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The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
Yellow Novelist Reforms
and SpOiIS Himself.
By Edward F. CahiH.

~ EORGE BARR McCUTCHEON has
reformed and has spoiled him
II self in the reformation When
the old AIcCutcheon personally
conducted breathless excursion
through courts and camps and slums
OF the Kingdom OF Ruritania we all
liked the pace. Notwithstanding an oc-
casional stumble OF our conductor. To
be sure, he called his Ruritania by the
bsrbarous name Graustark, but none
OF Us was fooled by the disguise. Nc
Cutcheon was giving US Hope in the
wild and whirling dialect OF Chicago.
He made US realize how near the his
tory OF a court function might come to
one Of Charley Dryden's baseball sto-
ries.
Now It seems that from being a yell
low novelist McCutcheon has turned
safe. sane and conservative. 1t is an
obvious masquerade and the disguise
does not SIT well. After the hot stuff
! lle fed US in his Graustarkian days we
sfnd It tame to be stalled of like this:
Yes" she answered. after moment.
softly. securely. He crushed her in his
strong arms; all the world seemed to
have closed in about her.
Here. FOR instance. is some more goo
goo stuff IN the dialect OF Packing
town:
Jane, I am the proudest being in the
world" he said, neither knew how long
afterward, for neither thought OF time.
They were sitting on a couch in the
corner. their turbulent heads at rest.
ITO think after all that such a beau
tiful being as you can be mine for
everi It's-why. IT'S inconceivabler
This is a taste OF the quality of
Jane Cable" which might be called a
romance Of Chicago society. Why any
body should be interested in Chicago
society per sc is not clear. The society
OF that town might easily lend itself
to satire, but Mccutcheon is not a
satirist. He has no more sense Of hu-
NOR than a gaspipe. AS a story teller
rafting or tale Of breathless adven-
ture he has few equals, but in the tame
novel Of the work day and play day
life Of the american business man and
the female Of his species he becomes
tiresOme. But when he carries his dra-
~7-atis personae of to the Philippines il
Is like getting back to Ruritania once
more In the Philippines anything can
happen, and McCutcheon is the boy to
make things happen When he gets
into action he IS all right
The plot is of the simplest. There
is a doorstep baby. a hoodwinked father
and blackmailer. These ingredients
duly mixed make a very conventional
and rather stupid story apart from the
incidental episode of alarms, excur-
sions, parties fighting in the Philip
pines. which are exciting and enter
tanning, but are only dragged in to
ma ke up something like a story
Jane Cable. Published by Dodd,
Mead & CO. Price $l50.)
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Jane Cable. BY George Barr Mo-
Cutcheon; Dodd. Mead a Ca. New
York
The Face OF Clay, by Horace A.
vachell: Dodd. Mead q Co., New York.
The Wit OF the World, by Ernest
Ingersoll; Dodd. Mead & Co.. New York.
Charles Dickens. a Critical Study, By
g. K. Chesterton; Dodd. Mead q Co.
New York.
Historic Amoris. by Edgar saltus;
Mitchell Kennedy. New York.
The Silent War. by j. A. MitchsIl;
Life Publishing Company, New York
Margaret Coulson Walkers The Baker
& Taylor Company. New York
The Impersonator. by Mary Imlay
Taylor: Little. Brown & Co, Boston.
The Dragon Painter, by Mary Me-
Neil Fenollosa; Little. Brown q Co.
Boston.
A. Handbook of Polar Discoveries.
by A w. Greedy; Little. Brown q Co..
Boston.
The Loves OF the Lady ArabsllA By
Mollis Elliott Seawel1: the Bobbs-Msr-
rill Company. Indianapolis.
Tarbelps Teachers Guide. by Martha
Tarben; the Bobbs-MerrilI Company,
Indianapolis.
Our Constitution. by Edward Water
man Townsend; Monat. Yard & Co..
New York.
The Complete Beauty Book. by Eliza
beth Anstruther; d. Appleton q Co..
New York.
The Avenging Hour. by II B. Provost
Battersby; d. Appleton & Co. New
York
Mountain Land. by Robert W. Cham
bers; ID. Appleton & Co.. New York
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Books Received

