New-York tribune., 1901-09-05
SOME MAGAZINE NOTES.
fxALIENT ARTICLES IN THE sEPTEM-
BIER NUMBERS.

regions. wild enough then. where they slept
sometimes on the bare ground, sometimes in an
Indian camp, sometimes in a pioneers CABIN
They heard one kindly housewife lamenting TO
her husband that such gentlemanly young
men should be running about the country with
nothing TO do"-they ought TO settle on farm
and be Of some in the world. she thought
They dned in the woods smoked bears
grease and Indian corn-sometimes on hoecake
alone and. to the bone and deVoured by
insects they passed night and day for fort
night under the trees. 1t is pleasant to note
that the three princes never seemed 10 fail IN
courage. endurance and high spirits, though
they had little hope for the future. and the
younger ones Montpensier and Beaujolais. were
even then sloui 9ying of the illness contracted
during their Imprisonment in the damp cells of
Marseilles. They INDUCED in hospitality IN
their modest New-York lodgings, and We read
that at a dinner given here by the Due dor
leans half the guests were seated on the SIDE
OF the bed, for want of room to place chairs
The future King had some surgical aptitude
and In one town where he bled himself after an
Incident the bystanders besought him to settle
as local doctor. Perhaps" he said, Il should
have been happier there than as King of
France" The most dramatic episode of these
Nanderings a British naval officers at
tempt 10 impress them sailors when he
boarded the small craft which they were
making their way to cuba. The Briton's ar
rogance suddenly disappeared when Orleans
drew himself up to his six feet of height. and
introduced himself and his brothers ceremoni-
ously by their fun titles.
Impressions Of gentleness wisdom and large
hearted sympathy are gathered from Mr.. Fred
eric Harrison's paper on George Eliot in the
current Harper" He tells us that her zeal 10
help those who we're in trouble was always ac-
tive
remember once seeing her spring to her
feet and stretching up her arms WIN thel
passionate gesture she sometimes would as
play she said Yes. the day will come when Y
will be a natural instinct 20 stretch out a hand
10 help one who needs support, as automatr
and irresistible il is now 10 use our hands 10
keep ourselves from fall
There was much Of Dinah Norris that was
studied not from Aunt Samuel Evans. hut from
the depths Of the heart of George Eliot herself
How much does the average reader know
ebout the origin of the American army? Not
so much, we fancy, that he will not find matter
OF keen interest in General Francis Y. Greene's
account Of the same in '-Scrhner's Magazine:
In the month Of June. 1775 the Continental
Congress. in session at Philadelphia. passed
three important resolutions. The first adopted
and took over Continental army tle loTce
of New England troops which. under the lead
of Massacaseetts, had assembled at Boston soon
after the battles OF Lexington and Concord; the
and Comma Chief Of ell the Continental
forces raised or to be raised. for the defence
of American liberty; the third adopted rules
and regulations for the government Of the
aTnly''-the articles OF war. which modified ana
amended from time to time, still govern the
army and form the basis of the military law.
This was the origin Of the American army
IN the intervening 126 years nearly five million
men have worn its uniform; ii has conducted
with success ive great wars, covering a period
of seventeen years, and numerous minor cam
paigns against hostile Indians and Filipino in
has hRar Thp oh instr 1rDPn
restoring order and inaugurating civil govern
ment after the war with Mexico, the Civil War
and the with Spain; from its ranks have
come eleven Of the twenty-four Presidents or
the United States and many hundreds of men
occupying the highest civil Offices, Governors of
States, Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress. Cabinet Ministers ambassadors and
judges OF the most important courts. For
people who have never sought war and nave
only resorted TO IL when reluctantly forced TO
do So the army has filed a large place in our
history. II has always been the subordinate
and loyal instrument of the civil power. In
spite OF this 1t has ever been regarded with
certain jealousy and suspicion born of other
times and conditions and surviving with ex-
traordinary tenacity for generations after those
conditions have ceased to exist.
southerners are stin given to attribute most
political evils in the South TO the methods and
men Of the Reconstruction period. Witness Mr.
Thomas Nelson Pages gloomy statements in
s'The Atlantic:
The women and children of the Southern
States, during the utmost excitement of war.
had slept as secure with their slaves about
1hem as IL they had been guarded by their hus-
bands and fathers, but under the new teach
ang the torch became a weapon. dis
Tnguished leader OF the colored race, a native
white man in South Carolina, said, in public
speech TO his constituents that the barns had
been built by them. and their contents belonged
10 them and If they were refused the dis
1ribution OF those contents, matches were only
five cents a box. Is il to be wondered at that.
with such suggestion, the burning Of houses
hcpa aFf1e V1Or less fF h
ject TO the domination of the excited race?
This man. who had many crimes to answer for.
after passing through numberless dangers, be
came the victim of foul assassination.
story is told that some years ago two were
sitting together In a we'll known restaurant in
Washington. one Of them who was from
Northern State, said to the other. who was from
South Carolina, Tell me- that il is so long
past who murdered So-and-So," mentioning
the name OF the leader who has been spoken OF.
We'll" said the other quietly, Il was tried
for H."
Something has been said in these papers on
the subject OF lynchng in the South. II is not
TOO much TO say that nearly every black victim
of ynching and nearly every victim Of that
person may be set down to the not yet closed
account OF reconstruction. This too, was A
crime which in old times was not known in the
South.
Close examination OF the monumental Die
tionary OF National Biography" has enabled Mr.
HaveIock Ellis 10 reach some interesting con-
ciusions respecting ''the most eminent British
persons Of intellectual ability" we have
found" he. says, in The Popular Science Month
ly," that excluding the living, at least 902 per-
sons $50 men and 43 women) of such pre-emi-
nent ability have appeared in the British ISL
snds between the fourth and the end OF the
nineteenth centuries. the century richest in
genius being, so far we can trace. the eigh-
teenth"
We have found that, in regard 10 distribution
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