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TEN BOOKS OF THE CENTURY A Bymposium Compiled by Men Eminent in Literature and Education, DIVERSE OPINIONS OF LEADING MINDS An Instroctive Review of Boo wh Mont Influenced the Thoukht and Activities of the Century. At the request of the editor Took, New York, to n eentury ending this ont most influenced 1ts thought and activities, opinlons were prepared by te lected for thelr emineuce in liters 1 edu catlon, and are biished in th urrent fssue. Of the ributors the | symposium, th f five are given below, namely James Dr M. P, anthor of “The American Commonwealth; Ed ward Everott Hale, distinguished minister Aribur T, Hadley, president of Yale uni versity; G. Stanlcy Hall, president of Clark | university; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, | author and critic of the Out books of the to \e oplnion “ Bry me any m It s difcult to n buving been fufluential in ten books as specially and conspicuously | rming or gulding opinion during the century now coming to its end and difficult for these two reasons: In the first place, somo of the greatest thinkers and writers who have done most to mold the minds of their contemporaries have dcne 50 by thelr writings s a whole, and not by any one particular book which can be siugled out from the rest. And, sec oudly, Is the criterion of selection to be the direct and imn late influence of a book upon those who read it within the few years after its appearance, or to take into sccount ity perhaps more enduring though less prompt and palpable effect upon the Dext or a subsequent generation? Different ecnclusions will have to be reached, differ- ent judgments passed, according to whether the former or the latter ecriterion 1is adopted. In the selection which I am going | to muke I shall try to strike a balance, or rather to arrange a compromise, between theao criteria The book which o wo I put first, and which probably everybody would put at least smeng the first, s Dawin's “Origin of | Bpecles,” a treatise which has done more to | turn the current of apeculative thought in gencral, as well as to cast light on the most dificult problems of natural history, than any other within the last hundred | years The next two writers who seem to have pounted for most in forming men's minds and stimulating thought are Goethe and Hegel. It fs hard to select from among thele writings the two books which have gone furthest, and in the case of Hegel, oral teaching was almost as important as published writings. However, one may name Goathe's “Faust” and Hegel's “History of Philosophy” as perhaps the most widely known and widely influential Wordsworth's poetry has done more than any other to inspire the growing love of mature and appreciation of natural beauty which belong to this century, and out of his poems one may take “The Excursion” s pre-eminent in dolng this work. In a different sphere, Mazzini's writings, and particularly his “Dutfes of Man,” told powerfully on thought during the forty years which followed the beginning of his lterary career, Rarl Marx's treatie called “Das Kapl- tal” became, soon after its publication, a sort of bible for the soclalists of continental Europe. Its force is not spet, nor can we tell as yet how far its doctrines may con- tinue to work. Tha Roman Cathollc revival which suc- ceeded the revolutionary movement of the end of last century found one of its ablest and most uncompromising theorists in De Matstro. His book “Le Pape" {s perhaps the best embodiment of his doctrines. Now almost forgotten, it played an important part in its time In propagating a set of views which have had much currency in Italy 4s well as in France, and have con- tributed to the Cathollc reaction in Eng- land also. “Tocqueville's Democracy in America” produced an immense effect upon students f the political and soclal sclences when it sppeared, and that effect may be traced in English writers like John Stuart Mill and Bagehot, as well as on Tocqueville's own countrymen. So much of It has passed into our common thought that we are apt to forget how much we owe to it Malthus (I 1 may include a book pub- lished In 1708, but one that In reality be- longs to this century's history) appealed to an even smaller circle of readers tha Tocqueville. But his book on ““Population marks an epoch In the sclence of political economy, and had a memorable fnfluence not only upon economlc students every- where, but upon legislation In England. Prose fictlon has been more widely and powerfully employcd as a means of enforc- Ing theorles regarding man's nature and soclal relations In this century than it sver was before; 8o perhaps some book be- longing to that class ought to be Included In such a list as {s asked for. 