The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13

it. And there's Mrs. Mulholland and
four little Afulhoilands and me-thats
my country, and my party and my re-
ligfon. The rest is off my beat, and
don't give a damn for it. / don't care
which falSir gets to be president, or
which swindier gets to be rich Every
thing works out somehow, and the best
any man can do is TO mind his own bus
mess.
you may be imagining that,
through all, Anita had been dominating
my mind. That is the way it is in the
romance; but not in life. No doubt there
are men who brood upon the impossi-
Bile, and moon and maunder away their
lives over the grave of dead love.
/ offer them this suggestion. A man
strong enough to give love worth
wOman's while is strong enough to live
ON without her when he finds he may
not live with her
The Deluge, by David Graham Phil
ipps. Pictures by George Gibbs. Pub
Iished by the Bobbs Merrill company,
Minneapolis. Price $3.50.
"The Sage Brush Parson." by A. B.
Ward, announced for publication the
latter part of January by Little, Brown
& Co, is western story, depicting the
unconventional life in the sage british
wastes of Nevada. The characters are
all strongly marked, the hero. Clement
Vaughn. an Englishman, is said to be
particularly striking. The denoune-
ment of the novel is wildly unfolded.
I The atmosphere of the sage brush
wastes permeates the story.
The Century company viii issue early
/ in February d new novel by Anne Doug
las Sedgwick, author OF The Confound-
ing Of Camelia,' The Dull Miss
Archinard,' The Rescue" and Paths
of Judgment" The title of the book
will be The Shadow of Life" and the
author herself ranks it as the best work
she has ever done.
No one can fntelligently follow the
developments of American politics who
does not avail himself of the informa-
ton collected in a comprehensive poIit-
zeal year book like The Tribune Al
manac. This publication covers the ma
tional field. and offers its readers the
freshest facts concerning our varied
political activities. It reproduces the
vote by counties in each state in which
an election was held in 1905; summar-
ICES federal legislation for the year and
notes all important changes in person
mel under the national government and
the state governments. The Tribune
Almanac for 1906 gives, besides. the vote
in every state by counties for Roosevelt
and Parker, and tabulateS the official
returns by states for all the six presi-
dental tickets in the field in 1904. 1t
gives the popular vote for president by
states from 1880 to 1904. and the electoral
and popular votes for president and
vice president since 1889. 1t gives the
full and exact vote cast for candidates
for congress in each congress district in
! the United States in 1904 and the Do-
liticai platforms and national commit
tees of all parties. Politics is the main
feature of the issue for 1906. But other
topics are covered with fitness and ac-
curacy. The federal government the
various federal activities and services,
financial, commercial and Industrial
statistics. are features only less i'm
portant than the digest of election re-
/ turns Educational and religious sta
tistics, sporting records. statistics of
learned and patriotic societies, foreign
miscellany, neurology and a review
OF the Russo-Japanese war are includ-
ed in this handy and useful publication
usual, for 25 cents, Cloth bound, so
cents.
Brand Whitloek. Samuel NJ Jones
successor as MAYOR of Toledo and
leader of The Golden Rule" party. is
a novelist of considerable repute His
1 published works include The 18th Dis
/ trict- Her Infinite Variety and The
/ Happy Average. realistic studies of
middle western life. He is now said to
/ be at work on a novel dealing with
/ the underworld of thieves and crooks.
/ That astonishing title. ''The House
I OF Thousand Candles" was not due
/ 70 freak flight Of the authors fancy.
I II Sprang from a characteristic and
4 long established prediction for can
] dies and candelabra. Mr.. Nicholson
has a remarkable collection of both
candles in all shape and sizes from
4 the little farthing dip of our ancestors
/ to tall cathedral tapers. candIesticlxs
/ that range from rickety colonial pew
I ter to enormously heavy monuments
OF brass and silver
/ the dulhof OF new book on sociology
Just published by the Macmillan
company. An exchange. commenting
on the work, says Within the last
/ rev years new science has developed
/ that OF sociology. This differs from
/ economies, for instance, in that it con-
slders the effects of various economic
/ policies on the social organism 1t
/ dliers from politics and ethics of both
/ OF which it treats in the same way.
In short. it is the science of society
OF the laws that control it and the
forces that operate in it. For the per
son who is interested in keeping up
with the progress Of KNOWLEDGE on
social problems. as well as for the
coliege student. an admirable little
volume is THE Elements of So
clolosy,' by Prof. +. w. Blackmar Of
/ the University of Kansas This book
/ bfary, under Prof r. T. EIv's editor
snip. gives careful and straightfor-
ward statement of the results in this
comparatively new field. Taking up
nfst the point of view. it continues
with general description of the
origin and development of human So
ciety. Then it discusses the problems
OF social control and of the ideals and
forces that make for progress. one
division is devoted to social pathology
Ito poverty. crime and correctional
measures. Finally, there is brief
discussion of methods of social in
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science. Prof. Blackmar. of course. is
an authority in his subject. His vol
ume will not satisfy the radicals. but
IL IS eminenty sane. well balanced
and lucid. The general reader could
probably find no better Introduction
to sociology. Incidentally it is odd in
a modern scientific book to come upon
sueh a statement as that 1.-The family