Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1901, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAIL LY BEE: MONDAY, D SC T MBER 16, 1801 NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Exbaustive Work Regarding the Farniture of Our Fere'athers. FINEST OF THE KIND EVER PUBLISHED Ihert Hobbard's Time and Chance— New Poclket of the ry=Story South Pole—Amer Letters—~The Firebrand, ‘“The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, fs the first elaborate work | on American furniture ever printed. The bistorlc pieces of furniture that are re- produced in this work are such as Wash- ington’s hed, desks of Madicon and Franklin Jefterson’s chair, etc, and many other specimens, some of southern furniture never reproduced before. A carved oak chair of the seventh century, an old mahogany trame vith musical glasses, a seventeenth eentury bed of carved onk, an old walnut card table with chairs and an old Virginia spinnet on which Martha Washington fs su posed (0 have played are also among the specimens reproduced. The division of th eight parts into which this work fs divided | 18 both according to chronology and locality The eight parts are 1. Virginla and the south eentury, carved oak and walnut 2. Philadelphia and the south f 1776 3. New England in the soventeenth cen- | tury, 4. New York and the first settlement 6. New England 17 8. Chippendale and 7. Imported and the revolution 8. Technical detalls for the collector and amateur. The superb llustratio by the finest photogravur artistic line drawings. Th these have been gathered and private collections, both abroad and n this country. The very large number of theas plates, taken by themselves. fur- | nish the most complete description of co- lonfal furniture ever made, while the text by Esther Singleton supplies a mass of most interesting data. Altogether it fs the finest work, especially from an artistic point brought out during whole year. It | seventeenth m 1700 to | Dutch furniture from 00-1 heraton domestic period | furniture sinee | reproduced It-tones and originals of from museum. the | the Can Dress Well on Where Man Beats Woman s ver The discussion of woman's dressing on $300 a year having been settled by the uni versal decision that such a feat 1s impos sible to a woman who goes out at all or entertains, the question of man's dressing alls for attention. And in this case as in many others, relates the New York Sun ustom gives man the advantage, for it is quite possible for a man to dress on $300 & year and make an excellent appearance. He may even go in soclety If he wishes and keep up his appearance to the standard of men worth millions, for although his lothes may not have the value of the richer men's garb they can be in keeping and correctly cut. Custom forbids any at- tempt at ostentation In a man's clothes hile women, even those of the finest taste, are allowed o wear jewels and the ex ravagantly made that cost more costumes. The one subject of evening clothes gives A man a great advantage have at least one evening gown in a winter it she goes out at all and this is & most meager allowance eked out with frocks that have been left over from the last If a wedding or an event of occurs she can only stay at has not & new gown, fresh and attractive even though It may be inexpensive A man, on the contrary, wears his evening clothes constantly through a season and sometimes for two or three if he only dons 0 on occaslons. With an extra dinner coat he can always be immaculate and correctly dressed. A careful brushing and simple than the gowns, so-called more elaborate A woman must season importance home it she pressing s all that Is required to keop masculine evening clothes in condition. It would be safe to say that the average man wears an eveninz suit with, perhaps an extra cont, through two scasons. This at once takes from his expense account one of the most important ftems in a woman's expenditures Given the usual number of garments in #00d condition that a man's wardrobe con- tains, and men's clothes never wear out tear or get out of shape in the manner of | woman's garb, and he can without the slightest dificulty, make $300 a year an ample allowance for his clothes,” said a fashionable New York tatlor. ‘Many men of means do not spend any more than that Men's clothes are more sirongly made and are of such very different ma- terials from those worn by women that they stand all sorts of usage and still retain their color and shape, provided they are taken care of. “In & year a man may h one good bus! ness suit, not a fashionable English but an ordinary good cloth and perfect cut tor $50 or $60. Men do not have clothes made to order as much as they formerly did and an excellent suit can be bought for $50 or $80 He can allow himself one new overcoat a year, alternating each year from a winter coat to a fall or spring