Friendship and Character. by Ralph
Waldo Emerson; The Century Company,
New York.
Racketty -Packetty House, by Frances
Hodgson Burnett; The Century Com
pany. New York
The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard, by
John Bennett; The Century Company,
New York.
The Woodland Elf. by Florence A.
Evans: The Saalfeld Publishing Com
pany, Akron. Ohio.
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the one who gets the most out of life
and that to this end the building up
of the physical and mental side of man,
the development of his spiritual nature,
and consideration of the racial aspects
OF the case are essential to his happi-
ness.
While the lectures were delivered be-
fore negro students, the principles in
volved are discussed in a broad way
by broad man, which makes the little
book not the possession of DR.. Wash
ington's race alone, put of all peoples.
quitting the Most Into Life Pub
lished by Thomas p Crowell & Co.. New
York. Price IS cents.)
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sucn cases, Jnat the life story OF the
elder George reads like a romance. No
one can be better aware of this than
his son, who has seized on some Of
the most striking and dramatic epi-
sodes in his life as the basis of his
novel
That there is still demand for old
favorites, in spite OF the success OF
the newly written best sellers" Is
shown by the fact that the Harpers
have just published a new edition, in
thirty volumes, of the novels OF Sir
Walter Scott. Even Scott himself,
Wizard of the North though he was.
could not have prophesied such a re-
markable Continuance OF popularity.
The author OF In the Days of the
Comet" The War OF the worlds
The Time Machine and a long list
of other works, lives and writes in
Kent his native place. Mr.. Wells was
educated mainly at private schools. and
carried off first class honors at the
Royal Academy of Science-a fact Of
interest since the supernatural enters
SO largely into all his books
According to the weekly report is
sued by the New York Public Library
tlAc OOOfNS 1tiOol frequently Cdlleu IOI
during the week ending October run
as follows: In adult fction-Delands
Awakening of Helena Richie; !;
Churchills "Coniston"; Chambers
Fighting Chance" In Juvenile fic-
tion-Rhoades' Little Girl Next Door; I;
Pyle's Merry Adventures Of Robin
Hood: Ellis 'sThe Lost Trail" In
miscellaneous ublications-Pitman 8
Shorthand Instructor; ''Wright's The
Garden. You and T.; Hills Fighting a
Fire"
Messrs. Yamanaka & Co.. the Japanese
publishers, announce japanese Treas
ure Tales" by Kumasaku Tornita and
G. Ambrose Lee, selection OF stories
from the history. romance and legend
of Nippon. The book has a colored
frontispiece and thirty-six other pic
lures. taken entirely from Japanese
sword guards-upon which the greatest
metal workers in the land exercised
their highest powers-and from the
netsuke carvings.
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Addresses of Late John
Hay in Handy Form.

The Century Company publishes in
permanent form twenty-four OF the late
John Hays formal discussions of public
men and matters. All the addresses In
cluded in the collection were delivered
during the later years of Mr. Hays
life, and the majority OF them have
been published before, but the present
collection makes a book which will be
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11

appreciated by students of American
literature.
Included in the collection are esti-
mates of Franklin in France. Sir
Walter Scott, William Mckinley, Ed
mund Clarence Stedman and Clarence
King. There are. too, the authors ad-
dresses on the international copyright.
on American diplomacy. on the Grand
Army of the Republic and fifty years of
the Republican party.
(The Addresses of John Hay. Pub
lished by the Century Company, New
York. Price So
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Some Gossip About Books
and Folk Who Write.

The announcement that Henry
George Jr., author OF "The Menace Of
Privilege" and other books dealing
with social conditions, has turned now
elist is only less interesting than the
statement that his story, which is
shortly to be published. is in a meas
ure founded on the career of his faith
err The remark has often been made.
with even more justice than usual in
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11
Detective Story Without a
Sherlock H0IneS

In Elwyn Barron's detective story.
Marcel Levignet," there is not hint
of Sherlock Holmes. who has shaped
the character and dictated the methods
of all novel detectives above the penny
dreadful class these many seasons.
Marcel Levignet does not get his
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11

Holmes is the only really familiar fig
ure in modern fiction"
There are other examples of Mr.
Chesterton's inconsistency-an adept
ness as a coiner OF glittering phrase.
(Charles Dickens-A Critical Study.
Dodd. Mead & Co, New York. Price
S150l
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Lectures on Right Living
by b. 4. Washington.

