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It is a strange coincidence that two novels,
published almost simultaneously should
dea. with "a, same rather out OF the way
community, viewing it from the same
point and treating it much in the same way.
Mrs. Mary TaDpan Wright's excellent story
The Tower" recently reviewed in THE Sun,
told Of the faculty life in a small college,
touching on the differences between the
old and the new, and that point was empha-
sizeo by her in a later magazine story.
Now comes another story Of a small college
faculty, a capital story, too, an the House
of Her Friends" Robert Grier Cooke, New
York;, with no authors name, in which the
same contrast is made.
Every college man knows the old pro-
fessors with their ripe scholarship and the
traditions that nave gathered about them.
Every one knows, too, the young and push
ing specialists who are taking their places.
Men out Of college have assumed that these
latter would rirel also as the years went
by, but these women chroniclers OF
faculty life tell another tails. Gentleness
and modesty yield to push within college
walls as they do without.
Here we have a woman's ira gedy. The
Presidents daughter-in-law, sensitive, re-
served, attending to all her own duties and
those the college imposes on her, unable
to fit in with the college poope or the town
people, finally breaking out into a cry for
freedom from them and their narrow life.
That feeling, we fancy, will find an echo
in many q college heart; she is drawn very
well indeed. Then there is her daughter,
a young girl growing into womanhood,
who finds time amid her own firtations to
be jealous Of that part Of her mothers
life that she does not enter into. We do
not r~ecollect having come across the de-
scription Of that relation before. 1t is
done delicately here, but we should have
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Rocks Received,

THE Maker OF Modern Mexico, pornrio Diaz."
Mrs. Alec .Twecdlc. John Lane Company
History OF the Buchtails." o. II. Howard
Thomson and William a. Rluch. tWillian II.
Rauch. PHILADELPHIA
"A Desk Book OF Errors In English" Frank II.
Vizetelly. Dunk and Wagnalis Company
Short Instructions for the Sundays Of the Year.
The Rev. p. Baker. christian Press Association
Publishing Company. New York;
The Sixth Financial and Economic Annual OF
Japan, 1900" The Department OF Finance. Gov.
eminent Printing once. TokioJ
"Nano." Charles Everett. Cine Worlds Thought
Publishing Company, Washington)
George Douglas. Eighth Duke OF Argyll. X. G.
X. T.. Autobiogr aphy and Memoirs" ? vols.
Edited by the Dowager Duchess OF Argyll. (E. p.
button and Company
The Undying Past Hermann Sudermann.
translated by Beatrice Marshall. John Lane
Company
In Thamesland.- Henry wellington wack
70, p. Putnam's Sonsl
The War in South Africa" The German General
StaN. translated by Col. Herbert Du Cane. II. p.
Dutton and Company
The Euthyphro. Apology and Critic Of Plato
Edited and translated by F. NJ. Stawell. a.. M
Dent and Company: G. p. Putnam's Sons)
Edgar Allan Poe" oliver Leigh. tThe Frank
NJ. Morris Company. Chlcago)
Researches In Sinai" W. n. Flinders -Petro.
E. p. Dutton and Company
"Burford Papers" william Holden Hutton.
archibald Constable and Company; E. p, Dutton
and Company
Monographs. GarTick. Macready. Rachel and
Baron Stockmar.- Sir Theodore Martin. IL. p.
Dutton and Company
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Other Books.

