Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1900, Page 9

PAPER PUT T0 MANY USES Water Mains, Fine Thread, Axes, Olothing and Fireproofing Made from It. . AMERICAN MACHINERY HAS THE CALL Yankee Skill In Mechanics Har- messed to Sclemce Abroad—Vale ble Products Wade Former Wante Materl 1t used to be sald that there was nothing that could not be made out of leather. The #ame thing s now said of paper. From water malns, rifie barrels and window panes to clothing, tablecloths and napkins, reports the New York Sun, the range of artfeles Into which paper is squeezed, spun and chemically wrought Is bewildering. Further than that the range of uses to which paper is applied is increasing rap- idly. The United States is now the great- o8t producer of paper in the world, but the smallest exporter. The latter fact it be- cause we use more paper than any other nation and because in some lines of manu- facture Germany incontestably leads the world. The adaptation of paper to its present manifold uses fs simply a matter of ap- plled chemlistry and in this sclence the Germans have long been pre-eminent. But even in Germany and in France, where paper-making has reached so high a stage of advancement, it is still Yankee brains that furnish the machinery with which the fabric s produced and not only are Ameri- can paper-making machines exported to Burope, but American skilled workmen are employed to go with the machines and operate them In the paper mills on the other side of tho water. An instance of this has just been afforded In the great copper-mining company of Falun, Sweden, which has recently added to its one pro- Queing plant several large paper mills. As part of its equipment four paper-making machines have just been ordered in this country and a number of expert American paper makers have been engaged to go abroad with them, put them up and run them when they are in working order. This combination of copper-producing and paper- making is, as a matter of fact, a very natural result of existing conditions. The Bwoedish company, the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslog Aktlebralog, as it is called, and, by the way, it {s sald to be the oldest corpora- tion in the world, uses for supports in its mines a vast quantity of timber. After all the supports possible are cut out of a tree there still remains a large surplusage of excellent wood which for a long time went, in a great measure, to waste. Now paper- making In Sweden is a great industry be- cause of the great forests which produce the wood for pulp. 8o it occurred to the copper company that here was a good way to dispose of its waste timber, especially a8 the heat used for roasting the copper ore could be applied at the same time for the generation of the steam necessary to the drying process in paper-making. Hence the big new paper mills which are now just beginning operation: Paper-Making in Sweden. 1t {s from Sweden that Great Britain is mow getting a large proportion of the paper which it is obliged to import. The average consumption of paper in England is about 6,500 tons a day, and of this it produces only about 3,400 tons, leaving the remaining 2,100 tons to be brought abroad. Sweden, or, o speak more accurately, the Scandinavian peninsula, furnishes the bulk of this, though our own great paper-producing concerns haye_ large establishments in London and are rapidly galning ground in the English market. The Swedes as well as the Germans have invented some remarkable appliances for paper, among which is a grease-proof paper which is superior to any other 8o far pro- duced, but which will soon be matched by an equally good, If not better, article made in this country. One of the uscs of this grease-proof paper abroad is for the wrap- ping of butter for shipment. While there 18 plenty of merely grease-proof paper now made here, that is used extensively for the wrapping of hams, bacon and similar food preducts, it has not the merit of being odor proof as well as grease proof, and butter s #0 sensitive to odors that this paper would ®ot serve In packing it for shipment. The Bwedlsh grease-proot paper, on the other hand, is absolutely odor proof us well, and nearly all of the vast quantities of butter shipped from Denmark to England is wrapped In it. The butter reaches Great Britain in pound packages closely envel- oped in the grease and odor proof paper— pickages that in a sense are hermetically sealed, Reverting to the use of American ma- chinery In paper making, as exemplified in the case of the Swedish company above mentloned, there 1s a still more striking instance of it nearer home. For a long time back the machine used in Germany for putting the finish on envelope paper was called the Yankee machine. It was the invention of an American, yet strangely enough there was not a single one of the machines in use in the land where It was invented. And even now the only one with a single exception, that are in opera- tion, or that soon will be, are in a big paper mill now abotu completed in Penn- sylvania, by German capitalists and under German direction. The other Yankee ma- chines are in the mills of another German in Wisconsin. The peculiarity of paper re- quired for