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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

who, besides conducting an immense
circulating library, are the sole pro-
prletorS OF railway book stalls through
out the United Kingdom. Frequently
MI. Faux acted as cenSOr-declining to
allow certain novel or other volume
10 De handled by his company-which
was bad business for the author of the
work unless he could manage to make
sufncient advertising capital out of the
occurrence. Haux spent practically the
whole day in his office, Judging books
-that IS, satisfying himself if they
would be worthi handling. In this way
ne developed such an instinct that in
some cases few pages would tell him
whether bookiwould do; in others,
chapter. sUnluckily, however, he
never kept any record of the number of
works thus dealt with. He began life
at IL in a commercial house, but soon
gravltated into a book shop, and then
joined the Smiths, whom he served fifty
years, rising from one post to another.
Mr.. Faux says the first book he remen1-
bers reading was Frederick Random,
ana Robinson Crusoe" is his favorite
novel; His business brought him close
ly in touch with both publishers and
writers, and he was intimate with Sir
Walter Besant and James Rice.
The recent dinner in London to the
memory of Henry George attracted a
good deal of attention, especially as
delegates We're present from the United
States, Natal, the Transvaal, Canada,
india and Australia. Oddly enough,
the gathering was held at house once
occupied by Edmund Burke. The Eng
fish League for the Taxation of Land
Values was, of course, host, and in his
speech it's chairman declared that few
men had doomed so large as George on
h1story's page, THAT few had exercised
more force of intellect, more power of
imagination. and that few had more
fully impressed their ideas upon not
only their own generation, but upon
generations to come.
SO comparatively few continental
novels are translated into English now
adays that it may be worth while to
give an idea of the plot of a recent
italian romance which has scored heav-
lily in its authors country. This is
La Nipote di Professors Romualdo,
by Enrico Castelnuovo. The professor
here occupies the chair of mathematics
at an Italian university, but chemistry
is his real love- and he has led life
OF practical seclusion in his laboratory
up to the time when word comes from
Brazil that his sister, a widow, has died
and left her little daughter to his care.
He has the child brought to his home,
and, of course, she grows into beauti-
IuI girl ana ne EallS IN love WITH nef'
Equally, of course, she bestows her
affections on a younger man, an artist,
who is attracted solely by her beauty.
But one day while the professor, ac-
companied by his niece, is experiment.
ing in his laboratory a terrible explo-
sion occurs, which ruins the girls
looks. Her lover" breaks off their en-
gagement, when the damsel turns to
her uncle, who finally marries her, en-
abled to do so by a special royal de-
cree. Whereupon the gods bless the
union by restoring the girls beauty i'll
greater perfection than ever.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
WAITS OF THE WIRES.

i LAREDO, Tex, Oct. 1S.-While there
are still many cases of yellow fever in
the city, the work being done by the ma
rile hospital service and the state health
department shows results in the gradual
decrease in the number of deaths. The
official bulletin for the past twenty -four
20; deaths. 6; total cases, 400; total
deaths to date, u.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. Oct 1S.-C
Schmitt, of Chicago, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Butchers and
Meat Cutters. has been in conference here
today with the local men who have made
demands for an increase of 10 per cent,
but no results were reached. and it seems
probable that about ] 800 men in the pack
ing houses here win strike on Tuesday.
HONOLULU. Oct 1S.-The steamer
IsleWoi.th left today for the Gilbert islands
with 200 Gilbert islanders, the last of sew
eral thousand imported during the last
twenty-four years Tor plantation labor.
AS laborers they have proved satisfac-
tory. Many of them are destitute.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. Oct. 1S.-The in
stallation of Dr.. Kaufman Kohler. until
the late Dr.. wise in the presidency Of the
Union Hebrew college. was an interna-
tionaI occasion mere today. with many
prominent visitors.
MEXICO, Mo-. Oct. Isabel Mitchell,
negro, aged twenty, known as Sonny
Boy" killed another negro, Jim Hayes.
and wounded three others at a negro
dance IN TINS CITY laSt night. All the
wounded will recover. Mitchell escaped.
NEW YORK. Oct 1S.-After visit of
two weeks in this port the French triple
screw cruiser Jurien de la Graviere. in
command of Capt. Lemoyne, departed to-
day for Philadelphia and the West In
dies.
! PLATTSBIIRG. N. Y, Oct lS-Norti-
ern New. York had It's first SNOW storm of
the season today. The mountains about
Lake Placid. Loon lake. Chatee ugay- lake
and Lake Titus are white with snow.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

