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University Spirit
and the People
GSJeen byJOrddn

- VERIFYING that President Da-
~ vid Starr Jordan writes is pur-
poseful; whether he writes in be-
half Of the Alaskan seal or Of co-edu-
cation in universities, the thing which
comes from his pen is strong with a
mission. Therefore the reader who
picks up THE Voice OF the Scholar, q"
DR.. Jordan's latest published thought,
may do so with the assurance that he
will find therein something which viii
ring with the sincerity Of a strong
mans advocacy OF a worthy cause.
This collection Of essays, built upon
addresses made by DR.. Jordan before
various audiences. is a plea for the
universal recognition Of the American
university rs one Of the great factors
IN American national life. Not only
Goes DR.. Jordan address his arguments
10 the hard-headed business man who
fails 10 see ia a university education
anything save four years of frivolity,
but he exhorts the college man to grasp
10 itE fullest extent the conception Of
the university as the leaven for the
ma asscs-the lever which is his to move
society. The essays are the wade me-
cum for the latter day scholar-citizen.
as Emerson's American Scholar"
formed. seventy years ago, the thirty
nine articles OF the schoiar-pedant.
In the first essay Of the collection,
which strikes the keynote Of the au-
thor's theme ard from which the title
Of the publication is drawn, DR.. Jor-
dams single aim is TO establish the mu-
tual interdcpendence existing between
democracy and university culture. Far
from causing to arise an educated pro-
letariat which might easily slip into an
arrogant oligarchy Of knowledge, the
spirit OF the university training. says
Dr. Jordan. makes for the broadening
Of the common intellectually and the
safeguarding Of principles too often
exposed 70 the attacks OF uneducated
demagogues. Says the essayist:
Culture not only raises the man
above the mass, II turns the masses
into men. That the multitude may i'm
sgine themselves men before they hold
q mans grasp OF life is the greatest
danger OF democracy. Here again the
university plays it's part. teaching the
relative value OF Ideals. Under its
criticism men learn that good results
are better than good intentions, and
they demand a far higher order Of skill
and courage"
OF the duty Of the scholar to speak
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NeW Books ReceiOed

KING ARTHUR AND Hrs
KNIGHTS, Howard Pyle: Charles
Scr1oner's Sons, New York; illustrated;
price So so.
THE VOICE OF THE SCHOLAR
David Starr Jordan; Paul Elder & Co.
San francisco; price 81 50.
THE HOLIDAY CASE. Rurtor y
STEVENSON; Henry Holt & Co NJ
York; price 81 25.
WHEN WAS CzAR, Arthur March
mount; Frederick w. Stokes q 90.
New York; illustrated; price 81 50.
THE DEVILS LETTERS TO MARY
MACLANE, anonymous; The Inter
state Book Company, Chicago; prics
81 50.
THE STORY OF THE ATLANTIC
CABLE. Charles Bright; d. Appleton
q Co., New York; illustrated; price 81.
OUT OF A FLEUR-DE-LIs, Claude
n. Wetmore: w. A Wilde Company;
illustrated; price 81 50.
GETTING A LIVING, George I.
Bolen; The Macmillan Company, New
York; price 50 90.
FAMOUS MEN OF THE OLD TEs-
LAMENT. Morton Bryan Wharton: Il.
B. Treat q Co.. New York; price 81 50.
BADSWORTH ON BRIDGE, Bads-
worth; @. p. Putnam's Sons. New York.
A TWELVEMONTH OF HAIR
MONY. Frederick M. de WITT, San
Francisco; price IS cents.
CRICKETS CHIRPINGS, Alice
Kingsbury Cooley; San Francisco.
CALIFORNIA BLUE BOOK FOR
1908, compiled and published By Q. b.
Curry. Secretary OF State.
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If WeW DetectiOe
Story Uhich Fills
I'LL Requirements
MysTERY has ever nro1

N MYSTERY has ever proved fas-
~ cinating to mankind since Pan
~ dora opened that fatal box and
Lots wife turned to see what was hap-
pening to Sodom. When we have not
mysteries we will read about them. no
matter whether they concern the cut
ting of throat or the loss of a hair
pin. This is why the stories of mystery
never go a-begging. This is why Bur-
ton E. Stevenson wrote ''The Holladay
Case"
Some great men confess to penchant
for the scent yellow-back terror about
"Old Sleuth." 1t relieves their minds
from the cares of state. But the aver
age reader is prone to go little higher.
