Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 2, 1892, Page 18

o e R TR iADlES OF THE WHITE HOUSE Bkctoh of an Omaha Lady Prominent in That Charming Coterie. THE GORGEOUS COLORS OF AUTUMN orous Protest Agninst Wedding Presents —senteneed to Matrimony by a Court of Law—Feminine Personals ana Fashion Notos. In the current issue of Peterson’s Magazine, Gilberta S. Whittle pre- sents an entertaining sketch of the ladies of the white house, and speaks as follows of one Omaha claims as her own: “The simple and unostentatious elegance of those native and to the manor born distinguishes the present inmates of the exccutive mansion, and conspicuous for her many personal at- tractions among the charming coterie is Mrs. Russell Harrison, the daughter-in- law of the president. Mrs. Harrison’s beauty is of the purest Saxon type, and 80 youthful is she in appearance that one hears with surprise that she is a matron of cight years’ standing. Her hair is of infantile blondness, hor oyes of the opalescent hues of summer skies, and her complexion exquisitely fair and delicately tinted. Though petite in figure there is a graceful dignity in her carringe which gives one the impres- sion of greater height than she pos- sesses—a quulity noticenble, too, in her manner, despite its childlike simplicity and freedom from affectation. Her father, Hon. Alvin Saunders, uthuu"th a Kentuckian by birth, comes of Vir- ginia stock, both of his parents being natives of that state. Her mother is from Frederick, Md. Mrs. Harrvison was born in Mount Pleasant, In.,but removed to Omaha when her father was appointed overnor of the territory of Nebraska. n 1877 he was elected as the repr tative of that state to the United senate, and in the following his daughter accompanied him to Wa ington, and entered the convent of Vi tation in Georgetown, where she ro mained some years, graduating later at the Archer institute, in Washington. The February after her graduation, she met Mr. Harrison, who had gone to ‘Washington to see his futher sworn in as United States senator from India “‘She was married the following Janu- ary, and afterwards made her home in Helena, Mont., where her husband was in charge of the United States assay of- ates fice. Mrs. Harrison has trav- eled extensively in the United States, and is particularly familiar with the western portion of the country. but her trip abroad last summer was her first experience in foreign travel. She hus recently been appointed one of the eight commissiorers-at-large for the World’s fair, a_position which she will doubtless fill 'with credit. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have only one child, a little girl four years old, called Marthena, in honor of Mrs. Harrison’s mother.” 5 *w This is the season of the year to gather flowers, ieaves, and grasses for home and holiday decoration. Let us hunt in field and woodland before Jack Frost comes with his blighting touch and changes the warm, mellow hues of autumn into the dull gray shades of win- ter. A brief excursion and tramp in open fields will be rewarded with enough bright bits and colors to fill all the vases, bowls, and corners that can be spared. Remember that this is no flect- ing joy, says Harper’s Young People, for grasses, grains, evergreens, and many of the wild flowers of autumn can be preserved for months and months. 'he season would be poor indeed in ‘floral beauty if it were not for the won- derful display given by the many culti- vated garden flowers. It would seem as though nature emptied the last drops of her summer paint pot on her fall flowers. The waning warm season is marked by the deepest dyes and tho most gorgeous colors. The china asters vie with the chrysanthemum, queen of the autumn; the xenias run riot in rich crimsons, scarlets, oranges and yellows; the dahlias come out in flying colors, so do the dainty white clustering phlox and the golden-colored . helianthus— these, alas! are shortlived; they will never do fop winter decoration, The most lasting autumn bouquet is made of wild flowers. Goldenrod and thoroughwort wave their gay banners in field and on hillside. The latter with its grayish-pink blossoms skirts near the foreet, where it peens through the dead Jeuves. A vase fllled with a mass of vied goldenrod, sprays of dried thoroughwort, bunched with the tall stalks of ‘“cattails” in a high vase, wiil land a touch of outdoor color to some cozy corner. * *x A prettily arvanged tea table is often- times a welcome change from the some- what formal and always conventional late dinner. Muny people in the sum- mer have what is called in English ver. nacular a **high ten;” this