Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-28

strikingly the wretched causes of our
present financial difficulties.
There are stories by Eden Philpotts,
Harrison Rhodes, j. j. Bell, YOne No
guchi and many others. and the illus
trations for them are by Bayard
Jones, +. Gruger. Harrison Fisher, o.
Toaspern and Mary Wilson Watkins.
When Caspar Whitney became edi-
tor of Outing, he promised Il maya
zine which should reflect in text and
pictures, the human side of the out
door life in addition to being authOra-
tive. In the December number he
seems TO have made good his promise,
for. from cover to cover, the maya
zine teens with human interest and
living photographs. There are the
usual helpful departments for sports
men. touching shooting. fishing. etc,
and Mr.. Whitney's comment on cur
rent matters of the outdoor world. Al
together. with it's frontispiece in col
or. its profuse Illustrations. and its
entertaining text, it is one of the most
inviting of the months magazines.
Outing, in a word, is a living maya
zine.
Interesting details of Tolstoy's life
in Moscow are told by Professor Ed
ward ~ Steiner in his work, "Tolstoy
the Man" which is to be issued by the
Outlook company. 'rolstey's favor
lite walk in Moscow" says the writer.
''was down the river bank to the
Erelm. that mixture of church and
state, of barbarism and civilization,
that last citadel of an absolute mon
archy among civilized people. Rug
ged. quaint. and queer as is the Krelm
was this frequent visitor ON whose
footsteps fastened numbers of beg
CARS from whom he never turned
away. One day, he says. he was going
to give some money to beggar when
the watch came and with the butt of
his gun began to drive away the i'm
Fortunate fellow. Tolstcy remon-
strated,. and asked him whether he
did not know the gospel, in which
Christ commanded us to love our
neighbor and do good even to those
who hate us. and the puzzled gend
arme replied shrewCllY. You may
know the gospel. but you don't know
the military regulations.
The con entS of the December Sue
cess christmas issue). show the re-
markable manner in which this maya
zine has taken a leading place among
the popular publications of the world.
1t contains the latest poem by James
Do
fascinating piece of work done in the
hoosier masters best vein. Mr.. Riley
also contributes an interesting inter
view on children. evolving the ideas of
bachelor who has a large family of
children and is overload of them
Mr.. Riley being the bachelor and the
children of his poems his family.
Vance Thompson contributes a some
what startling article entitled. No
table People | Have interviewed" in
which he tells of his experience as
journalist while trying to secure i'm
formation from such great men as
lola. Dreyfus. and Bismarck. and Incl
dentally discloses hitherto unknown
diplomatic secrets. The Peasant
Days of Pope Plus "" by Salvatore
Cortesi contains some remarkable
stories of the pOntiff's boyhood days.
In How to Decorate Your Own
Home" Josephine Wright Chapman.
gives timely hints to those who cannot
afford costly adornmeuts. Does the
Higher Education of Women Tend to
Happiness in Marriage" by Charlotte
Perkins Gilman. explains itself. The
Freedom of the Black-Faced RAM" by
Charles G.. ID. Roberts, is one Of the
most human of his nature studies.
Every lawyer i'm America will read
with interest the witty sayings of
Judge Logan +. Buckley. of Georgia.
who forms the subject of character
sketch by H. Gerald Chaplin. Good
fiction is supplied by Henry Kitchell
Webster. Samuel Merwin. John Oxen
ham, and Miss IONA Gale, and there
are new poems by Mr.. Riley. Holman
F. Day. Alfred j. Waterhouse. Robert
Gray. and Mary Gage Heyer. The
Success Portfolio on heavy proof
paper, contains reproduction of a
painting by Robert II. Roth and por-
traits of Miss Alice Roosevelt and
Pope Plus y.
Stockholders Meeting.
Rock Island. Ill. Oct. 81. 1903,