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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, , “Grave Words From a Great Man. Give Them Their Due Weight if You Suffer From Nervous Debility or Kindred Ailments. Persons affficted with nervous debility or nervous Prostration, with all the ills that follow—such as sleeplessness, impsired vigor of body or mind, ‘ayspersin, Irsettude ard wasted tissues—are, very neturally, doubtfat of relief. Doubt 1s one of the symptoms accompanyirg their malady. They have tried so mary so-called specifics they tind tt hard “to have faith In any. Rut when New Englanl's great son, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, famous every- where as author, editor, preacher, essayist and lecturer, telis the afflicted that he knows of a rem- ebat It claims to be doubt disappears. . Hale has made the following announcement, after cvreful Inquiry and In the full knowledge of what his words mean. The announcement {s from the office of the Boston Commonwealth (of which Dr. Haile is editor-in-chief), bears date of December 23, 1805, end reads thus: “I have been nich interested in the Kola nut as a tonic. In Africa, where the Kola or Guru nuts grew, the natives eat the fresh nuts to pre- ‘yent hunger, thirst and exhaustion. For some years the medica! profession bas given Kola much atten- | tion because of {ts medicinal qualities, but bere- tofore the difficulty has been in getting the fresb aut in an available preparation so as to retain the medicinal properties. This difficulty is now over- come by that remarkable establishment, the Eu- reka Chemical and Mfg. Co. of La Crosse, Wis., | Which has pat open the market a very efficient and Bighly approved preparation. I am assured by 3 careful inqsiry among leading physicians and per- acnal friemis, who have used it, and in whom I have the utmost confidence, that Dr. Charcot’s Kola Nervine Tablets are invaluable in insomnia and ali nervous diseases. EDW. E. HALE.” Fifty cents and $1.00 per box (one month's treat- ment). See Dr. Ckarcot’s name on box. Kola book- Tet free. All druggists, or sent direct. Eurcka Chemical acd Mfg. Co., La Crosse, Wis., and Bos- ton, Mass. =—— + ——— AN EVANGELIST WITH A MAID. Was the Woman Who Preached Tell- ing Her Own Story? From the New York A new kind of evargelist attracted a crowd in Madison square on Easter Sunday afternoon. This one was a woman, and a “nice-looking one, too, of perhaps middle ge. She stood not far from Delmonico’s, ‘and exhorted the idlers to be saved. What attracted the greatest curiosity was that she was accompanied by a maid, a colored ‘woman, who carried her extra wraps and yman told a story of how once a Tich woman, while riding in her carriage, ed a preacher who was exhorting a rowd in the street. She stopped from Idle to listen to him and was convert- eupon she gave up her carriage, clothes, and her fine house, and t to saving others. the crowd heard the When looked at the colored maid and wondered if the evangelist was teliing her own story. they tory Philadelphia Times. ation in an evening of games ir the drawing of flowors with col- ored crayons, ard then having your guests guess the names of the flowers. A list of flowers should be made out, each one with @ number. On separate slips of paper write the nam corresponding number, until you have used each on the list. Give each guest one of the slips, or have a iraw for them, and provide them with crayons and sheets of paper. Give fifteen minutes for the making of the flowers, then collect the drawings ‘and pin them up about the room. As the na f flowers are read from the list guesses are given as to which flower among the drawings represent it. Another pleas- ant game is called matching quotations, Well-known lines are written on slips of Paper and then divided into bits, each part having thres or four words. These frag- Ments are pinned about the room on fur- curtains and hangings, and each akes one and starts ont to find the il make the quotation Sometimes the quotat f an entire lin e ning the other half to be looked "POND'S EXTRACT WILL CURE PILES “| have cong known its value in bleede ing iis t in all forms of h M. COLLINS, Cameron, Mo. CATARRH yen @ constent suf years from severe cold throat. Tri@d most remedy. Pond's & wonderfully a radical cur FINCK, New SORE EYES “It acts like magic in ophthaimia, § like it so much < M, JAMESON, LAMENESS “| strongly recommend Pond’s Extragt for lameness, and use it con antly: ee MICHAEL DONOVAN, N. Y. Athietle Club. SORENESS ‘' Had a large eating sore on my ankle, which had eaten to the bone, Por nine months | doctored to no purpose, Tried a bettie of Pond’s Extract, an was cured immediately.""