Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1893, Page 6

TATESMEN WHO ARE CHUMS Oloze Ties of Friendship Between Members of the United States Senate, PARTY DIFFERENCES CUT NO FIGURE Republicans and Demoorats Alike Vie With Each Other 1o Emalating Damon and Pythi ae Notable In- stunces on Record, Of the staid and noble senators who are £o0 often deseribed as at deadly odds on political measures many are warm friends and even chums. The senate is a body of goodfellowship; not only that, but of real comradeship. A senator may be at political loggerheads with his chum, but that is no bar to real com- panionship; in fact, according to the ‘Washington Post, the most noted cases of “‘chums” have been between men of opposing faiths. he most famous pair of chums the genate ever knew were Senator Edmunds and “'Old Roman” Thurman. When the tall Vermonter and Mr. Thurman were both scnators one or the other was always chairman of the committeo on private land claims, which has a com- mittece room in a quiet part of the gallery floor. They oth loved a glass -now and then, and one never refreshed himsolf without the other. Mr. Edmunds, on starting up- stairs to samplo the contents of their rivate brown jug, would stop at the oor of the senate, give a terrific cough, when Mr. Thurman would look up, take out his big red bandanna, blow a blast 10 match Edmunds’ cough and nod his head vigorously a couple of times. Then his tall form followed Iidmunds' and pretty soon the pair would come back arm-in-arm as happy as if their most im- portant bills were” all signed by the president. When the spirit fired Mr. Thurman first the little comedy was re- peated, the bandanna giving the signal. Talk about chums, and the first sug- F(‘stinn is “Cameron_and Matt ”I!fll‘! They have been the Damon and Pythias of the senate for years. No one knows how it began or what the secret of it But Cameron and Butler are insepara- ble, and when the wives of both are away and the senators have to stay in Washington Butler mov down and stays with the Pennsylvanian, They are always pointed to as an instance of how political opponents can live to- ether in brotherly love. Cameron and utler are said to have a perpotual pair, and probably if one were taken away the other would forget and still observe his old pair. Minnesota and Indlana Mix, Another couple is at first sight a queer one, It is that of Senator Turpie of Indiana and Senator Davis of Minne- sota. When Mr. Turpic speaks Mr. Davis is always to be found close under his nose listening to the words of wis- dom that fall from the Indiana senator’s lips, When Mr. Davis addresses the senate Mr. Turpie returns the compli- ment and sits close to the Minnesotan and takes in his wise counsels. Their intimacy dates back to three yecars ago, when the committeo on Pacific railroads made a trip In the west. Both men had to go, and during the time they managed to discover they had kindred interests, a sentiment that few men in the senate had. Mr. Turpie speaks seven languages, and is a fine Greek and Latin echolar. Senator Davis has Greck and Latin at his tongue’s end, and if he addressed the senate some time in Greek it wouldn't surprise those who know him best. He is also a most ardent lover of literature, especially that of ancient Greece and Rome. This is the foundation of the Turpie-Davis comradeship. East and West, A new pair of chums appeared at the extraordinary session of the senate. Mr. Wolcott of Colorado has taken Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts under his wing ina fatherly manner that is very amusing to watch. Mr. ‘Wolcott is very young, but he is smart. The Wolcotts and Lodges are intimate socially, Wolcott coming from an old Connecticut family and being a graduate of the same stamp as Lodge. Even before Mr. Lodge was elected, Mr., Wolcott went to the door- keeper and picked out a seat for Mr. Lodge right close to him, where he ‘could keep his eye upon Lodge and guide him with his own experience. Since Mr. Lodge took his seat the Colorado man watches over him with a solicitude that is really touching. Wolcott and young Senator Dixon, who is one ot the senate wits, are also good friends, and since Lodge has joined them there is a three-cornered intimacy that is very strong. They represent the rising, en- ergetic republican interest. They are three of the best orators on the repub- lican side and a trio worth watching, B Maine and Maryland, There is a strong friendship and inti- macy between Mr. Gorman and Mr., Frye that dates 'way back to’83, when they were both members of the committee on rules and had to organize for the conduct of the Forty-eighth congress. They have always ku}l)t up the friendship that was started then. Nothing ever seems to ruflle it, although it is something of a cross to Mr, Frye that Mr. Gorman does not fish, Mr. Gorman and Mr, Frye have a standing pair, and a man has to be pretty good friends with another be- fore that comes to pass. The fishing is the only drawback, but Mr. Frye used to make that up with Wade Hampton when he was in the senate, and now that he is going to be in Washington again, if he {vels equal to it, Frye and Hampton may resume their old trips to the s)rm-inccs for salmon fishing. General Hampton isn'tvery well,but