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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
History and War.

A popular account OF thirteen American
commanders has been written by Mr.. r. M.
Johnston in Leading American Soldiers"
Henry Holt and Company. The lives are
laudatory. as is perhaps natural. and are
so brief that there 10 no room for profitable
description Of military operations. The
preface 10 rather self-asserting and not
overwise; the biographies show no particu-
lar evidence OF research. Still it Ia pretty
diflcult to 60 far wrong nowadays with the
main facts In the careers OF Warrington and
Grant and Lee, and il can do no harm to any
n to read them In this form II he prefers.
The subject OF Submarine Warfare is
a perplexing one to deal with and it 10 oom-
prehensible that a second edition Of the late
Mr.. Herbert c. Fyfe's book should be needed
within five years Of the first (E. p. Dutton
and Company. The changes are so rapid
that any book must seem antiquated almost
as soon as IL il on the market, n besides
this, most Governments are keeping secret.
90 far as they al the essential points about
their submarine boats. The historical &C
count of the development OF submarine nav
igation, however Ia Of permanent value; so
are the ge~neraiities regarding construction
and use. The discussion Of the morality Of
using submarines In warfare seems rather
academical now when all the great Powers
are building them.
One generation has sufficed to revolution
lie completely the theories of military for
tiication, and strong walls ave given way
to invisible and remote defences. The
survey of this field published eighteen
years ago by Sir George Sydenham Clarke.
G. C. M. G., -Fortifcation: It's Past Achieve
ment, Recent Development and Future
Progress" appears In q second revised
edition (E. p. Dutton and Company. The
interesting historical part remains I'M
changed ave for the inclusion Of the lessons
Of the Boer War and of Port Arthur. The
rest is wholly recast. The authors idea OF
fertilization involves the whole defence Of
the country and a third Of the volume is de-
voted to battleships and what they may be
expected TO accomplish. The book 10 written
in as ~untechnical Language as possible so
that Iaymen may understand IL.
Another book on Japan. Mr.. W. Petrie
waSson writes The Future Of Japan (E.
p. button and Company, from a philo-
sophie point Of view. He tells US that Blu
shi-do as a code Of conduct in an exisent
national emergency 10 wholly admirable.
as the world has seen. AZ . philosophy or
Al q religion It is f~oolishness." After de-
scribins existing and past conditions in
Japan through his own spectacles he
comes to the conclusion that japan must.
and may. BECOME Christian In order to fit
In with Western civilization.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03

woods, with Indian anecdotes. which IL by
no means bad. The main story 10 that Of
the career Of a young lawyer in a country
town, with the main stress put on details
that can Be Of interest only to the narrator.
There are digreasions on cases he tried and
lawyers he met. and here the author steps
out Of fiction to tell stories Of and to describe
New Hampshire lawyers. some men OF note.
The tumble Of story and Of "reminiscences
spoils both and detracts from interest.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
Books Received.

The Prince OF the Apostics.- The Rev. Paul
James Francis and the Rev. Spencer Jones. CThe
Lamp Publishing Company. Garrison. ". ~
illinois Lbra Katharine L. sharp. Uni-
verslty Of Illinois Press. Urbana. III
"Th Princess OF Gan -Sar." Andrew iarnan
(Fr. Pustet and Company. New York;
The Traitor" Thomas ixon, Jr. DOUBLEDAY.
Page and Company
"sinlcss." Maud II. Ysrdiey. On. p. Fsuno and
Company. New York;
-Four In Hand" Frank ]. Mccormick, Jr.
UNITED Brethren Publishing House, Dayton, ohioJ
TIL Family Income W. II. Black. CThe Author,
New York;
Home Gymnastics on Ling s system Anders
Wide, N. n. Funk and wsEnsTs Company
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
News OF Plays and Players.

The cast for Classmates in which
Robert Edeson will open at the Hudson
Theatre on August 70. is now complete.
The principal players are Katherine Null
kins. Maude Granger. Marjorie Wood.
lace Eddinger, Edmund Dresser. George
Bowman and Clay Boyd.
Henry b. Harris has signed q five year
contract with Ralph Stuart. h win be
sent on q tour of the Pacific Coast cities in
"strongheart," and later Be presented Y
him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
Esperanto.

