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PECULIAK TO THE SOUTH. TO TEACH STREET ARABS. TO SHOW 'ITS RICHES. ing successfully, as the Incline must right In order to have the sap run wpIi the lower portion must held a all the work in a turpentine orchard i is done by the piece and by those whttart a specialty of it. The hrp (Continued from forty-first pate.) TURPENTINE FARMING AS IT IS CARRIED QS IX FLORIDA.

BOARD OF EDUCATION- WILL OPES A DOW5-IOW5 SCHOOL TOMORROW. era among turpentiners are dinners pers, and boxers. Each man is "In Will Be the First of Its Kind Attempted Htlf Tpon the also be used for school purposes, if the attendance warrants its conversion. The authorities of the Waifs" Mission were-a long time in deciding to send their charges to the school which the city has offered. It was feared by the Superintendent that no school could be a success where pupils were allowed to go and come, as their hours of business demanded.

But the chance of securing an education for the children at the' expense of the Board of Education and by the work of the city's trained teachers was too good a. one to be and ac pordlngly Waifs' Mission. boys- will be marched to the school in a body five minutes before the bell rings and back again nve minutes after the teachers say twelve o'clock." Boys "Sot Yet Informed. There does not seem to be any great amount of information among the boys on the street touching the opening of the new school. In fact half a dozen of them to whom the question was put professed absolute ignorance that a school was to be started.

three years, is to locare the still. This done, the turpentine farmer and hl3 workers proceed, figuratively, to pitch their tents. These tents are little yellow board 'houses with an outside chimney half as large as the structure itself, made of big pine sticks laid up cross-bar fashion and generously daubed with clay. The chimneys fn these quickly constructed, temporary abiding places are the all important part, and when a turpentine farm is first opened the greeting among the workers is not the ordinary ineiuiry in regard to health, but, Mornin'J How is yo chimney? is hitVoikin all right?" The most important work of opening a turpentine farm or orchard is building the still, and It 13 also the most expensive. To build the still and open an orchard of, say, 20,000 trees, costs not less than 7,500.

Under ordinary circumstances, when turpentine and resin are bringing a fair price, this amount, together with a fair interest on the money invested, is made the first year. After that whatever is made is clear gain, although the first year is always more profitable than any that follows, as the first crude gum that a tree yields, which is known as the virgin Use to Which the Fine Woods ot the Palmetto State Are Jfow Being- Put-How a Turpentine Farm Is ConductedMethod of Extracting- Resin front the. Trees The Waa-es Paid Are Kot High, but Working Hours Are Short. Desire of Waifs' to Gain Knowlede Waifs Mission Will Contribute Pupils How the Children View tlie Project. clared them to be those of the trader named.

In one part of the room there is a section of a wooden water main, which was nee part of the machinery of Chicago's water supply. There are other curios and historic articles, beyond number, Upon the third floor of the buIJaing is a newspaper room, where complete files of all the Chicago dailies are stored. A room on the same floor and just over the museum contains almost complete documents of the United States, while an apartment to the west contains the publications of the Historical Society, Passing into the library from the main hall on the ground floor one finds a lofty room, which extends the entire width of the building and rises unbroken save by a gallery at the sides sheer to the roof. The ESTERDAT afternoon the janitor of I the new public school for street arabs and -waifs generally wrung DE FUNIAK SPRINGS, Oct. 22.

Special In this land of the suWbonnet, pecan, and mighty stretches of pine forests, what is known as turpentine farming corresponds to the grazing period of the expert at one or the other of these aTthi'iJ those who have worked long at the and are somewhat enterprising are Kt 1 do all three successfully. The boxine already been explained. The chinni cutting off a thin piece from the upnil 1 of the box, which soon sears over the gummy sap may again flow freelv chipping is accomplished with a curved knife with a blade about three in long on a handle to the end of which if'1 tached a heavy oblong ball. How the Gum Is Handled. Ordinarily a tree yields about a qiuh crude gum in a week, and it is thedrnliS the dipper to remove this to the which it is conveyed to the still, it naturally be supposed that this 01ii pif accomplished with some sort of a dinner it is not.