fishing works wonders with a man. Frye certainly doesn't lack for close friends. Another resource of his is Sen- ator Chandler. When there is a long session, when Mrs. Frye has gone to the camp in Maine woods and Mrs. Chandler has gone home to New Hampshire, Chandler sends for Frye, and they keep house mgother. Then they eeénd for Senator Platt of Connecticut, who lives at the Arlington, and the three spend all their spare moments together. They Play, it is said, the simple litvte game called “High, Low, Jack and the Game, of v.hich Mr, Frye is past master and has taken thirty-second degree at the very least. If Mr. Frye isn't fitted out with chums to suit all the needs of his make-up, then he s insatinble Anyhow, he has the pick of both sides, Manderson Will be Lonesome, Senator Manderson of Nebraska wil desolate when the next congres meets and General Anson McCook is no' on hand in the chief secretary’s chair’ Manderson and McCook are as thick as two school girls, and their wives ave the same. They generally spend their sum- mers near each other, and the two gen- erals fish and go on long trips together. When Manderson has & moment tospare he is in McCook’s office, and if either has a story that the other doesn't know by heart it is something very late. This mr becomes a quintet very often with addition of Senator Blackbtura of Kentucky, Senator S«Hulm of Washing- ton and Senator Hawley of Connecticut, Of the old war horses Senators Sher- man and Hoar are as intimate as men of their caliber possibly can be. Their long service naturally forms one bond, but the strongest is that of blood, both being descendants of old Roger Sherman, who has given to the union mord legislators, probably, than any one man of his direct descendants. Shoup of Idahoand Pettigrew of South Dakota have a common bond in their western hustling times. Gray of Dela- ware and Walthaitl of Mississippi are rather chummy, Allison and Fale Fraternize, ‘When Senator Hale was charman of a committee and had a fine room he never was to found there. If anybyody wanted Senator Hale of Maine the attaches knew that he was to be disecvered in Senator Allison’s room of the committee on ap- propriations Hale's room was just as fine as Mr. Allison's and the senator had all the comforts of life and many of the luxuries in his own quarters, but then Senator Allison of lowa was not there, and, asa flight of stairs intervened between tho senate and My, Hale's com- mittee room, the pair agreed to flock in Senator Allison's apartment. They are the soberest and most solemn looking pair of chums in the senate. There are a lot of them wio have not theattributes of comradeship. Mr. Brice flocks by himself except when he finds Mr. Gorman. Senator Stewart joins John Chamberlin and the congenial spirits of the epicurcan estabiishment when he isn't writing free silver poems and blank ve and there are several others, like Mitehell of Oregon and Jones of Nevada, who arc apt to be in the same locality. The Apollo, Senator Gibson of Mary- land, has no need of a chum. He is too much in demand with society, and when he has any spare time “Charley Gibson” is good enough company for Scnator Gibson, David Bennett Hill was without a Jonathan until Bdward Murphy, jr., of Troy appeared on tho horizon, and now tho ex-governor is lonely no longer. Most of the new senators haven't had time to choose their chums, but eve man likes Senator Lindsay of Kentucky and his good nature will make him the privileged friend and the comrade of the entire senate. The individual who can resist Senator Lindsay's smile is capable of any deed of darkness. —— LOVELY LURING EYES, Where Dally Dances Will Delight Spectators and Exhiblt a Grace of Bodily Movement, Striped shawls and a multitudinous variety of bangles distinguish the daugh- s of northern Africa. Such was proven to be the case when the Chicago contingent came to take their place 1n the exhibit of the Algerian and Tunisian village on Midway plaisance. They have no fault to find with navure, those Tuni- sians. Dark, lustrous eyes beam from a face of aeep brunette hue. There 1s a grace of bearing. a dignity about them that commands respect in those who pe- hold it, and a general air of *“‘touch-me- notishness” that is admirable in a high degree. A round dozen of the beauties chal- lenged inspection in Chicago yesterday —a round dozen of Algeria's creme de la creme. They have been picked from scores and hundreds of Algeria’s finest, and the result is a galaxy that yields the palm of beauty to none of the peris of the plaisance. There is Yamina, as an instance. Yamina is the danseuse par excellence of the party, the Ellsler of Algeria. Mr. Bloom, who is in charge of the display and who is fully qualitied to testify, avows that Yamina is the most perfect specimen of feminine beauty ever put on view in Chicago. Inspection shows justification for ~Mr. Bloom's paralyzing assertion, Yaminais a little above woman’s middle height, with just enough of Olive in her complexion to make her unusual, but not enough to disfigure her exquisite physiognomy. There is a depth in her dark brown eyes, a depth of intelligence as well as of ordinary, everyday beauty. Yamina talks French like a Parisian, dances like a premiere who has devoted all her ex- istence