weight garment He can wear these coats each for (wo sea- sons. The cut of men's clothes does mot vary as that of women does And where there {8 a variation it is usually so slight that only a very observer can tell the difference. A woman's gown bears the mark of last season in its very line The taflors and modistes purposely have it so for a very obvious reason suit “Take the matter of hats. Here he is doubly fortunate. One silk hat in & season 18 a sufficlent allowance and with a pot hat and a straw hat in the summer he can man age admirably. Then coneider the differ ence in the price of his hats and those of a woman. Five dollars pays for the ordinary hat and $% or $10 buys a silk hat Nowadays men's clothes for golf and wheeling cost a lot more than they used to but 80 do & woman's, for that matter. And he is not subject to the changes in style Many men prefer to wear their old clothes for outdoor sport and disdain to special costume. ‘He has none of the small belongings of dress to buy constantly as a woman has Neckties, shirts, collare and cuffs and hand- kerchlefs constitute his equipment A woman ‘must have boas, ruches for th throat, neck scarfs of all sorts, fure th cost fortunes, ribbons, belts, bags, chains, balr ornaments—the list is an endless one “Men wenr thelr gloves until they wear out and only for extreme occasions will a man have to wear white gloves with even- ing dress, so his gloves can safely be put down to four or five paire in a year, white, gray, castor and tan dogskin “Women must have new make a at gloves every time they o out almost cannot wear gloves that are not fresh, and as they use the lighter tints so much fo evening there fs a necessity for frequent r newals. And a woman must be more par- tieular about her gloves and her boots than any other item of her apparel That fs, & woman Shoes arc exactly the eame. A man's dress shoes costing him $5 or $8 will last him six months. With a pair of calfskin shoes and a pair of ties for the summer he {s well equipped for a year, when you con eider the old shoes that are always on hand. Women must have new slippers in Iight shades for evening, house lippers, dress boots and walking shoes. Some women wear out shoes In the most marvel- ous way and must discard them when th lose shape. A man's retain shape untl] the end on account of tough material of which they are buflt “Men's stockings are expensive of late. They have taken to wearing gorgeous hose shoes the of silk, ahd some of the embroidered ones cost quite as much as & woman's. This la the one item of clothing, 1 think, in whish there 1s any equality of price ‘Women's underwear l& constantly wear ing out through the laundering and starch ing of delicate laces. Men's clothes, on the contrary, are of soft wool or silk and come through the laundering process in good condftion. Then take the fact that a man’s spotless linen is always all eufctent to glve the finish to his o ume, and take the hundred and one accessories that a woman must have To give a very rough est e but a liberal one we will say for a man’s dressing for a year One business suit! $5 One evening sult ne top hat One felt hat ne atraw hat 8 ves, four pair H ghoes, three pair 18 Shirts, stockings, handkerchicts, ete. . 100 Total 24 “This is a liberal estimate and it etill leaves a reserve fund and with the ward- robe which such an alfowance yearly would always provide of left-over things, a man could not possibly be criticized.” “Jim” Hill’s Grit | Story of the Railroad King and a Treacherous Guide. would seem as if the subject has heen ex- | hausted and unquestionably this will re- | maln for all time to come the authoritative | work on colonial furniture. Published fn| «ames . HIll, the great rallway wakuate, two beautitully bound volumes, this work | began life in a vii humble way. He was a Wil appeal mcst strongly to every person | clerk on a Misslesippl levee and so poor interested in the furniture of the past s | oy o =y TN T b X well a8 to all who value beautiful books Sl S b To meet all requirements it has been | Fllroad trip of a few hundred miles he brought out in three different editions, the | bad to borrow the money to pay for his regular edition, an edition in paper and | ticket. But he was full of pluck and en- edition de lux. In presenting this work | ergy and, seelng an unoccupled gap in the the publishers have conferred a lasting tavor upon collectors of antique furniture Doubleday, Page & Co., New York Elbert Hubbard in “Time and Chance’ Bas done his best work. He has taken the 1te of John Brown and made a story of it in simple, direct style that appeals more forcibly to the reader than any well rounded periods could do. Interwoven with the stern tragedy of John Brown's lite work is & tender romance of young souls that came *together and then drifted apart, coming to- gether again, not in love, but as