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Abraham Lincoln. LaMNrr.

It was well worth while to write up the
professional side Of Abraham Lncoln's
career as Mr.. Frederick Trevor Hill has
lone in Lincoln. the La wyer," CThe Gen.
fury Company II was to his profession
that Lincoln devoted his thought and effort
during the best years Of his manhood when
politics could be only a secondary matter.
Though il knock legends OF the head. il is
a real service to all Americans to demon
stratc clearly hat there was no sudden
Iump from rail splitting to the Presidency,
but that long years Of steady work and
study in a profession that above all develops
the intellect i~nterveneh.
Liz every other investigation into
Lincoln's life hat has been ms de Mr..
Hills brings out Lincoln in a stronger.
nobler. more rational aspect. The deduc-
lions that his training and knowledge of
law helped the president through the diff
f~iculties OF the civil war are thoroughly
sensible. Tbe interest Mr.. Hills articles
aroused as they appeared 10 q magazine
show that hie book will attract the general
public fully - much - IL win lawyers.
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q Literature.

It is a thoroughly respectable piece OF
work that Mr.. Bliss Perry has turned out in
WALT Whitman" (Houghton, Miflin and
Company The facts in the poets life are
stated accurately; there is a rational ssti-
mate of the value of his works, which are
described suitably, with n glance into the
future. Whitman enthusiasts may COM
plain Of a certain frigidity. according with
the Boston attitude toward Whitman. and
the authors new Harvard professorship
The chief fault we find is that Mr.. Perry
should have paid any attention to the story
about Walt Whitman's children, a matter
of no importance in any estimate of the
man or of his literary work, but which
threatens to be turned into a mountain
through the pruriency Of modern literary
biography.
The student will find all the apparatus
needed for the study OF Chaucer in DR..
Robert Kilburn Roots The Poetry Of
Chaucer" (Houghton, Miffin and Company
He will read about what little is known OF
the poet, about the England he livedin In, about
each individual poem, it's history, its oon-
tents, it's commentators and so on and he
will learn what it il he should admire. A
summar OF modern scientific knowledge
is at his command; all he will miss il the
poetry of Chaucer.
Even a minor poet is entitled to one COM
plete edition Of his works. Many persons
will be glad to own The Poetical Works
of Edward Rowland Sill" Houghton, Mifiin
and Company 1t might have been ad-
visable to cut down the collection consid-
erably If il we're TO contain only what was
desirable to preserve" but it is much
better that the selection in such cases should
he made by the poets friends than left to the
rummaging search of later editors. After
all a poet is judged by his best and not by
all he wrote.
The pretty collection Of Mr.. Clinton
Scollard's verses Lyrics and Legends OF
Christmas Tide all imbued with the right
Christmas spirit, is issued in a new and
very dainty edition by George William
Browning, Clinton. n. Y.
A relic Of the Omar khayyam fever, we
wish we could say the last, is found In a set
OF auatrains called -Ecclesiastes in the
Metre Of Omar" by William Byron For
bush (Houghton. MiHfin and Company.
The author shows skill in handling the
ve-se form and judgment in selecting only
such fragments OF the Biblical text as may
be twisted into il. But his effort seems to
us misdirected. Better leave the King
James version alone
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MIs. ChoIrnondeIe,.s Sew stor,.

