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The San Francisco call., 1906-09-30
Cod Folk Receive
Another Book Boost.

Sarah P. Mclean Green has written
several stories about Cape Cod folk,
and the best Of them is the latest.
Power Lot" is its title. the oddness
Of which IS explained by the fact that
II is an abreviation of Power-Lot-Goo-
Help Us. a bleak fishing village on the
Maine coast. with a shiftless. poverty
stricken populaee.
But as there is ever a little leaven
in every lump, we find il here in the
person OF Mary Stingaree. a girl whose
ambition and pluck has elevated her
above the intellectual level of her
neighbors. She attains the acme Of
her desire when the death OF her faith
er leaves her with an invalid mother
and a drunken brother to take care OF,
and she returns home to take up q
burden or drudgery-
Then into her life comes Robert Hill
ton. a city-bred lad who is exiled TO
Power Lot by his family. their object
being 10 cure him OF the effects OF
excessive inebriety. In the rugged en-
vironment his physical and spiritual
being gradually become bettered until
he develops a strong character. We
are left to infer that the girls indu-
ence had as much to Go with his refor-
nation as either the changed mode Of
his living or the outdoor life, for IN
the same atmosphere her brother goes
completely 70 ruin.
It IS a wholesome story. well told,
the author occasionally striking a
deep. true note that more than COM
pensates for the literary shortcomings.
Her character portrayal. especially Of
the two types OF Cape Cod -cap'n," is
excellent. Every word that Captain
Belcher. alternately quick-tempered
and humorous and always bluff, is in
teresting, although the quaintest and
most lovable character in the tale is
the one who tells il. Captain JIM De-
scribing the almost inaccessible rock
that is the site Of Power Lot, he says:
I remember al artist who came
there once who seemed 10 think that
IL was all arranged. See that touch
TO the middle distance he'd say. watch
that class OF shadows; observe that
symphony Of hill and vale But I. be-
ing no artist. sucked in my sense of
IL first hand. and as say. Il looked
TO ne as though the Almighty. having
leaned from his solituces to a long
view Of the cities somewhere and feel
ing stihed on those contraptiOns of
walls and petty man-made ways, had
turned back with an awful joy and
had his rampage with our landscape
there at Power Lot. I don't mean any
thing irreverent either A God-Al-
mighty rampage with the landscape is
something 10 make q man bow the
knee"
The book is every whit as interest
Ing as its authors Cape Cod Folks,
which has been dramatized and SIC
cessfully staged in New York.
lPower Lot BY Sarah =. Mclean
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yet departed from this sphere. and. some
of his Incidents are actually funny. He
tells of an election for janitor of the
Hall of Fame in Hades, the opposing
candidates being Nero and Alexander
After the battle was over and the last
ticket counted the victor was an
nounced. Boss Tweedl As the manager
of Nero's campaign he had charge of
the distribution of tickets and pasted
his own name over that of the Roman
Emperor. Hades Immediately decided
that Tweed deserved a tablet In the
Hail of Fame as the key to the front
door.
When you have read the book you
feel glad that Mr.. Bangs did not have
the last word concerning the goings-o on
in Hades.
(The Asbestos Society of Sinners
Mayhew Publishing Company, Boston
Price s1.40.)
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-30
Sidney Mccall" Turns
Out to Be a Woman.

