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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1907.
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"The Uprising of the Many."
HE Uprising of the Many" ih
the title which rhftfles KU-
wnrd Kus.scll uyes in repub-
lishing his articles which
appeared in Everybody's Magazine as
"Soldiers of the Common Ci.><•<!." Ilo has
front? rt/iintl the world from England
through Fiance, Gcrmuny and Switzer-
land, to India, Japan, Australia and New
/niland, contrasting the evils under
which the people Buffer where private
greed dominates the Government, with
the benefits secured when tho "many"
take a hand for themselves and domiinte
greed. Always he seeks to draw lessons
for tho use of our own country in solv-
ing the great industrial unit govern-
mental problems now pressing on it.
Heie is Air. Russell's summary of what
he lias seen and recorded. "The naked
facts, o.s certain as day and night, ar»*
that other cities than ours do get along
without sirap*hanging, without crowd* I
cars, without anarchistic corporations,
without th« debauching of official moral-
ity by vested interests. Other countries
than ours do get along without railroad
rebates, corporation graft or corporation
int *rfereneo with public affairs. And so
long as that is so the condition of our
public services is an Indelible disgrace
for which no ingenuity can devise an ex-
cuse." J lis program of action is "to sub-
stitute the interest of the community for
tho Interest of tho fortunate or powerful
Individual," and "to restrain greed, not
l>y regulating it, but by making impos-
sible some oi its most obvious and dan-
gerous operations."
Tl-e book is brilliantly written, though
tlie coloring is often too hi^li to conform
with tho requirements of si rid veracity.
Ancihe" delect is tin; tendency ot the
writer to attribute all the e. finds in
sonii communities to Governin nt, as well
as to attiibute all the benefits derived by
the people in other communities like-
wise t<» government. Had autocracy is
made by Mm the sole cause of lndia'<s
HUffering. while good government by toe
many la the pole cause of New Zealand's
great and widely distributed (omtorts of
life. That ti e crowded India population
was present before the British Govern-
ment came, and that New Zealand has
had spccial advantages in entering upon
the modern era, are not given anything
like their proper importance as facts.
Discount the book for these defects;
recognize, in oiler words, that the con-
trasts ol individual wickedness and vir-
tue, intelligence and stupidity, are not so
gr*at as ne makes them out to be, and
the book can be read with the greatest
advantage. It takes the point of view of
the "people," and that gives it a merit
far beyond similar works which are writ-
ten primarily from some other point of
view.
("The Uprising of the Many," by
Charles liMward Russell. Doubleday,
Page iSr Co., New York; Jl.iiO net.)
"The Code of* Victor Jallot."
"The. Code of Victor Jallot" is a read-
abl-* romance of Louisiana in the early
days of the Nineteenth Century. The
story is by Edward Childs Carpenter, who
will be remembered as the author of
"Captain Courtesy," which was well re-
ceived last year. The author has pro-
duced a strong and fascinating bit of
f:' lion which should commend itself to
his a'dmlrers. The Illustrations, of the
period of which the book deals, are clev-
erly di *ie by Klenore Plalster Abbott.
("The C««de of Victor Jallot.' by Ed-
ward Childs Carpenter. Published! by
George \V. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia;
$l.5o.j"
"The Virgin Birth of Christ."
Dr James Orr's important work, "The
Virgin Hiiih of Christ." has just been
published. It will create a profound im-
pression, and will, without doubt, be-
come the standard wbrk on the subject
from the conservative standpoint. His
brilliant and able statement and broad
yet conservative discussion strongly rec-
ommend the book. Dr. Orr had the ben-
efit «>f papers submitted1 to h!m by some
of the greatest scholars of the day, and,
as excerpts from these pipers are in-
cluded in this volume. It is authoritative
and almost indispensable.
The lectures included in this book were
delivered by Dr. Orr in N w York dur-
ing the month of April 1007. Their aim
is to establish faith in the incarnation,
to meet objections, and to show the in-
timate connection of fact and doctrine
in this thanseendant mystery.
The contents are: "Statement of the
Case," "Issues and Preliminary Objec-
tions, " "The Gospel Witnesses," "Gen-
uineness and Integrity of the Records."
"Sources of the Narratives," "Historical
and Internal Credibility." C'The Birth
Narratives and the Remaining Literature
of the New Testament," "Alleged Silence
rf the New Testamert," "Relation to
Old Testament Prophecy," "Witness of
Early Church History," "Mythical The-
ories of Origin of Narratives of the Vir-
gin Birth," "Alleged Heithen Analogies,"
"Person of Christ as Involving Miracle
Pinlessness and Uniqueness," "Doctrinal
Bearings of the Virgin Birth." "The In-
carnation." "Summary and Conclusion,"
"Appendix Giving Opinions of Living
Scholars."
("The Virgin Birth of Christ." by Dr.
.1. Orr. Published by Charles Scribner's
Sorts, New York; $1.60.
"The Heart Line."
