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The age-herald., 1902-05-01

"The marked severity" of the Phil ippine campaign is becoming \mani- fest.
The age-herald., 1902-05-01

Potato alcohol is Germany's latest product.
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WORK ON TUNNEL BEING PUSHED

Senator Money had no pitchfork.
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LITERARY NOTES.
A New Western Writer.

Stewart Edward White, author of "The
Blazed Trail" which has just been pub
lished by Mcclure, Phillips & Co., aud
which went into second edition before
the day of publication, has had more
adventurous life than falls to the lot OF
most young authors. AS a boy lie spent
much of his time in the forests OF Michi-
gan, where his father. beginning as a
trader and ''land-looker," has since be-
come a millionaire through acquiring
enormous tracts of timber land. In spite
of the fact that he had plenty of money
back of him, young White elected to make
his own way after his graduation from
the University of Michigan in 1885, and
struck out for the Black Hills with 500
in gold. and a gun. The hundred dollars
soon went. and Mr. White fell back on the
gun for means of subsistence. He got a
job shooting game for mining camp and
did little mining on his own account.
When the superintendent Of the camp lit
out one day Mr.. White was made tenn
porary paymaster, and got himself two
thirds lynched for paying the wrong men
first, but being possessed of a glib tongue,
talked himself out of the scrape.
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stocks, or syndicates, or trusts endeavor
/ to circumvent these, 1t always has been
I found that after the collision there is
nothing left of the panaceas, while the
great laws continue to grind out their ir-
resistible consequences as before.
The people of America can smile at the
efforts Of all her railway magnates and OF
all her manufacturers 10 defeat the
economic laws by trusts or combinations.
or pools, or .'differentials," or anything of
like character.
Only let them hold firmly to the doctrine
of free competition. Keep the field open.
Freedom for all to engage in railroad
building when and where capital desires,
subject to conditions open to all.
Freedom for all to engage in any branch
of manufacturing under like conditions.
There can be no permanent eXtortion
of profit beyond the average return from
capital, nor any monopoly, either in
transportation or manufacturing. Any
attempt to maintain either must end in
failure, and failure ultimately disastrous
just in proportion to the temporary sue
cess of the foolish effort.
1t is simply ridiculous for party of
men to meet in a room and attempt by
passing resolutions to change the great
laws which govern human affairs in the
business world, and this, whether they
be railway presidents, bankers, or manu-
facturers.
The fashion of trusts has but short
season longer to run. and then some other
equally vain device may be expected to
appear when the next period of depression
arrives; but there is not the slightest
danger that serious injury can result to
the sound principles of business from
any or all of these movements.
The only people who have reason to fear
trusts are those foolish enough to enter
into them. The consumer and the trans
porter, not the manufacturer and the
railway owner. are to reap the harvest.
These extracts are fair examples of
the general line of argument used in
the book, and of the authors attitude
on the most important questions of
the economic world. New York:
Doubleday, Page & Coz
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AMERICA a LA FRANCHISE.

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Love and Socialism.