—MINNI VANATTA, Lockloosi niture, id ways proved very beneficial "LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR, New York City. SPRAINS “'E have been prescribing Pond’s Exe medy Ip ictions of like chate . BURDICK, M.D, "Had my left hand . and fost the use o' -ompletel Secured relief by use of Pond’s Ex: in twelve hours.""—Mrs. A. SHERM New York City. HEMORRHACES “Am troubled with hemorrhages from lungs, and find Pond's Extract the only temedy that will control them."t= GEORGE W. WARNER, Scranton, Pa. INFLAMMATIONS “| have used Pond’s Extract in a case of long standing internal inflammation, and obtained relief within afew hours. —JAMES E. READE, Philadelphia, and should be always kept on hand for em= ergencies. « Long experience has taught my f lly to regard Pond’s Extract as one the absolute necessities of housekoope ing."—ANDREW D. WHITE, Presi- dent Corne!l University, BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. See Landscape Trade-mark on Buff Wrapper. MADE ONLY BY POND’S EXTRACT.CO. New York and London. aptl,13,25 of one of the flowers with its | Ty mo bi ‘STREET? i Le fae oon i cote ee Wits ATA ae Lee A lee —— feared TT re et BUTT Hil I 8 a Leth iit OROREOR i Mit eM ei i BOLT. CLARK AVE! TERIOR PLANS OF THE HALL, Sa Se ee REPUBLICAN HOSTS Gossip About the Big Convention Hall in St. Louis. ARRANGEMENT OF THE SEATS Two Hundred Thousand Tickets and How They Will Be Distributed. THRONG OF VISITORS (Copyrighted, 1894, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ST. LOUIS, April 14, 1896. HAVE COME FROM Washington to St. Louis to give you a bird's-eye view of matters relating to the republican con- vention. I am for- tunate in having been here at the same time as Col. Joe Man- ley, the leader of the Reed forces; Col.Wm. H. Hahn, McKinley’s ehief aid - de - camp; General Clarkson, the Allison movement, and who is for the These men have just held several secret sessions, and they have materially changed a rumber of things which had been con- sidered settled. They have altered the architectural plens of. the hall, and the plans already published in the newspapers have been modified to make them better sulted to the purposes of the convention. The sketch sent with this letter shows the convention building as it will be actually when completed. The ground has been broken, the foundations are laid, and a large gang of laborers are now busy put- ting it up. I went out to look at the work this mornirg. The building is not far from Union depot and within a five minutes’ ride of the leading hotels. It is just next ‘to the new city hall and is accessible on two sides by street car lines, which connect it with every part of the city. When I visited it hundreds of laborers were at work. A steam saw mill was merrily screeching as it cut the lumber which is soon to resound with the clapping of tens of thousands of enthusiastic hands. A hundred hammers were pounding nails and a hundred. odd carpenters were cutting and fitting the great timbers into place. The work goes on rap- idly. It must go very rapidly in order that the hall be finished in time. It will be com- pleted within two months and when fin- ished it will look as solid as though it had consumed a year in building. It is, you krow, to be covered with staff, the same material as that which formed the outside of the world’s fair structures at Chicago. This material will be nailed on to the wood- work in square blocks, making the conven- tion hall look like marble, save that its outside steps will be of wood. The Convention Hall. The expense of the building will, you know, be paid by St. Louis. It will cost $70,000. The architect’s contract is for $62 500, but at least $7,500 more will be re- quired to finish up the interior., Notwith- standing this, the building will have a life of only six morths. It is being erected on land devoted to the new city hall, and the contract provides that every bit of it shall be removed by October 1.° Let us stop a moment and take a look at this $70,000 sacrifice on the altar of party politics. First, its surroundings. It will be @ palace rising out of a lot of two- story, shabby buildings of brick and frame. It will have as its architectural brother the magnificent new city hall, of granite and terra cotta brick, which has cost more than one million dollars, and which ig one of the finest of the public buildings of the United States. The city hall and the con- vention building occupy one large square, containing, I judge, about four acres of ground. The elevation is about six feet above the street, and there is quite a large space running about the buildings between them and the sidewalk. The shabby houses I spoke of are on the oppo- site side of the streets surrounding the elty hall block. They look like second- class lodging houses. At one corner there is a saloon, and just opposite the main