Booker T. washington, out of serie.
of talks" given before the students O,
Tuskegee Institute. complies a helpful
little volume, which is published unde,
the title, Putting the Most Into Life.
DR.. Washington deals with the physi.
cal, mental, spiritual and racial aspect,
of right living, holding that "the indi.
vidual who puts the most into life Is
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clew I'm the displacement Of a dust
speck or in a carelessly left-behind
thumb print; In fact, he seeks no cleNs
at all. but drifts along most entertain
ingly, albeit lazily, while waiting for
chance to play into his hands, and
chance never fails him. What dust
speck and thumb print do for Sherlock
Holmes, chance does for Marcel Levig-
net. Unfortunately, Barron kills him
in the next to the last chapter-from a
pecuniary standpoint most surprising
thing for Barron to do, for Levignet
is decidedly worth while. But the read
ing public will take comfort in the re-
Election that Sherlock Holmes was re-
covered from the grave.
Levignet, a sub-prefect of Paris po-
The San Francisco call., 1906-11-11

X EORGE BARR McCUTCHEoN has
reformed and has spoiled him
IT self in the reformation. When
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
Some Reasons Why Farmers Should
Join the Grange

Because it is controlled by farmers
Because it opposes legislation that Is
not in the farmers interest.
Because its moral teachings are next
to those of the church itself.
Because it proposes to let the world
know that there is such a man as the
farmer.
Because it has done things" for the
farmer in the pastand viii do them in
the future.
Because it maintains fire Insurance
organizations the safest and cheapest
in existence.
Because it is farmers organizatid
working ina the farmers behalf, first
last and alEthe time
Because the farmers must organize
or be defeated i'll every attempt to Sc
cure their just rights in legislation.
Because it favors giving the farmers
sons and daughters all the agricultural
education they can get and in New
York helps them to get it by giving free
scholarships in Cornell Agricultural
colleg"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
A HINT FOR CHANGERS.
Corporation Among Farmers Tsas
Is Highly Succesaful.
o. II. HALE
Norwood, n. Y.

Consul Walter c. Hanna of HUI,
England, furnishes a report to the state
department on cooperation among
farmers in Denmark. He says there
are over go farmers ut Esbjerg who
are members of a cooperative dairy 10
Gated at that place. These farmers are
the owners of loo cows. \ small
quantity Of the milk is retailed III tn
town where the business is located, buN
the great bulk is made into butter and
exported to England There is also in
operation Il cooperative butter ana
egg association. with headquarters At
the same town. This society has fifty
separate creamerieS scattered over Off
ferent parts Of the north and west Of
Denmark. where the butter is made,
then sent on 10 headquarters to be
blended and made of uniform quality
before expectation. The membership
embraces 10000 farmers, and the as
ISOLATION ships 100000 pounds Of but
ter annually Eggs for the egg depart
ment are shipped IN weekly, each egg
being stamped with the name of the
producer, the district and the date, so
that a,:v bad EGGS can BE traced direct
y II =" Qroiucer. When prices are
low, immense quantities a: e=gs are
preserved ii huge yats G: and wa
ter, with an air tight O.: AZ Of wa
ter glass. When prices advance. these
are @rad1Iily released. The average
receipts of this society are about 81
10000 It hes been established only
ten years and is still growing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
GRANGE LIFE INSURANCE.
Past Master Hale of New York
Writes on the Subject.
Especial Correspondence. ]

