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mrs winsIow,s soothinq Syrup.

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHIL. REIN WHILE TEETHING. with PER FECT sUCCEsSI It sooTHES the CHILD. sOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN, CURES WIND COLO, and IS the best rem- edy for DIARRHOSA Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
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For a Cold in the Head Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets.
Texie cigars! Texie cigars l!

Go where the crowd goes, to Dunker's Saloon, POS and BIO North goth Street, between 2d and 3d avenues.
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 yOu enjoyed pleasant and happy Thanksgiving And there few people this favored Birmingham reg0n who have the will to do someg who have abundantcause for nanness of chief inspirations gratitude the fact that you have so many causes for thankfuness.
 But thanksgiving day past So the national election And the frosty nights and increasing chilly winter winds pesage the approach of the joyous Chistmastde.
 You will doubtless want to treat yourself to much better quality of Weaabes than you nduged for many yeabecase you this good year the of the Nineteenth Century H to do
 particular the quality of material, style and wor<manshipyou will want to have the selection things the artists of the world have for the money have to invest And here plant ourselves with the Knowledge that please you ong-sghed buyers clearly fore increasing prosperity of all classes of
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The times., 1900-12-30
Miscellaneous Publications.

Concerning Children" is new book by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who, as Mrs.
stetson, has already won something Of a
reputation as an essayist. There are some
good ideas in this book and some which
may arouse the derision OF the old-fash-
Toned mother. It is still a mooted ques-
tion whether all the improvements which
can be made in the care of children have
yet been made, and while on the one hand
the modern theorist regards some of the
old-fashioned methods with horror on the
other hand, the average mother is in
clined to disregard theories in favor of ex-
perience.
In some respects, certainly. scientific
methods are best in the rearing OF chill
dren, even II they are not originated by
that alleged oracle the woman who has
had children. A mere man who has stud
led the human infant for a good many
years. with view to the Improvement of
it's physical and mental condition, is like
ly TO know more about 1t at the end of
that time when the woman who, ignorant
and unframed, has arrived at her knowl-
edge by experimenting on four or five in
fants of her own. Likewise. in some ways
the schooIteacher, the trained nurse, or
the Kindergarten though spinster, may
find out some truths about children which
will benefit the world.
The present book Is certainly a collec-
tion of rather original theories Some of
them are good and some not so good.
When the author gravely asserts that a
child should not be punished unjustly from
its own point OF view the average parent
is likely to grin, because undoubtedly
most children who are punished would go
scot free If their ideas on the subject were
consulted. On the other hand, ii is GER
tainly true that child often suffers from
a bewildered sense of injustice through
not understanding just what its offence
was. AS Mrs. Gilman says, pointedly and
truly:
Take living as an instance. ]. We lie TO the
child. He discovers it, No evil Is apparently re-
sultant. g. He accuses Of it, and punish
him for impertinence 8. He lies to US and
meets severe penalties. 4. We accuse him of ii
rightly or wrongly, and not punished for
impertinenee. 8. lie observes lie to the visitor
in the way Of politeness with no evil result. O.
He lies to the visitor less skillfuly and is again
made to suffer. T. He lies to his more ignorant
juniors. nd nothing happens. s. Meanwhile, II
he receives any definite ethical instruction the
subject he is probably told that God hates liar,
and that to lie is sin.
Certainly the mind OF child, subjected
The times., 1900-12-30
The Boy.

wouldn't be a single thing on earth
Except a boy;
And it's just an accident of birth
That I'm 4 boy;
And goodness graciousi When stop and think
That l once trembled on the very brink
OF making my appearance here girl
1t fairly make my ears and eyebrows curl
But I'm boy.
Just think of all the jolly fun there is
When you're a boy!
tell you, you're just full of business
When you're boy.
There's fires to build in all the vacant lots
Go swimmin'. tie the fellers' clothes in knots,
Tie tin cans on the tails of doss-why, geei
The days amt half as long as they should be
When you're boy.
There's lots of foolish things that make you tired
When you're a boy;
There's heaps OF grouchy men that can't be hired
To like boy;
There's wood to chop at home and coal to bring,
And Here, do this-do that-the other thingp'
And, worse than ALL there's girls-oh, holy
smokel
Are they a crime. or are they Just joke
Upon a boy?
And then. there's always somebody to jaw,
When you're boy
To every boy;
''Pick up your coat; see where yoa've put your
hat;
Don't stone the dog. don't tease the poor old cat
Don't race around the house''-why, suff'rin
Mosesi
The only time you have to practice things like
those is
When you're a boy!
And yet, don't believe I'd change a thing
FOR any boy;
You've got to laugh, to cry, to work, to sing.
To be boy;
With all his thoughtless noise and careless play,
With all his heartfelt trials day by days,
With all his boyish hopes and all his fears,
I'd like TO live on earth a thousand years,
And be boy.
w H. Pierce
The times., 1900-12-30
CURRENT VERSE
The cnortly chri.tm.. Dance.

