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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-01-14

The word "fie" or it's equivalent in
sound exists in all languages and in
every one is expressive Of disgust. In
the Icelandic the word "pfui'' means
putridity.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-01-14
Smart Lawyer.

Flankington-I understand that you
nad to 60 to law about that property
that was left you. Have you a smart
lawyer?
Bloomfeld-You bet have. He owns
the property now.-Pick Me Up.
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silence, and other stories.

This title covers six stories by Miss Mary
d. Wilkins In all of them the scene is laid
In New England, and in point az time they
range from the period of the witchcraft
trials in Salem to the Millerte movement
in 1S4S- Like all of the authors stories,
they have the very flavor OF New England
life. The method is dramatic rather than
analytic or descriptive, and themes which
might otherwise be rugged and unattractive
are relieved by the romantic interest which
Is given through love and its vicissitudes.
The title story, silence" is a tragic tale
OF the Deerfield massacre, and OF Silence
Hoits faithful watching thereafter for her
betrothed, taken captive to Canada-a vigil
finally rewarded by his safe return. Other
stories are THE Buckley Lady and Eva
lina's Garden tales of love and village
life; A New England Prophet" describing
an episode of that curious movement engi-
neered by Joseph Miller in the forties; The
Little Maid at the Door, touching tale of
childhood during the persecution of the
Salem witches, and Lydia Hersey, of East
Bridgewater," humorous description of a
rustic courtship. 1t is a volume which the
admirers of Miss Wilkins will wish to pos
SeSS.
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OUTPUT OF THE KLONDIKE.
Returning Miners Say 1t VIII Run
over $25,OOO,OOO.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.-Twenty min
ers from the Yukon placers at Mnook, Cir
Gle City and Dawson arrived here to-day
on the schooner Hattie l. Phillips, from st.
Michael. The returning prospectors, who
bring about $4,000 with them have been in
Alaska from one to twenty-five years Half
of the party will return to work their
claims. These Yukon miners include j. H.
Ellis, Chicago; F. E. Heller, Detroit; w. F.
Pinkham, Boston; Joseph Bird, Baltimore.
and +. Hardie, Williamsport, Pa. The pas
SengerS from Dawson are confident that the
output OF Dawson will run over $25 600 00O
Mlnook Will produce not less than $500 COO
Circle City will also contribute in no small
degree to the total output from the Alaska
placers.
The Yukon is said to be higher than has
been known for years and OVERLOOKED it's
banks at Minook, where a number of miners
were washed away by the flood One of the
passengers from Minook Ernest Claxton,
or San Francico, reported that word had
reached Minook that the little river steamer
Governor Stillman had been wrecked at
kuskequem, and her passengers had lost
all of their provisions and outfits in the dis
aster. For thirty-siX hours after the boat
was wrecked the passengers were compelled
to remain in the trees lining the river banks
until the flood subsidized enough to allow
them to reach place of safety
AT the time the Hattie l. Phillips sailed
ready to receive the outcoming miners and
loaded with other gold-seekers who were
ready to take their places in the river
camps.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11

This title is given to a collection of the
papers on women and their ways written
by Helen Watterson Moody, first published
III the magazines. The chapters are enti-
tied THE Woman Collegian," "Womens
Clubs Women and Reforms THE Ev-
olution of Woman - and THE Case of
Maria" In her preface the author says:
This little book for men, women and the
unquiet sex, is written with no thought of
preferring charges against any class of per-
sons or estate of being; still less is it in
tended to set forth any comprehensive treat
ment of the duties and privileges of women
in the hurried and perpleXing present l
nave desired simply to offer a presentation
in the affairs of women, a phase to which
many of US have been too busy, perhaps, to
give its full snare of cOnSiderati ton" What
ever Mrs Moody intended, she has certainly
produced some very clever and forcible crit
ictsms and comments on the latter-day ten
denotes Of women. The burden of her argu-
ment is that women, as a sex, are disposed
to take things too seriously, and to ..dissi-
pate vital force in that feminine debauch
known as Worrying; particularly is she
convinced that they take themselves too
seriously. She encourages frivolity, even,
among those very serious organizations,
women's clubs, and she goes so far as TO
dency in women-that is, the tendency TO
engage in public and organized reform
work. Written In good spirit and with wit
and incisiVeness, these papers deserve
reading by club women, college women and
others who discover in themselves a dis
position TO do more than health, strength
and their circumstances of life really de-
mand Of them.
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Publishers, Notes.