W rites on the SUBJECT.
Especial Correspondence
| feel myself incompetent to the task
Of writing on the subject of grange life
Insurance, but gladly give you my per-
sonal views upon this question. When
l was connected with the state and
national grange the question of life
insurance was often discussed in OF
executive meetings, but finally lefta
without any positive recommendations
to the subordinate oranges. The grange
theoretically should be as competent to
manage life as fire insurance, which
they are doing very successfully and
proftably in nearly all of the states.
One of the serious hindranceS to grange
life insurance is the age of our men,
bership. You are aware that q ma
jority of our members are past thirty
five years of age, consequently rates
must be CORRESPONDENCE high if such
companies are to be and remain finan-
cially sound, and if they are not so
beyond question it would result in
disaster to our Order We have today
several fraternal organizations that
are purely life insurance. They are so
firmly established that it would be
hazardous for our Order to undertake
competition with them. Therefore l
believe it should not be done by the
grange.
No organization i'll existence has SO
many Important problems and ques-
tons before it for solution as the
grange. and r:--t.i we can solve the
problem of h3| to keep our boys and
girls upon the farm and how to make
our farms more profitable it will be
wise for US to leave life insurance
alone.
The terrible fact that our farms have
deprecated In value since 1880 $780,
QO0,000; that there are 10000 farms OF
fered for sale in our own state alone
at barely the cost of the buildings upon
them; that illiteracy is increasing upon
the farms more than in the city not
withstanding the large influx of the
ignorant foreign immigrants; that near
~ all of our brightest boys leave the
farm as soon as possible-until we solve
some Of these questions l think that
life insurance in the grange had better
be left for future consideration.
0. II. HALE.
Norwood, n. Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

''OH, GOGGLES! WY DID THIS HAPPEN
home port for wei ni.h twenty years.
but what with hard luck al other
things I've always missed it. Once at
st. Johns, l says t myself. now I'll
see Straddle Rock agin before l die.
was 50 sartin of it that | had to
break a leg celebrating the event. OF
course no CGe wanted q sailor with 4
game leg. an | had to stay in port I'M
til the season was too far advanced to
go north. Then l shipped to the States
ag'in to keep from starving"
Boggles lmped Il trfle yet from his
broken leg and one eye seemed to
squirt with diabolic cunning when you
looked him square in the face, but An
nette saw none Of the ugly sides Of
the subjects she liked. and Boggles
charmed her.
Mr.. Pierce grumbleI at the bargain,
but finally submitted. Pilots familiar
with the north coast were scarce il
Halifax, and the season was late any
way We'll, it's for Annettes sake
I'm up here he confessed, land sup
pose I Shouldn't object if Annette aD-
proves"
lie looks honest. but hit hardened
on the surface by too much contact
with the w0rl'" vcmtured ~. Lang
don. with smile Il think his story
Of being born ana nurtured il Straddle
Rock Cove is a MYTH however. I
doubt if there is such place"
Eve must visit Straldle Rock Cove"
said Annette positively oae Gay.
Ny, Eo@Gles' always dignifed
the Oh pilot with Air.-"can guide US
there It's an immensely dangerous
harbor, ana 10 one can enter it in a
storm except Mir. E0ggles."
"B0ggles may lie all right" lravled
the doctor. but l draw the line at go
ing into Straddlc Rock Cove with him
III a Storm
Annette ignored the Information Mir
Pierce was bored with the whole trin
and Re vas willing 70 Weld ANYTHING
for peace.
"You will visit The cove. DaDa. where
Ho-gles was born" Annatte continued
"You viii make him hannv again T1n..
been dreaming Of This tin ror t,vnn+-,
veore.
IF Won Will he satisfied 70 rat,,,.n
home then we NAV RIM in the horho,. ("
cr,ftij,. raDi;oI NJ. pioroa o,,,.,o,,a =.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

shot through a channel 50 narrow that
her sides scraped the outer edges of the
strange formation of granite. The cur
rent swept the craft forward with ac-
CELEBRATED speed.
Then the sea lost its turbulence and
the wind its power for evil. Protected
on all sides by abutments of rocks, the
sheltered cove was like a mill pond
compared to the raging sea.
We'll anchor here, captain" Boggles
was saying. THE tide is not so swift
inside the rocks, an the bottom is
sandy. I'll take a rest now I'm tired.
an it's getting dark, very dark.
never knew the cove to be 50 dark be-
fore. I can hardly see the rocks.
think-Im falling"
1t was Annette's arm he clutched.
and Annette and the doctor led him be.
low to his room.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