The nineteenth century tried hard to
undo the mischief wrought at Babel. As
the acceptance Of one established language
seemed hopeless various ingenious persons
concocted auxiliary languages which we're
taken up by enthusiasts. sometimes by
large numbers. Volspdk had its day. and
is by 10 means extinct. and latest OF all
Esperanto has come into fashion in some
parts of the continent OF Europe at least
and has its journals and literature and socie-
ties. Hopeful pioneers have introduced
it into the United States. Within a year
Tho Sun noticed an admirably clear little
grammar by one OF its professors, and
taken It up. That publication now issues
two books, a pamphlet. Elementary Lessons
in Esperanto" and ar edition Of Major
Gen. George Cox's "A Grammar and Com
mentary on the International Language
Esperanto"
The language has merits OF simplicity
and method in it's construction; the Frame
work can be seen easily. and the grammati-
cal elements which cause dificulty In most
languages can be overcome quickly. The
selection OF roots seems at first glance to
Aavor the Latin languages greatly. and
we fancy that in Latin countries II will
find the readiest acceptance. Whether.
however. an artificial language can take
serious hold anywhere is a question that
experience must settle; that Of the past 10
certainly not favorable. Even a -simpli-
fed" spelling has made little way against
custom.
For those who care to tackle the ~fascina-
ton of Esperanto with either utility or
amusement in mind. he Elementary Les
sons" of the North American Revis,O will be
the best introduction. They give clear
directions. Gen. Cox's Grammar" is far
more comprehensive and more formidable.
1t is issued by the British Esperanto Asso-
citation and shows an unusual understand
ing Of grammatical difficulties. We regret
to see that even the simple and unmistaka-
BILE pronunciation 10 beginning to present
shades and distinctions such as cause trouble
in the established languages.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
Fiction.

II il pleasant to nots the effort OF British
story writer's to exalt the artistic tempera-
ment at the expense Of the earlier v
tional ideals. as Phyllis Bottome does in
The Imperfect Gift" Q. p. button and
Company. The story is told pleasantly. as
was onoe the rule with English tales. and
the earlier chapters. describing a small
British community in Italy. are pretty.
The plot is the same familiar plot that has
comforted generations Of readers OF these
tales, except that now the girl h struggles
against the conventions 10 held up to adj
m~iration. while the n who follows the
earlier ideals becomes the awful example.
Attachment to one or the other determines
the code Of morals. The imperfect gift
Of the actor manage whom the heroine
marries seems to be an excessive weak
ness for the seductions OF women. which
the author would have made reprehensible
IL the young man had addressed himself
to the sister whose ambition Ii social sue
cess. Tho reader will probably waste
little thought on this. however, and will
meet with some good men and several feline
women.
A skit on various much read novelists has
been put into the form Of a farce. Universal
Neurasthenia. by Margaret Doane Gardiner
Robert Grier Cooke. New York;. There 10
no attempt at dramatic construction. but
the Characterization Of the heroines OF
Elizabeth" Of Mrs. Wharton. OF Mr.. @. Ber-
nard Shaw and the rest 10 clever and the
reader will be amused at the nonsenss.
A queer medley has been put together
and called . romance by Herbert !. Co.'S in
IT. Thorndyke. Attorney At Law Che c. NJ.
Clark Publishing Company. Boston). There
10 q long account Of . hunting trip In the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03

