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CHAPTER XVIII (contInued).

Miss Betty, he's just Ike my Uncfe
Bob was-he amt afraid Of nothing
He totes them pistols OF his-loaded
III you notice good you can see
where they bulge out his coat" Han
nibal's eyes. very round and big,
looked up into hers.
rs he a. poor as he seems. Han
nibalr inquired Betty.
He never has no money. Miss Bet
", but l don't reckon he's what a
body would call pore"
1t might have bafned q far more
mature Intelligence than Hannibars
to comprehend those peculiar process
es By which the Judge sustained him
self and his intimate fellowship with
adversity-that 1t was his magnifi-
cence of mind which made the
squalor Of his daily life seem merely
. passing phase-but the boy had
managed to point a delicate distinc-
ton. and Betty grasped something OF
the hope and faith which never quite
died out in Slocum Prices indomita-
Bile breast.
But you always have enough to
eat, dear!" she questioned anxiously.
Hannibal promptly treasured her on
this point You wouldn't let me
think anything that was not true, Han
nibal-you are quite sure you have
never been hungry"
Never. Miss Betty: honest!"
Betty gave sigh OF relief. She
had been approaching herself for her
1egiect Of tho Child she had meant
- do 70 much for him and had done
Nothing! Now 1t was too late for her
personally to interest herself In his
behalf. yet before she left for the east
she would provide for him. II she
had felt It was possible to trust the
Judge she would have made him her
agent, but even In his best aspect he
seemed dubious dependence Tom,
Tor quite different reasons. was equal
" out Of the question. She thought
Of Mr.. Mahany.
what kind OF q man Is Mr.. Ma
hairy, Hannibal?"
He's an awful nice man, Miss Bet.
q, only he never lets on; body's
got to find 1t out for his own self
he amt like the judge
Does he-drink. too. HannibaI?"
questioned Betty.
"Oh. yes: when he can get the
Kicker. he does" 1t was evident that
Hannibal was cheerfully tolerant OF
this weakness on the part of the
austere Mahaffy. BY this time Betty
was ready to weep over the child.
with his knowledge OF shabby vice,
and his fresh young faith in those old
But. no matter what they do. they
are very. very kind to your" she con-
tinued tremulousiy.
Yes. ma'am-why. Miss Betty. |
they're lovely mani"
And do you ever hear the things
spoken Of you learned about at Mrs.
Ferris Sunday-school?"
When the Judge il drunk he talks
. heap about 'em. It's beautiful to
hear him then: you'd love it, Miss
Betty" and Hannibal smiled up sweat
y into her face.
Does be have you 90 to Sunday.
school In Raleighr'
The boy shook his head.
Il amt got no clothes that's fatten
to wear, nor no pennies to give, but
the judge. he lows that as soon as he
can make raise got to go, and he's
me my letters-but We amt
, book. Miss Betty. reckon IT'D
stump you some to guess how he's
liked 1t for me to learn!"
Hes drawn the letters for you, IL
hat the wayf" In spite Of herself,
Betty was experiencing certain re-
'uision Of feeling whore the Judge and
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1912-07-27
Damp Houses.

Damp houses are the greatest pro
motors Of disease among fowls.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-01-30
BUQUEs ANUNCIADos.

-Fapor espanol Balmes. Sali6 de
Barcelona el 10 del corriente para So
narias, Puerto Rico y Cuba.
Consignatarios, s. Izquierdo Go.
-Vapor americana Harry 'LucEen-
back. El q del actual sali6 de New
York para tsta.
Consignatarios, Insular Line.
Napor americana Coamo. sa,drs
mauana para New York
Consignatarios The n. Y.P. Il. S.. Co.
Vapor americana Carolina. FL y del
que cursa sali6 de. New York para es-
ta
Consignatarios The n. Y. P f. s.. Co.
Eapor americana Caracas. Saldra ds
New York para tsta el 81 del corriente.
Consignatarios, Villar Co.
Vapor americana Philadelphia. Fl g
del entrante saldra para New York.
Consignatarios, yillar Co.
Napor americana Grayson I'll 8 del
Pr6Nimo Febrero saldrd de New York
para 5sta
Consignatarios, Insular Line
|apor frances Montreal Del ,. al 8
del entrante estara aqui procedente de
San Thomas y seguird viaie para Pto.
Plata -
Consignatarios. J. +. Silva Co
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-01-30
COCINE POR ELECTRICIDAD