Mary Mcneil Fenollosa, whose por-
trait adorns this page. has just been
identified as sidney Mccall" whose
novels. Truth Dexter and The
Breath Of the Gods" have won fame
for the pseudonym. She is native
Of Alabama, but has spent much of her
mature life in Japan, and the scenes
OF her stories have been laid in the
two regions she knows best, the South
and the Far East.
1t is interesting to note that Truth
Dexter" the story. of a. typical South
ern girl, was written among the beau
ties OF Japan. while The Breath of
the Gods" the tragedy OF an up-to-
date Japanese heroine, was composed
in Alabama.
From an early age the authors i'm
agination had been drawn to the East,
and she had eagerly devoured all avail
able material upon sapan in the vague
longing that she might some day dwell
in those romantic islands. Indeed, one
short visit resultingsin several maya
zine articles. had been effected before
her marriage, some ten years ago 10
Professor Ernest F. Fenollosa, the well
known critic and writer on Japanese
art
In the uncertainty regarding Sidney
ME0dll II ms DScn COnJeCluTeU- since
the appearance of "The Breath of the
Gods that Mr.. Fenollosa might be
either the sole or joint author. 1t
may be said here that Mr. Fenollosa
has never coIlaborated in any of his
wife's stories. though she acknowledges
her indebtedness to him for encour-
agement, criticism and wide ranges OF
Information.
a new love story of Japan by Mrs
Fenollosa is soon to be published by
Little, Brown & Co, and in it she
again reveals the inner depth OF Jap
anese feeling, but along quite different
lines. Il is no longer the hard prob
lens faced by young Japanese in be-
coming ..Westernized," but carries us
to the very heart of Japanese inspira-
tion in the presence of nature. among
scenes and incidents most intensely
native. No foreigners figure in the
tale, although the time is today.
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chant to His SON The first edition
of $4,000 copies of this book at a popu-
lar price went promptly out Of print.
and this second low-priced issue is in
response to the continued demand for
this remarkable volume great fu-
ture was predicted>for the book before
IL ever went into type. but a sale OF
over 100000 copies was a little more
than the most optimistic prophet cared
to predict.
The fiction OF The Century for the
new magazine year is to include nov
els by Frances HOdsson Burnett and
Elizabeth Robins. besides the "Run-
ming Water of A. f. W Mason. which
will continue for a number Of months
Mrs. Burnett's new story will be called
The shuttle and is described as an
international novel OF English and
American life. Come and Find Me-
of Elizabeth Robins win have its scenes
laid in California and the Far North.
There is to be a new novel this
month from Caroline Abbot stanley.
author of Order No. H. The title is
"A Modern Madonna" and the story
was suggested to Mrs. Stanley BY the
chance remark OF a stranger who told
her, aprOpOs Of some of the revelations
Of the Smoot trial. that there formerly
law permitting a man to will away
the custody of his unborn child The
injustice of such a law So impressed
Mrs Stanley that she could not rest
till the story was written
Secretary Roots trip through South
America makes Albert Hale's arti-
eles in The Reader Magazine, the re-
suit Of prolonged and up-tO-date study
Of these countries. particularly timely.
The relations between the United States
and the republics south OF her form
topic of vital Importance at this time.
Ten months ago The Reader sent Mr.
Hale on mission OF investigation OF
the South American Situation; and
his articles begin in the October issue
The Jungle" is out in France unde=
the somewhat startling title Of The
Poisoners of Chicago
The Divine Fire. has entered it's
fourteenth edition.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-30
" Stand Pat" Discusses
Poker and Politics.

Stand Pat" by David A. Curtis, is
tician should stray among the pages
Of these narratives of the American
game as il is played on the Mississippi
be would find lore in poker from which
politicians might draw more than max
inns. It was clever idea to fit that
phrase from the poker table to the at
titude Of the party in power. It is bet
ter to dig deeper and understand all
that phrase indicates IN its native habi-
tat For a player may stand pat on
a straight flush, and again he may
stand pat on a Jack high In one case
his action is sane, safe and conserva-
tive-in fact il is unavoidable, but in
the other instance IL IS bluff. And this
the political stand-patter should know.
For il is not so much the cards you
hold as il is the way you play them.
IN the last chapter of the book the
unwisdom of one Pete" of Arkansas
City is expounded. Pete waited for
years until he held a royal flush; no
standing pat for him until he held the
perfect hand. For years he broke a
pair and even sacrificed two pairs in
the draw. when he saw a chance of
getting his royal flush.
1T stands to reason that a mans
going to get II some time" he would
say, and so he sacrificed mediocrity for
the hope Of perfection. That was bad
poker. 1t is also. bad politics.
On the Mississippi they begin the
game at the beginning; that is with
the deal Two enterprising players, so
the author tells US. began farther back
than that. In the factory where the
cards were made they busted them
selves until the entire stock in the
barrooms bore marks of their own
handicraft But the ordinary player.
like "Jackv-also o. Arkansas City, is
satisfied when his skill warrants the
boast that:
There amt no man on the river
that can come near'n I can to telling
what cards is out, specially when I've
dealt en-
And it is good to be sure of the other
fellows cards IN politics. even if it
involves sending delegates to two con-
ventions.
In fact. politics seems so much like
poker, or poker like politics, that it is
a question which is the real thing and
which merely the simile.
In Brownsville they not only play
poker, they live poker. To -Stumpy,s'
Long Mike" and Gallagher. poker is
both occupation and relaxation; the
latter when they passed the time with
a harmless table-stake game among
but the former when two
wandering crossroads gamblers walk
off the boat at Brownsville with the
intent Of taking coin from the natives.
Then poker became an occupation with
this soldiers three of the chips, and
they handle the cards in a way to show
that they could give themselves what
hey needed in the draw and that they
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-30

