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MAN IS CHAMPION DIsHwAsHHR.

CHICAGO, Aug. 24.-Joseph vogel,
Chicago's champion dishwasher, met
and defeated Mrs. Mary Nelson at Clark
Station, Ind, in a contest for the Mid
die West championship. Vogel washed
and dried 200 dishes In thirteen min
utes and nineteen seconds. Mrs. Nell
sons time was fifteen minutes. vogel
has issued a challenge to the world.
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c0NNHcnCUT'S WONDERFUL CAT.

WINsTED. Conn. Aug. 2<.-J. J.
Martin. of South Kininely. has In his
home a kitten having three bodies.
eight legs. v tails and one head.
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STAR WANT Ads BRING RESULTS.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
"BygOne Days in Chicago"

BY Frederick Francis Cook Published by A.
C. McClurg & Co., Chicago. Price S2-lo.
Frederick Francis Cook is an old
time Chicago newspaper reporter and
he declares that the aim of his book.
"Bygone. Days in Chicago" is ito re-
build for the minds eye a vanished
city: restore TO the streets their varied
life; rehabilitate passed types. in their
proper setting: recall with due re-
gard for values some Of the moving
events Of a memorable epoch. and so
provide a faithful transcript for whom
soever may be interested in the Gar
den City Of a classic past as a some
what unique social integral, or feel
moved to repeople il in fancy with the
offspring Of his Imagination
Not only the authors own recollec-
tiOns Of the picturesque city Before
the Fire" are given. but the stories of
the pioneers OF Chicago. taken from
their lips just after the fire had de-
stroyed all records, are here reproduced
and form a valuable contribution to
the history Of Chicago as well as
story OF peculiarly personal interest
San Franciscans viii read this book
with mixed feelings, for many OF the
experiences with a change OF name
and date might be taken from our own
records yet so fresh in the memory Of
us all The book is Illustrated from
reprints and photographs and is of
more than average value and interest.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
Manual of PRACTICAL Farming"
By John McLernan. Published by the Mac
milan companv New York Price 81 20

By John McLernan. Published by the Mac
milan company. New York. Price $1.50.
DR.. John McLernan has written a
book. "A Manual OF Practical Farm
ing" which is exactly what its title
implies. II the author IS as Scotch as
his name that accounts for the practi-
cal part OF his book, also to the au-
thor's lack Of Dragging and affecta-
tion. The book is divided in two parts.
The first considers crops and all the
allied subjects of soils, fertilizers,
drainage, harvesting and crop rotation.
The second part covers animal hvs-
bandry and takes UP the various farm
animals and tells Of their care, breed
ing. housing and treatment when sick.
The farm orchard is also included in
this part, and the last chapter OF the
book IS devoted to numerous practical
suggestions. The author does not
cltim TO cover every known subject,
but he has had much experience and
tha results are given briefly but clear
" The volume is profusely Illus
trated and in every way shows the re-
suits OF Doctor McLernan's long expe-
rience IN agricultural Investigations
while superintendent of farms at the
New York state school OF agriculture.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

paperman of Chicago. He has also
thorough and serious study of aero
nautics and incorporates this knowl-
edge in his "Airship Boys Series
The present volume is the third in
the series and is entitled '"The Airship
Boys Due North. or by Balloon to the
Pole" Alan Hope and Ned Napier, the
two daring boys we know, together
with their friend, Bob Russell, the re-
porter, became a part of an expedition
to Beaufort sea by way of Alaska and
Bering sea.
The White North which they built
for their trip, had more features than
any other aircraft heretofore designed.
for who ever heard of a balloon. an
aeroplane, and an ice sledge all in one?
and all equipped in way to bring
about the maximum of comfort This
book is perhaps the most thrilling and
surprising of Mr.. Sayler's stories to
date for besides the advanced ideas in
dirigible balIooning and aeroplane
sledge Construction, his story is laid in
a vast new field above northwest Alas
ka with the great Mackenzie country
stretching to the south and east.
The adventures crowd one another
thick and fast and every chapter has
an exciting climax The author knows
how to hold his readers. who will by
no means be confined to one age or
sex He is now working on the fourth
volume, for in this one he leaves the
three boys stranded in the Barren
Lands and his next book will be anx-
iously awaited, telling us all about how
thex spent the winter.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

