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stanee. grown rich beyond its dreams and lite
wants by hard work in trade. and wandering
about in dreary loneliness from hotel to hotel
unable to find any substitute in life for the
business occupations given up. We feel well ae-
oualnted till We find out Its custom OF tipping;
Few II any guests at hotels enjoyed so much
honor from porters, bellboys' wAiters' chamber
maids and bootblAcks rs the LAnders, for they gave
~IchIv An fees for every conceivable service which
could be rendered them; they went out of their way
40 ,nysnt debts of gratitude to meniAls who had
dome moth ng for them. He would make tho boy
who sold papers at tho dining room door keep me
ch,poe wbsn he had been charged 3 profit of a hun
dred Der cent. already; and she would let no driver
who had plundered them according to the carriage
tariff escape without something for himself.
Tho reader peroeives at once that the author
is romancing and that these Boston people are
not OF this earth. The head waiter at a sum
ner hotel. again. is . theological student. NOR
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
bldly selt.eonsclous and thrustlnr hIs aues-

bidly Helf-oonsoious and thrusting his ques-
tionings Of conscience on all subjects upon
every one: Mr.. Howells's subtle touch makes
him "red-complected." with a "~sorrel' mus
tache. and the verisimilitude vanishes. Such
contradictions in character. when Joined to the
unexpected situations into which people are
brought by their absurdly logical actions.
lead to SO strong a resemblance to Mr..
Frank h. Btockton's writing that the
reader. until the author transports his
heroine to Europe. will feel impelled to
turn TO the title page to make sure that 1t is
Mr.. Howells's name it bears. There is no sug-
gestlon OF imitation. it should be thoroughly
understood. but the use of like methods. or. it
may be. looking at the world for a moment
from the same point OF view has produced like
effects. The scene between the l~tinerant shoe
man and the theological student. surrep-
t~itiously purchasing a pair OF slippers for the
heroine, is one instance OF this similarity in the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
UNAVOIDABLE
DISAPPOINTMENT.

Two things occurred TO
stop the Issue OF ALAN
DALE'S new book
''HIS OWN IMAGE
LIST the delay, caused
by the Ocean storms, of
securing the English
rights, on date set for
international copyright.
Cd of larger demands
than anticipated for the
book, We being unable
to ft1l all orders from
first edition.
Our first ement
brought in orders far ex-
ceedtns the lst edi t1on.
We are now prepared to
fill orders for this
remarkable book.
G.. W. DILLINGHAM CO..
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Uniform with Froude's
Other Works

The Life and Letters of Erasmus
Lectures on the Council of Trent
The Divorce of Catherine Of Aragon
New editions. uniform in binding and in price
with Froude's other works. are now published
of the three above volumes. making the set
complete In this form. Each volume. svo.
$3.50.
HE takes an old subject and weaves a new
story out OF 1t. One reads 1t with as much
avidity as he would a romance"
Chicago Tribune.
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Continued on Eighth Page.
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THREE E NOVELS.

n n AURUS JOKAI'S greatest
wv novel, according to Mr.. Jere.
d = miah Curtin and some other
authorities, is can Hungarian Nabob,
which we have ready to-day, translated
by r. Nisbet Balm. The character OF
the eccentric old Nabob and the wild
life of the powerful Magyar mobiles in
the first quarter of the century are
drawn with romantic feeling and dra-
matte interest. The story is certainly
more convincing to a Western reader
than many of DR.. Jokai's less re-
strained tales. In Hungary it has long
been a national classic.
Size, Skis; binding, cloth, with deco
rative design; pages, 1858. $1.25.
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Catholicism
Roman and Anglican

By A. NJ. FAIRBAIRN. D. D.. LII. D. Grown
svo. $500.
A critical analysis OF the ideals OF Catholi-
cism. and Of the Catholic revival in England.
I'VE strongly recommend the mastery OF
these papers here reprinted as the best pos
sible preparation for an intelligent comprehen-
sion OF the present ecclesiastical situation in
England. . The essays are excellent
studies. and In every way up to DR.. Fairbanks
previous ."-Glasgow Herald.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
The Brown Mans Burden