is really a substantial meal, with hot meats and vegetables, but not a joint. Steaks, chops, croquettes, poultry, game, are all suitable for a high te Any one of these may be selected with a couple of vegetables, hot buttered tonst or bis- cuits, served with tea, coffee or choco- asimple dessert. This somewhat hybrid meal, although quite a8 substantial and sutisfying to hungry lrneules, involves less work than a reg- ular dirner, and, as a young housekeeper sapiently remarked, ‘*‘what makes a good tea makes a poor dinner.” More- over, it is a very elastic feast, and young people need not besitate to ask their friends informally to tea, whereas an extra one at dinner always *‘counts,”’ A pretty wn{ in which to arraoge a table for such a meal is to leave it bare and have three cloths,one for the centor, one for the tea-tray and another before the house-master, for the meat, what- over it muy be. ‘These tea cloths give great opportunity for a display of protty needloework. Kussian cross-stitch iy much used in their decoration, and some of the combinations of red and blue are extremely beautiful. White wush silk that does not turn yellow is eminently adapted for embroidering on tea cloths; and, after all, there is nothing so pretty _agwhite napery for the table, late, followed by Saruh K. Bolton, through an article in the Independent, uttors a timely pro- test against the wedding present nui- sance snd extortion, She says—what every sensible porson knows and con- cedes—that wedding presents have come to be a burden, and, to a consid- erable extent, simply & matter of pride. Said a lndy to me recently: “We don’t know very intimately the parties to be married, {sul our presents will be exhib- ited among the others, and we should e ushamed not to have them us elegant a8 those of our neighbors.” And this same y could ill afford to buy things for her own household, lu{hlg nm.hmhv of a tho d ways in which she coul better hg o 8pent the mouey. 1t is use- 1ess to reuson that people need not give nts. As long as we have such a fashion, they will feel obliged 10 give, just as they do at Coristmus, when half the time they have little heart or pleasure in it. The recipients always know that, in the year to come, they will also be obliged to give pres- ents in return, spoons, sugar bowls, but- | ter aishes, that often are in duplicates and of no use to the possessor. This so- clety fashion for people who are in ordi- nary circumstances is indeed social op pression. It is pleasant to give and pleasant to receive; but not when you are certain that many are unable to give, and do so only because itis the custom, » The Provident Bounty nssociation of London publishes in the newspapers of that city a prospectus recommending it- self to the patronage of all families and espocial young married couples. Tts object is to" insure married propla against twins and triplets. A married man expecting to become a father, the rospectus states, must deposit $25 to become a policy holdor. In case the policyholder’s wifo has twins he will ro ceive $250, in case she has triplets, $375. The conditions of issuing policies are simple and are intended to appenl es- pecially to the lower middle class, in- cluding bookkeepers, shop clerks 'and small tradesmen. The cupital of the concern is $30,000. All the directors are reputable men of considerable prop- onty. - ™ Adeline E. Knapp, who has won for herself in the west something of the dis- tinetion conferred upon Miss Morgan in the east as a horso and_cattle reporter. is a young woman of brilliant and ver tile gifts, Miss Knapp has been a jour nalist for many years, ever since, little girl of 14, she published a tiny paper of twelve columns, writing nearly all of it herself. Later in her life she created the woman’s department of the Sun Francisco Call, and the following year she purchased a paper of her own, of which she was her own editor, man ager, solicitor, agent, collector and maili- ing clerk. After a time sho returned to the Call as exchange editor until the management, discovering her peculinr ability, transferred her to tho stock de partment, where her articles attract much attention from stock raisers and dealers, When engaged in the investi- gations necessary to her business Miss Knapp rides astride of a small English racing saddle, in a divided skirt, which falls each side of the saddle over her feet. Inaddition to her weekly article on stock she writes each Sunday a story for the Call. * ' The popularity of cycling as a pastime for women udds & pew problem to the perple of the maker of modes. How to reconcile the necessary condi tions of the costume