BY reason of it human interest is Royal
Palaces and Their Memories by Sarah. A.
Tooley, to be issued Immediately by the
A.. Vessels company. Mrs. Tooley's aim
royal palaces and is almost an anecdotal
history of the English throne
Inc history of Windsor castle is par
deavor succeeds completely to focus the
great events as they have transpired CEN
1mry by century until the present time.
Inc Illustrations are excellent and quite
worthy OF the letter press.
Jack London's new book is called "Peo-
PIE or the Abyss" A little more than a
year ago Mr. London went down into the
East end of London and lived for a few
nonths among the poorer working people
what he saw and did and how the people
IN tnat part of London live. The book,
Which mas been running as a serial in
one OF the magazines, will be fully illus
trated from photographs.
The Macmillan company, which has Just
published Canon Ainger's Life of Crabbe''
IN the English Men OF Letters series,
promises for publication before Christ
mas Mr. Austin Dobson's Life of Fan
ny Burney'' and the Life of Jeremy
When a young writer places his first
novel with publisher before it is even
typewriter, and on terms that include
clAey, iiC may ne COIl-
Sldered In luck. But when a prominent
LONDON publisher. after reading the galley
proofs. accepts his novel for simultaneous
publication in England. the unknown writ
er may with some reason be said to have
struck it rich Yet this is exactly what
Mr.. Philip Payne has done with his dra-
matte story of Chicago life and American
politics entitled THE Mills of Man"
Which is considered by many critics the
nearest approach to "tne great American
novel; that has appeared in ten years. In
any case it is rapidly becoming one of
one of the most widely read books of the
day.
Messrs. Rand McNally & Co. are Mr..
Payne's publishers in this country and
MesSrs. Hutchinson & Co. in London
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

er Whom he finds starving outised in.
the snow. He reSuscitates him and
discovers him to be an adventurer of
the most extraordinary character.
Cockran-which is his name-has but
one ear, the other having been cut off
IN some savage encounter, and on a
chain running through the loose skin
OF ms neck, is strung a green baubIe
winch opens and contains the man of
strange country. More grewsome still
TINS ancient mariner has been scalped.
and when he wishes to terrifv the
beholders, he takes off his wig and dis
plays an uncovered skull. The doctor
is much mystified by his unknown Wis
1tor, and wishes he could rid himself
OF him, but he is spent and hungry. and
the doctor hates to turn him out in
the storm. Finally the fact that he is
harboring some disreputable stranger
leaks out in the village, and the doctor
became SO unpopular that his house is
stoned and the old sailor tells him his
secret and begs him to go with him.
Inc map he wears about his neck is
OF the golden kingdom of Mononotana
Wnlch the mariner has discovered and
explored. It is a storhouse of gold and
precious stones, and he persuades the
DOCTOR 10 leave his village home and
set san with him. With them goes the
village smith, a very Hercules in
strength VINO plays most important
part IN the subsequent proceedings
Inc remainder of the book is an &C.
count OF the adventures in this strange
klngdom situated in the very heart of
AFRICA. The awesome appearance of
Cockran's uncovered skull saves them
more than once. Rider Haggard
clark Russell and several other writer's
Woulu better look to their laurels. for
Andrew Balfour outdistances them ali
In this remarkable story 1t is a hook
Wmch VIII be a mine of delight 70
poys, ana is sufficiently entrancing to
the ordinary reader ~
The New Thought SInpIIfied-Rv 1Io,,,-,.
Wood. Lee & Shepard Rosf9n nithS
1SherS. For sale by St PanJ Pool, P 80
Stationery company. anu
Henry Wood has written several
other volumes on the New Thoueh+ +"
ana this small one is in reality tn male
ms other books plain to the uninitiate6
Inc adherents of the so-called new
manner of thinking claim for 1t that #
- petteF tnan the old religions, and. in
u manner ill, taxes their place. In reality.
the New Thought seems 70 81
mixture of Unitarianism and huneni-
tar1aplsm, and in place of the gIorifica-
uon OF Christ, is the glorification Of
man. The book is full of Christ;ar
science phases, such as the at-ona-
ness, the oVer-soul, the all-in-one.nase
Hho Whlle the writer claims that he r.
explaining the New Thought' s;,o,,i.,
ana without occult terms, there are
many worthy persons who woui5 MT
the book down wondering what If 1as
az about. In the appendix are sorae
mental and spiritual gymnastic eya elro
Uses WHICH, after going into the si.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
LOOKED INTO AN
HAWAIIAN VOLCANO
Explorers Ascertain the True lnwardness
of the Restless Mauna Loa.