What is used is a broad, pnu flat paddle about twice the size of those by cooks in turning pancakes. The dlnn paddle, however. Is quite different in being pointed at the end. It is astonish to see with what dexterous skill the dw will remove the gum from the box witw losing a single drop with their flat padr- government among the turpentine1 somewhat on the patriarchal plan, and'tV free, easy, somewhat dependent life which admirably suits the average Sou tv colored man. In the group of little buildings, which is known as the turpentine farm, is a store, where Li articles as are likely to be demanded, kept for sale, and the laborer can have aT or goods in return for his labor.

Burt hind the door. The school will be open for the reception of pupils tomorrow morning. It occupies an entire floor up three flights of stairs over a restaurant on Madison, just west of La Salle street. The school will be largely in the nature of an experiment. Nothing of the kind on the lines laid down by the Chicago Board of Education has ever been attempted In any city before.

The purpose is to reach the newsboys and bootblacks, who have Just enough time to themselves during the day to put in a few odd hours, studying. Now these hours are not the same in all cases, and one of the difficulties which the management of the school Will have to confront will be the arrangement of studies so that all the children may learn something and yet keep up what promises to be an ever consistent going and, coming from work. i. thinar as working six dnvn In known on a turpentine farm. The ordin.

v. uujo buu a nail, th I ravstTM Ufi Sites sftrKIim ft -xi vv eta uiQugat ior a long ume mar it might be impossible to secure any pupils and portrait of George III. occupies a prominent place upon the wall. It represents him in hi3 young and dashing days. The Washington portrait is an original by Peale and is of great value.

Sir Guy Carlton, the last de facto Governor of this section of the country, and Sir Frederick Haldiman, the last de jure Governor, are shown cheek by jowl with George Rogers Clark, who, in the name of the State of Virginia, tore this region from their, rasp. Under all these portraits there are auto graph letter? of the pei-gons represented. It should have been mentioned that in the museum room there is an ancient harpsichord which was Imported into America by Astor Co. and sent into this region to be exchanged for furs. The Chicago Historical Society has and will place upon exhibition under certain restrictions one of the most valuable collections of autographs in existence.

It was the desire of the society to secure an autograph of every ruler, explorer, and person who had anything to do with this region of the New World. There are in the society's possession autographs of all the Kings of France and of England who reigned while this Central Western part of America was a French or a British possession. There are represented in this collection letters of Henry of Henry of Navarre, of Louis Louis and Louis XV. of France and of the great Ministers Richelieu and Mazarln. An autograph of Columbus, secured by Mr.

Mason at the Gerald Hart sale, is among this priceless collection. JoHet's autograph has been secured, as have also a letter and autograph of La Salle. There is a manuscript of Marquette in the possession of the Jesuit fathers in Montreal. The Chicago Historical.Society tried its best to secure the possession of the 'document, but was unsuccessful. The efforts of Archbishop Feehan and W.

Onahan were directed toward the same end, but the Catho-lio priests of Montreal could not be induced to part with their treasure. The effort of the Chicago society to secure Father Marquette's manuscript accomplished one good purpose. It caused the Jesuit authorities to build a fireproof vault for its safe keeping. Lecture Room and Uses. There is a great lecture hall on the first floor of the society's building with an entrance from the French room.

Uponits walls hang portraits of the Presidents of the Chicago Historical Society from the date of its foundation. At the west end of the hall is a stage, on the wall back of which hangs the painting Resurge which was sent to this city by the City of London after the Chicago Are. There was some money left in the English metropolis after all the needs of Chicago had been supplied and the money was expe0ed for the historical painting which now hangs on the society's wall. In this room there will be given courses of lectures -upon historical subjects. They are now being arranged by President Mason and will begin immediately after the opening to the public.

Among the lecturers whom it is hoped to bring here are-John Fiske, Justin Windsor of Harvard, Reuben G. Thwaites cf the Wisconsin His? torical Society, Herbert B. Adams of Johns Hopkins University, and the professors of history in the Chicago and Northwestern Universities. In the office of the Secretary of the His-' torical Society, Charles Jivans, there hang facsimiles of what may be called the three reat declarations of independence," the warrant for the execution of Charles the Magna Charta of England, and the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Upon a shelf in the room of the Secretary a bust of the late Pierre Margry, the French historian to whom the history of this region is so much indebted.