demanded by com- fort and safety with the grace of femi- nine ideals has piqued the invention of designers with the ereation of a gem at onee smart and serviceable, jaunty and attractive. The material is dark gray corduroy cloth and the decoration stitched suede leather of the same tint. The skirt is made considerably fullor than the fashionable costume for ordi nary weur, and is worn over knicker- bockers of flannel, and these in turn over a wool combination garment which increases in weight as the days become cooler. The coat is worn with acrimson lining and smart with revers of the leath- er also lined with the bright color. The waistcont is of spotted vesting,dark blue, with a tiny fleck of red or yeilow, and a black satia tie thrust through with a jeweled pin in strict masculine fashion is worn with a collar and plastron of starched linen or colored cambric. Miss Katharine . Conway, a Rochas- ter girl in Boston, has been appointed to the prison commisson oi Massachusetts, and the Springfield Republican says of this appointment: *“The goveraor yes- terday appointed Miss Katharine E. Conway of the Boston Pilot to the prison commission, to sucteed Miss Emma F. Cary who resigns on account of iil health. ~Miss Conway is somewhat over 30 years old, and began in news- paper work when she was 15. In 1883 the lute John Boyle O'Reilly engaged her sorvices on the Pilot, and he always valued them highiy, on one occasion averring thatshe had ‘the heart of a womaun and the brain of a man.” Asa matter of fuct we should sny Miss Con- way's brains are as womanly as her heart; they aro certainly very good brains in the lines in which she has heretofore employed them, in editorial writing and verses. She is a groat favorite with her fellow-workers, both men and women,” P A California judge has established a precedent. A voung man and a young woman came before him, a picce of proparty being in litigation, one claiming it under an old lease, the other under an ola will. “It strikes me,” said the judge, “‘thero ought to be some pleasant, easy avay of settling this lawsuit. The plain- tifl scems to be a respeciable young man, and the defendant a nice young woman, 1If they go on with these pro- ceedings, this property will be all frit- tered awiy among the lawyers, Now it would be very much better for the plaintiff und defendant to marry and go to living together on the farm.” The young woman blushed and said she hadn’t thought of it, and the young man gallantty said he wouldn’t bo averse. The judge then rendered the verdict for the plaintiff, on condition of his marrying the defendant within two months, until which time he granted a stay of execution. ‘This is the first time a couple was ever sentenced to matri- mony in a court of law. 5 e A young southern woman, Elizabetn Brown Davis, stands among ' the fore most mathematicians of the country in mathematical accuracy and skill. "The first mathematieal work of importance accomplished by Mrs. Davis was that of reading the proofs and verifying tho caleulations of Prol. Simon Newcombe’s Calculus, Later,when the computer in the Nautical Almanac died, Mrs, Davis entered the competitive examination which was to determine his successor, in company with a dozen men. Within three hours every man, all collogo gradu- ates, left the room vanquished by the mathewaticat and astronomical problems with which they were confronted, but the girl of 19 answered every question, solved every problem, won for her pavers the rare 100 pius” from the com- mittee, and recelved the place at #1,200 year, * e A pretty gown for a little child is called the “Tov” dress, and it is made of a rich shade of red or greon cashmere, The front of the rather full walst is trimmed with cream-white flannel s edged with rod silk gimp. The s form a deep sailor collar at the back und open over a pointed plastron of the flannel, striped horizontally all the way down with the gimp. The sleeves, full to the elbows, are gathered into white cuffs striped with the sawe trimming; and a narrow white sush is drawn through a funcy buckle in front. The kilted skirt has a luep hem turned up on the outside and brier-stiched with cream-white silk. The Mirror of Fashion, Velvet sleeves are a feature of both conts and gowus of cloth. Broadeloth is a rival of tweed and cheviot for tailor cosiumes for the prom- enade. Shaded velvet for sivoves and trim- THE ming is tho hand-omest novelty of tho senson. Sleeves are attaining most astonish- ing proportions and displaying most startling vagaries and oxtravagances. Veloutine is a silk that finds increas ing favor, It is ns soft as bengaline, oniy of firmer texture, with