HONOLULU, Oct 1s-An exploring
party of thirteen. the first to reach Mo-
kuapopo, the summit of the crater of
Mauna Loa, gives reliable details of the
eruption The party suffered severely
from mountain sickness and cold. They
found the inside of the crater very active.
Out of the mass of molten lava fiery gey-
sers were shooting to the height Of 200
feet or more, but there was no overflow.
An increase of heat in the Dewey crater.
lower down, indicates the possibility of an
outbreak there. Kilaukea remains nor
NAL.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
MURDERED OR
HELD FOR RANSOM?
Large Reward Is Offered for the Flndino
of Young Philadelphia Millionaire.

BRISTOL, Tenn, Oct. lit is now
five days since E. L. Wentz. the young
Philadelphia millionaire, so mysteriously
disappeared in the mountains of Wise
county, Va, and Notwithstanding 900
men have been securing the mountains
Tor four days no clew has been gained as
mans brother. Daniel L. Wentz. mas i'm
creased the reward from So 600 to S25'-
O0O, provided the young man is returned
alive: The reward if the young man
should be found dead. is SIS 600 The
father of the missing man is hurrying
from Philadelphia.
The most plausible theory is that young
Wentz has been murdered in the noun
talns as matter of spite work, for his
firm had dealings with trespassers on
the lands of the Virginia Coal 81 Iron
GO: 1t Is not improbable however. that
k1dnapers are holding him for ransom.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
DETECTIVES VIEWS
OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Opinion of the Head of Scot
land Yard, Which DoyIe's
Hero Sighted.

Special Foreign Service.
LONDON, Oct. 1S.-Sherlock Holiness
confided to DR.. Watson so many times
his unreseryed opinion of the official
detectives, or Scotland Yarders," that
Conan Doyle's readers will be espec-
tally interested in what Sir Robert An
derson, head of London's criminal in
vestigation department, has just writ
ten-apropos of Holmes return
concerning the estimate which the
regular" men held of the amateur
sleuth- hound of Baker street.
Perhaps it will be best to give Sir
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
RUMMACINC AMONG
THE LATEST BOOKS
Andrew BaIfour's 1.-THE Golden
Kingdom" Woods "The New
Thought SImpIified," Etc.

The Golden kingdom-By Andrew Balfour
L. c. Page & Co., Boston, publishers.
For sale by st. Paul Book and Station
cry company.
A very curious and ingenious book,
this. 1t purports to be a manuscript
found by an English soldier in a de-
serted Boer farm house after the late
war. The story is supposed to have
been written by DR.. Henry Mortimer.
who flourished at the end of the sew
enteenth century. The tale opens in
one of the English country districts at
the bachelor home of DR.. Mortimer,
where he takes in mysterious wander
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
A REDIscoVERED FoRERUNNER
OF OMAR

The quatrains of the Arab poet,
Abul-Ala, the forerunner of Omar
Khayyam, by which the tentmaker was
evidently greatly Influenced, have just
been translated into English for the
first time by Ameen F. Rihani, native
of Syria, and Doubleday, Page & Co.
have published them. Mr.. Rihani was
a travelling actor for a time in this
country and after that a law student
Then he went back home to the wild
mountains Of Syria and taught English
TO the monks and priests, learned
Arabic from them, and so found out
about Abul-Ala, whose writings the
devout Mohammedans had kept from
the world for nearly thousand years.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
RAILROAD OFFICIAL AND AUTHOR