Ooletle Burgess' "Th° Heart Line" is a
fascinating combination of rugge.1
strength that has a primeval element in
it, and the dp.inty florescence of sophisti-
cation. The story stands to he called
everything from a picture of the "fast
set" of San Francisco to an expose of
•spiritualistic metVirtds and' fake fortune
tellers. It will be set down as dangerous,
insniHng. a rank piece of sensationalism,
a tremendous ple<v of realism that, has
a wholesome mission. Whatever else
may be true of it. it is a cracking good
story of San Francisco: a story in which
tin re are three types of women, who, if
thev can be found elsewhere, are here
iriven an accent that makes them dis-
tinctively of the Golden Gate. The. best
of them all is Fancy Gray, who called
herself "a drifter."
This Fancy is a stroke of gonitis—she's
an American "Trilby." a mingling of
whole-heartedncss jollity, pluck, beautv,
wit, daintiness, and a something, which,
for lank of a better word, one must, call
nerve. Fancv Gray is a character that
wl 1 last. We may disapprove of her;
t.ity her: condemn a world that makes
per rmssihle and makes no possibilities
for h« r: but once known, Fancy will
haunt the memorv like a breath of wind-
blown heather; like the laugh of joy from
th" voice of a friend.
"The Heart Line" is a book that will
be read and quoted.
("The Heart Line." bv Gelette Burgess.
Published by T'lte Bobos-Merrill Co., In-
dianapolis.)
About Roosevelt.
The many-sided Roosevelt is always an
interesting subject, and has never been
more so than trday. Here is the latest
word on one side of our President's per-
sonality pronounced1 by the dean of
American Nature writers. Mr. Burroughs
tel's the "dory of a trip with the President
to the Yellowstone Park. He says that
tho most interesting thing he saw in (list
wonderful country was the President
himself, and he gives a very graphic and
entertaining account of him. The Presi-
dent. as a naturalist is the author's chief
theme throughout the volume. Trie ac-
count of walking and talking with the
FresbVnt at Oyster Bay brings out Ids
nullities as a genuine lover of naturo
and «n exceptionally acute and accurate
obs-rver. Mr. Burroughs' acquaintance
\vl»h Mr. Hoosevelt is of long standing,
and he knows th's outdoor side of him
jLso well and gytonnthUe* with it so thor-
oughly that what he has to say of him Is
sure to be of the keenest Interest to
evi ry lover of nature and every admirer
ol Mi" President
("Trnmphm nt d Camping With Presi-
dent Koos»'v» ltby Job i Burroughs.
Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
Boston; $1 )
MAGAZINES.
The Home Magazine.
The contents of the October Home Mag-
azine contain among other items the fol-
lowing: Satan Sand- rson, a s- rlal story,
Hallle Ermlnle Rives; Hallowe'en, a
poem. Site la11 Lewis; The Blind God, a
poem. C. A. Dolsen; Old October, a poem,
illustrated, James Whit' oinb Riley;
Strengthening Home Ti •«. Mrs. Abraham
Polhemus; Tin Greater Housekeepers,
illustrated, Earl Mayo; Cupid and Street
Cur Curds. Kv-rard Jack Applet ai, iliin
Ir'.ted !>y Will < I it ■ 1 • •; The Church Wed-
ding, with phot'i^mph , Marion Harlatui,
1 'erorating for Weddings, illustrated, W.
c Fits-'•« raid; Shrubs for l.andseaping,
illusti alt tl, Tarklngton Baker; Mainly
About People, with portraits; The Un-
known Quantity, a story. Lotlit P Gam-
bit : Tho Dillingham Denial, .i story, / dla
Armstrong; Making the Cellar Sanitary,
George i;. W.ilsh; A Seven Room Gani-
brel Roof Hon.-.'. illustrated, Charles .Q.
S'-dgwIck; About the Raising of Water
Fowl, illustrated Miller Purvis; Woman's
FrlnuStfhips, Kate Murdison; The Thorn
of tic Rose, ;i poem. Henry M. Verde;
Horseback Riding, Christeie McVaie;
Keononiipil Home Furnishings*. Bessie
IPanehard; Ahewie Terriers, illustrated,
Arthur Kockwoi t; Ibuce Kurnituiv Mak-
ing. with drawlnus. Kugen ■ ('lute; How
to Reduce Your Weight. Framis Kack-
« 11; Captivating Coiffures, illustrated,
Alary Thorp--: Prertv Patterns From
simple Stitches, with designs. Esther
Harmon: Twe.'itv Sauces, illuFtrat *0,
Grefn Borden* The Hour-wife's Assist-
ant; Fall Fashions, illustrated, Rose Cccil
Randall
Indoors and Out.
'Phe contents for October fire as fol-
lows: Libraries Old an.I New, John A.
Gad< ; Hunting a Town Apartment, Flor-
eiiee Finch Kelly; The Display of Table
China ware, Bertha M. Howland; Floor
C'.y, rings for th<» Winter llour.e, Page
Dunbar: Upstnirs. Downstairs, In Living
Rooni and Chamber, Christine Terhune
Herrick; The Indoors and' Out Series of
Mode ate Cost Dwellings, IV. A House
for a Servantless F amily. Wet la rill P.
Trout, architect; The Winter Hill Gar-
dening Contest. E. M. \V.; What to Do
With the Walls. George Ilavwood; A
House for a Narrow Lot; Celebrated
Formal Gardens of America. II.; Regu-
lation of Heat Indoors, David H. Cuyler;
Beauty Indoors; From Our Office Win-
dow.
Sports Afield.
