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readers. Mr.. Kaufman has. one might al
most say, invented a new philosophy. IL
is in truth old in spirit, but new in its
manner OF presentation. II is the doc
trine of work. success, confidence, honesty
and faith. 1t is n ''preachment' that all
sorts and conditions of men may under
stand. There is no fine writing. no at
tempt to turn q literary phrase or pro-
duce rhetorical erect. Hard. heavy
hammer blows are these, blows aimed at
slothfuIness and disbursement and
doubt. blows calculated to stimulate me
real man and to urge him on TO action
for his own good. The truth OF each Of
these short talks with his reader Mr..
Kaufman drives home with sharp, crisp
sentences. which have an aphoristic quail
ity often homely in the figures employed.
always Illuminating in their significance.
No man can read this work without feel
ing stronger and better equipped for the
fight in which optimism always wins.
ENCHANTED GROUND; m episode Of
the a re o. sm yg.n sn, msr' BY Har
dee's Son. Boston: Houghton
Miff1in Company.
Prudish persons should softly tread
past this Enchanted Ground" Here
is no tale for those who dread to see
life in its ugly realities. Yet whoever
reads it sympathetically may derive
IL u UTOdQcT ScuSe VI CHARITY IOT
those who err than they felt before,
and may acquire a more judicial atti-
tude toward those Of whose tempta-
tions they are in ignorance. This is
the story Of a young man newly come
to New York from the somewhat rigid
atmosphere OF New England. to be
gripped by temptation in the great
city, to fall morally. to lose heavily,
then in final revolt against his weak
ness to shake Off the shackles OF in
diligence and finally to regain all that
he has lost. Mr.. Smith presents only
a few characters for the purpose Of his
story telling. a fascinating little cos
mopOlitan woman. who. with all her
frivolity and immortality, is neverthe-
less capable Of a great overmastering
affection: q self-sacrificing young
French woman, who in her Greenwich
village boarding house tyrannizes
over her old father and mother. yet
with the skindest heart in the world: a
highly accomplished scientist Crap
ping with his thirst demon, that has
wrecked him in the past and now men
aces him once more; a beautiful, vain,
unstable young chorus girl. for whose
sake her -hard-working sister enlists
the services of Philip Wetherell. There
is no denying the force OF Mr.. Smith s
style in dealing with so complex and
difficult q theme. He takes his place
among the strongest OF our present
day story writer's.
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A RAINY DAY AT THE SEASFORE


on so and did they notice your dissipated
face anyhow and isn't 1t a wonder a man
can make living doing the way you do,
and
Oh there's that horrid made-up girl that
pretends that the elderly woman with her
is her aunt and chaperon but she can tell
that to the marines or Sweeney because
they don't look one bit alike and that bold
creature has all of the married men Of the
place on her staff and it's q wonder she
doesn't see what folks think of her and
the funny part of il is the men folks the
poor crazy stiles think she's perfectly
beautiful and go around raving about her
even to their wives whereas her skin Is
just as muddy as it can be when you get
close to her and it's no wonder she wears
wells all the time and she's got the max
ings of pretty good squint too when
you get right close to her and oh yes her
figure is all right but isn't 1t scandalous
how short the skirt Of her bathing suit Is
and how in the wide wide world men can
see anything in such a creature is just
the queerest thing that ever
Well. anyhow. our idea of nothing what
ever to live for is a rainy day at the sea-
side. and this. all in all. will be about all
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.
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Then the shippers relationship toward
his employers is another thing that must
be taken into consideration in scanning
this matter OF why they stick to their
ships when there appears to be no vestige
of hope left for their vessels. Most mas
tiers are men who have passed through all
Of the grades from apprentice up, and
from the time a ships boy first puts on
the jacket OF an apprentice the sacred
ness of his obligation to his employers Is
dinned and dinned and forever redinned
into his ears. Ships boys associate only
with the officers. and the officers are eter-
nally instilling il into the lads that their
employers.