Mr.. Louis Frederick Austin, born in
Brooklyn, was a we'll known London jour-
nalist who died suddenly last year. A col
lection Of his articles, mostly of recent date,
has been made by his friends in Points Of
View John Lane Company. In the nature
of things they deal with matters Of
ephemeral interest, but they are all bright
with touches Of scholarship and of humor
that preserve their readable quality. The
longest is a sketch Of Sir Henry Irving,
written for the North American Reriew
Just before Austin died, which reached
America just in time to serve as lrving's
death notice.
The sociological ideas Of the late Henry
Demarest Lloyd will be found blended with
his philosophical and religious beliefs in
Man, the Social Creator" doubleday,
Page d Coz. 1t presents a system which,
though left not wholly complete, yet fairly
sums up what the author had thought out
regarding the construction Of society and
the forces that will affect It's future.
The volume on The Election Of Senator's
by DR.. George H. Haynes (Henry Holt i
Coz, recounts fully and fairly the history
OF the manner Of electing Senators and TIE
attempts at legislation on the matter In
the past. 1t also presents the arguments
in favor Of election by the people and those
against. The latter, however, are answered
in the notes, 30 that the book reads like a
plea for popular elections.
In -The Legislative History OF Naturali-
zation in the United States by DR.. Frank
George Franklin CThe University Of Chicago
Press, Chicago, we have an excellent sam
II. -.oIora rob pnathnIa in Arnari-
can history; It is a conscientious, laborious
and dull doctors dissertation. There Is no
attempt to show the existing curiosities Of
naturalization, for the study ends with the
civil war.
Ministers will probably welcome Spur
geon's Illustrative Anecdotes" edited by
the Rev. Louis Albert Banks, D. D.. Funk
& Wagnalls Company. The stories which
the great preacher used 10 make his points
are cut out from the ermon and grouped
under suitable heads for reference. Some
of them lose by tie process, while the
application Of others does not seem so
clear. We imagine hat it may be some
times dangerous business for less eloquent
men to borrow Surgeons thunder.
In "The Law Of Marriage and Divorce
by Frank Keeper William j. Nagel, Bos-
toni we have a general dissertation on the
subjeot followed by synopses of the stat
utes Of the several States and Territories
as to marriage and as to divorce. To
these are added forms, statistics, the reso-
lutions of the Divorce Congress ar the
United States Supreme Court decision in
the recent case of Haddock VS.. Haddock.
1t is n we'll prepared treatise, practical and
clear, and remarkably up to date in the
cases quoted.
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fiction, 10 that habits and manners and
probabilities are beyond the range OF criti-
oism. 80 Is the spelling, as the title shows.
Naturally. most Of the characters bear
titles. We mset a genial old king with
q daughter, who Ia q very nice girl. There
Is badinagc marked by quantity rather than
quality. Considering how much OF the
story Is devoted to Irritation and owe the
need for a foreign stage setting is not APP
parent. The story reads easily.
An earlier story by an author Of popular
automobile tales, Mrs. G.. N. Williamson's
The HOUSE by the Lock-, Is republished by
B. w. Dodge and Company, New York. 1t
Is a story Of crime and detection in which
the speed with which things and people ara
and laws In the plot.
Elizabeth, with her horticultural ex-
periences and her not very kindly views OF
the people about her, seems to have estab-
lished herself in our fiction and to have
found her imitators. A new edition OF
Elizabeth in her German Garden" is issued
by the Maomillans, with oolored pictures
signed Simon Harmon Vedder. The pict-
ures are pretty and seem to be very well
reproduced.
Mr.. Daniel De Leon continues his good
work OF making Eugene Sues Lies Mys-
tares du Peuple" known to English readers.
He translates another Of the tales in The
Iron Trevet, or Jocelyn the Champion"
New York Labor News Company. 1t
deals with the days Of the Jdcquerie and OF
Etienne Marcel and Is full Of excitement.
We wish. however, that the translator had
refrained from calling it the "uniquest Of
the SERIES
The rise Of an energetic young man with
red hair from rural beginnings through
newsboy and journalistic experiences to
be the political master Of his State is re-
counted by Mr.. Richard Barry in Sandy
Of the Sierras" Moffat, Yard & Coz. Some
episodes are we'll told, but there is a deal
Of vapid defamation, and at this late day,
after the flood Of newspaper, political and
wild West novels, it is difficult Tor an author
to avoid arousing Renaissance in his
reader.
The rather miraculous bodily removal
OF a fashionable church into a slum neigh
borhood gives Mr.. Amos r. Wells in From
Tuxedo Avenue to Water Street" (Funk
and Wagnalls Company occasion to attack
the hypocrisy Of some phases OF religious
life and to express his approval OF revival
methods. Some parts Of the story are put
80 brightly that it seems a pity that the
author has not made more Of it than he has.
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buying up mortgages and making rather
unscrupul GUS use Of the power he derives
from them. When he extends this mort
gage system to the whole State and makes II
last for a generation and more II IL rather
hard not to smile at his righteousness. In
his anxiety to attribute corruption and
cowardice to a whole State he seems TO
forget the quality Of u born leader which
he attributes TO Jethro, and which Is per-
haps OF more Importance than the power
% corrupt In a really permanent BOSS
1t sends us back forty years when we read
about those mortgages. What an Infamous
thing n mortgage was to all who had to do
with 1t except the borrower. What ale
was complete without the villain who
threatened to foreclose? Has any other
form Of business transaction been treated
as harshly in fiction? There Is no indication
that Jethro was ever a harsh or unjust
creditor, but his holding mortgages damns
bis moral character at once.
His political rival, too, the SNUG, respecta-
bic business man with his silk hat and side
whiskers, steps right out OF the oldtime
melodrama. The gallery recognizes him
as a villain at once. It Ia too bad hat he Is
used merely as a foil for Jethro; for a shrewd
and successful business man, even when he
steps into politics, or rather lobbying, need
not always be a chump.
In a genial manner Mr.. Churchill drops
hints as he proceeds with his story that he
intends to write others and bids the reader
watch for them. We hope that when he
does he will be merciful and not use two
words where one will do. Mrs. Florence
Scovel Shinn's illustrations are well drawn,
but she has made the mistake Of assuming
that Mr.. Churohill's characters are carica-
lures, which they are not.
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News OF Plays and Players.

