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New-York tribune., 1906-12-08
Literary NesOs and Criticism.

10 focus in the assassination Of King Hum
oerG The daughter Of an impoverished nohl. g.
Aoreed oy treachery and sense of duty into "a
tepushant marriage with a parvenu manu-
i@0'urer' While her affections are really engaged
~ d leadeF or the democratic reform movement
!" tue chamber Of Deputies. The plot unfolds
swiftly with procession OF events. and INVOLVES
me leading personages in a number OF logically
developed and highly exciting situations. which
are nevertheless, merely incidental to the work.
ing out or the emotional conflict between three
strongly depicted contrasting natures Although
me scene is laid in Italy and breathes of Italian
ne and character. there is In the story more
man mere reflection OF political and Industrial
conditions IN America. since the Adirective i'm
pulses Ct hoth tho self seeking seIf-made capt.
talist and the sacrificing reformer were re-
celVed during their formative years, spent in
the United States While the lively incidents
OF the tale are sufficient to carry the interest Of
the reader who is seeking only for diversion.
there is food for thought for the one who is
able TO detect the parallelism suggested between
events in the two countries.
Exactly why the people Of Britain in the fifth
century. both Roman conquerors and native
serfs, should employ the diction of Chaucer in
their ordinary conversation is q question which
can only be solved by the historical novelist
himself. II at least gives an archaic effect to
the tale that Mr. Taylor has written Of the
earlier period. some centuries in fact before the
English language had been evolved. AS a pict-
ure Of the times, since but little is actually
known Of them, the novel will serve. It agrees
well enough with the impressions Of the same
day conveyed by Mr.. Kipling in his puck of
Pooks HILL" which was written later than the
present story. Nicanor, the hero. is bondsman
with an exuberant ina gination, who falls in
love with the daughter of his Roman master, a
girl OF great beauty but with mind only i'm
perfectly developed Otherwise, doubtless she
would have shrunk from the attentions, how
ever pure and restrained. of one OF her fathers
slaves Nicanor's imagination may be sup
posed TO have been equal to supplying the de-
hciencies IN his ladys intellect. It is difficult
TO maintain g. strong interest in the relations OF
so Ill assorted a pair, but the book is crowded
with Characters Of most of the types found in
the island at the time, and the succession OF in
ctdents, though not always closely related, takes
cognizance Of many phases Of social and indus
trial life. There is a suggestion Of allegory and
mysticism in the history of Nicanor's mental
and moral development, and in the end. though
not nominally a Christian. he finds his greatest
inspiration IN the story OF the Nativity, which
he has learned from fellow slave The book is
elaborately designed and is printed in boldface
trations, which are separately tipped in" are
reproductions in colors from paintings by Troy
and Margaret West Kinney.
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pounds-a delicate euphemism. The rich were
not neglectful of their poorer brothers. and many
charitable as well as social societies sprang UP.
a Huguenot having lost his fortune. Of his
friends agreed TO hold meeting in his honor cnce
week to which each person was to contribute
bit Club" The meetings were very agreeable:
VtbsT wb'eb persons Joined some to practise French
company. Both membership and subscription in
South Carolina Society BESIDES assistinE iniieen4
members, and widows and orphans, it established
a school for limited number of boys and girls.
Horse racing. the theatre and balls were the
chief amusements Of those days. and helped to
keep UP the spirits of the people during the
three humiliatng years Of British occupation
that followed the valiant repulse OF Admiral Sir
Peter Parker's feet by General Lee and Colonel
Moultrie. Many patriotic women. however, re-
fused to meet the Red Coats socially. and it is
told of one lady that all the time that British
officer was quartered in her house she kept her
three attractive daughters under lock and key
in the attic. Writing of Charleston in later
days the Duke de Liancourt said:
In no part OF the globe is so much hospitality
practised as in America. can 1t anywhere be
better exercised than in South Carolina a
Carolinian, though not very opulent rarely has
table, his stables and his kitchen. And vet
things are not neatly kept and are often shabby
There are few families who do not keep chaise or
coach and ladies rarely set foot the streets.
Mr.. Samuel Thomas. of Massachusetts, who
saw Charleston toward the close Of the egh-
teenth century, described the place as the most
aristocratic city in the Union, notwithstanding
her Jacobtnism," and declared that political
professions were of Jefferson's school, but prac-
tice aristocracy complete" "All of which, with
but slight alteration Mrs. Ravenel concedes,
might have been written in 1860"
New-York tribune., 1906-12-08
NEU AND OLD.
d Aorel Of Modern Italy and One
Of Ancient Britain.