Philip Longstreth," by Marie Van Worst,
impresses one as the novel of a writer
who would have done batter to stick to
author in the latter field is really admir-
able; but this novel is too long, and it
lacks continuity and definiteness.
The hero is the son of a millionaire,
and has notions of his own about the
betterment of the condition OF the work
ing people. These notions he essays to
carry out by sharing in the ownership
and management of a shoe factory; and
incidentally he falls more than half in
love with the prettiest girl in 1t. The
situation is one in which there are pos
sibilities, but the working out Of these
is hopelessly bungled.
The character of Philip Longstreth
lacks definite value, to begin with; it
is too uncertain, too cloudy, and the
reader has to take too many of the young
mans noble qualities for granted. That
of the heroine is hardly better. There are
false touches in ii all the way through.
She is represented as the daughter of
Maine guide, and as bearing the name of
Amber. This is unlikely. though it is
possible. Amber is not the sort of name
which the average Maine countryman
would choose for daughter. II might be
Idelia, or Melissa. or Keren- -happuch, but
1t would not be Amber, though it might
he Ruby. Nobody can explain Just why
the New England rural imagination shouli
shy at Amber or Turquoise and accept
Ruby as the name of a girl, but the fact
remains that it probably would. More
over. the author makes Amber say in
letter. "She has went" which is another
maltreatment of English not likely. There
are shades of dialect in rural New Eng
land which are hard to explain. The conn
tryman will not say, Il be afraid it will
rain" though he will say Il amt goin' TO
stay here if l be afraid" Nobody, himself
least OF all, can tell the reason for this
distinction But it is there. Again, If
the girl were capable OF writing she has
went" in a letter, she would certainly,
under stress of emotion, not say, Il guess
there's no one" She would say, Il guess
there amt nobody"
These are small things, but it is the
small things which make all the difference
in a novel intended to be realistic. 1t IS
risky work to introduce into such story
a girl like this Amber, OF the haIt-edd-
Gated. refined, spirited, yet undeveloped
American type; but if she is introduced
she should be perfectly drawn. AS she
is. she jars on one like piece Of music
played just 4 little out of tune. tNew
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of the tale no less a parsonage than
Sherlock Holmes. and causes him TO
weave IN elaborate net OF proof-around
the wrong man The inexhaustible droll-
cry of Mark Twain never had a better
rallying point than the omniscient, omni-
present, portentously grave archetvne Of
the detective mania. 1t reminds one of
that quaintest whimsical conceit of
Hawthorne in which a pumpkin headed
scareerow is by the magic of an old witch
transformed into a fine gentleman but
tails to pieces in dismay on seeing him
self reflected in a mirror as he really is
Mark Twain has held the mirror up to
Sherlock Holmes
That, however. is only one barrel of
the two announced in the title. The other
the reader must discover for himself; it
is not quite as obvious as this one
In some ways this is one of the most
Characteristic works of the author
though it is not likely to be so regarded
by the general public 1t is the work of
his ripe years and mature Judgment. and
there is good deal in il which lies deep
6r than the surface. The underlying mo-
tive OF Mark Twain's funmaking has al
ways been a kindly humanity and instinct
of enlightenment. He has never been q
mere satirist or joker, though 20 make the
world laugh is not an unworthy mission
in itself. But his rollicking humor and
keen wit have always been directed
against some absurdity or abuse. some
sham or pretense. some injustice that was
being veled by rhetoric, some man Of
straw feared as man In armor- He has
always kindly feeling for poor old mis-
taken. stumbling humanity, however, and
ii is not the human being, but the evil In
the human being. which is the target for
his wit. There is a considerable difference
between the two, though this is often
forgotten. (New York: Harper & Bros,
S1.50.)
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A Story of Detroit.

THE Heroine of the Strait" by Mary
of New France" is a historical novel
dealing with incidents in the early history
of Detroit. The heroine is a pretty French
Canadian girl, and the hero young
Scotch trader. The time is just after the
cedng of Canada to England, and just
before the conspiracy of Pontiac, who
figures in the story. The atmosphere of
time and place is reproduced with fair
success, and the story will be an interest
ing one for the reading of teachers and
pupils in classes of United States history
1t is written in an interesting style, and
the heroine is an especially attractive
young maiden. The illustrations by CHI
Grunwald would be better if the artist
had paid little more attention to the
text. (Boston: Little, Brown & Coz
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KENTUCKY POLITICS.

