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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27

New York teachers find they are at
liberty to marry. Nothing further Is
needed beyond the desire and the
chance.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27
SAYS WIFE SLEW HUBBY.
Mrs. Gallagher 10 Brought to JUS
After Vain EIuht.

WIFE 0d1TdvHeV 70 bTUuUut 20 JUS
After Vain Fight.
Des MOines, Iowa, May %. -
Gallagher, tried a second time
perjury in connection with the mu,
of her husband, was found guilty
terday. Mrs. Gallagher was chan
by the state with having killed
husband and with attempting to d
the body. She put the crime
Charles Holiday, a farm hand,
escaped. She was afterward tried
perjury, but was acquitted.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27
PUFF OF WIND BROWNS TWO.

Party Of Seven ls Plunged Into Floc
Swollen Stream.
Winnipeg, Man, May PA dout
drowning accident occurred at Vird
last night. A party Of seven we
crossing the food-swollen river nori
east of here in q small skiff. A sd
den puff of wind upset the boat and
were thrown into tho water. Fl
managed to escape. but the other Il
lost their lives.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27
X-RAY AFTER EVIDENCE.
Man Who Swallowed Diamond 10 Be-
inc Examined by Doctors.

ing Examined by Doctors.
Billings, Mont, May Is. Edward
Buckley, who swallowed a $-vo dia.
mond when arrested is now being ex-
amined with the X-ray in an attempt
to locate the gem in his stomach.
Buckley laughs at the efforts Of the
doctors, and last night lazily stretched
himself upon the operating table when
so ordered. Buckley is charged with
robbing the safes Of the Billings brew
cry and laundry companies last week
Of about IS, 900 in cash and diamonds
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27
Accidental Happenings.

Prof. D%anton, the Hungarian diver
encircled in flame, dived to his death
from q 110-foot ladder to q tank al
Raleigh, N. G.
Fire has destroyed twenty-five
houses in the suburb Of st. Henry
near Montreal, rendering thirty fami
lies homeless. The loss is $4,000.
Fire at Batson, Tex, destroyed 1t
derricks, s drilling rigs and % tanks
containing about $4,000 barrels of oil
Ton Ealker of Leavenworth was roast
ed to death.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27

Taxes are to be increased In Eng
land, so that the royal family may
not have to discharge any OF Its help.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27

After all, are we really ready 7
bear patiently with the lis II not
enough for you?" bore?
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27
Funny misprint in the Boston Tran
script-"Kind Edward" for the king OF
England.

The assertion that Joseph Cham
berlain is enjoying poor health Is Ger
tAinly untrue.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27

MI. w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., has soid
all his racing automobiles. DID the
life insurance folks protest?
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-27

Brazil and Peru are threatening TO
90 to war. They should be spanked.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-09

It that the activity Of the times should
have found permanent expression in
the construction of religious edif1ces.
The great cathedral church." says
the writer, "is, next to being a symbol
OF the faith, more great as a monument
to its age and environment than as the
product Of its individual builders"
Pursuant to his conception of church
architecture as the most perfect ex-
ponent Of the lives of the builders,
Miltoun carries the thread of history
with his descriptions, giving us the
associations that cling about all of the
most important cathedrals besides out
lines Of the architectural features Of
each. Through all the beautiful south
land Of France the narrative carries,
into places far off the beaten path Of
tourists and made known only through
that gentle voyager with a donkey, r.
L. S. His book is thoroughly satisfy
Ing and is given an added value by the
delicately drawn illustrations by
Blanche ,McManus.
THE Cathedrals Of England" on the
other hand, is not worth reading. De-
claring that In the limits of one vol
full description Of the architecture of
England's thirty cathedrals, Miss
Taber cleaks her evident ignorance Of
the same under the guise Of ramb-
ling comment. half archaeological, half
devoted to personalia- Through litera-
ture and history she has grubbed after
reference to any or all of the bishops.
priests and deacons who were associ-
ated in the flesh with the several
cathedrals mentioned, and these aneo-
dotal and seni-traditional jottings are
ranged forth in chronological order
under the proper chapter heads. Pho
tographs of the several sacred edifices
give more clew to their respective
architectural features than the text.
IL. c. Page & Co.. Boston; price, /
volume, 81 co.,
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SUSAN CLEGG
Of Rare Naivete