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They produce permanent bene- | kin | writers who have been effective by quantity the | | prit | S0 far as their names go, | Aitre | Buropean writer except one Swiss school- fit and do not're-act on the system, One s a geutle luxative, two a cathartic dose, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2 1900, for the Influence 1t has had on men's thoughts and emotions Hugo's “les Mis- erables” would seem to have the strongest claim, though as respects fertility of in- vention, or exuberance of humor, or fine- ness of treatment, other writers, including Dickens and Thackeray, may have reached as high a level | It may seem strange that among the books just enumerated there should be | rof ‘arlyle's, or rson's, or Rus- Apart, however, from the difficulty of choostog a single work in the case of as well na by quality, It fs to be observed that none of these three exerted any potent tnfluence outside the language fn which he wrote. There are other writers besides three famous ones I have named who gcom to be excluded by this consideration 1 doubt whether any book in this century (except “The Orlgin of Specles”) has ex- ercised so great an lnfluence as was exer- cled in the eighteenth cntury by the “‘Es- des Lois,” the “Contrat Soclal,” the Wealth of Nutions” and the “Kritik der reinen Vernunft,” From Edward Everett Hale. For English and American readers 1 think the list of men authors Is quite easily made I should think that. the ten writers who have most af fucted the thought and lfving of the last 100 years are Goethe, Walter Scott, Victor Hugo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, De Tocque- ville, Darwin, Renan and, with less cer- tainty, I think I should add John Ruskin, Tennyson and James Bryce. To come to special books Is more diffcult. 1. Probably Goethe's “Faust,” “Wilhelm Meistor,” “The Elective Affinities” and “The Morphology” have affected his time more than his other publications, some of which he thought more serious. The man, for totter, for worse, has made a mark on the century. One is glad to see that the century fs rubbing the mark out, but, all the same, the mark was there. 1 like to remember that I bought “The Origin of Species,”” in the first edition, in London, in 1 1 knew as well then as I know now that the book ought to be writ- ten, and it has rightly achieved its own reputation. 3. No one In England would accept De Tocqueville’s “‘Democracy in America” as ono of the central books. All the same, I think it . I think it revealed us to our- selves and 1 think the study of it bas done no end of good in Europe. 4. Bryco's “American Commonwealth' may be classed with it. This, however, fs still beforo us. Mr. Bryce himselt says some- where in it that he has never met any master who undorstood the constitution of the United States. I have never read the Swiss schoolmaster’s book, so that I think Bryce is the only person, on the other side of the water, who really understands and comprehends about America. Ho knows a great deal more about America than half our statesmen do. John Ruskin undoubtedly outlived his reputation. I still think his book on the “Modern Painters” sent young men and young women out from their houses into the open air and made them read clouds. trees, vapors and mountains as they had not road them before. 6. Emerson, so far as preaching goes, is the preacher to the English and Ameri- can world today. I do mot claim for him that he invented the doctrine of the im- manent presence of God. This s the cen- tral doctrine of the New Testament. But 1 do say that we owe to him an immense advance in the religlon of our time. 7. Now, as to Scott and Victor Hugo. It 18 the fashion just mow to talk of Scott as it he were only a scene painter or a stage mechanic. This is sheer nonsen: In an age which knew nothing of history Scott made dead people live aud move and have a belng. In an age which cared noth- ing for history he made men work out the traditlons of four or five centuries. He wrote better poetry than most people of his time, and the literature and thought of England, France and Germany are today vastly larger because he wrote novels. 8. Of Victor Hugo, in a mitigated way, 1 might say the same thing. For myselt, I do not read Victor Hugo, but people do read him in France and in Germany, and I think he made a good many dead men take up thelr bed and walk. 9. The value of Alfred Tennyson's book, n Memoriam,” will be stated in different ays by different people. For me, I am very sorry that his son has ever written his father's life. I think he has lifted him down two or three steps on the pyramid on which he had a right to stand. Fanny Kemble once sald to me that she was glad she did not know more of the personal life of Willlam Shakespeare, and I think she was right. At all events Hallam Tennyson has made a sad botch of it. He seems to vo sald to himself: “I have a thousand pages and my father lived elghty-two years. Elghty-two Into one thousand goes twelve and nineteen-hundredths times. Go to, I will write twelve and nineteen-hundredths pages about each year of his life.” He has thus succeeded in making his father, I do not say very human, but