were acquainted with the RELY subtle
refinements O. scientific manipula ton"
Mr.. Curtis wastes no phrases on the
surrounding scenery in these pictures
of the doings in BrownsviIles only sa-
loon. They are, first and last, charac-
ter sketches But the talk of '.Stumpy"
and Long Mike" is so keen that it cre-
ates its-own atmosphere. If it were not
a long cry from Rembrandt to draw
poker one might be tempted to say that
there was something Of Rembrandt in
the style A high light on three piles
of chips-white, red and blue-and the
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-30

Small, Maynard & Co are bringing
out a second popular dition OF
$4,000 copies Of George Horace Lor-
liners Letters From Self-Made Mer-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Flashes of the Telegraph Wires Fron
Near and Far.
American Army Lieutenant Wins Balloon
Contest in Europe policy King
Commits suicide-southern Farms
Increasing in Value.

The fall term of the United States
supreme court will begin next M Monday
| The boundary dispute between Great
Britain and Turkey was amieably set
tied.
Thirty residents Of ziobin, Prussia,
were rendered insane by eating poi
soned meat.
The annual convention of the United
Irish League of America was held at
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Mexico and Orient Railroad
has received from the Mexican govern
ment a subsidy of 81, ,2Oo, 900.
The taxable property of Baltimore,
| Md, has increased in value $50, 600, 600
during the past few years.
Joseph Chamberlain, ex- premier Of
Great Britain, is reported to be suffer-
ing from an ineurable attack of par
alysis.
President Theodore Roosevelt and
family have returned to w ashington
from Oyster Bay, where they spent the
summer.
Farm property in the south is in
creasing in value more rapidly than
that in any other portion of the
country.
A sharp and prolonged earthquake
shock was experienced at ST. Thomas,
Danish West Indies, but no damage
resulted.
Count Adolfo Piancini, commander
in-chief of the dissolved pontifcal
army, died at Rome, Italy, at the age
of 81 years.
The machine shops OF the Western
and Atlantic Railroad at Atlanta, Ca,
were destroyed by fire, together with
eight locomotives.
A 200 acre tract OF land near New
port News was leased by the federal
government as the site for a military
depot and supply base.
English newspapers are devoting
much attention to the American policy
IN Cuba and the New York guberna-
torial campaign.
A treaty of amity, commerce and
navigation was signed by the govern
ments of Costa Rtca, Guatamala,
Honduras and Salvador.
Two persons were killed and score
injured in collision between passen-
ger trains on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, near Eddington, Pa.
Five trainmen were injured, two
probably fatally, in wreck on the
Mississippi Central Railroad near
Brookhaven, caused by washout.
Edward f. Dunno, mayor of Chi
eago, was elected president of the
League OF American municipalities at
the annual convention of that organi-
zation.
John Alexander DoWie, the self
styled apostle, has decided not to re-
move to Mexico, but will remain in
Zion City, Ill, where most OF his
followers are centered.
'sAIn Adams, the noted 'spolicy"
king. committed suicide at his home in
New York by shooting himself through
the head. IT is reported that Adams
was worth at least SIC, zoo, 900.
Bandits attacked the town of Jini-
neg, Mexico, and attempted to loot
the municipal treasury. They were
attacked by force of citizens and
government troops near Victoria and
two men were killed IN the fight which
resulted.
Lieutenant Frank Lahm, Sixth Cav
airy, q. S. A., won the James Gordon
Bennett cup in the international bal
loon race started from Paris, France,
covering 415 miles as against 80 COW
cred by Signor Won Willer, Of Italy,
his nearest competitor.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-06
To step Cnills in one Day

