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The English language must
frequently feel like the lad that
fell under a moving machine
all cut up. Here are a few clip
ped from Kansas weeklies- The
names of the papers are not
given because everyone deserves
a second chance:
That mad dog that was let go
at Reading a little over two
weeks ago got his work in out
here near the creek Last
Friday the gang rebuilding the
Berry bridge. four miles south
east of town, had a serious acct
dent. the best feature of it being
that results we're no worse
Miss Tot Whitman while painting
around the floor of her bedroom
preparatory to the placing of a
new rug, had occasion to move
the dresser. underneath and be-
hind which was so comfortably
housed his snakeship- real live
sure enough black snake, three
| feet or more long and of the
thickness of half of your wrist.
/ During Governor Rollins's adj
ministion a representative of the
legislature of New Hampshire
from one of the rural districts in
the northern section of the state
was presented to the governor
for the first time. Being some
what unfamiliar with statehouse
etiquette he addressed his excel
| lency as most high The gov
ernor informed the gentleman
that there was but one Most
High, He who had made every
thing from nothing We'll.
governor, replied the county
Legislator. IN give you credit
for making justice of the peace
out of man up in my town that
is about as near to nothing as
ever walked on two legs
Mamma, mamma" cried a lit
tie Wichita boy. running into
\ the house with puppy in his
arms. L have found this puppy
in the road He come from To-
peka-"
How do you know he came
from Topeka ?'' asked the boys
mother
He amt got his eyes open
yet" was the astounding reply.
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SATURDAY. July "A. 1909
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J. A RICKART.

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4 CHARMING HUMBUG. BY Imogen
heart" etc. New York: f.. p. Dut-
ton * Co.
THE KING OF NOBODY'S ISLAND. by
Thomas Enright. New York: The
Gibson Publishing Company.
SOME HIDDEN SOURCES OF FICTION,
Paper Read Before the Historical
Society of Dauphin County. Pennsyl-
Vania. BY Benjamin Matthias Mead.
eX-presidAnt OF the Pennsylvania
German Society. etc. Philadelphia:
George w. Jacobs & Co.
SPAIN OF TODAY, Narrative Guide
to the Country Of the Dons; Wish
Suggestions for Travellers BY Jo-
seph Thompson Shaw. Illustrated
New York: The Grafton Press.
STORIES OF THE GREAT WEST. By
Theodore Roosevelt. Illustrated.
New York: The Century Company.
CAMPING AND CAMP COOKING. BY
Frank A. Bates author OF Game
Birds of North America" etc. Ros-
ton: The Ball Publishing Company.
THE TRANSITION. BY John L. din
New York: Broadway Publishing
Company.
POEMS. BY Edward Cruise New York:
The Broadway Publishing Company.
FLEET STREET AND OTHER POEMS.
BY John Davidson. New York:
Mitchell kennerley.
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in convenient size for the use of motor
lists on the road, capable of being put in
the coat pocket or the bookpouch inside
the along with the road book Fa-
miliarity with the laws of the states and
the general rules governing motorists will
save motor owners and chauffeurs much
trouble.
THE STORY OF OIL. BY Walter Shell
don Tower. PhD., assistant profes-
sor of Geography. University of
Pennsylvania. Illustrated. New York
d. Appleton & Co.
Petroleum is coming to he the world s
chief fuel. 1t is used in railroad cars.
automobiles, motor boats and in air
ships. 1t finds many uses in the navy,
such as the propulsion of submarine
boats. 1t is an important domestic re-
source. 1t is indeed believed to be the
main power producer of this day. with an
indefinite future. Viewed in this sense
1t is important for the modern citizen
to be familiar with the story of petro-
leum development. not merely as an his
torical research, but with reference TO
the industrial situation of today Mr..
Tower tells 1.-The story of oil' clearly and
instructively. touching only Incidentally
upon the development of the Standard
OIL Company and the political aspects Of
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the oil question. The Illustrations are
exceptionally we'll chosen to depic the
various phases of petroleum industry
and the many uses of the product.
THE ROMANCE OF A PLAIN MAN.