very earthly, for which I am sorry. All the same, the “In Memorfam™ exists, a tribute, heart- wWrung, from a great poet on the death too early of a dear friend. Wherever the book 1s, and wherever anybody reads it, it lifts that somebody from the world things of the world, and I suppos what poets are meant to do. 10. As to Renan, I do mot say that hls “Lite of Jesus"is the most important book in the uplifting of the gospel study In this century. But it {s the book which has awnkened the most thought and is most widely known. From Arthur T. Hadley. The books chosen In answer to this ques- tion must be selected . for thelr results rather than for thelr merits, They should be the ones which have had the largest measurable effect on the world's thought and ctvilization A standard of this kind shuts out a num- ber of works which have high artistic val- ue, but whose influence has been somewhat Intangible. The poems of Wordsworth and | Browning, the novcls of Scott and Thack- cray, of George Ellot, and perhaps even of Palzac, fall under this head. Few people would deny that “Middlemarch” was a greater work of art than “Uncle Tom's Cabin" but “Uncle Tom's Cabin” had a historle po which “Middlemarch” aia not and could not possess. Our standard also shuts out those books whose influence was fragmentary—books which ouly contributed a small part in a larger general movement. The name of Tyndall is identified with the doctrine of the conservation of energy, and the name of Flaubert with the development of mod- ern realistic fiction, but there is no ona work eltker of Tyndall or of Flaubert which accomplished enough In itselt and by ftselt to clalm a place in our Ist. We are compelled also to dlseriminate agalnst those writers whoso influence lay in a direction counter to the general trend of the century, and was neutralized by the logle of events. Nelther Vietor Hugo fn fiction, ror Newman in theology, nor Marx and George in political economy, have had the power which they might have obtained If they had been working on the lines of a Instead of atbwart them. nally, we must exclude the hooks of men like d'Annunzio and even Tolstol, be- cause their work s too recent for us to ob- tain a proper measure of its influence. My 1ist, as thus restricted, would fall into two groups, one of which belongs to the period from 1504 to 1824, and the other to the perlod from 1849 to 1863, The first Eroup consiats of “Napoleon's Civil Code," Goethe's “Faust,” Hegel's “Encyclopaedia of tha Philosophical Scien Schopen- haurer's “World as Will'" and Froebel's *'Ed ucation of Man." The second group in- Admission OMAHA, Dec. 1.—To the Editor of The Bee: Your editorial in last Sunday's num- ber on “'Loopholes in Bar Admissicn,” while very comjlimentary to the commission and suggesting much food for thought, 1s, as 1 think, in error with reference to the ad- mission of graduates of the law school of the State university Of course 1t that Institution Is being made the means of admitting persons simply be cause thoy have attended upon its course of study and use Its privileges for the sake of tuition, such privilege should be cut off A privilege fraught with opportunities of unloading on the people of the state and its overworked and poorly pald courts fgnorant aud unqualified parties who desire the name and privilege of a lawyer, with- out a proper knowledge of the principles of the law Or a proper sense of its duties and responsibilities of a practitioner, should be canceled, and that instantly. If the leg islature had not an almost unbounded right to say who should be admitted as attorneys and counselors of its courts it might well be doubted whether the attempt to confer such speclal privilege upom one particular £chool was not in plain violation of ths fundamental law agalnst grants of speclal privileges In any case. But In the case of the university, teachers are well known lawyers of the state, men of established learning and character, who are within the jurisdiction of the supreme court and amenable to its disciplinary powers if it be ascertained that they are abusing the privilege granted them. My observation has been that good schools are less likely to pass unqualified persons than many of the courts. Except as to persons who are duly ad- mitted and qualified practitioners in the its to the Bar courts of other states the legislature has| not only prescribed their qualifications for | admission to the bar of the supreme court but also the manner in which their knowl edge of the aw must be acquired, to-wit either by two or more years of carefu! and attentlve study In the office of some duly admitted attorney of this sate, or by regu graduation from the law school of the state university, The first | of theso two classes of students must pass the examination of the commission ap- pointed by the supreme court, and the difi culty might as to the second-class well be | obviated by requiring them to also be ex amined by sald commission, as has been