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The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18

mon) we have The Fourth Generation. by
Sir Walter Besant; The Image Breakers,
by Gertrude Dix, and Sport in War, by
Major Baden Powell.
Mr.. Besant's book is pleasant
romance Of modern days, the motif being
the apparent injustice IN the visitation OF
the sins Of the fathers upon the children
"even to the third and fourth genera
tion.'' The hero of this novel is Of the
fourth generation; but the sins and
crimes of his ancestors have bean care
fully concealed from him, and he is emil
nently happy, successful and prosperous.
So much so, indeed, that the girl whom
he desires TO marry viii have none Of
him, because he Is too self-centsred, and
has never received the discipline Of sor-
row and trouble. At this point in the
story the unpleasant matters and individ-
uals Of his family, past and present, are
revealed to him, and when his sweet
heart feels that his character has been
sufficiently strengthened by suffering,
she makes haste to console him The
theme is one OF Importance worthy
OF serious consideration.
It is said that Miss Dix, Of the Image
Breakers, has lived in sociaI1stic colonies,
and has experimental with most Of the
communal ideas discussed in her work.
In that case she has certainly found them
neither wholesome nor practical. On the
contrary the women Of her story come to
grief through false and pernicious ideas
of duty, and great desire for freedom in
love and in labor.
In Miss Dix s more human novel human
weakness and human Wickedness meet
US at every turn, not among the "poor
and lowly" whom these people are trying
to elevate but among the elevators,
who never seem to think, for moment,
that they might better occupy themselves
with their own follies and faults, and
before striving to reform the world, I'M
prove themselves.
One is struck in the first of this book
by its crudeLess OF style, but the writer
gathers strength as she proceeds, and
proves -conclusively that women are too
weak and man too impressionable for
communal work; that Platonic love is
myth, that the eternal attraction TO sex
is not to be gainsaid OF smothered by
new creeds, for in spite OF all, love con-
strains them.
Miss Dix's characters all seem to have
a horror of being considered "respecta.
BILE, of which there Is not the slightest
danger. Their idea of emancipation
seems to be the throwing aside of all de.
cent restraint. AS some one said OF
Tolstoi, ''He unhappily cries out that
he has found light whenever his torch
explodes a globe OF miasmatic vapor
Oh, for little Of the old-fashioned senti-
ment OF modesty in life and In ntera-
ture.
The pretty volume devoted to the
Sport in War by Major-General Powell,
is prefaced by Mr.. Alfred Il. Watson,
editor of the Badminton Magazine. in
which journal these sketches originally
appeared, illustrated as well as written
by the famous soldier
1t is wonderful what man Of genius
will accomplish in lighter mood, and 1t
seems a far cry from the defence OF Mafe-
king to A Hun with the Cape Fox
hounds and The Sport of Rajahs, which
tells Of snipe.shooting at Browns Farm.
Surely the great general is not less mas
ter of the pen and pencil than Of the
sword.
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18

CasseH & Company (Portlandl Loring,
Short & Harmony publish a pleasing
story by Jessie Mausergh (Mrs. G. De
Horne-Vaigey) entitled Sisters Three.
The author is an English woman, and
sends greeting across the ocean to the
American girls who will be her readers.
She says that she has never visited this
country, but numbers many Americans
among her friends, and adds: American
girls 1 find just as good, just as naughty,
just as charming, just as aggravating as
their English sisters, and just as loyal to
the land of their birth, 10 four OF these
Oracle, Olga, Freda and Doris, she dedi-
Gates her book, ''in remembrance OF
many days spent on English soil 1 for
one, am quite sure that all the girls who
read this delightful book, be they Amsri-
can or English, viii thank the author
with all their hearts for having written
IT.
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18
CITY OF PORTLAND.
NafIce Of Henring.

NOTICE is hereby given that the City Council
n of Portland will give public hearing to
all persons interested at the Common Council
chamber. City Hall. on MON DAY, the 2?d day
of ctober, 1900, at 73O o'clock p M. upon the
proposition of the Boston & Maine Railroad
On regard to the Marginal Wavl as submitted
to the City Council OctbOer /. 1900
EDWIN L. DYER. City Clerk.
Oct10dld
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18
ROOSEVELT'S ENGAGEMENT CAN
CELLED.