~ ORD or WEALTH. By Henry Wilton
AIcaNop ~. -. VI. =. ~ T. f-tAal4s Sons
6.e- Britain. By C.. Bryson Taylor tV.th
coicrs- t.e ysfe borders AND ave Illustrations in
svc0's - Troy and Margaret West Kinnev
~ - a. C. McClurg Co
a. thomas's studies Of lower class Italian
-. =, Ne" York. begun IN his first book. The
H., 1-aoy OF Mulberry" have now LED him to
-. 'enton 10 conditions ia the mother couu-
lt,,-' 7''1 ms present novel deals with the po-
60 -Al industrial situation in Italy at the
sy,, rhe last century. The romance. how
snss, '''0ha which the events Of the story are
r,-s., ieFolVe, engages persons of the higher
h. - sla. whose fortunes only are affected
-sFssEEent Of popular unrest that came
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CLOSING A MUSEUM.
From The Atheneum

From The AthenRum.
The closing of the Paris Musee d'Ethnographie
at the TrocaderO, was announced by La Liberte''
on Friday last week This Is the result of two
causes 1t is sans ouvriers ct sans argent
without which obviously no museum can exist
The Musee d'EthnOgraphie founded In 1850
by Jules Ferry, and comprised one room only;
but gifts came In with considerable raDiditI-
and several other rooms were taken In 1894
the Sale de TOceanie was started but this has
apparently never been opened 10 the public for
want OF a man 10 look after H. The Wusa1,ro
contains great many interesting things. the
ultimate destination OF which is uncertair
tFOr other Literary News ace eighth n.x.1
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"CAROLOPOLTS." !"
The Picturesque History of a Pictu-
rescue City.

THE PLACE AND THE PEO-
PIE. By Mrs. St Julien Ravenel With fifty
eight Illustrations from photographs, and from
drawings by Vernon Howe Bailey. svo, pp. xiv,
SIS. The Macmillan Company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-28
|fBO01S and BOOSnS--by" the DUTCH UNCLE e.
i Pe NY
ID Sundry Reflections Upon the Passing Show
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that he had been stnng by an elephant
snake, and the driver knew that the
ball was safe-the caddie knew where
it was. His partner "drove off !"
(drove off in govt does not mean that
he CLICKED at the horses on the water
wagon, but that he smote the rubber
with the rod) and the fore-caddie be-
ing behind tree heard it go by and
marked it down.
Then on to the second hole and SO
around the course they went. They
did not lose a ball. They hit the fair
green's and the mustard green's with
the accuracy of a rifle and skidooed
over the bunkers like sparrows dodg-
ing a trolley car.
The evil that men do lives after
them. Hereafter when you walk broad
in the moonlight to coalmune with ma
ture, just Nlay your course about seven
points nor by nor'east of any govt
links in the country. If you stray
Minikahdaways one Of A. B. Cults
long drives may muss up your counte,
nance and if you go Bryn Mawrwards
John Rees may put the brand Of the
govt ball upon your cuticle. If moon,
light goff becomes popular there is 60,
ing to be mighty good market fol-
suits of mail and fencing masks in this
neck Of the woods. '
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those who work for living, that
s'par figures in govt 4 mean, when
translated into the vernacular, that
players can foozle just as often by
moonlight as they do when working
under the influence. Of the SUMS rays
and seven highballs. Baseball follow
ers will find that par figures means
batting about .270 on the season and
race-course followers can understand
when / say. that the players ran: ac-
cording to the dope-sheet. This should
make it perfectly understandable, even
to residents of st. Paul.
But getting back to business, the re-
ports say that the moonshine gowfers
,braced up at the first tee, swatted the
little white pill with the swatter. Then
in the weird silence of the night they
waited. There was nothing doing in
the noise factory. The pale moon shed
it's light upon the southern landscape
and the only murmur upon the air was
the whispered assurance of the steel
trust magnate, to another man g wife,
that "six months in Dakota would be
sufficient and the musical tinkle of
the clubhouse bartender's spoon as he
aggravated the contents Of the cut
glass in building a dry Martini.
Suddenly the silence was broken by
one of the fore caddies, who an
nounced with some vigor and vulgarity
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This assistance feature from the
wings calls to mind a good story that
a well-known manager of boxers used
to tell "down east.'' 'sWe were out
on the alfalfa circuit back in. 1927
said he, "and T was manager of like
ly young boxer. We were travelling
about the country doing bag punch
ing exhibition and winding up j the
show with my man meeting corners
and guaranteeing $1o0 to any man
who could stay four rounds.
SO - We struck one of those sassy towns
in Ohio and appeared at the town hall
and toperahouse. The stage was
small and the wings the regulation i'm
movable kind you find in these jasper
'operahouses.' Business had not been
good and we were. getting far from
home and pretty close to the 500 we
always put in the window of the big
stores in the town we visited, with the
placard telling of our offer. In fact
we had to do some business in that
town or break the 500 bill.
The little dinky hotel in the town
filled up the minute we struck town.
The. Oscars looked my man over and
winked d and grinned at each other
Pretty Esoona big strapping yokel came
along and said he would take up tho
Foffer and attempt to stay with my man.
"Now my fellow was corking
good boxer, but had been taking things
easy and was not in shape to take on a
bruiser even for four rounds. While
was talking with this fcomer' I no.
| ticed that has hands showed bandage
| marks and he carried himself like a
boxer. I would have sidestepped him
If I could, but had to stick to our reg
| ular bluff. -
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LUNDS TO BOOM AMATEUR BASEBALL
Lease Minneapolis Baseball Park
To Put on Fastest
Teams. i. St..

