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New-York tribune., 1903-05-23

drinking quarts of tea daily. who at the same
time was a desperate drunkaTd and an adept
at cursing Nor have ever encountered
man whose mind was constantly occupied with
g deep philosophic work he intended to write.
simultaneously paying particular attention to
horseracing and betting. Miss S2aWeu declares
both these remarkable people TO have nveo IN
Virginia. the OF her present tale. 1t was
in the good old days when to give d ball on a
plantation twas an undertaking little short Of
a crusade in the Middle Ages. sailing vessel
had to be sent to Baltimore for the supper.
musicians, decorations and everything the plan
tation did not supply; and it might return in
one week, and it might return in two weeks, and
1t might never return at ALL The scni-feudal
atmosphere of patriarchal slave holding Vir-
ginia a century ago is rendered with Iveliness
and vigcr. The character drawing is not all so
erratic as may have been inferred On the con-
trary the heroine, Sylvia Shapleish IS very
clearly cut, very consistently imagined. very
convincingly portrayed individual Nr1.ol Gus
strange traits of the female heart are revealed
in her unchangea BILE devotion to Shelton. the
man she has loved from childhood and also in
the blind alteration of Mrs. Blair for her good
for-nothing but plausible husband.
We cannot refrain from quoting a very inter
esting opinion held by Mr.. Benson and stated
in chapter xviii of "Old Squire" mis- latest
novel:
II is the common belief that Gettysburg was
q field of glorious victory, and that Aniletem
was in reality a drawn battle, without the
honor of success to the Union cause until 1t be
came known that Lee had declined q further
contest on that field. Yet ii would not be d1tt1-
cult TO show that the converse was more nearly
true; the battle of Antietam gave Mcclellan
over Lee twice the prepOnderance that Meade
obtained by of Gettysburg And n SO
far as either battle should be regarded as
mere battle, that is to say. for the moment
leaving out of consideration all the moral effect
of the respective campaigns in their termination
II is hardly too much to believe that Antietam
was as great a day for the Union rank and
file as even the Friday at Gettysburg, and GER
tainly very much greater day than Nednes-
day or Thursday. either or both; for McClellan's s
battle reduced his antagonist to a point almost
beyond hopeful defence while Meades had
scarcely changed its relative capacity to resist
The future historian doubtless, will mark the
beginning and place of the Confederacy's mill
tary decay not July in Pennsylvania, but July
4 in Mississippi.
While acknowledging the plausibility Of the
author from the historical point of view. we
think he falls far short of excellence in another
regard. There is a certain matter-of-fact ten
dency in his writing, certain coldness, very
damaging to the obtaining Of strong dramatic
effects The story has not the vivid coloring
one would wish for. not the romantic atmos-
phere that the subject must suggest to every
IMAGINATIVE mind. In short, Mr.. Benson lacks
the poetic instinct. He is more of an analyst
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has a hard time. is dissatisfied, and shouts
about 1t to others similarly circunstanced. he
must be a socialist The whole book is con-
spicuous for deplorably bad taste, exhibited
either indirectly by the characters. or directly
by the author herself. Just at this time to dis
tribute to fictitious personages such appellations
as "Ruspol" "Colonna," and Won Sternberg.
German Consul General" is objectionable.
Beatrice Cameron. the young person from
New-Orleans who in the pages OF "A Social
Cockatrice' is trying to push herself into so
ciety" in New-York, and who is not succeeding
very well, thus complains to Mrs Jewett. her
chief encourager and abettor: II have the ere
dentials every one of them-family, money, edu-
cation and beauty. Why have I failed to secure
a place to which my endowment entities me2"
Her question eIcits the following remark from
Mrs. Jewett: You are crude. and you
are moreover hopelessly vulgar Question and
answer thoroughly typify the whole tenor and
New-York tribune., 1903-05-23
PART III.
TEN PAGES.
NEW NOVELS.
American Life an the Present and
the Past.

Hrs DAUGHTER FIRST. BY Arthur Sherburne
Hardy. 12mo, pp. S4s. Houghton Miffiin & Co.
Ph0rLi6 0arie5ce W Book of Commuters Wife With
Eight Full Page Illustrations. 12mo, PIP TX, SS5.
The Macmillan Company
LIES COMMON WAY. BY Annie Elliot Trun1-
bull I2no. PIP 40. a. S. Barnes * Co
VIRGINIA GIRL IN THE CIVIL WAR Edit
ed by Myrtha bockett Avary- l2mo PIP X. 3Si.
