Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-12-09


piece is a full-page half tone engrav-
ing from a portrait of Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt and the White House baby.
The picture is wholly charming. The
babe, ~bright-eyed and alert seems
ready to leap from the mothers arms
presumably tt Zee what the photo
grapher is doing with thai, funny
black box. 7'%f"
The North American Review for De-
| cember contains a vast amount of
| good reading pertinent to the interests
of the hour. 1t opens with a notable
| symposium, comprising no less han
seven articles, which is entitled Some
Questions for Congress-" General
Lew Wallace emphasizes the necessity
for adopting some measure that will
insure the prevention of President
tial Assassinations." Senator J. G.
Burrows insists upon The Need of
| National Legislation Against Anarch-
ISM" detailing several unsuccessful
attempts which have been made in
that direction. Edgar Aldrich, United
States district judge Of New Hamp-
shire, shows that the federal govern
ment has the power to protect its own
agents, and offers the draft of a bill
whose provisions would be adequate
to the requirements Of the existing
situation. The Duke of ARGOS, the
Spanish minister, advocates steps lead
ing to an international Control of
Anarchists"
Among the many special book num-
bers of the year, that published by The
Outlook is notable for several novel
features. The Outlook was one of the
first, if not the very first, American
periodical to institute the custom of
an annual illustrated holiday book
number; and the present issue is the
thirteenth of the kind. In addition
to careful notices of a great many of
the important art and holiday books
Of the season, and brief notes about
scores of minor publications, this issue
contains a collection Of brief papers
on that most interesting subject "The
Best Books for Children" to which
contribute such famous writers of
children's books, and writer's about
children's reading, as Mary Mapes
Dodge, Kate Douglass Wiggin, Edward
Everett Hale, Horace &. Scudder,
Frank R. Stockton, Thomas Went
worth H~igginson, Tudor jerks, and
others; while the articles are illus
trated by portraits of the writer's OF
classical books and pictures from re-
cent editions of these books.
The Engineering Magazine for De-
cember puts in the leading position an
article by F. =. Saward on The Growth
of American Coal Exports. The cause
is clearly shown ito be the constant
cheapening of production through i'm
proved methods of mining, handling,
transport, and shipment. The effect
is a relief to the over-driven British
collieries, the conservation of British
fuel supplies, and the reduction of
prices, to the enormous advantage, LOT
British railways, manufactures, and
Industries generally. MI. Philip Daw-
son, the able adviser of Mr.. Yerkes in
his London traction enterprises. writes
of English, American and Continental
Steam Engineering, treating paaticu-
larly British traction power houses
and their equipment. Paul Daimler,
son of the great inventor off the petro-
leum motor-vehicle, tells the story OF
his fathers work, arranged from notes
OF an article the eldest Daimler had
in preparation for The Engineering
Magazine at the time of his death.
A NOTABLE FEATURE.
The womah's page is a compare
lively recent feature in the newspaper
field, but the comparison of a woman's
page of today with that of a few years
back makes one wonder how it eve1
lived to oItgrow it's %swaddling clothes,
for the back numbers look as if the
horse editor had made it up in his
spare time, and it was about as inter
esting as a patent medicine circular
and some papers still retain this anti
quated form of effort and misname it.
The wornan's page today, to take
the Pioneer Press for example, is about
as lively a piece of journalism as can
be imagined. They maintain a spe-
cial corps of women writer's and editors
who are in touch with the women OF
the northwest and are amply qualified
to pass on the events of interest to
them. The special articles are pre-
pared by experts who are an authority
in their line.
Club news, civic Improvement Sc
~cieties. and all the various town top
les of this character come in for their