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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06

The Putnams have just completed their eight
volume "Knutsford" edition Of the works OF
Mrs. Gaskell, the set provided with a biograph-
ical sketch and a number of critical introduc-
lions by DR. A w Ward. This Cambridge
scholar makes a sympathetic and, on the whole
judicious Interpreter OF the novelist II is true
that his sympathy carries him a little further
than all readers Of Mrs. Gaskeu are likely to go
In his introduction 10 Wives and Daughters"
he says that it is rich In a quality VdistinctIy
Shakespearian-" One may admire this interest
ing story without dragging in the name OF
Shakespeare. But generally Or. Ward is a
trustworthy guide He writes to good purpose
in his introductions 10 my Lady Ludlow"
"Sylvias Lovers Cousin PhiHis' and North
and South" the volumes which. with wives
ana Daughters" we have just received We
must express again our cordial approval Of the
makeup of this edition and OF the portraits and
other illustrations. Mrs GaskeIrs work re-
ceives an altogether adequate tribute in the
production OF these volumes
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The Book Publishers
Sale of ReSidues
Given TO Us Annually,
Begins Today


We get all publishers only prices
be begun with small sum-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06

The spring lists of the publishers are beginning
to put in an appearance but the new books are
slow in coming to the front Fiction. of course.
Is in the van. The Scribners have already
brought out Mrs. Wharton's Madame de
Treymes" and Quiller-C COUGHS Poison Island
From the Macmans we have received Jack
London's new book, Before Adam" We re-
viewed last Saturday tho first important Offering
this season of the Century Company Mr.
Masons Running Water" and the novel by
Edward Noble. called The ISSUE which
Doubleday, Page Co print We gather. by the
way, that in the second edition Mr. Mobiles
novel Is 10 bear the title which II wears In Eng
land, "F'sherman's Cat" Dodd. Mead & Co
bring out "Hilma." by Mr.. W T Eldridge. a
writer whose name is new to us The Harpers
have issued new story by Mary E. wilkins
N1rs Freemam called by the Light OF the
Soul"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06

INESCCISGtftCUGS EttCS
Life and Letters at Bath in the XvIIth
Century. Edition de Luxe; Svo- Publishers
price S14 Our special price. $3.50. Popular
Edition; SvO. Publishers price. 81 Our
special price, $3.50.
Memoirs OF Anna Maria Wilhelnina Pick
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special price, COO.
A Kings Romance. BY Frances c. Girard.
Illustrated. Svo. gilt tops. Publishers price.
$3.50. Our special price, zoe.
Ny Airships. BY Alberto Santos Dumont
Illustrated. 12n'o Publishers price. $40
Our special price, 40c.
Theodore Leschetsky. BY the Countess
Potocka. limo. Publishers price. 81. Our
special price, 45c.
Daniel Webster BY John Bach NIcN1aster
Illustrated. Svo. Publishers price, 50. Our
special price, Csc.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton. B. A. BY
Christopher Coar. 16mO. Publishers price,
$3.50. Our special price, 15e.
Behind the Footlights. By. Mrs. Alec
Tweedie Svo, Illustrated Publishers price,
81. Our special price, soc.
The Letters Of Daniel Webster. Edited by
c. II. Van Tyne SvO. gilt tops. Publishers
price. IS. Our special price, zoe.
Maids and NIatrons of New France, BY
fishers price. $3.50. Our special price, 6Oc.
Famous Actors and Actresses and Their
Homes. BY Gustav Kobbe over 60 full
page plates and vignettes; SvO. Publishers
price, 49, Our special price, 81.
The Puritan In England and New England.
BY Ezra H. ByingtOn. SvO. Publishers price.
80. Our special price, S5e.
The Puritan as a COlOnist and RefOrmer.
BY Ezra ~. ByingtOn. Illustrated, SvO Pub
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Working with the Hands BY Booker T.
Washington. Illustrated 12mO. Publishers
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The Story of My Life. BY Helen Keller /
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06