to standing on one toe, and even in her robes of travel distances all com- petitors in form and feature. Nothing precludes the possibility of Yamina's marrying an Italian count or an English duke during the world’s fair saving her own sweet will, Then there is Baya of Tunis, who is a shade darker than Yamina, but who still could pass for a dark brunet. She, too, will prove a captivatrix to the wander- ing eyes of the multitude in tais world’s fair year, and half a dozen others whose charms will turn their white sisters green with envy. Myr. Bloom’s taste in feminine beauty has been most catholic. The specimens he brought with him squatted on the Hoor in a little, circle yesterday and re- sponded ‘‘bon jour” in their broken French, In their midst was Oucha, a coal black negress, Oucha's avoirdu- poise is no trifling matter. No casual spectator would take her for a premiere danseuse. But so she is, and Mr, Bloom is authority for the tale that she can deposit her 300 pounds on the boards without causing a quiver in bald-head row. Clinging to the knees of Khatoum, the matron and chaperon of the party, were her two boys, the toys of the party, at the sight of whom Oucha's white teeth showed themselves in all their fullness, With the women were thirty-cight men yesterday. There are all sorts and conditions of "Algerians in the party. To M. Sifico they all look up as their guide, philosopher, and friend, M. Sifico is a merchant in Smyrna, but the glare of the footlights has blinded him to his commercial pursuits. He is the Daly of Smyrna—the prince of all lh('utr{cnl managers. Without his supervision and countenance the Algerian village had been a gross failure. He embodied the confidence of the scheme, and when he raised his standard in Paris several weeks ago premiers and actresses flocked to his side in shoals.y Dances will be of daily occurrence in the Algerian village. They will be of the sensual oriental order, the perform- ers trusting to their own grace of body movement for attraction rather than to the poetry of motion, Men and women will join finmlu in the performance, ana o sumptuously adorned theatre is well under way wherein the performance will take place. In addition to the theatre there is a bazaar of many shops, and a cafe under Mr, Bloom's pal 'tlu\ll‘ar care, where Algerian cookery will receive a thorough illustration. No restaurant on the fair grounds will be more exquisitely finished, and as an offshoot tables will be set in a garden outside, where visit- ors may drink tea and cogitate, e Unwise Economy, Whatever else you hoard, says Har- per’s Bazar, do not include in the list old medicine bottles. The cost of these when perfectly new is very trifling, and the futility of saving them against a possible errand to the chemist's is very apparent. Nor should tacks taken up When you remove carpets from the floog for the annual or semi-annual shakin be put aside for asecond use, A new paper of tacks should be used whenever & carpet is relaid, FREAKS FOR THE BIG FAIR Specimens with Which the Exposition Man- agement Have Been Flooded, EVERY COUNTRY TOWN HAS A CURIOSITY Whatever Is of Local Fame In Varlous Rural Districts Is Constdered by the Owners for Exhibition—Wide Range of Ohjects, “And it will be exhibited at the World's fair.” That is the usual form for closing a deseription of some provin- cial marvel, or some freak which has filled the eye of its discoverer with amazement. From one end of the coun- try to the other there have come up to Chicago reports of curious things, or an- nouncements concerning them, and the people dircetly in contact with the curi- osity have expressed as their apprecia- tion of the wonder-compelling qualities of the thing under discussion that it would be exhibited at the World's fair, says the Chicago Herald. Perhaps 200 copies of that familiar re- print of the Ulster County Gazette, which contains, among other things, the report of the death of General Washing- ton, have been carried up to Chicago and tendered to a busy management as the one thing marvelous for which the coun- try has long been looking. Of course the copies are for saleand it is one of the most difficult of tasks to make the owner believe no one wiil give him any money for the curio. Somechow the idea seems to have gone abroad that the World’s fair was simply an exhibition of the strange and curious things that have been cumbering the shelves or crowding the buildings of the rural inhabitant, and the ambition of the owner is to bring it to Chicago and exhibit it for the charmed contemplation of the million visitors, One day a man climbed into the ele- vator at the McNally building and asked to be lifted to the director general's room. That officer was too busy to see him and he came back the next day. That time he confided to the young man in the outer office that he had a curi- osity for exhibition at the fair, and then he never had a ghost of a_show to get into the inner room. But the clerk didn’t tell him much, and so he came back day after day to sce the chief offi- cer. After he had spent a week in the city he got mad and went away. He told the clerk at his hotel that he had a fish with two tails and if the darned Columbian exhibition didn’t know a good thing when it saw it he didn’t