The October issue of Sports Afield
contains much that will be of interest
even to the man with only a mediocre
appreciation of tlie things pertaining to
tho realm of sport. Asa matter of course,
the articles deal with matters of sport-
ing interest, but these aro extremely in-
teresting in themselves.
Of these one of the best is an article
entitled "Big Game for the Texas Bor-
der." Here Harry Van Demark details
the Inteiesting leatures of a miming trip
just across tne border. He brings out
many Interesting stories of the life or
death of the ambitions of a party of
sportsmen on a hunting trip in this State.
Tne story is replete with rich narrative
concerning camp life in the Lone Star
Sfate.
November Smart Set.
"Knee Deep ir. June" is the title of tho
novelette which opens the November
Smart fc'ot. It is written by Eleanor
Jloyt Brainerd who can tell as bright
and fabcinatlng a story as any living
writer. This novelette is by far the mosi
delightful thing Mrs. Brainerd has yet
done. The story moves with a dash and
buo.vaney quite Irresistible.
"I ne Wonderful Lady," by Henry Syd-
nor Harrison, is a short story that hinges
on a most diverting situation. It is sel-
dom that a magazine Is able to secure
-•o delightful a piece of humor. In "A
Glass Mountain," van Tassel Sutphen
writes a charming love story; "The
Women Davvison Met," by Edwin L.
Sabin, is an amazing tale of a woman
anarchist; "The Ota Jug," by Austin
Adams, is a splendid Japanese love story;
"King's X," by Juliet Wiibor Tompkins,
is one of that favorite author's rollick-
ing tales* "A Reconciliation," by Stephen
Gwynn, is a powerful love stbry, so un-
erring in its psychology that it can be
read again and again; and "The Wander-
er." by Katharine Metealf Roof, Is a de-
licious bit of humorous dialogue.
The ess ey is from the pen ot Bliss Car-
man, who writes of "The Might of Man-
ners." Mr. Carman always has a mes-
sage and he always delivers it in the
most musical language, whether writing
m prose or verse.
An important new feature of this issue
of the Smart Set is the dramatic depart-
ment by Channing Pollock. In his en-
tertaining way Mr. Pollock reviews the
best plays that have been produced both
in this country and abroad during Hie
last, few months, and his article will be
read with the greatest interest.
The poetry is exceedingly above the av-
erage. ami comes from su?h writers as
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Elsa Barker, Theo-
dora Garrison and Archibald Sullivan.
Broadway Magazine.
'I he contents for November are: The
Greatest Port in the World, Charles H.
Cochrane: A Man With a Million a Year,
Eugene I'. Lvle Jr.; Columbia—A Metro-
politan I "niversify, Charles i\ lawyer;
Prominent People ir. Picture and Para-
graph; What Has Christian Science Real-
ly Accomplished? William Allen John-
ston; Fair and Famous Jewish Women,
Frances Maule Bjorkinnn; A Painter of
American Life. Florence Finch. K»liy;
Dining in Bohemia, Anne O'liagnn; Some
New Plays and Playhouses, Harris Mer-
lon Lyon; Tlu- Idiot on Broadway, John
Kendriek Bangs; Or the Martian Way,
•'apt. H. G. Bishop, IT. S. A.; Tho Man,
the Mission and the Maid, George Ran-
dolph Chester; The Letters of a De-
butante, Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd; The
Floe-trie Light Bill, Walter Hackett; The
Courtship of Miles Shoehan, Porter Eta/ r-
srin Browne; Tre Year of Hei Life, Ed-
nah Aiken; The Vow and Viiginia, For-
iest llalsey: The Automat!**' Tilde Saver.
Frank Crane; The Good of the Service,
Marcus Day; The Rector's Fee, Blanche
I. Goell.
Current Harper's Weekly.
marriage of Queen Margie rlta of Italy.
Madam do Buns, n is a daughter-in-law
oi i Ik- wtdl kn »wn Baron de Buns< n. The
artist ana writer Charles Wellington
Furlong takes his readers to "A Planta-
tion in the African I-lllls," and in text
and pictures shows their soma of the
striking peculiarities of that couutiy. In
"Soeiallsm and Communism in Greece,"
'I hoi,i is D. Seymour. LL. D, professor
"I Greek at Yale University, paints a
nn-st interesting picture of At'.enl ui life,
and show a now many >f our "new" ideas
are merely a renewal of the old. The
till unsolved problems of the Sargasso
S< a, flint wonderful cpiiet sea t.f sea-
ue (is lying between Florida and' tho
('aiary Islands, .ire presented ami par-
tially • xpl .lned in Cyrus C. Adams' ar-
tel' in this number. Jennie Brooks
writes a bright naturo article ubbut the
doilies of birds, based upon her own
patient and careful observations in Loul-
and ■ Ihio. in tho d<partment of
language Prof. Lounsbury of Yale takes
up other quarrels between the purists
w In criticise and th6 great writers who
fellow Jieir own ideas and by their ex-
amples establish usage Thornton Oak-
ley , i v es .an account of lus amusing ad-
venture.'! on a Spanish railway, for which
he has made the drawings himself. Be-
sides Mrs. Ward's novel, tb- r«- are eight
slior' fortes bv Norman Duncan. Mary
E Wilkons Freeman, Justus Miles For-
man. Margaret Cameron, Una L. Silber-
rad Ih rrlson Rhodes, Jcan-tto L^e, and
Klsio h'lngiraster. There is a poem by
tiie Duke t»f Argvll, and many illustra-
tions in color, tint, and black and white.