side of the convention hall there is a vacant lot, fenced by a ragged bill board plastered over with pictorial advertisements of “tolled” oats, plug tobacco and special brands of whisky. The building will cover more than an acre of ground. Do you know how big an acre is? Many city blocks are not so large. Well, the convention building will cover consid- erably more than an acre and it will look like a great four-story marble building with an extra story or canopy rising from its top in the shap? of a ridge roof. This canopy will be made of plates of glass set in frames. It will be nearly half an acre in area and will cover the space in the cen- ter of the conyention hall, which has been assigned to the delegates and the alter- nates. It will be so made that the glass can be raised, giving the hall perfect light and as thorough ventilation almost as though it was roofed by the sky. In addi- tion to this, there will be a series of ven- tilating fans, which will keep the air with- in the hail in constant motion, The sides of the hall will have many windows and there will be more than one hundred exits and entrances. It is estimated that the hall could be emptied within five minutes if a panic should occur. In going over the plans with one of the architects, I asked as to the strength of the structure. He told me there was no danger whatever of its not being able to [hold the people and to stand any kind of a strain, “It is,” said he, “six times as stron; as it need be and everything will be buil in the most substantial manner, It will be entirely of wood, but @ brigade of firemen will be constantly on hand with their en- gines steaming, and the least sign of fire will be detected by the watchmen.” The Seating Capacity. The hall will seat 13,601 persons, It will have, it is said, the largest seating capacity the head Senator Tom Carter, republican party in general. of of any building ever erected for a conven- tion, with, perhaps, the exception of the hall in which James A. Garfield was nom- inated in 1880. This is said to have had 15,000 seats. The Minneapolis convention Fall had about 11,000 seats, and a great part of the view in that hall'was shut off by posts and pillars. There will be no such posts in this hall. I am told that every seat will be a good one, and that the acoustic properties of the hall—by means of great sounding boards—will be such that all can hear. Each seat will be a chair, and about 14,000 cheirs will be bought for the occa- sion. The seats will be arranged in the shape of a rectangular amphitheater. They will rise up on four sides of the square pit which forms the ground floor and which will be occupied by the delegates and the alter- nates. This pit will be about one-half an acre in size. In the midde, in three great blocks or rows of chairs with aisles running through them, will sit the 924 delegates, those from each state being together. The states will be allotted seats in alphabetical order, beginning with Alabama and Arkan- sas to the right of the speaker, and end- ing with the states beginning with W, the place of each state being marked by a pole with a little flag bearing its name. On the right and left of the delegates in the pit will be the seats for the alternates, and on the four sides of the pit, rising to the back walls of the building, in two great banks of seats, will sit the spectators. The floor and the lower bank will seat about 8,000 people. The upper bank, which is a gallery forty feet wide, running around the hall and ex- made for a convention. The engraving up- on them will be as fine as that of a bank note, and, as there 1s a ticket to each ses- sion with a single coupon upon it, every man who goes into the convention will be able to keep his ticket as a souvenir. The ticket, the artist's drawing of which I saw, is about the width of a column of a news- paper and about -the length of a postal card. On the back of it there is a picture of the convention hall. On the front, the left half of the card has a beautiful engraving of St. Louis, showing the bridge over the Missis- sippi, while on the lower right-hand corner there 13 a ttle engraving of the log eabin in which General Grant lived on his farm near St. Louis when he was poor and un- known and hauled wood into St. Louis for sale. On the face of the ticket will be en- graved the words “Republican National Convention, 1896, Joseph Manley, chat man,” and also the words “Guest's ticket,’ or “Delegate's ticket,” or “Press ticket,” as the case may be. How the Tickets Will Be Distributed. Three thousand five hundred of these tick- ets are to be given to the Business Men's League of St. Louis, through whom the money for bujiding the hall was secured. Each of the 924 delegates will have three tickets, and each of the alternates