Boston, October 17.-Word was received
here today that Gov. RooseveIt's engage
menb to speak in Boston, October q, has
been cancelled. This news when it
reached state headquarters gave the
greatest surprise,
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18

Glory Series, viii joyfuLy welcome a
new Look from his faciIe pen. Between
Boer and Briton relates the adventures,
in South Africa, Of two boys, one an
American and the other English. before
and during the first eight months OF the
war between Great Britain and the two
South Africa republics.
The tale follows out the movements
Of both sides in and around Ladysmith,
at Kimberley. IN the vicinity OF Mafeking.
and during the victorious march Of Lord
Roberts on Pretoria, with ipictures OF
CroDje's plueky stand at Paardeburg
Drift, ana Gen. Joubert s repulses Of the
advance Of General Butler. The book is
full Of bright and interesting matter, and
deserves popularity.
Aguinaldo's Hostage gives an account
Of one Dick Carson's captivity among the
Filipinos. The auther, Mr.. Hancock,
is well known as writer for various
magazines, and as a war correspondent.
He has made use Of his experiences in the
Philippine islands to write a most enter
taining story of the strife there. The
hero Of the tale is noted for his upright
ness, and is saved from death by Aguin-
aldo for possible use as a hostage. The
escape OF Dick after hazardous expert
ences is altogether thrilling, and it is the
sort of story that boys delight in.
Miss Eva March Tappan has written
an interesting story of Alfred the Great,
Of whose character and history she has
evidently mads a desp and thorough
study. The work is especially for boys
and girls, and is so historically correct
as to be very valuable.
In her preface the author says: "Little
of the legendary, less Of the miraculous,
has obscured the fame Of the real Alfred
HIS deeds are his Own-great in them
selves, greater in that they are the mani
fsstation OF the thought Of a great mind.
Even IN THAT fierce light which beats
upon a throne, 1t is hard to find flaw
in the character OF this man who believed
in God, this king who never failed to do
his best"
SRandy's Summer is a quite charming
story for girls, sweet and simple and
honey. It tells OF two girls, Randy, the
heroine, and Prue, her dear, mischief
loving little sister, and the story of their
summer is Of plain and wholesome lite,
with enough incident to sustain the in
terest, and drOlIery enough to amuse.
Il he volume is illustrated by Miss Amy
Brooks, the author, who gives us ten
specimens Of her best work.
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18
BIDS OPENED
For the Construction of the Manual
Training School.

Yesterday afternoon the committee on
public buildings held a meeting to
consider plans for the Manual training
school. The bids were as follows:
NEW RTTTTDTNG
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18

From the Frederick A. Stokes Com
psny (POrtand; Loring, Short s. Har-
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18

Messrs. Lee & Shepard portland:
Loring, Short & Harmony have long
list Of autumn publications. OF these are:
Heavens Distant Lamps, by Anna E.
Mack; Between Boer and Briton, by Ed
ward Stratemeyer; AguinaIdo's Hostage,
By II. Irving Hancock; In the Days OF
Alfred the Great, by Eva March Tappan,
and Randy's Summer, by Amy Brooks.
1t will be seen that most OF these are
stories for the young folk, for this is the
children's hour, and from now till Christ
mas they VIII be nberally considered by
both writer's and publishers.
Miss AIaok's s volume consists of a colIec-
tlon OF poems OF comfort and hope, dedi-
Gated ITO all the sad and weary - and
she has taken her title from the verse
What seem to US but sad funereal
tapers.
May be heavens distant lamps"
The volume is deIicateIy bound in
white, blue and gold, and the poems are
selected with sympathy, refined taste and
Judgment. One rarely finds a more at.
traotiTe book OF its kind, and the contents
will reach many sorrowing hearts.
All the boys, and they are many, who
have enjoyed Mr.. StratemeyeF's "OIc
The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18