comrades working together to a common end, tha treeing of the slaves. Mr. Hubbard makes | an intensely interesting study of the char acter of John Brown. He was scrupulously honest, yet he did not hesitate to take the property of others in prosecuting his mis- slon. We see this characteristic at the very outset, when young John Brown, escaping with a young slave from the western re- serve to Connecticut, resorts to trickery in horse racing, and then salves his consclence with the reflection that the money would be expended in a good cause. He steals a horse to follow the legal abductors of a | slave, but sends the money to pay for the animal later. We find the same character- istic In the story of his Kansas experiences All the way through the story history anl romance are skillfully blended. G. P. Put- nam's Sons, New York Attentton bas already been called severai times in these columns to a new series of books published by John Lane to whica he has glven the name of the New Pocke! Library. Under this title the publisher is bringing out a number of old standard works which have been almost forgotten amid the press of modern fictlon. Thia serles brings within the reach of all (h bes lterature of fifty years ago. So much has been sald in commendation of these cheap editions that there remains little more to be sald on the subject, aside from the bare anncuncement of an additional number, “Doctor Thorne,” by Anthony Trollope. In this day of strenuous life it may be interest ing to note that Anthony Trollope published about forty novels, besides two or three books of travel and other works, as well as doing a vast amount of newspaper work But in spite of all this he managed to spend as many as three days a week hunt- | fog. “‘Doctor Thorne' s regarded by many | a8 his hest novel. John Lane, New York. ‘ s | The glamour that covers the unknown has | yieldea another novel of speculative ad- | venture in “The Great White Way, by | Albert Bigelow Paine. The hero of the nar- | rative goes in search of the south pole—and finds it. He begins with the theory that the | land at the pole is tropical rather than frigid, arguing that the flatness of the earth means a thinpess of the earth’s crust and a consequently shorter distan; N the surface and the Internal fires. These fires, | he belleves, makes the polar climate mild despito the failure of the sun to furnish heat. Having the theory. he starts out to interest capital in it, and has the miraculous success of rousing the enthusiasm of an eo centric millionaire. As the millionaire has | an Attractive daughter, 2 sentimental qual Ity is rupplied the story without much delay The trio and a few selected compantons sail away to southern seas. Their ship is halted | at last by an impassable barrier of fea | mountains. But they discover a current of warm water flowing from under the wall of white, and they are encouraged. Leaving the young woman aboard ship the men go up fn a balloon, and after a rough aerfal ex- | perfence they pass (he frozen domain anl find themselves in a land lovely to behold They discover that it is inhabited by an Indolent, dreamy race. which neither has anything to offer the outside world, nor the desire to recelve nervous unrest from that unknown place. Other events of a nature disturbing to the invaders happen, and after journeying to the temple which stands Above the pole, they are glad to embark on the friendly river and float back under the ice jam to thelr waiting ship. J. F. Taylor & Co., New York, It the herolne of “Lauriel, the Love Let- ters of an American Girl," edited by A. H is as pretty as the portrait frontispiece the man who received her letters fs to be en- vied. Her first letter to Mr. Strong is from Orange, N. J., and is dated April, 1509, She tells bim that she is writing to please Ethel, his sister, who was her roommate at school She says that for four years sho has borne with resignation Ethel's ravings about her brother, and that she bas learned to detest him and his portralt most heartily. Never- theless the letter contains an Invitation Gom her father and she promises to meet |a certain | the only medium through which the Holy fleld covered by the Hudson Bay company in the Red River country in Canada, he formed a partnership with a friend in St Paul to enter the fur trade there. Thelr common practice was to load up an ox- train with supplies for the French-Canadian traders, who dwelt directly with the In- dlans, make a long journey through the wilderness to the outposts and bring back their wagons laden with pelts, On one occasion, while still a very young man, relates a writer in Success, Mr. Hill was obliged to make a long midwinter trip alone. His journcy led through the wildest country and was chosen in order to reach point ahead of any competitor. He filled a knapsack with rations, hired a half-brecd Indian for a