care. He would go home and he would take his marvel with him. Hen With a Backward Step. Another man wrote about twenty let- ters from Hannibal, Mo., to say he had a white Leghorn hen that always walked backwards, and he wanted to get her a place where she could instruct the pub- lic. Another man in Iowa had a Shet- land pony so small that he had her shoes made from $20 gold pieces, and he wanted to place her where she could be seen to the best advantage. A funny thing about it is that in each case the local papers inform their waiting readers that the thing—whatever it may be— will be exhibited at the World's fair. Some ‘‘constant reader” or ‘‘old sub- seriber” of a paper in lower Illinois favored his local editor with a private view of the biggest potato that had ever been raised, and then carefully covered it up from the sight of common men lest he might not be able to cinch them into paying a quarter for a view of it at Chi- cago, and made the customary announce- ment that he would come to Chicago with the wonder. Still another Egyp- tian paper tells a waiting world that “Mr. Fitch Bartholamew, the popular and successful farmer of Ripley town- ship, has a razor that déescended to him from his grandfather. It is believed to have been used by George Washington in Valley Forge, and it will be taken to the World’s fair.” A Bradford, Pa., paper declares that the heavy steer owned by a certain es- teemed citizer, and which has been in the habit of winning first premiums at each county fair for years, will be shipped to Chicago and_exhibited at the great exposition, A Mississippi man, having removed to Kentucky, and hav- ing in his possession a billet of wood two feet long in which is imbedded thirty bullets received in the battle of Shiloh, is promised by his local paper a “‘cordial reception” when he takes the curio to the World's fair. A Wisconsin weekly paper tells of a wonderful piece of patchwork by the wife of one of *‘our leading ci " and concludes the de- geription with the same old story of its destined descent upon Chicago. There 18 a club-footed boy in Berrien county, Michigan, who can whistle with- out opening his month, and he will “‘be exhibited at the World’s Columbian ex- position.” There is another boy in In- diana ‘‘who can throw a stone from a sling with such precision as to hit a small mark at a distance of fifty yards, and all without opening his eyes. His father is going to take him to the ‘World’s fair.” An old will in a Pennsyl- vania county which deprives the public of the court house grounds and vests the title in a family long known as ‘‘poorer than skim milk and not any too careful of other peoples’ firewood” has been found among the effects of a lately de- ceased lawyer, and it, too, is coming to the fair. Gun and Cheese, An old soldier in Kansas has the musket he carried with him from the beginning of trouble at the sack of Law- rence to the surrender of Bragg at Mo- bile. He writes that he will take $100 and a pass to and from Chicago, good for ninety days, for the relic. He adds that he knows of lots of people who will like to sec it. There is a machine at Ripon, Wis., built by a boy of 12, which 80 wonderfully pares and quarters ap- ples that it fits no other niche in cre- ation than that afforded by the timely coming of the World’s fair.” And there is a cheese at Republic, O., so big that all the neighbors and half the people from Soneca county will look for it at Chicago. Sometimes the curio rises into the realm of high art. Three sisters sang so well at the closing exercises of high school in lowa that they wil ‘‘doubtless be secured for singing'at the World’s fair,” if one may credit the chronicles of a weekly paper from the honored town. An infant prodigy from northern Indiana, a little lad who could recite “Thanatopsis” at the age of 4, and who is still able to hold even large audi- ences enwanced with his eloguence, though he is not yet much past 10 years of age, is confidently expected to adorn the World’s fair. There is a picture of Columbus discovering America, painted by a wee girl in the public schools of Carrollton, Ill., which will be here if the friends of the youthful artist have their way. Wheelbarrows and Pumpkins. Some things are described with a good deal of particularity, that no point of their excellence may be overlooked. A Nodaway, Mo., man has made & jack for THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 22 1803, lifting ‘wagons while the axles are in rocoss of grchpg. Tt is such a_sure ller of long-felt wants that it is offered for exhibition, Another Nodaway county man, fifel by the spirit of rivalry, has invented a wheelbarrow “‘that the bottom will drop out whenever wanted;" and that, too, it 1§ asserted by the sorely puzzled editor,. will be on hand—or rather on the ground. A Kankakeo man, not under irestraint, has made a curious decoy fluck which entices all the water fowl in the,Havana marshes; and ho writes that he will, if properly en- couraged, brifig it to Chicago and ex- hibit it all summer. He doesn't want anything eald ;about it, for his people think he ought to have better terms than those he demands. But if he can get transportation to and from the city, board at’‘one of the near hotels, ad- mission to the grounds and