mercenaries are made. l have been to
every one of your great cities in the
north. have been there on Saturday
afternoon, the national holiday. That
is the day In Japan on which our young
men march and learn to shoot, form
companies and attend uneir drill. Feast
days and holidays it is always the
same. They do what tradition has
made a necessity for them. They do it
without grumbling, whole heartedly
with an enthusiasm which has in it
something almost of passion. How do
I find the youth of your country en-
gagged? I have discovered. They go to
see a, game played called football"
The author most accurately describes
the enthusiasm of the football ffends.
They are useless for anything else.
They (these are the middle classes-the
great majority can not ride, they can
not shoot; they have no uniforms in
case of sudden call to arms; they
know little of their countrys needs
and care less. The prince then goes on
to tell that because of this he can not
advise his country to form new alli-
ance with England:
1T is because you are not a serious
people IT is because the units of your
nation have ceased to understand that
behind the life of every great nation
stands the love of God, whatever god it
may be, and the love of motherland.
You are commercialized out of
all the greatness of life. You
are a race who are on the downward
grade.
The book does not pretend, save in a
few speeches of this Sort to point a
great moral lesson. 1t is filled with
romancing of the only Oppenheim type.
but it is all interesting and it is easy
to sift the truths from the inaccura
cies, the romance from the realities. 1t
is perhaps the biggest Oppenheim book
so far and deserves praise.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
Brief Reviews of New Books

Laura Frances McDermott, M. s. of
the University of California, has pre-
pared volume on American elovers
which, though modest in appearance, is
really a monumental piece of work. Tt
represents six years of practically con-
stant work and the examination Of
many thousands of mounted and un-
mounted specimens. The book, "An
Illustrated Key to the North American
Species of Trifolium," is fully illus
trated with a large number of plates.
1t shows, too, every evidence of most
careful research and gives a mass Of
facts in regard to the many different
species of c1overs. of the greatest in
terest and value to botanists.
The author is a native of Virginia
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
"The IllustriOus Prince"
By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Publisl


tie, Brown & Co., Boston. Price S1.50
There is much more to the "Illustri-
Gus Prince" than one suspects at first
glance. For the stories by this prolific
writer have been written to amuse, and
not to instruct. and SO one is unsuspi-
cious. This book is not disagreeably
instructive, however; it is simply a
modern, up to date society novel with
a serious underlying motive. Patriot
ism is the subject and the patriotism OF
the japanese is chosen to exploit it.
The story opens with mystery and
murder rampant. Two dispatches have
methods from the United States gov
ernment TO the English government.
Both messengers are killed and robbed.
While most of the characters in the
book have no suspicious, the reader
soon is quite sure of the murderer and
the development and study of his char
acter is most interesting. He is a
prince, half Japanese and half Eng
lish, cousin of the emperor, and in
England on semiprivate government
business.
The story in itself is interesting, as
all written by the ingenious Oppenheim
are sure to be, but the study in pa.
triotism is the thing which will interest
the thoughtful reader. They are talk
ing on it late in the book and the
English are quoting the acts of their
men IN the Boer war. The prince finds
the excuse foolish and says that excite
ment, necessity, necessities of their So
cial standing, bravado, cheap heroism-
any one of these was responsible for
the great answer to the call for troops
He then says:
But I tell you that patriotism as
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

