THE SCE ANTON TRIBUNE 8 A I TJRDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, -1896. 11 WORLD OF SOME NEW BOOKS. One does not nowadays look to poetry 8 the conventional vehicle for exploit ing a sustained romance. Since Mer edith wrote "Luclle" the novel In versa has been little In vogue. Mrs. Julia Dfitto Young, of Buffalo, a writer whose minor stories and verses have won much approval as they have appeared from time to time in the newspapers and magazines, has, however, seen fit to enter the Held which Meredith was the last to occupy and the fruit of lur resolve is before us In a considerable volume called "Olynne's Wife" and done as to its mechnnlcal aspects In the very best style of the artistic Hoycroft print ing shop. The story sought to be con veyed through the mechanism of Mrs. Young's Iambic pentameters Is to bor row from another "of a jealous wo man who divorces her husband, but who Is controlled by the love she thought dead, ,nnd when he has suf fered for his sin Hies to him ngaln, forgiving all. The story Is set In a high key. Mrs. Young Idealizes her women. flarnet Cilynne is a character, not the dryfroods frame so common In current fiction and verse. She bores a sentimental but selfish husband with her schemes to uplift the world. He grows cuKI, and dually wavers In his allegiance, und the high-blooded wo man shakes herself free from him. Hu mor pledges her to nn old and faithful friend. Oiynne, realizing what he hus lost, seeks diversion In ocean yacht ing. The temptress pitifully dies whlla he Is at sea, and Garnet's heart is melted toward the dead. She visits her, lays a tribute of blossoms on the coffin, and then her love for her hus bnnd wakes. In the last canto he has returned home and is going away Again In his restless voyaging, and linrnet, who has learned something of his pen itence, files to him, overtukes his yacht at night on the bay, and In a scene of rare beauty, with the moonlight and the waves for a setting, is reunited to him and there Is a hint in the closing lines that she is once more to be 'Olynne's wife.' " We do not ourselves care for the novel In verse, whether well 111, or Indifferently dime; but It must be said that Mrs. Young possesses a spnse of rhythm, a command of melody and a copiousness of vocabulary which mark her poem as something to be ad mired. Maybe by and by she will put these uncommon talents to better use. o There Is a dash of affectionate about Richard I.e Oallienne which would cause most persons to dismiss him with a short hearing were it not that the young men has also unmistakable genius -which Is liable to Hash out in most delightful evidence, one never knows when or where. This fact Is strongly impressed upon the leader of his second series of "I'rose Fancies" (Chicago: Heibeit S. Stone & Co.) These fancies are vagrant and fantas tic, covering whatever topics relating to life or art chanced to enter the au thor's mind. And before all Is this quaint introduction: Poor are the gifts of the poet; Nothing but words. The gifts uf kings are gold, Silver and Hocks and herds, Gurmcnis of soft, strange sillt. Feathers of wonderful birds. Jewels and precious stones. And horses us white as the milk These are the gifts of kings; Hut the gifts that the poet brings Are nothing but words. Forty thousand words! Take them a gift of (lies! Words that should have been birds, Words that should have been (lowers, Words that should have been stars, In the eternal skies. Forty thousand words, Forty thousand tears. All out of two sad eyes. Probably the best fancy in the book Is the first, telling of a Seventh-Story Heaven Inhabited by a most irrespon sible poet and his bride. The poet hasn't a sou and doesn't know from one minute to the next where he is to secure his next bite of bread; but for all that he and his little wife taste the real Joys of life, dream the brave dreams, sing the rare songs, and roam at will through the beautiful gardens and delightful palaces of the Imagina tion. It Is a pretty lesson in charming colors that happiness is in nowise de pendent upon rnnk or wealth or sta tion, but Is something to be had by any who merit it. "Indeed," says Mr. I.e Oalllenne, "our paradises if we only knew, are always cheap enough: It is our hells that ure so expensive." Al most any mood can find in these airy sketches something to charm and bene tit. 'TIs a tine book most delightfully printed. o During the past year or two the edi torial page of the Chicagb Record has been brightened by a series of idiom atic sketches of the streets and town contributed by George Ade. As these have appeared from day to day they have attracted pleased attention, but It was not until the btSt of them were put together Into a book, called "Ar tie." from the name of the pert young ster who is the central figure, just as "Chimmle Fadden" Is in Mr. Town send's Gotham sketches, that their full charm was rendered conspicuous. "Artie" Is not a Chlcagolzed Imitation of "Chimmle;" he Is unique and origin al, wth no end of slang, plenty of brass and about all the faults that can be long to a boy who Is mischievous as an Imp of perdition but not vicious. The doings of Artie, as pictured by Mr. Ade's prose, are made more salient still by the v ...me drawings of John T. McCutcheon, which