By a daring combination Of romanticism
and realism Miss Cholmondeley has con-
structed a story Of compelling interest con-
corning a shallow. selfish woman who
through suffering gains freedom for her
small soul by confession aud sacrifice. The
incidents upon which the development Of
the characters depends are melodramatic,
the plot is a tissue Of mysterious murder,
~loveless marriage, deathbed confessions
and high heroics. Coincidence is invoked
at the cost Of credulity n plausibility is
sacrificed to reckless invention. But de-
spite the demands made upon the liberation
Of the discriminating reader the story is a
powerful one and suggestive in the best
sense OF the word OF the great facts Of
human life, the essential elements OF human
character. Realmen and women walk abou
in this STACEY setting, and subtle char
acter studies reward the reader who doesn't
baIk at the melodramatic introduction.
Miss Cholmondeley has a pen as sharp
and sure as "A surgeons knife. which cuts
deep to the roots of the actuating motives
of human conduct, lays bare the nerves
and separates the tissues OF human char
Acter. She has a sense Of humoT that
enlivens the smallest event, the most in
significant personality. with whimsical
interest. She has a faultless method Of
narrative, a happy gift Of noomm CON-
parison and reference. n clever knaok OF
hitting on little p~eculiarities that flick one
on the raw Of ones own vanity and weak
ness. but IL il so well done that the vTiter
IL forgiven. Her men are vulnerable TO the
attack Of being women In disguise. In fact
one OF them 10 called an sold maid" and
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with reason. Certainly they do tho kind
Of long suffering things that no one. not
even a woman outside a book, would expect
any man to do. Her women are studies
from life, precisely differentiated anA con-
vincingly real.
The story. briefly told, is that of a young
and pretty English woman, weakly selfish
and foolishly romantic, welded TO an elderly
Italian Duke. Life is not exciting at the
villa and when the young wife's English
cousin and former sweetheart comes On
to Rome as a secretary Of the embassy.
from sheer vanity and desire for romantic
experience she fancies herself in owe with
him. This cousin Michael is described as
one OF the well born, machine trained,
perfectly groomed, extensively educated,
~uneducated Englishmen." Men Of that
stamp ave a stubborn respect for the holy
estate OF matrimony. They are men of
action, not men OF work. He resolved to
leave Rome and his dangerously pretty
cousin Fay. Yielding to her romantic de-
sire for the last meeting one reads Of in
books, sees on the stage, he enters her
boudoir secretly. When he would have
departed a man has been murdered in the
garden. the police search the house and he
confesses to having committed the murder
TO save her good name. He is sentenced
to fifteen years in ar Italian prison and she
is too selhshly weak 10 secure his release.
even after the death Of her husband. The
real assassin confessing after two years.
Michael returns to England to find the
woman for whom he had sacrificed so
much happily engaged to his brother.
The bare skeleton Of the plot only reveals
the weakness and artificial subterfuge Of
the story, whose real strength lies in the
study Of Fay's character and it's develop
ment under suffering. Inheriting a weak
and selfish nature from her mother. her
weakness ia its own antidote. Had she been
robust in her selishness she would
nave suffered less. Had she not feared
suffering she would never have confessed.
Her own selhshness and the inspiration Of a
feeble but sincere love brings about atardy
salvation Of her little soul, which doesn't
seem worth the trouble it cost.
But there are other matters in Miss Chol-
book which engage thoughtful
attention and distinguish the story as above
he average in spite Of its inadequate theme
md generally unpleasant plot. (Dodd,
lead and Co..
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Her Hundrcdth birthday.

BLOOMFIELD. y. j., Oct. I4.--Mrs. Sophie
N~ckerman, the widow Of Linus Alderman,
VINO lives with her daughter. Mrs. Frank
y Ampbell. IN IN" Brookdale section Of this
own, will be 100 YEARS old next week Satur-
lay She u very deaf. but her mind Ia
nIght Her two sons and two daughters
~ many grandchildren are making prep
~ait'ns ~ celebrate her birthday.
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ROBBED STORE POOR BONES.
lamp Ceane Broke Them Open 10 Get
Money for His Wedding.

Paul LaIentere, a lamp trimmer employed
in a Sixth avenue department store. was
arraigned yesterday in Inc jeff rsOn Mar
ket police court before Magis ate Mayo
charged with robbing poor + xes placed
in the store. lAlentere was CT ght at mid
night by the store detectives. He had just
broken open "A poor box bel aging TO the
Volunteers of America. from which he had
distracted S.3O. There ar twenty poor
lAleutere was At work AMI suspicion fell
on him.
lalentere, the detectives said, confessed
10 them that he had robbed the boxes to get
money on which TO be married. The we'd
ding was to take place in three weeks.
lalentere, they said, offered to return all
me stolen money, said to amount TO SIS.
He vas held in $500 for trial.
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right. That does not matter now. The
efforts real. It's worth going on with.
It's worth it-even then I can see him
now, " concludes Mr.. Wells. and hear his
unmusical voice saying. The efort-the
efforts worth il and see the gesture of his
clenched hand and the-how can l describe
'it?-the friendly peering look Of his face.
like a man with the sun in his eyes. = " ="
He sticks in my mind as a many sided
symbol of The creative will in man"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-15
TAFT DOING CHRTST'S WORN.
DR.. Lyman Abbott Praises HIS Efforts 10
Avert war In Cuba.