D. Appleton & Co
THE TRAIL OF THE GRAND sEIGNEUR. BY
DIN I. Lyman Emo. PIP 432- CNew-Amsterdam
Book Company
KENT FORT MANOR. BY William Henry Bah
coates eGsk ENG Cos Pp SSS Pnia'eipnia; Henry /
CHILDREN OF DESTINY BY Molly Elliot Sea-
well. 12no. PIP S4L Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company
old SQUIRE. The Romance Of a Black virginian
BY s. X Benson l2no. PIP X. 4Sl Crhe Mac
milan Company9
FARRELL OF THE BLESSED ISLES. BY Irving
Bachelor. Illustrated by Arthur / Kellar.
i2Tno. pp. 40 CBoston: The Lothrop publishing
Company
wALDA BY Mary Holland Kinkaid. Emo PIP.
81 (darper & Bros)
THE SOCIALIST AND THE PRINCE. By Mrs.
Fremont Older. limo, pp- viii, Ss- Funk d
A SOCIAL CoCKATRICE BY Frederick W
Publishing Company
THE sPOILSMEN. By Elliott Flower. 12mo, PIP.
viii S24 CT3oston: L. c. Page & CoD
THE VOICE IN THE DESERT. BY Pauline Brad
ford Maclle 0irs HerbeTt ,,s Muller Hopkins
WI
WHEN PATTY WENT TO COLLEGE By Jean
Webster With Illustrations by c. D. Williams.
emo pp. go CThe Century Company
TITO By William Henry Carson. 12no. pp. S6S.
Boston: c. ". Clark Publishing Company
-rosfIY wIDEAwAKE. By H H. Bashford
I2mo. pp 1SS John Lane
NJ. Hardy's new story Of modern American
life His Daughter First, makes us acquainted
with several types that are none the less inter
as+ing because they are without exceptional
traits The authors intention is plainly to paint
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for US such men and women as most OF Us nav
known to show them in situations entlT7Iy
familiar and to interest us simply by making
them seem human and natural Mrs. kensett
the Young widow Of the story, with her mingled
ingenuCusness and common sense IN the nan
ding Of business affairs. is g most plauslble
figure. and though wish that she and her
masculine cousin were q little less mawklshly
sentimental in their relations, We are not sure
but that even in this Mr.. Hardy Is re-
vesling his chief r1erit-his fidelity 10 truth
There is a curious individual in this book,
man Of whom Il is difficult to say whether ne is
or IS not q rascal. OF course Mrs kensett
threatens 10 burn her fingers in dealing with
him and equally Z matter Of course, Is his in
PRODUCTION as the suitor of just the girl who, in
the circumstances should be spared his ap-
proaches But Mr.. Hardy manages the ensuing
encanglenents with great deftness, never strain
ing poirt. but making the whole plot seem as
inevitable as anything occurring in everyday
life It is quietly diverting book, very
smoothly written
The author Of ""The Garden Of a Commuters
Wife" hss followed UP that agreeable and sue
cessful venture with q somewhat similar vol
urne which can be freely commended and
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and her sincerity. In the present volume shs
seems 20 have lost her bearings. TO have lcos-
ened her hold on mere human nature. and 20
have gone in for being clever The change
leaves her In sorry plight The story. about
hundred pages in length. which gives the book
its title. deals with two men and three women
who are all unreal they are grotesque-
The widow. in loving that one of her two sens
whose paternity is open 10 question and doing
strange things for him. has some plausible
traits. but on the whole. she is an artificial
figure. and the other members OF her circle are
even less credibls.
-zack'' makes matters worse by writing this
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than an artist. His psychological portrait or
old Squire the negro scout and philosopher. so
faithful to the bitter end to '"Mahs Chahley.
