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Show A.??. THE CITIZEN hi ONG THE NEW BOOK, ...... By J. H. WORLD1 OF OURS. The' Shadow author of ;e. George ,H w etc. New York: an Company to go down every gold mine au-o- f world, remarks the Scotch This World of Ours. When ro-.vo- B reiit the vow he had already seen mines of the Rand in South Jrta, he knew Australia and other he te places. A few years later tack in London. He had been more than five hundred mines in still on eight lands. He was rrogant side of 40; he had made of iile; the ease and comfort to him. But he knew irresist-SSI&h- e estlessness which makes lure of the place where one is fa&fwhich flashes before your eyes -- you ed are stuck deep in the rut Jolmmonplaceness. . . money,, or travel? he asked elf, and travel! was the answer, went fyjcdfand unmistakable. So off he Kore then I to be a long time dead. But die there is this beautiful i have only one .life, e I to see. ifcflpw he has chronicled his travels. His book is !Mrif Curie can write! foiljiiless and planless; he jumps from a page, about America something thousands of miles he tucks in bits of naive phi-hchildlike lucubrations,, often heard before, but .with go pages of excellent description, ing anecdote, shrewd observation, good sense, and, above all else,, optimism and kindliness. is a man .who has learned the rsjwjet of radiating the sunshine which I ha pas absorbed in all the lands of the non-ejgjant- ly y, admo-Jpjyi- a irre-pressib- le K 'Lr ewtt- - 1. Mr. Curie took up the profession of it a mining engineer in order that At i might allow him to see the world. f tha'age of 14 he went to Australia and E if t i I Ceylon and South Africa. Later, when lie Returned to South Africa, he was a mining engineer. He toiled there, bossed gangs of Kaffir workmen, lived the wild life of the mining man, saw diamonds handled as care-leulas a grocer handles currants. Having prospered, wanderlust gripped again; he records the night of his ferewell in the Rand club, that home of Titanic revelry, where his guests full-fledg-ed y 5, p f drank hundreds of :j Chateau Lafltte at p L dollars worth of his expense to Prove how much they he Jiad enough money loved him. Still, left to take him to Australian gold fields. Iftc Elizabethan age of gold-miniwas oomo (he writes). Short and brilliant, like its prototype In dramatic litera-ioi- v. ng f r this lasted a bare twenty years, to the world the wonderful discovt rics in the Transvaal, NVest inlorado, Yukon and Nevada. Wretch the analogue:: The unap-Wo- a inble Band was Shakespeare; Knl-- 1 looriio, so richly veined, doomed to so was Marlowe; Cripple Creek, dgh iil.nve the world, yet vitally of It, Sir Philip Sydney; tho gold dredges yet gnvi Aus-trali- 'h-.it- f i j the early 90s. Kiondyke was found In 97, and the Nevada finds carried the era into the new century. By 1906 the period of great- discovery was over, and gold mining, entered into a twilight. - -- Brit-,eckon- the intrusion, into Imaginative mining of realism were Ben Jonson; the Klon- dyke, of a lesser calibre, was Massinger; and the adjacent Nevada camps of Goldfield and Tonopah were Beaumont and Fletcher. The Elizabethan age began with the discovery of the Rand in 188G. Colorado and West Australia followed in ;i, In Australia the Scotchman was lowered 2,500 feet in a bucket into a mine, together with the manager. Half way' down there came a spin on the rope and soon we were going round like a teetotum. Somehow they reached bottom without getting killed and there the veteran manager put his head between his hands and sighed; he was sick as a dog. Keenly observant always, Mr. Curie let his eyes range over many phases of the life, of Australia while ho was prying the most precious of metals from her soil. He was particularly impressed with the worth of the Chinese in the land in fact, throughout his rovings, the Chinese have aroused his admiration. He takes up the case of Wing Lee, typical market gardener outside Melbourne, paints a suppositious scene, occurring in the- Life Beyond, after Wing Lee bias shuffled off this mortal coil. The Recording Angel leads Wing Lee to the foot of the throne and ' : - i ; speaks thus: lie was a great gambler. At times his morals