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BUFFALO SUNDAY MORNING NEWS: MAY 26, 1907. The Sunday News NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. settling toward the conclusion that the reputation of the American rail made by either process will recover prestige if the material is handled with the usual care and skill of the American mill. The free trade press seizes the occasion of the rail dispute to urge free admission of foreign rails. They are not less in price but rather higher than the domestic rail but It is con tended that they are better in quality.

The main use of such suggestions Is to sible to be discarded for the struggle and is thus the most effective Influence for peace on earth that the world knows. The Japanese are an extremely poor people whose recent war has piled up taxes at a severe rate and the Idea that their ruler cherishes the notion of challenging the United States on any hostile ground is almost unthinkable. The most cordial relations exist between the two countries now and the warm reception everywhere accorded Gen. Kuroki Is a faithful witness of that fact. EDWARD H.

BUTLER, Editor and Proprietor. 'THE NEWS" BUILDING, 918 Matn Street. THE SUNDAY NEWS I the oldest Fumiay paper in Buffalo. Being Independent in everything it Is the paper of THE PEOPLE and the best advertising- medium to Western New York. TLRMS Five cents per copy; $2.50 per year to mail subscribers.

ADVERTISING RATES made known at the Counting Room. remind the American producer that me roreign ciud is neia over Poliah Revolution in Romance. "In the Cause of Freedom," Arthur W. Marchmont's romance, keeps up the rattling pace he has set. His tales certainly have go In them.

The present is the story of a romance and a Polish revolutionary plot very cleverly mixed. There is no end of adventure in It, and the girl who is its heroine, though she doesn't start out to be one, Is up to the standard In every particular. Beauty, courage and ready wit are The story is told in the first person singular by an English traveler who gets mixed up in the affairs of the Federation unexpectedly and has" trouble with the omnipresent Russian police from the very first page. It is good reading. Frederick A.

Siokes publishers. Otto Ulbrich, Buffalo. THE BUFFALO EVENING NKW3 hag a larger circulation than any other rper In the State outside of New York City not excepting Brooklvn. ton's. Few things In history are more striking than Lincoln's entrance without military escort into the city where his name had been anathema for years.

Captain Barnes gives a dramatic account of his own experiences in the walk to the Capitol through immense, jostling crowds, offering every opportunity, indeed every temptation, to any assassin who cared to venture near. "How the 'Meditations' Came to be Written" is an interesting bit of personal experience by Florence Morse Kingsley, aivearing in The Nautilus for June. Some of the Important articles are "Hatw of Oscillation," Edgar L. Larkin; "New Light on Immortality," W-allace D. Wattles; "Going Into tho Silence." Julia Seton Sears, M.

"What to Teach Children," Elizabeth Towne; "Concentration and Relaxa-fion," Ellen price; "Buffalo from a New Thought Point of View," Florence Newhouse Fox. The Bohemian for June has a list of 17 short stories of the clever kind that IMPORTANT NOTICE. Subscriptions to THE NEWS may be made through the Pmchasing Department of the American Express Company afany pia.ce where that conipai'-' has an agency. A Kent a Rill arive a ers to handle the new situation arising from the new districts. This is certainly interesting if true.

We shall see what we shall see. But what is not less interesting is the announcement from the same source that Ihe Governor will not favor a bill for the New York recount that will apply generally, as an amendment to the election law, and so avoid the necessity of submission to Mayor McClellan as a New York city bill. The Governor is said to want "a bill approved by Hearst," and Mr. Hearst, as is well known, does not want a general bill. Why, -no one has explained.

It will be remembered that a year ago when Mr. Hearst sent up a strong delegation from New York to persuade the Legislature to pas3 a special bill he was offered a general bill that would apply to all disputed elections, but refused it It was thought then that Mr. Hearst 'would rather have a grievance than a recount, and so insisted on what he was sure the Legsilature would not grant. The Tribune's special now says: Hughes men' have come to the decision that if any recount' 'bill passed it must be one which has had the absolute approval of the Henrst people themselves. The Independence League is committed to the Prentice bill.

As most Republicans viewthe situation, to pass a bill which the Hearstites could disclaim or attack wouid be utter folly from a political point of view. Consideration of this bill "from a political point of view" is suggestive. It Is only a few days since the Legislature under the strongest executive pressure ever known in this State passed the public service bill in a shape Jhat out-Hearsts Hearst. Now it is proposed to jockey with the New York recount to suit Mr. Hearst, for political reasons.

money order receipt for subscriptions, and will forward the money order at- his head. He" may know that the threat of free trade in rails vamounts to nothing on the merits because the domestic rail is not lnferor to the foreign in any respect and yet loss of business might be a valuable stimulus to better work in the mills. The roads have no encouragement for the use of Inferior rails. Verdicts in accident cases are constantly increasing in size and certainty. $20,000 ia as common a judgment now as $2000 used to be.

Much of this is due to an Inflamed state of public opinion but the people are fair In the long run and would not feel as they do if the roads insisted on the best quality of equipment and service even If they had to turn businessaway. 'My Graduation. The H. M. Caldwell Company have issued a very attractive decorated record book entitled "My Graduation," on tacned to any order to send the paper for any stated time, free ol any charge, except, the usual fee for iv-uing tita order.

Mount Sorata in Peru, writes of the mistakes made by American merchants In not adapting their methods to those In vogue in South America. "Fighting Tuberculosis in New York," by Charles Wrarne Batting; "The World Politics of the Kaiser," by Fritz Morris; "Linking Lake Michigan to the Gulf," by William Trowbridge Lamed; "Should Railways Operate Canals?" by Charles H. Cochrane, are among the other features. The June St. Nicholas-will be issued Friday, May 31.