will have, I think—though I am not sure—only one. The best ¢hance for visitors to the convention to get tlekéts will be through their delegates, of, 1f'they have friends in the southern state’, hy writing to them and CONVENTION HALL, tending back up to the roof, will seat 6,000. At the time of the convention the delegates will be thus surrounded by banks of gally- dressed humanity. They will be inclosed, as it were, in hanging gardens of fashion- able women and distinguished men—gar- dens more wonderful than the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Officers and the Pre: In front of the delegates and alternates, on a platform about as high as a table, will sit the chuirman or president of the con- vention, with the secretaries and tally clerks on each side of him. Back of them will be the national committee and the distin- guished men of the party, while on each side of the president, and a little lower down, will be the tables for the workingmen of the press. Each press table will accom- modate several men. Each table will have a pneumatic tube connected with it, running to the telegraph offices, which will be lo- cated under the seats at the front of the building, and as the reporters write their dispatches they can send them to the wires, sheet by sheet, as they finish them. There are to be 400 s2ats for the press. There will probably be 1,000 newspaper men at the con- vention, but these seats are for those who are doing telegraphic work, and not for drones and fancy writers, Arrangements are being made with the telegraphic com- panies to handle a large amount of matter. Estimating that 400 papers of the United States will take an average of three col- umns, or 5,000 words, a day from the con- vention, the wires will be loaded down with at least 2,000,000 words daily. One of the volumes of Blaine’s book contains, I judge, about 200,000 words. The matter sent out from this convention daily would, if pub- lished, make about ten volumes of that size. How to Get Seats. I have spent come time at St. Louis with T. M. Byrnes of Minneapolis. Mr. Byrnes was the sergeant-at-arms at the Minneapolis convention. He has been chosen the sergeant-at-arms of this con- vention, and he ts by all odds the most important man just now connected with it. He has to do with the seating of the crowd and has entire charge of the tickets. All press men must make their applications to him, and they will be forwarded to a press committee here. Mr. Byrnes will have the custody of the tickets as soon as they are printed, and through his kindness I was able to get a sight of the wash drawings from which the tickets will be engraved. These drawings have been kept a secret. No tickets will be given out for fear they may be counterfeited. Tickets to a con- vention like this are worth money. Good seats to the Minneapolis c&hvention sold for $100 and upward, some bringing $125, and there will be a large number offered for sale at St. Louis. Mr. Byrnes will have an Immense vault in the convention hall for the storing of the tickets. He is re- sponsible for them to the national commit- tee, and has to account for every one of them. There will be a big army of police on hand at the time, and only those having tickets will get in. = 200,000 Tickets. Two hundred thousand tickets will be’ printed. This will make a bulk big enough to fill a good-sized cart. This number is estimated on the ground that there might possibly be three sessions each day and that the convention may last five days. One ticket is printed for each session, and 14,000 tickets a ne for fifteen sessions would require 210, tickets. There will not be this many sessions a day, but the convention may last longer than five days. The contract for printing the tickets is an important one, and is worth considerable money, The big ving companies of New York and St. uis competed for it, but a St. Louis company got the job, hav- ing, underbid the New York companies, I lerstand, more $1,000, by the owners and inventors of a new penne Press, which will print the finest of ste Plate engravings by machinery. Heretofore all such werk has been done by hand. The tickets to the convention will, i think, be the most beautiful ones ever ST. LOUIS. asking them to try to work the matter through southern delegates whom they know, as the southern visitors will be com- paratively few. Five hundred tickets are to be given to the Grand Army of the Re- public. In addition to these there will be a number of people who will be admitted as employes of the convention, Orders have been given for the printing of 4,000 badges, ebout one-half of which go to the delegates, alternates and national committeemen. Nine hundred press badges are being made, and there will be a lot of badges for dis- tinguished