BY the time boy has passed through
all the grades and finally attained a
masters papers. the idea of his respon-
sibilIty and his loyalty to his employer
has become a sort of first tenet OF re-
ligion to him. Well, this being the case.
the skipper whose ship is slipping away
from beneath his feet cannot but feel.
no matter how utterly blameless he may
be, that he hasn't made good for the
trust his employers have reposed in him;
that fate. or the hand of God. or destiny.
or something of that sort has been against
him, and caused him to become derelict
in his duty to the people employing him.
Positively IL Is a sort of worthy madness
this sense OF duty which shippers feel
toward their employers. and III all hands
ashore possessed the same feeling il is
dead sure thing that land employers never
would have occasion to complain OF their
employees. Thus. the weight of tradition,
the ever-present fear of being blamed
whether blameworthy or not, the keen il
unreasonable self-deprecation for having
failed to make good-these are the things
that cause a deep sea captain, when the
big bitter hour OF his life arrives and
his ship is on the edge of dissolution, to
stick along with her with little or no de-
sire to be saved. G. l.. c.
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No answer.
do you think me a detectiver'

| No answer.
do you think me detectiver''
Yep
main street, and it was q country n
over which we logged. The soft ~
mer dusk had settled all around US. q
the only sounds that broke upon the
besides the pounding of the horses n
| upon the earth and the rattle OF
/ buggy" were the croak OF frogs and
gentle swish OF water tapping
beach below. 1t was . silence which.
canny. I sighed with relief when Her
drove into q private roadway and aim
Immediately pulled up before q small n
4 rooted house. We had taken the nj
road to the left Of the wooded trfan(
| and reached the cottage OF the farmer
( Overlook.
There" said Henry. in q tone OF reiiI
here you be. an I hope you don W.
| me to stay?'
..No: here's your money. I'm mu|
Obliged to YOU" And I could not resI
adding: NOW go quick before the GID
of the Place OF Silence catches YOU Al
then 7 stepped back and laughed heart
at the rapidity with which the lad wnir
around and was on.
I turned to the door OF the cottage
find IL open and myself face To face w
a youngish man, broad and athletic
appearance, beardless and sunburne4
scarcely the man I expected TO see thej
for my conception Of Mr.. Arms was OF
lean man and elderly.
81 wish to see Mr.. Arms 1 said.
"'E is yonder," answered the md
pointing northeastward. There II VIM
ouse with green blinds ten minutes
yond. e. lives there.
"Is this not Overlook"
AYE, sir
And is not Mr.. Arms the farnl
& "'E was. sir" corrected the man.
conically but I ham the farmer now
Indeed" IL seemed curious that N
Milbrath should have given me an int
duction TO a man no longer on the pis !
II looked as IL he did not know OF n
change. / could not see. however, IN
II made much difference to me.
"Well. then" answered, you, not "
Arms. are the man I want. l am
new tenant for Overlook. NY man VI
be on tomorrow. In the meantime q
from Mr.. Mibrath will explain the SIT
tion," and handed him the fntrod' |
ton.
Instantly the same expression OF curid
ity that l. had observed on the face
nearly every one who had looked at
since I arrived in Winton came into
mans face.
lave. SIR" he responded, courteousl
but" he hesitated. 'if you will exct
me. sir. ] think you will be more COZ
Portable with my cousin. who IL N
Arms. I can drive you hover. The ROOF
ere are small and
That will not bother me In the least
I interrupted, land I do not wish to d
YOU or your wife to any trouble. A ~
or q cot anywhere will do for the mig
/ dare say shall be able to get into
villa tomorrow.
The mans heavy brows lowered triA
but his voice remained even and cou}
eous.
II should be glad to accommodate 70
sir, but my wife is-far from well.
A Young woman whom i had observt
through the open door OF an adjoini I
room now came slowly forward. q e
ding child ciutching at her skirts.
