The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-29


 urges that there should be no unfriend- Illness between the honest individuaiist and the honest socialist, since both are seeking that which tiiey believe to be best for society: and he points out how the one may greatly aid the other in the common aim of both. the harmonius development of the human race, physi- cally, mentally and morally. But he holds that the socialist is inclined to support monopoly, believing that 1t leads to government ownership of mo- nopolistic industry; whereas individ- aulists contend against consolidation of industries and stand for a morality and for a system of ethics which they are willing to measure against the ethics and morality of socialism"
 
 Cooperss Indians Are Real Indians.
 Cooper does not, to be sure, taka quite the cowboy view of the Indian. and people with smatterfng of pio- neering who regard the cowboy as an expert in Indians and echo his opinion that the only good Indian is dead one'' may find him unduly discrimin- ating. Still. the cowboys ethnological experience is, after all, limited. and the frontiersman of recent years has had to deal not with the Indian of the time of Coopers tales, but with his de- scendants demoralized by contact with his censors, to say nothing of the "cen- tury of dishonor." Cooper's view is certainly that the Indian Is human But the fact which is so generally lost sight of Is that the noble red man. the fictitious character that he is charged with inventing--is not to be found in his pages. In general he en- dows the Indian with traits which would be approved as authentic even by the ranchman, the rustler, or the army officer. His Indians are in the main epitomized in Magua- And in the mass the race is depicted pretty much as Hawkeye conceived the Mingoes of the Mohawk Valley and Leatherstocking the Sioux of the prairies---"varmints" one and all. The exceptions are few. There are the Delaware. Chingachgook and Uncas, Conanchet and the Pawnee Hardheart-hardly any others of im- portance. And the goodness" of these Is always carefully characterized as sui generis. The difference between their moral gifts" as Leatherstocking often enough points out, and those of the white man Is always made to ap- pear as radical The most 'idealized'' of them Is shown as possessing passions and governed by a code that sharply distinguish him from a white of analo- gous superiority to his fellows. Nor Is his ability exaggerated. In spite of his special sense developed by his life in peace and war, his woodcraft and physical prOWeSS, when 1t comes to the pinch In any case his inferiority to the white man Is generally marked. So far from being untruthful idealizations Cooper's little group of good Indians siderably below what a writer not ac- is in both quality and importance con- tuated by the truly realistic purpose which was always his would be justi- fled in depicting as representative of the best specimens of the Indian race.
 From Cooper" by w. c. Brownell in the April Scribner's.
 We've been having a great deal of trouble in our family" piped the high voice of the girl who will think that she is a society girl.
 An, me-" sighed sympathetic lis- tener.
 oh, it isn't so awful1y serious but it may be shut gut, don't you know. A cousin is just threatening to marry Frenchw count. Now you kno French counts don't count Who cares anyhow for titles of nobility in a re- public. Think of country with a President and Due at the same time, and whole lots of counts"
 But can't he count out his title2"
 But his title Is the only thing he's got We don't want him in the family at an The poor little cousin she came down to the city to meet and run away with her count. She has money. in her own right. She had to tell some body. So she told me. And at once told her papa--over the long distance.