UhOstiy Dances
'Twuz chris'mus in de cabins, wild de ERE blazin'
bright:
De win it shuck de shutters, made rifle at de
light
A-whirlin' all de snowfakes FUN de mansions in
skies.
En- de sparks fewed up de chimbfy lax a hundred
frefies.
De hills wuz lookin' skeery-kase dey dress up all
in white,
LAX ghosts come FUN de graveyard fer irolIc
Chrismus night.
En- dat win'l He whistle lively: den he make his
sighs an means;
Whar de tall trees look lax skeintons a-stretehin
'Twuz Chrisnus in de cabins, in de valley, on
de hill.
En- dc darkies-dey wuz dancin' in de quadrille,
fit ter kill
Dey come right down ter business W en- dey hearn
de fiddle sing;
Dey give de doubie-shufie, en- dey cut de pigeon
wing!
All er 'em, eept Br'cr Williams; he wuz pious as
could be,
mus night fer me;
jine de chneh, good people, en- put jem t'ings
away:
You des can't dance ter glory, 50 IN stay ter
home en- prayl'
He sot down by q. fireplace Che feelin' lonesome,
tooD
De win knocked at dc winder--ax Br'er Will
Jams, ''Who is you-ooT'
En- Br'er Williams don't make answer, kasc he
much in fear en- Doubt
Den de win cone down de chimbly en- blow dc
fire outi
En- no sooner out dan-reoplei dar wuz trouble in
de place;
So dark he couldn't 'stinguish his two hams To-
his face.
En- he boiler, 'Iawd have mrssy,'' De win he
howl lax sin
De cabin do aewed open en-de ghosts come
trompin' in
Dey lined up fer quadrile-each oil ha'nt tuck
his stan.
A'feein' in de darkness fer his partners bOny
han'i
En- de one dat called de fggers sorter roll 'em
out in groans;
De fiddler wuz a sselinton, en- constant beat de
bones!
Br'er williams-he des holler; he sing out long
en- loud.
Fall his knees a-shakin' in de middle er de
ero..di
He mos shake bofe his shoes off, likewise his
Chris-muss cioze,
En- wen de win ak. ''who is your" Br'er VIII
liams say, ''Lawd knowsi"
De win wuz lax trumpet. des blowin' over
head.
En- Brer Williams t'ink dat Gabrul wuz a-wakin'
up de deadl
En- ez de ghosts whiri roun' him he holler in his
fright:
''Dey calls it Jedgment Day. but now it comm
in de nighti'
Dey foun' him in de mawn'n: his face WIZ
black befo'
But when dey hauled him ter de light it had on
six coats mot LEE 81.
Dey looked de calm over-des proiecked all er-
bout: atsc
He WIZ Railways up de chimbly. wild his two
foots stickin outi - -
Frank L. Stanton, in the Saturday Evening
Post
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The Manor House.

This garden OF repose and calm,
OF shady lawns and distant views,
Has filed my being with the balm
Breathed out by venerable yews.
The boughs are clothed in honey gold
And copper red. in autumn mist;
The creepers hang with fold on fold
In scarlet garlands, autumn kissed.
All yesterday no wind or cloud
Disturbed day of perfect blue;
The trees seemed murmuring aloud
And autumn roses bloomed anew.
IT'S sad that in this glade and wood,
OF old, the Roman moved and talked
We roamed to where his villa stood,
And trod the pavement that he walked.
These early days OF warm November
The world with silent poetry I'LL;
Dear friends, / always shall remember
This garden so divinely still.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The times., 1900-12-30
Two hook. of Army Life.

