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La Junta tribune., 1906-11-03

~ OGGLES came aboard at Hall
fax-a stranded. battered dere
lict Of the sea-anxious TO sail
10 the north coast He was
suffering from a plethora Of hard luck.
but to Mr.. Pierce he had the appear
ance OF one recovering from n period
Of dissipation Annette saw only the
picturesque side of Boggles, and he
was tentatively engaged on the spot.
Il know the Newfoundland coast
better'n know the chart of me own
face" confessed the pilot In soft.
pleading voice Seeing thar l was
born In Straddle Rock Cove an lived
there until / was old enough to run
away. | ought to-
Annette was romantic. and she an
ticipated his thoughts.
And you want TO visit your old
home againT' she asked sympathet-
ically.
'-Yes. ma'am. I'm dying 10 80 that.
been trying to get back In the old
La Junta tribune., 1906-11-03

''oH. BoooLHi WHY DID THIS HAPPESY'
home port for well nigh twenty years.
but what with hard luck an other
things I've always missed It, Once at
st Johns. I says to myself. now I'll
see Straddie Rock ag'in before I die
was 30 sartin OF II that I had to
break leg celebrating the event. OF
course no one wanted n sailor with
game leg. an had to stay In port un-
Ill the season was too far advanced TO
go north. Then I shipped to the States
ag'in 10 keep from starving"
Boegles limped a trifie yet from his
broken leg. and one eye seemed to
squiht with diabolic cunning when you
looked him square In the face. but An
netie saw none OF the ugly sides of
the subjects she liked. and Boggles
charmed her.
Mr.. Pierce grumhicd at the bargain.
hut finally submitted. Pilots familiar
with the north coast were scarce In
Halifax. and the season was late any
way. We'll. It's for Annette's sake
I'm up here he confessed. "and SUP
pose shouldn't object II Annette np-
proves"
lie lppks NfNst~ts but N tti
on the surface by too much contact
with the world" ventured Dr Lang
don. with n smile. Il think his story
OF being born and nurtured in straddle
Rock Cove Is myth, however. 7
doubt II there Is such n place"
-we must visit straddie Rock Cove
said Annette positively one day.
MIR. Eoggle~--she always dignihed
the old pilot with Mr.-~can guide us
there. Its an immensely dangerous
hart-or. and no one can enter II in Q
storm except Mr. Boggies.-
"Boggles may he all right" drawied
the doctor. ~but draw the line at 60
ing into straddle Rock Cove with him
"a a storm"
Annette ignored the interruption. Mr.
Pierce was bsSed with the whole trip.
and he was willing to yield anything
for peace.
you win visit the cove. papa. where
Boggies was born p Annette continued
~You win make him happy again Hes
been dreaming Of this trip for twenty
years
IF yeu VIII he satisfied 20 return
home then we may run IN the hart,o-.-
crsffiiy replied Mr.. risrce. anxiors 10
shorten the trip by striking any sort
Of = bargain.
Yes reinctautiy. after we stay
there a few days.
Stratlile Rock grew daily in imper-
tanre thereafter II was the first def
mite point of entry for the yacht Cap
tain Reed looked the place up On the
charts. There was a group Of small
rcrks o6 q dsnrrrvus point cr the
ccass. locally knswn by the n~h-rmen
- eerss3d]e rocksl ney wefe Married
-Daneervus- an1 ~Nc safe Harfp< rcr
Atps 90 YacAtA- He cnrrspd his -
feRDae3sa 10 sAe cwne< anA grWbard
vf0 Dufi10Un intent
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La Junta tribune., 1906-11-03

shot thrOseh a channel 80 narrow that
her sides scrap~-I the cutter edges ef the
strange fsrmssiea cf granite. The cur
rent swept the er-ft f1<war1 win Sc
ce<rss~d Sped
Tk>n the sea bs~t iss furbuBr1ce and
0e wind ifs ps~er for evil Fpveecsed
On an sid>s ~ abutn>ass - rprAs. o.
eA>fSeresi cove was HE . Ill pcuH
compared 10 the r.esnG 0aA
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La Junta tribune., 1906-11-03
Through
Straddle Rock
Cove
sy GEORGE Z. WALSH
., GEORGE Z. WALSH

