Show LITERARY XOTES In the Heart of the Bitter Root Mountains Putnam Sons is a thrilling recital of the adventures of the illfated Carlin party which was caught in the snow in the mountains of the Clearwater basin in the fall of 1893 and of the several expeditions that sot out in search of the snowbound adventurers The volume is handsomely Illustrated from original photographs and has a comprehensive map of the country 150 postpaid is the price of the volume The Century Magazine for February Is not surpassed by any of the popular monthlies Its engravings are beautiful and every article and story may be ranked as of tne first lass We will not particularize From the beginning which is a continuation the life of Napoleon to the end which deals with the topics of the times the Century is alive with interest and pregnant with good thoughts The life of Napoleon commenced last November and contains authentic portraits and pictures There could be no fitter nor more interesting in-teresting commemoration of the death of Robert Louis Stevenson than that made in McClures Magazine for February Feb-ruary With pictures of Stevensons South Sea life and home and portraits of Stevenson extending from his babyhood baby-hood to within a year of his death and including a reproduction of the beautiful beau-tiful photograph by Sir Percy Shelley is given first an account by a personal friend who saw him off from San Francisco Fran-cisco of his sailing to the South Sea and establishing himself in Samoa and then tributes from his fellow Scotch men and in some sort disciples J SI Barrie S R Crockett and Ian Mac iaren Intimately allied with him as these three writer were by nationality vocation and affectionate regard their work on his death has an especial appositeness ap-positeness and value Mr Barries is a poem very happy and original in conception and strongly executed Mr William C Corn well president of the New York State Bankers association associa-tion has written an article for the February Forum entitled Should the Government Retire from Banking in I which he declares that the currency troubles in the United States are due to the governments assumption of the prerogative rightly belonging to banks of issuing notes of circulation and he explains why this function should naturally na-turally be left to the banks r In the same number of The lorum air Anrea S Heidelbach explains Why Gold is Exported The principal reasons he gives for the constant drain of gold from this country are disgust of foreign for-eign investors because of recent developments devel-opments in our railroad management dismay at the condition of the treasury treas-ury and our currency and the fear that if they invest money here they may not be able to get back as good money as they gave He says that no change in this state of affairs may be expected until the government goes out of the banking business and we have amore a-more elastic currency Whl1e Dr Parkhurst is the feature ofthe February number of the Ladies Home Journal Reginald de Koven the composer of Robin Hood is prominent promi-nent with ibis new song Roses of Lqve Arthur Warren is likewise excellent ex-cellent in an interesting and beauti fullyIllustrated article on Qfleen Marguerite Mar-guerite of Italy John Kendrlck Bangs is very funny in his Paradise Club while another humorist Robert J Burdette departs from the humorous humor-ous and tells the tender love story of hIs wife and himself in The Woman I Who Most Influenced Me Mr How ells takes up Zola and the French school in his literary autobiography and Thomas a Beclret is exceedingly practical and helpful in his article on The Correct Way to Play a Piano The famous and funny Brownies are on a lark on a raft this time A beau tlfil page of Empire embroidery is given The cover this month is also Empire showing a striking f girl of the DirectoIre by Alice Barber Stephens Ste-phens and altogether it is a number which does oredlt even to The Ladies Home Journal5s1 IX SEVERAL SAXCTU3IS Inexperienced motormen naturally make bad breaksN Y Recorder Among other blanks needed by reason of the income tax will be a new set of books for the recording angelDetroit Tribune It may be true that the governor of Delaware cannot ead or write but there is proof that he can draw hfe salary N T Mercury Kansas has discovered that there are two exlegislators doing time in the state penitentiary The others probably proved an alibi Cincinnati Commercial The enforcement of the income tax will show that many a man who is making from 10000 to 20COO a year has an income In-come of less than 51000 St Louis Globe Democrat An oldfashioned artist remarks that he has not yet decided whether the Aubrey Au-brey Beardsley school of impressionism J is a crime or a misdemeanor Y World i I I In the matter of her differences with i little Guatemala Mexico should not boast herself as one who putteth off the harness har-ness Look at ChlnaN Y Advertiser I I The reformer who despises the ordinary agencies of political power and looks down in contempt upon those who exercise exer-cise that power is bound to be disappointed disap-pointed InterOcean as to permanent results Chicago I j The fact that General CoX Y has bean sued in Cleveland on thirtynine promissory promis-sory notes will serve to throw some light on his insane desire to see the govern ment place billions of dollars more in circulation Pittsburgr Dispatch Dr Paokhurst is notified that the Democracy Dem-ocracy of Chicago Is still clamoring for ian i Ian I-an investigating committee with plenary powers and that the Republicans and j Pharisees who are generally Republicans I also are united in their determination I not to permit any honest or radical investigation I in-vestigation to proceed If Chicago is not t ready for municipal regeneration her unreadiness is < not due to the Democracy Chicago Herald I An early evidence of the accomplishment accomplish-ment of reform through the Republican victory of last November comes in the shape of a proposition to double the salary i sal-ary of the clerk of the board of county I commissioners The Democratic clerk received re-ceived 52500 a year and esteemed himself fortunate When the Reoublicans obtained ob-tained control of the board they turned I torn out and put exCoroner Henry L Hertz in his place Hertz being a lifelong life-long officeholder 2500 a year isnt good I enough for him anfl the legislature is now considering the wisdom of making it 5000 Given Republican officeholders and a Republican legislature to fix their salaries the outcome is easy > to predict Chicago Times I niEiv Olf METTLE Lord Monkswell Englands neW Undersecretary Under-secretary for var has been a zealous member of the London city council He i is as ardent a municipal reformer as any I to be found in New York I Walter Gay the American arist has been created Chevalier of the Legion of I Honor of France Mr Gay Is a resident I of Paris and a nephew of the Boston rainier William Allen Gay I I Joseph Haworth the actor was born in Providence but spent his boyhood in Ohio Ho first appeared on the stare as Buckingham in Richard III in Cleveland I I Cleve-land He used to be McCulloughs leading man 1 Senator Care of Wyoming defeated for reelection for voting against free eli ver weighs 300 pounds He was once squelched in debate by Senator Wolcott Who quoted the Spanish proverb It is a waste of lather to shave an ass The centennial of the birthday of George Peabody will be celebrated February ISth on two continents Peabody was perhaps 1 the greatest philanthropist of modern times and the funds he bestowed are still applied < to educational purposes He was i born in Massachusetts was a merchant in New York and a banker in London Among the valuable books in the collection collec-tion of the late Rev Samuel Pancoast of Chester is a Septaugint published in 1725 consisting of a series of essays in the form of letters which was captured at Vick < burg by General Grant by Him l presented pre-sented to a Rev Mr Brown and by the latter to Mr Pancoast Marion Crawfords father stArted in life as a wood carver and by a curious freak of fate he designed the handsome mantels in the house of his future fatherinlay TvJr Ward on Bond street New York Later in life when he was a sculptor in I Rome he met Miss Louise Ward wooed her and soon married her The novelist I was born abroad ft SAID TO HE FUY Instead of binding their womens feet so that they cant run China should have done this with its soldiers Philadelphia Times Ada pensively hope you will invite i me to the wedding when you get married Jack boldly Ill invite you to the first one and if you dont accept there wont be any weddIngLife Arizona PeteWhats that thing that Whizzed past CitizenA trollycar Arizona PeteIn mY country we sometimes some-times hold up railroad trains but you bet wed let that thing have its own way Philadelphia Inquirer Little boyThat ink that papa writes With isnt indelliblo ink 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