"The Opponents" by Harrison Robert
son. is a story of love and Kentucky poll
tics. The work of Mr.. Robertson is al
ways welcome because it is certain to he
original. If nothing more. and also it is
certain TO be earnest and full of purpose.
He is handling types and motives which
are comparatively new in American fc-
ton and doing it in his own way.
In this latest novel he has peculiarly
strong situation and some very attractive
characters. Sid Garrard. the hero, is a
type of the New South not unlike the
winsome hero of THE Inlander," but
considerably more sophisticated and alert,
without being less attractive. 1t is safe
to say that most men and all women who
read this book will wish they might have
a relative Of some kind like Sid Garrard-
son. or brother, or husband, or some
thing
OF the heroine not quite so much can
be said; she is rather shadowy. The two
strong figures in the book are Garrard
and his political opponent andV rival in
love Morgan Tunstall. The brief and dra-
matte story of TunstalPs early love
which introduces the romance proper, is
one Of The strongest episodes with which
book was ever opened. and makes the
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archs that have ruled the destinies of the
world, either in camp, council. laboratory
or workshop
The great inventions, the improvements
the discoveries in science, the great works
in literature have sprung from the ranks
Of the poor.
You can scarcely name a great inven-
tfon. or great discovery, you can scarce
ly name great picture. or great statue,
great song or great story, nor any
thing great that has not been the product
of men who started like yourselves to
earn an honest living by honest work.
There is partnership of three in the
industrial world when an enterprise Is
planned. The first of these, not in i'm
portance but in time, is Capital. Without
it nothing costly can be built. From it
comes the first breath of life into matter
previously inert.
The structures reared, equipped, and
ready to begin in any line of industrial
activity, the second partner comes into
operation. That is Business Ability.
Capital has done its part.
1t has provided all the instrumentalities
of production; but unless it can command
the services of able men to manage the
business, all that Capital has done
crumbles into ruin.
Then comes the third partner, last in
order of time, but not least, Labor. II it
falls to perform its part, nothing can be
accomplished. Capital and Business
Ability. without it brought into play. are
dead. The wheels cannot revolve unless
the hand of Labor starts them.
Now, volumes can be written as to
which one of the three partners is first.
second or third in Importance, and the
subject will remain just as it was before.
Political economists, speculative phil
osophers, and preachers have been giving
their views on the subject for hundreds of
years, but the answer has not yet been
found, nor can 1t ever be, because each of
the three is all-important, and every one
is equally essential to the other two.
There is no first, second, or last. There
is no precedence! They are equal mem
bcrs of the great triple alliance which
moves the industrial world.
As a matter of history Labor existed be-
fore Capital or Business Ability, for when
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Chateaubriand's Life.

There is to be an American edition
published by the Putnamsl OF Chateau
brands Memoirs" as translated into
English by Alexander Teixeira De Mat
tos. This work will be in six volumes,
with many illustrations from contempor-
airy sources, and is the first thorough rem
dering into our language of the famous
Memories D'Outre- Tombe
Il have met" he says. nearly all the
men who in my time have played part.
great or small, in my own country CT
abroad; from Washington to Napoleon,
from Lohis XVIII TO Alexander from
Plus VII to Gregory XVI. from Fox,
Burke. Pitt, Sheridan. Londonderry. Capo
distrias TO Maleshcrbes, Mirabeau, and
the rest; from Nelson. Bolivar. Mehemet,
Pasha of Egypt. TO Suffren, Bougainville,
La Perouse. Moreau.''
The historical interest and value IF the
Memoirs. covering eight years of life
spent in the midst of the makers OF his
tory, are enormous. But the greatest
charm of this monumental work lies in the
exqGisiteness of the style. which causes
1t TO be universally regarded as the fore
most OF French prose classics.
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per day or by five hundred tons per day
of product.
Hence the reason for the continual in
crease year by year in the product of your
mills, not that the manufacturer wishes
primarily to increase his product, but that
the strain of competition forces him into
extensions that he may thereby reduce
more and more per ton or per yard these
fixed charges. upon which the safety of his
capital depends
1t being therefore impossible for the
employers of thousands to become ac-
quainted with their men, II we are not to
lose all feeling of mutually between us,
the employer must seek their acquaint-
ance through other forms, to express his
care for the well-being of those upon
whose labor he depends for success, by
devoting part of his earnings for institu-
tions, and for the accommodation of or
sanizations such as cooperative stores.
and | hope in return that the employees
are to show by the use which they make
of such benefactions that they in turn re-
spond to this sentiment upon the part OF
the employers wherever it may be found.
BY such means as these we may hope
to maintain to some extent the old feeling
of kindliness, mutual confidence, respect,
and esteem which formerly distinguished
the relations between the employer and
MIS- men.
Again, he says:
Every employer Of labor is studying the
young men around him, most anxious to
find one Of exceptional ability Nothing
in the world is so desirable for him ana
SO profitable for him as such man.
Every manager in the works stands
ready to grasp, to utilize, the man that
can do something that is valuable Every
foreman wants to have under him in his
department able men upon whom he can
rely and whose merits he obtains credit
for because the greatest test of ability
in manager is not the man himself, but
the men with whom he is able to sur
round himself
These books on the shelves will tell you
the story of the rise Of many men from
our own ranks. It is not the educated, or
so-called classically educated man; IL IS
not the aristocracy, it is not the mon
The Washington times., 1902-04-20
SHERLOCK HOLMES REVISED.