Everett Wilson supplies amusement for the entire nursery this month in his Information, helpfully illustrated, of "Flat Paper Houses," and there are some charming "jumping plays" for baby, with pictures by Florence E. Starr, There are four serials now In St. Nicholas Mary Catherine Lee's quaint "A Little Field of Glory," Ralph Henry Barbour's "Tom, Dick and Harriet," Agnes McClelland Daulton's charming "Fritzi," and Capt. Harold Hammond's wholesome "Pinkey Perkins: Just a Boy;" but the magazine seems richer than ever In short stories, pages of pictures and jolly jingles. The second paper in the series on "Lincoln in the Telegraph Office," by David Homer Bates, which will be a feature of the June Century, will tell of Lincoln's interest In the work of the cipher operators and reveal some surprising feats of ingenuity in deciphering Confederate code messages which fell into Union hands.

Of curious Interest are the fascinating cipher codes, both Union and Confederate. Some of the documents are there printed for the" first time, including a message which Lincoln wrote in answer to a critic of General George H. Thomas, but which was withheld after placing it in the hands of the cipher operators. The dramatic events leading up to whose bordered pages a school or col legt girl may place the Incidents Jf (Entered at the Postofflee at-uffalo, N. as second-class mall mutter.) this eventful time and all the memori THE ATT 8TB IAN ELECTI0HB.

Hungary is not involved In the new Austrian policy of universal suffrage whicji has been brought about after many years of That kingdom stands by itself in the dual' monarchy with respect to the House of Representatives which meets in Vienna. Universal suffrage as adopted in the rest of the empire outside, of Hungary is based on an age requirement of at least 24 years and on ability to read and write. It is thus seen to be founded on principles of security and conservatism not open to assault on any reasonable ground. It is said that the Emperor is pleased with the results of the first eleotions under the new system even if the Socialists made more of a showing of strength than was expected. What Francis Joseph sighs for is a quiet life after the tumults and rows of the representatives in former sessions iu Vienna.

Even Mark Twain found it impossible adequately to describe the bedlam that some of the sittings of Parliament were turned Into when he was living in Vienna, als of her years of study. The- publish ers justly claim it to be the most elab BUFFALO, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1907. orate book of the kind yet published. The Manual of Statistics. The Manual of Statistics for 1907 Is our the 2ttth Issue.

As usual, it con tains in concise and complete fqrm the information regarding railroad and we have come to expect from that magazine. Two that will attract especial attention are "Miss Dessar Receives," a story of a woman Raffles, and "Tho Strength of the Weaklings," a pathetic, narrative full of struggle, hope and justified confldeneee on the part of two loyal women. The humorous feature is byJMward Marshall, entitled "Monarch, the Big Mouse," one of his LTn-natural History series. "The Disappearance of Nicholson" is the first instal-men of a rousing serial. All the world loves a wedding, and The Housekeeper for June Is full of all sorts of hints for that most Important occasion.

"Phyllis, Her Golden Wedding" is a poem by John Kendrick Bangs; "On the Training of a Husband," by Emily Ruth Calvin, ought to be read by both man and maid; and Mr. Oliver W. Nourse has broken out again, but It Is the old sore. THE COLONEL MO. Col.

Ward --is as glib as any other special pleader when it cornea to telling why any particular street pavement is bad and is not made better. But when the colonel is asked to fix up some street that needs it his explanation falls. He will not do it, that is all. Yesterday the colonel's attention was called to North Main 6treet. He was ready with its history.

The pave- industrial corporations of the United States and Canada, government securities, mining stocks and the grain and' cotton stocks which is required by investors, speculators and stock You can recruit lots of things in Rochester, but as a place for getting military and naval recruits it Isn't in It with Buffalo. Here patriotism reigns. This is no anticanal town. market interests. The 1064 pages of the compact and handsome volume presen a great fund of data and great romance.

This authoritative personal statement of Hugo's object In "Les Miserables and its relations to social problems has special interest in connection with current social discussion; and to add to this interest are three drawings by Castaigue of scenes In "Les Miserables," two in tint. The Outing Magazine for June presents the first instalment of "The Way Of a Man," by Emerson Hough. The author of "The Mississippi Bubble" appears in his matured strength in this story. Ralph D. Paine tells "The Tales of a Collector of Whiskers." wherein the human whisker is discovered to possess musical qualities that make possible an orchestra of weird Other articles are: "See America First," by W.

J. Lampton; this is full of clever flings at foolish foibles; "The Niagara of the West," one of Clifton Johnson's geographical articles; "The Story of a popper Mine." by Ralph D. Paine--an account of the rise of the copper industry; "The Long Labrador Trail," which comes, to an end. This final Instalment treats of the return of Dillon Wallace and his companions to civilization after nearly a year spent in the Bolitude of the Labrador forests. A magazine crowded full of good reading is The Reader for June, just on sale.

The opening article, "Social Service in Business," is a revelation In the progress of modem industrial concerns toward providing for the welfare of their employes. It ia by an expert on this subject. Miss Mary R. Cranston, of the American Institute of Social Service, and is illustrated by many photographs. William Jennings Bryan and Senator Beveridge continue their brilliant debate on th great subject of "Trusts and Their Treatment." Albert Hale, the distinguished authority on South American topics, contributes a final paper on "The South American Situation." In addition to Octave Thanet'i exciting serial, "The Lion's Share." there are short stories by such well-known writers as Lily A.

