The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01


me Carthag!nian commander. like
samson. determined not to perish
alone. AS his enemies closed in on
him he threw his graphing hooks
over the Roman galleys. bound them
with r!vets OF iron. and then scuttling
his own ship. went to the bottom.
dragging down one ship and tearing
asunder the other which wrenched
loose from the death grapple This
powerful bit OF word painting is a
isir sample of the other stories. all of
which are wonderful in their way
Just one or two ought to be labeled
'Not to be read before retiring"
"a Prairie Courtship.-
maverick Thorne. the hero of "a
Prairie Courtship," is born wander
er. who became a mere peddier on the
Canadian Northwest prairies. con,ant
TO roam day after day selling gra,uo
phones 10 the settlers. cheering them
with his gay laugh and his sound med
!cal advice.
When the girl Allison came to the
wheatlands II was TO the wanderer
IKE the coming OF spring. He settled
cow 10 the tasks OF man. He took
farm worked sixteen TO eighteen
hours day and swung through 10
unexpected success
The whole story rings with the
virility of the great out Of doors. the
ndlessly stretching Northwestern stub
bic lands that call a brave heart on
over irackless miles forever.
"1he Yellow letter.
By William Johnston. Illustrated
by Alexander Popini ,l.25 net.
The Yellow Letter" is the superla
tive thing in exciting mySrery. The
author. William Johnston is editor OF
the New York World, and through
twenty years of newspaper experience
has been thrown into contact with
thousands of cases of crim!nality 1t
is safe to say. however. that not one
of the stories which he has reported
had the extraordinary fascination of
the events which he chronicles in The
Yellow Letter"
young lawyer calls at the homo of
the one girl in the world" to tell he.
OF his love and inds that the girI's
sister has shot herself in her bed room
for no discoverable reason. y scrap OF
yellow paper is found half burned ,nI
the CRATE. There is no clue to the
sender. The father of the two kris.
digniiicd old gentleman. secs the bit
OF yellow paper in the hands Of his
daughter and the young lawyer. Kent
ana. turning ralc with dreadful terror
falls in stroke of paralysis and
eventually dies without having spoken
word of explanation. Within the
next three days an old lawyer. a young
girl employed as cashier in a restau-
rant and an old woman take their own
lives. y torn bit of yellow paper is
found near each. There seems to be
no connection between any one of the
suicides and any other, except for the
mysterious fragment Of paper.
Young Kent calls upon friend,
Miller Davis. to assist him in unearth-
ing the mystery. Davis is an inspector
in the United States Post-O De-
partment, and step by step he un-
ravels the strange details OF the whole.
sale crime
The author has made an exceedingly
interesting study of the way these two
mcn--the lawyer Kent, keen. but un-
trained in detective work. and Davis
the trained detective-work side by
side in hunting down tho criminal.
The mystery is really substantial and
the climax not only unusual but ade-
quate.
The Fellow Letter" touches the ton
notch of fascination. Pick it up and
the reader Is handcuffed to it till the
book is finished. The key to the mys-
terry and the key that unlocks atten-
ton can't he found till the last page.
"'The History and Problems of Organ
lied Labor"
BY Frank L. Carlton. d. C. Heath &:
Company. Boston Mass. SO.
The aim of the book is to present the
important facts in the history of or
ganiZed labor In the United States.
and to analyze the chief problems that
directly or indirectly affect the labor
organizations of the present decade.
Among the topics discussed are: The
significance of organized labor, labor
from the colonial period to the present,
employers associations, government
and policies of labor unions. coercive
methods. systems of paying wages.
arbitration and trade agreements. the
history and present status of labor
legislation. employers liability and