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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

mense evil He excoriatsa them for their lives of pleasure purchased by the grind Ing down and extortion Of the poor. The putrtd, malodorous rottenness of munich pal politics is exposed in vital oolors. Most heart touching and piteous are the descriptions of the miserable lives of the tenement-dwellers; their sQuallor, the mea mess, the revolting hidsoueneas ef their lives and death; the expressions levied on them by landlord, saloon keeper and provisioner.
 There is no doubting the veracity of the picture: the ooiors of life are on the writer's palette, and he uses them with conscience and intelligence.
 Such Is the entire book. There is . continued battle between these forces of good and evil. 6 never ending conflict in the soul of Lucia Marsh between her love for Gordon and her abhorrence of the life which he wishes her to lead A final separation is inevitable between two such radically different characters, and 1t comes amidst pathetic, spectacular surroundings. There are also excellent pictures of the self-centered, priggish life of societys cream. Hypocrisy, malice and all un- charitableness" are exhibited in their bale ful aspects, and there Is . smattering of self-sacrifice and genuine good to redeem the book from an entirely somber tone.
 Its trend is depressing. however. Though 1t cannot be denied that 1t Is fearful and truthful indictment of the inequalities of society as they exist under our chaotic civilization. If publicity Is cure for real evils, there Is some hope that this book will work much good
 Sam W. Dabble
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
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limitations, that he stopped short of grand things, he sas: When I find myself in the fields I fly into a rage at my pio- tures.''
 Rousseau, the tenacious, the patient, ex- claims: Must we not necessarily lift ourselves, surpass ourselves. in this tsr- rible profession of painting"
 If I could have my wish, I woaid be millionaire for nothing elsa save to effect the genesis of single and unique picture, to consecrate myself thereto and to find my pleasure therein, to suffer and Joy in it, until. content with my work. after years of trial. I could sign 1t and say; There my powers stop and there my heart ceases to beat It is said He loved the trees as individuals For him each had distinct character and temperament and he would fain know each one apart"
 Millet and Carot are finely contrastsd.
 Millet sensitive to the splendors of the earth but his supreme interest csntering in man; his conscious weartness of the world expressed in his works, so aptly styled, ''The Poem Of the Earth"
 Carot finding and interpreting the beau forms dancing in the glades, with heart responsive to the Joy, the carols breathed everywhere in the worldl Diffusing sun shine, dreaming of landscapes. and skies all rose until he fell asleep.
 The photogravures of the masterpieces of the artists make of the book an art gem. GA. Vessels Co.,, New York, g net.)
 Nora Belle Starke.
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 Chalec N Sheldon
By Charler N. Sheldon.

It's greatest energies in money making Is life that has not only no attractions for me but 1t has a positive repulsion. To spend the day In a competitive strife that seeks to get more and more, largely at the expense of the weak and helpless, to spend night after night in dressing live only with those select companions who are able to dress and eat as we'll as we are, to be practically ignorant of. or absolutely indifferent to. the conditions of thousads of human beings In this city, to have no ideals higher than a commer- cial standard and no passions beyond the physical appetites,-all this is a growing horror to me"
 These words addressed to his father bring about an arrangement, and John Is thrust out in the world to carve his own career. He goes to his fiancee. Lucia Marsh, who Is 6 member, also, of the Idle rich, and telling her of his changed plans asks her to give up life of ease and frivolity. and join him in an en- deavor to lift up the masses. sodden in ignorance and poverty. Her cultured in stincts revolt at this proposition, and she refuses his proposal Crushed by the sev- ering of all the old ties, and the complete selflshness and artificiality of his kins- people and sweetheart, he takes up act i've work in the slums under the tutelage of Miss Andrews, a woman suggesting a composite of Florence Nightengale and Miss Clara Barton. He is thrown into direct conflict with the people with whom he has spent his life ;he shows them how their maintenance of pest-holes bagnios and filthy tenements Is working an i'm
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