Long. Elliott Flower, Wilbur Dink Nesblt, Ella Peattte and Virginia -Woodward Cloud. The June Nautilus has a three-page-article on "New Thought in Buffalo'' bv Florence Newhouse- Fox', most of which is devoted to the Progressive Thought League, of which Miss Grace Carew Sheldon is founder and president. The-sketch, no doubt prepared before the demolition of the historic Sheldon homestead, in which it was first located, has this interesting reference: At tbe old homestead of the Sheldons, 19M Main Btreet. the International Progressive Thought League holds its meetiogs every Tuesday evening.

It was at this old homestead that Judge Sheldon, away back in the 60s, equipped one of Buffalo's crack regimen is for war to fight lor freedom of enslaved humanitv. and here it is that his daughter Grace st.111 carries on the good work, herself helping to equip mauy a soldier upon life's highway to fight for freedom from mental slavery. Here tbe old home, built in the days when houses were put together with dowels, has stood for a hundred years watching tho growth of a great city as it crept past i doors. Many-areihe-interesting talks, many th entertaining papers read" berr by such well-known thinkers as Mrs. Mnrgaretta Bothwell; Pr.

G. H. Moultnn. president of the American Psychic Association, frank M. Wilson, Mrs.

Forrest J. Hotchklss. Mm. Cro5-bv, Muw Knoblock; J. Harrison Mills and others.

New thought in all iie variations taken up in diet, in dress. In breathing, iu living and thinking. Some of the talks have been highly Instructive and uplifting. The league has grown from 16 to 60 active members within eight months. An excellent portrait of Miss Sheldon Is given.

Am to Leinoni. "There's lots of fun in this lemon joW Said Ann Mehitabel Gee, "But mostly It's on the women folk, As jokes most always be. The man who Bings of the garden of love, Thinks none but peaches are banking above And takes the crow for the cooing dove," Says Ann Mehitabel Gee. "But I know weBTen who whispered, Saya Ann Mehitabel Gee "And I found out later they'd missed their guese Such thincs are likely to be. statistics of a practical character.

Much attention is devoted to the new Can it be that "the Hughes men considering the last election uncom- Col. Ward could repair North Main street if he wanted to. ment was laid in 1891; the guaranty expired In 1896. It has needed repair fortably close are afraid of Mr. Hearst, er mining companies whose stocks have become such a feature in the stock markets of the t'nlted States.

The volume gives throughout evidence of accuracy and careful compilation and is brought down to date its descriptive and statistical details. It is published by The Manual of Statistics Company, 20 Vesey street. New York. Col. Watterson's mysterious candidate Democratic nomination to the Presidency is to be held undisclosed until Marse Henry sees fit to remove the manic.

Meanwhile it is admirable newspaper business to play such a game. Price Jo. though he might have suspected that it was for 'the sake of providing him with material to amuse the world. But the most significant thing about the elections is the good order and genial spirit prevailing through the campaign to the end. of it.

The most important result, politically, is the defeat of those who stood for the union of the German provinces with North Germany, the realm of the Kaiser William. Much has been said and written about pan-Germanism, but it turns out that the Germans of Austria prefer union with the Czechs and the other races of the empire to any sort of political hitching up with1 the subjects of William. They believe that they have far more real freedom under Francis Joseph than they could have as a part of the German empire. mere are special ninrs tor me wea-ding breakfast by Mary Foster Snider and for the wedding dinner by Elizabeth W. Morrison.

In fiction the number is particularly strong. "The Gift," by J. J. Bell, the author of Wee Mac-Gregor, is a story above the average. Transatlantic Tales for June contains a complete novel by Rene Bazln of the French Academy, entitled "The Dying Land," which appeared in France under-the title "La Terre qui Meure." in this story of the marshlands of Lower Brittany a vital presentation of the forces that are depopulating the land itself and crowding humanity Into the cities Is Interwoven with a charming love-story.

Among the writers who furnish the short stories in this number are Anatole Le Braz, Marcel Prevost, Catulle Mendes. JVn-tonlo Fogazzaro, Anton Chekhov, Fedro de Alarcon, and Ottllie Bonqy. The "outdoor" woman will certainly The Third Term League is in a state of suspended animation. Perhaps it is waiting for returns that are slow to come in. You can't make bread without the dough, In the Magazines.

The Red Book Magazine for June, in addition to a' large variety of fiction, publishes 14 new and exclusive portraits of Julia Marlowe, America's foremost actress. That writer. Myra Kelly, whose first novel, "The Isle of Dreams," has just been published, will hereafter write her short stories fnr Appleton's Magazine exclusively. She contributes to the June number "Theodora. Gift of God." a delicious account of a child that received a baby brother.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when the Express can" speak of "a rather high tax rate" with Mayor Adam in office. Can It be that there is a suspicion of haze In the air, looking toward the City HaTT? Broadening the basis of -suffrage-hs- he-interested in -the June -fmmber of nTsplTe of the fact thanshehadpraTetH trial of W. D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, for complicity in the assassination of former Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho, are graphically reviewed in the current Harper's Weekly, accompanied by some interesting photographs.

Some of the other features of interest In this issue of the Weekly of May 25 are: The continuation, in an engrossing instalment, of Will -N. Harben's serial, "Mam' Linda;" a full and detailed description of a wonderful new Invention a locomotive that walks a wire, and an amusing and original short story, "The Waterloo at Fort Myer," by Arthur Somers Roche. The June Woman's Home Companion reaches high-water mark In the impor-ance of its many departments. Grace Margaret Gould contributes several pages devoted to the latest fashions, notably an illustrated article on the new linen gowns; Evelyn Parsons writes of lingerie waists and collars; Margaret Er-Sangster- -continues. talks with mothers; Herbert D.