A book for the youngsters, as well as
their elders, is Mr.. Everett TomIinson's s
In the Hands of the Rsdcoats, a tale of
the Jersey ship and the Jersey shore in
the days of the Revolution. (Houghton,
Miflin & Co; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmony
The works of this writer are too well
known and too popular to need praise,
and the present story has very solid
foundation of facts.
The author hopes that his tale may
prove an incentive to his young readers to
work out for themselves a larger knowl-
edge Of the history OF their own land, and
he has tried to interest them not only in
tale, but also help them to appreciate
the devotion of some of 1.-THE people" In
the hour of need.
At the same time none of the elements
OF a thrilling and absorbing romance are
lacking, and the young hero capture
from an American privateer. with his
confinement in a British prison ship, is
bit of adventure that will stir the
hearts of the boys who read about it.
The same house publishes Mr.. John
Buchan's novel, 'The Half Hearted - an
interesting story Of Scotland and India,
the scene shifting from one country to
the other.
Tbs hero OF the story is a young Scotch
man, who, with fine traits of character,
has not had the sort of training which
might have conquered the indeoision and
irresolution from which be, and Indirect
", his friends suffer. He has culture,
but not the power of rapid and vivid
action, and thus he fails in love and in
politics.
However, the experiences OF life and its
disappo1ntments strengthen him, and he
dies tragic death, the bravest of the
brave, while winning a great victory fo1
his country.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Fusion State Platform in Short.

Fort Scott, July 26.-David Over
meyer, chairman of platform commit
tee reported thework of the committee
and it was adopted.
First: Endorses Kansas City plat
form.
Second: For railway legislation; for
creating the Office of railway auditor,
and also a public tribunal for regula-
ton and control of railways
Third and Fourth: Enlarging on
railroad legislation.
Fifth: Trusts. For cooperation of
state and national governments to
control them.
Sixth: Charges the enactment of
clumsy and adhortive laws to be the
work of professional lobbyists.
Seventh: For resubmission of pro-
hibition to the people.
Eighth: Favors the public owner
ship of all municipal utilities.
Ninth: Extends sympathy to the
South African republics.
Tenth: For the continuance of the
state live stock sanitary board.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Victory of a Girl.

Des Moines, Ia, July 2s.-John Mac
Donald, former resident of Creston,
Ia, while in Montana five years ago,
became involved in a quarrel and kill
ed man. He claimed he acted in self
defense. He was convicted of murder
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. MacDonald's daughter, now 10
years old, lives at Creston. Knowing
that ex-senator Clark would be at the
democratic national convention the
girl raised enough money to buy a
ticket and went to that city. She
called On Senator Clark and told her
story. He made her his guest and
promised to help her. Later, after
investigation, he instructed his attor-
neys in Montana to present the case to
the board of pardons. Word has reach
ed her that pardon has been granted
Macdonald.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
may LEAD TO FORMAL WAR.
Growing Suspicion ofthe Genuine
ness of Pekin News.
STILL Mr.. WI is HOPEFUL.

Washington, July 2s.-There are no
new developments to warrant the as
sumption that there will be the slight
est Improvement in the Chinese
situation. Indeed, the general tenor
OF such news as found light was to add
to the steadily growing doubt as to the
good faith of the Chinese government
as manifested in its acts.
Then the exchanges that are in con-
slant progress between the powers are
tending more and more to cast suspi-
cion upon the genuineness of the many
communications that have come from
Pekin through Chinese governmental
sources. If it should be finally estab-
hshed that there has been an attempt
on their part to practice a gigantic
fraud upon the world, the fact may
call for a change of attitude on the
part of the United. States government
towards China. This would not affect
the military policy already under way,
but merely the technical relations be-
tween the two governments, which
probably would closely approximate a
step of formal war
The Chinese minister expressed to
Secretary Hill his continued hope that
the ministers in Pekin were still safe,
and said he believed he would soon be
able to deliver to the department a
message from Minister Conger which
would make hope certain.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
TO ALL0T WICHITA LANDS.
As Soon as The Other AIlotments Are
Finished.


Finished.
Anadarko, July 3O.-General Haily.
general alloting agent of the interior
department, who has arrived here with
four assistants, to allot lands to the
klowas, Comanches and Apaches,
states that he has orders to allot the
lands in the Wichita reservation as
soon as the present job is completed.
The Wichita lands lie directly north of
the Kiowa and Comanche reservations,
and are among the best in the terri
tory. The reservation is the best in the
territory. 1t is well watered and tim
bered and the finest of crops are raised
wherever cultivated. The reservation
contains 743,610 acres, and was treated
for in 1891. In 1894 the treaty was
ratified and part of the allotments
made, but because of the interests of
the cattlemen no attempts have ever
been made to complete the allotments
or open the reservation. 1t is likely,
however, that it will be opened at the
same time as the Kiowa and Comanche
country. After the Indian allotments.
school and college lands, etc, are de-
Quoted, there will still be left 1000
quarter sections for settlers, most of it
excellent agricultural land.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Literally Shot to Pieces.