Take Royaiine Chill Cure. Money back if it
fails. Good TO take. Great tonic. 30 cents.
For sale by z. e. Trepagnier, q. j.. Leehe and
Edmond Richard, druggists.
Evening journal., 1906-08-22

space. will be given over 10 the historical
display. including Invaluable relics
a building with an area OF 1900 square
feet Of floor space Is being erected 10
shelter the agricultural. horticultural aud
mining exhibits, and an annex will hold
special exhibits Of the tobacco-growing
and peanut industries-great sources OF
wealth IN the South. An innovation will
consist OF an exhibit hall for the display
OF medical and hospital appliances. hy-
gienic and sanitary articles OF all kinds.
Then there will be building for the
mining and forestry display, and a very
interesting structure known ms the Marine
appliance Building In which will be
shown everything that enters into the
manufacture OF ships. All told. the expo
sition win have more than G00.000 square
feet Of exhibit space. which Is practically
the same as that ut the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo. which proved such
q success
The president Of the Jamestown Exposi-
ton Is Harry 81. George Tucker who has
served iu Congress aud as president Of
the American Bar Association Hts per
sonai magnetism was well Illustrated by
the manner In which he won the co-opera-
tion of foreign officials when he recently
visited Europe 10 solicit the aid Of the
powers o. the. Ola World 90 the big navai
disploy ANOTHER capable worker Tor the
success OF the enterprise Is c. Brooks
Johnston, chairman Of The board OF gov
ernors. WALDON FAWCETT.
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country finds the first regular establish.
ment OF the Protestant church IN Amer
lea. the first recorded wedding and tho
birth Of the nrst child OF Enelish-speakiug
parents. Here. too, was elected the first
representative Legislative assembly. not
only IN the colonies. but OF the world. one
year before the landing Of the Pilgrim
Fathers at Plymouth Rock. On this island
occurred the nrst resistance TO taxation
without representation, and Ia 1855 the
frst rebellion on American soil when
Governor Harvey was arrested for treason
and sent back to England.
The most conspicuous rclic on James
town Island IA the ruin OF the old church.
Little more than the tower of this famous
edflce remains, but the structure is 20
be- restored during the next half year In
this old church worshlpej John Smith
and the early cOlonlsts who came with
him. 70 was the center OF all the early
struggles OF the first English settlers and
was attacked by Indians time and time
again. Pocahontns was baptized Ia this
church. and here she attended divine
services IA company with her future hus-
band. John Rolfe.
The old church tower Is situated within
the tract OF .2la acres M the western
end OF jamestown Island, which. as above
explained, is now under the care OF the
Virginia Organization Tor the Preservation
OF Antiquities, aud within this inclOsure
also are such other ruins as remain. the
sites OF the most historic OF the original
structures aud relics dug from the
ground during the work OF locating the
Evening journal., 1906-08-22

town Exposition as a military rendezvous
An international military encampment
will continue throughout the entire term
OF the Exposition, and will ofrer Ameri-
cans for the first time an opportunity 10
view the nghting forces Of many nations
encamped together and participating In
instructive drills aud mancuvers The
determination Of the projectors OF the Ex-
position TO give the whole enterprise
martial tinge Is illustrated by the fact
that the amusement thoronghfare-the
pleasure promenade corresponding TO the
Midway NJ Chicago and the Pike at ST.
Louis-will be designated The War
Path"
The jamestown Exposition Is 10 illus
trate In Its buildings n distinctive style
Of architecture, thoroushly appropriate 70
view OF the events which Il commemo-
rates. The entire scheme OF construc-
tion will be colonial. All OF the principal
buildings erected by the exposition com
pany will be repllcas of seventeenth cen
tury structures or elabofations Of them.
Colonial arts and crafts are 10 be repro
duced az the Exposition IN an oid-tlme
village built for taht purpose, The village
Will comprise eight or nine buildings OF
Colouinl architecture. IN which metals.
woods and fabrics VIII be wrought as
they were 200 years ago.
Moreover. the possibilities OF the colnniui
scheme have so impressed the commits
siOncrs OF the states which have upprO-
priated money for participation IN the
Jamestown show thar with few exceptions
Evening journal., 1906-08-22
/, ,M1z-E7NAZT LzZAnD