n glossy surface. Youthful and pretty house dresses for autumn wear are made of handsomely plaided surahs combined with French camel’s hair, Tho lightweight wools are the very best textiles to select for useful gowns for wear during the entire autumn. The grays and browns present a wide range of shades this season. The smart woman of today always has a pin about her, because she carries in her pocket a tiny velvet cushion stuck full of them on one side, while her mon- ogram in silver oceupies the other. The reps of the new Russian velours are finer and the texture is much softer than formerly, but its chief distinguish- ing foature is found in the exquisite combination of colors effected in the weaving. Another new velvet 18 ivory colored stamped with o Persian design in soft colors on one edge. In the strip this stumped velvet looks like a mantel lam- brequin, but it is wmade into revers, pan- ols and side pieces, and is a very beauti- tul trimming. New princesse drosses for home woar are made with skirts slashed at each side, and with graceful Iiton or Russian jacketfronts, close cont sleoves with a wide puff or slashed Hungarian cap at the top, and a slightly open Medici col- lar of velvetr—of which the jacketironts are made. The new ‘‘cornet’” skirt has a founda- tion skirt of five bell gores, and is made with a slight thain, which is easily shortened if desired. = The front pre- sents the fashionable sheath effect, and the back widens gradually to the edge of the slight train and partly conceals the side seums, New French felt hats in rough camel’s hair effects, also in _mottled, heather- mixed and short effects, are brought out to wear ensuite with tailor costumes of similar pattern. The sailor hat is again among the models, also the famil- inr Alpine shapes, with their dented crowns, but considerably lower than formerly. Polka-dotted corded siiks in rich su- tumn color mixtures ave made up with pointed bodice, Hungarian sleeves, close in effect, with a full pufl or siashed cap at the top, and a bell skirt trimm with rows of bias velvet bands edged on each side with narrow jet gimp. The prevalencoe of lighteolored wool costumes this season will be in marked coutrast to the equally fashionablo deop toned gowns and jackdts. In addition to faced cloth and the lighter Venetian cloths, there will be worn plain camel’s hair costumes very rough of surface, frequently lined acro: th bars of raised shaggy camel’s in contrast- ing colors. Tn laces there is a reaction in favor of scallops, fern points, rose points and others, against the straight-edged varie- ties so long used. Soon they will appear on stately evening gowns of velvet, silk and brocade as flounces, tabliers, ete, Meanwhile they are employed for jabof bretelles, berthas, wide, picturesque col: lars and sleeve frills, zouave fronts, puffs and slecve caps of greater or less depths, Among new boots the smartest is the heavy calf Blucher, laced, which will be worn hy every fashionably right- minded woman with her tailor gown when she walks. These boots must bo blacked like a man’s, so the day of I'rench dressing is over. [Kor rainy days, oddly enough, russet leather shoes are considered the proper choice. They have pointed toes and common sense flat heels. A handsome reception dress of colored silk in a light ashes of roses shade has the bodice drawn down full under a point to which are attached hip lapels of Persian stamped velvot with the plain ground harmonizing with the tone of silk. A large panel revers, narrow at the top and broadening as it descends, turns back from the side seams of the skirt and reaches to the very bottom, The bodice has a full revers of the ne at the throat. A trim traveling coat is made of a light brown, loose woven goods, one of tho novelties, in polonaise form. It is tight fitting, reaches to the feet, hasa flat box plait in front and back, and two shoulder capes, which are edged with a band of fawn colored cloth with a nar- row gold Russian braid at the top. The sleeves and collars and hem of the skiry have the same band. The belt is of light leather stamped with gold and laced with a brown cord over gold hooks in front. ‘I'wo Russian buttons fasten the collar, A pretty idea for the decoration of a bachelor apartment is as follows: Col- lect all the unpaid bills that you can find—the more the better—and sclect those of a rose pink shade. Fasten these about the cornice of the wall as a daao and make another row of & contrasting color just beneath. Continue in this y down the wall as far as the bilis Paie blue and canary-color nents look _very pretly wh rightly placed, and the effect when