John G. Lund, the owner and hacker
of the Lund Land independent base
ball team, has secured from M. J. KEEL
ley, the new owner Of the Minneapolis
league franchise, a lease which gives
Minnehaha and Nicollet parks to his
team at all times when the Minneapolis
team is out Of the city. d. ..... =,
This will give the. Lunds full swing
and they promise to put on the best
exhibitions of independent, semi-pro-
fessional baseball ever seen in Mime
apolis. Fast teams; from out-of- town
will be brought in. Negotiations are
already on with. few fast Chicago ag-
gregations. Special rates from the
railroads are also included in Mr..
Lund's plan Of campaign,
Sam Coughlin will continue to man
age the team and Sam Kinkel, who dis
tinguished himself last year as catcher
and captain, will act as his assistant.
E. L. Schultz, cashier Of the Lund Land
company, will act as secretary and
treasurer. Several new players have
been signed and all the old ones are
back and the Lunds promise to at
least equal their last years: record of
twenty-five games out Of thirtyfour
played. ~ f..
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President John I. Taylor of the local
Americans returned to Boston this week
from the south and will soon start for
a long European trip, leaving the man
agement wholly to Jimmy Collins.
+ + i.
Several writer's have been trying to
give out the impression that I am aft
er Sir Edward Hanlon, when such is
not the case. Some time ago I quoted
a remark by Frank Farrell Of the New
York club, and this remark was taken
as coming from me by few writer's
looking for trouble. Mr.. Hanlon must
stand or fall on his own work and
neither knocks nor winter bouquets can
interfere with his work.
/ have never. asked Mr.. Hanlon for
a favor and he has never rendered me
one, therefore consider that I have
a perfect right to criticize him and
every other manager in the business
as far as his connection goes with
baseball. / have known the gentleman
for twenty seven years, and his base
ball record lies before me as I write.
I doubt if he will claim a higher posi-
tion for Cincinnati this year than ]
have with the material ION hand.
Ed Hanlon was fine fielder and
clever base-runner for the great De
troit club in 1877. He was a fine left,
hand hitter for. Albany in '79, and was
prime mover in the brotherhood
movement Of 1890, a lieutenant fol
John M. Ward. / was close to the
band-wagon in those days, and was a
keen observer of those who took part
in the wreck of that organ. I found
Ed Hanlon on the level.
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BY Malachy Hogan.


