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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12
TRAIN PLUNGES DOWN
BANK; ONE KILLED

BINGHAMTON, n. Y, June 12.-
The locomotive OF the Cleveland ex-
press on the Erie railroad went down
15-foot embankment on Court-st.,
shortly before 2 o'clock this morning.
Engineer Frank Truesdcll, OF Hornell,
was pinned beneath the wreck and
instantly killed. No one else was
seriously hurt.
Fireman Guy Cole. OF Hornell, was
thrown about so feet into the smiddle
of Court.st. but picked himself up un-
hurt.
Three cars left the rails, but only
the engine and tender went down the
enbanlSment. Thew reck occurred at
signal tower, Just east OF the cross
over OF the Erie and the Utica and
Syracuse division OF the Lackawan.
ma &
Towerman f. f. Lawrence says the
signals were set against the train and
had been for some time. The signal
threw the dera!ling switch. which
threw the train from the track
III got. Ill gone.-German.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12

III got. i'll gone.-German.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-29

The November Popular Magazine contains a complete novel of college athletics by Ralph D Paine. entitled The Stroke-oar,' This is an example of Paine's more serious work, a strong. wholesome, thrilling narrative in it's picture of college life. During his four years al Yale he pulled on three varsity crews, one to defeat twice to victory The Stroke-o oar" introduces US to most Interestingly drawn college types Jim Stearns, tho hero, stroke-oar of the Yale crew; Hector Alonzo McGrath, perpetual candidate for athletic honors of every team in college; Bolivar Martinez, q revolutionary South American student at Vale; Suzette Aiken, Julius Caesar Jones, the old negro mascot--these are the best of dozen dandy characters. Besides this complete novel, the Popu- lar Magazine for November contains installments of three serials, 2 com plete novelette, and seven short stories
 in all two hundred and twenty-four pages of strong, vrile fiction "a to Sa south avenue, New York city
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The Red Book Magazine (Chicagn) for November is virtually an edition de luxe It Is doubtful if any of the more popular magazines have ever put forth more attractive number Es- peciallv splendid Is the half-tone printing, which in every particular fig worthy of the matter it Illustrates Tho issue is opened with twenty eight portrait studies, followed by the last article in the striking series Charles Edward Russell has been writing OH our international marriages An es- say by James L. Ford, charmngly pre- sented geographically in which that satirst takes a fling at social climbers, precedes 3 collection of admirably il-
 ustrated short fiction that in several instances is really noteworthy. One notes stories by Ralph D Paine, George Hyde Preston, William Ches- ter Fstabrook and Elliott Flower. One of the most striking and deeply hu- man stories that has appeared In sometime is "A Kink in the System, '' which Richard Washburn Child has contributed to the number Other popular writers who are represented in the issue are Helen Frances Ragg, Herbert Kaufman, Lillian Collins and William Hamilton Osborne.
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adoring lovers, young and aged to her feet, ia the storm center of tho story and tho atorm breaks when tho sus- ceptlhla rich, handsome and hysterical young lover of the dear, dsshing, pretty baby-like Peggy, Lilly's nIece, finds that 1t Is her aunt that the young chap is really gone on. The unfolding of the lights and shadows of the dom- ostio life of 'the whole family" and of tho distinctive personalities of each of them is artistically done, as becomes the work of literary artists and tho windup borders on something which bids fair to be for oncs really ex- hllarating and exciting. The whole family is constituted as follows, The father is Cyrus Talbot, successful manufacturer of plated-ware in East ridge. The mother is Mrs. Ida Talbert, and her mother Mrs. Evarts, from New England, is a member of the house. hold Of the children there are five. Tho eldest. Maria, Ia the wifs of Tom Price, lawyer whose firm gets the Talbert business. Tho eldest son. Charles Edward, nIcknamed Peter, 25 years old. is in the works, but ia an artist hy temperament and education, and has married an emotional artist whom he met at the art lesgus In New York His wife, Lora'ne, is unhappy in the methodical Tslbert family hut luckily they do not live under the actual family roof tree The heroine is the second daughter, Peggy, aged about 2i, who has just graduated from CO., educational college where she has be- come engaged to Harry Coward, of the same age. who plains 10 be a professor Mrs. Ward seems to think Ina is one already. Peggy's younger sister Alice 1 is 15 and all ears, and there remains her mischlevous younger brother Billy. There remains, too, Elizabeth Talhert, aged S7, the sister of Cyrus and regard cd In the family as an old-maid, though
 elsewhere she manages to look 2s and
 to dazzle mon of all ages When she ls
 not travelling in Italy she is visiting In
 America-even at home. whore she ar rives just in time to make trouble. For Harry Coward coming to visit his
 hancee's family had no Idea that her
 Aunt Elizabeth would turn out 10 he
 tho Lilly Talbert with whom he had ftrted and to whom he had been en-
 ragged for week. Hero is chance for much misunderstanding and misery
 and the various authors have trcated all sides of the case with thorouehness and humor
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THE LITTLE BROWN HEN HEARS
 THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE
 AND THE GOLDEN HARVEST By
 Jasmine stone Van Dresser, Win
 forevsrd by Margaret Beecher White.
