Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-13

dediCates II to "the people with whom,
and fOrWhom, have been done the willing
labors of twenty-five years-initial lab
ors, untrled methods and object lessons,
Well or IN, they have carried with
them the best intentions and the best
judgment given for the purpose 1t Is
a story Of q great work Of benehcence,
simply and modestly told of the
prompt distribution Of relief In a sue
cession Of disasters-the Texas famine
and the Mt, Vernon cyclone: yellow
fever in Florida in 1887 the Johnstown
flood in 1889; the Russian famine OF
1891: Sea Islands catastrophe and Ar
mena's distress IN 1896; cuba in 1898
and Galveston IN 1900. The first work
OF the Red Cross was to carry relief
to the suffers from the Ohio and Miss
issippi floods: Later, when Miss Barton
called at the state department to make
her report to Secretary Frelinghuysen,
he said ~ don't want any report. All
the country knows what you have done,
and none is necessary There Is no
allusion to the circumstances which led
to her resignation from the presidency
Of the society which she founded and
guided, With such wisdom devotion and
self sacrifice for "a quarter OF a century,
except by implication, when writing Of
the work of the society in the Johns
town flood calamity. THE paths OF
charity are over roadways of ashes"
she writes, land he who treads them
must be prepared 10 meet opposition,
demonstration, jealousy and calumny.
Let his work be that Of angels-still il
win not satisfy all" II Is a deeply in
interesting story Of benehcent work
that NJ ISIS Barton tells with modesty
and without trace Of resentment at
the manner I'm which her connection
with it was Closed.-D. Appleton & Co.,
New York.
The English edition Of Stalls Books
In the Purity Series, published by the
Nir Publishing company, Philadelphia,
has attained an unusually large circu-
latlon in Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa, and even in India. China and
Japan. Missionary societies are trans
lating them into seven languages in
Asia, and in Europe they are being is
sued In the Swedish, Dutch and French
languages.
Henry Pearson Grafton, who acknowl-
edges responsibility for the editing" Of
the volume "As a Chinaman Saw U.s."
alleges that the work Is made UP of
selections from series Of letters COW
ering a decade spent in America, from
1892 20 1902, by a cultivated and educat-
ed Chinaman, the letters having been
addressed to friend I'm China who had
seen few foreigners, The writer is said
to have graduated from a well known
college. after he had attended an Eng
fish schooland later took special studies
at a German university. Possibly Mr..
Grattons cultivated Chlnaman may be
real person, but Il may be remem-
bcred that one Oliver Goldsmith more
than a century ago invented a cultivat-
ed and educated Chinaman, who, as a
"CltKen Of the World" wrote TO his
friend at home a series Of letters
which he commented upon the manners,
customs, ideas and politics II the Eng
fish just as MIR, Grattons ChInaman
is represented as doing concerning the
American people and their ways II
is good way Of making us "sea our
selves as others see us" and whether
II was Mr.. Grafton himself IN the garb
Of a Chinaman, or genuine native Of
the empire governed by the Dowager
Empress Tza-hsi In the name Of the
Emperor Kuang Hsu, who was the
'chlcl amang us taking notes. the book
is entertaining and IN a measure in
structye, There Is sly satire IN the
remark about the pioneer Americans,
that they came over IN a ship called
the Mayilower and were remarkably
prolific, as | have met thousands who
hail from this stock" In abiding to
the early settlers Of Virginia. also, he
says women Of all classes were sent
by the shipload and sold for wives /
reminded lady Of this who was la
monting the fact that In China some
women We're sold for wives. She was
absolutely ignorant Of this well known
fact In American history, and forgot
the selling Of black women"
Speaking Of immigration and the
great variety Of nationalitles and races
brought TO our shores, he says; "Imag-
inc a coffee grinder into which have
been thrown Greek, Roman, Jew, Cen
tile and all the rest. ana then let what
they call Uncle sam, a heroic. paternnl
and ComiCal figure, representing the
government-turn the handle and grind
out the American who is neither Jew,
Gentle, Greek, Roman Russo nor
Swede. but a new product, sui generis,
ana mostly Methodist