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The "GIoom Department" IA New Adj
Junct OF the date business Estab-
Notwithstanding to The chronicle OF
Henry M. Hyde, which is published with
the inscription, The Buccaneers, Story
Of the Black Flag In Business, the modern
business house has departments with
strange names. For example, the Wireless
Motor company, which Thomas Tabb had
built up OIL an invention of his own and
on business methods Of startling original,
ity, had gloom department. But the
gloom was not for the Wireless company;
it was for the company's rivals. The use
7. Tabb made Of the gloom department. is
shown by the following extract from Mr.
Hyde's partial biography of the bucca-
neer The words were Tabb's instructions
to his head gloomer'' on learning that a
rival, the International company was
about to enter the Wireless : company's
hitherto exclusive field: j. ~
"I knew this would come sooner or
later. They've been skirmishing around
the edges Of our preserves for five years.
Now the quicker the fight comes, the better
for us. I want you to go to Pierson City
and call on all the directors of the Inter
national Give them the biggest dose Of
| gloom you can, and bring some of them
back for trip thru the graveya I'd =;
1.-The graveyard" is hint of another
modern business institution well worth
| reading about. ,s,Ir- s,g. -@. ~ 49, <t.
Altogether this story is one that may
seem rather extravagant, but which shows
how fierce are the final paroxysms of
modern competition, just before combina-
lions are made. The tale is as thrilling
as the story OF the buccaneers Of the high
seas in the days long gone. But one would
like to have seen more made of it as a
record In fiction Of very striking phase
Of life at the beginning Of the twentieth
century. There is an element of romance.
which, it seems, could have been worked
to better advantage. The book fits in ad-
mirably with reading of 'F'renzied
Finance" H..
Funk Wagnalls Company, New York.
Death, the Angel FrIend.-H. D. Rawns-
1 ley, with a, poem to the memory Of the
painter, G. F. Watts, in the February
Century Magazine, says: ,.s -
The painter told me that often, as he
| worked at his easel, he heard the sound as
OF an Anglers wing and looked around, think
Ing that DEATH his friend, had come to
| call him.
Here is the memorial poem:
From the clear heights where Love his life
had brought ,. -
Whose fire rev1vifes nations blood
He saw the farther heights his spirit sought.
There fame and name were neither sold nor
There pride and even Mammon's mighty brood
Might be transformed through power Of
| brotherhood,
To give, not get and think as Christ had
Tireless he toiled in hope, whose harps last
| string, .'
Unbroken, made sweet music to the end.
| The utmost for the Highest here below
Was truth enough for any man to know .-.s
And, working, oft he heard an. angels wing;
Then rose at last and went with Death, his
| friend.
Haggard to Visit 2AmerIca.-Colonia]
Secretary Lytellton has appointed H.
Rider Haggard a commissioner to inquire
into the conditions and character Of the
agricultural and industrial land settle
ments' organized in America by the Saliva
ton Army. The trustees Of the estate OF
Cecil Rhodes are paying the expenses OF
the inquiry with view Of applying the
scheme to South Africa.
1.-THE Measure Of Man."-Charies Bro
die Patterson, editor of Mind, has writ
ten a book which bears the above title
1t was his purpose In writing the book tc
carry a--word Of hope to those who fee
the need OF g. greater life and light" But
from first to last 1.-THE average reader will
find the book TOT hela ia IA ,AoR that is eryp:
u TIC, tho he will find ALSO a spirit a high
= optimism. The a1thor defnes ifis title
and Celebrates thereon Jas sfollowy;
! The measure Of q maniis fromNtha Adam
to the Christ, from earth to heaven The
/ way is long, but which every soul Is
travelling; one from which there can be no
: turning back - - -, r. .r.'5 :; !.
There are not two rosds-one leading up d.,
for some men and one downward for others.
The way is one; and every step is an up-
| ward step, and each stepltaken by one must
be trodden by all; and the end is eternal
day, when sorrow and sin shall cease, when
disease and death shall be no more; only
life in all its fullness oaand completeness,
when In the conscious union Of the indi-
vidual and the universal soul the full meas
ure of man shall be attained.
, That sounds attractive But we are not
satisfied that we grasp the meaning: o.
Every step IS an upward step, and eacf
, step taken by one must be trodden by
all" If that be so, what matters it how
one steps? He Is on the upward way, ant
what is more he cannot miss it. We have
been painfully convinced at times that one
can take, sharply jolting downward
t. step where he was expecting to take al
p upward step, and that it sometimes re
quires good bit of climbing to get bacl
to ones former altitude. But this doe
not fit Mr.. Patterson's theory Perhaps
other readers will find the explanation
3 where we have missed it.
< The book is divided into two parts. TIL,
, first deals with the natural, the rational
the psychic and the spiritual man; tn
second with the Son Of Man as man, a.
= idealist, as teacher and as healer. Unde
the last division he deals with the philos
ophy Of mental healing.
Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York. $3.50 net
A Rubalyat for Lovers.-J. b. Ritten
= house, rubaiyatist has gathered to
gether sixty-f1ve quatrains Of sentimen
In little book he calls The Lovers Ru
baiyat They are taken from Omar, bein,
certain quatrains not used by Fitzgerald
as we'll as some that he does use, ais
: quatrains from the renderings of variou
y translators. Together they make up
r. Persian love song for YOU.
- Within whose hand each morrow lays
= The gift for which We long,
or for you,
Within whose hand no morrow lays
| The gift for which We long.
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