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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23
State Dentists Adjourn.

The Wisconsin State Dentists asso-
citation that was in session at Ash.
land has adjourned. Doctor Liqran OF
Chicago, who was elected an honor
airy member, delivered lectures to the
dentists. The members enjoyed boat
ride up Lake Superior.
Additional officers elected were:
First vice-president, DR.. Ray Bald
win, Eau Claire second ice-president,
DR.. c. A. Clark, Menomonie; secre-
tary, DR.. O. G. Krarse, Milwaukee;
treasurer DR.. Adolph Gropper, NIL
waukee. Executive committee, DR..
Hamon, La Crosse; DR.. Mason Eau
Claire: Dr.. Forester, Ashland.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23
WireIess POCKET AppGratus.

A wireless telegraph apparatug was
exhibited recently by the inventor
Professor Cerebotann, the priest In
charge o' the Munich parish, during a
scientific lecture before an audience
of persons engaged in the various
bfaachea Of scientific Investigation
The instrument consists Of wood
IN base with the letters Of tho alpha
bet thereupon arranged IN a circle a
small mctal Indicator swings on a
pivot in the center. 50 adjusted as 70
respond 10 tho wireless dot and dash
currents and spell out the messages
a. apparatus is simple and somewhat
.argar thar the ordinary ,ard case
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23
Beffel Is Made Secretary.

The Wisconsin state board of medi-
cal examiners at its annual meeting
selected DR.. A. B. Bailey OF Fennimore
as president and DR.. John NJ. Beffel OF
Milwaukee, secretary.
The board granted Is reciprocal IL
censes to Is physicians of other states
70 practise in Wisconsin, and exam.
ined a class of SO applicants for orig
inal licenses TO practise.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23
Potato Variety Tests.

The horticultural department is
growing some fifty varieties OF pota
toes on an eight-acre field near Con
rath, Rusk county. over sixty varie-
ties are being tested ct the Branch
Experiment station at Spooner on
FIVE acre tract. The injury to pota'
toes by the drought is becoming seri-
ous although not SO extensive aa 70
grass and grain crops.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23
Will Succeed Norris.

Secretary of State Frear issued no.
tices to the county and city clerks OF
the Thirty-second senatorial district
of the election OF senator to succeed
Thomas Morris, La Crosse, who has
resigned upon becoming a candidate
for the office Of lieutenant governor
The nomination and election will be at
the September primary and the regu-
lar election in November, respectively.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23

"Dou you know. shouted the earn
est orator. what TO do to the trust?
mo, but know blame well what
they're doing to u.s.! said a man In
tho front row
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23
Industrial School.

Cunningham, member of the
civil service board. has returned
4 kesha, where he inspected
s.-"2 for boys. Mr. Cunningham
slool was being run in Ideal
vas kept clean and tidy, and
boys were being we'll cared
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-07-23

Mortgage the ship for all It's worth
before giving # up.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
"The House on Stills"

b. r. n. Hazard. Published by G. ". Dill
ingham company. New York. Price $3.50.
There is something doing in 'The
House on Stilts," which is a melodrama
by r. H. Hazard written for the un-
critical only The critical can't read 1t,
for it is crowded to suffocation with in
cidents, none of which has mark of
probability shipwreck starts things
and leaves the character of this tale on
a volcanic island Gabrielle. The daugh-
ter of the American consul there, No
relle Pierson, is the heroine and proves
to be most self-possessed young per-
son. A defaulting bank president,
chased by a detective, is the cause of
the trouble. and in the exciting adven-
lures which follow we encounter
enough characters to people a bushel Of
cheap melodramas. Dumb monks, a
yellow queen, voodoos, a "dogman,"
Spaniards, crowd the pages with no re-
gard to geography or history. So evil
dent are the impossibilities of the tale
that it overreaches itself and makes
the reader laugh instead of stirring his
blood with excitement. The tale is
not badly written, and If another time
the author is not so generous with his
ideas the story will prove more con-
vincing and entertaining. The illustra-
tions by J. A. Lemon are poor and un-
necessary.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

