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12 Conservative * DESIGNATED DEPOSITARY OF THE UNITED STATES. National Bank of the Republic OF CHICAGO. OATJ MILLION DOLLARS. JOHN A. LYNCH , President. W. T. FENTON , Vice President and Cashier. J. H. CAMERON and H. R. KENT , Asst. Cashiers. R. M. McKINNEY , 2d Asst. Cashier. A NK\V HOOK. "McLanghliu and Old Oregon , a Chronicle : by Eva Emery Dye. Mc- Olurg's 1900. " This is rather an exas perating work. One who should take it up for a story would be perplexed by its lack of continuity : one who buys it in search of new historical material is irritated by an absence of dates or any kind of exact statements. It reminds one of the Highland preacher in one of McLaren's storieswho so skipped about , from the seven trumpets to the devil and his works , that his audience became dizzy and fell into despair. It is a book of the better class , fair to look at and of irreproachable morals as to grammar and that sort of thing. But a book about Dr. McLaughlin really ought to tell something about him. Half way through we learn when he was born : presently we are told whom he married , but nothing about when it happened : and a thorough ransacking of the pages in search of the date of his going to Oregon reveals no clew that will locate it within six years. Some of the chap ters bear a date at their head , but such a chapter may contain accounts of wide ly separated events. The chapter en titled "The death of Dr. McLaughlin" is headed 1849 57 ; a lingering death , one would think. It is thus described : "He answered , A Dicu. It was his last word. So he died. Peace be with him. Men paused when they heard his funeral knell , and women wept. " "This was a good man , " they said , and so forth. Good reading , but meagre data for a biography of the doctor. Many famous figures in early north western history appear , but they are jerked in and out of the pages in so galvanic a fashion that the reader is kept wondering at their sudden disap pearances. Frequent mention is made , as is natural , of Marcus Whitman : the man who , they say , made Oregon and Washington United States territory. Whitman was killed by Indians , whom he was trying to educate ; pilgrimages are made to his grave to this day. A chaprer in this book is headed "The Whitman Massacre , 1847. " The affair itself is thus described : ' 'What is the news ? " he asked. "Dr Whitman is dead , " answered the priest. "Mrs. Whitman ? " "Dead also. Killed by THE AUDIT COMPANY OF NEW YORK. Queen Building , AT. Y. Life Building , 2Veir York City. Chicago. OFFICERS : Acting President , Vice-President , AUGUST BELMONT. WILLIAM A. NASH. Manager Secretary and Treasurer , THOMAS L. GREENE. EDWARD T. FERINE. The Audit Company begs to announce the opening of Western Offices as above. Hereafter , at both th < = > New York and Chicago Offices contracts may be made for audits of accounts , and financial and physical exam inations of properties , with certificates , reports and appraisals. The Western Board of Control of the Company and the Manager of the Western Office will be as follows : WESTERN BOARD OF CONTROL : JOHN J. MITCHELL , Chairman , President Illinois Trust & Savings Bank , Chicago. JOHN O. BLACK , President Continental National Bank , Chicago. JAMES B. FORGAN , President First National Bank , Chicago. JAMES H. ECKELS , President Commercial National Bank , Chicago. EDWIN A. POTTER , President American Trust and Savings Bank , Chicago. > Counsel to Western Office : L. MAYER , Mo ran , Mayer & Meyer , Chicago. Western Manager : A. W. DUNNING. the Indians. " " And my child ? " "Is safe with the captives. " This can hardly be called complete. The book consists mainly of dialog , and , what is worse , of dialect ; French- Canadian , Trapper , Scotch , Henglish and others , and both dialog and dialect have a decidedly factitious air. Perhaps this is why it is a chronicle instead of either fiction or history. A. T. R. 3000 A. D. The estimable Ladies' Home Journal in its December number , catalogs for us to the extent of a full page , the pleas ures which we may expect to enjoy a hundred years from now. Strawberries are to be an big as apples , peas the size of beets , pansies a foot across , dough nuts as big as wedding cakes , the five- cent beer as big as a wash-tub and the Homely Ladies' Journal as big as all out-doors. * Flies and angle-worms also are to be extinct , and horses nearly so. We are encouraged to record some guesses of our own in the same line. We predict that in one hundred years there will be no negroes in the United States , except in Washington , D. O. , where they will own all the real estate. Elsewhere they will have been extermi nated , either by one generation's being massacred or by the next being pre vented from appearing. The American Indians will form an hereditary landed aristocracy of im mense wealth and exclusiveuess ; be side them the orders of the Cincinnati and the Colonial Dames will be no bet ter than common folks. They will be a non-productive class , and will adhere
