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THE SUNDAY CONDUCTED BY B. G. LATHROP - - - -+ T b i oF good combined good sens» common < appeared for many a day rom a Self-Made which has jus 3 1, Maynard & Co., ost of these letters have a sblished in the Saturday £ delphia, and so the que € ! v already ve proved one of the It is is mor Lorimer, the Evening pork- aham™—the their in- blication. ay John upon ce is still 2 very young man, and therefore deserving credit for all that he has well to of the United will make ¢ Mr. Lor- for d of good solid busine written in such a v sticks in the mind. wat will be found cap- ad—and that means a of work. pposed be from er to his son. The s that he at part of the houses of the takes an active and per- his orldly and ement. These letters college with solid old horse-sense kind, post him on the worked a name and = firm and has at s desire and is about elf the duties of a mar- at the wise old of advice and the son’s wife must of character building age any to e real merit of be had by an ould describe th infinitum and still not vigor, humor author's preach- extract from the in which John write to his ges and disadvan- Following e of the little there that are good es, but even more y appear in the book: ma got to you to e're re send a little of the ed When back safe me t ove be ng about the world, have as Everyth screw 1 Imporlant Books 1 The Philosophy of Despair. David Starr Jordan. 75 ceats, $1.50, $5.00. The Romarce of the Commenp’ace. Gelett Burgess. $1.50, £5.00, $15.00. The Cynic's Calend r of Revised Wiscom Herford, Mumford, Mizner, 75 cents. The Children of the Thornwreath, Gertrude La Page. $1.50. Tomoye Catalogue upon request. Illustrated Elder and Shepard 238 Post Sireet, San Frnnctseo T e | . BY.. Kestern Authors Bend for our complete catalogue of Western publications and see what the is producing! ! 1 information ts wanted month- HE LITERARY WEST, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR! ! ! 11 Cell on or write us for ANYTHING IN THE BOOK LINE! ! 1 TEE WEITAKER & RAY COMPANY, (WHOLESALE AND RETAIL) T23 Market Street. San Franciseo FEGTIRGGISIOSIRORIO A right < ‘b ) D TUMOR: & Doy, &na you can't nave minme. Some ‘men learn the value of money by not having any and starting out to pry a few dollars loose from the odd millions that are lying around; and ‘some iearn it by having fifty thousand or €0 left to them and starting out to_spend it as if it were fifty thousand a year. Some men learn the value of truth by having to do bus ness with liars; and some by going to Sunday echeol. Some men learn the cussedness of whisky by having drunken father: and some by having a good mother. Some men get an education from other men and newspapers and public libraries; and some get Il from profes- sors and parchments—it doesn't make any spe- clal difference how you ger a half-Nelson on the right thing, just so you get it and freeze on to it. The package doesn’t count after the eye's been attracted by it. and in the end it finds its way to the ash heap. It's the qual- ity of the guods ins.de which telis, When they once get into the kitchen and up (o th You can cure a ham in dry salt and yo cure It in sweet pickie, and when you're through you've got pretty good eating efther way, provided you started in with a sound ham. If you didn't, it doesn’t make any spe- cial difference how cured it—the ham- tryer's going to strike r spot around the bone. And it doesn't make any difference how much sugar and fancy le_you soak into a fellow. he's no good unless he's sound and sweet at the o . The first thing that any education ought to give a man is coaracter. and the second thing is educstion. That is where I'm a little skit- ish about this college busin I'm not start- in to preach to you, because I know a ung fellow with the right sort of stuff in him preaches to himself harder than any one else can, and that he's mighty often switched off the r'ght path by having it pointed out to him in the wrong way. I remember when I was a boy, and T wasn't a very bad boy as boys go, 0ld Doc Hoover EOt a notion in his head that 1 ought to join the church, and he scared me out of it for five years by asking me right out loud in Sun- day school If T didn’t want to be saved, and then laying for me after the service and pray- ing with me. Of course I wanted to be saved, Put 1 d.dn’t want to be saved quite so pub: When & boy’s had a good mother he’s got a good conscience, and when he's got a good con- sclence he don’t need to have right and wrong peled for him. Now that your ma's left and the apron strings are cut, you're naturaily run- & up against a new sensation every minute, It you'll simply use a littie conscience as & T and probe into a thing which looks sweet and sound on the £kin to see if you can't fetch Up @ sour smell from the bone you'll be all right I'm anxious that you thould be a good scholar, but I'm more anxious that you should d, clean man. And if you graduate be a g with a sound conscience I shan’t care so much { there are a few holes in your Latin. There