guests and other notables. All tickets will be issued Monday, June 15, the day before the convention convenes, at the convention hall, but application should be made at once for those who wish to get them. There will be a band of 1,500 pleces in the hall, and these will also have badges and tickets, The Crowd at St. Louis. Every indication points to an immenso crowd her? at the convention. Col. Richard C. Kerens of the national committee and Senator Tom Carter each estimate that there will be at least 150,000 strangers in St. Louis at that time, and there is a Probability that this number will be ex- ceeded. There will be at least 50,000 from Missouri. Col. Hahn tells me that there will be from twenty to twenty-five thou- sand here from Ohio, and that Cleveland will send a delegation for McKinley of at least 3,000. From 15,000 to 20,000 people are expected from Iowa to shout for Alll- son, and among these will be 1,000 men who will ride into the city on white horses. The question of taking care of these 1,000 white horses will not be a great one for St. Louis, for people say that this is the larg- est horse and mule market in the world, and they could stable 10,000 such animals. There vill be 10,000 men from Indianapolis and its surroundings. Col. Manley tells me there will be a large delegation from Maine, and there will be thousands of republican: here from New England to shout for Thomas B. Reed. About 5,000 men are ex- pected from Chicago. New York, it is said, will send 5,000, and I am told that in all the states special cars and trains are be- ing engaged by the different clubs and by private parties, §' Rallrafid (Facilities. St. Louls is peculiarly favored as to rail- road facilities. ‘Thd country surrounding her is thickly popilafed. Twenty-six great railroads center ;perg, and the Union de- pot is said to beisthe(argest In the world. It is certainly the’ finest depot in the United States ard thé roads running into it have, it is said, a,mileage greater than that of all the mpilroads of England and France combined. The cars are all backed Into the depot Bene @ way as to leave the engines outsfde, and the smoke of the ordinary station is thus avoided, There is a big corps of nfésstngers about the sta- tion. It has a barber shop and a hdtel con- nected with it. I} isin fact, a little city in itself, having g post office, a book store, dinirg and lunch’ rooms, and more other side establishments: than any other dépot I have ever entered. The street cars com right to the depot and the visitors for a day can go directly to the convention hall. The raflroads will, it is thought, ch only ove fare for the round trip to St. Louis and return. In addition to the railroads there will be & large number of steamers to bring vis- itors from up and down the river. It is estimated there will be five hundred pas- senger trains going in and out of the de- tee daily during the time of the conven- Jon, and it is safe to say that there will be ro trouble in landing the 150,000 people expected. A more important consideration, however, will be the taking care of them. How St. Louis will do this, what it will cost a man to stay at the convention, and something of the arrangements which the city has made for housing the guests I will write in my next letter. f G.. CARPENTER, NEW PUBLICATIO: VENEZUELA; A SUMMER. B; LAND WHERE IT’S ALWAYS William Eleroy Curtis, author of “The Capitals of Spanish Amert ‘&e, With s Map. New York: Harper & Brothers. It is almost superfiuous to say that this timely publication is deeply interesting, for it would hardly be imagined that Mr.,Cur- tis could write any other kind of a book. Abounding in that sort of materia? which only experienced newspaper men seem able to discover, this volume on Venezuela at once takes rank superior to anything, of the sort heretofore attempted. Every page of it is enjoyably readable, even where the author deals with such statistics as are likely to be of use to any one making a serious study of the country, which: Mr. Curtis has photographed witn so much of accuracy. The sketches are boldly drawn, and there is no effort to exaggerate minor | details. Of course, Venezuela is not en- tirely an earthly paradise. The first-class hotels are generally well kept, and furnish @ good table, and there are several restau- rants at which one can get breakfast or dinner if he only comes to spend a day; but the guests are expected to sleep ‘on canvas cots, which, according to the preva- lent superstition of the country, are ‘more heaithful than mattresses and wire springs, Lesides affording less shelter for divers and sundry species of the insect family, which, Mr. Curtis feels compelled to say, show more enterprise and industry than any other class of inhabitants. “But no one visiting