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She Knew Her Book-"You don't seem to learn swimming very fast" "No'' But the men all seem very willing to teach you" "Exactly-that's why don't learn. "-Brooklyn Life.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY 15 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MoNTu s3EoR SIX MONTHS, S6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
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Care must be taken to avoid baking pow ders made from alum. Such powders are sold cheap, because :hey cost hu: 8 few which taken in food lucans injury to health.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29

It is related that a Paris (MissourD young man who was unnecessarily frightened over the prospect Of an ln- terview with the father of his best girl, called that gentleman by telephone and asked him for the daughters hand in marriage. He was considerably sur prised when the old gentleman answer ed: T don't know who you are. but it's all right"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29

It is asserted that forty inmates or the Womens Inebriate Home at Tor quay. England, have been cured of the appetite for liquor by a compulsory vegetable diet. Bramwell Booth, Of the Salvation Army, says that meat-eating and rum-drinking-it' really gin that is guzzled in East London, but that's a detail--go together He says that the Salvationists are going to make vegeta- rianism "a fixed feature of their tenn perance work"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29

According to Automobile Topics, the great drawback of fast "bubbling' is the dust. When Girardot, the winner of the international cup race, went re- gently over the Paris-Bordeaux course at racing speed The left behind him as he went a column of flying dust two miles long, and his assistant had to cling to his seat with both hands to avoid being blown out.' When the speed was twenty miles an hour occu- pants of the back seats got a little dusty, but with thirty horsepower car going fifty miles an hour the dust becomes insufferable MT g F Edge. who drove the seventy-horse-p power Ma pier in the Paris Bordeaux race, is au- thority for the statement that the ex- haust when directed against the ground is responsible for great percentage of the dust raised With his powerful ve- hicle at a standstill but the engine run ming, the exhaust, he confesses, actual ly blew holes i'll the roadway.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-29

At the recent meeting of London nursing association Canon Erskine Clarke told a story to illustrate his ob- servation that one of the joys Of child hood is to like many things that grown up people dislike, and that the school children who are seen by the nurse very m,,ch enjoy being treated for small ail ments. 'I knew" he said, "of small boy who was found by the nurse sitting in the middle of a crowded street in Battersea. and who said, in answer to her inquiries, Please I'm waiting to be run over That boy had heard of the delights of being in hospital"
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IHE WkEkLT JO URNAL. Issuod Thursdays, Ono Dollar n Year.
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A little Russian girl named Tyna Helman became pupil in the Wells grammar school. of Boston, last au- tumn. She did not know a word of English, but she could speak little French and Spanish and her own na- tive tongue fiuently. She was placed in the lowest grade in the school, but in a very few weeks her teacher thought that she would probably gain more in the next higher grade. This was repeated until the principal ad- vanced her to the highest class in the school. When it came time for the last examination and the diploma list was made out the name of this little girl, who entered the Wells school in the fall in the lowest grade, was among the list of graduates, and with honors, too. Thus she made the four years course in one. .
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HE HARRINGTON PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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Our jim.

"Our Jim, or the Power of Example"
by Edward S. Ellis. Is a boys book with
a purpose In a letter to the publisher
Mr.. Ellis says: II aim in Our Jim and
other books to teach msnIiness. honesty,
obedience and right living.
Yet there is no preaching in the story.
A thoroughly healthy. natural boy is pre-
sented to us. and his pleasures. struggles.
failures and successes, are all those of
any earnest. truth-loving fellow who is
determined to make the most of him
self and to conquer adverse circum-
stances by the force of will and hard
work. The young reader imbibes high
ideals of character unconsciously while
thinking he is only reading an absorbing
tale.
The boy who loves athletics will be fas-
cinated by this story Our Jim is a de-
votee of baseball, and the hero OF not
few hard-fought fields. :; :,
His career is traced from boyhood
through college days, election to the Leg
islature. and marriage. and the interest
never flags from the first page to the
last published by Dana Estes 6 Co.,
Boston. Price 81 25)
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The Owl and the Woodchuck.

