THE SCRANTON TEIBTTNESA IURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER -Ml, 1896.
11
WORLD OF
SOME NEW DOCKS.
Nothing to surpass In mechanical
beauty and elegance the latest work of
the Koycrott Printing shop at East
Aurora, Mr. Elbert Hubbard's two
volume novel. "The Legacy." has yet
made Its abearance In this country.
It is evidently a labor ot love, for
there are only 700 copies, and each
Is signed by Mr. Hubbard. The vol
umes are printed on dekle edged, hand
made paper, and bound In blue cham
ois, satin-llued. We put the books
manner before Us matter not because
the latter Isn't Interesttns. but bectiits"
in any fair estimate it must be ranked
secondary.
Mr. Hubbard is a philosopher and
satirist rather than a novelist. In
touching o!T fads and foibles and In
putting caustic to the shams of the
time he has feu- equals among the
younger of our writers; but his la not
the equipment for sustained Imagina
tive work In Action. His story that
of a simple-minded Harvard profes
sor who suddenly receives a legacy by
the will of an admtrlnK former pupil.
Is tricked into putting It into stock
speculation in the hope of being ablo
tn make enough profit to endow a chair
of biology, in fleeced, to be sure, be
comes temporarily Insane and while
laboring under the hallucinations of
that mental aberration flees with a
favorite pu:ll to the far west, where
he takes up with a typical RUlchman.
Rattlesnake Pete, and lives for a per
iod as a hermit In the wilderness pre
sents good opportunities for artistic
treatment, but Mr. Hubbard only In
places rises to them. His drawing of
the cowboy Is superb. But nobody not
esoterlcally enlightened can figure out
Johnson's share In the professor's In
sanity nor perceive the propriety of
waiting until near the last chapter to
have the professor's wife fall over a
precipice.
The merit of the work Is really In Its
epigrams and in its little dashes of
peppery description. They scintillate
in nearly every chapter. Helow are
some of them:
You seldom catch a weasel In the arms
of Morpheus; the snake always sees you
first, and the fox has his inward eye on
a hen roost, not on a theory.
Admiration and imitution being first
cousins, we unuoiisulously become like
that on which our thought Is fixed.
The wife of a sjenlus often takes his tits
Of abstraction for stupidity, and having
the man's Interest at heart, the endeav
ors to arouse him out or his lethargy by
railing at him. Occasionally he uwakens
ens enough to rail back. And so it has
become an axiom that genius is not do
mestic. It Is hard for a frank und generous soul
to keep a secret. A secret gnaws the
more you hug it the more you suffer. The
confessional is a necessity for great souls
and small. , ,
If you were a stranger and chanced to
call at Pete's cabin he would have taken
you In, warmed you. clothed you. fed
you. and he would have felt Insulted had
you offered to pay. If you hail fallen
unions' thieves, been beaten sore, and left
by the roadside, half dead, and Pete had
chanced to pass that way he would have
stopped, bound your wounds, set you on
his own beast and taken pursuit of your
enemy; thus not only acting the part or
the Good Samaritan, but senilis his bluff
and going lilm one better.
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"The Windfall" by William O. Stod
dard (New York: 1. Applcton & Co.)
is a story of the mines, written es
pecially for boys and spiced as all Mr.
Stoddard's stories are with liberal
(lushes of love, heroism and adventure.
The young hero of the tale goes through
enough explosions, Hoods and miscel
laneous perils to satisfy the most ex
acting, and In the final chapter no doubt
n-ini hii n.vvfirri Wo haven't read as
far as the final chapter, but we would
If we had the time.
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The Appletons publish in their Town
nnd Country library a capital sea tale
by F. H. t'ostello, entitled "Master Ar
dick, Buccaneer." It Is a yarn spun in
the day of the second Charles, when
daring spirits roved the main and hon
est enterprise often went foul through
mutiny of crews or encounter with the
black flag. In the very vestibule to
this story, as It were, we have a choice
sea tight between a modest British
merchantman and a Hollutidish plra
teer, ami a few pages further on a
mutiny is served up in language that
does It Justice. Indeed, the reader of
this book will be a singular personage
If he does not feel before laying
the volume clown that he has got his
money's worth.
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"A Woman in It" Is what "Rita"
?alls her latest novel, whlcn reaches us
from the Lippincotts. of Philadelphia.
The woman In question is what migui
be culled a feminine dead beat, but
there are probably some persons who
will find her interesting.
II II II
Those who read the papers on Spain
by H. C. Chatlleld-Taylor which were
printed in recent Issues of the Cosmo
politan will welcome the handsome vol
ume In which the Chicago firm of H. S.