"Harsk the gentleman I'm. joe. she
terrupted sharply, land ] VIII lay out
bite for I'm before l 'ush the babe
Sleep
The man. whose large form had block
the doorway. made room for me 10 Pc
within, and as I did so | heard
woman mutter beneath her breath
him: Ave you no sense. you?
CTo be continued tomorrow
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1t. They mooch Off into detached groups
the he-knockers as well as the Iydy
hammersmiths. and they peg the bunch
coming and going.
All you've got to do Is to pass disheart-
enedly through the exchange of a seaside
hotel on a rainy day to fetch the clink-
clank-clangor of the anvils upon you: how
you didn't get home till after 3 o'clock
this morning because the couple that has
the room next to yours heard you when
YOU came in and you certainly seemed to
that couple to be in a peculiar condition
because the way you bumped against the
furniture In your room was something
awful and II woke up nearly everybody
on your floor and then too you tossed
your shoes on the moor if you were try
ing to wake up the dead and then you
snored and groaned in your sleep some
thing tur'ble and it's no wonder consid-
ering how you spend all your time o.
nights at the Old Berlin and it's a miracle
how your wife manages to stand YOU at
all and deed they'd train you IL they had
you and they'd jes' like to see themselves
letting a man belonging to them carry
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BOOK REVIEWS.

THE POWER AND THE GLORY. 3,
Grace MACEDONIAN Cooke. author Of
,Huldah' etc. Illustrated b,
Doubleday. Page & Co. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
@HE love story OF Johnnie con-
sabine and Gray Stoddard calls
again 10 mind the fact that
Grace MACEDONIAN Cooke is a
capital story-teller. Casting
about, one involuntarily does, for the
sources of this skill in supreme art
one Is met at the threshold Of the ques'
BY two outstanding traits OF this en-
PERTAINING writer The first is familiar,
day day intimacy with her places and
people. The other is the moral power
10 resist temptation. One makes LOT
living pictures OF these south-mountain
folks. the other digs straight channel
OF event undiverted by the enticements
of any shore. Johnnie Consadine, beauti-
full mountain girl, stung by an ambition
alien TO her idle race, and Gray Stoddaru,
substantial factory owner and all arounu
fine fellow. these. employed ana en-
ployer, make the center of this deiignt-
ful story Environed these two are
by the sordid activities of cofton-miii
town where women and children, as wen
as men, work long and hard. where rlcn
women on the hill dahble in upli1ts,
where the medieval spirit of the noun
tain breeds bitter feuds, what tempta-
tions in these reforming days 10 make
sermons about child labor and rescues'
or TO follow the rich lead OF tac
mountains in exciting meiodrama. ine
author does none OF these things. W nat
she does do is to distil each or tnese.
very shrewdly, often humorously, In It's
essence of aim and effect. deftiy supoI
.dinating IL meanwhile to the larger uses
of her single purpose In the herolie'
tiful a girl that the reader Will take up
this story again and again. just TO see
Johnnie Consadine smile, TO near VIE.
she is saying and to nnd OUT VIVA.
simple or difficult thing she Is ooins IN
her own buoyant way.
THREE RIVERS, THE JAMES, THE
POTOMAC, THE HUDSON, retro
spect Of peace and war. ny JpsePh
Pearson Farley. L. ). A. asnins
ton: The Neale Publishing Com
pany.
An author achieves a thing of note
when he succeeds in combining, yet hold
ing clean and disentangled. both mat
tiers of large collective import and those
NJ hut neighborhood range and interest.
And this is what Gen. Farley has done
i'm the present volumne OF recoilectlons.
covering here both the national Crisis Oh
civil war and the less rigorous anafrs
of local incident With picturesque ef-
feet the author chooses as the impulse
of these "reminiscences three historic nv
ers. each of which, at one time or an
other. was an influential part of his en-
yironment Around these are gathered
the rich local colors of beautiful scenery.
poetic tradition, stirring history ana I'M
nortant current event The James CEN
tiers about the childhood of this author.