is indeed. a good piece OF analytic work But
IL does not make absorbing novel
In Darrell of the Blessed Isles.' Mr. Bachelor
has sketched another portrait of a man with
CLEARLY marked idiosyncracies. Darrell, the old
clock tinker who figures in this story Is con-
stantly showing in his speech that he has a de-
votion to Shakespeare. His remarks are some
times odd enough, but they have machlhe
made accent The hero. Sidney TroVe' is
brought, when child to the door OF farm
house in which he grows up in ignorance OF his
father and mother. He develops into sturdy
youth physically, but he is little or prig
However the latter fact does not seriously con-
fict with the authors chief purpose. which ap-
pears TO be the portrayal of life in rural com
munity We have divers hcmespun types drawn
I'm this volume and the district school is exhio-
tied as a matter of course The plot has some
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out the aid Of adventitious incidents; it is the
sadness inherent in Irelands circumstances that
he makes US feel. And how pognantly human 10
all is With those innumerable little touches Of
his that provide a profoundly realistic basis
for his effects without ever making the latter
share in the literal and dull character OF q
photograph he brings the truth home. Ills
priests and peasants alive. and the things
that happen 10 them seem the most natural
things in the world, ever with the note added
10 tell us that this is Irish life we are observ-
ing-a life with a color particularly its OWE
From cover to cover The Untitled Field Is
entertaining and from cover to cover IT makes
for sympathetic reflection the problems OF
modern Irish life
With her first volume, Life Is Life" Miss
Keats. or .sZack," as she prefers to call herself
upon her title pages, left deep impression
upon discerning readers. The latter could not
but regret the morbid streak in her work; they
could not but recognize her strength "On
Trial. was another good book. THE White Cot
tage" a third and in Tales of Dunstable Weir
the authors reputation well maintained
Now in The Roman Road she causes rub
our eyes with aInazement, and 10 wonder what
in the world has come over her literary CON
scfousness 1t seems warped out Of all recog-
milton In her earlier books "Zack" has made
us feel above all things. her grasp truth.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-23
SHORT STORIES.
Nezc Books By George Moore, Zachc
and Others.

THE UNTITLED FIELD. BY George Moore 12rna
PIP. ISL PniIldelphia- j. b 1App4ncct Com
pany-
THE ROMAN ROAD. BY lack 12mo. Do. rs.
Charles S-rIbuer's Sons
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BEGGAR- Pre-
faced b. Some o. the Humorous Adventures
By K Friedman. With Eighteen Ilustra-
tions by ". Gackens. l2uo. pp- xL 80. Bos-
Small. Maynard z Co
THE BLACK LION INN BY Alfred Henry Lewis
Illustrated 9y Frederic Remington, l-rao pP-
MIDDLE AGED LOVE STORIES BY JosePhins
Dodge Daskam i2Ino. pD- 80 Charles Scrio-
George Moore is an artist in fiction II
ever there was one. but ne is never eontented in
the exercise of art merely for its own sake: he
could not write a book without putting deep
thought into it if he tried The Untitled Field
therefore. is much more than the collection os
Irish stories which nine authors out Of ten would
have made il. The stories are there. but each one
adds something to that broad picture OF Irish
life and to that Illuminating criticism OF II
which Mr.. Moore is obviously bent on present
ing to his readers. The Irish anecdote is getting
TO be excessively familiar in contemporary fc-
ton HumOr is apt TO play a large part In II
There is humor in some OF these stories OF
MI Moore's. but it is subsidiary TO grave ele-
ments- 1t is not his ambition TO provoke
smile. though he does not object TO our being
amused from time TO time WhaC ne wishes
TO do-and ne wishes it with intense earnest
ness-is to make see just what manner Of
people the Irish are, exposing their foibIes.
ing with implacabIe justice every one OF their
woes to the source that their own natures pro-
vide. and, while relating one specific little
drama after another. 70 make plain the racial
essence that. under all circumstances and at
any point on Irish soil, remains the same. He
is sad in most Of these pages, but always with
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for which no doubt, the same popularity can
be- r,ronbesied People Of the whirlpool is hol
so much a narrative as it is a collection OF 1ot-
tings OF the idiosyncrasies and the doiiss u
the authors personages, the reflective VEN
which runs through the pages being OF oeli-
cstely humorous nature. The people anu tiie
Wsvg Of New-York as well as those OF tHe
nei-hborhood especially coTnmemorateo -ie
sketched with q sprightly hand 1t all saNoiS
OF domesticity OF the life that is hVeo Ii
sn,su circle of kindly men anc women 3iAN
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-15
FORT SUPPLY AND BUSTERS
 BATTLE.


 The following facts regarding Fort
 Supply and the battle on the Washita
 are taken from the Tonkawa News:
 Fort Supply, in Woodward county, Q.
 T., was so called because for many
 years 1t was used as a repository for
 military stores, from which other posts farther out on the frontier were sup
 piled. Here at various times has been
 stationed some of our most famous sol diers, including LaWton, Charles King, Custer and General Sheridan
 In early days all kinds of commodities were transported by freight trains. In '6S the Indians having raided train in Kansas, General Custer, was ordered to subdue the savages. Custer,s command consisted of eleven companies of caval- kry, four companies of infantry, two hoWitzers and big supply train.