The official biographer Of Mark
Twain is Albert Bigelow Paine, who
together with Mark Twain's daughter
is the authors literary executor.
Mr.. Paine Is now at work preparing
biographical material and gathering
those letters of Mark Twain which
have a biographical or literary inter
est Mr.. Paine is anxious that these
letters may be given to the public In as
complete a form as possible. To ac-
complish this he asks that any one
having letters OF this nature by Mark
Twain communicate with him at Red
ding. Conn. All letters received viii
be copied and returned to the sender.
In this connection it is interesting
TO note that within a year the courts
have taken UP the question of owner
ship Of letters written by celebrated
persons. A decision is now in force
which embodies the conclusion Of the
courts. This decision rests the right
Of publication Of such letters in the
man himself when living and in his
heirs when deceased The decision ex-
DlicitIy says that all others, even those
peOpIe 10 whom the letters are written,
are debarred from publishing them ex-
cept by consent Of the executors.
In the foreword to Marion Harland's
Autobiography" just issued by the
Harpers. the authors purpose Is thus
set forth bv herself: Mine is story
for the table and armchair under the
reading lamp in the living room. To
the family and 10 those who make and
keen the home do ! commit it. The
range or Marion Harland's opportuni-
ties for observing men and things viii
be a surprise TO many. "Of all the au-
thOrs stiil on professional duty in our
country I am the only one whose MEM
ory runs back TO the stage OF national
history, the civil war. by a quarter
century ] alone am left TO tell OF my
own knowledge and experience what
the old south was in deed and in truth"
One OF the definite results Of the in
vestigation by Helen l. Sumner, re-
counted in her book Equal Suffrage
in Colorado" is that the women voters
sshere do not seem TO be as closely
>oound by party ties as the men. The
women are more ready to split their
ballots and they will not be persuaded
to vote for a notorious crook Miss
Summers book covers the subject from
many sides, and the introduction ex-
plains that the purpose Of the inves-
tigation was the wish for facts only.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
Gossip of Books and Writers

Women writers who take a mascu
line pen name seem peculiarly attract
ed by the name of George, perhaps,
because it carries a suggestion of
solidity and strength that is satis-
flying to a woman who means to write
something very different from the con-
ventional feminine novel. Two Of the
earliest Georges were George Eliot and
George Sand. An American author
Julia Constance Fletcher, writes over
the name of George Fleming. Now
comes Georg Schock (without the e)
completing the historic number of -four
Georges" Her new novel, Hearts Con-
tending" is said to live up to the gem
eral Georgian tradition of marked in
dividuality and independence Of
thought.
Mrs. c. c. wadden. who under her
maiden name Of Louise Forsslund wrote
the very successful little book, "Old
Lady Number 81" died in New York
May 2. story by her entitled "One
More June" is printing now and will
appear in the June Century
Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd of Belinda"
and Nancy" repute is an Iowan by
birth. Like a true daughter of the
west her life has been one of energy
and versatility. She began earning
money Wu6u very young IN tne uSudl
way, by teaching. Hers was not usual
kind of teaching. however, for when
girl of is she found herself installed as
teacher in a boys military school. A
year later she went east and taught in
a fashionable girls boarding school on
Fifth avenue-a considerable transit
tion. An even greater transition fol-
lowed when she became reporter for
the New York Sun For number of
years she did general reporting for this
paper, handling everything that came
her way from the police court to the
fashionable wedding Then she became
an author Mrs. Brainerd has recently
purchased a farm on the Connecticut
river, her ancestral home. Her latest
book is The Personal Conduct of Be-
linda"
Charles Battell Loomis is going to
take his Little Maude to England and
introduce her to English audiences
This will not be Mr.. Loomis first public
appearance in England, for he has al
ready given English people the pleas
ure which his reading always affords.
He expects to remain there throughout
the season.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

BY the use of wide margins. decorated
thick paper and large print. "Cupid's
Understudy." by Edward Salisbury
Field. is made to look like real book
The dainty little tale. however, is we'll
worth preserving in book covers, for,
like other light little stories by this
clever young author, they amuse and
interest for more than one hurried
reading.
This newest charming little tale Is all
about the dearest American that ever
was, who only brags about two things,
Dad and California He was typ
ical, and has struck it rich by a fuke,
so his girl went to Paris to be edu-
Gated. When we meet her she Is re-
turning and Dad goes out from Santa
Barbara to New York to meet her.
They have seven millions and a private
car and it's difficult to realize that they
could still be the real, sweet, unaf-
fected people they are-it's hardly hu-
man.
OF course. the inevitable man appears.
He has appeared on the steamer coming
over and he goes to California with
them. They both fall head over heels
in love and Dad is pleased. The young
man has a mother and as soon as they
arrive he goes to hunt her up to have
her call on his lady love. Then the
troubles begin. 1t is just too much
fun to watch the smoothing out of all
the difficulties. for 1t looks for a time
like a hopeless mess. The story flls
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
can American Baby Abroad"
Ry Mrs. Charles N Crewdson. Published b.

