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which is the pivot on which the plot
turns, seems wholly unnecessary piece
of bravery and grewsome acting, and one
that saner measures might have pre-
vented. But since the girl is lovable,
sweet, and courage her hero-lover,
brave and dashing and the dark and
hideous danger she suffers, the motive
and central picture for many other thrill
ing scenes and deeds, it is easy enough l., 20
forget that perhaps she risked her NE
unnecessarily In the excitement OF con-
sequent details. OF danger and stress
The author Of the story has for some
years, and through many important nap.
penings. been correspondent from the
East for several American newspapers.
and the most thrilling parts of his story
are drawn from his own knewledge OF
the events detailed. He writes vlv1dly
and with appreciation. and 1t is easy
enough to believe his assertion that II
is the truth in his story, rather than Its
fiction, that is of greatest interest.
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!. HORNUNG has a most genial
and magnetic way Of telling his
stories. and we'll deserves the
gratitude Of his many readers.
His new book is more elabo-
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people that have had part in its living.
The writer calls his volume an autooloB-
raphv. and while 1t is true that some OF
the chapters are given up to the DEANS
of his own long and useful life ana 10
expressions Of gratitude for the appre-
citation that has been shown him, YET the
larger number of Its pages are t1lled win
recoIlections of the great and famous
neople he has known, and with sYnpa-
thetic descriptions and estimates OF their
greatness Beginning with the learned
mon who held the various chairs at
princeton during his college life there,
ord continuing with a visit to England
and his meetings with Wordsworth, Car
1vle Dickens. and others of like interest,
he has filled up his volume with delight
fu, sketches and anecdotes, OF famous
men Of all walks and callings. poets ana
authors. theologians. philanthroplsts.
statesmen. orators, editors. hymn-wrlt-
ers and scientists-Beecher, Brooks, Iop-
ladv DIR. McCosh, Gladstone, Dean Stan
lev Irving, Whittier, Horace Greeley,
Daniel Webster, John Bright the young
Queen Victoria Abraham Lincoln. ana
many others whose lives and personaA-
ties are of unfailing interest.
Or. Cuvler's style is bright, fresh, ana
full Of quick appreciation and apt anec-
dote and description. and his book is, lot
the most part, delightfully."- human ana
readable.
II will be recalled that Rev. Dr. Jere"
n,iah Bell Jeter, the distinguished Bap-
list theologian OF this city, few years
before his death. published a volume Oh
reco1Iections. which bore the title LIT.
Cryler has given his book.
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NOTES..

A recent number Of the Literary Digest
in it's Current Poetry department re-
prints five of the poems in Ellen Glas-
COWS little volume, as of interest "to
those who have long regarded the author
in the light of a novelist only" Among
the lines selected are these very charac-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-05

THE QUEEN OF QUELPARTE. Ar
cher Butler Hubert. Cloth. Sis. Lit
tie. Brown & Co.. Boston. For sale
here by The Bell Book and Stationery
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1E VUItUreS IS a tdle OF IVVo ntFo
intrigue in the diplomatic cir
Giles of Europe, and deals with
Polish patriotism, and Russian
tragedy, and with all the Sc
Ia d,,rar that goes
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lier tales, and contrary to his best-known
habit, he merely uses Australia here as
a suggestion Of something far away and
unknown, rather than as a background
for his tale. The story is Of q woman
who escaped the hangman's rope by I'M
usual discernment on the part of the
Jury that tried her for murder, and of
a very mysterious and fascinating gen
t1eman who had married her, it seemed,
10 escape the same punishment that had
hung over her head. And through the
greater part of the story. the two.
sweet and oddly honest woman and
most courtly gentleman, live uneasily,
under the shadow of the rope, until in
an odd way. the mystery is cleared, and
peace and contertment come once more
TO as many people as the strange fate
that orders our lives, ever allows to be
rejoiced by the same good fortune. In
this case only one heart is made to ache
by the happiness that comes to others
and so the story ends.
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{. CUYLEE is the last OF tnat
illustrious list OF preachers who
have made Brooklyn famous
for theological scholarliness and
greatness Of heart, and his rem
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THE vULTUREF. Henry Seton Merr1-
man. Cloth $3.50. Harper & Bros;
New York. For sale here by the Ben
Roo,, and Stationery Company.
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RECOLLEcTIoNs OF A LONG LIFE.
Rev Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., LII.
D. Cloth, $3.50. Baker & Taylor Com
pany, New York. For sale here by the
Re1I Roo,, and Stationery Company.
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7ELPARTE is an island prov
ince Of Korea, and is strange
and an ancient land, and one SO
filed with picturesque uncouth-
ness. odd superstitions. and as
fnrishfnr c,,storns. so STEPPED in
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THE SHADOW OF THE ROPE. z. w.
HornunE. Cloth, $3.50. Charles Scrib-
TIer's Sons, New York. For sale here by
The Bell Book and Stationery Com
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ttH bellefs ana Habits OF IoHs uedu Cett-
turtles that its appearance IN the modern
scheme Of European influence and ag-
grandiZement in the East seems an I'M
believablc, inexcusable contradiction.
The vivid descriptions here given or the
people and customs OF this strange place
would OF themselves make book OF most
Interesting reading. But we End added
TO it the further interest Of most en-
gaging story. one that tells little love
tale, sets forth some stirring adventures,
Details the manner of many OF Russia s
nanoeuvres in the East, makes interest
ing matter OF the influence OF the secret
Will Of Peter the Great, still kept IN the
Cars archives and held sacred by all
good Russians. ~
It is true that the daring risk of tho
adventure undertaken by the heroine. and
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-nE FORTUNES OF OLIVER HORN.
Hapidnson Smith. Cloth, $3.50; Charles
scribncr's Sons. New York. For sale
here by the Bell Book and Stationery