In tie Draw -r Is a tlroll monologue by
Mario Manning.
Harper's Bazaar.
The November contents arc in part as
follows: A Thanksgiving Message, Anne
O'Hagan; Billy and a Thanksgiv-
ing Si"rv. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman;
Three Th inksgiviivg Songs. Clinton Scol-
lard; Wal'ed In. a novel, Chapter XV.,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Two Thanks-
giving-. a story, Annie Hamilton Don-
i IR The House of (Sonffi a poem, Ads
Foster Murrav; The Lund of Old Age,
Part V.. \n Elderly Woman; The World
of Fashion, Fashions for Schoolgirls,
Nove11je»■ in Neckwear. Lessons In Econ-
omical Drevslng. Marie Olivier; The
Hon'•<•!aoth« r's Troblems. Bazar Readers;
Table Decorations, Martha Cutler; The
Thank.1 giving Dinner. Josephine Grenler;
Etiquette for Men. Florence Howe Hall;
Home Made Candle and Lamp Shades,
Josephine W^Uow: Physical Training
for city Children. Marianna Wheeler; On
a Sun Dial, a poem. Charles Buxton Oo-
ing: A Nut Crack Night Party. Bertha
Hasbrook; Simple Dishes for Autumn,
Josephine .jrenier; Blind Windows, a
poem. Edith M. Thomas; Our Girls. Anna
Ogden; A Hace Table Set, Nellie Clarke
Brown.
Technical World.
The following is a partial list of lead-
ing articles for November. To Pump
Dry a Great Sea, Emmett C. Hall;
Trapping Wild Tuskers, Thomas A. John-
son: Twenty Millions for Cut Flowers,
William George Fitz-Gerald; Sixty Mil-
hoes a Year Wasted. Rene P-ache; San
Francisco Eighteen Months After, photo-
graphs; Power House Under a River,
Arthur H. Goldsborough; To Cut the
Ocean in Two, p. T. McGrath; Fighting
Sand Blizzards. Guy E. Mitchell; To L'sa
Trackless Trolleys, David Beecroft; Con-
ouest of the North Woods, James Cooke
Mills; Spouting Bores of Australia, Wil-
liam George; New Gas Engine Fuel,
Howard Grene.
Young's
the style
Magazine.
Nearer the style of European writers
in its fiction than any magazine in the
country, Young's Magazine proclaims it-
vplf "alone in its class."
In "An impossible Girl," a novelette
by Shcppard Ctevens, a new species of
"superman," is portrayed, who outrivals
Bernard Shaw's notorious Ann In inge-
nuity and daring.
Another tale equally startling In theme
is "The Unknown Country," by Aubrey
Lapston wherein, whiie in a hypnotic
state, 11 woman's love is turned from one
mar to another. "Fate and a Divorce,"
by Paul Reboux, from the French, is a
merry characteristic little tale of Par-
isian society. "The Two Kittys," by
Nora Dunblane, is a charming love story
of an actress, "The ITpperworld, the Un-
derwcrldi and J. Oliver Delancey," by
Forrest Halsev, and "Made in Heaven,
by Carey Wonderly, are both full of
color, the one laid in Paris, the other in
New York. There is another Arsene Lu-
pin story, wherein tho clever thief is still
ahead of the world and in "On Broad-
way and Off" are half a dozen laughs
with popular stage folk, among them Gus
Rogt rs. fohn Drew, Raymond Hitchcock
Li'iu Glaser, Robert Edeson and I>ew
Fieldc.
Opportunities of Today.
The contents of the October number
are in part as follows: A Clearing House
for Today's Opportunities; Realities, Not
Glittering Generalities; How Bankers
Safeguard' National Prosperity; Close Co-
operation With Great Railroads; The
Story of Mandville; What l/ondon Thinks
of Western Wealth; A Great Process of
Wealth Distribution: Crowded in Old Sec-
tions, Room Enough in the New; The
Special Corn Exposition Number; Some
Instances of Western Success, Every-
body's Welcome in Opportunity Land,
Demand for Labor Exceeds the Supply,
An Entirely New Field, God's Country,
(Jo West. Old Man; Modern Pioneering.
Opportunities for Those With Small
Canltal. Twelve Hundred Factories, What
t » Do With the College Boys, Fourteen
Million Acres. Opportunities in Western
Canada, Wilderness to Wealth.
LITERARY NOTES.
The remarkable community which the
United States Steel Corporation is build-
ing up near Chicago—Gary, the new
•flat" eitv -Is the subject of an exceed-
ingly interesting illustrated article, by
Henry B. Fuller, which opens the Oct. I-
issue of Harper's Weekly. Sydney Brooks,
in hfs always stimulating London letter,
discusses "The Real Pacific Question;"
Hamlin Garland's admirable serial.