e two parts of a college education—the part that you get in the schoolroom frem the pro- fessors and the part that you get outside of it frem the boys. the really important art For th make you a can make you a man. s a good deal like eatinz—a fellow tell which particular thing did him good, but he can usually tell which one did him harm. After a square meal of roast beef nd ables and mince pie and watermelon say just which ingredient is going into musele, but u don’'t have to be very bright to figure out which one started the de- mand for painkiller in your insides, or to guess, next morning, which one made you belleve in a personal devil the night before. And so, while a fellow can't figure out to an ounce whether it's Latin or algebra or history or what among the solids that is building him ug in this place or that, he can go right along feeding them in and betting that they're not the things that turn his tongue fuzzy. It's dowr among the sweets, among his amusements and recreations, that he's going to find his stomach- ache, and jt's there that he wants to go slow &nd to pick and choose. It’s not the first haif. but the second half of a college education which merchants mear when they ask if a college education pays. It's the Willie and the Bertie boys; the chocolate eclaire and tutti-frutti boys: the la-de-dah and the baa-baa-billy-goat boys: the high cock-a- lo-rum and the cock-a-doodle-do boys; the Bat Jove, halr-parted-in-the-middle, cigaroot-smok- ing. Champagne-Charlie, upeall-night-and-in- all-day bo that make 'em doubt the cast value of the college output, and overiook the and blood-gravy boys, the shirt. and high-water-pants boys, who take llege education and make some fellow's s¢ hum with it coliege education pay? Does it pay tc d in pork trimmings at five cents a pound al e hopper and draw out nice, cunning littl sages at twenty cents a pound at the other end? Does it pay to take a steer that's been running loose on the range and liv- Ing on cactus and petrified wood till he's just a bunch of barb-wire and sole-leather and feed him corn till he's just a solid hunk of por- terhouse steak and oleo oil? You bet it pays. Anything that trains a boy to think and to think guick pays: anything that teaches & boy to get the answer before the other felicw gets through biting the pencil pays College doesn’t make fools; it develops them. It doesn’'t make bright men; it develops them, A fool will turn out a fool, whether he goes to college or not, though he'll probably. turn out a different sort of a fool. And a good, strong boy will turn out a bright, strong man, whether he's worn smooth in the grab-what-you-want-and- eat-standin ith-one-eye-skinned-for - the - dog school of the streets and stores, or polished up and slicked down in the give-your-order-to-the- walter-ane et-a-sixteen-course-dinner school of the profes: ut while lack of a college edu- roast-beef sleeves their c cation can't keep No. 1 down, having it boosts I yon gave some fellows a talent wrapped in a napkin to start with in_busin they would swap the talent for a gold brick and lose the napkin d there are others d start out with just a nankin, wi up with it in the dry goods business in a small way and then coax the other fellow's talent into 1t Payday is al a month off for the spend- t, and he is never able to realize more an sixty cents on any dollar that m. But a dollar Is worth one hund six cents to a good business man, never spends the dollar. Baron Munchausen was the first traveling man. and my drummers’ bills etill show his in- fluence. 1 always lay it down as a safe proposition that the fellow who has to break open the baby's bank for car fare toward the Jast of the week {sn't going to be any Russeff Sage when it comes to trading with the old man's money When 1 was a young fellow and out of a place T always made it a rule to take the first job that offered, and to use it for bait. You can catch a minnow with a worm, and a bass will take your minnow. A good fat bass will tempt an otter. and then you've got something worth skinning. You must learn not to overwork a dollar any more than you would a horse. Three per cent is a small load for it to draw: six, a safe one: when it pulls in ten for you It's likely work- ing out West and you've mot to watch to ces that it doesn’t buck: when it makes twenty you own & blame good critter or a mighty foolish one. and you want to make dead sure which; but if it draws a hundred it's playing the races or something just as hard on horses and dol- lars, and the first thing you know'you won't have even & carcass to haul (o the glue fac- ory. Adam invented all the different that you o would omes to d and and he ways in which 2 young man can make a fool of him- self, and the college yell at the end of them is Just a frill that doesn't change essentlals. There are times when it’s safest to be lone- some. Use a little common sense, caution and conscience. You can stock a store with those three commodities, when you get enough of them. But you've got to beein getting them young. They ain’t