Ward treats of the medical inspection of schools, and Anna S. Richardson, "in her monthly department "For the Girl Who Earns Her Own Living," tells how commencement day jean he connected with business. The Daniel Boone Club page contains a forecast of the club's representation at the Jamestown Exposition. "A decreasing birth-rate and an increasing death-rate among children under five" is the state of affairs just now In America. The first proposition seems to be In the hands of Providence and President Roosevelt: the second, the question of an increased death-rote, tn the hands of the milkman.

Tn the leading article of the June Craftsman, John Spargo points out, with facts piled upon statistics, that a way has been found to secure clean milk for city babies a way that has been tested and has- lowered the death-rate in one large city 50 per cent. is an article of equal importance to the nation and to th-roothc-r-In the nation "Redeeming. Dress. A special article in that num for a goat. for ten years and has not had one- and are sacrificing everything to take quarter enough and so on.

Jaway his campaign thunder? Would the colonel fix it? No. It isn't on his list." Other streets are ahead KNOW TtfEIB OWN HIND, of it. His fund for repair will give I probably no other people in the out on June 8 two weeks hence. And i W0rld have been given so much advice only a week ago the colonel told the WHhout charge as the Irish in Ireland. NEWS his repair fund would -last till ch of it is from distant lands and Is September! cheerfully volunteered.

Prentiss said Residents and travelers on North the Irishman has fought successfully-Main street will notice the colonel's in every battle buthls own. His mas-ready answer, and his apparent enjoy- ters in Parliament seem to have taken raent of the opportunity to turn down everybody's advice except his own. It a demand for relief. A little later js mucn more than a century since when the fall campaign opens there p0x said Ireland ought to be governed will be another kind of explanation. 1 in accordance with Irish prejudices.

Will the voters listen to that? Or will i That is the kind of advice which Par-they as promptly and as vigorously iiameht has never heeded, give tha coloneL back his refusal? j. Mr. Birrell has-tried his hand aLan, North Main street is not alone In Irlsii bill and representative Irishmen this, it will be remembered. For one unanimously denounce It as an insult reason or another Col. Ward has stood t0 Ireland.

Yet Ireland is calmly ad-in the way of remedying an intolerable vised by American newspapers to ac-s-tate of affairs. There is always a Cept the Birrell scheme in the faint different explanation, but all come to hope that it may show traces of good the same thing. The relief is denied, when set in operation. The Irish Just imagine a street which the are reminded that half a loaf is better colonel wanted to repair. How long than no bread, and that they will do would his present explanations last? weu to take what-is offered them, Everything is in wanting to do what whatever it is.

the people and the press call on him The world has never shown much to do. It-is easier to refuse than to. sympathy with that kind of doctrine act just now. when applied to nations. It has been I conceded by every fair man who has WHY REPUBLICAN.

spoken on the subject in the last forty Complaint is made that the State years that the government of Ireland may go Democratic and yet the As- by England is indefensible and has semhly remain Republican, even in been a disgrace for centuries. The the proportion of two to one. It Isn't I Irish people are more respected for a question of apportionment, as com- the uncompromising fight for home ber tells her exactly what to wear on any outing occasion; the newest Tha lciarlino- nrticla in tho Tnno Totrn. bathing, yachting and tennis suits are Chairman Wilson knows how to stir up Supervisor C'olburn, the' Demosthenes of the Board and he does the trick with rare neatness. shown, as well, of course, as the new golf suit, hat and sweater.

But the Interest la by no means lim done much to bring harmony on one most important point between all sections and races included in the dual monarchy. It leads to closer union between those sections and countries as a measure of self-defense. They are used to each other and can do their scolding with little fear of consequences, for they can get along together comfortably after all. Things might be much worse in relations that reduced their comparative importance. They come back to Franklin's judg politan "Should We Keep Cuba?" by Robert Howard Russell, contains a description of the present political and economical conditions in the Island, and the attitude of the United States and other countries in this delicate and all-important matter.

The fiction represents such men as the late Ian Mac-laren, Leonard Merrick, Charles Francis Bourke, Lieut. Hugh M. Kelly arid T. Jenkins Hains. ited to the sportswoman for every woman wants some guidance In the choice of a summer wardrobe, and the article on that subject, with its many illustrations, tells just what to wear at seashore, mountain, or for traveling, Theodore Tilton has been dead to the world so long that men have almost forgotten the man who was once the most brilliant editor in America.

Native vanity and Brooklyn sentimental-ism ruined him In the height of his career. He is the moat conspicuous example in recent history of a fine intellect that went to seed. etc. It is a beautiful number. ment that It Is better to hang together than to hang separately.

President Roosevelt, interviewed by Edward B. Clark, delivers a characteristically vigorous attack, In the June Everybody's, on certain well known animal writers whose stories are false to nature, "Roosevelt on the Nature Fakirs" Is a salutary exposure. The subject of crime and punishment, strikingly introduced by Brand Whitlock In the May Everybody's, is continued "The Tragedy of the Released Convict," by I. K. Friedman.

The fiction How dare the U. S. Government call the Pullman Company to account? Wait until a porter catches an Interstate Commerce Commissioner on a sleeper and see if somebody's boots are blacked then. FOB ALL THE WORLD. Some of our contemporaries that are especially fond of attacking domestic industry, and the system of protection that support it against for- plaints tnat they nav.e made for genafc The mea-iiiey- marry are mean and sour j.

uk mtru nt: mu i i ni -eftWed is headed by a striking so A wA r.lAii-ant fnw half an hnur' tion. Ever since the State was estab- ation! tha" tliev could possibly be if "This Fortune," by Rowland Thomas, The Gould divorce case is slow to arm up. The lawyers are only beginning to talk and issue statements. eign competition, put on big headlines to show that we make shoes for all the world. They are right for that Is what Americans are doing right along but progress in that trade is in the teeth of protests against a tariff that Is declared by the same enthusiasts, In McClure's Magazine for June Ellen Terry contributes her "Memories of My Childhood." Samuel Hopkins Adams presents in "Rochester's Pure Milk System" a graphic account of life saving by municipal supply of pure milk.