to what is to be done. The book will not
make it needless 10 call in a veterinary.
but in cases where one In not to be had
in time 10 enables the master to help his
dog with some intelligence. The author
uses little technical language and a great
deal Of common sense.
A little volume OF unusual cooking re-
ceipts comes from A. NJ. Robertson, San
Francisco. Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epi-
cures They have been gathered from
the friends Of a noted California gourmet
and read as II they might be effective in the
hands OF a skilled cook. An Indebtedness
about quantities might lead to failure in
some cases on the part Of amateurs.
A pretty little volume OF religious verse
has been collected by Mr.. John Henry
Burn in The Churchman'S Treasury Of
Song" (E. p. Dutton and Company. Az
the title indicates it il intended chiefly for
E~piscopalians and most Of the authors
belong to that communion. The poems
are arranged one under each Sunday and
other days observed by the Church.
1t was perhaps time to be reminded that
the Benson family had included an Arcn-
bishop Of Canterbury. In Gods Board"
by Edward White Benson QE. p. Dutton and
Company, Miss Margerat Benson hss col
lected a number Of her fathers communion
Sunday sermons They every Sun
day in the year and other holy days. the
deficiencies being made up by appropriate
extracts from other unpublished sermons
OF the Archbishop.
Bravely does Mr.. Ernest A. Baker attack
the hydra In the two volumes of History
in Fiction George Routledge and Soma:
f. p. Dutton and Company. an attempt
to classify historic fiction according to
country and time. With the authors con-
tention that such books help US to under
stand history there can be no cavil, and
readers will be grateful to him for what
he has done. The volume on English his
tory is much the better Of the two; that on
American and foreign history suffers from
brevity and unfamiliarity with the liters-
ture. or it may be fairer to say from the
limitation TO what has beer translated
into English. For instance. Mr.. Baker seems
to know only the lingo and Ingraban-
volume OF Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen-
series. II seems a mistake to undertake
to describe or ~criticise the novels; a more
rigid exclusion Of mediocrity would have
been more profitable. In the rserences
to books only indirectly historical outside
of England some selections are almost
ludicrous
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
Shenandoah cubs Outins on Monday.

The Shenandoah Club, the Tammany
organization Of the new Twenty-first As
.embly district. Of which Magistrate James
Walsh is leader, Ia planning a big outing
have been sold. The steamer Colchester
viii a the excursionists TO Witzel's Grove
AZ College Point, leaving the foot Of West
i.sth street at 0 A. NJ. Big Tom Foley
has promised TO umpire the ball game be-
'Veen the Shenandoahs and the Down
town Tammany Club.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
Postmaster-Geucra Payne.

In. writing the life OF the late Postmaster
General Henry Clay Payne tBurdick
and Allen, Milwaukee) Mr.. William W.
Wight makes a valuable contribution
to contemporary history. The biography
is intended chiefly for Mr.. Payns's many
friends, and therefore controversial matters
ara touched upon only lightly. The life
ID interesting in itself as the story Of a
typical American who rose by his "
exertions. 1t includes events. however.
Of more than personal importance: Mr..
Payne's administration Of the Milwaukee
post Office and his REMOVAL his manage
'ment Of the street. railways and recsivership
OF tho Northern Pacific; his political activity
in the Republican national committee.
and the investiga ton Of the Post Once
Department when he was made Postmaster-
General.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03
New Prima Donna for San Carlo Company

Henry Russell cabled yesterday that
10 had engaged a. third prims donna Of
the San Carlo Company Mile. Bromania
" Brussels. She will sing the French
lyric roles. replacing Mile. Dereyne. who
ne been engaged FOR the Metropolitan.
Nmo. Nordica and Alice Nielsen win be the
o'Eer prima donnas.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03

10 was not the Leading gentleman. The
masculine compeller In the story
plished his effects more gradually. The
Youngest Man and the Oldest Man were
among Betty's callers at the fiat. The
Oldest Man was 2s1s and q belated decsdent.
He posed. He purported 20 be used up and
unhappy. He said to Betty. as though IL
was likely to impress her favorably, hat he
sdored lunatics and worshipped cripples
and criminals. II 10 not necessary to bother
ourselves with him OF his kind. departed
or still lingering. and we pass him by.
The Youngest Man was ~ and in health.
Betty writes Of him: He is a dear thing,
with close cropped hair growing gray on
the temples. still. calm Eyes. a mouth the
beauty Of which he is wise not to obscure
under a mustache, and the heart OF a school
boy Betty thought that he was going to
marry his cousin. and she was unhappy.
Il shall go and ece the doctor again. she
writes. II may be able to give me ome
thing In a bottle that will make me more
anxious to be alive than I am at present"
h was 30 lonely in her fat that she bought
a toy elephant for company. The Youngest
Man called one evening when matters had
come to be pretty bad. He was tolerant Of
the toy elephant. He handled 1t in a pleas
ant manner on his knee. Betty had put on
her silk stockings-articles Of wear hat
always shot her through with a strong
feeling. Presently. II could not
speak, she tells US, "but I put up my land
and touched his face and his dear gray
hair. I felt his lips on my mouth. and I
closed my eyes" Betty had written and
sold a novel. but now she was not thinking
Of 1t. Nor Of the elephant.
An entertaining. amusing story. II should
ft in agreebly at the vacation reading hours.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03