Copyright. iss. by George E. Walsh
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Of a stately presence, and, moreover, simple
and good natured in spite Of his great
genius and great success. He was
thoroughly kind and sympathetic. 10
his intimate friends his conversation
was full OF depth and earnestness on all
serious subjects, though from time TO Tune
he would amuse them with humorous hghts
Of fancy, amounting almost to exaggera,
ton, which those who knew him well couio
never misunderstood but which mlehI
easily perplex a new acquaintance me
fact is recalled that a friend Of Mrs. BOOK
fields, a friend belonging to a strictly
conventional section of society, onoe gAeaiy
accepted an invitation to meet Tennyson
at the Brookhelds house. She had read
his poetry with great admiration and was
prepared to make his acquaintance WITH
reverent enthusiasm. "He was, when Win
absolute strangers, very retiring, and the
graceful Difference Of our friends demeanor
toward him did not at first tend to dispel
his shyness; later In the evening, however
when Alfred had realized that this LADY
was an intimate friend Of ours and that we
particular wished that he should make
himself agreeable to her he, with good
natured friendiness said, I could not find
anything to say to you before dinner, out
now that I have a bottle OF port in me l
can talk as much as You like Ny friend
was at first rather alarmed at this playful
announcement, receiving 1t as a literal
assertion, but she was soon treasured by
the serious interest Of his conversation
which realized all her expectations
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Furniture.

A thoroughly artistic enterprise In every
respect has sped well on It's course. With
parts TX. and X. the second volume Of Mr..
Percy Maoquoid's splendid History OF
English Furniture CLawrence and Bullen;
g. p. Putnam 8 Sons), is completed, and
with tan moro parts, two volumes, tho
authors task will be done.
This marks the end of the walnut ago
and winds up the reign OF Queen Ammo.
The illustrations are unusually brilliant, for
many Of the oolored plates show the gay
colors Of the up~holstering. There Is a great
bed at Hampton Court, for instance, with q
canopy nineteen feet high. Chairs, tables,
clocks, sofas, with straight legs and bent
leg1, many worked In msrquetry and In
lacquer, will charm furniture lovers.
In Typography, in illustrations and in
paper this work Is a delight to the book
lover and q great credit to the publishers.
It will be the standard work on the subject
for q long time, for there is no higher
authority on English furniture than Mr.,
Maoouoid.
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FEEDING RAVENOUS BOOKS.
Leather Bound Volumes Are Hearty Eaters.
Especially In Old Age.

Leather Bound Volumes Are Hearty Eaters.
Especially In Old Age.
SITS almost time to feed the books,' a
woman librarian casually remarked tho
other day.
Her visitor stared.
Feed the-excuse me, but did you say
feed the books2' she demanded.
"Yes; we feed them twice a year, you
know
"No, I didn't know. Do they--that Il,
have they large appetites?'
@Well, rather!"
ooh! They-they seem to relish their
viotuals, as it were?"
The librarian laughed.
@You have books OF oourse2' she said.
The visitor owned up to a weakness for
acquiring printed matter Of that nature.
ANY leather bound volumes?" pursued
the librarian.
"Not all that my fancy paints me as hav-
ing sighed the visitor; still there are q
few"
And you don't feed them2" in dismay.
mo; II think mine must have been
weaned before I got them"
Nonsense! The older the book Is the
more it needs to be fed"
ooh, does it? Well, what would you
recommend as a nice spring diet for atree-
calf Wordsworth and a crushed levant
Rossetti2"
"vaseline,' promptly. Feed EN- all the
vaseline they'll take. They all like 1t.
They'd cry for it if they could. Especially
the old books, which are dying and drying
for van Of skin food.
in this library, which is a private nj
there are hundreds n thousands Of dol
lars worth Of rare old books whose leather
bindings would crumble to pieces In our
overheated buildings If they were not regu-
larly fed with oils to supply those which
are constantly drying out of them.
we make a little pad of cotton and with
1t rub the ~vaseline thoroughly into the
leather, especially into the place where tho
cover breaks when the boob is opened.
You will notice hat in old books that IL
always the worst point. If the leather had
been kept supple by v~aseline or a similar
food, the break could nave been avoided"
But won't the books be 90 greasy that
1t will be unpleasant to handle them az
cept after providing ones self with a kitchen
apron and old gloves?"
"No, not il the ~vaseline is thoroughly
rubbed in. You've no idea how the leather
fairly gobbles it up. Old leather, l mean.
Newer books do not need it 80 much, and
therefore we don't feed them 80 often"
The visitor came away delighted at this
new insight into the natural history Of
books. Almost the next place she stumbled
into she still further added to her Informal
ton by acquiring the details of a home
method of disinfecting library books.
1t is all very fine, Of course, to be able
to get books from a library, but when by
an excess Of generosity one is also pre-
sented with unnumbered millions Of the
unassorted microbes Of previous readers, it
seems as if it were really too much for the
money.
There is a way in which one can de-
cline the microbes. just fix up a small air
tight box, across the middle of which Stats
are laid on cleats. Below these Stats place
q saucer Of f~ormaldehyde.
On the Stats put the to-bea 1isinfected
book or books, edges down and leaves
spread. Close the o and the fumes OF the
fo~rmaldehyde will soon fill it..
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take her early training and associations
into account. She had been brought up
at a court where intrigues Iand 'affairS"
were Of daily occurrence. The blood OF
Henri Of Navarro ran in her veins, partly
~responsible, 1t may be, for the sins laid to
the charge Of Charles II. The age also
was one In which immortality was In a mea-
sure taken for granted; for example, in the
letters Of Mary, Princess of Orange, to her
brother Charles H., some twenty years
later, there is more than n playful allusion
to his wife, Lucy Walters, the mother
OF the Duke OF Monmouth. But, though
the atmosphere around her may have az
fected Henrietta's moral standard, she her.
self had escaped the faint. Unpopular as
she was, alike as Catholic and ae French
woman. and later on rs Queen, and In spite
Of the abuse showered upon herr ouriously
few attempta were made 10 reduce to spe-
ciic charges the vague generalities OF con-
domination. 1t is true that both before
and after her husbands death her name was
coupled with that Of Harry Jermyn, but
our author pronounces the grounds on
which the accusations rest as scarcely
worth taking into account in the Kings
lifetime, and as, even after his death moon
elusive. With this exception, the breath
OF calumny was poyerless against the
blamelessness Of Henrietta's private Life.
Her confessor's conviction, transmitted
to Rome by the agent Of the Vatican, was
that she had no temptation to moral trans
erosion. She possessed, at all events, the
safeguard Of the love, tender and true
and enduring, which she bore her husband
a love even more passionately returned
"You do not see that in Turin? p said Charles
gayly to the French Ambassador, as, In the
latter's presence, he kissed his wife again
and again. Nor at Paris. either" he
added in q lower tone, In allusion to LOUIS
XIII. and the unloved Queen, Anne OF
Austria. Complaints were heard hat
speech could not be had with King Charles,
so constantly was he in the apartment OF
bis nineteen-year-old wife. His only re-
greet was that he could not take her with
him 10 the council chamber. Il WISH
he once said, that we could always be to-
gether, and that you could accompany me
to the council; but what would these
people say IL a woman were to busy herself
with matters Of government
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
ANY GODS OR IDOLS TO SELF
An Enterprislng Man Sees a Chance Among
Bigoted People in South India.