one ring circus or a dime museum. His
experiences with these people have
given him anecdotes of the road by the
score.
Ralph D. Paine. the well known
novelist and short story writer, has
just returned from abroad after a trip
in Scotland, England and France. a
number of his short stories which
have been translated into French and
published from time to time in the
French papers, have just been issued
compliment for an American short
story writer. Paine spent much of his
time abroad gathering material for q
book which will be published next
year by sturgis & Walton company.
Miss Ellen Glasgow has returned to
this country from Constantinople. She
is at present at Warm Sulphur Springs,
Bath county, Va Her new novel. enti-
tied The Miller of Old Church" will
be published in a few months by
Doubleday, Page & Co.
There is peculiar double mystery
connected with The Green Cloak" an
entirely new sort of detective story
published by Sturgis & Walton COM
pany. Not only does the plot itself
afford mystery almost insolubIe, but
the identity of the author is still a
puzzle. It is admitted that 'Yorke
Davis" the name which appears on the
title page as that OF the author, is
pseudonym. Many critics are OF the
opinion that the book is by some we'll
known writer masquerading for the
time being under this pen name. It is
stated authoritatively that the author
Is very prominent-but in what par
ticuiar field remains a mystery.
Justus Miles Forman in his new
novel, "Bianca's Daughter" has fur
nishe.d the English critics with dog
days CONTROVERSY. In "Bianea's Daugh-
ter two men are devoted to girl OF
20. One of them is her own age and
the other man of 40, or old enough
to be the girls father. His interest
in her.. however. is not fatherly Gle
ment K. Shorter uses Mr.. Forman's S
novel as a text for asserting that in
England the age of marriage among
men has increased lately, and goes on
to quote Locker Lampson: "a wife
should be half the age of her husband,
with seven years added. Thus, if the
gentleman be 20. his wife should be
II. If he be 36 she should be 25. and
so on. No lady of the ripe age of 81
has a right to indulge in the luxury
of a spouse who is less than a
century ODD"
The Sturgis & Walton company an
nounces that 1t VIII publish this
autumn book entitled The Suffra-
gette," by Miss E. Sylvia Pankhurst.
The author of this book. which is to
be in a ma nner the official history of
the English equal suffrage movement,
is a daughter of Mrs. Pankhurst, the
founder and honorable secretary of the
Women's social and political union.
Mrs. Pankhsurst, who will provide an
introduction for the book, is recognized
as one of the great woman suffrage
leaders of the world, and Miss Sylvia
Pankhurst has herself played an inn
portant part in the English campaign.
The book is to be a dramatic personal
narrative, and will be fully illustrated
from portraits of prominent suffra gists
and photographs of episodes that now
have a place in contemporary history
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
NEW BOOKS BRIEFLY REVIEWED

George Cary Eggleston is one of the
most versatile of the writer's of the
south. His latest book, "Westover of
Wanalah," is a story of love and life
in old Virginia. 1t deals with social
and political conditions as they existed
in antebellum days. The hero has a
hard uphill struggle, but is finally
secure in his position of honor. Judy
Peters, singular female political boss
who has appeared in a previous book,
plays an important part in the story
and is an excellent character study.
There is love story, of course, with
a heroine as well qualified to main
tain the honor of family true to the
best traditions as is the strong and
by Emil Pollak Ottendorff and is well
printed and bound Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard, Boston, $1.50.)
'sThe Castle. Builders by Charles
Clark Mum, is a simple old fashioned
love story which will suit readers who
believe in the home1y virtues of family
devotion and business honor. The chief
castle builder" is young man who
dreams of a city, where the story finds
but a sleepy coast village. and by his
ability and ambition slowly sees his
dream materialize. Uncle Asa Webster
is his strong ally, a delightful rural
philosopher and the father of the hero
inc. but the castle builder has more
dificulty in winning her than in per-
fecting his business schemes. Uncle
Asa and his daughter are devoted to
each other and the love story is full of
charm. The story, like others by this
author, is clean and we'll written.
(Lothrop, Lee Shepard. Boston;
s1.50)
In a little pamphlet entitled Parks,
Boulevards and Fairgrounds" Griffith
J. Griffith, the donor of Griffith park,
Los Angeles. makes plain story of
graft in the management of the park
that is positively appalling. This park
contains 3,015 acres and many natural
beauties, but funds for it have been di-
verted into the pockets of crooks; parts
of it have been rented for pasturage, and
some of the most beautiful shade trees
have been cut down for fire wood for
private benefit. If all the author says
is true Los Angeles is in sore need of
reform. published by Prison Reform
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