w /HEN "A Woman's VIII" came
wv out few months ago with the
name of a new writer, Anne
Warner. appended to its title page, It
made manifest the fact that there had
come to the front a writer who was
blessed with pleasing originality and
the grace Of keen wit. simultaneously
there began to appear in the Century
a series of delightfully."- amusing
sketches about certain Susan Clegg,
spinster. which proved that Anne War
ner was also the possessor Of unusual
versatility. These four Century stories
together with a new one, hitherto un-
published, have been collected into a
book, its title. Susan Clegg and Her
Friend Mrs. Lathrop." Though in this
new meter Anne Warner has avow-
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stark srter this fntermission or sev-
eral years we see the Princess Yetive
and her American consort, LOFTY, hur-
rying back to their dominion from a
Jaunt 70 Washington, impelled by ru-
mors Of a disturbance along the from
tier OF the little state. Prince Gabriel;
whom we remember as the terrible as
sassin OF the last story, has fed his
Graustarkian dungeon and is now in
coIlusion with Princess So-and-So Of
Such-and-Such-obj the extermina-
ton Of Graustark. With fine independ-
ence Beverly Calhoun. beautiful South
ern girl and friend Of their Majesties,
crosses to ST. Petersburg and takes an
independent jaunt into Graustark over
the northern border. Her travelling car
risge is held up in a fearsome mountain
pass by some wandering scallawags;
the chief OF the scallawags graciously
saves her from being devoured by a
wild lion, and thereby becomes an OBJ
ject Of interest for Beverly Calhoun
The rest OF the story has to detail the
particulars OF how this chief Of the rag
tag and bobtails is not a beggar, but
truly Prince in exile; how he takes ser
vice with Beverly under the impression
that she is the Princess Yetive, falls
hopelessly in love with her and finally
Of course, they live happily ever after
ward. The villain Of the piece is fierce
old bird, head Of the army, who has
buried five or six wives and desires to
confer the honor OF another chance on
Beverly. He is thoroughly villainous
Princess Yetive does nothing in the
story but act very kittenish for Prin-
cess at times, and signs the proper de-
crees necessary TO release this man
from prison or keep that one out.
The situations are for the most part
made over from popular fiction. In
deed, it might be well to tabulate some
Of them, with their various sources,
thus:
Heroine saved from teeth OF noun
tain lion; see ''The Deerslayer"
Heroine helps hero TO escape through
secret passage under a chapel floor; see
Marguerite de Valois."
Beggar is a Prince in disguise; see
"Grimm's Fairy Tales"
- Trapped at last a sardonic voice
hissed"; see The Mystery of Three
Fingered jack Nick Carter library.
Dodd, Mead & Co.. New York; illus
trated by Harrison Fisher; price 81 5o.)
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edly invaded a field already overwork-
ed by books of the Mrs. Wigs" and
Second Mrs. Jim type, her Susan
Clegg sketches have a distinct tone of
originality and can have no imputation
of imitation attached to them.
In the first story, 'The Marrying Of
Susan Clegg," we have that lady of
strenuous convictions introduced to us
through her guileless confessions Of
matrimonial aspirations that are
poured over the back fence into the
willing ears of a doltish neighbor Su-
san, who has faithfully served a par
alytic father through all the days Of
her maidenhood, now finds age creep
ing on with the father still as a heavy
asset and no mate to share the ques-
tionable joys Of her companionship
With delightful naivete she invites one
Of her elected suitors to come and give
his professional opinion as to the prob
able duration Of Clegg senior as fac
tor in marital consideration and she
cheers herself with the aphorism that
"a watched pot never boils." A de-
Eghtful ingenious creature this Su-
san Clegg.
But it is in the second story, Miss
Cleggs Adopted" that the writer's
humor bubbles over with riotous effer-
vescence. With father dead and buried
Susan is torn between the duty of pro-
viding him with suitable tombstone
and the desire to take to her maidenly
bosom an orphan for loving upbring-
ing. The stonecutter has an entranc-
ing article of graveyard furniture in
the shape Of recumbent lion, which
is moved with visible grief over the
demise of the individual whom he may
be selected to honor. Here is trans
cript Of Susans haggling over this
treasure, as faithfully reported to Mrs.
Lathrop:
He's three hundred dollars, but the
man says that's because his tails out
o the same block. l asked him IL he
couldn't take the tail off, but he said
t'would hurt his reputation. He
said 4 I'd go up the ladder to his sec
ond floor n look down on the lion I'd
never talk about sawin' off his tail.
n he said't anyhow cuttin' 1t off would
only make it cost more because 1t was
cut on in the first place. I saw the
sense o. that n 1 remembered too. t
even f folks in the cemetery never can
see the tail, father II have to look at
it from higher up n the ladder In the
monument mans shed, N I don't want
him to think t I economical on the
tail of his tombstone"
Through the experience Of "Jathrop
Lathrop's Cow" the awful catastrophe
attending the discovery Of Cousin Mari
on and the diplomatic disposition of
the minister's children during that
worthy's vacation. Susan Clegg's con-
tinuous monologue carries the reader.
Susan is not the philosopher Of Mrs.
Rice's conception, nor the philanthro-
pist Of the Mrs. Jim stripe She Is
wholly self-centered, wholly selfish.
The charm in her lies entirely in her
picturesque diction and the breeziness
OF her thoughts concerning the import
Of the several village happenings in
which she is either an active partici-
pant or Of which she is an interested
spectator. Anne Warner has made her
Susan one Of the most entertaining per-
sonages Of all the years book people.
Little, Brown & Co., Boston: price
SD
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contribution to the literature of travel
and the bibliotheca of sacred architec-
ture: the companion volume is hardly
worth putting between covers.
in the introduction to his book Mr.
Miltoun declares that too often-it is
a half-acknowledged delusion, how
ever-one meets with what appears to
be theory that a book of travel must
necessarily be a series of dull, dis
cursive, and entirely uncorroborated
opinions of one who may not be an in
telligent observer" but he continues
To remark that it lies entirely within
the province Of the writer either to
make the reader an interested partner
in his Deregrinations or to hold him
at a stern distance of cold indiffer-
ence. The writer elects to follow the
first course and admirably does he sue
ceed. both as a ready cicerone and a
clever interpreter of the meaning that
is hidden in the craven stones of the
old church piles of Provence and the
Midi. Allowing himself just enough
leeway in terms strictly architectural
10 cover the demands of the specialist,
Miltoun 'discourses upon the hoary old
cathedrals from. point of view
closely intimate for the student of his
tory and of human nature impartially
As do other writer's Upon eccIesias-
tical architecture, the author finds in
the aspect Of the cathedrals refiec-
tion of the life and thought of the
times which saw their inception. Es-
pecially does he find this true in the
case of the cathedrals of Southern
France. There, as he points out in an
early chapter, the church militant had
q hold on the minds of the medieval
peoples not duplicated outside of Italy
itself. With the spirit of the Crusades
centered in Provence and Aquitaine
and later with the Popes of the Schism
established in AYiGnon- little wonder is
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GRAUSTARK
Revived in Sequel