The Hudson and West Point contribute
10 his years of training and preparation.
The Potomac becomes the scene or an
active. patriotic manhood. with war time
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blame, must await his turn: and it's
often a long, long walt. too.
On the docks of Liverpool, for instance,
you'll see, often enough. this or that visit
full chap, who is pointed out to you as
skipper So-and-So, who lost his ship in
the Indian ocean, or wherever 1t might
have been, and who's waiting for an
other ship" And most Of them keep right
on waiting, forever waiting. for another
ship.
The simple fact that these men are on
the waiting list shows that they were
guilty Of no negligence In losing their
ships. for, had that been the case, Of
course they wouldn't have been on the
waiting list at all, but would have had
their masters papers revoked.
The custom OF the sea In this respect is.
in truth. no different from that of the
land. The locomotive engineer who sur
wives a bad accident which has been
caused through no fault or oversight Of
his own nevertheless finds that he has re-
ceived a black eye. professionally speak
ing, that will last him pretty nigh as
long as he lives. The goodies, the dain-
ties. SO to speak. are dished out to the
men who have had no accidents. It's the
old human story that the world was made
for winners, not losers.
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THE PILGRIM-PuRITAN ANCEsT

THE PILGRIM-PuRITAN ANCESTORS.
Names OF all who came in tho Maynow'
iscO OF PURITANS who arrived with VI
-THROP at Salem. 1880. whom their childi
residents ~ Salem 1894 10 1880 are given
..THE STORY or NEW ENGLAND" q my
interesting historical narrative just issu|
Sixty full-page illustrs tions. giving with grS
detail STORY OF THE PILGRIM. STORY
THE PURITAN. STORY OF BOSTON. Nal
on receipt Of 20 cents coin or stamps.
Z. D. SHELTON, Publisher
AUTO "a, w,2t,l5 Z park So, BosteG
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE chow DOES 1T WORK. SERIES
MODERN ENGINES. BY Thomas
w. Corbin. author OF The How
Does 1t Work of Electricity
New York: r. F. Fenno & Co..
THE CLOSED BOOK; Other Poems
BY Leolyn Louise Everett. New
York: Vessels & Bissell Co
Washington: ,Ballantyne & Sons.
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From the BufYaIo Express.
May sec my fathers record" ask
the new stu-ent. He was in the class
~
Certainly, my boy. What for:"
He told me when / left home not
disgrace him, sir. and / wish TO see -
how far L can go.
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before proceeding any further.
But he had made an unusually swift
voyage from Yokohama and he wanted to
break a line record by getting into San
to feel his way through the fog past the
gate. 1t was a bad bit OF fumbling, and
he hit the sunken rock several miles
above the gate. Nearly the whole keel
was torn from his ship and a lot Of
lives were lost, including the life Of a
consul general at a Chinese city and his
family.
Most of the passengers were tucked
into boats and carried TO safety before
the steamer went down in such deep
water that they've never been able to
find so much as a hatch cover OF her
since. Just as the last boatload OF pas
sengers was pulling away from the
steamer the skipper. man who had
sailed all of the seven seas nearly all OF
his life without ever making mistake
before. was seen to place a revolver to
his temple and put bullet in his brein'
and he was dead when the steamer car
rfed him to the bottom with her.
There. of course, was case of skip
per knowing that the end of the world
had come for him, so far as his ever be-
ing anything again in his profession was
concerned: and he did about the only
thing that was left for him to do-not
wanting TO become a commissioners cap
tain, which is. to a skipper, about equiv
alent to being a beach-comber. Had he
permitted himself to survive he never
could have explained his mistake. he
never would have got another command.
AS man born to the sea who had been
a. skipper for quarter OF a century,
there was simply nothing else for him to
do. according to the master mariner
point OF view. except to make his finish
coincident with that Of his ship.