certainly ex press as much character In as few lines as any book illustrations we have yet seen. (Chicago: H. S. Stone & Co.) o Whoever Albert Kinross may be, he has written in "The Fearsome Island" (Chicago: II. S. Stone & Co.) a book that there wasn't much call for and one that would not have been missed. It purports to be a modern rendering of the narrative of one Silas Fordred. a master mariner, who is shipwrecked on an unknown Island, where there is a ensue with devilish devices for kill ing people, a great Idol with diamond eyes and arms that broke and tore in two the luckless iconoclast who sought to gain possession of the tempting gems, and a whole lot of other grim and ghastly paraphernalia of mischief that Isn't worth describing. There would be some excuse for this book If It were half way respectable In point of literary execution; Dut the fact Is It Is bungltngly done, and the one who reads It simply wonders why it was ever penned or printed. "The Story of Electricity" by John Munro Is the latest number In the Ad- pleton's library of useful stories. It describes understanding and under standably what Is known concerning inis mysterious iorce in nature, ex plains the workings of most of the common electrical appliances, such as storage batteries, telegraphs and tele phones, phonographs. Roentgen ravs. etc., etc., and Is a really Instructive manual for the average lay reader. The value and timeliness of such a book are apparent. A handy volume for young men Is published by Laird & Lee, Chicago, un der the title "Lee's Home and Business Instructor." It Is a compact and ac curate guide to bookkeeping, penman ship, letter-writing, business forms and law, social forms and various other subjects which enter into the life of the practical business man. A harbinger of the holidays comes from the same publishers In the form Of Hnnthpr flf U lmomnn AihUu'a Sopular books for boys, "Air Castle on: or. from Dreamland tn H.rilnan " I - Is a wholesome juvenile novel which teaches the lesion ithat It pays every bright boy to be up and doing. LETTERS. BOOKS AND AUTHORS. 6 There seems, says a writer In the hlcago Record, to be. a disposition among reviewers and critics to write down Richard Harding Davis as a tire some, caddish creature, a perpetual candidate for the services of the kick-Ing-master. Somehow the estimate of his private character has been allowed to assume this phase until It Is now almost a certainty that if you pass be yond the man's books and talk of the man himself you will find that your friend has gathered to the full the idea that Mr. Davis, divorced from his lit erary work, must be counted only as a dreary, tedious and even despicable upstart. Mr. Davis has been charged as one who looks down upon the days of his newspaper apprenticeship to lit erature, and indeed this fugitive para graph has been quoted often against him a paragraph which bears upon its face its own contradiction: "Mr. DavU Is setting forth that he Is very tired of being pointed out as the man who wrote 'Gallegher.' He says: 'That story was all very well, but It has a reportor ial curtness and crystallization about it that I have now soared far beyond. "Uallegher" has the thumbmatks of thi poor, pawn-ticketed, free-lunched hack reporter on Its pages. I want to for get that part of my existence. I want to wipe off the newspaper-shop part of my life. I will sacrilice "Gallegher" and the royalties thereon, If people will only forget that I was once that scorned thing a reporter!' " As a matter of fact, there Is docu mentary evidence In the hands of one now writing this, which Is to the direct effect that so far from believing III of the reporter's craft. Richard Harding Davis has been a stanch supporter of the theory of its high standing. One time a man wrote a story of western military life. In which a newspaper correspondent, acting purely in the capacity of a reporter, figured. The story was based upon an enmity sub sisting between a second lieutenant and the correspondent, and on the in cident that once when both were In toxicatedtogether with a lot of other ctnvlval junior officers and civilians the lieutenant committed the unpar donable sin of criticising the conduct of the campaign of the general com manding. Realizing the gravity of the olllcer's action, the temporarily Irre sp( nsihle correspondent, drunkenly re joicing at this chance to do ill to the man of his enmity wrote an account of the episode and forwarded It by courier for publication In his far away paper. When he had recovered his sober senses the horror of his offense presented It self to him and his life was a torment until a copy of his paper arrived and lie discovered that the story was not printed It had been Intercepted on the way and had never been wired. Such thought as there was In the narrative centered upon the remorseful feeling of a normally decent man who awakes to the fact that while Intoxicated) he has committed a sin against honor and the just man's religion of being fair. , People who submit contributions to such publications as Harper's Weekly become familiar with printed forms of rejection, but this declination was not printed. It came as an autograph let ter from the editor, Mr. Davis, and no stenographer had knowledge of it. It ran In