n PETERLY OF GRAUSTARK''
I'd is the name siven by George
Barr McCutcheon 10 his Sc
Quel to the "Graustark" Of a few years
ago. which created such a breeze of ap-
probation in the reading world. "Bev-
erly Of Graustari1' he calls it: not be-
cause Beverly. the heroine. was of
GraUstark or had any close afnliation
with that Hypothetical principality
Somewhere TO the east of the setting
sun but because he knows that the
magic name OF Graustark. displayed in
bold letters on the cover. will sell his
book, and that is the principal consid-
Grafton with most Of our contemporary
writer's OF fiction.
Better even did Anthony Hope fare
with his sequel TO the famous Prisoner
of Zenda' than does MI. McCutcheon
IN his second installment Of the Grau-
stark cycle. The story here produced
is woefully lacking in spontaneity. in
unity OF action and sprightliness of
handling Many Of its pages are given
over 10 commonplace dialogue. Several
Of the situations are painfully forced.
Romance gives way TO melodrama of
the most lurid stripe upon the least
provocstion. Throughout the entire
story the effort Of the writer to pro-
duce something akin 10 the breathless
interest Of the original "Graustark,"
something live with action and hum
ming with incident, asserts itself with
persistent presence. But the discrep-
ancy between design and execution is
so great as almost TO excite commiser-
alton for the author
AS the curtain rolls I'D on Grau.
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CATHEDRAL
Lore Of Old World