Stone & Co. has sought to preserve
them. It appears In orange-and-scar-let
covers under the title "The Land of
the Castanet," and Includes In all ten
papers, or double the number which
saw light In the magazine. Mr. Tay
lor's sketches of Spain are interesting
In themselves because drawn with a
free hand and set down without ma
nipulation; and they are interesting co
incidental! by reason of the light
which they unintentionally shed on cer
tain diplomatic problems now before
the world for settlement.
. BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
The first number of the Tatlcr contained
a most sympathetic and appreciative te
view by V. D. Howells of James hit
comb Klley's latest and most ambitious
offering, "A Child World." "He has chos.
en," Mr. Howells informs us, "for the ve
hicle of his poem that leisurely and com
fortable decasyllabic rhyme which long
ego comically got Itself called heroic
and which here gives me the effect of be
ing put Into commission without being
much dusted off, but with the cobwebs
und the strawy litter of a venerable dis
use still upon It. As it creaks gently
along under the poet, with a pleasant
clatter of loosened bolts and nuts. It stops
now and then and lets him break into a
lyric, and then starts quietly on again.
From beginning to end It moves through
the world of childhood, the childhood of
forty or fifty years ago, the childhood of
that vanished west which lay between
the Ohio and the Mississippi, and was,
unless memory abuses my fondness, the
happiest land that ever there was under
the sun. There were no very rich nor
very poor In that region, which has since
become the very hotbed of milllonalrlsm,
but an equality of condition never
matched before or since, so that the pic
ture of the peaceful, kindly life in one
village family, which Mr. Itlley gives, Is
the portrait of all village family life then
and there, except when It was marred by
vice or tainted by guilt. In the lur.ee
towns It was not quite so simple, but it
was still very simple; the towns were not
so large nor so old, but their citizens were
still nearly all of village growth and had
known the village life. It Is a phase of
this life which Mr. Itlley translates Into
rhyme with a most conscientious mor
ality and a perfect courage. Allowing for
the fact that life ordinarily talks prose,
and not heroic couplets, or blank verse,
or even so much as hexameters, I do not
see how rhyme could possibly be truer
to It. As for the spirit of It, that is as
perfectly expressed in this poet's gentle
art as unaffectedly and unambitiously as
I think we can ever hope to have It done;
for once, here seems something ultimate,
final. There Is no American poet
who has done so much as James Whlt
riomb Riley to divine the familiar Amer
ica of most Americans, or to reveal the
heart of our common life In terms of such
universal Import and appeal."
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Perhaps a quotation from thlt poet
would not be out of place:
The Child-heart Is so strange a tittle
thing
80 mild so timorously shy and small,
When grown-up hearts throb, it goes
scampering
Behind the wall, nor dares peer out at
ai!-
It Is the veriest mouse
That hides In any house
So wild a little thing Is any Child-heart !
LETTERS-
Child-heart! mild heart!
Ho. my little wild heart!
Come up here to me out o the dark.
Or let me some to you!
So lorn at times the Child-heart needs
must be. . .
With never eoe maturer heart for friend
And comrade, whose tear-ripened sym
pathy And love might lend it eomfort to the
nd, . A,
Whose yearnings, cches and stings.
Over poor little things
Were pitiful as ever any Child-heart.
Times, too, the little Child-heart must be
so young, nor knowing, as we
know.
The fact from fantasy, the good from bad.
The Joy from woe. the all that hurts
us so!
What wonder then that thus
It hides away from us?
So weak a little thing is any Child-heart!
Nay. little Child-heart, you have never
need
To fear us; we are weaker far than
you
"Tls we who should be fearful we In
deed Should hide us. too. as darkly as you
do.-
Bafc, as yourself withdrawn,
Hearing the World roar on
Too willful, wotul, awful, for the Child
heart! Child-heart! mild heart!
Ho, my little wild heart!
Come up her to me out o' the dark.
Or let me come to you!
The Child-heart long and long since lost
to view
A Fair Paradise!
How always fair It was and fresh and
every affluent hour heaped heart
and eyes
With treasures of surprise!
O Child-World: After this world-Just as
when
I found you first sufficed
My soulinost need if I found you again,
With all my childish dream so realised,
I should not be surprised.
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Says the Tatlcr: "There are three
Stephen Cranes the one who Is advertis
ed by his loving friends; the one who is
reviled by his adverse critics; and the
man he really Is. The last We may only
know from the things be really says.
Aside from and beneath his bizarre color
schemes, his profanity and bad English,
and his magnificent collection of adjec
tives, there is a marvelous fount of origi
nality, a great and during imagination,
and a power of forcible, graphic descrip
tion. Added to these Is a decided talent
for exaggeration, which Is perhaps the
keynote of his popularity. But 'nothing is
reprehensible if you're clever at it,' and
clever at his exaggerations Mr. Crane
certainly Is,"
Arahur Sherburne Hardy, author of
"I'asso Rose." "Rut Yet a Woman." and
"The Wind of Destiny," as well as some
of the best verse of his time, was beguiled
Into the office of one of the enterprising
young publishers of Boston the other
day.