sprawling, scrawling c Urogra phy in these terms: "I write you per sonally about this story, because I want to ask you not to submit it else where. . I would not like to see It In print, and I fear that if offered further It will be published. For my part I would not dare to use It, for the reason that there are already too many peo pie who are anxious to have a chance to say that the newspaper worker is a person morally reprehensible, and I do not want these to have the satisfaction of saying that one newspaper man who ought to know wrote and another newspaper man who ought to know published a narrative depicting a re porter as a drunkard and a cad." At first the rebuke was bitter, but, al though differing somewhat from the editor as to the actual purport of the story, the "newspaper man who ought to know" promptly made a burnt offer ing of his manuscript, departing from the usual course of huckstering it to other publications. But the letter was preserved and It serves now, four or five years afterward, as a reminder of the fact that the ready pencller who Insists that Richard Harding Davis, the editor, was ever ashamed of the Richard Harding Davis of the report ing staff or, Indeed, of the life and associations of a reporters' room well, that pencller, we remark, makes posi tive statements upon negative facts. Which is only another way of saying that he mistakes. Having entered upon this theme, let us follow It to its legitimate conclusion, and that conclusion is a deprecation of the tendency to "backcap" successful men. The backcapplng system prevails in literature, business, politics every where. A man perfects something ad vantageous, of which his neighbors had never thought, and the neighbors, In stead of being In a neighborly way glad of It, proceed immediately to pick flaws in the work. One spends hours, days, years In bringing some performance to a fruitful issue and another damns It with a sneer, which occupies only a fraction of a second. A citizen Is nom inated for governor and he loses the vote of his own town because his own town cannot understand why on earth he was hit upon as being better fitted for the high ollice than any of the oth ers of his townsmen themselves. In deed. they conclude that his selection is in the nature of a slighting rebuke rather than a compliment to his resi dent associates. It Is too bad. And the worst of it is ihat strangers, when one's character or capabilities are under discussion, find it easier to believe 111 than good of the absentee. It would be a happy provision it the unwritten eleventh commandment were presented In tha wnfila "Thou shall nnl hnnknnn " and If the new law had an emergency clause attached and severe penalties were provided for its infraction. The Bun comments thus upon An thony Hope's new novel: It seems clear that now at the end of the century the great story tellers of the type of the elder Dumas, the masters of plot and Incident, as distinguished from the careful students of character and mo tive, are to have once more their In nings as they had seventy years ago. The author of "The Three Musketeers," after being eclipsed for more than a generation, found a.compeer In the au thor of "The New Arabian Nights,'' and now the mantle worn so dashing ly by Stevenson has fallen upon An thony Hope. In one obvious respect, indeed, the two last-named writers can scarcely be compared. We did not look In the writings of the elder Dumas for the fastidious style of Gautler, nor did we find in the narrative of "The Prisoner of Zenda" the amazing flex ibility and curious felicity of diction for whlch-Stevenson is likely to remain unrivalled In our time. There Is no doubt that Anthony Hope, however, has a style admirably adapted to his purpose. It Is crisp, lucid, fluent, force ful; the right Btyle for a tale weaver, who should not for a moment seek to wrap the attention of his auditors from his story to the vehicle of expression. Neither Le Sage nor Eugene Sue nor Dumas nor Scott ever did that. Had they done so they could not have kept the minds of those who read them strung tense with eagerness to follow the windings and the doublings, the surprises, the puzzles, and the prodigies of an inexhaustible invention. We make this qualification of praise, If It be one, at the outset, because in all other ways It stms to us that "Phroso," Anthony Hope's new novel, the publication of which has Just been completed in McClure's Magaslnt, u likely to rank among the master works of sensational and exciting fiction. Here Is a story wherein the elements of the real and the fantastic are so adroitly mixed that, according as it falls into the hands of the young or of the middle aged, it will be perused with breathless Interest as a truthful record of adventure, or with the smile of gratification which rewards the happy tour de force. Mr. HoDe has hit upon the only viewpoint and the only mode of narration suited to the disclosure of the abnormal and the marvellous at this end of the century. Careful to avoid an Intimation of skepticism on his own part, he shows himself keenly sensitive to the skeptical temper of his time. So, when of bewildering compli cations and moving accidents, dis astrous chances, and hairbreadth escapes It Is hiB lot to speak, he does not grip you with a