NEW HAVEN. Oct. 1.-THE Rev. DIR. Ivy
man Abbott Of New York preached to Yale
Students to-day. He alluded TO the work
N Secretary Taft in Cuba,
One Of your graduates. honored around
me world, he said. by his diplomacy and
tact has extinguished the flames of war
and has brought out a spirit Of peace from
me ~insurrection in Cuba. He is doing
would say he was doing ChHist's work, for,
~ these days, We measure men by what they
gre doing TO promote the kingdom OF God
on EARTH
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BOOKS AND

After refu sing s,eaully for seven years
to lit for a photograph Kipling celebrated
the publication Of his new book by sub
hitting to a snapshot by Mrs. Kipling on
his farm at Sussex, England. He seems to
have changed but little. and the outdoor
dress of the English country gentleman
makes him look rather younger than in his
earlier photographs. It hasn't much to do
with literature. but the fact that his trousers
are creased in this picture, the absence of
which detail gave rise TO, much comment
in his last photograph, may be of interest
to those who are curious concerning such
matters. Kipling has just entered his
forty-frst year and has the look Of the Sue
oessful man who takes life in a leisurely
snd contemplative fashion.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-15

Ambrose Bierce, the author OF The
Cynio's Word Book" has had a long, in
teresting journalistic and literary career.
Born in Ohio. he served as line officer during
the civil war n was brevetted Major for
distinguished services. He went to California
for a time and later settled in London. where
he became widely known as a humorous
writer. Returning to San Francisco. he
edited two we'll known publications there.
He now makes his home in Washington and
devotes his time to the writing of hooks of
humor and philosophy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-15