half of the gate receipts he will come. And the decoy will come with him. A Kansas man has a new system for burning corn cobs in a common cook stove, and he wants to exhibit that. He writes directly to the national commis- sion and will have no “truck” with sub- ordinate men as correspondents, From the same county comes a proposition to exhibit a squash that has lasted two winters “‘and hasn't a speck on it.” And lots of jayhawkers, it is asserted, will expect to see that symbol of longevity in the Agricultural build- ing. A faded flag, made in 1861, for the local military company, and which for thirty years has reposed ina burcau drawer at the home of the donor in Bat- tle Creek, Mich., will be sent to the fair if guaranty for its return will be given and a good place prepared for its proper exhibition. If a man had all the letters received by fair officials from exploiters of these and kindred freaks he could starta paper mill. And, if in addition, he had all tho newspapers that in the last three years have promised fame and fortune through a conjunction of marvel and the World’s fair—if you had all this, too, you could run that paper mill to the end of time. As to the letters, not one in a hundred have been answered. But when the projector brings his curio in person some one has to see him. A careful citi- zen came all the way from Paducah, Ky., with a garment 400 years old. He showed it to several newspaper men and was by them referred to the director general. That was their way of getting even at one grand stroke with both bore and official. The maun expected to see his garment described in full in all the Sunday papers, and was grieved when none of them said anything about it, for he knew many people would be inter- ested in that sort of thing. But, asa last resort, he went to the director gen- 15 and if he didn’t make a trade with him there is now on the way to Paducah a very much surprised and grieved—and withal respectable—old gentleman, Bible that Survived Fire, There is no system in the letters, and system cannot well be followed in writ- ing about them. One describes a bible which went through a fire *‘where every- thing else in the housc was consumed and it left lying unharmed on the parlor table.” The next tenders the services of a “lucky stone” that was never known tofall. Nine months ago the Fourth of July oration of a speaker in Clay county, Indiana, was promised a place in the ex- position, and somewhero near it may be expected the recipe for making vinegar which has proved so popular in Dodge county, Wisconsin, A printer down in Missouri has set “‘three columns of leaded long primer in a day,” and his employer is 0 delighted with him that he bespeaks fdt his speedy compositor *a place and a chance to show himself in the World's fajr.” Some country editors eatch the humor of the craze. An Iowa county auditor, who made a mistake in his figures, dis- covered it himself and made good the loss to the public, is promised by his local paper a sure place in the World’s fair. The Mankato woman who stopped Jed Brooker when he got on a whirl is con- sidered worthy a place in the exposition. A delinquent subscriber to an Indiana paper, who has lied about. paying up till the editor got out of patience, is pub- lished as the biggest prevaricator in the world, and urged for a place in some competitive examination at the World’s fair. A railroad engineer who knocked a calf off the track with force enough to kill its mother is spoken of by a Roodhouse paper as a fit candidate for honors, And a gravel road contractor who promises to finish a highway be- tween two lowa towns by the Fourth of July is pledged a section for self-exhi- bition at the fair if he keeps his word. The man who could gather together the things that have been offered for publie view at the fair would have a col- lection of freaks bigger at least than any harbored in all the dime museums of the country. Butb as the fair is to be a show of quite a different character, all these marvels will doubtless be left with- out the gates. — TREASURE UNEARTHED., The Loot of Pirates Found on a Texas Island, For several wecks a party of workmen, under Henry Shannon, a Quintala mer- chant, and Charles Newman, a coast trader, have been searching on Padre Island, Tex., for a treasure, said to have been buried there more than a genera- tion ago by nmugp!'lcrs, slavers or pirates. Mr. Solomon Cleveland, a prominent citizen of Velasco, returned from Padre Island and reports the searchers much encouraged by finding a number of ancient foreign coins and medals of un- known value at a spot marked upon an old parchment chart that is said to have recently come, by accident, into the pos- session of Shannon and Newman. The party is now engaged in locating the other places marked on the map. This is very difficult to do because o} the con- stantly shifting sands on the island, and the cutting off or adding to the banks by the action of the sea currents, About eighteen or twenty years ago an old shecp herder on the island stumbled upon a cache of several hundred gold coins and took them to alvillage on the Rio Grande, where he was robbed and mor- tally wounded by Mexican bandits. When found he: barely had life enough left to tell of his loss and express regret