fin- ished is said to be indescribably unique. A very dainty coiffure is the bow- knot fushion. The hair is parted in the middle and waved buck from tho sides, It is divided in half in the back and with the two pleces a loose bow knot is n tied. The ends are folded under, leny- ing only two short picces. The remain- der i3 rolled closely together and pushed under the kunot, making it stand out in the center. Theloops are pinned up widely on the head with u jeweled hairpin at every corner of the loops. “This 15 especially suited to light suits of hair, Fasnions 1n dewelry. The standards for soap of narrow ised worlk bars are very pretty. The new candlesticks for tapers are as pretty as baby toys, and look like them, ransparent colored stones are sleeve buttons with o more gold showing than necessary. A lurge flaring fruit dish has a smooth surface and theornamentation is formed by the perforations. Sowe fruit bowls are basin-shaped with raised flutes half way up, and o plain lustrous border above, Artistic leaf spoons grow in numbers overy day. A specimen is u lily leaf for the bowl and two twisted tendrils with buds for the handle. There are decided novelties in silver fruit dishes. One is a low, round bowl with raised and perforated work. The ornamentation is very rich. The same designs have low standards, and round knob-like feet, Single sleeve buttons are larger than ever. They are worn chiefly by men and women who aflect masculine dee They prevail in dead gold. The more elaborate have a section in roepousse work, *A new style has a vertical bordor of raised work, ana is altogether com mendable, ‘Women who have their diamond neck- laces eet in gold will, if they wish to be in the fashion, have them reset 1n platinum. This, it is claimed, brings out the stones at thelr best. It is, by- OMAHA DAILY BEE »mpmmmmmrmw B e L S UER AT b R SUNDAY, O tho-by, decidedly suggestive of the old- fashioned setting of diamonds in sitver. Notes Abont Women. Mrs. Hannibal Hamlin, the widow of the late vico president, is a 1ost in- tollectual and lovely woman. She lives in the old homestead at Bangor, Me. Happy the young woman nowadays who has a middle name with a sonorous sound. Susan C. Nipver looks common- place, but Susan Cholmondeley Nipper is too fine for anything. A woman who possessos the accom- plishment—now rare—of being able to spesk the Irish language is Kathleen Huppman of Philadeiphia. She is past 90, and her choieast relic of her old home is a letter written by Robert Em- met. In a letter to thol London Telegraph about Fnglish wives, Miss Florenco ghtingale says: +*Irishmen are moro sympathetic, movetrue 1o their wives, and, in my opinion;wo should hear loss of unloved and unlovely marriages, loss of the divorce courts, if Englishmen showed mnore sympathy and interest in their wive: There is a girl attending one of the schools in Easton, Pa., who {8 as accu- rate a gauge of the weather as a barometer. When storms are brewing her hair curls in tight ringlets, and she grows so obstreperous that teachers are unable to subdue her. The approach of sunny weather smoothes down her spirits and she then the sweetest npered girl in school. Many doctors huve tried in vain to solve the mystery of her ailment, One hundred years ngo September 24, while the father of his co y seeking a re-clection to the presidency, over the land of steady habits and bogus nutmegs there was born of good old Continental stock a bouncing girl bab, At Adrian, Miecn., last Saturday, that baby, surrounded by fifty or more, ce brated the centennial anniversary of her birth. The lady, who has been permit- ted to live through a century, is Mr: Anna Chaffee, widow of Warren Iay Chaffee, who died four years ago at the age of 89. Her memory is good and her senses bright. She had three children, of whom only one is now living, eight grandchildren ang fourteen groat grand- children. SALIY TECH —— D A HUMPBACK, ugene Field. Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' olsobut luc It made no di why It struck., But sev'ral years azo I changt my mind, now proclaim Thatluck'sa kind uv sclonco—samo as any other game: It hapyened out in Denver in thespring uv '8), wher aity teched a humpback an' win out t ence how or when or whera or n' Salty wuz a printer in the good ol' Tribune Guys, ural like, he fell nto the good ol ne Ways; Sundiy evenin' he would sit into the anme, Which, in this crowd of thoroughbreds, I think I noed not nawme: Au', there he'd sit until he rose, an’ when he rose he wore Invariably less wealth about his person than before. B ut once there came o powerful change; on sollum Sunday nizht Oceurred the