"Now, my dear Colonel," said the pub
lisher, dropping Into the familiarity that
lavishes military titles, "I want to tell
you hutv much I ve enjoyed your poems in
the magazines lately. They are g-reat!
Hut, of course, poetry In the nmguzlnes
doesn't amount to a damn nowadays. Ev
ery one knows it's put In Just to fill up a
pa ao. What the public wants is fiction,
good fiction. Now," he concluded, strik
ing an attitude, "I believe you could
write good fiction."
Mr. Hardy shrugged his shoulders de
precatltigly, and tried to blush.
"Yes. I'm sure you could, Colonel," the
publisher went on. "Now, why don't you
try it? Write a novel for me."
For a moment Mr. Hardy was absorbed
in picking a phrase. At lust he suid
thoughtfully, as if recalling something in
the remote past: "I've tried It,"
"You have? When?"
"'h. I began several years ago."
"And I suppose you gave It to one of
thosu little publishing houses that are
simply the graveyards of novels? In this
business you've got to push things, and
push 'em nurd. Now, It's all very well
to talk about genius "
"Houghton, Mltflin published them,"
Mr. Hardy tnterruptsd nervously. "There
aid three altogether."
For n motnunt the enterprising young
publisher looked (luzed. Then he pulled
himself together; but Mr. Hardy had al
ready arrived at the door, and a moment
later his heavy tread could be heard slow
ly descending the stairs. The Tatlcr.
The December MoClure's Is to bp a
"bird," so its publishers say and they
ought to know.
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The boom In green has begun. We have
had a surfeit of "Red Book Titles." "The
Red Badge." "The Red Cockade," "Tilo
Red Republic," "Red Man and White,"
and many others, but their day is past,
arid we have begun the new era, says
the Tatlcr. with "Green Gates." "Green
Fires," "Green Graves of Balcowrle,"
"Green Arraa," und "Green Mountain
Boys."
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Most of the notes in this column. It will
be observed, are credited to the Tatlcr,
Stone A Klmliall's little literary daily.
The reason Is that It is printing more and
better mutter of this kind than any other
publication which we see. The exchange
shears go to It instinctively and there
Is no better Indorsement possible. Reply
ing in a recent number to a correspondent
w ho hud complained of editors who boast
of turning down certain authors the Tat
lcr, for Instance, presents this sharp shaft
(nnd we cite It as a fair specimen of Its
kemiess of fencing): "We suspect that
the Harpers don't do much bragging
about the way they 'turned down' Hud
yard Kipling when he tried to sell thorn
some of the best of his Indian stories a
few years ago. They don't even say
much about their rejection of Gallagher,
which Richard Harding Davis offered
them in the young enthusiasm of his
early days In New York, and those seven
editors who rejected the story before Mr.
Burllngame of Scrlbner's accepted it have
kept very quiet. And so far Mr. Davis
himself has never been known to tell of
his persistent rejections of stories by Mr.
Gilbert Parker during his brief autocracy
at Harper's Weekly. No. beneath much
of the editorial reserve that young writ
ers from the country find so Impressive
during their early months in New York
there lies many a pain from wounded van-
lty"
I.ITKKAHV OTE.
Richard Le Oalllenne's "Quest of the
Golden Girl" Is out.
Sir Robert Peel has written a romance
about "A Bit of a Fool."
Sprightly Menle Muriel Dowe has a new
book In press on "Some Whims of Fate."
S. Baring Gould's new historical ro
mance concerns "Guavas the Tinner."
Professor Ma ha fry is preparing for pub
lication a fragment of a Greek novel which
he has found on a papyrus of the first cen
tury In the Fayyum.
"New Jersey," by Frank R. Stockton,
and "Georgia," by Joel Chandler Harris,
are the titles of two delightful Illustrated
books to be published immediately by D.
Appleton tk Co. In a series called "Stories
from American History."
Richard Harding Davis' South Ameri
can story, "Soldiers of Fortune," which
will begin its serial course In the next
Hcribner's. Is his longest and most ambi
tious work. Mr. Davis' travels in South
America gavo him a great deal of the ma
terial, which he has now for the first
time used in Action. The story opens tn
New York, but Is Immediately transferred
to an Imaginary South American Repub
lic, where all the subsequent action takes
place, the plot turning on a ri.uiutlon in
this South American state. The hero is a
young American elvil engineer, while the
heroines of the romance a.e two New
York girls, who are sisters.