La Porto Rico Railway Light & Power Company
llama Ia atencion del p1bico Ia cocna cltcnica com
pleta, las maquinas dc lavado panchado caen
adores oros aparatos eectricos que acaba dc recb
para nstaar moderno Sanatorio de Hato Rcy, Ia
Sociedad Espanola de Auxilo Mdtuo Benefcencia dc
Puerto Rico; cuyo motive anuncia, que los precio
de coriente eectica para cocinar oos espeCia
les entire media noche P. M, ser4n los mismos que
por la co1ente que los motorcs.
PORTO RICO RAILWAY LIGHT POWER CO
San Juan P. R, Agosto TO- 1917.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-01-30

ENTRADAs Y sALIDAs.

E''tradds Del euteriior.-
No hubo.
De Ia costa
Ninguno
Despachos para eg erterior.-
Napor americana $. Y Luekenlsek.
para New York, via Mayaguez
Para Ia costa
No hubo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-01-30
vELERos DE LA LINEA BENNER.

-Goleta Hattie G. Luce. Debe ha6ex
sahdo de New York ql IS del pasado
para esta Isla, direetamente.
Goleta G Cherry. Saldra de New
York, para San Juan q 10. he Febrero
proNimo.
Consignatarios, Sobrinos ae Ezquiaga.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03

he himself drifted, dallied delayed de-
SPARED. His friendship with Tenny-
son, the contrast of their divergent
views, might be compared with the
friendship Of Horace and Virgil" Car
lyle's liking for Tcnnyson is well known
vet one thanks DR.. Warren for the pages
he devotcs TO it here. approaching the
subject 50 appropriately through "Old
Fitz."
Lord Tennyson prints some OF Fltz-
, Gerald's rccollections Of Tennyson's talk,
including material already used in the
Memoir" There is here also. brief
note on Tennyson's presence at Dickens's
funeral in Westminster Abbey. After
the service the poet said TO his son:
81 don't know what all this means, but
we seem SO hemmed in that it Is useless
to move as vet
Then man, standing close by me, whis-
pered:
as your friend stands there.
OF course | saw at once what was nap
pening-it had got 10 he known that T"nnN-
son was present and the solid throng was
TO tell him what was going on. upon which
he Insisted on being let out some quiet way
and putting an end to the dilemma.
The book opens with some sympa-
thetic "RecOllcctions Of My Early Life"
by Emily, Lady Tennyson, written for
her son in 1896. William RawnsIey's
study Of the poems in "Tcnnyson in
Lincolnshire" is decidedly worth while.
An appendix contains collection of let
ters written to the poet by unknown ad-
mirers all over the world. 1t includes
also some clever devices Of the auto
graph hunter, and an offer from an
American impresario of 10000 for a
lecturing tour Of the States.
The material brought together here is
| worth while, even though the Tennyson-
ian is required to do considerable sift-
ing Of his own to separate the corn from
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
Literary Nes0s and Criticism