Frederic Harrison, the English historian
and philosopher. who has just published
his Memories and Thoughts" has been
for more than fifty years associated with
he leaders of thought in England and
connected with every important philo-
sophicsl and scientific movement of the
period. His fund of reminiscence is a rich
one and his book should be Of interest and
value.
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The young Countess Of Cromartie is
one OF the most literary of the select little
group of ladies who are peeresses in their
own right in Scotland. Although one Of
the greatest of Scottish landowners and
a devoted wife and mother. she finds time
to devote to writing Of folklore tales. She
is familiar with all the tradi 'ons and strange
wild romances Of the Highlands where she
lives.
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c o." THE Image in the Sand" and the
re It. The idea Of the studious college d)n
having perpetrated -DodD" or the creator
Of ~Dodo" settling down to the gentle
r~everies. "Fr m a COLLEGE Window, " iso lie to
m .Ke the gods relax the gravity expected
of deities. Edward +. Benson is an arch
biologist and "A traveller as we'll a. a writer
of fiction. Arthur C.. Benson is a fellow of
Magdalene College, Cambridge. and the
writer OF several books in the English Men OF
Letters series. besides the Upton Letters"
and From a College Window" by which
he is known to American readers.
Apropos of the discussion now attracting
90 much attention concerning the relation
between writer's and editors OF magazines,
the North American RerieW tells of a dis
appointed contributor who called upon a
certain editor of the Atlantic of the name of
William Dean Howells. and producing a
poem and a note of declination, demanded
an explanation. ID you mean TO intimate
that this is not a good poem?" he challenged.
BY no means. hastily demonstrated Mr..
Howells. "Ithink it is very good indeed"
Then why do yoI decline il? ! consider
it the best l have ever written"
-Ah, well. said Mr.. Howells, after all,
we have very few differences of opinion.
DO you know" he added, Il have long
regarded it as the best that Tennyson has
ever written"
The Baroness Albert d'Anethan. wife OF
the Belgian Minister at Toxic and sister
OF Mr.. H. Rider Haggard. has written a
Japanese novel entitled 1T Happened in
Japan"
NJ. II &. Wells concludes with the cur
rent number Of Hdrper's Weekly his series
Of papers on The Future in America. +"
The final instalment reports an interview
which the writer had with President Roose-
welt in Washington. in which Mr.. Wells
ventured the pes simistic prophecy that
America must presently lose the inn
petus Of her ascent and eliminate and pass. =
With n Of those sudden movements
Of his" he writes. : President knelt
forward in a garden chair. thrusting out
his familiar g~esture-a hand. first partly
open and tn IN closed. Suppose. after ALL
he said slowly. that should prove to be
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Biornson's novel MARY" published last
week, will appear in fifteen translations
oy foreign editions. The story is con-
cerned with the history of an old Nor
wegian family and the development of a
strong minded woman by means Of love.
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Mos amusing complications occur
through the confusion OF the two Bens1n
in England Arthur {. Benson. the writer
Of scholarly. c~ontemplative essays and
letters, and his brother. Edward Frederic
Benson. author OF 'Dodo,- -Mammon a
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Bliss Perry. who has been spen1ing
the summer in Belgium. is now in Italy.
He expects to return TO this country in
January to begin his work as professor OF
English literature at Harvard. carrying on
at the same time his editorship of the
Atlantic. Mr.. Perry's life of Walt Whitman.
published on Saturday. is an attempt 10
portray the man and the poet with SYM
patty.
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The anonymous author Of The Martyr
dom of an Empress" is not only a writer,
an accomplished musician and an expert
horsewoman, but she is an artist az well
and has herself illustrated her now novel
Gray Mist. with reproductions Of water
c)lor sketches made during a visit to Brit
iany. which is her native home. In the
study Of the peculiar and picturesque people
OF this region the writer has been materially
~advantaged by the understanding of the
language learned az a child. The Breton
speech is a branch of the Gaelic somewhat
similar TO the Welsh and moi easy 10 master
by study. The traditions and customs Of
the Bretons have heen ~sa'cyulrie1 by
this popularity In speech and Offer a con-
parativey unwOrked field 10 the nOy ellis
in search Of local color
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Advertisement for The sun and EvsulnE sun
may be lsf, ct any American D!.,ric, Messenger
once n Ne s,ty-
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The Baroness Albert d'Anethan. wife OF
the Belgian Minister at Toxic and sister
OF Mr.. H. Rider Haggard. has written a
Japanese novel entitled 1T Happened in
Japan"
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The old Indian chief Geronimo has writ
ten his autobiography, and in spite of some
objection on the part Of the War Depart
ment President Roosevelt has given the
editor. s. NJ. Barrett, superintendent OF
schools in Lawton. Okla, permission to
20 on with the publishing OF it. BY
Geronimo's express wish the book is dedi-
Gated to the President. among other reasons
because he is chief of a great people"
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When the manuscript Of Henry NJ. Hyde's
new novel was half completed it was sent
TO a young woman typewriter with in
structions that she would be notified
when the story was completed. In spite
Of her Instructions she made several calls
for the manuscript. only to find il I'M
finished. Il thought perhaps you might
have got it DONE" she apoloRized, and
won't you please tell me which one OF
them she finally married? Then l won't
bother you again.
Il don't know yet myself, the author
answered. -She doesn't seem able to make
up her mind That's just whats causing
the delay"
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LOUIS LEVY & co will sell all week at 1871 PARK
row. icwelry and brio a brac.
A. DAVIDSON Il co. AuCtloncers. sell Japanese
high art and pa lntlugs. 2Ij Grand 81.
u. SHAPIRO. Arct. sells daily and evenings Jap.
auese high arr goods AT iSUt Pltkiu' av.. Brooklyn.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-11-16
FOR PEONAGE
Il TO ANSWER
Officers Of Lumber Company In
dicted by Pensacola Jury.
CHARGE OF FOREIGNERS
Allegc That They Were Held as Slaves
in Camps and Also That They Re-
ceived Bad Treatment.

