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all of the balladists concerned work more freely in prose. In subject mat ter we find great variety, celebrated his- toric events. others touched by earlier writers forgotten, and old traditions now first put into literary form."
 We begin with '@rhe Forerunners, ' with Columbus, a strong, incisive open ing:
 Give me white paper! This which you use is black and rough
 with smears
 Of sweat and grime and fraud and blood
 and tears.
 Crossed with the story of mems sins
 and fears,
 Of battle and of famine all these years. When all Gods children have forgot their birth.
 And drudged and fought and died like
 beasts of earth.
 ''Boston in 1621' is quite like lines by an unknown rhymster, who had them printed in colonial days. We quote the first few lines:
 Oh, Boston, though thou now art grown To be a great and wealthy Town, Yet have seen thee q wild place, Shrubs and Bushes covering thy Face; And House then in thee. none there
 were;
 Nor such as Gold and Silk did wear; No Drunkenness were then i'll thee, Nor such Excess as now we see.
 Appended Is the signature cf William Bradford, the first governor. -''Ye Lamentable Ballad and Ye True Historic of Captain Robert Kidd, Who was Hanged in Chains at Execution Dock, for Piracy and Murder on Ye High seas,' recalls the familiar song, My Name was Captain Kidd:" You captains bold and brave. hear our
 cries, hear our cries. You captains bold and brave, hear our
 cries, hear our cries. You captain brave and bold, tho you
 seem uncontrolrd, Don't for the sake of gold lose Your
 souls, lose your souls. Don't for the sake of gold lose your
 souls.
 Among some Franklin ballads is one elaborating ruse by which the witty doctor, tradition says, once emptied a crowded inn by ordering oysters for his horse, thereby obtaining a comfortable place for himself. It runs merrily: It was MT. Benjamin Franklin, a-car-
 rying of the mail
 (sing fo, for the tallow-c -chandler's brotherD He had to be at Newport Friday morn- ing without fail (Sing rather, t'other, bother, fuss and botherD With ballads of Revolutionary incl dents and episodes of the civil war new in this volume, are a series of unknown ballad-mongers and such celebrated productions as Paul Reveres Ride, "Old Ironsides," and John Browns Body" Dr. Hale's work as an editol and collector of striking ballads is aI- most as important as his original ef- 1 forts. The selections are all chronologically , arranged, end the volume is an. , notated in a very interesting way. Its effec. will undoubtedly be that young authors will try their hand at the bal lad, which will be more wholesome work l than making verses about abstract
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emotions. and give the country some- thing worthy of it's history.
 The book is well illustrated by Miss Ellen D. Hale, Philip L. Hale and Miss Lillian Hale. children of Dr. Hale Price of book s2.Oo; for sale by all lead ing booksellers.
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q. think. sir.", said woodby Ritter. "you will find this the most realistic novel you have ever examined" I'm, yes" replied the editor. skimrning through the pages of manuscript the dialogue appears about as dull as it could possibly be.,'--Philad delphia Press.
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Yerb0-ssThe Calendar of Omar Ixhny- yanaD-nThe LlttIo Profsssor''-- ssYonng Heroes of Wire and Rail''-- Book Notes. ... .. A remarkable book, and which will make . prized Christmas gift, is just issued by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, entitled ''New England History in BalIad,'' by pr. Edward Everett Hale. More than twenty years ago Dr. Edward Everett Hale went to Europe, leaving his family of young people. T told then.n says Dr. Hale, "that there were no ballads proper in New England history, and I proposed to them that while we were parted from each other we should begin a series to see if we could not fill in, in a way, the blank of the literary history of our own region" pr. Hale has now brought together these ballads in this new work. Some of the pieces that make up this charming pub Iication are from Dr. Edward Everett Hale's pen and others from his chill dren's, old ballads that Dr. Hale has in- rluded because they are not generally accessible in any published work. One of these last is little song called "Un- cle Tracy's Thanksgiving" Dr. Hale remembers having heard it as early as 1925. He places it between 1861 and 1889 and believes that it has never been printed until now:
 Twas up to Uncle Tracy's
 The Fifth of November,
 Last Thanksgiving night,
 As very well remembery
 And there we had a Frolicu
 A Frolic indeed,
 Where we drank good full Glasses
 Of old Anise-seed.
 And there was Dr. Holmes
 And there was Peter Drew,
 And there was Seth Gilbert
 And Seth Thomas, too; }
 And there were too many,
 Too many to name,
 And by and by I'll tell you how
 They carried on the Game.
 They carried on the Game
 I'll twas late in the night,
 And one pretty Girl r~
 Almost lost her Eyesight. No wonder. no wonder.
 No wonder in deed,
 For she drank good full glasses,
 Of old anise seed.
 By "New England History in Ballad the word ballad has been given the broadest Interpretation possible. As the editor remarks, "the reader must be careful to add the other words and oth- CT verses" With directness of style, the dive into deep water. no fault can be found, and a ereditable degree of dramatic force is often present, though
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A pretty little book; very suitable for a holiday gift, is Friendship, the Good and Perfect Gift, a Christmas Mes- sage" by Ruth Ogden (Mrs. Charles w.
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A very entertaining book is '.The Lit tie Professor" by Ida Horton Cash, published by L. c. Page and Company, Boston. The Little Professor is a girl, a bright girl, one of family of bright girls, and the scene of the story is Ore gon. There is plenty of incident in the book, and there are young men in the stories who appreciate pretty girls. A minister, Rev. MT. Crum, and his Bible class figure incidentally in the unfolding of the tale, and there is a daring horse back ride by the little professor, and a deep, dark mystery, which is all cleared up happily in the end. The authors girls are true to life and all the char acters are we'll drawn. The author shows much promise. This little work sells for only forty cents, and can be found at Judas.
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"Young Heroes of Wire and Rail-" by Alyah Milton Kerr, finely illustrated by H. c. Edwards, J. C. Leyendecker and others, 3S2 pages, is book of wonder fully vivid stories of railroad life, por- traying the heroism of trainmen, .tele- graph operators and dispatchers, each story a complete drama in itself, with thrilling climax, and yet too truthful to be classed as sensational. The author,
 MT. Kerr, formerly n-dispatcher of long experience, and now a justly mo- ted writer of railroad stories, has brought together from many sources the most striking acts of heroism performed during the last quarter of a century of railroad activity, and has cast them in stories of singularly intense interest. A great deal of information reveals it. self in the development of the narrative, though such is the skill of MT. Kerr that the merely technical is never al= lowed to dull the human or dramatic ir- terest. The people of this book are alive and active, and in emergencies proceed to accomplish things: the tone of the work is healthful and inspiring, and leaves @ decidedly good taste in the mouth" Most of these stories first appeared In "McClure's Magazine" "The Youths Companion" "Philadel- phia Saturday Evening Post" and ''Suc- cess," which fact is very strong guar antee of merit. No one who begins reading these stories in this finely printed, illustrated and bound book will be likely to allow anything to interfere with their completion. Price $1.00 net.
 For sale by all booksellers. Published
 by Lee & Shepard, Boston. : With the exception of Clara Barton, i the only woman on whom the Prussian
 government has conferred the iron cross
 is Mary Phinney. Baroness von Olnhau- sen. This was done in recognition of her services to the German sick and
 wounded in the French war of 1S7O-71, which were preceded by her devotion in the hospitals to the Union victims of l our civil war for over three years. The story of Baroness von Olnhausen's expe-
 riences is told in her book of memoirs, | Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two 1 Wars" edited by James Phinney Mun-
 roe, and published by Little, Brown and | Company, Boston.
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Those seeking for a charming calen- dar to bestow upon some fair ladye or some bachelor or other friend will be happy to come upon one of the newest and most beautiful things in. this line the book market affords. This is "The Calendar of Omar Khayyam," pub lished by L. c. Page and Company, Boston, and for sale by the Pease-Lew- is Co. Accompanying each months cal endar is one of Omar's most charming quatrains, as translated by Edward Fitzgerald, each richly illustra ted with striking drawing reproduced in color by the gifted artist, Blanche McManus. This is delightful calendar and souve- mir of the Rubaiyat. It is beautifully printed in stiff colored paper and will be prized. Price in paper board covers, boxed, seventy-five cents; in decorated cloth, boxed, $1.00.
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Ide.) It is prefaced by Ernerson's line on Friendship, beginning:
 A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging seas outweighs.

