vitae is not used for masts
in ships, not generally at least 1t is too
heavy, and its growth is too small A.
B. C.-Write to the colleges for the in
formation you desire, or send for cata-
Iogues. E. ]. F.-A yinagerone is Il whip
tailed scorpion that when alarmed emits
an acid substance having the odor of
vinegar. W. S. W.-International law is
unwritten, and international practice is
more accurately descriptive of what it
amounts to. Demands for reparation for
breach of it should be backed by guns to
be effective. Three Pages.-A person
whose name has been legally changed
can inherit property under the later
name.
The times., 1898-10-30

Of the legal voters OF South Carolina and Lonis-
lana how many are white and how many are
black? az
BY the census of 1890 there were in
South Carolina l02.e57 whites OF voting
age and 1899 negroes: in Louisiana.
there were 1so.7iS whites and us.sI5 ne
groes.
The times., 1898-10-30

One OF the holiday books to be pub
lished by E. r. Herrick & Co, is LAS
Told by the Typewriter Girl" 1t is the
work of Mabel Glare Erwin, and the sto-
ries originally appeared in the Chicago
Chronicle.
The times., 1898-10-30

Henry James says of Hamlin Garland:
81 express his price by calling him the
Soaked Sponge of Wisconsin," There
upon Everard J. Appleton remarks that
somebody ought to throw a bouquet at
Mr.. James for this, and how would 1t do
to call him THE Soaked Sponge of In
anity?"
The times., 1898-10-30

G. H. Perris' Leo Tolstoi" is an up
to-date review of the Russian novelists
life and works, and said to be very val
liable.
The times., 1898-10-30

John Fox. jr., whose "Kentuckians"
was one of the most successful books of
its season, has been to Cuba, and come
back unwounded and with much new lit
erary material. He went in the interests
of Harper's Weekly. He is now at work
upon new novel
The times., 1898-10-30

1t seems queer that any one should have
objected to Bret Harte's Luck of Roar
ing Camp on the ground that it was i'm
moral. But the former editor of the
Overland" in which the story appeared
says: "On my return to San Francisco
with the galley proofs my chief clerk
Joseph Hoffman,, greeted me with the
statement that there was a great hula
baloo at the printers over the immortality
of the Luck. They We're saying that it
would kill the magazine. To this l re-
piled that If it killed the magazine it
could do nothing more. Then Mr.. Harte
came in from the printers with the sharp
demand to know what / meant to do
about it. Nothing l replied. except go
ahead -
The times., 1898-10-30

Ii my father is a foreigner becomes a natural.
lzed citizen. and come here az l foreigner nm
der age, can cote on my fathers papers with
| out being naturllized?
The times., 1898-10-30

Did Admiral schley give any orders to any Of
the American vessels while they were destroying
Cervera's feet? G.
whole battle.
The times., 1898-10-30

Yes, If you Were here and under age
when he took out his final papers.
The times., 1898-10-30

The subtitle of Mr.. W. o. Stoddard's
new book. Success Against Odds is
How an American Boy Made His Way"
In this spirited and interesting story the
author tells the adventures of plucky
boy who fought his own battles and made
his own way upward from poverty in a
Long Island seashore town.
The times., 1898-10-30

Literature Is the most interesting of
human products because 1t can be made
out of anything. Mr.. ]. Ashton has
written History of Gambling" which
is soon to be published.
The times., 1898-10-30

Among the publications of William
Doxey, AT the Sign of the Lark are
two attractive books by William Henry
Hudson, professor of English literature
at Stanford University-"Idle Hours in
Library and "a Quiet Corner in a Lii
brary"
The times., 1898-10-30

What were the names of the men who went with
Hobson on the Merrinac? f. L.
Daniel Montague chief master-at-arms.
u S. S. New York: George Charette, first
class gunner's mate. on the New York:
j. E. Murphy. coxswain. Iowa: Oscar De-
nignan, coxswain, Merrimac; George F.
Phillips, frst-class machinist, Merrimae;
and Francis Kelly, water tender, Merri-
mac. Rudolph Clausen. a coxswain on
the New York, also aided in the attempt
and did good work.
The times., 1898-10-30