Sherlock Holmes has stalked thugs
and robbers now across the length and
breadth of England and America. That
engaging scoundrel, Rafles, has been
found in almost every situation that
the fertile brain of Mr.. Hornung can
devise. Anna Katherine Green Is get
ting tired. Enter then the amateur
lawyer detective of Burton Stevenson
A detective story has first of all to
be one of these breathless tales that
keeps the reader out of bed until the
last page is scanned. 1t must also have
but one theme and that the mystery.
The situations must be anything but
obvious; the denouement must be sud-
den and startling. Not too long; no
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Paragraphs From
the Gossip About
Popular WriterS

YYQHEN William r. Lighton, au
III 4 thor of "The Ultimate Mo-
ment," which a Western paper
describes as the best Omaha story
ever written" was only a small boy,
he tried his hand at all sorts Of writ
mysteries, fragments Of natural his
tory, verses-and insisted upon send
ing them to magazines. To earn the
money for postage stamps he picked
cherries ION shares" for a neighbor,
and peddled his own share around the
town. He made more than 81 that
June, and invested in a supply OF
stamps that kept his MSS. going for
several months. Despite this persever-
Ing spirit of enterprise, it was many
years before his MSS. began to be ac-
cepted; but with his new novel Mr..
Lighton seems to have arrived.
Messrs. A. s. Barnes & Co. are un-
derstood to be undertaking an impor-
tant series Of books relating to Amert-
can history written by the participants
and by some OF the most famous ex-
plorers of the West. While no full an
nouncement Is made as yet, the series
is said to be one which will have q
unique value in rendering some Of the
most interesting and valuable OF his
toric explorations and adventures read
lily accessible in a convenient and pop
ular form.
In selecting the name Of Hunch Ba-
deau for the hero Of his successful
new novel, His Little World" Mr..
Samuel Merwin apparently chose q
name sufficiently unusual, but an in
quiry has been received from a bearer
of the latter part of the name as to
the identity OF Mr.. Merwin's character.
1t would naturally be difficult to trace
a relationship with hero existing only
in Mr.. Merwin's vivid imagination.
Mr.. John Morley is to visit the
United States next year, coming to de-
liver an address at the opening OF the
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~WO books have appeared within
the month which will take a high
place in the literature of econom-
les. Ihey are Getting a Living" by
George L. Bolen. the author of the last
years standard book on the trusts. and
"A History of the Greenbacks.' by
wesley Clair Mitchell of the depart
ment Of political economy in the Uni
versity Of Chicago.
The time for ponderous volumes re-
viewing the whole subject of economies
is past. The subject has become so
great that a scholar nowdavs NAV
think himself fit to speak if he is
learned in one Of the many branches of
the science. With the growth of the
subject of economics has come the ten
dency toward specialization. These
two important contributions to eco
nomic literature are then the work of
specialists and as such are worthy to
be received as authoritative. Their
timeliness and the direct bearing they
have upon living issues in the Industrial
life OF to-day are added recommenda-
tions.
The title of Bolen's book is somewhat
vague and needs the subcaption Of "the
problem OF wealth and poverty. union
ism and socialism" to convey the pur-
pose Of the work. Grave questions are
these and many have been the frothing
screeds written for and against these
modern issues since they became such.
But ii is safe to say that the author of
Getting a Living" has treated these
various topics with a fair -mindedness
which is unique. 1t is the only work
Of all the partisan literature upon la
Dor, capital and socialism designed to
give a fair approach to the whole truth.
At the very outset Bolen seeks to
clear the cobwebs OF controversy away
from Henry Georges single tax and
land ownership theories and show in an
impartial way their strong points and
their fallacies. Bolen would have it
that. far from being a parasite, the
landowner does a service to society by
the very fact Of his ownership. The
unearned increment from land which,
according to Henry Georges theory,
is the unearned gift of society to the
landholder, is really the reward of the
landholder's degree OF risk. says Bolen.