 Paul Elder x Co.,. san Francisco
 New York,
 Really good stories for children are exceedingly rare but these two pleas ant parables by the author of How to Find Happyland" have all the quail ties most needed They have the ten- derness. the melowness, tho Inner truth shining through allurlng narra- tive, characteristic of the most delight ful tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
 Tt is the duty of all good useful storios to give a message to their read. CTS The two dainty stories contained in this little volume each carries It's message of truth, Pure, simple and wholesome in quality, they cannot ran to refresh as well as instruct those who receive them. In The Golden Har- vest the lesson Of patience taught by the little apple trees experience VIII bear rich fruit, do not doubt and the wisdom of the little brown hen cannot help but teach us all to listen for the nghtlngale's song of harmony in our lives, Margaret Beecher White
 There Is something decidedly new and attractive in the making of this book. and the illustrations by William T, Van Dresser are all that could he desired. Printed in color throughout.
 Bound in green wood-bosrds with in- lay in color. i5 cents net, by mall, so cents
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TariSington. author of 0Monsleur
 Rnaucann" The Gentleman from Tr-
 diana" otc Published hy tho Nc
 Cure Company, Now York Sti5, at
 Judd's.
 Mir Tarl1ngton Is At his best in the telling of thIa delightful story and again atteats hie extraordinary merits Mir Tarkington is sDre of his audience and yet each book from his pen shows uniformity of charming, finished. on. tertaininE work The scene of this story Is laid in France, opening In Paris where g rich young American Larraheo Uarman. who is welded to 2 beautiful Arnericsn girl, is seen by two artist friends on one of the boule- wards seated in powerful sutono- hile.. his face sodden with drink and otherwise bearing the evidences of deep dissipation and himself evidently in the tolls of the hrazen unscrupu- lous bedizened and hesrtless Spanish woman of nearly middle life who is at his side. The next scene is 2 terrible smashup of automobiles out of which Larrabee is extricated unconscious with a terrible wound In his head, white the woman has leg broken over which she raves like rnadwom- an because she is a vaudeville dancer oi renown and her professional work ia eI ded The scene changes now to French chateau near beautiful se" cuded village on the edge of forest in Normandy where the guest of Quesnay, beautiful young man sp- pears in the charge of big leonins
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TAFrs YALE CLASS.
Some Statistics About 1878 Which Ar
 of Interest This Year.

CT interest This Year,
 seventy-eight was notablo ola sl Up to it's year t was the largest c,as Yale had graduated, and it is etl,, th largest with one or two exception Of the 1855 members, 129 receive their diplomas, and of these s6 al living. At the last reunion of the 7 men. which was turned into a geners jollincatlon of delight over Mir. Taft nomination, interesting statistical mi tor, prepared by the class secretar was read.