BY Ellen Glasgow, author of The
Deliverance." etc. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
This is a strong story well told. The
dominating characters are a man who is
poor white trash and a woman who be-
longs to one of the proudest old families
of the south. AS children the girl had
once refused to play with the boy because
he was common and though, in after
years. the fathomless gulf of caste is
bridged by love and the man and woman
marry. their happiness Is nearly wrecked
by his frenzy to become a financial power
in a state that denied him social standing
The scenes are laid in Richmond shortly
after the civil war, and on almost every
page there is a glimpse of some ideal
phase of the home life of the old south
struggling to survive the practical changes
due. to the war and to the intrusion into
society OF all these new people that no
one ever heard Of. There is the fra
GRANGE of old gardens, a pGngent whiff
from tobacco warehouse and the rich,
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markable personal experiences which. he
states. dispelled all doubt in his mind as
to the reality of a future life.
Mr.. Stead explains that he possesses
what is called the gift of automatic
handwriting" This gift enables him.
his mind being in a passive state, to re-
ceive letters. self-written, from friends.
whether living or dead. Through this
automatic channel he has had messages
and warnings, which were later verified,
from the spirit world. but 1t Is his letters,
through other mediums. from his son, who
died last year. on which he bases his
final and unalterable conviction that per-
sonaEty exists after death.
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urstudied melody of negro songs. Though
Ben and Sally are the central ngures. the
readers fancy will be captivated by the
two gentle maiden ladies who have faded
like rose leaves in their stately colonial
home, with its polished floors and family
portraits and silver, and with faithful
black or two who had once been their
slaves. Miss NIFTY has lived and dies
true to the traditions of her kind. but her
sister. Miss Matoaca, possesses an alarm
ing sense of justice that compels her to
assert. even in the presence of gentlemen.
that taxation without representation is
tyranny.
This indelicate conviction is a source of
exceeding modification to the elder sis
ter and that Miss Matoaca's unusual
sense of justice has worked to her own
suffering is evidenced in the bachelorhood
of her long ago lover, Gen. Bolingbroke,
whom she discarded because of gallantries
that earned him the reputation of being
a gay young bird. He is rather gay
old bird when the story opens, and. having
outlived his Galantries, has graSped the
opportunities of the new south and made
himself a power in the world of railroads
and stocks 1t is the generals good ma
ture that directs Ben Starr to the emil
nence which he later attains.
HAREMLIk: Some Pages from the
Life of Turkish Women. BY De-
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metra vaka (Mrs. Kenneth Brown).
Boston: Houghton Miffiin Company.

AS n Greek woman and subject of the
sultan, the author has had social access
to the harems of Constantinople. and in
her account of several visits to Turkish
friends she draws aside the glamour of
mystery that wells the hidden life of the
women of the orient, and shows the world
how they live and love. and why they
are happy though few of them may claim
a husband as her exclusive own.
The book is beautifully written. Each
chapter pictures lovely women with the
Laughing irresponsibility of children: the
langlor Of houris and the sacred dignity
of motherhood. Everywhere there is the
flash of ieweled robes, the perfume of
flowers, the ripple of brooks in green. high
walled gardens and the splash of rose
scented baths There is harmony between
the several wives of the same impartially
devoted pasha, and always. an unwav-
ering faith in Allah. and resignation to
his decree.
The title is i'm Turkish characters and
the covers are appropriately designed with
crescents and stars.
HOW KNOW THAT THE DEAD RE
TURN. BY William T. Stead. BoS-
ton: The Ball Publishing Company.
The author gives, in this paper the re-
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lotted according to merit, the more thrif-
ty and skilled getting the bigger farms.
the others being given to those who nave
not reached the point Of qualifying for
the bigger trust.
Preference. OF course, Will De given "
the pupils of the school.
An interesting thing about the school
is its club feature. Tired women from
days in the old country house. At the
same time they never need lose touch
with the remainder Of the world. for
telephone connects them with their Lon
don interests.
x x
The library is one of the largest and
best selected in England, and virtually
every magazine published in the English
tongue is to be found there. Music Is
furnished, and the whole tone of the
place is to mingle the artistic and culti-
waiting with the practical and money win
ming.
