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Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-11-17
thanked her "all the day and all the

thanked her 'all the day and all the
night
Some of the older boys, who did not
know a word of any language but Rus
sian at the beginning OF July. can
now. after barely two months teach
ing, correspond with Miss Baker in
fairly Understandable English"
lt is worth while to quote Miss
Bakers remarks upon the general
c.saracter of the Doukhobors. She
writes:
The disnitied courtesy and hospital
ity extended to us in more than Il score
of their villages. the manly bearing Of
the men, the delightful sympathy and
affection With which they regard
everything connected with their
homes-an estimation OF the home that
has little to learn from. and possibly
something to teach to. even Anglo
SaNons-their dwellings that already
surpass in comfort and cleanliness
these of any other class of settlers e:X
eepting these from older Canada and
Great Britain, all testify to the desira-
bility of the Doukhobors as settlers.
who will. l believe. soon make good
very keen perception on the part of
Cne having had n welcome into hum
dreds of their homes to be assured
that this is a community living un to
high moral standards and holding
tenaciously to the simple tenets of
Christian faith. OF their day-break
services of a Sunday morning. their
impressive intonation of the Scrip
lures. their beautiful singing and har-
monious chanting of hymns one could
write chapters. They sing much of
evenings in the villages and going to
and returning from work afield. \
favOrite chant, freely translated. runs
as follows:
" You tell me stranger where yoI are 60
With the hand safe in my saviour's
will go over the mountainside and val
over fields and prairies will go. my
friends.
To see the heavenly spring wild flowers;
| will go after Jesus
over the hard sand. and the Lord God
he with me.
lie leads MS to Heaven
In his paths Of righteousness.
Straight. straight to the Kingdom Of
Heaven.
y little story will add a touch to this
picture of a noble people: A lady liv-
ing twenty miles from one of the
noukhobor villages wanted Il girl for n
servant. \ young girl went to her on
trial for n month. but at the end of the
period she promptly returned to her
home. Her employer came after her,
wishing to keep her, but on no ac-
count would the girl go. Urged to give
Il reason. at first she only replied that
she could not" but finally she said.
Il cannot go back: my mistress did
not love me- This little story throws
q flood of light on the servant-gir
problem. 1t is love that the DouEho-
bors want in life and which they freely
give. 1t was love that prevented them
from learning to kill their fellows in
the Russian army, and 1t was their too
great love that made the Russian gov
ernment force it's best subjects to leave
their native land. 1t will be Russia's
loss and Canada's gain. If they can
only teach us on this continent the
folly and sin of war, the joy of loving
even ones enemies, and the i'm
possibility of doing 1t with bomb
shells, their long pilgrimage and their
years OF hardship will not have been In
vain. Ernest II. Crosby.
Rhinebeck, y. Y.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-11-17
: PROCESS NO. ONE.

columbus Evening Despltch.r
The class in physiology at the Sulli-
want school was discussing the quali-
ties of foods. when the teacher asked;
What has to be done to canned fooas
to make them digestible?"
A hoy who held.up his hand was ask
ell TO reply. z
They have to be opened" said ne.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-11-17

A sculptor and a carpenter Of Berlin iS-; So
recruited for service in Chisla.- and: up
being refused because physically deiicaq.sss y
started to ride across Europe and Asia "
-Ch1na--oH- bicycles to. pFQve their nOsis.
of endurance. While they arrive -
hope To enlist. Us
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

1.-The business OF a shrub is to flower" This
fact as stated by Miss Harriet L. Keller makes
NECESSARY long period of preparation for the
new book she intends to write companion
volume to her book Our Native Trees, "
dealing with shrubs in the same manner. One
spring, and perhaps two, must be spent in max
ing the photographs, since the pictorial basis of
the book must be the shrub in flower. Miss
Keeler's book on trees. with its excellent photo
graphs of their characteristic features, though it
was not published till rather late in the spring,
has found much favor with nature lovers and a
new edition is now printing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27
GOING As YOU PLEASE IN FRENCH
From The London Daily News.