the golden days that have no other
like them. Larry and his friends are as
decent as they are active and their fun
is of the sort one can enjoy. Every
boy and man who ever heard of a col
lege can take delight in this book.
Dorothy Dainty is one of the best
known little girls in the United States,
and the ninth volume. entitled "Doro-
thy Dainty's Winter" is now offered to
her friends and admirers by the author,
Amy Brooks. After the gay times of
summer were over the winter was
passed in the fine stone house, which
was the family's country home. Dor
othy and all her little friends resumed
their studies at the school conducted
by Aunt Charlotte and were as always
trained unconsciously in kindness and
good taste, as well as in set lessons
A visit TO the city for a most enjoy
able valentine party at the home of
Vera Vane furnishes pleasing variety
and amusing references to former char
acters and a thrilling experience of
Jimmy Boy help to filI the story with
incident. Although continuing vol
une, this is not allowed to interfere
with its enjoyment as an independent
story.
Nina Rhoades offers the ninth in her
series OF the Br1ck House BOOKS. This
one is entitled The Other Sylvia" Lit
tie s year old Sylvia has a beautiful
home with every luxury money can buy,
but she has no mother and, being the
only child in the house, is very lonely
slight acquaintance with the children
of neighboring family, whose parents
have merry times with them as a part
of their daily life. fills her with longing
to be more intimate with her reserved
q n ~
but little. She also longs for more
companionship with other children. BY
chance she learns that girls who are
King's Daughters pledge themselves ito
some kind act or service and that one
little girl named Mary has taken it
upon herself to be helpful to all the
Marys of her acquaintance. This is
such an interesting way OF doing good
that she adopts il, but she is much puz-
zled how to find another Of her unusual
name. She succeeds, however, and sets
in motion a most surprising chain of
circumstances, bringing great and uns
expected joy to many others as well as
herself
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
Range and Trail"

- By Edwin 7. Sshin. Published hv T J. Gro
well Co, New York. Price $50.
The author Of Bar B Boys" in part
10 satisfy the demand quite urgently
pressed By appreciative correspondents
and Also because so many things re-
mained to tell about the cowboys life,
has carried on the story of Phil Ma
coWan IN the present volume, which is
an epic Of the old cattle trail days.
The young easterner reaches the
ranch this time at Christmas, and so
graphic is the account of the mid win
ter among the foothills that one Is
glad to be comfortably indoors while
reading the first quarter of the book
Phil is showed in and forced to stay on
and learn the business OF caring for
stock in the cold months. So unusually
hard on the cattle is the season that by
spring the owner has to bring up a
fresh herd from New Mexico. The
trail from the south is one long pleas
ure trip for Phil, who shares in the
work OF herding and driving, as well
as in the songs, the shooting and the
stampede.
His old acquaintances among the
crew, together with other characters
who made their bow in the previous
Book, with a number OF new ones
added. form a lively list of characters
II the trUest description yet written
Of cowboy life on western range and
trail.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