The surglng seas outWelgns. The book is a dissertation on the
 charms and value of true friendship. Only when friendship becomes recipro- cal" says the author, "does it attain it's
 own high goal" Other selections are: "He who deliberately or thoughtlessly
 starves friendship deserves to lose a
 friend. As for distance it is powerless
 over it. You can be consciously near a friend though an ocean roll between you, and often with an insistent convic-
 tion that you are in the mind of your friend. Who of us has not been assured of this at times?' And then what se- renity characterizes these established friendships" George Eliot wonders "why we sometimes behave the worst
 to those we love the most, ,". The thoughtfulness that keeps us alert in all that affects the happiness of those we love should be innate. If not, it
 should be cultivated" You cannot be instructed in loyalty. Its drafts must
 be honored intuitively and instantly" Published by Frederick A. Stokes Co.,, New York; fifty cents; for sale at all bookstores. &'
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The attention of seekers after choice, instructive and inexpensive books for little folk is called to the Phyllis Field Series" by Lenore E. Mulets, published by L. c. Page and Company, Boston. These are respectively: 1. Insect Sto- ries; 2. Stories of Little Animals; 3. Flower Stories; 4. Bird Stories. In this series of four nature books are present ed to the child reader in an entertaining way in story form the facts about each particular flower, insect, bird or animal, so as to make delightful reading of the facts of science, which the child is to verify through his field lessons and ex- perience. Classified legends, myths, poems and songs are so presented as to correspond fully with these lessons, to which the many excellent illustrations are no little help. The four volumes are uniform in style, very attractively bound, printed and illustrated and are sold at the very low price of eighty cents each, or s3.2D for the set. For sale by the Pease-Lewis Co.
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'The Giants Ruby" is the third book of fairy tales written by Mabel Fuller Blodgett, and is highly spoken of by critics all over the country. Her first book, "In Poppy Land" was used with success in the Kindergarten, and the second, "Fairy Tales" was considered an example of the best and most artis- tic work in book-making and illustra- ton. "The Aspen Shade" romantic novel, and At the Queens Mercy" a story of adventure. are the two other published books. Mrs. Blodgett is a member of the D. A. R. and Mayfower descendants. and is a graduate of Elm hurst, the Sacred Heart Convent at Providence, of which Miss Louise Imo- gen Quincy, the well-known poetess
 and Miss Helena Goessmann, Ph.D. and lecturer, are pupils. Her new book
 'gThe Giants Ruby" contains ten fairy tales, and is superbly illustrated by Katharine Pyle" There is nothing oi the horrible in them to frighten chil. dren, but here and there all unohtrusive moral with plenty of humor all in Ian guage simple enough for a ehild's eom- prehension. Little, Brown and Compa- ny, Boston, have manufactured the
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Little, Brown and Company, the Bos- ton publishers. have just issued for ty-page holiday catalogue, with the cover design printed in four colors. a copy of which will be sent on applica- ton. ! :
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- Some years ago John Drew took 8 lot of lessons in golf from professional in Chicago, and was fairly good golfer. But he is not much of golfer now, says Gustav Kobbe. in his new book. "Fa- nous Actors and Actresses and Their Homes" His interest in the game is wanting, because--unlike other men of fifty--he does not consider it strenuous enough. He shows his physical ''flt- ness" in his preference for tennis. which he plays fast and well. Tennis is his game afoot, but riding is his favorite exercise.
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THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS OF
 THE SEASON.