The author cannot see that Georges
theory Of taxing all the economic rent
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Technical College at Pittsburg In Oc-
tober, 1904. It Is to be hoped that he
will hnd II agreeable to make other
public appearances in this country,
which he has not visited for more than
thirty years. A lecture on Gladstone
by Mr.. Morley would take the country
by storm. and he would be sure Of ap-
preciative audiences If he would speak
on literary topics.
The Scottish papers are delighted
with Mr.. Clifton Johnson's The Land
OF Heather" They all write OF II
with much interest. The Scotsman.
for instance. styles the book "a plain
and Photographic account Of what OBJ
servant and sympathetic American
eyes saw in a leisurely soiourn In
Scotland He does what he sets him
self to do very well. He tells in an
easy, unstudied way what he sees and
hears The sketches are touched with
sufficient nicely and accuracy to make
them interesting"
Hamlin Garland, author Of Hes
per-" tells an interesting story Of how
he got his first inspiration to write
fiction. He had left Wisconsin for a
time, and was sitting in a little attic
room in Boston, wondering about his
future, when he heard a man unload
ing a CARLOAD of coal in the street
below. The sound made by the coal
as It was released from the mans
shovel-a sort Of ringing scrape-
seemed exactly like the sound made
by shoveling corn into a corncrib. II
brought back TO the homesick young
man a vivid picture OF his home, the
farm and the life he had left. The
inspiration for a story came to him,
and he wrote a tale that was pub
Hshed in the New American Maga-
zine OF New York, then edited BY
william Wyckoff This was In 1885,
and the story was afterward incor-
porated in Mr.. Garland's Boy Life on
the Prairie" and reproduced in his
lecture on Life on the Prairie"
At the beginning of an enthusiastic
review OF Mr.. James Bryce's Studies
In Contemporary Biography in the
Atlantic Monthly. Mrs. Harriet Wat
ers Preston says: In one OF his re-
Gently collected Studies in Contem-
pOrary Biography the Right Honor
able James Bryce remarks OF that
eminent scholar. the late Lord Acton,
that his mastery Of the so-ealIed hu-
SADJCNSo was unC44dAcQ anu
now that Lord Acton is no more, the
same thing might fairly be said OF Mr..
Bryce himself" Mrs. Preston goes
on to say that "the twenty odd char
acter studies brought together in the
new volume afford fresh evidence OF
Mr.. Bryce's breadth and acumen as
we'll as of his unusually wide ac-
quaintance among the leading minds
Of the day. The most admirable feat
ure Of these twenty-one studies is
their impartiality Of appreciation. It
is list Of shining names"
Might have been written by Guy de
Maupassant." remarks the Chicago
Evening Post OF Robert Herrfck's
Their Child" It is not a roIlickinx
tale, Ike Wister's Philosophy A." this
issue in the series Of Little Novels by
Favorite Authors" but a study in
heredity, with a certain flavor Of Bal
zac- The plot turns upon a five-year-
old boy who suddenly reveals the wick
edness OF his grandsire-a fierce old
Herserker In the mad rages-and upon
the temptation that comes to his
parents to drown their sorrows-he in
drink she in the company Of her girl
hoods sweetheart
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out when the exigencies of national or
social tendencies demand it. DR.. Jor-
dan gives this clear-cut exposition:
THE scholar is silent for the most
part in the rush and hurry of the
world. When he has no reason for
talking he reserves his strength for his
own due season and his own line OF ac-
ton. Eut he must be free to speak
when needs arise. The scholar should
be above all influences of passion or
profit. He should speak for the clear.
hard. unyielding, unfiattering, unpity
ing truth. If he enters the arena he
must take his chances with the rest
His thoughts must be his only wea-
pom
In an essay under the caption,
Apology for the American Univer
sity," the author reviews the growth
of the typical college Of fifty years ago.
when men were educated more for
the sake of the degree than for the
practical value of their knowledge
down to the present exalted concep-
ton of a university and it's work. With
the broader sphere of the university
comes the need for broader teachers.
Here is what DR.. Jordan has to say
upon that score:
Doubtless the average professor
isn't worth $4,000 a year. Doubtless
YOU could fill every chair here on $500.
