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The Washington times., 1903-08-16

nearly everything under the sun-ex-
cept breathing He finds minute d.
rections telling how he is TO act ard
talk in every possible emergency.
He has to be most careful IN case Of
accidents. whether they are serious Or
trivial. If John Smith sprains his loot
in alighting from the car, the conduc-
tor must interview John Smith, ard. II
possible, examine his ankle; and he
must secure the addresses of Ave or six
persons who saw John Smith spraln his
ankle. OF course that is reasonable
enough; but the same thing cannot be
said of some of the other rules. For in
stance, if a reckless driver comes along
and runs the pole of his wagon into my
car. breaking a window, / am compelled
to pay for that window. Then again If
Browns wagon scratches some OF the
paint off the side of the car, | am com
PEELED to make that good, or lose my
position.
A conductors lot is never entirely a.
happy one. During the summer he risks
his life every time he goes to collect
fares along the edge of the foot-board
on either side Of the car. He Is liable
TO collide with brick pile or a lime
kiln at any time; and, when II occurs
he is either killed or laid I'D for re-
pairs. In the winter time he is on the
back platform. half frozen. II is ONLY
fair to say that the Enclosures around
the platform of the cars of TODAY are a
great protection during Indictment wea-
thar do K.1
deserve any particular credit: IL took
a special act of legislature to make
them do it. Then a man never knows
when he is going to get a meal. He
jumps up before daylight In the morn
Ing. gulps down a hurried breakfast.
and hurries 10 the depot 10 take out his
car. He cannot afford to be a minute
late. That would be a mortal sin, not
10 be forgiven Patti could disappOint
an audience. but a car conductor must
never fail 10 be on time for the public.
When the dinner hour arrives a small
boy who lives In the neIghborhood of
the conductors home, or some member
Of his family, halls the car and passes
up the dinner pail. He cannot eat The
dinner until he reaches the depot. and
by the time he reaches the depot The
food is cold. When he is though for the
day he hurries home for supper. He is
no sooner through than he is TO bed so
that he will not oversleep himself the
next morning. 1t is not a bed of roses.
Being single man, was not affected
by the loss of home life. 1 boarded
with a conductors family, and the sac
rifces he had to make were really dis
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
The Dent Thackeray.

A new volume of the Dent edition of
has appeared. Properly. 1t is two vol
umes, being a two-volume reprint of
Philip" These little books, small
enough TO be easily carried in the
pocket. Will afford pleasure to lovers
of Thackeray who do not already pos
sess a set OF his works. The series is
issued by the Macmillan Company. in
this country. the London publishers be-
ing J.. NJ. Dent & Co.
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
HE LATEST DANISH STORY
Il Historical Romance of tie Conquest That Is Considered Good

sheer delight when he tossed her upon
the back of a paving horse. Away with
woman's fears! The world was a grand.
brave place, and men race of heroes
To ride by their sides. and share their
mighty deeds, and see their glory-what
keener joy had life to offer? Away with
fear. with forebodingl The present was
all-Glorious, and there would be no to-
morrow
"Haill Raven of Denmark"
''Shrill and clear from the opposite
hill came the notes of the English horns,
as down the green slope moved the ranks
OF English bowmen. The hum OF Danish
voices sank in breathless hush, through
the stiffness Tow the royal Zimmerman
galloped to his post. A rustic, a boom,
and the great standard was unfLrled,
giving to the breeze the dread Raven of
Denmark. Anxious eyes scanned it's
mien; should it hang motionless. droop-
ing-but no. it scared like a living bird.
Exultation burst from a thousand
threats.
Down the line came the young King
upon his white warhorse, clad for the
battle as for feast. The sun at noon
day is not more fiercely bright than was
his face. His long locks flowed behind
him on the wind like tongues of yellow
flame; and like northern lights in a blue
northern sky. the leaders fire flashed in
his eyes. So Bladder the Beautiful might
have come among the Jotuns. So the
brawny sweating hard-breathing giants
might have jostled and crowded toward
him, expectant, adoring.
las he came. he was calling out ter
rible reminders; wor.ls that were TO the
ears of his champing host what the smell
of blood is to the nostrils of wolves.
Remember St Brice's Day"
Free men, true men. remember that
We face oath-breakers. Remember how
they have spoken fine words TO us OF
plighted faith and when we have be-
lieved them and laid down our arms
they have stolen upon us in our sleep
and murdered our comrades! And our
kinswomen whom they have taken to be
their wivesl Remember St Brice's day!
Remember our murdered kim
ION he went down the line. and like a
trail in his wake rose an answering
chorus of growls and clashing steel.
Down some of the battered old faces
tears of excitement began to low. like
the water out of the riven rock; while
the delirium of others took the form of
mirth, so that they sent forth wild ter
rible laughter. to swell the uproar.
above the tumult his voice rang
like bell: Heroes and sons of heroes,
remember you fight cowardsi Remember
that, since the days of our fathers, they
have made gold do the work of steel.
To get gold TO buy peace. they will sell
their children into slavery. Sooner
than look our swords in the face, they
will yield us their daughters to be our
thrallsl Oath breakers, nothingsi VIII
ye be beaten by such? Vikings, Odin-
men, forward
His answer was the bursting roar
OF the Danish battlecry. Like an ava
lanche loosed from It's moorings. they
swept down the hillside upon the Eng
lish bowmen.'
Primitive, savage, perhaps; and yet,
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
LITERARY NOTES.
The March Against Quebec.