Conan Doyle's new novel, "Rodney
Stone," will be published Immediately by
D. Appleton & Co. The Prince and Beau
Brummel. the dandles of Brighton and
the heroes of the prize-ring, reappear
in the pages of this stirring and fascinat
ing romance. Every one knows the sanity
and spirit of Dr. Doyle's work, and here
he is at his best. He Is dealing with a
time which, despite Its affectations, was
full of virility and plcturesqueness.
Those were the palmy days of the coach,
and the amsteur whip was constatly tn
evidence. The road race described In this
romance will rank among the classics of
its kind, and there are other episodes
throughout the book which show that
the author of "The White Company" has
here excelled himself.
"The Seven Seas" Is the title of Rud
yard Kipling's new volume of poems
which Is published by D. Appleton &
Co. Mr. Kipling's new volume Is one of
special importance, in that It represents
in an admirable and conclusive manner
not only the verse of the soli iter s life, but
also the poetry of patriotl.fn of adven
ture, and of the sea. and jf a modern
held, to be termed roughly the romance
01 apii:eu science, waicn in autaor nas
made bis own. In this Jew book of
verses the qualities which have distlti
guistaed Mr. Kipling's best expresson in
the verse are shown n a riper and fuller
development thau before.
M'KInTeY AMD HANNA.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Mark Hanna. chairman of the Republi
can national committee, ; was honored
with a banquet reception by the Union
club in Cleveland on Mo iday night. The
occasion was chlelly interesting for the
speech of Mr. Hanna binaelf. though able
response to toasts werj made by other
speakers. The Mark H.'iiiua of the cari
caturists and the opposition press and
the real Mark Hanna uifear to be two en
tirely different Individutls. The former ts
a coarse, brutal and mercenary charauler,
destitute of public sfrlt, private honor
or worthy principles M any kind, an un
MUpulous and vulgar plutocrat who en
tered the political anena simply to sub
serve his own selfish interests. The real
Mark Hanna is entirely another man.
Judging from his rtuord and his public
utterances. Some passes of his personal
ity are Just coming to the knowledge of
the public. During the campaign he in
dulged In speech oijiy when it was neces
sary. He possess? the rare and valuable
power of reticence when silence is golden.
Everything he huj to say to the public
prior to the electijn was thoroughly con
sidered and wisUy directed to accom
plish the one end se had in view, the elec
tion of McKlnley. He never condescend
ed to notice the numerous attacks made
upon him personally. These, In his estimation,-
were of no account and he left
them to be dealt with by the common
sense of the American people. But since
the election thj restraint Mr. Hanna
placed upon himself has been relaxed and
he has been rigiorted In Interviews and
speeches quite freely and very much to
his credit. For one thing. It has been
made very clear that Instead of being the
coarse and commonplace person with only
the one talent of busineis organization
his enemies declared him to be, he is a
man of broad and liberal views, generous
and patriotic In his impulses and a very
happy public speaker.
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At the banquet above mentioned Mr.
Hanna spoke frankly, freely and feeling
ly of his personal and political relations
with Major McKlnley. One thing he made
very clear to every unbiased mind was
that there' existed between him and the
successful ' candidate a feeling of strong
personal friendship. Whatever other peo
plo may think of the character and per
sonality of Major McKlnley, It Is mani
fest that Mark Hanna thoroughly be
lieves in and loves him. It was the con
fidence In the latter inspired by these
amicable relations, which led Hunna two
years ago to undortake the movement
that culminated In McKlnley's nomina
tion and election. In the course of his
Cleveland speech Mr. Hanna said: "I bad
been with him" Mr. McKlnley "In the
conventions of 'M, '81 and '82, and I know
of their trials and their temptations, and
It was then that 1 learned to know the
heart and character of William McKln
ley." This reference to the president,
elect's course tn the national conven
tions of the years named will recall to
many who were present oil at least one
of those occasions the noble stand McKln
ley took when he found that some of the
delcipates were voting for his nonilnati.vM.
He was there In the interest of John Sher
man. He had before him the precedent of
another convention when the great prize
hud gono to an Ohio man also in charge
of (Sherman's candidacy. It looked us
though possibly that strange experience
illicit be his also; but his high sense of
honor resented the thought of being
placed for a moment in a false position
before the convention and the country;
and, taking the floor, he delivered a speech
so manifestly sincere, so earnest and Im
passioned, that he impressed every mind
in the vast assemblage with the convic
tion that he would regard It as a personal
affront to his honor If any more votes
were given to him. That was character
istic or William McKlnley, and it was
ono of the incidents to which Mark Hun
na alluded when hu spoke of the trials
and temptations to whljh bis friend had
been subjected.
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It Is gratifying to every American voter.