In his "Reminiscences" Carl Schurz bluntly describes the "Defeat of Chancellorsville" and locates the blame fnr that disaster. "By Airship to the North Pole." by the Arctic explorer, Walter Wellman, tells about his airship rnirthg-dash-he win make in it to the North Pole this summer. "The Idiot on Broadway," by John Kendrick Bangs Is a delightful feature of the June Broadway Magazine. "The Month in New York," presents portraits from photographs nf Mrs. H.

C. De Milie, Miss Alice Kauser. Miss Elizabeth Marbury. Mrs. Oscar S.

Straus, Mrs. James Speyer, Miss Sadie American, Albert Herter. Dr. JoklchI Taka-mine. Dr.

Henry Van Dyke, Isaac N. rIigman, Alexis Aladyin. and W. T. Hornaday.

There Is a most attractive variety of contents, cleverness and good taste are manifest in all. Captain John S. Barnes' absorbing reminiscences of the time when he was the bodyguard of president Lincoln and his wife on the Journey from Washington to the newly captured city of Richmond are continued in the June Apple- the winner of the Collier short-story contest. Other writers are Joseph C. Lincoln, Broughton Brandenburg, Henry B.

Fuller, G. W. Ogden, and Lloyd Osbourne. Franklin H. Giddings.

professor of Sociology in Columbia University, has contributed to the June Van Norden Magazine an article on "The Danger in every county should have at least one member of Assembly. More than half the counties have less than the ratio for an Assembly district but they have a member just the same. Schuyler with Its 15.000 and Putnam with to be an evil thing cutting down 1 It is a queer kind of Christianity that consigns a man to hades for wearing a necktie, but the Dunkards are queer. If the anathema were to be confined to men and women who wear certein kinds of ties, criminal color, the interdict might have a basis of popular sympathy. SlUU in nail au uuui, That looks to me like a lemon shower," Says Aon Mehitabel Gee.

"It isn't always the giddy girl," Says Ann Mehitabel GeeT lass of dimple and smile and curl, That lives in tbe lemon tree; Nine times of ten it's the noble brute That sings his love to 'a twanging lute And after marriage he shoots the chute," Says Ann Mebnabel Gee. "So let's be fair wlth'thia lemon Jest," Sayfi Ann Mehirahel Gee. "And give the women a needrd reet From making so much of our glee. The men don't always lose heart and pelf And find that they-are put on the shelf I've had a lemon or two myself!" Says Ann Mehitabel Gee. Chicago Port.

Its 14,000 has Its own member just as the Ugliest Town" is an account of the reconstruction of Butte, Montana the building of Craftsman houses. The June Century out yesterday, has a popular and seasonable article in Charles D. Stewart's account of "The United States of'Baseball." a semi-humorous but careful and detailed status of the national game in America; how the major and minor leagues are made-up. and much other information sure to interest intensely all boys and most men. A "star article" is a nractlcal discussion by Mme.

Melba of "The Gift of Song," her first contribution to the literature of her art. Published now probably for-the first time Is a letter of Victor Hugo's, forming the leading article of the number, a letter written in response to an Inquiry from Count Victor A. Pepe, of Italy, as to Hugo's purpose In writing his Charitable Trusts." Prof.Giddings takes the ground that the establishment of such great trust funds as the $32,000,000 and the $10,000,000 educational trust just The attack on the Canal Advisory Board of Engineers results in making the board a real factor in the enterprise Instead of merely a circle of vain advisers. formed by Mrs. Sage are diametrically opposed to the policy fought out hundreds of years ago In Europe, and adopted in our own constitution as axiomatic, forbidding the tfelng up of estates beyond one generation, and limiting the life of leases.

Annie S. Peck, who recently attempted- to conquer whatever England doled out to them. The nature of theBirrell bill is thrown into. high relief by its concur rence with the establishment of home rule in Boer land, with a former Boer general In the premiership. The Dutchmen, who made the stiffest and most sullen fight that Britain has encountered In a century and almost destroyed the prestige of England as a great military power, is already running his own government In nearly his own way.

In the same hour with the concession to the hardly conquered Boer the Irishman is handed the Birrell lemon and urged by considerate American newspapers to bite on it and swear that it Jias a trace of sweetness in it. Irish independence is not to be thought of as ihe world is-conducted In its politics, but the greater part of mankind will praise rather than blame the Irish for rejection of the Birrell scheme for Irish government and not the less for the admission that it is far short of what Mr. Birrell would concede if left to himself. It is narrowed to square with English prejudice and not broadened to accord with Irish rights. A Quiet Interval.

(From tbe Philadelphia Inquirer.) The Corey-Gliman wedding hnving taken place, there will be nothing further of importance on that subject until the next divorce proceedings are begun. GOSSIP OF OLD WORLD COURTS. It is not surprising that Comptroller Glynn looks for a place on the Utilities Commission, though he is a Democrat of the extreme Albany type. The main difficulty is to take care of men of his stripe when there are many claimants demanding reward for their work as Republicans. Mr.

Glynn serves notice that If any of the new spills over he is ready to catch It. always of the latest cut. and his bats have the most perfect ahape. but bis trousers are deplorable. They do not even roach his ankles, and were he to turn them up In the J.n-nA 1,1 commerce and stifling international traffic.