~ Wo books Of widely different
worth have appeared in the
Cathedral Series Of Messrs. L.
c. Page & Co.-"The Cathedrals Of
Southern France" by Francis Mil
toun. and The Cathedrsls of Eng
land" from the pen Of Mary ]. !Taber.
The frs; nsned Is really noteworthy
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-09
MATTHEW'S
Literary Diversions

DRANDER MATTHEW'S, drama
htist, critic, essayist, fiction writer
and literary man-of- f-all-work, has
collected into volume scattered es-
says on TOPICS off the beaten path of
literature which he has contributed
to the magazines for several years
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MAGAZINES
for Current Month
1TN HE frontlspiece OF tha octoher

century is drawing IN color,
called THE Duet" by Anna
Whelan Belts, whose color work in re-
cent numbers of the Century, repre-
senting life Of fifty or sixty years ago,
is well known.
The war in the East Is touched upon
in two articles, an Illuminating anec-
dotal paper on Admiral Togo by one Of
his countrymen, Adachi Kinnosuke;
the other an illustrated paper on "Ths.
Cossacks" by David B. Macgowan,
who wrote the paper on "a Russian
Lourdes" IN the September Century, a
comprehensive article, dealing with the
character OF the Cossacks, their horses,
military organization, tactics and spe-
cial maneuvers. The illustrations in
clude a portrait OF the Cossack general,
Rennenkampff.
The fiction includes the last INSTALL
ment but one Of "The Sea-Wolf," by
Jack London, and seven short stories,
as follows: "a Ready Letter-Writer''
in the Madigan group, by Miriam
Nicholson, illustrated by Orson Lowell;
THE Thorn That Pricked." by Grace
Ellery Claiming. with a picture by AL
bert Sterner; Love at Long Distance"
by James Raymond Perry, with pic
lures by John Cassel; The Wuller-
wups' Ca Miss Niger" story, by
Rose Young; Concerning My Aunt
Ellen" by Gouverneur Morris, illus
trated by Leon Guipon; "Jathrop
Lathrop's Cow" by Anne Warner (au-
thor Of 1.-The Marrying Of Susan
C1egg''). and Richards Practicing,"
a monologue by Ruth Kimball Gardi-
ner, illustrated by Fanny Cory.
There ara several stories In Oc-
tober McClure's which viii make
distinct impression and merit
comment. In "a Good Samaritan
Mary R Shipman Andrews, with q
realism that is the truest art, describes
the humorous experiences Of a young
rector and an intoxicated friend whom
he feels In duty bound to escort home.
There il. a love story and real human
interest along with 1t. Lloyd Osborne
in "Glass-Eyed Bill" has done one Of
his very best, full OF dry humor, and a
most interesting situation. Eugene
Wood offers another OF his bully bits
of comedy from real life in describing
the "Firemen's Tournament" 1t Is
strong in the force Of Its suggestion
and familiarity. AS usual there is a
bright story Of children, this time "a
Fruit Of the Fair" by Marion Hill
with some wonderful drawings by Fly.
Cory. Leroy Scott tells a fascinating
story of mingled pathos, humor and
tragedy in THE Prison Days Of Billy
MacCheek."
The number includes several bits Of
excellent verse, The Forerunners" by
Florence Wilkinson, "a Serenade in
Autumn" by Herminie Templeton,
The Child in the Midst" by Margaret
E. Sangster. and 'The World is Round"
by A E. Housman. The number also
includes the concluding chapters Of
George Madden Martins successful
serial, "The House of Fulfllment"
The novelette, IN the current number
of TJpnfp 00ffte Ma on zfpa fo q taIo -
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Country Life IN America for October
Is the large annual house building
number, a complete manual with about
two hundred superb pictures, which
are practical and suggestive. as we'll
as beautiful The opening feature, en-
titled Representative Country Homes"
illustrates many types for the homs
maker, Of moderate means, what the
designers charge and rules for estinat-
Ing what a house viii cost Important
articles deal with Building a House
Off the Land" the story Of a Long Is
land house built OF chestnut logs with
local labor and from the owners own
drawings; "A New England Country
Home in Ohio" The Philosopher Who
Built" which shows the success that
may come Of a calm foresight; "Fr71-
gal, Frivolous and Final Floor Cover
ings;" Windows and Window Mo-
tives," and The Finest California Pa
ito House" While a great many other
articles cover almost every feature OF
house building. including such sub
jects as THE House and the Garden"
THE Ideal Farmhouse"-for real farm
ers, How to Light the Country House"
How to Fit Up the Bathroom" Re
modelling Old Houses" '"The Ideal Sta
ble," and Window Gardens"
There Is much food for thought for
wideawake girls and boys in George
Ethelbert Walsh's article In the Octo-
ber st. Nicholas, entitled What a
Lump OF Coal Could Do" He shows
that a small lump OF coal, suddenly
converted into steam. II it's energy
were utilized, would be sufficient to
run an electric motor car full OF pas
sengers two and a half miles at the
rate OF twenty miles an hour, or would
carry a train OF ordinary cars and a
heavy Pullman sleeper and dining-car
one-sixth OF a mile at the rate OF twen-
ty-f1ve miles an hour. The article will
prove an interesting exposition Of the
Transformation wrought In the labor
field by mans utilization Of coal and
It's latent powers.
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R499pRC23 IS Q3sGs55~ nc
lRITCff1E O$ I I@S
- lg;'.:Ij;< T.. -Cs s3~~C1 y