He utterly denied him the divine heat
of temperament" and described "ail MS
performances as pure brainWork. y
phvsical giant like his brothers. Fred
erick outlved them all, dying at the age
Of ninety-one i'm Kensington, whittier
he had removed after a forty years resi-
dence I'm Jersey. His amazing lntellec'-
ual alertness and cagerness rcmaihc1
with him till the end, though the years
softened the violence of many OF MS
views. Frederick Tennyson DE Senec-
tute." as quoted here, is well worth
reading. His bioGrapher adds nrle'
sketch OF the unevcntful life Of the thIru
brother. Charles. These two. he says
represent the two extremes Of the ram
iIy temperament. the mean and perlcc-
tion Of which Is found i'm Alfred.
Edward FitzGerald is one Of those fig
ures in literature about whom we can
never have TOO much information no
doubt because so little has been Nouch-
safed us. There is always in his hgure
that touch of the unknown that PPucS
not only curiosity hut sincere ana
legitimate interest OF course, the story
of The adventures Of his version of the
"Ruhaiva," is one of the romanCcs OF Ut
eraturc and it loses nothing in the tell
ing here In TitzGerald's friendship with
Tennyson. DR.. Warren points out the
paradoN is that il was he VIII" was al
WAYS urging Alfred TO go on, and finding
fault with him for not doing more ""'''
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK
Mr.. G.. X. Chesterton on a Dick
ensian Relic.
,n ali Mali Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
London firm Is onerlng 70 collectors OF
npn,entos of Charles Dickens no less az
article than Master Humphreys CLOCK. =
This was originally fixed at the entfahDSS !
of William Humphrey shop at balndla baliaa y
castle Yorkshire, ana len no nhaetes n,t,aev's
Dickeuss obtaining Master humpnIeS
aesistance when collecting information Tor
"NichoIas Nickleby," of which Part j. ap-
neared i'm April, 1885. 1t also forms tle
tlte ar the lightweight weekly nunperss >
which contain THE Old Curiosity Shop,
"Rarnaby Rudge" and preliminary ana
final addresses from Master Humphre!'
The Times
The worship of relics. like most thlnss
said to have been imposed by priests mas
Loen necessarily demanded by men. 10
far from being a superstition III 'he
sense of something imposed from above
II might almost he called "A concession
torn from the heavens by the earth. IL
is a beuediction on materialism-whlch
needs a bcnedicton rather badly. Ana
il is worthy of remark that nobody ala
rcsist or resent this old and godly ma
torialism until the rise Of the new anu
goddess materialsm: until the rise or the
detestable Industrial Apprentice: untll
the coming of Gradgrind and BounderDy
lrntfl in short, we began TO call 1t
righteous" to make VOW OF Neallh III
stead of a VOW of poverty.
II IS therefore, natural that there
should be this relic hunting, at once ma
tcrialist and mystical, about great men
like Charles Dickens. II is doubly so
during the centenary Of Charles DICKENS,
for all these festive formalities work To-
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03

gothcr. and the very liberalism Of date
assists and emphasizes the liberalism of
Il relic.
Thus the discovery and public sale Of
Master Humphreys Clork' will quite
probably and quite properly produce con-
siderable excitement among the relic
hunters of the Dickens world. The book,
or fragments of "A book. which bears its
name is not. indeed. ono of Dickens s
successes; il might almost bc called the
only one of his failures. But this very
fact renders more vivid and credible the
fact that there really was a w. Hum
uhrcy Of Barnard Castle, who really had
- clock. a solid old grandfather's clock,
which Dickens saw and any one else can
SEQ.
For IN spite of the antiquarianism of
the DiCkCnSians this particular sort of
daily and reCurrcnt reality Is rare in
connection with the great works of
Dickens. Dickens is one Of those writer's
Victor Hugo is another-who always
try to beat their best. even when the re-
suit shows them at their worst. Dickens
and Victor Hugo always fail by over
strain: never by mere mental Incidence.
Dickens never drifts and digresses like
Thackeray: his ink never merely flows
like the tears of senility; when II fails
it spluttcrs and splashes in great blots
of bad writing.
The consequence is that there is a GER
tain absence i'm Dickens's work Of the
casual. quiet and uncreative Dickens; Of
that everyday temperament that ticks
like clock To use a word much mis-
used in a narrowly moral sense, he was
intellectually fast. HIS watch was al
ways striking the witchng hours wildly,
one on top of the other, like Scrooge's s
chronometer when he experienced three
nights IN one.
Whether ii he coincidence or not. IT
is certainly true that only under the
shadow Of Master Humphreys Clock aid
Dickens ever appear to be merely good
naturcd and garrulous. to be indulginS
only i'm day dreams and not in dramas.
Here we have the chief characters of
"PiCkWiCk" reposing after the sports and
struggles Of that eXhausting romance.
Nh PiCkwick is kindly; but he his no.
body in particular to be kind to; there
are no Jinglcs or Peter MagnusSs in the
droWsy kingdom of the clock. Sam Well
Ter is still witty, in so far as wit is a
state of the soul: he is sometimes even
funny, but he has nobody in particular
TO make fun OF; there Is no sergeant
BuZruZ no Mir. Smauker, in the dim
frendliness of this land of dreams.
And the Whole probably does represent.
better than ANYTHING else in his works,
such hazy notion as Dickens would have
had of mental holday-a thing he
rarely took The ethics are magnanl-
nous but vague, fog OF the festive
virtues: the landscape is local and eeks
of London. but It is dark and shifting
like dissolvmg views: the stories thus
framed are unreal historical romances,
like the tale i'm "Pickwick' OF the bag
mans uncle and the phantom coach
Rut Dtckcne could not long remain IN
this rather formless repose. The Old
Curiosity Shop" grew out of one of the
idle hints Of Master Humphrey; char
acters far more vital and obstreperous
were knocking at his door, and Master
Humphrey had to open II To let in the
laughter of Dick Swiveller and the howl
and bound of Qullp.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
THE MUSE IN JAPAN.