w. H. Neidlinger and Walter Bobbett
have found the ideal method of children's $
bookmaking-a combinati ton of picture,
song and story. In this new book, pub
lished by Rand. McNally & Co. of Chi
cago is told the story Of THE Owl and
the Woodchuck" in the most effective
way possible for the understanding of the
little ones. The preface introduces both
of the principals through the medium of
little song, with piano accompaniment;
then follows the story itself, with color
illustrations and also marginal pen and
ink sketches. The scheme of the authors
has been to use music where nothing else
will serve so well to express the idea
such as for the calls of the birds, ETC..
and when explanation is necessary prose
is employed or verse as may seem most
appropriate; if a picture suggests itself
it is sure to be there and jotted in among
the type just where it will be of the most
use to give the proper idea. This book
cannot be too highly commended and de-
serves to become a good seller for the
holiday trade. 1t is the best child's book
that has as yet been brought to our no.
tice
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@<cARDIGAN''
AND
1.-THE R1GHT OF .WAy.''


the sacrifice and live out his life among
the humble folk of the village where
he is.
Steele finds employment as a tailor
The change in the man and the gradual
broadening of his soul is most skill
fully and gradually perfected Many
things occur to bring up the old life to
him, and frequently he has to disappear
to avoid recognition. He finally falls
deeply in love with a splendid girl who
returns his affection.
The great human interest of the story,
after the reader feels certain that Steele
will not fall from grace and take to drink
again. lies in The possible consummation
of this love affair. There seems no chance
of a happy ending on account of Steeles
wife already living. Mr.. Parker is too
clever novelist to ruin so strong story
by killing off tho first wife and allowing
his book to end in the prosaic fashion of
everybody happy
Mr.. Parker may be criticized for the
rather improbable tragedy of the safe
robbery that forms the ultimate dramatic
climax of his stcry. but the book is really
so splendidly written and so full of
strength and life that such a minor crit
icism reflects more disc~edit on the critic
than the author.
Judging from the great demand for
The Right of Way in our local libra
ries, the book has evidently taken San
Francisco by storm
We'll. it deserves ali the popular atten-
tion Il gets. II you can't get ii IN your
library. buy Il. Tor 1t Is wei wor; = While.
2 fs~.-f1e4-FSz RCP.
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Books Racsived.

LIVES OF THE HUNTED-By Ernest Seton
Thompson. Charles seribner's Sons. New York.
81 IS.
sTRATAGEMs AND sPOHsBy William
Allen White. Charles Scribner's Sons. New
York. 81 80
THE MAKING OF JANE-By Sarah Barn
well Elliott. Charles scribner's Sons. New
MY LADY PEGGY GOES TO TOwN-By
Frances Aymar Mathews. The Bowen-Mer-
rin Company. Indianapolis. 81 25.
MoLLIEs PRINCE-By Rosa Nouchstts
Carey. J. B. Lippincott Company. Philadel-
ph1a In paper. soc.
THE MOST FAMOUS LOBA-By Nellie X.
BIissett. d. Appleton & Co., New York. 81
CALEB WRIGHT-By John Habberton.
Loth~op publishing Company Boston.
AMONG THE GREAT MASTERS OF ORA1
TORY-Bv Walter Rowlands. Dana Estes *
Co. Boston. 81 So
AMONG THE GREAT = MASTERS OF
PAINTING-By walter RowIands Dana Estes
&. Co.. Boston 81 So
THE SOCIAL SPIRTT IN AMERICA-By
Charles RIrkmord Henderson. Scott, Foresman
& Co, Chicago. 81 50.
OUR JIM; OR THE POWER OF EX-
AMPLE-By Edward S. Ellis Dana Estes &
Co, Boston 81 p.
LITTLE GIRL IN OLD NEW ORLEANS
BY Amanda NJ Douglas. Dodd, Mead & Co..
New York. 81 20.
TIE STANDARD BELGIAN HARE MAN
UAL-By DR.. George f. Hall Laird & Lee
Chicago. 75c.
CAsHEL BYRON's PROFEssION-By G.
Bernard Shaw. Herbert S. Stone & Co.. Chi
cagO.
FIRST PRINCIPLES OF NURSING-By
Anne r. Manning. Little. Brown & Co.. Bos-
ton.
WHITE APRONS-By Maud Wilder Goodwin
Little. Brown & Co.. Boston.
WINIFRED WEST-By Blanche NJ Chan
ninS w. A. Wilde Company Boston 81
THE SPECTACLE MAN-By Mary F. Leon
ard W. a Wilde Company. Boston 81
A HEROINE OF 1S12-By Amy NJ Blanchard
w. A. Wilde Company Boston. 81 So
IN THE MIKADO'S SERvICE-Bv William
Elliot Grifhs- W. A. Wilde Company. Boston
81 So
NEHE-By Anna Pierpont Siviter. w A.
Wilde Company. Boston 81 So
FIGHTING UNDER THE SOUTHERN
CROSBY Claude Fl. Wetmore. w A. WilSs.
Company. Boston. 81 90
THE LAST OF THE ARAwA<S-Bv Frsl-
eriek A Ober. W. A Wilde Company. Boston.
81 So
n HANDBOOK ON PARI,IANfENT4R
PRACTICE-By Rufus NAPLES Callaghan &
Co.. Chicago.
THE AWARD OF JUsTICE-Bv A MAYNARD
Barbour. Rand. McNaHy & Co, Chicago.
81 So
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Of strands braided into a rope; any one
narrative might be insufficient to be the
basis of a safe induction. but when all
this testimony is~combined candid mind
cannot resist the evidence that Christ $
words are continually fulfilling, Greater
works than these shall ye do, because L
go unto the Father"
The present volume, which has just
been issued from the press of Funk &
Wagnalls Company, New York, is the
fourth of DIR. Persons valuable series cf
Miracles OF Missions" The preceding
volumes are uniform in size and binding
and sell for 81 per volume in cloth binding
and 35 cents in paper. This fourth volume
is issued under the rules of the American
Publishers Association as u net book.
The price therefore, is lower than that
of the preceding volumes, being 80 cents
net in cloth binding and 80 cents net III
paper binding
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Two Books by orme Agnus.