envelopes Is that it must be rough on one side, so that the mucllage will stick well, and highly finished on the other In order to give a flne smooth &urface for writing. Reverting to the Pennsylvania mill that s using the Yankee machine, there is the interesting fact in connection with it that the company that owns it is the same company which the late Prince Bis- marck controlled, in which his heirs are still heavily interested. Fireproofin Probably the very latest commercial fact in the application of paper is in the way of fireproofing. Paper fireproofing, among other advantages, has this one that the chemicals used penetrato the entire texture of the material and are absorbed by it before it {s rolled into any thickuness that may be required, thus making them much more effective than when wood ftself is treated with them. The paper wood thus produced is as hard as wood itself, is susceptible of brilliant polish and any warlety of decorative treatment, Is vastly lighter, perfectly adjustable and absolutely fireproof. The erection of skyscrapers nocessitated & very serious study of fire- proof matertals and the fireproofing treat- ment of wood and the result is that paper 18 coming very largely Into use in all cases where woodwork has to be used. It fis particularly adaptable for cellings and 1s What Shall We Have for Dessert ? This question arises in the family overy day. Let us answer it to-day, Iry & delicious and healthfu!l dessert. intwo minutes. No boiling! no ! add hofllfng wnru’r and set to vors: —Lemon, Or Ras berry and Strawberry, Get":x. > 8% your grocers to-day. Jo cts, — coming Into such popularity for that pur- pose that the famous paplermache celling in the Albany eapitol which 5o scandalized the state is not unlikely in a very short time to be fn the height of fashion. In fact a man who has had a long experi- ence fn the paper business. said that tho day was not far distant when all interiors of fine houses, frrespsctive of skyscrapers would be very generally provided with fire proof paper woodwork. The material has been adopted for the finishings of the in- terfors of war ships and the Pennsylvania Raliroad company Is using It very ex tensively for the head liniags or cellings of passenger cars. The materfal commonly used for this purpose, being heavily treated with olls, is highly inflammable and the adoption of the paper fireproofing material 1s ouly janother precaution for the safety of passéngers. 1In.addition to the Penn- sylvania road the New York Central also, it is understood, is conmsidering the adoption of the same material for the interiors of its passenger ca As & matter of fact the action of the Navy department in taking such care to have all necessary woodwork by chemical treatment has turned the attention of peo- ple to this subject very serfously. If battleship interfors must be fireproof, it is asked, why should not also the Interiors of all passenger cars and public vehicles of all sorts where fire must be counted as among the serious elements of danger? And it public vehicles, why not private houses ? As for the articles of daily use that are now made of paper their number s sur- prisingly large. Eliminating such things as car wheels, in which paper long ago demonstrated its superfority over steel, the water buckets, the covering for hay ricks and other stmilar articles long of famillar use, there are hats and cups and clothing. In Detroit there Is a concern which s doing & large and very lucrative business In the manufacture of paper clothing. Paper, of course, as demonstrated in the water buck- ots, can be made almost as lmpervious to water as Indla rubber itself, and, com- bined with layers of thin cloth, a material 1s made which can be and Is put Into un- dershirts, walstcoats and jackets, which present a good appearance and are very durable. ~ Without paper cloth it might almost be sald that the enormous ball room sleeves worn by women not long ago would have been next to an impossibility. The strong, stift but ylelding fabric was precisely what was needed 10 make tne sleeves remain in the form that fashion decreed for them. Demand for Paper Clot In dress linings, skirt lnings, coat lin- ings and In facings, paper cloth is coming more and more iuto use and s gIVing very good satisfaction. Good looking and very durable hats are made of paper and paper soles and heels for boots and shoes of the cheaper grades have long been in use. When it was sald above that riffe barrels were made of paper only the literal fact was stated, although the paper rifle is not practical for various reasons, among others the cost. It was Mr. Whistler, brother of the artist, who had the first paper rifie barrel made in this country aad, although it stood the stratn of firing perfectly, 1t was made and considered only as & curiosity fllustrative of paper possibilities. Water mains made of paper, however, not only are a practical possibility, but are in actual use. Where the conditions are such as to warrant the very considerable extra ex- pense of paper water malus—as, for In- stance, where from the nature of the bed in which they must lle cast iron malns would speedily oxidize—paper water mains, costly as they are, become a matter