new work of historical Significance
is "Arnold's March from Cambridge TO
Quebec" by Justin H. Smith Late in
the summer of I775 Washington dis
patched a small force under Benedict
Arnold, through the Kennebec valley
against Quebec. hoping either to gain
possession OF the Canadian capital or to
aid Schuyler by drawing Carleton to its
defense. The book is a careful and criti-
cal account of the expedition.
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
A GEN EMAN OF THE
u SOUTH" by William CARROT


Brown, is a book which com
mands attention from the reputation OF
the author. before 1t is even begun. Mr.
Browns historical work on Southern
history has been marked by a fairness
and moderation of treatment very rare
in the discussion OF sectional questions
just now, and the more TO be COM
mended for that. A native of the South.
he has lived for some years in the
North. and this. his first novel. deals
with the life of the lower South before
the war.
Its tone is somber. but not exactly
sad. The hero, Henry Selden. is
planter whose happiness has been
wrecked through the "code" which de-
manded that every gentleman avenge in
suit, real or imagined, by recourse TO
the duel The son of a man who killed
another on the field of honor" he
promised his mother on her death bed
that he would never fight duel. On
the fulfllmeat of this promise at any
cost the plot of the book rests.
The style is individual to the last de-
gree. The author is evidently in earn
est. imbued with the ideals which he is
to express. yet careful above
all TO be Just. to be fair. to be gentle.
The combination is singularly attrac-
tive Moreover. Mr.. Brown possesses a
seemingly intuitive sense of the reasons
for things. a faculty for divining hidden
causes for apparently unaccountable
conditions, and this makes mis- book a
study of social and political history as
well as a novel His Henry Selden and
Robert Underwood are two strongly con-
trasting and extreme types of Southern
planter.
"The Cedars," Southern Home.
Two extracts from the book will serve
10 give some hint of its character and
style. The first is partial portrait of
the hero.
MANY thought. from the quiet. unad-
venturous~life the son had chosen. that
in him the timid. soft-eyed mother. and
not the iron father. chiefly survived.
CeFldlEIy, IOT Iudl region anu those
times, and for a man of his breeding
the choice was somewhat strange. The
patriarchal mode of life which grew out
of slavery had given to the society of
the South a dignity and an outward show
of stability characteristic OF ancient
rather than extremely youthful commu-
mites; but the Black Belt was still
very raw country, with many, things to
Indicate the barbaTism from which it
had been brought so quickly by master
full men into a state OF civilization
though not, indeed, entirely modern civ
ilization. For miles and miles around
The Cedars. no town or city broke the
dull monotony of forests and cotton
fields. Year by year. as the wasteful
processes Of slavery Slapped the virtue
from the soil, new fields were won from
the forests. but still no mill or factory
or furnace heraIded those mighty and
Industrial forces that give ouI
modern life its essential character. To
live on at The Cedars meant not merely
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
ItTHE WARD OF KING CANUTE, I"
by OltiHe A. Liljenkrantz. au-
"A H. "A .srto n,lrnn ne L nif