tropical countries,” continues the author, “can escape the assiduous atten- tions of these little pests. They are mo more numerous than in Spain or Italy, and the domesticated bugs of Venezuela are not nearly so multitudinous or annoy- ing as thoee which infest the Havana ho- tels. There are no comforts in the hotel bed rooms, and few conveniences; usually only a washstand, with a pitcher and bowl, a monstrous wardrobe, a cot, ‘and one or two ordinary chuirs. The floor is covered with cocoa matting, or elsé is bare, for carpets attract and shelter fieas and other insects. * * * They have some queer things on the bill of fare. We stud- fed over one item that appeared elmost daily as ‘garden eggs,’ and when we order- ed some, out of curiosity, it turned out to be egg plant. Another was ‘papas en cam- isas.’ A ‘camisa’ ordinarily is a night shirt or the jacket of a pyjama. Hence, the natural inference was that we had landed among u community of cannibals who were serving up somebody's papa in his night shirt. But papa in Spanish means potato, and this mysterious article of food was nothing more than an ordinary steamed potato with the skin or jacket on. A. can- taloupe is called a ‘melone,’ and the word sounds like the name of a numerous and nighly respected Irish family. So, when we wanted a pertion of that toothsome fruit, we called for a ‘malony.’ And a woman's bonnet is called a ‘begorra.’ Mr. Curtis is a believer in the siesta, which is, of course, an invariable accompa- niment of life in all tropical countries. In- cicentally, the s'esta habit collides with the theories of physiologists, who insist that people should not sleep while their stom- achs are full. The Spanish-American eats the heartlest meal of the day, drinks a quart of wine, more or less, and a cup ‘of black coffee, smokes a strong cigar or half a dozen cigarettes, ond then lies down on his cot for a nap of an hour or two, day after day, and not only is he healthy and lives to a ripe old age, but he never has the dyspepsia, or Biight’s disease, or any other of the ailments that are born of indi- gesticn. He does not bolt his food as we do, nor deluge his stomach with ice water, but he fills it with all sorts of oily condi- ments, garlic, rich fruits, sweetmeats and a quart of claret before he lies Gown in a dark and poorly-ventilated recom to sleep. Venezuelans lack energy, yet they ap- preciate the utility of modern improve- ments; not invariably, but in most in- stances. The telephone is more generally used at Caracas than in any city of simi- lar size in the United States. The street car lines at Caracas are probably run by a management which must be closely related to the Anacostia company, because the cars are “small, grotesque affairs; the rrotive power is usually one large mule or two small donkeys, and they get over the ground with commendable energy. The driver carries a horn, which is blown,as he approaches street corners—something the Anacostia company does not seem to have thought of. Not so long ago Venezuelans were a trifle shy of railroads. ‘There is a road between Caracas and La Guayra, but for some time many pedple preferred to travel all day on muleback in the- broiling sun and to have their freight shippéd in the same way, rather tBan send it by the cars. Guzman Blanco ruled in Venazuela then, and he was very indignant at the manner in which road, was being treateg, for Guz- men Blanco at that time owhed all of Venezuela. He remonstrated with the an- cients who traveled and sent their belong- ings as their fathers had before them, but @8 no atiention was paid to what he said, he sent out a battalion of soldiers, who completely destroyed the old cart road, so shippers and travelers were compelled to use the railroad. » Guzman Bianco was a czar. Mr. Curtis tells several stories in support of that con- clusion. The dictator paid a subsidy of $40,- 000 a year to sustain Italian opera in Caracas, but he rarely went to sce any of the performances. One night he did go, and that happened to be the very night when the prima donna was particularly ill-tem- pered, and had refused te sing. After wait- ing half an hour for the curtain to go up— “the illustrious American”—for so he pro- claimed himself—sent an aid-de-camp in to notify the company that unless the opera commenced in ten minutes the whole party would be arrested. The prima donna was more than ordinarily obstinate, so she and all the other singers and the manager were marched off to the calaboza, and there mained until they were sufficiently penitent. The chapter on Bolivar and the other sub- divisions of the book, which deal with news- papers, agriculture, religion and Venezuelan characteristics generally, must be highly appreciated by all people who enjoy clever descriptive