To be an important and active rail-
road official and student, traveller and
author as well is a remarkable COM
bination. The late C. A. Higgins,
whose ITO California and Back" is just
from the press of Doubleday, Page &
Co., had descended all the trails of the
Grand canyon of Arizona, camped for
weeks in the inner gorge, and also on
the rim. Besides this, he was initiated
into one of the most mysterious and
exclusive Moki secret societies, and had
an intimate knowledge of both ancient
and modern Indian life in the South
west. These are the sort of things his
new book tells about, which is, besides,
a complete guide to travellers.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

Deposits received subject to check and
interest paid monthly upon Daily Bal
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

The November Century will begin pub
lication of some new Thackeray letters,
ship with an American Family For
years the existence has been known of
this series of jealously guarded and en-
tirely unpublished letters by Thackeray
written to various members of the family
of the late George Baxter, of New York
city. Permission to publish these letters
from Miss Lucy W. Baxter, who con-
tributes introduction and notes; from Mrs
Richie, the great writer's accomplished
daughter; and from Smith, Elder & Co.,
the London publishers OF Thackeray's
works. The letters, it is promised, will
have well-nigh the interest and com
pleteness of new story from the magic
pen which wrote "Pendennis' and ''The
NeWconeS."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

a singularly fortunate union Of subject
and author is seen in the October Atlantic
to which Lyman Abbott contributes an
appreciation and personal estimate of
Henry Ward Beecher whom he succeeded
in Plymouth church, and with whom he
was for many years an editorial co-labor-
er. Mr.. Abbott's is, indeed. perhaps the
most searching and authoritative study of
tEit remarkable man which has yet got
into print.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

Six GIrIs--By Fanny Belle Irving. Dana,
Estes & Co., Boston, publishers. For
sale by st. Paul Book and Stationery
company.
Few books have enjoyed greater
popularity than the six Girls" written
by niece of Washington Irving. AL
though first published more than TWEEN
ty years ago, its success seems to be
growing rather than declining. The
reasons for this are obvious to any
one who has read the story. Books
written for girls are common, but
books written from the point of view
OF girlhood and embodying it's very
spirit and atmosphere, are exceedingly
rare, as every publisher and many
parents have discovered.
The author of six Girls" was en-
dowed with the gift of realizing the
period of girlhood with sympathy and
imagination. Her young heroines are
absolutely real AT least, so the reader,
while following their fortunes, conf
IDENTIFY believes, which is the main point.
The publishers are frequently in re-
ceipt of letters from women who were
brought up on the history Of Bea and
Kitty and ErneStine and the rest, who
are DESTROYS of introducing their own
daughters and those of their friends
to the same charming society. A book
like this needs no advertising. 1t wins
it's way by something far more eff
fective; personal recommendation
among readers.
The full-page drawings by Mr..
Learnard, made especially for this new
edition, catch the spirit of the author
with uncommon fidelity.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

