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= OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Late Baron Russell.

Baron Russell, of Kilowen, Lord Ciiei
Justice Of England. who died at kensins-
ton on August 10Th, was the first Irishman
and fhe first Roman Catholic who had
filed the offices of Attorney-Genera ana OF
Lord Chief Justice of England since me
Reformation He succeeded Lord toe-
ridge as Chief Justice. lie was known not
only in Great Britain as a cieVer lawyer
and an able iurist, but his reputation and
friendships extended to this country, where
twice he had been most welcome guest.
Personally he WAS q thorough student III
legal matters, was q lover o. racing ana
other athletic sports, was fond OF soc.etS
life, and w.thal was q keen and witty
IrishD1an in whose makeup there was
delightful mixture of humOr and OF deep
religious sentiment He was born at New
~. County Down, on November IVill, 49,
OF a family of small gentry that mad oeeh
settled IN Ulster for six hundred years,
and had always retained It's Sathohc ldish.
Young Russell began the study Oh Id"
in Belfast, and then took course a.
Trinity College, Dublin, an ulusu<,l ga: sesp
for a Catholic TO take. ite was admitted
To the bar in 1883 and first attracted at
tention as a cross-eXaminer IN the ROO
,in1,s irish case OF YelvertOn vs.. 4eiVsftoh.
After that he was employed IN many
eases that secured pubic notice lie M"s
counsel for Nj. Labouchere in many me;
suits against Truth and he was retainer
Inv LADY CoIin-Campbell in her divorce
suit. he defended Mrs. Masbrick, and
never ceased to believe in her innoq 2ssss e
He was one of the counsel Of Great t'fitaln
on the Behring Sea arbitration case a.
Paris. His most celebrated case vas, was mat al
of Mr.. ParneIl's suit against the Ilnes III IA
which he laid bare the famous t!SSote ~
geries. He was first elected 10 Pari;an lsslt
IN 1850 In 1856 Mr.. Gladstone made 1tmisb has
-, ~ C,,a7staue Administration re-
t,, ,T.t to power IN 1892, he again became
Attorney General LORD R I u IN app aai
C-,7jnary He was then made NE
M With title of Baron Russell, Of XII al.
iowen, in the County 81 Down of Ord e,o oyM
,.ids,a he was made Chief Justice. ti1s
MOST r1cs conspicuous service that he rendered
% Great Britain outside OF his 3aqlcsa , aI-
~ vas to act as one of The British atp.-
ra+ors in the Venezuela boundary eueS-
tion-Harper's Weekly
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CURRENT LITERATURE FOR BUSY READERS


think it has the upper hand already, an at
tempt would probably be made to absorb
the northern provinces of China, says
Brooks Adams in the September Atlantic.
The question is how this would affect the
United States Evidently the United
States has nothing to gain by the opening
up of Asia The United States is now mis-
tress of the situation; the United States
is fast attaining Il commercial supremacy
heretofore unrivaled. An industrial move
ment in the valleys of the Ho-hauS- no and
Yang-tse could only tend TO her ambar-
rassmenr- The best thing that could hap
pen for her would be for China to remain
as she is But the very success and energy
of American make it unlikely that China
can stay stationary; effort at develop
nlert is inevitable. and it behooves Aneri-
cans to consider whether they can safely
allow that development to be wholly con-
tFoIIed by others. If Russia should absorb
Shanst she cannot organize it alone. She
has neither the genius nor the capital She
must mortgage her roperty, in the future
as in the past. and there is a likelihood
that the mortgage viii ultima tely come
into pos. essinu. Even suLposing q con-
nct between Japan and Russia. in which
Japan should prevail, the situation would
remain substantially unchanged, for the
Japanese are both from a financial and an
administrative standpoint as unequal as
Russia to handle such a task. They would
have to resort to the same expedients as
their adversary.
There remain the English. the Germans.
and ourselves. The English may, proba-
bly,. be dismissed from consideration; their
energies are already over-taxed. ard OF
late. except In South Africa. British eapi-
tai has shown q tendency rather 20 Contract
than TO expand its sphere of activity The
Germans. or the contrary. are aggressive.
and are taking the present opportunity to
occrnv Pekiu in force. Were the Russians
and the Germans to coaiesce to dominate
northern China, and were the country TO be
administered by Germans with German
funds. n strain of a very serious nature
might be put upon America.
Hence Americans must accept the Chi
nese question as the great problem of tho
future. problem from which there is no
escana: ard as the solution of these great
struggles for supremacy often involves an
appeal to force, safety lies In being armed
and organized against all emergencies
-Prooks Adams in the September At
lantic.
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Little -cnav PsAl;z.
From the Chinaman's Point of View
His Empress is Perfection.