suggested by you practic A change s needed In the statutory pro- vision, whereby parties who are practi- tione! in other states may on their re- moval to this state be admitted to prac- tice in our courts without an examination into their knowledge of the principles 6t the common law. Persons who will not devote the time required to be spent In the office of one of our lawyers or to go through the university, go to other states where a specified time or course of study is nol required and an examination either not required or made a farce of, and are then entitled to admission here simply on proof of their former admission and present good moral character. All such persons should be required to pass an original examination before being allowed to practice in this state, A still better course would be to vacate all licenses to practice law by a date certaln, and regrant them under certaln well defined restrictions, and then only for a limited time. WINFIELD G. STRAWN, cludes Sainte-Beuve's Stowe's “Uacle Tom's Cabin,” Spencer “Principles of Psychology,” Darwin's “Orl- gln of Specles” and Renan's "Life of Jesus.” The absolutely sure names in this list are Goethe and Darwin; the most doubtful ones seem to me to be Sainte-Beuve and Renan, whose Influence, though widely spread and profound, was essentially tramsitory. Much 1s to be sald for the substitution, in place “‘Mondays, of either, of Balzac's “Comedie Humaine.” | From G. Stanley o 1 am glad your request is for “ten books which I think have been among the most | influential of the century.” 1. I should place first Darwin's “Origin of Spectes,” which In a way implied his later “Descent of Man,"” because the whole evolu- tlonary movement took its rise from these more than from any others, 2. Hegel's “'Loglc" deserves a place, he- cause in It culminated the thought of a mun who dominated all academic depart- ments during the second quarter of the century, and its influence I still potent in England and Americ 3. Strauss’ “Life of Jesus,” so far as it drew the conclusions of the Tubingen school and stirred religious and theological thought profoundly, should be included in an Inventory of influences, although the merits of the book itselt would mot justify & place In this 4. Horace Mann's “Educational Reports™ are the fountain-head of a reform that gave us the graded school systen s 1t now exiets, although his views are now somewhat outgrown. 6. “Uncle Tom's Cabln” was another of the most effective books of the century. 6. As a epeclalist, who may be pardoned for what is perhaps an overvaluation of things in his ken, I should place Helm: holtz's work on “‘Auditory Sensation. This analyzed what had hitherto been thought to be an undecomposable element of the human soul, by methods the logical perfection of which has rarely been equaled ad is worthy of a man to whom & col- eague, Bimself eminent, pald perhaps the greatest compliment which ome savant could render another in saying that during his best years almost bis every serious thought was a new contribution to the sum of human knowledge. 7. With some hesitation I would add Car- Iyle's “French Revolution,” which has not only o stirred the soul of two generations of readers, but, taken in connection wit} his style and the subject, brought out th. dynamic power that directs human history and makes it so different from the record of man's plans, 8. Goethe's “Faust” {s a work that looms up, as I read it year by year, as a monu- mental landmark. 9. If influential books may be stretched to fnclude all a man's works, I should place Wagner in this list, because he re-edited the myths which constitute the best part of the ethaic bible of his race and brought them home to the heart by the charm of a new musical method. 10. Lastly, I wculd add Ibsen as the dr: matist of the future who, I think, has done more than any man now living to exalt the work ot tfie artist, who creates, over that of the professor, who merely knows, and whose Influence is likely to silence those who expound the doctrine of art for art's ake in a way to exclude it from ethics, where man's supreme interests lle. I find many other names, Niebubr, Theo- dore Parker, Humboldt's “Cosmos," Schlel- ermacher, Emerson, “Lyell's Geology," “Les Miserables,” Dickens, Herbert Spencer and others, which have clalms to which the above are preferred only with the greatest hesitancy. When, in the year 1819, the Comte de £aint-Simon was tried and barely acquitted on the charge of having asserted In a pamphlet that the deaths of authors, artists and artisans were more Important to the community than those of kings and bishops, he set an example which we must perhaps tollow; and we must look in literature or art or sclence for the leading figures of the last hundred years. As a literary man, I Daturally begin with literature. Setting aside Goethe, who belongs rather to the previous century, I think that one must go back to Scott (1) as the leading iLAuence of the first half of the