BIgoted People I'm South India.
The following is an extract from a letter
actually received by a New York house
doing business with foreign countries. The
letter came from Kumbhakonam, South
India:
@As natives Of India are always wor-
shippers Of all gods and idols, il you can
favour me with a list Of idols, their prices
and SOM sample idols, l will be able to
send you a large wholesale order for these
gods, which will take up exceedingly we'll
among natives all over India; and il you
can get me the sole agency from that fac
tory for introducing their idols throughout
India, I I'm sure to make their business a
thorough success here in the event Of their
undertaking to give the sole agency through
out India, Burma and Ceylon, and also a
fixed travelling allowance, say $25 a month
including Batta to one Of my clerks to begin
with, who will go throughout India and
secure orders from natives, rich and poor,
merchants and mobiles, dc.
IF you can kindly see your way to get
me the sole agency or the above lines, /
can make it a great success financially for
both OF us, you undertaking to supply me
with idols and I undertaking to sell them
as fast as possible. There is no competition
for this line of business here, and hence |
wish to be the first in the field and natives
are such a bigoted people who will sell
their souls, If possible to worship an idol Of
THAR oUn y
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especially a. the remark 10 that he has
thought Of me In her character. And, on
the plan Of two negatives making one
affirmative, I suppose I may take the two
dull ones Of the book to mako n Mrs. r.
You know he told William that. although
Amelia was not a copy Of me. he should not
have conceived the character II he had not
known me-and though she has tho right
amount OF anti-phlegm and affectionats-
ness, she lie really an unoommonly dull and
a selfish character, and very apathetic TO
the only person who cares for her. the
quaint Captain Dobbin.'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
New Light on Old Story.
From The Reader

A former Bishop Of the Episcopal Church
Of Indiana once preached 10 a black con-
gregation. At the conclusion of the dis
course several Of the negroes crowded about
the preacher and praised his sermon. saying
1t was the best they had ever heard. one
enthusiast exclaimed:
befo'...
the praise, what was 1t I told you that
you never knew beforef"
Bout Sodom an Gomorrah. Why.
Bi9hop. ! always thought they was o man
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
Mrs. Brookneld and Her Circle.