An expression in Samuel Salts novel. Adam Buah,'' Ia attracting some atten- ton and being repeated on all aides. In a section where advice to a young man Is being given, he says:
 "A young man who really wants to get along must do some thinking-not only for himself, but for the man who hires him." This Is quite 6 sage way Of ex- pressing a truth as old as man himself.
 In the Century Magazine for March there appears under the title of an old maids philosophy some of the most beau- tiful and striking passages. Take for ex- ample this one on Borrow:
 ''The only sorrow worth anything in this world is the sorrow for others, and sor- row for others means helping others. not hugging our woes to ourselves. For l believe that the really brave and the re- ally great make us forget their scars. or the records of their hurts and wounds"
 Hon. George Moore, the novelist, has re- gently met with very painful accident near his home which promises to incapac- ftate him for literary work for many months to come. Strange to say the &C., cident occurred on the afternoon after the morning he had finished his new work entitled '"The Untitled Field" This novel
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
By Charles Sprasue Smith

Speaking of Millst's life as one that strikes deepest root in the soil of our com- mon life. he says:
 drsn of the wood. that grasp tenaciously the black subsoil of the forest and aspire steadfastly toward the sunlight, both grow gnarled and gray in the struggle, the tree and the man. The stancher, the longer-lived of the twain, speak often courage to his feebler@ comrade. When such comradeship has existed, the spirit of those long communtngs fingers in the still forest"
 There is e life we would talk over with the trees of Tontainebleau. one that, wearied with the work. the disappoint- ment and the pains of life, come to them constantly for sympathy and drew as constantly renewal of strength from their comradeship."
 The essential facts of these lives are given accurately and logically. You ex- peot and demand this of any biographer, but Mir. Smith has done far more-he has made you to know their aspirations and longtngs.
 Hear Millet: 'I continue to desire only this. to live for my work and to bring up my children fittingly: then to express the most possible of my impressions; also, and at the same time to have the sym pathy of those love we'll"
 Carot says to a friend: 'T pray every day the bon Dieu to make me a child, that I may see her (Nature) as she Is, and to make her. as a child. without re- servs," expressing the recognition of his
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
In the Hoop Skirt Days.

In the Hoop Skirt Days. Kansas City JoLnIal.
 Isaac Yinkling tells The Burlington Jef- fersonian some amusing stories of the time when women wore those enormous hoop skirts. Once a Miss Gibson was be- ing ferried across the Neosho River and the boat sank She wore the hoop skirts of the day and the air collected beneath them served as buoy on which she noatsd safely a 'le or, so down the river where she w rescued by man In 6 slEiff Perhaps. However, the best hoop skirt story in Kansas was told by the late Charles Goodlander. of Fort Scott. in his little book of "reminiscences. The story has zest. for 1t Is true. and 1t can be substantiated. with respect to the nakeshifts employed by the Kansas girls, by every old Kansan. Mir. GoodAnder said:
 "All this time Gs5sD hoop skirts were fashionable in the Eastern States. Our ladies were not going to be behind the style if they could help it, and as the merchants here would not bring on the new style our ladies improvised skirt after their own ideas, running clothes line into cloth six to eight inches apart and making 1t up into a skirt then using enough starch to make 1t stand alone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
LITERATURE PASSING
 FROM UNDER THE SHADOW.
BY EDWARD YOUNG CLARKE, JR.