phere Of simplicity coulu 20. The SER
pent in Eden comes with a cameral
from nearby city and insidiOusly
wins his way. amid the deep silence OF
the wood, into the favor of loving little
Marcy Kergan, whose true island lover
has gone for a draUght of the worlds
activity before settling down to "ths
simple life with Marcy The story is
an affecting one. relieved from deepest
tragedy by native humor and a beauti.
full end
First among the we'll chosen short
stories comes Eleanor A. HaIlOweIs
'.BrindIe Boy" in which a pretty girl.
bulldog and a red cart combine to make
lively love story Francis Howard
Williams contributes THE Tragic
Touch" This contains both the grace
and fire that may be confidently ex.
pected from Mr.. Williams. The Way
wardness OF Susan" by Luellen Cass
Teters, is a tale of a farmers widow
Her life had been one Of renunciataion.
and after the taking off OF her husband
she determined to have her fling" She
soon finds out that what has before
seemed desirable is so no longer. and
she promptly makes out a new pro-
gramme. Alfred Stoddart's sporting
stories have become an established
fact in the autumn season. The one
entitled The Dark Horse" shows dis
tinct advance in his special art.
"
The first installment Of David Gra-
ham Phillips new novel, sThe Plum
Tree, or the Confessions Of a PoIiti-
cian," appears in the October Success.
1t starts out in a strong, vigorous, ep-
igrammatic manner and dips well into
the inside" Of things. Sydney Brooks,
the noted English journalist, contrib
utes a somewhat startling article on
Foreign Ignorance Of American AZ
fairs" Mr.. Brooks declares that thera
are living British statesmen like Lans-
downe and Balfour who do not even
know where some OF our principal
cities are located, and tells about a
certain Britisher who recently asked
Justin Mccarthy II the Mississippi
Fayant contributes another OF his ar
ticles on American industries. This
time he writes about the cereal crops
and their relation to the financial CEN
ters OF the world. Some OF the facts
that he gives regarding tho annual
wheat crop are truly remarkable.
Vance Thompson In his interesting
Diplomatic Mysteries" tells a thrilling
story regarding the mysterious death
Of Felix Faure, once President Of
France.
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with survey OF the banking reports
for the last few years, gives the reader
a thoroughly clear conception Of the
real strength which lies behind the
struggle Japan is now making for the
control Of the Orient.
(Japan Times Office. Toxic, Japan.)
The American-Jewish Year Book for
the year 5665 (1so4-19O5) Is a compen-
dium of statistical information Of every
sort that has interest for Jewry in this
country. By Cyrus L. Sulzberger there
is a review of Jewish activities and
events having bearing on Jewish in
terests for the year past. N. Taylor
Phillips contributes a biographical
sketch OF Rev. Gershom Mendez Sell
Xas, the patriot Jewish minister Of the
American revolution. "The American
Passport in Russia" by the editor, Cy-
rus Adler. gives the diplomatic as
pect of the passport question incor-
porated In the national platforms Of
both the Republican and Democratic
parties. Full reports Of charities.
fraternal orders and educational socI-
eties complete the volume.
(The Jewish Publication Society,
Philadelphia