New Orleans, July 3o.-After des-
perate battle lasting for several hours,
in which he succeeded in killing eight
persons, policemen and citizen volun-
teers, and more or less seriously
wounding several other persons. the
negro desperate, Robert Charles, who
killed Captain Day and Patrolman
Lamb and wounded Officer Mora, was
smoked out of his hiding place in the
heart of the residence section of the
city and literally shot to pieces.
Tremendous excitement reigned in the
city as the battle went on with the
negro, with Winchester barricaded
in dwelling.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
This is Internal.

London, July 3o.-The alleged de-
parture of the ministers from Pekin
has led to reassertion of the belief
that the story is part of deep laid
plant by China to conceal the massacre
at Pekin suggestion being made by the
Chinese officers that the ministers left
Pekin under escort, but were ambush
ed and massacred by Boxers en- route
to Tien Tsin. However, although it is
still believed massacre has occurred
of the foreign colony at Pekin, the
disposition now is to think the minis
tiers were somehow rescued from a
tragic fate.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Neeley and Rathbone

Washington, July 27.-Mr Bristow's
report on Cuban embellishments is
given ont. He finds that Neeley's en-
bezzlements aggregated at least $751;.
713, and says he was justified in recon-
mending the removal of Director GEN
eral Rathbone. Whether or not the
latter was guilty with Medley, he says,
there can be no doubt that in the mat
ter of unauthorized per diem allow
ances, personal expenses and warrants
unaccounted for, he unlawfully appro-
priated to his own use the money of
the United States. For this, Mr.. Rath-
bone will be required to answer
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
The Man VINO Shot H. G. FricL.

Pittsburg, Pa, July ga tunnel
was discovered leading from under a
vacant house extending 200 feet, and
$50 feet inside the prison walls where
Alexis BerlSman, the anarchist who
shot Fl. c. Prick, of the Carnegie Steel
company in 1892, is confined The
vacant house was recently sold to New
York parties and small payment had
been made on account. The discovery
was made by the earth giving way
from the recent heavy rains and pre-
cipitating a penitentiary official into
the tunnel
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Fire at Cape Nome.

Seattle, Wash, July Escape Nome
was treated to great confagration
early in this month. Miles and miles
of tunda was burned over and many
native homes destroyed. The fire be-
gan close to the eastern limits of Nome
and swept the country from the outer
edge of the sand beach to the foothills
and far below Cape Nome, so that the
surface looks like vast prairie that
has been burned over.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Kaiser and the Yellow Peril.

Berlin, July 3O.-It is reported that
Emperor William has written letters
to Queen Victoria. Emperor Nicholas,
Emperor Francis Joseph and King
Humbert making strong appeal on
behalf of the maintenance of harmony
among the powers against China, and
dwelling strongly upon the solidarity
of interests against the yellow Peril
by which all are threatened. The
Vorwaerts, declares that the kaiser
is secretly preparing much larger
force for China.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
German Criticisms.

Berlin, July 2s.-German papers,
with scarcely an exception, give place
to criticisms of the course and policy
of the United States in China; saying
that the American government has
been taken in tow by China; that Wash
ington is only waiting for pretext to
disconnect itself from the powers; that
American statesmen are ready to make
peace with China before the rescue of
the foreigners, and like disgruntled ex-
pressions, giving free license to anti
American expressions.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
1T Is PRUDENTIAL.
Full Ticket Named And Nomination of
u. s. Senator Defeated.