skinny finger and hold you with a glittering eye. but draws his chair up to yours In a club smoking room and tells his tale be tween the whiffs of a cigar. You may laugh, he seems to say, but you shall listen, and listen. Indeed, you do. You listen as no doubt In Bagdad the Sul tan listened through the Thousand and One Nights, not caring much whether what he heard was vero or ben trovato, but held from sleep by Intensity - In terest, and devoured with curiosity as to what would happen next. With re gard to "Phroso," the book before us, we care not how sated and cynical a man may have become, we defy him to lay It down If he once takes it up; he will finish it at a sitting and count a night's rest well lost. The authoi plays with our curiosity as we play with a hooked trout; there Is something bewildering in the multiplicity of inci dent, something almost labryinthlne in the concatenation of the plot. A dozen times we think we see only plain sail ing in the story, and a dozen times some unforeseen and troublesome ob stacle pops up. Yet we recognize later that there was a kind of logic in the unexpected; that the unlooked-for ob struction to the quick termination of the tale was not arbitrary or casual, but the probable. If not the inevitable outcome of the situation and the ac tion. Viewed merely as an example of intricate yet methodical construc tion, "Phroso" deserves high commen dation, while as regards Invention, It contains materials enough to furnish forth a dozen novels of the ordinary type. o We have no intention of forestalling the reader's pleasure in the slightest degree by outlining the adventures of Lord W'heatley and the Lady Euphro syne. Lord Wheatley himself shall tell their story, for the book is auto-bio-graphical in form, a form which ren ders it difficult for the hero of a tale to do Justice to himself without incur ring the imputation of being cither a braggart or a prig. The pitfalls of an autobiography are (Skilfully avoided in this Instance; we scarcely know which of the lovers to like or envy more, for both make us well understand why since the days of Byron an English gentleman and a Greek lady have been deemed an Ideal combination. The ar dent sympathy, which both elicit, sup piles conclusive proof that the author, while not professing to be an adept in the projection of character, is really capable of sterling service In that much eulogized field of art. Not only Lord Wheatley and "Phroso," the pet name by which Euphrosyne will be recalled by those who love her, but the Turkish Pasha who figures as their redoubtable antagonist, are firmly drawn upon the canvas, and stand out sharply in the memory. With the one additional re mark that the adaptability of the story to the stage, jumps as the French say, at the eyes, we leave the readers of Mr, Hope's new novel,, whose name will be legion, to the delight In store for them. o Apropos of the current Invasion of America by two of the foremost scribes of Scotland, the Rochester Post-Express observes: That genius Is merely the capability for concentration and hard work Is acknowledged by all who have achieved success In any walk of life. In no vocation is this truer than In the pursuit of letters. It Is also true that no work bears so little the Im prints of toll as a literary production. The well written essay or story reads so easily that the mind fails to com prehend that each word was selected with the same precision and care that a bridge designer displays in determin ing In advance the exact size of each piece of iron and stone that enters Into its construction. Lacking the ele ments of harmony and perspective in construction, force and precision in the choice of words, a literary effort is of no value, replete as it may be with virile ideas. There is a school of ad vanced realists today who deny that style Is an essential in literature. It is the boast of its followers that any pro duction outside of a transcript of the life which environs the writer Is not literature. That is to say, the farmer must write the bucolic novel; the sailor, the sea stories; the soldier, the war romances; and so on without end. The possibilities are infinite. The qualities of a traned writer are not to be con sidered. To one possessing a grain of mother-wit such assertions are amus ing. They do no harm, while they af ford their propagators a decided pleas ure. o "Another theory of these latter-day verltists Is that a production to be of literary value ought to be written but once. Revision saps the vitality, the truthfulness of an Impression. This utterly fallacious theory explains many of the crude productions that are being printed today; for, strange as It may seem, this school has many followers whose books have had a cer tain popularity. Realistic fiction is the cry of the hour.Reallsm indeed, the very term Is not only a hoax but a par adox. The fictlonist can not be a real ist. He may choose his types from fa miliar characters, his scenes may be drawn from personal familiarity, but the action, the dialogue, the denoue ment are creations of the imagination. Zola, himself. Is a romancer. He cre ates, he does not report. It is a popu lar belief that a story with a somber or revolting finale is a piece of real ism. This is as false as the theory of realism