Rev. Edward E. HaIe's "New England History in EaIiads''--ssThe Phyllis Field Friend series''-s"The Sow Rane Ycrhu-ssThe Caleniar of Onar Ixhay- yam"-ssThe Little Profsssor''- ssYoung Heroes of Wire and Rail''-- Book Notes. .. =..
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''The Sov-rane Verb, or the Smokers Year" is an artistic calendar for 1904 for smokers, written by Francis Mil- toun,and pictured b: Blanche McAenus. It genially celebrates the year of the smoker in pithy verse and gay taking pictures in bright colors, and will be found no doubt on the table of many a devotee of My Lady Nicotene'' ere the New Year comes around. With each months calendar there is a handsome, full-page picture, each representing some devotee to the weed smoking away in blissful content, ignoring all that is not peace and comfort, and each representing a fine sample of some diff ferent nationality. A readable history of tobacco is given and excerpts from wits and historians are given also ex- tolling tobaccos merit. The book ap- peals alike to all lovers of the soothing weed, truly a "Sov'rane Verb" Price in pretty board covers fifty cents; in limp leather covers $1.Oo; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Co. Published by L. C.. Page and Company, Boston.
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Bonds were dull and irregular. Total sales par value $2,210.00O.
 United States bonds were all un- changed on the last call.
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Closing Prices.