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Alexander. A. =. Horse Secrets. RkT AZ
Bicycle. Jacob. Cow Book. 1905. RkB-Bs'
Bigrle. Jacob. Horse Book. 1907. Rkf
Bigxie, Jacob. Sheep Book. 1907 RHO u
Biggle Jacob. Swine Book. 1906. RkR-H
Brown. Thomas. Complete Modern FAR
1904. RKF-Bsi1.
Burkett. c. w. Farm Stock. RK-BeITf.
Chandler. r. NJ. Breeding Shrcpshires. XII
C3S4.
Coburn. f. ID. Swine Husbandry. isc
RkR-C63s.
Cooch l.. III. Five Hundred Questions
swered About Swine. 1905. RkR-Caf
Dietrich. William. Swine Breeding, Feed
and MANAGEMENT. RKR-DJ6I.
Fulton. A. W. Home Pork Making. ~
RKR-Fa35.
Mumfcrd. II. W. Beef Production. II
RKC-M9l6.
shaw Thomas. Animal Breeding. 1908.
placed. RKAB-Sh2s.
shaw. Thomas. Management and Feeding
Cattle. RkB-Sh2Sm.
Smith. II. X. Profitable Stock Feeding. II
RkAC-Sm5p.
wing. i. 4. sheep Farming in Amer
1905. .RkQWi24s.
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- ~OW we are going to expend a
little rambling loquacity on the
IN subject Of !, rainy ... day; or rainy %s
have an acute distaste for fried
cells for trailing effiuvium of hair oil,
for he-gossips and for several other
things.
But we confess that for general onnery-
ness. measliness and bedingedness, We
award the entire delicatesseu and the
whole layout Of zinc medals to rainy
day at the seaside.
There is something adhesively, cling
fully. demonitionly-mo mean. grisiy.
sticky, goozly and common about rainy
day at the seaside that is utterly beyond
the puissance of any pen or typewriter
to portray.
a rainy day at the seaside does not
even serve TO bring you 10 state of
mcllowed repentance. On the contrary.
il arouses within you mental condition
made up of equal parts OF gloomy pro-
test and flaming resentment.
An autumnaI day. with the brown and
red leaves swirlinG in the bitches and ed
dying garrulousy along the street. and
the wan, yellowish sun peering sort o
sadly and good-bye-ishly through the
thinning verdure-such a day has a tend
ency to betake you to a consideration of
your little sins 1--WE hope they are little)
and to stake YOU to agreeablY melan-
choy reflections as to the briefness of
existence and tho mutabihty of human
affairs and the now-were-here-and-
wc-aint-ncSs OF the game of life as we
know it.
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Bicgic. Jacob. Poultry Book EkNB
Bower. ". X. Poultry Secrets. RkN -Bs3Sp
BOYER. NJ. X. Corning Egg Book. Rkv Bsa
Johnson. A. T.. Chickens and How 10 Rs
Them. Rky-IS2S
Keilersfrass. Ernest. kellerstrass Way
Raising Poultry. 4 copies. RkN-h2ss.
Long and Brinfon. Money IA Squads. IA
. more copies. RkNP-LSa2.
Miller system 60. Book OF Poultry Cultu
RKv- M6l1.
Nourse. n. A. Chicks Hstchine and Rearil
RkN -NS51c.
Ncrfse. II. A. Egg Money: How 20 Increi
IL. 1905. RkN-NS51c.
Nourre. III. A. Turkeys. Ducks snd Gee
RKy- Ns5st.
Philo. r. W. Phiio srstcm 81 Progress
Poultry Keeping. 4 comics. RKy-p:f.
Purvis. Miller. Poultry Breeding. kh
PaTsn.
Rice v. C. National Standard SQUAD b
RKyP-R3J.
Seweil. r. l.. Poultry Manual. 1873. M
Ses9p.
Valentine. {. $. How to Keep Hens
Profit. RKy-r233
The library also receives regularly Amcris
Poultry Advocate. Commercial Poultry and
liable Poultry Journal.