Revision is coming along in due time as the need of it. Is clear but it is to be made on business lines and not to cater to sentiment or rhetorical phrases. Gov. Douglass of Massachusetts leads a crusade for free hides and his supporters In that plea assert that the foreign shoe trade must die for lack of such hides but the Governor himself has only lately doubled the capacity of his shoe factories, already the greatest establishment of the kind In the world. Speaker Cannon said he was for revision as fast as he could find out what any two men could agree on for that treatment.

That is the way the business runs. Every free trader is for free trade In some other fellow's business, not in his own. A typical instance occurred down the State. The owners of a bark extract factory in successful operation were hot tariff reformers. But.

when it was proposed to take' off the duty on bark extract they made a beautiful argument against it to their Representative in Congress. The statesman had a sense of humor and replied "I see that the Blank family is for free trade In the abstract but for protection in the extract." That held the Blank family until they sold out at a profit. If It had Its full ratio of 47,000, the figure of the ideal, or mathematically correct, district. The real basis of complaint, is that the counties are invincibly Republican. That Is why the Assembly is so hard to wrest from Republican controL No one ever has proposed that counties should be consolidated to make Assembly districts.

It is regarded as a matter of course thru each county however small shall have its member, just as every town is conceded a supervisor iu a county legislature. Hamilton county is the only exception and that county ought to be distributed among its neighbors and the farce of its county government ended. Most of the counties were organized In good old Democratic times with as much of an eye to politics as to public convenience. If that party cannot hold them any longer it is no fairground for complaint of representation. As late as the apportionment of 12 was the proud boast of a bemoeratic Lieutenant Governor, responding in Albany to a serenade over the passage of that act that "there will not.

bo a Republican Legislature In New York In the next thirty years." It wasn't a good day then for guessing. It Isn't a good time for complaint of the situation now. portion of hi1" calves exposed. He Invariably I pitche his voice too high, either In con-J vernation or when addressing the House of Lords. He was one of the most enthusiastic admfcers of Mr.

Gladstone, separated from I tbe latter, however, on the subject of Home Same Old Done. A Denver man claims to hare Invented liquid that will make anybody's voice beautiful. There nre already several liquid on the market that will make anybody think he hu a beautiful voice. Minneapolis News. The Incubntor Chirk.

"Peet, peet," said a cbtck In the raournfulleat tone. "I wieh that I had a mother of my own: I'm not Juft an orphan, for my daddy'a still on deck. And my mother's laying eggs in a way to break her neck: But my mother never hatched me, and I think I have a kick. My life's cold and dttmal I'm an Incubator Chick. "The chick cf oher settings hart a mother that ran cluck And lend them out on vacant lots to scratch and take pot-luck: They hunt around fnr bits of corn, chase buge And flif and things, And at a eign of danger snuggle under mammy's wings.

Whoever took my egg nwsy played me a wretched trick. The world's so dull and dreary for an Clack. "I'm sorry for all ehiekie that re mothered br machine. And torrj for the bibies that now and then are seen Without a real mother to pt them and to pet, Bui iir a nurM wto tends them for whatever she- can Not fnr the babr would I ever want to pick A youth so chill and dreary," said the Incubator Ch'k. Wex ones.

In Pittsburg Post. Kuie, oi wnfii he disapproved, nut subsequently returned to the Liberal fold. Queen Alexandra, who has been visiting sit kinds of out of the way places during her yachting trip along th various coasts of the Mediterraneau. has left everywhere the people loud in praife of her anxiety to avoid giving trouble, and her read In to be satisfied and pieced with everything. In fact, she Is described as the least exacting and most unpretentious of visitors, differing in thh respect not only from many wealthy tourist of much less exalted rank, but also from other queens and empresses in the past.

Thus, the late Empress of Russia absolutely declined when traveling abroad to occupy any Fortunately the Lake Mohonk peace conference got away without making fresh trouble for anybody. It was far less warlike than the big New York affair. It's a lucky peace conference that breaks up without a fight. "When the nation gets to thinking seriously of measures to preserve national vigor is In a lamentable state. The idea of an organization has always a charm for some kind of mind and every subject under the sun finds people ready --to.

organize In its support. Conscious ense of, defect of national vigor, with remedies to restore it, Is like a bodily ailment. To organise for national health Is akin to medicating dyspptic-Tymptoms. Our leisure class unites wiih our reformers for something to do. The Immense majority of the people have to work too hard for their living to have time for speculation or action about national vigor.

That Is the least of their troubles. i rooms at hotels or palaces that were not THE BAIL PERIL. It is not to be supposed tint the How Try weak the very wine. How vey small the very great trel Thackeray. (Copyrighted, Wi, by MarquU Fontenoy.) Nothing Ii curioue or Interefltlng to th tuJnt of hwrory (ban the eo-called "Grand Uvre if.

Prancp." which may be the grand tptfgfr of the National Treiwurv. In It are reeordpd ftll tho moneisry of the Government. An I men-tinned In thene letters frome time ero, these obligation are mct Frr'ijnilouply observed, nd the mere fart of theirbftvin ben contracted bv Kovernment loo lnce overthrown has not "been allowed in any way to affect their validity In French eyes. Lartre annuities granted by the first Napoleon to bis victorious general when he in-voFted them with title of nobility are still every year to their heirh and lineal descendants In th male line. aHhouRh In most revert ihe reHolems sre leader of the Royalist nartv, and nmonj the mot bitter foee of th Jtepubllc from whose coffers they draw their incomes.