The English literary journals contain appre-
ciative articles apropos of the centenary %
I.onqfollow. In tho London Daily Mall Mr..
Austin Dobson has printed this poem:
LONGFELLOw.
Ard his old age made beautiful with song
These were thy words of Chaucer. who, grown
Like thee. those wandring 'wayside" tales re-
Which ali men hearken to, when hours are long;
But thou hadst added to the rest a throng
From Western Worlds and Northern Runes
And i sought in Gestes and Fables manifold
Thv 'I3irds of Passage, fleet of wing, and strong.
T,ara ~ the bveone days when We were young!
BE this thy praise that never mover ~, y aIliong
: ,,i s,iIi through all the changes of the year
Thy stream of verse came welhnS pure ana Clear
A stainless fount--the trueSt HlppOcrenei
ST. Wandrille, the magnificent abbey whose
substantial ruins NJ. Maurice Maeterlinck has
recently bought, was founded I'm the seventh
century. and rebuilt az the close of the four
,eentb Much Of its stone came from the ranges
~ seats in the Roman theatre at Lillebonne.
cruelly broken up for the purpose The pictur-
esaue abbey is situated in lovely valley and
surrounded by a park 1t is only within the last
Aftv or sixty years that it has become partial
ruin and stin in good repair are it's beautiful
cloister it's Norman refectOry and its chapter
house. The monks who have recently lived
there have found themselves not uncomfortable,
and NJ. MaeterIinck win be able to make the
splendid building more than habitable without
any unreasonable expenditure.
NJ Maeterlincl by the way. contributes to the
March number of 'Putnam's Monthly paper
on the so-calIed Social Revolution"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06

Mr. w. Roberts has a letter in THE Athe-
p@um' on King Glumpus" and The Exqui-
sites" the two booklets published in the late
thirties, for which Thackeray made the illus
trations. II has been assumed since the two
compositions were brought to light that Thack-
cray was also the author of them but Mr.. Rob
erts asserts that the actual author was the late
John barrow. a military man, Alpine climber
and writer Of several books of travel He says:
My authority for associatina Barrow's name with
King GIumpus and The ENquisites' Is Mrs
Ilcott, the widow Of the Bishop of Gloucester.
Mrs. ElliCott Is relative Of ThackeTay. and her
father. the late Admiral Alexander BridpOrt Bech-
er, intimate friend of Barrow. Admiral
BeCher for maay years in the Photographed
Office at the Admiralty, and proprietor and
conductor of THE Nautical Magazine He was.
therefore, not only intimate private friend Of
Barrow. but also a colleague at the Admiralty Of
fee. Mrs Ellicott remembers him perfectly well
rs a frequent guest, in he" childhood. at her faith
ers house, and also recalls his gift 10 her family
of copies Of the two booklets (Which she has in
herted,. Mrs. Ellicott tells me that Barrows
authorship of the booklets was a perfectly well
known secret To her father and herself. and
that the question of authorship was never at any
time in doubt among the members of her family.
Mrs Eicott also remembers Thackeray well, and
possesses number OF most interesting letters from
him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06
MISCELLANY.

Ihere Is to he new edition of Boswell. which
VIII he an Improvement upon all its predecessors
in so far as it viii be copously illustrated.
Ihere Will be four hundred reproductions. in
halftone or facsimile of pictures, portraits
views. autographs and title pages. and there will
be dozen plates in photogravure. The notes
IN this edition, which is to be published in twelve
monthly parts will be written by Mr.. Roger
lnspen' whose edition Of Leigh Hunts Auto
biography has shown that he is skilful in re-
introducing a classic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06
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Life Among the Germans. BY Emma Louise
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Books at Csc
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The Peter Newell Mother Goose. 12mo. /
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-06
Facts and Enthusiasm from tho
Cotton Belt.