by Oltilie A. LilJenkrantz, au-
thor of THE Thrall of Left
the Lucky" sustains the reputation
which the author made in her previous
book, and something moro. 1t is
better book, and a bigger one; in fact,
it is one of the historical romances
which may be called good.
AS the title indicates, 1t is a story
of the Danish conquest, the heroine be-
ing a Danish girl, Randalin, Frode's
daughter, who is, by the fortune of war.
compelled TO masquerade as a boy. and
personate her brother, Fridtiof. She
becomes the ward of Canute, whose
character is fully brought out, is cap
tured by young English leader, Sebert
Oswaldsson, the Lord of Ivarsdale. and
between the castle of Sebert and the
court of Canute has many thrilling ad-
ventures. 1t is, perhaps, first an ad-
venture story, and then a romance;
and yet the love interest is strong
enough to make one hesitate to give 1t
second place.
A Vivid Narrative.
The striking quality in the style OF
Miss Liljenkrantz is the vividness or her
portraitures. There is not character
in the story, from Canute himself TO
Dearwyn, his wifes waitingwoman, VINO
does not stand out clear and distinct
against the background of tossing ban
ners and glinting swords, troubled camp
and peaceful country. Not person IN
the tale says or does anything in the
least out of consonance with his or her
nature. The whole thing is consistent
This Is a particularly good stony ior
young people to read, and 1t may safely
be recommended TO any young student
of history 1t will fix in the mind OF the
reader many facts regarding the Danish
conquest which would otherwise remain
misty and obscure. and 1t gives better
idea of the general atmosphere OF the
period than a dozen historical lectures.
IL is not TO be supposed that every detail
is founded on historical records, though
the author has evidently been careful in
gathering her material; but the general
from the story is undoubtedly correct.
1t is tale OF ringing shouts and lying
arrows, of sword clash and trumpet
blast. OF love and laughter and craft
ind fighting. This is the picture whlo h
the author paints of the morning Of the
battle:
The Danish Camp.
''It would have been a dull soul that
would not have been stirred by sight
OF the Danish camp. The host was like
a forest of mighty trees tossing and
swaying before the approach OF a storm.
Lines OF moving helms shot lightning
flashes through the dusk of the shady
grove: while the hundreds of jubilant
voices blended into rumbling thunder.
Through the tumult the blaring horns
thrilled like pulse beats
"Fiaring crimson under her brown
skin, Randalin's Viking blood leaped TO
answer the call For Rothgar's shout
she gave another, and laughed out of
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
aThompscn's Progress"

One of the brightest comments on Cut
life Hyne's clever book, ''Thompson's
Progress Is 70 the effect that Mr.
Hyne's descriptions of stolen spreads
might well be taken before dinner.
instead of a cocktail.
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
The Historian of the Standard Oil Com
par.

Gilbert Holland Montague. who has
recently written a history Of the Stand
ard Oil Company. is a Harvard graduate
Of 1901. and won the Ricardo prize
scholarship by an impromptu historical
essay on Democracy and Empire" He
also won the Bowdoin Literary prize
with the final half of his history of the
Standard oil Company. He is a native
OF Springfield. Mass.
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
An English Writer.

B. L. Farjeon. the novelist, who died
recently at his home in Hampstead.
England. was a son-inlaw of Joseph
Jefferson. and his first novel "Grif. )"
published in 1870. laid the foundation OF
his reputation. A story for children by
this author was secured shortly before
his death by "St. Nicholas" and will be
published in that magazine next year
with illustrations by Fanny Y. Cory.
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
II ToRKING on the back platform
NV Of street car is generally
4hn Last rnarrt Of @ man prhn


