Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

| CONhEFf LliER1TOhE.
The fiction number OF Soribner's
Magazine (August) is remarkable for
It's color printing, its brilliant pictures
by young artists, and the high OK
cellence of the short stories.
The frontispiece and story, THE
Plays the Thing show illustrations
in color by young man, W. Glackens,
who has the cleverness Of the modern
French illustrators applied to Now
York themes. By an ingenious use
of half-tone plates and hand-engraving
tho color pictures are reproduced with
striking truth to the originals. In
color work Maxheld Parrish has shown
brilliant examples heretofore in Scrib-
ner's, but never has he been so success
full as in the cover of this number.
Richard Harding Davis tells in 1.-THE
Lion and the Unicorn love story of
a young American playwright in Lon
don. The heroine is an American girl
and her rival is a charming English
actress. The illustrations are by
Howard Chandler Christy, who made
his reputation by his pastel posters for
Scribner's.
Henry van Dyke tells a French.
Canadian story--one that he has
gathered from his many fishing trips
to the Lake st. John region. 1t is
romantic and tragic and in it is "a
flavor of fresh-cut pine logs and clean
wood smoke. -
Ernest Seton Thompson contributes
1.-THE Trail of the Sandhil Stag" with
his own poetic Illustrations. 1t tells
how the love of the chase grew and de-
veloped in boy, but with far higher
results than the mere love of slaughter.
Thomas Nelson Page contributes the
tale of negro lynching in the South,
entitled 1.-The Spectre in tho Cart. :"
The full-page illustration is by +. G.
Yohn. Albert White Worse tells story
OF, Little Italy, the action of which
takes place in an East Side theatre,
with illustrations in color by W.
O'Connor story by William Maynadier
Browne, illustrated by A. |. Keller.
In addition to it's fiction this number
also contains the conclusion of Senator
Hoar's article on "Daniel Webster -
more letters written by Stevenson from
Bournemouth, many of them to William
Archer, the dramatic critic; short
paper on Japanese Flower Arrange
ment," by Theodore Wores, illustrated
from paintings by Mr.. Wores: poems
by Il. S. Martin and j. Russell Taylor
also brief article by the eminent
painter, John La Fargo "Q's" serial,
the THE Ship OF Stars, - takes the
hero up to Oxford, where he becomes a
student.
The remarkable success of the late
Mrs. Ellen G. johnson, the head of the
Massachusetts Reformstory for Women,
and the methods by which she attained
her success, arc illustrated by an
instance mentioned in Harper's Bazaar,
where, by appealing to her higher feel
ings, she was able to win the affection
of girl who had been sentenced to the
reformatory, and who, even there, had
proved incorrigible. Mpg johnson sent
for her, and, all other means failing,
opened at 1.-THE Eternal Goodness, -
and told her to go to her room and read
it, The girl was strudk by the beauty
of the verse, and merhorized the entire
poem. Her character changed from
that time, and when she left the re-
formatory she told Mrs. johnson that
Whittier's poem had been her saliva
tion. Later, Mrs. Johnson told the
poet of the instance "Thy heart must
have been filled with love for that poor
woman" he said, with moist eyes.
AT time when the antiquated and
often inhuman methods employed in
many State institutions are being
brought to light, the remarkable sue
cess of the Massachusetts Reformatory,
and the story of such steps by which
its reform was accomplished, can
scarcely fail to convince the most
sceptical that little kindness and
humanity go further than any amount
of corporal punishment in even the
most desperate cases.
The new Isham projectile, of which
tests were recently made at the Sandy
Hook proving grounds, has apparently
settled one of the problems which has
been bothering the ordnance experts
ever since the introduction of high.
power explosives. Heretofore it has
! been considered impracticabe to fire
: shells charged with any quantity Of
high explosives from high, power guns
on account of the liability to- detonate
! in the gun from the shock caused By
: the explosion of the firing charge. MIR.
: lsham has apparently eliminated this
difficulty by means of strong meta
, diaphragms running perpendicular tc
! the axis of the she'll and dividing il
into a number of chambers Thus fai
the plan has proved an entire success
The following account of the tests ap.
:, pears in the current number of IIar,
, per's Weekly: "A very remarkable anG
! successful test of high-exrlosive shell
: = was made at the army Proving
Ground at Sandy Hook, New Jersey,
on Tuesday, July 18th, in which, fol
the first time in the history OIL
, ordnance, great mass of explosive
gelatine--one of the most destructive
compounds that tho science Of chemis.
= try has produced successfully free
= from u service coast-defence rifle under
regular service conditions. Ordnance
! experts have seen small charges of this
explosive fired from high power guns
9 without explosion and with explosion,
= but never has shell carrying, over 10(
pounds of explosive gelntine been free
from gun with regular propelling
charge of gunpowder. y
: To have known and enjoyed Johr
y Holmes, the brother OF the world. re.
. nowned Oliver Wendell, showed that
one was in the very inmost circle OF
Old Cambridge. Tho man was prefer
naturally shy, hut had "a rare audacious
wit. Some Of the good things lon,
a cherished privately, Col Higginsor
4 gives to the world in the Angus
8 Atlantic. lIeanwhile, John Muir's
Yosemite paper is pure poetry, ever,
I word of it. Continuing his narrative
after his escape from Russian imLrison
II mont, Prince Kropotkin defines tn,
4 ineradicahle difference batween social
S lists and anarchists. Needless to say