IIE story OF Oliver Horn is told
With the ease and finish which
proves the writer an artist. as
he Is. with the pen no less than
with the brush. The charm and
dignity OF the old-tilne south
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HIS small work In illumination
Of the much discussed Philip
pine question. and Of the issues
which arc yexing our govern
ment in its management OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

now exactly over the same city on her
her surface that he was over at noon
yesterday It is therefore necessary
for the earth to turn a little further on
her axis in order to bring that same
meridian directly under the sun again
and give that city another noon.
Now the time required daily for this
little angle of further turning aver
ages three minutes and fifty-six sec
onds. In other words, a twenty-four
hour solar day marks, not one complete
rotation of the earth on her axis, but
nearly four minutes more than one ro-
tation. And this daily four minutes Of
extra turning amounts in a year to
one complete revolution, thus giving us
366 revolutions in 365 days.
But the point Of present interest in
this connection is, that this little angle
of additional rotation is not the same
for every day; some days the time re-
quired is more than three minutes
and f1fty-six seconds, and some days
it is less. And this is the first Of the
two reasons why the sun is irregular.
1t is because the earth does not move
around the sun in a circle, but in an
elliptic or oval-shaped path
The suns place being near one end
of the ellipse Cat one of the focD 1T
follows that the earth is nearer to him
at one season than at another. She is
100000 miles nearer to him on the
first day of January than on the first
day of July. And even if the earth's
motion in her orbit were at uniform
rate, she would go through greater
angle of distance around the sun in a
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

made any serious complaint about this.
The dinner horn was good enough
announcement of noon; the setting sun
told them when to go home from their
work in the evening; and, altogether,
the sun-dial showed the time with
sufficient accuracy for most of their
simple needs.
But it is the history of the COM
product has little known value, men
have let it go to waste; and just in
proportion as it's value has increased,
inventions have been devised for TAX
ing care of it. So with the approach
of the strenuous civilization of the
nineteenth century, which was to con-
tain some minutes worth millions to
some men, the art of measuring and
keeping time was worked out to a
nicely that would have filled Methuse-
lah with supreme disgust. The king
of time was impeached for his irreg-
ularities in office. Men ruthlessly de-
throned him and committed his work
to machines of their own making. And
now, whenever we want to know about
his daily movements, we take up any
good almanac, such as many of our
large daily newspapers publish annu-
ally, and see therein the exact second
that men have set for him to cross the
meridian every day in the year. We
find that some days he dallies along
until 12:14:2S before he reaches the
north south line directly overhead,
whereas on other days he hurries up
and gets there as early as 1:43: 49,.
And this, it must be remembered, is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
BIZ Grander Mc9ver Sweet.

| given time when she is nearer to him
| than when she is further away;-just
as, when riding across a prairie on
railroad train, tree half mile off
falls behind much faster than does the
house on the hill three miles in the dis
lance.
But the earth does not move in her
orbit at a uniform rate. Just as ball
when thrown upward continues with
gradually decreasing speed until it
reaches the point of highest elevation,
| then descends with an increasing We
locity until 1t strikes the ground so,
| by the very same law of gravitation
! (the sun drawing the earth just as the
earth draws the balD the earths or
| bital velocity is constantly retarded as
! she moves away from the sun in the
| spring, and is constantly accelerated
as she returns toward him in the au-
tumn. While she travels through space
at the rate of 1,572,000 miles day
| speaking in round thousands) in the
latter part of June, toward the end of
December she moves 1,626,000 miles a
day. So we see that line drawn
toward the sun from Washington, say,
when he Is over that meridian, will,
after the earth shall have turned just
! one rotation on her axis, point at a
| greater angle away from the sun in
| December than in June; because dur
| ing the December day the earth has
| travelled $4,000 miles further in her
| path around the sun than during the
June day. And since 1t requires a
| longer time for the earth to rotate
! through this greater angle so as to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

