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rus Hood Gen. Averill and his wife, Gray
hurst, Tom Cotton and half a dozen others
are all lifelike to the last detail. The meet
ing of these people, some of them New
Englanders, in small but growing Mis-
souri, city on the banks of the Mississippi
affords the contrasts of sentiment in the
description of which DR.. Mitchell is espe
Cially successful. George TrescOt is
wounded veteran of the northern army, and
goes as land agent into a community of
radical sOutherners. This of itself supplies
all the dramatic possibilities needful for
stirring tale. But what would have been
an easy solution of the difficulties caused by
Rufus Hoods attempts to clear his land
titles and to evict squatters is rendered
impossible by his stiff-necked refusal to
compromise. a tragedy results, and from
il develops the remarkable vendetta of
Constance Trescot against Grayhu She
pursues him with a malignant hatred which
he cannot meet with force or craft.
1t is reported that DR.. Mitchell actually
found such a case in the course of his own
experience. He has devoted himself to this
novel to no other that has come from his
number of years, until it is finished in every
detail 1t will hold the interest to the end
the readers sympathy undergoing a curious
change, which is itself a subject of inter-
esting interpretive analysis. Thus, the
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and that I'VE Russians bear upon our
shoulders the new age; we come TO releVe
the tired men, the author proceeds:
"All Russia's great statesmen, generals.
scholars and litterateurs are penetrated
with the same idea Russia is to carry civ
iliZaton and enlightenment to China, res
cue India from British tyranny ana give
peace and contentment TO the harried pro-
letariat of western Europe. This seems
strange to us who are accustomed TO as
sociat all that is Russian with the knout-
ing of women, the mines of Siberia, the
blue pencil of the press censor and a vast
empire at the mercy of one mans Will. But
the Russians are sincere; and II we renect
upon the hereditary genius of the Slavs Ior
cooperative institutions, as opposed TO the
direct opposite tendency of the west, there
may be more in Russia's claim than is APP
parent at first sight. With all the super
fetal veneer of western culture, there is
a cancer eating al its heart. 1t is not a nat
ural growth. 1t is maintained by bayonets,
poliCemen's clubs and obscurant education
Russia is sound at the core; it has Wig
orous and wholesome internal life; 1t is
nation where the development comes spon-
taneously and in the order of nature. 1t is
only the exterior that and the temporary
that which is harsh, repeliant, arbitrary
and brutal"
After this the story itself-a tale of in
trigue. violence and revenge centerlng
around the close of the life of Nicholas j
of Russia-pales into insignlficance. IL is
difficult to arouse any enthusiasm IN piece
been met by such novel view of the Rus
sian character.
MY LADY CLANCARTY; Being the
True Story of the Earl of Clancarty
and Lady Elizabeth Spencer. By
Mary Inlay Taylor, author of ON
the Red Staircase" &c. Illustrated
by Alice Barber Stephens. Boston:
Little, Brown d Co.
Miss Taylor's work in fiction has marked
her as one of the most industrious and
capable of Washington's circle of writers,
and her successive novels are awaited with
eagerness by her hosts of friends in this
city. where she was born and has lived.
This is the tenth book from her pen
in nine years 1t is a tender tale of love IN
England during the latter part of the reign
of William III, and turns upon the remark
able romance of the Earl of Clancarty,
prescribed Irish Jacobite, and Lady Eliza
beth, daughter of the Earl of Sunderland
one of the kings Closest advisers. These
two had been married while they We're
children, when Sunderland desired and need
ed Jacob!te support, but a turn in the
wheel of fortune sent Clanclrty hurryinS
away an exile, and Sunderland quickly
recanted and swore allegiance to the house
of Orange. In later years. when Elizabeth
has grown to be a beautiful young woman,
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Irish Proverbs.
From I.eslie's Month

From Ieslie's Monthly.
The proverbs of a nation are the distilled
wit of generations of its people, and the
true wit of the race is oftentimes in pro-
portion to the truth and beauty of its prov
cribs. Few nations and few languages pos
sess more beautiful sayings than the Irish.
THE silent mouth is melodious," is an
Irish aphorism pregnant with beauty and
poetry. And another saying, intoxicating
a charity which is spiritually needed in this
modern world of ours is that which tells us
"Our eyes should be blind in the abode of
another" The beautiful faith and the mag
nificent optimism of the Irish race is well
pictured in their proverbs God never shuts
one door but He opens two" Autumn
days come softly, quickly. like the running
of hound upon a moor is sharp. satiri-
cal one that cuts several ways at the same
time: "A poem ought to be well made at
first, for there is many one to spoil II at
terwards.'
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Model Kansas Husband.
From the Atchison Globe.