catching after you toughen up a bit, Seeing the world is like charity—it covers a multitude of sins, and, like charity, it ought to begin at home, Culture is not a matter of a change of cli- mate. You'll hear more about Browning to the square foot in the Mississippi Valley than you will In England. The only animal which the Bible calls pa- tient is an ass, and that's both good doctrine and good matural history. The only thing you ever find In pastry that you don't put in yourself is files, Bret Harte’s Last Book. The last volume which Bret Harte com- pleted before his death was a collection of new “Condensed Novels,” which Hough- ton, Miffiin & Co. have just published. They bear abundant testimony to the fact that Bret Harte's humor kept its flow un- diluted and undiminished to the last. Here, with the freshness and zest that re- call his earliest sallies of wit, he makes genial mockery of present-day authors. Under the happlly conceived title of “Rupert of Resembler’ he travesties An- thony Hope's “Rupert of Hentzau," in “Golly and the Christian” he icules Hall Caine’'s “Christian” and in “Dan’l Borem” he has a sly laugh at “David Harum.” KIp/INg also comes In Tor some amusing paredying in “Stories Three,” Stevenson is the victim of the satirist in onn Longbowe” and *“The Stolen Cigar Case” takes off Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” very neatly. The book is, in fact, a body of criticism combined with humor. Price, 31 ‘Wandering Heroes. “Stories of Heroes™ is the title of a new series of supplementary readers in his- tory, edited by Charles B. Gilbert, Super- intendent of Schools, Rochester, N. Y. The volumes already planned are classf- fied as myths, stories of nomadic life, stories of o stori s «f conquest anl emipreand storiesof freedom. Other books concaining stories of heroes who have helped to make life worth living will fol- ing Heroes,” is just issued: two others, ““Heroes of Myth” and “Heroes of Chiv- alry,” are in press for early publication. The order of the subjects is based on psychological, rather than chronological sequence. Thus types representing simi- lar stages of clvilization are presented without regard to chronology. The variety in the ten stories in ‘“Wan- dering Heroes” is shown in the title: Abraham _ and _ Isaac,” *Joseph “Moses,” “Prince Siddartha,” “The First Battle of Cyrus the Great,” “The Khan of tne Silver Crown,” “Ciovis the Frank,” “The Dwarf of Attila the Hun,” ‘““The Saga of the Land cf Grapes” and “Good- win and Knut.” (Published by Siiber, Burdett & Co., New York. Price 60 cents.) Jeb Hutton. Jeb Hutton is a backwoods Georglan youth, raised in loving chumship by his widowed father. Having aspirations wider than the life of a small planter, his future is settled for him by the courage and ingenuity he displayed in releasing from a dangerous position a Government boat which had been snagged in the river. His reward comes in the shape of an or- der to report at the office of the United States engineers in Savannah. The boat he takes passage on is disabled by an ac- cident, and to keep the appointment at the specified hour Jeb walks twenty-five miles, carrying a heavy valise. five miles being through a swamp. Jeb is put under one Kelly, a capable young feliow, who conceals his ability under a flippant manner. Between the two a strong friendship develops. Months pass in hard work and earnest study, relieved by the decent athletic play that keeps Jack (Jeb) from being a Guil boy. The recls mation and harbor work of the Govern- ment is interestingly described. Jeb and Kelly save a contractor from being robbed by negro desperadoes, and the battle which Kelly has with the leader mak-s the pulses throb. Afterward this negro shoots at Kelly while he and Jeb are at the river work, and Kelly goes overboard, Jeb killing the rascal by a marvelous shot. Kelly is drawn under a barge, whither Jeb follows in desperate efforts at rescue. Kelly gets out into the current at last, almost dead, and Jeb saves him. The race to physicians by the boat with the unconscious man aboard, the engineer covering the gauge with an overcoat so ne can lie about the steam pressure if needed with a clear conscience, is thrillingly toid. From this outline it can be seen there is no lack of stirring incident in the book. (By James B. Connolly. Charles Scrib- ner's Sons, New York. Price $1 20.) Famous Paintings. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, have just brought from the press a book that can- not fail to meet with the appreciative at- tention of lovers of art and literature. This new work appears under the title of “Famous Paintings—as Seen and De- scribed by Famous Writers,” and is ed- ited and translated by Esther Singleton, the author‘of “Turrets, Towers and Tem- ples,” “Great Pictures,” ‘“Wonders of Nature,” ‘“‘Romantic Castles and Pal- “Paris,” “London,” “Lowe in Lit- “The Music and *translator of Dramas of Richard Wagner. The present volume is in a way a con- tinuation of a former work by the same author, namely, ‘Great Pictures.” The plctures in this series are net only paint- ings with great reputations, but each one is a painting of the very first rank; many of them are portraits and all of them have their own peculiar charm of origi- nality. The editor deserves especial cred- ft for her careful selection of the au- thors; she has not only chosen them for their undoubted knowledge of the sub- jects whereof they write but also for thelr interesting treatment of them. The book 1is copiously .and superbly illus- trated. Price $160. John Malcolm. BEdward Fuller has written a splendid novel entitled “John Malcolm.” It Is from the press of Snow & Farnham, and is sold for §1 50. The story, a latter day one, Is a narration of the events in the lives of the relatives of John Malcolm, a very wealthy but aged resident of New York City. The old man lives In an old house In the “unfashionable quarter of the city. He is surrounded by his ser- vants, and has as a companion a manly young fellow named Donald Holme, who is a poor relation. Holme has been reared by the aged man and loves him as a father. The old man has an affection for the young man and has made him his heir. The old man’s life has been embit- tered by the actions of his son and @daughter. The former was a ne'er do well, and ran away from home at an early age. The daughter disgraced him by eloping on the night of her wedding with a man named Warrinder, an Eng- lishman of good birth, but weak morals. The daughter returns to her father’s home twenty years after the occurreace, and establishes herself with all the rights’ of a daughter. She brings her child, a girl of 20, and a companion ramed Dix. The latter is a sneak and an impostor. The daughter of the old man takes a vio- lent dislike to young Holme and proceeds to make his }ife miserable. With the aid of Miss Dix she succeeds in driving him from the house. Mrs. Warrinder's child Is a lovable girl, who abhors Miss Dix The illustrations on this page are from George Horace Lorimer’s new book ‘Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son”’—Copyright, 1902, by Small, Maynard and Com- pany,. Boston. L 5 o and condemns the actions of her mother. The old man dies and there is a squab- ble over the fortune. In the end Holme receives the bulk of the old man's money and marries the daughter of Mrs. War- rinder. The latter becomes reconciled as the money remains in the family. The author has drawn a splendid in John Malcolm. He is a man cided opinions, brusque in a Ww but kind of heart. The story is a romantic one and will hold the reader to the end of the chapter. Lord Chesterfield’s Letters. “Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Scn,” selected and egited, with introduc- tion and notes, by Joseph B. Seabury, Is a new volume in the “Series of English siassics,” published by Silver, Burdett & Co., New York. Fifty representative let- ters have been selected from the 1000 pub- lished letters of Lord Chesterfield. These treat a variety of subjects—Iiterature, history, law, politics, architecture, etc. One of the charms of these letters is that Lord Chesterfield did not write' them with the expectation that they would be published. They were intended solely for his son, and his welfare is constantly in the mind of the writer. Every possible argument upon deportment, care of the person, taste in dress, subjects for con- versation. etc., s brought forward, so that the letters may fitly be called “a perfect system of good breeding.” Aside from this, their literary finish, insight into character, practical good sense and keen wit make them well worth study- ing. (Price 3 cents.) King Mombo. The boy ‘who is interested in strange lands and the customs of their inhabit- ants will be pleased with “King Mombo,” the latest product of the pen of that vet- eran traveler. Paul du Chaillu. The va- ried experiences of the author have well qualified him for the task he has unde taken in this and previous volumes. The son of an ‘African traveler, for fifty years he has devoted a large portion of his time to journeyings in the Dark Continent and to telling thereabout. His style is pleas- ing, and the taics of adventure in pursuit of crocodiles, gorillas and elephants are very interesting. The book is finely illus- trated. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. Price $1 50.) Literary Notes. Besides ite usual interesting paragraphs of “Chronicle and Comment.” the Octo- ber number of “The Bookman” contains the following: *“The Cup” (poem), Eisa Barker: ““Matthew Arnoid” (illustrated), G. K. Chesterton; “A Falling Star” (poem). E. Scott O'Connor. ‘‘American Caricature and Comic Art”—in two parts (illustrated): part 1, Bush. Davenport, Opper, Nelan, McDcugall. Powers, Out- cault, Swinnerton, Marriner, Barritt, by La Touche Hancock. “Thomas Hardy's Wo- character of de- men,” Benjamin de Casseras; ‘‘Maurice Hewlett's Italy’ (with illustrations in color by Walter Hale). Louise Closser Hale: “W. 8. Gilbeft.” Lewis M. Isaacs “The Land of the ‘Pilgrim's Progress’ (iNustrated), J. W. Davies; “Early American Bookbinding” (and kindred