A letter was recently received by Lambert Tree from Mme. Margry, the widow of the historian, expressing the desire to offer to Chicago a bust of her husband, which was executed by the sculptor Gruyere "(First Prix de Rome), and requesting his. advice as to what disposition should be made of Tree wrote Mme. Margry that he believed the building of the Chicago Historical Society, of which her husband was an honorary: member, would be the most fitting place for her gift. A correspondence ensued between Mr.

Tree and Mr. Mason and between the society and Mme. -Margry through M. Vlg-neaux of the American Legation of Paris, and last week the bust of Margry, whose works traced with so much fidelity the achievements of La Salle and his countrymen in this western region, has found a place where it may be honored by Chicago-ans. Each -Room Is a.

Vault. Each room of the Chicago Historical Society Is a vault by itself. The fact that it la so absolutely 'fireproof would give one the idea perhaps that beauty is lacking in its linM. This -49, far from the truth. There perhaps loiind no more thoroughly artistictaeviflopment of interior and ffhish tr.g' deptgno in the City of The BOXERS, CHIPPERS, AND DIPPERS AT WORK.

FIRST CLASS IN ARITHMETIC. aner woric naa been in progress for some weeks fitting up the room the Board of Education began to fear that they would have a school, books, blackboards, and teachers, but no pupils. In truth there is no means ty which the attendance of the childi en of the street can be secured, and if they do not come of their own volition there is no law which can compel their attendance. It is true that the policeman on the corner may say to idle boys: "Here there, trot off to and then direct their steps to the proper stairway. Perhaps awe of the policeman may send the laggards up the three nights necessary to reach the school room door; but will they etay when they once get there? That is the question which time alone can Mtssiou Will Contribute Pupils, school, however, will have a goodly number of scholars at its opening and whose attendance there is a fair certainty will be made permanent- Supt.

Hastings of the Waifs Mission has agreed to march over daily the forty or lifty charges which he has under his control in order that they may get center of the library is open and contains tables, while the book stacks are ranged alonff the sides of the room. the end3 great windows let in a flood of light. A spiral ttairway ascends to the gallery, where ether book stacks are to be found. Upon the front of each stack of books is a little shelf, each one holding a bust of some person whose presence, in effigy is fitting in a room of this character. There are volumes In the library and 40.0OO pamphlets.

The shelves are all of. slate and iron, made They refused in five case to say whether they would attend or not, and they eyed their questioner with a suspicion apparently born of a fear that he was an agent of some one who had in mind the coercing of them into the acceptance of an education whether they would or no. The chances are that if the policemen are deputized to direct the boys to go te school they will go provided the law's guardian gets close enough to enter into a conversation. Superintendent of Schools Lane is depending to some extent Pacific coast country, There, during the grazing period, Spanish grandees owned vast tracts of land, over which roamed great herds It was the yearly yield of hides and tallow from these herds that netted their pwners, who were not toilers, but for the most part gamblers, the princely Incomes they There Is such large and easily obtained income from turpentine farming, but the acreage required for a turpentine farm or orchard is large, not' less dip," makss the fine white resin that brings the highest price and also the best spirits of turpentine. Most of the turpentine farmers in this part of the country are from Georgia and South Carolina, which.

In the language of the expert, has been "turpentined" for years. Many of these farmers have grown old in the business as have their black helpers. Once the right to turpentine a tract of 3,000 or 4,000 acres of pine land is secured, the trees are boxed, the still built, and in a few weeks turpentine and resin are being hauled to the nearest railroad station and than 3,000 or 4,000 acres, and it is usually shipped. I shipped. the initial step in opening large portions the advantages of the education which the 4 week as far as labor is concerned eiiC Frido" noon.

Friday afternoon la a h. 5 holiday that is religiously observed by th workers in turpentine orchards. SatiuiiT is devoted to getting ready for Sunday is more, often than otherwise occupMh the excitement of getting and keeping ri! ligion and Involves late hours and often most violent exercise. Monday is recu'M to recover from the effects of all this 3 on Tuesday morning the turpentine 'w hands begin their week's work, which as has been 6ald. Friday noon, for it is or under great stress of urging that the turw? tinefarmlaboreroanbe Induced totvorkuntii Friday night.