"Heraldry simplified,' popular treat
Use on the subject of heraldry, together
with a glossary of technical terms and
ITO drawings by Frederick Curtiss. is an
nounced by the Dodge Stationery Com
pany.
The times., 1898-10-30

Believers in foreign missions will be in
terested in Rev. L. Crookall's British
Guiana; or Work and Wanderings Among
the Creoles and Coolies. the Africans and
Indians of the Wild Country" To be
published in October by the New Amster-
dam Book Co.
The times., 1898-10-30

Peggy of the Bartons," by Mrs. B. NJ
Croker. is half-Irish, half-English nov-
el with a charming heroine and a great
variety of entertaining minor characters.
The plot is rather novel one. Peggy,
a pretty country girl of good birth and
education, is married to an utterly
worthless young Irish officer, who has al
ready wife living. After various un-
pleasant but not very blood-curdling ex-
periences she discovers his true charac-
ter and the nature of her relations with
him. and Immediately leaves him and
goes to London, where she supports her
self by working as saleswoman in one of
the huge London shops. In this part of
the book graphic picture is given of the
conditions under which shopmen and
women work in London. The barracks"
The times., 1898-10-30

AS Man Lives by Mary C. Ferris. is
an old-fashioned love story, with n pret-
W poor and somewhat prosecuted hero
Inc, hero who loves her in spite OF all,
and plenty of accessories In the way of
minor characters and appropriate sur
roundings. The scene is laid partly in
America and partly in England, and, of
course, the fairy prince marries the prin-
cess and both live happily ever after, in
endless English comfort. by county-folk
caressed- 1t is just the book for a girl
In the corner of a couch, with a box of
caramels In her lap and nothing to do FOR
several hours. (Cincinnati: The Editor
Publishing Company rs cents)
The times., 1898-10-30

What is the highest speed in knots per hour
ever made by an ocean steamer Of any size, such
as the Atlantic liners2 ?. What are the three
highest ranking cities OF tie world in commerce?
]. W B.
The highest speed on record is that of
the German steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. made November l5-16. 1897. when
567 knots were covered at the rate of
$50 knots (26.OO mi,es) per hour. 2. Lon
don, New York. Liverpool.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1898-01-25
Bibiioteca de "La Democracia''

Feliz zmente nada de este habia sucedido solo ell
10 cue haba paraizado las fuerzas de Tere
Cuando Luigi Sc hubo- asegurado bien de que
ella estaba sans saliva, volvi6 hacia Ell herido.
Acababa de expirar con los pufos apretados, la
boca contrafda por ell door ell cabello erizado ell
sudor de la agona Sus ojos habfsn quedado abiertos
amenezadores
vsmpa acerc6 al cadaver reconooi6 Cuou
metto.
Desds el dfa que Ell bandido acogi6 al ampa-
70 de los dos ntes habfa enamorado do Teresa,
jur6 que habia de suya Desde aquel dfa no
habfa dejado de espiarls, aprovechando ell momen
TO On que la habfa dejado soa para snsear
e camno al vsjcro ls rob6 va la contaba por suya
cuando la bala de Vampa guiada por ell oio infable
del pastor, le atrsves6 ell corsz6n.
Vampa le contempl6 nstante sin que anunciase
su semblante la emoci6n, mientras que por
el contlario, Teresa tremula todavis atrevfa
miranda receosa al cadaver pov encma del hombro de
N amsDte. al cabo de un nstante, Vampa ae volvio
hacis querida.
II All, shl le dijo, muy bien estas vestida; ahora
mi vestirme.
En efecto, Teresa estaba cubierta de pies cabexa
son ell trsje de la hija del conde de San Felices
Vampa cogi6 en- brsxos el crerpo inanimado de
Cuoumetto, e 1ey6 la gruts, mientras Teresa que
daba guardAndola.
81 otro vieero hubiese pasado entonces, hubiera
visto particular, este es, pastora guar
dando rebaho trale da cachemirs rcos pendien
collar de perlas, alaleres de damantes boto-
de zafro; esneraldss rubfes.
Sin duda huberase creido transportado los item
pos de Foriku hubiera aegurado al volver Paris que
habfa la pastora de los Alpes senada al
pis de los montes Sabinos.
Pasado un ouarto de hors, Vampa ssli6
Dc IL gruts. 6u trsje no era msnos elegante en- "a