BY Mrs Charles N. Crewdson. Published by
Little Brown s. Co.. Boston. Price $1.50.
Now is the time when summer trav-
elers are getting their lists of books
ready for vacation days and here is
one for the list sure and certain. This
romance is centered around baby, an
American baby, whose mother is sud-
denly called from London because her
husband is Ill with a fever in Egypt.
Her friend, Mary Marshall, a Kentucky
beauty. takes charge Of the baby, and
his nurse, Roxie, real negro
"mamnay,' and they follow more
leisureiy.
The trio have a most eventful trip,
firsf stopping at Oberammergau to
sec tho passion play, then In Rome to
Witness a special mass conducted by
Pope Leo, and finally reach Cairo
where some very exciting events be-
fall them.
Tne kentucky beauty is true to the
reputation of the maids from that blue
grass region and has admirers by the
score all along her path. Roxie is an
amusing colored- character, too and
the baby is of real Importance. The
story ts extremely entertaining, light
ana vivacious, with brisk dialogue and
diverting situations-just the book for
summer reading.
A series of characteristic pictures by
the we'll known artist, X. i. Outcault
gives additional charm to the volume
Mrs. Humphry Ward is the subject
of an article by NJ. Firmin Roz in the
Revue des Deux Mondes. The author
places her among the greatest English
women novelists, CHASING her With
the Brontes and George Eliot He finds
THAI she expresses all the best that ex-
lists in English society today, and that
there are few novels more thoroughly
English, few more lifeiike representa-
tions of the English aristocracy than
are contained in Lady Roses Daugh-
ter" Her latest book, Lady Merton
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

The most remarkable thing about the
work OF Frank Harris is its range. II
IS almost impossible 10 believe that the
Wfame hand penned The Bomb" THE
Man Shakespeare" and Monies, the
Matador." He has done other work
OF course. but these three show the
authors versatility TO a remarkable
degree.
Monies. the Matador.' is the open
ing story IN a book containing four
others They are totally unlike and
are not very well chosen for book.
The author writes well and has story
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

we understand it is a deeper thing.
In the land where 1t flourishes there is
no great pre-eminence in what you call
sports or games It does not come
like q whirlwind on the wings of disas-
ter. 1t grows with the limbs and the
heart of the boy; grows with his
muscles and his Drawn. 1t is part of
his conscience, part of his religion
AS he realizes that he has a country
of his own to protect. a dear precious
heritage come down to him through
countless ages, so he learns that 1t is
his sacred duty to know how to do his
share in defending it. The spare time
of our youth. Mr.. Haviland, is spent
learning to shoot, to scout, to bear
hardships, to acquires the arts of war
] tell you that there was not one gem
eral who went with our troops to Man
churia, but hundred thousand We
have no great army. We are a nation
of men whose religion 1t is to fight
when their country's welfare is threat
ened."
We have been told and taught over
and over again of the patriotism of
the Japanese-how different it is from
the patriotism of any other country
as we understand 1t; but a novel like
this one, which brings in affairs of
interest, practically shows US more in
a minute than we could learn in sew
eral hours study. Once more in a long
argument Prince Mafyo speaks, and
though he talks to England, nlany of
his ideas could be applied here at home.
This then is the curse which is
eating the heart out of your very ex
istence. The love of his motherIand
is no longer a religion with your young
man. Let me repeat that--I will alter
one word only: The love of his moth
erland is no longer the religion. or
even part OF the religion. of your young
man. Soldering is profession for
those who embrace it. 1t is so that
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29