guide and started oft. The pair had traveied about two days, away from civilization and were in a re- gion entirely strange, without & beaten trail or landmark of any description, when Mr. Hill grew suspicious that his guide was preparing to kill and rob him. He fearcd that the fellow had been tampered with by come rival fur traders. That night he slept with one eye open and saw certaln which things confirmed his worst suspi- clons. The Indian, for example, stealthily drew the ammunition from the gun which lay nearest the supposed sleeper, the other, near himself. still loaded Mr. Hill did some very rapid thinking within the next hour and concluded that his alternative of cholce was between sub- mitting to be murdered und facing the perils of pra‘rie and forest alone. When his re- solve was taken he pretended to wake up and ordered his guide to prepare breakfast as ususl. While this was in progress he contrived to possess himself of the loaded gun and all their joint store of ammuni- tion. Then he opened the knapsack, took out rations cnough to keep a man from starvation for a day or two, threw them into an empty flour bag and handed it to the Indlan. “Now go!" he commanded, cover- ing his companion with the loaded gun “Go, 1 tell you!" The half-breed snatched the other gun, but a glance showed him that his trick had been foiled Where me go?" cowed. “I don't care—anywhere you please, only don't let me set eyes on you again.’” The gulde saw that the speaker was in carnest and, shouldering his sack of pro- visions, slunk away. Hill watched him go down a slight decline in the rolling ground and up the ascent beyond. At the crest of the second rise the fellow looked back re- proachtully. leaving he whined, thoroughly “If 1 had at that moment shown the slightest sign of the sinking feellug at my heart,” sald Mr. Hill, discussing the inci- dent with a friend years afterward, *T should huve been lost. I knew that I must not give in, 6o I fixed my teeth, set my eyes more steadily on him and raised the muzzle of my gun slightly as if taking surer aim He did not pause agaln, but the last I ever saw of him “The reaction, when the nervous te was over, was terrible. With that rascal T realized that my last hope of intelligent guidance had vanished. | trackless” waste inhabited only by beasts of prey and roving Indians, not even know- ing how many miles I might be from clv- ilized humankind or in what direction With a shrewd guess at the points of the compass from the position of the sun I shouldered my pack and gun and plodded ahead. For the rest of my fourney I traveled both day and night, with brief in- tervals for rest but mighty little sleep. ston “But my tough experience did me a world of good after all. It really made a man of me. After that day, whenever 1 have faced a great preblem for which my thought needed to be quick and my resolution in- exorable, a picture has risen bafore my mental vislon - the pink-streaked dawn; the smoke curling in the frosty air from the embers of the breakfast fire; the snow- | covered wilderness; the knolls and hol- lows; the figure of the half-breed Indlan as he paused on the crest of ground and looked back at me for the la: time. And I can today feel the sense of utter desolation which came upon me as 1 struck out for the north with no guide but the rising sun. Whatever strength of charaeter may have dome for me in later years L owe to that adventure of my youth.' Mr. Strong at the depot in papa’s experi- | mental automobile. Lauriel goes to Tanla. INeria, where she meets various titled gen- tlemen, all of whom have an eye upon her millions. The letters are bright and well written, but Lauriel is more entertaining before she falls in love than after Cupld Ifis taken succeseful aim. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. In his latest story, “The Firebrand,"” § R. Crockett forsakes Scotland and takes his hero into Spain. He 18 an {mpulsive young Scotchman, appropriately named “The Fircbrand.” who prefers a roving ca reer of adventure to the quiet life on the famlly estates. The stcry opens in the time when (he followers of Marla Chrls- tina and those ot Don Carlcs are contesting the right of succession to the throne. Al- though Rollo Blalr, “The Firebrand,” has no personal preference, he is persuaded by the abbot of Montblanch to lead a daring enterprise to abduct the little Princess Isa bella and the queen regent whom the church desires to separate from her hostile minlsters. It 1% only through the interfer- ence of a Carlist brigand chief (hat the plot fai's. With the royal family in his charge, Rollo and his little band fight stub- bornly to protect them trom the cruel de- signs of the guerrilla leader. They are succored by a royalist regiment summoned by Rollo's Spanish eweetheart. Safe at Madrid, the queen forgets the hostile plot and rewards the brave Scotchman for his gallant protection. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. Part 111 of the much talked about “Twentleth Century New Testament” Is at hand and includes the Pastoral, Personal and general letters, as well as the Revela- tion. This 1s the new translation into wodern English of the New Testament and represcnts the work of twenty of the most eminent scholars of England. It 13 a singu- lar fact that the race which has in modern times given to each of the tongues and tribes of all' the other races the Word of God in its own vernacular has not hitherto seen it to do as much for its own. We have been reading our bible in the English of three centuries ago, while Hottentots Kafrs, Fijlans and otbers have had it in ihe tongues and dalects of their own times. The idioms and forms pecullar to the times of Kiug James bave seemed to have been Spirit could express itself to the 1 adern Anglo-Saxon, and all previous attempts at bible-making have been merely new re- visions and new versions of these obsoles- cent forms. This is a work that every student of the bible will he most anxlous to see. Whether it comes into popular use or not, there can be no question regarding the great advantage of the New Testament belng translated into modern English, as | it does away with the confusion and un- | certainty as to meaning of many of the | obsolete words appearing in the old edi- tion, which are unintelligible to the present | generation. Fleming H. Revell company,| Chicago. “Betty of Ol Mackinaw,” by Frances| Margaret Fox, is the latest addition to that splondid series of children's books known as the “‘Cozy Corner’’ series. 3o many of/ the books comprising this series have been | ) being able to furnish bonds for the reviewed at length fn these columns that it seems hardly necessary to say more at the present time. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. “Muzzarelll's Brief French Course” is prepared on the same general lines as the author's well known and popular two-vol- ume “Academic French Course,” and alms at clearness combined with completeness and thoroughness. The grammatical topics dis cussed have been wisely chosen, and all matters of primary iniportance are fully treated. The exercises in reading and writ- ing French furnish abuzdant practice on all points of syntax. American Book company, Chicag The Velvet Glove,” by Henry Seton Merriman, tells the story of the endeavor of the Jesuits to secure the fortune of a young girl by forcing her iuto religion The money thus secured is to be devoted to the needs of the Carlists, whom the Jesuits are pledged to help. The action tal place in the Pyrenees about 1870 and the char- acters are all Spanish. The love Interest {s stronger than in any other of Merri- man’s stories ang there Is also an historical interest. The war and other scenes are distinctly pleturesque. Mr. Merriman s Justly considered one of the foremost con- temporary writers of narratives of adven- ture and his latest novel will take high rank In attractiveness and entertalning powers. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. “The Fiery Dawn" is a semi-historical novel by M. E. Coleridge. It has to do with events in France of the time of 1830 and the attempt at revolution of the duchess of Berrl in behalf of her son Henry Cing. The historical facts make a good background for the presentation of certain types of the youth of that day with thelr enthusiasms and chivalrous ideals. It is a very clever story, with a lightness and brightness about ft that are very amusing. There is no lack of action in the story and the reader will find his intorest fixed from first to last Green & Co., New York Another book to please little people has been added to that splendid “Cosy Corner Serfes” which is so deservedly popular among the buyers of books for children. There are so many books in this series that it is impossible to name them all, but they will be found to suit the requirements of children of all ages. This latest addition is “Aunt Nabby's Children,” by Frances Hodges White, a. prettily illustrated and most interesting little book. L. C. Page & Co., Boston. The above books for sale by the Mcgeth Stationery company, 1306 Farnam. For Shooting Sol Levinson. DEADWOOD, 8. D., Dec. 15.—(Special.)