From The London Daily News
There is a story told OF a French grammarian
who on his deathbed said ''Je men vais GU je
men vas, car Fun on lautre dit on Sc dissent"
Such the influence of the ruling passion
even at the supreme moment That grammarian
has many representatives at the present day
who must have turned hot and cold by turns
when they saw the recent decree of NJ. Georges
Leagues. Minister of Public Instruction simpl-
tying the rules Of French spelling and syntax
The decree Of Decision" as il is called which is
issued by Messrs. Hachette & Co. in a transla-
ton by Professor HUguenet, sweeps on one side
Q certain number Of too ingenious subtleties
that seem TO have been invented merely in order
70 plague the young. In future no bad mark is
10 be set against a candidate at an examination
who writes piquenique" (picnic a word the
French have borrowed from u.s. without a hy-
phen, or "soidisant" similarly as one word
60 far, so good, but NJ Leagues goes much
further. The whole circular is in fact an in
yitauon, as IL were, TO go you please in writ
ing the language Of Racine and Moliere With
a stroke Of the pen he aboshes the old rule that
masculine word and feminine word together
form a masculine plural, and we are told that
we may say "appartements ct chambres meu-
blees." If il so pleases u.s. well as -apparte-
rents Ell chambres meubles." We are also
gracously informed that we may if we choose
write ~quatre vingts dix for "quatre yingt
dix" But perhaps the strangest thing about
the decree is the fact that 1t is issued by a mem
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

1t is now forty years since Mr.. Herbert Spen-
Ger began his great system of evolutionary
philosophy with his preliminary statement of
First Principles" In that time the work has
advanced to completion. 1t inevitable that
with its progress the author himself should
grow, and that in the light of his own higher
knowledge and ripper thought the book of his
youth should disclose weaknesses and imna-
TURTLES that he would desire to correct This
he has now done, and new and revised edition
of First Principles" is about to be published
by D. Appleton & Co. The experience of forty
years has not caused Mr. Spencer to recede
from the general position he took in its first
form; but he has made some important changes
in the substance, and still more important
changes in the form. 1t has, indeed been
largely rewritten, and the new edition Is en-
tirely reset.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Der of the Ministry of the day. Just fancy what
would happen If the Duke of Devonshire, as
president Of the Committee of Council informed
that at liberty to say two hundreds
and one" for two hundred and one" or that 1t
was permissible to spell cabbage with one b!
No. the thing is inconceivable.- although. so far
as we have observed the French people have
taken their own Minister'S decree as a matter
of course. 1t remains to be seen whether they
will adopt NJ. Leyguess more revolutionary sug-
gestions but meanwhile, the new rules are
strictly permissive there is one class that will
rejoice NJ. Leagues should be a popular candl-
date for the Presidency-wth the schoolboys
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Mr. Dooley dedicates his Philosophy" just
appearing, to "the Hennessys of the world who
suffer and silent" Most of the papers in
the present collection have appeared in the press
Of America and England; in some cases they
have been remodelled, and care has been taken
to correct typographical errors except where
they seemed to improve the text" Mr.. Dunno
offers his profound gratitude to the industrious
typographer, who often makes two jokes grow
where only grew before, and has added gen
erously to the distress of amateur elocution-
lists"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

vbiteing is said to know Paris almost as thor
ouehlv as he knows London his chapters deal
with ,oThe Governmental Machine" Paris of
the Faubourgs," Fashionable Paris in which
he reports an interview with NJ Worth on the
starting of fashions under the Empire and IN
the time of the Republic; Partisan Pastimes,' -
"rbe life of the Boulevards" and Artistic
paris" The cover is stamped with decorative
design embodying the citys coat of arms in
cOlorS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Huxley's life and an account OF his contribu-
tons to biology. to educational and social prob
lens and TO philosophy and metaphysics Mr.
Mitchell is pupil OF Huxley and himself
scientific man. 1t will be seen that this volume
Is IN no way rival of the elaborate biography
OF huxley by his son. also about to appear
nor IS H. OF course. derived from the larger
work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Lord ROsebery's book, Napoleon, the
Last Phase" will not be a biography so much as
a character study, dealing with the latter part
of the great Emperor's life. and particularly
with the period at st. Helena. 1t is said to show
uncommon fairness of judgment. It's publ
cation by the Harpers November in a
large and handsome volume of expensive manu-
facture denotes a remarkably quick piece of
bookmaking, for the negotiations securing it to
the Harpers were begun scarcely more than two
weeks ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