One of the most unsatisfactory Of the
late boxing events of Importance was
the battle between Benny Yanger and
Kid Goodman before the Douglass club,
Chelsea, Mass, which will officially go
down into history as a draw. That it
was not a. draw, or anything that
looked Ikea draw is attested by every
report that has come from the ring
side. Most versions of the affair have
it that the interference in the twelfth
round was all that saved Goodman
from being knocked out.
The battle was scheduled to go if-
teen rounds There was a big crowd,
and Yanger had plenty Of sympathiz-
ers. He started out to give his oppon-
emit decisive defeat and before many
rounds had passed it became all too ap-
parent that he was going to finish the
job. Goodman was hanging on the
ropes in the twelfth, when the club Of
fcials ordered the bout stopped and
Referee Billy Pierce called the contest
a draw. < @
: There have been a good many lame
excuses given out for this action, but
none will hold water. Pierce first said
the action had been taken on orders
fom the state police, because some Of
the bleachers showed signs Of giving
away, and they wanted to prevent an
accident. Deputy Chief Neal, who was
in charge of the state officers, said he
was surprised at the bout being
stopped, as he rather enjoyed it. When
told that the spectators believed he had
ordered it stopped he said that such
was not the case.
All Of the accounts Of the bout in the
Boston papers declare that Yanger had
all Of the rounds except two or three
by wide margin, and that he looked
like a ten to one shot when the officials
interfered.
It is believed in. the west that Yanger
had been improving. Eastern critics
seem Of the opinion that Goodman has
been going back.
One Of the sensations of the past
week was the, statement by Joe Cans
that hereafter he was going to be an
honest boxer.
There is hardly section of the coun-
! try in which Cans has not appeared in
suspicious bout, which is not to say
that all Of them have been dishonest
by any means But be that as it may
Cans certainly had a bad reputation
The biggest black mark he ever re.
| ceived was in the McGovern bout at
Tattersall's several years ago, and the
event also put black mark against
boxing in Chicago.
| The significant fact about Cans his
tory, however, is that he should have
found out so late that dishonest work
does not pay. There is no necessity
and should BE no incentive for such al
able boxer as he ever to participate Il
a dishonest battle. It undoubtedly has
cost him a lot Of money and friends
OF course, he has been able to gel
matches and people have been willing
to pay to see him perform. But he has
not been the drawing card he ought t.
/ have BEEN
Now. that he is welterweight. cham
/ pion. Cans has done well to announce
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OVER-EATING WORST
FOE OF BALL PLAYERS,
DECL ARES MURNANE
By TIM M URNANE,

to fill the bill as well as himself. Can
you beat him?
In his early days Jim O'Rourke was
considered logy from the drinking Of
milk, but he usually was there when
it came to placing the stick against
the center of the marble. Mr.. o 'Rourke
is now member of the national board
of the minor leagues. Knowing the
game from A to z, with record Of
thirty-three straight years before the
baseball public, what, could this style
of man do to I'M ure the interests Of
his fellow associates of the great army
Of minors without regard to class7 g,
O'Rourke is a fair sample of the men
that 90 to make up the national board,
dropping selfish interests, the men
elected to fill the next one-year term
are on the dead level and safeguard
for the minors. Those players who
would like to emulate the sage Of
Bridgeport should cut out all lines Of
dissipation, hearty eating included.
K + X
To be honest, I think the Boston
Americans last season practically ig-
nored condition from first to last. I
never witnessed on one ball team so
many men out of form by being over
weight. Many of the boys failed to
start out with the proper spirit or de-
sire to keep at their best. The result
was that the team got poor start
and was uncertain until the last two
weeks, when the cool weather braced
the boys and they came home like the
old champions.
Starting on the last eastern trip to
Philadelphia and Washington and fin
ishing on the home grounds, they won
| fourteen of the last fifteen games,
mostly due to the weather and the
men having the staying powers. This
club would have. won at least one doz-
| en- more games had they taken good
care of their stomachs, and no one
knows this better than Captain Col
Inns himself, who has said it will be
much different with the Boston club
next season E
Ballplayers not in prime condition
are better on the bench than on the
field, and no player is clever enough
to drive the fans even should he hood
wink his own manager. The fans are
looking for the trouble and with so
many eyes on the lookout the player is
dead sure to be properly sized up and
later roasted for his lack of interest
in his work. Baseball was never in
tended for fat mans game, and Cap
tain Arson was the only heavyweight
who ever piloted pennant winner,
altho my old friend, Charley Comis,
key, was growing bit stout when
his boys carried off the prize five
years ago.
!. !.
Things that I would like to know:
Why Howard Griffiths of Glass A
fame, dropped President Eugene Bert
for Danny Longs
How many clubs have paid up. their
assessment to Watkins, the Class "A
treasurer 3?
+ What kind of a batting average Jake
E-Stahl will have this season under the
new rules9 IS 3 S. :.
When will the American association
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~B1 nALACHI HOGAN