entnubSQ, VfldbCNti tnC tuluIo may Nc
generous enough to do with IL. "~enthuse'
ia not yet a good and welcome word. Any
sensitive blue pencil would cover ii with
celebrating blueness instantly. Like an
other McGinty would it be swallowed up
in the blue. But ever as Betty grieved us
she made US smile. Only two inches away.
after speaking warmly and d~isapprovingly
Of the disposition Of the powerful nations
to grab and rule among the weaker peoples.
she observes: We make me tired" This
is admirable-so gently and contemptuously
eliminating. Still Betty is patriotic. and
We think she cherishes the imperial spirit.
She has a chapter abou the King which
would please and fatter him IL he should
read IL. The American lady with whom
she argued the question OF desirablepess
as between Kings and Presidents was
plainly outclassed. One OF the things the
American lady said was: 1T is not our GUS
tom to allow our Presidents more than five
years of Office We do not know how she
happened to think Of the number Ave. II
IL quite possible that the things Betty said
had stirred her up a good deal and that she
use OF the first number that came
into her head. Betty was merciful at this
point. She made no whitening comment.
She nobly overlooked The American lady's
curious selection Of this unfamiliar num-
Der. She passed it by-said nothing what
ever about IL.
Betty in London went 10 see somebody
who in five minutes made Betty laugh at the
same time that tears caught in her throat,
and made Betty a to stretch out her
hands with her heart big and tender and
aV-.. I--.t8 n-As- ~ --. -.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-12
GOOD Short tories
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Two country women, mother and daughter, were at the circus for the first time. They were greatly taken with the menagerie. At last they came to the hoppopotamus, and stood for sev- eral minutes transfxed in silent won der. Then the mother turned to her daughter and said, slowly and solemn ly: My! Ain't-he-plain?"
 A great cardinal went driving through the city of Florence with his horses tails cut egreglously short. A woman took the cardinals coachman to task for this. How" she said, "can our gentle cardinal favor fash lon So abomlnable as this one of tail docking?' Madam" the coachman answered, "it is my reverend masters kindness of heart. He is a member of several societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and he docks his horses tails In order to prevent them from annoying the poor little fles.'
 A well-known clergyman of Boston was once talking with some friends with reference to the desfrability of chronological coherence in ideas, in the form of written statement, when he observed that there are times when this method becomes trifle too sugges- tive. For instance" said the speaker, "I once heard a minister in New Hamp- shire make his usual Sunday morning announcements as follows: 'The funer- al of the late and much-lamented sex ton takes place on Wednesday after noon at 8 o'clock. Thanksgiving serv- ices will be held In this chapel on Thursday morning at Il o'clock"
 When Lord Elphiston was in America couple of years ago he was enter tained at dinner by family, the head of which was to accompany his lordship on his hunting trip through the wilds of the Northwest A child of about , years. named Ethel. during the dinner was big-eyed and big-eared with won derment-in fact, completely oyerawed by the presence of the distinguished foreigner. Ethel heard her mother and father now and then say, "My lord this, and my lord that" or, twill you have some of this, my lord, or some of thatY" the dinner being a purely in- formal one. Finally, when the mother was interested in the conversation of another guest, Ethel noticed that mi- lord was gazing interestedly at dish of relish quite out of his reach. The child thought she saw chance to please Lord Elphiston, and In firm, clear voice, exclaimed: Mamma, God wants some pickles"
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-12
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T wouldn't feel too bad about 1t If was you," said the elderly observer in tone of mild reproof. "There's plenty of others in the lake an cussin' won't help your chances with 'em."
 "Bnt did you see him? demanded the young fisherman, excitedly. And look at the shank O that hook Snapped It right off!"
 Its too bad" said the elderly man, consolingly. He certainly must have been a whale to have done that You've got more hooks, though, haven't you?"
 "Surew said the young fisherman. q had him almost up to the pier. I knew as soon as I got the jerk that 1t was a big one and I was handling him careful. What do you think O that now? Wouldn't 1t jar you? Wouldn't 1t make you sick ?'
 Put another hook on and try 1t again." counseled the elderly onlooler.
 What's the use?' said the young man, disgustedly, and still staring at lue bIbhGI HOUR. Sdy, but ue Was al peach That's the biggest ever swan up to this pier, I'll bet you. Look at my hand where he pulled the line through it. Darn the tonsarned, ever lasting luck Now, ain't that my luck I've been here ever since sun-up and haven't had bite to speak of. Then I put on that big hook and minnie just for luck and-blame 1t! If I'd just got him a foot nearer I'd have had him"
 You aren't going to quit fishing just because of that, are you?'
 Sure" answered the young fisher man. "What's the use O fishin' here all day? If I'd got that one I'd have took him home an cooked him for breakfast. I betcher he would have tasted good broiled. He was a white fish, all right. He wasn't no herring.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-12
Odds and Ends.