Republican or Democrat, whose ballot
was given to the successful candidate to
hear the man who had charge of his In
terests testify to the conditions upon
which the former consented to enter the
field. As quoted by Mr. Hanna, McKlnley
said to him two years ago when the can
vas was begun: "Mark, there are soma
things 1 will not do to bo president of the
United States, and I leave my honor in
your hands." The man who suld that
would not, as was recklessly charged dur
ing the campaign, mortgage himself or
sign away the solemn obligations of that
great office to any man or any combina
tion of private Interests. Hanna, on his
own account, doubtless, and certainly In
doferunce to the trust thus placed in his
hands, obeyed the injunction, and, after
the nomlnatton, returned to his chief with
the declaration that his candidate would
enter the struggle unfettered by a single
promise or dishonorable deal.
The cynic may sneer at disinterested
friendship ami the honor of public men;
but It Is fortunate for our land and Its In
stitutions that his degraded view of hu
man nature is bulled by the facts of hu
man experience.
EDUCATION NOT A FAILURE.
From the New York Tribune.
The question may 'be asked In all seri
ousness, provoked by more thnn one cur
rent or recent incident. Is our education
a failure? A great Issue of national poli
cy Is brought to the fore. It demands
consideration of political economy, his
tory, Industrial statistics, present condi
tions In all parts of the world, and what
not. It is (in issue, one would say, to
the determination of which the most thor
ough knowledge of such topics should be
summoned. But a man. a college-bred
man, declares that the most Illiterate and
Ignorant is as competent to deal with It
as the most highly educated. Again, in
dustrial evils, widespread, afflict the land,
Business is piostrate. Men are Idle, pen
niless. Vast discontent prevails. And a
colleue-bred man Bays It is because the
masses of the people are too highly edu
cated. They are educated above their
station, and thus made discontented.
They remain Ignorant, as it Is fitting that
hewers of wood and drawers of water
should be. Are these men right? If so,
the question Ii rs t asked may readily be
answered. Kducation Is a failure. Schools
and colleges are ghastly mockeries. If
the one be right, "the dream, the fancy,"
of the poet are real. The squalid savage
Is the truest type of manhood. In his
condition Is not only more Joy but more
profit than "in this march of mind." Or
If the other be right, and education be
fitted only for the favored few, then is the
republic ltelf a failure, and a tyrannical
oligarchy Is the best form of government.
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But they are not right. Humanity re
volts at the very thought. "Knowledge
Is power," as the old copybook legensd
used to tell, and It Is a iiower of univer
sal benettcence, if only It be properly tm
ploed. "The practiced hustings liar"
may tell his audiences Ignorance Is as
competent as Is wisdom to deal with
great question of science and of state
craft, but they know, end he knows In
his heart. "0, that he lies. There is no
rational farmer In the land who does not
seek the superior knowledge of a physi
cian when he is ill, or even when his
horse or ecw Is ill. What wretched twad- I
die, then, to say no txptrt knowledge Is ,
required to heal the aliments of the Xolv !
K otitic! 1 nose who have done this latter
ave invariably been men of knowledge.
The founders of the republic Washing
ton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison and
their colleagues were scholars, every one
of them, given to much reading and to
diligent study. So were the men who
saved the nation from disruption a gen
eration ago. Now end then an unlettered
gsnlus ashes upon the world and llluml.
nates It with meteoric lustre. But the
constant radiance that makes life bright
and progress possible conies from men of
true learning, who are men of action, but
also men of thought,
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Nor Is the other theory more tenablo,
that learning should be denied the many
an granted only to the few. The truth
Is that which John Morley has eloquently
expressed: "Not only the well-being cf
the man, but the chances of exceptional
Jenlus, moral or Intellectual, In the gifted
ow, are highest In a society whete the
average Interest, curiosity, espsclty art
all highest." Nothing could be mor- apt
or more significant. The whole great
world-scheme of evolution requires its
truth. There is no general who would not
prefer an anny of intelligent men to an
army of blockheads. What Is essential Is,
of course, that they be educated in the
right way. A soldier educated only as an
artist or as a "hem 1st would be of ll'tls
service. If collegia te and other educa
tion fall of beneficence It is not because
It is education, but because It Is not the
right kind of education. If the "scholar
In politics" be a failure, It Is because he
Is merely a scholar In politics snd not a
scholar of polttcs;because, that Is to say,
his education is deficient In respect to the
one thing he is trying to practice. So
would the scholar be a failure In law,
medicine, srlonce and what not, if Ms
scholarship failed to comprise the very
thing he was engaged in. It is not true
that liberal education spoils a farmer s
son for being a runner. He is spoiled, If
at all. because his education Is not lib
eral, but partial: because his college cur
riculum includes too little; because he has
not been taught how to aiiply all the tri
umphs of mechanics and meteorology, and
chemistry, and electricity to the culture
of the soli: yes. and to apply to the ca
reer of a farmer the mental discipline he
has acquired by the study of philosophy,
and the classics.
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It Is easy to scoff at these things, as at
anything, but It Is idle and mischievous.