Until a few months ago the Treiwury actually nsld an annuity to an old woman who had bem a queen of th demi mnno during the reiirn of Napoleon HI. and who had been accorded this ppinton In recognition of the cervices which ehe rendered to th Imperial Gf.vtrnment by epying on Republican who were hr friend, and by betraying thlr An elderly noblemen and his maiden e-lster still draw a nmlnn fodny from the tte beeane. la the middle of the eighteenth century, before the commencement of the American War of Independence, their ancestor had been accidentally ahot and badW wounded by the then Dauphin, on a hunting expedition, The most amar.lng of all the obligations that flgur on the grand llrre Is one winch actually dates from the retgn of King Henry IV. The 'Utter hired from a petty German sovereign, the Duke nf Anhslt Berneburg, a band of some SOW or S'W in number, and i'ed 'he IMk the prtr'e dCrepd tipnn. Tlift d'ht went roiling up, until fiiiftl'V If reiM't fi) enormone.

um. Affr Die of Waterloo, the prompted bv fh unhide and the Boiirtr'n prime, PixrtcA nf KruT a to fulfil r.r oM'iita'ions rTit rarted prior to fie gr'eM ihe rpr ror yft I'l'il XVIII. had in mind the forr'rn 1M" of tl'P mrinarTiv. nnrt nom-Jhon fo nricurnatton when tlie Difne of AnniiN. of hie dny pre-ppurd I'Imp Mil, which hd awnniM fan-tat) i'litu The malt'-r wr referred th ie then of f'orpijffi k'upTor Aif of l-f't-t for arrjiTii'-n.

B' T'irli tr um c-i'fi'Jf'im-e ff'rt'-d, Anhnlt Berneburg furnished 4 yearn ago to the then Protestant Henry IV of France to defend and champion the Huguenot cause against Roman Cat he 11 clam. Lord Portsmouth, like other peers and territorial magnates of the Liberal persuasion, le experiencing much difficulty In reconciling his interests and prejudices as such with the Radical principles of the Liberal administration now In office, and la being virtually turned out of the War Department In which he baa held the post of tnder Secretary of owing to trouble with one of his tenants on the subject of the game laws. The latter give certain legal rights In connection with the destruction of ground gnme. Lord Portsmout Intimated to the tenants on his vast eetates that if they took advantage of these-laws and shot the ground gnme be would dispose them, and In pursuance of this threat has not only ejected several of his farmers, but has written, over bis own signature, to state that he proposes to override the law in the case of any other tenants who shall venture to exercise their legal rights at his expense. This is of course sn lmpoelble position for Minister of the Crown to asume, and under the circumstances he has no alternative but to leave office.

Lord Portsmouth enjoys the advantage of possessing an American sister-in-law, his brother, the Hon. Oliver Wallop, being married to Miss Margaret Walker of Louisville, Ky. Inaemuch as the Ear! Is childless, and his next brother, John, a confirmed bacLslor, there Is every prospect of the Hon. Oliver succeeding to the Earldom of Portsmouth, as well a to the extenetve entailed estate, and of Ma charming Kentucky wife becoming a peeress of the realm. The fact that Oliver Wallop took out papers of citizenship of tho United States last Christmas and was thereby obliged to renounce all nobiliary honors, doe? not.

Rffect In a-ny way his anccelon to his brother's earldom. For he has, according to Knglieh law, no legal power to make any ewh renunciation of his inheritance of a peerage, and no mnffer bow much be has renounced titles, he will, whether he likes It or not, become, on the deeth of hi two cider brothers, Enrl of Porfmouth, Viscount m-Inertoti. and Lflrd Wallop, and inved; many of (he sdvsntujrfs that fall to the share of a per of the rcniro. The only dlfflruiiy whtfh he would esnerlenf hy reamnn of his AnicrAn naturalization tn thst event wouid he th right o-uoy a sent snd a vote as a member of the liouff of Lords. In order to recover this he would hsre io take step to resume his English rlfisenshlp.

Lord Portsmouth i an exceedingly able rmsines man His own income amounts to about in OiMfMnu to which hts wife, a ('an of the (nfe Sir F.dwnrd P-ne, end n'" Pi "1 of Pene, f-M 1,. N'lNh pi, -i'l-f Mid Ft 'Mir il QnnieTK. AFBAID OF HFAB8T7 According to specials in the New York Tribune erday, which are fljrnlflcant because of the peculiar po-pition of the Tribune as an exponent of Gnv. Hughes' policy the most radical sort of a ripping tip of the Sen-atft districts is to be had in an bill to be framed "just as the f'owuor wants The Sfnaie has 'fn up the on that subtest, th S3v, ami uM'T the r.f the Cour of Appp lis tn wo districts fnimd r-y iha' th to hp on If t'rMf ally gool nu-- in JiW'ii' IN TTf.irTV. PEACE HFN CUTSTE1PPED.

Japan has made some special kind of friendly compact with England, France and Russia. France and Russia are open allies. England and France are closely in accord by express agreement. In brief all the Important countries of Europe nut side of Germany and Austria have made treaty with each other of far more than the significance of the ordinary commercial agreement. Alliances open and secret have been made in so many directions and with so many combinations as to practically Insure the peace of the world with a firmness that acquiescence in a Hague consensus can hardly supply.

