The age-herald., 1900-10-13
NOTES FROM THE
 LITERARY WORLD

A new magazine called "The Worlds Work will be published October 20th by Doubleday, Page & Co.,, New York. If a magazine can be judged in advance by four advance sheets, this will be a good one. The cover design Is artistic, and the salu- tatory, At the Century's End. is well written and gives the clue to the character and object of the periodical. Although 1t has been the century of the widest con- quest, it has been the century also of the greatest toleration, of the keenest human sympathy, the most active helpfulness. In an era of action and freedom, man has be- come brother to man as he never became in eras of meditation and authority"
 This magazine will deal with facts and actual conditions of the day, believing al- ways that the present day and age the best the world has yet seen.
 The Saturday Evening Post founded by Benjamin Franklin in 172S and discovered by the public in the latter half of the nine teenth century, is, in spite of it's age, sprightiy and full of light, but interesting chatter that would hardly be expected in one of it's age. The following anecdote is told by Vance Thompson:
 Tn the public square of Vendome I stop ped at a little shop to have punctured tire repaired.
 "A little man of Vendome, as he pumped up my wheel, told me anecdote which proves that politeness, like honesty is the best policy. During the Reign of Terror the Convention had condemned Rocham- beau to death. With crowd of unfortun- ates he was ordered into the wagon that was to take them to the guillotine Courte- ously the old stepped aside that Male sherbes and his companions in death might get in first. The wagon was full before his turn came
 Take him back said the headsman; he can go with tomorrow's batch
 But when tomorrow came, Robespierre had fallen and the reign of the guillotine was over. It was a lesson in politeness, and when the little shopman and 1 parted we took off our hats to each other. One never knows what may happen in this land of revolutions"
 MT. J. Ruppert, Jr., writing in the Cos mographic Copyrighted, 1900, by Cosmo- graphic Go. N. Y.), says, speaking of the issues in the present national campaign, and the scandals of the Republican admin istraton:
 Can anybody forget the scandals that surrounded the War Department during the Cuban campaign, when our brave men were fed on embalmed beef; when ring of fa- vored naval officers bought all the old yachts, tugs, ocean tramps and scows for use as army transports. These things are to be explained; but I fear nothing but Democratic administration will ever secure the truth, although I suppose as many good Republicans as good Democrats were killed by the poisonous army supplies. It is an undeniable fact, that can be demon- strated within the hour in this very city, that many of the close political allies of the administration made large sums of money out of the war with Spain. The arrogance of the naval coterie that dominated the af- fairs of the department became so intoler- able at one time as to merit general condem- nation. The management of the army, under Alger and Corbin, became so scandalous that Alger was forced to leave the cabinet in disgrace. Such have been few of the costly and deadly experiences with the pres ent administration, and why anybody should seriously advocate it's continuance, who is outside of the charmed circle of per sonal friendship, I fail to understand"
 
 An article in the International Monthly for October, speaking of the Democratic party in the period of reconstruction, refers necessarily to that most monstrous scandal of the Republican party, the taking the control of the State governments out of the hands of the whites and placing it in the hands of the ex-slaves.
 The International says
 "In resisting the Republican reconstruc- ton policy the Democratic party began to recover it's moral tone and the confidence of the public, in advocating reform during the second administration of General Grant it made further advance, in 1876 the reha- Utilization had progressed so far that it seemed for time to have won the elec- tion.'
 If moral tone counts for anything in poli- tics, and it seems from the results of re- cent elections that it does, the Democratic party in the present national campaign, with it's absence of scandals, appears a better choice to the moral citizen than its opponent.
 At the present period when politics occu- py more than usual amount of the na- tions thought, timely book is one just issued by the J. 5. OgllVle Pubnshing Com pany, entitled "Our Nations Need, by J. A. Conwell. The author takes as his text, so to speak, Let us all divide up and start even" Genuine statesmanship says the author, ''can consider nothing less than the interests of all the people. A dfvide-up and start-even may be revolu- tionary, but this is no reason why it should not be adopted The world owes untold obligations to revolutionary measures"
 While the authors idea of a divide-up and start-even may seem impossible to many the book is written with evident sincerity; it is, moreover, we'll written and of great interest Many of the paragraphs are gems of truth and no one can read the book without feeling when he finishes it that he is better informed on some of the vital topics of the age than he was