The record-union., 1899-09-04

Minna Irving; Queen O'Sheba's
Triumph Ruth McEnery Stuart; "A
Half Caste Onoto Watanna: April !
Bloom,' by the author of 1.-The Pride OF
Jennico." Chapters XxXVII.-XLI1.,
Egerton Castle; THE Building of the
Race Rock Lighthouse" F. Hopkinson
Smith; 1.-The Americas Cup Defenders,
William E. Simmons; "Palatial Private
Yachts" Waldon Fawcett; Women as
Army Nurses Anna Northend Benja-
min.
A very effective political document is
the illustrated article on 1.-TWO Kinds OF
Democrats" in the current number OF
"Harpers Weekly.
The illustrations are portraits of we'll
known men of the Democratic party,
contraSted two by two. Only the brief
est comment accompanies the pictures,
but it is enough to show the Weekly s
stand in the matter Among those
between whom comparisons are drawn
are: Charles S. Fairchild and John 2.
AItgeld, Grover Cleveland and W. j.
Bryan, John G. Carlisle and James
Hogg, William L. Wilson and Benja-
min Tillman. To the partisans OF
either division Of the party the paper
will be interesting reading.
An organization which is making it
self felt in a decidedly practical way
is the National Consumer League,
which recently took UP the cudgels IN
behalf of the employees in stores, and is
now waging vigorous warfare against
the sweat-shop system. Their plan to
kill the sale of sweat-shop products
and force the manufacturers to better
methods is described in the current
number of 'Harper's Bazaar" In Sep
tember, says the Bazaar" "a new Ia
bel will appear on certain makes or
white muslin underwear. and large
number of women all over the country
are pledged to purchase no other The
label bears a circle enclosing these
words National Consumers League
the circle has two wings, on one of
which is printed, Made under clean and
wholesome conditions and the other,
| License to use this label is granted af-
ter investigation The label means
that articles bearing it are guaranteed
not to have been made in sWeatshops,
but in factories which are fire proof
and sanitary. which employ no child
labor, and have a reasonable limit on
the hours of toll"
Rev. Morton Dexter contributes to
| the September issue of the New Eng
land Magazine" (Boston) an excellent
history of "Congregationalism in Amer
ica,' surveying the important work of
this denomination from the time its
principles of doctrine We're here first es-
tablished by the Pilgrim Fathers, to our
own day His article is fully illustrated.
| The Editors Table of the number is
devoted to a study of Robert Browne,
the founder of modern Congregational
| ism. Appropriate also. is the account
by Rev. j. L. Ewell of Ezekiel Rog-
ers, the first minister of RoWley, Mass.
Charles Rawson Thurston contributes
an interesting chapter on Bishop
Berkeley in New England" an account
of the three years which the Bishop
spent at WHITEHALL" near Newport,
while he awaited the hoped-for arrival
of funds for the establishment of uni
VerSity in Bermuda
George Stewards able paper on the
city of Quebec will prove Of timely in
! terest. 1t is fully illustrated with ex-
cellent half-tone views Mr.. Raymond
L. Bridgman, in The Body Polite of
Mankind" cites the work of the recent
conference at The Hague as one strong
Indication that manhood will eventually
be united in one political body which
shall raise humanity to higher ideals
and loftier purposes. 1.-The Massachu-
setts Slave Trade" a prize essay by
Miss Lillian Brandt. a Wellesley stu
dent, is the result of careful investiga-
ton in colonial history. Curtis Guilds
"Recollections of a New England
Homestead" will be enjoyed The clos
ing chapter of Miss Virna Sheard
story, THE Lilly of London Bridge
retains the charm of the earlier pages
of the tale. Mr.. Falkland Lewis con-
tributes a bright bit of summer fiction
entitled Peggy Travels
The September issue of "The Ladies'
Home Journal" (PhiIadelphia) is an
unusually attractive number Barton
Cheyney contributes an instructive ar
ticle on THE Young Man and the Pro-
fessions." Charles T. Brodhead has an
illustrated article on 1.-The East-Side
Girl of New York and Patti Lyle Col
Inns tells why Six Million Letters Go
Astray Every Year" Neltje Blanchan
contributes her seventh paper on Nat
ure's Garden Julia Marlowe writes
of Dramatic Performances by ANA
teurs" bringing in the Sheaves,' by
John Northern Hilliard, is an account
of harvesting in the West. THE Con-
fessions of a Worrier" is by Mary
Boardman Page. Rev Newell Dwight
Hills. D. D.. contributes the fourth ar
ticle in his series on THE Secrets of a
Happy Life" Caroline B. LIE Row
tells What it Means To Bel a Teacher"
Edith Lawrence writes 'The Gossip of