 The average age at graduation wa 22 7-10th years The oldest man wa turned 30 and the youngest was The average weight was 15l IL pounds. MT. Taft was tho colossus z them all, the tale told by the seal. being 225 pounds. although there al well authenticated reports to the ell feet that his actual weight on con mencement day was 23S. Inajiro TS neka Tajiti, a Japanese. was the ligha weight, seven pounds over the aui' dred being his avoirdupois. The phi sical contrast between him and M Taft was embalmed as one of the of clal class jokes.
 Almost every political and religiot belief was represented. It was in overwhelmingly a republican class, < subscribing to the principles of tn party, while 23 were democrats, independents. 1S liberals and und cided. Ninety-two of them came o good and strong for free trade, fri spective of party affiliations. IL is Il. teresting. too, to find that the aggrs gate expense of educating the cla was only s12a,S42, an average of ssf per pupil for the entire course.
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I'll bet ten to one that every big factory in the country will be shut down four months after Bryan is in- ausurated, If he should he elected" shouted one Of the brokers on the Broad street curb yesterday.
 The broker was surrounded quickly Several Bryan partisans took his of- fer
 You're foolish to give ten to one, even if you think that way said one of the brokers friends as they pushed out of the crowd
 Hush" whispered the broker four months after March { ia the Fourth of July New York World
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A general embodiment of the whole family results from the Coward Peggy-and Maiden aunt episode In which everybody works strenuously to mend matters, some to reconcile Peg gy and Coward and some to get rid of that wayward youth for good and all, Tho village doctor, twice Peeey's age, Is made to take a hand, and we hear of some previous sentimental exchanges between them which have not been mentioned before, as says the New York Times. She soon comforts her breaking heart upon his ready breast, and all seems to he go. ing smoothly once more, when sud denly in the next to the last chapter, like q jack in the-hox, up jumps tho psychology professor from the CO., educational college of whom there has been no previous mention. And Peggy, as usual, Is ready 10 he won upon a moments notice. This time Dr. Henry van Dyke, in the guise ot "a friend of tho family intsrvones. and by dint of sending all tho rest of the family away to New York and sticking right to his task, sees to lt that she does marry the psychology man on three days notice.
 The chapter by Mir James ls in tho person of Charles Edward, the mar ried son of the family who, hy virtue of gifts desires. and training, ought to be an artist. but is his fathers more or less useless assistant in the big sllver-rlatiug works and is expect e1 to become his successor in the business Excepting perhaps the chapters by MT. Howells and Mrs Freeman, it is tho most characteristic section of the book. Mir James sets for the the young mans ideas. preiu- dIcea. and desires searchinEly, acutely, delicately. and gets nowhere with it ell. inst aR easilv as If he were writing a four hundred page novel instead of a single chapter. Charles Edward 6 shades of thought and feeling are pur sued to the very last and finest nuancs. and then nailed down with an "ex. acty," and hie run,natlng train of thought pursues ifs determined way, regardless of erunting parentreses. until it finds s period st 2 dIenifed remoteness from the starting point, IT is quite possible to determine what the young man Ia talking about by reading each sentence over twice"
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THE CHRISTMAS LETTER. av sa

THE CHRISTMAS LETTER. '" Sara
 Tawney Lefferts author of Tho 'fln-
 namon Bear" 6oc. Published by
 Cuppels & Leon Company. New No~l.