1t was not without a bitter fight with
the Worcestershire educational author
tiles that kindergarten methods were
introduced.
This quarrel went far back for its in
ception. Some years ago the mother and
daughter gave a school to Bredon's Nor
ton. 1t was run in the old-fashioned
way, the teaching being pretty we'll con-
fined to reading. writing and arithmetic.
The local educational authorities declared
that this was all the children needed.
But within the year Mrs. Martin and
daughter realized that they had made
a mistake. so they brought from Lon
don some of the best kindergarten teach
ers and Immediately changed their sys-
tenn so that today it is one Of the most
modern in the country.
Bitter opposition from the old-fashioned
conservatism at first opposed this plan.
but now 1t has won out, and even the
antagonists have been forced to admit
its value.
Motor cars are at the disposal Of the
teachers for visiting the towns, and in
warmer seasons the children have the
use of a motor boat on the Avon.
The liberality and wisdom of the two
women have forced the admirat tion of all.
and have made many converts for the
cause of woman suffrage, for none can
deny that women who can achieve so
we'll in a work of this kind are better
fitted for welding the affairs Of the ma
tion than most men who have them in
charge.
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Not only is she employing part of her
great wealth in agitation and in advanc-
ing the campaign, which enlists the el;-
ergy of the gentler sex in John Bulls
realm to an extent not understood in the
United States. but. assisted by her daugh-
ter, Maud woodruff, she is turning the
English village in which she lives into
Utopia.
Forty years ago the name of Victoria
Woodruff was we'll known in the United
States. Its owner was one of the early
group of American women who first STIR
red agitation against the laws that de-
prived their sex of an adequate part in
discharging the affairs of the nation.
Victoria Woodruff was nominated for
the presidency. She didn't win. or come
anywhere near it. No one thought she
would But the novelty of seeing wom-
ans name on a ticket furnished sensa-
ton. and made her fame national.
Defeat at the polls did not lessen the
energy of this resourceful woman. Beat
en- at the polls, she determined to succeed
In business, and she and her sister, then
known as 'Tenny Clafiin," now Lady
Cook of London, England went to New
York. and there started the brokerage
firm of Woodruff & Ciaf1in.
This, too, was a novel enterprise for
women.
x X
In fact. at that time nothing like it had
been known in this country. Far from
being mere experimenters. the two sisters
showed themselves uncommonly shrewd
business women, and soon built up big
trade.
Then they branched out into the pub
fishing business with the Woodruff d
Claf1n Journal.
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most important publications of England.
A host of suitors sought to win the sis
tiers. Mrs. Woodruff was the first to
capitulate. She married in 1879 John Rid
dolph Martin, an English banker. mem
Der of one of the oldest firms of Lom-
bard street.
Mr.. Martin backed the campaigns of his
wife with great heartiness, and in the
battle for woman's rights. which has
made greater strides in England than
anywhere else, she has had a leading
part.
At the death of Mr.. Martin his millions
went to his wife, as we'll as the beautiful
estate at Norton Park. in Worcestershire.
Mrs. Martin also became a member of
the banking firm, which makes her, with
the exception of the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. the most prominent woman finan-
cier in England, for she now has a bigger
interest in banking than anybody else OF
her sex save the one.
With this big inheritance Mrs. Martin
is striving to transform the village of
Brendons Norton into center Of culture,
equipped with all the conveniences of
modern civiliza tion.
The training which Mrs. woodruff and
iiNi
her for her present place Of power in the
London financial world. She is often seen
in the vicinity of Lombard street and St.
Swithin's lane and is recognized as an
influence in banking circles.
She has maintained her powers as a
speaker, and is today recognized as the
greatest speaker of her sex in England.
Her arguments in favor of woman suf-
frage have been taking London by storm,
and she never fails of big crowd when
announcement is made that she Is going
to lecture.
When Mrs. Martin and her daughter
came into possession of Bredon's Norton
they found it, like many English agricul-
tural villages, to be in a most dilapidated
condition. The village school was mis-
managed in the old inefficient style. and
the villagers were as much cut off from
com ommunication with the outside world as
though they had been in the center of an
African continent.