"Money Magic," reaches its tlimax and
conclusion; James Montgomery Flagg
C( ntribuces another one of his delightful-
ly amusing and clever double-page draw-
ings: and there is a vcrv human story of
boy life called "Stumps" by Arthur Som-
es Roacho. On the "Drama" page, "I"
n views three of the sea son'.-i new plays;
and current events in widely different
fields of activity are Interestingly pic-
tured ar d discussed.
Harper's Magazine.
The spoiling chapters of Mrs. Hum-
phry Ward's new novel, "The Testing of
Diana Mallory," gives the chief note of
distinction to Harper's Mugailng for No-
vember. The heroine Is a ptquHntly in-
teresting young English woman whose
family affairs are Involved in mystery.
To the same number Madam de Bunsen
contributes an Installment of her rem-
iniscences of diplomatic life, in which
she gives marv personal details of the j
Krusi, the Great Educator.
An important work for all interested
in educational matters is the book "Recol-
lections of My Life" by the late Prof.
Hermann Krusi, announced for publica-
tion by The Grafton Press of New York
under the able editorship of Elizabeth
Sli^ldon Ailing. Prof. Krusi was the son
of Hermann Krusi, the associate of Pes-
isilozzi. The son was born in Switzerland
hiMMT nr.d came to America in 1853. He
is best known to the general public as tlie
author of Krusi's drawing books and as
i leading member of the faculty of the
Oswego (N. Y.I State Normal and Train-
ing Scliool. The larger part of the book
is made up of Prof. Krusi ? own journal,
but the editor has contributed a good
deal oi interesting data as well as selec-
tions from his unpublished essays. The
illustrations are numerous and interest-
ing.
Mrs. Atherton on Sex Relations.
Anv woman can marry any man she
wants.
We have fcVers for them that last a
few weeks, and then we become maternal
and en lure them We women never love
men as we imagine that we could love.
Conquests pall on a woman in seven
years. In time other tilings also cease te
satisfy- books and dreams and sunset
and liberty. V/hen this finishes she will
suddenly demand happiness—the real
thing. Then she will love.
When clever women realize that they
are a sex apart, and wait until their first
vouth at least is over before selecting a
companion among men, then will the
world have taken Its first step towards
real happiness.
First love is merely a sort of curtain-
raiser. Jn marriage It may develop Into
something worth while, hut in itself
amounts to nothing—except as material
for poets.
There is a sort of highly bred woman
wdio has all the secret fear and antagon-
i«mi of her sex for the other, a profound
resentment of the malo instinct for poij
session, and the deeper terror that what
the man may find will make her wholly
his.
Life is packed with little unheard-of
dramas of the eternal duet of sex; noth-
ing else keeps it going.
\ woniu'i Incapable of passion is
neither more nor leas than a failure.
Fro.*.', the beginning of time the misery
of the world has been caused by the su-
perstition that love was aP
Love is the furious determination of
the sex to persist.
Real happiness may lie in forgetting
that love is selfish.
if one can be happy without love, why
run the risks9
Free love and experimental matrimony
are mere excuses for a sort of sensuality
that Is shallow and inconstant.
Tne thought of marriage leaves som#
women resentful of bondage of the sur-
render of self. That la tho reason these
never many.
Theories upon love bv a man past hlo
prime are as valueless as those oi >» girl.
The happiness of women depends upon
relegatli g lOYe to the propel plaee,
A wanna- in love is •• .gerlv psycholog-
ical; she longs to discover once for all
her sex and herself.
ir is not possible for a woman to define
o'le man's fascination to another man.
To be married and have ten children
has kept more women up to the correct
standard than anything else, except pov-
erty.
Women Invariably substitute the word
"misunderstood" for failure to accept
their point of view.—From Ancestors
(Harpers), i y Geitrude Atherton.
A Change in a Publishing House.
An announcement of no little Interest
to the literary world come i fiom one of
New York's best known publishing
houses. Hereaftei Me 'lure, Phillips »V
Co. will be known as The M'eCIuiv Com-
pany. The policy of the new company
will remain practically ur.chniig
S. S. McClure Is still president of the
book publishing end of Ids big organiza-
tion. and with him will bo associated J.
W. Corrlgan. vice president and general
manager; Harold Roberts, treasurer, and
o. W. Bradiy, secretary. As before, also,
the magazine interests will be in the con-
trol of the S. S. McClure Company.
The MeCUiro Companies from the first
have taken a foremost position among
the publishing houses of Now York, ana
number among the authors whose books
they have nunllshcd those of such w
known names as A. Conan Doyle. Henry
Ilarland, C. N. end A. M. Williamson
Anthony Hope. Henry Seton Mcrriman
Stanley J. Weyman. Joel Chandler liar
ris. Stewart Edward White, Charles
Wagner, Booth Tarklngton, Ida M. Tar
belT, Joseph Conrad and George Ado. The
dolphin and the anchor mark used bv
the famous Aldus has been the sign
used it! their publications, and the Mi
Clure motto, * * Aid I Disclp Americanus,"
has marked the endeavor to follow the
ideals practiced by the great Italian Al-
dus.
The McClure Company's fall list. In
which are represented The Williamsons,
Anthony Hope, Mvra Kelly, Stewart Ed-
ward White. Mary Stewart Cutting,
George Madden Martin, O. Henry. Ellis
Parker Butler, Carl Schurz, etc., is
deemed by the publishers the most dis-
tinguished and Important collection of
books which they nave yet issued in
single season.
