The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

1.-The woman writer of 'The mar
tyrdom of an Empress" who
HI does not care to have her name
known, although it is, has recent
ly written another book called 'Impe-
rator Et Rex in which she eulogizes
the German emperor through nearly
three hundred pages. Mrs. Owen, for
that is her name, recently had her pic
ture in a literary magazine published
anonymously. She is young and in this
particular portrait simply covered
with the most magnificent jewels,
doubtlessly gifts from her royal friends.
According to some one who wrote or
her not very long ago, she was a
French girl, who married an Austrian
prince at one time not far from the
throne. Constantly at court she be-
came the great friend of the murdered
Austrian Empress Elizabeth, and how
close the intimacy is shown by the
book she wrote after her assassination
and which is a very beautiful tribute
to the unhappy woman whose death
was not much sadder than her life.
Then the princess married Mr.. Owen,
who, report says, was an attache OF
the English legation in Vienna, and to-
gether they came to this country and
settled near New York. Both husband
and wife are writer's and are attached
to New York papers as special corre-
spondents. In "a Dotted Coronet' she
has told of their experiences during
their first years in New York, and while
there have been those who doubted the
authenticity of much she has written,
it is surely not possible for woman
to have said what this one has of roy
atty, if her assertions were not true.
At all events, she is most interesting
writer and her books give us the best
insight into the lives of contemporary
monarchs of anything yet written. In
her last book she has drawn the pres
ent kaiser as the greatest and ableSt
living man, and denied many unworthy
stories which have been told of him
from time to time. She claims him.
as the best loved of all rulers, because
of his justice and kindness to the poor.
Statistics are not always courteous.
Some recently published say that
Europe has an excess OF females.
This sounds exceedingly unpleasant,
but it may be somewhat offset by the
further information that in this coun-
try men exceed women many times. 1t
may be of interest to know that men
and women are very unequally dfstrib-
uted in the United States and there
are spots where men abound and wom-
en- very scarce. Such place is Alaska,
according to these figures, and the gov
ernor in his annual message cries out
for an influx of New England maid
ems" Just why the maidens from 9TH
er sections of the country will not do as
well is not stated, but as New England
is popularity supposed to be the home
of more single young women than any
other part of the country the governor
probably had that in mind when he
invited them to come. A recent mag
azine has been exploiting this lack of
women in the far West and remarks
that the old saying, "go West, young
man." can now be transformed into
"go West, young woman" and it might
be added, be ready to fill long felt
want. Of course these hard working
men of Alaska want capable women,
versed in the mysteries of cooking and
sewing, for their wives and the New
England women who may apply should
take a course in domestic science be-
fore leaving for the West.
The Macmillan company. For sale by
st. Paul Book and Stationery company.
What a man can do when he stands
for honesty, virtue and law in law
less community, is well eXemplified in
this very beautiful and well told story.
DR.. Tom Hendricks studied medicine
at Harvard and became the chum of
Jack Raymond, of Cincinnati, who was
going into railroad work. When Tom
finished he went down into the TenneS-
see mountains to hunt up his cousins,
the ThompsonS. After he has been
there a few weeks Dr. Tom sees the
great need of introducing law and or
der into the little cracker community
divided by old feuds handed down from
father to son, and the missionary spirit
taking hold of him, he writes his friend
Jack that he has made up his mind to
remain and devote his time and money
to the regeneration of the people of
that section. Numerous letters pass
between the friends which form part
of the story and Ruth Raymond, Jacks
beautiful sister, takes a great interest
in DR.. Tom just from his letters. Then
Jack goes down to visit his friend in
his private car, taking Ruth with him
and the inevitable happens, DIR. Tom
and she fall in love with each other
and he enlistS her interests in the cause
of his cousin, Sis Thompson, a bony,
awkward and ignorant girl with prom
Use of great beauty whom Tom is trying
to help. Brett county has not been
able to keep a coroner; each one has
been killed, and when DIR. Tom takes
hold, the old feuds are still going on
and the murder of hereditary enemy
is a matter of course. The story of the
regeneration of the county through the
agency of DIR. Tom, whom everybody
trusts and loves his friendship with
the big Sheriff Cal. his election as
coroner, and the gradual elevating of
these primitive folk, is most inter-
esting and convincing. But when DR.
Tom. who has just become engaged to
the girl he loves, and is to reap the re-
ward of wen spent life, meets a bull
let intended for another and gives up
his life as the price of the regeneration