the last resort OF q man who
has loet everything but industry. I do
not say this to belittle conductors or
motormen- consider it high praise.
What 1 mean Is that know of no form
of labor. however difficult, that is hard
er than working on street car. Many
men who fail IN business, cannot make
ends meet in their profession. or lose
clerical positions. say mo. thank you. %
when they are offered positions on the
cars. They would sooner beg, steal, or
live of their friends. You may rest
whatever his faults. is not afraid of hard
work II must not be assumed that Il
is easy to secure employment on the
cars. In the last few years there has
been a slight Improvement in the hours
and a slight increase In the pay aud
there are hundreds waiting for men 10
die or resign. Some Of them do one
or the other. after a while; and now
and then-but rarely, though-some man
is discharged. In my time. and since
the introduction of the trolley in Chi
esgo, where first went on the cars.
there has been distinct Improvement
in the class OF men who seek the work
And yet the business is not made up
wholly of Chesterheids and college pro-
fessors. II could not be.
Sarcasm: Not at all Let me illus
trate. When I had been raiiroading a
week I had. one night. very crowded
car. A crowd OF men and women blocked
up the back platform. called:
Move up front. There's plenty of
room up front"
But they stood there and never moved
an inch. had actually to push them
up front I had been working over ten
hours and was not feeling any too well,
The Washington times., 1903-08-16

that Selden should fall to take his place
among the leaders of his people: II
meant also that he should never be
strong current of human life. 1t meant
that for communion with his spiritual
fellows he must go TO books: that for
worthy exercise of its unusual powers
his mind must fall back upon the big.
naked problems OF life. The high hopes
the brief passion. the bitter sorrow of
his youth must stand for human expert
ence 20 his chastened manhood.
A Charming Southern Girl.
Yet to such serenity had he attained
that none of those who marveIed at his
choice ever spoke of him in mere pity
The settled calm OF his face, the peace
OF his gray eyes. gave no man the right
to call him unhappy He showed. in fact
no signs of restlessness In his planter :
life, but lived IT on as simply as though
he had never contemplated any other
Only little Beverley. when sometimes
she came upon him unawares. ever tried
to read the mystery of his straining
gaze into the white clouds of the
breathless summer days or the starIit
brilliancy of the Southern skies at night
The little creature would often end by
throwing herself upon his breast In an
agony of helpless sympathy"
This same little Beverley is one of the
most charming little Southern maidens
in literature.
Of Different Type.
OF the opposing type 20 Selden, Robert
Underwood. the author says:
ION the plantations of the South
while slavery endured, there were types
Of men developed such as neither Amer
lea nor any other country seems any
longer to bring forth. For men were
permitted there, as now they seldom are
anywhere in Christendom, to go on AMI
be whatever they began TO be in their
cradles A certain sameness is bred in Us
by the general uniformity of the condi-
tions under which we live, and by our
too full acquaintance with each others
lives. But when hundred slaves did the
bidding OF one master. and every grea;
plantation was principality. a little
despotism. there were Americans sub
ject TO influences now little known in
America or elsewhere. The chief of these
were power and solitude. Let the philo-
sophical reader consider what these must
have meant to man naturally OF
like souls to ours. and he may come TO
a better understanding of Henry SeIden
and Robert Underwood. He can under
stani neither of them unless he remem-
bers that The Cedars and Hill Top were
seats of nearly absolute power, and that
hardly the castles of medieval Germany
were remoter from the vast surges of
modern life than those two plantation
homes To be powerful and yet much
alone was the lot in life that fell to the
sons of both these houses Neither in his
youth had ever been beaten upon and
rounded 10 conformity by any constant
contact and attrition of his fellows. or
ever brought to feel himself engulfed ia
any swirling. streaming sea of human
joys and pains and strifes such as we all
much feel about US now"
Underwood Is not exactly the villain,
though he plays the Villains part-th>
authors harshest term is that he was
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
A Maine Novel.

Charles Clark Mum, author of Uncle
Terry" has written a novel of the
Maine forests. TO be called THE Her
nit"
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
New Fairy Tales.