-oTT0N It's Cultivation. Marketing Manufacture
" and The Problems Of tho Cotton World. BY
Sharles william Burkett and Clarence Hamil-
.on Poe svo, PIP tx, 3Sl. Doubleday Page & Co.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Ready to Trust President
Roosevelt to Settle the
Trouble With Japan.
STATUS SATISFACTORY
Conference with the Chief Executive
Expected to Result I'm Complete
Adjustment-No Demands by on
cials-California Visitors Realize
Japan Must be Notified.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. 12.-The
situation regarding a settlement of
the japanese trouble seems in every
way satisfactory The positive state
ment was made by one of those who
were most opposed in temporizing
with the Japanese that very few
more conferences between the San
Francisco authorities and President
Roosevelt would result In an adjust
ment Of the whole question, leaving a
few details to be arranged by tho
President and Secretary Root.
II has been apparent from the time
the Mayor and other officials of San
Francisco consented to come to
Washington for a conference that
Mr. Roosevelt had the situation in
his own hands. His appeal to the
California delegation in Congress.
which resulted In the coming of the
onicials from the coast, deeply stir
red the State, and, although news
paper opposition continues in San
Francisco, 1t is said the local govern
ment Is willing to do exactly what
The President requests-and Mr..
Roosevelt has been very careful to
request nothing which cannot be
done without loss of pride or self-re-
spect by the Californians.
The San Francisco officials are said
20 have frankly admitted that tho
presence in the schools OF the com
2aratively few Japanese children now
In San Francisco could not possibly
harm the city or the white children,
and that the anti-Japanese senti-
ment was the result of labor agita-
don.
The officials said if coolie immi-
grafton were checked public senti-
nent would not for minute object
70 an alteration of the school regu-
tations In such way as to admit the
Japanese children to the public
schools. They were willing perhaps
TO admit all those below the age OF
1ixteen.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Covering Minor Happen
ings from all Over
the Globe.
HOME AND FOREIGN
Compiled and Condensed for the
Busy Rcadcr-A Complete Record
of European Dispatches and I'm
portant Events from Everywhere
Boiled Down for Hasty Pcrusal.

John d. Rockefeller's gift of s43,-
100000 will be used by the General
Education Board to promote colleges
In cities and to advance the educa-
tion of women everywhere.
Cubans OF the better class, all Of
ate, declare they will revolt against
the new republic to be established by
tho United States.
State Controller discovered that
there was no witness under his pred
ecesssors to the destruction of S5,-
900, 900 worth of defective stock
transfer stamps. and he only has the
word Of q clerk that they were not
stolen.
Minority stockholders of the old
Northern Pacific Railway are behind
the effort to obtain a Senatorial in
vestigation of the reorganization OF
the concern.
George f. Curtis, of Shanghai. de-
clared the disbarment of American
lawyers by the Consular Court in
Shanghai was an act of retaliation by
the State Department for the expo
sure of consular abuses.
In his sermon to graduating mid
shi?men the chaplain Of the Naval
Academy regretted opposition to the
gathering of war ships at the coming
jamestown exposition.
New York State Board OF Chari-
ties in its annual report criticised
State Architect for not having beauty
and utility combined in State institu-
ton buildings.
Bill was prepared by Assembly,
man Phillips of New York, limiting
campaign expenses for every candi-
date for office, the extreme limit be-
ling $4,000 for a gubernatorial can
didate.
The Rev. Walter Lowrie's whist
sermon at Newport nearly defeated
his confirmation as rector of tho
American Church at Rome
Mrs. Frederick S. Goodwin of New
York, has issued Invitations to sixty
friends to attend banquet for which
the menu will consist of uncooked
food.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Awful Plight of Castaways.

Victoria, b. c., Feb. THE
steamer Tartar. on the way from
Hongkong, ran into a Chinese junk
and cut the vessel in two. Some OF
the crew escaped in sampan and
others were rescued by a boat low
cred from the liner, but three men
were drowned.
On the way home the steamer res
cued three Chinese from a drifting
sampan, many miles from the Chi.
nese coast. One dead man was In
the boat. The living were nearly
dead. their legs and hands having
mortified SO that 1t was necessary to
amputate them.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
1870 PERISH IN ICY BLAST.
Schooner Sinks Steamer LarchmoRt
I'm n Midnight Collision.

Providence, X. l., Feb. 14.-More
than $50 persons are known to be
dead as a result of collision be-
tween the Joy line steamship I.arch.
mont and the schooner Harry Knowl.
ton, in Long Island Sound, five miles
OFF Block Island, last Tuesday. The
Larchmont foundered IN ten min
utes. but most of her goo souls sur
vived to meet a worse death in tho
terrors of an icy gale that swept tho
broad reaches of the Sound at fifty
miles an hour. Lifeboats and RATS
reached Block Island with the bodies
of men and women and children fro
zen like statues, while the living
were almost paralyzed by frost and
unable to utter word. Thirty-eight
bodies were picked up on the Block
Island shore. The Kncwlton was
kept afoat until she could be beach.
ed, and her captain and crew Of si1
men escaped with their lives.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
KINGSTON LOSS $4,000, 900.
Estimate of Committee That AS
sesscd Damage to Property.