 When he reached the banks of the Beaver he. was in the eneny's country. An ideal camping place was found at the Big Springs. with abundance of water, The camp was fortified. After ten days Custer left four companies of infantry to guard the post and set out with nine hundred cavalry in search of the raiders. A heavy. snow had fallen and it was genuine winter weather. On the second day of their march the scouts reported smoke ahead in the Washita valley. The cavalry halted until evening. In zero weather, snow knee deep, the soldiers lay on their arms all night waiting for daylight, the signal for attack. The Indian dogs precipitated the bat tie, for at dawn they discovered the
 blue coats" and set up the alarm. The bugle sounded, and instantly the fear full battle was on. The fight was in genuine Indian fashion. For about an
 hour the dusky warriors, aided by the squaws and children, fought with des- Operation. The voice of Black Kettle could be heard constantly abbve the din Of battle. At last his great war whoop ceased, and the Indians, realizing that their leader was dead, threw down their arms in surrender. One hundred and three Indians were slain, and the rest
 were taken prisoners. Nineteen sol diers and one officer lost their lives.
 The tepees were destroyed and over a hundred ponies were captured But the soldiers killed the ponies, as they l had no feed for them. With fifty-three Indian prisoners, the captured buffalo robes and Captain Hamflton's body, Custer and his men returned to Camp Supply. This was the only important battle ever fought with the Indians upon Oklahoma soil. Fort Supply was well chosen, for il l is naturally we'll adapted for a military post. It Is guarded by the Beaver riv- CT on the north and Wolf creek on the south, the two uniting short distance below. Between the fort and Wolf
 creek are small sage covered sand hills
 convenient lookouts for sentinels. The buildings occupy delightful piece ot ground and cost fifteen hundred thou sand dollars.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-15
NINETY VETERANS A DAY.
Are Dying, but Their Widowsare Last.
 a ing Longer,

|.
 Washington, D. C.. July 4.-Veterans
 of the civil war on. the pension roll are
 dying at. the rate of ninety a day.
 Widows on the pension rolls are dying
 at the rate of twenty a day. Despite
 the fact that the Spanish-American war has added thousands to names to the pension rolls and the number of pension certificates issued for the year ending June exceed by thirteen thou
 sand the certificates issued for 1902, the losses by death in each of the eighteen
 pension agencies during the five months from January to May, inclusive, have
 been greater than the gains through the addition of new names, s The exact proportion for all the agen- cies cannot be given until the July computation has been made, but suffi- cient data Is at hand to show that the death losses for a given period for the first time since the civil war period pen sion list was established exceeds the
 gains. In round numbers the total pen- sioners are nine flundded and ninety eight thousand, of whom approximately tllTGG Aiu1luEeu IfiUuSslilQ te1It WluoWS.
 The death rate among the veterans ex-
 ceeds the death rate among the div
 ows, but the commissioner of pensions
 and the statisticians in the department
 are. confident that from this time on
 there will be a uniform increase in the
 proportionate number of deaths.
 For several years the pension list has lowered about the million mark. Some
 months it would be a few hundred more and other months a few hundred less,
 but it has at least gone below one mill lion to remain.
 Previous to this year the records of the pension office were not kept in such manner as to enable the financial di- vision to show the gains and losses at the various agencies by months. While each of the agencies shows losses in excess of gains there is a wide differ ence in the proportions. The statement for the Topeka and Indianapolis agen- cies has been compiled. While the pro- portionate death losses in the two agen- cies are approximately the same, the Topeka agency shows a larger propor- donate gain in adding new names to the pension rolls. But the significance of the reports lies in the fact that in all agencies, no matter how great the gains, the death losses exceed them, and that the death rate is almost uni form.
 In addition to the actual losses by death, there has been a further loss in each of the agencies due to failure to claim pensions for three years. In the Indianapolis agency this aggregate is 357 and in the Topeka agency ninety seven. It is believed that ninety per cent. or more of these losses are due to the death of the pensioners. This owuld make a net loss at the Indian apolis agency of 1.041 for the five months, and at the Topeka agency of S61, The total loss by death in the h.
 dianapolis agency for the first five
 months os the calendar year is 1,S4S,
 and for the Topeka agency 1,99O.-Pitts-
 burg Gazette.'
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-15
NEGRO POETS SATIRE.