The farmhouses on the estate were
in the neglected and semi-ruined con-
dition that is to be found in many a
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Masterpiece "The Atheists Mass AN
Episode of the Reign of Terror" .'Facino
Cane and La Grande Breteche." In
each volume there is a summarized
chronology of the writer's life and a
critical Introductory essay. Each volume
is prefaced by portrait in an impress
sionStic style in black and white. Other
volumes of the series will include stories
by Gautier, Hoffman. Steele, Addison,
Goldsmith, Poe, Nash, Tolstoy, Boccaccio
and Mallory.
ABBOT-s AUTOMOBILE LAW FOR
MOTORISTS, The Law of the Road
and Principles of the Law of Negli-
gence. By Twyman O. Abbott, au-
thor of Works on Probate Law. Real
Property, Negligence, etc. With a
compilation of the Motor Vehicle
Statutes enacted by the Various
States. Chicago: The Reilly & Bril-
ton Company.
Mr.. Abbott has condensed into 17S clear
and definite rules the general principles
of automobile law established by court
decisions. statutory legislation and the
law. He gives first these general
rules governing the rights and duties of
motorists and use of the highway, then
follows with brief digest of the laws
of various states OF the Union relating to
vehicles and roads. The volume is issued
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This was at the time of the celebrated
Beecher-Tilden trial. Not every news
paper dealt freely in the details of this
scandalous case. but the Woodruff &
Claflin Journal printed it in great detail.
as result of which enterprise there
came host of libel suits.
AS a result of the many entanglements
that ensued the sisters decided to give
up their publishing interests. and after
looking the field over decided to become
lecturers. The varied talents OF the many
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village in the mother country.
The two American women at once
saw the need of attracting a better class
of cultivators of the soil, and Immediately
they began devoting their wealth and
energy to the proposition.
The handsome old manor house, sit
uated at the foot of the hill at Nor
ton Park, was restored and turned into
a women's agricultural college Com
petent teachers were put in charge and
already the class of women studying
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IRST of women to
be nominated for
the presidency of
the United States,
an American, Mrs.
Victoria Woodruff
Martin, is now set
ting the women of
England an eN-
ample in the practi-
cal methods by
which the battle Of
their sex for more
rights may be won.
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and told him that if the concession were
signed in Garshore's favor she would sign
an agreement to leave Rournania at
once-and never return"
And that's what has happened?"
remarked. surprised.
Exactly. Garshore has his concession
and I'm left out in the cold. L suppose,
Phil, I'm a fool he added. 81 knew
the woman had influence over his ex
cellency, and l could. had l wished have
acted exactly the same he has done.
and made a clear sixty thousand pounds
by it,"
mo, Granny" 1 said. you're not
fool You tried to do the business hon.
estly and uprightly. and you failed. as
many good man fails, by endeavorins
to run straight. But depend upon it
his money won't benefit him very much.''
mo. 1 suppose it won't. after all,''
my friend said ref1ectively. She's a
clever woman is Lydia Popescu. Gar
shore fancies he's played his game well.
no doubt. but he doesn't know the pretty
Lydia-as / do"
"Oh, tell me about her. I'm interest
ed 1 urged
But the broken man shook his head.
remained silent, and slowly lit another
of his pet Bogdanoffs.
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CHAPTER II.
Mid London's Lights.

A fortnight had gone by
l. Philip RalstOn found myself back
again in dear, dirty old London. My pied
a-terre-when l was not traveling-was on
the hub of the universe, for, to be exact,
/ had a tiny fiat, consisting of a sitting
room, bedroom. bathroom and a cupboard
like apartment called a kitchen. in Talbot
House. ST. Martins Lane-within stone 5
throw of Charing Cross.
Though thoroughbred cosmopolitan,
like my friend Granny Cough, 1 was a
Cockney, born and bred. My father, a
city merchant, had. on his death. left me
with a comfortable income, and for a
good many years l had spent my life in
erratc journeyings to and fro between the
channel and the Urals.