The best and most ambitious Workers rnali. $7 per week and the others less, but theyti, all perfectly satisfied. They work keepec time to song: the gentle temperature. Js more demanding than the sum of their mi est wants; the music of the wind throurt the pines makes a balsam-charged, ai- brant above their beds of pine boughs Ttw know no ills and are as happy and care-frji as the mocking bird that trills above thtn as they work. While at the present tlrw there really is no employment which gtfu the average colored laborer of the Bouth bet.

ter than turpentine farming, the indicationi are that this will not be true of the rltlrj generation, who are evidencing the divs-i discontent that incites to unending effort but in the meantime their progenitors joyfully content. Injury to the Trees. While the light-hearted turpentine work, ers are boxing, chipping, and dipping, the experts at the still are separating tht residuum of the crude gum, which is resK from the spirits that Is the turpentine s( commerce, the unending discussion amon-those interested in forestry is going fonrarj as to whether or not turpentining a pit tree Injures it for lumber. There can be as doubt that to continue to turpentine a tr for a term of years, e-ay ten or fifteen, ij make it well-nigh useless, for lumber, as tin layers which surround the heart become wft and spongy. For a shorter time, taytiifet years, and it is during the first years that the best results are obtained, the injury i scarcely perceptible.

Of course, the tr does not continue to grow after it hasbea boxed, and there is much more danger froi fire after a tract has been turpentined thu before, but aside from this it is claimed tti a pine forest is not deteriorated by beiat turpentined for a short time. It is interring that the heart of a pine tree, -whltM known as light wood," when a tree ta been turpentined so long that it is no lorsr Of value for lumber. Is, by being burnei a a certain way in a pit similar to a chaim pit, made into tar. This same heart of pine is made into lumber which is exceeds ly durable, although too narrow to be available for many purposes. City of.

Chicago offers. These boys have been studying for some time and they can figure. a bit and do some writing, while in a number of cases there are those whd have shown positive talent as draftsmen. These boys are of the genus gamin pure and simple. il xney can noia tneir own pnysicaiiy ana mentally with their brothers of the street who have not the advantage of being certain of a bed every night and three squares a day.

There will be two teachers for these waif pupils and if the half hundred youngsters which will form the nucleus, of the school do not give them more trouble than a whole building full of the ordinary public school boys, then those who have attempted to teach these gamins in the past have made a prophecy for which there shall be no fulfillment. The room in which the waifs have been taught for the last few months is almost an exact counterpart of the room into which they will be marched tomorrow and which has been furnished for their accommodation by the Board of Education. Barring the fact that the outlook from the windows will be a bit strange and that the teaahers will wear strange faces the mission boy will detect no difference. That is, he will not until the newsboys and others enter the room for the purpose of knowledge, It is the aim of the Waifs Mission to keep the boys off the street as much as possible. They are street boys, though, from center to circumference, and the gentle restraint to which they have been subject has not curbed their animal spirits nor put a damper on their enthusiasm for alley life.v They will probably hail the return to old associations, even thoug'h in the surroundings of a school, with delight, Arranarement of the School.

There are four large rooms in the loft Which the city has set aside for this unique school. The front room and one just back of it are already furnished with desks and STILL FOR MAKING TURPENTINE FROM RESIN. WAITING FOR THE BELL TO RING. upon the policemen to give his school a starter. The best energies of the Superintendent, the Board of Education, ftnd the teachers' will bent to make it a success in every particular, and if it fail educators say.it will be because the attendance of children who -are forced to earn their own living, cannot bo secured with any degree of work has been watched and studied step by" MAN W.ITHOUT A MEMORY.

Jay "Why have you that string- about your finger," Day So I wouldn't forget an errand te my wife." And what's that handkerchief tied rosiJ your arm for?" So I wouldn't forget the string. And what does she want you ttdo? I've been trying to think of it for Uulut hour." Tid-Bits. of the unsettled tracts of pine-woods country here in the South. In Florida, where the acreage of pine is large, the turpentine farmer just beginning to operate. Unlike many of the farmers who till the soil, he is in every instance an expert.