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French History.

Hargard A. c. p. Louis XVI and Marie An
toinette. F392I -H124.
H14.
Lenotre. c.. pseud. Romances Of the French
Revolution. ". Fs93-L546.
Markham. Mrs. pseud. History OF France.
1905. F39- M344.
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
RECENTLY ADDED BOOKS ON
HISTORY.

Some very important and at the same
time very readable works on American
history have been published this season.
One OF the most scholarly OF these is
Bruce's Institutional History of Virginia
in the Seventeenth Century. The volume
on QuantriI, and the Border Wars is
one of GREATNESS interest, in which the
author fortihes his statements with a
mass of evidences.
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FARM BOOKS.
Trees and Grounds.

-ta9-ss -
Rarron. l.. Lawns and How 10 Make The
I'd COW. 1906. WI RSstr. ~
Fernow. v; q. Bricf,i Iiot-rr OF Fcresu
1907. RS-F:sah.
Fernow. h. T.. Care ~ aIrc..sau Lawn, II
and Park. RJi-i1@o. sasi sr
s-10ds eH
Bicgle. Jacob. Bee Book Rkh -EtS.
lyor. y. r. How 10 Keep Bees Tor FRO
RkY-Laa1.
Glesnincs in Rec Culture. . b!-mon,hly maj
rinc IL currsn'lv received.
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Dairying.

Benkendorf and Hatch. Profitable Daryl
1905. RN-B433p.
Arithmetic 1906 RN-Fr3S.
Gurler H. Il. Farm Dairy. 19os. RN-Ga
Lane c. b. Business OF Dairying. RN-L.
stewart. Henry. Dairyman's Manual. ]
St4I.
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ises. FsS Boss
Rrdre. +. A. T. ". Egyptian Sudan. ~
F.s -Rs5G.
Colvin. |. u. South Africa F7fc7cs.
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the Skipper" Stays
With a Ship as 1t Sinks

HE other day a Spanish ship
went on the rocks about Glib
raftar and sank. The skipper
Of the steamer. although he
had a chance to save himself,
chose to go down with her.
Why?
This Is a question that often is asked
by folks ashore. Why does the captain
of vessel so often elect to go down with
his vessel when she gets into that final
stage Of sea trouble?
The answer is that il is an old. old ira
dition among shippers that they shall
stick by their ships to the finish: that
they shall go down with their ships II
and when IL comes to that.
There isn't any tincture of bravado
about the tradition. The shippers look
| upon it as quite a part of their game.
They regard the business OF standing by
, their vessels till the finish, and after
ward, as quite as much a part of their
duty as being on the bridge in fog or
| rough weather.
The shippers who feel themselves di-
rectly or even indirectly responsible for
the loss of their ships actually want TO
go down with their vessels, and they
make this business a sort of suicide. Not
so with the shippers who feel that they
are in no wise responsible for the loss OF
| their vessels. They have no idea OF conf
hitting suicide by sticking to their ships.
| Their one idea is to stick, that's all.
. =
Now, there may be q pretty fine shade
| OF difference here but it's a difference
all the same. To put II in another way,
the skipper who has lost his ship through
wha. he knows to be his neglect wants
the waters of the sea to cover his head:
whereas the other captain Is actuated
| solely by the tradition which. whether
| IL seems sensible to the common or
landsman view or not. absolutely
requires the commanding offcer of a
sinking vessel to remain by her until the
very end.
Naming no names. few years ago a
big Pacific liner running between San
Francisco and Yokohama hit a sub
! merged rock while cropping her way
| toward the Golden Gate in fog. Now,
the skipper Of this steamer had no right
1 to try to get through the gate in that
heavy fog. He had passed the Farallone
| Islands and he knew pretty well where
he was-that Is TO say. that he was with
| in only few miles OF the gate, and
| that it was his business to drop his
mudhook and wait for the fog to lift