For a period of ten years or more Eng fish literature has suffered materially from a season of weakness and inertia; and to Englishmen and lovers of the lit- erature of the English it has been time filled with the most intense discourage ments. Some years ago steady depres- sion became noticeable, both in quantity and quality. which in @ short time in- creased and spread SO rapidly and alarm ingly that the whole field of English It- erature soon felt its blighting touch. The causes leading up to 'his most regrettable state of affairs became the subject of universal discussion, but even the best and ablest authorities failed to find a solu- ton of the problem. Conditions had never been more favorable or writers more nu- merous 1t seems that a spell of languor had gradually swept across the whole field of English literary endeavor.
 This state of affairs worked disastrous ly upon the temper of the English read ing world, who began to forsake the read ing of English productions for those of other nations. During this crucial period American productions gained steadily in popularity and American publishing houses opened large branch establish ments in England. But within the past two years 1t has been evident that e new era was dawning- Expensive art books have made their apearance, whose con- tents denoted years of preparation: and these books have been cordially received by the reading public. Many good and encouraging signs of an awakening have put in their appearance and the columns of the English literary press are filled with new life.
 George W. Smalley has recently writ ten about some of his personal reoollec- tions of English men of letters and in the '.Recollections' he has taken occasion to call attention to the many encouraging signs of an unprecedented literary re- vivaL His work is interesting as well as entertaining and gives 6 note of en- couragment to the men of English lst- ters while at the same time throwing out 6 word of warning to America, dclaring that If she is to continue to forge ahead in the wohld's literature she must look well to her laurels.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA?
 AND THE REASON WHY.

These figures lead us to the foilowina interesting facts,
 Farst-That an uneducated child has one chance in 15o.0oo of attaining distinction as factor in the progress of the age.
 Second-That common school education will increase his chances nearly four times.
 Third-That high school training will in- crease the chance of the common school boy twenty-three times. giving him twen. ty-seven times the chance of the uned. ucated.
 Fourth-That a college education inc creases the chance of the high school boy nine times. giving him 29 times the chancs of the common school boy and more than 800 times the chance of the untrained. Of the 5000 "notablss'' over 4,0O0 are full graduates of some college.
 After reasonable allowances are made the figures force the conclusion that the more school training a child has the greater will bs his chances Of success and distinction in this life. No stronger plea for education could be made than ap- pears in these facts above g1ven-the fu- ture notables of America are to be se- lected from her educated class. There fore if we desire distinction and crave to be of real service in the age of pro- gress ahead. education more and more. higher and higher, must be ths watch word and the goal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

They did not even stop at this, as the grape vines were plenty in the woods. They would choose a straight vine and sew three or four into their skirts, an- swering the purposes of the latest crin- oline very we'll l remember well that at one of our dances two pretty country belles attended and wore their hoop vtns skirts. They stood cut so much that a young man would have to stoop over to shake hands with them, and to get near enough to kiss one of them was out of the question As they would danca around their hoop vine skirts would hit the limbs of gentlemen and rebound to such an extent that anyone with whom they came in contact was in danger of being knocked over. The reader may think this grape vine hoop a hoax, but Ben McDonald and Charley Drake will verify what I saw. as also will Charley Bull as Charley took one of these ooun- try bellies to c 6anoe. a Miss Susie Foote. and she was sure the belle of the ball that night even though she was sncarcIed with grape vines."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

test his beloved instrument by trying ev- cry stop and pedal and swell, so had he a secret craving to know how many kinds of bliss his mind and body were capable of" The trend of the book is to show what a disastrous destruction such feel ings will lead to. A new way of express ing a thought as old as the hills Is to be found in the following: Who can tell by what little open swift tshes a mans life will be shunted upon another track? And for that matter who can tell where the broken bridges may be, or in what dark tunnel his car will meet another and be wrecked by tt?'
 There IS much literary value attaching itself to the work out useless description of vice cannot be countenanced; even though its setting te of the finest known to literature. (Bowen-MerrilI Co.,, Indian apolis, Ind, $1.50.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