 A maryellously interesting and charming illustrated holiday story, cleyerly told in rhyme, for young folks; one which will make Tom. Jim and Betty. sot right up and take not iee. In bright rcd covers. and aristo- cratic paper t com $ and with old santa Claus, portrayed on the title page luegine a huge sack hrlmming fuil of leitcrs The book is full of bright gay pictures, some of them full paged in brilliant colors and it tolls how llorothy Nandevare and her family spend their vacation Doro- thy appears in the first colored pic ture, with all her rctinle. which in- cludes her little sisters. the cunning little dog and tho wise hiE one, Little Kitty and the cinnamon bear They all with one accord fall to writing letters to Santa Claus as is shown in the next colored picture. all assur- [ inG santa that they would do all they could for the poor and hoping to re- ceive from his treasures accordingly. | The Christmas gifts were numerous and Christmas day was q happy one for all beautiful Christmas song Is sung the words and music by Dorothy appearing in the book Dorothy in structs her little group as toi what the day means to the world and many other things happen of interest The book Is the second in series of four issued hy Curpler & Leon Company, and bids fair to equal the great sue cess of the authors preceding story, Mir Cinnamon Bear" The pictures are hy Wuanita Smith and are very clever
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ciunter's for November is unusually excellent. H. Rider Haggard's serial, The Ghost Kings" appears in one of
 Its early installments. Cherry Ripe is q charming story, in which Esme Dacres restores a pretty maid in dis tress 10 her anxious swain. The Man in the Motor-mask" performs another service for high society" and inci- dentally gets friend out of com promising situation. Shepherds All and Maidens Fair" Is that charming and dainty that 1t fairly takes one by the hand and. unrestrained, leads him to bear witness to an affair in Already which in this case happens Co be Sum ny France. A man who would be king almost gets the worst of it in "Koros Purchase-prlce." but is satis- fled to part with his Kingdom for a ladys smile. Then there are The Reciprocal Burglary" "The Case of the Countess" by Arthur C. Edwards: Midnight to Dawn" by Howard Fitz- alan; two serial novels, fine array of short stories. the humorous depart ment etc.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-29
WINTER.

MARlGOLDs WINTER By Edith
 Francis Foster Author of Jimmy
 Crow" Mary n Mary. 'Marigold." :"
 etc. Si25 Published hy Dana. Estes
 & Co, Boston,
 This delightful new instalment Of tho doIngs of Marigod and her little friends tells ot her winter pursuits and amusements. She stll continues to prove very real little girl and does all manner of things that litle girls us- ually do. and many others that not all might think of and besides manages to make some other people happy at the same time. The book Is ono that little folks vIli love to have read aloud and the charming illustrations by the author artist make pictorial synopsis of the story.
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THE WHOLE FAMILY A novel by
 twelve authors Published by Harper
 &. Brothers, New York.
 A charming composite story. tho Joint work of twelve noted authors each of whom contributes g. chapter thus making one continuous tale and once the reader takes tt un he ar she will he lured on willingly to the finish Although there were twelve hands in this work, there is not a hitch or a break ar 2 dropping of tho threads of the discourse is finished piece of workmanship and wonderfullv uniform moreover, in the quality of the work manship one nav discover however. despite this unvarylng excellence of production the distinctive cheraoteris- ties of each writer. and this is easy when stepping from tho first chapter (by Howells) we land upon Mary Wlk- fms Fereemans work in the next and lt is distinct transition when, after hav- ing tackled Henry James long sen tences clnyed with sweetness and light, we come upon the characteristic humor of John Kendricll B9nGs, with his icon ocastic disregard for the conventional Besides these writer's tho other con- trihutors are Mary Raymond shipman Andrews, Mary Stewart Cutting. Alice Brown, Henry van Dyke, Elizabeth stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Jordan, Edith Wyatt Mary Heaton Worse, Each au- thor deals with one member of tho fam Iy plvine, hig or her version of what the row fig about and their opinion of the merits and foihles Of the others. The maiden aunt "Jiljy" or Elizabeth, with her rlponed beauty and ondenia" ble charms of mind. mauuer and per- son which arc continually bringing