work. Considerable attention is paid to the disputed territory in Guiana, an appendix being devoted to some of the more important documents in the case of Great Britain vs. Venezuela, with an interpleader by the United States. THE TECHNIQUE OF SCULPTURE. Ordway Partridge. Borton: Ginn Some of the folks who honestly believe they know how the sculptor of today ap- plies his art and brings forth the finished ‘Product might be astonished were they to read this carefully written and weil-illus- trated handbook. Especially valuable to the student, the work will nevertheless be interesting to any layman who desires to be informed as to modern sculptural methods, THE HOUSE. An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, astroromer, and of his wife Alice. By Eugene Field. New York: Charles Scribner's By Willam & Co, Every intelligent man or woman ever engaged in the building or buying of a house or contemplating such “action could hardly do otherwise than enjoy this, the last of Eugene Field's literary productions. It reveals a new phase of the versatile author’s tendencies toward the humorous, for it combines the simplicity of “The Vicar of Wakefield” with a latter day satire such as Field was master of. Reuben Baker is likely to live long and to be much in evidence in the libraries of folks who know a good book when they see one. HISTORY OF THE INDEPENDENT LOUBOUN "VIRGINIA RANGERS. United States Volumen Cavalry (Scouts), 1862-65. By Briscoe Good- hart, Company A’ Washington: McGill & Wal- lace’ and Ballantyne & Sous, There were only a few Virginians in the Union army during the war of the rebel- Non.. Conspicuous among the few. were those who had membership in the Loudoun Rangers. Their service was arduous and hazardous, and many of the indiyidual§ suffered all that was suffered by any who participated in the four years’ strife. The record of the deeds and discomforts of the Loudoun county loyalists is locally and gen- erally interesting; locally, because many of the names are well known here; gen- erally, because such a contribution to his- tory is valuable. THE MAN WHO BECAME A SAVAGE. A Story of Our Own Times. By William T. Hor 4 author of “Two Years in the Jungle,” &¢, lustrated. Buffalo: The Peter Paul Book Washington: Brentano's. Search for a dull page in Mr. Hornaday’s book would be very much like searching for the lost needle in- the proverbial haystack. The story deals mainly with an American who becomes thoroughly disgusted with bad politics, labor disputes, drunkenness and other discouraging features of what we term “civilization,” and who migrates to Borneo. There is a wholesome atmos- phere in evidence the volume through, yet the morals are not so conspicuous as to interfere with liveliness of the forceful narrative. Mr. Charles Hudson (a Wash- an) is the artist who illustrates the book; he has done his work well. AN, INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMER- 28 IOAN LITERATURE. By +AMs, LEB., Professor taze in Colum: bia Gollege.” New York: American Book Gv, Professor Matthews has done exception- ally well in this highly-important publica- tion. As a text bock it has great merit and Not the least among the features contrib- uting to that merit are the Mterary excel- lence and the freedom from sectionalism. The work will be welcomed by those edu- cators who appreciate a bold yet polished rin and freedom from incumbering pre- ju DOCTOR, Congaumows LEGACY. Cnsoniche North, 4 ra lenry Johns' Now York: Obaries Scribuer's Sous. Washing- tou: Brentano's. 4 LADY OF QUALITY. Being 2 Most Curious, Hitherto Unkwown History as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff, but not Presented to the World of Fashion through the Pages of the for the First Time Written down inces Hodgson Burnett, New York: Charles Seribner’s Sons. Wasbington: Bren- tano’s. Brander Matthews, HANDBOOK OF ARCTIC DISCOVERIES. By A, ‘W. Greely, Brigadier General United States , Chief Signal Officer of the Army. Bos- ton” Boberts y CLARA HOPGOOD. Mark Rutherford. Edited by Pe pemiee Shapeott. New York: friend, Dodd, Mend & Co. OMAN SINGER. By F. Marion Crawford, au- A Mor of Me. nance,” “Dr. Clandlue,” "To Leeward.’" New York: Macmillan & Go. Wash- ington: W. H. Lowdermilk & Oo. THI 3H00L, OF FOLITICS, The American Primary or tem By E. Hofer, Member ith General “Assembly, Salem, Oregon. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. THE CHRISTIAN AT MASS. By Rev. Joseph L. Andtcis. Baltimore: John Murphy & Co, THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE. By Harold Frederic. Chicago: Stone & Kimball. LA TACHE DU PETIT PIERRE. Mairst (Madame Charles Bigot). Reading Classes by Edith Healy. Auericia Book Co. ‘BB WIITE ROCKS. A Novel. Translated from the French of Elousrd Rod. With Mlustrations by E. Boyd Smith. New York: Thomas ¥. Crowell & Co. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN TARIFF. | 1789- 1800. By Eogene C. lawis, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. LE CHIEN DE BEISQUET And Other Stories. Edited for School Use by L. C. Syins, Bachelier @& Lettres, Liconcte en Droit de I'Universite de France. New York: American Book Co. HISTORY OF THE MONETARY LBGISLATION AND OF THE CURRENCY SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES. Bmbracing Rare and In- valuable Documents. By Hon. Robert E. Pres- ton, Director of the Mint. ‘To Which is Added a Speech on Our Currency System, by Hon. James H. Eckels, Comptroller of the Currency. Philadelphia: John J. MecVeg. THY RIME OF THE A) NT MARINER. By 8. ‘T. Coleridge. New York: American Book Co. THE HEART OF A MYSTERY. A Novel. W. Speight, atthor of “Heodwinked,” to Life,” “Burzo's Romance,” &-. RF. 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By Mrs. Alexander, au- thor of “Found Wanting,” “For His Sake,” Philadelp! B. Lippincott Co. Washing- ton: Brentano’ 20a," “Vendetta.” &e. Philadelphia: J. Lippincott Co. Washington: Brentano's. A WHIRL ASUNDER. By Gertrude Atherton, a1 thor of “The Doomswoman,”” “Before With Frontispiece by E. Fred- fork: erick A. Stokes Oo. A. Lisner. erick. Net Washington: THE TFMPTRESS. By William Le Queux, an- * * The thor. of “Zoraida, "* “Stolen Souls,” in England in 1897," Great War allty Bonds," “Strange Tales of a Nibilist,” &c. New “Yor: Frederick A. Stokes Co.’ Wasb- ington: A. Lisner. THE BROOM-SQUIRE. By yf Mehalab," = rs Eve," &. ¥ Washington: A. Lis A Study of Love and Life, Brainerd, author of “Go Forth ‘ork: “The Cassell Publishing Woodward & Lothcop. ROBERT ATTERRURY. By Thomas H. and Co. nd." New Washington: A WOMAN INTERVENES; Or, The Mistress of the Mine. By Robert Barr,” author of “In the Midst of Alarms,"’ ‘The Face and the Mask,” “From Whese Bourne,’’ §c. Profusely Ilus- trated by Hal Hurst. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. “Washington: A. Lisner. NYE AND RILEY'S WIT AND HUMOR (Poems— Yarns). By Bili Nye and James Whitcomb Illustrated. “New York: F. Tennyson THE IRISH IN THE REVOLWTION AND IN TAB CIVIL WAR. Address to the their Descendants by Dr. Washington: C. J. Ziegler. DAUGHTER OF THE SOUTH And Bhorter Stories. By Mrs. Burton Harrison, author of “The Anglomantiacs,” “Flowers De’ Hundred,” &c. New York: The Cassell Publishing Oo, “Jewels of Memory” has achieved the dig- rity and profit of a second edition. This latest of Col. John A. Joyce's literary pro- ducts is likely to prove more successful than any othar of the well-known poet's well-known works. “Checkered Life,” “Pe- culiar Poems,” “Zig-Zag” and a countless host of miscellaneous efforts Lave all met with more or less of popular appreciation, but “Jewels of Memory” has a selling gait on it which must be extremely pleasing to author and publisher. In many respects this second edition is a big improvement upon its immediate predecessor. consumption can't be cured; have arguments to Prove it. But when they see it cured ight under their face and eyes by Medical Discovery, Dr. Pierce’s Golden they admit that there's something wrong about their arguments and somethi ‘wo! 1 al the “Discovery.” isn’t miraculous. It won't cure every case ; but it cures a suprisingly large per- centage of cases , even when the patient is pretty far gone with a bad cough, and bleeding from the lungs, and reduced al- most to a shadow. Consumption is a blood disease. ‘The lungs want a fresh supply of pure rich bi. and plenty of it ; that is what the “Golden Medical Dis- very’’ givesthem. It isa blood-maker, gives the blood-making functions wer to produce a large quantity of the nourishing red corpuscles which make healthy life-giving blood. This stops the wasting; drives out the impurities; heals the ulceration and ins a rapid build- ing-up process, of solid, substantial fiesh and ital energy. It isn’t only consumptives who need the “Discovery.” It cures every form of chronic blood-disease and all scrofulous and eruptive affections. Ww ing Vall land County, x po eaten See Ge fio had suffered from that terrible disease, consump- ion, and heart-diseese. Before taking Doctor ierce's Golden Medical Discovery I had wasted away to a skeleton; could not sleep nor rest, and. many times wished to die to be out of my misery. Sa | while taking the * scales at one-hundred. well and strong. The “Golden Pe Bicer located on the thigh. er arging boule oF meer which healed it perfectly."" ‘Yours truly, Escaped From Chili. THE DANGEROUS ADVENTURE OF DETECTIVE W. M. LUGG. Compelied to Cross the Mountains on Muleback— Taken Sick Dur- ing the Journey, From the Examiner, San Francisco, Oal. 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