It Is gratifying to note that books by English authors are beginning once again to attract not only national but Inter national notice both because of their time Hness and because of their merit. Take for instance De Vets account of the Boer campaign; this work has reeesved fa- vorable comment all over the world, and is considered by many leading authorities as unequalled Of its kind in any age cI nation.
 Mir. Sidney Lees life of Queen Victoria Is really one of the masterpieces of bio- graphical work of the century. showing in striking and sympathetic relation ths strong and weak points of victoria's char aoter Rev. Stopford Brooke has pro- duced @ book on the poetry of Browning which is a poetic production In itself. h its masterfui presentation of the eth1ca of poetry.
 Kipling of late has been sending forth the best work that he has ever attempted. and his Kim" will certainly rank high up in the history of literary productions.
 Of very recent novels work those show ing the largest sales are ''3lsngary School Days" Conrad's book of short stories called Youth" and Kipling's ''yust-6o- Stories."
 A Russian writer and iitsratsur hos only recently said: T look to England to set new standard for the worlds tt- erature within the next few years. 4 literary fever is gradually pexmeating txa- to the center of the life of the English people, and believe in . short time all eyes will be turned to England"
 Not long before his death 1t Is reported that Gladstone said to . friend who waa bewailing the lack of life in the literary field at that time:
 T believe that the writers of England are at present saving their strength for 6 long and mighty race-a race in which the best talent of the world will fnd it. self hard to keep even abreast"
 The time now seems to be Y1ps when these prophecies are to come trua, and America will rejoice with her British friends and brothers ovsr . triumph which will rebound to the glory of tAs English language.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
FRESH CUT LEAVES.
The Loom of Life.

The Loom OF 4110.
 The chief strength in Dr. Charles Fred eriok Qoss's work Is his great dramatic ability, whereby he is able to gain the close attention of the reader at the vary outset and hold it until the final page. He has apparently written the present work as a warning to young men against youthful indiscretio1s. It Is the story of a young man, who while engaged to a beautiful young Cincinnati woman, allows himself to fail under the spell of an In tesely beautiful young woman-a kind or daughter of the 1orest-whom he accident ly meets while on a hutnting trip in the South. After he has had his temporary uaseion for her gratihed he deserts her and returns to his old love, resuming for mer relations. After the birth of her child the Southern girl follows him up, doxsing his footsteps wherever he goes. He tries losing her by trip to England and by burying her In the forest. but It Ia all to no avail He finally drifts out West and Is killed by an Indian SQuAw. The girl he wronged finally marries mo- bls and good man and lives happily the balance of her life. The depletion of sin to point a moral, is similar to dipping ons's hand in the mira to be convinced Of It's filth The same objection can be made against nearly all of Dr. GoSss works; and 1t is one which will continue to bring down the ardent protest of those who love the highest purity and virtue.
 There arc some beautiful passages in kha book, and some striking lessons drawn. This Is an unusual and decidedly true way of expressing the thought that the first encroachments of sin must be warded off. '"The weakness with him, 90 his friends said. was that he could resist neither delicious situation or delight full emotion If virtue had consisted in bearing pain. hs could have stood his ground like the Spartan boy with the wolf Snawing at his bosom But when It came to refusing pleasure, that was differen. thing As an organist loves to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

The announcements concerning the early spring books are already making their appearance and a gratifying fact worthy of note concerning their announcements is that they show that the spring produo- tons win be of less frivolous nature than the mass of books ssued late in the fall. G-As biographies of present and ancient notables. together with histories and nov els of . more sedate kind, promise for the reading pubic a rare treat during the early spring months.
 One of the amusing literary echoes for the past week is found in a strong edi- torial here and there, begun by similar editorial in & Boston paper. as to wheth- CT or not this literary center s losing it's grip upon the literary circles of the country. Of course the Boston literary papers deny the fact most strenuously, and yet the article which first appeared on the subject in Boston daily showed some very conclusive arguments in favor of believing that Boston'sf old time su- premacy is on the wane. Chicago writer claims that for a number of years the literary center of the country has bean drifting southwesterly. If this be
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

you can easily forecast the end of the story; and ths one is no exception to the rule. The plot hinges on one of the typical family feuds of Virginia. which for a time separates two ardent lovers; but when the hero goes to war the hero inc suffers many hardshlps and adven- lures to serve him-finally nursing him back to health and strength.
 Altogether there Is enclosed within the pages of this novel a purity of sentiment and fascinatio as to style, which Is quite indescribable in words and which can only be understood and appreciated after perusal of the wokrk. Lothrop Pub fishing Co, Boston. Mass, N.5O.)
 May Cartledge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