bring the Washington meridian direct
ly under the sun again, we see that
from noon to noon by the sun is a
longer period Of time in winter than in
summer.
But there is another fact that con-
tributes more to these irregularities
than does the elliptic shape of the
earth's orbit.
1t is because the axis of the earth
stands neither horizontal nor perpen-
dicular to the plane of her orbit, but
is inclined thereto at an angle of about
1914 degrees from the perpendicular
And since the angle of inclination
remains always the same-the north
pole ever pointing in the same direc-
tion-it follows that, as the earth
moves in her path around the sun,
this angle is constantly changing as
viewed from the sun. Late in Deem
| Der, when the earth is rounding the
| end of her ellipse nearest the sun, the
north pole is leaning away from the
south pole toward him. Just the re-
verse is true toward the end of June,
| when she is at the farther end of her
orbit But on the goth of March, when
she is just opposite him as she travels
down the side of her elliptic path, the
,, distance from the sun to either pole
is the same, whereas the north pole
leans toward the right and the south
pole toward the left. Likewise on the
goth of observation-disclosures she has
gone clear around on the opposite of
the sun-the north pole inclines tow
ard the left and the south pole toward
! the right.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

Circle City The trail was well nigh
impossible; the men were often COM
PEELED to wade through icy water; the
exposure to the Arctic seventies of
weather was hazardous in the extreme.
When near Star City the two car
riers suddenly found themselves on a
great block of ice apparently surround
ed by water. Hurrying forward, they met
deep water and then started back, but
discovered to their dismay that the
ice they were on was now completely
separated from the pack, and that they
were floating down with the swift cur
rent to what seemed certain death.
Darkness came on. They lighted a
lantern, shouted, and fired their guns.
AS they drifted by Star City another
carrier, who had just reached that
place and who was known as Windy
Jim,'' saw the imperiled men, and, with
the postmaster, seized small boat and
went to the rescue.
After a desperate struggle amid
floating ice, they succeeded; but before
effecting landing they had drifted
more than five miles below Star City.
The report giving the story closes with
these words:
"This is just one of the common, lit
tie, every day incidents of the trail.
If Windy Jim" otherwise Mr.. ]. w.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

by local mean solar time; the state
ment has nothing to do with American
railroad standard time.
In measuring time accurately, as in
measuring anything else, it is neces-
sary that each unit of measurement
be equal to all the other units. 1t is
necessary that the year be divided
into 365 parts of equal length. But this,
as has already been intimated, is just
what nature does not do. The sun di-
vides the year into 365 periods of I'M
equal length-some of the periods have
more than twenty-four hours in them
and some have less.
The inequality, 1t is true, appears at
first glance to be very small, the
longest day and-night period differ
ing from the shortest by only about
fifty seconds. And If, when about the
middle of December King Sol arrives
at the meridian thirty seconds late,
he would on the following day arrive
thirty seconds early, no practical in
convenience would result, and unto
this good day we should have con-
tinued to pay him fealty as the time
king of our planet. But when in the
late autumn he begins to lag back
as If he were ashamed of the cold
weather on our northern hemisphere
the tagging habit fastens itself upon
him, and he continues to lag from day
to day for nearly three months and a
half So that, If properly regulated
clock be set with sun-dial at noon
on the second day of November, then
on the twelfth day of next February,
when the sun-dial shows exactly noon
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
By Joseph Chapman. IT..
Assistant Cashier Northwestern National Bank minneapolis.

adding machines a boy just out Of
school can so manipulate these Won
derful brain savers that he can handle
from three to four times the volume Of
checks in one-half the time that it
took the expert formerly, and the adj
ditions are always correct. Some of
the New York and Chicago banks have
from twenty to fifty Of these machines,
and their use is so general by the en-
ployes in all banks which have them
that the faculty to add column of
figures rapidly and correctly by use of
the brain will soon be lost art. This
is apt to be drawback to the clerk
when he comes to a place where the
machine cannot be used, as for exam
pie, the ledger; but, as a whole, the
machine has done more to make the
bank clerks work congenial, by remov-
ing the drudgery, than any invention
or system yet introduced.
That the period of evolution is over
is far from true. We are only at the
beginning. Many questions are to be
solved and must be solved soon. One
of the greatest questions that con-
fronts the banking business is the COL
lection of, country checks. The whole
saler and jobber, the credit mems as
sociations and the merchants are con-
tinually comforting with the city banks
for relief from excessive charges made
by country banks for collection Of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
IOhu the Sun IS Not Our Time Standard