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French physician and scientist who fla seeking with all the energy of his na- tnre and all his superior Knowledge as a specialist to restore to its normal state the mentality of his handsome and very interesting patient whose memory of his past is gone and who is like an ingenious child eager to learn his lessons, a. pleasing, interest Ing and beautiful Adonia Soon 1t Is not hard to surmise that this youth may be the same young man Of blood. shot eyes and heavy sodden, reddened and blotched countenance overwhem- sd by drink and wild revelry whom we Saw on the boulevard of Paris with the vaudeville actress, La Belle Mar lana. And so it was. Thte case ia aimilar somewhat to that of the hero in Somehow Good" except that in this case the hero not only loses his memory but becomes boy again in looks Henceforward many moro ac- tors appear or resppear on the scene, the rich young American painter ar list and his American friends, Ward and sister and Amedee, the attentive gossip bearing waiter at Les Tros Pigeon. an Inn not far from the chateau, Mrs Harmar. Larrabees g lovely wife from whom when he was in dissipation in Paris he was seek ing to bs divorced. and others all characters drawn with rare felicity. There ia also q moral problem of much significance underlying the ef- forts to restore Larrs bees mental vigor together with the pure minded ness of youth, The book has beau tiful frontispiece in colors and other illustrations by Walter I. Duncan,
 The writing s exauisitely finished 1 and the reading of II leaves m abiding memory of q tender fragrance" II ls beautiful, almost ldyllic, love story that is told. with group of characters even more appealing and lovaole than those In the earlier Tarkington books And what more romantic background could there be than the fascinating Norman village ot Qucsnay, set down ages ago in tho very midst of s dcep enchanting forest. The tale may be te- scrihed as modern, matursd Peau- calre. and Is sure to charm n vas. au- dlenee oi readers" s."-New York Ameri- can,
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STORY BOOK FRIENDS By Clara
 Murray. author of "rhe Child at
 Play" "Playtime" etc With forty
 fourillustrattons. including four color
 ed plates. Decorated cloth. Price,
 90 cents Little Brown < Co., pub
 fishers, Boston
 Pretty stories, grave and gay for the child of seven and upward. There Is not story in the book that cannot he read by a child who has been whole year In school. and one who has been there two years will read all the stories with ease the first time trying. Some easy tales by famous writers are in- cluded with the new material--none, however, that Is not fresh and unhack- neyed, and all adapted sufficiently to bring them within the range of the seven-year-old
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A WOMAN's WAY THROUGH tN- s KNOWN LABRADOR By Mrs.
 Leonldas Hubbard, jr. Published hy
 the Mcclure Company New York.
 slt0; q Jud6s.
 \ striking narrative. well told, of the adventures o' plucky woman takes up anj accomplishes the work of exploration which her husband had tempting which he perished from nun ger and cold, when on tho wrong trail. having asceuded t7c wrong river hy mistake Tho hook is a tribute of loy- alty to hIs memory and of affection, and is prefaced hy a snort biograph- a gifted journalist and a cultured man of high aims and fine personality His own narrative of his work Of explora- ton s also s'yen As tne. title of the book indicates his object in his OK ploring expedition was to add to the sum total of geographical knowledge regarding part of Labrador which was then unknown. but which. thanks to ais energetic wife in her devotion to her husbands memory. is no long or unknown to tho maps of that bleak and ice clad region. Mrs. Hubbard act out on her porlous and wnar'some journey of 5I6 miles accompanied by four men as "crev," two of whom were Indians. She left tho last hahi-. tatIons of white traders at tao most favorable period of the year. taking along ample provisions and equip
 mert, anu her book ia an interesting record of hor dai'2 achia, omonts as sha progressed toward the goal of her ambition, told somewhat in diary form hut nevertheless roplete vita in terest and onllrennd now and then with touches of lumor and the rola. ton of occasional comical incidents The touch of femininity ls apparent throughout nor narrotiors, particular ly so when she gives rein to her buoy ancv of spirits and tells of how she once lriftnd away from her partr giv- ing them good scare rden they be gan to fear that she had wandered away and was l1opelesslv lost and in danger of perish'ne She nohly sue ceeded in vindicatina her husbands fruitless efforts by toe exploration of the Nascaupec and George rivers and obtaining Information as to the topo- sraphy, geology and flora of tho TO zion she trarersoi, Sho writes the tale tf her daring journey as if un- conscious of the danger sne ran and the perlls of 20 desperate an under. taking, especially so for q woman, and indeed fl seems remarkable that She should have accomplished the work with sucn ease With her guides she made her way ur the right river from Hamilton inlet reached Lake Mlchi- kamau and the divide all in good sea son and thence down the Ge1rg river to lTnenva bay in time to return to the border of civilization before vn- tor shut in The last two or three | weeks of the iournevirgs were made with misgivines owing to fears that they had not hastened enough to got to safety in time but tides and weath
 CT were gracious.