were unspeakable. Yet he was a master toiler all his life, who died worn out, his duty on earth far, far more than done. None worked like him. None grew vegetables so succulent. In his forty -three years of wprking life he grew over one million lettuces, one hundred and ten thousand cabbages, one hundred and fifty tons of tons .of tomatoes, forty-eigeighty-eigthousand French beans, heads of celery, seventy thousand bunches of slialots and nineteen thousand vegetable marrows. Well done, thou good and faithful servant.. A voice, deep, sweet, unutterably soothing, has spoken. Wing Lee is terribly afraid; but for the support of the Recording Angel he would fall. Ills seat is wifh" those on the immediate right hand. Yet he does not comprehend. Ills Longue cleaves to the roof of his moutli, lips murmur and his Whaffor? ht ht half-paralyz- ed America next. The indefatigable globe trotter comes by way of the gold mines and other mines of South America, to Colorado to the Kiondyke, where the gold madness is at its zenith, and everywhere he sees the life of glamor and lawlessness, of sudden wealth, ruin and death, which men live when the gold lust is upon them. He seeks still other gold mines in HunMexico, Russia, Burma, Malaysia, gary, Bohemia, Norway, Sweden. Africa, Tunis, Morocco, Abyssinia, reEgypt and Somaliland, the Uganda stalkgion where Theodore Roosevelt ed big game. The Scot sees natives as sickness. they lio dying from sleeping 9 They range from grown men to a, chubby boy of 8, newly brought in, and they were inevitably doomed. Those' f. in the last stages lay comatose beneath a blanket. The flesh was gone from their bodies, a parchment of skin covered their bones. From the less advanced cases, now and again rose groans of anguish, but mostly there was silence. On the mud banks, not far away, crocodiles sunned themselves. Then Spain. Roses are blooming upon the grave of Sir John Moore at Corunna; everywhere sound the songs of the Spaniards. Mohammedan through and through. Turning north to gay Copenhagen, he sees the men of the Northland listening (this globetrotting gold miner is a great lover of music) to Griegs Abes Death; listening so raptly that each seems to be dying his own death. Then it is again America, this time the. America of New York, steel and concrete and hotel luxury, all of which Mr. Curie finds splendid and marvelous. But he wags his finger at us in solemn warding. We are making a big mistake: . American women are Ipsing respect for their men. They are the mates of the most forceful, original, doing race in history, yet they treat them, oy anil large, without respect, with scant politeness, often with thinly veiled contempt,' as those of an inferior mold. And why? Because the men have set the tradition. Because these strong, forceful men have let the idea become nation wide, and persisting, that the woman is, superior. It is dreadful! Much mor? dreadful for the women than the men. In every true woman is the longing, not only to love, but to lean, to look up;' and when she can do this behold! she lias gained her hearts desire. I cannot erect your skyscrapers. Nor juggle with steel. Nor build railroads. Nor comer copper. Nor create big business. b of But 1 have ' my world wide in this and knowledge, nothing can take it from me. It is this: Dont be humble to women. Go home, my dear man, with a new light in your eyes; and when the wife gives you the old contempt, you give her the old Adam give it her bright and early, and she will begin to love you on the spot. ewe-lam- Having got that off his mind, Mr Curie cheerfully adds: But anyway, I am for the Americans, to the end of the chapter. Jamaica, Barbadoes, Paris, BarceThe pace lona, Frankfort-on-the-Maibecomes killing. The transitions from country to country nay, from continent to continent become ever more violently abrupt. You feel as if you were whirling at the coat tails of a meteor, riding astride a wireless message. One moment Mr. Curie is dining in the heart of Hungary with a Hungarian magnate, contributing to the entertainment by singing The Yeomen of the Guard from beginning to end. Next he rushes many miles to hear The Flying Dutchman in a German opera house. 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