Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-16

every important city In the world. shs
does not merely brush the edge oc a
corhtry ard call il visit, rather has
she spared no expense or personal dis
conii'rt in the effort to reach thu less
frequented spots and places remote
from the usual lines of travel There
is 10 continent and scarcely y group
of islands of any Importance which
Miss Miller has not seen. She bears
the distinction Of having been the first
woman 10 cross the Trans Siberian
Railway alone. and Of being the first
and only woman to explore the more
remote parts If South America unai-
tended by any guide or companion.
She has Travelled in every known con-
veyancc and in almost every kind Cf
shin and treasures among her souve-
Mrs a button from the coat Of every
| captain with whom she has sailed. OF
the hundreds OF curios and rare anti
quities gathered In many lands, Miss
| Miller regards a bangle-chain threo
feet long as her most valuable posses
sion. Rare charms, coins and antiqui-
ties cr,bclnatic Of various creedS, sectsi
| ana countries, SDDte VI tUtIl dS TluGn
| as 4, 100 wears old, make up this chain.
| No intrinsic value can be placed upon
this historic collection, but IL you'd be
worth thousands 10 collector CT an
| tiqhities.
! Will Lexington Comfort, author Of
"Tte Waited S2pulchre." has strong,
stirring tale of the Southland in the
current number Of Lippencott's entitled
Lady Thoroughbred Kentuckian."
The establishing of the Dickens
| Memorial library in London suggests
| the wide range and the completely OF
the Dickens characters. This. to be
sure. is a hackneyed subject, but this
| is, nevertheless, generation OF readers
to whom some facts connected with the
suggestion may be of both interest and
value For. to neglect to read Dickens.
as one English writer put it, is to put
oneself in the way of paying an
embarrassing penalty for the omis-
sion. This is because each of his
| stories contains characters whose
names and peculiarities are being con-
stantIy quoted. II suppose writes
one commentator, that Little Dorrit
is as little read as any. yet not to know
all about the Circumloction Office and
Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle is dis
astrous, to say nothing of the sentl-
mental and goodhearted Flora Finch
ing, the Society with capitals
worshiping Mr. Merdle, the suddenly
heroic Mr. Pancks, the detected Mr..
Plornsh. and, last but not least, poor
Arthur Clenham, who said. am the
son of a hard father and mother; am
! the only child of parents who weighed
measured and priced everything. Not
/ to have read Hard Times" moreover.
is not to know Mr.. Gradgrind; not to
have read Great Expectations" Is 70
have missed Pip and Joe Gargery. the
secretloving Mr.. Jaggers, and thar
+ shameless opportunist Uncle Pumblc-
chook And so with any other OF
Dickens's novels which you may raSh!y
, set aside A complete set of Dickens
! is necessary to every active-minded
! man. To give within reasonable space
, any idea of the immense field of life
: the novels cover is impossible. Tho
: list of Dickens's characters has been
$ found to include
!. An actuary. two acrnnauts. a dustInah'
, two forgerS. three buffers, locksnntn'
a hangnGn, 10 murderers, u suBaf-Da,hti.
l. merchants. Il reSuIrectionst. snip
wright four money lenders. five stutors
in chancery, taxidermist. "a teachers
and gcverneSSeS. Il musicians. pilot.
three poets, stonemason, eight Secfe-
il taries "a toy maker, AZ widows. an UNI
e hrella maker. "a lawyers ming mlserS.
!, about 80 gelitlcmen-at- large. two law
. writer's. l. nurses. "A pot boy. three tdllors.
IL a verEer, 4 wheelWright a dlStlller, fouf
q bankers. eight authors. two dtysalters.
., Americans. an auCtioneer. l. police
men, l. nohemen. three boardinE-hous,
keepers. Il coal dealer. two dwarfs. l"
: coachmen. six inventors, three masls-
o trates. five politicians Is soldiers. - phy :
sicians and surgeons, - male servants. 40
> female servants weaver. ~ landlords:
Il 10 paupers. three giants. ard hundreds OF
Z others which make up the total TO some
9fD1 characters In the 'Pickwick Papers
alone there arc 800.
Here is what the ranchmcn them
; selves say about Miss Eleanor Gates
5 and her work. From THE bliss
n Breeze Bliss. Oklahoma: Eleanor
a Gates. who writes some real novels
: about real Western people as we kno"
n EN-. is with us for few days at tho
s 1O1 ranch Miss Gates was born In
II Dakota, and spent her girlhood on q
d horse working cattle. Her new book
t has its scene laid in Western Oklano-
y ma. and is branded Cupid the Cow
a punch She has just finished 1t ana
It we understand has accepted an offer
= 10 come west to the ranch and break
i a lot Of the worst bronchos that have
r. 50 far remained unconquered. She cX-
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