A surprising story Of the long effort to
force the liquor traffic upon the Hawaiians.
At the News Stands. Price 5 cents.
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CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
PUBLISH TODAY:
The Christian Conquest of Asia

Studies and Personal Observations Of Oriental
Religions. By JOHN HENRY BARRows. D. d.
THE Morse Lectures of 1881 12mo. $3.50.
DR. Barrows's book. which is. in some degree.
the outcome of the Worlds Parliament Of Re-
ligions. and OF the authors trip through the
far East In 1897. is a detailed account Of the
results achieved by the introduction Of Chris
tianity into Asia during this century. The
exact religious condition Of the Asia OF to-day
is clearly detailed.
The times., 1899-03-19
Appalachian America.

writer in a contemporary magazine
gives a somewhat detailed account of the
conditions of life in what he calls "Ap-
of Kentucky Tennessee. North Carolina,
Georgia, and Alabama, running along the
boundaries of these States and into the
line between the Virginias. The name is
a happy one, for these people really be-
long neither to the North nor the South.
Most OF them. through instructive loyalty
to the flag fought for the Union in the
Civil War; many of their habits are
Southern yet the Southern planter and
former slave owner would not like to
have them considered as In any sense rep
resentative Southerners. They are, in
fact, almost a race by themselves: de-
scended from the same stock which peo-
pied a part OF the South or pushed on
ward TO the West, or remained in western
New York and Ohio. Instead of settling
in the track of trade or In the rich low
lands OF the cotton and tobacco country
the ancestors of these mountaineers>built
their huts on the slopes of the mountains
and there the tribe has remained TO this
day, stagpating. seyenty-iiye years behind
the times, but not degenerate. This is a
phenomenon almost unparalleled in Amer
lea among men OF English or Scotch Irish
descent.
One may find in Canada French peasants
living very much as their forebears did in
Normandy; there are settlements along
The times., 1899-03-19
BEAT THE POSTAL SERVICE.
The Amusing Performance of an
English Messenger hoy.


New York. March 1S-wiiliam Thomas
Jaggers, London messenger boy. known
officially as No 757.- arrived today on the
American liner St. Louis with three letters
from Richard Harding Davis. who has
written books and things, to persons In
this city. Chicago and Philadelphia. VIII
liam Thomas is about thirteen years old
and about four feet tall. III is one OF the
letters he doesn't carry-that is. not in Its
proper place. He Travelled second cabin.
which enabled him to go quite as fast as
ioiks in the first cabin. His object in
bringing letters here was to beat the pos
tai service OF Uncle Sam, and he did II
in delivering his New York letter, ana
doubtless will also in the delivery OF his
chicago letter An American District
Messenger boy accompanied him In his
rapid flight In an electric car from the
American Line pier to "a West Thrift
eth Street, the address of the recipient of
the first letter. Then he went to the Grand
Central Depot and boarded the / D. m ex-
press for Chicago Jaggers was favored by
the delay OF the steamboat that brings the
| bags from Quarantine. II happened that
the Cunarder Campania and the st. Louis
got in about the same time and after taking
off the American Liners mail the Campan-
| las bags were unlocked. The mail-boat
stopped at Jersey City Railroad pier, got
| rid OF mail sorted for that station by the
sea postai-clerks and then came TO this bor-
| ough. Superintendent Of Mails Maze said
that the mails would have to wait until
the $50 p. m. train. Thus Jaggers got
| three -and-a-h half hours start of them. III
had been on that mail boat said the
superintendent "she would not have wait
| ed for the Campania's mail. but would
have come direct to the Fortieth Street pier
North River. and unloaded the mails for
the Grand Central Depot" While the mall
! officials declared that the United States
| Postoffice Department was not racing with
messenger boys they seemed a bit nettlel
at the opportunity given to Jaggers to get
1 a good start West
The times., 1899-03-19
Legion of Honor for Authors.