The "anticipatory title of the book.
Hawaii; Our New Possessions" by John
r. Musick is now made true by the action
of Congress in passing the joint resolutions
annexing the islands TO the United States.
There are in the book over one hundred
beautiful half-tone pictures of Hawaiian
scenery and life. 1t is published by Funk &
Wagnalls Company, New York.
Mr.. Joseph Earle Stevens, the author of a
timery and clever book on the Philippines
which Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons will
publish i'll July is young Bostonian who
went to Manila in charge of important bust
ness interests several years ago and lived
there for nearly two years. His letters and
Journals during this time, from which the
book is written, give with great vivacity
a picture IF a typical foreign experience
IN the Philippine capital, and so tell prac-
tically just what everybody at this moment
wants to know about the conditions and sur
roundlngs of life there.
Dodd, Mead & Co. announce that Canon
Driver, of Oxford, England, an acknowl-
edged leader in the literary criticism of the
Bible, has been prevailed upon to give The
results of his lifelong study in new ver-
sion of the book OF Leviticus Gust pub
nshed as the fourth volume of the Poly
chrome Bible) In his ''Introduction'' Canon
Driver merely gave an outline of his view
concerning this and the other books form
ing the Older canon, but now he furnishes
the world with an entirely new version OF
mat book, which was undoubtedly the CEN
tral volume of the Pentateuch, in more
senses than one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11

The annual earnings of people is the
measure of their consumption plus what
they accumulate. Consumption, that is, the
product of labor and wealth which repre-
Sents the condition of a people, is the best
measure of it's civilization. A half-fed,
half-housed and half-naked people cannot
make progress. 1t is because the people of
this country are the best fed, clothed and
Housed people in the world that we have
made the greatest progress and have a pop
ulation which is in the best condition to
make progress. Russia has much larger
population, but the earnings of its people
are not a third as much as are those of the
United States. Russia has been making
progress, but in all the elements of national
greatness that country will not reach a
front rank until policy shall be adopted
which will enable its millions to earn more,
in order that they may possess more of the
products of human industry and skill. AL
fusion has been made to Russia because
there are prophets who see in its territorial
expansion and the ambitions of its states
men the power that will rule the world. 1t
may dominate, but the nations which are to
shape the destinies of the world are those
whose peoples carry forward the civiliza-
ton of intelligence, which no people can ac-
complish whose masses must wear them
selves out in securing sufficient food to keep
them barely above the famish line. Spain,
with nearly one-fourth as many people as
the United States, is not on the highway of
progress because its inhabitants earn only
one-eleventh as much as those of this coun-
try. If its population earned as much per
capita as that of the United States, Spain
would not make the wretched showing it
has thus far in the war Lack of earning
power for years has made them an inferior
people or. rather. has held them back to
the conditions which prevailed two hundred
years ago.
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BOOKS OF THE TIME.
American Wives and English Hus-
bands.