Wessex stories seem to be little writ
ten: Wessex dialect seems to be little
known. Whether Wessex has been too
remote for writer's to penetrate. or wheth-
er. having penetrated, they have found
little worth writing about. does not mat
ter 1t is sufficient that the coast is fairly
clear fo~ Orrne Agnus.
Two volumes of his have appeared
among the hosts of Christmas books.
They have a gay and Christmasy look
on the outside. bound as they are in gor-
geous scarlet and gold. 1t Is certainly
not an appropriate binding. far as the
contents go, for the stories are not cheer
full
Jan Oxber'' Is novelette,, and very
sad one. 1t is the old. old story-the same
stcry that "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
and many another book. great and small.
has handled and will continue to handle
so long as reckless and handsome young
English sCuires exist to look upon the
charms of foolish and pretty English
peasant maids.
The story of Jan Oxber" is a three
fold tragedy. which involves the unhappy
girl. her devoted husband Jan and the
squire upon whom Jan wreaks his vengc-
ance, thereby earning the gratitude of the
village people who have long suffered
from the arrogance of the line of Deverill.
OIu stories are every HOW anu LHen Dc-
ing told in new way that causes us to
acclaim them new. Agnus has failed to
DO this. The story is delicately and
smoothly written. but it lacks grip. You
don't remember it. Furthermore. there
is danger that you won't finish it. for sus-
pense-that vital organ in the anatomy Of
novels missing Agnus lacks the art
OF carrying you over from chapter to
chapter. He closes his narrative at the
end of each.
But the picture element is good and ap-
parertly true. You are thoroughly con-
VII ced thet he knows his Wessex village
to the ground. The dialect. too. is con-
sistent and has an authentic sound.
All this holds. coed of the four short
stories contained in the other volume
Love in Orr Village" Some of these
are more humorous and CHEEKY than Jan
Oxber." 1.-The Poets Love" is pathetic
enough in it's close, but. here is bit OF
humor from its first pages that is worthy
Of Barrie:
Mrs. TiIIey had decided on Cthe
rarne) Raymond Granville (for her SOM
after long and critical consideration of
the rival claims of Archibald Philip Blow
ham, Augustus Herbert Simpson. Clare
arthur and Percy Ewart Simpson.
When she was alone in the house she
Would call upstairs to her imaginary
child:
Percy Ewart come down, my love-
or Raymond Granville. it is time to get
up
And again she would hold converse
with an imaginary visitor:
What fine boy, Mrs. TilIey! What
is his name?
Augustus Herbert Simpson, ma'am.'
'Or. again. she would be present at
Sunday school on the prize day:
First prize-Archibald Philip Blow
ham Tiiley. Come forward, Archibald
From these practical tests Raymond
Granville emerged triumphant"
published by L. c. Page &E Co. Boston.
Price. two volumes, cloth. gilt top. ribbon
marker, 81
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Chatterbox.