The two volumes, MrS. RronkpelH and
Her Circle, by CHARLES and FRANCES BROCK
FIELD tScribners>, present a collection Of
letters in which we hear a great deal about
Carlyle, Tennyson, Thackeray and other
distinguished men OF letters who lived in
England during the second and third quar-.
ters Of the nineteenth century. The editors
nave merely contributed some explanatory
matter, having desired TO let the letters
speak for themselves as far as possible,
inasmuch as their style and quality reveal
the characters of their writer's and the man.
ners of the time.
Before marking some OF the most inter-
esting passages in this sprightly correspond
ence we should point out who the Brook
fields were. William Henry Brookfield was
born at Sheffield in August, 1909: he was
the second son Of a solicitor. After being
educated at the grammar school in Leeds
he wal sent at the age of 20 to Trinity Col
lege, Cambridge, where he became a mem
Der Of the circle in which T%ennyson, Arthur
Hallam, ~Thackeray, kinglake and Mines
were shining lights, and formed with them
lifelong friendships. After graduation he
was for a while tutor to the eldest son Of
Lord Lyttleton, and subsequently took
orders. In November, 1911, he married
Jane Octavia Elton, the youngest daughter
Of Charles Elton Of Clevedon Court, after
ward seventh haronet Of that name. AL
though William Brookfeld never attained
the eminence in the Church to which
in the Judgment of his friends his talents
entitled him, his requirements, his
wit and his attractiveness are amply at
tested. OF strong and marked character,
his rectitude and steadfastness were on the
one side as remarkable as his gayety and
humor on the other. He was a marvellous
i~mpersonator. SPEEDING, the author of
the life Of Bacon described him after his
death as an "original genius and said that
Sif he had a fancy to impersonate Lord
Brougham In a character he would nave
found himself gifted for the occasion with
the power Of rolling forth long periods OF
complicated structure and elaborate melody
to clear and grammatical co exclusions,
II his part had required him to appear as
one Of the wise men OF Greece I lave no
doubt that he would have improvised a
sentence as wise as any Of the seven" It
may he that this power of mimicry and
this histrionic gift interfered with his pre-
ferment in his profession. Sir Henry
Taylor, the author Of Phillip van Arte-
velde,' testified that hiss social charm could
in no way be transcribed" and added that
~@Brookheld's talents masked his Abilities
The kindliest and most affecting tribute
to him was the we'll known some Of Tenny-
sons which recalled their college days.
We reproduce it:
Brooks. for thes called you so that knew you
best;
Old Brooks, who loved so well to mouth my
rhymes.
How oft we TIVE have heard St. Mary's chine e
How oft the Cantabs' supper. host and guest,
Would echo helpless laughter TO your jesti
How oft AFith him We paced that walk Of
Nne ~
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SOME NEW BOOKS.
Queen Henrietta Maria.

The first attempt to make a thorough
and satisfactory use Of the ample material
existing for a biography Of the daughter OF
Henri of Navarro, the wife Of Charles L.
and the mother of Charles II. and James H.,
is embodied In two volumes collectively
named The Life of Queen Henrietta Mar1d'
by /. A. TAYLOR E. P. Dutton d Coz
Henrietta's own letters TO Charles L, have
been preserved and lave been printed in
The original French. The same thing ID
true Of the correspondence which she
carried on during most Of her married LIE
with her sister Christine, Duchess OF savoy.
Besides the material furnished by Henri
etta's letters, collections Of state papers
and other contemporary documents as
we'll as the copious memoirs OF the day.
French and English, are full OF facts, Incl
dents and illusions, making it possible TO
form a very clear conception OF the woman
who was loved by Charles l.. as some have
thought, to his undoing; Of whom Charles H.
Notwithstanding some friction in his earlier
years, wrote that never any children had
40 good a mother; and who was declared by
Charles's brother, James H., toexoeln all
the good qualities OF a good wife, e good
mother and a good Christian" II her hus-
band and her children loved her, however,
the world did not, and Mr.. Taylor does
not underrate the importance attaching
to a large body OF contemporary opinion
He does not accept, Of course, without re-
serve and qualification the structures OF
declared opponents Of the Royalist cause
1t Is at the same time to be noted that
some Of the most loyal adherents OF Charles
I. and Charles II. were among the severest
of Henrietta's critics. While allowing due
weight to the testimony Of the latter, our
author points out that the very oandor
and freedom Of their blame ends to ex-
onerate the object Of their dislike from
faults Of which they did not accuse her
Judging her. therefore, even out of the
mouth OF her enemies, he arrives at the
conclusion that the evidence against her
indicates errors Of the understanding
rather than Of the will; rashness, unwisdom
and prejudice, rather than any more serious
moral delinquencies.
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Under date Of January, 1885, Mrs.
Brookaeld says that at that time Alfred
Tennyaon WA NQadeEfpllz hAndaome. and
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