Gertrude Atherton has improved consider
ably in literary style and her choice of SUBJ
Jects since her first ventures into fiction.
This awkwardly named story has the merit
Of holding the readers attention and it
shows that the author has studied her
theme with care. 1t is only after the tale
is finished that its defects are apparent
1t is the story of a California girl of South
ern birth who marries a titled Englishman
and learns to adapt herself to him and to
the customs of his country. There is a good
deal of California life, or rather of the life
OF colony OF transplanted Southerners in
California. The idea of the superiority of
the Southern aristocTat over all other resi-
dents of the United States is dwelt upon
with tiresome insistence. The only woman
In the story outside of this colony is the
stepmother of the English lord. and she is
a most unpleasant and immoral creature
an American from Chicago. The superiority
of the educated Englishman over his Ameri-
can brother of the same class is also set
forth with elaboration, although the father
OF the hero can hardly be accepted as an
illustration of this. In the last chapter the
knowledge is publicly forced upon him-he
has really known it all along-that his wife
has q lover and he concludes that honor
calls for him to shoot himself, which he
does with the calm approval of his beauti-
same view of his duty and never thinks to
warn any one of the coming deed, though
she has ample time. 1t is a scene so inn
probable that 1t excites no feeling in the
mind or the seasoned reader but wonder
that the writer could have the bad iudg-
ment TO picture it, The story is of the kind
that, protesting to be realistic is in fact,
SO untrue to nature that it leaves but slight
New York.
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Mr.. w. D. Howells has evidently studied
the actor character closely, and if he has
not himself written a play and tried to Sc
cure it's acceptance he is certainly well ac-
qualnted with the complications and diff
culties involved. The author CT the play in
question is Boston newspaper writer, or
rather, ex-newspaper man. who has married
the daughter of a wealthy man, but who
will accept no financial aid from him, and
stakes all his hopes on the success of this
dramatic venture. The other leading char
acters in the story are the wife and the
actor who has promised to take the play
and make it by himself taking the lead
ing role The actor, with his vanity his
determination to allow no part in the play
which Will any way detract from his own
prominence, and with his childish Jealousy
OF another public favorite is skillfully de-
picted. The authors wife is the typical
feminine character of the Ifowells novels
emotional, unreasonable and at times ex-
asperatlngly silly. She is deeply in love with
her husband and ambitious for his success.
In the writing of his play he has difficulty
with the love scenes, and at her suggestion
uses an adaptation of their own love cpl
Sode. This circumstance gives her more
intense personal interest in the production
and causes her to feel violent antipath thy
for the actress who is to take the part in
the play corresponding to her own part in
real life because that lady gave what she
dering of the scenes. The star actor was
jealous of this actress because in the re-
hearsals it seemed likely that she would
draw the attention of the audience from
him; the authors wife was jealous of her
for no reason whatever. and quarreled with
her husband on account of her Eventually
matters were smoothed out, another actress
was substituted and the play was a sue
cess. 1t is all very childish, and though I'M
doubtedly extremely realistic is rather tire
some. Mr.. Howells has wonderful skill in
depicting certain phases of life. but some
feel that such art is wasted on the life and
people that it is his fancy to delineate. Pub
lished by the Harpers.
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the side OF the contention which the opinion
Of the court sustained, and that he took
that side to favor his son. This is SIM
ply infamous. Judges have been accused of
being biased by partisan influence in de-
cisions affecting party interests. but this is
the first time that Supreme Court Judge
has been accused of rendering a decision
upon personal considerations. 1t would take
the most positive testimony to convince the
Journal of the guilt of judge of such an
offense as is charged upon Judge McCabe
but when the charge is a bare assumption
without any evidence it is a duty to the
judiciary Of Indiana to characterize it as
an outrage. The Journal does not believe
there has ever been Supreme Court judge
who could be influenced by the fact of his
SON being upon one side of case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Captain Cuevedo, of the Spanish ship
Panama, captured off Havana last April
who is now at Gibraltar says he was scan
dalously and brutally treated while a pris-
oner at Key West.
Madame Tiresias Simon Sam, wife Of the
President of the negro republic of Haiti, is
now making a visit to Paris, ACCOMPANIED
in waiting and servants.
The wife OF the late Prof. Asa Gray has
given to the herbarium of Harvard Uni
versity collection of autographs of botan-
lists which IS second only to that of the
British Museum. 1t contains about eleven
thousand autographs.
Jules Lemaitre wants the study of Latin
and Greek dropped, and so told the pro-
fessors at the Paris Sorbonne the other day.
He studied those languages for twelve years
ana regrets 1t, seeing that he is now
ignorant of English, which is spoken over
half the world, and can hardly speak Ger
man.
MIR. Stead says that the news which
cheered Gladstone most during his last try
ing months was the report that his grand
daughter, a bright girl of twenty, had de-
Cided to be a missionary ITO his illumined
eye nothing in this world was worth talking
OF or living for except the commission to
preach Christ"
Queen Victoria knows practically every
Watmore the widow of her Majesty's late
coachman, is to be at once placed upon the
already long list of the Queens pensioners
Her Majesty invariably takes care that no
one belonging to any member of her huge
corps OF servants who has served her faith
fully shall ever want.
A little Italian girl who was picked up in
Washington about year ago by Rev. II. NJ
Wharton and placed at the whatsoever
Farm for orphans near Luray, Va, has
just fallen heir to $4,000 Some of her coun-
trymen residing in New York made an effort
TO get possession of the fortune, but they
were thwarted, and the child was handed
ever TO the care of an Italian consul, under
whose direction she was taken to Italy.
1t was Hamilton Fish. secretary of state
in Grants administration and grandfather
of the young man who has just been killed
in Cuba, who may be said to have originated
the line of conduct concerning Spain and
Cuba which this government has followed
for the past thirty years and the causes
which have made us so 70 war We're Clearly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11
Ghosts I Have Met.