The 1901 Chatterbox has four hundred
and twelve pages; more than two hundred
full-page illustrations expressly designed
for it by eminent English artists, six
handsomely colOred plates, and illuminat-
ed board covers. The contents include
great variety Of original stories, sketches
and verses. edited with taste and care. 1t
is interesting and clean from cover to
cover. and justifies the wide reputation
it has won in the past. Some of the stories
of heroism and danger will hold the at
tention of the most adventurous boy, and
the anecdotes of the animal world. and
the tales which inculcate lessons of man
liness. truth and courtesy, are no less
noteworthy. The boy or girl is very for
tunate who receives Chatterbox for hoi-
iday present. published by Dana Estes
& Co.. Boston. Board covers 81 %, cloth
81 75O
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The Modern Mission Century.

AS result of the studies in worldwide
missions, begun forty years ago by Ar
thur t. Pierson, this author offers his
present book, The Modern Mission Cen
tury Viewed as Cycle of Divine Work
Ing 1t is review of the missions of
the nineteenth century with reference to
the experimenting providence of God As
a work of mission history the book is not
without value, but it's main object is not
so much to give the annals of the century
as to find the philosophy of it's history
the center about which all it's events re-
volve 1t studies the men and women,
occurrences and developments, forces and
factors of this hundred years as divinely
appointed and adjusted to this work 1t
IS especially addressed to students of mis-
sionary history and lovers of a worlds
evangelization. published by the Baker
& Taylor Company, New York Price
81 500
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index to st. Nicholas.

The Cumulative Index Company Of
Cleveland. Ohio has just published a com
prehensive index and dictionary catalogue
to the first twenty-seven volumes of St
Nicholas. The book contains 10000 refer
ences arranged analytically. alphabet
ically and classified and should certainly
prove invaluable to librarians. The work
has been rendered as concise as possible
and yet is most fun and accurate for
handy reference The work of compila-
tion was carried on by Harriet Goss and
Gertrude A. Baker, editors of Cumulative
Index to select list of periodicals. price
81 OOO
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A Bows Book.

'When We Destroyed the Gaspee," by
James OTIS is a story for boys, relating
how his Majesty's Armed schooner Gaspee,
sent to Narragansett Bay in 1772. to en-
force the unpopular revenue acts, was
punished for many deeds of insolence and
aggression, on the part of her command
ing officer and crew. The ship was cap
tured and destroyed while stranded upon
a dangerous shoal, whittier she had been
decoyed by a Yankee packet. The strategy
and boldness of the attack are set forth
with genuine gusto by the youth of ia
participant in the fght-who tells the
story, and the reader is led to feel very
keenly the proud love of liberty in the
hearts of the Colonists. There is plenty
of pluck, danger and good fighting In this
book Illustrated with sixteen full-page
and text drawings by l.. j. Bridgman.
published by Dana Estes & Co., Boston
Prize 75 cents
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there were boys and girls who loved to

there were boys and girls who loved to
read.
Traveller Tales of China" makes clear
to young people the new conditions, as
well as the old traditions of the Chinese
people, and gives an Instructive and fas-
cinating picture of Russian China and
Manchuria, as well as of the central en-
pre-. 1T tells ali about the new ports of
the Yellow Sea and the Trans Siberian
Railway, and also illustrates the manners
an6 customs of the native population by
folklore tales and travellers narrative
The. numerous full-page Illustrations add
greatly to the value of the work which
may safely be pronounced one of the most
interesting and useful books for young
people published for many years. pub
nshed by Dana Estes & Co., Boston.
Price 81 SD
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Her Royal Highness Woman.

Her Royal Highness Woman and His
Majesty Cupid is q set of essays by
Max ORell, recently published by The
Abbey Press, New York The purpose of
the book is briefly stated in the preface:
This unpretentious volume of mine will
not have been written in vain if it causes
one married couple in each of the three
countries where it is published to study
and understand each other better.
II dedicate it to married men and wo-
men and to young men and women con-
templating matrimony-a large public, in
deed.''
Mr.. O'Rell closes his preface with
postscript, which is rather to the point:
Did 1 hear you ask whether 1 have
been married?
'Oh, yes that's all right"
The book is written in light and in
teresting vein and the chapters vary from
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Airline VALERIE.