THE Chinese Empress does not meet
completely the Anslo-saxon demand for
female beauty" writes Poultney Bigelow
tn the September Woman's Home Com
panion, but then the Chinaman is not
wholly satisfied with our type, and on
sound democratic principles the Celestial
has some color for his opinion seeing that
he is one of four hundred millions. while
our ideal represents but seventy-five mill
ions. Personally. It is hard for me to
appreciate beauty in one who is short and
tat: whose feet are the size of salt-cellars:
whose flesh has the modelling of a bolster:
whose eyes are o5liquc, and whose natural
skin is overlaid with white and red paste.
Yet what / am pleased to consider my
taste is, from the Cilinaman'S point of
view. merely outlandish prejudice: and on
the standards prevailing in Pellin the Dow
ager Empress is easily one OF the hand
soonest women, exercising a personal
fascination which entities her to rank with
such heroines as Catherine OF Russia or
Queen Louise of Germany And as to
antiquity OF pedigree. the Romanoffs and
Hohenzollerns are mere upstairs in dynas-
tic enterprise compared with the power in
pellin, which draws its authority directly
from Celestial sources in prehistoric eraS-
LET US then admit. at the outset that
In the matter of birth. beauty and polit
zeal power the Dowager Empress Of China
eclipses not merely anything Of its kind in
Europe but throws into the shade any
thing dreamed of in this fair country Of
ours whose boast it is that we have set
the standard for sovereign woman. The
Gilman an in general is completely con
WINGED that in all>that constitutes higher
civilization he is the superior Of the white
man. He has invented more different
kinds OF mechanical improvements than All
the rest of the world put together: his
wise men were masters of science when
Europe was a bowling wilderness; no other
country has held together so long as this
huge empire, and its subjects not unTat
urallv conclude that such grand res us
must have sprung from institutions whose
excellence is unriyaled elsewhere. OF
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these institutions the highest exponent Is
the Dowager Empress and her party"
, ~, l,orn of summer Beneflcence

There is a dear old lady in 2earoy VIII
age who. by reason of a righteousness Of
rich cream, brings happiness 10 many
deprived or suffering sister Her method
IS % make a freazerful Of ice-cream, flaw
ored with sensonable fruit. and TO place
if in the bottom of wagon. which she
hi.ci,.s to .ober-minded. self-respecting
mare. Along the country ROADS she pu--
sues her way, stopping at the neisnoors
houses. where parch.ns invalid may lie
or two or three children may pine for the
!uxuries Of young life.
She carries her stack of clean saucers
and bowl of spoons right nlong with her,
and spades from the freezer generous
halpings of the delectable cream wherever
her wagon stops She chats pleasantly
with the children while they eat, and en-
ters many a poor home herself bearing a
tray of well-heaped dishes for those to
whom the unnecessaries Of life must not
appeal. Thus She gives no trouble TO those
she would have accept her hospitality;
there is no washing of dishes and spoons
and mixup of property usual to neighborly
treats.
She returns home with a stock of used
saucers ana an empty freezer and a heart
Us light. for she realizes 10 some degree
what beneficence is hers. Free d!stribu-
ton of a wholesome dainty. unfavored by
any hint whatsoever of charity, is her
sTecialty How much good one may do.
with so little pother, if one will limit ones
good promptngs, combining them to a
method to simplify ones efforts and as
sure their permanence.-New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
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MI. C,ntts1onc,s ;.otnrr