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb 14.-Ao-
cording to a schedule OF losses gath
cred by Allen d. Roberts, the Kings
ton representative of the Philadel-
phia Commercial Museum, the dam
age done by the recent earthquake
and fire in the city of Kingston is es-
timated Mt 100000. Figures re-
turned show that the loss by Are and
earthquake, exclusive of church,
Government and municipal build
ings, is nearly s11.000,000. In addi-
tion to this, the church loss is $780,
600; municipal buildings, 100000;
Government properties, 100000;
and st. Andrews Parish, $879,3G0.
The greatest loss was in the residen-
tial section, because the figures as
gathered by the committee are s6,-
4Sl, 900, of which 70 per cent. is a
total loss
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
AS Told to Harry Thaw
When He Asked Her to
Marry film.
LAID BARE HER LIFE
Architect Induced Her to Drink
Druggcd Wine Then All Was
Blank - After Recovering Cou-
sciousncss Knew She Had Bccn
Made His Victim.

New York. Feb. 12.--Evelyn Mes
bit Thaw took the witness stand
when court opened in the trial of her
husband for the murder of Stanford
White and entered upon the recital
Of her extraordinary story. That
It would be extraordinary had been
anticipated. 1t turned out to be
more sensational than could we'll
have been imagined.
Mr. Thaw was sitting down oppo-
site me. and he suddenly said to me
that he loved me and wanted to mar
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14

Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 12.-Nine
inches OF dogs leg bone inserted in
a boys leg has proved success in
surgery after years work.
Nine inches of diseased bone had
been taken from the leg of Danny
Buck, nine years old, son of DR.. and
Mrs. ]. II. Buck. Until Wednesday
he used crutches and was told not to
let his right foot touch the ground.
The doctors have now pronounced
the healing process complete and
have given the boy permission to
throw away his crutches.
Two years ago the boy began to
suffer with tuberculosis of the fibula.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
FOREIGN NEWS.

Reports that Internal machines
had been found in the house Of
Count Witte, former Russian Pre-
mier, are confirmed, according to n
despatch.
King Edward opened Parliament
with imposing ceremonies. the strug-
gle over the liberal plan to curtail
the House of Lords being foreshad-
owed in the initial session.
A despatch from Nice announces
the death Of Harold S. Van Buren,,
United States Consul in that city.
DR.. Montono, according to a st.
Petersburg despatch. informs NJ
Isvolsky, Russian Minister Of For
eign Affairs, that the evacuation Of
Manchuria is proof Of the Mikado's
desire for complete resumption Of
friendly relations with Russia.
Sir William Howard Russell. who
became famous as war correson-
dent Of the London Times, has died
at the age of eighty-six.
President Bonilla of Honduras Is
said to have caused the rupture Of
the arbitration tribunal which was
arranging differences with Nicara-
qua.
Hayti has refused to annul a trans
action with a German Arm at the de-
mand Of the Kaiser's Minister at Port
au Prince, and complications are
feared.
London's Stock Exchange, accord
ing to despatch. followed New
York's lead In the early recovery and
subsequent sudden decline in prices.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Walked 1000 Miles on Water.

New Orleans, La, Feb. l2.-Cap-
tain Charles w. Oldrieve. to win a
bet. has walked 1900 miles, from
Cincinnati to New Orleans. on water
He made the trip in forty-five less
than forty days. He wins $1,000
Had he been forty-six minutes later
he would have lost.
Oldrieve used cedar wood shoes,
four feet five Inches long. Ave inches
broad and seven inches deep, With
these he trod the surface of the river,
closely followed all the way by his
wife In q rowboat.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Four Killed ut Funeral.

New York, Feb. 14.-An express
train on the Long Island Railroad
crashed through the funeral process
sion of Henry Taylor, a retired sea
captain, of 116 East Forty-second
street, Manhattan, at the Penny
bridge crossing, just outside Long
Island City. The train hit one of the
carriages with full force. killing its
driver and three occupants.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Service Pensions Voted.