of economy and are very generally used. Window panes of paper likewise are used in cases where there are guch constant ibrations or sucH sudden Jhrs as would break glass. By a chemical process paper may be made so translucent that a printed page can he read through it with perfect ease. Put In a window frame it gives a soft light sufficlent to {lluminate & room for nearly all purposes not requiring = particularly strong clear light, although objects seen through a paper window pane are seen as through a glass, darkly. Waterproofs of paper are made in con- siderable numbers. The materfal consists of a lining of cloth in the middle with a coating of waterproof paper on both sides and out of it excellent ponchos are made, although Uncle Sam still sticks to the good old India rubber for his soldiers. Nearly all articles formerly in leather are now made of paper-—such as suit cases, traveling bags, etc., and so successful 1s the imitation that & man who had himself been In the paper business for ninb years bought an article of this kind in London rec under the full conviction that leather he was purchasing. In the Orienmt. Bamboo fibre makes absolutely the best copylng paper there {8 and the bamboo paper 18 made almost exclusively in Japan For that reason—simply because they have the raw material and we have not—we buy a great deal of copylng paper in Japan and the Jupanese, on the other hand, buy large quantities of different kinds of paper from us. The Chinese are great consumers of paper in thelr own country in religious ceremonies, and last year one American paper manufacturing concern alone, which has its central office in New York City, shipped over 100 tons of paper to Canto China, for use in that way. There is an- other curlous little detall about the Chinese paper trade, and that Is in the matter of laundry tickets. The Chinese laundryman, when he gives his laundry ticket keeps diplicate of it himself. It is & bright red slip of paper, a little over an inch wide, and he keeps & bunch of these slips hanging or & hook in his laundry. When he issues one of them he writes his Chinese char- acters in duplicate one above the other on the slip and then tears the paper in twe across the middle, giving one end to the customer and keeping the other. Now, it requires a pecullar kind of paper for this. In the first place, it must be one that will take the brilllant red coloring matter, and then it must have a distinct grain that will tear straight across and not in any direction along the line of least reistance, a8 in most good paper. Further- more, in the Chinese laundryman’s opinion it is absolutely necessary that the paper shall come from China. To meet these varlous demands 1s & very easy proposition for the paper makers. The paper s pro- duced here in the mills of the east and then shipped to the Chinese Trading company ir San Francisco, which sends it back to the east agaln, where it is sold to the laundry- | men as the genuine article, straight from | the Flowery Kingdom, For all purposes of laboratory filtering, paper is superseding every other appliance, and there is In New York a large plant which is doing a very profitable business in manufacturing nothing but filter paper. Along the line of recent Inventions is a process for spinning paper into a fine thread which cannot only be used for sew Ing but out of which a very beautiful fabric can be woven. Specimens of table- cloths and papkins made by this process were exhibited in this city recently which compared very well In appearance with fine articles of linen. The process at present developed 1s pronounced by paper experts to be altogether too expensive for any practical purpose, although it Is oasily within the possibilities that the day is not 80 very far distant when we will be using paper table linen. Still another freak ex hibition of what can be dome with paper was the production of a paper axe with an edge #0 hard and fine that it could be used for cutting. One of the recent and very successful applications of paper is in & line which at first thought would seem almost as surprising the manufacture THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, of axes of paper. This fs n its use as an Insulating cover for electric wires. Paper 18 one of the best conductors of electricity | there 1s. Thus boys in a pressroom often hold one hand on a roll of paper and with the other light a gas jet with the electric spark drawn by touching the end of the finger to a metallic burner. The electricity 1a first developed in the paper by the fric tion of going through the calendars in the later milling processes. Electric wires are connected from these calendars to the earth to draw off the fluld, but notwithstanding this the paper recls gather and store charges of electricity that often are not als ed for months if the reel stands in storage o long. Yet with all this susceptibility of paper to electric excitement it has now become one of the eubstances most used, after golng through the necessary process, for insulating electric wires. One single com- pany here in this city disposes of twenty tons a day of paper to be used fdr this purpose alone. The proposition that the waste and refuse