Mr.. Gladstone WIS not usually regarded
as a wit, and he certainly did not set up
tor one, yet I have heard him say, at one
time or another, things which | cors.0er
to be witty. Many years ago, Ut5n re-
siding in Liverpool. was present cne
evening at q meeting al which Mr.. Cad
stone appeared as the advocate OF the
canGiidature of his brother-n-la Sir
Stephen Glynne, who was at that time
standing for the representation in Far
lament OF u neighboring county At the
moment when Mr.. Gladstone rad finished
his speech a shaboy-looEing. nnkempt and
ragged man thrust himself forward to ths
front Of the meeting and insisted Oh ask
ing Mr.. Gladstone a question. lie wanted
10 know whether Mr.. Gladstone wo4lI not
hold his brother-in-iaw bouna u 1o.Icw
him in every course he proposed 70 take
whenever he. Mr.. Gladstone, should be-
come Prime Minister. The object 81 the
nuns question was obviously 10 tt:sc.edit
Sir Stephen Gimme and to show him IN
as the mere nominee and instrument CT
his il!ustr:ous bCother-in-iaw. .f.lsre we're
some angry Interruptions, ana here were
also many sco.uful cries Of Don't answer
HIM from the audience. But Sir. ,ilad-
stone. having first stilied the noise by a
wave of his hand. and then fixed lis eyes
on the rude uuestioner. said n his hland-
est manner. Il shall hold my rrolilac-!n-
law bound to follow me- when ;trn Prime.
Minister 50 long as I adopt a course wh.cf
tends to the welfare Of the people; ard L
shall hold him bound to follow you, when
you are Prime Minister, so long as you
adopt a course that tends to the same
great result" need not say sha. he.
antarrupter thereafter remained s;ieat.-
Justin Mccarthy. in Chambers Journal.
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Ov0 eG0vors.

(Womans Home Comaanion.l
Whose baby is loveliest?
Mothers own.
All round the world-north, south, east,
west
Hers alone.
Cor whether it be Chinese tot,
With eyes asIant and a shaver crown,
Or a dear little girl Of the Land of the
Free,
Or a toddling prince in Londontown.
Or the one rare treasure a Soud2n slave
Hugs to her heart, all wee and brown
Each in its mothers gentle pride
Is fairer than all the world beside.
Whose mother is loved the best?
Baby's own
She whose cheek was first caressed-
She alone.
For whether she he an Eskimo,
Or colored nanny, or stately queen,
Or a wandering organ grinders wife,
Jingltng and beating her tanbourine,
In every land where children are
The bahys eyes from their deep, serene
Gaze rapture-bound to The tender grace
In The mothers Blended, love-lit face.
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The Great Unknown.

she belongs to women's clubs, some three
She can speak 50 broad an "a it sounds
Ike awe
So her culture is correct.
And quite all one should expect,
Ard she'd patronze The Prophets and
The Law.
She poses as a litterateur of late;
Though what she's written nobody can
state,
And. somehow. we cannot ask,
AS beneath her smile we bask,
While her verbal pyrotecha.cs scineiia'e.
In society. wherever we may go,
We find her quoting Ibsen. Browning
Introduced to shining lights
Mrs FountaiHe-Penu. who writes
For all the leading magazines. you Know
We might. if we had conscience of flint.
Achieve q reputation by the hint
Th5a we write for magazines
(Which does not, by any means.
Prove the writing gets accepted and IN
Am Mathewsen in New Lipp!ncott-
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rrar folk look more above for her'
,,u- The darling better.


~. cclla possibly be N ne NM ..
tba bav WHO wrote: The barometer was
s 49, ~ Sir Geoitrey kneller, ne haa
-, in Holland by locking through glass
III me end Of a pipe that things look up
Side doyn,? .Sot quite so beEossed h4l
san curious enough is this answer: No
lassss are the mules and stl!ti 'to,tNs!
used to carry provisions up tAe tAitues -
California. The echo Of a master o. soma
other elders impcrfectly digested witticisIn
may be heard here: ~ mammoth IS a
dead elephant that has kept fresh for
j ,oGa wears, and perhaps for more Dose
eat it as it comes out of tile sce- 1t is more
ancient than the Oldest army preserved
meat. ''-Satuft,ay Review.
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rhc way or,he Chinanan.

That the Chlnaman places his surname
FIRST. while the American has his last: of;lt
the Chinaman wears white for mourning
and the American black, that the ILLNESS
yyon,an have big waists and little feet.
v,,fIe tbe American women have little
waists and big feet; that the Chinaman
sits in a draught as a matter of prefer
ence. while the American avoids it; that
one eats with chopsticks and spoons, the
other with knife and fork-ttlese and a
hundred other insignificant contrasts IN
the customs of everyday life indicate the
kind of observations l am naturally max
ing during my sojourn IN the United States.
pIIt realize that his antithesis is
only skin deep Human nature is the
same in both cases. but expresses itself
differentlv.-Thc Hon WI Tins-Fang, in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
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Women Who Have Been Decorated.