Germany has been so fast and furious in commercial enterprise as to have excited envy and even hitter-net-3 of comment over her wonderful surcess in trade development but ihi K'-er is a man of peace, believing in it and consrioug that It Is vitally estntial to the prosperity of his empire, a it certainly is. On. KurnJtl sins ulrh. perfect truth that his country wnn's peace In orrir to develop Industrie. That Is th to the allLinres nu friendships that the JnpaTise government Is making in nil piirt.B of the world wher titidrf'nndlii-'r and Agreements north Th I i :1 pi.ritea h.TS no alliance in un 3iid Ji-ds hut 'h in rt 'a nf th ls Die ir-nhrij; is ff t.

m'lnriM to vi' tn i- kit i -r Jn D)f K'-r nr f'f'i" i i enrr nTc1 "i The very enormity of public plundering In Russia shows that whenever honesty of administration Is had the revenues of the empire can take care of almost unlimited borrowings. Recent revelations of the stealing going on Is conclusive on that point. Papered, tapestried and rurntenefl light blue. Her mother-ln-liw. consort of Nicholas I.

and sKer of old Emoernr Willlem of Germany, was. although a kind hearted and charming woman, even still more difficult to please, fihe was peeeionately fond of Geneva, end used to make prolonged atava there, but was obliged, whenever she arrived, to hire the whole hotel where she was sttying. owing to her objections to the ringing of any bell. Indeed, from the moment that she took up her residence In the hotel, every bell was el'her muffled or disconnected. She was somewhat of an Invalid, never having recovered from the nervous shock remitting from the aaneuinary conspiracy SRslnst.

her husband which marked his arrets Inn to the throne, and In order to maintain her strength was wnt to take a bath of bouillon every diy, In the conking of which 50 chickens were dally sacrificed. The late Queen Victoria would not dream of staying at any hotel where her apartments hsd not been entirely repapered anavrtone un anew, and inss'ed upon carrying about sll furniture with her. even If she only stayed fnr two or three dars. King Leopold, too. Is a difficult rueat to please, thotigVi ihrourh no fault of his own.

For. ste-idtoir he docs snme six foot four in hts sfockingffl feet he finds the ordinary hnte hpdtt far too short to permit, of his firetrhira himeelf thereon to elo orirt therefore usually rorrlce a bed about with him. N'fttMrr. however. cn quite come up to the rt-ret (7ir ard Cruras hn thev trnvel hv For foey tk couple nf Ii thr-m, In or fl He i in ryirowivh rd J'oiin G-nnd P'l' hes may hfv iV-H ie)y p'lfe ml-k on fre wSV In far: I'fre am rer'aln rrira will nre urr-d exf fir fr te re.

Iros't t-mel of rsm'iv. srd w'n'-h itt fn'rj live on T'm cq-s ttiey are ai.rl frfi rc rfw. fii. of F'liiTun, p'U elii-ej- t'tenrn'V'' hy liken cf.ri.ni for th fsite of JdWHQVIPS DS FONTKNOY. Bessemer steel interests will give up the fight for rail orders until compelled to yield to facts, and the body of facts established is not yet conclusive on the question of the relative merits of Bessemer and of open hearth products.

The figures of broken rails as far away as 180 and only last year are compared, greatly to the advantage of the MrUer date but such comparisons are of little value because of the immense lucres sj of business, the enlargement of cars and locomotives and the higher demands of traffic in the course of a qunrter of a century, which make contrast but do not hpp explain prst-nt conditions of tr.V-KRee, The ttrr.plfst and mi probable reason for broken rails Is that orders fire so and the procure of urgency on the mills so grat that nrg'ect of proper re fn foiling rails has beon of'fii'T the ruV wns in fi'iir'-" of mil rwl-'in. Vx- pfTlf. Ml in nf "i fur in' h'-' 1 r-'Mti's aro M'lrr'l owr in iu ulr to hurrv rh in U(-t. 'lul is al) hrt 111'. if )f fiU' rif'Tir li.tr Ki-i'K 'n hrr in U'H n''ner than thn frraii'-T iiivl mora roiled, Opinion Is THIS DATFIN HISTORY, MAY 26.

Vewrable Beds, the first Anglo-Saxon hlftcirlnv dld; born 072. 119 Joseph Haydn, musical composer, dledc born 1732 lS4fv- Adml'al William Sidney Smith, noted Britten offlrer in the wars with Napoleon, calefl the hero of St. Jean Acre, died: 1754 1HR2 Heiry Thomas Buckle, eminent Brlt ten historan. dleri at ParnMem; born of; Crr Nicholas II rrownd at Mocow. 1,3 York Ctfy celebrated lie two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

l'Ki4ne(ieve battle at Nnnehan Hilt, 07 whir-b re-enforcement of Port Arthur from the nTih wd prevents! Japanese ion ajJ aud tre Russian nearly 2000, i mi i- Hetut In Hand. Mr Mend, ednrn Ufe' valley, hand In hand W.lh grateful change of grave and merrj prh Or fionx, otir hmrtB unlork'na: eirh to esrh, Weil t.xir'cy onward to i)ie lknf hnd-An rr-rri Ixath siuil l-ioee that loving h.i nd, VpHir.K criSd hrd a hnnd of our, Tne on "hill p-rrnw the other's grave wlti fjnv Nir e'liii a mmnt be unmanned, tv friT.it find brother (( now fir; thr.11 morr fevlit one bfinw? Ye, W'if mr Dim-! enin Ivintif And not wiy, It woiiM b'ir wi'h Wv tiPrtenkiMe-mr oiil iaU know ThU thf. unnrea, art bending over me iiiiI 1 "i a fU'li Senator C'obb wmild bar the Attorney-General from a suit at hts own Inst am- to test an apportionment law. That Ik cot a ressotiftble rgu'atton fur every cIMzn ha a rnns'Jtui tonal right in tent the legality m.ich a law, and In doing Is bound only to conform to reasonable legislative di rations. To try to shut the A Homey -Genera! out is vxrilfy arid ttitp vr-vUon of spirit, no nh.il Senior Cobb thinks nf n.ir.ii.-rs On.

kn. Tho fl-'-I'-p to bo nn- 0. if th nf FWi rvi (r-r rrn in' i ri th" pnhiir want ri'm" up I r. f'T'ti 't wpnf it nrd 1ms th" f'iFff! in hand, Tit i'i liir In offe? (p- led in t'' his ft' mo- of i of I 'W h-s o-'-. It In He- Is t.vl M-'-i -oi ru-.

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