of today Is the raw material of tomorrow, which has become in the nature of an axiom in modern industries, is as true in connec- tlon with paper manufacture as in every- thing else. For instance, the pulpy ma called begasse, which is left after the sugar- cane has been crushed and squeezed dry of its saccharine matter and formerly was burned and got rid of as & nuisance, is now used for the manufacture of paper. The Cunningham Bros., the great sugar men of Texas, have two paper mills which make several grades of paper out of begasse and the business is so profitable that they are to open new mills. Profitable Side Industries. One of the most profitable side industries growing out of the manufacture of paper came from the discovery of the fact that casein was vastly better than the glue for- merly in use for putting the heavy coating on the finer grades of paper. The dlscovery was not only a bonanza for the man who made it and for those who backed him, but also for the dairies. The skim milk which 1s left after the cream has been taken oft for butter and other purposes and was in the nature of mere refuse for the big dairles is now turned into a source of profit almost as great as that from butter itself, from its uso in the manufacture of casein for paper-coating and sizing. An insurmountable obstacle to the mak- ing of old newspapers fnto a good quality of paper was the fact that the printer's ink, with its resin and its heavy llnseed oll, could not be got rid of by any known process. Paper was made of old mews- papers, but it was poor in appearance, poor in quality and always betrayed its orlgin, So old newspapers became in a certain sense more waste until about six years #go, when a young man named McEwen, from over in New Jersey, ciphered out the fact that the resin and the oil in old news- papers, when the whole mass of ink and paper filber together was subjected to a very high temperature, would be just the thing for sizing for boxboard paper. Mr. McEwen had no capital and he had aim- culty in interesting people who had, but he succeeded at last and now he is a mil- llon: He himself ships from his mills 6,000 tons of boxboard paper—“news board s it 1s called from its newspaper origin— to Ei nd alone in the course of every year, while he derives a large income from the royalties on his patents. — MADE A MAN OF HIM. | Joha Sherman’s Advice to a Despo; ent Young Frien Ten years age, when the late John Sher- MANn Wwas secretary of state, a young man, the son of one of Sherman's schoolmates, wrote to him for assistance. Heo sald that he had fallen so.low in life that there wi no place for him but the gutter; that ex- istence had become a burden and that he wanted to die. Today this same young man s & prosperous merchant in New York (ity. He told a representative of Success that his position is due to the ad- vice given him by John Sherm in an- swer to his letter, and gave permission to publish the letter, which the owner guards more carefully than all his other posser slons. Mr. Sherman wrote: You say that your life has been a fallure and that you are 30 years old and ready to dfe. You say that you cannot find work and that you see no hope in life. You say that your friends do not care to speak to you now. “Let me tell you that you have reached that polnt In Ife when a man must see the very best prospects for his future career. You, at 80, stand on the bridge that divides youth and manhood. The one is dying, per- haps, but the other will soon burst young and hopeful from the ashes and you will find in yourself a new belng—a man. Do not let your dlscontent kill this new life before it 1s born. “Unless you are physically deformed go to work. Go to work at any honest work it it only brings you $1 a day. Then learn to live within that dollar. Pay no more than 10 cents for a meal and 20 cents for bed and save as much of the balance as you can and with the same Intensity as you would save your mother's life. Make the most of your appearance. Do not dress gaudily, but cleanly. Abandon liquor as you would abandon a pestilence, for liquor Is the curse that wrecks more lives than all the horrors of the world combined. "It you are a man of brains, as your let- ter leads me to belleve you are, wait until you are in a condition to seek your level and then seek 1t with courage and tenacity. It may take time to reach it. It may take years, but you will surely reach it—you will turn from the workingman Into the busi- ness man or the professional man with so much ease that you will marvel at it. But have one ideal and aim for it. reached Its port by salling for a dozen other ports at the same time. “Be contented, for without contentment there 1s no love or friendship and without those blessings life 1s, indeed, a hopeless case. Learn to love your books, for there 1s pleasure, instruction and friendship in books. Go to church, for the church helps to ease the pains of life. But never he a hypocrite. If you cannot believe In God, believe in your honor. Listen to musie whenever you can, for music charms the mind and fills & man with lofty ideals. “Cheer up! Never want to die. Why, 1 am twice your age and over and I do not want to dle. Get out into the