— Leo Winsberg will be given a hearing to- morrow for shooting Sol Levinson, bis former assoclate in business, with intent to kill. He is still confined in jall, not 00 fixed by the justice of the peace. Levinson is practically out of danger. He was shot through the left lung. and it is believed the ball lodged in the wuscles of the shoul- der. Longmans, | HOME OF WOODEN TOYS, A District in the Tyrol Wholly Given Over to Wood Carving Two English girls have been telling rither an ipteresting story of lite in the dner valley, In the Tyrol, which is the home of wooden toys and Is lterally given over to wood carving. “Haedeker says that 8t. Ulrich, the cap- ital of the district, has 2,300 wood carvers and a good hotel. The English girls cor- roborate the statement and add that the place is well worth a visit, although, in order to enjoy it, one must stay th ng enough to tramp up and down hill and make acquaintances n the little chalets, where every one, old and young, i8 busy with some sort of wood carving or toy- making. One lives in good soclety in 8t. Ulricl 0 it seems. Saints and heroes of assorted sizes are ranged comfortably outside of the chalets and in the gardens, drying their halos and robes. St. Peter, 8t. Paul, the Virgin and Andreas Hofer, the Tyrolean hero, hobnob on one corner, while St. An- thony of Padua, repeated five times, dozes on a bench against the wall, and St Florian, elght feet high, smiles' from the steps at St Sebastian, trundled by in a barrow. Rows of fresh and shining angels are on every hand and look with benign inte est at whole squadrons of splendid rocking horses that go romping arouna tne grounds, and hundreds of staring wooden dolls sit stifty upon sunny shelves and envy the langels. Crucifixes are scattered every- | where, Noah's ark animals stare, panic- stricken, at piles of wooden skulls erywh there Is sawing, hammering, chipping, painting. At the age of 6 the { children begin to learn the carving trade | and they stick to it until they die. T) most famous woman carver in the district carves nothing but crucifixes and_has done nothing else for twenty years. All of her work is ordered long In advance, and, as her prices, though low are better than those of most of the carvers, she makes a falr lving. Bhe uses no model most 1 of the workm thelr craft through I¢ ence. When a carve Anthonys, all | trunks, he lear to has no d of a model worker sticks to some ne figure and at- tempts nothing else, 4 method which opens | up awful vistas of monatony. That 18 true of al- » who have learned rs of experi- colved w0 St from tree d often a One family turns out brindled cows by the gross. ‘Another has for years carved nothing but skulls and crossbones. The English chronicler does not tell what effect the gruesome monotony has had upon the members of the family, but the situation sounds Maeterlinckian One woman makes tiny wooden dolls and each of her children, even the §-year-old has some part in the work. One shapes the legs, another paints the faces, another fits the parts together. Six hundred dozen of the dolls were stucked up against the wall when the English visitors called, and for making the lot, the workers expected to recefve about $3 | 'In another cottage three generations of a family were busy painting wooden horses and sald proudly that they could turn out twenty dozen a day. None of the toys s | old_at, retail, all being_intended for the | big wholesale 'depots at St. Ulrich | On Saturday every mountain ath | crowded with men, women and children | carrying the wares to the de { of saints, angels, cruclfixes a {into the depots all day long evening t peasants turn ready for another wholesale cr .. A flood d toys pours and In the homeward ation week J W. Bryan of Lowder, IlL, writes: My little boy was very low with pneumonia | Unknown to ‘he doctor we gave him Foley's | Honey and Ter. The result was magical | and puzzlea the doctor, as it immediately stopped the racking cough and he quickly recovered.” vl their | disappeared | over the edge of the hillock and that was | was alone in a | the rising | BEAUTY SPOT OF THE PACIFIC| Cbaracteristion of the Island of Guam, Ite Prospeots and Its People Oficers Stationed There=Memo- als of Spnin=gtan | e S ard of Liviog. Here at Guam of the equator, nestles in the heart of th | Pacific one of the most advanced outpos:s | of our new empire, writes Charles A | Conant in the St. Louls Globe-Democrat { Beautitul almost beyond Honolulu are the verdure-covered bl which rise like the palisades of the Hudson around the entrance of the harbor of Piti. A nearer view, with the tall cocoanut { palms, the little thatched huts, the pic | turesque two-wheeled wagons drawn | caribous, the smiling natives, does not dis- | pel the favorable impression fir the | the tropical beauty of this little | the Pacific. When it comes to living here, however, the navy officers and marines have a different story to teil. It is not the climate to which they object, for that 1s | often mot less balmy than the ocean | breezes of Swampscott and Narragans | but the terrible isolation fr villzed lite. The Filipino prisouers are banished | here, and some of the officers say thelr banishment is nearly as bad. Until the | Buford steamed into the harbor a | weeks ago a transport had not been seen | here for three months and fresh supplies, such as civilized man s, had become | correspondingly scarce. When Commander Schroeder recelved