Thrilling Days in Army Life" is a col
lecticn Of capital soldier stories by Gen.
George A. Forsyth They are all true
narratives, describing the experience OF
the author during an eventful and varied
life. The illustrations. by Zogbaum, are
thoroughly sympathetic In spirit and as
clever as the work Of this artist is
bound to be.
There are only four of the sketches,
"a Frontier Fight" describing grim
struggle with the Cheyennes and Brule
Sioux under Roman Nose, a Cheyenne
chief. on the Arickaree River It was one
Of the most desperate fights recorded In
the Indian warfare of the West, and the
story is exceedingly well told by the
brave man who commanded the little COM
pany OF regulars. There were only fifty
one to hold a cluster of rife pits against
sbout 500 Indians, and they did It. The
situation at the end of the second days
axhting is thus described by General For
The times., 1900-12-30
The Missionary Martyrs.

o We who Joined but yesterday
The holy martyr throng,
Ye wear your crowns serene as they
Whose brows have borne them long.
We know not what indignity
Ye suffered ere the last;
We know lie bore you company
While through the fame you passed.
We ask no shaft to mark the place
Where earth received her trust;
We ask instead that flowers OF grace
May blossom from your dust
Our heads are bowed, our eyes are dim,
Our hearts are rent with pain;
But We who dared and died for Him
Nor dared nor died in vain.
Edward n. Pomeroy.
The times., 1900-12-30
Lines.


And II some day he come back,
What should he be told?
Tell him he waited for
Till my heart was cold.
And If he ask me yet again,
Not recognizing me?
Speak him fair and sisterly;
His heart breaks, maybe.
And if he ask where you are,
What shall reply?
Give him my golden ring,
And make no reply.
And ii he ask me why the hall
Is left desolate?
Show him the unlit lamp
And point to the open gate.
And if he should ask me, then,
How you fell asleep?
Tell him that / smiled, for fear
Lest he should weep.
Richard Hovey, from the French Of Maurice
Maeterlinck.
The times., 1900-12-30
One, Named Mary.

The children played in gssden,
Mid the olives the children played:
But one, named Mary, wandered apart
Into the silent shade
One named Mary, little child,
Alone in the shadow strayed.
And they called to her with laughter:
''Oi what art thou afraid?''
But she wept, and weeping, trembled;
Yet knew not why she stayed
One. named Mary, a little child,
Alone meath a thorn-tree's shade.
Virginia W. Cloud.
The times., 1900-12-30
Minor Fiction.

"The Half Hearted is q novel by John
Buchan. which might be improved by
better title. Few novel readers are in
terested, at the outset, in a half-hearted
hero, though they are likely to become
Interested in this one before his story Is
finished. The scene of the. romance Is
laid partly in Scotland and partly in that
The times., 1900-12-30
Literary Notes.

Mr.. I. X. Friedman, who will be remem
bered as the author of Poor People"
novel of tenement life which had no small
success, is occupied on a novel which viii
deal with the social and industrial condi-
tiOns of the big iron industry of Chicago.
Mr.. Friedman is progressively social
in his ideas, and the effect of these viii
no doubt be distinctly noted in his nex-
story. Poor People" may now be had
in paper covers, it having been added to
The Riverside Paper Series Of Novels and
Stories
The times., 1900-12-30

'Punchinello," by Florence Stuart, is a
romance Of the last century, cleverly con-
structed and well told. The hero is a
hunehback, and the author has shown
true and sympathetic intuition in depict
ing his character. 1t Is tragedy, but
the poetic beauty OF the style, and the in
terest Of the plot, relieve the som5erness
Of it, and, while pathetic story, it is
not gloomy one. The atmosphere of the
time is reproduced skillfully, and all the
minor characters are wen drawn. The
tale would not be bad subject for dram
atization, il the civilized world has not
had enough of dramatized novels It
would certainly make a better play than
some which have been subjected to that
test. (Boston: L. G.. Page & Col
The times., 1900-12-30

The House Of Egremont'' Is novel by
Molly Elliot Seawell, which is the best
work done by this clever author thus far
The hero. Roger Egremont. is Of Jacobite
house, exiled from England during the
reign of William Of Orange. for having
thrown plate OF beans in the face of the
Dutch King The fact that the King had
insulted the young nobeman was of small
Importance, one may fancy, either to the
men Of Orange or their opponents. The
Jaeooites honored him for his spirit while
the Dutchmen never forgave him. The ad-
ventures which he encountered during his
somewhat long and weary travels in Eng
land and on the Continent after the bean
episode form the romance.
The story is exceedingly well written.
full Of the atmosphere of the time, and
holds the attention of the reader through
out. The heroine, Michele, is a French
princess, dainty, digniied, and owning to
that little strain of pathos in her nature
which seems the heritage OF women born
to marriages de conyenance." Among the
minor characters are wholesome. rosy
English girl, Bess Lukens, a lovable and
boyish cousin of young Egremont. who
goes by the name of Dicky; the vallain OF
the book, Hugo Stein, stephrother to
Roger; the exiled King and his brother,
and numerous other more or less historical
personages. It gives fairly good picture
of the life of the time, and is worth read
ing simply as fiction. (New York: Charles
Scribener's Sons. S1.50)
The times., 1900-12-30