1t was a warm July night. and I was
seated with Granny in one of those cane
armchairs in the courtyard of that colos-
sal hotel. the Cecil. in the Strand. He
was smoking in detection, watching idly
the coming and going of the thousand
or so guests mostly strangers in London.
BY force | had brought him home to
London, away from Bucharest, that city
of such bitter memory. Apart from his
will or inclination. | had paid his hotel
bill at the Boulevard, and compelled him
to travel home with me, and there he
was dl tiie tttii ds VI goIt, DellcSeu Dy
everybody to be man of means, but un-
fortunately "a man of straw
The fair-bearded head porter. in his
smart goid-laced uniform: 1.-The Russian
who was many years a detective in the
metropolitan police: the tall. fair second
porter. and the host of others busy in the
courtyard, whistled hanSoms and bowed
men and women in evening dress into
cabs for, theaters. dinners. or public func-
tionS.
From till 9 in the London season the
courtyard of the Cecil is alive with move
ment. The whole place. a small town
within itself, throbS with life. SparkleS
with brightness and is gay with music.
On the right GOO people arrive for public
banquet perhaps, and on the left is the
restaurant. where one can even dine eco
nomically, or spend a five-pound note on
ones dinner And over all can be heard
the French of the personnel the twang df
the transatlantic and the music of the
Hungarian band.
We were seated together in the
half shadow. with a row of colored
lights above us. In our vicinity
were many idlers, like ourselves, but
strangers mostly. spending a quiet ten
minutes before dining.
Outside, the traffic in the Strand was
neverceasing, but within that courtyard
was the world of wealth, of garish chic
and careless gayety. Half a dozen mil
lionaires. several royal princes, steel mag
mates. and Napoleons of the stock eX-
change were housed beneath that roof.
All was enormous. colossal. the very
acme of our latter-day civilization. One
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THRICE ARMED. BY Harold Bindloss,
: author of Alton of Somasco," etc,
New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.

10 establish itself against a powerful op-
position. The feat involves dangers not
only from the sea, but from treacherous
men. Mr.. Bind oss is a master crafts
man in describing storm or sea adven-
ture. and in this we'll balanced narrative
he has several opportunities to display
this faculty 10 advantage.
THE SPELL OF ITALY. BY Caroline
Atwater Mason. illustrated. Boston:
l.. {. Page 4 Co.
This is that unusual product, a guide
book that tells story with touch of
human interest and at the same time gets
the reader into close relationship with the
scenes and places described. 1t is an ac-
curate, anecdotal account of the most
interesting parts of Italy, usually trav-
ersed by tourists and many points that
are often overlooked by the hurried yisi-
tor. The author, with an intimate ac-
quaintance with Italy and the Italian ira
dition, has described an actual tour, with
many amusing little side touches and
much byplay OF tourist experience. The
information is generally given in the
form of conversations between the tourist
and guide or friend, method that de-
ducts somewhat at times from the charm
OF the narrative There are numerous
character showing objects OF art and
character showing objects of art and
Italian scenes.
Il "ONLu SIont Ss
Edited by Arthur Ransom. New
York: E. p. Dutton & Co.
The purpose of this series is to give
selections from the leading story tellers
OF the world. chosen with reference to
the characteristics and style as we'll as
entertaining qualities. Two volumes are
already issued. being those which give
the stories Of Chateaubriand and Balzac.
The stories from Chateaubriand are '"The
Last of the Abencerrages" and "Atala.' -
Those from Balxac are 'The Unknown
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THE SHADOW OF THE CRESCEN +.
By Edward Bedinger Mitchell. New

By Edward Bedinger Mitchell. New
York: Frederick A. Stokes Company.
The publishers of this volume have
seen fit to warn its readers that the
characters in the romance have no coun.
1erpafts whatever in the real life of Tur-
key, which is the scene of the final COM
plications. This is lively story of in
trigue and carries the reader along with
a certain impetus notwithstanding the
occasional straining of probabilities. 1t
touches upon the Young Turks movement
TO overthrow the power of Abdul Hamid
and secure a constitution.
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