IN OGGLES came aboard at Hall
TX faX-a stranded, battered dere-
d lict of the sea-anXiOus to sail
to the north coast He was
suffering from a plethora of hard luck,
but to Mr.. Pierce he had the appear
ance of one recovering from q period
of dissipation. Annette saw only the
picturesque side of Boggles, and he
was tentatively engaged on the spot.
Il know the Newfoundland coast
better'n l know the chart of me own
face" confessed the pilot in soft,
pleading voice. Seeing that l was
born in Straddle Rock Cove an lived
there until l was old enough to run
away, | ought to-
Annette was romantic, and she an
ticipated his. thoughts.
And you want to visit your old
home agan?" she asked sympathet-
ically.
yes, ma'am, I'm dying TO do that;
been trying to get back in the oil
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
One Reason Enough.

why do We favor the election Of
United States senators by popular
vote?" is one OF the questions given by
the national lecturer for discussion in
the oranges in April Why? Because
the people would like to act 8 chance
to keep such men out Of the senate as
some there have been shown to be
and they would do it too.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

Who shall ever number the sin
ners to whom this parable has been
the open sesame" to a new life?
Blessed be the day in which it was
spoken! Il will ariser' Father
l have sinned!" The Heavenly
Father meets the returning prodi-
gal in the way.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
4 Live Grange,

JonesbOro grange of Maine recently
received seventy applications for MEM
bership on one evening. No wonder
they are to build new hall soon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

The folly of sin has no more
startling exemplidcation. True
as startling; drawn to life! How
swift the "descensus Averno!"
How soon the fool and his money
are parted! How irrevocable the
last estate! Remedilessl In the
mire with swine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

IS cast about the bare and sun
burnt shoulders. The signet of
rank is placed upon the wan fin
ger. Bare feet, mark Of servitude,
are shod with the sandals of free
man. Now follows the Joyous
banquet.
The murmuring Pharisees can
not but see themselves portrayed
in the elder son, with his ill.form-
ed, ill-natured protest. The sfAe
Messiah had cometo heal the sick,
false the dead, find the lost. Will
the hale, the unstrayed, those who
do not need hisCkindly offices, be-
grudge them to their brothers,
whose plight is so pitiable and
desperate? The climax is reached,
the plea unanswerable.
The Teachers Lantern.
The primary use Of the parable
of the Prodigal Son must not be
be lost sight of in its evangelical
and modern applications. By it
Jesus sought to justify His kindly
and familiar bearing towards pub
Icans and sinners, at which the
Pharisees and scribes were 50 out
ragged. He showed the veriest
renegade Of Israel as still the OBJ
iect of Divine compassion, his re-
storation possible-a thing He
earnestly sought.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

In its universal, gospel applica-
ton pearl of parallels" pictures
sin as a revolt against a benefcient
Heavenly Father, whose law is
right and just and good.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

Here is mirrored the freedom of
the will. The son had his own
way. He is not let or hindered,
except by the pleading of love and
its faithful warning.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

The far country is not a matter
of geography. 1t is expressive Of
arrangement, of alienation from
God
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

Lost" "Dead!" Here is no
mimifying of the prodigals fallen
state. Lost to God; lost to heav-
Ell; dead in trespasses and sin.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

The prodigal's theology was
bad, though It showed we'll the
strength of his conjunction. l.
would be impossible for him to
ever be his fathers hired servant.
He is son or nothing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
Through
Straddle Rock
Cove
By GEORGE E. WALSH

Copyright, 1896, by George E. Walsh
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
Sinued heaven high and in tn

"Sinned heaven-high and in thy
sight. Here the penitent is
strictly orthodox. The turpitide of
sin consists in this, that it is done
against God. Judah's penitent
king knew this when he cried,
Against Thee, Thee only, have I
sinnedn' With this truth Joseph
armed himself when he cried,
"How can l commit this sin against
my God?"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09

Solomon is the example for all
time of the unsatifying nature of
sin. He
Drank every cup of joy, heard every
trump
Of fame; drank early, deeply drank;
drank draughts
That common millions might have
quenchcd; he died
OF thirst, because there was no more to
drink"
Hear his dying protestation Of the
inadequacy Of the sensuous world
to satisfy an immortal; VANITY
of vanities, all is vanityj'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-08-09
The PaI able OF the Two Sons.

copyright CLARK