But that is not the point The fact is.
the average college professor is worth
very little indeed. X is not average
men, but real men that make a univer-
sity. Some real men you have. and
you know who they are. There is no
excuse for you to employ any others
Average men and average teachers you
can buy tied in punches at any price
you choose TO offer. For real men you
must look far and wide. for they are
in constant demand"
Strong words are they. but their
truth is being proven yearly.
Upon the much agitated question of
co-education the president of Stanford
University speaks with no uncertain
speech. He believes that women have
a right to higher education; that they
are, as a rule, fitted for il in the mat
ter Of mental qualities, and that CO.
education in the same institutions with
men is the best method for accom-
plishing the end in view.
Stanford's president writes as he
talks; his vigorous personality domi-
mates every sentence. BY the direct
ness Of his diction the clarity Of his
thought he causes the reader to feel
that In every assertion he makes he is
deadly in earnest. Sincerity is the in
herent quality of the book.
(Paul Elder & Co, San Francisco;
price 81 SOD
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Limit Is Reached
in Zendd Ddriety
of Strange Tale,

TVERY literary tendency goes to
~ the full swing of the pendulum.
That style Of story telling set in
vogue by the "Zenda" books of An
thony Hope and "Graustark" of Nc
Cutcheon has doubtless reached the cli-
max now. When Was Czar," by Ar
thur w. Marchmount, marks the ulti-
mate point of the movement.
Anthony Hope evolved a species Of
modern Arabian Night. He used the
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OF land would mean less than robbery
If put into practice.
Upon cooperation as the only tenet
Of socialism now in any measure of
general usage Bolen contents himself
with adducing the statistics OF indus
tries which have been carried on on a
cooperative basis and asking this
question-if the attempts at co-opera-
tion have not resulted in anything more
than partial successes and those only
transient, should we do away with in
dividual competition for the sake of the
closer brotherhood of man?
The delicate question of trades
unions, strikes and boycotts the author
treats with a sure grasp. He defends the
union idea as being within the natural
province of the wage-earner. But in a
chapter devoted to questionable policies
of trade unions he censures the unions
general objection to piecework as evinc-
ing a disposition to render dishonest re-
turn for wages, and deplores the ten
dency of unions TO form a monopoly of
labor by sympathetic strikes.
In chapters upon the modern condi-
tions of the poor and unemployed,
prison labor. labor laws and kindred
subjects, Bolen closes his work. A
work it is which is not wanting in ex-
preston of opinions but is remarkably
rich in facts.
CThe Macmillan Company, New
York; price 81 OO.)
There is a sure place for Mitchell's
book on greenbacks. The experience Of
the United States with the greenbacks
is of peculiar interest from both the
historical and economic points of view.
This monograph treats the subject from
both points of view. the first part being
devoted to the study of the chain of
events which led up to the issue of the
paper money, and the second part trac-
ing in detail the effects of the desertion
of a metallic for paper standard. The
elaborate chapter on wages includes
detailed analysis of the Aldrich Report
in comparison with the hitherto almost
unused material by ]. D. Weeks in
volume Xxx of the Census Of 1880. An
Interesting feature is the incidental sta
tistical demonstration of an element Of
truth in the much despised subsistence
theory of wages. Similar studies on
rent, interest and profits are followed
by a chapter upon "The Greenbacks
and the Cost of the Civil War;" show
ing to what degree the paper issues in
creased expense incurred by the Gov
ernment in carrying on the struggle.
Not the least valuable feature OF
Mitchells book are the statistical ap-
pendices. These comprise tables drawn
from the most authoritative sources
upon the relative prices Of commodities
during the war period of greenback
currency and the relative wage rates
during the same period.
(The University of Chicago Press,
Chicago; price 81 00)
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For q Christmas
Buyer of Books
These FeU Hints
roREMosT among the books which

.-OREMOST among the books which
n present themselves to the Christ
\ mas buyer is Gibson's collection
for 1903. This includes eighty drawings
of the illustrator, chief among which
are those comprised in the series en-
titled 1.-The Weaker Sex" Some feel
that Gibson has done his best work and
is now only drawing on his name; 9TH
ers are as eager to have a copy Of Glib
son on the library table as ever. Be the
merits of this question what they may,
1t is certain that the clever portrayer
Of the American girl has class by
himself and will continue to be popular
for many seasons to come.