According to a news agency dlSpti'li
in the British press, the subject chosen
bv the Emperor OF Japan this year FOR
the annual New Years poem compcu-
ton was "A Crane on Pine Tree 80
fewer than 2g353 poems were received
by the judges, and hfty-ciGht of these
were commended. twcnty-Onc being read
aloud at the imperial poem party ON
January 24 IT, addition To these
twenty-one poems, verses composed by
the court poetry officials were read, as
well as those by the Grand Chamber
lain. other state officials and members Of
the imperial family. Tho proceedings
closed with the reading of a poem by her
majesty the Empress, which was read
three times with due respect, and of the
pocm composed by the Emperor. This
was read five times 10y each Of the court
poctrv readers, the assembly standing
respectfully with bowed heads. Poems
were received from England, America,
France and Russia. as well as from most
parts of the Far East. The winner Of
the first prize was Lady Sono, lady-in-
waiting to the Empress.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
TennySOnian GIeaningS of Vary
ing Import.

TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS Edited
by IIallam, Lord TennySOn. lllustrat-
cd. Svo, PIP. xiii, 5O&. The Macmillan
Company.
Much that this volume contains is OF
interest somc-but not much-is of only
questionable importance-Lady Rtchie's
trlfling "reminiscences Of her fathers IN
tercOurse with TcnnysOn, for instance.
Lord Tennyson has garnered the held
thoroughly. and it may we'll be assumed
that this book is his last tribute TO the
memory of his great father. Here are
"reminiscences of the friendships of the
poet with many men. from many pens;
A paper on his attitude toward science
10y Sir Oliver Lodge; another, on "TcnnN-
son and Nature" by Sir Norman Lock-
Yer: = third. OF "Tcnnyson and His Talk
on Religious Questions" by the Bishop
of Ripon; fourth, on "Music, TCnnySon
and Joachim" by Sir Charles Stanford; +;
q nth. un "TennNSon, Clough and the
Classics" by Henry Graham Dakyns, to-
cether with notes on his characteristics
hy the late Professor Jowett. fraG-
mentary reports of his talk by Edward
FtzCerald and Arthur COlcridSe; re-
prints of studies of his life and work by
Arthur Sidgwick and Sir Alfred Lyall;
Professor Henry Butchers presidential
address to the British Academy OH the
occasion of the centenary of Tcnnyson' ;
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03
ALSACE-l E-lORRAlNE
Still Another French Study Of
Race Hatred.