The present run of THE Girl Of the Golden
West" at the Belasco Theatre will close on
Saturday night, July 7. and after Blanche
Bates and her company have rested four
weeks the engagement. which is now in
its tenth consecutive month will be re-
sumed.
H. B. Irving, the young English actor,
son of the late Sir Henry Irving, will open
his American tour at the New Amsterdam
Theatre on October 8 in Stephen Phillips
'Paulo and Francesca." He will be sup
ported by Miss Dorothy Baird and an
English company. He will also play THE
Lyons Mail Charles L. Louis H."
"Othello."
odd Heidelberg in the Air. a typic1l
German roof garden, atop the Metropolis
Theatre, will be opened with a big vaude-
vile carnival tonight.
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A Great Change in New York.

1t was rather ingenious to sweep the
map clear Of the city Of New York to make
way for a renewal Of the sort OF people that
lived and, did rude deeds in the Dark Ages.
According to Mr.. Van Tassel Sutphen's
story'o of THE Doomsman" (Harper d Bros),
the time Of which is set in the year 20l5
A. D., something extraordinary befell the
tow OF Tammany Hall and the Waldorf
and Little West Twelfth street toward the
close OF the twentieth century. We speak
advisedly 1--WE have long been eager for the
chance to employ that world when we say
that what happened was extraordinary;
practically the whole place vas done away
with. OF course there were ruins-so much
may be learned from the illustrations. which
are, in our opinion, particularly interest
ing by reason Of the presence in them OF
ruinous remains.
The reader will be thrilled by the ad-
ventures Of C%onstans amid the ruins Of
New York, along about page o.. 1t may
be imagined that the skeletons Of skyscrap-
ers looked ghostly enough in the moonlight.
In one of these skeletons the oppressed
wanderer counted thirty-six ribs, or stories.
There wero people, too; indeed, the Dooms-
men Of the City of Doom were very terrible
people. Constans, who himself belonged
to the House People, saw plenty of them,
Including their chief, the ninety-year-old
Dominus Gillian, before he got out Of the
place.
1t is difficult to say, even after a close
consultation of the book, just how it was
that the Great Change was effected. Per-
haps it is sufficient to know that 1t was eff
fectod, and that the whole world, all the
way around, had the civilization that we at
present enjoy suddenly knocked out Of it.
After it was knocked out, people, as may
be learned in the story, propelled their
war vessels with oars and fought their
battles with bows and arrows. 1t certainly
was a Great Change, and we do not wonder
that the historian should spell it with capital
letters.
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liked to have had IL worked out with a

liked TO have had II worked out with q
mother less reserved.
The right people are all delightful-th
kindly, autocratic president who overTides
his faculty, the professor who goes TO the
bad, the energetic middle aged lady who
cots AZ a sort OF deus ex-naohina, some OF
the boys and girls. The wrong people,
on the other hand, though every college
will recognize come Of them, nave rather
exaggerated faults, and the misdeed OF the
misc hief making old maid Is beyond belief
The main love story Is interesting and
unusual; the college atmosphere Is main
tanned throughout; there are charming
descriptions OF scenery and bright bits Of
conversation that Is not smart. The book
Is we'll written, though half q Dozen or 40
slips may he pointed out that jar. Sin the
House Of Her Friends" Is worth rea d I'M as a
story and as something more.
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THE
SPOILERS
BY Rex Beach