paris Correspondence Pail Mall GaZette.)
The list of new nominations to the Le-
gion of Honor, published some days ago
in the journal 0fiiciel," contains the
names of three wellkIown men OF letters
Georges Courteline, Francois de Curel,
and Georges d'Esparbes. Courteline is an
author who may be strongly recommended
to such English readers as are not already
acquainted with the "Gaities de rEsca-
dron" or the 'Ronds- de- CUR Among
living French funny writer's he Is almost
alone in possessing humor, quality very
rare on this side of the Channel. for which
as is well known, no exact equivalent eX-
lists in the French language. AS regards
his style and the extraordinary keenness
of his observation, he has much in COM
mon with Guy de Maupassant: indeed he
might not inaptly be described as a more
jovial Maupassant. He has written several
short plays. which it is no exaggeration to
say are masterpieces, and If really great
comedy of manners is to be produced by
the present generation of French dra-
matists it will probably be by Courteline.
1t may interest those who remember the
Figaro" in its palmy days to mention
that Georges Courteline is the son of Jules
Moinaux. whose Incompatible legal re-
ports won a unique journalistic triumph.
NJ Francois de Curel is a dramatist whose
plays that are never a success. He is one
of those happy authors-he is very rich
whom everybody is agreed to credit with
genius. All his plays have been heralded
as masterpieces. and unanswerable ex-
cuses have been found for the failure of
each of them. One of the young lions
brought out by the famous Theatre-Libre,
he has so far given Just sufficient evidence
of his powers TO make 1t possible that he
will one day deserve the reputation he al
ready enjoys.
Georges dEsparbes is novelist OF whom
it would be easy TO write ill-naturedly
were 1t not that to do so is impossible, as
he is one Of the men who can make no
enemies. The mildest and meekest of
men, he revels in gore. He babbles of
battles, and on nearly every page OF his
books somebody is slain. The fact that he
is an officer in the reserve may, perhaps
account for much. Still, for people who
like bloodshed and deeds OF derring-do. he
is the author tout indiquc and it must not
be denied that there are vigor and real
literary quality in all his volumes la
Guerre en- Dentelles" in particular.
The times., 1899-03-19
The Trust Oligarchy.

From the St. Paul Pioneer Press)
The plain facts are that most, or many OF
these trusts are organized primarily not with
any view Of sharing with the consumer the in
creased profits of more economical or efficient
methods Of production, but expressly and mainly
TO do away with competition in prices. All con.
Germs in tbe same line OF business are swallowed
up in these mammoth monopolies, whose purpose
and practice it is TO regulate the quantity and
quality OF the output and dictate prices They
constitute monstrous oligarchy of mOnopolies,
intrenched behind stupendous aggregations of
capital. dominating the whole field of industrial
life and activity within the United States,
sitting individual enterprise, wiping out all
minor local centres OF thrift and industry. and
carrying blight and desolation to every once
prosperous town or village over which their evil
shadow has passed.
The times., 1899-03-19