As it was with the pastoral patriarchs of Bible times, the turpentine farmer has no fixed abiding-place but goes from one great pine forest to another, without reference to State lines, followed by his swarthy workers', 100 or 200 strong, and his-family. Opening; a Turpentine Farm. The first thing in opening a turpentine farm, after securing the right to turpentine the trees for a certain period, usually about after an absolutely new principle. In time should it become necessary there is room for an addition to the library, which will be capable of containing book stacks, With' a capacity of which prao-v tically makes provision for the growth of the library for all time to come. In the reading-room of the society, from which opens a doorway at the left of the main entrance, are to be found complete flies of The Chicago Tribune and current publications of all kinds.

Upon the walls are portraits of the English Governors -of this region after it passed from the hands of France into those of Great Britain. There are also portraits of Washington, George Rogers Clark, Sheridan. Grant, Lincoln, and other personages who were preminent in the early history of the city and State. A fine It was such a day as sarly June brings at the North that a little party from Chicago visited a turpentine farm newly opened, just beyond the limit of the village. From his early boyhood Mr; D.

E. Richardson, who greeted us at the farm, has been connected with the business of turpentining, and he is not only an expert, but is known as a most successful manager of the gangs of men, without whose services a turpentine farm cannot be worked. The boxing of the trees, whieh happened to be going forward when we arrived, consists of cutting, a short distance up from the root of the tree, an incline plane in the outer layers of the wood, but not reaching to the heart, and at the-base a receptacle into which the crude gum runs. Only a man who has been carefully taught can do this box step by the society President, Edward G. Mason, from the moment that the ground was first turned until the present day, when the building stands complete.

The first President of the Chicago Historical Society was William H. Brown, ths Vice-Presidents were W. B. Ogden and J. Young Scammon; the Secretary was William Barry who in reality was the father of the organization.

The only one on the list of the first officers who 13 living is the first Treasurer, Samuel D. Ward, LIKE BEAVERS. Tommy Paw, what does it mean in. the paper when it says that the leaders of a party are working like beavers?" Mr. Figg It might mean they are saying nothing and sawing wood, but it usually means they have begun throwing mud." Indianapolis Journal.

another large room which may be utilized at once in case there is an overflow of pupils. The rear room is spacious and will be used as a play ground at recess, but later may Paint from Horses Hoofs. Prussian blue paint la made from the asia of the burnt hoofs of horses. SEVEN NOVELS BY SUCCESSFUL WRITERS WHO ARE NOW COMPETING FOR POPULARITY. THEIR STRONG AND WEAK POINTS DISSECTED FOR THE BUSY READER.

CHICAGO'S big strike has been put into fiction, and by Capt Charles King at that. A Tame Surrender the story is called. But the surrender in question is that of Miss Wallen, the proud heroine, and not of the strikers. The author has attempted to graft a love story upon the exciting scenes of the Debs insurrection, but the joining is not very complete. The descriptions of the riot scenes are FROM the land of the ancient and now shriveled She "the mystical Africa that exists only in the tropical brain of Rider Haggard comes The Wizard." This new story of Mr.

Haggard's is a novelty in one way at least it Is religious. An odd mixture it Is, of magic and miracles, paganism and Christianity, love and slaughter. There is 4ne pleasant feature ot tho Son3 of Fire, the people with which, Mr. Haggard's story' has to do. They can be killed A 1 OBODY reads Dodo" now.

It Uud through Its little day and dled-ws it three years ago? But its thor, E. F. Benson, seems to have gone bravely over both the book and tha ber-ment. He has Just produced a real ewA with depth as well as sparkle, and no ea2 degree of literary merit. Limitations is the rather formiilW title of Mr.

Benson's novel, and the Urni' tlons of temperament, prejudices, environ ment, and the like, as they exist in real are Its theme. The principal character! IN "A Rebellious Heroine" John Ken-drick Bangs has rescued his crumbling reputation as a humorist. The story is not only replete with a fair grade of humor, but it is as refreshingly original In conception as one of Stockton's best. it throws a flood of light upon the woes of the realistic novelist. Nobody who follows the tribulations of Stuart Harley, realist, in his attempts to make a story with Marguerite Andrews as the heroine can fail to sympathize with the unfortunate man in his sufferings.