world. Work, eat, sleep, read and talk about the great events of the day, even If you are forced to go among laborers. Take the first honest work you get and then he steady, patient, industrious, saving, kind, polite studious, temperate, ambitious, gentle, lov- ing, strong, honest, courageous and con- tented ““Bo all theso and when thirty years more have passed away just notice how young and beautiful the world 1s and how young and happy you are! “(Stgned) JOHN SHERMAN." Discussion of the Supernatural, Washington Star: “Mammy," said Plek- aninny Jim, who had maintained a long and thoughtful silence, “is dar any such fing as culled folks' h'ants?" “You mean ghoses,” rejoined Marla, as she turned from the Aunt ironing- “Well, sonny, you has hit on a subjeck dat's been givin' sclence a heap o' (rouble Maybe dar is culled folks' ghoses an’ maybe dar ain’t. De difficulty of ascertaln- ment les in de fack dat If dar was a culled folks' ghos' his complexion would be so dahk dat you couldn’t motice 'Im." Do you want a stenograpber? Bpend 25 No ship ever | [NEW BOOKS AND WAGAZINES Streem of Holiday Fiotion Becoming a Veritable Flood. SHELVES OF BOOKSELLERS ARE CROWDED Flction Predominates with No End ot Ju ir Showing of More Soltd Works — New Editlons The stream of holiday publications shows no signs of diminishing, but on the contrary has well-nigh become a flood. They come 80 thick and fast that it is necessary to pass over even Important volumes with a briet notice. The shelves of the booksellers have become more and more crowded every day until it would seem that there must bo & limit. This week the holiday trade fs com- mencing and purchasers of books for Christmas gifts are very much In evidence. That popular story by James Lane Allen “A Kentucky Cardinal” with its sequel, “Aftermath,” has been brought out in one volume for the holiday trade. In appearance it 18 a most attractive book, being hand- somely bound and illustrated. Thero is a most delicato humor In every page of “A Kentucky Cardinal,” 0 quaint and so tender that it melts continually into pathos, and at tho same time there runs through it all & strong veln of romance. By many it 1s considered the best of Mr. Allen‘s books. In its present form it cannot fail to appeal strongly to all lovers of good books. The Macmillan company, New York i The force of literary workers in Indiana has been strengthened by Henry Thew Stephenson, professor of history at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, through his book, “Patroon Van Volkenburg.” While ho has delved into a subject that has been made familiar in a general way by other writors—the early history of New York— one loses sight of the familiarity In the freshness of his story and the incidents that compose it. He whites of OId Manhattan in thé year 1699, confining his narrative to a period of four or five months of that year, when the strife between the merchants on the one side and the gov- ernor of Manhattan and the law-abiding people on the other was at its helght. New York at that time had less than 5,000 in- habltants. There is an abundance of in- cidents' which Mr. Stephenson has eredit- ably woven together, giving his narrative finish and smoothness. Particularly 1s the story strong as it describes the stay of Michael La Bgurse at the patroon's manor, Interest in the historieal novel will hardly tire 8o long as it fs stimulated by such storfea as “Patroon Van Volkenberg." Throughout his book Mr. Stephenson shows dlligence In research and the value ho places on detall. Bowen-Merrill Co., Indianapolis Lovers of western North Carolina speak of 1t as “Tho land of the sky,” and Mary Nel- son Carter s one of those who has no doubt lived In the sunshine and with the people, as evidenced by her book, “North Carolina Sketches.” .The Datives of this distrigt are a pecullar people, many of them poor, ignorant and unsmitten with the progress fever. They are not insensible to the beauty and grandeur of thelr moun- tain land. The author, in this volume, does not present to us a series of formal char- acter studles or essays; she enters into triendly chat with the people, and this chat portrays them and thein meighbors by re- vealing what they say, What they do and what they ‘leave undone. These studies have an exceptional interest as soclological studles, for in reading them we cannot but feel that they plcture repl people of flesh and blood. A. C. McClarg & Co., Chicago. Price, $1. Miss Mary Tracy Earle's stories have won a steady increasing number of readers, both by reason of the interest of thelr scenes and incidents, and because of a certaln freshness of style which gives them distinc- tion In thi¢ day of so muth hack literary work. A collection of her stories reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, the Century, the Outlook, the New York Evening Post and other perfodicals 13 published under the title “Through Old-Rose Glasses.” The storles are eight in number, all of them laid in the south and each presenting, be- sldes a story of varied interest, a romance told with the delicacy and sympathy which distinguish Miss Earle's literary work, Houghton, Miflin & Co., Boston. “For Tommy; and Other Storles,” is the title of the