subjects) (illustrated). Willilam Lor- ing Andrews. Four. novels of the moment—1, Richard Harding Davis’ “Captain Macklin,” Arthur _Bartlett Maurice; 2, Mrs. _ Wilson's A Speckled Bird,” Helen Clarkson; 3, Eden Phillpott's “The River,” Carl Hovey; 4, Louise Forsslund's *“The Ship of Dreams," F. M. Holly: “Here and There!" (the political situation), H. T. P.; “The Storm" (poem), Arthur Stringer; “The First Com- plete English Edition of the Poems of Leo XI11,” Lida Rose McCabe; “Song. Flower and Pearl” (poem), Thomas Walsh; “The Drama of the Month"—*The New Clown," “The Rogers Brothers in Harvard." Alice Fischer in *“Mrs. Jack,” John Drew in “The Mummy and the Humming Bird,” by Frank Moore Colby. Dr. Edward Everett Hale's “Memories ) of a Hundred Years” will be published by the Macmillan Company early in Novem- ber in two volumes, with many portraits and fac-similes of interesting letters and other illustrations. In his long and active life Dr. Hale has been In touch with al- most every prominent man and woman assoclated with the country’s soclal and political history during the last century. It will be undoubtedly one of the most interesting blographical works published during the fall. 5. R. Crockett, the well-known novelist, whose “The Dark o' the Moon” was pub- lished not long since by the Harpers, has Just' celebrated his forty-second birthday. Mr. Crockett is not only in the prime of life and health, but also at the height of popularity. His novels have been re- spectively translated into most European languages, and, strange to say, have now even been put into Arabic. Itis said that the dialect of the Kailyard when put into Arabic looks very much like Mark Twain’s “Jumping Frog” story when it was translated into French. The J. B. Lippincott Company will pub- lish shortly a bues from the pen of Julius Gabe entitled “Yachting: Historical Sketches of the Sport.”” The origin and development of the principal yacht clubs are dealt with in chronological order, and several chapters are devoted to the growth of the sport on the Continent. The author, a well-known yachtsman and writer on the subject, notably in the col- umns of the Pall Mall Gazette and the County Gentleman of England, has avoid- ed dry technicalities as much as possible, and is equally interesting to sailor and landlfbber. The volume, which will be copiously illustrated with full-sized plates, is dedicated by special permission to Sir Thomas Lipton, Bar “The Reg’lar Lark's a very gay old Bird; At sunrise often may his volce be heard As jauntily he wends his homeward way, And trills a fresh and merry roundelay And some old wise philosopher has said, Rise with a lark and with a lark to bed.” These lines indicate the witty quality of “A Phenomenal Fauna,” a book of de- ightful nonsense by these most clever and »riginal humorists, Carolyn Wells and Oli- ver Herford. Miss Wells has never made funnier rhymes. The humor of her work is absolutely fresh and original. She has been cleverly abetted in her comic intent by Mr. Herford, who contribute a series of "grotesquely amusing illustrations in color. “A Phenomenzl Fauna,” just published by R. H. Russell, New York, is a novelty in humorous literature,and will rank with the most entertaining books of the year. The Macmillan Company, New York, has Just published a volume of “Stories ot California,” by Ella M. Sexton. This vol- ume embodies In a series of narratives the -salient points of the history and present conditions of California. The author has briefly sketched the period of early explor- ations In the great wilderness where only Indiang and wild animals roved, the founding of the Franciscan missions and the peaceful ways of the Padres together with the gay and romantic days of Span- ish possession. The coming of Los Grin- gos (The Americans), the wild gold excite- ment and the Argonauts of 1849, the link- ing together of Atlantic and Pacific shores by the overland railroad and the history of the city of Saint Francis, that metropo- lis of the Pacific Coast, form the subject- matter of several stories. Very interest- ing chapters describe the birds, animals and fishes of the State, the great wheat- fields and the fruit-industry, while the unique physical charateristics receive close attention. Much careful research, mate- rially aided by the author’'s long residence in California, renders the book valuable for its accurate information. It is prima- rily intepded for a supplementary reader in the higher grades of the public schools. The following is the contents for Outing for Octobe: “The Passing of the North Cance,” Tappan Adney; ‘‘Jiujutsu—J panese Self-Defense Without Weapons, T. Philip Terry; “Hunting the Virginia Deer,” T. 8. Van Dyke; “On the Great Lakes,” H. T. Sudduth; “‘Scientific Horse Racing—\Weights, Distance and Handi- caps.” W. 8. Vosburg, Jockey Club offi- cial handicapper; *Joshua Slocum,” Clif- ton Johnson; ‘“Theé Back Track—A Story of the Primal Instinct,” Marstyn Pol- lough-Pogue; “How to Build and Use a Duck-Float,” J. B. 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