serhbles a cat having fit A cat,hard-
1y ever plans out a fit very carefully.
When it gets ready to have a 1t it goes
ahead and has it; sometimes 1t is a
good fit, and sometimes it turns ont to
be mere fizzle. and sometimes the cat
thinks it is having one of the best fits
it ever had. and then the fit critics say
it is a mighty poor fit. 1 may have a
lot of fits this season. and I may not
have any. That's the way it goesw'
Doubleday, Page & Co. brought out
recently new volume by Mr. Butler
in their "Comiae Masterpiece series en-
titled Water Goats and Other Tros1-
bles."
Mrs. Sydney Budgett, who writes
under the name of Elizabeth DejeanS
which was her maiden name. has been
unusually successful with her literary.
work, and her first story. THE Win
ming Chance" was as popular on the
Atlantic as on the Pacific coast. Mrs.
Budget and her husband are now liv-
ing in Riverside, Cal, but they will
shortly take up their permanent resi-
dence In Los Angeles. Mrs. Budgetfs
new novel, THE Heart of Desire" has
Just been published by the Lippincotts
The first book had st. Louis for a
background. but the new one deals
with California.
Mrs. Virginia Terhune Van de Water,
author of From Kitchen to Garret," /"
comes naturally by her knowledge of
domestic science. She is a daughter of
Marion Harland, long of household
fame. Mrs. Van de Waters new book,
which has just been published by Stur-
gis & Walton company, is the first
volume in the young farmers practical
library. of which Ernest Ingersoll is
the general editor.
Sturgis & Walton company announce
that they will publish this autumn a
book to be entitled Famous Impos-
tors 1t is being written by Bran
Stoker, the well known novelist and
biographer of Sir Henry irving Stoker
will present various types of swindlers,
pretenders and humbugs of interna-
tional reputation. The book promises
to be a very diverting and dramatic
study in human gullibility.
lie Roy Scott, author of "The Walk
ing Delegate" is now at his summer
home, Caritas island, which is also tho
home of Graham Stokes and his wife,
Shears of Destiny" the setting OF
which is in Russia, will be published
this fall by Doubleday, Page & Co.
Scott is at present working upon a
novel of American life.
Miss Alice p. Raphael, author of THE
Fulfllment." the powerful novel re-
Gently published by Sturgis & Walton
company, is spending the summer in
Europe. Miss Raphaers home is in
New York.
Richard Harding Davis is estimated
to have made when he was an author
solely $4,000 annually from royalties
on his books.
r. Berkeley Smith, whose book, "The
Village of vagabonds," Doubleday, Page
e. Co., came out in May, has, a weak
ness, in his adventures after fictional
material, for cheap shows. A friend
says that the '1egit" has no attractions
for Smith, but that he will make gigan-
tic efforts to get intimate with the per-
formers and managers in a country
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
"Once Upon a Tim G .

fever, the fear of the black faces, keep
him on edge, rob him of sleep. rob him
of his physical strength, of -.-s moral
strength. He loses shame, loses rea-
son; becomes cruel weak, degenerate.
He invents new, bestial tortures: COM
mits new, unspeakable atrocities, until,
one day the natives turn and kill him,
or he sticks his gun in his mouth and
blows the top of his head off,"
There is something strangely remin-
iscent of Joseph Conrad about this par
ticuIar tale, but whether it is the style
of the tale itself is difficult to say. 1t
is not copy by any means, but is sim
ply suggestive.
Quite different in tone, gay, modern
and with a touch of the unexplainable
is 1.-The Messengers telling the tale of
two happy lovers. "A Charmed Life
is another fine one, with the scene set
in Cuba. A young war correspondent
is the hero and the quiet, restrained ex-
citement of the tale is remarkably well
done Mr.. Davis love stories are good,
his travel stories are good his adven-
ture tales are good; in fact, we have
vet to find the sort of story which he
can not handle in a masterful manner.
Tt has been the fashion for reviewers to
speak of him and his work as innocu-
ous but that word seems so indefinitely
insulting. His heroes are such fine un-
conscious gentlemen and his heroines
are such clean feminine women. He
never attacks problems and never de-
grades his art or cheapens it by any
of the fummery devices of advertise
ment. It is well once in a while to
appreciate Richard Harding Davis and
be glad we have book from him now
and then as an antidote for the horrors
we are usually forced to read.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
Books Received