GAS good as The SpoiAers," is
the way other novels are being
advertised, which mean that The
Spoilers is what a novel should be.
Everybody is alive in The
SpoiAers," says one critic, which
may explain its great popularity.
zone of those rare stories that
seem real to the reader even after
the book is closed"
-Columbas Journal
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EYES
DIARY =
By Mark Tqyam

You may be sure Adam never
got a glimpse into this interesting
journal that Eve kept in the
Garden of Eden. She has a lot
to say about him, but after all
her naive condolences about her
self are the most delicious. Mark
Twain declares he has faithfully
"translated it from the original
"a guarantee Of its authenticity
and laugh-provoking qualities
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BOOKS ~
FENWICK'S
BY Mrs. Hanphry Ward

enthusiastically it is one Of
the few really notable novels of
the year, and it is almost univer-
sally conceded by the critics to be
the browning work of Mrs. Hum
phry Ward" -LtwisfOn Journal.
Eugene is even more appeal
ing than Julie lie Breton or Lady
Kitty in all that goes to the en-
dowment of sweet womanhood.
She is very feminine, very human,
very unconscious, very noble in
character. She is. one Of Mrs.
Wards cleverest portraitures."
--BrOOkHn Eagle.
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KARPER'S MAGAZINE for July
contains eight notable short stories BY
famous 1orfers. II presents articles
on nature, iraveL history. adventure,
aaimaLRfe remfniseenee, humor ETC..
etc. Paintings and some UonderfaI
pictures are reproduced ~
Margaret DeLand's great nobe!
"7he Awakening of Helena Rtebte''
TO It's dramatic conclusion.
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The boy Is the son Of Charles c. Gladwin
Of the New York Athletic Club and national
snowshoe champion Of the United States
and Canada. The father was unable to
make the trip at this time. The little boys
mother died some time ago and he is being
sent to the home of Mrs. Barr, who is his
aunt. The child will be under the care Of
the stewardesses of the ship on the trip
to Queenstown, where relatives will meet
him
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Fiction for Hot weather.

No great mental e~xertion will be needed
to follow "The Colonel Of the Red Huzaars,'
by Mr.. John Reed Scott 81. b. Lippincott
Company as he rattles through his many
adventures Those occur in one Of the
mythical kingdoms favored by modern
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THE
DOOMSMAN
By Van Tassel .Sutphen

"a fctional glance ahead into
a new age."-N. +. Wnrld.
zone Of the best novels of the
fantastic class, Astounding in con-
trasts and stirring narrative"
-LOaiSviM Courier Journal
ga good many Of us have
wondered what is to become of
things at the rate we are going,
and have fancied that it would
result in some such smash as this
author assumes to have taken
place. "--Rocbesfer Herald.
HARPER g. BROTHERS
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LONE TRAVELLER 3 YEARS OLD
Sails on the Cedric Duly Ticketed with
Aunt's Address In London.

Aunt's Address in London.
Among the passengers sailing yesterday
on the steamship Cedric, bound for Liver
pool, was one who is not quite 8 years old
and who made the voyage unesc orted
He is Charles Clinton Gladwin, Jr. A tag
attached TO the little fellows jacket was
inscribed:
Charles Clinton Gladwln, Jr.. OF New York. :
Bound for Legion, England, .
To be forwarded 10 Mrs, Z. Barr. !.
40 Prory Road, :
Chlswick, London, England. .
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-28

Commencing February 18th, and
continuing daily to and including
April 7th. and from September i5th
until October 81. 1906. colonist tick
cts win be sold from the Dast TO AL
points on Oregon lines via. Portland
Following rates from Omaha. Neb..
SIS; Council Bluffs. Ia. SIS; Kansas
City. Mo-. s25; Denver. Colo: SIS;
81. Joseph. Mo. SIS; ST Louis. Mo-,
$40; Chicago. III. tss- n yos desire
you can make deposit with agents
aad tickets VIII be furnished your
friends in the East A. L. CRAIG.
ID GensrAi PAsssngsr Agent
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-28
Greatest Traffic Center.