in fiction. There Is but one realist the newspaper reporter. His work alone is a transcript of life's ironies and pleasures from day to day. o In this age of rather slip-shod work it is a pleasure to know that we have visiting this country two Scotch writ ers who hold their art so high that the slightest carelessness constitutes a crime. Barrle and Maclaren are ex amples of what careful, conscientious work will accomplish. Barrle writes slowly, painstakingly, and only when the mood Is on him. He revises and re writes and polishes to an extent that is remarkable for endurance. More than two years have elapsed since any thing from his pen has been published. During this time he has been writing his "Sentimental Tommy," which is pronounced a masterpiece. The author of the "Bonnie Brier Bush" stories is a painstaking craftsman. In a recent In tervlew he is quoted as saying: "I envy those men who are so self-confident that they consider whatever they do excellent though the whole world con demn it. I have alwavs felt that the next story would bring the smash. Therefore, I have no pleasure in my writing; I feel the catastrophe cannot be long delayed." It is enheartenlng to behold a writer of genius revealing himself thus as an artist. He offers a refreshing contrast to certain of our young writers whose promising but Im mature work has served to turn their heads. Hard work, a proper Ideal of the dignity of literature, and the desire to conscientiously live up to that ideal are the factors of permanent success. AMONG THE MAQAZINES. The October Century Is notable for bringing to an end Professor Sloane's masterly life of Napoleon; also for get ting out of the way Mrs. Humphrey Ward's and Mr. William Dean Howells' tiresome serial stories. The Century seems to be somewhat unfortunate in the kind of material which it selects under the guise of elongated fiction. II II II St. Nicholas for October continues the fanciful "Oobollnk" nlcturos and frhymes which are so well relished by the little folk and has beside the usual array of poems, stories and Instructive papers which mark it as the best juvenile publication we have. II II II We have already in an editorial con nection quoted liberally from ex-President Harrison's timely and forceful pa per In the October Forum exposing the misconceptions and wrong conclusions of the free sliver movement and from Hugh H. Lusk's description of the genuine Australian ballot; it only re mains to be said in this place that this number of the Forum has also one oth er particularly notable paper Lord Chief Justice Russell on "International Law and Arbitration" which every thoughtful citizen should read. II II II To our notion there Is no more en tertaining subject for fiction than the new socialism which alms to re-emphasize and restore a true democracy; and no one better able to write that kind of fiction than T. C. Crawford, whose stories of Washington life in the Cos mopolitan Magazine have been so much admired. Therefore we are glad to see In the October number of that interest ing publication the beginning of a new serial effort by Mr. Crawford, dealing with the problem of syndicates and trusts. II II II Timed to Rev. John Watson's Ameri can visit the current McCiurc's prints a most readable character sketch of this popular and effective story writer. Next to this human document, Chester Holcombe's paper on Li Hung Chang interested us most. Mr. Hol combe, it will be recalled, Is the aur thor of that bonk, "The Real China man," which was last year's best con tribution to the English language's ethnological literature. II II II In looking over the October Bookman for points worthy of special notice one is impressed more with the general and Increasing excellence of the vari ous departments than by striking "fea tures." In other words. It Is a maga zine which has to be read through to bo thoroughly enjoyed. And come to think of it, perhaps that's the finest possibh) tribute. . II II II The "human documents" which spe cially attract attention In the October Louker-On are biographical studies of Antonin Dvorak and Kobert Franz, the former by H. IS. Krehblel and the lat ter by Henry T. Klnck. It will interest all friends of this excellent music magazine to know that beginning with the November number its price will be reduced to ten cents a copy. Now if only its inapropos "name could be changed, also! II II II- Notwithstanding some measure of affectation and sklttishness at the start, Chap-Book is now settling down to a steady pace which bids fair to land It among the foremost of our maga zines. It is no longer to be snickered out of court. If anyone wants proof pf our assertion, let him note the qual ity of Its October issues. II II II Walter Blackburn Harte Is bringing the Lotus up sharply and roundly. For October he has prepared quite a savory spread, with salad by Bliss Car man and Walter Foss, strong drink by Eugene R. White, pastry by a host of pen chefs of greater or less renown, and last, but not least, a huge rasher of meat and trimmings by the expert critic who signs himself Jonathan Penn, not to mention the editor's own chestnuts and Alberts at the rear end. We are beginning to enjoy the Lotus. II II II Popular Science News continues to add new departments so as more thor oughly to cover-the field of current scientific achievement and discovery. It is practically a monthly review of the whole subject of scientific progress, and is admirably edited. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. From the Sun. Very soon green tomatoes will be plenty and cheap. Few housewives kiow that with little trouble and ex pense they can have fresh, ripe to matoes iu January by taking care of the green ones. The green tomatoes should be carefully wrapped separately In papers and spread out upon shelves on the floor of a dark, cold closet, where, however, the temperature should be about freezing. If kept in this way, the vegetables will slowly ripen. When they are required for use, expose them to sunlight and heat for a couple of days, and you will have tomatoes as firm and nice as those offered in the mar kets at little expense. When roasting small birds always fasten the heads under the wings and lay a thin slice of pork under the breast of each bird and a piece of bread underneath. A bird would not be com plete without its bed and blanket. To make one's own extract of vanilla secure five Tonciuin beans and one va nilla bean, clip them and put them into a bottle with ten ounces of alcohol, six ounces of water, and three of sugar. Let the mixture remain from six to eight weeks, shaking it frequently; then Btrain and it Is ready for use. The small stone crocks used by many for holding butter should always be well washed and freshened before being refilled. The best way to freshen them Is after washing to fill them with boil ing ammonia or borax water, allowing a teaspoonful of ammonia to a quart of water. Let the water remo.In all day, and then fill the crock with sweet milk and let it stand over night. When clothing has acquired a close, unpleasant odor from being packed away where the air cannot reach It, a few pieces of charcoal laid among tho folds will soon remove the odor. Among the simple remedies which should be in the family medicine closet, one of the most useful Is mutton suet. For cuts and bruises It is unequalled, as well as for chapped hands and faces. It Is best to procure the suet at the butcher's and fry it out at home, turning it into small moulds to cool, and then roll it in tin foil. A camphor ice may be made by putting a piece of camphor the size of a walnut with half a cup of mutton tallow, and melting them together. Pour the mixture Into a little cup or mould to become cold. Among decorative plants for 'the house the African asparagus, common ly called asparagus fern, is most use ful. The graceful fronds last a long time; they are rarely troubled with In sects, and gas and furnace heat do not affect them so quickly as many other plants. An egg that has been boiled soft and become cold cannot be cooked again and made hard: but a soft-boiled egg that has not had ttfe shell broken may be reheated by cooking three minutes In boiling water, and It will taste as well as If freshly boiled. Housekeepers desirous of making their own baking powder can do so with very little trouble. The following formula Is one that has been used for many years. Weigh six ounces of flour and thoroughly dry It, without brown ing it. In the oven. Procure six ounces of the best soda and thirteen and one half ounces of cream of tartar. Add them to the dried flour and rub to gether half a dozen times through a sieve, "then put them In air-tight Jars or cans and keep In a dark closet, using the powder from a small Jar so that it will retain jts strength, Save tea leaves for washing var nish paint. When sufficient leaves have been collected steep them for halt an hour In a tin vessel and then strain through a sieve. This water gives a fresher, newer appearance to varnished wood than ordinary soap and water. PENNSYLVANIA'S GOVERNORS. Peculiaiitics About the Chief Execu tives of the Keystone State. Pennsylvania was admitted Into the union six months before New York, yet. says the Sun. while Mr. Morton Is the thirty-third governor of New York, Mr. Hastings Is only the twenty-first governor of Pennsylvania. The pres ent state constitution of Pennsylvania was udopted by the voters In 1873, and from that time until the present, twenty-three years, there have been only five governors of the Keystone state General Hartranft, who took office In 1873; Henry M. Hoyt. who succeeded him In 187; Kobert E. Pattlson, first inaugurated In 1S,X3; General Beaver, who took office in Harrisburg In 1887. and General Hastings, who has held office since January, 185. The mul tiplicity of generals among governors of Pennsylvania has been very marked, but under the former constitution of the state, adopted in 183S (Pennsyl vania was then usually Democratic) civilians predominate. It is a peculiarity of Pennsylvania governors that one mark of recogni tion has been theirs uniformly; they have had counties, cities, streets, squares and turnpikes called after them. Thus the first three governors of Pennsylvania, Mllllln, McKean and Snyder, had counties called after them. In the early history of Pennsylvania the governors were either plain men, or, at least, men with plain names, but when the constitution of 1863 was adopted, it appears to have been thought necessary to uphold the digni ty of Pennsylvania under it by the election