Washington, d. c.. Feb. 6.-By a
vote Of 1876 to 20 the House passed
the Service Pension bill, which pass
cd the Senate January Is, increasing
the pensions OF soldiers and sailors
OF the civil war and the war with
Mexico
The bill provides that persons
vixty-two years old shall receive $12
per month; seventy $l6, and seven
sy-five years, $40. The pensions will
begin from the date Of filing the ap-
plication.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14

The family came originally from
England and, settling in New Eng.
land, drifted westward with the tide
of immigration to New York
Mr.. Higgins for years has been az.
flicted by aheart trouble, After he
entered upon his work as Governor
of the State he was warned by DR.. r.
G. Janeway, of New York. of se-
rious organic difficulty in the heart,
but no effort was relaxed and no duty
was left unperformed which Mr.. Hig.
gins believed essential to the faithful
discharge of the trust reposed In him
by the people.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
SPORTING NEWS.

II. l.. Doherty. English lawn ten
mis- champion. will defend his title,
and he and his brother intend visit
Ing this country soon.
Sabine Roller, home bred smooth
fox terrier. has been purchased by
the British expert, George Raper. of
Gomersal. England, and sails for
Liverpool after the New York and
Boston shows.
Tho auxiliary three-masted yacht
building In South Boston for Henry
w. Putnam, Jr., n. Y. Y. c., Is 1853
feet over all and 140 feet on the
water line.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
6nowsIide Spared the Baby.

Salina, Col, Feb. 7.-Seven per-
sons were killed by the snowslide
,hat came down Monarch Mountain.
The bodies were recovered from be-
4eath great masses of snow and bro
zen timbrs. They were Fred Mason
md wife. Joseph Boyle. John Emer-
On, George Griffith. and John Gill
sert. miners. and Stephen Skinner, q
saloon keeper. OF the fourteen in
l'ured two may die. A young infant
Of Mrs. Mason's was found alive
fourteen hours later.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Kills Woman in Street.

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 12.-With a
blow that broke the woman's neck an
unknown footpad murdered Mrs.
Mercedes Donovan, robbed the body
of the few coins she had. and fled.
The murder was done near Third
and Commerce streets, in the heart
Of the city.
She was under an arc light when a
man stepped from the shadow. Mrs.
Donovan screamed. but before the
cry could be repeated the footpad
struck her.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Needy Colleges Barred.

Chicago. ILL.,, Feb. 1.-THE COL
leges that need money the most can
not set 1t under the Rockefeller gift
because they cannot comply with his
conditions" said President Harris of
Northwestern University, discussing
the Rockefeller fund. He cited Be-
lott. which was offered 100000 II
1t would raise 100000. Falling, It
received only $4,000 from the Gen.
eral Education Board.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Mrs. Fanny l.. Perry,

the lone Indian widow of Watuppa
Rond reservation who has appealed
to the Massachusetts Legislature to
prevent her land from being used for
waterworks. She is the last descend
ant of the Packawanots and Wam-
panaogs, and the land which she now
holds was granted to her ancestors in
the Colonial days.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Lawyer Dies Pleading Case

Tunhannock. Pa, Feb. Oscar
piesheimer, prominent member of
the Wyoming County bar. died sud
denly In court. in Montrose.
He rose to object to some testi-
,mony offered. and after sitting down
dropped his head in his hand and ex.
pired almost instantly OF apoplexy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
Smith Succeeds II. A. Aloer.

Lansing, Mich. Feb. 7.-Repre-
sentative William Alden Smith was
elected by the Legislature to fill out
the unexpired term of Senator r. A.
Alger, who died suddenly In Wash
ington. Smith had already been
elected as Senator Alger's successor
at the expiration of his term on
March 4.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-02-14
$4,000 Garden for John ID.

New York. Feb. 12.-John D.
Rockefeller, during the coming sum-
mer, will lay out in front of his new
mansion at Pocantico Hills the larg-
est and costliest Italian and French
gardens In America. It is said that
he Will spend $4,000 for marble
steps, terraces and ancient pillars
and statuary.