It was bad enough that the rebellious young worn- THERE are few writers who can compete with Gyp in her Epeclalty the manufacture of silly sentimentalities about marriage. True, the would-be Gyps are legion, but the only original Gyp is still without a rival, as may be seen in the pretty little piece of flubdub called Bijou'a Courtships," It Is really admirable the amount of fluffy, frothy, superficial, sentimental chatter the Comtesse de Maxtel can cram into 500 pages without once getting below the scarf-skin-of life. None but a Frenchwoman could begin to do It. Even, the silliest American writer would sometimes forget herself and say something. But Gyp is a perfect mistress of unity.

True to her principles, she is never once guilty of lapsing into real sentiment or anything else so weighty. The heroine of Bijou'B Courtships is a gazelle-like maiden of 21, with eyes like diamonds, with a complexion that comes in for ecstatic mention) about every third page, and with a dainty person that exhales an aroma of childhood' and spotless- purity." The house in which she lives is the rendezvous of a dozen or two of male relatives, friends, andi acquaintances, married andun-toarried boyish and aged. And before Gyp geta through every last fool of theni has proposed to Bijou. Gyp's modus operandi is plain. She reasons that if one proposal, touched off at the close of a novel, is a good thing, why should not a dozen or a score, fired in rapid sue-cesslon be a dozen times more interesting? If the slngle-barreledi musket has been superseded by the rapid-fire machine gun in warfare why' not also in love? Everything is fair In love and war.

This is logical, scientific, not to say brilliant. And if anybody demurs and objects, why, he is not up to date tout volla. In the face of such martial logic the mas- looks as if Julian Hawthorne were grow-I ing a trifle stingy, when he makes two of his characters scrimp along with only one body, as he does in his latest literary fantasia, The Golden Fleece." Worst of all, he practices his penurlous-ness upon the fair sex, who set a good deal of store by bodies and, as a rule, show good taste in choosing good-looking ones. But Mr. Hawthorne has ungallantly compelled Miriam, the beautiful half-Aztec daughter of Southern California, and Semltzin, the ancient Aztec princess, to be tenants both of the same body, both in love with the same man, and therefore doubly rivals of each other, and each claiming a right to separate existence.

It is small wonder that the two fair spirits should alternately evict each other and raise Ned generally. It is a new--and -poignant phase of the crowded-tenement question. No wonder Harvey Freeman, the flirtatious lover, was driven to duels and drink for he also had Grace Farsloe on his hands. And no wonder the author has to call in the aid of magic arts, subterranean floods, and a few other phenomena to solve the puzzle. Miriam and Semitzin, at least, deserved the poor boon of a body apiece.

Any old secondhand one would have been better tBan none. Yet if the wise Kamaiakan had relented and allowed both women to be in the flesh at -the same time, they would probably have caused a glut in the loose-hair market, and have driven Harvey Freeman into the Mojave desert to keep cool. Besides, the magic golden fleece that gave 'Semltzin such supreme power over Miriam's body, and over caves and treasures and floods and things, would have been good for nothing but old junk. As Grace Parsloe finally captures Don as Semltzin finally disappears after having obligingly, unearthed the Aztec treasure from its enchanted mountain cave just in time to serve as a wedding gift for Miriam and -Harvey, and as everything else ONE man there Is of all the world who holds locked within his bosom the dread secret of The Lady or the Tiger." And now another secret, still darker, is hidden in he same bosom. Frank Stockton and an inscrutable providence alone know why he wrote Mrs.

Cliff's Yacht," unless it was to secure the degree of D. D. deadly dull. On the face of things it would appear that Mrs. Cliff, after getting her millions of treasure-trove through the adventurous Capt, Horn, is worried nearly to death to know how to spend her wealth.

Every five minutes she Is two dollars richer, and not a thing done to stave off the tidal wave except buying one new dishpan and Saving a door repaired. Theoretically 6he becomes so disquieted at the hotel that she rings the bell, determined to spend something or die and then orders a cup of tea. But it Is all so dreary" that It must be a joke a sort of English joke, you know. As the words read, Mrs. Cliff Is finally persuaded by Mr, Burke, the millionaire ex-sailor, to buy a yacht and take a company of clergymen Into the Spanish Main, and has sundry tame and mournful adventures in transit.

But this is all evidently a clever trick. We do not believe in Mrs. Cliffs yacht. We do not believe in the four several grasps or the four simultaneous chills that ran down the backs of Mrs. ClfffTs self-constituted heirs.