the hands of the clock will indicate
twenty nine minutes to one
In order to make quite IFplain the
causes of the suns irregularity, 1t be-
comes necessary to say, In the first
place, that the everyday statement
that the earth rotates on her axis
1t is no new fact ino astronomy, Of
course, yet it is one not often thought
of by many, that while there are 365
days in every common year and 366
days in every leap year, the earth
makes $3.50 complete rotations on her
axis every common year and 367 ev-
cry leap year. Every year she makes
just one revolution more than there are
days in that year; one revolution more
than the number of times we see the
sun. 'a1g
This extra, uncounted revolution oc-
ours by reason of the earth's annual
journey around the sun, wherein she
passes on in her orbital path each day
little beyond the place from which
she looked at him the day before. If
today at noon by the sun-dial we draw
upward from the city in which we
live an imaginary line pointing directly
at the sun, then when the earth shall
have turned just one rotation on her
axis, this line will not be pointing di-
rectly toward the sun again, but will
point a little to the west of him-par-
allel to the direction it pointed at noon
the day before-because the earth has
meanwhile travelled a days journey in
her path around the sun-has left him
behind, as 1t Were-So that he Is not
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

1915; we can indicate that it carries
over 18,000,000 pieces of registered
matter, and that the loss is only one
in 35,703. We can emphasize the re-
markable fact that for the treasury,
the banks and private individuals it
annually transports nearly $4,000,000,-
900 in value, and that the loss is not
one two undredth part of 1 per cent.
But vital as these truths are in our
business and social life, they are more
practical than picturesque.
The postal service is not, however,
deficient in it's stirring chapters. 1t has
it's true heroes. 1t exemplifies the best
and sturdiest qualities of fidelity and
devotion; it's history is Illuminated
with noble exhibitions of courage, con-
science and character.
What could show more heroic spirit
than the story of Postal Clerk N. j.
Miller, of Iowa? He had charge of
registered matter on certain trains be-
tween Chicago and Omaha. An acct
dent occurred, and he was found I'M
conscious, with his head lying on a
bed of live Goals. He was taken from
the car and gently laid on the grass
some distance away.
He regained consciousness, and, OBJ
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

girlhood, If one would develop it's full
est strength and possibilities, must
face some responsibility, and face it
bravely and well. Every girl ought to
have something to do, something to in
terest her, something requiring her
best energies and real earnestness. l
know so many girls who are cropping
about aimlessly through their girl
hood with no particular thing requir-
ing their energy and effort. Mind you,
I do not mean simply work. I mean
something more than this. I mean
something which calls out your love,
your intimate interest; something that
you do, not because you have to or
ought, but because you want to-a
real Strengthening responsibility.
Get something to do, then. A very
good way to start is to do something
for somebody else. Nothing chases
away the blues like that. Nothing
makes life seem quite so worth while
as to feel that a part of each day is
lived for someone else. 1t is wom-
ans nature to love to give sympathy,
to love to be depended on. That girl
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14

Today the president of the bank is
a trained banker and is the executive
head of the bank. He outlines the pol
icy of the bank, attends to the loan
ing of the money, and has to aid him
in this task not alone vice presidents
and cashiers, but an up-to-date, COM
plete credit department, in which, at
a moments notice, he can ascertain.
by means of carefully compiled sta
tistics, whether or not the account is
worth anything to the bank from
deposit or loan standpoint, how much
of the balance in the bank has been
fictitious, or, in other words, made
up of items for which the bank gives
credit on receipt, but on which it re-
ceives no returns for period of from
three or ten days. He has the bal
ances of his bank correspondents be-
fore him, also the amounts they bor-
row from month to month, and is in
close touch with every department
of the bank.
Competition is largely responsible
for the difference in the treatment of
the public today from what it was
some years since. Then a customer
had the feeling on entering a bank
that he was in morgue, where few
sober-face individuals in official ca
pacity presided at the sad occasion. A
man felt, after he had gone through
the formality Of an introduction and,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-14
By Charles Emory Smith.

Dodson) had not been at Star the men
and the mail would be at the bottom
of the river now. If the department
issues medals for bravery, certainly
Mr.. Dodson ought to have two or
three"
The recent war with Spain was dis
tinguished by many signal cases of
valor and sacrifice. But no heroism in
all it's shining records was greater than
that of modest and unassuming man
who wore no shoulder straps and bore
no military title.
Eben Brewer was a journalist of fine
accomplishments and attractive per-
sonality. He had won a good name on
the staff of Philadelphia newspaper,
and had afterwards been at the head
of a journal in Erie. With Skaters
expedition to Santiago it was made
necessary that the mail service should
accompany our forces, and Brewer was
selected as the first postal agent of the
United States in Cuba.
When the troops disembarked at
Daiquiri he established an office there,
and when the army advanced he load
ed the mail pouches on his horse and
rode to the front to deliver the letters.
AS the fighting came on he rode along
! the line, helping the wounded and car
rying them to the hospital. On his first