at not being able to return to the islandf where he said_he left a wagon load o* silver bars and money that he intended removing as soon @s he could get a cart. Since then mapy individuals and parties have prospected there without success, but the 1;1'«:3.:"'. hunters are convinced that their newly discovered chart will lead them to fortunes. Mr. Cleveland says all the coins and medals he saw were made between 1600 and 1780, The workers are keeping their movements as secret as possible, and had been away from Velasco several weeks before any one knew where they were, and they were not much pleased to see Mr, Cleve- land, who was on the island on business and met them by chance, ——— Busy people have no ume, and sensible people have no inclination to use pills that make them sick a day for every dose they take. They have learned that tne use of De Witt's Little Early Risers does not in- terfere with their health by causing n ausea pain or griping. These little pills are per, ect in action and resulte, regulating the stomach and bowels so that headaches, diz- ziness and lassitude are prevented. They cleanse the blood, clear the complexion and one up the system. Lots of health in these hiwlefellows. £ BOOKS AND PERIODICALS, ‘The Referce,” a journal devoted to reling and tho cycling trade, is celobrating its fifth natal day with a leader recallin the time when it required tho combinod offorts of its editor and office boy to carry its paper from the paper house to the press room each weoek., ‘‘American Investments” for May once more has its counsels to offer to those fortu- nate enough to have means needing invest- ment. It is published at Buffaio. “Astronomy and Astro-Phys for May sends forth its usual rays of knowledgoe to the students in these most nebular of all awstruse subjects. Carleton College, North- field, Minn, A timely article in the May number of “The Home-Maker" tells us_how to live at the World's fair, this issue being designed as a World's fair edition. Its leading article, “The Islands of the Pacific,” by H, R. God- dard, gives particular attention to Honolulu and the Hawaiian islands. Homo receive a good share of attention, th Justifying its title ‘The Home-Maker.” J Martin Miller, New York. “Patent Medicines Journal and Proprie- tary Articles Advertiser” for April has just arrived from its place of issue, over the soa, It 18 a journal devoted mainly to the inter- ests of dealers and manufacturers in the drug and surgical line, London, For general popularity “Home and Coun- try” offers an excellent collection of enter- taining articles in its May number, Among the subjects is “A Utopian Socialism,” M. Jules Cairn, describing a primitive gov- ernment without poverty, property, politics or roligion as found and investigated in the course of his travels in Summatra, ‘‘Inven- tion of the Telescove,” by Sophia Kane, and *Origin_of the American Aborigines. Do the Indians Descend from the Jews?” by Samuel Javos, besides a variety of other choice selections and poems, help to fill its makeup. It is profusely illustrated. Joseph W. Kay, New York. The second number of the Quarterly 1llustrator, for tho months of April, May and June, makes its bow to the public after having been accoraed the most flattering commendatiens from artists, publishers and press throughout the country. Few illus- trated magazines havo won popular favor so rapidly or so deservedly. This unique jour- nal contains the cream” of artistic illustra- tion, and for those who desire to cultivate a refined taste and to become influenced by that which reflects culture in the highest, we recommend Tho Illustrator. It is a model specimen book of the various modes of workmanship and classes of finish in art, and affords the means of ample study for the dilettant, The illustrations consist mainly of copies from celebrated s, and the articles are ably written and presented in the dress of the very best typography. Harry C. Jones, New York, The May number of University Extension has among othor things the concluding articlo of a series on economic consump- tion in a broad and able manner. The writer is Bdward T. Devine of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. The Ame Society for the Extension of University Teaching, Philadelphia. The Bookbuyer for May brings us its usual summary of American and foreign literature, with a fair quota of illustrations and news from the world of letters. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. Book News takesus out fora May walk through the world's fields of literature and we_see the new books marshalled by the soul's mental doorway like so many living beings on canvas—a literary panorama. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia. One of the best intellectual feasts of the year is presented in tho current number of The American Journal of Politics, in which “The Social Scheme of the Salvation Army” is treated in a masterly way by George 1. Vincent; “The Question of the Nineteenth Century,” by Hon. Edwin W. Jackson, is a clear, vivid analysis of the political and social status of the day; “Some Fictions in Finance,” by Idward Meade, and *‘Currency Reform,” by Wil 1 Knapp, touch the silver question and finance in general, while “The Claims of Civil Service Reform on President Cleveland,” by Andrew J. Palm, the editor of the journal, sustains the high standard of this magazine. The Arena for May is up to its usual high standard. Among the leading attractions of this number is the closing arguments in the Bucon-Shakespeare controversy, by Hon. Ignatius Donnelly and Prof. Felix Schelling, in which it is evident that whether Mr, Donnelly has succeeded or not in establish- ing his claim he has at least made _a strong case as the champion of the Bacoman authorship. In the line of social and eco- nomic problems we find “Railway Tariffs,” “How to Introduce the Initiutive and Refer- endum” aud “Women Wage-Earners” handled by able writers. “Monte Carlo” is the title under which “one of its victims” endeavors to get even with the world by victimizing the reader under a flashy title to a really dull and unin- teresting volume treating the dry mechan- ism of rules and methods in which its dead games of chance are played. The games at best are for idiots and but for the fascina- tion of large sums of money changing hunds would be very unattractive indeed. N. C. Smith & Co., Chieago. “The Conquest of -Mexico and Peru,” by Kinahan Cornwallis, is a long story in blank ‘What object the author has gained citing this historical narrative in verse we fail to perceive, as it not only becomes more tiresome to the reader, but detracts from the force and dignity of the subjec “The very essence ol poetry is forco and con- centration is_absolutely essential to the psychologic effect, It is well written and to such readers as favor story in verse will be treat. The Daily Investigator, New Yor! “Are Men Gay Deceivers?” is the title under which Mrs. Frank Leslie writes in her usual racy style a deep philosophy of nothing and bits of serious no; nse. As to the title “Ara Men Gay Deceivers?” nobody cares about the decision and only the entertaining of the car and the easing of the mind with a pleasant, gossipy gurgle of wordsrenders the fact at all acceptable. F. Tennyson Necly, New York, The Abbot 5-cent novels are out with a short story “The Man Who Vanished,” by Fergus W. Hume. It is written in a very attractive style, a glance through its pages showing it to possess an unusual fascination. Springfield Publishing Company, Spring- field, Mass. “‘Blue and Gray” for May is brim full of its usual intercsting war reminiscences, presented in short stories, sketches, poems and illustrations in large variety, In fact there are so many one scarcely knows which tomention, The Ofiice Men's Record is a quarterly journal devoted to improvements in ofiice work and the interests of oflice men, The Office Men's Record Co., Chicago. “I'he First Millennial Faith” is a con- sensus of historical evidence to show that the “satisfaction” theory regarding redemp- tion originated with the monk Auselm at the close of the first thousand years of the Christian church, Itisa book of much interest to theologians, but to the everyday thinking world it points out the place of a ford to a stream that is alveady perfectly dry; it is the formal grant of a concession which progress has already incidentally achieved as the result of broaderdiscussions. Saalfield andFitch, New York, The Hand Beok of American Republics iun issued by the Burcau of the American Republics, Washington, D. C., is probably IT'S DANGEROUS GROUND that you stand on— with a cough or a cold, and your blood impure. Out of dust these conditions comes 3 sumption, You must do something, In the earlier stages of Con- sumption, and in all the con- ditions that lead to it, Doctor Picrce's Golden Medical Dis- covery is a certain remedy. This ‘scrofulous affection of the 1 like every other otuh.flmr cured n_severe, lingeri Coughs, all Bronchial, hroats and Lung Affections, an over . [ # - fective that it can be guaranteed. doesn't benefit or cure, you have your money back. Nervous prostration and debility are conquered by it. Evan:llg thommm elmh‘,olu(“hrrh,lm you've over) else, the propri g Dr. Bage's Czlr‘r:gmlhm«t ‘;vid) agree ou $500 can't cure you Theodore Child, Tha illustrations whi will accompany it are from models now exhibition at” the Columbian expositis Theso models are included {n what is knoy as the Laudeln collection, which was © hibited at the Paris exposition of 1889, | which has since been largely augmented, 8 Belford's Monthly for May comes to ue™ mproved garb and with illustrations N ad of anything it has published in o up todate, One of the best features this rojuvenated magazing, now really *tt western magazine, is its Ramblings, a sor'd of spicy editorials'on subjects political erary, social, ete., ote, A clover article the Chicago Press club, an intelligent mol® graph of Carlyle in the role of lover, and M other of Napoleon as a model husbahd, ey pleto tho serious portion of the magazl Fiction is excellently ropresented by Any of New Mexico pioncor life, & 1 society story, and oy varid sketches, very line of tl the most raluable collection of information in tho interest of the Amerfean producer that has evor been publishod, It reviews each of the republics separately, and n systematic form prescnts a digest of its govornment, institutions, customs, methods of banking, shows the nature and volume of its commerce, its coinago, weights and