In the last number of the London
Academy" is a symposium of opinions
from famous literary men on books which
have appeared in 1900. Among them Mr.
Frederic Harrison says that THE cnly
first class book of 1900 has been Maurice
Hewlett's Richard Yea and Nay"
The times., 1900-12-30

Sir John Tenniel having just completed
fifty years of brilliant service on the staff
of London Punch" a number of his most
noteworthy cartoons are reproduced in the
January number of the Worlds Work.
which also prints brief but appreciative
sketch of his career.
The times., 1900-12-30

What country in Europe has produced the
greatest composers2 2. And in what country
there can vocalist best receive the training
necessary for a professional c.-=e-= zfand
operaf q. N. x.
The times., 1900-12-30
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Can a mans private property be t.hen sos
partnership debts? r. d.
Yes. In ordinary circumstances.
The times., 1900-12-30

r. H. Russell will issue in the first
week in January a work by Capt. A. T.
Mahan, U. S. A, retired, the famous su-
thor of "The Influence of Sea Power On
History" The title of this book is THE
War in South Africa" and il has an In
PRODUCTION by Sir John Bourinot. X. C. NJ.
c., LII. D., Lift. D., Clerk of the Canadian
House of Commons and ex-President OF
the Royal Society OF Canada.
The times., 1900-12-30

Germany. 3 Experts are divided be-
tween France and Italy.
The times., 1900-12-30

He was drowned in attempting to swim
through the whirlpool at Niagara Falls,
July "a, 1888.
The times., 1900-12-30

Will you give the names Of geological parks in
the larger cities in the East? j. +. c.
Geological Garden, Bronx Park, New
York City: Geological Garden, Philadel-
phia; Geological Park, Washington.
The times., 1900-12-30

Two new volumes of the Music Lovers
Series" have appeared. and almost stimuli
teneously new volume in the companion
Stage Lovers, Series" They are, respec-
lively Contemporary American Compos-
ers," by Rupert Hughes; Famous Pianists
Of Today and Yesterday" by Henry C. La
hee, and "Prima Donnas and Soubrette q"
by Lewis c. StraRg. The ast-mentioned
volume deals only with American singers
and actresses Of the present day. All three
OF the books are daintily bound and copi-
ousiy illustrated with portraits ot the sub
jects of the sketches. and are charming
gift books for anyone interested in the
people described.
Perhaps the most important of the three
in point of freshness ard novelty is Con-
temporary American Composers" for the
subject is one of which the general public
knows but little, and the author has in
cluded in his list every American compos-
er OF note together with many small fry
who might Just as well have been eft out.
There is a biography of each composer,
with detailed description of the work
which he has done in music. and. of
course, list of his more important musi-
cal compositions. 1t becomes evident,
however. from a careful study of the 5ook.
that there is as yet no American school of
music and that the great American COM
poser has not appeared. Dvorak declared
that il there ever should be a type Of
American music 1t ought to be based on
the plantation melodies of the South but
MIR. Hughes dissents strongly from this
view claiming that the negro songs are
exotic. For that matter, the American
himself is an exotic, and his songs, de-
scended from Scotch and English ballads,
with more or less German and Frerch in
termixture, are certainly not American in
the sense that the German Volkslied is
German.
The plantation songs were not, as a
rule, brought from Africa or adapted
from Scotch or English melodies, though
some of them show traces of such origin
they grew out of the life of a singularly
simple and impressionable race, on the
soil of this continent, and cot siderlng
that that race numbers about 10 per cent
of our total population, the music which
they have produced In their two hundred
and fifty years of life here is certainly as
much entitled to be called American as
yankee Doodle" which did not originate
In America at all. Moreover, the negro
music, as the recent popularity of the
crude form of 1t called ragtime proves,
possesses certain qualities which appeal
to the American people; its strange minor
cadences, its contrasting gayety, and its
strongly marked rhythm. all favor its In
creasing popularity; and 1t should be
noted that two-thirds OF the popular ne
gro songs OF the day are the work OF
The times., 1900-12-30

Where and when was Captain Webb, the noted
English swimmer, killed. c. @. +.
The times., 1900-12-30