of governors having elaborate and unusual names. The first three so elected were David Rittenhouse Porter, Francis Rawn Shunk and William Johnston. With the beginning of the slavery controversy. In' which Penn sylvania took an active part, the elec tion of governors with plain names was resumed, and William Bingler, James Pollack and William, Packer were Jn office until January 15, 1SG1, when Andrew O. Curtin, the war row ernor of the Keystone state, was In augurated. He held office for six years, and was succeded by John W. Geary, a Republican, who held the of fice for a like period, until. In fact, the constitution of 1873 was adopted. Gov ernor Curtin, who died loss than two years ago, was one of the best known of Pennsylvania lenders, and. In addi tion to holding the office of governor In Harrisburg. became afterward Unit ed States minister to Russia, and, later on. Democratic congressman from the Center county district. He was a resi dent of the town of Bellefonte. One reason for the small number of governors of Pennsylvania and the larger number of governors of New York Is this: While New York gover nors have been honored by elevation to or nomination for the presidency, have been elected to the United States sen ate, or have found places of promin ence In the cabinet, governors of Penn sylvania, almost without exception, have been permitted to serve out, un molested with suggestions of promo tions, the terms of office to which they were originally elected. There, be sides, is no Instance of a Pennsyl vania governor who died In the office, and only one of a Pennsylvania gov ernor who resigned that office. CURIOUS ELECTION BETS. A Grand Junction (Col.) man offers to bet two unencumbered city lot worth $liiO even that Bryan will be elected. As the result of an election wager, a man In Ripley, O., Is going to shuve bis head, gild It and walk a mile without hi hat If McKlnley Is elected. His opponent will silver his head If Bryan carries off the prize. A wager was drawn up at St. John, Kan., tho other day as follows: "V. Glasscock and O, Burnett make an agree ment this day that If McKlnley is defeat ed Glasscock Is to pat a large, warty toad, but if he is elected Burnett is to eat tho toad." A novel bet was mndo Inst week bv S. C. Frost and J. h. Fuller, of Hhosh'one, Idaho. Frost has fidu tons of hay cut and stacked. Fuller Is to pay Frost I'l per ton for said liny If Bryan Is elected president, and should McKlnley be elected Fuller gets the hay for nothing. Another novel bet has been made In Philadelphia. 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Best laf sat Food. liildless I Hi larrlaee II II a warn mWL Remarkable Cure of a Boston Man who was Afflicted with Salt Rheum and Rheumatism. BOTH PROMPTLY CURED BY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS FOR PALE PEOPLE, From tht JItrald, Those who have had the misfortune to be afflicted with salt-rheum, more especially when it lias come iu eurly childhood, can appreciate what it is to "doctor" for this al most incurable trouble. They almost all tes tify that they have "doctored" for years, and often with some of the leading physi cians, spending large tutus of money without obtaining relief.. When tikis is complicated with an attack of rheumatism, especially iu the case of a man whose avocation is one that exposes htm to it, the serious nature of bit physical ills may be imagined, and also the potent efficacy of inch a remedy at Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which has proved able to conquer such a concensus f bodily problems, and to put the man into condition of vigor at substitute for one f a moat disheartening outlook. In view of the circumttancet it it not iur prising that many in Boston, especially those it the railroad men, who have been familiar both with the individual and the attendant lircumitances, should make to much com kieut on the cure wrought in the cose of Mr. James Freeman, for number of years pott employed as a brakenian on the Old Colony Division of the New York, Mew Haven and Hartford Railroad. This gentleman had been afflicted with alt-rheum from infancy and hit blood had a decided tendency to humors, in addition to which the exposed tharocter of his occupation promoted an ag gravated attack of muscular rheumatism which threatened to destroy his usefulness ml deprive him of this meant of livelihood. But learning of the remarkable testimony which had been given to the efficacy of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People when tver tried for these anil kindred difficulties, particularly auch at arise from an impover ished or disordered condition of the blood, he wot induced to try them, and the result hot been to gratifying that he has became a pioneer in recommending them to hia fellow workmen, who through his worda and the manifest results of hit example have thown constantly increasing use of the pills. In view of the decree of attention which the cose attracted, particularly in itt effect of promoting the use ot the pint among men who are not in the habit of taking medicine. the circumstances were deemed worthy of personal Investigation, and accordingly a re porter made a call at the cosy home of Mr. Freeman, at 233 Shawmont Avenue, Boston, Mass.. where he and his wife were