The story of the world ts the best vindi
cation of the right of the humun mind to
freedom, to growth, to culture, to the at
tainment of the highest possibilities. The
attempt was made to enslave men spirit
ually. It failed, snd the world is the bet
ter, speritually, for the failure. The at
tempt was made to enslave them pollti
cally. It has failed, ami is falling, and the
world is for that reason the better off,
polllfrjllly. Krunlly Ur wocOd Intelr
lertual beneficent re of fuilure, and
equally beneficent would such failure be
to the world. Not for nothing was man
endowed with mind superior to the blind
instinct of the brute. Not uselessly is
that mind developed and enriched. Our
education is not a failure. It has only
Just begun Its work for the welfare of
the race.
THE HUMAN HOADS.
Some of Them Still in Use aud Call
lor No Itcnairs.
From the New York Independent.
The Roman road as built for eternity.
When the roadbed had been prepared
by excavation It was carefully refilled,
regardless of expense, with layers of
sand, stones and cement. The surface
was so solidly dressed that the wear
and tear was reduced to a minimum.
Investigations with regard to the prep
aration of the roadbeds were made years
ago by Kergier on Roman roads that
are still In use in France, and with the
following results: In one road the ex
cavation down to hardpan was three
feet deep. This trench was filled up first
with a layer of sand and cement an
Inch thick; then came a foot layer of
flatfish stones and cement; then a foot
layer ot small traveled stones and
cement. These last two layers were so
hard and firmly knit together that tools
rould break off fragments only with
great difficulty. The next layer con
sisted of a foot of cement and sand, cov
ered with a top-dressing of gravel. In
another rond In France the foot layer
ot cement and sand changed places with
the layer of cement and traveled stones.
A third road In France was examined
ot a point whert It had been raised
twenty feet above the level of the sur
rounding country, and a vertical sec
tion revealed a structure ot five layers.
First came the great till of 1CV4 feet; on
top of this All they pluced first a foot
layer of flatfish stones and cement,
then mortar of any kind, then a half
foot layer of firmly packed dirt, then
a half-foot layer of small gravel In
hard cement, and lastly, a half-foot
layer of cement and large gravel.
Paved roads were exceptional. An
example of paved road is the Via Ap
pla, whose pavement consists of a hard
kind of stone, such as is used for mill
stones. The stones of this pavement
are carefully hewn and fitted together
so precisely that the road often appears
to be solid rock, and has proved to be
so Indestructible that after 2,000 years
of continuous use it Is still a magnifi
cent road. Ordinarily, however, the
too dressing of the road consisted of
gravel and hard cement, and when, in
the countless inscriptions such and such
a governor Is said to have restored a
given road, reference Is made to this
top dressing of gravel and cement. Tho
width of the military road was usuany
sixty feet; the raised center being
twenty feet wide, with side tracks each
of the width of twenty feeet. In some
roads the raised center was paved,
while the side tracks were dressed with
gravel and cement.
The viae nrlvatae and the feeders of
the military roads were usually dirt
roads. They were much narrower than
the military roads; sometimes they had
a width of only ten feet, and, indeed
the feeders of the Via Appla were only
two feet wide, but paved. The width
of the Roman roads, all told, varied
therefore, from 2 to 120 feet.
Radway's
Pills
Always Raliabla, Pure! Vagstable,
MILD, BUT EFFECTIVE.
Purely vegetable, act without pain, ele
gantly coated, tasteless, smnll and easy to
lukn H ,t tj.ll. ...I. ....... . 1 - - 1 .
ing to hualthful activity the liver, bowels and
other dipestive organs, lean 11 the hownlstn
a umvuimi vvuuimuii Ktiuuut Kuy niier euOCbS,
Sick Headache,
Biliousness,
Constipation,
Piles
-AXD-
All Liver Disorders.
RADWAY'S PILLS are purely vegetable,
mild and reiiablf. t ua Pnect JJlestl )n.
complete absorption and hpalthfulreiruiiirltir.
S3 cents a b x. At Druggists, or by mail,
"book of Advice" free by mail.
R AD WAY & CO..
No. 53 Elm Strett, New York.
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SOLO EVERYWHERE S3
DUPONT'S
mm, cusTi.16 and spoRTins
Vanufaotured at the Wapwallopen Mils,
Luaerne county. Pa., and at Wil
mington, Delaware.
HENRY BELIN, Jr.
Oeneral Agent for the Wyoming Dlatriet
lit WYOMINO AVENUE. Scrsateo, Pa
Third National Bank Building.
AGENCIES:
THOU. PORDPIttston, Pa
JOHN B. SMITH SON. PlVBOUth. Pa,
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Agents for the Repaune ChamlcnJ Com
taay'e Ills a Explosives.
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TWOW
The Storiss ef the Etossuod Orgs as
Told to Our Roporicr.