From the Atchison Globe.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who sat up nights and waited for
her husband to come home from the club?
Call at the Atchison homes where mar
can afford to belong to club and you will
find him at home keeping up the furnace
fire, looking after the children and pa
tiently waiting for his wife to come In. Tho
women are crazy over Schaafskopf and
five hundred and play until midnight most
nights out of the week. AT the house
where the game is going on the man Of
the house gets the children into bed, hears
their prayers and gives them the last drink
of water. and goes quietly off to bed, as any
Well-behaved husband should.
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Advice to Kickers.
Kansas City Journal,

Prom The hansis NIIy JUuTIdI.
Kickers always attract attention-one
class of them sells high on the market.
The highest-priced four-legged kicker is a
hybrid creature, irritable and somewhat
unscripturaI The chronic kicker is an
amusing two-Iegged animal" not so dam
gerous however. A kicker never builds UP.
He is great on tearing down. The worlds
happiness has been promoted more by
compliments than by curses, so, good read
err when you feel like kicking, just retire
to the back yard and kick yourself a few
times rather than join the knockers chorus.
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home relatives to show them exactly how
they live and what they talk about and
what they do.
Mr.. Tracy is a hard worker but he never
pretends that he is fond of it. Once I.
p. OConnor said to him: 81 really be-
lieve that there is no joy in the world
equal to writing" Il would rather say"
he replied, that the greatest joy is to
have written" Anyhow, he is amazingly
Industrious for, to my knowledge, he
wrote over 100000 words last year, and
this is almost on a par with Balzac's pro-
digious output. He will not do 1t again.
He has mapped out class of novel which
will demand great attention to derail, and
l, for one, expect the result to be wider
literary horizon. In one thing he Is
strangely lacking. He hates log-rollng.
If he thinks his "reminiscences are intend
ed for personal paragraphs he becomes
mute. He has been photographed once i'll
ten years and that was the other day by
his friend Sutcliffe of Whitby, man whose
wonderful studies of rural and seaside life
are famous all over the world. So, In self
advertisement. he lags far behind some OF
his contemporar ies. l wonder If 1t affects
the popularity of his books?
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CONSTANCE TREsCOT: a Novel BY
s Weir Mitchell. Id. LID. New
York: Tic Century Company.

-
York: The Century Company
Had Constance Trescot been man she
would undoubtedly have slain her enemy,
even as that enemy had slain her husband.
Being a woman, she planned a more cruel
revenge. in the description of which DR..
Mitchell, always strong in the depicting of
dramatic scenes and the analysis of com
pick characters has risen to perhaps his
greatest height in the making of fiction. 1t
is the rare book that scores on the readers
mind the impression of being story from
real life. Somewhere in the average novel
occurs a situation which is more or less ar
uhcial. Its unrealness may be condoned on
the score Of artistic necessity. but * never
thelcss strikes the false note in the har-
mony. 1t is difficult TO see wherein Con
stance TreSCut' fails in this respect to
stand as an absolutely realistic narrative.
The main characteTs-George Trescot. his
wife and her sister Susan their uncle Ru
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25
What Our Pig Iron Would Make.
From Success.

SUCCtss.
The pig iron produced in the United States
in one year would make a column twice
the height and size of the Eiffel Tower. The
iron and steel, if made into one rail, would
be eighty-one feet wide at the base, just
as high, and a mile and a fifth long. The
coke used in blast furnaces would form
a column four hundred feet square and six
thousand five hundred feet high, and the
limestone used would make column two
hundred feet square and five thousand five
hundred feet high.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.
GRADED SUPPLEMENTARY READ
ING SERIES STORIES FROM