We do not even believe In the plausible Miss Willy Croup, or In her tragic stand at the pilot-house door shouting the Captain's orders, oaths and all. to avert a collision. There is only one way to save Mr. Stockton's reputation, and let us boldly take It. There is no Mrs.

Cliff and her yacht is the mythical Flying Dutchman. Or might it not be more merciful to explain the whole sorry business by saying that Mrs. Cliff was really worried to death over her wealth, and that the deadness of the story is merely a bit of consummate CAPT4 CHARLES KING. -V H. RIDER HAGGARD.

E. F. BENSON. off by thousands and tens of thousands right before your eyes and you won't care the worth of a penny dip. This is one of the, great advantages of tho ultra-romantic ecmool can waae inrowa oceans ot blood without soiling the tips of one's parent-leathers and can look upon the most heartrending cruelties without an extra heart beat.

It is such a saving in emotions and shoe blacking. No doubt one should be duly edified by the Tom Carlingford, an artist; May Markha who becomes his wife; and May' brthff Ted. his Cambridge chum. A few relatives and artists fill in the chinks, the whole Is a bright yet serious tuar character. In spite of a discursive tendency to aUW most of the didactic subjects that troubled mankind and young authors the days of Moses, the characters blood of life in them.

One can't help Interested in the case of Tom and Mar- voted young husband and wife, Trt with a natural limitation preventing sympathy with the ruling passion a other. May was religious. Tom tic. There came three crises In Toni" One when he- looked; on the) HermF Praxiteles In Athens and modestly mined to eclipse It. Another was when i met May and loved her.

The thlra In deserting his snug English living to con-vert the black and bloodthirsty Sons of Fire. But as the whole game was revealed hostile country he hardly needs human sympathy. The Wizard Hokosa is a bad man in eveiv sense of the word, and his wife. Ss'oma, i3 another. But as they both have when he resorted to prayer in mo communication wiin iaa aouis in dead ungodly heathen dead, at that one can hardly wonder that they should smell somewhat of the pit.

It is gratifying to relate, however, that the heroic missionary successfully defies the vivid, the spirit and data of the narrative are right, but the thread of the romance is flimsy and frayed. The author seems to have a. hard time making the story com to a climax. The hero Is Capt. Forrest, with headquarters in the Puglman Building.

The heroin is Miss Wallen, a brave and independent typewriter girl, and her troubles begin the night she flees from a drunken masher into an apartment-house, where Forrest is on hand to kick the fellow into the gutter. This episode and Forrest's later acts of friendship for the girl give the melodramatic villain, Elmendorf, a chance to manufacture enough scandal to carry the story to the marrying point. Neither Pullman nor Debs is drawn full length, but both have evidently been util'zed to some extent in the characters of Allison and Elmendorf. The latter is a meddling tutor in the Allison family and a loudmouthed agitator. Miss Allison, the millionaire's daughter, loves Forrest, and as Elmendorf wants the plump hand of that lady himself he naturally finds a lage.

field for his peculiar talent of slander and mischief-making. But many of his acts notably in the episode In which he forces Miss Wallen to hear all about her rich rival are mere melodrama. It was all right for Miss Wallen to slap his face, but she should simultaneously have uttered the classic avaunt. villain!" The story lacks the dash and go of Capt. ic.ng best tales.

There are too manv words and not enough story. But the book is worth reading merely for its accurate portrayal of the strike. The Governor is with us to the bitter end." is the strikers loud boast, and until he touches the button no power in or out of Illinois can stand between us and victory." The one dramatic climax comes when the Federal troops suddenly march into the midst of things. One can say amen to Capt. King's glorification of the soldiers who held their tempers in the face of the mob's Jeering taunts, but not to this: For years the Chicago newspapers, with one exception, have made it a point to sneer at, vilify, and hold up to execration the officers of the regular army." Come, Captain, isn't that a pretty wild shot? JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

an should miss the ocean, steamer In- the very first chapter, simply because the author did- not see fit to provide a two-horse carriage for her instead of a cab. But, though all the other characters sailed away without her, that was a mere trifle in comparison with the way she treated all the lovers that Mr. Harley provided for her. Again and again the author took t3ie trouble to bring a Count from Italy, or a professor from New York, or a spotless gentleman from somewhere else, to make love to her in the most approved fashion. And what did the ungrateful hussy do? Flouted them all.