HITTER WORDS FROM PAUL
 LAURENCE DUNBAR

The Fine Irony of Onr Protest in Rus.
 sia-The sorrows of His People Who
 Yet Celebrate the Fourth.
 Paul Laurence Dunbar, the negro au-
 thor and poet, has written the following
 note to a Chicago paper, prompted by
 recent lynching::
 Belleville, Wilmington, Evansville, the Fourth of July. and Kishineff, cu-
 rious combination and yet one repiete
 with ghastly humor Sitting with
 closed lips over our own bloody deeds,
 we accomplish the fine irony of a pro-
 test to Russia. Contemplating with
 placid eyes the destruction of all the
 Declaration of Independence and the
 Constitution stood for, we celebrate the
 thing which our own action proclains
 we do not believe in
 But it is over and done. The Fourth
 is come and gone. The din has ceased
 and the smoke has cleared away.
 Nothing remains but the litter of all
 and a few reflections. The skyrocket
 has ascended. the flrecrackers have l burst, the roman candles have sput-
 tered, the "nigger chasers' pertinent American 11ame-have run their course
 and we have celebrated the nations
 birthday. Yes, and we black folks have
 celebrated.
 Dearborn street and Armour avenue
 have been all life and light. Not even
 the Jew and the Chinaman have been
 able to outdo us in the display of loy- alty. And we have done it all because
 we have not stopped to think just how little it means to us.
 The papers are full of the reports of peonage in Alabama. A new and more dastardly slavery there has arisen to
 replace the old. For the sake of re-en- slaving the negro, the Constitution has
 been trampled under foot, the rights of
 man have been laughed out of court,
 and the justice of God has been made 8 Ijest, and we celebrate. > Every wire. no longer in the south alone, brings us news of a new hanging or a new burning. some recent outrage against a helpless people, some fresh degradation of an already degraded race. One man sins and a whole na- ton suffers, and we celebrate.
 Like dark cloud, pregnant with ter TOT and destruction, disfranchisement has spread it's wings over our brethren of the south. Like the same dark cloud, industrial prejudice looms above IS in the north. We may not work save when the new-come foreign CT refuses to, and then they, high prized among our sacrifcial lives, may shoot us down with impunity. And yet we celebrate.
 With citizenship discredited and scored, with violated homes and long unheeded prayers. with bleeding hands uplifted, still sore and snarting from long beating at the door of opportunity, we raise our voices and sing "My Coun- try. Iris of Thee:" We shout and sing while from the four points of the com pass comes our brothers unavailing cry, and so we celebrate.
 With a preacher, one who a few cen- turies ago would have sold indulgences to the murderers on St. Bartholomew S l day, with such preacher in a Chicago pulpit, jingling his thirty pieces of sil- yer, distorting the number and nature ! of our crimes, eXcusing anarchy, apolo- gizing for, murder and tearing to tatters
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the teachings of Jesus Christ while he cries, Release unto us Barabbas," we celebrate. .-.
 But there are some who sit silent within their closed rooms and hear as from afar the din of joy come mufied to their ears as on some later day their children and their children's sons shall hear a nations cry for succor in her need. Aye, there be some who on this festal day kneel in their private closets and with hands upraised and blooding hearts cry out to God, if there still lives a God, How long. O God. how long?''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-15
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ls5ss5sss.7s sza-.fe pushed too far and be interfered with in matters which the have always be- Iieved they have a ri9ht to control. Of course. in a large number of instances the mountaineer is wrong in violating the laws of the goyeFnment. but yet 3 feeling of pity mus1 go out for him when we know that Fle IS honest as the day is long and as 9raye as the bray est. ."-Detroit Free Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-15
SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY, NEW HAVEN, CONN. < nT

STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. this Company viii will be held cid pssd on Wednesday v, July 222. 1908, at 4 o'clock D. nl., at the office of the Company, S7 Center Street, tsew Haven, Conn This meeting is called for the purpose of approving or disappearing an amendment to the charter of said Company limiting the number of it's Directors, and providing for the terms for which the Directors shall serve and for the filling of vacancies which may occur In the Board of Directors
 The said amendment was passed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecti- cut, in the year 1903, and approved by the Governor April II, 1903.
 By order of the Board of Directors,
 CHAS S. LEETE,
 jy15 tt President.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-15
GYPSY CAMP

A gypsy camp passed through here yesterday, attracting much attention, especially the little house on wheels in which they dwell, which was drawn by four horses.