The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-18

paid it off in full, but returned to eve ry stockholder the amount of his in- vestment, with interest. This action required the sale of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, Kingsland Point and some other properties MT. Walker will hereafter devote his fullest energios to the building up of the Twentieth Gen. tury Magazine.
 The Theatre Magazine for January offers an article by Thomas Dixon, Jr., who explains his purpose in writing The Clansman," the racial play which has caused sensation in the south and is about to be seen in New Pork. Another notable contribution is an in- terview with Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian Shakespeare. who furnishes the key to the real character of his world-famous heroine, Monna Wanna.
 Men and Women began its fourth volume with the December number. It is a Catholic magazine on the same plan as the Woman's Home Compan- ion and the Ladies Home Journal, and is full of interesting reading for per- sons of every creed. The list of con- trbbutors includes the names of famous men and women all over the country, such as Governor LaFollette, William Jennings Bryan, Julian Hawthorne, Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Glennon, Archbishop Moeller, Seumas McManus, Governor Johnson of Minnesota, Gov ernor Folk of Missouri, Anne B. O'Hare, Hester Price, Mabel Herbert Urner In the January number Homer c. Davenport, the famous cartoonist, has an article on "The Power of the Cartoon" Mrs. Marie Jenney Howe, president of the Ohio Consumers League writes about Saving a City's 8 Children" James L. Ford has A Study of Public Men and the Causes that Lead to Their Undoing;;" the Rev. Bertrand l.. Conway, c. s. P, tells "The Truth About Galileo;" May G. Sutton, champion woman tennis player, writes on Good Health for Girls" and there are number of good stories while "The Question Box" and other departments are as interesting and in- struetive as ever. It is published by the Men and Women Publishing Com pany, 111-117 Longworth stareet, Gin cinnati, o.
 Tn the February number of Pear sons Magazine Livingston Wright writes about The Jerome of Boston,; Some Experiences of an Amateur Mu. sician" are related by Henry A. Shute; Brandon Nevins tells of Varied Uses .of the Automobile" and Annette Aus tin tells how "The Foundlings of New York City" are treated. There is ar unusually good supply of short stories
 Frederick Remingtons The Way oi an Indian" continues to be a feature ol the Cosmopolitan Magazine The Feb. ruary number contains much interest. ing reading matter. The question, Are Great Fortunes Great Dangers??" is answered by famous Americans Charles Edward Russell writes about 'Socialistic Government of London In addition to further chapters of H G. Wells In the Days of the Comet, the fiction list contains numerous short stories.
 What beginner can accomplish witt no help except from books and maga- zines is shown in an article entitled "A Pictorial Diary of a Beginners Garden" by M, T. R., in the Garder Magazine for February A timely con trlbution is that on March Flowers Without a Greenhouse" by Laura French Mordaunt. l. M Angen write! about Little Known Vegetables Wortl Growing, with suggestions for cooking and serving.
 The chief features contributed to tn, Twentieth Century Magazine for Feb ruary treat of the following: "Th, Traction Question in Chicago" "Th, Men Who Control Wall Street" Stud ies of Popular Heroes; Jerome-a Pug zle?' Insurance Problem: the Wa. Out" Home Education"
 The Technical World Magazine fo February opens with the Story of tn Steel Industry" told by G, P. Black stone. After technical account of tn making of steel ingots, MT. Blakistol closes with this picture:
 No poet-not even Dante in the In terne--has ever conceived anything s appalling to the unaccustomed as tn nightly scene in a great steel mill il operation. A forest of tall, blacI stacks vomits red flames to the sky out of the open mouths of the convert CTS shoot torrents of red and yellov and green fiery gases, throwing a luri, light over everything for square around everywhere there are shower of sjarks falling through the night an, the eye-dazzling brilliancy of Melter | incandescent metals, flowing like wate from one great vessel to another; her and there stand the workmen, lik
 black, grimy pygmies, half-naked an half-heavily wrapped to protect then | from the blistering heat. And over al
 sound the groan and tumult of the ti
 tanic machinery as 1t rends and crush
 es the grey steel ingots.
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