Paris, February -.
NJ. Victor MarGutrittc's latest novel
Les Frontiarcs du Cpur" ClIcarts
Boundary Posts'O. published by Fas-
auclc. paints in vivid colors the racial
conflict between Germans and French.
This author loses no time m analyZing
subtle shades of sentiment. lie loves to
plunge at once into the very heart of his
subject. Among noyclists he Is very
much what NJ. Henri Bernstein is among
dra atiyls. He delights N contrasts,
human struggles. and in direct swift,
brutal action. His pcrsonages are few,
and they are always under the search
light RAYS of his pitllcsJ logic The
Alsace- Lorraine problem has attracted
scores of clover French writer's Of fic-
ton. During the last three years no
fewer than nincty-five novels and short
stories have appeared in Paris all deaf
ing with the racial question in the lost
provinces" The best of thesc are Les
OberIe." by Nj Rene Baz.n, and "Colctte
Baudoche," by NJ. Maurice Barr@s.
Les Frontiercs du CHur' is worthy Of
a place beside the masterful works of
these members OF the Academy. The
tale unfoldcd by NJ. MarSI6ritte is the
condensed nervous and tragic narrative
of the lives of "A French girl and GER
man youth who were married before
German national unity had been ac-
complshed, and when the genius of Ger
man musicians, poets and philosophers
exercised that profound influence on
French thought and intellect which one
finds i'm the writings of Taine, M.chc!et
and Provost paradol. The heroine is
Marthe Ellangt, a girl of pure Picardy
lineage: the h OTTO Rudheimer is an
out-and- out, thoroughbred Hessian. The
beginning of their welded existence is
extremely happy. \ child is soon to be
born. The war OF 1870 breaks out. Or.
Rudheimer leaves home 10 take hS
post at the front AS "A military surgeon;
Marthe takes refuge in the house of her
parents. at AmCns.
Tho historical avalanche of French de-
feats ensues. one Of Marthe5 two
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03

brothers is killed; the other is wounded
and has both legs amputated. Mar'he
suffers as if she were part OF the soi'
that Is being invaded. In these clrcuih-
stances her child is born-son oil the coh-
queror of the foreigner. Of the enemy
DR.. Otto Rudheimer attached to the
staff of General Won Manteuffel, enters
the captured town with the German
army. He is the same man, yet, IL MS
wife's eyes, he has become almost
stranger. Terrific descriptions OF the
Franco German War follow-ot tHe
struggle of yesterday and perhaps ol TO-
morrow Rudheimer is a man OF grca'
intelligence, strong character anu lc
fined. lofty feelings. IT is almost WIN
timidity that he asks his father-'h-'aN
IN allow him to embrace his wife and TO
see his son. He asks to be permitted 10
lodge in the family mansion, because MS
presence will prevent the bllieting ol
soldiers in the house. He is respecttul
and considerate and seems TO ask par
don for the victory Of his countrymen'
but one sees that beneath this civility
ho is stalwart German patriot ana thls
sufTices to render him iusupportaole TO
his young wifc's French parents.
Or Rudheimer gradually percelFes
nat he has become an object OF hatred
to Marthe. With wonderful restraint
and forethought these two who once so
tenderly loved each other, agree TO sep
arafe. The little son, Hermann, is 10 re-
main five years with his mother ana Is
afterward to leave France and go TO his
father. and become, like him, an out
and-ouL" Teuton. Les Frontieres du
Crur," taken all in all, is the strongest
we. that NJ. Victor Marguerite has yet
,i,.or c. |. b.
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LOVE AND CRIME.
TIE RELENTLESS CURRENT. BY N
T. tharlcSwortu limo, Pr 90
T. Putnam'S Sons.