the coast of Maine in which the fishermen
still speak the quaint dialect of the Revo-
luton; in the Southwest there are Mexi-
cans who live very much as their people
have lived in past generations; and most
of the Indian tribes do not progress. But
the Maine man is remarkably ready to
adopt new improvements in everything
except his speech, the Mexican is ignorant
and indolent, and the Canadian French
and Pennsylvania Dutch are stolid peas
antry. Here and there are individual in
stances of reversion to ancestral type, but
a whole community which lives after the
fashion of colonial days is rare. And that
is the condition of life in these noun
tains.
Spinning and weaving are industries not
forgotten by the women of Appalachian
America; fax and cotton are raised for
home consumption, and cooking is done in
a fireplace. The home is not infrequently
the primitive one-room log cabin, with Il
hole for door, no windows, and stick
chimney. Money is scarce; the store is
a place for barter. The food of the family
consists principally of corn bread, coffee,
bacon, and one or two vegetables; and
there is always a tobacco patch, whose
weddings are frequently enjoyed by the
women as well as the men of the family.
The language of the region is full of words
and phrases which passed out of ordinary
use in America three generations ago, and
some date back to the time of Shake
speare. In short, these people are exactly
where they we're in the time of Washing
ton, and anyone anxious to know of what
sort of material Continental armies were
composed may see for himself during a
short visit in the mountain country of
southeastern Kentucky. 1t might do some
of the Daughters of the Revolution
good to go there.
What is to be the future of these hill
folk? The immense treasures of coal in
the regions are now open to the world, and
the young men are coming down from the
| mountains and the Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
of their race. to seek their fortunes. They
usually come with feudal notions in their
brains and bowie-knives in their boots;
and they are very dangerous in connection
with gun. They will make good soldiers
if they can be officered Alright; but they
need judicious handling. The mountain
boys and girls are eager for learning;
some of them will walk twenty miles
over the mountains to reach the nearest
mission school; and on Friday night they
will walk back for a brief visit at their
homes during the Saturday and Sunday
holidays. They learn with astonishing
quickness, and take on the polish of civ
ilization in very short time. More than
one lawyer has come from these Kentucky
and Tennessee mountains and become in
few years a man of the world in appear
ance, language, and conduct. 1t will be
worth while to educate the coming genera
tion in this region. for they will make val
liable citizens; and if they are not taught
the right there are, in the railroad towns
which spring up, mushroom like, near the
coal mines, plenty of INSCRIPTIONS people
who will teach them wrong.
The times., 1899-03-19
His Signature.
lFrom the syracuse Standard }

An elderly man stepped into big hotel the
other day, accompanied by his wife, and asked
for room. When the polite clerk gave him a
pen and placed the register before him, he look
ed visibly embarrassed, but he took the pen and
bent over the book as though he had nerved
himself 10 desperate task. lie started TO
write, and then stopped and began to think The
clerk, of course, didn't know what the trouble
was or else he would have volunteered his SER
vices. After painful pause the ruralist started
in to scratching some more. After the expira-
tion OF fully five minues the farmer threw down
his pen with a sigh of relief, wiped the perspira-
tion from his brow, and reioined his better half,
who had been waiting in the lobby during the
ordeal. The clerk was curious to see a sigma
ture that required such an unusual length of time
to execute. The clerk is solemn man. hut he
nearly went off into fit when he saw in big,
round script, this legend:
''Ne and Maria"
The times., 1899-03-19
Umbrellas for an African King.


There are two umbrellas in New Oxford
street which are to be sent in a day or
two to West African potentate. They
have been specially made for G. j. Bridg-
er, f. r. c.. s., of the Colonial Institute,
for presentation to native chief at Akin.
on the Gold Coast.
These umbrellas are none OF your CON-
mon eight-ribb alpaca arrangements.
They are gorgeous giants. Each one is
eight feet high and six feet across, with
ten cane ribs, cover of three co'ors-red.
yellow, and blue-a deep yellow fringe,
four silken guy ropes as supports when the
wind gets up bit, and an artistic orna-
mental solid silver cap, which takes the
place of the ferrule OF the ordinary pie
beian English CAMP.
Each cap is an excellent specimen OF
English art work. One represents a pine
apple, and it is almost as big as the real
thing. The other has on the body of the
knob representation of reeds and lotus
plants and flowers. and on the top is a
mild looking crocodile with a man fixed
between his jaws. This ought TO afford
endless amusement for the African poten-
tate.
The umbrellas were opened for the ben
eft of Daily Mall representative yes
terday afternoon The shop is a pretty
large one. but every bit OF 1t seemed TO be
consumed when these two monsters were
slowly and carefully expanded to the ut
most limit. In a native procession they
will form the most conspicuous objects OF
curiosity. Fully opened, with bearers
bravely tugging at the guy ropes, they will
shelter the chief and all his family and
his friends from the torrential rain or the
binding glare OF the sun. Or. again, they
will make admirable parachutes or tem-
porary courts of justice. The pineapple
and the crocodile munehing his helpless
victim might be used as an insignia of Of
fice-a respectable equivalent to the Chi
nese button.
The times., 1899-03-19
A NEW TELESCOPE WANTED.
Prof. Pickering's Desire 10 Make n
New ENperimcnt.
Qrom the New York Tribune.l }