The following are the closing prices re- ported by Prince X Whltey. Bankers and Brokers. 52 Broadway. New York; u Center street, New Haven. Conn.,:
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POLITICAL SOCIALISM

At the meeting of the Western Fede- ration Of Miners at Denver resolutions were adopted in endorsement of social- ism that strikingly reflect the funda- mental errors of the socialistic school with which we become familiar in the field Of politics. Pure socialism as enunciated in the theories of learned students of the subject, has many at tractive features, but socialism as it is presented by those who take it up as a political doctrine is entirely different and represents almost anything that is bad, while clInging to a few principles which may contain germs of truth
 The first paragraph of the preamble Of the resolutions adopted at Denver declares:
 Political Independence is a bauble and a delusion, while the toiling mil lions bear the yoke of wage slavery in the industrial field"
 That is demagogy without 9 redeem ing feature. Unfortunately, we have a class of people who desire to live with out work; these are envious of those who have been successful, and they ex- cuse their own failure to make the best of their opportunities by asserting that there is privileged class that ab- sorbs the fruits of the earth. Ill this country we have no such thing as a privileged class. Every man. in the United States has a chance to make something of himself if he have the ca pacity, the industry and the determina- ton to take advantage of his opportu- mites.
 The man who sits in front of a gro- cery or groggery with his feet cooked high in the air and groans over the ne- cessity for working in order to secure bread for his mouth makes himself be- lieve-or tries to--tbat he is poor be- cause some privileged persons have taken what should have been his. Who are those privileged persons? In the country round about the town where the loafers sit there are multi
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YESTERDAY'S STOCK MARKE73
Developed Degree of Strength and
 Closed Higher.

New York, June 19.-After a weak opening this morning the stock market developed a degree of strength and closed higher than last night, net gains important speculative stocks. The trading approached stagnation at times at the higher range of prices and the closing was heavy but only slightly below. the best. The United States Steel stocks were under pressure at the opening and had declined sharply in London before trading began here on what was alleged to be selling for New York account There is a general con- viction that the liquidation which has been going on in these stocks is due to the special need of large interest in the corporation and there were in-
 lications to-day that the stock being sold represented collateral for large
 maturing loan. Support was forthcom- ing for the stocks and the principal banking house in the steel syndicate
 undertakings was an open buyer. The
 decision of the United States. Steel au-
 
 prices at this years level and the off,
 cial assertion that large orders for steel rails for 1904 had been booked gave an upward impetus to the stock.
 The common touched 30 but closed at 20 1-2 and the preferred closed at the top price at 80. After rally had set in for the stocks the second mortgage bonds were forced down by considera- l lole selling orders to S3, with a frac-
 tional recovery at the last. The coalers 1 were conspicuous in the upward move ment and the principal buying of them was attributed to speculative com bination of professional operators. Atchison was also in conspicuous de- mand and was helped by favorable re-
 ports regarding crop prospects i'll it's territory. The decline in the cotton market was a favorable factor for the whole list. So was the prospect of a | favorable bank statement. With a gain for the banks on sub-treasury opera
 tions of $l ,365, ,0O0 due principally to the | high rate of disbursements on account | of pensions, the indications are that re- | ceipts on balance on the interior move | ment have been sufficient to bring the net gain for the cash items of the banks up to $5,00O,00 It Is not ex- pected that tine loan account will show any such contraction as that of last week, since the liquidation in the stock
 market has been largely susendsd. But neither is any important increase in the loan account anticipated.
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Government Bond.
COttOm.

Reported over private wire of ]. L. Mclean & Co.,, 25 Broad street, New York New Haven office. $40 Chapel street. Hubinger Building, Norman A. Tanner, Manager.
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Chicngo Marker.