tidal wave that put ol’ Salty out o' sightl He win on deuce an’ ace an' juck—he win on King and queen— O Biit allowed the like uv how he win wuz never seen! Au' how ho done it wuz revealed to all us follers when He suid he teched & humpback to win out ten There must be somethin’ in it, for be never vin afore, An’ when ho told the crowd about the Lump- buck, how they swore! For overy sport ullows it is a losin' game to buck Agin the science of u man hump for luck; An' there is no denyln’ luck was nowhere fn ¢ when Salty teched a hampback an’ win out teu. who's teched a T'vo had queer dreams an’ seon queer things, an’ alius tried to do The one thing that luck apparently intended 1'r me to; Cats, funerils, cripples, treated with regard, An’ charity subscriptions have hit me power- fui hard But w! beggars have I 1t's the use’uv’ talkin'? I say au’ say again You've got to tech a humpback to win out ten! So, though T used to think I'il ullow, that luck wuz That luek, for luck, agiu a hump ain't where in it now! tho wh no- An’ gh 1 can't explain the whys an' eforos, | maintain must be' somethin' in an’ plain; :ro un’ seen it, an' got Salty whe Salty teched u hump FACTS ABOUT OMAHA. Omaba has five public parks. Omaha bas sixty-five miles of streets, Omaha has ninety-two miles of sewers, There are sixty public schools, employing teachers, ‘here are twonty-two church and private schools, employing 152 toachers. The school cansus shows over 30,955 chil- dren of school age, Omaha is a city of churches, having 115 houses of raligious worship. “T'here are sixty-five hotels, Thero are thirtaen trunk lines of railway, covering 35,233 milss of road oporated from Omaha. One hundrod and thirty passengor trainsarrive daily, Omaha has world. Omiha is the third largost packing conter it when the tip's full with ek an’ win out ten. paved largest smelter in the in the worid, Las tho stock _recoip! were: Cattle, 03; hogs, 7,160,503; sheep, Omaha has tho largest distillery 1 tho world aud three of the largest brewerios in the United States. Omahu has the largest white lend works in tho world, Aside from the packing houses Omaha has 160 manufacturiog entarprises with a com- bined capital of $3,935.000. Last year their products amounted to $33,000,000. The principai shops of the Union Pacific railway are lucated in Omaha. They cover fifty acras of eround and represent an out- lay of 2,500,000, They furnish employmont 01,200 skilled mechanics and 200 day labor ers. During the year 1801 the real estats trans- fers amounted to §15,040,521. gl)urluglwl the cleariugs woro $221,123,- 5. ‘The actual real estatevaluation is $230,000,- 000, while the asaessmont for taxation is based on a ono-tenth valuauon, Omaha has two ntybanks. of which nino are national, eight savings and three are state bauks, The postofica recelnts for the yoar were $204,55 This asparumoent gave employ- mentto forty-six clerks and sixty-six car- riers, Omaba has one of the most complete water works systems in tho world. The plany cost 7,000,000 ana has 170 miles of mains, Tho pumping capaeityls 55,000,000 gallons daily. Thore are ninety-five miles of streot rail- way, mainly electric. ‘The system employs 000 mon and operates 275 cars. The monthly pay ooll is 40 000 Population in 1850, Populution in 1560 Pupulation in 1850 Populution In 1840 Populution 1 150). 1,861 - A Negleoted Picture. Somerville Journil: Ned (exultantly) I you, old wan, I ihink I've made an impression on Miss Flyrte at last, 1 gave her my photograph yesterday and she told me this morning that she had stuck it in the eorner of the mirror of her dressing case, Tom—You poof. thing! Are youso ignorant as that?, Don’t you know that when a girl stands in front of her mir- ror she never looksat znything but her- welf? B Lmbroidered shoes, with stoekings matoh- ing the color of the greund of the shoe or some leaoiug Lot 1o the decoration, are quite popular. OBER 2 NEW BOOKS AND PERIODICALS, Among the most meritorious of rocent ad- ditions to campaixn literaturoe upon the issue of free trade versus proteoction, the work of Mr. A. B.Farqubar in bis “Eoconomio and To- dustrial Delusions,” published by (. Put- nam's Sons, New York, will take a promt uent place along the democratic side of the controversy. Mr. F'arquhar is a wealthy manu- tacturer of Pensyivania, and would probably resent every insinuation that bis book 1s a campuign documont; but, notwithstanding its apparent independent point of view, the long tivade against the whole prescent policy of the republican party incorporated into the socond chapter stamps it indelibly as a par- tisan production. The blan pursued is