The book about the twenty-nine first
chosen for place in the Hall of Fame will be
written for the Putnams by George Cary Egg
gleston. His work will consist of series of
Twenty-Five monographs, intended to answer
in each case the question, Why is he here !?
What has he done to entitle him to place in
the Hall of Fame? Reproductions Of the best
portraits obtainable will be given. The book
will be published first elaborate subscrip-
ton volume, and later in a more popular form
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Probably the last work of Charles Dudley
Warner done upon the three articles that
will appear in early numbers of The Century"
The November number will contain The Edu-
cation of SAM sketch of dog, in the play
full yet serious style of Mr.. Warmers Calvin
the study of a cat. In December will appear a
little essay called The Pursuit of Happiness"
The third contribution will be entitled Fashions
in Literature" with particular reference to the
shifting taste in fiction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

The Vale Press is issuing another book in the
noteworthy series that shows printing and book
making of such high quality, under the evident
influence of Morris. II is Flaubert's "Legende
de st. Julien dHospitalier," IN the original
French Two more books are soon to appear
from the Vale Press in the same artistic form
Jonl Arlington Symonds's Biography of Gel
lini" in two Volumes and the works of Tennv
son. also in two volumes. uniform with the
Keats published by the same house The Vale
Press has issued altogether about thirty
seven books up to the present time, besides ."Tbe
Dial' and the Vale edition of Shakespeare,s
plays not yet completed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

The inventor of Chimmie Fadden has not been
much in public view since the excitement caused
nv his exploitation of the Bowery valet sub
sided Mr. Townsend will soon emerge again,
however in a novel called Incomes" study of
New-York life. that the Harpers will publish as
soon as IL can be got ready.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

sketch of the life and works of Huxley, by
p Chalmers Mitchell, forms the third in the
Putnams series of Leaders in Science" 1t
Is nearly ready for publication. This is in no
sense an intimate or authorized biography. but
simply an outline OF the external features OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Nothing, probably, pleases an author more
than expert appreciation when he writes Of
technical things. Mr. Hamlin Garland is doubt
less charmed with the spirit of a letter he re-
Gently received from a Southwestern cattle
about his book THE Eagles Heart it's
expression. for the writer's purpose, could not
be improved upon. 1t is this
1 wish to congratulate you. your story the
Eagles Heart is shore all right you never
made a miss throw. but landed squarly over
the hornes every time. This praise don't come
from a tender foot but from cattle man who
has been through it all and is still in the bust
ness. When your papers are printed in book
form 1 want copy to send to my COW Boys
in Arizona. Pleas tell me where l get it
and the prise and if you come to this part
of the country want you visit my ranch will
give you good jerky stew you. ever got
out side of and shore enough bed with goose
har piller ontoit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Author of 'Fo'csle Yarns" Edited with an
Introductory Memoir, by Sydney T. Irwin. In
Two Volumes. Duodecimo, PIP. 24O PAS. Il. T.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

That Charles Dickenss works only gain in
popularity time goes is amply shown nv
the repeated reissues of his works Publishers
do not undertake such things unless thew see a
demand that will make them profitable. The
next and one of the handsomest of these re-
issues viii be the Authentic Edition" of Dick
ems, which will be published by Charles Scrib
necs Sons in this country in conjunction with
Chapman & Hall in London Dickens's original
publishers 1t is intended to make this edition
complete with the full text of all Dickens,s
writings: it will contain the entire series of
original Illustrations by Cruikshank. Brown
Leech and others. as accepted by Dickens. and
as embodying in the memories of all his Older
readers their first ideas OF Dickens's Characters
There will also be the later well known illustra
tons as used in the Gadshil edition
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27

Mr. Richard Whiteing's book on Paris ~
To-day" to be published by the Century Com
pany next week, will be a handsome volume
with many pictures hv AndrA Castsigne. Mr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27
Books ann pnbIirahons.
Books ano pnblieations.
Books ano publications.