LIckeC Named ana Nomination OF
u. S. Senator Defeated.
Fort Scott, July 26.-The second day
of the three conventions finished the
work.
The action of the conference commit
tees from the three conventions was
confirmed and the following ticket is
named:
For associate judge of the supreme
court, David Martin.
For governor, John w. Breidenthal;
treasurer, Conway Marshall; attorney
general, Hugh Farrelly; secretary of
state, j. b. Goshorn; presidential cleo
tors, L. B. Corstenson, 81. j. Rogers,
j. B. Fugate; insurance commissioner,
Webb McNall; other electors, James
Falcon and w. R. Turner.
The convention refused to name a
candidate for United States senator by
a vote of 312 to 216.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
SHOULD It PROVE A TRICK.
Consent Given to Send Ministers
to Tien Tsin, if Killed,
THERE WOULD BE NO REDRESS.

Washington, July 3o.-The state de-
partment officials do not like European
criticisms more or less directly attrib-
uting to our government lack of
whole-heartedness in the effort to get
to Pekin. They point to what Ameri-
can troops and marines have already
done; to the loss of life and limbs suf-
fered by them, and to the repeated
urgings of the American officials at
every point looking to a forward move
intimation that they are responsive to
Chinese efforts to bride us by the de-
livery of Mr.. Conger at Tien Tsin and
thus seduce us to abandon the Pekin
campaign. the intimation was given
that the purpose was to head off for
NAL proposition, as the department had
been made aware by Mr.. Goodnow and
Admiral Remey, it is presumed, that
suggestions of this sort had been
thrown out by the Chinese viceroys or
their agents, though these had not been
reduced to an official form. The de-
partment rather strengthened its po-
sition through being enabled in this
way to reject the proposition by antici-
patton
1t is pointed out that even should
the powers agree to any such PROPOSE
ton, we would not consider it until
Minister Conger's views were known.
1t is explained that to agree to such
plan might result in sending the min
listers forward with an inadequate es-
cort and, if murdered, we would then
be stopped from demanding redress.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Leasing Grain Cars.

Topeka, July 27.-The railroad peo-
crop is being moved as fast as it is pos
sible for them to handle it. On several
of the divisions on the different roads
it is impossible for the companies to
secure cars fast enough to supply the
demand. The Santa Fe leased 300
grain cars for use on their line on the
Oklahoma and Panhandle division.
Extra trains are being run from Okla
hema and southern Kansas loaded
with wheat.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
Federal oficia1 Endorses Strike.

st. Louis, Mo-, July 27.-President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor, who has been here investi-
eating the strike of employees on the
st. Louis Transit company, has left
here for Chicago. w. P. Mahon, pres
ident of the Amalgamated Association
of Street Railway Employees of Ameri-
ca, said that before leaving here Mr..
Gompers endorsed the strike and said
the movement would have the support
of the American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Gompers is U. S. official.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02

Charles Booth, careful student of
social conditions, says that 1.-The I'M
employed are, as a class, selection
from the unfit; and on the whole,
those most in want are the most un-
fit" Of course, no employer can afford
to pay man for doing poor work.
Unfitness may be either a misfortune
or fault. In either case, society suf-
fers, and must learn how to prevent
the increase of defective members by
making industrial training part Of
general education.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
1t Was ImneriaI Trnnns

Berlin, July 27.-A writer in The
Berliner Post says that both at Taku
and Tien Tsin it was almost exclusively
force of Chinese troops that fought
the allies, that the leadership of these
troops was in the hands of the imper-
ial generals. and that the troops which
compelled Admiral Seymour to retreat
were imperial soldiers commanded by
an imperial general. The writer pre-
diets that lack of harmony in military
armies will prove bad for the allies.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
The Santa Fe Denie. II

Galveston, Tex, July 2s.-The Gulf
& Interstate railroad, of Texas, which
has been the subject of more dickering
and litigation than any line of its size
in America, was reported as about to
be sold to the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe railroad to furnish gulf outlet for
the Santa Fe's recent purchase, the
Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City road.
General Manager Polk, of the Santa
Fe, says there is no truth in the re-
port. The Interstate officials say the
same thing, and add that their prop
erty is not for sale
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-08-02
After Rathbone.

Washington, July 3O.-''The secre-
tary of war does not issue orders to
courts, replied Secretary Root to the
direct question as to whether or not
he had given orders for the arrest of
E. G. Rathbone, late director of posts
in Cuba. He also added that General
Wood did not issue orders to the
courts of Cuba. General Wood has
taken the initial step towards bring
ing Rathbone's case before the Cuban
courts.