liiom lAe New YORK IriuGne-l
The kind of telescope that is used for
photographing the heavens is somewhat
different from that which is employed for
visual work. The curves of the lenses are
not quite the same. One cannot see adyan-
tageously with a Photographic telescope.
nor take pictures satisfactorily with an in
strument designed for observing.
There is another point of dissimiIarity
between the two. The ratio between the
diameter tor aperture) and length OF the
instrument in the ordinary telescope is one
to fifteen or more. The Lick and the
ferkes instruments are about nineteen
times as long as they are wide. In many.
though not ALL of the instruments now
doing Photographic work, the length is
much less in proportion.
The Photographic telescope which Miss
Catherine ". Bruce. of New York CITY.
provided for Harvard few years ago has
an aperture OF twenty-four inches, and un-
til very recently was the largest instru-
ment of its special kind in the world lis
length is only twelve feet. or six times the
diameter. A great variety of work has
been done by the Bruce telescope, and il
has proved a notable success. 1t has been
especia; lily useful in photographing GER
tain large objects like nebulae and the
Magellanic clouds. A short focus teIe-
scope or camera, covers wider angle than
a long-focus glass, and a greater area can
thus be photographed. The existence OF
extensive nebulosities which would other
wise have been overlooked has thus been
detected.
Encouraged by the famous success OF
the Bruce telescope, Prof. Pickering. di
rector OF the Harvard astronomical observ-
atory, now wants TO try another expert
ment leading in the opposite direction.
He wishes to have an instrument whoss
length shall be more than hundred
times as great as its aperture-say l3J or
l62 feet long and having an object glass
only Il or ii inches in diameter. AS will
readily be perceived, such an instrument
would cover a much smaller area than
even the ordinary observing telescope.
But the space which il did cover would
have its details delineated with increased
distinctness. For special lines of work
this quality would be immensely valuable.
The result could not be doubtful Al
ready a little has been done in this direc-
tion. For photographing the solar corona
seen only during a total eclipse of the sun,
Professor Schaeberle, OF Lick Observatory.
has tried a 5-inch lens set at distance ot
nearly hundred feet from the sensitive
plate. Prof. Pickering would operate on a
large scale. Besides, IL he had what he
now asks for he would keep his apparatus
in almost constant use instead of reservins
it for rare occasions. There Is line
chance now for some public-spirited per-
son to advance astronomical research In a
new field by giving him this glass. Be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 Is needed.
The difficulty OF mounting and keeping
rigidly straight in all positions tube
which is fifty or sixty feet long is so seri-
GUS that the proposed telescope would bc
arranged differently from the ordinary OBJ
seryaiory instrument.
The times., 1899-03-19

Sampson is quoted as declaring that the
famous Fourth Of July -present-fr the
er written by him. He should go further
and acknowledge that it was penned by
some superserviceable friend who wanted
to make 1t appear that Sampson was within
half days journey of the battle-which,
of course. he was not. The more Sampson
NEEDLES with naval history the palmer 1t
appears that if the question before the
Senate had been the promotion of Commo-
dore Ananias ten numbers and Commodore
Sampson nine, the latter would have been
given eighteen numbers without any posi-
BILE opposition.