H omen VI no E1ikNc S>cti' h'SI''A -'NS,'.
According to a chart in the Paials des
Femmes. at the Paris Exposition, the NUM-
Der of women who have received the I'D
hon OF the Legion of Honor is not large
some forty-one in al. Sarah Bernnardt is
tile latest name TO ba recommended for
this honor, and this is the first time, it
is understood, that an actress has been
nominated.
OF the forty-one, ttlirty-one have been
decorated for special services in connection
with hospital or ambulance work. one was
an artist. one an archaeologiSt and three
were rewarded for herOism in war. Rosa
Bonheur was the artist. and she received
the distinction of 1858 as a result of the
award by the jury of the grand prix for
her picture. The Horse Fair" now known
far and wide.
The Emperor did not approve of the Lee
gion of Honor being conferred upon q
woman and it was not until 1S65-twelve
years after-tl1;,t she actually received it.
In 1894 she became an officer of the or
der Juliet Dofu, who was condemned TO
be shot By the Germans during the Franco
German war for refusing to telegraph a
message was another. She was released
By the order of Prince Frederick Charles
and received both the cross of the legion
and the military medal-Phiiadelphi
North American
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Teach me, Father, how to go
softly as the grasses grow;
hush my soul 70 meet the shock
OF the wild world as a rock:
But my spirit. prop with power,
Make as simple as 3 flower.
Let the dry heart fiji its cup,
Lake poppy looking up;
Let life lightly wear her crown,
Like poppy looking down.
When its heart is filled with dew,
And its life begins anew
Teach me, Father, how to be
Kind and patient as a tree
Joyfuliy the c;icke;s Groom
Under shady oak at noon;
Beetle on his mission bent,
Tarries in that cooling tent.
Let me. also. cheer a spot,
Hidden field or garden srot-
Place where passins-souls can rest
On the way and be their best.
Edwin Markham
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Erom the Diary OF a Wife.

and fnI,nd my husband lying on one of
my lovely new sofa cushions.
How impossible It is for woman to
make . home III the true sense when she
Sometimes i feel thar I, should bs glad
TO die-Iletroit Journal.
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above the Necessity.

you've sent your boy 10 college. l
hear" remarked the ne:ghbor ven,
hope he will acau-t himself w'ta clsy,.' NJ
.'Ho won't need 20, besesh 81. s..'' III.
- smn,iv him with the cash right Straight
alons."-CnicaSo Tribune
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vigilant care. her individuality has an OPP
portunity to develop her mind acts, ana
in this freedom her bodily equilibrium IS
restored and maiutained.-Dr. Grace Peck
ham Murray, IN Harper's Bazaar.
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And George Said yes"

Maud (earnestly)-'I want to ask you
a question, George"
George Glso earnestly)-"WThat is it,
dearest?'
Maud (st,Il carnestly)-"r you had never
met me. would you have loved me just
the same?''-Boston Journal
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The opening article in 1.-THE COsMO-
POLITAN," for September, is by Olive
| Schrener, who writes OF 1.-THE African
Boer." Following this are two papers on
| the Chinese question:; one, China and the
| Powers by John Brisben Walker, and
8 the other. ''What China Really IS by
john Brewster Dane. OF most Importance
| to the general public, however, is the
most interesting and instructive essay on
The Human Eye and How To Care For
IT, from the pen Of Doctor Reilz, of Johns
| Hopkfn's University. Samuel G.. Blythe
writes OF buffalo and Her Pan-American
EXPOSITION and Frank Fowler contributes
an article on Portrait Painting and Some
Early English Painters Under the head
ing 1.-THE Work Of a Great Cartoonist-"
Lloyd Mex Garrison pays tribute to the
late f. C. Atwood. Short stories by LLOYD
| Osbourne. Martha Observation-Disclosures
and Wingson Balton. and poem by
Charles Edward Thomas complete the
table OF contents. Of especial beauty is
The frontfspiece, '.Fetee" by Edward
| Bison.
The September SCRIBNE,Te has an out
| door flavor TO many OF its articles. Frederick
lreland writes OF u hunting excursion in
| British Columbia IN the Fraser River re-
| sion, where Rocky Mountain sheep and wild
! ;oats abound, and deer ana caribou are
| so plentiful that it is hardly sport 10 kill
them. Mr.. ireland describes his adven-
lures with his accustomed facility OF style,
| and illustrates them WITH mis- own photo
graphs
| john Fox, u, the Kentucky novelist
| describes an amusing dshtng "Trip in the
mountains of Kentucky, entitled 10 the
Breaks Of sandy"
walter a. WycIloff. the author Of The
Workers. has published nothing since that
very successful book. In this number he
] begins an account of his recent journey
TO the far North with on; OF tg!e Peary
Relief Expeditions
Another sort Of outdoor artistic is the
concluding part Of Ernest S25cn-Thomp-
sons story Of ANNA! life entitled Tito
John r. Shears continues his graphic
account of "rha Slave Trade in America
with an account of the life aboard a
SLAYER i'll the old days when the traffic was
nourishins
Major-General Jacob d. Cox, at one
time Secretary of the Interior, under
Grant contributes the frs; of two papers
| of military "reminiscences. His article
deals with 't--ne Chickaruauga Crisis when
Grant was placed in command and Rose
Grams relieved. Tits article makes clear
a much-misunderstood episode in the great
Civil War.
". D. Howels, when young man. made
the Acquaintance Of Mr.. Lowell. ana he
retained a strong personal friendship with
him full Of literary symDathies until his
.!aath Mr. Fyowe(l's paper giving ~ Per-
sonal Retrospect of James Russell Lowell
viii therefore command the widest atten-
tior from literary PEOPLE
In fiction this number includes a Doliti-
cal story "a Daughter Of the State.'' by
Charles Warren. and continues Tommy
and Griezel." NJ. Barrie's great serial
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HIyslozy Of the zT<51
The Mystery of the mist is calling me
Across the marshes silvery solitudes,