From Vu Qaittlt, Port Jervit, X. I'.
Mrs. A. A. Pinncy, of Mutumoras, Pike
County, Pennsylvania, until two years ugo
was the embodiment of sound health. Then
without uuy apparent cause she began to
iroop iu health and spirits, ami eveu her
tuentul faculties became impaired. Nervous
iebihty was the name given the disease by
the physician but it would not respond to
bis treatment, and grew daily worse. The
physiciuu was changed but his successor
could do nothing to aid her, her weight was
iteadily decreasing, her complexion grew
lark snd unhealthy, und all will power was
iu a state of suspension.
On the fourth or Inst July, Mrs. Pinney,
by the udvice of a friend begau to take Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, and before the first
box was empty olie was ou the road to re
covery. By the timo she hud finished the
ix boxes she hud bought, she was in restor
ed health, and slio declares that her heultli
is even better thuii it was iu her girlhood.
The above information was obtained from
Mrs. Piuney by a reporter and though the
lady lias a horror of newspaper notorietr,
she consented to have her story told, in the
hope tlmt it might be teen by others- simi
larly afflicted to what she had been.
Farmer Hnrvev Vail, a well-known and
respected citizen of Ureenville, was also
visited hy the reporter, as Ir. Williams'
Pink Pills were said in his neighborhood to
nave urougui nini troin tne verge of the
grave to sound, bodily health. Mr. Vail
said that heart disease and a complication
of ailments, which the physicians could not
reach, had brought him so low tlmt all labor
was given up, and he looked for but ou
relief.
Ho was in this unhappy condition when
he read of a case of a man who hud been uil
imr as he hud been, that was cured by Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills, und he determined to
give them a trial. The result whs perfect
restoration to health, and now Mr. Vail looks
as though he had never hud a day's illness
in his life.
Mrs. M. A. Quick was the third person
fl-om whom the reporter sought information.
As apace is valuable her own concise state
n'en' ' printed as given at her home, 101
Pike Street, a tew days ago :
"As a cure for rhciiuintism certain find
aulck I can strongly recommend Dr. Wil
ams' Ifink Pills. The distress in which I
was for several weeks cannot be imagined.
After trying several other remedies which
failed I was relieved through the use of Pink
Pills. I have no dread tor a return ot rheu
matism so lontf as I can procure Pink Pills.
They tire good and I can recommend them
to anybody afflicted with rheumatism."
STRUCK IN THE BACK.
The Carious Accident Which Befell an
Aged Lady.
From the Prcu, Vtlca, X. T.
Mrs. Nancy Lappeus. the widow of the
late Mr. John Lappeus, of Kden, Krie County,
Ijcw York, and now residing with her son,
Baptist Church of Brookfield, New York, is
sn old I lady nearly seventy-seven vears of age.
well known in the locality where she now
resides, and in Eric County, her husband hov.
Big been one of the "forty-niners," or Cali
UP TO
I1niiim11111m.il mi.....itimii.uiilw..iii1iiil
Eshblishid 1868.
ICS
the Genuine
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At a time when many manu
facturers and dealers are making
the most astounding statements
regardiugtliemeritsanddnrability
of inferior Pianos, intending par
chasers should not fail to make
critical examination of the above
instruments.
6:
EL C. RICKER
ticucrnl Dealer In Northeast
ern Pennsylvania.
4
New Telephono Exchange BulMlnfl. n9i
Adams Ave,
IIIMMiniMMttMTIIHHIMIIIIIIIIJsjiasi-iiwiii.1
uiiuuiiiijiuiiii..in.uiiiiiiiir.m1.1ttM
Th) Leading Dentist. Eiftbt YiEts' Eipsileace, New Lecaled at
AO 9
Spruce Street.
omen m (M man.
fornia pioneers. Severs years ago she seci.
deutly received an iajury to her spine, which
resulted iu creepiug paralysis or palsy of
lxith hands and wr sis, from which she has
been cured. Her case being a remarkable
one on account of her great age, Mrs. Lap
peus' own statement of her cure is given:
BnooKf ielo, New York,
July -il, 1S96.
" My name b Nancy Lappeus, I am nearly
seventy-seven years old, and the widow of
John Lappeus, deceased, who died some
three years ago, at Eden, New York, since
which time I have resided with my son,
Rev. Daniel P. LRpprui, a clergyman of the
Baptist Church, and living now at this
place.