Methodist foreign mission schools have over 10000 pupils.
 China and Japan together produce 125, 900 tons of silk annually.
 Taken the world over, the annual av. craze rainfall Is sixty inches.
 Coffee plantations in bloom are snow white and exhale a delicious odor, but the blossoms die in a day.
 The steel sleeping cars which the Pull man company is building will weigh 25 per cent more than the present cars.
 As near as can be ascertained, the un- appropriated and unreseryed public lands of the United States amount to 792, ,23S,- TOT acres.
 A decade ago, in the fiscal year 1So6- '97, this country did a business with thc Latin American countries amounting to $234 100000. In the fiscal year l9o6- or it has done business with the Latin. American countries in excess of $6OO,- 100000.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-12
To PaSteurize Milk.

PasteuriZing milk is a very simple process, the operator to be careful of the temperature, however. which is very important. When milk is boiled the natural flavor is destroyed, and some persons object to 1t. MIX is also injured to a certain extent by boiling To Pastuerize milk, procure long necked bottle, which must be scrupu- lously clean; pour in the milk and plug the tops with cotton wool, which ex- cludes all germs. Place the bottles in a deep pan or other vessel and heat to a temperature of 15S degrees, using a thermometer. If the temperature reach es 16O degrees the milk will have the odor-of being boiled. Keep the milk heated for half an hour The cot ton stoppers need not be removed un- til the milk is desired for use. The bottles containing the milk may be placed In a refrigerator or some cool receptacle. Milk so prepared can be kept for two or three days. To sterllize milk 1t must be boiled, hence Pasteu-
 ization Is a different process.
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-12

All growers of blackberries and rasp- berries know that one of the most dis agreeable jobs of the season Is the cut ting out of the old canes on the plants of these fields. The easiest way of do- ing this work Is to use n sharp tool of some kind so arranged that the operat- or may stand upright and work. The tool illustrated may be readily made by any handy man, and will do the work required quite as efrectually as more expensive tool.
 Take the handle from a worn-out shovel or fork and have the black smith attach to it the end of an old scythe blade or, If one has no blade of this kind, the blacksmith can fashion one from old scraps that he may have at small expense. Have this blade fas
Alaska sentinel., 1907-12-12

Once in a while a feller gets a her ring, but that don't happen often. He was as big as three herrings. I just caught sight of him as he swan along side and his side was as wide as thai cigar box-wider. I'd sooner have lost S5 bill than lost that fish. Maybe If I'd have pulled in quicker I'd have got him all right. I slacked up just as he came up close. He's off In the middle of the lake by this time with my hook I feel like kicking myself"
 That's no use" said the elderly man. If you'd pulled him in quicker you might have lost him quicker. It's no use thinking what you might have done. He's gone and that's all there is to it. If I were you I'd try to think 1t was just because the hook was poor that he broke 1t, and that he wasn't such m extra-slzed one after all. I'd call 1t a dogish and let 1t go at that Anyway, I wouldn't quit fishing. The next time you throw in your hook you might land a better one yet"
 "Not a better one than that" said the young man. You didn't see It and you didn't feel 1t pull or you wouldn't try to tell me that"
 "No," acknowledged the elderly man CT guess you're right, after all. It wouldn't be better one if you landed 1t. It's always the fish that get away that are the best and the biggest-al' ways. You'll catch a hundred big fish In course of time, and forget all about 'em, but you'll never forget the one that broke your hook, will you?'
 well, I'm going,' said the young fisherman, who had put up his tackle i've got enough. So long"
 "Yes, you've got enough for the pres ent," said the elderly man. But you'll be back all the same."-Chicago Daily News.