mentary Reading. BY Edna Henry
Lee Turpin. New York: Maynard,
Merrill K Co.
WILHELM TELL; Schauspeil Won Fried
erich Schiller. Edited, with intro
duction, notes and vocabulary, by
Richard Alexander Won Minckwitz.
New York: Maynard, Merrill & Co.
WINDSOR CASTLE; a Historical Ro-
nance. BY VIM. Harrison Aims
worth, author of The Tower of Lon
DON. &c. Illustrated. New York: A.
L. Burt Company. Washington w.
II. Lowdermilk IL Co.
NICK OF THE WOODS; a Story of the
Early Settlers in Kentucky By Rob-
ert Montgomery Bird. Illustrated.
New York: a. l.. Burt Company.
Washington: W. H. Lowdermilk &c
Co.
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the invention of the automatic piano player
would have met with a very limited demand
owing to the small number OF pianists COM
petent to interpret Chopin. But now, with
the automatic device available and CHOPIN
works prepared for rendition in this man
ner, the whole domain of his music is Tor
the hrst time open to all.
THE HAWTHORNE CENTENARY
CELEBRATION; at The Wayside,
Concord Mass, July At, 1904. illus
trated. Boston Houghton. Miffiin &
Co. Washington: Woodward &
rtothrop.
full account of all the anniversary pro-
ceedings at the Hawthorne centenary cele-
bration at The Wayside," Hawthorne's
home in Concord, last July, is now pub
lished in this attractive volume. There are
given verbatim the addresses by Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, Mopcure d. Conway,
Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott,
Frank B. Sanborn, Charles Francis Adams
and Clarence T. Copeland, papers by Julian
Hawthorne and Frank Preston Stearns, and
letters from Rose Hawthorne Iathrop, Ed
mund Clarence Stedman, DIR. Richard Car
nett and others. The occasion was one of
great and unique interest, well deserving
this permanent record, which has been ed
tied by Colonel Higginson, and the illustra-
tons add much to the interest of the vol
ume, comprising finely engraved portrait
of Hawthorne and photographs of scenes in
and about The Wayside. 1t is a volume
which should be added to every collection
of Hawthorniana.
ALBERT DURER. BY r. Surge Moore.
New York: Imported by Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward x Lothrop.
Albert Durer was one of the remarkable
men of his period, man who in later
century, with the advantages OF more mod
ern ideas and of hroa der travel would
doubtless have become a marvel of artis-
tic development. He had the true soul of
the artist, combined with the poetic spirit.
He was deeply and sincerely religious. He
was exceptionally skilled with his hand
And furthermore he possessed that rare
quality of his day and race, a sense of
humor which moderated his more austere
moods. AS draughtsman, as engraver, as
painter, he doomed far above his contempO-
raneous countrymen. Mr.. Moore has de-
voted himself to a study of Durer in every
possible aspect and has produced a work
that every student of sixteenth century art
must regard as n valuable contribution. He
traces the factors which Influenced Durer
throughout his career and wrought the
gradual changes in his style which are to
be discerned by a close technical eXamina-
tlon OF Its engravings and canvases. The
illustrations represent the maximum result
at present attainable in the reproduction
of Durer's works for book uses. They are
exceptionally well printed, demonstrating
with unusual fidelity to the originals Durer's
extraordinary technique.
MY MAMIE ROSE; the Story of My Re-
generation. By Owen Kildare. New
York: The Baker * Taylor Com
pany.
This is a cheaper, though satisfactory, edi-
ton of Mr.. Kildare's striking auto
geographic story. for which there has been
constantly increasing demand since its
issue.
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addition
Material.
reasonable believe to will
found Golfers The $4,000 Prize Story will published the April Fiction
Number On sale everywhere and after April
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25

BY Geoge!" cried, sudden of enthusiasm 81 don't
done it, who has helped you its the biggest thing did life!
-IHs ro6g1t1C ub
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she thinks Loyalty of her husband, whom
she has not seen since her marriage. De-
spite his seeming neglect of her she longs
for him to come and claim her, matter
of great difficulty and danger, possibly
attended with death But he does come,
and the story of his wooing of his own
wife, her coquetry, his misfortunes and
her happy surrender, his great peril and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25