TIE RELENTLESS CURRENT. BY NJ
!. tharlcSworth. l@mo. pr. S2f. IL
T. Putnams Sons.
This is not a detective story, although
IT begins with a murder, for the false
cIcUs are followed to the bitter end. the
innocent suspect is convicted and exc
cutcd. and the law is convinced that JUS
ticc has been done. So is the Governor,
who refused To commute the sentence
so are the public and the press-cVen
that Of England, which WAS concerned
because the accused was an Englishman
resident ia an american mining town.
The interest of the story really centres
in this mans bctrothcd. The daughter Of
a rural vicar: still more in the emotional
state that led her. on the point Of
breaking her engagement, To travel
across ocean and continent to join her
suitor. to marry him in Jail, and to seek
delay Of the execution until his inno-
cence could bc proved. This Is only part
of the story, however. The young widow
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03

breakfasts, Pollyooly is thrown on her
own resources in London at the tender
age of twelve. 1t is her firm detcrm'-
nation to keep her two-year- old brother
out Of the workhouse, and she succeeds.
thanks chiefly to the Hon. John Ruffin.
one OF her deceased relatives patrons.
an impecunious gentleman of sprightly
humOr, tender heart and many debts.
The tale that follows is delightfully."-
amusing from first to last. the note being
never strained in the least. There Is
the long siege of the Hon. Mr.. Ruffln's
"oak." for instance, by process server.
and his and Polly's defence against the
enemy, fortunate circumstance even en-
abling Pollyooly to collect damages for
purely accidental physical violence from
the usrrer himself. And there is the
adventure Of Captain Coombs. whom
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03

X u
Hamilton IIalnes. Frontispiece from a
painting by Dctaille. emo. pp. 3O''
Henry Holt & Co
This story contains some capital
studies Of the realities of war AS they
are seen by a French conscript in the
course of the F'ranco-German struggle
Of 1870. The hardships of hunger and
killing marches. the uncertainty and
ignorance Of the men In the ranks, their
discomfort and hopes and fears. their
blind theorizing about the cause Of hos
tllties and the strategy behind the
tactics OF which they are the mechanl-
cal pawns. the panics that accompany
their obscure heroisms. the range or
their emotions before and during ana
after actual battle all this Is studied IN
the mass. but more in detail in the case
Of the Young hero At Saarbrucken' Grave
Iotte. and on the retreat 10 Paris. Ihese
picturcs on the level. so 10 speak are
varied with occasional glimpses of the
battlefield from above. from the stand
point of the commanders, the author
being as convincing here as he is among
the men I'm the ranks. This view OF war,
psychological and realistic both. has
been drawn in fiction before by masters
Of the art. Mr.. Haines's canvas is A
more modest one. but his picture is de-
cidedly worth while none the less, con-
vincing and gripping. So much cannot
hc said for his plot-the more or less
obligatory "love interest" with its arbl-
trary and uncouvincing ignoring of the
social distance between the daughter ot
cavalry commander and the son OF n
village cobhlcr. And again, the Frus-
sian SPY is worth while only as such. AS
factor i'm the plot he loses much OF his
interest All this does not matter much,
however. for it is the war pictures which
make the book, and which should bring
ID success.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03

turns to nursing. and, Of course her pro-
fcssion brings the solution of the mNs-
tory. Moreover there is another love
story TO bc told for, as has already been
said. the author is most deeply inter
estcd i'm her hcroinc's emotional progress
through llfe The idea is a good one, but
II has been worked out with an inGcnu-
ousncss so frank and truly simple that
the story will satisfy only the least eN-
acting and sophisticated Of readers. II
is all told from without, and even at
some distance from the characters. in
Guiding the leading one.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-03

PolIvoolv serves as Loves Messenger In
the face of an obdurate father. Then
comes the great exploit OF the girls I'M
pcrsOnation OF the dukes daughter
while her mother abducts her. Tie
duke. be 1t explained, is disaSrecab'e
man. and Mr.. Ruhin's relative. In the
end Pollyooly Is taking lessons in stage
dancing, with. I'm the far perspective.
the possibility Of marrying into the peer
age. after the fashion Of the amuse-
mont world and the aristOcracy OF Eng
land. Mr.. Jepson has done well with
this simple comedy, which cannot fa''
- mt its readers in the best of good
hnmor with its star its leading man. the
minor characters-even the unpleasant