The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1899-09-15

OF the magazine is the hrst or series
of four papers in which Captain Joshua
Slocum narrates, in humorous and in
dividual style, the story of his success
full circumnavigation of the globe,
alone, in fortyfoot sloop, the Spray,
constructed by himself. This unpre-
cedented achievement involved two
crossings of the Atlantic, and tie
rounding of Cape Horn and the Cape of
Good Hope.
When Sir William Vernon Harcourt
entered upon official life, some twenty
seven years since, and relinquished his
practice, he was earning at the bar an
annual income of $40, 900. His official
salary for the entire period has been
about $3.50, 900. He is therefore, the
poorer by more than $780,, 900 by
reason of his devotion to public life.
This, and other interesting facts are
brought out in the article on British
Statesmen as Wage Earners,' which
Henry w. Lucy will contribute to the
Youths Companion for the week of
September 21st. @
An article in the September number
of McClure's magazine by Theodore
Waters will describe the wonderful
work of the photographic Office in
guarding the highways of the sea, and
will give many of the stories of de-
reflects, icebergs, sea storms, and ship
wrecks in which the records of the Of
fee abound. 1t will be fully illustrated
from drawings and photographs
Who but can remember the time
when their appetite has been stimulated
by the odor of aromatic herbl And
again this pleasant, sensation is theirs
while reading "a Talk About Herbs
in the September issue of Table Talk,
and all manner of good things crowd
the memory and imagination, and they
will Immediately decide that thyme,
sage sweet marjoram, and the host of
others shall be in more common use in
the kitchen of today. Other timely
and helpful articles in this issue are:
1.-THE Evolution of Single Sauce;
ssThe School Lunch Basket" Friends
in need, y or easy and satisfactory cake
baking; Household Methods" "The
Early Training of Children" etc. A
sample copy of the magazine free to
any of our readers who send name and
address to Table Talk Publishing Co !,
Philadelphia. 6--9-as.. ~ .sa.aa.s
The subject of trusts, which has be-
come .the uppermost topic of discus.
sion in the nation at the present time,
is ably discussed in the September issue
of the Review of Reviews by Hon.
George E. Roberts, the director of the
mint, who explains that by the law of
economics it is impossible for gigantic
combinations of capital permanently to
control prices. Henry Macfarland, the
Washington correspondent 4 of the
Boston Herald, offers in the same maya
zine valuable suggestion as to how
the trust issue may be eliminated from
the presidential campaign. He urges
the. Republican party to advocate an
amendment to the constitution which
will give congress the necessary auth
GRITTY to deal with the regulation of
trusts, which can only be reached at
the present time by state legislatures.
Four articles in the September Eclec-
tic would be sufficient to- repay the
purchaser of the number if it contained
nothing else. These are Richard
Bagots trenchant discussion of the
question, ''Will England Become Cath
Ollie y, Edouard Rods review of Emile
lola as Moralist, Madame Dameste-
ter's account of The Social Novel in
France, and DIR Arabella Knealy's Wig
orous and brilliant rejoinder to Mrs.
Chant on Woman as an Athlete" But
there are other articles scarcely less
noteworthy There are number of
shorter essays, sketches and poems, and
the usual readings from new books and
notes on books and authors.