town. Even IN it's interior this most In
tersting OF all American churchesl ap-
pears just as II did In the palmy days Of
the seventeenth century. when George
Washington, Thomas. Jefferson, James
Monroe. John Tyler. Patrick Henry. Chief
Justice John Marshall and Edmund Ran
doph worshlped under It's roof. Adjoin-
ing the old church Is the colonial mansion
OF George Wythe, where General Wash
ington had his headquarters during the
military campaign that culminated in the
victory at Yorktown.
In the center Of Williamsburg is the
old Courthouse Green, seemingly present
Ing the same appearance that II did when
II was the scene OF Patrick Henry's
maiden speech Around the green are
many historic houses. including the Peachy
House used by Lafayette as his head
quarters before the siege Of Yorktown.
and the home Of Edmund Randolph,
Wnshlngtous secretary Of state. Not
stones throw distant Is the Powder
Horn" an odd octagonal building where
the early colonists kept their cherished
supply OF ammunition, and near the edge
OF the town Is the site Of the home NJ
the Widow Custis. Who afterward became
Mrs. George Washington.
In Williamsburg was organized the FIRST
public school In the country. Harvard
College was In active operation earlier. but
the first school for higher education was
organized and the plans perfected at what
was then the Virginia metropolis. Hence
the visitor looks With keen interest at
the historic buildings Of william and
Evening journal., 1906-08-22

been planned. In addition, there viii be
a correspondlngly comprehensive assem-
blage OF all the different types Of craft
TO be found In the worlds merchant ma
iine; preteutlous yachting regattas; the
greatest motorboat races ever projected.
an exemplncation Of all that Is pictur-
esque and up 10 date 10 lighthouse aud
life-savlng work, aud. IN short. graphic
object-lessons bearing upon every phase
Of naval aud maritime progress.
For all that the most spectacular fea-
lures Of this latest addition 20 the long
list OF worlds fairs win take place on
the water. Il must not be supposed that
the grounds and buildings on shore will
not compare in interest with any previous
worlds fair. The Jamestown show viii
not cover as much ground as those at
Chicago and St. Louis. but what Il lacks
IN size Il viii more than make up 10
novelty. FOR at this exhibition visitors
will be shown almost exclusively objects
OF interest which they have never pre-
vionsly had au opportunity 10 behold At
any exposition In the world
The Jamestown Exposition grounds are
located facing Hampton Roads, at Sewells
Point, where the FIRST virginia engage
ment OF the Civil War occurred. There Is
no established municipality az this point
but Hampton Roads Is surrounded by q
group Of cities, from al OF which the ex-
position grounds are readily accessible.
To be more exact, this Mecca for sight
seers IS distant Eve miles by trolley car
from Norfolk and Portsmouth. i've miles
By water from Newport News. five miles
by water from Hampton. Va. and four
miles by water from Fort Monroe or Old
Point Comfort
The exposition corporation expended
J s6Oxt si26,oo9 - purchasing ste x
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the various state committees have decided
to authorize the erection Of colonial
buildings as headquarters for their re-
spective commonweaths. For instance,
Pennsylvania Is 10 have an exact repro
duction Of independence Hall at Phild-
delphla. and Ohio will offer a counterfeit
presentment OF historic colonial mau-
sion that is one OF the show places OF the
Buckeye State Maine will reproduce
LOngfellOw's birthplace, and Massachu-
sets will have a replica OF the Longfel-
low home at Cambridge. which was Gen
ernl washingtons headquarters during
the Revolutionary War. Following IN the
same line New Jersey will duplicate Wash
ington's headquarters NJ Morristown. All
OF these stare buildings will be located
directly on the water front
OF the SS,O0O,O0 to be expended TO cre-
ate the jamestown Exposition some s3-
100000 will be paid out for the erection
Of Jse United States governmental and
state buildings. and an equal amount viii
te dlsbui scd for the erection OF the cx-
hibit palaces 10 be reared by the exposi-
tion company. OF the latter structures
the most important are two splendid twin
buildings. already moro than half com
pleted containing each l3O.00O square
feet Of exhibit space. one OF these VIII
be devoted TO general manufactures aud.
liberal arts, while the other will house
machinery. electricity and transportation
exhibits. including motor and power de-
vices. Two hreproof structures, having
an aggregate OF 10000 square feet OF