will be published Saturday. November 3d. but owing to that day
being holiday the Publishers will endeavor have all
the book the previous day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THINGS PRESENT
AND TO COME


Maurice Hewletts long looked for new story.
THE Life and Death of Richard and-Nay, .
will be published by the Macmillan Company on
November 3. The dedication runs thus: ITO
Edmund Gosse always Benevolent to His In
vention) This Chronicle of Anjou and Noble
Lady Is Dedicated by NJ. H."
Young authors have established their rights
in the publishers Offices, and nobody is now
turned away because he or she looks like child
who ought to be rolling hoops. prominent
publisher the other day was politely de-
cIinng the manuscript Of a young girl who
neither looked nor owned TO be seventeen. be-
cause its tone was considerably too sophisti-
Gated for the magazine that he is conducting
not because it was not sufficiently well written
for his purpose; indeed, he afterward. recalled
one passage which for it's aptness of expression
he said he should have been glad to have written
himself Several authors who have recently
gained prominence were successful at an early
age: Mr.. Richard Harding Davis, Mr.. Booth
Harrington. Mr. Winston Churchill, Miss Ellen
Glasgow and Miss Runkle illustrate this fact
The Powers that Prey" which are described
by Josiah Flynt and Francis Walton in their
book thus entitled, to be published next week
those social parasites gamblers and the like,
who live upon the community without giving
an adequate return. Mr.. Flynt's studies of one
form of these parasites, the tramp, are well
known. Both the names given as the authors
names are fictitious Josiah Flynt is known,
being ]. Frank Willard. and Francis Walton
being the disguise adopted by practical in
vestigator of sociological problems who occu-
pies professorship in a well known college.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27
NOVEL THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD

YEA-ANDNAY will be published Saturday. November sd
but owing to that dav being holiday the Publishers will endeavo
to have copies in all the book the previous day
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-19

from the northeast pitched the waters
against the wharves and abutments,
choking the sewers and flooding the
city from that quarter. The wind,
which had been some fifty miles an
hour, quickened to eighty-four when
the measuring apparatus of the
Weather Bureau was wrecked, a:.A the
rest can only be guessed at. Ihe
streets We're rapidly filling with water,
and each person had to stay where he
was caught, as it was nigh impossible
to move from place to place.
In times such rs this, however, the
impossible is done, and many men did
succeed in getting their families into
the more substantial buildings, such
as the public schools, the court house
and the hotels. From three o'clock in
the afternoon the wind increased
steadily until it was at it's highest, and
certainly not less than 100 miles an
hour. IT, barometer also continued
TO fall, reaching its lowest, 2S.041a
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-19

that action a Boer leader said to a
newspaper correspondent:
Our Gen. Olivier is one Of the slim
nest men in Africa You don't know
Olivier. If you Britishers were to talk
to him you would reckon him up as
rather stupid sort of fellow. He knows
how to know nothing-when it suits
him. He can make his face as express
sionless as the back wall of ceme-
terry on wet day. even when he is
just boiling with excitement inside
You may think that it is an easy trick
but just you try it some day when
some one springs a big surprise on
you; perhaps you won't find it so easy
as 1t may appear. Olivier knew all
about Gen. Gatacre. He had studied
him.
I'VE beat you Britishers that day,
beat you pretty badly, too, but the men
who think Gatacre isn't a general on
that account don't know the country,
nor know Olivier, don't know the Beers
and don't know what quick firing rifles
can do in such circumstances. If either
Kitchener or Roberts had been in Gen.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-19