lence," you to read aloud to yourself.
These, it is claimed, WILL in the course
of time, bring the Searcher after truth
into the new thought and make 1t pos
sible for him to espiritualize himself.
All these books of the new thought
show that their writer's and promoters
are acquainted with fragments of
great spiritual science known for CEN
turtles and practiced by holy souls who
have purified their hearts and lived for
God. The followers of modern thought
have taken what they pleased of this
science. eliminated Christ as God, and
put in His place glorified humanity.
Then changing old terms for novel
ones, they have called this old idea the
New Thought" The fundamental
principles are as old as Christianity;
you get whatever you give, aspire to
good and evil will not touch you, live
in the presence of the allgood, that is,
the presence of God. In spite of these
claims there is nothing new about these
maxlms; they were exemplified in the
lives of virtuous persons centuries ago
who lived above the world for the
greater glory of God. Now we are to
be virtuous for the greater glory of
man.
A Story of the WiIderness-By Charles
Clark Mum. Lee & Shepard. Boston.
publishers. For sale by st. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
1t is needless to say that Charles
Clark Mum has his audience. He won
instant appreciation with Pocket
Island" and vastly extended his de-
voted circle of readers with Uncle
Terry" In his latest and ablest work,
'"The Hermit: A Story of the Wilder
ness" the latter term being used to
mean the unbroken forests of
upper Maine Mr.. Mum has
gone to his own familiar ground,
close to the heart of nature.
The joy of woods and waters is here;
there is much of camp life and wood
lore. The power Of the forest is strong
upon the reader, and the spell is in
creased to the greatest intensity by a
thrilling double mystery in the deep
Maine forest, involving the character
who gives the title to the book. 1t
is, moreover, genuine old-fashioned
love story of the kind that the public
never tires of reading. The hero is
the most mature and manly of all Mr..
Munn's similar characters, and all will
sympathiZe with the noble-hearted
manner in which he seeks to atone to
the heroine, superb type Of attractive
and capable young New England wom-
anhood, for an earlier mistake. Of
the other characters Aunt Com
fort, central figure, is a Mother of
Israel" of the kind that every country
born man or woman remembers. Old
Cy Walker is a modern Leatherstock-
ing, and the others fill their parts adj
mirably. Both the humor and the pa
thos of village life are impressively
shown in the description of Green
vale," and presented with all the knack
of a good story teller who knows his
subject as does almost no other writer
in the field where Mr. Mum reigns
supreme. 1' The dedication, ITO those
who love the sparkle of rippled lakes
hid in the wilderness, the glowing camp
fire chasing away darkness the song
hearts vibrate to the memory of the old
brown schoolhouse, the moss coated
mill and pond smiling with lilies"
well expresses the spirit of a book
which will be sure to be very widely
read.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

volume from first 10 last attractive
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

The enormous labor which the biography
of Gladstone has laid on John Morley
shoulders is indicated by the simple state
ment that he and his secretaries have in
the course of their long task examined
about 100000 documents. Mr.. Morley's
book, which the Macmillan company will
publish in three volumes, will contain gen.
erous extracts from Mr.. Gladstones pri-
Yate diaries.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

Norma Wanna" Maeterlinck's remark
able drama, has been presented for the
first time on an. American stage. A Ger
man version was received in Chicago
recently with unusual enthusiasm-the
press being unanimous in its favor.
The English version. translated by A.
I. Gu Pont Coleman, was published re-
Gently by the Harpers. Mr.. Coleman. who is
a, graduate of Oxford, is at present in
structor in the College Of the City of New
York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19

"The Metal of the Pasture" ranks first
and 1.-THE Call of the Wild fourth on the
Bookman's list of best-selling books
through the month of August Mr.. Lon
don's novel has been greeted with as much
enthusiasm in England as here, Clement
1.-THE Cali of the Wild is "the hem most re-
markable book of fiction written by so
young man that I have ever read
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-19
BOOK NOTES.

Recent reports from Russia of a revival
of anti-Semitie persecution will increase
interest in Mr.. Michael Dav1tt's investi
taken by Mr. Davitt in his remarkable
book. Within the Pale just published
by Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co., is confirm
ed by the recent report of ]. B. Greenhut
to Secretary Hay This report declares
that the Russian government believed
permanent blow could be struck at social
ism, but Mr.. Greenhut makes no mention
of the ritual murder propaganda which
melted the Moldavian peasants to the
KiShineM maSsacres. ~ 30. 20. -
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1903-06-17
Movable Drop. In Diamonds.

Drops In Diamonds.
1t has long been known that dia-
monds, especially the class known as
'rose dianionds,'' are likely TO explode
II subjected only to what would seem a
very ordinary degree Of heat, such as
strong rays from the sun, etc. 1t is
now believed that the explosions are
the result Of the rapid expansion of
certain volatile liquids inclosed in cayi-
ties near the center of these precious
stones. A great many diamonds, even
though cut, mounted and worn as gems
of perfection, are still in an unfinished
condltion-that Is, the liquid drop from
which the stone is being formed has
not as yet deposited all Of its 'tpure
crystals Of carbon" These movable
drops may occasionally be seen with
the naked eye.
When this iss the case, n strong mi.
croscopc will give the drop the appear
n C Of n bubble in the fluid of a car
penter's level. 1t is also highly prob
able that besides the liquid mentioned
these cavities may contain gases under
great tension. This being the case,
one may readily comprehend how q
very small amount OF heat would
cause the liquid ana gas to expand to
such a degree that the diamond would
give way with all the characteristics
Of a miniature explosion.