Reported over the private wires of J. L. Mclean X Co. 25 Broad street, New York. New Haven Office, $40 Chapel street. Nor. man A. Tanner. Manager.
 0nnn Hiph Low Fl6Sp
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IN PICTURESQUE INDIA.

Our way was along the Alipur road, the big main artery, where every hour of the ay OK carts and strings of camels jostle ekkas filled to overfiowing with fat and complacent natives, who seem gifted with some special faculty for balancing themselves on a few inches of splash-board; tongas. too, with wretched ponies which decline to move at any other pace than the gallop, and
 endless streams of transport and sup
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The Union Trust Company
NEW HAVEN.

CHARTERED by tue StaIe Of Coanact,. cut with authority to act as Executor AZ ministrator. Guardian, Receiver or Trxsfee under will or deed.
 Is legal depository of money paid inta Court and all Public Trust Bunds Acts a Trustee for Municipalities, Corporafionss and iRdlv3dMals, and administers trusts af all kinds. Empowered to get as registrar oS edness, manage slnking funds, and do sis business such as is usually done by a'rnss Companies.
 it also does general Banking hr,sires. collecting cheeks, notes, coupons. and ras. ceiyes deposits, The principal of each Trnsa is invested by itself and kept separats and apart froIn the general assets of the Con pany. ea5Is
 This Company is by law regularly exam. ined by the Bank ExaHiner of the State of
 HENRY |. HoTCHkIss, rresldens. <. M. MGGNNn s. BRISTOIA Treasussz.
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An Old Guides Explanation Of the ID- Indian whI.efish Hunter's Method of Getting Ills GIistenIng Catch From Under the Rapids.
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NEW FORK STOCK MARKET.

Opening. Highest, Lowest Quotation Following are the closing prices reported Dy Prince < Whitely. bankers and brokers, a2 Broadway. New York. and 15 Center dtreet street, New Haven:
 uIob n,. p r,
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-24
Letter 70 Mr.. A. A. Moore, Marshall
town, Iowa,

Dear Sir: What is lumber worth?
Depends on the lumber" you say
what sort do you want?"
That's how some people talk about
paint. They ask: "What'll you paint
my house for?"
pThe Yankee answer is: "How do you
want 1t painted? One coat? two coats
three coats? first-class or cheap
The proper answer is: II want the
best paint put on as 1t ought to be-"
That's Devoe: but the usual answer
it: Il want good job: but l want it
cheap" Which means: I want you to
PAINT 1t for nothing. want to be
fooled.
Lead and oil Is the costliest paint
there is: not the best: 1t used to be best.
Devote is best. since zinc came In: De-
voc Ready Paint.
Zinc toughens the lead and doubles
Its wear.
Zinc costs no more than lead; and we
grind by machinery.
We have no patent on zinc; but no.
body else is treating it right. Devoe is
your paint.
Yours truly,
r. w. DEvOE & co.
p. Sc. ]. Lander sells Devoe Paint.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-24
Marshall County Pensions.

Pension Attorney Robert Denbow. OF
Albion, is in receipt of the following
notifications Of pension allowances fol
Marshall county veterans:
Albert p. Lyon, Soldiers Home, Com
pany II, Eighteenth Iowa Cavalry, and
Company +, Ninth Iowa cavalry, in
crease from Sc to IS, commencing Feb
25. 1903.
John Betz, Soldiers Home, Company
F.. Third Missouri infantry, and Com
pany C, First Missouri light artillery,
original at the rate Of IS, commencing
Feb. II, 1908.
Michael w. Coleman, Soldiers
Home, Company A, Thirtyfirst Iowa
infantry, additional at the rate Of IS,
commencing July %, 1902.
John Thorn, Soldiers Home, Com
pany A. Seventeenth Pennsylvania in
fantry, increase from S. to $40 COM
mencing Feb. 4, 1908.
Another pension that will be of
much interest here is one granted to
Marquis A. Hills, of Des Moines, d
former resident of this county. Mr.
Hills was one of the early settlers of
Marshall county, and entered the ser
vice from Marietta early In 81. He is
now a solicitor in the employ of the
Atlas Insurance Company, Des Moines,
and visits Marshalltown often. Mr..
Hills was first lieutenant of Company
T., Third Iowa infantry, and is granted
an additional pension of IS, beginning
Aug 81 1902