" Out of Paradise" was published December 10
1.-THE Chest of Silver was published Jan. III
1.-THE Field of Phillip
The Sixth Story will be published May IT
The Seventh Story " June "a
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nection with this work that Mr.. Jonson
feels that it is virtually a consequence of
the invention of the automatic piano player
few years ago, he says, such work
would have met with very limited demand
petent to interpret Chopin. But now, with
the automatic device available and Chopin S
works prepared for rendition in this man
ner, the whole domain of his music is for
the first time open to all.
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"The Rest Cure" was published February IS
"The Criminologists' Club is published Mch. rs
will be published April ao
The Eighth Story will be published July 2e
The Ninth Story Aug a6
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book leaves something in the mind beyond
a mere recollection of an entertaining tale
1t states a vital human problem.
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her successful appeal to King william. is
vividly and cenvincingly told with faithful
rendering of the scenes and ,customs of that
period. 1t is a well-balanced, stirring tale
Of love and daring which Is well worth the
reading. sz
THE ART OF THE. MUSICIAN; Guide
to the Intelligent Appreciation of
Music By Henry G. Hanchett. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
Washingto Brentano'S
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THE PHYSICAL CULTURE LIFE;
Guide for All who Seek the Simple
Laws of Astounding Health By H.
irving Hancock, author Of Japanese
Physical Training" &c Illustrated.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Mr.. Hancock was the first to give to the
western world a series of books on the
Japanese system of jiu jitsu. But he is not
thoroughly identified with this or any other
peculiar system of training. He believes
in taking the best that can be found in all
systems and blending them into harmon
ious program of developing exercises. In
this book he warns his readers against fol-
lowing fads and going too far along sin
gle line of physical culture. The chief rec
concentrations he offers in this work in the
way of series of exercises comprising what
may generally be styled the resistance sys-
tenn" for which the simplest apparatus .suf-
hces, towel, pair of short sticks to be
grasped by the hands and a rod of three or
four feet for brief bouts with contestant
in what is called the stick tussle." In adj
dition to outlining series of home and
office exercises which will keep the muscles
in tone, he suggests the most rational rules
for governing the diet, the bath and the
physical habits. He prescribes outdoor life
in summer as one OF the surest means of
restoring and preserving health, especially
for the young. In its general scope the
book represents the real aim and methods
of the physical culture movement that Is
advancing throughout England and the
United States.
HANDBOOK TO CHOPIN'S WORKS.
BY G. c. Ashton Jonson, New York:
Doubleday, Page & Co.
This is unique product of the assiduous
keeper of a scrap book on a subject close
to his heart. The author is a devotee OF
Chopin's music. He has gathered from all
possible sources a great mass of materials
relative to the tone-master and his partic-
ular works, and has arranged them in log
ical sequence under the heads of the works
themselves. In addition he has prepared
suggestive sketch of Chopin. designed to
throw light upon his methods and sources
of inspiration rather than to serve as biog-
raphy. 1t is an interesting point in con-.
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THE UNWRITrEN LAW; Novel By
Arthur Henry. author of AN Island
Cabin" &c. New York: A. S. Barnes
C
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-05-18
The Doctor and The Telephone.

The doctor don't like the rural
telephone, says the Alton Democrat.
It causes the people 20 delay calling
them until the last minute. As many
ailments ere worse in the evening, it
Increases the doctors night calls.
Instead Of coming alter him ard re-
turning him, folks telephone and he
has to use his own horse Eesh to
make the call. The old way was to
tell the doctor to come back next day
and see the patient. Now he is told
that he will be telephoncd II needed.
The doctors even complain thatfolks
want absent treatment by phone.
They give the doctor their symptoms
and ask him to prescribe. One doc
tor says he has even had them hold
the baby up to the phone so he could
hear it cough.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-05-18
"DisCovered'' Secretary Hay.

While in Clinton Monday, says the
Calhoun Clarion, We met our old
friend ID. q Swan, a veteran newspa.
per man and printer, who, in the very
early T0's, sought to establish n
paper h Calhoun, but for lack OF en-
couragement gave 1t up as n bad
job. He now resides on his farm,
east OF Clinton, and despite his ~
years, manitests lively interest in
matters newspaporial. Mr.. Swan is
a native Of Scotland, coming ito
this country in early boyhood, and
has the distinction OF having discov-
cred John Hay, the renowned diplo.
mat and Secretary OF State. 1t oc-
cured in Warsaw, HIS, when the
newspaper on which Mr., Swan was
engaged desired carrier hoy, and he
knew Just the chap" for the job.
OF that hoy's career since, the coun-
try ID familiar.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-05-18