(Charles Scribner's Sons, New York;
price 81 20.)
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II YOU know a matinee girl who Sim
ply dotes" on any one or all Of the
gentlemen heroes of the stage, send her
John Corbin's little booklet, "The First
Loves Of Perilla" In this skit the vete-
ran dramatic critic has aptly hit Off the
average sweet young girls first impress
sions of Richard Mansfield. John Drew,
E. H. Sothern and the rest Of that
noble galaxy. Not only does the little
sketch contain some sharp criticism
uuon the art Of these respective gentle
men. but II strikes out some good-nat-
ured badinage at the expense OF the
matinee girl herself.
(Fox. Duff1eld & Co., New York;
frontispiece in color by Gilbert.)
For those of q graver trend of mind
Edmund Gosse has brought out the old
.sEnchiridion'' of William Penn, the
Quaker. under the title Some Fruits
of Solitude" In an Introductory essay
Gosse recalls that 1t was this little
book. picked up in an old San Francisco
book store, which cheered the long days
of pain of Robert Louis Stevenson
when he lived up on Bush street. "If
ever I'm all my human conduct" said
Stevenson, upon presenting this treas
ured book to a friend, Il have done a
better thing to any fellow creature than
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-13
TWO Important
Contributions to
Economic Science

~WO books have appeared within
the month which will take a high
Dlace IN the Iitaroturo cf o.ooxa,,,
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-10-02
RELEASED, LACK OF EVIDENCE.
BERRY BOYS NOT HELD FOB STEALING
ROCKEFELLER CATTLE.
States Evidence showed Crime Not Com
mftted-HersheII Bannister Testified
No Cattle 1Iissing-Puts Wal
den in Bad Light.

Last weeks issue of this paper con
tanned an article reporting the Berry
boys release from the charge of cattle
stealing, "for lack of evidence" On
what ground they were released was
then only a matter Of surmise.
The case was tried at Atwood, Raw
Inns county, Kan, on Friday. September, I
Is, before Justice J. II. Chambers After
the conclusion of the trial, the court
stated that the evidence produced by
the state did not show that any crime
had been committed and ordered the
prisoners discharged from Custody.
The prisoners were discharged on the
evidence produced by the state. From
the Atwood Patriot Of September .. re-
porting the case 10 full, the following
clipping, which Is self explanatory, is
| taken:
"Hershel Bannister,an employee Of the
Rockefeller ranch, was the next witness
for the state. The most important part
Of his testimony was brought out il the
cross-ezaminatiOu when be stated that
on the 18th day Of December, two days
after the Berry boys had sold the IL
head Of cattle, that he had counted the
cattle IN the Rockefeller pasture and
that only two were missing and that
these were afterward recovered. This
testimony from one Of the states wit
nesses knocks the prop from under the
contention that he-Berry boys had stol-
en- cattle from the Rockefeller ranch be-
tween November 10Th aud December
18th.
"When the state concluded its case the
defense stated that It would not offer
any testimony. and after some argument
the case was submitted and court was
adjourned until Saturday morning al
ten o'clock when Justice Chambers
made his announcement and discharged
p the prisoners.
r "Mr. Kramer Immediately began re
plevin action through Attorneys Briney
and Noble for the recovery Of ten head
= Of cattle which Mr.. Walden identi.
fed and drove to the Rockefeller ranch
b Mr.. Walden gave a redelivery bond
and the case viii be determined at tht
= coming November term Of court
Ex-COngressman y. B. McCOrmicl
8 defended the Berry boys, and be man
J. aged on cross examination 70 bring on
/ the evidence which cleared them. Tn
s following is from the Philipsburg Post
+ The trial Of the Berrys on tn
g charge Of cattle stealing took place q
e Atwood the latter part Of the week
which resulted In an acquittal Of th
Berrys and the costs Of the case charge
= te the plaintiff. No evidence was intro
n duced to show that any cattle Eer
? stolen Attorney \. B. Mccormick, c
D. this city, defended the Berrys."
. Percy E. Walden. manager Of tb
l. Rockefeller ranch, may be innocent {
any conspiracy 10 convict the Berrys
a the interest Of the DeEeys, but ia
At trumPed up charge makes his story loo
"6shy'.