Mr.. John Kendrick Bangs has issued a
new volume entitled. Ghosts 1 Have Met,
and Some Others" In writing these ghost
stories he desires to prove that he is not
wild romancer." as some of his critics have
asserted, he admits, with some grounds.
His aim is to describe certain extraordinary
incidents as faithfully as the most conscien-
tious realist, and he adds solemnly. Il cam
not be blamed because these things hap
pened to me-" There are seven of the
stories, each dealing with some extraordi-
nary experience, and the more extraordinary
the more infinitely it is described. The
author does not attempt to account for the
wonderful experiences, but he relates them
in a manner which makes the reader feel it
is pity they never happened. The volume
is dedicated Ito choice spirits everywhere"
and the stories are illustrated by popular
artists. New York: Harper & Brothers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11
STARVED AND FROZEN.
Death of Victor L. Maidhof ON The
HIinook Trail, Alaska.

SAN FRANCISCO, July .10.-The schooner
Hattie J. Phillips, from st. Michael. to-day
brings the news of the death on the Minook
trail, of Victor F. Madhof, of New
York, who was United States con-
sui to Annaburg, Saxony. during the
first administration of President Cleve-
land. Mr.. AIaidhof attempted to cross
the portage from Unalakik to Faltag, bound
for Manook in company with II. NJ. Nor
gan. correspondent of the Associated Press.
Deserted by their guide, they lost their
way in a binding snowstorm. Their pro-
visions We're exhausted. their hands and
feet frozen and after subssting on dog meat
fer several days Maidhof died and was
buried in snow drift. His companion. Mr..
Morgan, became snoWbound and was found
by a party OF Indisns. after he had lain
four days in his sleeping bag at the point
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Inland WfndfaIIs.

This is a collection of verses of Edwin T.
Reed, Wisconsin poet, whose contribu-
tons to the Journal during the past two
or three years have made his name familiar
to its readers. Mr.. Reed attempts no lofty
flights and INDUCES in none of the psychology
ical studies so common with the younger
school of poets nor has he the melancholy
tendency so characteristic of young writer's
He sings of nature, of home, of the simple
happenings of life, and in that choice proves
himself truer poet than many who essay
a Wider sweep His topics, to so no further,
lndlcate the simplicity of his taste-"The
Pioneer The Debutante,'' 1.-THE Inland
Aught but Blue Wid Lilies SSl end we're ERE
Glover" for example. His Invitation 10
the ROAD expresses the nomadic instinct
that exists more or less consciously in every
human creature:
Forever in my idle ear
An anthem of the earth hear.
Ihat bids me forth from my abode,
In invitation to the road;
TO foot it far in foreign lands
Through phantom cities on the sands;
10 travel hither, travel yon;
To whistle gayly, bear the load,
And be forever on the road
He Is in sympathetic touch with nature,
as these lines show:
"Oh, the perfume of the forest, how it filters
through the soul
All its lush and leafy sweetness, where the
quiet waters roll;
How it watts the weight of bitterness like
thistledown away
And makes the heart to carol with the
robins roundelay; :
How it lulis the restless fancy with the deem
and Silly tide
Heavy-laden with the balsam from the firry
mountain side
Till these wet and Woodsy odors and aroma G
of the sod
Fill the, heart to trimming over with a
tenderness for God!"
Like all first volumes of verse, perhaps.
ike all first volumes of any sort of litera-
ture, this contains some things hardly
worthy of being put in permanent form but
as a whole, the collection is creditable and
shows promise.
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1t is due to the Republican state COM
mittee and to MIR. Beveridge to say that
that body has never selected him for chair
man of the state convention and then set
him aside to make room for Senator Fair
banks. Some weeks since, when the COM
mittee met, one of the evening papers stated
in it's prophetic capacity that Mr.. Beveridge
would be selected for presiding officer. but
no such action was taken. Inasmuch as
Senator Turpie came home to preside over
the Democratic state convention the Re-
publican committee unanimously invited
Senator Fairbanks to preside over the Re-
publican gathering.
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A Pathetic Figure.