found to be thoroughly free and unreserved in stating the facts, anil most cordial in appreciation of me nine fins. " Yes, it is trite," he said in response o Inquiry, " I have the greatest satisfaction in giving my word at to what Dr. Williams' Pink PHls have done for me. I have no per ianal interest in speaking about the matter except that I feel grateful for the cure they have caused, and I think it it only right that I should try and let others have the tame opportunity for benefit at myself." In re gard to the origin of hit use of the Pink Pills he remarked : i " I was first led to try them on account of ft certificate from a Montreal man winch was published in the papers, and I thought the tame tiling that had done to much for him Would help me. " I needed to rake the Pink Pillt for the Sondition of the blood and for rheumatism. The fact is that my blood hot lieen of a very butnory nature and I have been troubled with talt-rheum from infancy. My head 2,000,000 BARRELS Made and Sold In Six Months, ending larch 1. 1896, Total Product of 1 The A Mill Alone produced 1,000,000 Barrels, Largest Run on Record. Washburn, Crosby's Superlative is sold everywhere from the Pacific Coast to St. John's, New Foundland, and in England, Ireland and Scotland very largely, and is recognized as the best flour in tht world. MEGARGEL WHOLESALE AGENTS. WE CARRY Burden, Phoenix, American, Juniata Steel, X.L. Steel, S OOfi Toe and Side Weight ililV NEVERSLIP CALKS, BLACKSMITH AND WAQONMAKERS' SUPPLIES. i Put Your Ad Barton, ilau. wot covered with it and good deal of D hair came off. It was very uncomfortable and nothing that I could do seemed to cure it. "Then came my rheumatic trouble dur ing three mouths of last winter. I tbiuk it came from exposure in the railroad yard dur ing bad weather. It wat muscular rheums tism and wat located principally in my right arm to that I could hardly lift it that high." Here Mr. Freeman raised hit outstretched right arm tlowly to a poaitiou below the middle of hit breast and gave a graphic idea of the difficulty and distress which acoom- Knied that eflurt before taking the Piuk, lit. "I began to receive benefit from the first time that I took the pillt, and I have never known them to fail of doing good. The trouble with a good many people is that they think they do everything by taking the first mall quantity of any remedy. 1 am not one of those who are satisfied with that kind of tampling, and when I beenme satisfied that they were the right thing for me I re solved to use them with fullest effect. I toon secured about 25 boxes. I bought them mostly from Janet' Apothecary Store on Washington Street- Oue of the first good effects I found wat an increase of appetite and the benefit of a general tonic. My blood liecame purer and better, and the effects of the muscular rheumatism rapidly disappear ed. At I took no other medicine the wholo effect must have come from Dr. Williams' Pink Pillt. I wat to gratified with theii effect that I must have bought altogethei about eighty boxes. "The result wot that I wat enabled to at tend to my work as a brakeman on the cars, which you know requires a pretty fret strength in the arms, and I found my gener al health and spirits toned up. "In the early periods of taking the pillt I took one at a dose, and latterly I increased to two and then three, the toning ellect being all the ttronger without any disagreeable effect. " I wot to pleab?d with the results of the Pink Pills in my cV?e that I recommended them to ail the railroad; n and others with in my knowledge that I VWW would need their benefit. As a coiisequeucd 'quite a num ber began their use. and from all that I bear their elleets were very satisfactory, sowat 4 doubt not they would he willing to reinforce my certificate with their own testimony." Mr. Freeman's remarks were corroborated at intervals by his wife, who wat a partici pant in tne conversation ann mamiestiy shared his genuine enthusiasm for the cura tive effects of which the hod been a witness, and for which the name of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills bus become synonymous. He certainly looked well and no one could imagine by his appearance and inanifestatior of energy the double siege of rheumatism and talt-rtieiim from which the Pink Pillt bat rescued him. " I am so satisfied' be said, " as to the true results which the Pink Pills have brought me that I ran readily give nn nflidnvit before a Notary to that effect. All who know me and the circumstances of my case will, how ever, feel convinced without the need of that." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain in a con densed form, all the elements necessary togive new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They nre an unfailing spe cific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, Kt. Vitus' dunce, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the aftereffect of In grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in mule or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, CO cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50 (tbey are never sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing Dr. Wil liams' Medicine Company, Schenectady. N. Y. ALL SIZES OF Horse , PA. I CONNELL SCRANTON in the Tribune