Herbert Y. Croker, son % Richard
Croker, the rx-Tanmany ch;rif2in,
died on a train between Kansas City
and Newton, kansas. H. wns help
ca on the troip ar Korsts City by
the negro porter from the Coats
Hou,r. app4@ltly in anInt'E,cated
condition ani the conductor. think
ing 20 let him sleep MI ha drunken
stupor,. did not attom2t 80 arouse
him until tie next morning, when be
was discovered to be . corpse. An
estigation hv the Kansas City
police and detective force revealed
that young Croker arrived at the
Coats House about 10 o'clock Thurs,
day morning. lie WIS drinking and
went out to the races. In the even
Ing he asked the porter to take him
to "Hop joint whore he Smoked
opium for an hour. The porter took
him to the depot in a hack and help
Cd him on the train Young Croker
had been in bad health and was Oh
his way to Zach" Mulhail's ranch
ia Oklahoma to recuperate. 1t is
said that his affianced bride with hel
mother was to join him there in q
few weeks, when they we're to have
been married. Another OF Richard
Croker's SONS was killed in an automo
bile accident at the races in Florida
this spring.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-05-18
OLD CASE REVIVED.

Henry County Democrat.

Henry County Democrat.
CircuitCl John J. Chaate'r Won.
to iiefmioage, Hickoey county, Tues.
day 10 testify in the 50, 900 Islander
quit brought BY tx Prosecuting A.
torne, ". d Hartman against DIR.
Newman, y prominent ply stefan and
Democratic politician OF Hickory Go.
This case hinges on an old Osceola
lynching bee and grows out OF par
tisan bitterness in the last election.
Mr.. Hartman was running on The
Republican ticket for re election as
Prosecuting Attorney Of Hickory
county. He was oplosei by IL man
named D0llarhide running rs an IT,
dependent, who was elected by 81
votes
During the campaign, Dr.. Newman
actively worked for Dollarhide. and
used effectively with voters the argu-
ment, "You don't want to vote for a
man who has been indicted for muir
der"
This has led to the damage suit.
It transpires that Newman had refer
ence to an indictment agains: w.
d. Hartman for murder in connec-
ton with the triple lynching OF Smith,
Parks and Pierce in Osceola in May,
1880, by a band OF vigilantes calling
themselves "Moderators." The in
dictment was in TIE Henry county
circuit court in December. 1880, and
was quashed on December 18th OF
that year.-It Is a singular fact that
the Indictment is missing from the
files of the Circuit Clerks office. There
was a law then on the statutes that
il one county failed to indict, a crime
could be taken before neighboring
grand jury. Governor Phelps was
very active In prosecuting the
lynchers.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-05-18
Hyde Says He Will Tell All.

New York, May Is After weeks of
silence, James Hazan Hyde, first vice.
presidento OF the EQui,0hle Life Assur-
aucn, az, It il said, declared he will
tell about the famous 500 600 bali,
which turned the attention of the
whole country upon the man and
Incidentally marked the beginning OF
the scandals in the society. This an
nouucement follows that which as.
serts that the complaint in the &C.
ton to Gust Mr.. Alexander FROM the
trusteeship of the Hyde stock would
be served this week With IL will be
sworn atiidavits that rot a penny OF
Equitable money paid fer the ball;
that nothing OF an unseemly nature,
whether terpsichorean or CASTRO
homie, occurred at the ball, and that
the reports to the contrary which
were spread were the result oi d con.
5piracy to iniure MIR. hyde's stand
ing With The public and tie Equitable
directors.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-05-18

Ewing Herbert says newspaper il
like man-because it generally re-
fleets some maitland ii, as q man.
should be judged as a whole. No
man lives a perfect life; no editor
prints a perfect paper. IL an editor
is honest, he is bound to offend some
one every day OF his life. II he does
not offend some one, the editor il
namby-pampy and fsbby. The same
is true OF the average man. A news.
paper is bound to make mistakes; In
getting news he must necessarily
take hearsay. But il in the long run
and In the main, week after week, and
year after year, q paper stands for
decency, for honest thinking and
clean living, II 1t speaks fair for those
who are trying to do good, and con.
dennis sneaks and cheats, that is q
good paper.-Topeka Capital.