mensures, besides o largo variety of other important information. It is also liborally illustrated to further convey a proper im rrosslounrluml chinracteristics, The work s classed as Bulletin 50, January, 1503, but_very ex- pressive poem by Klla Wheeler Wilcox in “The Californjan® ay. “Columbus Vespucius and Mage! Magee, and *Japanese Folk-1« “TfT " is the title of & Lrief v ‘I om: by Helen Grego Flesher, M. A., are among tho many at tive articles, all of which ara handsomely illustrated, The California Publishing com- San Francisco, The Humanitarian comes out with a good line of articles in this month the line of Chicagoy ‘‘Rapid Cransit in the City of Boston" is the leading article in last week's issue of +The Engineering Record.” New York and TLondon, The naval review in New York and features of the exposition get the lion's e of space in aphic.” Chicago. We are in_receipt of the May numbor of the Medical World, a journal too well known to require comment, Philadelphia, The Draper's Record for April has made its appearance and is full of information relats ing to the trade and also much that is of general interest. London, “The Omaha Clinic" is out for May with a the last number of “Perforati Appendicitis,” in Surgical Dressings,” “Dystocin and* Sone Practical Observations upon the Origin, Communications and Distributions of the Cranial Nerves.” “The Bear that Captured a Thiof” is one among a variety of charming tales for little ones appearing in the last issue of Our Little The Russell Publishing ‘ *Oils and Fats’ One dozen bottles of Johan{d Hoff's Malt extract are wort a crsk of ale in nutritive ane tonic properties without bein intoxicating, THF Hot the si, neck lab (Elsnar & Meudelson Co,, Agents, 152 and 1} anklin St., New York. Ones’ Nursery. Company, Boswon. Under the title, “Tools and the Man," Washington Gladden prosents the su co of a serios of lectures he had delivered to the students of the New Haven Theological seminary, Cornell university avd other col- leges. It presents a c review of the present status of the ideas of socialism in distinction with those of other industrial ements; it also defines its relation to istian ethics and is all in all an able dis- course, showing the aavanced thought of the daay in'this divection, 1y, Boston, “The Kentucky Ky NUINE 13 alwavs sold ns JOHAN ALT EXTRACT, TR st hny Houghton, Mifilin & DOCT Teades has come to us in fort saying it yearsold this May ; it's a pretty big fellow for 1ts age and we congratulate it on its growth as well as on the en- 8 of Lexington, © pantaloons, terprise it displays. A reduced size copy of its original edition ornaments its pages a large engraving showing the Cox p pr d also inting s on which it is now being printed, and its extensive printery located in the quarters erected especially for the Leader. The latest additions to Cassell's Sunshine Seri i i 5 = \ 7+ Searle [ f Choice Iiction (payer, 50 cents),are . h Pharisees, I'rench other Anglo-Frenchi Ty pic: acters, by Max_O'lell, author of “Jonathan and His Continent,” “A Frenchman in America,” etc. An important article of special interest at the present fime on *“Ihe Bering Sea Ques- tion” has been written for the May number of the North American Review by Hon, B. rocodiles and Tacy, ex-secretary of the navy. Gen- al Tracy makes a powerful and almost un- answerable statement of the legal grounds on which the American claim rests. Archibald Forbes is engaged in the preparation of two articles, one on Bismarck and one on Von Moltke, which will portray the moments in their carcers when they were at their greatest, Much new and interesting material will be used. The articles will be carefully iliustrated and will appear in McClure's magazine. To Cassell's Unknown Library has_ just been added “Squirc Hellman and Qther Stories,” by Juhani Aho. T'hese storics aro unusuaily clever, and their. people are so much like other people that we can scarcely believe that they belong to a nation of which we know so very little. Scandinavian mcrmurc]is, however, getting more and | A ot o more populur with us, and_ this collection of | elther sex. poxitivoly cured. o stories is among the best yet made. Ros ionoraddrenpmitalin o0l vl ata) An‘:,\vth-lc\\'lrxich will attract much atten- S e “‘ tion, because of its unique hist X N 3 th St, is announced to appear in Harp m' Searllis & Searles, *Gui; Veb! May 13. It is entitled “Cradles and Lead- | Ne Xt doorto Postonice, ing strings,” and was edited by the late DR, F. L._SEARLES, Consultinz Surzeons Graduuto of Rush SULTATION FRE eldical Colloge. (CONY For the troatment o CHRONIC, NERVOUS AND PRIVATE DISEASE ‘We oure Catarrh, All Diseases ofth Nose, Throat, Chest, Stomach, Buwal, and Liver, [ Blood, Shin and Kidney Diseases; Female Weaknesses, Lost Muanhoo CURED., i PILES, FISTULA, FISSURE permanently cured| without the use of u knife, ligature or caustic. All maladies of a private or dellcate nature, of I Pass, a stor Anis, a To humorist issue is worth reading. We notice, as social progress. apoendix, an fllustrated Belford's g “Goodform™ comes out this month with a | Chicago and the fair, number of choice art among them being “Hlack Laura's Conversion,” by Ade- S - laide Schmidt Wayland. 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