For Sportsmen.
McClure Company published' on
lil "The Complete English Win«
by Teasdale Buckell. This book'
is uniform with "The Complete
and "The Complet - Photograph
by Heinarci Cronson; New Arithmetic
two hooks, by J. W. Hopkins arid P. 11.
Underwood; The Differential and In-
tesral Calculus, by Prof. W illiam F. Os-
g'«od, and Immunochemlstry, by Prof.
Svunte Arrbcnlus.
The Oldest Great Novelist.
It Is astounding to learn that tho an-
te.or of "Rutledge," which was pub-
lished with Mich great Miiecess as far*
back as 1SG3. has just finished ami pub-
lished a new novel. There is a singular
vouth fu In ess and grac- about the iltyl'
and ct nstructlon of "Jn the Tents of
Wickedness." though Mrs. Miriam Coles
Harris, who wrote It, was born In WM,
and is therefore i'A now. She wrot •
ti e novel in I'.iriH, where she lives. Th •
plot concerns the awakening of an Amer-
ican girl braught up in the peaceful ser-
enity of a Fr- m b conv nt il en plunged
into tiie swirl of th - American fast set.
Tin- story is absorbing and the pictures
ol life most vivid.
Is It Bevcridge?
Many people are saying that the hern
of I. K. Friedman's novel "Tho Radical."
Just puMfShed bv the Appletons, is one
other than Senator Albert J. Boverldge.
The hero is of plain origin works hia
way up to political 'eminence and the
Seriate* opposes hVnatarlnl corruption,
and devotes his energy to the passing of
a child hi I r b II. Tho lov story plavs
an Important pert, of courst, and tb.*
r'v'urcs tif Washington official life ar«
vivid.
CHANGES MADE BY ANIMALG.
and
The
Sept.
Shot,"
which
Golfer
er," will make a most valuable addition
to the lihrarv of the sportsman. It deals
ir the fullest possible fashion with every
phase of bird shooting. It is Intended for
both the beginner and expert shot, an 1
covers thoroughly and expertly the use
and care of the gun. the handling of dogs
both in the kenr.el and in the fields, and
the preparations and equipment ne.es-
sarv for the pursuit of the various game
birds.
Some Pleasing Selections.
Mary W. Tileston's book of selections
entitled "Daily Strength for Daily
Needs," a new pocket edition of which
is being published by Little. Brown &
Co., is one of tiie oldest and best known
of the high-grad • books for daily read-
ing which have been issued, containing
a text of Scripture, a bit of appropriate
verse and a helpful prose message from
some inspired writer, for each day in
the year The happy selections made by
Mrs. Tlleston over a s ore of years ago
have resulted in the sale of at leant
quarter of a million of copies. SHich
hooks as these have made glad the hearts
of publishers. A pocket edition of an-
other of Mrs. Tlleston ■ compilations
"Prayers, Ancient and Modern," is also
ready.
Some New Books.
Large editions of "The Turn of the
Balance" have just been sold both in
America and England. This book seems
to belong to tl at small closs of books
that get a second lease of life and make
for themselves the steady and constantly
increasing sale so gratifying to author
and publisher alike.
The Bobbs-Mcrrill Company books for
October include "The Lion's Shaie," by
Octave Tlianet; "The Apple of Discord,"
by Earle Ashley Walcott; "The Broken
Lancc" by Herbert Quick; "The Heart
Line," by Gelett Burgess; "His Wife," by
Warren Cheney; "The iBest Man," by
Harold MacGrath; "A lDream of Fair
Women," by Tennyson, handsomely Il-
lustrated in full color by Harrison Fisher
and decorated by Earl Stetson Crawford;
"Home Again With Me," by James
Whitcomb Riley, illustrated in. two color?
by Howard Chandler Christy, with deco-
rations bv Franklin Booth; "Lovo Songs
Old and Ne," with pictures in full color
by clarence F. Underwood, and decora-
tions by Earl Stetson Crawford; "Our
Baby B:ok." a history in blank of a
baby's life, with rhymes ahd pictures by
the illimitable Fanny Cory; "The Rag-
gedy Man," Illustrate/] in color by Ethel
Franklin Betts; "Mother Goose's Teddy
Bears, Mother Goose rhymes done over
to fit the Teddy Bear, and illustrated In
co'o" by T'n-d Cavally Jr.; "The Jeweled
Toad," by Isabel M. Johnston, with nle-
ttires In <?rdnr by W. W. Dcr.slow; "Rob
tin? Ranger." Herbert Strang's boys'
storv of the fight for Canada, illustrated
by \v. H. Mat geston; "Bobby in Bugaboo
Land." by Curtis Dunham, a story for
children, illustrated by George Kerr;
"Tarbell's Teachers' Guide to the Inter-
national Sunday School Lessons." by
Martha Tarbell; "The Geography of Pal-
estine," by Martha Tarbell; "The Ameri-
can Spirit," by Albert J. Beveriigo; "The
Fouth Americans," by Albert Hale; Gene
Stratton-Porter's "What I Have Done
Willi Birds."
Human Beings Used as Targets.
In the .Balkan States where war 1-?
prophesied wdthln the year, human life
seems to have absolutely no value. Ir.