nineteenth century. If one were to suggest Byron, for instance, there {8 the fact that Byron him- self called Scott the most wonderful writer of the day, and pointed to his novels as “a new literature in themselves.” Scott taught us the vast range of fiction; the breadth, even If not the depth, of it; and that ideal characters are as substantial | to the imagination as real ones. He | charmed all mankind, and Coleridge, who was probably more the antipodes of Scott than any man in England, found Scott's novels the only books he could read in ill- ness, Yet when we turn to Helne (2) we come to the man above all others who has influ enced, more than any English writer, the modern style in lterature, He alone proved it possible to be French and German in one, to mingle the brilllancy of one nation with the penetrating thought of the other One may grow tired of Scott, although never for a lonz perfod, but one may read Helne over and over indafinitely, whether in German or in Lo admirable translations of Lelend, and find unatated attraction in bis mere style. In this work he shares with Scott the scepter of the first half century Turniug now to poetry that Wordsworth (3), whom Southey patronized and Byron ridiculed, was creative in the | best sense, because he created his own | fame. His range was limited; he thought that Geethe's writings could mot live be cause they were “not holy,” and he pro- ounced Burns' “Scots Wha Hae" to be “wash' and “stuff.”” Nevertheless, he led his age, and modified the standard of Eng- lish poetry for all coming time, Next to| him, were the list to be larger, I should place Shelley, When we turn to the abstract philoso- we see phers we must dismiss Kant, like Goethe, as belonging rather to the previous century, and name by preference Hegel (4), the last of the great quartet of German metaphysl clans, and the one whose leadership has at any rate been most influential over minds in this country. Turning finally to those who have dealt with social questions, 1t seems to me that Robert Owen (5), as the direct source of the modern co-operative method, must bo named in preference to those who, like Saint-Simon, first launched soclallsm into the alr. Passiug now into the second half of the | century, the namo of Darwin (8) of course leads all others, and nearest to him comes | Emerson (7), not merely from depth of | thought, but from the extraordinary way in which his influence has permeated 1it- erature, go that one may pick up a book that seems wholly remote from him in tone and theme and st!ll find him unexpectedly quoted. Neither Carlyle nor Ruskin Is in this respect now to be compared with him. Fiction has now largely taken possession of literature, and i the ultimate alm of fiction is, as it should be, to create the characters which come closest to nature, | the first rank must be given to Tolstol (8) In the case of other literary artists we are grateful it we find in a novel one single |character which seems alive, and even those who, like Jane Austen, are especially PENING OF TOY DEPARTNMENT TOMORROW } more interesting and attractive than ever. 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To sum up, my list of the leading Intel- lectual Influences for the last century would be as follows: For the first half of the century, Scott, Helne, Wordsworth, Hegel nd Owen; for the second half, Darwin, erson, Tolsol, Hawthorne and Brown- ing. MINATURES IN PEN AND INK, Germany is rapldly becoming a natlon of whisky drinkers, according to the report of Commissioner of Internal Revenue Wilson. More distilled spirits are exported from this country to Germany than to any other for- elgn country. The Germans, apparently, are partial to bourbon whisky In preference to rye. For the year ending June 30, 1000, 411,489 gallons of bourbon and 137,678 gal- lons of rye whisky were sent. When Minister Wu, sulte and all, was last in New York he visited, among other places, a newspaper office. At one of the desks in the city room sat & woman reporter hard at work upon a “hurry” story. 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Blood Builder. pale cheeks and restores the fire By mail 50c per box, 8 boxes for with our Bankable Guarantee Bond to nd the money paid. Send for circular and copy of ero o rfu our Bankable Guarantee Bond. (YELLOW LABEL able Guarantee Bond to cure in 30 days or Nervita Medical Co., Clinton and Jackson For sale by Kuhn & Co., 15th a pd Douglas St., Omah, e baptized preach K10 infants and 200 adults, eacliod 8142 sermons, lectured 180" timen, structed, passable for |officiated at 977 interments, paid 23,116 e aat AR trusted, passatile. for | pustoral calls, trayeled @00 infles to mact Y e Turkiah sovernment. | his appointments, has contributed $,812 for Abiut 00 miaters 00k pa in tho con: benevolent objects and 2,000 (0r corigTess bout 3,00 ate ! K nal purposes, summation of the unlon of the Free and - United Presbyterian churches of Scotland the Roman Cathollc dlocese @ few days ago. i the Trinity college, Washington, D. C., the K“;‘;I ‘:”l";'”.