"A Partnership in Magic by Charles
Battell LOOMS, is a new fairy tale in a
modern setting Just published
The Washington times., 1903-08-16
:VARED EXPERIENCES OF A STREET CAR CONDUCTOR

THE conductor who gives the follow
ing sketch of the work and everyday life
OF one whom the general public is prone
TO regard as a functionary OF comfortable
habits has earned his living on street
car platforms in many large cities OF
the United States. He still earns his
living in that way. and is not altogether
dissatisfied with IT. There appears 10
be very obvious moral of industry and
Industrial conditions TO be drawn from
the significant fact that the men who
handle the electric switch in front of a
car and pull the bell rope at the back
are, in large majority of cases, quail
flied mechanics whom conditions of their
trade make eager applicants for places
where work is Just as hard and hours
oven longer.-Editor Independent"
New-York tribune., 1903-07-15
4 TIMELY UTTERANCE.

Justice Brewers declaration that lynching is
murder, and that the participants in the crime
can be held by any court in the land for murder
in the same degree if the crime were COM
mitted by an individual, gives no new definition
OF the acts by which the country has been IN
creasingly disgraced in recent years, and puts
no new ban upon them. Coming, however from
a justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States that resolute and timely assertion is like
ly to produce a salutary effect 1t should at
least clear the vision and rectify the opinions OF
many persons whose detestation of other forms
of lawlessness has blinded them to the real nat
ure of criminal reprisals. 1t should, further
more, strengthen and unity the sentiments of
an undoubted majority of the people whose sep
arate protests have hitherto lacked the force
which the public voice is capable of exerting.
Justice Brewer says: There is going to be
reaction against the atrOcious crimes with
(which the papers have been filed. The fact
that the people are now interesting themselves
'in the discussion of this problem makes it
manifest that there is a tendency toward a
change 1 expect that it will come soon.
There are welcome indications that Justice
Brewer is not mistaken-that indeed, the re-
action which he fOresees has already begun.
The Wilmington horror found few apOlOgists
and evoked a sterner and more general con-
demnation than has usually followed outbreaks
of mob frenzy 1t is gratifying fact also that
Governor Durbns incsive utterances concern
ing the Evansville riot won such almost univer-
sal appreciation as vividly recalled the manner
in which the country responded to the late Sen
ator Davis's grim admonition to constituent
who sympathized with Debs. These are signs
of a tendency which has even now set in-of
coming development of public opinion which we
believe will put an end to the hideOus orgies Of
lynch law.
Justice Brewer spoke in his private capacity.
We hope soon to see his righteous assertion OF
a plain fact of law being carried into practical
effect by public prosecutors and juries That is
what is needed, and few lessons Of that kind
would perhaps be sufficient
New-York tribune., 1903-07-15
NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

Newport July Il (SpeciaD.-Mrs. Payne Whitney
entertained at luncheon this afternoon at Edger-
ston in honor Of Lady Minto and Lady Eileen Ell
liot The table decorations pink and white
Mr. and Mrs. John H. storer and family. OF
Washington, arrived to-day at Waterside In Wash
ington-st.
Mrs. Henry L. Burnett is expected here shortly
to visit her sister. Mrs Sidney ]. Smith. at ths
Hartshorn cottage
Registered at the Casino to-day were Joseph A
Minott Mrs W. H. Osgood. Mrs. French E. Chad
The SO-footer Raccoon, which John R. Drexel viii
this season, has been launched and Is being
put in readiness for sailing
Mr.. and Mrs Rudolph Agassiz have arrived and
will spend the summer with Professor Alexander
Agassiz at Castle HILL
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont are at BeIcourt
for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. w. Starr Miller have opened their
cottage at the junction of Jefery Road and Ocean
ave.
Mrs. Astor will arrive tomorrow at Beachwood
for the
The second weekly Casino hop OF the season
which will take place Thursday evening prom
ises TO be a brilliant affair Several large dinners
are announced for that night after which the host
esses will take their guests to the Casino dance
Mrs. John r. DrexeI has issued cards for a
dinner for the young people Thursday Mrs
Elisha Dyer, 1r., also entertans that evening
DR.. Bellamy. of North Carolina, is the guest OF
DR.. and Mrs. Russell Bellamy at Deluain in Mar
ragansett-ave.
The Rev. Arthur Wentworth Eaton, Of New-Yorlz
is the guest of Baron and Baroness Raymond Sell
iere at Inchiqun.
new feature will be introduced at the polo game