Has Iowa passed law prohibiting the dehorn-
ing of cattle? II not. has any other statef
The times., 1900-12-30

SO far as we know, no State has ssch
a law
The times., 1900-12-30

"Chums," by Maria Louise Pool. is a
Juvenile story of slight merit. The au-
thor's forte did not lie in this line of
work. (Boston: L. C. Page & Coz
The times., 1900-12-30

Are there cables from France direct to this
eontinentg II so. where dc they land7 G. ". c.
One cable goes from Brest. France. to
Cape Cod Two others start from near
Brest and lani at st. Pierre Miquelon, an
island near the south coast OF Newfound-
land.
The times., 1900-12-30
Who was Matthew HenryY

clergyman and writer, born in
Flintshire, Wales. October Is, 1862. He
studied law and divinity-and was a Nom
conformist pastor at Chester and at Lon
don. He is best remembered for his .Ex-
position of the Old and New Testaments."
which consisted of his expository SER
mons. 1t ended with Acts, and was COM
pieted by other Nonconformist divines.
He died in I714.
The times., 1900-12-30

THE Hoosiers," by Meredith Nicholson,
is little book containing the history of
the State of Indiana from a sociological
point of view. The author discusses the
influences which have made the Hoosier
what he is. the origin of the name, and
the stock from which he sprang. 1t is a
most interesting work, the more SO as
Indiana. with the Middle West generally
has tended more and more toward beconi-
ing literary centre. The number of po-
cts and novelists who have conc out of
the Hoosier State within the last quarter
OF century has been the subject of con-
sidera bic remark in literary circles.
There is good reason for this literary
development, as Mr. Nicholson points out.
The pioneers OF Inijana were set in the
wilderness, where there is plenty of room
and time for meditation, and they came of
a sociable and more or less educated peo-
pie who would naturally tend toward as
much social life as possible and toward
the establishment of schools and colleges.
Moreover. they were directly in the path
of emigration and traffic, SO that they did
not stagnate as did the mountaineers of
the South who were originally of much
the same stock.
AS to the ''Hooshr dialect" of which
so much has been SAID, Mr.. Nicholson
is, that the State has no distinctive pa
tois. most Of its dialect forms being COM
mon to other and older communities. This
is probably true, though certain words
and phrases found in the work Of Riley and
Eggleston are peculiar to the Hoosier. 1t
may be observed that one or two express
sions, which the present author consid-
ers Southern, are also common in New
England. These are "a sight" used in
the expression "a sight stronger" and
proper" as proper hard" He observes
the word "critter' for horse, as used
among the people Of rural Indiana, but it
is also used in the same way in New
England, though the meaning is there
more often confined to cattle and used in
the plural.
There is also a slight inaccuracy in
speaking of Dr. Egglestcn's novel,
Roxy" In changing the name of
the hero Bonamy to "Bonaby," Mr..
Nicholson misses a fine point of the
novelist, who derives the mercurial and
impulsive character Of his hero from some
far-away French ancestor of the North
west. New York: The Macmillan Com
pany SLED
The times., 1900-12-30

Will you give the population Of Portland,
Ore. and of san Antonio, Tex2 3 What is the
average summer and winter temperature for
Portland2 D. w.
The times., 1900-12-30

The cordial reception given Samuel
Adams brakes Historic Mansions and
Highways Around Boston," issued in a new
edition last year. jnstifies the publication
of revised and enlarged edition OF his
most popular work on American history,
"Old Landmarks of Boston," Mr.. Drake
has been for several years accumu-
lating materials for a thorough re-
vision Of the work. Besides numerous al
terations ia the text, designed to keep pace
with the march OF improvement, the op-
portunity has been availed OF for the intro
duction of new and interesting matter
number of full-page illustrations not found
In earlier editions have been added in
Guiding rare picture of Boston in 1880;
the daring feat of Isaac Harris In saving
the Old South from the flames; Boston
Common as a COW pasture, with the Great
ELM Old Concert Hall. the Almacks OF
Boston; State Street in 1925, etc.
With the beginning OF the year. r. II.
Russell will issue a large ard unique
Bernhardt souvenir. This is departure
from the usual run Of the Russell souvenirs
In that 1t will contain ninety-six pages,
with a historical and critical sketch OF
Nine. Bernhardt, with an autograph in
PRODUCTION by herself. There will be sixty
five pictures, showing her in all her IA
nous roles, and in her home. together
with a portrait Of her In her girlhood, and
reproductions OF many cartoons and other
drawings Of her by well-known artists.