Across the marshes silvery solitudes.
By phantom inets and gray bordering
woods
To surging silence of hidden sea.
Swathed in a twilight haze of amethyst,
Beyond the salty sedges lies the verge
OF immemorial oceans endless surge,
Entranced by the still Mystery of the
mist.
If I might dsenohant the spell-bound
space,
To see beyond the veil that may not
move
For mortals; if my soul and sense could
prove
The beauty of her mist-enfolded face;
Perchance her loving penalty would be
To lay a darkness on my earthly sight,
And lead me forth to lands OF other
light
Far out beyond these marshes by the sea.
Katherine Coolidge, in the SEPTEMBER
Atlantic.
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Russia and ,merics: in the East.
Should the military and asrarian party
get the upper hand in Russia, as some
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The September number of FRANK. LES
LIES MAGAZINE is of special interest to
Virginia, since it contains the second in
the series entitled Recollection of Gen
eral Robert z. Lee by his son, Robert
e. Lee, il. This paper has to do with
the first two years OF the war and consists
largely OF letters written by General Lee
to his family. y timely paper is from the
pen of Minister WI, describing ."rhe
Chinese People" Along this line there is
also an article by Guy Morrison Walker,
entitled In the Haunts of the Boxers.''
Other interesting features are the story
OF Lieutenant Gilnlore's Captivity as
told by the Journal of W. Walton, Chief
Quarteunaster, U. S. n, and Money
for Everybody" a description Of the work
ings of the United States MINIS and of
the Bureou of Engraving and Printing
Chief John Ebert Willzie of the U. S
Secret Service. tells the story of the
great acknowledgements oounterfeiting
conspiracy. The fiction consists of short
stories by Edward L Sabin and Frank
Gribble, and the continuation of the serial
"a Hazard of Hearts," Two short poems,
one by Clinton Scollard and the other by
e. c. Tompldns, complete this attractive
number.
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.l9SsI esn>z=a
Lex SsS'Iss@ea-( ANNsl-SLSSn
s ssE 2255yWU5h@RS,
ai:gaz nas.

The opening articie. IN II CLURE,S MAG
AlINE tells OF The Training OF lions, III
gers and Other Great Cats 1t is complied
by Samuel Hopkins Adams, from PERSONAL
interviews with the leading trainers of
the world, including Mr. Frank c. Bos-
tcck. of The Bostoch shows, which delighted
so many Richmond people during the
Street Fair.
y feature CT this article is the illus
tratio-s made from drawings from life,
by the artist, Charles r. Knight, of the
American Museum. of National History.
Lieutenant Gilmore concludes his account
of his captivity among the Eilipinos. Hon.
George S. Boutwell, writes Of IAN His.
toric Sale of United States Bonds in Eng
land.'' Ray Stannard Baker describes
Building German Ocean Greyhound
The fiction consists of q story. the scene
laid in Central America, by Clinton Ross.
Other stories of contemporary Chicago life.
by Edith Wyatt; railroad story, by
Frank H. Spearman; a True Story of the
Under World by josiah Flyert and
Francis Walton; a story of life in the
Syrian coonyeof New York city, by Nor
man Duncan; and a klondike story, by
Jack Lonion.
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By phantom inlets and gray borderN
woods
To surgins silence of a hidden sea.