strictly nogative. The book aflirma nothing positively ; it morelv takes up seriatim vari- ous arguments which the friends of protec tion have advanced, and attempts to refuto them. In some instances the author has un doubtedly succeeded; in many others, nota- biy the national indovendenco and wages arguments, his reasoning falls fiat. When treating of foreign commerceand the balanco of trade, hie still retains the oft-exploded 1dea that the foreign market involves a sacredness notattaching to the home market. Moreover, the author confessos that his owu statistical manipulations are scarcely more satisfactory than those he seeks to overthrow. “Tho appended sssay on the siver question is a fair prosontation of the historical facts, but gons altogether too far in charging the republicans with encouraging as a party the projects of the freo silver men. Mr. Far Jubiar is something more than tho average 1s at least acquainted on his svbjest in campaign writer. He with the chief literature glish, With the aetuils of the carlier tar. ovoment he is loss familiar or he would ¥ call the body that enacted the tarift St fanutic o the eritical est many poiuls of abodiinations in 1 teetive congress, '’ the book will su thoughtful refloction, though 'he must momber that ucgalive reasoning can but a feeble basis for froe trade. lly pro Teudor for ro- form “Paddles and Politics on the Danube’ is the aptly alliterativo and definitely descrip tive title of an cqually entertaining and sug- gestivo littlo book published by Webster & Co. of New York tu thewr admiravlo “Fiction, t and Faney' series, I'he author is Mr. Poulteney Bigolow who had already written intelligeutly on that great sphinx problewm, known to political stvdents as “the eastern question.” ‘Ihe author and & coupie ol friends in three canoes padaled down tho Danube from the Black Forest to the Black sen and a mighty interesting time they had, tue moro ent ui nd mildly exciting iucidonts of which Mr. Bigelow has attrac- tively chronicted. ‘The slight character studies of the people they mot—stolid barge- men, merry maidens (i one interesting in- stance clothied in nothing but a very bocom- g and innocent merriment), soldiers, inn- keopers, diplomats and officials—are clever and the limning, light as it 1s, fixes tho types fairly in the mnd of the veader. Mr. Bize low has a fine passion for the Magyar, and surely superlatives are justiled in view of the whole-souled roception he was given among them. The author noted a potential fact of much signiticanco among_the peovle of the Balkan priveipali- ties. The Serv, the Hulgar and the Koumun- ian cach is suffused and saturated with an intense national spirit. True, Russian guile and Russian goid have a cortain power among these mountaineers, but 1t is hmited und the eagle-spirit of freedom and the vas- siou for national autonomy are greater than Muscovite money can mas! Tney would help Russia_to the Bospborus in return for perfect freedom, but already the more astuto amovg them recognize that the rule ot toe Romanoff from Constantinople would meat auything but frecdom, and even now the: ars looking elsewhore for the linking of al ances. And this is the most significant state- ment in Mr. Bigelow's book. He records in- terviews with oflicial Bulgars and Serbs that all lead to one, to the author, convineing con- clusion—that the existence’ of the Balka tribes, or kiogdoms, as they 1nsist on calliu themselves, is dependent on the protection of the kaiser, not on what would prove the aggressive suzerainly of tho czar; these people are resting their hope on the Hohen- zollern. as against the Romanoff. This 1s a sigoificant fact among a people with the freedom-loving spirit of the Swiss and the fighting quality of the Scot. Mr. Bigelow writes instructively of trade on the Danube and, all in all, has produced a readable and thought-awakening book. 4 most timely publication just now is that compiled by Edward McPherson under the HAVE YOU SEEN THE GRAND DISPLAY —OR— Underwear and Dvershits —A ™ — Special Sale Prices This Weck. Men's Fancy and Striped Gray Overshirts, Lnt SO Cenvita. Undershirts and Drawers, wh t or fancy, C g It Will Pay You to See BOYS’ Cenite. 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DOCTOR : McGREW. title of ““A Handbook of Potitios for 1892, being a record of important political action, legislative, executive and judicial, national and state, from July 31, 1800 to July 31, 1802, It would be difiicult’ to overestimato tho value of Mr. McPherson's work to political writers, publicists and ail who take an ac- tive interest 1n the political history of this count “This volume carries to complotion the tariff record begun in the handbook for 189) and shows by whoat votes the tariff act of 1590 was enacted. 