"A Double Barreled Detective Story"
widely read in its serial form. so that
most of those who buy it know in ad-
vance that it is more or less of a take
of On The Hound of the Baskervilles,"
or on Sherlock Holmes in general. Like
all of this authors work, it is sui generis,
for you never can tell where that man
will break out next or what the complaint
will be. Usually it is case similar to
that of the old man whose death caused
neighbor to reply in answer to a query,
mo complaint-everybody satisfied
This tale, at any rate, is eminently sat-
isfactory to anyone who enjoys the Twain
brand of humor. 1t begins with a horror
story. possessing that touch of genuine
human feeling and real pathos with which
Mark Twain always handles tragedy, how
ever grotesque or unreal it may be. The
result of the horror is that boy is born
with the power of bloodhound to trace
a living being by sight and smell; and the
boy is set upon the track OF his own faith
er for the purpose of avenging the wrong
done to his mother. The vengeance is TO
consist of bounding the man out of any
place where he may be living, to make of
him a wanderer on the face of the earth.
until he shall die OF the persecution, or
kill himself. This is a motif sufficiently
grim and terrible for Poe, and in the
hands of Poe it would have been Vnre-
lieved tragedy, so black as to seem i'm
possible, and the human interest would
have been lost.
But here comes in the other side of
the great American humorist's dual
genius. He introduces into the second half
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reader wonder at the outset whether a
plot so capitally begun will be developed
with equal strength. The story of the
political fight, however rivals the love
affair in point Of interest, and the climax
which comes toward the end takes ones
breath away. Whether the subsequent de-
velopmcnts weaken this climax or not is
likely to be mooted point among critical
readers. The dilemma faced by the au-
thor is either to weaken his plot-if it
is subjected to such process-by the de
vice which he has adopted, or to make
his heroine less attractive by casting a
shadow oyer her birth; and neither al
tentative is exactly GOOD from the
point Of view Of the average reader. as
il is the denouement leaves one with a
subtle sense OF having been tricked into
excitement. The tragedy is somehow
tion of what is going on behind the scenes.
But the whole thing is clever, there can
be no doubt of that. and there are not two
possible opinions of the strength and fas-
cination of the story of the political com
bat between Tunstali and Garrard. The
fight between an orator and a machine
was pever better described, and the scenes
OF the convention are capitally brought
out. Mr.. Robertson may in future years
do something much better than this novel.
but this. like The Inlander,'' is good
enough for all practical purposes. (New
York; Charles Scribner's Sons. $L50).
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| of course there would be no capital-that
| is, no savings laid up for future use.
| Now, let us see what capital does in
the world. We will consider what the
shipbuilders do when they have to build
great ships. These enterprising com
panies offer to build an ocean greyhound
for, let us say, G 500, 900, to be paid only
when the ship is delivered. after satisfac-
tory trial trips.
Where or how do the shipbuilders get
this sum of money to pay the workmen,
the wood merchant, the steel manufac-
turer, and all the people who furnish ma
terial for the building of the ship? They
get It from the savings of civilized men.
1t Is part of the money saved for invest
ment by the millions of Industrious peo-
pie.
Each man. by thrift, saves little, puts
the money in bank, and the bank lends
it to the sbipbuilders, who pay interest
for the use of it. 1t is the same with
the building of mandatory, a rail
road, a canal. or anything costly. We
could not have had anything more than
the savage had. except for thrift.
To many people one of the most
interesting chapters will be that on
trusts. The views of the author on
this subject are, in brief, as follows:
We must all have ON toys; the child
his rattle, the adult his hobby, the man
of pleasure the fashion, the man of art
his master; and mankind in it's various
divisions requires a change of toys at
short intervals.
The same rule holds good in the busi-
ness world. We have had our age of
Consultations" and "watered stocks"
Not long ago everything was "syndi-
cate" the word is already becoming obso-
lete, and the fashion is for trusts"
which will in turn no doubt give place TO
some new panacea, that is in turn to he
displaced by another, and SO on without
end.
The great laws of the economic world,
like all laws affecting society, being the
genuine outgrowth of human nature, alone
remain unchanged through all these
changes.
Whenever consultations, or watered
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Impromptu Verse.