| his reformation, and if he sticks to his
statement he will make lot of money
yet. He probably has been badly adj
vised in the past, and says he has cut
loose from old associations. Fans prob
| ably will take him at his word and
| flock to see him when he next appears.
There seems to be no disposition to
question Cans right to the title that
has changed hands, SO many times in
the, last year. There is great deal Of
disposition to deny that he. is light
| weight champion, and not much consid-
Grafton is given to his challenges to
Nelson and Britt. It is doubtful if
Cans can make the weight, altho, it is
claimed he did it for Britt year ago,
and even if he could, neither of the
little fellows seem to care much for his
game.
the country in the Herman-Herrera
battle, to take place at Los Angeles
Feb. 9, and the interest seems to be
growing. Young Corbett, who was
knocked out by Herrera short time
ago, has given out the tip that Her
man will win.
"Herrera has streak of yellow n
foot long, Corbett declares.
This opinion is not shared by critics
generally, and it seems at the present
time as if they were pretty evenly di-
vided as to the outcome. Herrera has
plenty Of friends who believe he will
beat Herman, tho none dare to predict
that he will polish him off as easily as
| he did Corbett. Herman also has a big
| followinp who will probably back him
heavily if they hear favorable reports
from his training quarters.
The big fellows kept remarkably
! quiet last week. Marvin Hart and
/ Tommy Ryan are on the Pacific coast,
where the former has match that
should not give him. a great deal OF
trouble.
Jack O'Brien has received an offer
to go to London and meet Jack Pal
mer, the English heavyweight, for
purse of $4,000, and it seems likely
that he will accept. Having already
1 appeared in London and made good
impressions, O'Brien undoubtedly
/ would be well received. The matah
would mean much in the way Of In
creased reputation in case he could
! win, and it is not doubted on this side
that he can. Jack g style of boxing is
sufficiently like the English plan to
4 prevent his being handicapped as other
1 American boxers have been.
i Jack Dougherty of Milwaukee, thru
i his defeat of Martin Duffy, at Indian
spolis, has brought himself to prom
ising position as welter, and many
: are predicting that he is one OF the
coming top-notchers.
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) the plan of the farmers wife who
wanted white hen for dinner, and
taking her husbands shotgun ap-
preached the hennery and fired both
barrels into the flock of fowls in which
the white hen was feeding. The ac-
ton will certainly catch the ringers,
but it will hit as we'll every freshman
who enters the institution. The other
big nine schools, including Minnesota,
have the equally pernicious one SEM
ester rule.
All of this time while the faculties
Of colleges, great and small, are rail
ing at football, they are shooting wide
of the mark that should receive their
attention. They are piling up more
rigid rules of eligibility when they
should. be tearing down the trouble
some trocha they have erected and
making one broad rule for all schools
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FINE PRIZES HUNG UP
FOR CUBAN AUTO RACES
Valuable Trophies Will Be Awarded
to the Winners.

Valuable Trophies Will Be Awarded
to the Winners.
New York, Jan. 27.-Thru j. F. Bern
.des, the personal representative in New
York Of E. J. Conill, president of the
international Automobile Racing ASSOC
citation Of Cuba, w. j. Morgan learned
the other day that the Herrera Steam
>ship Line Of Havana had given mag
nifcent $500 trophy to go as a second
prize in the big Cuban road race, Feb
ruary II, the owner of which will get
the coveted Municipal Challenge cup,
given by the municipal council of Ha-
vana. The winner will hold the trophy
for one year, while the second car to
finish will get the other prize outright.
The above association will also give a
gold medal to the third and fourth
cars that finish in the race.
The p. & @. s.. s. Co., Jacksonville
and Havana, has also donated fine
prize; 80 has the Munson Line, E. j.
Conill and others. The latter prize
will be given for the short race, to
25 kilometers, which will be run with
the idea Of beating all previous records
on the road at those distances.