1t also carries to completion the enactment of the ocean mail service act aud of the international copyrightact. It gives the congressional apportionment based on the census of 1800, iho final votes upon the long controv over the forfeiture of lands granted to railroads, the votes upou the passage of the act to refund to the ad- hering states the direct tax of 1561 and upon tne materia mendimment made to tne acts regulavuing immigration. Thare are also copies of the two chief deci- sions of the subreme court during the perioa covered with a full abstract of its minor de- cisions: also the constitutional amendments made and proposed in the ious states und the nation: and accurate copics of the pro- ceedings and platforms of the four national conventions which have veen beld. Tne usual statistical tables are given and a quan- tity of other valuable information, which want of space prevents from particularizing, Its urrangement is adwirable and the book 15 well bouud. PPublished by James J. Chap- man, 915 Pennsylvaoia avenue, Wushiogton, D. (. In Harp deal of spuce the commemoration of America by Columbus, One of its most val- vable articles is a sketeh of the life of Columbus with @ ecritical estimate of character and services written by Prof, Dr S, Rugo of Dresden. Anotber articio which 1) attract perhaps even greater attention is The Baptismal Font of America,” by Frank H. Mason, narrating the story of the m in which the western continent received name. James Russell Lowell's fifth pa on theold English dramatists, whicn appeur in this number of tlarper's, is devoted to Beaumont and Fleteher, whom he calls “the double stars of our poetical firmament,” Magazine for October & good is very appropriately given to tho aiscovery of nne its The epic “Story of Columbus,” supple- mented with the information embodied in lately discovered documents, and illustrated with reproductions of rare portraits. charts, historical paiutings ana photographie views fittingly heads the October number of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. The leading con- tomporary women paintérs in France are in- troduced in an interesting article by Arthur Horublow, WIth numerous portraits, auto- graphs and reproductions of the worl of the ariists mentioned in the article, T is a very excelloat number of this ever popular veriodical, The October Overland Monthly contains a carefully prepared and fully ‘illustrated article on the University of §California, Its history, growth and present condition are told by Micent W. Shinn, whose article Jast year on the Stanford University attract cod goneral attention. Thispuumber also con- tains anothor of the Overland’s popular outing articles, “‘Lawn Tenuis” is & paper written by J. J. Archivald, un experionced tennis exoert, and carefully illustrated under nis supervision. The illustrated papers on Pacific coast _scencry aro continued by un article by Mabel H. Closson, entitled “An Alaskan Summer." The October pumber of Romance, the sec- ond in the mugazine's notable sories of spec- 1al 1ssues illustrating the fiotion of different nations, 18 & special German number. More than balf of its contents has been traus- iated from the German, and 1o such oppor- tunity has ever before been afforded Ameri- can readers to see, erouped i o single 15sue of a wagazine, 50 many and such character- istic specimens of the work of the best story-writers of thav nation. There is seemingly no end these days to publications for the chiidren. 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Just about this timo, when tho world’s at- tention is being attracted to Chicavo, tho publication of such a useful ana entertaining little brochute as “Chicago by Day and Night; the Pleasure-Seoker's Guids to the Paris | of America” is most tin its 251 pages, which are profuse with itllustrations, will be found a quantity of valuable information not easily acoessiblo elsewhere, Published by Thomson & Zim merman, 234 and 230 La Ssllo street, Chi- cago. “Moriul the Mahatma.” by Mabel Collins, is a aelightfully written story of lifein that out of the way country Tibet. The author- oss evinces unmistakable aility as a de- scriptive writer und ber little book abounds in exquisite passages. It is & novel well worth the trouble of reading, whicn is more than can be said of & number of books that are now being issued from the public press. Publishea by Lovell, Gestefeld & Co., New York. A Modern Quixote,” by §, C. 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