Twelve officers and employees of the
Jackson Lumber Company, of Lock
hart, Ala, were indicted by the Unit
ed States grand jury at Pensacola,
Fla, for peonage and conspiracy to
commit peonage.
an investigation into alleged poem
age which existed at the camps Of
the lumber company some months
since, and which the grand jury had
been investigating for several days
Three cases of peonage are charged
against some of the employees, it be-
ing alleged that they went into Wal
ton county, Florida, and forcibly re-
turned to the lumber camps foreign
ers who had left the employ Of the
company and who were endeavOring
to reach other towns. In one In
dictment beating and i'll treatment is
charged. The offenses are alleged to
have occurred on July 10, q and "a.
Robert Gallagher, the woods fore
man of the Jackson Lumber Conf
pany, was indicted on two counts of
alleged peOnage, and one for con-
spiracy, while w. S. Harlan, the
manager Of the company, was indict-
ed on two counts of conspiracy to
commit peonage. Six of the men
were held under bond, for the trial
which Is to be commenced at once,
amy TX others are yet to be ar.
rested.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-11-16
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES MADE HAPPY.
Pennsylvania System Raises Wages to To-
tel txtent OF Twelve Millions.

Pennsylvania System Raises Wages TO To-
tel txlent OF Twelve Millions.
At a meeting of the board Of dlreo-
tors of the pennsylvania Railroad
company held in Philadelphia We'd
nesday, an increase Of 10 per cent
in the wages of all permanent EN-.
Dloyees of the company now receiy
ing less than $500 month was order
ed. The increase will take effect on
December l, 1906, and will apply to
all lines IF the Pennsylvania system,
both east and west Of Pittsburg.
The official announcement Of the in
crease says:
The board takes this action by rea-
son of the increased cost Of living
and the present general prosperity
Ct the country, in which the .Peansyl-
vanla railroad shares, and which has
made it possible for the company to
make an increased distribution to its
shareholders.
"On the Pennsylvania lines, east and
west Of Plttsburg, @ total or 1877
men are employed. OF these, on the
lines east, the wages Of 125,440 men
will be affected, the total increase
amounting to $702,952 per month.
"The present readjustment affects
all the employees of the lines east
or Pittsburg, with the exception of
about 5000, many of whom are not
permanent employees.
1.-THE action by the board of direc-
tors will be followed by similar ac-
ton on the part Of the boards OF
companies operating Pennsylvania lines
west Of Pittsburg, the increase in that
territory to apply to more than co.
600 employees, and involving an in
creased pay roll Of between $3,500,000
and $4,O0o,0O0
"The increase Of wages now order
ed applies to total Of about $4,000
men and involves an increased annual
outlay of about $12,OO0,O00."
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-11-16
TRICKS OF The MACHINE
Being Watched By Nav York Demo-
GENERALIZATION That Ballots are
Being Withheld.

A New York special says: The Of
fetal vote of but three counties miss
ing. Thursday night, Lewis stuyves-
ant Chanler apparently is elected
lieutenant governor by plurality APP
Droximatcly LOO votes over M. Linn
Bruce, republican.
It appears that all the other can
didates on the democratic state ticket
EXCEPT governor are elected by small
pluralities.
Chairman Corners Of the democrat
ic state committee issued call for
. meeting of the full committee at
the Victoria hotel Friday. The OBJ
iect Of the meeting was to devise
plans "to safeguard the interests OF
the democratic state ticket" Chair
man Corners said:
ST decided to call the democratic
state committee together to protect
the interests Of the state ticket. From
elegrams have received it is plain
that the republican machine Is resort
ing TO its old thievIsh knavery in or
der to beat our ticket. There is abso-
lutely no doubt that the ticket is cleo
ted with the exception Of Mr.. Hearst.
There is absolutely no doubt that
the returns are being held back.
There is no doubt that Bruce is rum
ming behind Hughes up the state.
firmly believe that sufficient independ-
ence league votes have not been
counted in many counties to decrease
greatly the plurallties of Hughes and
possibly elect Mr.. Hearst.
eve are going to get an honest
count Of the vote, and we are not only
going to protect the men making the
canvass next Tuesday, but we are
going right to work now on the mat
ter"
Hearst Won Moral Victory.
speaking Of the results in New
York, Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte
says:
TT is very fortunate that Mr.
Hughes has been elected in New
York, but the strength of his oppon-
ent as shown by the election, IS
rather cminous and proves to my
mind that we must be prepared TO
deal with the questions he has been
agitating in a spirit at once liberal
and conservative.
Ex-Governor Odell says Of the re-
suit in New York:
"The action is an evidence to my
mind that from this time forward the
republican party must give greater
heed to the demands Of the people
for the betterment Of conditions and
less to the ambitions Of politicians"