‘;? safmons & first Catholle institution for the higher y He prieats who education of women, was dedicated with im- posing ceremonics on November 22 Nikola Tesla has decided that the true golution of the problems of life to which he has devoted so much study and thought must be found in the principles of the Christian faith, Rev. Dr G. Campbell ported successor of Dwight L. Moody Dastor of the New Court Congregational church, London. He Is the son of a Baptist minister, and, although only old, has b aching since he w boy of 13 The i hardship ak only French, but th order Is not questioned. The bishop I8 to reach as many of the peog possible in the language which they best understand, and the order will be to the great beneflt of the children and younger members of the parishes who generally speak and understand Engllsh 8D [t the a of Morgan, the re- THE OLD-TIMERS, BenJa D, Stillma Yale g wte, 13 also pr practicing lawyer in the and lives in Brooklyn -Senator Henry Dawes 15 now his $th year. His health s . he e out of doors every day and his | mind is as clear, his interest in events us and hls talk as bright s when he Icft the senate Miss Kate Jliller of 15 probahl olde | United States. 8he rec slst birthday, and for the has worked (n the same establishment. 8he neVer misses a day, turns out a full quota work, competing Wit girla Ity yeais Junfor nin the oldcst Nving ably the olde Roman untry., He is 9 the con- progressive party in the Catholle church I8 re unde tinued and dominant influence of the Itallans. With a_population of only 20,H0 0, 1t 18 claimed that Italy has more bishops and bishops than all the rest of Burop With its 180,000,000 Roman Catholics The Independent states that one of the most_significant the time is the attention being gl rope to the ques tion of Bunday re (IR ears ago an inter vess on A ubject was held @ followed this year by another connection with the Parls exposition La Gerarchla Ca otifcate of L than 134 of 1 sthil live der his he normal numt nty, but thirtee ent unoceupled The pastor o cently that ce #chool were ing to the La dericksburg, Pa ry “eirl” o the itly “celebrated her lagt twenty yoars in t during | B 100016 dted. tellow IX Twenty last ye of the one persons dled In Massachusetts T nged rs or more. Slxte n twer women—three of th xteen never having been married. Elignt of the twenty-one were born in Ireland three In Canada and three in other forsig:n Juntries—leavisig seven native born, six (f whom were of Massachusctts natlyity, e oldest wus two months over 108 years John A. Johnzon, & manufactuier of Mad 180n, Wik, hus offered $10,00 to the Hoard | of Supervisors of Dane county, Wiscoaain, for the purpose of erecting and malntatning home for aged people. [n adaition to the regular method of entering the home, by the payment of not less than $20, Mr Johnson has o yed the Idea of Issuing adiisston policles wdmilur to naurance polf- P Plus college fewer Only four cardinals who wer predece T of the pastor the -t ,‘are always worthy of thelr Bachmann of Schaefferstown, has for twenty-two years prosided over buried bis face in its shaggy coat,” cles, which may be taken out by p youih or middfe uge, to provide for thoir Bupport and comfort’ in old uge, or which seven country churches, During his min tstration he has married 3,174 people, | Nervita Tablets priests of hjs | wisdom of the | Impotency, Night Emissions, Loss of Memory, all wasting or excess A Nerve Tonic and Brings the pink glow to of ¥outh. 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One of them won a man on the election, and she naturally expresses her- | self an ‘particuiarly well pleased with her | winninew. Heing single and of marriage- able age she fs not at a loss to know what 1o do with him Rev. L Ing slonary loeated af Ooxic went to Laredo, Tox., t Franc Pattley of London country fo meet her liance, The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Rommens ot Loran, 1. ‘The bride traveied 5,000 miles, Broom 1,20 miles and the clergymar 00 miles 10 the place of meetiy The editor of ihe Falrfax (Mo.) F |serts this notice in his puper | Hambaugh, J. P.—All kinds of performed while you walt. M old books bound tn th long-standing jrope_has ‘An Amer! Jartments elved 117 pro- ot fourteen rotestant miss hern Mexieo, married to Misg who came to this am, & the 1 im n- . H marr{ages nes and maunner. Al acco xeopt ugninst (his paper-cc 1 rs for good printing executed promptly, formation on leg parted af cost. Subscription best newspar Try remonies, Batise th s masculine heart 18 to he Saneumen county (1) rateder has asked dam- amonunt of 82000 from Miss Hetty n heart and considerable A tlekets, Mr, ins that his and uniimited and commutat tickets commutation ut the it he wan d Wi calenlations serves only to emphasize the varylng emotions and in- Slaviity of the faminine nature, in the full_price he did not buy e he expocted other end of the route