message from Mazatlan, Mexico.
stating that a monthly line of steam.
ships was to be established between
Salina Cruz, on the. Isthmus of TIE.
hauntepec and Portland, gives much
color to the assertion Of the st Louis
Globe Democrat that the Gulf of Mex,
leo will soon become one of the bust.
est bodies of oceanic water in the
world. In referring to this matter
the Globe Democrat calls attention to
the fact that the principal railways
are looking for outlets on the gulf
and says:
In all sections of the country the
leading railways are studying connec
tions with the Gulf of Mexico, the
work on the Panama canal naturally
suggesting that one of the world's
greatest centers of commercial aetivi.
ty will be developed there. West of
the Mississippi the railroads have been
reaching vigorously in that direction
and will be among the foremost to
get TO the goal.
East of the river the same move
ment is visible. One project aims to
approach Havana by binding together
the succession of islands until
through trains can enter Key West.
Another plan is 10 combine a number
of small Georgia roads in line to the
gulf port, and the Alabama iron re.
gion is interested in the gulf outlet.
Pensacola, GulfpOrt, Mobile. New Or
leans, Galveston and Port Arthur are
all awake on this large subject.
But more important than the con.
struction of any gulf railway system
is the Improvement of the Mississippi
river, the great continental artery,
whose headwaters reach into half the
states, and whose navigable tributar.
les sweep thousands of miles north
east and west. Railroads running
outward win command a good local
as well as through traffic, for they
traverse region whose rich re.
sources have as yet been lightly
touched. In the transportation Of
bulky freights the river, with a per.
manent. deep channel, is needed. not
only to prevent freight congestion, but
TO fx the low rates that go 80 far
toward budding up and maintaining a
prosperous national and international
trade.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-28
=MENDOUS GROWTH OF
I THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM

an economic mistake from the stand.
point of an investor and the telephone.
using public.
In presenting all the essential facts
regarding the company to the stock
holders and through them to the
public the report gives not only a list
of the stocks and bonds of the asso-
eiated companies owned by the Amer.
lean company but graphic diagram
of the growth of the business. the
facts regarding the sale of $l0O, 100000
convertible bonds and the policy and
immediate purpose of the management,
Mr.. Fish says that it is the duty Of
the company to employ the best bust
ness methods, to adhere to their con.
servative capitalization, to continue to
establish and maintain the highest
practicable methods of efficiency and
to give every portion of the public as
far as possible the class of service it
requires at the lowest rates consistent
with proper return on the invest.
ment. 1t is in the public interest
that this return shall be such as will
attract the capital which must be fur
nished from time time for many years
to come in order to build up what the
inhabitants of this country need,
namely, a national telephone system, in
which within the limits that are phys.
ically possible every subscriber can
be connected with every other SUBJ
seriber Throughout the land.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-28

Every person should learn just what
the red package looks like and the
economy in using Aliens self riding
d. b. B. Flour. II Is tho most nutEi'
tisus blend Of grains that can bs niade.
You know that easy digestion and
perfect assimilation OF food 10 neees-
sary for good health.
Any person can digest hot griddls
cakes, Boston Mufins, Boston Brown
Bread or Fruit Pudding made from our
blend Of pure food nour, and the siIn'
plieity in making Il up and the asssr'
ancs Of having It just right, eysry
time, should be considered.
Ask your grocer for 1t snd II he 4
out Of 1t send his name TO us and w
win supply you with sample pack
ago free. Groeers who study your vel
fare and their own profit, win supply
you with thsss goods at al times.
ALIENS u. u. D. FLOUR 90.
Paciae Coast Factory. San jose. cAl
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-28
Only japanese Aerial Performers 4
the World are With Norris &
Rov1e's Circus.
Phone SO.

The Sugimoto Troupe of ten japanese
men and women with the Norris and
Rowe circus have the distinction Of
being the only troupe Of japanese ac.
robats who have ever attempted an
aerial act Of any kind. At the very
zenith Of the big tent is net work
Of rigging, including pedestals and fly.
ing trapeze. The japanese ascend to
their lofty perch and then begin long
graceful flights through space Of the
many 1.-THE bodies Of the young Japan
ese. One young woman hangs head
downward, there is the fash through
the air Of a graceful Oriental body,
which is deftly caught by her eompan-
ion. In quick succession, startling and
sensational feats are accomplished by
the Sugimoto troupe. Long twisting
somersaults from bar to bar and
double giant swings from the trapeze
are some Of the intricate feats accom-,
plished by these great aerobats. The
demure, pretty Japanese maidens are
attired in costumes Of purest silk and
they make a most picturesque appear
anee. Norris & Rowe offer the act as
but one Of the many original features
they have been at such pains TO so
cure for the ediheation Of the public.
The all new and greater Norris &
Rowe circus viii exhibit at Salem
Tuesday, May 3.