Insulted them, turned her back on them, at last ran away Incontinently where even the author could not find her. And the date of publication fast approaching! Not even the villain In the novel was a match for the rebellious heroine. She utterly refused to come under the baJef uj Influence which every law-abiding heroine succumbs to. Nor could Mr. Bangs himself do any better with her whew poor Harley had, given her up In despair.

Even when, he had managed to get a runaway horse to carry her into the rescuing arms of the Italian1 Count she only jerked the animal aside and left the little fellow tumbled in a heap in the dust. She absolutely refused' to do anything fit to set down in a romance. It certainly was very provoking. And yet when, the truth comes out one cannot well blame her for refusing to be married off to any hero that Harley could have fabricated. Like all rebellious women, she had her reason if owe- could only find' them out.

In this case Mr. Bang3, by assuming the realist's r61e a mixture of a newspaper reporter and a recording angel discovered the secret and. reveals it in a way alike gratifying to the realist, the rebel, and the reader. The Rebellious Heroine is as bright as The Idiot," for whom she would have made an i-Jeal But, of course, she would have rejected him. bof ot the hour when May's child wa But his statue of Demeter and his experience became ghosts and his kre lightnings on the' Plains of Fire, that he saves the old icing's life, and gradually converts the whole court, even thewlcked llakosa, though cot until the latter has ioisoned the white man to death.

The con- r.A of Ka H1 nr. Owen and the role he plays in the subse- 'nnent hattles is more edifying than probable. was realized. This sounds rather appalling, book is lighted with so much clever and repartee that It is not at all even in the solemn moment of ii ligious crisis one is still made queer pictures in the stained glass above him. where "a pink fitted neatly into a green whale.

eWjii of the book is serious and seldom and there are human danhes oi through it. One admires Tom father as much as his saintly but inlne wife. The way Tom's lofty idealism crushed by limitations In the shape ar vation, his long fight, and his final )Je, to a lower but more are graphically described. Those hJtt Pider Dodo Benson frivolous t-to revise their ideas after readinff tlons." It is the heaviest but also v. Jt'UAN HAWTHORNE.

unlikely we must be content. But that need i)ot disguise the fact that Julian Hawthorne is not a Stevenson In the portrayal Of dual personalities or a Haggard in the manipulation of magic. His stories give the impression of having been thrown together over night. Moreover, the author himself may feel as if he had been thrown, together over night if the Californiana get wind of what he says about the monotony of their climate, where the thermometer paces up and down within the narrowest limits, like a meadow-lark hopping to and fro in a seven-Inch cage." FRANK R. STOCKTON.

realism? At least let us hold that Mrs. Cliff is asleep, she and all her crew. This will explain the sympathetic desire of the reader to follow her asleep. It is altogether the most plausible theory, and yet it must be admitted that the author alone can clear up the mystery beyond a doubt. Mr.

Stockton has spoiled us. He has invented so many clever things tnat the disappointment is doubly bitter when he writes something mediocre- and trite. It may be ungrateful, and yet we must really be excused from reading trash like Mrs. Cliff Just for tis sake of her betters who have gone befove. Life Is too Bhort.

GYP COMTES8E DE MART EL). cullne critic will not dare to But he can. still disown the silly, sickly, mawkish creatures that the author labels men. He can balk at all the twaddle they are mad to speak and act. And as to the various suicides that eplce the narrative, he can maintain that they were due not to love of Bijou but to disgust at the circumambient silliness.

And, further, he can and will cling to the secret belief that Bijou herself will die of shame at being married off to ah old fool of 00 when there were such shoals of you! fish to be caught. poisonous tree, with the vultures whetting 'their beaks on the surrounding rocks, and w-itn martial thousands in full undress uni-form lighting to the bitter end beneath, is a picture to make the heart of the melodra-matist turn over in its socket. Mr. Haggard is at his best in unraveling 'some mystery of magic There is no mystery In this book to unravel. There is only-one character in.

it that one really likes. That the witch. Noma. She is so consistently hateful and demonish that in a few hundred more pages one might almost learn to love her. thins he has done.