side, wreckage and death. A battle
field has its dread story to tell, but a
city suddenly stricken as this was is a
more pathetic spectacle. When men
fight men the strong are killed alone,
for all are strong, but here it was the
weak, who suffered most severely, it
was the women an children who died
in the greatest number. They could
not reach places of security for lack Of
strength, and the BRAY and willing
men were powerless t. help them.
Those pinned down by solid wreckage
lay where they had fallen, those
drowned while fleeing for safety were
carried out by the ebbing waters,
while the fallen houses each held the
secret of those who had been crushed
in the downfall. A more pathetically
wretched condition never met the eyes
of men.
AS the day got older, however, there
was other work than grieying.
There was no drinking water in
the town, and the uninjured food
supply was short, while commu-
nication was cut off from the
world that was willing to help. But
above all was the necessity to get rid
of the dead. which in so hot n climate
began quickly to decay. In very MANY.
indeed in most. instances the dead
could NOT be recopnized and therefore
could not be claimed ~ relatives.
The bodies were buried in trenches.
and boot loads were taken TO deem
woter and there sunl, Welding I'm TO
tbo seo the victims If had come ashore
to claim
nj a. ;o,o :. .h ,t,.
- % 80. All,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-19
A Unique I over Bell

When the first settlement was made
on Commencement Bay, Puget Sound,
1t was simply lumber camp and trad
ing post. After the Northern Pacific
railroad was completed to Commence
ment Bay city was built on the nigh
ground above the lumber camp south
ward and that is the handsome city OF
Tacoma, Wash.
The ancient lumber camp is now that
part of Tacoma which is called "Old
Town" locally. Early in the history of
Old Town an Episcopal clergyman,
now Bishop Morris of Oregon, built a
little wooden church in the place
alongside of huge fir tree that had
been broken off about 40 feet from the
ground.
1t was first the intention to build the
church behind the tree and cut door
way through the trunk, thus making
the tree the entrance as we'll as the
bell tower, but this plan was aban-
doned. A belfry tipped with a cross
was built upon the top of the tree. a
bell placed therein, and swuag. To
this day the ivy-clad fir is tie bell
tower of the church. A ladder runs
from the roof of the church to the bol-
fry, and this is used as the approach
to the bell whenever it becomes aeces-
sary to visit it for any purpose.
The ivy that clings to the tree has
crawled under the roof and into the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-19

Tho power of the modern gun is a
thing that cannct be grasped. The
1O0-ton projectile strikes with a force
equal to 465,000 eleven-stone men
jumping from n height of one foot
When the eighty-one-ton gun fires a
shot tweige miles, it is fired at such
an angle that the shell goes up to a
height 54S2 feet higher than Mont
Blanc. Big guns have been longer in
use than most people think. In the
year 141S they had guns called "bom-
bards," which threw projectiles weigh
ing a quarter of ton. They We're
wider at the muzzle than in the bore,
and were used for battering buildings.
The English used big guns at the bat
tie of Crecy, and amazed the French,
who had never seen such weapons be-
fore.-The Regiment.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-19
ScaIss in Galveston
AftEr tie Graat Storm

Galveston has experienced storms be-
fore and on several occasions severe
damage has been done. But the peo-
pie have grown used t. the danger
from inundation, and even when the
storm broke on that fateful Saturday
morning they were not unusually dis
turbed, writes John Gilmer Speed, in
Harpers Weekly. They went about
their business in ordinary fashion,
confident that the storm would soon
blow over. At ten o'clock gale was
blowing. By noon this gale had in
creased to hurricane proportions, and
those dwelling near the beach began
to realize that this was something
more than an ordinary summer gust
of wind Great waves were dashed
over the beach, and the summer re-
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-19

an iron roof rolled up and was hurled
across tho street as though it had been
paper; timbers were carried in the air
as though the solid oak and pine were
only grass or straw, while wires, tele-
grapA, telephone, electric light and
trolley, were everywhere, for the poles
had snapped like pipe-stems and let
their burdens loose. The force seemed
irresistible, as mighty as it was mer-
ciless. All this was in unrelieved dark
ness, which pre7ented even the most
resourcefr' from averting the dan
gers that We're on every hand. There
was little if any change for two hours
and a half. Then the barometer be-
gan slowly to rise and the worst of
the storm was over. In two hours
more the wind had subsidized, and by
midnight there was quiet in stricken
Galveston-the quiet of death.
The water, which in some streets
had been eight feet deep, began quick
ly to run out, and by daylight the
pavements were again exposed. But
what a scene of devastation this day
light revealed! Wreckage on every