"The Near East," published by Double-
day. Page & Co. last week, is the follow-
ing story:
A Montenegrin had just obtained a new i
rifle, probably fromyi murdered Turkish
soldier A stranger passed by, where-
upon the man with the new gun raised it
to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The
stranger fed! dead. Palok, nls companion,
remonstrated, but the asse.ssin merely
said that he was testing his gun's ac-
curacy. Was It not better, he asked, to
test it that way instead of waiting till
face to face with an corny?
Murder is hardly a crime in Albania
for life is cheap—very cheap!
Some Reminiscences.
The Century announces as one of Its
serial features for 1908 "The Reminis-
cences of Lady Randolph Churchill," the
first chapters to appear in the November
Century. The present Mrs. George Corn-
wallis-West is a daughter of the lata
Leonard Jerome of Now York, and as the
wife of Lord Randolph Churchill she
played a leading and brilliant part in the
political and social life of England. Tht)
popularity that w ent out in the '$9'; to
Lord Randolph was shared by hfs wife
—more particularly during the famous
election of ISS5 when he opposed John
Bright at Birmingham. The impression
c.f his wife's beauty and dash during
those stirring weeks has never been
weakened.
Some More New Books.
The Maemillnn Company Is publishing
♦'.is week the following new books: An-
other Book of Verse for Children, by E.
V. Lucas; Florence, and the Cities of
Northern Tuscany, with Genoa, by Ed-
ward Hutton; An Artist's Reminiscences,
by Walter Crane; Character and Comedy,
by E. V. Lucas; Nursing Technique: A
Primary Text Book for First Year Pupil
Nurses, by Miss Isabel Mclsauc; Eeon-
nmios for High Schools, by Prof. Frank
W. Blackmar; Pupil Self-Government,
1
Forests Have Been Swept Away
Fields Made Into Deserts.
In Newport river and Beaufort harbor,
on the coast of North Carolina, ate a
number of small Islands. Some are mere
sand banks, others are five to ten acres
of sound green grass and palmetto scrub.
It has been noticed for many years past
that these Islands are growing, almost as
If they were coral reefs, and a geologist,
Dr. Grave, has been investigating tho
cause. -
He finds that they are built entirely by
oysters. Ages ago, oysters settled on tho
mud banks. Young oysters must have
clean ground to lustcn upon. Therefore
the spat settled on the outei edge of the
colonies, where tho tides and currents
kept the mud from settling, and In this
way the oyster reefs grew across the
current. In course of time sand and
soil covered up the succeeding genera-
tions of oysters, and slowly the reefs
grew till they puked their heads above
water and became islands.
So-culled coral insects have, of course,
done more to alter tiie surface of our
planet than any other creatures.
It is v)d,d how little the average person
knows anout coral builders. As a matter
of fact, there are scores of different
kinds of creatures which build coral
reefs. Some are polyps, some madrepores,
others sga-anenu nes, but all have one-
point in common. They every one take
lime from the sea water for the purpose
of building a bony base or skeleton, ami
it is this lime which, after ihe creatures
themselves are dead, remains for fresh
generations to grow upon.
They have been building for millions
of years pyst, and over 1SU0 fossil kinds j
or coral builders have been classified. ;
Some of their works are gigantic.
Coral attolls run to ninety miles long, |
aiid as much as ten wide; while tlie j
Great Barrier reef along the Queensland ,
coast is no less than 12««) miles long, and !
in all its Immense length has but one
passage for ships.
It is estimated that tiie land formed
by coral builders furnishes today a !
dwelling place for more than 5 million j
of the human race, and the prodigious .
amount of w<>rk which these nevertlrlng
builders have accomplished is proved by !
the fact that over 250 million of square !
miles of sea bottom are paved with cora- I
line sand and mud.
Shell fish arc not peculiar to the sea
coast. The whole of the world's oceans 1
are full of tiny shell fish, and these |
creatures are slowly causing enormous j
changes in the configuration of our
globe.
It was they who made the rock which J
we call chalk. All the pleasant, turfy !
downs of Southern England are com- i
posed entirely of the remains of the tiny ]
shells of creatures which once floated in j
tho warm waves of a prehistoric sea.
At present nearly fifty million square
miles of tho beds of the world's oceans j
are covered with Globigerina ooze, a soft,
gray mud, chiefly composed of the re- <
mains of minute shells.
One of the oddest of modern geological .
mysteries is the discovery of gigantic
beds of fossil fishes in Colorado. These
cover nearly 801' square miles in the
Green river district, and in some places
the fossil fish lie 150 feet thick. How
the /creatures got there In such masses
is-a complete puzzle, especially as the
country where they are found is about
sOOO feet above the present level of the
sea.
Apart from purely marine creatures,
worms and ants have clone and are do-
ing more to alter the face of the Irv land
than any other living creatures. Those
who have read "Darwin" know that
there are on an average 53,000 worms to
the acre, and these creatures raise ten
tons of soil to the surface yearly. At
this rate they change the whole top
surface for a dentil of three inches every
fifteen years. If there were no worms
the rain could hardly penetrate clay
soils, and teo these would not be worn
away as tHey are.
Ants do not materially affect the li-3
of the land in temperate climates, but in
the tropics they completely change tho
surface; and termites, the/so-called white
ants, do an even vaster'work than tho
true ants.