Brass Taeks" bv Colonel William C. Hun
ter Reilly & Rritton company. Chicago
'sThe Grand Canyon Of Arizona" by George
Wharton James Little. Brown & Co.. Boston.
The Why OF the Wili' By p. W. Van
Pevma- Sherman French & Co. Boston.
Sherman. French & Co. Boston.
Commentaries SIM By George Frederick
Jelfs sherman. French & Co.. Boston
'sThe Border Of the Lake" by Agnes Lee.
sherman. French & Co.. Boston
college DAYS Essays" by Reuben Alonzo
Gibson. Nixon-Jones printing company, 81.
ssThe Refugee by Captain Charles Gibson.
Century company New York.
The ReIigio- Medical Masquerade by Fred
erick W. Peabody. Hancock press, Boston.
The History OF the Telephone" By Herbert
n. Casson. A, c. McClurg 4 CO.. Chicago.
Race Distinctions in American Law BY
Gilbert I. Stephenson. ID. Appleton Co.
"A Complete Grammar Of Esperanto by Ivy
Kellerman. ID. G. Heath & Co. New York
Home Life In Ireland" BY Robert Lynd-
A. Z. McClurg Co. Chicago
Oueux BrentanO's. New York.
The Little Old Outlaws" by Anne Archbod
Miller A. C.. McClurg & Co. Chicago.
"A Golden Fancy and Other Poems, By
Henry Dumont Chapple publishing company.
Hearts Atour." BY Edith ChetwcOd and Ed
ward r. Thompson: Evening Post job printing
company. New York.
Parent aud Child. By SIR Oliver Lodge
Funk Wagnalls company. New York.
Anne Nelson" BY Alice Turner Curtis. R- +.
Fenno & Co.. New York.
.sThe Blue Lawn.'' by Loretto Z. kolle. R. +.
Fenno & Co. New York.
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

Eight stories by Richard Harding
Davis have been collected in one vol
ume under the title of Once Upon a
Time a pledge as old as time itself
that the author has important things to
tell. This authors name means inter-
est and excitement whatever the title,
and his latest volume is no disappoint-
ment. All tastes are catered to in this
book, for the author takes us nearly
around the world in his stories and
each one charms for a different reason.
The first story in the book is entitled
"a Question of Latitude" and while the
idea is not new it is stated more clear
ly, handled with more strength than
ever before. A young journalist, known
in New York as a ''muckraker," is sent
out to the Congo for his magazine. In
the cleverest possible fashion we are
shown the utter decentralization he falls
into, even though he is warned, all
caused by the climate, the sun. He
finds it almost impossible when he ar
rives to comprehend the lawlessness of
the community. An old coaster attempts
to enlighten him and states a supposi-
titious case:
Where you are going the sun does
worse things to a man than kill him;
1T drives him mad. It keeps the fear
of death in his heart, and that takes
away his nerve and his sense of pro-
portion. He flies into murderous fits
over silly. imaginary Sights; he grows
morbid suspicious; he becomes a cow
ard and because he is a coward with
authority he becomes a bully. y
He is alone, we will suppose, at a sta
ton 800 miles from any other white
man. One morning his house boy spills
a cup of coffee on him and in a rage he
The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25

horse and the coming civilization, is
preachment IN the form of novel by
Olin ]. Ross of Columbus, o. The
book is filed with details of railroad
building and manipulating. which make
very difficult reading for any one who
does not understand the subject thor
oughly The moving of trains is made
typical of the gathering forces of the
world, but exactly what the author
is aiming for is not very cleare The
author is very wordy and his writing
is often involved. published by the
"The Passover" is the title given by
Clifford Howard to his new book tell
ing again the story of Christ An ex-
planatory title. reads "an fnterpreta-
ton" but it is simply a telling of the
beautiful sad story in modern English
The author has written several books
along the same lines, among the best
known being "srhe Story of a Young
Man; Life of Christ; Did Jesus Live
in Nazareth?' This is well written
and would find its place in the Sunday
school library. CIR. F. Fenno & Co., New
York. SD
l. p. jacks Mad Shepherds and
other Human Studies" is a series of
sketches of group OF characters, es-
pecially one spiritual shepherd who
moves through a series of diverting
Incidents There is much fine humor
displayed in the sketches and very
unusual literary quality. The pictures
are of English. rustic life and bear the
marks OF truth to nature. No one can
read them and be unconvinced- They
are sure to create much interest and
discussion. (Henry Holt & Co., New
York $1,000
Eugene MaIalove Rhodes Good Men
and True is a lively story of what
happened on our Mexican border to a
young man who was trying to learn
typewriting. 1t has been somewhat
expanded since its serial appearance in
the Saturday Evening Post last win
ter The hero's typewriter, generally
an entirely peaceable piece of furni-
ture. is put to strange uses In this
tale of brave and humorous man in
a series of exciting and hilarious ad-
ventures. (Henry Holt & Co., New
York. $1.).