"Arline VALERIE" by Joseph Hallworth, Is
a story of life in the slums, told in the
style of one who is making first enort,
with all its smartness and dull results III
was written by hand and reproduced III
fac-simile poor handwriting, scratchlnss'
misspellings and all having evidently new
er been scanned by the eye OF the PROOF
reader.
The author has embellished the mar
Gins with what are undoubtedly the poor
est specimens of drawing that ever went
to print. The book is worthy of place
in libraries as an awful warning to would
be authors. Let us profit by the mistakes
of Others. published by l.. c. Page &
Co Boston. Price 81 5O)
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dressed up in the skin of beasts, but are
throughout true to their characters, and
are not only strongly realized, but con-
sistently drawn, although in so simple
and captivating a way that the subtle art
of the narrator is quite hidden, and one
is aware only of reading an absorbingly
interesting and witty tale
When to the charm of the poem is added
the exceptional skill of the illustrator.
whose genius in caricature and in animal
drawing was demonstrated in his popular
edition of, ''Aesop, published last year.
one can hardly look further in seeking for
an ideal gift book for nursery table or the
library. (Price 81 SOD
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Gloria Dec.

Every pastor who desires to develon or
improve the congregational singing in his
church Will be glad to know that a new
church hymnal, Gloria Deo." inst n,b-
Ilshed by the Funk & Wagnalls Companv
New York, meets this requirement If
contains striking advantages without sac
rlhcing any of the substantial merits of
the older works.
F1rst-Every hymn in the entire work is
gwen under the music. Not single hymn
is printed separate from the music. The
lines or all the verses are directly under
the notes OF music in which thew are 10
be sung. The words of each line are care-
iully supolvided SO as to bring each sylla-
Die below and close to the note to he SING
Second-"Gloria Deo'' provides q se1ec
ton OF the hymns and tunes which
twenty-year experience in church worl
has proven to be the best for both congre-
cations and choirs.
Third-ln this one volume are contained
hymns suitable for the church. the Sun-
day school, the Young Peoples Society
and other organiza tions, q feature which
not only enables all to use the same book
but makes all, from the youngest to the
Oldest, familiar with the best HYMNS ne
the church and enables the young peonle
to join heartily in the regular church SER
vice of song.
Fourth-There are chants. responses and
glorias for choir use.
Fffth-The Psalter is bound in with the
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REWARD the Fox.

Dana Estes & Co., Boston, have just
published a version of the famous beast
fable, translated into English verse from
the Low German of the fifteenth century
and adapted for modern readers
This book belongs to the rare class
which is equally delightful to children and
to their elders In this regard it may be
compared to "Gulliver's Travels Don
Quixote" and Pilgrims Progress" For
wit and shrewd satire and for pure drolI-
cry, both in situations and description, it
is unsurpassed The animals are not men
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The Double Prince.

An odd fairy tale of fat little prince on
the mocn-a little chap who sneezes so
hard that he becomes twins all i'm the
twinkling of an eye-such a story is seTba
Double Prince, or Fall Through the
Moon" by Frank NJ. Bicknell The story
is written in just that droll vein that is
most acceptable to children and there is
enough of adventure in the topsy-turV,r
world of the Prince Roli-PoIi'' to p1easa
the most fastidious of the small genera
ton. The book is published by Dana Estes
& Co., Boston. Price soc.
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"maxims for the man in love" and max
inns for the married man" to blondes
and brunettes" and what is a perfect
lady? %
His chapters on "the English wife and
"the American woman" will probably
awaken some discussion. He is loud in
his praises of the American woman. but
deplores the effects of too much higher
education" for he says American men
are rapidly being forced into back
seat"
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travels and their marriages, interspersed
with pious moraltzing for the benefit of
the grandchildren for whom the memoir
was written. After many wanderings,
Mrs. Johnston and her husband settled
in Nova Scotia, and there her descend
ents have f1ourished, many of them be-
coming eminent men. The book, there
fore, is more valuable as a contribution
to the early history of certain Canadian
families than as a memoir of a Georgia
Loyalist. published by the Bankside
Press; M. F. Mansfield & Co.. New York;
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The Miracles of Missions.

"The Miracles of Missions by Arthur
T. Pierson, DID,, is a series of very BRIEF
narratives of facts, written with as far
as possible absolute accuracy, which 6oth
demonstrate and illustrate the perpetuai
presence of the supernatural factor in all
true mission work. The word miracles
is designedly used in order to bring out
the unmistakab BILE divine working and the
great variety of facts presented, the tri-
umphs of the gospel in all lands and
among all classes of people, has the effect
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Tales of China.

..Traveler Tales of China" by Hezekiah
Butterworth, is the second in the new
series of the Traveller Tales written
after the manner of the popular Zig Tag
Series" which made the name of Hezekiah
Butterworth a household word wherever