Mir. Eggleston is deservedly winning a place in the world of the novelist, of which anyone might be proud. and many no doubt envy His latest production, The Master of Warlock," Is the most charming and delightfully written TO- nance l have ever read. Indeed, there is more in It than I have discovered In a novel for a long time.
 The heroine is a fine character and not a bit overdrawn, but a perfect picture of the true Southern woman. There Is more of history in regard to the war. and it Is better and more correctly told than any novel of recent years-and withal so charmingly worked Into the story. MT.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
The Master of WarloCk.
By George Cary Essleston.

Eggleston is particularly good in the de- lineation of the character of the South ern darkey. What he makes them do, and the way they do it; what he makes them say and the way they say it. together with the spelling and pronunciation given the negro dialect. is so true to the reality that you can easily think you have before you one of the good dtime Southern mammies with her bless your soul, honey" and "dats right my chile" His pictures of the darkey. Sam. is especially good. bringing out in striking relief the touching devotion of the negro for his master and his physical welfare.
 None of the present day stories have any remarkable merit as to the plot, for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

not only can the student follow up the particular course on which he is most bent, but he can also institute compari- sons between one route and the other an1 weigh their relative merits
 Further on in his opening he says:
 Tn the varied narrative here set down. it has been attempted to bring Into prom thence those higher elements of character
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

to the demands of those who only resort to reading as a passing diversion"
 We all desire to reach the great sum mits of success, and the writer has in re- cent years run across no book so calcu- lated to materially assist in the accomp- lishment of this laudable desire than the one now before him. (G. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pa; N.50)
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and conduct which insure the truest sue cess, aSd to make clear at different stages what special gifts or course of action has been most conducive to advancement.
 Thus it will be seen that the point of view is more that of action than of generahzed reflection. and that the book Is intended to be helpfuI and stimulating to the work CTS and strivers rather than to minister
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

Out of a population of over 4o,00O. 900 people there are only some 5000 persons who have attained more than local rep utation for any cause whatsoever. In all America only 5000 really 'distinguish- ed'' Americansl These startling facts are brought to light in the second edition of '"who's Who in America" which shows conclusively that only about 5000 Ameri- cans have become noted as factors in the progress and achievement of the age
 With view to determining what effect education has had towards making sue cess in life. 1t will be interesting to note the figures showing the school training of each of these nearly 5000 men and wo- men of note. According to reliable esti- mates from census returns there are In the United States 4O,7S2,007 persons over a years of age. These are divided edu- cationally about as follows:
 Class 1-Without school training. 4,6S2, 49S Glass 2-with only common school
 training. ...............''.oS .oS 'ooS'Sol Class 9-With common and high
 school training. .. .............. z16S,S67 Class EWith college education
 added. ..........'ss..'''.. A'Vh,Hn
 The 5000 were selected from these class es as follows:
 Class furnished. d......--.--..-----.-----. s1 Class furnished. d......--.~-~..-...-..--. SOS Class furnished. .....--.--~-......1,A ,AO Class 4 furnished. d....................'...so' .so'IVS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22

The pocket telephone of ths Vienna police is no larger than a cigarette case. On applying 1t to fre-alaETn box, com munication with headquarters is instant ly established.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-08
By .Wll. HAMILTON OSBORNE


R. Stephen Duckworth, one leg crossed list
!. lessly upon the other, sat contemplating life.
His contemplation mainly interpretive,
as was natural for man whose horizon con-
sists of an unlimited view of gray stone wall,
thru a, set of uncompromisingly tough steel