"About five years ago I was overtaken by
a curious accident, through some boys who
were playing on the street with boxing
gloves at Eden, New York. By some means,
while going into the post office, I was struck
iu the back by one of the boys, the blow re
sulting so seriously that for months I was
unable to lie down, but had to take my rest
in a chuir, and suffered great pain from injury
to the spine. I was gradually affected by
creeping palsy in both hands, which would
become deadly white, beginning at the finger
ends, the nails being blue, and the sense ol
touch or feeling in the affected parte sua
psmled. " The physicians, when these attacks an.
rred, would order me to immerse my hands
hot water, end this generally gave tem
porary relief, but the attacks became more
t'reouent. and I knew itjthey were not stayed,
I sluiuld entirely lose the use of my hands,
if not my arms. The doctors said they ootild
do no more for me, but I determined not te
leave any stone unturned that could afford
me possible relief.
"At this time I learned through the news,
papers some of the extraordinary cures thai
had been effected in all manner of diseases,
by Dr. Wllliuma' Pink Pills, and with my
husband's full consent I begun to take them.
Improvement began in my condition almost
immediately, and in a few months all syrop.
turns of the palsy left me, avul have never
returned since. 1 am a firm believer in the
effieucy of Pink Pills, and slwaysshsll beso.
"Nancy Lappkvs."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
are prepared by the Dr. Williams' Med
icino Co., of Schenectady, N. Y., a firm
whose ability and reliability are unques
tioned. Pink Pills sre not looked upon as a
patent medicine, but as a prescription,
having been used as auch for years in general
practice, and their auecesslbl results in
curing various affliction made it imperative
that they be prepared in quuntitica to meet
the demand of the public, and place tbrm in
reach of all. They are an unfailing speciflo
for such diseases ss locomotor nlnxiit, partial
paralysis, tjt. Vitus' dunce, sciatica, neu
ralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the
after effects of la erififie. nulniintton ,,r 41.
heart, pule and sallow complexions, and the
tired feeling resulting from nervous prnrtia.
tion, nil discuses resulting from vitiated hit
mors in the blood, such as cemfnlu rhrimtn
erysipelas, etc. They ore also a specific for
icvuuiea ircuiiar io icmaics, sucn as suppres
sions, irregularities, and all forma of weak
ness. They build up the blood, and reHtore
the glow of health to pule and sallow cheeks.
In men they effect a radical cure in all cases
annular iroin menial worrv. overwork np ....
cesses of whatever nature.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the ele
ments necessary to mve new lite ami i.i,.
to the blood and restore shattered nerves
They are for tale by all drotrgists, or amy be'
had by mini from Dr. Willianiir' Medicine
Company, Schenectady, N.Y., for 60 cents a
box, or six boxes for fi.JO.
DATE.
Over 16,000 ia Uai.
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MANSFIELD STATU NOR1 AL SCHOOL.
Intellectual and practical training ft
teachers. Three courses ol study beetdea
preparatory. Special attention airsa t
preparation for collesre. Students ad
mitted to best eollesjcs on certificate.
Thirty KTsduatee pursuing further studies
last year. Great advantages for special
studies In art and nmslc. Model school of
three hundred pupils. Corps of slxteea
teachers. Beautiful grounds, llasnlflceat
pu'.ldlnts. Large grounds for athletloa.
Elevator and Infirmary with attendant
nurse. Pine gymnasium. Everything!
furnished at an average cost to normal
jtudpnu of Uil a year. Pall term. Aug.
& Winter term, Deo. Spring term.
March 16. Students admitted to olaaeeeal
any time. For catalogue, containing fatf
information, apply to
S. II. AXBRO, Principal.
Mansfield Pa.,
THE
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Gis nl Eeotrlc Fixtures,
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MAX) El AT MOOSIC AND
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Bleoerie Batteries, Blootrlo Exploders, for ex
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BXPLosives,
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Manufacturers of the Celebrated
CAPAClTYl
100,000 Barrels per Annum .
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What Sarah Barahard says
RE VIVO
restores, vrrALrrr.
1st Day.
15th Day.
TKf. VJPEAT SOth 1
FZUUfOB ZVj
sroflaces the above malt c in'30 days. It sets
Mwertallr sad quieklr. Con B when all otherslstL
loan mea will nssla their Joel manhood, sad old
aien will recover their yc athfu! vlinr By using
BE VIVO, it qoicklr and sorely restores Merrous.
Mes. Loot Vitality, lei pot. tx-f, Hlsbtlr taUehona,
Loot tower. Fsl lie. Memo r,, Wastlo Dieasses. end)
all effects of telt-ebaso e I escees sad Indiscretion,
which unfit, one for stnd bnetness or narrleae. I
not only cures by starting l the seat ot dueese. be
. P'"" tonie s blood builder, bring-
,ne P ' f1 cheeks sod re-eUirlna-
the fir of yo uk. It wards off Faisal ty
end OoDeumptioa. Ins ift en lining REVlVO.Be
" " b" V ,a oc'- Br seell.
SI.0O per seck sre. or : tr for WiMO. with a peei
twe written, narr iitee to rare ew rehae!
he mosey. ftrcall free. Address
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