to tell in each one of these, but some-
how he always just misses his chance
to make hit. He falls woefully short
of an appreciation of his climax and
spoils his story with needless explana-
tions. The episodes are dramatic, but
as written by Mr.. Harris lose their
dramatic quality.
The first story is told in the first
person by Monies himself; how he grew
up in the country as a herder and be-
came acquainted with the ways OF
animals. especially bulls. His father
sold bulls every year for the bull fights
and after long time the boy goes to
town and is apprenticed to a smith to
give him strength. Slowly he works
his way into the ring and up. up, to
the very top of his profession.
The love story is badly told. His
love for a woman give him ambition
to rise and 1t is also the cause of his
fall. He tells Of his false friend and
finally of his revenge. 1t is an old
story, even in its climax. and could be
vastly improved in the telling.
OF the other stories Sonia" is per-
haps the one to attract the most at
tention. Sonia" is the young Russian
girl, for love OF whom George Lascelles
took his first interest in socialism.
She was hanged for completely in the
murder of Tsar Alexander. This tale
is of their brief love affair. and tells
of Lascelles absolute ignorance and
loved him. but what she considered her
duty came first. This tale is more care
fully written than the other, but the
same fault is found. The author does
not know when TO stop and conse-
quently by an anti climax weakens his
whole tale.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29


women scientists of the west. (Cun-
ningham, Curtiss & Welch. San Fran
cisco. Price, s4.)
Winthrop Packard contributed some
pleasant articles on nature to the Bos-
ton Evening Transcript, and they are
now collected in book form. Wood
land Paths,' the volume under consid-
Grafton, is for the spring, and though
firsta in point of time of his works is
the third to be published The sum
mer volume is entitled wild Pastures; /;
the autumn one, Wood Wanderings.' -
In press, to appear this year; and the
winter number is entitled wildwood
Ways" Each volume contains essays
on all sorts Of out of door subjects.
The author is a genuine lover of nature
and sees much more than the average
careless wanderer. A few of his titles
in this book are Wood Roads, The
Brook in April" Promise of May and
THE Vanishing Night Herons." The
book is daintily illustrated. (Small,
Maynard & Co.. Boston. s1.2O)
MY Policies in Jungleland." by
Fletcher c. Hanson, is a comic picture
book purporting to tell by cartoon and
joke how our strenuous former presi-
dent was asked by the king of one Of
the jungle tribes to take his Job" for
a day and let him go and fish. This
I. r. consented to do and the book
shows how he welded the big stick
The book is in no way vicious-just
good natured fun throughout and car
toon lovers will enjoy looking at the
amusing pages. (Barse & Hopkins,
New York. Price s1)
Dust Preventives and Road Bind
ers'' is the title of a new book by
MI
in his preface: "The object of this
book is primarily to furnish road en-
gineers with a working knowledge of
the characteristic properties of dust
preventives and road binders now in
use, and to develop certain fundamental
principles relative to their selection and
application" The author has given
five years of service with the United
States office of public roads and has a
practical knowledge which has aided
him in his conclusions. (John Willy &
Sons. New York SD
The sixteenth Year Book of the De-
partment of Agriculture is just issued.
1t does not differ materially from the
preceding volumes except that it is
shorter. The book contains much VAL
liable information. The secretary's re-
port is followed by 20 original papers
here published for the first time. Most
of these papers are of permanent value.
making the volume well worth preserv-
ing. The series OF Year Books make
an excellent farm library. Govern
ment printing office. Washington.)
"Golf'-for beginners and others is
as interesting a book on this wonder
full out of door sport as can well be
lima agined- Marshall Whitlatch teaches
his readers how to teach themselves
the game of golf. He lays special
emphasis on the two or three funda-
mental principles OF the game. such as
preserving the balance. keeping the
head still. keeping the eye on the ball
and following through. It is a busi-
nessman's statement of the way he
taught himself to play the game Every
step is the result of careful expert
ment and is based on good golf and
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
My Heart and Stephanie"
By Reginald Wright Kaufman. Published |
L. c. Page & Co.. Boston. Price SLIPS.

BIZ Reginald Wright Kaufman. Published by
L. c. Page & Co., Boston. Price $1.25.
Reginald Wright Kaufman continues
the story OF Miss Frances Baird, De-
tective. which he wrote a few years ago.
heroine, however. that part being
taken by the Countess Stephanie.
Polish conspirator. The book is new
sort OF detective story. which only the
clever Miss Baird can disentangle. How
very puzzling the mystery is may be
gathered from this quotation:
"An night long I tossed and turned,
heating my brain against the riddle
that confronted US. If the fraulein
were a party TO the murder, why had
she ever come TO us? II she were not
a party 10 it. why had she met Will
liam Jaeger. and gone abroad with him?