lieved of the governorship to testify Schley trfal it took Icss than six hours for his family, including wite, daughters and two sons, to pack all their belongmgs and get them aboard the Yorktown Guam s the largest and best of the Caro- | lines. Germany quickly gobbled up the rest us soon as the treaty of Paris settlod it that the United States would take only uam. Negotiations between Germany and Spain were already going on seccretly and informally while Spain was making fits forced bargain with the United States, but was T in the word that he decency required that they be kept quiet until the peace treaty was signed. Gua is different in many respects from the | Phitippines. On every hand one seos evi dences of the friendly feeling of the natives instead of forced courteey the sullen hostility or which gr 8 one abow | Mantla. When the great typhoon swept | over Guam lasc year the® generosity with | which tne American paval commander dis- | | tributed rations and sought to extend other | ald was a revelation to the people. From Spanish *Ifishness and lwcompetence they | had learued the lesson that th | power alwaye takes, but never gives. No rgeular system of taxation force | then, vor is now, except work on the roads, but Spanish governors knew how ! periodical presents in tbo mediaeval form | of donations upon royal births, marriages and visits, » | Everything Spanish, indeed, is the petri- fled image of the Spain of three ceuturies | ago. Bad roads or noue, utter Ignorance of sanitation, the superlority over state, are heritages of regime found at every turn | unroofed by the typhoon still molder the official church coffins from which the deal were dropped into thelr native earth. A ftew rattling wooden bridges over the creeks, bearing pompous names—Puente | del Rey, Puente del Espana—are the sole wemorials of 3panish engincering enter- prise. The harbor here at Piti, said to be the best in the Carolines, is full of reefs, and even launches cannot approach the lit- | tle pier with safety even at high wator | The old fort In the harhor, built in 1801, | looks 1ike a toy from the stage setting of some Spanisn play of the fifteenth cen- tury. It was this fort into which the legend of the Spanish war represents Charleston as plumping two shells b it discovered that the fort was unoccupied and had not mounted a gun for years. It is not surprising, in view of the little which Spain did, even for its own interests fo the island, that the memorials of its sway are In process of rapid effacement “Me no speak Spanish, me speak Ameri cano,” was the answer of the little native boy who followed our party to the beacn near the road to Agana and offered to ger us some cocoanute. Most of the natives from long habit, still prefer Mexican and Spanish money to American, but this little tellow, ovidently taught of the benefits of the gold standard, intimated that 10 cents” would best sult him. Another lit- tle tellow of 10, asked in broken Spanish the way to the officers’ club, caught at once the word ‘“club,” trotted briskly ahead of us for four squares, and then hurried off, without any thought of recompense. Ques- tions put in broken Spanish often eliclt answers as “Yes, sir,”" and this ls far from being the limit of native capacity for Eng- Iish. It is rarely called English, however; 1t is always “Americano.” This progress In the new tongue is not limited, moreover, to the port and the road to the capital. In the leolated little fshing settlement near the mouth of the harbor the head man, as | he cut open cocoanuts for us with his hom, talked quite freely in the new tongue whicn the new governors brought so unexpectedly from the east with the drab hull of the Charleston. As Spanish was not the native tongue of the islanders there is no reason why Englieh should not supersede it and this promises to bo the case as soon as the American teachers can get to work upon | the rieing generatlon. Within a decade or | 50 Spanish is likely to be only & memory, lingering unloved among the older genera- tion, veral American teachers are expected here within & month, and an American mis slonary, Dr. Price, has already come here from the Carolines. Education has not been entirely neglected under the Spanish re gime. On the road from the port to Agana, the capital, one passes a little school, whera a native woman teaches reading and writing in Spanish, but the reading is essentially religious. “The Virtues of the True Chris- tian Religion, Extracts from the Career of Jesus Christ,” such are the titles, or sim 1lar ones, which grace the title pages of the textbooks. The pupils each recite in a loud sing-song tone the words of the Spanish text and seem little disturbed by the curlous eves of their foreign visitors. This sehool and others of its type will not be disturbed in any way by the American authorities but the opening of