Edith Wright.

oPIIHSIISIu INtpIDIICSiI
A pitiful figure, which we cannot alto
gether forget, is the Queen Regent of Spain.
She has the interests of her young son to
care for, and the inherited belief in divine
right to support her in it; she has seen
from the beginning of the war the ultimate
powers of Europe to stop It: and yet is de-
tested by the Spanish people. 1t is pa
thetic picture that a recent visitor draws of
her. driving through the streets Of Madrid,
without a single greeting from the people,
ard hearing herself spoken of as 1.-The Aus
spoke of Marie Antoinette The Queen Re-
gent is in no danger of such a fate as the
queen OF Louis XVI met. but she and her
son will presently be numbered among the
royalties in exile, without a throne and liv-
ing on the past. 1t is a human sympathy
alone which attaches to the mother and
son, and the republic of Spain may yet arise
out of this horror of ruin, and new life
begin for the nation. in which she and
young Alfonso will have no part
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books, and in part of incidents which he
personally recolects. The work contains a
large supply of personal anecdotes and char
acter studies OF eminent Englishmen, but its
scope is wider than that. for II throws side
lights on some of the important social and
political movements of the period covered
Inc greater part of 1t, however is devoted
TO miscellaneous anecdote and "reminiscences
embracing descriptions of events, characters
ana incidents which have entertained and
interested English society during the present
century. 1t is a pleasant addition to the
anecdotal literature of the Victorian era
New York: Harper & Bros
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11

About a year ago there appeared in the
Manchester (Eng.) Guardian a series of pa
pers giving "reminiscences of society and
public men In England during the last sew
enty-five years. The papers were evidently
written by some one whose observation and
experience qualified him for the work. and
they are now reprinted in book form under
the title of Collections and Recollections. =
by zone Who Has Kept Diary" They are
exactly what the title implies, consisting
in part of traditions and anecdotes which
the writer has collected from people and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11
sunday Battles.
SNUtty 1SNttHDaFs
Baltimore Herald.

Sunday as day for fighting is wonder
fully popular. Not only is past history full
of instances Of battles fought upon that day
of rest. but the United States and Spain
are making history now In which the two
most important engagements have taken
place on Sunday.
1t seems STRANGE indeed. that the very day
made sacred to the Prince of Peace should
awful power awakes. and. amid the thunder
of cannon. hurls thousands of human be-
ings to destruction. Montejo was defeated
later Cervera's fleet was blown to pieces of
Santiago on the same day of the Week.
The irony of fate shows In these sunday
battles as strongly as in anything In human
affairs.
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Quartermaster Compton, of the One-hun-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, in private letter to
member of the staff of the Journal de-
nounces the charges made against Colonel
Barnett in connection with the punishment
of Cooper as false in every particular. All
err was sentenced by field officers court,
with which Colonel Barnett had nothing to
do, to the punishment inflicted, and that
the surgeon to whom the man appealed
when on the wooden horse. on the ground
that he was suffering from fever. after
examination. would not relieve him because
his temperature was below normal