The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08

simplicity and practically; and the
method 1t pursues has been followed
with the greatest success in the au-
thor's sewing classes. These qualities
admirably adapt it for use in schools,
in church sewing classes, and In the
home. Many a mother and many a
child will draw pleasure and profit
from these pages.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is one of the
most implacable opponents of woman
suffrage. She argues against 1t with
all the logic of a man and all the earn
estness of woman. The foremost
woman in British literary life, a re-
spected student of economic questions,
and a sympathizer with the laboring
classes, Mrs. Ward is a force In the
opposition that the suffragists cannot
match. With the cooperation of Lord
Rothschild and the Marchioness of
Tweesdale as president, she has organ
lied the National Woman's Anti-Suf-
frage association. and is winning many
influential women to its cause. On the
other hand, the suffrage movement,
Mrs. Ward insists. is losing ground
and doomed to defeat.
Valdez, Alaska, where gold was this
week announced in the financial world
to have jumped to twenty dollars the
pan, is a settlement about which Rex
Beach, the young author of two Har-
per best sellers, The Barrier and The
Spoilers, tells a good story. Mr.. Beach
was in camp there on one of his
Alaskan trips few years ago, and his
story concerns man named Amy,
distinguished as the last man in camp
to go to bed. AT least" says Mr..
Beach, everybody thinks he's the last
although nobody is sure, because no
body ever saw him go-not for long at
fiv,n a
before they discovered how Amy man
aged it. I've got a little thing to
tend to up at the hotel. I'll be back
in minute was what he used to say,
until people found out that the little
thing he tended to was a nap, whencs
he woke up fresh as youngster. The
day they began to suspect they urged
a tenderfoot into the sleeper'S room for
the purpose of removing Amy'S gar
ments while he slept. and the crowd
waited below to catch them from the
window. Sure enough they dropped,
when SUDDENLY a cry went up: Why,
those don't look like Amy's clothes!
They weren't. And ever since thar
time, whatever may have happened to
the tenderfoot. Amy has slept in
peace"
Mr.. Charles A. Conant, author of
1.-THE Principles of Banking" has pre-
sented to New York university copy
of the French translations of his book,
which the Harpers print in this coun-
try. This translation was made by
Raphael Georges Levy. the noted
Partisan banker and writer on finance.
Since the death of w. l.. Alden, the
| author in whom children and grown
/ folk seemed equally to delight. his
many of the old readers. 1t is their
| demand, not less than the call of the
present-day children, which explains
the new editions of Mr.. Aiden's
stories. On the Harper press recently
| there have been reprinted The
Cruise of the Canoe Club, Moral Pi-
rates. and the famous Adventures of
Jimmy Brown.
The August number of The North
American Review opens with an ar
| ticle by the late Professor Henry
LOOMS Nelson on Grover Cleve-
land" which was revised by the late
| Daniel S. Lamont, and which is in
effect political history of the period
| during which Mr.. Cleveland was a
| conspicuous figure in the national
| life. Jean Jaures, leader of the Soc
| ialist party in the French chamber,
| describes the attitude of Socialism
| toward International Arbitration. Sir
Martin Conway defines THE Ideal of
| Egyptian Art" as being monumental
| NdlIii- lHCOuOt6 cAdUllIlGS the
provisions of 'The Aldrich-Vreeland
| Bill" which he believes will protect
| the country against monetary panics.
! Elizabeth Bisland writes entertain
| ingly of '"The Morals of the Modern
| Heroine" In an article on "The
| Northern Question "Britannicus'
considers the agreements as to the
| Baltic and the North seas recently en-
| tered into by the powers whose terri
| tories adjoin these waters respectively.
The postmaster general, George l.. ".
| Meyer, advocates Postal Savings
Banks" w. ID. Howells makes what
| he calls Some Unpalatable Sug-
! gestions'' as to the treatment of
| criminals by the state. Sydney
| Brooks, in the sixth article of his
| seeies on 1.-The New Ireland" con-
! siders the work of the Gaelic league.
| Professor Francis NJ Burdick, of
| Columbia university, vindicates the
| courts in the issuance of "Injunctions
| in Labor Disputes" Professor Otto
| Simon tells of the progress of "Es-
| peranto in Germany In the liter
| airy department the letters of the
Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Dasent's John
| Thaddeus Delane" by Edward Porritt
and Lounsbury's THE Standard of
| Usage in English" by Brander
| Matthews. The department of world
| politics contains communications from
London, Paris and Washington.