the American schools | promises to result In a stampede to learn ‘Americano,’’ except among a few ultra- conservatives. Native Char governing was in to exact rinis of Spain. the Span cteristios. | The lite of the natives presents that cu | rlous state of half-civilization found in so many countries where Caucasians have | planted thelr stations without pergeating | the whole lron tools and weapons were ght from Spal probably bro three centuries ago, and are in general nse American and Japanese boat Sp sa and Japanese furnitur European ensil Spanish, Belglan and English cottons are scattered among the thatc but are far from having made the natives a lostead of having ottages modern civilized people. and utensils ne | through the \ishes food and drink, and the food Is varie vy other tropical frults, The tew stores ¢ {the island are selling a few American canned goods to the more wealthy natives only a few degrees north | but the trade does not soon promise | large Yo already harbor ot | tion in th, | the e | peopla by | Increase their wants and their physi intellectual activity given of | the incorporation of ( {sland of | tary system of the Ph 1denly one July morning three years ag Completed The ves have enough to make | om | fortable, from a tropical po of view, and FRIENDLY FEELING SHOWN FOR AMERICA | (o™ *otrn 1o o o e exch new chil) —— | born, eact e yields an average au A— | Effect of Iaolatlon Severely Felt by ‘f::“"j"”' :l"v‘:vl‘h"\"”"j”l""‘ P Ay et TOWNS OF arry them 1T ¥ A unt The cocoanut also fur n nt to the It to be Titles: h ; HISTORIC TOWNS OF THE healthy for Nov bipr M Lol 4 HISTORIC TOWNS OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC TOWNS OF THE MIDDLE STATES HISTORIC TOWNS OF THE Governor Swift, who srktown to relfeve Gov ame here on the towns, a ready.) and oms regurd marriage his bellef that the introduction of money onomy In place of barter will give th larger purchasing power, and more wome! civilized and death. It This will am into th Hppines and the ad e with ton of distinctive American currency SOUTHERN STATES Large commercial development is hardly possible, however, because the highest cst e mate of the native population is only 10,000 and there is little to attract Caucasian col Edited by LYMAN P. POWELL onists. There Is plenty of cocoanut land 4 vola., S%xf. Over 600 {1lusirations there is fine mabogany at one end of the Contributions from most eminen wiand, but it fs inaccessible, and sugar || (horitien. An unparaileled plantations might be possibie fow | 0utpost of our empire.in the Orient, chiefly | 1o by pe SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Dec. 15 | Insurance company of this city | ter the stat | cently pri But for some to remain an any patriotic America $3.00 (by mali, & ) each, not, $5 ars to come m s likely one-halt luable because It contains the best harbor tourths the Carolines, capable of easy detense each, net, §7 » fow heavy guns and a str of tor The plan of the enterprise haa does across the channel, been Judictously formed and well I8 being carried out."—New York Tri- Vanish bune. Flis- oMourh, ot (e Gopmaia G. P. Putnam Sons, New York. whose cha commissioner of {nsurance re revoked because of illegal ctices, have Par alleged disappeared. R. W iman, att | Homestake Mining company Is building a conehouse at ha on vol the heavier taflings from the Iight. The Each One a Work of Art. plan has only recently been introduced in v o most artistlc display the Black Hills, but has been in extensivo | [l or calindars "ever shown in OmARS, use in other places and proved highly satis- fac | through a revolving iron cone, the large end tailings pass through the small end and are couveyed to the gigs or ¢ of church | O more perfect separation. In there In the chapely | eFlal necessary to handie. g for the off ers the last ten days > STATIONERY @ 1 rney for some of the victims of 411:, the company, states that he has been search f) eqe for the purpose of serving notice of suit on them, but hag been unable to find them. It Is sald a local capitalist purchase notes Bee us for above books. Ma'l orders ra. to the value of 0 from the officer oelve prompt attention 1308 Faroam the company, paying therefore $2,000. They street. = armers in different parts of the state. An B OOKS attempt on the part of the prosent owner of | payjewed om thin Page can be b the notes to enforee collection will be re We can nlso furnish auy book #isted in the courts, shed. " | Barkalow Bros.’ *'Book shon, nmestake's Saving Devi, ‘Flhone 330, Xy arnam St D, 8. D, Dec. 15.—(Special.)—The Terraville for the purpose of ndiing the tailings from the stamp mills that side of the hill Iving cones I8 to b Always Sowcthing New to Show You, A system of re installed to A ] separate tory. By this method the taflings pass Ing upward. 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