"Hasty Pudding Poems is a small col
lection of impromptu verse, selected by
Rodney Blake from the off hand efforts
of poets and other people. Some of it Will
be new to most readers, and some will
not. The chapter on Poems on Places
contains some quaint old rhymes, the
origin of which is lost. These are exam
pies:
Wooton- under Weaver, in Staffordshire,
is described as
"Wooton- under Weaver.
Where God came never"
Another popular rhyme reads
Lincoln was, London is, and York hall
be
The fairest city of the three
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GEORGIA TALES.

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An Out-of-DOor Book.

According to Season." by Frances
Thoodora Parsons, is published in a new
and attractive edition, with thirty two
colored plates. 1t would be a delightful
book by which to plan an out-of- door
ramble, II one were not scientific botanist
enough to need no such aids, and its
sympathetic style and breezy atmosphere
make it delightful even without that
qualification. The illustrations. by Elsie
Louise Shaw, are exquisite. and too much
cannot be said in praise of them. They are
both artistic and accurate, which is not
a matter to be taken for granted in such
work. New York: Charles Scribner s
Sons. S1.25.)
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NATURE IN TENNESSEE.

| the introduction is an example of the for
! mer:
1T means so much to grow up next to
the ground. There are no playmates Ike
grass and orchard trees colts in the pas
ture, chickens in the yard, nor any story
tellers to match the winds when they
play with the leaves, or dance sword
dance through fields OF yellowing wheat.
! The fields, too, are rare gossips, II only
you take the trouble to understand. The
pity of ii is that one can never write
down the charm Of their living voices,
They have something almost epic In their
gossiping, yet always something new to
tell.'
And here is a bit Of description full Of
The very flavor OF the woods:
'Muscadnes, which are half wild, half
tame, growing as well in the garden as
in the woods. look more like plums than
grapes, though the vine proclaims their
real nature. They are as big as small
marbles and grow in clusters of three or
five. They turn black in August, and
ripen in mid-September. AS soon as they
are ripe they drop, often bursting, II they
drop from a good height. They are full of
sweet juice and pale greenish pulp. The
skin is thick. leathery even, black out
side with a heavy blue bloom, and deep
VINE req INSIDE. IL is iuIl OF burning
foxy flavor that quite spoils tho fruit
for the human palate. But muscadine
wine, properly made, is quite as good as
champagne-clear, sparkling, OF a de-
lieious pale pink, and a rich, fruity bou-
quet Proper making is tedious work
the pulp must be deity popped out and
the skins thrown away. Pigs and pos
sums do not in the least object to the
skins, though sometimes when they are
eyeld deep in museadines, they raise
their heads. open their mouths, and make
a little blowing noise, as though trying
TO cool burning tongue"
Extracts, however, do not fairly repre-
sent the book. II should be read as a
whole. ((New York: Mcclure, Phillips
& Co. $1.20.)