All dead timber is reduced to dust,
and every morsel of organic material,
whether a dead rat or a dead elephant, is
cut up into fragments and carried off.
But for the labors of ants all tropical
forests would be utterly impassable. The
forests of Southern Alaska, where ter-
mites do not exist, are as a matter of
fsct, completely blocked by fallen timber,
which lies where it falls until it slowly
decays.
Of four-legged animals, none ean com-
pare with the beaver as map-maker. The
heaver is the most untiring engineer ^n
I'Xlfctence, and his dams, one of which
was examined by Mr. Morgan, was
found to he 1530 feet lone:, have turned
vast areas of forest Into swamp, and have
in many instances diverted the courses
of rivers.
All through the vast Northweat you
will find great openings In the forest,
glades covered deep with peat and bear-
ing only coarse grass. These glades,
which are sometimes hundreds of acres
in extent, are the sites of ancient beaver
lakes. Either the dams have burst and
the water run away, or else peaty de-
posits have filled up the slto of the an-
cient lake.
We find fossil skeletons of a beaver,
the Castoroides ohioensls, which «ivas
about the size of a black bear. Such a
creature must have been capable of al-
tering any landscape, and no forest mon-
arch could-have been safe from his mon-
strous incisors.
Some animals have the peculJsr and
very unpleasant property of being able
to turn a fertile country Into a howling
desert. Of these the worst offenders are
sheep. A large part of New Mexico has
been converted Into sandy desert since
sheep farming began in that territory.
The soil is naturally light, and while cat-
tle do no harm, sheep In grazing pull up
tufts of grass by the roots and so destroy
it entirely.
Goats act In similar fashion. Karly In
the sixteenth century St. Helena was
covered with dense forests. In 1."13 the
Portuguese Introduced goats. These mul-
tiplied rapidly, and soon destroyed all the
young trees. Thus the torrential rains got
hold of the soil and. washing it down the
slopes, left the hillsides hare My 1720
the forest had practically vanished, and
the island's beauty was ruined.
A third desert maker is that pretty
little marmot known as the prairie dog.
So fast do ♦hev multiply that a "town"
of prairie dogs near Rushville, In Ne-
braska, destroyed 3.r-00 acres of good nas-
turc In three years.—Pearson's Weekly.
—
Suit by Lents, tailor, always correct.
Dr. E. T. Hughes, Hicks Bldg.
Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat and Lungs.
Dr. Paul M. Ptck. Dr. Marv E. Noonan,
Osteopaths, tj»p floor Hicks Bids;. Phone*
'S
I
Variety
Is the spice
of Business at
EDWARDS
eve rj
our
Kach week, in fact nearly
day, when you visit
Millinery Parlors you
will find now arrivals in Fall
Hats ami Honnrts.
This includes imported pat-
tern hats, Gage tailored hats,
as well as those designed by
the (loft fingers of our
pert milliners.
Come, we'll be
whether you buy
ex-
sociable
or not.
NEW ARRIVALS
Torpedo lial Plus:
veils, also auto vie. i
ehenile dots.
.Hpaiinso effect; the latest chic square
; iil er.'Hnatlons shades of chiffon with
136"US West
Commerce St.
EDWARDS
i:.V
ONE OF THE SIGNS
You have noticed people, and children
especially, who,*when they look at some'
distant object, draw their eyes together,
forming a horizontal chink.
Everybody has seen children do that—
That Is a Positive Sign
of defective eyes. "A stitch in time saves
nine."
We'll test your eyes free of charge, and
tell you just the kind of glasses needed.
H. C. REES OPTICAL CO,
242 West Commerce St. Opposite St. Mary St.
*WelES5.
LlSHEOl®
SAN^NTONIO.
The Ideal of Opera. Glasses
How often don't you find fault with your opera glasses? Too
large and bulky, take up too much room, too heavy or can't see a
thing through them. Those are the common complaints. Wo
have now imported some of the daintiest French novelties in
this line. Here are gents' flat vest or hip pocket folding glasses,
ladies' glasses, small, dainty and exquisitely made, fitted In the
new small variety, cases full pearl and oriental finishes; also a
few very fine "Jenk" field glasses. These goods are made for us
by some of the foremost makers of Europe and are the best and
latest.
See them soon. They are very attractive.
SARTOR. & ROEMPKE
THE JEWELERS.
118 W. Commerce. Old Phone 809.
Established 1815.
HEW VERHflHf SYBBP, Quart Bottle 25c
Domino Suga.r, 5-lb. box 45c
Bird Food, large package 7c
Bird Gravel, per package 4c
Sapolio, per cake 7c
Grandmother's Jams, all kinds. }ar 16c
Our New Pancake Flour has arrived, per pkg. 10c
WL SELL EVERY KIND OF TEA THAT GROWS
Buy a Peun^ of 60c Tea and Gat a Nice and Useful Premium
vt!• Ibi Rio ft Java Colfee for 60o Mexioan Blend Coffee, per lb, 20o
Alamo Blind, Best on Very Cholooaf Mooha
Earth, per pound ft Java 35c, 9
25o P fjfllTftSi lbs. $1
403 E. Houston St.
411E. Nwntfa St.
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