latest effort of Laura E. Rich- ards, who will be remembered as the author of “Captain January,” “Melody,” ete. Like all of Miss Richards' storles, the present are very readable, with a certain sprightli- ness that 18 very refreshing. In the matter of binding and printing it is as neat a lit- tle volume as one would ask to see and would be very appropriate as a Christmas gift. Dana Estes company, Boston. Egerton Castle, like Anthony Hope, is identified with the romance of love and action. In “Young April,” “The Bath Comedy” and “The Light of Scarthey” we have him at his best. In bis latest book, “Consequences,” he has written a story with some strong scenes, but the interest 13 not so well sustained as in the former books. The story is devoted to working out the consequences of & father's sudden act. George Kerr, a rich young English- man of fifty years ago, marries a titled Spanish girl, but finds life unendurable with her. After a stormy scene he leaves her and pretends to commit sulcide. His boat is found upset, but he swims ashore and loses his name and identity in this coun- try. Years after he returns to find his wite dead and a son 1lving to bear' his true name. The book is devoted to his search for thls son and his care of the boy, who 18 in the public service. The book is full of striking passages and the climax s one of rare power. Frederick A. Stokes Com- pany, New York. Price, $1.50. “The Archbishop and the Lady” is the title of the latest novel by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield. Only a writer of very wide and very exceptional soclal experience could have produced this story. In an old French abbey meet the numerous charac- ters whose speedily ontangled destinies make the story. Tho high-minded, capric- lous heroine, her vain, beautiful, silly mother, the heroine's terrible, yet entirely human husband, the gentle, wise, diplo- matic archbishop—these and many more are portrayed. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. Price, $1.50. “Overheard In a Garden" is another of Oliver Herford's inimitable collections, in- cluding many verses and drawings never elsewhere published. The whole exhibits this delightful artist and versifier's fancy at its best and is sure to be a grateful morsel for his ever-increasing circle of ad- mirers. The cover designs and illustrations are dome with characteristic —cleverness. No hook of its kind could be better calcu- lated for a gift book. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Price, $1.25, F. Frankfort Moore s so well known through the great success of his charming “The Jessamy Bride’” (now in its nd), that ““The Con- his new story, may be counted & success from the start. Like the earller work It is well and entertain- ingly written and it is safe to say that the admirers of “The Jessamy Bride" will like DECEMBER 7, 1900. it equall Stone, Chicago Price Works of Fact. James Pott & Co. of New York have | brought out a revised and enlarged edition | of “Unknown Switzerland,” by Victor Tis- | sot. It is hamdsomely printed and bound IMustrated with photogravures and supplied with an excellent map In colors. 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Mr. Fyles tells of “How a Theater {s Managed,” “How Actors Are Trained,” “How Plays Are How Plays Are Rehearsed,” ““The First Night of a Play,” “The Actors in Thelr Dressing Rooms,” ““Behind the Scenes on a Stage,” etc. Not only the general pub- lte, but Intending playwrights and actors, will find much of value in this straightfor- ward preseutation. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. Price, $1 “The Friendly Year” is the title of & beautitully bound volume containing selec- tions in prose and verse for every day in the year, chosen and arranged from the works of Henry VanDyke by George S1d- ney Webster. Nothing could better em- phasize the extent and variety of Dr. Van- Dyke's intellectual and spiritual interests than this volume of selections, which brings to the fore the cheery philosophy of life which makes the author's essays, stories and poems so companionable and helpful. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Price, $1.26. No devotee of the theater can fall to be deeply Interested in a little volume by Ed- ward A. Dithmar, giving a review of the life and stage experiences of John Drew. It 13 a very readable sketch of the life of a popu- Iar actor. Besides the frontisplece portrait of Mr. Drew, the volume contains some twenty fllustrations, showing the actor in his various roles and with his associates of the stage. The volume has been elegantly printed and bound with the view of making it & most attractive gift book. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. Price, $1.25. The publication of Grace Gallatin Seton- Thempson's “A Woman Tenderfoot” was dclayed for reasons gratifylng alike to ihe author and to the publishers. Belng a first work an edition of 5,000 copies was reck- oned sufficient to meet the fnitial demand, but this would not fill the advance orders and the presses had to be put to work on | orators and public speakers a second supply—this before the book had been placed upon the market. 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